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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 1800 - The Deep State Targets Musk

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

News, News Commentary

4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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prosecutors are now investigating Elon Musk over allegedly building a house with Tesla funds.

0:05.1

Donald Trump pledges to prosecute Democrats if re-elected and Mitch McConnell freezes up again.

0:09.4

I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

0:16.5

The Ben Shapiro show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. I talk about them every single show.

0:19.8

I haven't you gotten a VPN yet. Get ExpressVPN right now at ExpressVPN.com slash Ben. Well, another day, another lawsuit this time looking into Elon Musk. So it appears that if you are an enemy of the prevailing regime, they will come after you with all of the elements at their disposal. If you are Donald Trump, they will come after you with the federal government, with various state and local governments. They will come after you because you have

0:41.1

become an enemy of the regime. Donald Trump said, and he is not incorrect, that for 30, 40 years,

0:47.8

he was in the American public eye. One of the most famous people on earth, there were no

0:51.6

prosecutions. And then he leaves the presidency and boom,

0:54.8

within three years, there are four prosecutions all to be hitting within an election year.

0:58.9

And that leaves aside the civil suits that have all risen in the last two years.

1:02.5

That does not seem like a coincidence. Now, you can always attribute that to his behavior on January

1:07.1

6th, between November and January, but the reality remains that Donald Trump was

1:10.8

pretty wild and crazy character well before that.

1:13.6

And when it comes to some of the supposed financial crimes that he is now being accused of,

1:18.1

those financial issues were well known for a very long time, yet he never found himself in the

1:22.6

dock.

1:23.3

He never found himself in front of the public this way.

1:26.2

Well, Elon Musk is in the same boat now.

1:28.3

So in the last month, there have been two investigations by the federal government launched

1:32.5

into companies related to Elon Musk.

1:35.1

Just last week, the Justice Department sued SpaceX for discriminating against assailies and

1:40.1

refugees in hiring, claiming that SpaceX had to hire more people who had claimed asylum,

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