>> Laura Ingraham and Ben Shapiro teamed up to be insufferable together.
>> Let's watch. >> One of the left's biggest media stars is
reading the current situation as follows. >> President, now saying insistently that
the election will not be decided by the voters, that he expects the Supreme Court, to which
he is trying to appoint a new justice right before the election.
He expects that it will be the Supreme Court which handles the question of who the next
president is. And he expects that the conservative majority will throw out the ballots, and then
we won't have to worry about any transition of power.
>> Ben, the hyperbole notwithstanding, this is pretty standard now on the left.
>> It is, the manufactured garbage by which they have been saying for months that this
election is going to be stolen by Trump that it's gonna be a coup. He had John Podesta
gaming out what it would look like if Biden didn't accept the loss. Hillary Clinton has
openly said there are no circumstances under which Biden should accept a loss.
I mean, hell, they had Stacey Abrams trotted out as Governor of Georgia at the DNC. And
then they have the temerity to turn around and say that Trump is the threats to the institutions,
that it's Trump, who is going to generate some sort of constitutional crisis. I think
it's pretty clear that Democrats are making way for an awful lot of chaos in the aftermath
of this election.
>> Okay, that's an extreme attempt at gaslighting because Trump was the one who just said that
he would not commit to a peaceful transition of power. And what they were responding to
there was just Maddow quoting Trump. I'm not gonna defend Rachel Maddow on much, but she
was basically just saying what Trump said.
So the true source of the harebrained theory and manufactured garbage, the pair were slamming
Maddow for pushing, was none other than Trump himself. On Tuesday, for example, Trump bluntly
explained his theory that he must replace recently deceased Ruth Bader Ginsburg before
election day since a ninth Justice would be necessary to break a tie on allegedly disputed
election results.
He repeated that claim more explicitly again on Wednesday. In addition, at his Wednesday
press briefing, Trump dismissed a reporter's question about committing to a peaceful transition
of power and instead demanded that millions of mail-in ballots would have to be thrown
out before he would consider the election legitimate.
He then brushed off the idea that he could lose the upcoming election. All of these comments,
which sparked outrage even among some Republicans, were summarized by Maddow in the clip. But
neither Ingram nor Shapiro ever acknowledged Trump's link to Maddow's words or that the
hyperbole about one or two swing justices on the Supreme Court appointed by Trump deciding
the election originally came from the president.
And the Fox host never bothered with showing any clips of Trump actually saying all the
things that Maddow said he did. But luckily our wonderful producer and friend, I guess
Brett did find those clips and he's gonna show them to you now.
>> They had things, levels of voting that if he ever agreed to it, you'd never have
a Republican elected in this country again.
>> Do you commit to making sure that there's a peaceful transfer of power.
>> We wanna have get rid of the ballots and we'll have a very peaceful, there won't be
a transfer frankly, there'll be a continuation. So you're gonna need nine justices up there.
I think it's gonna be very important, because what they're doing is a hoax with the ballots.
They're sending out tens of millions of ballots, unsolicited, not where they're being asked,
but unsolicited, and that's a hoax. And you're gonna need to have nine justices.
>> What a conspiracy theory that Maddow said just repeating Trump's words?
>> Yeah, I really don't want to hear anything from people alleging that anyone is too panicky,
when you've decided to write a whole book about how porn is destroying society.
I'm just like, that's what Ben Shapiro did. And that's where his head's at with what's
wrong with society. He's not worried about a dictatorial takeover, he's too worried about
porn. And so, look, they have a vested interest in minimizing the threat that Donald Trump
poses. This has been a great cash cow for right wingers.
It's helped them further their careers. Just ask absolute pathetic imbecile hacks like
Dave Rubin. And so, it's their bread and butter, right? So, I'm interested in having conversations
with serious people who understand and can assess serious threats. Going after Rachel
Maddow for simply quoting what Donald Trump has said is ridiculous, referring to that
as hyperbole is ridiculous.
Again, watch any right wing show on any given night, and all it is is, you should be scared,
be scared, be fearful. I do, be scared, be scared. Hyperbole, hyperbole. That's all they
do all day, every day. So, please spare me your absolute BS and kick rocks. Ben Shapiro
did hyperbole about California like, California is so bad, I'm gonna leave California.
It's the worst. It's the worst. I'm gonna go to Tennessee. I'm gonna take all my employees
with me. He's the king of hyperbole. So kick rocks.
>> Yeah, I mean, yeah, kick rocks, dude. >> They're gonna love that phrase in a while,
and you said it twice. But yeah, no, I totally agree.
Shapiro, I don't know. Can people get pat, I met someone who's like 38 and he was like,
you work for to TYT? I love Ben Shapiro. I was like, dude, you're still into Ben Shapiro?
>> You're 30. >> It is amazing.
>> No, I feel like it's like the beginnings of between political people that are trying
to get into politics.
He got to outgrow that by like age 19 and thinking that guy's smart. Then you're done,
then you're done. Then you're intellectually stunted if you're past that point. And you
still are interested in listening to what that guy has to say. Because again, I heard
John Lee describe how Trump is like a Hobo, his words or something like that, version
of a rich person.
Like I'm gonna have a big gold tower and, he's so cartoonish in the way he's rich. Ben
Shapiro is a cartoonish version of what a dumb person thinks a smart person is. Just
someone who talks really, really fast and has the appearance of intellect without saying
anything at all.
>> Yeah, absolutely. All you have to do is just listen carefully to what he's saying.
Don't be fooled by his overconfidence or how quickly he's speaking. Just because someone
is speaking quickly and confidently doesn't mean they know what they're talking about.
And I think it's just a common trick that people use when they wanna either spread lies
or even when they're uncertain about what they're saying.
If you listen to what Ben Shapiro was saying, and by the way if you put his statements in
context, right? Someone accusing others of hyperbole shouldn't have a long standing history
of utilizing hyperbole in his commentary, but that's all he does. All he does is fearmonger
about what's going on in the country.
All he does is fearmonger about what's going on in California. All he does is fearmonger
about what's happening in porn. I'm sorry, when we're talking about our democratic process,
where Trump has taken actions, he's done things to dismantle our electoral process and make
it increasingly difficult for voters to cast their ballots, we're talking about a situation
like that and covering it accurately.
I have no interest in hearing from anyone, whether it be Ben Shapiro or yes, even people
on the far left who wanna pretend like this is no big deal. It is a big deal. Donald Trump
is an authoritarian, and the only thing that's really stopped him from doing all the terrible
things he's wanting to do, is, every once in a while, you'll have a few of these military
generals or people within his administration stand up and say, no, you can't do that.
But if he could have his way, who knows where we'd be right now?
>> Yeah, I mean, that's a good way to end the segment. But just another point is like,
our institutions are so threadbare that as it is, the idea that that's what's keeping
Trump from being a full blown authoritarian is really terrifying
to me.