Ep. 348 - Has The Conservative Movement Hit Its Limit?
The Ben Shapiro Show
The Daily Wire
4.4 • 152.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2017
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Meet Imran Awan. |
| 0:01.4 | Awan was in 8 to 25 members of the House Democratic Caucus. |
| 0:04.5 | Over the past decade, Awan and his family members were paid some $4 million by House Democrats. |
| 0:09.6 | He was arrested on charges of bank fraud yesterday while attempting to flee the country. |
| 0:13.4 | He was headed to Pakistan, where he had reportedly wired nearly $300,000 to himself. |
| 0:18.1 | Smashed hard drives were reportedly found at his home. |
| 0:20.6 | According to Politico, Awan and his wife had been investigated for stealing equipment from some house members. There are suspicions that Awan may have put information from that equipment onto the cloud. While other house members fired Awan months ago, former DNC head Debbie Wasserman-Schultz decided to keep him on payroll until the day of his arrest and attempted to stop the cops from looking at her smashed laptop, which Awan apparently had. Naturally, top Democrats are claiming that Awan may have been arrested due to, you guessed it, Islamophobia, all of which should raise some serious questions. Question number one, why was Awan being paid so much money for so long? According to the Daily Caller, Awan wasn't even doing a good job. |
| 0:57.3 | In fact, he and his team weren't on mandatory phone calls. They write, |
| 1:04.0 | fellow IT staffers, the DCNF interviewed, said the Awans were often absent from weekly meetings and email exchanges. |
| 1:09.3 | One of the fellow staffers said some of the computers the Awans managed were being used to transfer data to an off-site server. |
| 1:48.3 | Second question, what information did Awan transfer? The Daily Color, which has been all over this story, reports that Awan had, quote, access to all emails and files of dozens of members of Congress, as well as the password to the iPad that Debbie Wasserman Schultz used for DNC business before she resigned as its head in July 2016. Question number three, what is Wasserman Schultz trying to hide? Not only did Wasserman Schultz keep paying a wand until yesterday, she reportedly threatened the chief of the U.S. Capitol Police with consequences for holding equipment that she says belongs to her. Again, here's the Daily Caller. Quote, when the Daily Caller asked Wasserman Schultz on Monday, if it could inquire about her strong desire for the laptop, she said, no, you may not. After the daily caller asked why she wouldn't want the Capitol Police to have any evidence they may need to find and punish any hackers |
| 1:53.1 | of government information, she abruptly turned around in the middle of a stairwell and retreated |
| 1:57.1 | back to the office from which she had come. Fourth question and final question, why aren't the media reporting this story? |
| 2:03.6 | Thus far, only political among the mainstream media news outlets has covered the Awan story. |
| 2:07.5 | Nothing from ABC News, nothing from NBCNews.com, nothing from CNN, nothing from the New York Times. |
| 2:13.0 | That is pretty stunning, considering the potential scope of the story. |
| 2:16.2 | One suspicion, our mainstream |
| 2:17.7 | outlet's concerned that maybe a one might be in some way connected to DNC leaks that damaged |
| 2:22.5 | Democrats or that will do so in the future. This is a major, major story. We're just beginning |
| 2:27.7 | to learn the ramifications, and it's certainly weird at the very least that it's being buried |
| 2:31.5 | by mainstream media outlets. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show. So that is the story that's on the top of the conservative mind. That is not the |
| 2:45.2 | story that's on the top of the national mind. We'll get to President Trump's announcement that |
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