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March 26, 2019 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
10:54
Nobody Cared About the Mueller Investigation
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The general public did not give a damn about the Mueller investigation.
They did not care or think that Russia had been meddling with the elections and they did not think that the Trump campaign had conspired with Russia in order to become elected.
This is an artifact exclusively of the Democrat political establishment.
They had to make this be the case or else some other reason was responsible for the election of Donald Trump.
This is a recent poll we just asked.
We open-ended it, said, okay, what's the most important issue for your 2020 vote?
So voters could say pretty much anything.
But look at this.
Look where the Russia investigation.
Zero percent said it was the most important to their vote in 2020.
Exactly.
Zero, zero, zero respondents said Russia.
Nobody cares about the Russia investigation because I presume nobody thought it was really possible for Russia to rig the election.
There is no serious person out there who would suggest somehow that you could even rig America's elections.
In part because they're so decentralized and the numbers of votes involved.
There's no evidence that that has happened in the past or that there are instances in which that will happen this time.
People actually have real concerns that CNN have listed on their graphic behind them, but will they talk about those concerns?
Will they hell?
And you know, one of the things we're talking about healthcare, obviously, the Trump administration wants to get rid of the ACA.
Look at that.
It ranks significantly higher.
So if the news that's kind of come out this week of things that are important to people's vote in 2020, I would honestly argue that the healthcare news is far more important than the Russia investigation.
Okay, I guess I'll pause you there.
I mean, it's all I'm good saying, yeah, healthcare is a way more important issue than the Russia investigation, but why are you ignoring the top issue on your list?
Why are you ignoring the 20% of people who said that immigration was their most important issue?
Shouldn't that tell you that there is at least something there that is worth talking about?
There were multiple responses allowed, multiple responses.
You could say anything you wanted.
You could say anything.
You could say the Boston Red Sox.
As many times as you wanted.
Right.
That's what John.
And zero people.
Zero times.
Zero, zero times.
So what's the most important issue?
And you could record multiple responses.
Zero people said zero times Russia.
And one in five people said immigration.
It's an issue that needs to be discussed.
But instead, the political class were obsessed with Russia.
And a new analysis by the Intercept just did my research for me to back that up.
They found that over the past six weeks, she has dedicated more than 50% of her entire show to Russia.
In contrast, Maddow only gave 1.3% coverage to Trump's crackdown on undocumented immigrants.
The political class of the United States, and frankly, all around the rest of the Western world, are wildly out of touch with the concerns of the voters.
This is what all of this evidence shows us.
This is what the Mueller investigation shows us.
There wasn't anything there.
Now we have to look at the actual reasons why people are voting for people like Donald Trump.
And it's because you're just not touching the issues they want to talk about.
The issues that are really affecting their lives.
Stop the press.
It's most important issue to people's lives.
Of course, it's not.
Most important issue to their vote in 2020.
Okay.
Most important issue.
Because this is just a rearguard action for those people who need to now admit, okay, in 2016, we fucked up.
We let people down because we had a bias and couldn't look beyond it.
They need to start reassessing their worldview or things like Trump will keep happening.
But here, look at this.
This is a Fox News poll.
The Mueller report, will it change, will it change your view of Donald Trump?
41% said no chance.
Only 7% said there was a strong chance that whatever he said could change your view.
And you know, that could be the case.
They say, oh, yes, but he didn't exactly exonerate the president.
So now I'm still going to be negative on Trump.
So this, again, is another example.
Just 7% said there was a strong chance that it changed.
Yes, there's a great indicator just to how polarized the political landscape is.
And do you think that the media, say people like CNN, have had no effect on that polarization?
You don't think that CNN might have been one of the driving forces of that polarization?
When you combine the two of those, you really get the idea that voters are not really thinking about this.
And if you speak to the candidates out on the campaign trail, follow them along.
They really were not talking about the Russia investigation at all.
At all.
I love the way he has to emphasize this.
This is not an issue that's on people's minds.
People are not voting according to the Mueller investigation.
This is a particular fetish.
This is a particular fetish of a particular insular group of people in order to protect their honor.
So they don't have to admit they were wrong and so they don't have to change.
And, you know, again, go to 2018.
Remember, the Democrats kind of ran over the Republicans in the 2018 midterms.
Look at this.
We basically, in this particular poll, we said, okay, we gave you eight particular issues and you could say how important it was to your vote.
Only 48%, 48% said that the Russia investigation was extremely or a very important factor in your vote.
Again, the lowest.
It was the only one that got less than a majority.
And look again, healthcare.
We were talking about it earlier.
80%.
That's a far more important factor.
That is far more important to how people are making their vote choices either in 2018 or 2020.
This is all information that could have been dredged up years ago.
And this whole thing could have been let go without it coming to a head like this and making the political class of the United States look absolutely clownish in their desperation to avoid actually admitting fault.
Where is the president's approval rating at this point?
Right.
So I think that this is another thing to keep in mind, right?
You know, can this move the polls?
So on and so forth.
Again, I just got to point out how stable the president is.
I mean, look at this.
43 today, 44 six months ago, 43 a year ago, 44% two years ago.
Nothing moves.
Nothing.
There are probably plenty of things that would actually move Trump's approval rating.
It's just you can't talk about them because you're on the wrong side of those issues.
Build the damn wall.
People want less immigration, particularly illegal immigration, and that is not something on which you can stand on the other side and still consider yourselves morally righteous.
Those people have no right to be in your country.
They are taking advantage of the citizens there, the taxpaying citizens, and legally and morally, they must be removed from the country.
Building a wall doesn't hurt anyone.
It isn't racist.
But what it does do is give the citizens of the country peace of mind that they will not be taken advantage of.
Illegal immigrants and the open borders activists who want to benefit from them.
Usually we talk about this in the context of, oh, will this troubling news for the president, you know, lower his approval rating?
But we're about to see whether the reverse is also the case, whether positive news might make it go up.
Right.
And I think, you know, if we're thinking about 2020, these sort of unknown factors, and sort of if Mueller had come out and said, you know, something very bad about the president, then that obviously could have lowered him.
So we were able now to say, you know, we now know.
So this won't really lower the president's approval rating unless there's something Barr held back, but we don't believe that he has.
It could raise it.
It could raise it.
Exactly.
This is one of the unknown factors.
But now we know we will see if, in fact, goes up.
But there's still sort of three unknown factors.
You know, they say the economy, the Democratic candidate, a foreign war and achievement.
But basically with Mueller, we now know his approval rating will not drop because of it, and in fact, may go up a little bit.
When it comes to the state of the economy, surely Donald Trump is doing really, really well there, given that he has presided over some kind of economic miracle that nobody thought was possible, where the U.S. saw double the number of jobs created in the United States compared to predictions.
We do have breaking news right now.
The Labor Department has just released the August jobs report.
CNN's Christian Romans joins us with the numbers.
How does it look?
A lot of very strong numbers here from the Labor Department this morning.
Let me show you again.
This is in line with what we've been seeing this year.
201,000 net new jobs in August.
That is more than economists had been expecting.
You saw a couple of months revised lower here, but really for the year, you're averaging more than 200,000 net new jobs.
That means companies are still aggressively hiring every month.
And that means the unemployment rate remains near this generational low of 3.9%.
You didn't have it drop anymore here because you had some people dropping out of the labor market, but 3.9%.
Again, that is basically full employment.
That is fantastic news for the workers themselves because Trump has turned the labor market into a seller's market where there are more jobs than people who actually need them.
And, you know, one other thing I'll point out, look, this pretty much eliminates the chance that there's going to be a GOP challenger that could be significantly affecting his approval.
That huge William Well bubble might be burst all of a sudden.
You know, in Massachusetts, you know, William Moe was a popular guy.
Give us the news on the Democratic side.
Yeah, this is just since we got a nice 2020 check-in.
There's some Mayor Pete Pete Buddha Judge momentum.
I hopefully pronounced that correctly.
Look at this.
We can sort of look at his Google trends, the Google searches.
He this week was tied for the second highest number, second highest number of Google searches.
And he had more people search for his name in the last two weeks than the prior 93 weeks.
That's a lot of time, people.
93 weeks combined.
Buddha Jugentum.
Buddha Jigentum.
Yeah, that's too difficult for me.
And yeah, the Democrats don't have a good candidate.
I mean, I don't know if anyone's going to take the CNN candidate, but to be fair, it's probably going to be Kamala Harris, isn't it?
It's not going to be Yang.
He's on like 1%.
It's not going to be Tulsi Gabbard.
She's on like 1%.
It's going to be Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, isn't it?
Obviously, I don't know.
Who knows where it's going to go?
Who knows who they're going to pick?
But the point is, they don't have any clear or strong frontrunners.
The Democrats seem to be in chaos at the moment.
Whereas Trump is like an absolute rock at this point.
He's not going to be challenged by the GOP.
No Republican.
Why would they stop a good thing?
They're currently on a roll.
Everything's going great for the God Emperor.
And the Democrats are in complete disarray and are completely unwilling to just self-reflect.
Look at why they lost.
It's been excuse after excuse after excuse.
And thank God, the Mueller report has just put a stake through the heart of the Trump-Russia conspiracy.
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