A top Trump advisor in meshed in allegations of wife beating, the Republicans decide to blow

out the budget as always, and Democratic women decide that they have to get naked to fight

the patriarchy or something.

I'm Ben Shapiro.

This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

Oh, we have so many great stories to get to.

Apparently coin tosses are racist.

I will hope to get to that a little bit later in the program as well.

There's also a woman who's suggesting that women only read books by women.

So I guess that they should all read 50 Shades of Gray and not Tolstoy because the patriarchy or some such.

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Okay, so let's get into something that is not good. So now we have to get serious because there's actually a terrible, terrible story. So it turns out that one of Trump's top aides again named Rob Porter, nobody's ever heard of Rob Porter. He's just one of these guys who hangs around the president. I know some folks in the White House, they say that Rob Porter was indeed very close to the president. Obviously, that is true. He's in half of the pictures with the president. And apparently, Rob Porter is not

good to his ladies. So his first ex-wife, he has, I guess, two ex-wives is the idea. I don't know what it is about Trump and the people who surround him or who are his fans, but there are a lot of thrice married people, or at least twice-married people, twice-divorced people who surround President Trump. In any case, this one is actually

not on Trump. Rob Porter was an aide to General John Kelly. He's seen as sort of his right

hand, helping to ensure that the wrong people don't get into the Oval Office to talk to the

presidents of the United States. Well, apparently, his first ex-wife is accused Rob Porter of spousal abuse. And there is a picture of this. Apparently,

his first ex-wife, her name is Kobe Holderness. And she spoke on the record to Daily Mail.com

about their five-year marriage. Apparently they met at their Mormon church in 2000 while they were in

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