welcome in his verdict with Ted Cruz and the week in review Ben Ferguson with you and these are the major stories that we chatted about this week that you may have missed first up i can't believe i'm saying this but there was an actual article in a major newspaper that said that joe biden was an amazing leader they did incredible things why on earth would you be writing that article in the majority of american say that his presidency was a disaster will break down the biden failures for you in a moment
Also, there was a big prediction that Joe Biden was going to pardon or give clemency to people that were hardcore criminals, including those on death row. Well, that is exactly what he did. And could it be because he's about to pardon many others around the Biden crime family? And finally,
There's another big question that Democrats are dealing with right now. And that is, should they have kicked Joe Biden to the curb sooner than they did? And would that have changed the outcome of the election? Meaning Donald Trump wouldn't have been elected president. We'll break that down as now they're trying to figure out what they're going to do next.
It's the weekend review and it starts right now. So let's move to the Washington Post and I'm going to do something unusual on this podcast. So I read this article and my head exploded and I texted you and said this is the most absurd self-saturizing article I've ever seen. So I just want to go through it literally line by line.
this is a you know major story in the washington post banner headline on on drudge and and and it is entitled we're just going to go through sentence by sentence
It's entitled, How Biden Leads, Joe Biden's Lonely Battle to Sell His Vision of American Democracy. In his presidency's final chapter, Biden has mused about whether he should have handled some decisions differently. And the guy who wrote this is a guy named Tyler Pager. We're going to come back to him later. So let's start.
Earlier this year, Representative James E. Clyburn met President Joe Biden at the White House to deliver a stern message. Biden had to find a way to revitalize his flagging campaign. Clyburn, who had been pivotal to Biden's 2020 victory, also made a confession about his own longstanding belief that substance is more important than style and politics.
Quote, I've come to the conclusion in recent days that I'm wrong about that. The South Carolina Democrat 84 remembers telling Biden. The new environment that we currently live in, style seems to carry the day more than substance. Your style, he told the president, does not lend itself well to the environment we're currently in. Clyburn's conclusion, which was shared by anxious Democrats in the months before the president ended his re-election bid, undermined Biden's theory of presidential leadership.
after Donald Trump's ascent. Biden believed that he just needed to show Americans that traditional democracy still worked by listening but two experts working with Republicans passing popular policies and voters would rally around him. All right, let's stop there. Okay, so so far,
Every word of this article, if this was written by the Biden press office, it would not be any different. And this entire article is hagiography. This entire article is not journalism. It is not only trying to praise breathlessly as we're going to go through Joe Biden and cast him as a mighty Titan.
but it is profoundly dishonest. So it starts with the frame that Biden's great success is on substance, not style. And the obvious implication of which we're going to get more is that all Trump has his style. There's no substance. That's the obvious implication. But let's take this last sentence.
after Donald Trump's ascent. Biden believed he just needed to show Americans that traditional democracy still worked. We're going to get more into democracy in a second. By listening to experts, working with Republicans and passing popular policies. What experts did he listen to? He did not work with Republicans. Every damn thing he passed, he rammed through on a vicious party line vote. He used budget reconciliation over and over again with no Republicans and passing popular policies.
Nobody helped Donald Trump get elected more than Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. because his policies were so incredibly unpopular. All right, let's keep going.
Back to the article, quote, he succeeded in phase one of his plan. Did he now? Enacting legislation, much of it bipartisan, to reshape the nation's infrastructure, revive the semiconductor industry, and fight climate change. Let's be clear, the Climate Change, the Inflation Reduction Act, was a straight party line vote, rammed through unreconciliation. But phase two never happened.
The truth of Biden's presidency is that he has failed and what, by his own count, his most important mission, making Trump's presidency seem like an aberration.
Quote, he governed through traditional processes and institutions. Said Julian E. Zelizer, a moron presidential historian at Princeton University. It doesn't say moron, but you're going to see that everything this guy says. I know he's sadly a professor at my alma mater. He's a complete moron. Let's start with the traditional processes and institutions.
There's nothing traditional about weaponizing the federal government to go after your opponents. There's nothing traditional about prosecuting and indicting the former president over and over and over again. There's nothing traditional and using the institutions about opening the border and having an invasion of our country. But here, the good Princeton professor, quote, it didn't change the picture where he started.
this anger in the electorate towards institution, this support for a pretty radical conservative vision that Trump embodied. It didn't do anything to end the very intense polarization that exists in this country. Now, the idea that Trump is a radical conservative is a bizarre idea.
Trump ran on securing the border, bringing down inflation, standing with our friends and defeating our enemies. That is very hard to characterize as a quote, radical conservative vision. But hey, the Princeton professor says it and the Washington Post breathlessly reports it. We're going to go on, but give me your thoughts so far and then we'll go back to the article.
I'm not surprised that this is how they want to just rewrite history part of this and just be so delusional. I am a little bit- It gets worse. I'm a little bit shocked, though. You know how you're supposed to proofread before you print? If you're reading what you just wrote that you just read, I would think there would be a moment where you might be like, yeah, I don't know if this needs to see the light of day. Yeah, here it is. They put it out there.
All right, let's keep going because it gets much, much worse. Previous articles in this series examined the pillars. Oh, they're so strong, the pillars, the pillars of Biden's leadership, how he absorbs information, how he makes decisions, how he communicates with Americans.
They showed that Biden, even at the peak of his glorious magnificent power, doesn't say glorious magnificent, but it's just implied, struggled mightily to communicate his decisions and vision. This article, based on interviews with more than 2,000 people close to Biden, reveals the ways in which his theory of how to succeed in an era of American politics dominated by Trump, fell apart in the final phase of his presidency, and how he's been publicly and privately rethinking whether he should have handled some decisions differently.
Even some of his closest advisors, without faulting Biden, conceded recently that his style of governing did not always mesh with today's politics. Quote, the president has been operating on a time horizon measured in decades while the political cycle is measured in four years. Jake Sullivan, Biden's national security advisor, said with his lips planted firmly on Biden's rear end. That last piece was my cum.
Like, I want you to go back and listen to that sentence again. The president has been operating on a time horizon measured in decades while the political cycle is measured in four years. Now, look, I kudos to the Biden White House for just having the hotspot.
to say, Oh, Biden's presidency would be hysterical. And you know, you really have to measure decades. 12 million people invading this country. Four years is too short to measure it. We're going to screw up this country for decades. You know, undermining our allies causing two wars, a war in Ukraine and a war in Gaza, like you're right, the harm from Biden will last decades. But that's their entire spin. Well, yes,
Everything Biden did was profoundly unpopular because all of his policies failed, but...
he's really playing the long game you foolish people don't understand this this this misery is good for you all right let's act let's keep going sulliman added that biden's accomplishments by their nature will take a long time to bear fruit quote how to govern at this moment to set the u.s. up for long-term success has one answer and how to deal with mid-term and presidential elections in the very short term might have a different answer he said the president
went with doing things that really put America in a strong position. Ben, what the hell have they done to put America in a strong position in every part of the world? America is weaker today than when Joe Biden entered the White House. Like this is absurd, and I got to say the absurd thing, we're gonna go back to this in a minute, is the Washington Post just publishes this drivel
like it's news that there's not a moment of reflection. There's not a moment of facts that there's not a moment of reality. And it's, I mean, how do you react to that? Oh, he's playing the long game.
Yeah, I think there's two things here. One, there's a part of me that's like, I can't believe it. And then there's another part of me that's like, good. Because if you don't learn from your losses, then you're going to repeat the same mistakes that you just made. And I think the Democratic Party learned nothing from November.
nothing from losing the popular vote, nothing from the resurrection of Donald Trump from 2000 to 2024, nothing from weaponizing the government, nothing from overspinning and no accountability. And honestly, nothing, they've learned nothing from having a president that clearly was incapacitated. So part of me is like good. Keep writing these types of articles because it's going to help conservatives like you and I be able to be way more successful in getting this country back on track.
Well, Ben, the Post just reported that he absorbed information like some sort of Nobel scientist. Let's go back as his presidency and his 50-year political career wind down far faster than he wanted. Biden has taken to acknowledging some strategic mistakes, both big and small.
Many of those missteps resulted from his determination to restore the age-old rules of the American presidency after Trump's term, a determination that many of his supporters in retrospect consider a politically fatal error. All right, so what are the age-old rules of the American presidency that he returned to?
Earlier this month in a speech on his economic legacy, Biden admitted he was stupid for not putting his own name on the pandemic relief checks his administration sent out in 2021. Yeah, that really was the problem. He just didn't sign the checks. Clearly, Kamala would have won if Biden had just signed those checks that that that was the pivotal issue. Damn it. I didn't see Joe Biden's name on those checks. So forget it.
But hey, Trump, by contrast, made a point of signing his own relief checks in 2020, and Biden suggested that Trump got more credit for the economic recovery because of it. Balderdash. Biden acknowledged that he had, quote, screwed up. It is June 27th debate against Trump, you think? As he struggled to put together sentences and defend his policies, as his rivals held forth with a series of falsehoods, evil liar who I hate named Donald Trump. That is not there, it's just implied, and called him a criminal.
He does not regret participating in the debate, just his performance that night. Now, at this point, there's a breakout quote. And you know what the breakout quote is? It's Jake Sullivan saying the president is operating on a time horizon measured in decades while the political cycle is measured in four years. So if you missed
the central political spin from the White House, then, well, that's your problem. Let's keep going. He is also amused on changes in the media, arguing that he did not get enough credit for his accomplishments, especially on the economy. But inciting examples like Richard M. Nixon's 1960 debate against John F. Kennedy, Biden has suggested that, like Nixon, he has struggled to adjust to a new media landscape.
We pick what news we want to hear. It's a totally different deal Biden said in a podcast interview this month. We've got to figure out how we deal with this significant technological change. If Nixon was more accustomed to television, he wouldn't have perspired so much. And he would be president when he beat Kennedy. I know that sounds silly, but think of the changes taking place. Where do you go? What is true? We have no evidence anymore. I'm not sure how that gets resolved.
The president and his aides have acknowledged that they struggled to communicate. See, that's the whole problem. The record was phenomenal. They just failed to communicate, struggled to communicate about the administration's efforts to lift the country out of the pandemic. Frustrated that even as the United States fared better than other countries, Americans did not feel the impact psychologically. You idiot, you're doing great. Why are you so dumb that you don't realize it?
And now here's, all right. Now remember, so so far there's two main themes that the post is laid out. Number one, genius Biden is playing for the history books for the decades rather than the short term political cycles. So don't blame him for the disasters of his policies. But number two, that he wanted to restore the norms of the presidency and the norms of democracy. So this next paragraph is going to blow your mind.
in private. Biden has also said he should have picked someone other than Merrick Garland as Attorney General.
Well, no kidding. It was the most partisan and political attorney general in history, and it disgraced the Department of Justice. But no, no, no, no. That's not Biden's complaint. Biden, quote, complaining about the Justice Department's slowness under Garland in prosecuting Trump. And it's aggressiveness in prosecuting Biden's son, Hunter, according to people familiar with his comments. So understand,
this great titan restoring the norms of the White House. His DOJ is the first Department of Justice to indict and prosecute a former president and a leading candidate for president who later got elected president in the history of our country. It's never been done. Under Biden, they did it twice.
They absolutely weaponized the DOJ to go after his opponents over and over and over again. They weaponized the FBI and his complaint is damn it. They didn't do enough. They should have been more vigorous. They should have indicted him more. They should have indicted him faster. We should have attacked him from day one. I mean, it is. And by the way, everything I'm saying.
There's not a word of that in this article that they don't acknowledge no other DOJ has indicted a president. They just report like a blinking dough-eyed four-year-old. Well, his complaint was Biden didn't move fast enough. And the other thing, he was too aggressive in prosecuting Biden's son. Now, mind you, the Biden DOJ
went to a court and tried to enter a sweetheart deal that biden got a slap on the wrist and no jail time and it was so egregious that that the judge threw it out only after public scrutiny including this podcast which shine a great deal of light on it
But he still says that's too much to hold Hunter accountable. And by the way, the DOJ also bent over backwards to protect Joe Biden. That paragraph may be the most astonishing paragraph of this entire article. You look at this article and I think there's three different points that I want to dive into with you. One,
What was the real purpose of writing it? I'm still trying. I mean, I get the whole rewriting of history, but it's so extreme that I don't even think that many on the left could take this seriously or am I wrong. So let's start with that.
Well, I think they have the audacity to believe that they can, that the newspaper, the Washington Post is the first draft of history. And as I said, this is not journalism. This is hagiography.
The article continues. We've only done about the first third of it. I'm not going to continue reading the rest of it. It goes on to say how Biden modeled himself after FDR. And I am just going to skip to the end because the end is every bit as absurd as the earlier parts we read. So here's the end of the article.
to show that he respects the peaceful transfer of power. Biden is welcoming Trump, who openly challenged that transition. Biden has repeatedly directed his aides to do all they can to help Trump assume the presidency after years of calling Trump unfit for high office. Now mind you,
Every day in the White House, Biden is doing everything he can to frustrate Trump coming in. So what is he doing? Number one, he pardoned Hunter Biden, which we predicted on this podcast because he does not want any accountability for the rampant lawlessness of his son and the corruption of selling access to himself, Joe Biden. Number two, he pardoned every single federal death row inmate.
except for the three most notorious. So of the 40, he parted 37 of them. Again, we predicted that. It was absolutely brazen. Why? Because he knew Trump was going to actually carry out the law. And so he's trying to frustrate that number three. He's selling off the border wall for $5 a parcel.
because he doesn't want Trump to build the wall. Number four, he's granting, considering granting wholesale pardons. He is actively trying to do, by the way, number five, Trump is said he wants federal workers to go back to work. So Biden is signing contracts, collective bargaining contracts, to make sure that federal workers can stay home because he wants to tie up the next administration on litigation. So, but here, here's what the Post said.
Biden has repeatedly directed his aides to do all they can to help Trump assume the presidency. Like what utter and complete garbage? And let me, let me say something. Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post. Jeff Bezos should be ashamed of this garbage. If Jeff Bezos cared at all about the integrity of the Washington Post, this guy, Tyler Pager, and I have no idea who this num skull is, he should be fired. He is not a journalist. Anyone who writes this garbage,
that contains no facts. It contains no counterbalancing, countervailing side. It is simply if Madison Avenue were hired to come in and let's rewrite the Biden presidency to be exactly what we wanted it. They couldn't write it more ridiculous than this. And by the way, the editor who signed off on this should be fired as well.
This is, you want to know why nobody trusts the media. It's because they publish garbage like this without even a tiny nod to facts or the simple reality that we just saw a overwhelming election where Trump won the popular vote of the seven battleground states who won all seven, like someone at the post should say, gosh,
Maybe these incredibly popular policies that were so good for America. Maybe people really didn't like it. Maybe waging a war on oil and gas and driving up energy prices was a really bad idea and hurt a lot of Americans. Maybe
undermining our allies, maybe giving Vladimir Putin a gift of waving sanctions on Nordstrom too and causing the biggest war in Europe since World War II. Maybe that wasn't a great idea. Maybe sending $100 billion to Iran who sends it to Hamas and Hezbollah who uses it to fund a war on Israel, the worst war in the Middle East in 50 years. Maybe that wasn't a good idea.
Maybe turning a blind eye and refusing to prosecute anti-Semitic terrorists, all across, or their protesters, terrorists is too strong, but anti-Semitic protesters who threaten violence, maybe that is a profoundly bad idea. Maybe watching the integrity half of America believes the FBI and the Department of Justice are completely unprincipled because, well, they've been completely unprincipled.
None of that, that there isn't even the tiniest acknowledgement of facts. This is the Washington Post behaving in a way that I think everyone connected with this article ought to be thoroughly, thoroughly embarrassed. When your principal points are, we're aiming for 50 years, not four, so as bad as our policies are in 50 years, we'll claim they were great, and
Merrick Garland's problem was he wasn't political enough and he should have indicted Trump even more and he should have covered up Biden's wrongdoings even more and you don't acknowledge any like this is a load of crap. That ain't journalism. Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation, you can go back and listen to the full podcast from earlier this week. Now on to story number two.
Number five is another big one here and that is the prediction that Joe Biden would pardon death row inmates. You said that it was going to happen and it did. Plus the even more I would say disgusting
deal that was given out to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9-11, to spare his life. The mastermind of 9-11 and a man that was also before even 9-11 involved in many other terrorist attacks that killed women and children and the elderly, innocent bystanders that he did around the world.
well and this is a prediction that that we made on august 18th twenty twenty three uh... give a listen to what we said back in august of twenty three well i'm going to make a prediction as well which which is that these are not the only mass murderers that i think this administration is going to refuse to follow federal law and impose the death but i'm going to make a prediction right now which is joe biden before he leaves the white house
will commute the sentence of every federal prisoner on death row that he will do it for every one of them and that includes it includes the the white supremacist and not see
who murdered nine african-americans at the mother a manual a m e church in charleston south carolina in a horrific hate crime he's on federal death row it includes the boston bomber who murdered innocent people by exploding a bomb at the boston marathon one of the two brothers is still alive he's on death row and and my prediction right now
is joe biden intends to spare every one of these mass murderers every one of them many of them are racist bigoted homicidal lunatics and and and i think we're gonna see him commute all of their sentences before he leaves the white house well if you want if you won't take out the mastermind nine eleven and you won't give him the death penalty is there anyone that you'll give it to i i mean it doesn't it it it doesn't get any worse than this
it doesn't and yet that's exactly what he's done well so my prediction again in august of twenty three is that that that he would he would remove the death penalty would commute the death penalty for the federal death rope prisoners that has come to pass now to be clear this prediction proves slightly off i predicted that he would commute the sentence of every single federal death row prisoner
He instead commuted the sentence of 37 out of the 40 federal death row inmates. And so there were three he did not. And interestingly enough, the three he did not are the three that I identified in August of 2023. So the three he did not
were the murderer at the tree of life synagogue uh... in pittsburgh the murderer at the mother-in-manual church in charleston south carolina and the boston marathon bomber and those three are the only three he did not now i identified those three because they're the most horribly egregious they're the most famous and infamous that that they are they are two of the three at least are vicious unrepent racists
And so I have to say, my prediction, it was not 100% right. It was 92.5% right, because instead of commuting 40 death sentences, Biden commuted 37 out of 40, and he left the three most egregious and famous ones off the table. Why? Because they knew that the press was so utterly corrupt.
uh... that bit without those three that they would get almost no criticism for it that would you would just go uh... uh... under the carpet not really be be seen and i have to say he i i underestimated the incredible cynicism
And I got to say, nonetheless, that that is a profound disrespect for the rule of law. Among those that Biden did commute the sentences was a Nazi, an Aryan Brotherhood racist. You know, Joe Biden stepped forward and said, hey, we're the Democrat Party. We're here for Nazis and Klansman. I mean it, but
92.5% prediction, correct. And sadly, another element of this prediction just became confirmed moments ago. So this episode, we were talking about the plans to spare the life of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9-11.
and this podcast put enormous public pressure on the White House. The White House, Green John Pierre, was asked about it, and the heat became so much that they backed off of it.
Well sadly the news just broke that they're going back to trying to spare Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. They're trying to do it literally on the way out the door and the contempt that Joe Biden this entire White House has for the voters. They are trying to break everything on the way out the door. They're trying to frustrate Donald Trump every way they can. They are such vicious partisans that there is no
No respect for the Constitution, for the rule of law. No respect for the voters. They don't care what the voters said in November. They are trying to literally break everything on the way out the door. And I got to say it is grotesque. As before, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation on this topic, you can go back and download the podcast from early this week to hear the entire thing. I want to get back to the big story, number three of the week you may have missed.
let's move on to a another prediction this may be one of the my favorite predictions that we've ever made here on the show because when we said it we got a lot of pushback uh... and there are a lot of people that said what we you were saying was just absurd we had our ten full hats on again and there were people that were angry over this and that was the big prediction
uh... that you made that joe biden would not be the twenty twenty four democratic nominee
well that's right and i made two related predictions number one early on i said i believe joe biden would not be the democrat nominee would not be on the ballot in twenty twenty four uh... i also predicted i said the only people there were when people were later talking about replacing him with gavin new summer gretchen wetmer some other people as a note that will never happen
uh... the democrat party is a a bean-counting party next in line is kamala harris and the democrat party cannot cannot cannot push her aside cannot push an african-american woman aside for a white guy like yavin nousam their their their party would spontaneously combust if they tried to do that so i said the only people who could replace joe biden are kamala harris
or michelle obama and i did lay out that i thought michelle obama if i were a democrat i would much prefer michelle obama to kamala harris because kamala harris is the whole world is seen is a lousy candidate so if you're a democrat who wants to win and you're stuck with kamala harris there's only one human being who can push kamala hot kamala harris aside that is michelle obama now what i think happened
uh... i think they tried with michelle i think michelle said no and so prediction number one that joe biden would not be the nominee that came one hundred percent correct prediction number two that he would be replaced either by kamala harris or michelle obama that came came true as well although i did think michelle obama had a very real possibility so let's listen
this this first excerpt is from september 18th 2023 so more than a year uh... a year and three months ago where i laid out uh... laid out this possibility and and and give a listen so here's the scenario that i think is perhaps most likely and most dangerous in august of twenty twenty four the democrat king makers jennison joe biden
and parachute in michelle obama and i want you to pause and reflect on how i'm pausing and i'm reflecting as we said it so is everybody else listening right now
I view this as a very serious danger. I'm smiling right now because it terrifies me and I also could totally see this happening. So Michelle Obama, number one, you don't infuriate African American women, which is a critical part of the constituency that Democrats are relying on to win. But number two, you avoid the problem. If you pick from any of the four, the other three are pissed.
because they're all to some extent peers their rivals they're all jab and knives at each other michelle obama because she was first lady has the ability to kind of parachute in above all four and say hey we're not picking among any of you you guys can all fight it out next time you're all going to be on the same level where coming this is the obama saving the day and i think in terms of a solution
that unifies democrats there ain't nothing like that i also think michelle is not all that eager to run for president but to parachute in in august of twenty four a couple of months before the presidency and suddenly wake up in the president not a bad day not a bad day it's not a bad gig at all now would she do it i don't know i'd i've met michelle but i don't know her personally in any meaningful way i don't know if she would do it i do think
barack obama is already running the biden administration i think he is already the puppet master behind this by the white house i don't think but joe biden is the decision maker and so when i see the media turning on joe biden right now
I think the odds of Michelle Obama parachuting in in August of 2024 have risen dramatically and that ought to scare the hell out at anyone who is unhappy about the direction this country is going and doesn't want us to go even crazier in an even worse direction.
well and there you could you heard in september of twenty twenty three making the prediction that joe biden would be jettisoned and by the way at the time that happened very few people were making that prediction we put that podcast out it drove a lot of news there were headlines there were people that were were shocked
uh... when when i when i laid out that that that that biden was not capable that it that is mental capacity and diminished uh... that he was not going to be the nominee that the democrats realized it that that they were going to jettison him that the media ridiculed it by you go forward to february of twenty twenty four i went on maria barderomo i said i think obama's driving the train which is which is also what i said back in september twenty twenty three john harwood who you know was the uh...
former journalist for the Wall Street Journal and for NBC and who's a hard leftist, a vicious leftist. He retweeted my comments on Maria Baderamo and his entire commentary was, quote, impossibly stupid conversation. So that was his learned journalistic view, is that it was impossibly stupid to say that.
I will tell you, just in November of this year, I retweeted Harwood's shot at me and I just said, want to know why nobody trusts the media? Just nine months ago, a fake quote journalist claimed it was quote, impossibly stupid to observe that Joe Biden was not mentally competent to be president. Now, everybody admits it.
What say you, John Jay Harwood? Of course, Harwood didn't respond at all. He ignored it. All right, let's go forward though. Not only did we lay it out in September of 2023, but then fast forward to the debate.
the debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. That was on June 28th, 2024. You and I recorded a verdict podcast immediately after the debate. We went live, recorded it that night, and give a listen to what the verdict podcast said the night of the debate.
Senator Cruz, I didn't think it could actually be this bad. It was worse than even I think either of us could have imagined. And now the Democratic Party is screaming, replace the president. Well, you and I are sitting here. It is 10, 17 p.m. Texas time. It is 11, 17 p.m. East coast time, the night of the debate, the debate just ended. And I have to say we have just witnessed what I believe is the most consequential presidential debate in US history.
sometimes debate change debates change things sometimes they don't i believe to bite tonight's debate change things fundamentally and i believe the odds have now sky rocketed i believe the odds are north of eighty percent that the democrat party will remove joe biden from the ticket and replace him and i believe they are likely to replace joe biden with michelle obama because biden did so disastrously badly tonight that democrats across the country are in
utter free fall and complete panic. We're going to break all that down tonight. Yeah. And by the way, this is a prediction that you made on the show back in September of 2023 that the Democratic Kingmakers could bring in Michelle Obama will break all that down. Senator yet another prediction there. Again, you go back and look at the night you made it right at that debate and you said there's no way he's going to be on the ticket and it was absolutely correct.
Well, to be fair, what I said was the odds were north of 80 percent that he would be pulled off the ticket. That prediction that Joe Biden would be removed from the ticket, which by the way is unprecedented and was almost universally ridiculed in the media, that prediction came 100 percent true.
I also articulated there were only two people who could replace him, Kamala Harris or Michelle Obama. I believe Michelle Obama was more likely. The Michelle Obama thing did not come to pass, but the Kamala Harris thing did. And in fact, I predicted that the Democrat Kingmakers would jettison Biden in August of 2024.
They in fact did so on July 21st of 2024. So I was 10 days off in terms of predicting it. And by the way, to be clear, I predicted that way back in September of 2023. So over a year earlier, I predicted within 10 days when they would throw Biden off the ballot. And I'm going to make actually a brand new prediction here. I'm going to predict that in the next year or two, we are going to get confirmation.
that there was serious outreach to Michelle Obama to see if she was willing to replace Joe Biden on the ballot and that Michelle Obama said no. I don't know that, but my instinct, my judgment tells me that happened and we'll see in the next year or two if that gets confirmed. We'll have a subsequent podcast. If that gets confirmed publicly, we'll go back and revisit it.
As always, thank you for listening to Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson. With you, don't forget to download my podcast and you can listen to my podcast. Every other day you're not listening to Verdict or each day when you listen to Verdict afterwards. I'd love to have you as a listener to, again, the Ben Ferguson podcast. And we will see you back here on Monday morning.
