As the nation reels from a spate of attempted mail bombings, Democrats and the media blame President Trump.

President Trump blames the media, and the stock market tumbles, so it's good times all around.

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

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structured to detonate. So, Allopundit over at Hot Air writes, judging by social media,

some have glanced at an AP story and thought it was claimed that the explosive powder inside

the bomb was harmless, not so. A package sent to CNN contained a pipe bomb and an envelope

with a mystery powder inside. It's a mystery

powder that's harmless. The bombs themselves are supposedly workable and functional if crude,

although there are other reports that suggest that the bombs lacked a detonator. And so this was

either a test run or a hoax or something else like that. We're still waiting more information.

And that is the key today, awaiting more information. It's not the end of the world to say that we need more information. And this holds true on every side. Yesterday, I said there were a bunch of folks who jumped to the false flag explanation. Now, I'm not claiming that you are not allowed to speculate inside your own head as to who you think did this. Or that you're not allowed to wonder whether there's enough information to condemn one side or the other. What I am saying is if you are 100% sure, this is a false flag, if you are 100% sure, you went right there, like right away, you just went to, this is probably the Democrats hoaxing themselves. That's not good. Okay, you shouldn't be using confirmation bias as a substitute for evidence. And this is true in so many cases in our

politics. I can't even tell you. I've been saying this for years. I mean, I remember with Michael

Brown case, Michael Brown, black guy shot by a cop and enormous swaths of the left. The entire left

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