Ep. 1478 - My Case For Trump
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, with one day to go until the election, I will present my own closing argument for Donald Trump. Also, bombshell revelations in the Daniel Penny trial only make it more clear that charges never should have been brought. Arizona's Attorney General is investigating Trump for criticizing Liz Cheney, just more lawfare being used by the Democrats, who are the only ones who ever use it. Joe Biden fantasizes about inappropriately touching Donald Trump, and the country comes together to mourn the loss of a squirrel named Peanut. We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

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When Donald Trump first entered the political scene almost a decade ago, I did not like him. That is a generous way of putting it. I really didn't like him. The only thing I knew about Trump at the time, aside from the fact that he was a reality TV star, was that he was a longtime Democrat from New York who was friends with all of the worst people in media and politics. And all of those people hate him today and openly root for his political and physical demise. But that wasn't the case in the early days of Trump's political life. So back in those days,

I thought that Trump was a leftist infiltrator. I thought that no matter what he promised, he would govern from the left. I thought that electing him would be the same as electing a far left Democrat because that's what he was, I believed.

Now, it turns out I was wrong, not for the first time, sadly, not for the last, but I was wrong. Trump did not govern like a Democrat infiltrator sent by the Clintons to destroy the Republican Party from within, a conspiracy theory that I admit I once entertained. If he did, if he had governed that way, then they wouldn't have spent the last four years trying to send him to prison or failing that to the morgue.

If I had fallen into a coma in January of 2017 and missed the entirety of Trump's tenure and woken up in January of 2021, I would still know that Trump was a successful conservative president based entirely on how they've treated him ever since.

Indeed, I would have all the reason that I needed to vote for him on that basis alone. They have tried to destroy him. Leftist elites have waged a campaign of vengeance unlike anything ever seen in the history of American politics. And that is reason enough to vote for him in 2024. I don't even need to know what happened from the years 2017 to 2021.

But I do know because I was thankfully actually alive and conscious during that time. So I saw that Trump fulfilled his promise to appoint constitutionalist justices to the Supreme Court, who then went on to overturn the most abominable decision in the history of the court, a decision that cost 60 million American lives. I saw that Trump enforced our immigration laws and defunded sanctuary cities and sent criminal illegal aliens to prison. I saw that Trump's time in office

It was also a time of relative peace all over the globe. He prevented wars rather than starting them, which was a kind of a novel strategy, at least compared to every other president in my lifetime. And I saw that Trump presided over a strong and growing economy. The unemployment rate hit a low not seen in 50 years. Manufacturing jobs started coming back to America. The stock market hit record highs. I saw all of that. We all saw it if we were paying attention. And here's what we did not see.

That would be any of the dystopian horrors that Trump's opponents keep warning us he will visit upon us. He did not govern like a fascist tyrant drunk on his own power. He did not install himself as dictator for life, which is why he's running for reelection. In fact, he exercised great restraint. He didn't start any new wars. He didn't move to expand his own executive powers. He didn't even issue that many executive orders compared to the three most recent presidents before him.

So that's why I'm voting for Trump, why I believe you should too. He earned our vote. He earned it by governing successfully and leading competently. Trump was already a good president, which is very compelling evidence that he will be a good president. Now, nothing is sure in this life. You cannot predict the future with absolute certainty. Yet you can be extremely confident that someone can do a job well if they've already done it well.

So that's the best selling point for Donald Trump as I see it. The best selling point is who he is and what he's done. But the second best selling point is who he isn't.

And he isn't Kamala Harris. Now, I'm voting for Trump because we need him in the White House. I'm also voting for him because we need to keep Kamala Harris out of the White House. Now, I'm not gonna spend a lot of time making the case against Kamala Harris here. I've done that literally every day on the show for the past three months. I suspect that anyone who listens to this, anyone who is even potentially reachable at this stage of the game,

already knows that Kamala is bad, you know, a bad leader, a bad vice president, a bad person, totally unqualified for the job she currently holds, even less qualified for the job she wants to hold.

She is a far left radical, no matter how much she's backtracked over the past couple of months, her record speaks for itself. She wants to open our borders, defund our police, start more wars, kill more babies, take more money out of our pockets, destroy our free speech rights, make the world less safe, make our communities less safe. Now, she may be profoundly incompetent, but she is capable of doing all of those things, and she will. And that's the point that I wanna emphasize.

Kamala Harris may be a bumbling, empty-headed buffoon, but she does have an agenda and she will use the powers of the presidency to enact it. And it will be a catastrophe for your family and for mine. Now, I would vote against Kamala Harris no matter who she was running against. I'd vote for a house plant over her. We've already had one of those running the country for four years. It's been a disaster. But Kamala will be worse. Kamala gives us more than enough reason to vote for Trump. But the good news is that we don't have to hold our nose.

We can vote against Kamala and for Trump and we can do it proudly. Now on that note, I wanna say one last thing. Trump's critics like to say that character matters and they're right, it does. They say that we should think about Trump's character before we consider voting for him. And they're right, we should. Well, there is no character trait more important than courage.

C.S. Lewis once wrote that courage is the form of every virtue at its testing point. And what he meant is that courage contains all of the other virtues. Courage is how all of the virtues are expressed when push comes to shove. So if you're the most virtuous person in the world, but all of your virtues disappear when you're under fire, then you have no virtue. A man is defined by how he acts in those moments.

So when you boil everything down, only one question matters. Do you have courage? That is what separates the men who shape history from the ones who will be forgotten by it. That is the dividing line. So now think about the iconic picture of Trump raising his fist in the air right after he was shot in the head. You know, most pictures are worth a thousand words, they say, but I think for the best pictures, you only need one. And the picture of Trump

That picture of Trump screams one word, courage. Now, Trump's enemies may hate to admit it. They may never admit it. They will never admit it. But Trump proved in that moment and in the weeks and months that followed that he is a man of exceptional courage. He was shot. A few weeks later, he was nearly shot again. It takes immense courage to continue along unfazed, still campaigning,

still appearing in front of massive crowds, even after a bullet came half an inch from blowing a hole in your skull. The best thing that I can say about Trump, the thing that most testifies to his character, is that if I had spent the month of July living in a cave, and I only reemerged in August, and I had been following Trump closely ever since, I would never know that he escaped death by 10 millimeters.

That's because the media has done everything they can to bury it and pretend it never happened. But it's also because Trump is so completely unshaken by the event. He just doesn't come off like a man who just suffered a severe trauma, though he did. When you face down your own mortality and are not remotely rattled by the experience, and then you continue to put yourself in vulnerable positions because you simply refuse to run and hide, you have courage.

You, in fact, have shown a kind of courage that nobody in American politics today has ever shown. Nobody. Trump's relentlessly theatrical enemies have to invent all kinds of fantastical threats that they are supposedly facing. They pretend that Trump is some sort of existential danger to them, that their lives hang in the balance. But it's all performance. We know that.

The truth is that most of them are living lives of great comfort and the irony is that if Trump wins, their lives will only become more comfortable as the economy improves. So they're not facing down any threats. They aren't showing any courage. They don't know what courage is. Okay, they're on the same side as Hollywood and the media and corporate America and almost every powerful person in DC. That's the safest position you can possibly be in. They are safe.

Trump is the one who is literally under fire. Trump has actually taken a bullet in real life. It is not a performance for him. So when it comes to character, Trump is not a perfect man. Neither am I. Neither are you. But what I know is that when the bullets were flying, he stood tall. And that's the kind of man I want in the White House. It's the kind of man we'll need in the times ahead. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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Let's start the headlines with something that is

Not directly election related, but I mean, it's still very much election related. I guess it is directly election related. Never mind. The Daniel Penny case in New York City. We've been following the case closely on this show. And now that it's gone to trial, some new details, new to us, but not new to the prosecutors who brought this case.

are coming to light. So here's the Daily Mail on Friday. This is the report. Police detected a pulse on homeless man Jordan Neely after he was put in a chokehold by Marine veteran Daniel Penny. Bombshell new body cam footage reveals. The video became public today as Penny's manslaughter trial began in Manhattan. Penny, then 24, is accused of killing Neely by putting him in what prosecutors say was a fatal chokehold. During opening statements today, body cam footage of the moment cops found Neely was shown.

NYPD officers arrived on the train at Fulton Station at 2:33 p.m. Two police officers confirmed that Neely still had a pulse when they arrived. "I got a pulse," one said. A second police officer confirmed that he too felt a pulse. Neely was unconscious lying on the subway car floor. When asked how Neely ended up there, Penny replied, "I put him out." Despite initially detecting a pulse, they issued Narcan, the drug used to reverse opioid overdoses to Neely, and started CPR 238.

At 3.13, almost 45 minutes after police first arrived, Neely was still on the train. He was not pronounced dead until he arrived at Lenox Health Hospital in Greenwich Village later that afternoon. Among witnesses on the first day of evidence was an NYPD sergeant who testified that none of his team performed mouth-to-mouth on Neely because he was a drug user, quote-unquote.

Quote, he seemed to be a drug user. He was an apparent drug user. He was very dirty. I didn't want them to get hepatitis. If he did wake up, he would have been vomiting. I didn't want my officers to do that. He was filthy. You look like a homeless individual. You have to protect your officers. I wouldn't want my officer to get sick if the person throws up. Okay. So Neely had a pulse when officers arrived. They refused to perform mouth-to-mouth because he was filthy and they didn't want to get sick. And then he was pronounced dead later in the afternoon. So

So what are we doing here exactly? What is this case? Penny did not kill Neely. He was still alive. He was still alive. Okay, the officers did not perform mouth to mouth. And now Penny is on trial. It seems so that New York City can basically cover its own ass. And look, I'll say I don't blame the officers for not performing mouth to mouth on Jordan Neely.

Getting hepatitis or some other disgusting disease is a very real concern when you're putting your mouth on some tweaked out druggie and he throws up and then throws up into your mouth. I don't think we should require police officers to contract diseases from homeless drug addicts as part of their job. That shouldn't be part of the job. You just say, well, you're just going to get a disease now. That's not a job requirement.

And I wouldn't, I'll put a, I wouldn't do it. I'm not gonna get infected by a drugged out vagrant. I'm just not. So I get that, I do. I don't blame them. But Daniel Penny did not kill Jordan Neely. He was alive. It sounds like it was, well, they don't tell us exactly. How long was it from when police arrived to when he was actually pronounced dead? They just say later that afternoon. Sounds like it might have been hours later.

At the very least, it was more than 45 minutes. We know that. And he was obviously already on drugs. Did the headlock even kill Neely? It doesn't sound like that's the case. Is this yet another case where someone has an overdose and then we end up sending someone else to prison because that person happened to be making physical contact with the guy who was overdosing? Is that what it is now in America? Like if you're in the vicinity of someone who overdoses, now you go to jail for killing them?

Because they chose to take a lethal dose of drugs? I mean, we don't know if that's what happened here. We don't know. I mean, the facts are still coming out, but it sounds very likely, very plausible. And listen, if you have an overdose, that's on you. Nobody should go into prison for that, whether you're George Floyd or Jordan Neely or anybody else. Your overdose is your own fault. Nobody else's.

The idea that anybody else should go to prison for that, I mean, unless you want to arrest the drug dealer who gave you the drugs, then I'm all on board with that. But somebody who was not involved in the drug transaction being arrested for it, that's crazy. Someone, in fact, who was protecting the community from you because you were cracked out of your skull and acting in a threatening way. That's even crazier. And again,

We don't know if Neely actually died of a drug overdose, but there is precedent for this kind of thing. We know that. And what makes this so outrageous is that even if Neely actually was killed by Daniel Penny, incidentally, even if Penny, while restraining Neely, accidentally caused him to lose his life, it would still be an absolutely ridiculous, insane, outrageous miscarriage of justice.

to put Penny on trial for that. Neely was threatening people on the train. That's a fact, like nobody disputes that. He had to be restrained. If you're acting in an explicitly threatening way and somebody has to restrain you because of how you're acting and you die as a result, that's your fault. That's on you.

You know, and if even if they use a little bit more force than they needed to, that's we don't the onus. When you are the one who is a threat to the people around you, the onus is not on everybody else to make sure that they restrain you in exactly the correct way so that doesn't harm you. This isn't the whole thing now is your fault. Whatever happens next is your fault. That's on you. Don't want to get choked out on the subway. Don't go around threatening to kill people.

Pretty simple. It's like not a high bar to clear here. So even if the prosecution's theory of the case is true, this would still be a monumental injustice. But it sounds like their theory isn't even true. And so that just makes it, you know, that just means that really everybody involved in bringing this case, everybody involved in prosecution should be in jail. Like you should go to jail for this kind of thing. That's what should happen.

The prosecutors in this case are a much greater threat to the public than Daniel Penny is. Daniel Penny is actually protecting the public, right? Like, who, I don't care where you pretend to stand on the Jordan Hill. Would you feel unsafe having Daniel Penny in your neighborhood on the train with you, sitting next to you somewhere? Would you feel unsafe? No. If anything, you'd feel safer.

You're not gonna feel unsafe unless you're planning on getting up and threatening to kill people. Well then like maybe you would feel less safe, but you should feel less safe in that case. So Daniel Penny is not making the community less safe. These prosecutors are on the other hand. By prosecuting law abiding people who are protecting the community, they are actively making the community less safe. All right, our reporter Spencer Lindquist here at the Daily Wire went to a Kamala Harris rally over the weekend to talk to Kamala supporters and find out why they're voting for Kamala.

And I guess just to see if they're really as delusional as they seem. That's my own editorializing. That's not what Spencer said in his coverage. But anyway, it turns out that, yeah, they are delusional just as much as you think, if not more so, in fact. Watch this.

So tell me a bit about Trump's agenda and what about it is most scary, most concerning to you. He says that he's going to take anybody who disagrees with him and put them in jail. And from there, he's going to deport them out of the United States altogether. And I think he wants to basically turn this into a white Christian nation, which it is not. He hates everyone.

He hates his followers and he will totally try to destroy all life on earth before he dies. That's who the Trump is. - Do you think that the rhetoric of him being a Nazi or a fascist might encourage other people who are gonna try and take him out, you know, violently? - I mean, I don't know if that's the leap I would make. I think it is a totally reasonable assumption. I mean, Elon Musk is wearing a Make America Great hat in the Nazi font. That was definitely the vibe there. It was frightening.

and disgusting. He is. He's a Nazi. He's a fascist. Of course he is. Yes, I think he's a full fascist authoritarian. What I will say to you is if he wins in November, it is going to be the birth of the American Nazi Party with him as the top of it. What do you think America looks like if Trump wins? I mean, we've been hearing that he's a fascist or that he's a Nazi. Do you agree with those characterizations of him? Yeah. He's the most repulsive person in public life.

He's a floating island of trash. Him and his supporters. If you can't tell Trump is the most blatantly obvious criminal of all time,

Oh, f*** you. You committed treason. And we hate your ever f***ing guts. You have a binary choice. You can either vote for a good qualified politician or you can vote for Donald Trump, who is a big red pimple on the act of the American body politic. All right, so you got a guy with a balloon of Trump in a diaper with a swastika. Uh...

I mean, and, you know, and then a lot of other, I mean, there was also the guy, I think that was a man in a COVID mask. But a couple of things about that. So, so first of all, where do you get, I'm watching the balloon, the guy with the balloon, like, where do you get something like that? Where do you, where do you buy, where do you buy, where do you buy a balloon of Trump in a diaper with a swastika? Is that something, do you pick up a party city? Is that, do you have to custom order it?

Or do you buy the Trump baby balloon and then draw your own swastika on it? That's what I wanna know. And aren't there two competing messages there? It's a very confusing, the illustration that you're missing, it's very confusing. Because it seems to me either Trump is a baby or he's Hitler incarnate or he's none of those things. But

You can't really be both of those, right? I know that Hitler was a baby at one point, but if we're supposed to take someone serious as a serious threat to the republic, like Hitler reincarnated, then they can't also be a baby because a baby is not a threat to anybody. Nobody is threatened by a baby. Babies are harmless.

Now, I know if you're on the left, maybe this is confusing for you because you hate babies and you kill them. So maybe, you know, maybe you don't quite understand that because your mind is so warped and you're such a fundamentally evil, disgusting person. But...

I think for everybody else, we see that and we're like, well, okay, what do you want? Am I supposed to be scared of Trump or am I supposed to think that he's a ridiculous baby? For normal people, you can't do both. We cannot hold both of those thoughts in our head at the same time about one person. There's a disconnect because we're not threatened by babies. We don't find babies to be threatening. So you really got to go one or the other on that.

And the other thing too is that you see the swastika there and you'll notice that left-wing political events have way, way more swastikas than right-wing events. In fact, because right-wing events, Trump rallies, whatever, have no swastikas. So there's zero. If you go to a Trump rally, you go to any kind of right-wing rally, you're gonna see zero swastikas. All of that is the left, like the left-

100% of the swastikas that are being waved, worn, drawn on balloons, 100% of them, that's happening on the left. That's just a fact. So anyway, what do these people have to say? Why are they afraid of Trump? They say they're afraid of him because they say he's going to arrest and deport everyone who disagrees with him. He's going to turn this country into a Christian theocracy. He hates everyone. He wants to destroy all life on earth.

And when I hear that, I think, well, that would be true if I was the candidate. So when I assume my rightful throne after Trump's next term, then those will all be totally reasonable things to say. You'll be executed for saying them, but they would be reasonable. That would be true.

In my case. But in Trump's case, none of that has even the vaguest attachment to reality. Like none of that. It's not in the ballpark of anything. Trump's going to arrest and deport anyone who disagrees with him. Where is that from Trump's record to anything that he said? Where do you find that? What are you basing that on?

You've extrapolated what Trump has said he's going to do and I hope he does in fact do is deport illegal immigrants So you've extrapolated from deport illegal immigrants to deport anyone who disagrees Now of course I I realized that if you were to ask them this and say where'd you get that from? They wouldn't be able to tell you they've well they got it from their own fevered Mind, that's that's their own feverish mind is where they got all this stuff and

Speaking of feverish minds, on Friday, we talked about what may prove to be the final Trump hoax of the campaign. There's still a day left, so we'll see. Maybe they can fit one more in. But the hoax was that Trump threatened to kill Liz Cheney. And it was a total lie, of course. We talked about it. It was a total lie, absolute nonsense.

Trump did not threaten Liz Cheney, obviously. He merely pointed out how she sends young men off to go die on foreign battlefields, and she would never want to do that herself. You know, she does that from the comfort of her home or her air-conditioned office in D.C. Very true, factually correct, and also a point that many of us have made many times. A very kind of normal thing to point out about these neocon war hawks.

So the claim that he threatened her was again total nonsense. But nonetheless, it led to this. Here's MSNBC with the report. Bram Resnick, the political anchor and reporter from our NBC affiliate in Phoenix, KPNX joins us. Talk about this, this breaking news regarding Donald Trump's comments that he made about Liz Cheney in Arizona last night. The attorney general is responding.

That's right. I just spoke to Attorney General Chris Mays about two hours ago for the taping of my Sunday show. She told me she had just gotten off the phone with her criminal division chief, and she was investigating whether what Donald Trump said about Liz Cheney constituted a death threat.

under Arizona law. I'll tell you, under Arizona law, it is illegal to make threats or intimidate someone, can be charged as a Class 1 misdemeanor, Class 6 felony. Chris Mays told me they're looking into it. I asked her whether this was just political speech, free speech. She said, we're checking to see if it crossed that line. But she also put it in the larger perspective. If you're here right now,

You begin to understand how this place is ready for a high security event on Tuesday, an election. Our Sheriff's Office is talking about a no tolerance policy for protests. Chris Mays is activating all her agents.

Every law enforcement agency in the state is involved with protecting the vote, protecting voters. So that's Chris Mays brought that into the conversation that for Donald Trump to make these kinds of remarks at this time, such a really fraught and tense moment here in Maricopa County is just bad. So this is, of course, interesting.

Nakedly partisan lawfare once again, criminally investigating Trump for something that is clearly, clearly, clearly protected political speech. It's lawfare. Trump, as we know, has been the target of lawfare many times. This is something that only the left ever does, only the left. They are the only ones who engage in lawfare. They are the only ones who try to use the courts, use the law, use criminal charges and criminal enforcement against their political enemies. Republicans never do this.

Democrats constantly do this. This is like a, this is like, you know, it's a nuclear war that isn't actually a war because one country is just nuking the other ones to smithereens and the other one is showing restraint, right? Showing restraint because they don't want things to get out of hand. But they are out of hand. They've been out of hand. It's just that, you know, only one side is suffering the consequences, which means it's just going to continue.

If your enemies pummel you and you don't hit back, why would they ever stop? Why would they stop? Why would the left ever stop using lawfare if they could just do it unopposed and nothing's going to happen to them? Why would they stop? Or to use an analogy that maybe Tim Walls would understand, if you're playing football and the other team is up by 45 points in the eighth inning and they're hitting all their jump shots, then why would you let your foot off the gas? Why would they let their foot off the gas and let you off the mat?

I'm a big fan of sports games like Tim Walz is, so I can't help but make the sporting event analogies. My point is that if they're the only ones who do this, then there's no reason why they will ever stop. They're not going to ever stop, which means that Republicans have to respond by using lawfare themselves. It's just the only way.

You need Republican AGs to go after Democrats in similar circumstances and for similar sorts of things. It's the only way that it stops. Because if not that, then we're just sitting around waiting and hoping that maybe eventually they'll just have enough and they'll stop hitting us because they feel bad. It ain't gonna happen. No, they're just gonna keep ramping it up.

And if Kamala Harris wins, then this campaign of lawfare, we haven't even seen, you ain't seen nothing yet, okay, if Kamala Harris wins. And not just the ways that they're going to target Trump. Like, yeah, if Trump loses, they are going to put him in prison. That is going to happen. But it's not just going to be him. He's not going to be alone.

And the only way to make it stop is for the left to get a taste of their own medicine and to realize that, okay, you can continue playing this game, but you will suffer consequences for it. It's not going to be... We refuse to be the only ones who are suffering this. You will also be made to suffer it. And then at least you give them something to think about. Maybe the Arizona AG is hesitant to open a criminal investigation over something like this if...

They thought that, okay, well, you know, if we do this, they're definitely like they're going to come back and they're going to try to do it to one of ours. I don't know if it's worth all that. If they don't have to make that calculation, they will never stop. I want to play this quick clip from Trump's rally over the weekend. One of his rallies. This is 45 seconds. Probably my favorite. One of my favorite things Trump has ever said. No exaggeration. And when you hear it, you'll know.

why it resonated, especially with me. Because very much singing my tune here. Let's listen to this. - We are just three days away from the greatest political victory in the history of our country, I guess in the history of the world. But it only happens if you vote. If you don't vote, then bad things could be happening. You'll be very depressed. And we don't want to have depression, right? There's no depression. You know the best way to stop depression? Work your ass off.

You don't have time. You want to work so hard that you don't have time for depression. But I didn't come here looking for your money. I don't need your money. I don't want your money. All I want you to do is get out and vote. So the best way to stop depression is to work your ass off, he says. And he's exactly right. I mean, and this is coming from a guy, Trump, who knows about working your ass off.

So take it from me. Take it from him, rather. If you won't take it from me, I mean, I've said it, I've probably made the same point 10 million times on the show. If you won't take it from me, then take it from Trump. In most cases, you can stop depression from working hard. The reason why we have so much depression in the modern world, one of the reasons,

is because only in the modern world, and only in the richest countries in the modern world, is it even possible to live and survive and be comfortable without working hard. So for a lot of people, working hard is kind of a choice. You can choose to not work hard and you'll still survive. You're not going to have all of the nice things that people who work harder will have, but you could get by. You can get by and survive without working hard.

It's an option. Like you go for most of human history, for the majority of people on earth, for most of human history, for almost everybody on earth, with the exception of the top of the top of the top, you didn't have to give speeches about working hard because it really was not an option. Living every day was hard work. Just surviving was hard work. You had to work to survive.

And if you didn't work hard, you would just die. And so nobody really has to give you a lecture about it. There really wasn't much of a choice. But these days there is. And so if you choose not to, then depression is kind of what happens when you have too much time and energy to spend on dwelling on your own feelings. Now, that's not saying that everyone who feels depressed is not a hard worker. That's not the point. The point is that if you're not working hard, it breeds that depression.

And if you're really working hard, I mean, and Trump is talking about this in the context of the election, but obviously he'd be the first to say that this is beyond the election. This is how you live beyond the election. And

I'd say in my own case, the times in my life when I've got a bunch of different projects I'm working on, I'm working on a movie, I've got the show that I'm doing. Of course, I have six kids. There's always a lot of hard work involved in that. It's like so many things happening and working on long-term things that I'm thinking about, short-term tasks I have to complete. I don't have time. I don't have time to be depressed. It's just not even – I don't have time for it.

It's only when, you know, you step back and maybe you get a little bit lazy and you look around, there's not as much to do. And then you have time to dwell and to think and to kind of like internalize and do all those sorts of things. And, you know, Trump, as an extremely successful person, is saying, like, any extremely successful man will tell you exactly what he just said. Every single one.

I mean, I defy you to find an extremely successful man who will not say that. I know it's not popular. These days, we're supposed to say depression is nothing but a disease, and it has no relation to lifestyle at all, and it just happens, and there's nothing. I know that's the popular view of things, but it should tell you something, that you will not find an extremely successful man who would disagree with that. They would all say the same thing. They all extol the value of work. And if you understand the value of work,

It's kind of you kind of get everything you understand the value of work. You'll be successful and you'll be happy. You'll have you'll kind of have it all. And I think there's no doubt about it. Finally, I got to. Well, I've been I would rather not play this video because it's rather disturbing. But I feel like we have to because I don't know. It's it's.

It feels significant, like something's going on here and we got to talk about it, unfortunately. So here is Joe Biden a couple of days ago. This is not out of context. There is no context to this clip that would make it okay, really. So you don't even need to know the context. But the context is that Biden is talking about Trump and he's talking about what he would like to do to Donald Trump. Let's listen. But I'm serious.

These are the kinds of guys you like to smack in the ass. These are the kinds of guys you'd like to smack in the ass, he says. And he really put some feeling into it. Like he put some force into it. He meant it. This was not stumbling, stuttering, not knowing what to. He meant it. He's been thinking about this and he let it out. I never thought we'd get to the point where the president of the United States was openly threatening to sexually assault his political rival. But here we are.

And if you're Trump, how are you supposed to feel about this? Like, I feel bad. What is how are you supposed to feel if you're Donald Trump and you hear that clip grossed out? Yeah, but I don't know. I mean, he's I just wish that Biden could have held on a little bit longer. He almost made it to the end of the campaign without vocalizing his sexual fantasies about Trump.

He almost made it. He almost got there. We never would have had to hear this, but he couldn't contain himself. He just couldn't keep it in, and he had to let it out. And now if I'm Trump, I think I'm, well, yeah, I mean, I guess you're like, thanks, I guess. But I'm married, and I'm not gay, but thanks, man. But I'm also thinking that I think I'd rather they go back to threatening to kill me and trying to kill me over this. I think I'd prefer that.

I'd prefer that over Biden grunting about how he wants to touch my butt. If I'm Donald Trump, that's what I'm thinking. So this is, anyway, that's Biden's closing argument. That is his closing argument against Trump, is that he wants to smack him in the ass. It's unorthodox. It's an unorthodox argument, I gotta say. We haven't heard that one before. Man, we'll see. We'll see how it plays out.

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Whenever I come across a viral story about animal martyrdom, like Harambe or Cecil the Lion or Charlotte the Groundhog, I don't usually join the outrage mob, at least not right away. Instead, my first reaction is to question how Americans can get so worked up over the demise of a gorilla or a lion or a groundhog in a country that systematically slaughters infants by the thousands. Melting down over the death of an animal, however famous that animal may be, seems like a sign that your priorities could be out of whack.

Now that said, I have to concede that it's possible to be upset about multiple things at once. I understand that. And every now and then, even given everything else going on in the world, there's a story about non-human martyrdom that's so over the top and so disturbing that it does need to be talked about. And that's certainly the case this week after the untimely demise of a squirrel named Peanut at the hands of government officials in New York State.

If you hadn't heard about Peanut until this week, that's not surprising. Like Vincent Van Gogh, poor Peanut only achieved worldwide fame after his death. Although before his death, Peanut had more TikTok followers than Van Gogh ever did, to his credit. So for several years, Peanut had a relatively large following on various social media platforms, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, as the public face of Peanut's Freedom Farm.

Now, Peanut's Freedom Farm is an animal sanctuary that a man named Mark Longo set up after rescuing Peanut several years ago when his mother was hit by a car. I'm talking about the squirrel's mother, not Mark Longo's mother. This sanctuary takes care of a variety of rescue animals like blind horses and things like that. And over the years, they've helped more than 350 animals. But Peanut was by far the most famous of these animals because he appeared in videos like this one with his owner. Watch.

♪ Without you, my friend ♪ - So, you know, the music, of course, added after the fact. Very, maybe overly sort of emotional music for a video of a squirrel eating a waffle. But anyway, you know, in some popular videos, and he made a lot of friends at his animal sanctuary too. In particular, he was apparently best buddies with a raccoon named Fred, who also appeared in a lot of videos, videos like this one, watch. ♪ If I would've known ♪

♪ That you wouldn't be here anymore ♪ - Okay, now if you've been on the internet for more than 10 seconds, you know that people on the internet love nothing more than cute videos of animals eating human food.

If you can call Dunkin' Donuts human food. Anyway, it's very endearing to most people, but not to everyone apparently. As we all learned during the COVID lockdowns, a substantial percentage of Americans are deeply unhappy and highly neurotic. And they want nothing more than to narc on their neighbors, especially in liberal strongholds. This is the case in places like New York.

And they hate seeing other people enjoying their lives and so they seek out every opportunity to destroy happiness, whether it's human happiness or animal happiness. They just want it all gone. That's why several people in New York reported these videos to the ironically named Department of Environment Conservation or DEC. In response, DEC and several other New York state agencies raided Mark Longo's property. Ultimately, they killed both Peanut and Fred the raccoon

supposedly because Peanut bit one of the officers who was dragging him outside of his home, and therefore to test for rabies, they had to kill both of the animals. Watch. That's Peanut the squirrel eating a waffle with his rescuer-turned-owner Mark Longo, who launched the critter to social media fame over the past seven years. But now the squirrel and Longo are getting even more attention. Peanut was the best thing that ever happened to us.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation seized the pet and Longo's pet raccoon Fred on Wednesday. It said, quote, following multiple reports from the public about the potentially unsafe housing of wildlife that could carry rabies and the illegal keeping of wildlife as pets.

DEC conducted an investigation that on Friday afternoon it confirmed in a joint statement with the Chemung County Health Department that quote, a person involved in the investigation was bitten by the squirrel. To test for rabies, both animals were euthanized. We spoke with Longo earlier Friday about the seizure of his home and farm in Pine City, which he says lasted five hours. You need that many officers to show up to my house to literally pull my closets apart.

Now, until the government shows up, everything's completely fine. The animal is bringing a lot of joy to people's lives. People like the squirrel. He's also helping to raise money for this animal sanctuary, which is the kind of thing that, you know, we generally want to encourage in society, I would think. Then the Department of Environment Conservation decided the best way to conserve the environment is to conduct a Waco-style siege of Mark Longo's property.

Creating a problem where none exists. There was no problem with the squirrel. It was not. It's a squirrel on this guy's property. Who cares if he has a squirrel in his house? I wouldn't want to have a squirrel in my home. Like I wouldn't want a squirrel inside the house. Not a choice that I would make personally. But if somebody else wants to have a squirrel in their house, couldn't care less. Does not bother anyone. Does not hurt anybody. It's not an issue at all.

And then when the animal allegedly bites someone, the government springs into action to solve the problem they created. They euthanized the animals to test them for rabies because you can't do the rabies test without first euthanizing the animal. They wanted to make sure the government official didn't contract rabies after being bitten, supposedly. However, the Wall Street Journal reports that the agents were wearing heavy gloves when they absconded with the squirrel. So did the squirrel bite through the gloves?

Or was the bite story made up after the fact to justify euthanizing the squirrel? None of this makes a lot of sense. First of all, if a squirrel is allegedly showing signs of rabies and you're an animal control expert, then you wouldn't be handling the squirrel without gloves.

So we can assume that they were wearing gloves, but then how did anyone get wounded by the animal's bite? And on top of that, we all know the animals weren't showing signs of rabies because they happen to be some of the most photographed and recorded animals in the world. Their every move was uploaded to the internet, and eating waffles and whipped cream, as far as I know, is not a sign of rabies. And also, by the way,

If you have any experience encountering rabid animals, as I have a time or two in my life, there's no mistaking it. It's pretty clear from the way they're behaving that they have rabies. Now, it's true that the normal protocol when an animal bites a person is to euthanize and test the animal. The idea is to assume the worst, and I guess the animal has to suffer the consequences. This helps save money and time for the person who was bitten. But that protocol seems inappropriate when the person who was supposedly bitten is the one who barged into the animal's home and grabbed him without any provocation.

What happened here is that to save this person some time and the cost of the precautionary rabies shot, they killed the animals to see if these preventive shots were necessary. And that's the only reason they killed them. As it stands, this whole scenario lays the groundwork for any number of other unlawful government-sanctioned home invasions. Who's to say the government can't barge in your home if there are reports that you're not affirming your child's gender confusion, for example? That's the precedent they're setting.

The same Democrats who say that an Instagram squirrel is some massive public health risk will have no problem saying that you're creating a health risk if you don't affirm your child's identity. In fact, they're already doing that. That's a thing that's already happened. There's another troubling aspect here as well. In this case, the outrage over it is as much about the needless execution of somebody's pet rodent as it is about, and this for me is the thing that concerns me the most personally,

It's the wildly disproportionate and flagrantly wasteful use of law enforcement resources. As you heard in that clip, this raid lasted several hours.

And in a separate interview, Mark Longo explained in detail what happened. Watch. It not only tears my family apart, but Peanut was the cornerstone of our nonprofit animal rescue. And 10 to 12 DEC officers raided my house as if I was a drug dealer. I was sat outside my house for five hours. I had to get a police escort to my bathroom. I

I wasn't even allowed to feed my rescue horses breakfast or lunch. I was sitting, sat there like a criminal after they interrogated my wife to check out her immigration status, then proceeded to ask me if I had cameras in my house, then proceeded to go through every cabinet nook and cranny of my house for a squirrel and a raccoon. They got a search warrant? They got a search warrant.

Four departments and a judge signed off on a search warrant for a squirrel and a raccoon. So in a country with a violent crime epidemic, precisely zero dollars and zero man hours should be allocated to killing harmless, if unorthodox, household pets. In fact, even if we had no violent crime epidemic or violent crime at all, I still wouldn't be in favor of killing harmless household pets. But in this case, given what's happening in this country right now, it's especially egregious, especially in a place like New York.

So, for example, just a few days ago in New York State, a man was arrested for allegedly raping a five-year-old girl. And this is someone who was in this country illegally. The government knew who he was. They led him into the country after determining that he had no right to be here. He was here for several years, nearly a decade, in fact. And in that decade, there wasn't a single New York State police officer who looked for him or tried to detain him. They didn't spend five hours at his place of residence looking for evidence of crimes or anything like that. They didn't care at all, apparently. And this is the end result.

Good morning, I'm Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman. Unfortunately, I am here because of a tragic circumstance. A heinous crime committed here in Nassau County by an illegal immigrant who should not have been in this country. Unfortunately, it ended in a circumstance where a five-year-old girl was raped. Five years old.

Apparently, this individual, who is under arrest now due to the fine work of our Nassau County Police Department, entered this country at the age of 16 in 2014. That individual was detained at the border and given a hearing date and never showed up for that hearing date.

That individual was part of the catch and release program that still goes on here in the United States.

That's probably overstating the case to say that New York State's decision to kill Peanut and Fred could influence the result of the presidential election tomorrow. It's hard to imagine that there's a single undecided voter anywhere in the country at this point, or if there is, that this would be the deciding factor. But if there are any undecided voters left, it's not unthinkable that this is the kind of thing that it takes to wake them up when you have the contrast between the two. The absurdity of it is just too much. They'll barge into your home and murder your pets and

But they'll let foreign criminals terrorize children and assault children with total impunity. Remember how much coverage there was when Donald Trump said they're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats? Well, this is the kind of imagery that resonates. This time around, there's no denying it. They're clearly killing the squirrels and the raccoons. They are. I don't know if they're eating them, but they're killing them. And for their part, the Trump campaign certainly thinks this is a good way to illustrate the priorities of Democrats in government. Watch.

So I know Don's fired up about Peanut the squirrel. We were on the way down here from Cincinnati. He was like, you know, is it really the case that the Democrats murdered the Elon Musk of squirrels? And I said, yeah, it sounds like... Have you seen the videos of this squirrel? He's like, he's a genius. Or he was, unfortunately. But the same government that doesn't care about hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant criminals coming into our country doesn't want us to have pets.

It's the craziest, the craziest thing. So there are at least two major lies being exposed here. The first is that the left's claim, you know, that they care about the well-being of American citizens. They clearly don't. They obviously prioritize the rights of foreign criminals over the rights of Americans, even when those Americans are uploading harmless Instagram videos of their pet squirrel. The other lie is that Democrats care about the environment or about conservation.

That's also not true. New York's Department of Conservation isn't actually doing much conserving, and the case of Peanut and Fred is just another example of that. The Daily Wire's news division recently spoke with Will Coggin, who runs the Center for Consumer Freedom, and his assessment is that, quote, "...the death of Peanut appears to track with a broader trend in the animal rights movement of killing animals. Sadly, many of those people have a better dead-than-fed mentality."

Coggin continued, quote, PETA euthanized 79% of the dogs and cats it took in last year at its shelter, which state inspectors likened to a euthanasia clinic. Apparently, PETA only adopted 58 animals in 2022, which is an adoption rate under 3%. Which, by the way, this is how the left treats human beings, too, so it's no surprise that's what they do with animals. Human beings, they also want to just, you know, if you're old and sick, they want to just euthanize you and get rid of you. Yeah.

Maybe it's a little surprising they're doing that to animals too, because usually the left values animals over humans. But anyway, by contrast, it's small shelters like Peanuts that are adopting and saving a lot of animals. These are the kinds of shelters that, you know, a sane society, it's good to have them. Instead, as actual criminals brutally attack children, Democrats are going after the animal sanctuaries and the animals living inside them. The Peanut, the Squirrel, and Fred the Raccoon may be gone, but as an illustration of government overreach, incompetence,

and evil, they are immortal. They will live on forever, or maybe at least until tomorrow, influence a few votes. And that is why the bureaucrats who barged into a man's home to murder Peanut and Fred are today canceled. That'll do it for the show today, and we'll talk to you tomorrow, election day. Have a great day. Godspeed.

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