Point of View July 22, 2024 – Hour 2 : Conversations about the Election

[00:00:00] Our Host, Bill Shkurti

[00:00:44] it for some time. But again, the president yesterday posted on X, used to be called Twitter, declaring his intention to drop out of the presidential race. Before we go any further,

[00:00:56] can I just at least speak to the fact that is this the first time social media was actually used to actually deal with something as significant as whether or not a sitting president was

[00:01:09] going to run again? Those of us that are a little bit older can remember when Lyndon Johnson announced on television that he was not going to seek a second term because of of course the controversy surrounding him. We can remember even 50 years ago at about

[00:01:28] this time in which you had Richard Nixon eventually deciding it was time for him to step down and turn the reins over to Gerald Ford. But again, these were things that were given some kind of national attention. When we ended the program on Friday, we did talk about

[00:01:48] the possibility that he might resign over the weekend and the fact that it was posted on X. We have no guarantee that he even wrote all of it. I will give you some of the statements

[00:02:00] he made in just a minute. But of course there is the meme running around here saying, boy, President Joe Biden is certainly going to be upset when he finds out that he has resigned

[00:02:09] from the presidency because you just wonder how much this was done with his approval. Of course we cannot question it. As a matter of fact, fundraising has picked up rather dramatically for the Democratic Party and no surprise there. If you cannot get the funds

[00:02:28] in to run your campaign, you are not going to be able to be very successful. So we are going to talk about that. Of course as I mentioned at the top of the hour he offered his full

[00:02:38] support and endorsement for Kamala Harris, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton did the same. But what I think is missing are the fact that other individuals like Barack Obama, a good number of Democratic Party leaders have not stepped forward at least before the show started

[00:02:55] who knows what has happened over the last hour to actually give their endorsement to Kamala Harris. We will see where that takes us. And of course before it is all through we might spend a little bit of time talking about the fact that the Director of the Secret

[00:03:08] Service, Kimberly Cheadle, has been testifying and I put those phrases in quotes, testifying. She has pretty much been not saying anything and has frustrated most of the members of Congress in that meeting. But let's get into this. My first article comes from James Lynch

[00:03:26] who could pick any article but this is one I picked yesterday at this time in which he posted that he would drop out of the race and of course there have been people that

[00:03:35] have been saying he would be doing that. At 81 years old he is no longer going to be representing the Democratic Party and certainly was not seen as the best chance to defeat the former President Donald Trump this November. The actual statement, while it has been my

[00:03:53] intention to seek re-election I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. Then very quickly endorsed the Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him

[00:04:13] atop the Democratic ticket. He said my very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President and it has been the best decision I have made. Today I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee

[00:04:30] of our party this year. And then says Democrats it is time to come together, beat Trump, let's do this. Of course then once that announcement came out you had of course Kamala Harris receiving

[00:04:41] this and saying I'm honored to have the President's endorsement. But as I point out not so much the people that have endorsed her but the people that have not may be significant and we'll see whether or not this will be indeed something that will be a foregone conclusion

[00:04:59] and the only question will be who the Vice Presidential nominee will be. And again we are in as I said on the air on Friday and as I was chatting with Raymond Harris off air we're in uncharted territory. We have never seen this before and so even though

[00:05:17] many of us were predicting years ago that he would not actually be on the ballot in 2024 it took a while for that to develop. And just to for those of you that don't follow

[00:05:30] politics every day I recognize that all the way back when Joe Biden was elected in 2020 when he took office in January 2021 there were people actually taking a poll to say when would it be likely that he would step down and turn the reins over to Kamala Harris.

[00:05:53] And I remember some people were estimating that maybe April of 2021, maybe May or June of 2020 would and here we are now of course July 2024. So for people that are still acting

[00:06:06] as if this is a real big surprise which we're going to get to a little bit later because there are some people referring to this as the big lie so we'll talk about that in just

[00:06:15] a minute. But just to remind you of the fact that any time somebody pointed this out the day I quoted some of the individuals who even when we were talking about the presidential debates wondered which Joe Biden would show up for those presidential debates in 2020.

[00:06:34] Of course we know which one showed up in 2024 and I also take you back to the fact that you might remember Robert Herr who was the individual in the Justice Department who was charged with trying to determine whether or not they would press charges against Joe Biden

[00:06:53] for the possession of various classified documents. And when his report came out and said that here we are dealing with an individual who actually has a failed memory and so it would be unlikely that anybody would want to press charges over the mishandling of classified

[00:07:15] materials. Remember the hue and cry that came out saying that and then of course we then did not only have to take to our perspective and even take his word we actually watched during the presidential debate in which in this particular article reminds us that the

[00:07:35] president coughed, stumbled over his words, lost his train of thought, whispered into the microphone, appeared confused and all the rest. And that was enough for eventually the Democratic fund base to break, the dam broke and we now see an individual that is

[00:07:54] not going to seek re-election. When we come back from the break though I also want to get to another piece that surfaced almost instantaneously and that is if he is not able to run for the next four years shouldn't the president resign now or shouldn't the cabinet

[00:08:15] led by the vice president Kamala Harris remove him based upon the 22nd amendment and so we'll see the 25th amendment, excuse me, we'll focus on that in just a minute. And then just what

[00:08:29] will be the reaction to all of this because in some respects obviously we wish him well but a lot of people seem to have been lying about his health for some time. The American people are very forgiving but not when they've been lied to continuously, especially when

[00:08:47] nobody apologizes. So we'll see where that takes us right after these important messages. This is Viewpoints with Kirby Anderson. With political tensions throughout the world we need someone to step forward and promote some important principles for America to provide

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[00:09:25] decline and retreat. He explained while democracy is not perfect the burden of self-government is certainly far lighter than the yoke of tyranny but he laments that absent American leadership we're looking at a future that could be defined by communism, tyranny rather

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[00:10:52] reliability. Viewpoints.info slash biblical reliability. You're listening to Point of View, your listener supported source for truth. Back once again if you would like to join the conversation what are your thoughts about the President stepping down and not running

[00:11:10] for re-election? Maybe you think it is something that should have happened a long time ago. Maybe you have some thoughts about who will replace him. Is it going to be Kamala Harris

[00:11:19] or is it going to be someone else that's in the wings ready to go? Gavin Newsom or a variety of other people we can put on that list. But one of the other issues I wanted to get to

[00:11:30] for just a minute is to also talk about the fact that just as soon as this announcement came down you had a number of individuals and I'll just pick the Twitter account now

[00:11:42] called X of J.D. Vance. If Joe Biden doesn't have the cognitive function to run for re-election then he certainly doesn't have the cognitive function to remain as Commander in Chief. How can any Democrat pushing him to drop out of the presidential race argue in good faith

[00:12:00] that he should stay with us as the President of the United States? That again was just a Twitter post but it's followed up by this particular editorial from the editors of National Review. Joe Biden should resign the presidency. Now there are some people that said no we

[00:12:16] shouldn't be asking for that, no the American people shouldn't be asking for that. So there is a lot of dividedness in terms of, a divided mind is probably a better way to say that

[00:12:27] in terms of whether to do that or not. But let's at least for just a minute give them the argument because the argument from the editors is Joe Biden did the right thing in

[00:12:37] ending the charade of asking the American people to believe that he was capable of serving another four years as President. Then they go down and say that Biden should make the next logical step and resign the presidency. It's possible to imagine a President not being

[00:12:53] able to campaign but still being capable to carry out his official duties, say if he had a serious physical impairment. And it is even possible they say to imagine a President who could serve for another six months but not another four and a half years. But they then

[00:13:09] go on to say such scenarios do not apply to President Joe Biden. Biden has obviously been confused in public and we're getting disturbing reports of not recognizing friends and Democratic lawmakers in private. We've seen some of those surfaced over the last few days. He has not

[00:13:28] convened a full Cabinet meeting since last October. We talked about that on the Friday program and then CNN reported that even when he does a Cabinet meeting, quote, it is customary for Cabinet officials to submit questions and key talking points that they plan to present

[00:13:47] in front of Biden ahead of time to White House aides. So even a Cabinet meeting is totally scripted and we've talked about that a little bit on Friday. And there are some good articles

[00:14:00] that if you'd like to read about those, maybe you're involved in a conversation with somebody about this and you say, well, wait a minute. They talked about this on Point of View. The Friday articles, which are still on our website, you can find those pretty easily, give you

[00:14:15] some behind the scenes and they do not necessarily inspire confidence in us right now. Then the editors go on to say that Democrats wouldn't be in this fix if Biden and his family had

[00:14:29] taken full accounting of his aging when they decided to run again last year, and if the White House, Democratic leaders, the press and various other insiders hadn't undertaken an effort to cover up Biden's status. I'm going to talk about that in just a minute

[00:14:43] and the state of the current president. They also say that serious potential candidates were sidelined by pressure to close ranks publicly behind Biden, who refused to debate the few marginal primary opponents he attracted. And then they go on to say the party owes

[00:15:01] an apology to Congressman Dean Phillips, who ran a campaign to sound that alarm. Let me just real quickly before I get into our next article, which we've posted for you to read

[00:15:10] as well, remind you or maybe for the first time tell you that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ran. You do probably know that, but maybe you don't know all the things that were done to keep

[00:15:23] him from posing a serious threat to Joe Biden. The best estimates that he gives and other people give is that the Democratic National Committee probably had to change 60 different laws, rules, regulations. Some of those were primarily principles in the nominating process

[00:15:47] of the DNC, but some of them involved a lot more. Just to give you a sense of one of those, one of the places where it was pretty obvious that Robert F. Kennedy probably would have

[00:16:00] posed a challenge to Joe Biden would have been in the New England states. After all, the Kennedys are from Massachusetts. And so first of all, they decided not to even have primaries in places like Iowa and other places. But also they had written in a principle in

[00:16:22] the Democratic National Committee policies that if he even stepped foot in the state of New Hampshire, much less campaign there, that all of the various delegates that he would accrue in that particular primary would go immediately to the President of the United

[00:16:42] States. Does that give you a little bit of an idea? Here you have a viable Democrat. You may not have liked Robert F. Kennedy Jr., may not have thought that he was going to be

[00:16:52] any better than Joe Biden. There's a lot of reasons. I think some of our listeners would certainly say he was not an improvement. I think there are other places where people would say he would be a significant improvement. But nevertheless, the bottom line is, as a

[00:17:05] Democrat coming from one of the most lauded Democratic families, I mean, before there was a Clinton family, there was a Kennedy family. And to then have him eventually just be so frustrated that he has to leave the Democratic Party and run as an independent,

[00:17:25] I think reminds you of all the various shenanigans or other kinds of phrases you might want to use that were used behind the scenes to prevent any serious challenge to Joe Biden.

[00:17:39] And so this brings us, as we come to the bottom of the hour, and I'd love to get your comments on this as well, 1-800-351-1212, a piece that was actually talking about the fact that will

[00:17:52] Democrats pay a price for what's called the big lie, the Biden big lie? Matthew Hennessey says this, if it is, brings an end to the big lie Democrats have been telling about

[00:18:05] the president for at least a year and maybe longer, that he is in full control of his mental faculties and springier than an Olympic gymnast. And yet the American people now have got to feel, he says, a little bit miffed at being deceived. They have the right, it

[00:18:22] was a whopper. And he goes on to say that the list of those who carried President Biden's water is long. The media attacked anyone who pointed out his obvious infirmity. Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee savaged the special counsel Robert Hurst's integrity for

[00:18:42] his report where he characterized Joe Biden as a well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory. Jean Pierre accused Republicans of producing, remember this, cheap fake videos of Biden when it was obvious that he was lost and oftentimes losing control. And so he says

[00:19:05] all of this was baloney. There are other phrases you can use, but we'll leave it at that. And he says, if anything, Matthew Hennessy says, Democrats may be underestimating the price that they will pay for lying this way. If they think they can slide Mr. Biden out and

[00:19:21] Kamala Harris or someone else in and voters will simply forget about all this, they're in for a rude awakening. The damage has been done and it's a long time to be undoing it. And so again, his argument is there are times when we oftentimes as Americans are willing

[00:19:42] to forgive and even forget, but not when people have lied to us continuously. I think we'd even as Americans might be willing to forgive saying, well, not everybody knew or nobody wanted to hurt his feelings. We might. And so a being maybe just an apology might work.

[00:20:06] But I just think that right now nobody's going to apologize. I think there's just going to be a definite look for the future, not look to the past. And even if Democrats are convinced that people might forget, don't you think the Republicans are going to bring this up

[00:20:24] more than a few times here as well? And as a result, the only thing that might work in their favor is not only do Americans generally have a forgiving nature. They also tend to be fairly forgetful. It is quite possible between now and November, all of this might

[00:20:43] be blowing away, but recognize we will not have a confirmed Democratic nominee till the four weeks, four and a half weeks from today, because four weeks from today, the Democratic National Convention begins. And then if indeed something is different than what we might

[00:21:03] expect right now, it's going to be a little harder to get people to forgive and forget, but maybe they'll forget and maybe they'll still be willing to vote for the Democrat, whoever that might be right now. But we, as I've said before, are in uncharted territory.

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[00:23:08] the management or staff of this station. And now, here again is Kirby Anderson. Thank you once again. If you'd like to join the conversation, that number is 1-800-351-1212. Let's head out to South Carolina first. Jeffrey, thank you for joining us today here on Point

[00:23:23] of View. How are you, sir? I am good. I'd love to hear your comments. Okay. I'm not sure you were specifically talking about it, but I wanted to bring up a comment Trump made

[00:23:39] in his speech the other night about he did not want to be a ruler over half of America but all of America. And I think that someone is pressuring him to accept, you know, as

[00:23:57] the country is split in a big way, someone is pressuring him to accept, you know, half the country. And as in the Bible speaks of the intermingling of iron and the clay in

[00:24:12] the book of Mark, you know, the metal image. And I was wondering if you thought it would be like a pitchfork revolution or like a semi-amicable, you know, separation? And again, you know, I've been watching lots of videos and we've had Dennis Prager on

[00:24:30] here talking about this and you've had even Hollywood movie producers talking about Civil War. And obviously we're not geographically divided like we were in the war between the states. And so in some respects it's harder to come up with that, but I think it would

[00:24:49] be naive not to think that if this election goes the way either side doesn't want it to go there is going to be turmoil because, you know, the old phrase, fool me once, shame

[00:25:02] on you, fool me twice, shame on me. And if you have a time where everybody's assuming Donald Trump and J.D. Vance are going to be elected and then due to something, it could be election irregularities or questions. I mean, you saw what happened in January 6th,

[00:25:21] but the flip side is there as well. There are people, as we'll talk about in just a minute, some of the articles I've posted here where they're claiming that Trump is Hitler

[00:25:29] and I've got a feeling the other side is going to, if indeed Donald Trump and J.D. Vance are elected, react to that. And of course that all depends on what happens with Kamala Harris

[00:25:40] and everything else. So we are a very divided nation. I'm hoping that we won't be divided. Certainly there was an attempt on the part of the president, the former president, to

[00:25:51] try to have a message of unity, but words only go so far. As a matter of fact, in just a few minutes I will point people to a very good piece by Douglas Murray about Kamala

[00:26:01] Harris and her argument is you can't have unity just by talking about unity. You need to bring people together. So even she is skeptical about the ability to unify the whole country. And I think some of these divisions are so ingrained, it's going to be very difficult

[00:26:20] for whoever is elected president. And let's hope we don't end up with a civil war, but we certainly are going to have tensions for quite some time. And I think that's the reasonable expectation of where we might be headed. So good question. I'm sure we'll be talking

[00:26:35] about this for some time. I'm going to try to see if we can maybe get some people that have written about this. Corzine Prager has written about this. Robert Knight has written about this. Gary Bauer. So we'll get some of them on to maybe take that question you've

[00:26:47] raised and go into it even more detail. Let's stay in South Carolina. We're going to go to Paul now. Paul, what's your question for us today or comment? I think every time we

[00:26:59] look at politics and we vote, it's like there needs to come a time, I think in anybody's life to retire. I think they need to sit not only termless, but I think there should be

[00:27:15] an age where it's time for somebody to retire. We don't need... Sure. And we have mandatory retirement. For example, you cannot be a pilot for a commercial airline after a certain age. I think that's maybe a little bit much because some individuals go into their 60s and 70s

[00:27:45] with maybe more faculties and others. But this whole idea of term limits would be one. And if I remember right, I think in the speech by J.D. Vance, didn't he actually say, although

[00:27:59] I know it's true, but I'm pretty sure he did say that actually Joe Biden has been in politics longer than I've been alive. I mean, just think about that for a minute. I mean, a man

[00:28:11] who is 39 years of age, which for a few of our younger people around the studio here, that seems old, 39. But I mean, again, just imagine you're potentially the next vice president of the United States and you're up until two days ago running against a man that has been

[00:28:29] in political office longer than you've been alive. I think it's about time for people to step down. And certainly once individuals who are showing some level of dementia, some dementia, that's another reason for it. Let me once again remind us that if you watch

[00:28:47] the Rolling Stones right now, you will see a similar 81 year old making his way up and down the particular platform very effectively. But again, it isn't just age, 81 years of age. It's also the mental cognizance and coherence that exists there as well. Let's go to another

[00:29:11] phone call here in Georgia. Philip, what's on your mind? Well, I was concerned about the open borders. How does the Democratic Party think they've done anything worthy to be fulfilled in our nation when they can't keep the borders closed

[00:29:29] even at a modicum of possibility of being able to keep it open? I think what you know is you're getting that. And again, here's a good trivia question, but hopefully it's not much of a trivia question. Who is the border czar? Well, that would

[00:29:56] be Kamala Harris. And I think again right now there is a tremendous amount of enthusiasm in the Democratic Party among the Democratic donor base. It just rained money over the weekend when they knew that Joe Biden was not running and so they were giving money

[00:30:12] to Kamala Harris. But wait until the American people are reminded, because I don't think this is any great secret, that the individual who was put in charge of the border and to address the border issues is now the individual running for the presidency of the United States.

[00:30:31] And again, after all of the complaints and concerns from voters, because the number of one issue for voters, it has again surfaced time and time again, is the issue of immigration and border security. If that wasn't number one, it was number two, and then inflation

[00:30:52] was number one. But either way, I just think that any attempt on the part of the vice president who now would be the presumptive presidential nominee to run is going to have to run up

[00:31:05] against the issue of a border that, Philip, as you point out, has not been secure. So let me just real quickly before we take a break and take some more phone calls mention that one of the other articles I posted comes from Douglas Murray. Now he's British, but

[00:31:19] sometimes I think people from other countries looking at what's going on can say a great deal. And he reminds us that when the president was absent due to COVID and also probably being convinced finally that he should not run, Kamala Harris was actually addressing people

[00:31:37] in North Carolina. And so he asked a very important question. How did it go? And he said in a word terribly. First came the fake hysteria of finding herself on a stage in front of all these people, almost hyperventilating. Then she thanked the servicemen and families,

[00:31:55] but then did it in a voice register that sounded, as he said, like you were addressing people in nursery school. And of course, if you have followed the career of Kamala Harris, and there's a very good piece actually being done right now by Ben Shapiro, a three-part series,

[00:32:14] which if you watch that, recognize this is not a new issue. There are attempts that sometimes people have said she tends to refer to people and talk to people almost as if they're children.

[00:32:26] But anyway, goes on to then talk about the fact that she was concerned that at the particular Republican National Convention, J.D. Vance didn't talk about Project 2025. And that's where again, Douglas Murray reminds us that that is something that came from a conservative

[00:32:43] think tank. And as a result, probably isn't something that the, if you will, the Trump-Vance campaigns paying that much attention to. But that's sort of been the boogeyman that they've been trying to create. And then of course, as I mentioned just a minute ago, said, you

[00:32:59] know, we heard about unity, but you have to do more than just use the word unity. And then goes through and talks about how then she started to change her speaking style and began to say, we're too busy watching what you've been doing and what you've been saying

[00:33:13] and all that. And so talks about how before it was all through, it just seemed to him as an individual watching this unfold to be a complete disaster. And I think we recognize

[00:33:26] that when Kamala Harris ran for the presidency four years ago, four and a half years ago, basically, she did not do well. And now she will be front and center. And he's reminding us that there's some other issues that the Democrats are going to have to take account

[00:33:43] of as well, which is why I suspect he thinks maybe she won't be the presidential nominee. Time will tell. Be right back. You're listening to point of view, your listener supported source for truth.

[00:34:02] Back for a few more minutes. Let me just mention that we won't have chance to really get to some of the great material that I've been able to collect about some of the failings of the Secret Service and in particular, how the Secret Service director, Kimberly Cheadle,

[00:34:18] really has been stonewalling some of that. But let's give credit where credit is due. Senator Johnson and others have discovered some things and a variety of other investigative reporters have. So we'll try to cover some of that tomorrow. But real quickly, let me

[00:34:32] talk about three articles that you may want to read just to give you a little bit better perspective on where we are in terms of this campaign. The first one is by Alicia Finley,

[00:34:44] in which she says, J.D. Vance, in J.D. Vance, Donald Trump finds his Cary Grant. You might say, what does that mean? Well, back in 2005, I remember this quote. Somebody asked Donald

[00:34:54] Trump who should pay play him if indeed they do the story of Donald Trump. And he said, well, ideally, Cary Grant reincarnated. And so, Alicia Finley says, well, you know, maybe

[00:35:06] J.D. Vance gets close. And the point she's making is, and this is why I wanted to post this article, you're going to have people very critical of J.D. Vance. I mentioned some

[00:35:16] of those on Thursday and a little bit on Friday. This comes, interestingly enough, from a political scientist who is obviously a liberal. He wrote the book A Crackup, which was interesting talking about the divisions in the Republican Party. He served as a campaign consultant

[00:35:33] for Jimmy Carter, for Bill Clinton, for Al Gore. And he's a political science professor at the University of California, San Diego. But he said that J.D. Vance actually is a brilliant choice because he feels like in some respects he would be the best person to understand

[00:35:49] Donald Trump's appeal and electoral viability. I doubt that Dr. Samuel Popkin is going to vote for him. That's not the point. He was at least acknowledging that not so long ago they were talking about divisions within the Republican Party, which he argued in his book

[00:36:08] Crackup, which is a book that came out in 2021, was why Donald Trump won the election. There was too many internal, if you will, divisions in the Republican Party between the whole issue of whether to repeal and replace Obamacare or what about having comprehensive

[00:36:28] immigration reform. If you read the book, he's basically arguing that Republicans were so divided it made it possible for a populist like Donald Trump to be nominated and then elected. Well, his argument I think could be now turned around and saying, you know

[00:36:44] what we got now? We got more divisions in the Democratic Party. He doesn't say that. I'm just sort of reading between the lines. But we'll see how that unfolds in the next couple of days. Anyway, if you'd like to have somebody who wouldn't necessarily be

[00:36:58] supportive of Republicans or even of Donald Trump or J.D. Vance, who nevertheless talks about how in some respects the pick of J.D. Vance by Donald Trump was a good pick, you can read that article because we certainly

[00:37:13] over time will try to give you some pros and cons as we get closer to, of course, the election, which leaves me to the last two pieces about whether or not Donald Trump is

[00:37:25] Hitler. My argument is going to be and I'm sure I'm safe in making this argument when you don't have much to run on. I mean, after all, if indeed Kamala Harris is the nominee

[00:37:37] for the Democratic Party to then look at the border and say that that's secure actually is requiring too much of the American people. So you can't look at what you're not doing. You can't look at Bidenomics, inflation, immigration, all these other issues and just their very

[00:37:56] leftist agenda that will be coming out of the Democratic National Convention and their platform four weeks from today. You're going to have to then vilify the other opponent and that'll be Donald Trump. And so, first of all, Ian Hayworth in his piece in the Washington

[00:38:17] Examiner said, do Democrats really believe Trump is Hitler or don't they? Because he reminds us that after calling Trump Hitler time and time again, then you have prayers, shock, outrage and the rest over the attack on Donald Trump. You have the former Speaker

[00:38:36] of the House, Nancy Pelosi, thanking God that Trump was safe. You have Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez AOC denouncing that as a horrific incident. You have the President, Joe Biden, referring to that as sick. And he says that's kind of a sick way to talk about

[00:38:55] and a weird way to talk about a man who is no different than Adolf Hitler and then reminds us of the fact that if you look at, for example, The Guardian, in June they had an article,

[00:39:08] The Reich Stuff, what does Trump really have in common with Hitler? Then you have Bloomberg, Trump's Hitler fascination is an ominous echo of the 1930s. And then the one I mentioned last week, The New Republic, which is really kind of the establishment leftist magazine,

[00:39:29] features a cover with Donald Trump adorned with a Hitler mustache and the headline, American Fascism. So again, Ian Hayworth is saying, what is it? Is Trump Hitler or is he not? And you've just demonstrated to some of us that is the case. Another piece by Albin Sedar,

[00:39:50] who actually works with Eric Metaxas, The Day a Conspiracy Theory Turned Deadly. He says the biggest conspiracy out there has been promoted for years by the fact that it boils down to Trump is Hitler. And he says, of course, the attempt at the life of the

[00:40:06] assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, I think illustrates what he says another big lie, if you will. This one within hours after the attempted assassination, even the Babylon Bee with their satire, I think they went a little too far. But nevertheless,

[00:40:27] Babylon Bee said party that called Trump Hitler for eight years shocked as someone tries to assassinate him. And the point that Albin is making is, is that for some time we've been hearing time and time again that not only is Joe, excuse me, not only is Donald

[00:40:46] Trump Hitler, but even people that are part of the MAGA movement are fascist. And so as a result, they are telling us in many cases that MAGA make America great again is code for racism, sexism and white supremacy. So this is just a reminder again, that if you

[00:41:07] keep calling someone Hitler sooner or later, somebody is going to think that the best thing they can do for the country is to take him out. And as Ian Hayworth reminds us in that

[00:41:20] second of the last article, if you keep telling us that he's Hitler, and then as soon as there's an assassination attempt, say you're grateful that he was able to survive it, it shows

[00:41:32] us that you don't really believe it. So I give you these two articles because no doubt if you go out on Facebook or X or a variety of other social media platforms, you're going to have people calling again, Donald Trump Hitler, maybe even JD fans Hitler. And maybe

[00:41:52] it would be helpful to take one of these articles and post it next to their comments and say, you don't seem that serious about this. Is this just words? And if it is, why should

[00:42:04] we take what you say as serious? So again, those are some resources that we wanted just to put in your hands. It's going to be still a long way from today, which is July 22nd all

[00:42:16] the way to November 5th. And it's still going to be four weeks and counting till we are certainly knowing who the Democratic nominee for president and vice president will be. So I hope you'll tune into Point of View every single day. And as we mentioned in the first

[00:42:34] hour, if you are interested in this book by Raymond Harris, Enduring Wealth, we have information about it on the website. I think you will benefit from that. If you'd like to see some of the articles I've been quoting from this last hour, they're available at the website

[00:42:49] at pointofview.net. We'll post some of the others having to do with the Secret Service blunders there in Butler, Pennsylvania tomorrow. Most importantly, I want to thank Megan for help engineering the program. Steve, thank you for producing the program. And we look

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