Sept. 24, 2016 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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All right, everybody.
What a treat.
Every time we have Sean Bergen, a pros-pro.
I just can't get enough of the guy.
Great asset for the program.
Breaking down what's been going on in this country in the last few days.
It has been busy, busy.
Busy for me, too.
I am in, or very near Little Rock, just on the outside of Little Rock, Arkansas today.
And we're going to be talking about this in the third hour tonight.
But I had the tremendous pleasure of being able to address the Arkansas League of the South State Conference today.
And the League of the South is just a top-shelf organization.
It really rings all of my bells.
I feel entirely and completely at home with the members of the League of the South.
And we'll talk about this in more detail in the third hour.
I'm going to have on with me the Arkansas League of the South chairman, R.G. Miller, and also Brad Griffin of Occidental Descent, who was a fellow speaker along with yours truly.
So R.G. and Brad will be with me the third hour, and we're going to spend the entire third hour breaking down the event today in Arkansas, where I am broadcasting remotely this evening.
Keith Alexander, Eddie the Bomba Den Miller have the night off because of the travel and the logistics of tonight's program.
But I'll tell you, as much has happened in the world of terrorism since last Saturday, we have also had that much, if not more, national media attention be lavished on this radio program, including, but not limited to, a story that appeared on page A1 of the New York Times this week.
Three, count them three stories mentioning us in the Washington Post and many, many others.
What's that all about?
We'll tell you later this hour.
But first, we are going to get on Jim Lancia, our good friend.
He is the author of Downtown White Police by the book on Amazon.com, Downtown White Police.
Jim Lancia, he is, of course, a former career law enforcement officer in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
He is now our criminal justice correspondent.
And anytime we have events like we have seen over the course of the last week, what we like to do is have a one-two punch, a tag team between Sean Bergen breaking it down from a media's point of view and Jim Lancia from that of someone who has been on the front lines in the police force.
And so, Jim, welcome back to the show.
Thanks, James.
It's good to be on.
Well, you watched what happened on TV the same as the rest of us in Charlotte.
What was your reaction as a former member, as a career police officer, a former member of the law enforcement community?
What goes through your heart and mind as you watch this savagery, really, unfold on TV?
Yeah, exactly.
Well, you and Sean covered it very well as far as the particulars.
The guy that they shot was a career thug.
He was involved in so many violent crimes and even shot at cops before.
Nonetheless, he did have a weapon and he died deservedly.
That's just how it goes.
So we all know about that.
But you guys brought up some really good topics.
The rioting was allowed to go on for too long.
In fact, being a former cop, and we've been in situations where we've had unruly crowds, violent crowds, and we've dispersed them.
That's what we did.
We dispersed them.
See, the problem with modern-day law enforcement, at least what I've been seeing as far as Black Lives Matter goes, is that they're very hesitant.
They treat them with kid gloves.
And they just seem to be afraid to be cops.
They stand there in this phalanx with shields and helmets, and they just stand their ground, but they still allow rocks to be thrown, buildings to be burned, and it's just not good policing.
And I don't care if, you know, first of all, we're looking at the higher-ups, maybe giving them stand-down orders or just back-off orders.
Cops got to remember that they're the sworn officers.
They're the ones who took the oath.
They're the ones who were sworn.
A mayor could only have so much sway over what cops do.
When the law is being broken in front of them, they're sworn to act and to do something about it.
I mean, you've got provocateurs wearing masks, breaking all kinds of laws in front of these cops.
Wearing a mask alone is a crime in itself when committing a crime.
But yet cops, I've seen cops arresting some of them, gingerly handling them, allowing them to keep the masks on their face.
It's unheard of.
Here's another thing that happened.
I don't think you guys mentioned this one, but I streamed a video that was taken by about 15 blacks in Charlotte beating the crap out of a lone white kid in a parking garage.
Have you seen that video?
Yes, I have.
Well, I have not seen the video.
I've read about it.
Of course, I've seen the video of them setting fires and throwing, I believe it was a homeless person into the fire.
But yes, this too.
And of course, that gets very little play, comparatively speaking, relatively speaking, in the establishment press.
Well, it's a pure racial attack.
I put it on my Google Plus, Downtown White Police, and my Facebook, Downtown White Police, if anybody wants to see it.
It's about 50 seconds, but there's like 15 or 20 blacks.
Some are taking film, and no one's helping this kid.
It's this alone white kid.
I don't know what he was doing, coming home, going home from work or something, but they savagely beat him, robbed him, and they pulled his pants off to humiliate him.
That is a common trick that blacks will use in attacks on whites is they'll pull their pants off to humiliate them if they even let them live.
And in fact, that doesn't get any widespread media coverage is beyond me.
Just like MSNBC saying most of it's peaceful.
You know, I'm really getting tired of hearing.
I mean, it's like the political festival is like the radio-free Europe now.
It's like the only place where you're going to get accurate news.
And I'm not just doing that to plug you, but it's true.
Well, thank you, Jim.
It's like you're the political festival is the new radio-free Europe, and the old Iron Curtain is now the American media wall of censorship.
And this is what we got, and it's no different.
It's even worse.
But those are the things that really bother me about what's going on there.
And the fact that the riots have to last for four days and that it's been allowed to get this bad, I don't like it.
As a former cop, I don't like it.
And I think cops got to start making some decisive decisions on their own.
I mean, like I said, you're a sworn police officer.
You do not need orders to enforce the law.
You know, it only goes so far what they can tell you to do.
Well, you bring up a couple of things that, again, we didn't mention in the first hour, and it had been on my mind as well.
The favorite two words of the press this week have been peaceful and protest.
And they say that while we're watching the live feed from Charlotte, who are we going to believe?
Them or our lying eyes, you know, and I'm watching this stuff.
My God, if that's peaceful, I'd sure hate to see him get upset.
And some of the things you mentioned with, I mean, there was a murder, a murder of one agitator against another agitator, apparently.
And of course, they try to blame that on the cops, too.
But I guess you can say that the law enforcement was effective in terms of stopping some of the looting and vandalism.
And if they hadn't been there, imagine how bad it would have gotten in that sort of capacity.
But all right, we got to take a break.
When we come back, I'll finish that thought because we haven't yet mentioned the so-called curfew or lack thereof.
There was a curfew.
It came and went.
We'll talk about that with former police officer Jim Lancia, author of the book Downtown White Police, follow him on Twitter.
We got a tweet up about him right now at my Twitter page.
Hillary Clinton's watching it.
That's for sure.
She took a snapshot of my Twitter and put it up on our website.
We'll be back.
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Okay, so we're here with former law enforcement officer Jim Lancia, and we're talking about what happened in Charlotte from the perspective of a former police officer.
And so, Jim, basically, you had the National Guard there in Charlotte.
You had all of these police in riot gear, and they did a great job, I guess, of babysitting some of the buildings.
And I'm not trying to make light of what they did.
I'm glad they were there.
It would have been a lot worse had they not been.
But ultimately, they were just there as window dressing as these people blocked highways, in some cases, murdered someone, beat this white person, threw someone in a fire.
And this is just the stuff that's come out.
And you know, I'm sure there was a lot more than that that was suppressed.
But even the basic stuff that we could see, the shutting down of major downtown thoroughfares in a major American city, that stuff should have lasted 30 minutes and not a second longer.
And they should have been rounded up and thrown in jail.
Every single one of them, it should have been met with a decisive action, as you put it.
It is the third world, it's a third world banana republic, what we've got.
These people going out there and the hammer not being dropped on them because of political correctness.
Now we're seeing that we live in a country that picks and chooses which laws it's going to enforce based upon the race of the perpetrator, I guess.
But what I was going to ask you about, Jim, was this curfew.
Now, I think it was the third day.
It was Friday.
So that's the third day they've gone down there and shut down major portions of downtown Charlotte.
And we started hearing about this curfew.
This curfew was going to be enacted at 12 o'clock midnight.
I was like, well, thank God.
Finally, after three days, we might start seeing the trash taken out.
But no, right after 12, the news talking heads report that, well, the curfew is in effect now, but as long as they remain peaceful, there's that word again, there's not going to be arrests.
So what good was the curfew at all?
It was nothing.
Right.
It's this indecisiveness on the part of law enforcement.
I mean, obviously, the law enforcement officials had to put the curfew on, so it's up to the law enforcement to enforce the curfew.
See, but what they were doing today was that I was just saying it was a bluff.
I guess they thought they would bluff them with the curfew, and maybe they would go home.
But once they didn't, they thought, well, they called our bluff.
Well, let's let them keep on doing what they're doing.
That's why you could never bluff.
See, you can't do it.
It's either you do it or you don't do it.
See, people who know, people on the street know they can call your bluff.
That's why if you don't have it, if you don't have what it takes to be a cop that can handle inner city crime, you can't bluff your way through it.
It'll never happen.
They'll always see right through it.
And that comes from experience.
So bluffing with a calling it a curfew and not backing it up, that just makes it worse in the future for other departments and other things when they're going to have to handle stuff like this.
And that was a mistake.
Always enforce it.
If you say something, you've got to enforce it.
Now, I didn't mean to be so critical on the Charlotte Police Department.
I think they did okay, but I just don't understand allowing it to go this far.
So I have to be a little critical, but, you know, it's just from what I saw, it's just too much.
Just like in Milwaukee, I think they handled it a little bit better in Milwaukee.
But even then, it got too much.
I mean, I think just the way maybe it's just the type of guys they're hiring or how they're trained or what they're told by their chiefs.
I mean, look what you have.
You have a police chief in Memphis who was arm in arm with Black Lives Matter on that bridge.
You remember that right now?
That's right.
That's right.
I sure do.
How do you have a police department that's willing to act decisively when chiefs of police are arm in arm with these people, when the president backs them, when the DOJ won't do anything, when Hillary Clinton praises them, when top Democrats praise them, when you get very little condemnation by Republicans of the BLM, including the media.
It's like they glorify these people.
So a lot of cops, like you were saying, and Sean was saying, if you were cops, you wouldn't know what to do, or you'd just sit in the car and wait for the cavalry.
But I can tell you from experience, you don't always have that opportunity because when you're a cop on the street, you've got to be decisive because if you don't do it, another guy's got to do it.
And he may get hurt because of your inactivity.
And I know you guys didn't mean it to say, you know, in any way to hurt anybody, but that's what happens when people say to me, you know, when I'm on my YouTube, they'll say, oh, why did you work these neighborhoods?
Why did you work these black neighborhoods?
They don't care.
They put me in these neighborhoods.
Plus, I volunteered for these neighborhoods, because that's where the real work is.
And I feel if I could keep the crime down in those neighborhoods, it wouldn't spread out into the better neighborhoods.
And that's just what it is.
That leads me to my next question, Jim.
I'm glad you brought that up.
So now, you worked, as our regular listeners will know, you worked the most crime-ridden areas of diverse areas, if you will, of Bridgeport, Connecticut during the height of the crack epidemic.
So you were in the projects.
You were it was as bad as it gets.
You worked those streets.
What does Officer Jim Lancia do if he's in charge of the Charlotte Police Force this week, say Wednesday, Thursday night?
Well, if I'm in charge, I would definitely set up my men, not in huge phalanxes, but I would deploy them all over the city, wherever they are.
I would surround the protesters.
I would let them see that there's no avenue of escape.
I would give them one avenue of escape if they wanted to leave.
But the rest would be just, I would close in on them, and I would have my men arrest anybody throwing rocks or doing anything illegal, whoever's breaking the law and engage.
Will it get ugly?
Yeah, probably.
But at least you're doing something about it.
And I can tell you from experience that these thugs do not want to battle with cops.
They do not want that knife stick over their head.
And what's so bad about using that knife stick?
They're just worried about this videotape of them using.
It's still a weapon to use.
It's better to use a knife stick than to have to shoot somebody.
But the thing is, I know that sounds old-fashioned, but that's what you got to do.
Nobody wants to get cracked over the head with a knife stick if you're breaking what's going to happen.
We talked about this before.
Going back just a few decades, you could patrol the streets of New York or Newark with a few beat cops with Billy Clubs.
I might carry you over one more segment because I've got a great question here that we might not have time to get to because we have Matt the Copperhead who has called in with a question for you.
Brother Matt, how are you?
Hey, guys, what's going on, brother?
James Jim, big fan.
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How's it going?
Great.
Are you talking to me or James Edwards?
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Love them.
Oh, thank you very much.
I appreciate that, man.
And thank you for your service in patrolling the streets of this country, sir.
It's the least I can do for my country.
But thank you very much for that.
I appreciate that.
What I see going on is two things have emerged in the last 10 years, especially the last five years.
You got the Dinkins approach to being inner city, big city America policing, and you have the Giuliani approach.
Unfortunately, the Giuliani, Ray Neg, other approach of the broken window policy has waned, and we have to recapture that.
And God willing, Trump, when he gets in, will start putting that mentality back in, and it will filter down to our inner cities.
Right.
You made a good idea.
I'll take it there.
Under Dinkins, New York was a mess.
You had wilding going on.
I don't know if a lot of people remember that, but this was black people.
Oh, I'm running around raping and beating up white people.
This is an old thing.
People think it's new.
It's not.
And Giuliani came in.
Like you said, New York became clean.
It became a great tourist attraction.
42nd Street, he cleaned up Times Square, everything.
He made New York a great tourist destination.
Let me say...
In half.
I was just going to say this, guys.
In some ways, Giuliani is a little liberal for me, but I have really come to respect Rudy Giuliani this year, not just his contributions to the Trump campaign, but I really believe he's the guy that took on the mob.
I mean, there's a lot about Giuliani that's worthy of respect, but particularly how he cleaned up the streets of New York.
That would not have happened in Charlotte if Rudy Giuliani was mayor.
I believe he said once in New York, you can have the sidewalks, but you will not take my streets.
That's it.
And what they got to do is go after these white social, Justice Warrior liberals, these mama loops, and put some pecans over their heads also.
If they're out there breaking the ball, hold on, hold on.
Hang on, we're coming up on a break.
If they're out there breaking the law and it's justified, absolutely.
We've got to take a break.
I got another question for Jim on the flip side.
Stay tuned.
One more segment, Jim.
We'll be right back.
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I really appreciate what Jim Lancia said about us earlier about us being the radio-free Europe here in America.
Well, the only reason the political cesspool has attained the level of success and fame that it has is because I've been blessed to work with the best.
Sam Bushman, Keith Alexander, Scoop, Winston Smith, Jim Lancia, Sean Bergen, Eddie the Bombardier, Miller, and all of those that have played a role in this broadcast in the early years.
It's just a phenomenal team that I've been blessed with.
And Jim, two more questions before you go.
As we continue to see incidents like Charlotte, Baltimore, Ferguson allowed to happen, at what point will cops quit en masse?
At what point will people say, I'm not going to sign up for the police force.
I have no interest in going into law enforcement.
At what point will we find streets that are completely devoid of a police presence?
Where's the Rubicon in what we're seeing right now?
Well, I truly believe that there is going to be a Rubicon to cross soon.
And I believe that part of this is that they want the good cops to leave.
I truly do.
See, Obama's objective, the DOJ's objective, is to create a TSA-like federal police force.
They've already started doing it in six cities, and they already have made their plans known for doing it.
They want the police department to be TSA-like.
You know, you ever see the PSI people?
I mean, they're completely incompetent.
They do not know how to handle people.
And that's what they want from the police because then they could control it completely.
Because believe it or not, across the nation, every police department used to have their own autonomy.
Every city, every mayor ran the police department the way they wanted.
They were kind of autonomous.
But under the federal government, they would be all under the control of the president, the DOJ, the puppets, everybody.
So it would be under complete control.
That's what they want.
They've already basically said that.
So, yes, when cops start leaving en masse, it will be the good cops that leave because they're going to be the frustrated ones.
They're going to be the ones that say, we should have used our knife stick to knock the crap out of these guys, and then it would have been over in 40 minutes, like you said.
But they're not allowed to do it, and maybe not even willing to take the initiative to do it because they know what the repercussions are going to be from, you know, whether it's the chief or the mayor.
They're just not going to get the backing.
So, it's kind of a conundrum there.
But that is what they do want.
They do want.
Some departments have had en masse departures of cops.
And they've labeled it under, oh, union grievances or pay, but it's not.
It's really a lot of cops are protesting or just unwilling to live by the strictures that they're being restricted by today.
Well, your answer is spot on to lead to my final question for you in terms of they're trying to get rid of the good cops.
Obviously, we all have problems with certain TSA thugs and some rogue elements of law enforcement, but the average beat cop on the street, I live in a neighborhood where there is a police officer that lives directly across the street from me and a police officer that lives directly next door.
I probably live in the safest house in Memphis.
And these are all-American guys.
These are salt of the earth, middle-Americans.
They love their country.
They're right-thinking people.
These are good people.
Okay, so, but when you have these police officers in other cities being told to stand down in situations like Charlotte, like Ferguson, like Baltimore, it goes against, it has to go against everything they were trained to do.
As you mentioned earlier, they don't need an order to enforce the law.
Okay, so this goes against their training.
They're being told to stand down.
Where are these orders coming from?
At what level above the cop on the street are these orders being handed down?
You could say, well, it's their chief.
It's the mayor of whatever city.
Is it the soft totalitarianism of political correctness that just leads these people to tell the cops to treat the malcontents with kid gloves?
Or is this coming up from something above that?
I mean, I guess your opinion is as good as anyone else's, but you were a former police officer.
So I'd like to ask, what do you think?
Where are these orders ultimately coming from?
Okay, I got a good answer for that.
Like you said, though, the average cop is a good man, good woman.
They want to do the job.
They want to do what's right.
Okay.
What I think is going on is that it's not the average beat cop that's being given these orders, you know, this new direction of policing.
It's the upper echelon police officers.
It's the chiefs, it's the inspectors, the commissioners, whatever a department would call them, the superintendents, the leaders of the department.
They're the ones going to Israel, being invited to Israel to learn the Israeli way of policing.
I have it in my book, like over 300 sheriffs and police chiefs in the United States have already gone and winded and dined in Israel to learn some new way of policing that's obviously not working.
So I also believe that since these departments have taken so much federal money, they have become an entity of the federal government by way of funding.
So in a way, they have to take marching orders from the federal government if they want the money for police cars, for weapons, for anything.
All the new equipment that we never needed before.
And the reason why I keep bringing up that crime was worse when I was a cop, because it was.
It was like four times worse.
We knocked it down.
After the 90s, after the crime bill was signed and they started locking these guys up, crime went down for almost a decade until, you know, Obama got in.
Then crime has drastically taken a rise.
But that's who you got to worry about.
It's the chiefs of police.
It's the mayors.
I mean, look at the Baltimore mayor.
I mean, if she's not being controlled by somebody, you know, and look, you even have some of these prosecutors, the black female prosecutor in Baltimore.
I mean, these people have to be controlled.
I mean, they're just not, they're not on their own.
I mean, they are definitely being given marching orders, and it's nefarious.
It really isn't some blunder of stupidity.
This is a nefarious plot to take over American policing, which in turn will change our lives forever.
And we all know that.
That's why Soros has been allowed to fund.
I mean, he gave over $7 million to Hillary Clinton campaign.
So we know that he would love to disrupt an election so that somehow Trump won't get in.
They're very afraid that Trump, Trump would win in an unrigged election.
They know that.
So their only way to win this is to sully Trump somehow or to create so much havoc on the streets that the president just suspends the election somehow.
And if that doesn't happen, I'd be very surprised.
There has been some speculation about that.
And with what's going on, I mean, again, Sean Bergen laid out really what should be a very bad year's worth of terrorism, domestic terrorism.
And it's all happened since our last broadcast a week ago tonight.
Jim Lancia, thank you so much for your contributions to this show, my brother.
Folks, check out his Twitter page.
Check out his book, Downtown White Police, and his YouTube show.
Give the information on how people can access that.
Well, it's under Downtown White Police.
It's called Cop Shootouts, and I have like 50 some-odd videos that cover everything, all the stuff you're talking about.
And there's nothing held back there.
We're not held back by the rules.
Well, at least to some extent.
But thank you, James.
I appreciate being on the show and look forward to coming on again.
Yeah, always, Jim.
And you'll be on often, I'm sure, as things continue to spiral out of control.
Thank you again.
Jim Lancia, everybody.
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But so I don't know exactly how much time we lost there, but I was just recapping the fact that another round, another burst of media publicity this week lavished upon the political successful Liberty News Radio Network.
We've been denounced by Hillary.
The Trump campaign officials are answering questions about us from Mr. Rachel Maddow and Jake Tapper and others.
But page A1 of the New York Times, Donald Trump Jr.'s Skittles tweet fits a pattern.
Donald Trump Jr., a close political advisor to his father, Donald J. Trump, the Republican nominee for president, posted on Twitter Monday night an image of a white bowl full of rainbow-colored Skittles.
The image came with his text, quote, if I had a bowl of Skittles and I told you just three would kill you, would you take a handful?
That's our Syrian refugee problem.
In March, Donald Trump Jr. appeared on a show that once had David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, now running for the Senate in Louisiana as a guest.
On the show, Mr. Trump conversed with James Edwards, whose own radio show, The Political Cesspool, has been described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as racic and anti-Semitic.
Now, Sam Bushman has covered this story extensively on his broadcast this week, so I won't unpack everything.
There are some facts that got totally screwed up in that, as you might expect from the New York Times.
But this garbage appeared on page A1. of the New York Times.
It was republished in the Chicago Tribune, the Atlanta Journal of Constitution, and other publications, both here and abroad.
And what we have here is a parody of the liberals' parody of McCarthy.
Can you imagine how the wine and cheese party types would be giggling at McCarthy and their swank get-togethers in Manhattan if McCarthy had ever said something so stupid as claiming that the fact that a journalist interviewed a communist made the journalist a communist?
Well, that's exactly what they're saying here.
Same argument applies, except now the writer wants you to think that because I have interviewed both David Duke and Donald Trump Jr., that they must be in a conspiracy together.
Washington Post with Skittles tweet, Donald Trump Jr. draws another round of condemnation.
Talks a little bit about the Skittles thing in Trump.
Trump Jr. drew scrutiny when white nationalist radio host James Edwards interviewed him.
And they'll always mention that interview, which was primarily conducted by Sam Bushman, I might add.
They'll libel me, but they'll never mention the content of that interview, which was absolutely incredible.
Another Washington Post headline.
This week, Donald Trump Jr. is his father's son.
He appeared in an interview with James Edwards, a known white supremacist.
Now, notice how two separate liars in the Washington Post refer to me as a white nationalist and a white supremacist, respectively.
Of course, I'm not a white supremacist, but this once again proves my point that the media can't even make the elementary distinction between a nationalist and a supremacist, and they will use these wildly different words interchangeably and recklessly.
Two headlines in the same newspaper, in the same week, I'm a nationalist in one, a supremacist in the other.
But that's not all.
How about a third Washington Post headline?
A lot of Donald Trump Jr.'s campaign trail missteps seem to involve Nazis.
Now I'm a Nazi.
Donald Trump Jr. says things, lots of things, the story reads.
Sometimes they're problematic.
At least twice this week, he was forced to defend an action or remark viewed as racially or culturally insensitive.
In March, again, what, seven months ago, seven and a half months ago, he did an interview with James Edwards, a white nationalist radio host who prefers the term pro-white advocate.
In the past, Edwards has decried interracial sex and said that slavery is the greatest thing to ever happen to white people or to black people.
Word to the wise, don't you ever agree with the opinion of a black columnist for the Jamaican Observer when it comes to slavery or his words will forever be your own?
And what's also funny is that in the Washington Post and these three separate stories, they want to make you believe that Donald Trump Jr. is bad because he simply answered a couple of my questions during an interview.
But the same rule apparently does not apply to the Washington Post senior editor who called me on the phone last June, June of 2015, interviewed me for a full hour and even wished me happy birthday.
So if he can talk to me for an hour, doesn't that make him a super duper white supremacist?
If Don Jr. is a supremacist, because he talked to me for, what, two or three questions in an interview that Sam conducted?
Daily Beast, Donald Trump Jr. is the Trump campaign's worst surrogate in March.
This is all stuff that's happened this week.
These are all headlines since we talked together seven days ago, ladies and gentlemen.
He did an interview with white supremacist James Edwards.
On the show, Edwards told Trump Jr. he hoped his father would become America's Charlemagne.
Donald Trump Jr. didn't take issue with that.
In the past, Edwards said slavery was good.
So at this point, the pro-slavery lie, the lie about me being a pro-slavery advocate, has been pared down.
Any semblance of context is gone.
And now it's just pared down to read, I said slavery is good.
But interestingly, all of these publications have reached out to me for interviews this year.
And every time when they do in these emails asking me to do an interview, it's always Mr. Edwards and sir.
So maybe, I don't know, maybe they got scorned by my lack of response and feel the need to lash out with these hysterical accusations.
Huffington Post, Donald Trump Jr. makes a Holocaust joke.
Yeah, he said gas chambers.
I think, didn't we talk about that last week?
He said gas chambers.
They said he was making fun of Jewish people.
I didn't know gas chamber had been copyrighted.
But how perverted and deranged must a reporter be to immediately think that mentioning gas chambers is done to mock the Jewish people?
These people are in need of intense psychiatric help.
But this article mentions that the white supremacist, I think they got the wrong birth certificate.
They must think my mother named me white supremacist James Edwards as if that's my full given name.
I don't know what's going on here.
Slate, Donald Trump Jr. says the media likes to use gas chamber on Republicans.
This isn't Trump's first, second, or third time associating himself with white supremacists.
In March, he appeared on the radio show with James Edwards, host of the white supremacist political cesspool.
I don't know.
Maybe they think if they call me white supremacists long enough and often enough, I'll magically turn into one.
Maybe that's the game.
But it even went overseas.
The UK Independent, who's the scariest Trump of all?
Trump's firstborn did an interview with, you guessed it, white supremacist James Edwards.
One more screen, ladies and gentlemen.
Mother Jones, meet the horde of neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and other extremists endorsing Donald Trump.
They actually put in, this is the only one I've read this week that actually quoted me fairly, even though they called me a horde neo-Nazi or whatever.
It said James Edwards wrote, our people need a viable candidate.
We've identified Trump as that man.
There's no doubt that Trump's populism and nationalism is galvanizing our nation and that it may change the course of American history.
The ingredient in Trump's historic rise, Edwards wrote, is that it's delicious because it's so powerful.
It's unstoppable.
It's impervious to foot shuffling, complaints, whine, hysterical cries of racism, and so-called white supremacism.
Trump's supporters don't care.
And there's something undeniably infectious about Trump's masculine attitude.
Trump has also called, or rather, Edwards has also called Trump's campaign implicitly white.
Folks, that's a rundown of about a dozen headlines that we've been featured in in the last seven days, and that's the tip of the iceberg.
I couldn't possibly get to them all.
I would be too bored to get to them all.
And Sam Bushman, by the way, sicked his bulldog tenacity on the New York Times, and they're going to issue a retraction about some of the facts that they, either intentionally or ignorantly, I don't know how much of a difference there is, put in that piece.
And Sam covered that on his show.
Check it out at LibertyRoundtable.com.
We got to take a break.
When we come back, I'm going to talk about why I'm in Arkansas.
It'll be the most uplifting part of the show, at least, and that's coming up in just a moment.