Ep. 2371 - Prince Andrew Arrested

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What evidence led to Prince Andrew's arrest?

Ben Shapiro 0:00
Prince Andrew is apparently arrested on charges that we will explore in just a moment, thanks to the revelations in some of the Epstein files. We'll also get to a litany of fake victims, those fake victims ranging from James Tallarico, the Texas Democrat Senate candidate, to, yes, Tucker Carlson. First, all week we have been telling you episode six of the Pendragon Cycle, Rise of the Merlin is the big one, and now it is here. Honestly, if you haven't started the series yet, you should start with this episode. Everyone who has seen this episode says it is their favorite. Even Tom Sharp, the dude who plays Merlin, called and said he would do whatever it takes to make sure people watch this episode.
Ben Shapiro 0:34
The fight scenes go toe-to-toe with anything Hollywood makes. The love story is going to own the group chat.

How do allegations against public figures impact public perception?

Ben Shapiro 0:38
The ending launches us straight into the finale in the most ridiculous, epic way possible. It is streaming right this very moment only on Daily Wire+. One rule, you should find the biggest screen you can find. Roku, Samsung, Vizio, Apple TV, wherever. Get that Daily Wire+, app and get started today. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Prince Andrew, as he is known in the UK, although he was stripped of his formal title, has now been arrested. He is being held in custody on suspicion of misconduct in public office. This is based on apparently revelations in the release of all of the Epstein papers, all the Epstein files. Our standard when it comes to literally any case should be evidence. I know this has fallen out of public favor because we have this thing called X where people sort of just find one page of a thing and then take it out of context or obscure certain data or simply misinterpret.
Ben Shapiro 1:24
And then that becomes the story of the day. But actual evidence is the standard when it comes to making actual legal allegations about people. And if we don't do that, then we got kind of a problem with regard to both public information and also equal rule of law. When it comes to the evidence in this particular case, we now have 3.5 million pages that have been released into the public. If you, like an individual human being, were to try to read those pages 24-7, no sleeping, no eating, no breaks, and let's say that you are reading it carefully, let's say you were doing like 25 pages per hour, it would take you like 16 years to read through that. So I understand that the internet is sort of group sourcing this thing, but that doesn't mean that everybody is reading everything, nor does it mean that the analysis is in any way truly methodical.
Ben Shapiro 2:11
And again, that's fine. The internet is what the internet is. The only point that I'm making is when you're talking about somebody who actually gets arrested, it would probably behoove us to find out for what he was arrested and what the best available evidence suggests about that arrest. With that said, everyone who committed a crime, every single person obviously should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. And prosecutions ought to be based. I know this is controversial. Prosecutions ought not be based on speculation on X. rooted in non-evidentiary allegations. They ought to be based on the evidence. I know this is a very strong standard that we ought to actually prosecute Andrew for the crimes he committed, not for the crimes you think he committed based on the stuff that you read by some rando, a non-account on X.
Ben Shapiro 2:52
But that's actually how functional civilizations are supposed to work. He's been charged again with misconduct in public office. That is a relatively vague and complex charge in Great Britain. Dominic Casciani is the home and legal correspondent for the BBC. And he says that essentially that charge boils down to an allegation that someone who was doing a job on behalf of the British public did something seriously wrong, knowing it to be wrong. And there are four elements that the police actually have to fulfill in order to arrest somebody. First, the police have to establish whether the person they are investigating was a public officer and the incident in question was plausibly part of those duties.

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