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Well, we are at day 13 of Kamala Harris not being asked any questions at all about being the Democratic presidential nominee. We have all sorts of news coming. And here's the thing. You don't want to miss a minute. As a Daily Wire Plus member, you get uncensored, unfiltered, ad-free shows, the real-time breaking news alerts you need, and more. Join the fight right now at dailywire.com slash subscribe. So yesterday, the big news.
is that the United States secured, along with its allies, a deal with Russia in order to return some 16 people, including multiple Americans, from the Russians. The Russians had basically taken hostage a bunch of Americans over the course of the last several years, and the United States traded a bunch of murderers, terrorist spies, for these hostages.
This was treated as a massive win for the Biden administration yesterday by the media and by the Biden administration itself. So what exactly was the deal? According to the Wall Street Journal, it's the largest prisoner swap between East and West since the Cold War. Russia has released 16 people, including Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reported detained over a year ago and wrongly convicted on a false charge of espionage. The others included former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, as well as another journalist and activist,
who have opposed Vladimir Putin and his war in Ukraine. Russia, in return, has received eight people, including a convicted murderer. So the people of the United States got back were Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter who famously was taken prisoner by the Putin regime just about a year ago. Paul Whelan, who was taken prisoner by the Putin regime in 2018. A person named Alsu Kormasheva,
who is a Russian-American journalist who was sentenced to six and a half years in prison in July when she was falsely accused of basically being a spy. A bunch of other UK Russian citizens, German-Russian citizens. The Germans were involved in this exchange as well. So who is Russia getting back? And again, one of these trade deals, like the one where we got back the WNBA player. Who exactly is
Is Russia getting back? Well, they're getting back Vadim Krasikov, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in Germany in 2021 for shooting dead a former Chechen rebel leader in Berlin on Russia's orders. Anna Valerevna Doltseva and Artem Viktorovich Doltsev, who are apparently, these are the real names, of Maria Rosa Mayer-Muniz and Ludwig Gisch, who posed as an Argentine couple in Slovenia and were charged in 2002 as Russian agents working across Europe.
Another Russian national who was effectively a spy who was released from Norway, a Spanish citizen named Pablo Gonzalez Yagyu, who was arrested by Polish authorities near the border with Ukraine in 2022 and accused of being a Russian spy. Roman Selaznev, the son of a Russian lawmaker who had hacked credit card numbers in the United States, resulting in $169 million in losses and was serving 27 years in prison in the United States.
Vladislav Kiliushin, who's a Russian national who was convicted of hacking into corporate databases to trade on yet-to-be-released earnings reports from companies like Tesla. His company was conducting work for the Kremlin. He was released from the United States as well. And finally, Vadim Konoshenov, who was an extradited Russian national
to the United States on charges that he illegally smuggled microelectronics and munitions to the Russian military. So a bunch of spies, smugglers, one murderer who are traded for a bunch of Western innocents. Now, it's great that we're getting back our people. That is a wonderful and good thing.
The treatment of this as a massive triumph by the Biden administration betrays an enormous amount about the way that Americans think about foreign policy, particularly on the left and in the hallowed precincts of the State Department. The way that the West has become accustomed to looking at foreign policy is that the best foreign policy is where you end up trading a bunch of murderers and spies for a bunch of innocent people. That is the best case outcome. And that in and of itself is an extension of a generalized worldview, which
which says that the best foreign policy for America is where you lose slowly and with the least possible cost, not where you actually push to victory. It's part and parcel of a broader worldview that says, for example, that Afghanistan was a triumph, which is something that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have said. That Afghanistan, the pullout from Afghanistan, which left tens of thousands of American allies to be slaughtered by the Taliban and millions of women to be stuffed back into bags and back into basements so they can't go to school.
And that left Americans behind, hundreds of Americans behind. And they got 13 American service people killed. That was a triumph, according to Joe Biden and his State Department team and Kamala Harris, too. Meanwhile, if you have a nation like Israel that is fighting to victory in Gaza, that's bad. And what Israel should do is they should stop before they get to victory. Because, again, the best form of foreign policy is where you lose very, very slowly and with the least amount of cost to you. But the worst foreign policy is where you win.
And this has been, again, it's not unique to Joe Biden or Kamala Harris. Unfortunately, this has been part and parcel of American foreign policy strategy on the left for decades. It's why America really has not won a full scale victorious war since World War II. It's been a long time in America since we won a full scale victorious war because we're always fighting to stasis. We're always looking for a way out. And so that is why you treat something that really should be treated as sort of an inevitable tragedy as a triumph.
It is, in fact, a tragedy to trade murderers for American citizens, specifically because what you're doing is you are now incentivizing Vladimir Putin to take more Americans hostage.
We know this because, again, in other countries that have been stupid enough to do this, namely Israel, this has been the predicate to more hostages being taken. The reason that Hamas took 250 hostages and then just kill everybody on October 7th is because they knew that they would get thousands of people who are murderers and terrorists released from prison in exchange for innocence. And they knew that because years ago, Israel made a hostage deal for a person named Gilad Shalit.
He was captured in 2006 by terrorists in a cross-tunnel border raid, and he was held captive for over five years. And Israel ended up trading 1,000 terrorists, including Yehia Sinwar, who is the current military head of Hamas, for Gilad Shalit. And this was treated as like a big win. And it turns out it was just the predicate to more hostage-taking and war. The West has been sucked into the maw of never-winning victories and treating what are, by any standard of the imagination, losses as victories.
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That's not a diplomatic win in any sense, but that is how it is being treated. So the Biden-Harris administration, this is how they treated it. Gershikovich came off the plane yesterday and Joe Biden was there to meet it, of course. Now, Joe Biden is the same person who in a debate a month ago was saying that no Americans had died in Afghanistan. He's perfectly willing to ignore the families of dead American soldiers.
Well, he's meeting with trans influencers at the White House, but he's definitely going to be there on the tarmac when Evan Gershkovich gets back. And so is Kamala Harris to present a happy face of diplomacy. Here's what it looked like. Now, again, Gershkovich is heroic. He was there and there is giving a big hug to Kamala Harris.
Getting a hug from the vice president, whose role in this was absolutely minimal. And President Biden giving a hug to the old man who doesn't even know where he is at this point. I mean, he's just standing there. He has no clue where he is. Gorsuchovich, by the way, is heroic. Apparently, he had to fill out a form in which he asked clemency from Putin or something as sort of a precondition to being released. And on the form, he asked Putin for an interview because he's a journalist, which is relatively badass for sure.
With that said, the way the Biden administration is treating this is a massive feat of diplomacy. Oh, diplomacy, magical diplomacy. Now, here is the thing. Diplomacy is a tactic. It is not a strategy. One thing that the foreign policy establishment are constantly doing is they are suggesting that diplomacy is in and of itself a strategy, that talking is a strategy. You know, talking is a means to gain an end. Sometimes that means it's useful. Sometimes that means it's not. When you treat diplomacy as itself the strategy,
It doesn't matter what the end is. It's just talking is what it's all about. What you end up with is bad deals and losing wars, which is kind of the name of the game when it comes to Joe Biden. So here was President Biden saying this was a feat of diplomacy and friendship. Oh, what a masterful diplomat he is. The deal that made this possible was a feat of diplomacy and friendship. Friendship. Multiple countries helped get this done. They joined a difficult, complex negotiations at my request.
And I personally thank them all again. I thank them personally and I thank them again. So President Trump, for his part, criticized the deal because he suggested that it's an embarrassment to give up terrorists in favor of Americans. Now, to be realistic, Donald Trump did make deals when he was president of the United States to get Americans back. And we had to trade some bad people for those Americans. So that happens to be true. It also happens to be true that these deals are never a triumph. They are not by nature.
And all they do is, again, incentivize the world's worst actors to take Americans. Like if I were Vladimir Putin today, seeing what he just, he has now scored multiple victories on these sorts of deals. We got back Brittany Griner. We had to give up the merchant of death for Brittany Griner, for example. If I were Vladimir Putin today, I'd think very seriously about simply arresting 100 Americans on false charges in Russia and then immediately saying that the only way that he would stop that is if the United States and its allies stop their support for Ukraine in the war. Like, why not?
Obviously, diplomacy is the answer, is it not?
Donald Trump put out a statement. He said, when are they going to release the details of the prisoner swap with Russia? How many people do we get versus them? Are we also paying them cash? Are they giving us cash? Please withdraw that question. I'm sure the answer is no. Are we releasing murderers, killers or thugs? Just curious because we never make good deals in anything, but especially hostage swaps. Our negotiators are always an embarrassment to us. I got back many hostages and gave the opposing country nothing and never any cash. To do so is bad precedent for the future. That's the way it should be or the situation will get worse and worse. They're extorting the United States of America. They're calling the trade complex. That's so nobody can figure out how bad it is.
And there's a lot of truth embedded in that. And these deals are always bad, which is why, frankly, America's enemies should be so intimidated by us that they don't just take Americans prisoner. Right now, there are five Americans being held by Hamas in terror tunnels in Gaza. And the Biden administration is busily telling Israel not to kill Hamas leaders. Again, this is what Joe Biden treats as a triumph.
That is literally what he said. I mean, he was on the tarmac yesterday and he was asked about Israel killing Ismail Khania, who is the political leader and one of the masterminds behind October 7th, one of the leaders of Hamas. And he was killed in Iran earlier this week. And Joe Biden said it wasn't helpful to hostage negotiations. Again, this shows the prioritization. He's standing right next to Kamala Harris, who, of course, has nothing to say. I'm very concerned about it. I had a direct meeting with the prime minister today.
We have the basis for a ceasefire. You should move on it and they should move on it now. Is the chance for a ceasefire ruined after the assassination of Khenia? It's not helpful. Okay, so the question asked was, are the chances of a ceasefire ruined after Khenia was assassinated? He said it's not helpful. You know how many offers have been put on the table to Hamas?
To release the hostages. Also, what Biden should say there is Israel is going to keep killing the heads of Hamas until they release the hostages or agree to a ceasefire. That's going to be I mean, that's what that's what not just what an ally would do. That's what the United States should do in the middle of a terror war, for example. But what the left considers to be a victory is just losing slowly with a minimum of possible cost. That is what the left considers to be victory. That is what it is.
So after Donald Trump criticized Joe Biden, Joe Biden was then asked about that. And he sort of slammed Trump with a pithy but stupid one liner. Trump has said repeatedly that he could have gotten the hostages out without giving anything in exchange. What do you say to that? What do you say to President Trump now? Former president. Why didn't he do his president? Well, I mean, why didn't he do what when he was president? Most of these people were taken hostage while you were president, sir.
And that's that didn't stop the media from celebrating this. Dana Bash said this is a mic drop moment. And this sort of stupid political coverage is really quite ridiculous. I think that was what they call a mic drop moment at the end there. Why didn't you do it when he was president? What a historic moment.
Watching and listening, President Biden now trying to finish out his one and only term and doing so with a tremendous, tremendous victory for these families. Tremendous victory. Tremendous victory. I'm sorry. It's not a victory. It may be an inevitability. It may be something you had to do. I'm not arguing that it is not a victory. The characterization.
Again, of America's enemies taking innocent people hostage, which is what happened with Evan Gershkovich and getting in return murderers and spies. That is not a victory. But this is how much of the West perceives victory. It is America's aggressive enemies winning exchanges. And then us being like, well, we did get our people back. Well, I mean, that is the isn't that the important thing? It is an important thing. It is not the important thing in a foreign conflict.
Jake Sullivan, the way that they're playing this up is really kind of astonishing. Truly. The actual way that you should handle these things is that the hostages should quietly go home. That's how this should be handled. Well, the West is asleep at the switch, but you should not be, which is why you need Black Rifle Coffee. See, I've been relying very heavily on Black Rifle Coffee this past month because, my goodness, the news is insane. It's the only way to wake up each morning feeling dialed in, ready to make the most of the day. Now is your chance to get 20% off your purchase with CoopFest.
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Here's Jake Sullivan doing that, showing showing his emotion from the president on down. We've stayed in regular and routine touch with them. I spent a lot of time with the families of Evan and Paul and also and most of the time, as you can imagine, those are tough conversations, but not today. Today, excuse me. Today was a very good day. Well, he wow. Wow. So much. So much emotion. So, so much. So much.
Meanwhile, John Kirby, national security spokesperson, he was asked about the point that I'm making, which is when you trade terrorists and murderers for innocent people, aren't you incentivizing your opponents to take hostages? And he's like, no, no, no. What are you crazy? No, that's no. Here's John Kirby.
How do you do something like this, achieve this kind of success, and at the same time not incentivize states to engage in this taking of people and convicting them and putting them in jail or holding them? Yeah, look, I think it's an open question that that precept is actually true, that negotiating a deal like this just encourages more hostage-taking. The truth is we haven't seen data that actually confirms that that's the case. I mean, even when you're not negotiating deals –
Bad actors like Russia, bad actors like Iran are still taking hostages. That's ridiculous. If the United States was not constantly negotiating and instead they were basically saying, listen, you take an American hostage and you will not be alive tomorrow.
If that were the actual policy of the United States, there would be a lot fewer hostages being taken all around the world. But that is not the policy of the United States. The policy of the United States and the rest of the West is nicety. It is nicety, and it is not victory. Even the Washington Post knows that's bullcrap, what John Kirby is saying right there. According to the Washington Post, Putin's arrest tactics pay off as Russia brings home its own, even a killer. Well, yeah, obviously.
Vladimir Putin on Thursday secured the release of spies, hackers and his most coveted Russian prisoner in the West, an assassin linked to intelligence services convicted of murder in Germany. For the authoritarian Russian leader, it was the biggest victory yet, stemming from his willingness to violate global norms to extract what he wants from Western leaders. That's correct, of course.
Putin hinted at his determination to win the freedom of the assassin Vadim Krasikov during an interview in February with Tucker Carlson, calling Krasikov patriotic without actually naming him and indicating he was open to a prisoner exchange involving American journalist Evan Gershkovich, whom Russia accused of espionage. Apparently, Western responses were often timid either to preserve diplomatic and business ties to avoid escalation or to address domestic political imperatives. Those responses only emboldened Putin, according to analysts. Well, yup. Well, yes, yes.
The weakness of the Biden administration, the weakness of the left when it comes to foreign policy on these things has real consequences. Losing slowly is, in fact, the strategy of the left, which presumably is why the United States under Joe Biden just cut another disgusting deal this time without even any leverage. They cut a deal with the mastermind of 9-11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
According to the Office of Military Commissions, which is prosecuting the case against KSM, they entered into pretrial agreements with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two alleged co-conspirators, Waleed Mohammed Salih Mubarak bin Atash and Mustafa Ahmed Adam Al-Hausawi, all of whom have been held at Gitmo since 2003. They will now be spared the death penalty under a deal with prosecutors.
Why? The answer is because Joe Biden wants to close Gitmo. And all that matters is surrendering slowly. That's all that matters, because Gitmo appears to be mean and bad. And you wouldn't want to hold prisoners at Gitmo. It's been a big left wing talking point since the mid 2000s. Oh, my God. How could we how dare we put terrorists who murdered Americans in an island prison? Oh, no. Oh, that's oh, we should probably spare them the death penalty.
A letter signed by Rear Admiral Aaron Rue, chief prosecutor for the OMC, said, quote, in exchange for removal of the death penalty as a possible punishment, the three accused have agreed to plead guilty to all of the charged offenses, including the murder of 3000 people listed in the charge sheet. I mean, that's insane. So, of course, all the victims, families like, wait, hold up. You don't get the death penalty for killing 3000 Americans. What do you get the death penalty for around here?
Judea Pearl, who is the father of Daniel Pearl. Daniel Pearl, of course, was the Wall Street Journal journalist who was beheaded by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his team. He says, of course, we weren't consulted before they decided to kick the charges, before they decided to get the death penalty off of these people. Of course not. Why are they doing this? Because the only priority is appearing to end conflicts. And it doesn't matter if you lose. Losing is fine. Here is Kareem Jean-Pierre saying Joe Biden still plans to close Gitmo before he leaves.
Is the president still planning to close Guantanamo Bay Prison before he leaves office? And is there a realistic pathway to do that in the next six months? That's still something that the president wants to do and get done. As far as a timeline, don't have anything for you here. But obviously, this is something that he wanted to be done under his administration. I just don't have anything else to read out or preview at this time. But it is something that he's determined to get done.
Again, that's the priority. That's the priority. Surrender above victory always and forever. Meanwhile, the Kamala Harris running away from questions train continues to chug on. As I mentioned before, we are now on day 13 of Kamala Harris, the presidential nominee for the Democratic Party, anointed without a single vote in the primaries. She has not been asked a single question by the press. Zero, zero, none. No adversarial questions for Kamala Harris. You wonder why? Maybe it's because she sucks at this.
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So first, we should point out that she was there to just hug the people coming off the plane despite really having nothing to do with anything. Because she has to be there for, now she's going to put that in her campaign ads. That's the important thing is that you got to campaign out of this. She was asked about the magic of diplomacy. And she has moved beyond, I think, word salad. And we are now on to full-scale word slaw. She's got some mayo in there. She's whipping it up with the cabbage. And now she's got some nice word slaw going on. Here we go.
This is just an extraordinary testament to the importance of having a president who understands the power of diplomacy and understands the strength that rests in understanding the significance of diplomacy and strengthening alliances. This is an incredible day. What the f*** is she talking about? Seriously, what is she talking about right there? That sentence is so circular.
That actually it's become three-dimensional and it's spherical. It's a spherical question. Let me just read that to you slowly so we can try and chart out. Let's try a sentence diagram on this one. You ready? This is just an extraordinary testament to the importance of having a president who understands the power of diplomacy and understands the strength that rests in understanding the significance of diplomacy.
So there are a few key words that she rests upon, like a fifth grader who didn't read the book. She read like the first five pages of the book. And now she has to come up with an answer. God, she's so bad at this. How is she possibly as bad at this? Truly. You wonder why she's on teleprompter all the time? This is why she's on teleprompter all the time. There are a few things she likes. She likes power and she likes significance and understanding. Those are the three. She tends to rest on that. The power of the significance of the understanding of the passage of time. Wow. God, she's awful at this. Get that. Get her back on teleprompter stat.
So that's what they did. She showed up on the tarmac before she gets on the plane and she shows up with a binder. She reads from the binder and then she gets on the plane and no one asked her a question. No one expects that she's going to be answering a question. It's truly amazing. Like the press are so in the tank for her that they are just like, oh, slay queen slay. So here she was. She finishes her statement and boom, she's off to the races. She's gone. Just like Joe Biden for years. No, no questions. Zero.
- My question, will you be meeting Evan and Paul when they return? - Great question. Great question. Will you be meeting them? And there she goes.
And then she's and she's up the stairs. At least she can climb stairs, unlike our current president of the United States. She doesn't seem to have trouble with stairs. She does have problems like the current president of the United States with words and sentences. However, the reason she's running for the hills, obviously, is because she doesn't want to answer any questions about anything she has ever said ever. So a clip has now emerged from way back in her California days where she was telling people that they should no longer say Merry Christmas because illegal immigrants are suffering.
She is a radical. We all know that she is a radical, which is why the Trump campaign should focus in on the fact that she is a radical and make her answer questions, force her to answer questions. Donald Trump has a giant spotlight. He needs to direct that giant spotlight at Kamala Harris and the fact that she is totally inconsistent, that she is an absolute liar, that she's flipped every position via surrogate in press statements for the last two weeks. This is the real Kamala Harris.
And when we all sing happy tunes and sing Merry Christmas and wish each other Merry Christmas, these children are not going to have a Merry Christmas. How dare we speak Merry Christmas? How dare we? How dare we say Merry? She's actually the Grinch.
Well, folks, as we know, you can't say Merry Christmas if there are illegal immigrants somewhere, somewhere that are suffering. Christmas must be stopped. Grinch at Kamala Harris, stopping Christmas for everyone. But you know what you can't do? You can't stop your life just because you have mail to send. That'd be a dumb thing to do. Instead, free up the time consumed by tedious mailing and shipping tasks with Stamps.com. Stamps.com streamlines your postage needs, making your business more efficient.
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It's wild. Will she ask a question about that? I don't think so. Of course not. Of course not. Now, again, the goal of the Harris campaign is tried out celebrities and have her do speeches from teleprompter. And if they can make that go for like 95 days, then they win the election. So that is their plan. Michelle Obama has now cut a get out the vote video replete with entertainment celebrities and dudes doing makeup. So it's it's just solid.
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Kamala Harris, she's on the campaign trail yesterday. And by on the campaign trail, I mean she's reading from the teleprompter to a chorus of huzzahs from people who already like her. She's in Houston and she accidentally called herself the president of the United States. And the crowd was like, yes, yes. But don't worry, guys. They love Joe Biden and they want him to remain. United States Senator, I was proud to co-sponsor. And then as president, as vice president, it was my honor with the president. Uh-huh.
And then, of course, lie about her opponent. So she suggests that Donald Trump is going to pass a nationwide abortion ban, which is weird because Donald Trump literally removed all the abortion planks from the RNC platform. I highly doubt it. And now he intends to pass a nationwide abortion ban to ban access to fundamental health care in every state.
That's it. That's what's going to happen. So she's got to lie about all of that. And then the other thing she has to do, of course, is she has to pose as a moderate. So she is supposed to pick her vice president over the weekend. The widespread speculation is that the vice presidential candidate will probably be Josh Shapiro from Pennsylvania. Again, that would be her smartest pick because he has like a 61 percent approval rating in a swing state. He also has in the past sporadically been in favor of school vouchers before running away from that.
He has taken an anti-Khamas protesters position. He's been as moderate as Democrats get in this day and age. Let's put it that way. It doesn't mean he's not for the transing of the children. He's still for the transing of the children. But it does mean that for Democrats, he is a moderate, which is also why some of the Democratic base is upset with Kamala Harris possibly picking him. According to Politico, several top contenders have met in recent days with Harris's vetting team. Aides insist they are trying to tune out a lot of public hype around the contenders.
There are people familiar with the process, and they say she has yet to truly whittle down the final list and may meet with several individuals before deciding. But apparently, she's going to announce who the candidate is Tuesday in Philadelphia. Philadelphia happens to be in Pennsylvania. It would be a big shock at this point if it were anybody but Josh Shapiro. The vetting team has already met with Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, Tim Walls of Minnesota, who would be a terrible pick, Andy Beshear of Kentucky, who seems an also-ran, Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona, who's got some baggage. Apparently, her primary consideration is not who can excite the base.
The question is, how do you get to 270 electoral votes? Is that impacted by the choice that you make? David Axelrod says the Democratic base is very enthusiastic about Kamala Harris. I don't think that's going to change. She has a chance now through this VP choice to broaden her base and send a message to the rest of the electorate that's open to her, and that's rare.
So, again, I think that it is very likely that it's Josh Shapiro that would, in fact, be the smartest pick so far. That's two weeks. You got to hand it to him. I mean, the Kamala Harris campaign is running a smart campaign. The smartest campaign is keep her away from the cameras, at least when it comes to people asking her difficult questions. That is the smart campaign. It's ugly and it's terrible for American politics. And it's pathetic that journalists are performing colonoscopies on Kamala Harris with their heads.
But is it smart campaigning? Yeah. I mean, you got to hand it to him that it's smart campaigning. It is a bit of a risk for her to pick Josh Shapiro because, of course, there are a lot of people inside the Democratic Party who ain't fond of the Jews. Nina Turner, who happens to be one of these, she's enraged at the possibility of Josh Shapiro over on Chris Cuomo's show. He labeled peaceful college protesters peaceful.
He compared them to KKK. That's wrong, Chris. I know. To you. He would argue. And others. I am against the radical fringe of my party on the left. KKK, Lynch. I am a moderate. Come on now, Chris. We got to stop playing games with these people. Now, you might not have liked the college protesters, but comparing any college protesters to the mayhem and the destruction and the death that was caused by the KKK. Really? It's too much. It's too much.
It's too much. OK, so we'll see. Will there be enough members of the pro-Khmerist caucus to push Kamala Harris off Josh Shapiro? If so, that'll be an excellent indicator as to her number one lack of political skill, because she could have a sister soldier moment where she actually says to the pro-Khmerist people, OK, guys, we don't need you.
And that would actually be a smart move because it turns out mostly the electorate doesn't like that. She could appear moderate or she could double down on stupid. So it'll be fascinating to see who she picks. Meanwhile, the Trump campaign seems to be finally, finally finding its footing against Kamala Harris. And that's led by the vice presidential candidate, J.D. Vance.
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Meanwhile, the Trump campaign seems to finally, after two weeks, be finding its footing. So the attacks on Kamala Harris as to whether she is black or Indian, those are not the right attacks. The attacks on Kamala Harris about whether she passed the bar exam in 1990, those are not the right attacks. The right attack is very simple. Kamala Harris and her party are radical. They are weird. They say dumb crap all the time. Their positions are bad for America.
Those are the right attacks. And we're starting to see the Trump campaign finally, after I think a little bit too long, find its footing and starting to label Kamala Harris, which is what they need to do. So yesterday, Donald Trump was asked about all of the weird attacks. We talked about this last week, about the fact that the Democrats have spent the last two weeks suggesting that J.D. Vance and Donald Trump are weird. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris is gallivanting around with RuPaul's Drag Racing Company. So here is Donald Trump commenting on that.
They're the weird ones. And if you've ever seen her with the laugh and everything else, that's a weird deal going on there. They're the weird ones. Nobody's ever called me weird. I'm a lot of things, but weird I'm not. And I'm up front. And he's not either, I will tell you. J.D. is not...
at all. They are. I mean, who wants to have open borders where prisoners that's weird, where prisoners and where mental institution patients are taken out of hospitals and jails and they're let into our country? That's weird. Who would want that policy? Who wants the men and women's sports policy? Who wants to quadruple your taxes? The whole thing is weird. Yes, yes. And more. Yes. This over and over and over and over and over.
J.D. Vance was put on the ticket because obviously he's a good defender of Trump. He is an attack dog. Again, I think there are drawbacks to J.D. Vance as a pick. But the big upside to J.D. Vance, that dude is smart. So J.D., I've interviewed him before.
Obviously, he went to Yale Law School. He's a smart guy. And J.D. in a debate is going to just savage whomever the Democrats put up before him. So J.D. Vance was asked by the media about Donald Trump's comments about Kamala Harris and her Indian heritage versus being African-American and all this kind of stuff. And here was J.D.'s quite smart answer.
Did those comments give you pause at all? They don't give me pause at all. Look, all he said is that Kamala Harris is a chameleon. She goes to Georgia two days ago. She was raised in Canada. She puts on a fake southern accent. She is everything to everybody, and she pretends to be somebody different, depending on which...
audience she's in front of. I think it's totally reasonable for the president to call that out. And that's all he did. I mean, look, she's running as a tough on crime prosecutor, even though she implemented open border policy. She's saying that she wants to support the police, yet she wanted to defund the police just three years ago. It's totally reasonable to call out the fact that she pretends to be somebody different depending on the audience she's talking to.
This, this and more of this. And another one of J.D.'s events yesterday, he suggested that Kamala Harris kept the border open, which, of course, she did. He is down at the southern border right now. Kamala Harris is out taking photo op pictures based on diplomatic deals she had nothing to do with. And J.D. Vance was down at the border, a place that Kamala Harris famously did not visit when she was the non-borders are or something. Here's J.D. Vance yesterday.
Kamala Harris came into office making promises and she kept those promises to open the American southern border. They stopped deportations on day one. They stopped construction of the border wall on day one. We see the border wall sitting here ready to be completed behind us and that can't happen because of Kamala Harris's administration. Vance continued, he said the border patrol agents are furious, which is absolutely true. I know the border patrol agents.
Have we ever had an American border policy that is so at odds with the people who are actually doing it? You talk to these Border Patrol agents and they are enraged that the Harris administration won't let them do their job. They just want to keep people safe. They need a president who lets them do that. He's he's right about all of this. And again, on the merits, if this campaign comes down to the merits, Kamala Harris will lose. She will.
She's very, very weak. I mean, Kamala Harris is just, her levels of projection are insane. So Kamala Harris, campaign event last night, she suggests that Donald Trump is going to weaponize the DOJ. This is just insane. It's such insane projection. Her administration is currently, right now, weaponizing the DOJ against her political opponents, but she's accusing Trump of this sort of stuff. She is, I've said this before, she's an eggshell skull candidate. Like you tap, you tap the eggshell skull of the Kamala Harris campaign and that thing collapses like an egg.
Here she was yesterday. Recall Donald Trump has openly vowed if reelected to be a dictator on day one, that he will weaponize the Department of Justice against his political enemies, that he will round up peaceful protesters and throw them out of our country and even, quote, terminate the United States Constitution.
Just just she's ridiculous. She's ridiculous. By the way, the Democrats know she's ridiculous, too. This is the thing. It's it's all a lie. It's all myth making. It's all them attempting to spin dross into gold. It's really it's really amazing.
The Democrats put out a tweet yesterday that really is an amazing tweet. I kind of love it. This tweet is a tweet of Republican praise for Kamala Harris. Here are the quotes. They said these quotes speak for themselves, according to the Democratic Party. What are the quotes? It's from Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma. We obviously disagreed, but she's personable. Senator Lindsey Graham. I always found her pleasant to deal with. Senator Mike Rounds. We work together well. We still say hello to each other. Senator Marco Rubio. I don't remember any problems with her on the committee.
Senator Mitt Romney, very personable and knowledgeable. OK, you know what those quotes are? Those quotes are the have a great summer in the yearbook quotes. You barely know somebody in high school. You don't really like the guy. And then the guy comes up to you and he wants you to write something in the yearbook. You're like, have a great summer. This is the have a great summer yearbook quote that Democrats are now trotting out. They're like they did. We're friends now. We're friends. She's really bipartisan. She's really a moderate. Senator Mike Rounds said that we say hello to each other.
Good job, guys. It's going amazing. You guys are great at this. You're so great. In my own personal case, it's very reminiscent of when somebody wants me to endorse a book. I don't feel like reading the book or I think the book is bad. And so what I write on the back cover or something just to be just as a favor is like, this person is very nice and writes something absolutely anodyne. This is ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. And meanwhile, you know, it's not ridiculous is the current situation of the economy. So
All of the underlying fundamentals have been ignored for the last two weeks because there's been so much drama about Joe Biden dropping out of the race and Kamala Harris replacing him and all this kind of crap. Well, it turns out that U.S. hiring is significantly slowing because the inflation had to be brought under control. The Federal Reserve had to increase those interest rates. And now it's starting to be felt in the job markets. So in July, only one hundred and fourteen thousand jobs were added. The unemployment rose rate rose to four point three percent. That's the highest level since October of twenty twenty one.
They also revised down job growth over the past month. That has now happened with 10 of the last 14 jobs reports that you'll get a top line number in the media. I'll be like, yeah, amazing. Then a month later, you get the actual number and it was lower than what the media originally reported. When in 10 or 14 months, you end up revising lower, that starts to look like a purposeful trend, like falsification of data, not like just mistakes.
wages rose by 0.2% in July compared with the previous month and 3.6% from a year earlier. Wage growth has been moderating for more than two years. The Federal Reserve held the benchmark interest rate steady at 5.3%, but Jerome Powell said a rate cut could be on the table at the next gathering in September. Meanwhile, Intel is cutting jobs and suspending dividends. Meanwhile, Apple's iPhone sales have slid
So their revenue fell for a second consecutive quarter. Meanwhile, Amazon shares slid yesterday as spending surged and revenue outlook disappoints, according to the Wall Street Journal. So all of America's big companies are getting hit. The stock market is taking it on the chin. The Dow closed nearly 500 points lower on Thursday as investors started to fear actual recession.
Some fresh data, according to CNBC, stoked fears over a possible recession and the notion the Federal Reserve could be too late in starting to cut interest rates. Initial jobless claims rose the most since August of 2023. Chris Ruppke, chief economist at Forward Bonds, added that Thursday's data hinted at an economic downturn amid the volatility. He said the stock market doesn't know whether to laugh or cry because while three Fed rate cuts may be coming this year and 10-year bond rates, bond yields are falling below 4%, the winds of recession are coming in hard.
So unpleasant economies tend not to work out particularly well for the incumbent party, and the economy remains unpleasant under Joe Biden and company. Meanwhile, the United States, yet another show of diplomatic weakness, they have now suggested that Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia is the legitimate winner of the Venezuelan presidential election. Oh, you know, happiness and joy all around me.
Of course, that's true. So what are you going to do about it, considering you relieved sanctions on Nicolas Maduro last year in order to free up elections? And then that gigantically failed. The real reason, by the way, that they freed up the sanctions on Venezuela was to lower the oil prices just in time for the 2024 election, because this administration is perfectly willing to manipulate Americans and global economies for their own peculiar political benefit.
So, the statement by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says, given the overwhelming evidence, it is clear to the United States and most importantly to the Venezuelan people that Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia won the most votes in Venezuela's July 28th presidential election. And, um...
And that's pretty much all it says. Quote, now is the time for the Venezuelan parties to begin discussions on a respectful, peaceful transition in accordance with Venezuelan electoral law and the wishes of the Venezuelan people. We fully support the process of reestablishing democratic norms in Venezuela and stand ready to consider ways to bolster it jointly with our international partners.
Oh, some strong verbiage there from the State Department. Maybe they can find a way for Nicolas Maduro to take some American hostages so we can give them back some spies or something. And that seems to be the way we do foreign policy in this country now. All righty, folks, coming up, we'll be joined by Cassie Akiva. She has a brand new documentary with The Daily Wire. It's titled Mexico's Door, the Center of America's Border Fight. If you're not a member, become a member. Use code Shapiro. Check out for two months free on all annual plans. Click the link in the description and join us.
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