Oct. 20, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
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| corruption and it doesn't sound like it's all that bad and yet it ruins societies so what you're doing is of extreme extreme importance before I get to the Biden the latest Biden issue with the computer I want you to just develop for me for a moment When you said 65-35, | |
| corruption of left-wing politicians to corruption of right-wing politicians, what is the 35%? | |
| How does it manifest itself? | |
| Well, I think the reason I would say that it seems to be more prevalent among the left is that the left seems to be much more comfortable staying in government longer. | |
| You know, it's after all the aspiration a lot of them have. | |
| I mean, the pinnacle of success for them is to be in government service, whereas people that are center-right oftentimes, you know, feel like, well, I want to go into business or I want to do something in the private sector. | |
| So part of the reason I think there is this gap is because the longer that you stay in public office in government, the more likely you are to engage in corrupt behavior. | |
| One of the people that I've talked to over the years is Bobby Jindal, who is the governor of Louisiana and congressman from Louisiana. | |
| And Bobby told me, you know, when he first got to Washington as a congressman, he said, you know, everything was so dirty, the way things were done, and you noticed it. | |
| And after you stayed there for a while, it didn't seem quite so bad. | |
| And he sort of ended the conversation with a quip. | |
| He said, when you first get there, it's a cesspool, but you stay there for a while and it starts to feel like a hot tub. | |
| That's a great point. | |
| So just, are you prepared to give me, is there a right-wing equivalent to Joe Biden in terms of corruption? | |
| Well, I wrote a book called Secret Empires that came out in 2018, where we first talked about the Biden's relationship with China. | |
| And a Republican, it would not be an equivalent, but pretty darn close, would be Senator Mitch McConnell. | |
| His wife, Elaine Cha, who's the transportation secretary, her family enjoys enormous, let's say, commercial graces from the Chinese government. | |
| They own a shipping business. | |
| If the Chinese government decided tomorrow that they wanted to shut down that company, they could. | |
| And that is directly tied to the fact that he has political status. | |
| Now, it's a little different than the Bidens, because in the case of the McConnell-Chao family, they actually have an underlying legitimate business. | |
| They had a shipping company, but there's no question that they have benefited from the good graces of Beijing and that Mitch McConnell's attitude towards China has been decidedly less hawkish than others. | |
| In the case of the Bidens, of course, there really is no underlying legitimate business. | |
| Hunter Biden became partners with the Chinese when his dad became vice president. | |
| And he brings nothing to the table. | |
| But to me, that is an equivalence. | |
| You don't want to be doing commercial deals with a foreign government, particularly if that foreign government is our rival, because they have you over the barrel, and they are going to lead you, I believe, to soften your critique of that government. | |
| What did we learn? | |
| What did you learn? | |
| That's a better question. | |
| to the prosecutor that Biden bragged on camera having fired as a result of the revelations from the computer or did you learn nothing? | |
| No, there was some very interesting emails the New York Post has reported on. | |
| I should say that I I know as much as everybody else does. | |
| I don't have access to those emails. | |
| But what they have brought out dovetails completely with what we knew. | |
| So it has built to the foundation of what we had reported earlier. | |
| The new emails demonstrate a couple of things. | |
| One, that apparently Burisma executives got a private meeting with Joe Biden while he was Vice President of the United States. | |
| Yeah, that's huge. | |
| All right, hold on there, hold on. | |
| Because that means that Joe Biden lied repeatedly to the American people on a very big matter. |
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