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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 1996 - Wait, Can Donald Trump DRONE His Political Enemies Now?!

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

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4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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The Supreme Court makes a decision about presidential immunity–and the Left goes predictably insane; Democrats continue to suffer from heartburn over Joe Biden’s dementia; and the French decide whether to go right or left.   Click here to join the member-exclusive portion of my show: https://bit.ly/3WDjgHE   Ep.1996   - - -    DailyWire+:   Buy one year of DailyWire+ and get a second year FREE! Join here: https://bit.ly/3L1kc1o   Get 10% off your tickets to Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot at http://angel.com/BEN   Get your Ben Shapiro merch here: https://bit.ly/3TAu2cw   - - -    Today’s Sponsors:   ExpressVPN - Get 3 Months FREE of ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/BEN   Birch Gold - Make a qualifying purchase by July 31st and get a GOLDEN Truth Bomb! Text "BEN" to 989898, or go to https://birchgold.com/BEN   Byrna - Get 10% off your purchase at https://byrna.com/BEN   Grand Canyon University - Find your purpose at Grand Canyon University: https://www.gcu.edu/   ZipRecruiter - Try ZipRecruiter for FREE: https://www.ziprecruiter.com/DAILYWIRE   - - -   Socials:   Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3cXUn53   Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3QtuibJ   Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3TTirqd   Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RPyBiB Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

So yesterday, pretty much all hell broke loose. It didn't break loose because of a Supreme Court

0:05.2

decision. It broke loose because the left has decided, along with the media and the Democrats,

0:09.5

but I repeat myself, to lie about the Supreme Court decision in order to revive the flagging

0:13.8

hopes and dead body of Joe Biden. Let me begin at the beginning. Yesterday, the Supreme

0:18.5

Court released a decision about presidential immunity.

0:21.8

Now, this decision, of course, is rooted in Donald Trump filing a lawsuit to stop the various

0:26.0

Jack Smith lawsuits against him. His claim was that as president of the United States, no matter

0:30.6

what he did while he was president of the United States, he has full immunity from criminal

0:35.5

prosecution. That, of course, is not true. That is a step too far.

0:40.1

The idea that the president of the United States is never for any activity able to be criminally

0:44.3

prosecuted is really silly. If the president of the United States decided that in his home,

0:48.6

in the White House, he was just going to murder a maid, for example, could he be criminally

0:51.7

prosecuted? The answer, of course, is yes. However, there is the

0:55.6

idea that the president is, in fact, criminally immune from certain activities that a normal person

1:00.7

would not be. So, for example, if I authorized somebody to go kill somebody abroad, I'd be

1:06.3

criminally liable for that. If I'm president of the United States, and as commander in chief,

1:09.9

I authorized SEAL Team 6 to take out Osama bin Laden, I'm not going to be criminally liable for that. If I'm president of the United States and as commander in chief, I authorize seal team six to take out Osama bin Laden, I'm not going to be criminally liable for that. So there's plenty of stuff that the president of the United States has to be able to do in order to ensure the functioning of the executive authority of the United States. The president does have outsized powers under our Constitution. Those powers are not endless.

1:29.6

Immunity is not eternal and endless.

1:31.1

That is not the way that immunity works.

1:33.2

And that's basically what the Supreme Court found.

1:37.6

So in order to understand why the left is lying about this decision and why Joe Biden is lying about this decision and the political games that are now being played, you have to

1:41.1

understand the decision itself from the Supreme Court.

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