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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 2325 - WAR CRIME? Hegseth’s Narcoterror Missile Strike Draws Fire

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

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4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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After Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth orders a strike on a narcoterrorist boat, Democrats accuse him of war crimes; the White House prepares a pardon for a major convicted drug trafficker; and the GOP faces down a tough Congressional election in Tennessee. Ep.2325 - - - Click here to join the member-exclusive portion of my show: https://bit.ly/3WDjgHE - - - Facts Don’t Care About Your Feelings - - - Today's Sponsors: Perplexity - Ask anything at https://pplx.ai/benshapiro and try out their new AI-powered web browser Comet at https://comet.perplexity.ai/ PureTalk - Switch to PureTalk and start saving today! Visit https://PureTalk.com/SHAPIRO Helix Sleep - Go to https://helixsleep.com/ben for an exclusive offer. Shopify - Sign up for your $1-per-month trial and start selling today at https://Shopify.com/shapiro Lumen - Head to https://lumen.me/SHAPIRO to get an additional 15% off your Lumen. Balance of Nature - Go to https://balanceofnature.com/pages/podcasters to get a FREE Variety Snack Pack plus a FREE Preferred Customer membership with your first set of Balance of Nature supplements. Daily Wire Shop - Go to https://dailywire.com/shop today. Kalshi - Visit https://kalshi.com/shapiro to see live prediction markets and sign up today to trade on the outcomes that matter most to you. - - - DailyWire+: Once a year, every year, we give you our best deal of the year. And it’s happening right now. DailyWire+ memberships are 50% off. https://getdwplus.com/blackfridayBENYT Finally, Friendly Fire is here! No moderator, no safe words. Now available at https://www.dailywire.com/show/friendly-fire Get your Ben Shapiro merch here: https://bit.ly/3TAu2cw - - - 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 - - - Privacy Policy: https://www.dailywire.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Democrats claiming that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth committed a war crime. What's their strategy? What are they doing? And is Senator Markelly of Arizona going to be the Democratic nominee for president? He sure seems to be trying it. Plus, a gigantic special election in Tennessee's congressional district seven. Why is that one even close? We'll get to all of it first. Cyberweek means our best deal of the year. Dailyware Plus is 50% off right now. Go to dailyware.com

0:22.3

slash subscribe. Well, folks, Democrats have hit upon a two-pronged strategy for 2028. One of them is to

0:29.3

make members of the military very uncomfortable about following their orders. Apparently, they

0:34.1

believe that this will somehow create unrest, chaos.

0:38.4

I don't know how else to explain why Democrats are now suddenly coming out of the woodwork

0:43.4

to suggest that a bunch of illegal orders are being issued from the Trump administration

0:48.0

that members of the military must now consider.

0:50.5

Remember, when Democrats, people like Senator Mark Kelly or Senator Alyssa Slotkin

0:54.8

from Michigan, when they come out and they say, two soldiers, to airmen, to members of the

0:59.4

Navy, when they say to these people, if you guys follow an illegal order, you will be punished,

1:04.7

but then they don't define illegal order. What they are doing is creating a catch-22. Because

1:09.6

if people follow their orders, well, then they're protected in the moment. But down the road, some Democrat may be elected and declare that actually retroactively, those orders were illegal and members of the military should not have obeyed them. And if right now they decide, you know what, I think that order is illegal, I'm not following it, they could end up court-martialed. So it's a catch-22 for members of the military. That is why it is so negative,

1:30.7

what Democrats are doing without specifying the actual orders they believe are illegal and that

1:35.4

ought to be disobeyed. So that is prong one in the Democratic strategy, is a sort of chaos

1:40.5

strategy with regard to military orders. Prong number two is setting up an entire slate

1:47.0

of possible Democratic nominees who appear to be moderate. And this is really interesting.

1:52.1

So one of the big questions in the aftermath of President Trump winning his second term was,

1:56.6

will Democrats shift over to the Zoranamamani left or are they going to move toward a more

2:02.3

moderate middle?

2:03.2

Are they going to jettison much of their culture war baggage?

2:06.4

Are they going to start talking about trans or are they going to stop talking about trans?

2:09.5

Are they going to up the ante on DEI or are they going to move away from DEI?

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