The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1532 - Knowles At The RNC: President Trump Returns!

Episode Date: July 17, 2024

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Less than 72 hours after being shot and coming within a fraction of an inch of being assassinated, President Trump walked into the Republican National Convention on schedule. Amazing. You've got the required Lee Greenwood song. I actually ran into Lee Greenwood. He's one of the first guys I saw when I got here today. With him emerging, Trump, with the band of John is here, a couple days after having nearly been assassinated,

brought some tears to the eyes. You can see, actually, Don Jr. John Jr.'s got tears in his eyes, as did many people here. There were prayers. There were models. There was a new running mate, J.D. Vance. This is the most historic National Party Convention since at least 1968 and possibly since 1892. And I am coming to you here from the heart of it.

I'm Michael Knowles. It's the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. The RNC had not been underway for more than a handful of hours before some fake news started spreading. the Libbs accusing Trump of falling asleep on day one. That is not what happened, and their misunderstanding tells you a lot about them. There's so much more to say first, though, it's prime week,

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No code needed. I tell you, when I'm away from home, I'm here at this historic event, the RNC after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. It is amazing to be here, and I miss, other than my wife and kids, I miss only one thing, and that's my Good Ranchers meet. Go to Good Ranchers.com, subscribe to any box, unlock their prime week savings, up to $150 off. No code needed, good ranchers.com. 72 hours, I'm sorry, less than 72 hours after being shot and nearly assassinated, President Trump is up, vibrant, energetic. His opponent, Joe Biden, could not keep his thoughts together long enough to answer a simple question in an interview with Lester Holt on NBC.

And they looked at me and concluded I didn't do a damn thing wrong. But my generic point is that it's, well... And my point, the whole point of my campaign is... The footage of the Himalayas of Xi Jinping, you know, you know, the thing... He doesn't even say that. He doesn't even say that. He just trails off. And there is something profound to this rhetorical error here, because the Biden campaign no longer has a point. The point of the Biden campaign is that Donald Trump is Hitler and Donald Trump represents an existential threat to America,

to our democracy, to our system of government. That is the point of the campaign. That's not my inference from Biden's rhetoric. That is the actual premise of his campaign in his own words, as he has told us time and time again. And singing the same anti-Semitic bio they sang when, back in Germany. And the young woman got killed. They spoke to the mother. And they asked him, they said, what do you think of those people? The people who, the ones got killed, the one who tried to stop it.

And the ones he said, I think they're fine people on both sides. What American president would ever say? Nazis coming out of fields carrying torches, singing the same anti-Semitic bile, carrying swastikas or fine people. This is the guy who says Hitler's done some good things. I'd like to know what they are. Good things Hitler's done. That's what he said.

Nazis, they're Nazis. Trump's a Nazis. He likes Hitler. He likes Hitler to do Hitler Nazi things. And he's an existential threat to our democracy. That's the point of the campaign. Biden says that he got into the... race. He was going to retire from politics, but he got into the race in 2020 because Trump's a

Nazi and he poses an existential threat. Now, he doesn't really believe that. The moment that Joe Biden tweeted out, I'm glad that Donald Trump is doing okay after the shooting. The moment he said, I called Donald Trump, I'm grateful that he's alive and he's doing well. The moment he said that, he knew he was completely full of it comparing Trump to Hitler, because you don't, you wouldn't hope that Hitler's okay. The moment that Biden and all the Democrats said, you know, boy, by golly, I'm really happy that Trump has recovered and that he wasn't seriously injured, you knew that they didn't really believe he posed an existential threat to our democracy and our country. Because if someone really did pose an existential threat, the country dies.

If this man carries on, then you wouldn't say that you were happy that he did well. That kind of rhetoric, those premises justify anything up to an including assassination. so Biden can't, can't defend that anymore, but he has to defend that if he wants to have a campaign. So he's struck dumb, dumber than he previously was even. Lester Holt then in this interview, I think the fifth attempt to restart the Biden campaign. Don't forget, the first attempt was the debate. That's why Biden proposed the debate because he was slipping in the polls. That didn't work.

Then it was the NATO press conference. That didn't really work. Then it was the Oval Office address after the assassination. That didn't really work. Now he's sitting down with Lester Holt on end. And Lester Holt raised the very point that I just made. You called your opponent an existential threat to the country. You even said you'd put him in a bull's eye.

What do you say now? You called your opponent an existential threat on a call a week ago. You said it's time to put Trump in the bull's eye. There's some dispute about the context, but I think you appreciate that words about I didn't see cross-hares. I was talking about focus on. Look, the truth in the matter was, well, I guess I would. talking about as a time was, there was very little focus on Trump's agenda.

Yeah, the term was a bullseye. It was a mistake to use the word. I didn't say crosshairs. I'm a bullseye. I mean, focus on him. Focus on what he's doing. Nobody said you said crosshairs. Lester Holt said very clearly.

You said you were going to put Trump in a bullseye. I never said crosshairs. Right, you said bullseye. Yeah. Come on, man. So here, you have the closest thing we've seen yet to Biden admitting that he has been horribly irresponsible for his rhetoric and that his rhetoric established the premises that would justify assassination.

Ironically, once again, the very thing that they accused Trump of doing, Biden and the Democrats themselves actually did. And here finally said, I shouldn't have said that. And he's still trying to get out of it. I never said that thing that you never said that I said. But he's still trying to weasel his way out. And yet even Biden asked to admit, okay, yeah, I probably should not have said that. So then Lester Holt presses him further.

Is this the first time that NBC has ever pressed a Democrat president? Lester Holt asks, okay, so maybe you regret some of your rhetoric and you can't articulate what your campaign's about anymore. But now, after this assassination attempt, why haven't you heard from your Secret Service Director? Is it acceptable that you have still not heard, at least publicly from the Secret Service Director? Well, I've heard from them. But have you heard from her publicly?

Publicly. I've sat down in a situation of him downstairs. The Secret Service, the FBI, the National Security agencies, the Homeland Security, all the major elements. Is it acceptable that you haven't heard from the Secret Service Director? Oh, I've heard from him. Actually, it's a woman named Kimberly Jee. who you appointed. What are you talking about? I pal around at the Secret Service director all the time. Oh yeah, he and I, the Secret Service Director and I, we go to the

swimming pool and scranton, man, you know, we go, we shave our hairy legs together, man. He's a bad dude. That Secret Service Director's name's Corn Pop. No, actually, he is a she, confusing these days, and her name is Kimberly Cheatel. And you obviously haven't heard from her because you don't even know what sex she is. Then he goes on, oh, I hear from the Secret Service. No, sir, you have Secret Service protection. You have significantly more Secret Service protection than Donald Trump had, which is why he was vulnerable to an assassination attempt that nearly killed him. No responsibility, no accountability, no knowledge, even of who the personnel are. Nothing. The lights are on and no one's home. So let's focus on that Secret Service

director. Seems to me, if you're the director of the U.S. Secret Service and a president or a former president or a party nominee or the leading presidential candidate in the country is very nearly assassinated and only alive because of the grace of God and a movement of a head, a nanosecond before a shot rang out, probably you should resign. Make Mother's Day even more special at Whole Foods Market. Kick off brunch or dinner with quality cheese and charcutory with no synthetic nitrates, then go seafood. There's an abundance on sale at Whole Foods Market, where it's all sustainable while caught are responsibly farmed. At the bakery, grab seasonal treats like their strawberry pretzel cream pie, and you can't go wrong with a ready-to-heat-Kish Lorraine, Deviled Eggs,

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at risk for the protection of another is exactly what the American public should see every single day. It is what I indeed do. Well, we saw Saturday is what we should see every single day, according to the Director of Homeland Security, Secretary of Homeland Security. Every day, according to Secretary Mayorkas, we should see a former president very nearly murdered, shot through the ear, and very nearly murdered. Every single day, we should see that because what a great job that was. And then after the former president and presidential candidate is shot nearly through the brain, we should see secret service agents mishandling their firearms. One secret service agent who obviously is not physically capable of doing that job,

certainly not physically ideal, having trouble even holstering her weapon. That's what we should see. We should see a sniper getting off multiple rounds from an unsecure rooftop to nearly murder Donald Trump. We should see that every single day. And that's why, according to Mayorkas, he's got 100% confidence in the Secret Service Director's ability. So Biden doesn't know who the Secret Service Director is. Mayorkas, the direct boss of the Secret Service Director, has 100% confidence in her. What about her?

Is she at least going to admit that this was a complete? failure, the sort of failure we haven't seen in about 40 years, and is she going to resign? Here's her answer. Who is most responsible for this happening? What I would say is that the Secret Service is responsible for the protection of the former president. So the buck stops with you? The buck stops with me. I am the Director of the Secret Service.

It was unacceptable, and it's something that shouldn't happen again. The President and Homeland Security Secretary said today they had 100% confidence in you, but there are some members of Congress calling on you to resign. I appreciate the secretary's comments, and we're going to continue to be transparent and communicate with people. You plan to stay on, absolutely. I do plan to stay on. I take responsibility. The buck stops with me. This was completely unacceptable, and that's why nothing will change whatsoever.

I'm keeping my job. It's all my fault. I take full responsibility. The buck stops with me. What buck? Huh? Buck? Who's me? What are you talking about? Joe Biden doesn't know who I am?

Anyway, bye. Do words mean anything anymore? You cannot simultaneously hold that what occurred was completely unacceptable, as it obviously was, that you are taking responsibility and that you're going to keep your job. Can't do it. But they will. There will be no accountability. The left doesn't seem to care all that much. In fact, Alejandro Amioreka says we should see one of these assassination attempts, every single day. There's so much more to say. First, though, it's tough to prioritize your health,

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For Silicon Valley, ever since he got here, he hasn't done anything for the people who he wrote this movie. The video's cropped very, very thin. You can only see Trump here. You can't see any of the people around him, none of their faces, no one on the floor. You can't even hear what's going on. You're just hearing the commentary from MSNBC, but he's got his eyes closed. So the lives are saying he fell asleep. So there are a lot of confused lives. out there and I'm going I'm going to try to explain something because maybe they genuinely don't know what president Trump is listening to in that video is something called a prayer prayer is when people speak to God when they contemplate God sometimes when they ask things of God when they consider God really at all they do that and it is common during prayer to close one's eyes

and I bet there are a lot of libs out there who don't have any idea what I'm talking about. So in a spirit of charity and education, that's what's going on. Now, I suspect some of the libs who were sharing that knew full well that this was a prayer, and they just clipped it in a silly way to make it look like Trump fell asleep. By the way, he was shot in the head two days prior. If the man wanted to take a nap, I don't think anyone ought to begrudge him. that nap. But that's not what happened. He was shot. Part of his ear was blown off. The back of his skull was nearly blown off. And then 48 hours later, he was at the convention. And he made a very important

point. He said, the convention goes on as planned. No changes. We will not allow them to change this. They really wanted to change the convention by nearly murdering the president two or three days before he would officially become the nominee. But no, nothing would change. And so he made it there. and he was bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, and yes, he closed his eyes and listened to prayers. And there were some really great prayers. The convention opened with the Catholic Archbishop of Milwaukee, who gave what I thought was a perfect prayer

to open a national political convention in America. And let us pray. Lord, we thank you for our nation. Our founding fathers held these truth self-evident that all our creation, equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. For 248 years, we have sustained this vision, to guard the dignity of every life from conception

to natural death, to protect their liberty, especially to speak freely, and to worship you and to support their pursuit of happiness through this life to the next. We pray that you assist our elected officials and candidates always to protect our freedoms, to preserve our democracy and to govern fairly. Grant them the wisdom every day to place the good of our nation above personal interests and to cherish our union. This is a really beautiful prayer for this convention because it is a prayer specifically for America. It's using American language, words, and themes from the American tradition, and speaking to them in the light of spiritual truth.

This prayer is seeing the state, which is distinct from the church, through the, at a very, and it. as if illuminated by the light that is reflected by the church. Because both church and state derive their authority from God, and both church and state are necessary for man's ultimate ends. We are Christians believe we are pilgrims in this world. I think everyone has to acknowledge we're not going to be here forever. From the perspective of eternity, we're here for a pretty short time. And so, you know, the material things of this world are not enough.

That's not what we're made for. Money won't buy you happiness. And we Christians believe that we have greater ends, that there's a life of the world to come. And the state is necessary. Not only for man to achieve his natural ends, feed his family, establish and maintain peace and order so that man can thrive and flourish,

in his family, in his business, in his community, in his fishing club, and all the things that we like to do from the perspective of nature. But the state is also necessary to help man to achieve his supernatural lens because it's very difficult

to pray when there isn't peace. We do it. There are no atheists in foxholes. But to really live out one's religion is greatly aided by peace and order. Political stability. So the two are necessary here. And this prayer is not,

it doesn't ignore. the natural and political order. Neither does it solely focus on the natural and political order. It gives you both. I thought that was really appropriate. There was another very charming Christian prayer. There's so much more to say first though, go to gCU.edu. Grand Canyon University, a private Christian University, and beautiful Phoenix, Arizona believes that we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights to life and liberty in the pursuit of happiness. GCU believes in equal opportunity, and the American dream starts with purpose. GCU equips you. to serve others in ways that promote human flourishing

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Great pleasure to see President Donald Trump safe. And if I may, before the benediction, give you this promise. You're gonna be so blessed. You're gonna be tired of being blessed. I guarantee it. Great little bit, a nice moment of levity in this expression of gratitude that President Trump is safe. I thought it was great. He really seemed to get a kick out of it.

The crowd went wild for it. This was great. was great and really appropriate because we're a Christian country. To quote John Adams, many of our founding fathers, made important statements about the centrality of Christianity to the United States. John Adams put it quite well. He said the general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were, he was quite prolix, so I'll cut out some words, but doesn't change the meaning at all.

The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were, the general principles of Christianity. Now I will avow that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God. Really good stuff. Beautifully done. Lots of great prayers. There were some other prayers that missed the mark a little bit because we're a Christian country and we have a longstanding tradition of religious tolerance and that's great. But we're not a pen-entheistic country. We're not a polytheistic country. We're not any of those things. We're a Christian country. And the general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles

of Christianity. So if really all Americans in the political process, I think ought to recognize that, and especially the conservative political party, we ought to recognize that. Very important thing. Now, there is a controversial speech. Probably the speech that made the most headlines during day one of the RNC came from someone named Amber Rose, someone I had never heard of before. Seriously, I mentioned this to someone that said, oh, yeah, Michael, you never heard. Apparently, this gal did some sort of saucy things. But no, I had actually never heard of this woman before.

And she was invited to speak at the RNC. I guess she's got something of a colorful background, and she's espoused views that are quite naughty and done things that are quite naughty. But before you pass judgment, just listen to her speech. My entire family is racially diverse. And I believe the left-wing propaganda that Donald Trump was a racist. My father said, no, he's not, Amber, what are you talking about? And when I insisted, he said, prove it.

So to prove my father wrong, I did my research and looked into all things Donald Trump. I have to do their research. I watched all the rallies, and I started meeting so many of you, his red hat wearing supporters. I realized Donald Trump and his supporters don't care if you're black, white, gay, or straight. It's all love. My message to you tonight comes from a humble place. The left told me to hate Trump, and even worse, to hate the other side, the people who support him. When you cut through the lies, you realize the truth.

American families were better when Donald Trump was president. Why am I supposed to have a problem with this? Why am I, as a conservative Republican, supposed to have a problem with this? This woman didn't get up there advocating her views that are contrary to goodness and truth and the Republican Party platform. She didn't get up there peddling abortion or something like that, could God forbid that would be awful. I would criticize that. I'd be outraged by that. She didn't do that.

She apparently did some saucy photo shoots or something. Okay, she was dressed quite elegantly there. That doesn't bother me. She what? What's the problem? She said all sorts of crazy things about religion. Okay, was she talking about any of that? No.

She got up there and she said, hey, I was told to hate Trump. And I was told by the media that Trump is awful and evil and racist and terrible. And I believed it. And then I realized it wasn't true. So I'm telling people who look like me, who do things that I do, who talk the way that I talk, that are not usually part of the Republican base, hey, you're being lied to by the media, take it from me somewhere that you follow. Apparently this woman has 25 million Instagram followers.

I don't know what she's doing that I'm not doing on Instagram. She's got more than I do. She's telling those people, hey, vote for Trump. That's it. I'm supposed to be upset by that? I'm supposed to be outraged by that. That's good. I'm glad she's doing it.

What do you think this is? What do you think we're doing right now? We're at the Republican Party convention in a presidential year. We're nominating a presidential candidate and now a running mate, J.D. Vance, and we're going to go try to win an election in November. The convention exists to help the candidate win the election. That's it. If this woman, Amber Rose, in any way, she gets one extra vote for Trump, is worth it. If she came here and changed the party platform, if she, I don't know, made President Trump rewrite his platform or something, I guess that could be bad. It's not what's happening.

She's just going there and saying, hey, he's a good guy, he's not a racist, the media are liars, vote for Trump. Thanks, that's great. A prominent person who usually wouldn't side with us is doing that, fine by me, man. You've got to put these things in their proper place. This is not, we're not here at a philosophy symposium. Okay, this is not some academic conference. This is not a, some kind of purity ritual. We're at a political party convention.

We're going to get people excited about some candidates, and then we're going to go try to win an election in November. That's it. That's what this is for. You know a thing by what it's for. If we were in a philosophy convention, we might talk about good old grandpa Aristotle, who recognize that you know things in large part by what they are for.

That's what conventions are for. I think this convention is doing a pretty good job of it. Now, support is coming in from all sorts of places. It's coming in from the Amber Roses of the world. It's coming in from Elon Musk. There's a report out. Elon Musk is committing $45 million per month to a pro-Trump's super PAC. after the unjust conviction of Trump by the Democrats in New York, I made the biggest political

donation of my life, and it was significantly less than $45 million. And I only made it once. Elon's making it every single month. That's great. So then let's ask the Amber Rose question. Is Elon a conservative? I guess in some ways he's more conservative than Amber Rose? In some ways, maybe he's less conservative than Amber Rose. He's pretty radically liberal in the classical sense in a lot of his comportment, in a lot of his lifestyle, in, I wouldn't call Elon Musk exactly a conservative. Not really even close. But is he going to help us? Does he agree on some pretty important things? And is he going to put his money where our mouths are and help us out to take back one of the big tech platforms so that it's not just pure liberal dominance

all over big tech? Yeah, he is going to do that. He's going to put $44 billion there. Is he going to now donate to the Trump campaign or affiliated super PACs? Yeah, great. Thanks. Thanks, man. Thank you. What are all the complainers doing? What have the complainers ever done? You've got to win an election, guys. You don't just win an election by being the purest guy on Twitter. It's not how it works. Elon Musk isn't the purest guy on Twitter. He owns Twitter. Speaking of cultural figures in the year of Our Lord, 2004, I mentioned yesterday on the show that Jack Black, a popular movie star of the 2000s. He was at School of Rock, and you know, a bunch of words. He's got this band Tenacious D with some other guy.

It's Jack Black and some other guy. And some other guy set on stage right after the assassination attempt on Trump, he said that his greatest wish is that next time the shooter won't miss. And you could tell, I looked, I said, but did Jack Black say that? and it wasn't Jack Black, it was the other guy. And Jack Black didn't really know what to say. So Jack Black has just come out. He said, I was blindsided by what was said at the show on Sunday. I would never condone hate speech or encourage political violence in any form.

After much reflection, I no longer feel it is appropriate to continue the tenacious detour and all future creative plans are on hold. Whoa, that's pretty big. So he's saying, I'm canceling the tour that I'm currently on. And I might be canceling the whole band because the other guy said something so egregious. And he says, I'm grateful to the fans for the reason. support and understanding. This is a good message. This is a good message. I'll take it. You know, we want to be gracious. We want to accept apologies. This is a pretty full-throated apology.

I guess he doesn't say the word sorry exactly, but he does say he would never condone what was said and he's going to cancel the tours. He's actually putting his money where his mouth is. And he's saying he might cancel the whole band. This is the right thing to do. Good on Jack Black. It's the right thing to do, but importantly, it's the only thing to do. What's he going to do? Now, every interview he gives, this is going to come up. Don't forget, even the liberal press have turned on Biden here. Biden was shocked that Lester Holt was asking him tough questions. Biden was shocked that even George Stephanopoulos, who is the hacks hack, you know, he was the chief Democrat propagandist in the White House under Bill Clinton, that even George Stephanopoulos was asking him kind of tough questions about whether he'd stay in the race.

That was before the assassination attempt. Jack Black knows he's not going to be able to do any interviews. And what are the performances going to look like? He's going to have people in the audience either booing him for condoning something so egregious or maybe worse, applauding the murder of a former president. Which do you want? I mean, it's arsenic or cyanide. Pick your poison.

And the predicament that Jack Black is in right now is the predicament of the Trump campaign, I'm sorry, at the Biden campaign. Now I sound like Joe Biden, because I've been up all night and, you know, kind of wandering around and, you know, I don't know, talking to cornhop or whatever we do here at the RNC. It's the predicament of the campaign. It's the predicament of like every lib right now. Admit that Trump is not Hitler and you have been lying for years. or justify his assassination, which very nearly occurred on Saturday. Those are the two options. Admit you're completely full of it. Call for Trump's murder.

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Save 47% and join us as we fight the left and build the future. My favorite comment yesterday is from the real Captain Redbeard. Converting to Catholicism shows that he takes, I think this is JD Vans. J.D. Vance takes religion and truth seriously. You don't just convert for no reason, especially if you have a Baptist background. Yeah, this is really good. Even if you're not Catholic and even if you don't like Catholicism, this is something that makes me believe that J.D. Vance's political development is legit. A lot of lives now are saying, J.D. Vance, he's a grifter, he's a liar, he was a never-Trump or whatever. He's totally changed his views on politics. Yeah, yeah, he's developed his views. They've deepened, as is true for all of us, by the way. But the fact that his political

conversion was begun by a religious conversion, I think should give you much more faith. And at the very least, the political conversion, because all politics ultimately is theological. And so by now, and by the way, it's not as though he undertook this religious conversion because it was politically advantageous. This is America, okay? Being a Catholic doesn't exactly confer a political advantage. He would have been better off remaining a Baptist or an evangelical, or I don't remember exactly what denomination he was in which he was raised. But the fact, even if you don't like Catholicism

or whatever, the fact that he took that leap and really planted a new flag, then his political views came from that, his political views, which were very much in line with Catholic social teaching, in most cases, many cases at least, I think that should give you a little bit more confidence. I totally agree with that commenter. Now, speaking of bizarre statements after the assassination attempt, we turned from Jack Black to the Rhode Island State Police. I don't have much to say about this. It's just kind of weird. After the assassination attempt on Saturday, the Rhode Island State Police said, the Rhode Island State Police is in close contact with local state and federal law enforcement agencies, and our fusion center works 24-7 to synthesize intelligence and provide us with actionable information.

nation. We have no reason to believe that the incident in Pennsylvania has any connection to Rhode Island. That's the end of the statement. Uh, okay. Rhode Island is pretty far away from Pennsylvania. I, I did not think Rhode Island could in any way have anything to do with the attack on Saturday until the Rhode Island State Police issued that statement. Now I, huh? What? I, just a real head scratcher. That it's just the cherry on top of all the other questions. This one, I assume, totally irrelevant. You know, in a way, it's kind of a really bizarre instance of the line of scripture,

the guilty flee where none pursueth. You think, hmm, okay, why would you be involved? But it's just a little cherry on top of all the questions. How was there such a massive security failure? why did President Trump not have anywhere near the security of a sitting president? President Trump, who sure he was a former president, but he's also the Republican nominee in 2024. He's also being called Hitler in a threat to a democracy by all the top Democrats. How was this allowed to happen?

Now, speaking of speaking out of turn, Joe Biden got sick of Lester Holt during this interview on NBC. And after having to answer questions about his own inflammatory involvement, violent rhetoric after having to try to articulate the point of his campaign, which he wasn't able to do anymore after this, after that. He finally lost it. He said, hey, Lester, why aren't you talking about Trump? In your last TV interview, you were asked if you had watched the debate, your answer was, I don't think so, no. Have you since seen it? I've seen pieces of it. I'm not watched the whole debate. And the reason I ask, because I guess the question is, are you all on the same page?

Are you seeing what they saw, which was moments of, frankly, that appeared to be. you appear to be confused. Lester, look, why don't you guys ever talk about the 18 to 28 lies he told? Where are you on this? Why didn't the press ever talk about that? 28 times it's confirmed he lied in that debate. I had a bad, bad night. I wasn't feeling well at all.

And I had been, without it making it, I screwed up. I just asked the question, because the idea that you may or may not have seen what some of these other folks have seen. You're not on the same... I'd have to see I was there. I'd have to see it. I was there. And by the way, seriously, you won't answer the question,

but why didn't the press talk about all the lies he told? I haven't made anything about that. We have reported many of the issues that came under that debate. No, you haven't. But we'll provide you with them. God love you. Okay. I don't know which part is worse.

The part where Biden stammer's and stammerons You got to talk about Trump! Or the part where he just laughs like a maniac, or the part at the end where he just wants to murder Lester. God love you, God love you, Lester. Yeah, because the media never call Trump a liar. I would say that's something we have a real dearth of in the establishment media, calling Trump a liar.

You've never heard that, right? And so I don't know what Biden's talking about, 28 lies or something. Yeah, the Libs always report on all the lies of Donald Trump, many of which are not lies. But after that debate on CNN, even CNN had to come on air and talk about the lies not not that Trump uttered but that Biden uttered I'll give you some of them he said he's the only president in a while who didn't have any troops dying anywhere in the world troops have of course died on his watch he said he's put in a $15 per shot

cap on insulin in Medicare it's a $35 a month cap he said it's a $200 cap on overall drug spending in Medicare it's $2,000 a year he said the border now has fewer crossings than when Trump was in office. That's generally not true. He said or at least strongly suggested unemployment was at 15% when he took office. It was actually 6.4. He said Trump wants to get rid of Social Security. Trump doesn't. He said billionaires pay 8.2% in taxes. It's much higher. He said Trump told Americans to inject bleach amid COVID. We know Trump made foolish comments about scientists studying disinfectant injection, but didn't frame it as advice to people. And Biden said the Border Patrol endorsed him. No, its union supported the border bill he'd supported, never

endorsed him himself. It goes on, it goes on, but it's brutal. Even they had to admit it. And so if you're Joe Biden, of course your reaction is, why aren't you talking about Trump? And that's your reaction because the media are supposed to talk about Trump. It's supposed to all be about Trump. All of Trump's lies and many of his true statements that aren't that aren't lies, but they're going to call them lies. And all of Trump's supposedly inflammatory rhetoric, which is nothing. It's, it's downright peaceable compared to the violent rhetoric coming from Joe Biden. But that's just what he's come to expect. Joe Biden's been in politics for 50 years, more than 50 years. He first got elected in 1970 to the Newcastle County Council, I think. And then the Senate, a couple years later,

and he's been in D.C. ever since. And all that time, the press does the Democrats bidding and attacks Republicans. And so now why is the press turning all of a sudden? Well, now the press, is going a little bit easier on Trump because he was nearly murdered on Saturday night and because the premises that they have been articulating justify the assassination attempt. So that's why they're pulling up a little bit. But they were turning before because Joe Biden had lost the support of his own party. His own party lost confidence in him, in part because of that terrible debate performance, because that terrible debate performance took away their ability to lie for him.

Had Joe Biden not challenged Trump to the debate? He wouldn't have done the debate. He could have just hit out in the White House or hit out of Camp David. And the media could have continued to lie and said, oh, no, he's not demented. He's not senile. He has a childhood stutter. He's working all the time. He can spell his name.

He knows which end is up and which end is down. And they could have done that. But because Joe Biden, he's the one who asked for the debate. because he showed the American people that he really is in decline, he exposed the press for liars. So the press were angry about that. They had a crisis of their own credibility.

And also, he revealed that he's going to lose to Trump if nothing changes between now and November. So then there was an open insurrection in the Democrat Party. That word is overused these days, but this was a real insurrection. There was a real mutiny within the Democrat Party to replace Biden.

it included an op-ed, ostensibly written by George Clooney, rumored to have been written by Barack Obama, were at least inspired by Barack Obama in New York Times, saying Joe's got to go. And then that didn't work. But it was a game of chicken between Joe Biden and the liberal establishment. And Joe Biden told the liberal establishment, you got to back me or I'll destroy your chances at winning.

And the liberal establishment said, well, no, you got to drop out, or we're going to destroy your chances of winning. winning. And they're both just waiting for the other one to blink. But now, I think finally, especially after the assassination attempt, the mutiny is over. There's no political mojo to get it done. But now the press are going to have to live with everything they've just said. So now the establishment press have admitted he has dementia. He's senile. He lies a lot. Maybe he doesn't even lie because it's not intentional because he doesn't even know which end is up. And now, all of a sudden, the Democrats are in despair. It's not even chaos. I don't think they can really replace them anymore.

It's just despair. Meanwhile, at the Republican National Convention, where our nominee was within a hair's breadth of being murdered two and a half days ago, the spirit, and I've been here all day, I left National in the middle of the night, and I've been here all day. The spirit here is jubilant and grateful and excited for November. Now, we'll see if the Republicans figure out a way to screw it up. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles show. See you tomorrow.