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Jan. 14, 2021 - Epoch Times
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Obama Was NOT To Blame For Mass Shootings, NEITHER Is President Trump | The Larry Elder Show
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Well, it's been a sad, somber week, hasn't it?
So I'll dispense with my usual jocularity and get right to it.
Mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and in Dayton, Ohio, and it didn't take long before you-know-who got blamed.
Here's Beto O'Rourke.
He's been calling Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals.
I don't know, like, members of the press, what the f**k?
Hold on a second.
You know, it's these questions that you know the answers to.
I mean, connect the dots about what he's been doing in this country.
He's not tolerating racism.
He's promoting racism.
He's not tolerating violence.
He's inciting racism and violence in this country.
Not to be outdone, here's Cory Booker.
You know, reconciliation, the kind of healing that we need, starts first with someone standing up and saying, I've been wrong.
I've made mistakes.
What I've said before has been unacceptable.
So you can't speak out of one side of your mouth about the need for us to come together as a country, but consistently do things that divide this nation and pit us against each other that fuel racial bigotry and hatred.
If he wants to show that he's changed, then this is about reconciliation.
Speak to how you have contributed to the hate and the division and the bigotry and the racism.
How you have said things that make people with violent instincts and violent intentions all the more likely to do the kind of heinous things.
This is unacceptable.
There is no repentance in this.
There is no contrition in this.
And there is no reconciliation from this president who owes the American people.
someone who can't even condemn Nazis, who owes the American people so much more than he's giving.
We are seeing a catastrophic failure in presidential leadership right now.
There can be no equivocation about that whatsoever.
So I've got a question.
Will the media take responsibility?
What for?
For consistently, repeatedly, and willfully distorting what President Trump said in Charlottesville.
He did not say that there were good Nazis and bad Nazis.
In fact, he specifically said this.
So you know what?
It's fine.
You're changing history, you're changing culture, and you had people, and I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally.
And he's never, ever condemned white supremacy and white nationalism and the KKK and David Duke?
Really?
How do you feel about the recent endorsement from David Duke?
I didn't even know he endorsed me.
David Duke endorsed me?
Okay.
All right.
I disavow, okay?
I totally disavow the Ku Klux Klan.
I totally disavow David Duke.
I've been doing it now for two weeks.
This is, you're probably about the 18th person that's asked me the question.
David Duke is a bad person who I disavowed on numerous occasions over the years.
If he said on Friday, I disavow, why ask him again on Saturday?
I'm saying to myself, how many times do I have to continue to disavow people?
And the question was asked about David Duke and various groups.
When I put out that I reject KKK and David Duke, nobody picks it up.
You know why they're not?
Because they don't want to pick it up.
I disavowed them on Friday.
I disavowed them right after that because I thought if there was any question, and you take a look at Twitter, almost immediately after, on Twitter and Facebook, they were disavowed again.
I disavowed them every time I speak to somebody virtually, and, you know, they just keep it going.
They keep it going.
How bad is it?
It's this bad.
51%, 51% of Americans believe that Donald Trump is a racist.
92% of Democrats believe he's a racist.
In fact, more people believe Donald Trump is a racist than believe George Wallace was a racist back in 1968.
Who's George Wallace?
And I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever.
And what about all the mass shootings that took place under other presidents?
Look at this.
Four under George H.W. Bush.
Eight under Bill Clinton.
Eight under George W. Bush.
So far, four under Donald Trump.
Twenty-four under Barack Obama.
Oh, you're going to say, but wait.
Obama didn't incite violence.
Oh, no?
What about all his anti-cop rhetoric?
You remember Cambridge?
The Cambridge police Uh, acted stupidly.
And remember when Trayvon Martin was shot and killed?
You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.
And then, of course, he invoked the lie of Ferguson while giving a speech before the United Nations.
At times, we too have failed to live up to our ideals.
That America has plenty of problems within its own borders.
This is true.
In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri, where a young man was killed and a community was divided.
So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
Now, why do I mention this?
Well, because in Obama's second term, officers were killed in New York, In Baton Rouge and in Dallas, all execution style, all by three different black men who posted on social media their anger over their assertion that police were engaging in routine racial profiling against black people.
In other words, they were incited by the Black Lives Matter movement.
Did anybody blame Obama?
Oh, yes, they did.
Listen to the head of the police union.
After the Dallas shootings, here is what William Johnson, Executive Director of the National Association of Police Organizations said, quote, I think the Obama administration's continued appeasement at the federal level with the Department of Justice,
their appeasement of violent criminals, Their refusal to condemn movements like Black Lives Matter actively calling for the death of police officers while blaming police for the problems in this country has led directly to the climate that has made Dallas possible." But did the media blame Obama for the death of those officers?
Now, this business about Trump inciting violence because of his xenophobia, because of his hostility towards illegal immigration, Trump has not said anything about illegal immigration that wasn't said by the likes of Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Dianne Feinstein, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer.
Don't believe me?
Listen to this.
Those who enter the country illegally and those who employ them disrespect the rule of law and they are showing disregard for those who are following the law.
All Americans Not only in the states most heavily affected, but in every place in this country are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country.
The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants.
The public service they use impose burdens on our taxpayers.
I think we can enforce our borders.
I think we should enforce our borders.
If making it easy to be an illegal alien isn't enough, how about offering a reward for being an illegal immigrant?
No sane country would do that, right?
We've got a couple of different issues we're talking about.
Do we have a commitment to secure the border?
Yes.
What are the options that we have available to us?
Let's make sure they work.
Because while we need to address the issue of immigration and the challenge we have of undocumented people in our country, we certainly don't want any more coming in.
In approaching immigration reform, I believe we must enact tough, practical reforms that ensure and promote the legal and orderly entry of immigrants into our country.
People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who entered the U.S. legally.
To have a situation where 40% of the babies born on Medicaid in California today are born of illegal immigrants creates a very real problem for the state, which is in deficit.
Let me finish.
17% of our prison population at a cost of 300 million a year, the illegal immigrants who come here and commit felonies, that's not what this nation is all about.
Do we have a commitment to secure the border?
Yes.
What are the options that we have available to us?
Let's make sure they work.
We all agree on the need to better secure the border and to punish employers who choose to hire illegal immigrants.
That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before.
No sane country would do that.
Right?
I continue to believe that we need stronger enforcement on the border and at the workplace.
All illegal aliens present in the United States on the date of enactment of our bill must quickly register their presence with the United States government or face imminent deportation.
That means a workable, mandatory system that employers must use to verify the legality of their workers.
We will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace as recommended by the Commission headed by former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan.
When we use phrases like undocumented workers, We convey a message to the American people that their government is not serious about combating illegal immigration.
If you don't think it's illegal, you're not going to say it.
I think it is illegal and wrong.
If you break our laws by entering this country without permission and give birth to a child, we reward that child with U.S. citizenship and guarantee a full access to all public and social services this society provides.
And that's a lot of services.
Is it any wonder that two-thirds of the babies born at taxpayer expense at county-run hospitals in Los Angeles are born?
So, that's why we need to start by giving agencies charged with border security new technology, new facilities, and more people to stop, process, and deport illegal immigrants.
One more thing.
In watching many, many hours of cable, watching CNN and MSNB hee-haw so you don't have to, Not one word, not one word about how often Americans use guns to defend themselves.
One researcher, Gary Kleck, estimates that Americans use guns to defend themselves 1.25 million times every single year.
And out of that number, 40% believe that but for the firearm, they would have been dead.
I tried to interview Michael Moore about how many times Americans use guns for defensive purposes.
I couldn't schedule it, so I decided to ambush him.
You know, Michael Moore style.
You know this kid?
His name is Kyle.
His father, Ron, used a firearm to defend him because someone was trying to break into the home.
This happens hundreds of thousands of times a year, wondering whether or not she might owe Mr.
Kessler an apology.
You know, actually what happens is there's hundreds of thousands of kids who are in jeopardy every day because there's hundreds of thousands of guns in people's homes.
My question is, how many people a year do you think are alive?
Larry Elder.
And we're not even talking about everyday homicides in this country.
15,000 non-suicide homicides every year, and of that number, roughly half come from blacks.
13% of the population, yet blacks commit about 50% of the homicides and are about 50% of the homicide victims.
I mean, in Chicago, just last weekend, 50 people shot.
50.
And a few days before that, two mothers who were anti-violent activists, two mothers who were anti-gun activists in Chicago, standing on the corner, holding up signs, promoting anti-violence, shot in a drive-by!
Terrence Williams was not amused.
These two black innocent mothers spent years trying to stop gun violence in Chicago.
And then a bunch of ghetto fools decide to do a drive-by on them.
And where is everybody at?
Where's Black Lives Matter at?
This don't make no sense.
What's going on?
You know what's crazy?
Is that if these women were shot by some white people, y'all would be rioting and protesting the streets right now.
And I need y'all to use that same energy as if a white person would have shot these ladies.
And don't say, oh, Terrence, it's a difference when a white person kill a black and a black kill a black.
No, it is not a difference.
It's the same thing.
In addition to the failure to even contemplate how many times Americans use guns to defend themselves, there was not one word about the purpose of the Second Amendment, which is to guarantee against a tyrannical government.
Now, the Democrats and the left are constantly calling Donald Trump what?
A tyrant.
A dictator.
A Nazi.
A fascist.
Exactly the kind of person the Second Amendment was designed to make sure does not come into power.
So why would the left simultaneously want to restrict the Second Amendment while calling Donald Trump A fascist, a racist, a tyrant.
Either they have no clue about the purpose of the Second Amendment, or they don't truly believe that Donald Trump is in fact a tyrant, in which case you are adding to the very atmosphere that you claim Donald Trump has created.
Now finally this.
Follow this under the category of, we all need somebody to lean on.
It has been one brutal week.
I'm Larry Elder, and this is the Larry Elder Show for Epoch Times.
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