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issues. YouTube announces it will crack down on videos alleging election fraud, and Trump's

last-ditch lawsuit strategy comes down to Texas. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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Our media, they have declared that they are the defenders of democracy. The slogan,

The Washington Post, adopted just after Trump's victory in 2016 was democracy dies in darkness.

Democracy dies in darkness. And now our esteemed members of our journalistic establishment, they have

decided that democracy is under threat. It's under threat because Trump keeps talking about

election fraud. It's under threat because Trump keeps saying that the election was stolen from him.

And it doesn't matter that he's going through a legal process. And it doesn't matter the electoral college will vote. It doesn't matter that the states are

certifying. This is all a threat to democracy, a deep, dark threat to democracy.

Pushing this agenda last night was, of course, Block of Wood Chris Cuomo on CNN. So here was Chris Cuomo

laying out the case for why he as an officer of the court is standing up for democracy.

This moment will be remembered for what happens next. And I want to be on record to you and to all as an

American, as a journalist, and as an officer of the court. Trump and his party are trying to kill our democracy with these

efforts. And I accuse them of this high crime tonight. This is wrong. Okay, now let me just say,

in no uncertain terms, these people are full of so much crap, their eyes are now brown.

If they start off as blue, their eyes are turning brown. They are so full of crap it is spilling

out their ears. From boots to the top of their head, they are full of absolute unmitigated crap.

Okay. The fact is that if democracy is dying, it is largely due to the effect of people

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