Dennis Prager Show - Peter Schweizer: Who is More Corrupt? Left or Right?
Aired: 2020-10-20
Duration: 04:46


=== Joe Biden's Corruption Allegations (04:45) ===

[00:00:00]  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,
[00:00:25]  corruption of left-wing politicians to corruption of right-wing politicians, what is the 35%?
[00:00:32]  How does it manifest itself?
[00:00:35]  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.
[00:00:48]  You know, it's after all the aspiration a lot of them have.
[00:00:52]  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.
[00:01:03]  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.
[00:01:16]  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.
[00:01:27]  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.
[00:01:37]  And after you stayed there for a while, it didn't seem quite so bad.
[00:01:41]  And he sort of ended the conversation with a quip.
[00:01:44]  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.
[00:01:51]  That's a great point.
[00:01:53]  So just, are you prepared to give me, is there a right-wing equivalent to Joe Biden in terms of corruption?
[00:02:02]  Well, I wrote a book called Secret Empires that came out in 2018, where we first talked about the Biden's relationship with China.
[00:02:10]  And a Republican, it would not be an equivalent, but pretty darn close, would be Senator Mitch McConnell.
[00:02:18]  His wife, Elaine Cha, who's the transportation secretary, her family enjoys enormous, let's say, commercial graces from the Chinese government.
[00:02:30]  They own a shipping business.
[00:02:32]  If the Chinese government decided tomorrow that they wanted to shut down that company, they could.
[00:02:38]  And that is directly tied to the fact that he has political status.
[00:02:44]  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.
[00:02:53]  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.
[00:03:05]  In the case of the Bidens, of course, there really is no underlying legitimate business.
[00:03:11]  Hunter Biden became partners with the Chinese when his dad became vice president.
[00:03:16]  And he brings nothing to the table.
[00:03:18]  But to me, that is an equivalence.
[00:03:21]  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.
[00:03:38]  What did we learn?
[00:03:39]  What did you learn?
[00:03:40]  That's a better question.
[00:03:45]  to the prosecutor that Biden bragged on camera having fired as a result of the revelations from the computer or did you learn nothing?
[00:04:02]  No, there was some very interesting emails the New York Post has reported on.
[00:04:06]  I should say that I I know as much as everybody else does.
[00:04:10]  I don't have access to those emails.
[00:04:12]  But what they have brought out dovetails completely with what we knew.
[00:04:18]  So it has built to the foundation of what we had reported earlier.
[00:04:24]  The new emails demonstrate a couple of things.
[00:04:27]  One, that apparently Burisma executives got a private meeting with Joe Biden while he was Vice President of the United States.
[00:04:35]  Yeah, that's huge.
[00:04:36]  All right, hold on there, hold on.
[00:04:38]  Because that means that Joe Biden lied repeatedly to the American people on a very big matter.