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More Details Unspool on Tangled Web of Biden Family Lies

14 Apr 2022

CLAY: Buck, I had a steak last night. You know what I thought as I cut into my steak? I thought, “This is a nice steak. This is nowhere near as nice of a steak as I’m gonna have when Hunter Biden gets indicted.” And there are more details that continue to unspool in the tangled web that the Biden family weaves, and a lot of the bank accounts seem to have been intertwined in terms of what Hunter was doing, what bills he was paying.

It’s just every single day, the drip-drip-drip of allegations seems a bit more substantial as it pertains to Hunter Biden’s wrongdoing. And I don’t know if you’re following this stuff. Like, he hasn’t been out of the house, at least not seen publicly, in Malibu, where he’s got evidently a $20,000 house that he’s renting where the Secret Service is next door to him in a $30,000 house — a month — that they were having to rent in order to try and protect him. It’s getting more and more messy for the Biden family.

BUCK: One thing that anybody who was paying attention to the facts here would have to come away with, the Bidens are liars. This is really against… We got used to the… We know the Clintons are liars. But the thing about the Democrats was they would say, “Oh, but, yeah, sure Bill was a big liar, but it didn’t really matter because he was good at his job,” and, like, “Hillary’s a liar but she’s a woman who’s had an impressive resume and…”

But the Bidens — or Joe Biden specifically, Clay — were really offered up as, “He’s a good guy, straight shooter, wears the aviators, rolls up the sleeves,” the whole thing, and no. He’s actually not. They’re liars. I mean, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, they’ve been completely… Joe Biden was claiming before the election that this was all a total, “Oh, nothing happened. There was no…”

He was getting millions and millions of dollars from Chinese businessmen who were fronting for the belt-and-road initiative which is an essential plan of the Chinese Communist Party. I’m sorry. Joe knew about it, okay? It wasn’t $5 that somebody was slipping into his hand as a thank-you for carrying luggage. The reality here is also… Oh. One other thing.

You see that they lied about the dog that bit the Secret Service agent? I mean, I know people say this is such a minor thing. They had… I love dogs. They had a menace of an animal that was… No. It was attacking Secret Service agents, biting them, leaving, bloodying them and completely unprovoked. And the White House tried to do the whole, “Oh, there was a little incident.”

Joe Biden’s like, “I slipped and fell and there was…” They were lying about that. Clay, the media has been propping up the Biden lies for a very long time, and I do think that now because of the finances involved here — because it’s gonna be zeros and ones and numbers on a page — it’s gonna get hard for them to prop them up anymore. They’re just dishonest people.

CLAY: Well, first of all, he’s already lied. He lied in the debate with Trump when he said his son had not gotten any money from China. We now know at least Hunter Biden got $4.8 million, and then Psaki lied on behalf of Biden when she said or whoever the spokesperson was that day said, “Yes, he stands by that answer.”

So he lied to the American public, Joe Biden did, in the debate about the money that his son might have gotten from China and then lied again saying, “Yes, I maintain the answer that I gave there,” and this is also significant, I think, Buck. We’re not talking about a family that is steeped in wealth historically. Some of you out there might say, “Well, why does this matter, Clay?” Well, just think about it.

If you are regularly Amtrak Joe, as he likes to claim, and you have worked on the public dole for over 40 years and you’ve been making a couple of hundred thousand dollars a year as a part of that job — which is roughly the salary of a senator — that’s not a bad salary, right? That’s a good living for the average person out there to make. But it ain’t millions of dollars, Buck.

So when your son suddenly starts to make millions of dollars, we’re not talking about a family that has bank accounts (that we know of) filled with millions of dollars in money that they have made in an honest way in business or as a part of their pursuit of wealth in a capitalistic country. You’re going to recognize that money rolling into Hunter Biden’s account in a way, frankly, that if you’re a member of an incredibly wealthy family, you don’t.

Does that make sense to you? Like, if you have — anybody out there, if you’ve got — a wealthy family member and the rest of the family is not wealthy, you recognize their wealth in a way that you don’t if everybody’s filthy rich in the family. So when you got Hunter Biden suddenly making millions of dollars, and nobody in the Biden family has ever been wealthy before, I just don’t buy, with those commingled funds, that there’s any way you’re not recognizing all of that money as it comes roaring and rushing into the family coffers.

BUCK: We can give everyone some details here, and this is from John Levine over at the New York Post: “Hunter Biden’s access to lucrative financial opportunities also came with expectations — including kicking back as much as 50% of his earnings to his dad, text messages on his old laptop show. ‘I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years,’ Hunter Biden groused to daughter Naomi in January 2019. ‘It’s really hard.

“‘But don’t worry, unlike pop, I won’t make you give me half your salary.’ Pop is Joe Biden,” of course, and it goes on here, Clay. It continues, and it just gets worse. “The laptop — infamously abandoned at a Delaware repair shop in April 2019 — does not contain any direct evidence of such [hush] money transfers, but does show that Hunter was routinely on the hook for his father’s household expenses while Joe Biden was vice president.”

I wanna put something out there: Does anyone think that this made its way onto Joe Biden’s financial disclosure forms that all senior government officials have to fill out? Does anyone want to place any bets on that one? I got a feeling whatever Hunter was throwing for Pops didn’t make its way in the public domain.

CLAY: I want to know where all these millions of dollars went, ’cause, I mean, Buck, if you’re making withdrawals and a lot of this money becomes cash, which probably the way it was. Let’s be honest. If you were Joe Biden and you wanted to get access to some of this money, you don’t want Hunter writing you a check. You want him showing up with a duffel bag of cash, right?

I mean, let’s be honest. Because if he’s not paying tax on it, where did these millions of dollars go? Now, I know a lot of them went — based on Hunter’s own stories — to hookers, to drugs, to the lifestyle that he was living, which was a crazy one. But this idea that what the White House is going to try to do is wall off Joe Biden and make the allegation, “Oh, that’s Hunter,” right?

“Hunter’s a private citizen.” You hear these arguments being made. “What he did isn’t…?” First, they said the laptop was fake. Now they said the argument has shifted into, “Well, the laptop may be real, but Hunter’s not a government official. He’s not a member of this administration. What he or the brothers of Joe Biden might have been doing don’t implicate the president at all.”

And then what you’re pointing out, Buck, is actually the president is pretty significantly implicated, which is why I said yesterday in our interview with Miranda Devine, which I encourage people to listen to on the podcast, I think there’s a chance that Joe Biden’s gonna get called as a witness in the grand jury proceedings that are going on right now —

BUCK: Do we have, like, a side bet so the side? Like, do I get to get truffled potatoes or something with this one? ‘Cause there’s no way Joe Biden, the president, is gonna be called in to testify in this trial. Clay, they just won’t do it. It doesn’t matter what the truth is.

CLAY: He won’t say anything, and he’ll fight the subpoena, which is why I want him to get asked if he’s subpoenaed as a part of this investigation… According to what Miranda told us, Buck, she said that there is testimony and questioning regularly focused right now on the, quote-unquote, “Big Guy,” which is the way they referred Joe Biden in all of the correspondence, so they didn’t use his actual name.

Tony Bobulinski memorably has said specifically on Tucker Carlson’s show when they had a big sit-down the rest of the media basically ignored. Tony Bobulinski laid out exactly what was going on, Joe Biden’s involvement explicitly in these transactions. If you are questioning about who the Big Guy is, at some point you gotta call the Big Guy, right?

At some point if you are in front of the grand jury, they’re gonna raise their hand up and they’re gonna say, “Okay, you keep talking about this Big Guy. Why don’t we hear from the Big Guy?” And I don’t think the Big Guy would testify. But if you’re doing an accurate investigation — and your point is, they ain’t doing an honest investigation.

BUCK: This relies on way too much faith in the prosecutorial and judicial system in this country right now at the federal level which just should… I mean, Clay, you know, one of my favorite exercises is to sit here and just tell everybody, “Off the top of your head, think of all the absolutely obviously politically motivated prosecutions of politicians that were often baseless, were often smear campaigns that have happened in just the last 10 years.”

Obviously, Russia-Trump collusion, huge lie, special counsel. Oh, but it goes so much deeper than that. They were gonna nail Governor Scott Walker with a John Doe investigation of campaign collusion with outside organizations in Wisconsin. They tried to go after Rick Perry when he was governor of Texas ’cause he was gonna defund the prosecutor who was a drunk driver and said, “If you don’t fire this person, we’re gonna pull funding.”

They went after Governor Bob McDonnell’s wife. They wanted to slow the former Republican governor of Virginia’s wife in prison for two years because he was governor accepting gifts from famous people. They lied about evidence with Senator Ted Stevens which cost the Republicans a Senate seat that was necessary for the passage of Obamacare. They said that Chris Christie was going down for Bridgegate. Clay, we can do this all day, man. That’s all —

CLAY: It’s a great question. Who was the last…? Because the point to your larger analogy there — and that was a fantastic recitation of prosecutorial failures. Who’s the last famous politician who actually be convicted of a crime?

BUCK: Blagojevich.

CLAY: I was gonna say, the only one I can think of is Blagojevich. Right? And that was the, “I’ve got this gold bullion in my hand over the Senate seat.” Remember they had him on wiretap.

BUCK: He was technically correct when he was a Senate seat was a valuable thing. There is truth in that. But the lieutenant governor of New York?

CLAY: Just got arrested.

BUCK: Just got arrested.

CLAY: But the people would recognize, to your point, fame in the world of politics, there does seem to be… I guess your Governor Spitzer, right, in New York also got popped.

BUCK: Wow. Just when you say “your governor,” it feels almost like an attack.

CLAY: That’s your boy. That’s your governor. Spitzer got popped. But, by and large, to your point, there is a level of fame that you seem to be able to reach in the political universe that almost makes you untouchable.

BUCK: If you’re a Democrat. If you’re a Democrat. If you’re a Republican, they go after you, Clay, even if you didn’t do anything.

CLAY: Well, they go after you, but Spitzer and Blagojevich are both Democrats and they actually got popped — and Jesse Jackson Jr. He got popped, too, didn’t he?

BUCK: Yeah, but Spitzer got pushed aside and so did Anthony Weiner. I mean, look there are limits, right? If you get caught sending photos of your, you know, to underage girls, like, you’re gonna go… Like, there are… It isn’t in fact true yet that we’re at a place where if you’re a famous, powerful Democrat politician you can shoot someone. Trump said, “I could shoot sonna 5th Avenue.” That’s not true, either.

CLAY: By the way, I think he’s probably right. I’ve been arguing for a while that Nick Saban in Alabama… You went down and saw an Alabama football game, if Nick Saban shot someone and was on tape doing it, a lot of Alabama fans would say, “Well, you know, that guy deserved it,” and he’d keep coaching football ’cause he’s so good.

BUCK: That’s a terrifying revelation. But, anyway, hopefully Mr. Saban is a very nice fellow.

CLAY: I am of the belief, Buck, like I said: That steak? I’m more and more confident every day that Hunter Biden’s gonna get indicted.

BUCK: I mean, what you’re basically calling for here would be the actual implosion of the Biden regime via a criminal prosecution of the sitting president’s son and, Clay, that would be the biggest shock in American politics certainly since Trump won the 2016 election, but I think in a lot of ways maybe even bigger than that.

CLAY: Well, I think we’re headed towards a shock. I mean, look at the way the world is going. I really do think that Joe Biden is going to announce shortly after a shellacking that he’s not running for reelection. And I think a part of it is gonna be because of what’s going on with Hunter but he’s gonna blame his age. That would be my prediction. I think if we’re having this conversation in February of next year, it’s like, “Okay. Who’s the Democratic nominee gonna be in ’24 now that Joe Biden’s out?”

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Fauci Hailed China’s Lockdown as a Great Success

14 Apr 2022

BUCK: Just a reminder: While Shanghai’s in lockdowns where you can’t even leave your apartment or they’ll actually lock you in a cell, and they’re stealing people’s pets and bludgeoning them to death in bags — I mean, it’s horrible what’s going on over there — Fauci, early on, was a big China lockdown proponent.

BUCK: Yeah. No, they weren’t, Clay. (laughing)

CLAY: (laughing)

BUCK: This is the problem with this is, no, it’s not better than anybody else. There’s nothing good about any of it. And he just said, you know, “You could never do it here.” Would Fauci want to do it here? I think if he could have gotten away with it he would have said, “Yeah, we gotta do the China lockdown in America.”

CLAY: Oh, I don’t think there’s any doubt that he watches all the drones and all the people on their balconies unable to go anywhere and thinks, “My God, it’s beautiful, it’s glorious, the sound of all these people who are locked up.” Again, understanding that there’s a multivariable analysis in every situation in life — and when you make one choice, you impact other choices. We had a childlike analysis of how to respond to covid, and I think a big reason why, tying it all in, was Twitter.

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Dirty: Biden DOJ Launches Tesla Investigation to Scuttle Twitter Bid

14 Apr 2022

BUCK: Hat tip Charles Gasparino over at Fox News:

BUCK: Think about how the system, the apparatus works, friends. Elon is going to buy it — the libs, the left, the Democrats are in a panic — so the Biden DOJ launches a federal investigation of Elon’s other company to give the Twitter board an excuse to turn down what’s an obviously smart bid for them to take. They play so dirty! They’re appalling.

CLAY: And, by the way, that same party is in power, and they know that Twitter will, therefore, help them to remain in power using the rigged social media algorithms that overwhelmingly favor the Democrat Party. It’s a dirty, rigged game. It’s why Elon needs to win this battle, but it’s gonna be an ugly one.

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Psaki Can’t Explain Why They’re Extending the Mask Mandate

14 Apr 2022

BUCK: Here is Jen Psaki telling everybody that the mask mandate extension we talked about yesterday, Clay, it’s because of data.

CLAY: Aw.

BUCK: They just want to yank on America’s choke collar a little bit more, like we’re a canine getting into the petunias.

CLAY: That’s really specific.

BUCK: I’m just saying.

CLAY: (laughing) Are the petunias blooming yet? I wonder — and I don’t know if it got asked — how could…? First of all, credit for actually asking that question because there is no good defense. But how could you not ask the question, “Explain to me how the CDC can say, ‘We’re not in a covid crisis at the border, therefore Title 42 doesn’t exist anymore, but we are still in a covid crisis on airplanes, therefore you have to wear a mask?’

“Shouldn’t you favor citizens over noncitizens in terms of analyzing covid emergencies?” That’s a good question, right? That’s something that should be asked. I would love to hear the distinction between why the border is open now and covid’s not a risk there, but you and I and anybody else out there can’t get on an airplane and just fly without wearing a mask.

BUCK: And effectively, Clay, Title 42 is a CDC authority. Now, it’s not true to say, “It’s a CDC decision.” If the executive branch, if the White House put down a directive saying, “We’re ending it,” it’s ended, right? The CDC is not an independent of the executive branch entity. That’s not how it works. That said, though, the FAA is extending, because of CDC guidance, a mask mandate on planes ’cause they say, “It’s too scary.”

CLAY: Right.

BUCK: So how can you have one and not the other? We’re either safe or we’re not safe. It’s either not a problem or it is a problem. But they want to have it both ways — as they always do, which is why they want to control social media.

CLAY: And, by the way, I’m not saying that I think the border should be wide open. Just the dichotomy there between saying it’s safe at the southern border, it’s not safe for you to be on airplanes. Meanwhile, we know, based on people who are pretty well plugged in, every major airline CEO has requested that the mask mandate be taken away. We got a caller yesterday.

Airplane pilots have sued. Flight attendants have sued. Huge numbers of people out there who make their living on airplanes or managing airplane companies are all saying, “This is nonsensical; there’s no basis to support it any longer.”

BUCK: It is actually — I would argue it is a safety risk for people to be force masked on planes because we all know why there’s been a huge increase in violent incidents on planes. It’s because of the dumbass mask policies which make everyone agitated — and, you know, unless you’re an anxious weirdo, (mewling) “I’m scared of covid still,” even though the plane’s actually a safe place to be.

It’s because of people getting agitated. The whole airport experience, you gotta wear mask in the airport, go through security, the whole thing. You feel like cattle being herded into a pen the whole time, and you have to wear a mask for no damn good reason? That’s why people flip out and there have been punches thrown and issues. It is a safety risk to force people to mask on planes. That’s what the data supports.

CLAY: The data supports that. The data also supports that there are overwhelming amount of delays which is also increasing the overall stress level and anger. And I do think there’s just a dull… Remember Ghostbusters II, Buck, when the pink ooze is underneath the city and everybody’s just angry because when you came in contact with it? Remember that? You remember.

BUCK: Of course! Ghostbusters! I can quote it for you.

CLAY: We got a pink ooze issue, I think, in the entire country where people are just angry over things that make no sense that are being foisted upon them.

BUCK: Well, the pink ooze is flowing right now on Twitter.

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Man Identifying as Woman Impregnates Two Actual Women in NJ Prison

14 Apr 2022

CLAY: Did you see the story — I think it’s out of New Jersey — that two women in all-women’s prisons have gotten pregnant —

BUCK: By a trans man.

CLAY: Yeah. They are allowing men who identify as women — which is one of the craziest things out there — to be housed in a women’s prison. And now multiple women have gotten pregnant by men who identify as women but are still biologically — as you can imagine — men. And I gotta say, one, it’s crazy. Two, if you were otherwise locked up in a male prison and you could be like:

“Hey, you know what? I identify as a woman,” and the world is so broken that they would say, “Okay, we’re gonna put you in a women’s prison,” the guys are playing a rigged game, right? Suddenly, you’re fishing in a stocked pond, when otherwise you’re gonna be stuck with a bunch of dudes trying to beat the crap out of you in a male prison.

BUCK: I used to use this: Slopes are slippery, my friends. Any time someone says, “It’s a slippery slope fallacy,” slippery slope is not a fallacy. It’s a reality. Years ago, I was making the argument on my show, Clay, about exactly this. I said, “Just give it time. They’re gonna have biological males in women’s prisons. Just give it time. They’re gonna have biological males in women’s sports,” and now here we are.

And if you say, “Hold on. It feels like we didn’t even have a conversation about this,” they shout you down as a bigot. This is only possible, though — the real wokeism is only possible — because of their control of social media. That’s what I think is important for people to know. You brought this up on covid lockdowns: Before you would be suppressed for the election issue.

People always think, “Oh, what happened Hunter Biden laptop and then election fraud allegations after the 2020 election.” The initial censorship wave that was out in the open was about covid. All of a sudden you weren’t allowed — it was a violation of terms of service in June and July and August of 2020 — to say, “Hey, I don’t think this mask mandate thing works” or, “Hey, I don’t think we should lock down certain businesses and keep others open.”

I mean, the whole notion of essential worker was so arbitrary. You were an essential worker if you were a podcaster in the state of California. You know, I love what we do too, Clay. But we’re not, you know, putting electric paddles on someone’s chest to get their heart beating again. It’s crazy what was able to happen — and it was because they shut down some ideas; they elevated others.

And this is how you get to this moment of honestly indefensible stupidity from the left. I think that pushes a lot of their panic. They have indefensibly stupid positions that they’ve convinced themselves of, Clay, and they’re kind of boxed into a corner now, because they’ve had so much reinforcement on social media without people being able to say, “You know you’re a moron, right?”

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Come Talk to Us, Elon — and Smoke Whatever You Want

14 Apr 2022

CLAY: We’ve had an open invite to Elon Musk to come on the show. How many months now do you think it’s been out there, Buck? Now, unlike Dr. Fauci, I’m not sure that we’ve ever even made contact with someone who could talk to Elon Musk. We need to get Ali in to find out if there’s been any response to our emails. But we’ve been trying — and the offer, I would say, remains. If some of you out there listening following along the Twitter battle and you have a contact with Elon Musk, we’d love to have him on.

BUCK: He can smoke whatever he wants if he comes on the show. We do not judge. He smokes whatever he wants if he comes on the show. That’s fine.

CLAY: If he comes on the show, Buck, I might spoke it with him, as long as we’re in a state where said smoke is legal, ’cause otherwise I’ll probably end up in prison and have the key thrown away. Be the first person to be prosecuted aggressively for smoking pot in the history of the Biden administration. By the way, it’s funny because the blue checks are up in arms over this. “Oh, my God!”

What if this billionaire ends up buying Twitter, what’s gonna happen? Well, one of the Saudi princes in the last half hour has come out against the Elon Musk bid. You might say, “Why does that matter?” Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal al Saud — whose name I’m sure I just massacred — there — is one of the Twitter’s largest shareholders.

So, he can vote his shares. If Elon Musk offers $54.20, which he has, he can reject that offer. So, I don’t know what percentage effectively he owns, but a lot of these big hedge funds, these big equity holders; it will be interesting to see what they do because, Buck, usually these guys say, “Hey, I’m getting a 20% premium on my stock? I’m gonna take the 20% premium every time and I’ll take that money and roll it into a new stockholding,” especially this year where the stock market’s down 7, 8% if you’re an S&P 500 index watcher.

BUCK: Look, if nothing else, even if Elon — and they block this and they are circling the wagons and the DOJ has mobilized — friends, the Biden regime will fight so dirty over this. Imagine Trump comes back on Twitter in time for the midterms?

CLAY: (laughing)

BUCK: The libs are gonna be drowning in their own tears. But the other part of this I think is at least we’re seeing — at least we’re seeing, Clay — what a bunch of phonies they are, what a bunch of frauds when it comes to free speech. The New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, you name it. Frauds. They’re terrified of what we actually have to say in a free and open debate.

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Musk Twitter Takeover Is Democrats’ Digital Waterloo

14 Apr 2022

BUCK: Clay and I want to start off today with the news about Elon Musk and Twitter, and I get that about — I don’t know — I would say maybe 5% of our folks listening right now are active Twitter users. It’s not that big. It is enormously important to politics, to media, and to the national conversation as a platform. That’s just the reality of it.

Donald Trump, I believe, used Twitter more effectively than any politician. Donald Trump used Twitter to do an end run on the mainstream media and actually take the fight to the Democrat-aligned corporate media in a way that, without that platform, would not at the time have been possible. That’s one of the reasons they decided to just go for it, kick him off, and make it an-all-out censorship situation, where they just shut down ideas.

They shut down the Hunter Biden laptop. My friends, they may have cost Trump reelection, that one platform, by doing that, ’cause you say, “Well, I’m not on Twitter.” Yeah, but people catch on on Twitter, and they post more to Facebook, and see the story, and they’re aware of it. And other people in the media pick up details and stories and threads from Twitter.

It grows out from it. It’s the public bulletin board. It is the town square. So, Clay, there’s a lot here. But first, if nothing else, it’s just amazing to watch. So many people who make a living allegedly in journalism and the media and supposedly care about free speech who are in abject meltdown right now — literally shaking — because Elon Musk may buy it. He’s not gonna suppress the left. He’s never said that. He just says free speech might be coming to Twitter, and the Democrats panicked. We all know why.

CLAY: This could be, Buck… I woke up this morning; immediately we’re text threading. This could be… If Elon Musk were able to buy Twitter, this could be the biggest moment for free speech — and I don’t think I’m exaggerating this — in most of our lives in terms of what the impact could be for having someone who was committed to the marketplace of ideas, that you should be able to have robust, uninhibited debate.

That Twitter is not going to censor you when you have an opinion that may be outside of the mainstream, that Twitter is not going to block you when you say that there’s a difference between men and women and you can’t just choose your gender, that we could have inside of Twitter a real, true town square, as you put it.

And I understand people out there who say, “Well, just go sign up for Gab or go sign up for TRUTH Social or go sign up for Rumble and go sign up for Parler and all these different competing companies,” and I give credit to everybody who is trying to compete. But people are not going to, en masse, abandon Twitter and go to a new version of Twitter.

It’s just not going to happen. Twitter is the place where influence and debate is magnified on an epic scale. Here’s my… So for those of you out there who don’t know what’s going on, Elon’s officially offered $54.25 a share to buy the company. That news came down about 6:30 a.m. this morning, and Elon is obviously the richest man in the world right now.

But Twitter stock is now down a little bit on the day, which to me — I had a lot of conversations with people, Buck. They expect for the Twitter board, the people that I talk to, to reject this offer from Elon Musk, and then we will get into a real battle. Now, maybe Twitter’s got some sort of… They call it all the time a “white knight,” somebody who’s gonna ride in and pay more money than Elon Musk offered.

Get into a bidding war with somebody else that they like more is offering more substantial dollars. But this is a battle for the ages. I really don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that. To your point earlier, Buck, I do believe that Twitter and social media as a group turned the outcome of the 2020 election with what they allowed to be shared and what they allowed to be discussed.

I think that social media led to the disastrous lockdown universe that has existed for the last two years, because they shouted down people like you and me — your kids being masked, your kids being out of school. Rather than allowing real debate to with your, Twitter consistently puts their finger on the scale and weighs it in the way that they decide is appropriate.

BUCK: I think there is panic because of exactly what you laid out going forward that the Democrat left has gotten really used to being able to — and remember, if they just ban… People say, “Well, you’re on Twitter. Buck and Clay are on Twitter.” Yeah, but the point is when there is a contentious moment, when there’s an election, when it really matters, they throttle you, they suspend you, they shut you down.

And that shifts the Overton window. That shifts the conversation nationally because of what is allowable online, right? They want people like you and me with substantial followings that tweet witty interesting stuff. They want us using their platform, but they want it to be by their rules in ways that do not go after their sacred cows.

Now, there’s also the issue of if Elon were — and by there a meeting today at 1 Eastern time, the board. I would bet money, and I don’t think — you and I can’t bet because we agree on this one — they’re absolutely going to reject it. That alone is fascinating, because for a company to reject an offer that would make all the shareholders money and would be backed by the literal richest man in the world shows you how important this is to the left.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: So for all the people listening who don’t use Twitter and are in parts of the country where everyone’s like, “Twitter? Who cares?” Let me tell you, this is essential to Biden and Kamala and Pelosi and CNN. Although Clay and I, maybe we’ll… Clay and I might actually take up a collection today on the street and buy CNN+ for a couple of hundred bucks, maybe.

CLAY: (laughing)

BUCK: Everyone is saying CNN+ is gonna be on the auction block here soon too. Anyway, Clay, part of this that I think could be even more interesting, at least at me, is for years the whole conservation around social media… You know, you and I started doing this roughly around the same time, let’s say 10-plus years ago, right? Being really active on Twitter.

Twitter hasn’t been around that long, hasn’t been a big thing that long. They used to say, “We don’t suppress conservatives. We just have very basically rules and they apply them equally.” Then they say, “Well, we make mistakes sometimes. We suppress conservatives, but we don’t mean to. It’s a free speech platform,” and then eventually when Donald Trump came along, it was, “Shut up, conservative peasants! We own this!

“Build your own Twitter — or maybe buy it. Build your own Twitter, build your own internet. We are taking Parler off Amazon Web Services. We’re kicking them off the internet, et cetera.” Right? If we get access to what I’ll call “the algo,” right — the algorithm, the back end — at Twitter, Clay, we would find that they have been shifting the political conversation in favor of Democrats aggressively for the last 10 years. They have been elevating moron blue checks with blue hair, nose rings, and too many cats at the expense of people like you and me that actually have something to say.

CLAY: Now, I will say the marketplace speaks, eventually, which is the great thing about capitalism. And what I do believe is, you’re right. Twitter, they did the analysis of who spends the most time on Twitter and who’s most prominently featured, and Twitter is 20 points more skewed towards the Democrat Party than the United States.

So it’s like the most left-wing Portland Democrat district that you can imagine. And I will say Democrats have become so enamored of Twitter that they think it’s the real world, that ultimately, I believe that’s why their party has gotten destroyed. I think they’re leaning into Twitter so aggressively as, “Oh, this is where the real world is.”

And that dichotomy between what the Twitter real world represents and what the real-real world represents is why Joe Biden and the Democrats in general are collapsing with, frankly, why Trump has had so much success. Now, here’s the challenge. Over time, Buck — and this is what I worry about — if Facebook and Twitter and probably TikTok (although I don’t know enough about TikTok) and Instagram and all of these social media platforms all end up making the exact same decision at the exact same point in time — which was which is what was so scary to me about Donald Trump getting banned.

I mean, they banned him from Pinterest! (laughing) I don’t know if Donald Trump is trying to sell knitting gear, but when all the women who sit around and sell their latest knit caps are like, “There’s no way we can have a MAGA cap on Pinterest anymore; Let’s ban Donald Trump,” it is a collusive, corrosive environment. And what Musk would represent to me is a punch-back in the other direction for robust, uninhibited marketplace of ideas.

BUCK: I think if we got access to the Twitter back end via Elon Musk’s takeover, which, to be clear, they’re gonna circle the wagons, the left, the Democrat Party, this is their digital Waterloo, folks. This is their all-in battle, because if this happens not only going forward will there be an actual digital marketplace of ideas for politics, culture, everything else.

But we’ll be able to see how much they’ve essentially rigged the game in the past, including what are effectively in-kind donations at election time, what are effectively maneuvers behind the scenes at Twitter to elevate or destroy certain politicians and personalities.

Obviously, they banned Trump forever. We know they do this. Obviously, they suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop. Clay, I bet it’s been much more than that and then we have to remember: Facebook, Google, they have algorithms too. Does anyone think that if we see what’s going on at Twitter it’s not gonna be clear what’s going on at the other tech giants?

CLAY: I would also point out this. If they turn down what would represent a 20-some-odd percent premium for the stock price right now versus what Elon Musk is offering, it’s also pretty tangible evidence that Twitter is not being run as a capitalistic venture. That is, they are not trying to maximize return for their shareholders — and, by the way, I’m one of the shareholders.

I’ve owned Twitter stock for a long time. They’re not trying to get as much money in our pockets. They are an ideologically driven center of thought, not a capitalistic driven center of thought. And that’s a substantial difference, right? It calls into question even more the marketplace of ideas angle because effectively what they’re saying is, “Twitter is more valuable to the Democrat Party, to left-wing politicians, than to allow it to be purchased by a free speech…”

And, by the way, I don’t even think of Elon Musk as a conservative, Buck. I just think of him as a businessman who believes that you have to experience all ideas in order to reach the best possible outcome.

BUCK: The position of the right is not, “Well, now let’s suppress all the lefties and kick them off.” No. I want their idiot ideas. I want you to be able to backhand Keith Olbermann, Clay. I just don’t want you getting shadow banned when you smoke him online, you know what I mean? I don’t want you getting in trouble for it, and that would be the reality we’re dealing with here, and I think the fact that Elon…

He’s not a dogmatic conservative at all. He’s kind of a free thinker, and all he’s saying is, “Let’s actually build a free speech platform,” and the left is in meltdown. It’s so productive, the left is in meltdown, and get ready for some takes — the Washington Post, New York Times writers — about “billionaires controlling conversation” without any irony.

CLAY: Yeah. And, by the way, the other thing we should mention is, just content-neutral policies. It’s amazing how content-neutral are that… Just content-neutral we’re not saying one side to the other.

BUCK: Can we come back to one second Clay ’cause I just saw this to know if you’ve already seen this breaking news from Charles Gasparino at Fox News, your colleague there, “Elon Musk Offers to Buy the Rest of Twitter — A legal source tells Fox Business that the SEC and the DOJ have launched a joint investigation into a myriad of regulatory issues at Tesla.”

CLAY: Oh, of course.

BUCK: I didn’t even know this ’til I said it. They’re gonna go with every last thing they’ve got, folks. They’re gonna bring up all the artillery they can. They’re gonna cheat in every way.

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C&B 24/7: Clay & Buck’s Show Prep

14 Apr 2022

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    Vice President Mike Pence Makes His First Visit to C&B

    13 Apr 2022

    CLAY: We are joined now by former vice president Mike Pence, who has founded Advancing American Freedom, a 501(c)(4) organization advocating for conservative values and policy proposals. And I want to start, Mr. Vice President, appreciate you joining us.

    We want to start here. You had your own battle over the First Amendment here recently at the University of Virginia. This has been a huge topic on this show, Elon Musk buying 9.2% of Twitter. What should happen, what needs to happen for the full marketplace of ideas to be protected in our country? And thanks to the University of Virginia for letting you speak, but what are you seeing as you travel around the country in terms of freedom of thought, freedom of expression in this country?

    VICE PRESIDENT PENCE: Well, we’ve gotta continue to take on and challenge cancel culture, woke America, and — and you both have done an extraordinary job stepping into big shoes. Now, been some time, but congratulations on all your success and being such great champions for conservative values around the country.

    But, no, last night I was at University of Virginia, but a few weeks ago the student newspaper on campus wrote an editorial saying that I should be banned. This is nothing new. We’ve seen conservatives attempted to be canceled all across the country.

    But I must tell you because of the great young people with the Young America’s Foundation chapter on UVA’s campus and, frankly, because 17 faculty members stepped forward on behalf of freedom of speech, we went forward last night, we had hundreds of students turn out. I think it was a very diverse crowd. We had a great discussion. And I said to them, I’ll say to your listeners, the antidote to cancel culture is freedom. The antidote to woke America is freedom.

    And we need look no farther than the Bill of Rights, we need look no farther than the American founding to know the pathway forward for America is freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the right to peaceably assemble, it’s all there in writing, and last night I challenged them to come together, whatever their political perspective, come together.

    Let’s rally around freedom in America and the ideals that have made this country great. And we had a big night. And I’m gonna continue to visit campuses around the country. Anybody who’s understanding the great work of Young America’s Foundation should check them out their website, check them out on Twitter, myself, Ben Shapiro, Scott Walker who leads the organization, we’re taking the conservative cause to campuses, and I’m honored to be part of it.

    BUCK: You should invite Clay and Buck at some point to join you on this campus tour. We’re pretty good at that stuff, Mike.

    VICE PRESIDENT PENCE: Hey, you’re on. You are on. You know, I tell you, I was at Stanford. I gave a speech at Stanford about a month ago, guys. And I tell people “Almost everybody stayed,” you know. (laughing)

    CLAY: That’s a win.

    VICE PRESIDENT PENCE: We had protesters in the — you know, in the auditorium, hundreds of people outside, but, you know, that’s what — that’s what freedom sounds like, right? I mean, it’s all right. We’ve really got to challenge woke America. We’ve got to challenge the woke left in this country with the fundamental principles of freedom.

    But I gotta tell you, we ended up having a great night last night at UVA and I’m truthfully grateful to the school and really proud of the conservative kids on campus that made it happen.

    BUCK: Mike, this obviously is with you, with us on the notion of free speech and just individual freedom as a general foundational idea for this country we live in. How do we win, though? How do we actually take it beyond knowing that we are right, knowing that this is intrinsic to our founding, to our most basic freedoms in this country to actually being able to exercise free speech right in a world of social media platforms, megacorporations, cancel culture.

    I mean, you’ve seen some of the things going on. It feels like in Florida there’s been substantial pushback against those who tried to attack Governor Ron DeSantis for the parental rights bill. You’ve seen other places where you had conservatives fight back. Elon Musk who’s not really a conservative but a free thinker, has taken a big stake in Twitter. It felt like at the end of the Trump presidency of which you were obviously vice president Section 230 got a lot of attention pickup I think that that’s fading a little bit and now it’s just, how do we win ban the culture? How do you think we do that?

    VICE PRESIDENT PENCE: Well, I actually think we do it just the way you described. First and foremost, I think we’ve gotta speak out on behalf of freedom. I talked to some young people on campus last night who feel a little put upon being conservatives in a largely liberal student body, largely liberal faculty, they said, “What do you suggest?” I said speak up and smile. Right?

    That was one of the great things about your predecessor on this program was an inspiration to me and to millions of Americans for decades. You know, he was a conservative, but he wasn’t in a bad mood about it. You guys are the same, right? We have the right ideas. Let’s go out and advocate them. It’s part of why my organization in Washington set up what’s called a Freedom Agenda.

    People can go to AdvancingAmericanFreedom.com. We worked with people, like Newt Gingrich and Kellyanne Conway and Larry Kudlow, and we literally assembled a comprehensive agenda of what conservatism is all about from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump. And it gave us a place to really go and remind ourselves of what our positive agenda is.

    But at the end of the day the real answer, guys, is what Vince Lombardi said. Sometimes, you know, there’s no substitute for just going out and winning the ball game. And we got big elections this fall. And I’m campaigning around the country supporting great conservatives running for the House, for Senate, running for statehouse seats and governorships.

    And I’ll just tell you, it has maybe never been more important in the life of this nation for us to elect men and women at every level who will stand for freedom. And I know that millions of listeners of your great broadcast are gonna do just that.

    CLAY: We’re talking to former Vice President Mike Pence. I think you probably expected things in the Biden and Kamala Harris administration would be bad. Are they worse than you anticipated they would be?

    VICE PRESIDENT PENCE: I thought it’d be bad. I never imagined it’d be this bad. I mean, President Joe Biden has done more damage to this country in 14 months than any president in modern history.

    I mean, think about where we are, the crisis at our southern border, gasoline prices up 70%, inflation at a 40-year high, the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan that clearly emboldened our adversaries around the world. North Korea is firing missiles again, Iran is threatening their nuclear program again, and, of course, we’re continuing to watch the horrifying Russian invasion of Ukraine.

    I just — I think that all of it — all of it cries out for people that believe in this country, people that saw a stronger and prosperous and secure America during the President Trump-Pence administration to be willing to step forward and get behind candidates that are gonna make a difference.

    But, look. We’re gonna get it all back. Right? People stop me in airports, they stop me on street corners all the time with a worried look on their face. And just — you know, I’m an optimistic guy but I tell you from everything I see as we travel across this country we’re gonna get it all back and then some, we’re gonna win back the Congress in 2022, we’re gonna win back America in 2024.

    BUCK: Wanted to ask you this one, former Vice President Pence. Appreciate you being with us here, by the way, as always.

    VICE PRESIDENT PENCE: You bet. It’s an honor.

    BUCK: Vice President Pence, Clay, I actually interviewed him on my mom’s birthday and he did a quick happy birthday video for my mom which was like the coolest birthday present he was ever able to give anybody. So, I appreciate it.

    CLAY: That was pretty good. Yeah.

    BUCK: I appreciated that. You always remember people who do nice things out in the world.

    But I want to know what do you think the Democrat play is — I’m gonna be talking about immigration here in a second — what do you think the Democrat play is for just essentially flooding the country with illegals and — I know the long-term reality of they want amnesty, they think these are Democrat voters, it’s gonna enlarge the state. I get all that. But between now and Election Day to end Title 42 and to put us on track for a million in six weeks possibly?

    Not in six months. Six weeks. It just feels like electorally suicide. Is it just they’re so incompetent they can’t figure out how to stop it, they can’t stand the way the left-wing base or what? You know their mind. What’s going on?

    VICE PRESIDENT PENCE: Look. President Donald Trump put border security at the center of the national debate. And in three short years we reduced illegal immigration at our southern by 90%. We built hundreds of miles of border wall that the Biden administration, you know, stopped the day they came into office.

    I negotiated with Secretary of State Pompeo on behalf of the president what came to be known as the Remain in Mexico policy where we got Mexico to agree that people that are applying for asylum wait in Mexico while they apply, literally ended asylum abuse at our southern border. Day One, President Biden gets rid of Remain in Mexico, even though it’s been challenged now in the courts, the order to put it back into effect.

    But the very idea that they’ve announced that they’re gonna rescind Title 42, which allows us to return illegal immigrants immediately across the border, it makes absolutely no sense. I mean, we literally are seeing record numbers of people coming across the border every day. The number about a week ago was about 8,000 people a day, but I actually read in the New York Times one official estimate that after they repealed Title 42 they expect that to go to 18,000 people a day.

    Now, what’s their play here? Look. I think you’re giving them too much credit. I think it’s an open borders crowd. We know that a nation without borders is not a nation. I don’t think they buy that. I think they are an open borders crowd. They’re an amnesty crowd. And I don’t think — certainly some of them may think of the long-term implications of that. But I think the reality is in our administration, we made enormous progress in growing support among Hispanic-Americans.

    We got the largest percentage of votes from Hispanic-Americans in 2022 than any Republican ticket in history, and that’s because we stood for law and order, we stood for border security, we stood for free market economics, the American dream, the right to life, traditional values. So I don’t know if they’re thinking the long-term play. I just think they’re open borders people and you need to understand what’s happening down there is not a result of incompetence. It is the designed work a lot of left-wing open borders agenda that is driving the Democratic Party and the Biden administration today.

    CLAY: Mr. Vice President, I’m sure you’ve seen 15-day extension on federal mask mandate for airplanes and airports and trains and everything else. When you look back now, it’s been a little bit over two years since “15 days to slow the spread,” Dr. Fauci is still there directing a lot of the guidelines and national response.

    Should he still be there? In your mind is he one of the most, if not the most, destructive bureaucrat in history? How do you assess him? I know you know him well personally, but two years after the fact that we’re still extending things for 15 days, what are your thoughts?

    VICE PRESIDENT PENCE: Well, I must tell you, that day in the end of February of 2020 when President Trump asked me to lead the White House coronavirus task force, we only had a handful of covid cases in America and no fatalities. But I’ll always be proud of the way the people of this country responded.

    You know, we reinvented testing from a standing start. We developed billions of supplies for doctors and nurses and the American people. We developed therapeutics in record time. Developed not one but two vaccines and were vaccinating a million people a day. Along the way, in the midst of that historic pandemic in those early days, you know, we stepped forward and we asked the American people to essentially take a pause for, as you said, first for 15 days, and ultimately extend it another 30 days so that we would have time to stand up the largest national mobilization since World War II.

    But I must tell you, lockdowns were never intended to be a long-term solution to covid. I mean, what we intended to do — and we did. I mean, I grieve for every life that was lost in that first year. I’m saddened that more lives were lost in the first year of the Biden administration, covid.

    But I think it’s a testament to the American people that no one, no American ever went out, went out a hospital bed, no one ever went without a ventilator that needed one. But it was because we bought time at the beginning.

    But in my season of service in the covid task force, I’ll tell you, we had a broad range of people at the table. We had the doctors there. But I also had our economic people like Larry Kudlow. I also had the secretary of Treasury, Steven Mnuchin. We balanced and developed a balanced approach, made recommendations, and let governors and states and local communities decide what was best for them.

    When the Biden administration came in, I think they put the doctors in the lead chair. And to no surprise, we got the doctors’ prescription ever since. And the heartbreaking results in their first year really speak for themselves.

    BUCK: Mr. Vice President, we so appreciate you coming to join us. What’s your initiative, again, the name of it?

    VICE PRESIDENT PENCE: Yeah, it’s called Advancing American Freedom. You can go to AdvancingAmericanFreedom.com. Check out the Freedom Agenda, all the work that we’re doing around the country.

    BUCK: Thank you so much, sir.

    CLAY: Appreciate the time.

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    Devine on the Hunter Case: They’re Looking at The Big Guy

    13 Apr 2022

    BUCK: Here are some words of insight from our he next guest. “‘If Joe Biden is found to have profited from Hunter’s business deals or used his position as vice president to benefit his family, Schoen wrote, ‘what is now likely a red wave election could turn into a massive blowout that is more substantial than anything seen in recent history.’”

    That is Miranda Devine quoting Doug Schoen, a Democrat in her latest piece in the New York Post. She’s the author of Laptop from Hell, New York Post columnist Miranda Devine with us now. Miranda, always great to have you.

    DEVINE: Great to be with you, Clay and Buck.

    BUCK: So, it always feels like when the Democrats start to recognize that what the right is saying or the conservatives are saying is true and they’re saying it only because of the political liabilities they face that there’s perhaps a reckoning coming, how is this moving along as it pertains to Hunter Biden, the laptop, the investigation? People in this audience are pretty familiar with the basics on it; so where are we now and how does Tony Bobulinski play into all this?

    DEVINE: Well, look. I think you’re absolutely right. The only reason that the New York Times and Washington Post and CNN and so on are paying any attention to this story or admitting that the laptop is real 18 months after we broke the story is because the Democrats are now starting to wake up and, I think, panicking about what is coming down the pike from the grand jury that’s been investigating Hunter Biden.

    And partly you can see their mind-set because all these left-wing media organizations and Democrats and the White House are, yes, admitting that the story that we started running 18 months ago about the laptop are real and the emails and so on are authentic, but what they are also trying to do is create this new narrative in which Joe Biden is completely firewalled away, quarantined away from the mess of, not just his son Hunter, but his brother Jim Biden, where they’re running this influence-peddling scheme for the family internationally while he was vice president.

    But that is really not a sustainable narrative because what we’re seeing, the morsels that are coming out of the grand jury investigation, I mean, that’s really hotted up. They’ve been interviewing a lot of Hunter Biden’s associates, his business partners, his ex-girlfriends, his baby mama, and I’m told that witnesses are being asked, who is The Big Guy? And that means that the grand jury is starting to ask questions, starting to pull on the threads that lead to Joe Biden, to the president.

    Because The Big Guy is the name that Hunter and his partners used to refer to Joe Biden. It was sort of their code name. And we know that — I mean, the name is listed throughout the laptop but also Tony Bobulinski has come out and said he was one of Hunter’s business partners. He said that that was the name they used for Joe Biden. So I’m told that Joe Biden is a focus of the grand jury investigation.

    CLAY: Miranda, thanks for making the time to come on with us. It’s always fantastic. So if you’re told Joe Biden is part of the focus of this investigation in the grand jury, to me what that ultimately means is, Joe Biden himself might get subpoenaed to testify in front of this grand jury. Have you heard any discussion about that? I would love, by the way, for — there’s a lot of media that listen to this show. I would love for the White House to be asked and see if they’re willing to go on the record whether Joe Biden would comply with that subpoena or whether he would fight it in court.

    What do you know about the chances that Joe Biden himself, a/k/a, The Big Guy, may get called in front of that Delaware grand jury? Do you think that’s likely? Have you heard any discussion about that?

    DEVINE: No, I haven’t. I think it’s unlikely, just gut feeling. But who knows? I guess it just depends how far these investigators want to go. They certainly have a trove of material. You know, they’ve been subpoenaing bank records. We know from just from the laptop that there are all of the clues about commingling of finances between — between Joe Biden and his son Hunter, shared bank accounts.

    We know that, you know, I mean, for instance, there’s one email in which Hunter Biden’s sort of partner, the president of his firm, Rosemont Seneca, talks about accessing an account where Joe Biden’s tax check has gone, he says I’m going to deposit that tax check, I’m going to write, you know — write a check I think for you for that amount from Joe Biden’s bank account.

    They were — you know, money was going backwards and forwards. We know that Hunter Biden of us paying — over several years paying bills for Joe Biden, you know, for upkeep and maintenance on one of his Delaware homes. He was paying a phone bill.

    You know, and there’s other material. There are sort of strange bank accounts that are referred to with strange names referred to by Eric Schwerin, his partner. You know, he used to do Hunter’s tax returns. He used to help out Joe on paying his mortgage.

    So, you know, we’re just seeing that with very limited visibility on the material that’s on the laptop, there would be investigators with subpoena power and visibility into all those bank accounts and if there’s any offshore accounts, they would have a lot of it access to that.

    So I don’t know what they have exactly, but all I know is that they are looking at The Big Guy. And we also know that the White House has not come to grips with this story because, you know, just in the last couple of weeks when they’re asked a few questions at press conferences, we’ve had two different White House spokespeople say just absurd things, like, yes, we stand by what the president said in that debate when he said Hunter Biden hasn’t received any money from China.

    That’s just not true. There are bank trails. Johnson and Grassley, the two Republican senators, have been putting up just in recent weeks some of those bank details, $6 million here, $5 million there. That’s just not sustainable. And then there was another question they were asked, you know, does the president stand by his campaign vow that he knew nothing about his son Hunter’s overseas business dealings? And the White House is still standing by that.

    So they obviously someone has not sat down with the president and said, you need to tell us what’s going on so that we can answer these questions. But again, I don’t think there’s a lot of pressure from the media. What you’re getting from the Democrat friendly media is these attempts to whitewash the story, to keep Joe Biden out of it, and to just quarantine him from the muck that’s coming out from his son and his brother.

    BUCK: One quick one for you, Miranda — Miranda Devine’s Laptop from Hell is a book you should all check out to get really up to speed on all this one. What is the possible next piece in this?

    You know, we’re talking about 10% for The Big Guy, CFC in China and how it was essentially a front for the belt-and-road initiative of China and how using influence peddling ties into our biggest competitor on the global stage here, buying off now the first family, in essence.

    What is the next bit of information that, if proven, you think takes this from a the crisis White House and the media can ignore as much as they are still trying to do so to full on political DEFCON 1? Like what is next thing we have to find out when they can’t ignore it?

    DEVINE: Well, there are so many bits and pieces. But, you know, one is any evidence coming out to show that Joe Biden interfered, intervened in the decision to fire Victor Shokin, who was the Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating Hunter.

    BUCK: Which he bragged about on video for everybody. The video is out there.

    DEVINE: Yeah, he bragged about it, but also it seemed that there was a change in State Department policy. Why did that happen? Is there evidence to show what — what swayed Joe Biden and made him sort of, you know, do something quite risky and intervene in this case?

    BUCK: All right. Miranda, thanks so much. Miranda Devine, everybody, New York Post. Miranda, appreciate it.

    DEVINE: Thanks so much.

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