Ep. 2170 - The Atlantic’s GIANT Fake News Screw-Up
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Folks, we have a ton coming up on today's show. The final episode of the case for Derek Chauvin plus Malcolm Gladwell stops by to talk about all of that. And of course, all the big news of the day, the preparation for the Trump tariffs, the big race that's going on in Wisconsin for Supreme Court. If you want more from The Ben Shapiro Show and The Daily Wire, even more than you normally get, it's time to become a Daily Wire Plus member. You get member exclusive shows, ad-free streaming. Watch along with my producers in the chat, plus early access to our new releases. Watch premium films and documentaries you're not going to find anywhere else. and connect with a community that shares your values. Watch anywhere, anytime on desktop, mobile, and TV apps. With new content added every week, there's always something worth watching. Join the fight right now at dailywire.com slash subscribe. Well, the media are on the hunt for a bad story that can hang around President Trump's neck.
President Trump continues to ride around 50% in the approval ratings, which is a historic high for him. The public is giving him an enormous amount of leeway because, of course, he is still at the beginning of his second presidency. There's tremendous warmth for many elements of his agenda, ranging from Doge to immigration. And so the media are on the lookout for a bad story, a bad story. Now, they tried Signalgate, and Signalgate basically went nowhere because the truth is... that everybody has at one point or another included somebody in a group chat by accident, and it gets very awkward and all the rest. And the actual result of Signal Chat was kind of an embarrassing snafu, but the military strikes on the Houthis were totally successful, and in fact, the United States military is currently eviscerating the Houthis in Yemen. So... People are sort of looking at that and saying, okay, not great, not wonderful, but is this a career-ending mistake for people inside the Trump administration?
Is this a total derailing of the Trump administration? Probably not. So the media continue on their lookout. And this is one of the things that the Trump administration has to be very careful about. There are certain policy screw-ups that are so large that they can take down an administration. As I've been saying, a bad economic downturn would seriously hamper President Trump's ability to do virtually anything, given the fact that he effectively has a one-vote majority in the House of Representatives. But beyond that, there are also certain stories that are just so bad for an administration that they end up hampering their ability to do anything because association with the administration becomes sort of toxic. And there are many cases of this over the course of modern American history.
The truth is the Hunter Biden laptop story hovered over the Biden administration for the entirety of the Biden administration. The truth is that when it came to Barack Obama, Barack Obama's administration was seriously hampered, not just by Obamacare, but by Barack Obama's polarizing talk in 2012. There are many such cases where a single story can shift an entire election cycle. This happened in 2006. Republicans looked like they were in decent shape for the midterm elections of 2006. And then there was a Republican congressperson named Mark Foley, who it turned out had been sleeping with some of his aides, allegedly. And because of that, Republicans ended up getting shellacked. So... All that is happening right now is the media are on the hunt for some sort of screw up that is so bad that it seriously harms the Trump administration. And the place that they are digging right now is in the immigration realm because Trump is moving fast and breaking things in many realms, including the immigration realm. And so there is a story by Nick Miroff from the Atlantic.
that supposedly was going to bring down the Trump administration, do serious damage to the Trump administration. It's their lead today at the Atlantic. It's called an administrative error sends a Maryland father to a Salvadoran prison. And this was going to be a big takedown, right? The idea being that the most popular element of Trump's agenda by far right now is his immigration portfolio.
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