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ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		The Council on American Islamic Relations comes under fire from the state of Texas, and it turns out that one of their branches was, in fact, paying some of the protesters/slash lawbreakers during the campus protests.
		Plus, we'll get to the latest on the Epstein files, the breakdown in the Republican Party, and all the rest.
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		So, for decades in the United States, there's been a group called the Council on American Islamic Relations.
		Very often, it has been called the single most important Islamic outreach organization toward the federal and state governments in the United States.
		There's only one problem.
		The Council on American Islamic Relations is, in fact, a radical Islamist group.
		It has been for its entire existence.
		And that's not saying that it's a terrorist group, although it was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial, which we'll get to in a moment.
		But there is no question that it is spreading the messages of radical Islam throughout the American body politic with deep connections to the American federal government.
		The New York Post reports today, quote, anti-Israel agitators who spread disruption at U.S. colleges and were punished by authorities were awarded checks for $1,000 by a Muslim nonprofit, according to the New York Post.
		Now, again, what that means is that CARE, which is linked to a group called Champions of Justice Fund, was funneling money to people who actively participated in those protests and crimes during that Hamas summer of love and spring and fall of love.
		The money apparently was given to students who faced penalties for leading pro-Palestinian protests before and after the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7th, 2023, according to a bombshell report by the Network Contagion Research Institute and the Intelligent Advocacy Network.
		In California, the largest arm of the CARE web of nonprofits, affiliates in San Francisco and LA, raised more than $100,000 in donations for campus radicals.
		The main group solicited $64,000 in donations.
		The money was then offered as interest-free loans in grants of $1,000 to students who lost, quote, scholarships, housing, or other support because of their advocacy.
		Now, remember, the vast majority of people who were banned were banned because they participated in activities that either violated the law or campus rules or both.
		Breaking glass, attacking other students, assaulting other students, and all the rest.
		In October 2024, CARE California awarded $20,000 in loans and scholarships to 20 student protesters from the Champions of Justice Fund.
		The identities of the student recipients have never been revealed, but the institutions they attend include Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard as well, which means that students suspended or expelled from Columbia University for storming and occupying Hamilton Hall, barricading themselves inside the building with furniture and padlocks, an incident which resulted in the police actually having to storm the building, could have potentially qualified for those $1,000 checks.
		Again, this is not a surprise.
		It is not a surprise.
		One testimonial published by CARE in literature about their fund read, quote, the consequences of my pro-Palestine advocacy have been swift and severe.
		As a safety marshal at a protest against the bombing of the Al-Shifa hospital, I was doxxed by Zionist students, leading to my information being spread to the far-right media.
		I have endured relentless death threats, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
		But the details here match one Ibrahim Barmal, who was arrested at Harvard Business School after participating in what was called a die-ins where you lie in the ground, pretend you're dead, the night after Al-Shifa Hospital was bombed.
		And again, Al-Shifa Hospital, it was actually the parking lot of Al-Shifa Hospital that was bombed.
		He was volunteering as a safety marshal, and he violated the rules of the university.
		And later, he ended up sentenced to 80 hours of community service.
		And apparently, he was then paid by the Council on American Islamic Relations.
		Now, again, none of this should be a surprise.
		On the same day that that story broke in the New York Post, Governor Greg Abbott of Texas announced that the Muslim Brotherhood and CARE would be designated as foreign terrorist and transnational criminal organizations under Texas penal and Texas property codes.
		And they laid out the reason in a proclamation by the governor.
		Whereas the Society of the Muslim Brothers, known also as Jamaat al-Ikhwan al-Muslimeen, Muslim Brotherhood, is a transnational Islamist organization.
		And whereas Hassan Obana, who founded the Muslim Brotherhood almost 100 years ago, professed that jihad is an obligation from Allah on every Muslim and cannot be ignored nor evaded.
		And that jihad means the fighting of the unbelievers and involves all possible efforts that are necessary to dismantle the power of the enemies of Islam, including beating them, plundering their wealth, destroying their places of worship, and smashing their idols.
		And whereas, even in the present day, Muhammad Beady, the eighth supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, who is currently serving a life sentence for plotting an armed insurrection in Egypt, has stated the organization's primary goal is to establish Islam's mastership of the world and a total reform of all domains of life by resurrecting an Islamic state or caliphate empowered to forcibly impose Sharia law worldwide.
		And whereas specific branches of the Muslim Brotherhood have been designated by the U.S. State Department as specifically designated global terrorist entities and Muslim Brotherhood branches have been prohibited by Austria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.
		Whereas the Council on American Islamic Relations is an Islamist organization that, according to the FBI, was founded as a front group for Hamas and its support network in the United States.
		And whereas the program on extremism at George Washington University, America's leading academic research center on extremism, reports that CARE is an example of conscious efforts by, quote, the U.S.-based Hamas network to regenerate itself and continue acting under new guises in the U.S. based on Hamas's need to camouflage the identity of the new organization.
		And Yihadawad, the executive director of CARE, has boasted that American Muslims are, quote, ready to move to the next phase and that within 15 years, the Muslim community will have 50,000, an army of these people who will design Islam's image, protect the truth, and the news.
		Many of these people will run for public office.
		They will become lawmakers to advance Sharia law in America.
		And CARE was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in that Holy Land Foundation trial, resulting eventually in the FBI suspending formal contacts with CARE in 2008 and the Biden administration removing CARE from official government documents.
		Greg Abbott has therefore declared that CARE should be labeled a transnational terrorist organization, a foreign terrorist organization.
		And of course, that is exactly right.
		Me here is the CARE executive director.
		There's a flashback to 2023 saying that he was happy about October 7th.
unidentified		The people of Gaza only decided to break the siege, the walls of the concentration camp on October 7th.
unidentified		And yes, I was happy to see people breaking the siege and throwing down the shackles of their own land and walk free into their lands that they were not allowed to walk in.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		That is the head of CARE, and Yihadawad.
		He said also in November of 2023 that Hamas was fighting on behalf of Palestinians.
		Hey, here he was.
		Again, this is on MSNBC.
nihad awad ▲ ● ▼		And what's happening today in Gaza is a continuation of the Israeli bombardment of captive civilians, 2.3 million, in a small area which has been known, identified by so many people around the world and leaders and human rights activists and politicians that it is the largest open-air prison on earth.
		So the growing number of Jewish Americans identify that the state of Israel is an apartheid system and they will not support it.
		None of us speak for Gaza and those who are fighting on behalf of the Palestinians.
		But let me say this.
		Israel holds 8,000 hostages.
		They have taken 1,000 hostage in the past weeks from Gaza and from the West Bank.
		There is no Hamas in Gaza.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		There's no Hamas in Gaza, according to Niharawa.
		This is in November of 2023.
		Okay, so again, CARE has always been a Hamas-linked group.
		Prosecutor Andy McCarthy, who writes for National Review now, he wrote in a book called The Grand Jihad about the beginnings of CARE.
		Hamas supporters gathered at a Marriott Hotel in Philadelphia in 1993 with the intent of creating a new public relations organization in the United States.
		And those Hamas supporters included one Omar Ahmad, the president of the Islamic Association for Palestine.
		He was concerned about being recorded at the time.
		So Ahmad instead referred to himself as Omar Yahya and referred to Sama instead of Hamas because Sama is Hamas backwards.
		And then Ahmad said that it would be worthwhile to lie about the agenda, that the new organization could not admit, quote, we represent Sama or Amach Yassin, the head of Hamas, represents me.
		Nihadawad was at the time the PR director for IAP.
		He was at the conference too.
		And he agreed with Ahmad about adopting lying to Americans.
		Quote, when I speak with the Americans, I speak with someone who doesn't know anything.
		As for the Palestinian who has a martyr brother or something, I know how to address him.
		You see?
		And less than a year later, CARE was born.
		Again, it was linked with the Holy Land Foundation.
		I asked our sponsors over at Comet, what were the specific allegations regarding CARE's association with the Holy Land Foundation?
		Because they were named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial.
		The Holy Land Foundation was funneling enormous quantities of money from Americans to Hamas.
		So according to Perplexity, federal court documents and legislative findings stated CARE received a grant from the Holy Land Foundation after opening its first office in Washington, D.C.
		The U.S. government asserted that CARE was identified as an associate of the Muslim Brotherhood and alleged to have links to Hamas via both organizational activities and individual connections.
		Evidence presented during the Holy Land Foundation trial included financial links from HLF to CARE and an internal memorandum acknowledging CARE as part of a Palestine committee, which prosecutors asserted was affiliated with Hamas.
		The core prosecution argument was that HLF funneled more than $12 million to Hamas-controlled entities, and CARE by association was named in legal documents and received funding from HLF as well.
		So, CARE being labeled a foreign terrorist organization by Governor Abbott is well within boundaries and seems to be supported by the actual facts of CARE's relationships.
		Coming up more on CARE, its relationship with Zorhan Mamdani and the Islamicization of the Democratic Party in terms of radical Islam.
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	Why is this important?
	Well, number one, it demonstrates that there are operating in broad daylight organizations that seek to undermine the American way of life without a doubt and say as much pretty clearly and pretty openly.
	Second, the Democratic Party has an unusual susceptibility to this sort of stuff.
	Zorhan Mamdani isn't just a Muslim running for office in New York.
	That's not who he is or who he was.
	Zorhan Mamdani is a radical.
	He is a radical with Islamist leanings at the very, very least.
	As it turns out, for example, Zorin Mamnani is now backing a care-linked New York Assembly candidate.
	This is according to the New York Post.
	He's supporting a candidate for state assembly linked to care who once described 9-11 as a terror attack that a couple of people did.
	He is backing a person named Abhir Kawas, a longtime Palestinian American activist.
	That support was relayed by a member of his mayoral transition team during a closed-door DSA Democratic Socialist of America meeting in Manhattan last week.
	Because remember, third worldism is the thing that unites all of this: a hatred for America, a belief that America is the great rapacious power on planet Earth, and that basically all the sufferings on earth can be attributed to Western civilization.
	That is the philosophy, the foreign policy and yes, domestic policy philosophy of Zorhan Mamdani and his fellow travelers.
	Top political advisor to the Mamdani transition team, Sam McCann, said, Mamdani told me, while he has tremendous respect for everyone in the race, he said that he will support Aber in whatever she pursues.
	So, who exactly is Kawas?
	She's an organizer in New York City's Arab and Muslim communities since 2010.
	She's trying to get the DSA endorsement.
	And here she was speaking about 9-11.
unidentified		And finding that, like, you know, the system of capitalism and racism and white supremacy, et cetera, have all and Islamophobia have all been used to colonize lands, right, to take resources from other people.
		And so this is like a long trajectory.
		And we're just seeing the manifestations of that continuation, right?
		With 9-11.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		Okay, so as you can hear right there, she is just saying that 9-11 was a result of America's capitalism, racism, and white supremacy, and Islamophobia.
		Basically, America had a coming.
		And then she added, the idea we have to apologize for a terror attack that a couple of people did, and then there is no apology or reparations for genocides and for slavery, et cetera, is something I find reprehensible.
		First of all, we should point out that Islamic slavery has been a thing for legitimately well over a thousand years and continues into the modern day.
		Islamic slave trading was more populous than the Atlantic slave trade over the course of history.
		But beyond that, the links between Zorhan Mamdani and the DSA and radical Islam, those are quite real.
		They are very real.
		And in fact, this has become not a bug.
		This is a feature.
		This is a feature.
		People are treating all of this in sort of the legacy media and the mainstream media.
		They're treating the radical Islam part of the sort of green-red coalition that has formed inside the Democratic Party, this Islamist Marxist coalition that has formed.
		They're treating the Islamist part as the throwaway and the Marxist part is the stuff that people are actually voting for.
		People are actually voting for the DSA communism.
		That's what they actually want.
		I don't think that's right.
		I think that what they are actually voting for on the progressive left is not that.
		They are voting for the virtue signaling, not about affordability, but specifically about the anti-Americanism and the anti-Westernism.
		And by the way, that is what Mamdani's mayoralty will look like.
		Mamdani will be an unsuccessful mayor if he is able to carry out any of his socialistic intent for New York City.
		I mean, here is Zora Mamdani's new economic pitch.
		Give me more money.
		Well, hold up.
		I thought everything was going to be free.
		Why do you need more money, my dude?
		Here we go.
zohran mamdani ▲ ● ▼		It's been two weeks since we won the election.
zohran mamdani ▲ ● ▼		We've been pretty busy.
unidentified		Jackson, Democratic Socialist Zorhan Mamdani.
zohran mamdani ▲ ● ▼		Too often, this is a time of just celebration as opposed to preparation.
		We want to make it both.
		A lot of these things are new, but one of them is pretty old.
		Fundraising.
		But why are we fundraising?
		Well, we have less than 50 days until we take office.
		We have a lot to do.
		We have to vet the 50,000 resumes we've received.
		Thank you.
		We have to keep paying our incredible team.
		Thank you.
		And we have to plan not just our inauguration, but our policy implementation.
		Now, unlike the campaign, transitions do not get public matching funds from the city.
		So that eight to one match, gone.
		It's up to us to raise the money.
		Usually campaigns take that as an opportunity to rely on wealthy donors, but that's not us.
		You've already been incredible.
		We've raised more than a million dollars in just two weeks.
		Our average donation is around $77, and more than 12,000 of you have donated so far, which is much lower than the last administration's transition.
		But we're still asking for your help because we need to raise $4 million in total.
		So January 1st can be the day we start to deliver, not start to prepare.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		He needs your money.
		He needs your money.
		I mean, soon he won't need your money anymore, but he'll still need your money.
		So does that sound like a sexy pitch?
		Or is the sexy pitch that he's going to be a radical college protester on the side of the care Islamic elite?
		Like, what exactly is the pitch?
		So people were going a little crazy yesterday because he maintained once again, publicly, Mamdani, that he's going to arrest the sitting prime minister of Israel were he to come to New York City.
		First of all, good luck with that.
		If you think the NYPD is going to just show up and arrest Benjamin Netanyahu, the sitting prime minister of the state of Israel at the behest of Zora Mamdani, got another thing coming.
		That is not how the process works.
		By the way, it's in violation of American federal law.
		So if Zorhan Mamdani were to actually do that, he would be in violation of law.
		But here, again, this is the actual pitch.
		The actual pitch has nothing to do with policy.
		It has to do with the anti-Americanism that Mamdani represents, which is tied into, again, the anti-Americanism of groups like CARE.
		The radical Islam, that aspect is a selling point.
		It is not, in fact, a drawback for people like Zorhan Mamdani.
unidentified		You said you would arrest Benjamin Netanyahu based on the 2024 international court arrest warrant.
unidentified		Next UN General Assembly, as mayor, would you do that?
zohran mamdani ▲ ● ▼		So I've said time and again that I believe this is a city of international law.
		And being a city of international law means looking to uphold international law.
		And that means upholding the warrants from the International Criminal Court, whether they're for Benjamin Netanyahu or Vladimir Putin.
		I think that that's critically important to showcase our values.
		And unlike Donald Trump, I'm someone who looks to exist within the confines of the laws that we have.
		So I will look to exhaust every legal possibility not to create my own laws to do so.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		Okay, so what he is actually saying at the very end there is that he's not actually going to do it, but he's going to virtue signal to all of his friends that he's going to do it.
		This is the pitch of the left.
		The left does not have solutions.
		The left has anti-American radicalism, which is why the ties with places like CARE.
		It is why the ties with the DSA.
		It's not about the solutions.
		It's about tearing away at the system.
		That's the entire thing.
		Okay, meanwhile, speaking of the Muslim Brotherhood, big controversy yesterday because the president of the United States hosted the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, at the White House.
		And the media went nuts.
		They went nuts because back in 2018, there was a Washington Post journalist, and we say journalist, but he really was sort of an op-ed writer named Jamal Khashoggi, who was absolutely Muslim Brotherhood-linked.
		There's no question that Jamal Khashoggi was linked with the Muslim Brotherhood.
		And he was murdered in grisly fashion at the Saudi embassy in Turkey, apparently, at the Saudi consulate in Turkey, according to intelligence estimates on the orders of Mohammed bin Salman.
		Okay, so the Biden administration decided to make this front and center in their campaign against Saudi because the Biden administration attempted to draw distance with the Saudi government in order to try and make overtures to the Iranian government.
		Saudis and the Iranians are enemies because the Iranians wish to destroy the Saudis, and this has been true for a very long time.
		The Biden administration, trying to draw closer to Iran, cut a wedge between the United States and Saudi Arabia over the Khashoggi murder.
		Now, no one is making the case that Khashoggi should have been murdered by the Saudis.
		No one is making that case.
		It also happens to be the case that the United States has relations with a wide variety of various despotic regimes around the globe.
		Some are better for the American people, some are worse for the American people.
		And that's just the way the globe works.
		The vast majority of places on planet Earth are not nice places, and terrible things happen there.
		And the leaders there do terrible things.
		That is a reality.
		And in fact, the real politique of the situation forced Joe Biden to basically go on bended knee to the Saudis to try and lower oil prices before the midterm elections in 2022.
		So he started off yelling at the Saudis about Jamal Khashoggi, and he ended by essentially bending the knee to the Saudis.
		Well, the media have decided that they're going to put tremendous focus on the Khashoggi murder.
		For some reason, they seem to have no such objections to Qatari ties to Hamas, for example, or Qatari ties to Iran, which is responsible for the death and wounding.
		Iran is, of course, responsible for the death and wounding of hundreds of Americans during the Iraq War.
		They seem to have no such complaints whenever Erdogan visits from Turkey.
		Erdogan has participated in an extraordinary variety of human rights abuses.
		But when MBS shows up, then it's time to ask him endlessly about Jamal Khashoggi.
		Now, again, he can answer those questions.
		That's his problem.
		But I will note the outsized interest in Jamal Khashoggi, as opposed to all the other various human rights violations that are happening around the region, has more to do with the legacy media's geopolitics, in which they don't like Saudi because they believe that there ought to be some sort of Obama-esque balance of power benefiting maybe the Turks and Iran at the expense of the Saudis and the Israelis, presumably.
		That's why the focus on Jamal Khashoggi.
		Because again, if you look at the history of Jamal Khashoggi, the attempt to paint him as some sort of liberal reformer, again, no one's making the case he should have been murdered, but we should at least be accurate about who Jamal Khashoggi was.
		As the Jerusalem Post reported in a piece by Yeshaya Rosman back in 2024, Jamal Khashoggi was deeply associated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
		In the months leading up to his death, he was in the process of launching an organization known as Dawn.
		Democracy for the Arab World Now, working in close collaboration with Niharawad, executive director and co-founder of CARE and a board member of Dawn.
		Now, again, CARE is deeply associated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
		They have close personal ties in the form of some of their leadership with people who are associated with Hamas for sure.
		So Khashoggi had a lot of those connections.
		You can say two things at once.
		One, he shouldn't have been murdered.
		Two, Jamal Khashoggi was not a liberal reformer in the Arab world.
		That is not what he was.
		In any case, the media decided that they were going to ask the president about MBS and Khashoggi.
		The proper answer from the president here probably was something like: the murder of Jamal Khashoggi was a tragic problem.
		It obviously is something we don't like here.
		Also, we are in the business of geopolitics and pursuing America's interests.
		That's the actual answer here.
		The president tries to do something like that, ends up defending MBS from the charges.
		He's done a phenomenal job.
unidentified		You're mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial.
		A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about.
		Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen, but he knew nothing about it.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		And we can leave it at that.
		You don't have to embarrass our guests by asking a question like that.
		Now, again, I think that's a more aggressive response than is warranted because it is true that the Saudi royal government has engaged in some pretty extraordinary brutalities.
		However, what he is saying, which is that MBS is a transformative leader in the region and that the United States needs to work with the people who are there.
		We don't get to choose the leadership glass in all of these countries.
		That is accurate.
		And again, the media attention with regard to all of this, I think, is quite purposeful.
		I do not think that it is a coincidence.
		They'd rather the virtue signaling about Jamal Khashoggi than the reality of actual geopolitics, which involves having to deal on a pretty regular basis with some of the worst people on planet Earth.
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		Okay, meanwhile, Democrats are becoming increasingly unhinged with regard to the president's foreign policy.
		So, yesterday, a series of Democrats released a video asking members of the military to openly defy the administration, which is a violation of the law.
		I mean, this can get you arrested.
		Here's Senator Slotkin, among others, pushing this.
unidentified		I'm Senator Alyssa Slotkin.
		Senator Mark Kelly, Representative Chris DeLuzio, Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander, Representative Chrissy Houlihan, Congressman Jason Crowe, that was a captain in the United States Navy, former CIA officer, former Navy, former paratrooper and Army Ranger, former intelligence officer, former Air Force.
		We want to speak directly to members of the military and the intelligence community who take risks each day to keep Americans safe.
		We know you are under enormous stress and pressure right now.
marjorie taylor greene ▲ ● ▼		Americans trust their military.
unidentified		But that trust is at risk.
		This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens.
		Like us, you all swore an oath to protect and defend this constitution.
		Right now, the threats to our Constitution aren't just coming from abroad, but from right here at home.
		Our laws are clear.
		You can refuse illegal orders.
		You can refuse illegal orders.
		You must refuse illegal orders.
		No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our Constitution.
		We know this is hard and that it's a difficult time to be a public servant.
		But whether you're serving in the CIA, in the Army, our Navy, the Air Force, your vigilance is critical.
		And know that we have your back.
		Because now, more than ever, the American people need you.
		We need you to stand up for our laws, our Constitution, and who we are as Americans.
		Don't give up.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		Don't give up the ship.
		The claim that they're going to make is that this isn't about forcing members of the military to violate the law.
		They're just telling them not to violate the Constitution.
		Okay, but let's be real about what they're doing.
		The obvious implication is that they are receiving illegal orders each and every day.
		And we should just point out that if somebody improperly attempts to resist a proper order, that person could end up with actual legal consequences.
		Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, he put out a statement on all of this saying stage four TDS.
		That was the entirety of the statement.
		Stage four Trump derangement syndrome.
		That is not wrong.
		Now, speaking of Trump derangement syndrome, all of the controversy swirling around Jeffrey Epstein continues.
		The Senate yesterday approved the Epstein files bill sending it to President Trump's desk.
		Now, as we discussed, the bill doesn't actually do anything.
		The bill has a provision that allows the DOJ and actually suggests that the DOJ must redact anything that would violate the law in releasing, which is already the case.
		I mean, the Trump administration has already filed lawsuits in order to get courts to release information.
		The courts say, we can't release that information.
		We can't let you release grand jury information, for example, because that violates actual law and implicates people who are not even alleged to have committed a crime.
		However, this whole thing was political.
		It was always political.
		The people who are leading the charge on this, as we mentioned yesterday, many of them are people who are directly involved with Jeffrey Epstein.
		That includes people like Steve Bannon on the right, people like Stacey Plaskett on the left.
		I mean, yesterday, for example, James Comer exposed the fact that Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, had solicited a meeting with Jeffrey Epstein in 2013.
unidentified		That was five years after his plea arrangement with regard to child email shows Democrat fundraisers invited Epstein to an event or to meet privately with Hakeem Jeffries as part of their 2013 effort to win a majority.
unidentified		So Hakeem Jeffries' campaign solicited money from Jeffrey Epstein.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		So again, the Epstein scandal is a real scandal and they remain open questions.
		And I will continue to maintain that those questions are open.
		However, there is no evidence that President Trump is engaging in some sort of widespread, deep cover-up of documents that, if just released, will solve all the mysteries, that he's hiding all of this.
		I mean, again, this is something Democrats keep maintaining.
		They had control of all of these files for four years under Joe Biden.
		They did.
		So some of this is politicking.
		Some of it's wishcasting.
		On the politicking side, you have people like Jamie Raskin, who says that the cover-up must end.
		What is being covered up?
		Does he have any idea what's being covered up?
		Like, really, what is the big cover-up?
jimmy kimmel ▲ ● ▼		We want the whole truth to come out.
unidentified		This is the United States of America.
jimmy kimmel ▲ ● ▼		Even the British monarchy wouldn't put up with this.
unidentified		How about the American democracy?
jimmy kimmel ▲ ● ▼		How about we say no way?
unidentified		We're not going to allow this cover-up to go on for one day more.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		So, again, this is the Democrats attempting to make hey while the sun shines.
		Some of them are wishcasting.
		Kara Swisher, the left-wing podcaster, she says that the Epstein files are going to end Trump's presidency.
		No, they certainly will not.
		That is very silly.
unidentified		I don't know.
		I feel like we're going to have President JD Vance by the end of 2026.
		I get it, but he is.
jimmy kimmel ▲ ● ▼		You think this ends his presidency prematurely?
unidentified		Yes.
		He'll be sick.
		He'll be that a bit of a bad.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		I do.
unidentified		I think he's not going to make it to the end.
jimmy kimmel ▲ ● ▼		Be careful what you wish for.
		I think JD Vance is.
		I agree.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		So, again, it's not going to end his presidency.
		That's wish casting.
		By the way, you know who's having a career-ending moment right now is Larry Summers.
		The former Treasury Secretary and Harvard University president has now had to step back from public commitments after his correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein, in which he was asking for dating advice from Jeffrey Epstein, which is weird because Jeffrey Epstein's dating advice apparently was hire a bunch of underage girls to have with you, which seems like not amazing dating advice.
		So Larry Summers has been on the chopping block, but if you think that President Trump is in any way endangered here, that's quite silly.
		Speaker Johnson pointed out that all of this is about trying to weaponize Epstein against Trump.
		That's true, by the way, again, for people both left and right who are attempting to undermine Trump presidency.
		On the left, they're trying to undermine Trump's presidency for obvious reasons.
		On the right, there's a splinter faction led by people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, who are attempting to destroy the Trump administration on behalf of an all-against all political Hobbesian war in which she attempts to grab control of some portion of Trump's base in the name of MAGA or America First or whatever slogan she wants to hijack from somebody else today.
		Here's Speaker Johnson on this yesterday.
mike johnson ▲ ● ▼		But the truth is, the biggest proponents of this discharge petition were never actually interested in transparency or ensuring justice or protecting victims of this unspeakable tragedy, the Epstein evils.
		And how do we know that?
		Because the Democrats had every one of the Epstein files in their possession for the four long years of the Biden administration.
		The Biden Department of Justice had the files the entire time.
		And not a single one of the people who are so loud and animated right now, they never said anything about it for all those four years.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, he is, of course, right about all of this.
		But what's the actual agenda here?
		Well, for the left, the agenda is to damage Trump's presidency and thereby damage the Republican Party.
		For the right, again, there's a group of people who believe they're going to hijack Trump's movement out from under him and then take control of that rump movement and somehow parlay that into political power, which would be bad for two reasons.
		One, the people who are attempting to do this represent legitimately the worst part of the MAGA coalition.
		And two, they will lose.
		So if you check out the Calci markets today, okay, Calci, one of our sponsors, which party will win the 2028 presidential election?
		If you go back to March, basically 50-50, today, the markets suggest by a 54 to 46 split, the Democrats.
		I think that all of the Republicans whistling past the political graveyard here, suggesting that there's an inherent advantage for Republicans in 2028.
		That is not true.
		It is not true.
		And when you turn your coalition into a group of idiot grifters and Nazi fellow travelers, it turns out that's not going to be popular in America.
		Forget about the morality of the thing for just a second.
		Does anyone think that's a victorious electoral coalition?
		And if so, please explain why.
		All righty, coming up, is MAGA falling apart?
		If so, who is the one who is wielding the pickaxe?
		We'll get to that in a moment.
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		So let's talk about this attempt to hijack MAGA and turn it into something it's not.
		As I said yesterday, MAGA is Trump.
		Trump is MAGA.
		That's all.
		Now, you can have various manifestations of MAGA.
		There are people who can claim in the name of MAGA to be hawkish on foreign policy.
		There are people who can claim to be paleo-gun isolationists on behalf of MAGA.
		President Trump contains multitudes, but the idea that the MAGA movement in its heart is about Marjorie Taylor Green's ideology as opposed to President Trump is nuts.
		It's ridiculous.
		And not only that, it is politically stupid.
		It is politically stupid.
	If Republicans follow this path toward a rump MAGA, a portion of MAGA that is like the least popular portion of MAGA, by the way, with the American public, then we'll see how it works out for them.
	Cotton, it's a bold strategy.
	Yesterday, here is Marjorie Taylor Green claiming that Trump is ripping MAGA apart.
unidentified		Not her.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		Not the lady who goes on the view or on CNN and apologizes to CNN for her rhetoric.
		Not the lady who once went to an America first policy conference with Nick Fuentes and then had to walk it back.
		No, it's Trump.
		It's probably Trump.
		Here's Marjorie Taylor Green doing her shtick.
marjorie taylor greene ▲ ● ▼		And I'll tell you right now, this has been one of the most destructive things to MAGA is watching the man that we supported early on, three elections,
		for people that stood hours, slept in their cars to go to rallies, have fought for truth and transparency and to hold what we consider a corrupt government accountable.
		Watching this actually turn into a fight has ripped MAGA apart.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		No, what's ripped MAGA apart is a group of very motivated people who are determined to rip MAGA apart in order to degrade President Trump's policy and try to take control of a movement that they did not build, that he built.
		Again, I don't claim to be speaking in the name of President Trump or MAGA.
		I don't.
		Because again, the president of the United States, it turns out he can speak for himself.
		And I frequently disagree with him.
		And I'll tell you when I do.
		But the idea that MAGA is anything other than Trump or that she is the great definer of MAGA apart from President Trump is an absurdity.
		And I'll point out to conservatives that siding with the most idiotic portion of your movement, the most unpopular portion of your movement, again, forget about the morality, which I think is pretty clear.
		It is stupid politics, truly idiotic politics.
		Really, really dumb.
		And you can see it happening, unfortunately, inside the Republican Party on a wide variety of scores.
		So, for example, there's a report from ProPublica, a publication I do not particularly like, but apparently this is accurate.
		They are arguing, reporting that Andrew Tate, who is a scumbag grifter, that he basically was let off the hook in part thanks to the intervention of Paul Ingracia, a person who apparently tried to join the White House.
		Remember, he was up for a nomination.
		He had to withdraw because he was under so much fire for the fact that he believed so many nutty and awful things.
		Apparently, behind the scenes, when the Tate brothers arrived in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and found themselves in the crosshairs of law enforcement because CBP seized their electronic devices, the White House, through Paul Ingracia, apparently, intervened on their behalf.
		This is dumb.
		This is dumb crap.
		It is wrong to do it morally, and it is dumb crap.
		How do you think that that plays?
		Seriously, again, put aside the morality for a second.
		Let's just go base politics here.
		Do you think it plays well with the American people when you are calling to intervene to tell CBP to return the electronic devices of people who are literally under investigation in multiple countries for crimes related to sex?
		In his written request, a copy of which was reviewed by ProPublica, Ingracia chided authorities for taking the action, saying the seizure of the Tates' devices was not a good use of time or resources.
		The request to return the electronics to the Tates was coming from the White House.
		This seems like a great way politically to win women, to broaden your tent.
		Probably this is just genius-level stuff, genius-level stuff.
		Meanwhile, Nick Fuentes, who of course was glazed by Tucker Carlson rather famously.
		So, Nick Fuentes has now announced that he is going to be launching an actual PAC, the America First Foundation.
		And apparently, it is going to be supported by a variety of supposedly quote-unquote America first figures.
		I say America First figures because, again, that phrase is semantically overloaded.
		Every American should believe that America comes first when it comes to our policy because duh.
		But what they mean by America first is not that.
		What they mean by America first is essentially a totally isolationist foreign policy, a complete overthrow of the idea of creedal Americanism, the idea that the Declaration of Independence actually defines what it means to be an American or the Constitution.
		And instead, it ought to be whatever Fuentes' peculiar definition of heritage represents.
		Apparently, according to the free press, the America First Foundation's latest tax filing lists Fuentes as its president, along with two board members.
		One is Jonathan Miller, a former White House correspondent for Blaze TV, who posted the day after last July's assassination attempt on President Trump.
		I'm not uniting with anyone except Christ and my brothers.
		I know stand with Trump, F the left, F the GOP, F the Secret Service, F the Jews, F democracy.
		God is with us.
		And also a white nationalist named Vincent James Fox, who has said he is part of the Christian Taliban.
		Now, why do I point this out?
		Because the left is cheering the stupidity of Republicans for doing this stuff.
		They are desperately, they are loving every moment of this, every single moment of this.
		Now, Fuentes wishes to bill, by the way, cleans out the actual principles of conservatism.
		Like, cleans it out.
		Legitimately, the only thing that you can say that Fuentes is conservative on in any sort of traditional sense is that he is anti-mass migration.
		That's pretty much it.
		On economics, he is not.
		And on social policy, by the way, he really is not.
		But to side with this or to glaze it or to side with those who glaze it, because, oh no, you might alienate the nuttier and idiotic parts of your coalition.
		Like that's your politics.
		Really?
		The Democrats are saying it out loud.
		The Democrats are loving this.
		Gabe Kaminsky reports: veteran Democratic strategist James Carville says, quote, once they get their views on Adolf Hitler straightened out, then can we talk?
		You understand this is too much effing fun for a Democrat, right?
		He ain't wrong.
unidentified		He ain't wrong.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		Again, this is just stupid.
		And we should point out at this point, it is worth noting that the right has decided to now have a gigantic debate that seems pretty online, frankly, about whether America is defined by the Declaration of Independence and by fundamental principles and the Constitution of the United States, or whether America is mostly defined by bloodlines or the place you live.
		Well, the American public, when polled about this topic, at a minimum of two to one and more like four to one, support the idea that Americanism is defined by the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States.
		Now, again, there are, of course, going to be elements of tradition and heritage.
		It's the Berkeyan argument.
		It isn't just creedal.
		But if you are attempting to define an Americanism simply by heritage, as opposed to, in the main, by the creed of what America is, that is not a popular position with the American people.
		Again, I think that it's wrong on its merits, but I also think that politically it is suicide.
		Politically, it is idiocy.
		It is stupidity.
		So if Republicans want to go down this path, I suppose they can.
		If the idea is that you have to wink and nod at this nonsense in order to win a primary, maybe you'll win a primary.
		I highly doubt that this is going to pay off in terms of 2028 victory.
		And again, the Democrats are loving it.
		They're loving it.
		Here was Jimmy Kimmel praising MTG.
		You think he's praising MTG because he's a good Republican who actively wants to save MAGA?
		Is that what you think of Jimmy Kimmel?
		Or do you think he's praising MTG because he knows full well that she is pulling apart the strands of Republicanism for her own benefit and that that benefits Democrats?
		When the Democrats are cheering you, like full scale, cheering you for your heel turn, perhaps there's something going on.
jimmy kimmel ▲ ● ▼		Marjorie's really green.
		I don't know what's going on.
		She was on CNN over the weekend.
		She apologized for taking part in toxic politics and said we need to be kind to one another.
		Are we sure this new Marjorie is real and not some kind of AI alter ego?
		It's like she was visited by three ghosts in the middle of the night.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		Strange new respect.
		So much strange new respect.
		Or it is politically useful for Democrats for this to be happening right now.
		Okay, meanwhile, a lot of nervousness about the markets right now.
		And that nervousness seems to be largely justified.
		The Dow Jones industrial average has dropped pretty significantly over the course of the last week or so.
		It had reached a high last Wednesday of 48,254.
		It closed yesterday at 46,000, which was down pretty significantly.
		Not from the beginning of the month.
		The beginning of the month, it was down a little bit.
		But is this the beginning of an actual tumble in the stock market?
		What exactly is happening?
		Neil Ferguson has a good piece over at the free press pointing out that there is, in fact, a problem here.
		He says, quote, fans of Dr. Seuss will know by heart the key standas, key stanzas of green eggs and ham.
		Do you like green eggs and ham?
		I do not like them, Sam I. M.
		I do not like green eggs and ham.
		For those who have never had to read a bedtime story, allow me to explain.
		An irrepressible little creature, Sam I. M., spends the entirety of the book pitching green eggs and ham, on the face of it, an unappetizing dish to a skeptical and increasingly irascible, larger creature.
		With every page, the pitch grows more elaborate.
		By the time Sam prevails, his hapless victim inhabits a scene of chaos.
		He says, when you come to think of it, there's often someone called Sam trying to sell you something you don't initially want.
		And he mentions Sam Bankman Freed.
		He says a lot of the applications of generative AI remind you of green eggs and ham.
		Take OpenAI's Sora 2.0.
		With a few prompts, you can generate soft porn videos of scantily clad girl manga elves.
		This is also one of the ways Elon Musk tries to sell XAI's Grok.
		But why would I want to watch any such videos?
		Financial history can help us.
		If you're unsure if there's an AI bubble, refer to the historian Charles Kindleberger's five-stage model.
		One, displacement.
		Some change in economic circumstances creates new and profitable opportunities for certain companies.
		Two, euphoria or overtrading.
		A feedback process sets in whereby rising expected profits lead to rapid growth in share prices.
		Three, mania or bubble.
		The prospect of easy capital gains attracts first-time investors and swindlers eager to defraud them.
		Four, distress.
		The insiders discern that expected profits cannot possibly justify the now exorbitant price of the shares and begin to take profits by selling.
		Five, revulsion or discredit.
		As share prices fall, the outsiders stampede for the exits, causing the bubble to burst altogether.
		He says we are currently at stage three.
		He says, according to a project from economist Ezra Carger, aiming to predict the progress of AI, more than 18% of American work hours will be AI-assisted by 2030.
		10 years later, AI will be as important to this century as electricity or the car were to the previous one.
		Indeed, there's a one in three chance AI is going to rank alongside the printing press as a technology that changed the course of human history.
		Even if AI falls short of that, Reuters reported last week, 97% of listeners cannot tell the difference between AI-generated and human-composed songs.
		The song currently topping the country charts called Walk My Walk was generated by AI.
		AI is now the principal driver of both the U.S. economy and the stock market.
		Between one-sixth and two-fifths of the entire rise in GDP over the past year is attributable to investments in computer and communications equipment, including chips, data centers, grid upgrades, and AI software.
		Apparently, AI companies account for 80% of the gains in U.S. stocks this year.
		So, is this a bubble?
		Well, says Neil Ferguson, 19th century railroads may be a better analogy to AI than 1990s telecoms.
		Think of today's capital expenditures on data centers being like capital expenditures on railroads 150 years ago.
		So two things can be true at the same time.
		One, that data centers to power AI could be as economically worthwhile as an investment as railroads.
		And B, we could experience at least one stock market crash along the way to general adoption.
		That seems about right to me.
		It feels as though we are in a bubble.
		I think most investors are assuming that we are in some sort of a bubble.
		And we are seeing that all the gains are being accrued at the top end of the stock market.
		So for example, according to the Daily Mail, Home Depot is a bellwether for the U.S. economy and housing market.
		On Tuesday morning, the home improvement chain said it served fewer customers in the past three months than expected.
		Traders told the Daily Mail they're looking to consumer brands to see if there is weakness in spending.
		The company lowered its earnings forecast on Tuesday.
		They raised their expectations for sales growth.
	So again, unclear what the sales trajectory looks like here.
	A lot of churning in the water.
	A lot of churning in the water.
	How big the tsunami is going to be, nobody knows when it's going to come.
	Nobody knows that either.
	But uneasiness seems to be the order of the day.
	Alrighty, coming up, a federal court has now blocked that Texas congressional redistricting map that sparked nationwide unrest.
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