Mick Mulvaney spends the day on the hot seat. President Trump sends the G7 to his own resort,

and our journalisming betters set their site on Facebook. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

Wow, endless numbers of things to get to today. We're going to jump in in just one second. First,

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over at ExpressVPN. Okay, so the big news of the day all surrounds Mick Mulvaney. Before we get

into it, first, we have to note the passing of Elijah Cummings, longtime congressperson from Washington

D.C.S. Baltimore, obviously, according to the Associated Press, Maryland Representative

Elijah Cummings, a sharecropper's son who rose to become a civil rights champion and the chairman

of one of the U.S. House committees leading an impeachment inquiry of President Trump died Thursday

of complications from

longstanding health problems. He was 68 years old. He was a formidable orator who advocated for

the poor in his black majority district according to the Associated Press. You don't have to

like Elijah Cummings's politics to understand that he was good at the game. And not only that,

that he was actually, according to virtually every Republican who worked with him,

somebody who operated with a high level of honor inside his own chamber.

There's a lot of bipartisan respect for Elijah Cummings.

So all the best to his wife and family, obviously, condolences to everybody who knew Elijah Cummings.

Trey Gowdy made a really nice statement on Twitter about Elijah Cummings. He said Elijah Cummings was one of the most powerful, beautiful, and compelling voices in American politics. The power and the beauty came from his authenticity, his conviction, the sincerity with which he held his beliefs. We rarely agreed on political matters. We never had a crossword outside of a committee room. He had a unique ability to separate the personal from the work. The story of Elijah's life would benefit everyone regardless of political ideation, the obstacles, barriers, and roadblocks he overcame, the external and sometimes internal doubt that whispered in the ear of a young Elijah Cummings, he beat it all. He beat the odds. He beat the low expectations of that former school employee who told Elijah to abandon the dream of being a lawyer, that he would never become a lawyer, to settle for a job with his hands and not his mind. Elijah loved telling that story because that school employee wound up being Elijah's first client as a lawyer. We live in an age where we see people on TV a couple of times and we think we know them and what they are about. It is true Elijah was a proud progressive with a booming Melodia's voice, who found himself in the middle of the most major political stories over the past decade. It is inescapable that be part of his legacy, but his legacy also includes the path he took to become one of the most powerful political figures of his time. It is a path filled with pain, prejudice, obstacles, and doubt that he refused to let's stop him. His legacy is perseverance. His legacy is fighting through the pain. his legacy is making sure there were fewer obstacles for the next Elijah Cummings. His legacy to me above else was above all else was his faith,

a faith in God that is being rewarded today with no more fights, no more battles, and no more

pain. So good for a nice statement by Trey Gowdy. And regardless of your political affiliation,

when people in public service pass away and they are

well respected across the political aisle, it's worthy of taking a moment. Okay, so the big news

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