In this engaging episode, Mike Deller dives into a heated discussion on the recent actions taken by Trump against major media outlets, questioning the integrity of polls and media influence on elections. Mike and his guest highlight the controversial narratives shaping public perception and dissect the possible outcomes of these lawsuits. The conversation extends to the broader theme of media accountability and whether traditional outlets are failing their public mission. Listeners are encouraged to weigh in with their opinions on whether these legal battles are justified or simply distractive.
He’s the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor Studios, here’s Mike Deller.
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I’ve got to give an award, a medal or something to Scott Jennings over at CNN. He filled in for me one day. I’m a little worried because he’s good. If I’m not careful, he’ll come right in here and scoop the show away from me. You know the old adage, you’re not supposed to have a guest host who’s any better than you are. Now, he did admit after the show, Mike, you do this for hours a day, five days a week. Are you kidding me? But he’s a force of nature over there at CNN. You know, Trump is suing media outlets. Now he’s suing the Des Moines Register over that bogus Ann Seltzer poll. And everybody knew the poll was bogus. Everybody knew it was a joke. Everybody knew, frankly, that it was designed to impact the outcome of the election. Yeah, Kamala was going to win Iowa by three points, sure. And Ann Seltzer is the gold standard of pollsters. Oh, she’s the best in the business. Trump took Iowa by 17 points. So he’s saying, look, we’re not going to put up with election interference. So he’s suing these various media outlets. He sued ABC. ABC said, yep, you got us. We’re wrong. $16 million, Mr. President. We’ll give you a $15 million contribution to your presidential library and we’ll make George Stephanopoulos pay a million dollars out of his own money to cover your legal fees. Incidentally, Stephanopoulos is reportedly livid at ABC’s agreement. He’s humiliated. He immediately canceled his ex-account. He deleted his ex-account. He had over 2 million followers. Do you know how valuable that is? To have over 2 million followers? And he threw a temper tantrum, and he immediately deleted his ex-account after the settlement this past weekend, which is hysterical. I love that. I love that so much. So let me share with you what Scott Jennings said last night on the panel to make them go crazy. They’re all yelling at him. I mean, he’s like the Christian facing the lions in the Roman Colosseum. Scott Jennings is in the Colosseum surrounded by the lions of CNN making their heads explode. Do you think it should be easier?
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You believe? No, I think that media has to do their job. They have to actually they need to get the facts. Wait a second. It was wrong.
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But guess what else was wrong? All the polls of 2022 and none of those polls are wrong. And you were wrong in 2022, Scott, because you said there was going to be a red wave. I never said that.
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I never said that.
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Twitter, do your thing. Run the clips. Because people said that there was going to be a red wave, and there wasn’t. And so when you make predictions, which is what we get paid to do, is to read the tea leaves and determine, it is not something that should rise to the occasion of litigation. You know what? Scott, how many campaigns have you done?
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I’ve done $100 million, and probably you have too, right? Every time you get a bad poll, are you supposed to sue the pollster now?
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It’s not about the poll. It’s not about the poll. But look what happened. It came out from a person who has a lot of credibility. Virtually every single panel I was on. for the last week of the campaign, led with, well, look at this poll. And so it wasn’t the poll. It’s the second, third, and fourth order of narrative.
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Listen, listen. It’s just speech. So what? So what? It’s free speech? What about, Scott, I mean, what about free speech? I mean, I thought that this was the Republican Party of say what you want. Let’s debate it in the public square. Like, let’s have the conversation. Now it’s, let’s only have the conversation if you’re 100%, you know, prescient and correct in that moment. It was a bad poll. It was a wrong poll. The media discussed it. So what?
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Do you know what I’m so tired of, Scott? The number one cable news network, Fox News. The number one paper by circulation, The Wall Street Journal. Number three paper by circulation, The New York Post. Number one person on the radio, Sean Hannity. The number one person on the podcast, Joe Rogan. All of these people are Trump supporters. What media are you talking about that’s anti-Trump?
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You’re not familiar with the anti-Trump media?
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You’re not familiar with the fact that you guys control everything from podcasts?
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I mean, of all the things I’ve heard you say out here, that might be the nuttiest.
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Believe me, there’s plenty of anti-Trump media. What I’m basically trying to say is that you guys have taken over. The airwaves. You guys have taken over the radio airwaves. You guys have taken over podcasts. You guys have taken over pretty much, I mean, and now you’re sitting here complaining because all you guys do is whine and complain. Your entire raison d’etre is have grievances. You don’t actually think about leading. You just think about having grievances against the media. I’d like to have a grievance if I could.
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Just another grievance is that Republicans are frustrated. They feel as though the media has been out against them. Some of that is social media. Some of that is influencers. Some of that is is just false narratives. And I think that this poll was just sort of the the the final straw. And people felt like it was somehow deliberate.
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That was a deliberate attempt. That’s the word of the day, deliberate. What happens when it was deliberate? That’s the whole point.
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By the way, the craziest part of that whole panel, that’s Michael Cohen. What is that clown doing on that panel? Was Bozo the Clown not available? Was Ronald McDonald busy? Michael Cohen, the disgraced criminal? Creep? The guy that turned on Trump? Scott went on to say, look, and this is my question for you. I don’t want to burden you with all that crap, but let me ask you about Trump suing these media outlets. Because what they’re leaving out of all of these debates is that he sued ABC and he won. They gave him $16 million. They cried uncle. And Scott went on to say that he’s got absolutely no problem with him continuing to sue 60 Minutes of CBS, the Des Moines Register, and all of these media outlets that lied about him.
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Republicans are cheering on this muscular attitude from Trump and pushing back against some of this is because Republicans feel like constantly media organizations, especially in the throes of campaigns, work overtime to create false narratives that may shape the contours of the election. Look what happened when this poll came out in Iowa. The entire English speaking world was talking about the gold standard pollster. And Harris has this momentum. And ultimately what we were told was complete garbage. And if you talked to pollsters at the time, they would have told you this is not real. This methodology is not good anymore. But that’s not what people chose to run with because it fit what most people in the press wanted the narrative to be. So he’s pushing back on that. I don’t frankly have a problem with it. And if they capitulate, it’s because they don’t want to go through the discovery and what that might show.
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All right, so let me ask you that question. Do you have a problem with Trump suing media outlets? Take away your support for him for just a moment. I want you to try to be as objective as you possibly can. Give me a call and tell me how you feel about Trump suing CBS, ABC, NBC, New York Times. Hey, line them all up. If they’re going to lie about him, and then admit that they lied about him, which is essentially what ABC did in giving him the $15 million. Isn’t he on to something? Or do you think it’s a waste of time and you think it’s a distraction and not necessary? Let me turn to the smartest audience in America, the Mike Gallagher Show audience. 1-800-655-MIKE. Welcome aboard. It’s Wednesday, December the 18th. We are one week from Christmas. And so glad you could join us on this busy breaking news episode in the Relief Factor Studios. Give me your take on this. I’m just curious. Let’s take a quick look. sampling of voices from around America. You like the idea of Trump suing the media outlets, or is it a mistake? 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. Join us. I want to welcome some brand new partners to the Mike Gallagher show like Equity Protect. And this is a big, big deal. Your home’s title is often the most valuable thing you own. Next generation criminal technology is more advanced than ever. I’ve been an identity theft victim. It is no fun. You got to have Equity Protect in your corner. If you own your home mortgage-free or you got a lot of equity, you got to have Equity Protect so that scammers do not steal your equity or title. For a limited time, Equity Protect is offering you a tremendous deal, 30% off your first year, giving you one year of protection for less than $12 a month. Just go to EquityProtect.com. Use the discount code Mike30. That’s EquityProtect.com. Use the promo code Mike30. Once you have Equity Protect, you don’t need to check. Trust the team at Equity Protect. Go to EquityProtect.com and use the promo code Mike30.
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You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch. Mike Gallagher. You really are a heel. You’re as cuddly as a cactus. You’re as charming as an eel, Mr. Grinch. You’re a bad banana with a… Greasy black beans.
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No Grinches around here. Nothing but the Christmas spirit. I hope you’re in the holiday mood. We decided to take a couple of days, a little extra days to our vacation. So Joey Hudson is going to fill in tomorrow, Friday, and then next week, Christmas week. And then we’ll be back right after New Year’s. So this is our last time together before the holidays. So let’s make it count. A lot of people are requesting my Denise’s preacher cookie recipe. Everybody loves her preacher cookies. It’s become a holiday tradition for a lot of the members of the Mike Gallagher audience, which is fun for me. It’s a bakeless cookie. Denise got the recipe from her mom, who got it from her mom way back in the day, West Virginia. It’s a bakeless cookie. You don’t cook it. You don’t bake it. Even I can pull it off. Chocolate and oats and It’s sugar and goes right to the arteries and is it good? It is not PhD approved. That’s for sure. But that’s okay because when you’re on PhD weight loss, you know what to do. And you can splurge a little bit and you keep track and then you get right back on the horse again. If you want the recipe for Denise’s preacher cookies, as well as a picture of my Denise, a lot of people ask what she looked like. I think about her, of course, a lot over the holidays, as I know many people who’ve lost a loved one do. And just she’s always in my heart. So just text the keyword Denise to 800-655-MIKE, which is the MyPillow text line. We’ll send you back. The famous preacher cookie recipe, and you should do that every Christmas time. It’s become a real holiday tradition for our family over the years. And the kids and I will be eating some preacher cookies. Hope you will too. So if you want the recipe, just text Denise to our text line. brought to you by MyPillow, which is 800-655-6453. We’ll send you back the link, as well as a picture of Denise, one of my favorite pictures of her. I forget, I think that was outside Yankee Stadium, actually, in New York City, because she had a big smile on her face, and I can almost hear that infectious laugh that she always had. So we’ll send you back the recipe and her picture, or you can just go to mikeonline.com to get the recipe. All right, let’s dive in and see if you think it’s a good idea or a bad idea for Trump to continue to sue media outlets. Let’s start in Naples, Florida, where Edward is standing by. Hey, Edward, Merry Christmas.
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Merry Christmas to you. How are you? I think the answer is if the law of libel permits it, yes. I mean, I think that’s just the proper use of rights, and obviously the legacy media many of us have issues with, and they should be accountable for misreporting. Can I add one other thing that’s personal? Sure. I used to know the president of college. Our names alphabetically are S and T, so I sat next to him in a class. And because of that, I got a lot of interviews unsolicited with the mainstream media. And I have to tell you, I was totally impressed with the preliminary to screen interviews that It didn’t matter what network. Some of them were really well-known national correspondents. And at that level, I have absolutely no issue with the national press. But what happens between there and what the outlet – delivers to the audience, I don’t understand.
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Well, I’m not sure. ABC had nothing to do with a local affiliate. That was George Stephanopoulos and the ABC network, and he lied repeatedly and claimed that a jury had adjudicated him as a rapist. And that was a lie. He was not adjudicated for rape. He was not found to have raped E. Jean Carroll. And incidentally, they’ve put her on notice. They’re going to make sure she doesn’t get one dime of the gazillion dollar payment that he’s supposedly been ordered to pay her. And then they’re going to sue her for coming up with this bogus… I mean, there was stuff about her lawsuit. For example, reportedly she posed on the cover of New York Magazine with the dress that she was allegedly wearing when he supposedly groped her or assaulted her, whatever word you want to use. And that dress wasn’t even made at that time. And that wasn’t allowed to be introduced as evidence. That was one of the legal arguments. We’ll see how all that plays out. Look, to me it’s simple. You don’t get sued for an opinion. You don’t like Trump, that’s fine. You can’t lie about him. You can’t tell lies. You can’t say he colluded with the Russians to overturn the election. There’s a litany of lies that the media needs to be held accountable for. This is Florida Day. Holy cow. Look at all the calls from Florida. I swear, I think it’s the phone system. I keep telling Eric that. Look at that. Frank in St. Augustine, George in Sarasota, Rosemary somewhere in Florida. That’s bizarre. And we’ve got all our callers. Oh, there’s somebody from Yuma, Arizona. Let’s go to Sarasota. George, Merry Christmas. How are you? Merry Christmas, Mike. How are you? I’m good. What do you think about Trump suing the media outlets? Good idea? Sue the pants off of all of them. Anybody who had a bad thing to say about him, sue them. They would do the same thing to him if he did it. So let’s get, not get even, let’s get ahead. Let’s get ahead. Don’t get even, get ahead. Don’t get mad, get even. Now, I’m not sure he should be suing everybody who said a bad thing about him because he’d be spending a lot of time in court. Hey, remember how we said it was weird that the family of Luigi Mangione didn’t reach out to the authorities after his picture was published? There’s some weird developments in that case. Going to give you an update next.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor studios, here’s Mike Geller.
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There’s a lot of drama involving the potential of Joe Biden giving preemptive pardons to a number of political figures. Yesterday, it was revealed that Liz Cheney had a role in her House Select Committee witch hunt that seems very, very nefarious. The report from GOP legislators say that based on the evidence obtained by the subcommittee, numerous federal laws were likely broken by Liz Cheney, the former vice chair of the January 6th Select Committee Committee. And these violations should be investigated by the FBI. Now, I’m a little concerned about the fox guarding the hen house. I don’t know how thorough a job the FBI will do. But evidence suggests that Liz Cheney tampered with at least one witness by secretly communicating with that witness, a woman named Cassidy Hutchinson, without Hutchinson’s attorney’s knowledge, which would be a federal crime. Now, keep an eye on Biden’s pardon pen. Because it seems to me, if he preemptively pardons Liz Cheney, the whole world’s going to know she did it. And he’s trying to save her fanny from going to prison. I’m telling you, Trump hatred takes normal people and creates monsters. My friend Mark Davis says it all the time. Trump derangement syndrome makes nice people mean and makes smart people stupid. People just take leave of their senses. Can you imagine a woman of Liz Cheney’s stature, a lifelong Republican, daughter of Dick Cheney? The Cheney family was widely and for years admired and respected as a stalwart of conservatism and reputable people. If the accusation is true, If the claim is correct, now who knows? They’ve got to investigate it, but I’ve seen a whole lot of stuff on social media about this Cassidy Hutchinson character. She said one thing one day, changed her testimony, allegedly after talking to Liz Cheney. I mean, it’s like all these people. They take a position and then they flip it because they get encouraged to do so by bad actors. So let’s just think about this for a moment. Now Liz Cheney got completely demolished in her re-election effort in her state, in Wyoming. Harriet Hageman just demolished her. You talk about a landslide. Her constituents overwhelmingly rejected her. Now she’s making the rounds. She’s making her appearances. She’s giving her speeches. I’m sure there are leftist groups that want to pay her a lot of money to come give a speech. She’s going to write books probably. Think about this for just a moment. If the accusation is correct that Liz Cheney broke numerous federal laws facing possible prison time, all driven by her hatred of Donald Trump. Isn’t that astounding? To Mark’s rule, hating Trump makes smart people stupid. What a stupid thing for her to have done. Now, maybe it’s not true. She came back out and she comes out swinging saying there’s no truth to it and it’s wrong and blah, blah, blah. But wouldn’t it be wild if Biden gives her a preemptive pardon? And let’s face it. Let’s be real here. Would that surprise you? Would that surprise you, honestly, if that happened? Probably not. 1-800-655-MIKE. The FBI, House Republicans say, should investigate potential Liz Cheney witness tampering. Holy cow. That’s wild. Also, making news, and I want to cover this. We’re very disappointed. The AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act fell short yesterday. avoiding a vote by the full Senate. Obviously, we are very disappointed. We’ve been encouraging you to contact your representatives. As best I can tell, it’s Rand Paul who is blocking this. And I’m torn on this because I cannot be objective. I can’t. I know that I’m heard on hundreds of AM radio stations around the country. I know that the left would love to silence talk radio. I know that Democrats would love nothing better than to see talk radio go away. It is continually the most viable format in America. Talk radio And the spoken word format, whether it’s on a streaming platform like our Salem News Channel or on the thousands of radio stations who carry our shows collectively all over America, talk radio is thriving, is successful, is consequential. We do good things. Look at our Christmas campaign for Angel Tree. We’re going to finish up with almost a quarter of a million dollars to provide Bibles and Christmas presents everywhere. for children of people in prison, thanks to the Angel Tree Prison Fellowship Campaign. That’s just on my show alone. We’re nearing, I think, $200,000 in donations over the last couple of weeks. Those are the kinds of things we try to do for our country, for our fellow man, for humanity. And, of course, AM radio plays a crucial role in notification of weather and, you know, incidents and events. They were trying to use unanimous consent to pass the bill, but Senator Rand Paul took to the floor of the Senate and said, mandating that all cars have AM radio is antithetical to any notion of limited government. Now, again, I’m torn by this. I cannot be objective. This is how I make my living. I don’t want AM radio to go away in cars. And cars, the auto manufacturers are increasingly not including AM radio in the vehicle. And, you know, I don’t want to panic and say it could put us out of business. But it could be very difficult for our industry to survive if… Auto manufacturers continue to fail to put AM radio in their new vehicles. Senator Ted Cruz took to the floor of the Senate yesterday and said, look, it is widely enjoyed by Americans across the country. Over 80 million Americans listen to AM radio every month. They rely on it. He said, I believe these automakers stood up to remove AM radio as part of a broader pattern we see of censoring views that are disfavored by big business. I think this is consistent with what big tech has done, silencing views they disagree with. And so this bill is all about preserving consumer choice and letting consumers decide. If you don’t want to listen to AM radio, turn it off. Put on the AM dial. Put on a podcast. But Rand Paul disagrees with the premise of Ted Cruz’s argument, saying the debate over free speech, as listed in the First Amendment, is that government shall pass no law. It has nothing to do with forcing your manufacturer to have AM radio. This legislation attempts to insert Congress’s judgment into a question best decided by American consumers. You know, the problem with Rand Paul’s argument, and again, I’m fully stipulating, I’m not objective. Obviously, I want this to pass, and I still think it’s going to pass. It’s just not going to be now. It’s going to have to be next year when Republicans fully gain control of the House and the Senate and the presidency. But the fallacy of what Rand Paul is arguing is, a question best decided by American consumers, well, you’re removing that option by removing AM radio from a car. You’re not giving them the choice of AM radio. You’re essentially giving FM a monopoly. You’re including FM radio, but you’re not including AM radio. And so Congress, and led by folks like Senator Ted Cruz and even Democrats like Ed Markey, The guy out of New Mexico, the Democrat there, this is a bipartisan effort. And look, I can tell you all day long, Rand Paul is wrong on this. But, of course, you know what I do for a living. So it’s very hard for me to be objective. And look, we’ve got a lot of FM stations around the country that now carry talk radio. And maybe, maybe the argument is… With apps and streaming services that you can easily plug in to your car, it’s kind of a quaint notion. It’s kind of an outdated or an antiquated belief that we ought to have AM radio in every vehicle. So, look, we can talk about it. It’s a hard conversation for me to have. I’m happy to engage with you on it as long as we all understand I know I can’t be fair and objective on this subject. Because I’m deeply concerned, very worried that this thing is getting delayed. Now, Radio Inc. just did an editorial saying, look, it is very likely going to be a renewed effort. It’s going to happen in 2025. And let’s be honest here. Let’s be real. We won in November 5th. We don’t take over until January 20th. So maybe the devil’s in the details. Feel free to give me your take on this. 800-655-MIKE. And look, I like Senator Rand Paul. He’s a libertarian. He’s a purist. And I get it. I understand what he’s arguing. Congress shall pass no law. Let me get your take on it all. Feel free to join us. 18 past the hour. Happy Wednesday, December the 18th. One week to go till Christmas. 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But look, this Ukraine first policy, America last policy, doesn’t go over well. All you’ve got to do is go to Asheville, North Carolina, and ask the people suffering there, are you glad that $4 billion has been sent over to help those people in Ukraine, but Asheville is without potable drinking water? So I think you’d find Americans pretty upset about this.
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In the ReliefFactor.com studios, here’s Mike.
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Yeah, that’s Senator Rand Paul. He’s right on a lot of stuff. I don’t think he’s right on this one. We’re going to see how it all plays out. Nice text message from Washington State. Mike, we’ll miss you while you’re on Christmas break. Enjoy your time off. Hear you next year. That’s nice. I am looking forward to a nice… Restful break. I’m going to do some traveling. Might go to Los Angeles tomorrow for a day to pay a special visit to somebody who’s a dear friend and colleague. I don’t know if that’s going to come together or not. I’m going to try to make that happen and hope that works out. Joey Hudson is going to be filling in tomorrow. A lot of people are getting Denise’s preacher cookie recipe. I just walked down the hall. the other day and chemo one of the great team members here at salem tampa said preacher cookies baby there’s nothing like denise’s preacher cookies and a lot of we’ve got thousands of people text the keyword denise to the my pillow text line and a nice bonus since it was my wife’s recipe and i talk often about my my wife who uh passed away in 2008 i know it’s uh gosh In some ways, it seems like yesterday. In other ways, it feels like a couple of lifetimes ago. I miss her so much, and I think about her a lot over the holidays. And getting her preacher cookie recipe out is a good way to honor her. There are no baked cookies, too. But anyway, when you text the keyword Denise to the MyPillow text line, we send you back the recipe and a picture of Denise with her big smile that just lit up a room and that infectious laugh. I can still hear her laugh, and I am grateful to share her recipe with you. The no-bake preacher cookies, sugar and cocoa and milk and margarine and salt and vanilla and peanut butter and oatmeal, and they’re no-bake. Don’t try to put them in the oven. It doesn’t work that way. You’ve got to let them cool. And I know other people have variations of that recipe. But look, for the Mike Gallagher audience, they are Denise Gallagher’s preacher cookie recipes. Enjoy. Have some in honor of a very special lady. So just text Denise. And Denise is with an S, D-E-N-I-S-E, Denise, to 800-655-MIKE. And we’ll send you back the recipe and her picture. Or you can check it out at mikeonline.com where we have it posted as well. Maybe preacher cookies will become a holiday tradition in your family like they have been for mine for many, many years. And thank you, Washington State. I’ll miss you as well. But I will be back Thursday, January 2nd, rested, refreshed, ready to go. We’re going to be headed to the inauguration on January 20th in Washington, D.C. That’s going to be a big event. And look, we’ve got a lot of challenges ahead of us. I mean, I’m looking at a poll, Emerson College poll, that says that 41% of young people support what Luigi Mangione did in New York City, according to the authorities. I mean, he’s innocent until proven guilty. I mean, it looks like they got him dead to rights as far as all the evidence, but we’re going to see. We got people getting the killer’s face tattooed on their arms. and their backs and their bodies. And according to the New York Post, a shocking number of young people support UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s killer, with 41% saying Luigi Mangione’s alleged actions are acceptable. Acceptable!
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24% of U.S. voters aged 18 to 29… answered that Mangione’s alleged brazen execution was somewhat acceptable. 17% said it was completely acceptable. So when you put those two categories together, you’ve got 41% of young people saying that there’s a level of acceptability to walking up and in a cowardly way And pumping bullets in the back of an innocent man walking down the street. Because he’s the CEO of one of the nation’s largest health care insurers. There was also a stark partisan split among those who were polled by Emerson. 22% of Democrats said they find the alleged killer’s actions acceptable. 12% of Republicans… And 16% of independents do so. Now, Mangione was indicted yesterday in New York City on upgraded charges of murder as an act of terrorism. Alvin Bragg threw the book at this guy. I’m going to, in the spirit of the season, it’s a week from Christmas, I’m going to give you a theory about why Alvin, or I have a theory about why Alvin Bragg threw the book at him, but I’m not going to say it. I’m just not going to. It’s ugly, and I don’t want to go there. But you know what I’m probably thinking, based on the track record of Alvin Bragg and these social warrior justices. all throughout the country, these district attorneys and attorneys general who don’t want to prosecute people of color as a form of social justice, downgrading felonies to misdemeanors left and right. Look, we know the drill. So, sorry, Luigi, you didn’t check a box. Nonetheless, I’m glad they’re throwing the book at him. I hope he never sees the light of day. And it’s appalling to look at young people believing that shooting a CEO in the back and killing him is acceptable. I don’t even know where to go with this other than to acknowledge the presence of evil and recognize that there’s a lot of young progressives who are flat-out, stone-cold evil. If you find killing Brian Thompson acceptable, you’re a monster. No debate. There’s no conversation. I mean, look, I’m not going to discourage you from calling. You can try. Go ahead and call me and tell me you think it’s acceptable to sneak up behind a guy walking to a conference at 645 in the morning in Midtown Manhattan and pumping him full of bullets. You go ahead and tell me that a guy who, for all indications, has never done anything wrong in his life, except come from nowhere, a farm in Iowa, and become a health care executive and CEO of one of America’s largest health insurers… That’s not a crime. You might not like the way they do business. I don’t like paying taxes. I don’t want anybody killed from the IRS. I don’t like paying a lot for groceries. I don’t want the grocery store owner killed. If you find the killing of Brian Thompson acceptable on any level, you’re a monster and you ought to get help. You ought to see somebody. You ought to talk to a pastor, a priest, a rabbi, a therapist, your family. You need to get help because there’s something off with you. There’s something wrong with you. Feel free to weigh in. How do you react to this news? More than 40% of young voters say the UnitedHealthcare CEO killing was acceptable. More than 40%. My Lord. My Lord. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. Text or call us. Let’s put your voice front and center here on this Wednesday episode of The Mike Gallagher Show. Stay with us.
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