The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2167 - MORE TRUMP WINNING: NPR CEO IMPLODES, MS-13 Head ARRESTED
Thu, 27 Mar 2025
NPR's CEO lies before Congress; the Trump administration arrests the head of MS-13 in the United States; and we examine the perversion of justice in “The Case For Derek Chauvin Ep.4 | The Jury.” Donate to Derek Chauvin's Legal Defense Fund Here: https://bit.ly/41CGNtg Click here to join the member-exclusive portion of my show: https://bit.ly/3WDjgHE Ep.2167 - - - Facts Don’t Care About Your Feelings - - - DailyWire+: We’re leading the charge again and launching a full-scale push for justice. Go to https://PardonDerek.com right now and sign the petition. Now is the time to join the fight. Watch the hit movies, documentaries, and series reshaping our culture. Go to https://dailywire.com/subscribe today. Get your Ben Shapiro merch here: https://bit.ly/3TAu2cw - - - Today's Sponsors: Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that searches the internet to deliver fast, unbiased, high-quality answers, with sources and in-line citations. Ask Perplexity anything here: https://pplx.ai/benshapiro PureTalk - Switch to PureTalk and start saving today! Visit https://PureTalk.com/SHAPIRO Boll & Branch - Get 20% off, plus free shipping on your first set of sheets at https://BollAndBranch.com/ben PragerU - Donate today at https://PragerU.com/DW and help push back against radical indoctrination. All donations will be TRIPLE MATCHED. - - - Socials: Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3cXUn53 Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3QtuibJ Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3TTirqd Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RPyBiB
Chapter 1: What controversies surrounded NPR's CEO at Capitol Hill?
There's nothing more American than PBS. As a membership organization, our local service is at the heart of our work. Our job at PBS is to support our stations so that local stations can serve their communities. We've been proudly fulfilling our mission for nearly 60 years using the public airwaves and other technologies to help educate, engage, and inspire the American people.
Well, what you've also done is promote an enormous amount of left-wing propaganda over the years. And again, this is a win for President Trump because of the fact that all of this is now being exposed to daylight. The fact that we are now talking about getting rid of exorbitant spending in these areas is a really, really important thing.
And all of this is part and parcel of a broader attempt by the Trump administration to cut out the waste of fraud and abuse. We have a breaking story on that from our own Luke Rosiak, our investigative reporter here at Daily Wire.
He points out today, quote, a prominent diversity, equity, and inclusion nonprofit declared bankruptcy this month after its board accused its founder and top employees of stealing millions of dollars, according to a Daily Wire investigation. Bill Clinton and Oprah Winfrey are set to keynote a conference run by the alleged thief, apparently through his for-profit firm next month.
The National Diversity Council filed for bankruptcy March 17th after its board said in a lawsuit that its founder, R. Dennis Kennedy, quote, improperly paid himself millions of dollars from NDC's donor funds. The suit said that Kennedy paid himself a grossly excessive salary while using the nonprofit as a front for his for-profit diversity consulting business called Diversity and Leadership, Inc.
The group's 2020 IRS disclosure said Kennedy was paid $450,000 for 10 hours of work per week. In 2022, at the height of corporation CEI hype, Kennedy, Chief Executive Officer Angeles Valenciano, and Chief Financial Officer Jason DeGroote also unilaterally decided they were owed almost $3 million in back pay, and then they paid themselves more than $1 million in donor funds.
Board members started to become suspicious, and they figured there was nothing there that justified the payments. Kennedy systematically moved the nonprofit's trademarks and web domains into his own name, and essentially created a fake organization with the same name that would trick people into paying him directly according to the lawsuit.
NationalDiversityCouncil.org now leads to a website of an organization that purports to be the National Diversity Council, listing Kennedy as its founder and no board. John Hooper, an accountant who manages bankruptcy for NDC's board, told The Daily Wire the site is not operated by the National Diversity Council. So deep corruption with taxpayer dollars, obviously.
And the imposter NDC website, by the way, is having a conference in L.A. next month, which is supposed to feature Bill Clinton and Oprah Winfrey. The necessity of wiping out bad taxpayer spending is deep and real, and it is having a positive impact on our markets, obviously. Cuts to regulation, cuts to bizarre subsidization schemes, all of that is quite good for the American economy.
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Chapter 2: How has taxpayer funding impacted NPR and PBS?
But she came in, and she lowered the cost of eggs by almost 50% in three weeks.
OK, so again, all of this is quite good. Now, on the problematic side of the ledger, President Trump yesterday announced that he would be driving up tariffs on non-American made cars. Now, one of the problems with this is that how do you define a non-American made car? An enormous number of cars that have foreign brands on them are actually made in the United States.
And so it's unclear exactly quite how this applies as of yet. Here's President Trump announcing it yesterday.
And this is very modest. And what we're going to be doing is a 25% tariff on all cars that are not made in the United States. If they're made in the United States, there's absolutely no tariff. We started off with a 2.5% base, which is what we were at. And we go to 25%.
Now, what exactly will it apply to? According to the New York Times, the tariffs are set to go into effect April 3rd. They apply to both finished cars and trucks shipped into the United States, even if the majority of parts, for example, are made in the United States. Sometimes they are completed in Mexico or in Canada. And to imported parts that are assembled into cars at American auto plants.
The tariffs will hit foreign brands, but they'll also hit American ones because Ford Motor and General Motors built some of their vehicles in Canada and Mexico, and virtually all cars use some foreign-made parts. Nearly half of all vehicles sold in the United States are currently imported. So are 60% of the parts and vehicles assembled in the United States.
So you could see a significant inflation in terms of the price of your car. Again, these car parts will cross the border three, four times before they actually end up in your driveway. This is, to my mind, a mistake by the Trump administration. I think that these tariffs that are designed to protect, quote unquote, domestic industry, inflate prices at the cost of American consumers.
They create pressures where there need not be pressures. And those pressures are likely to have a negative impact on the economy. So certainly you could get boosts in particular areas of the economy. But understand, tariffs are a subsidy to some at the expense of the others. That is what this is. Stock investors are spooked, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The markets plummet every time Mr. Trump proposes a new or higher tariff and rise when he delays or cancel them. By the way, this is true. You can see it actually in real time. When President Trump does a press conference,
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of the NPR editorial board composition?
The sort of speculation that would have to occur in order to achieve the idea that this was purely due to the weight on his back or on his neck, you'd have to ignore things like the massively enlarged heart, like the 11 nanograms per milliliter of fentanyl in his system. You'd have to ignore the tape, which...
which shows him saying, I can't breathe, six separate times before he is even removed from the car and put on the ground. He's obviously in a state of panic even before he's put into the police car.
I'm struggling, honestly, when I look at the autopsies to see where is the physical evidence that the weight alone would have made a person of George Floyd's prior health conditions and excited state and drug use die. That's the part that I have trouble with.
So there was no physical evidence. That's why the prosecution brought in a pulmonologist, meaning a doctor who studies lungs, to kind of create a theoretical model of how George Floyd might have died from positional asphyxia. And that's fine. The prosecution's allowed to do that. You can bring in a lung expert. You can say, here's how here's this other theory of how he might have died.
But that doctor didn't provide any evidence that refuted the official autopsy and the official autopsy. It's not just that positional asphyxia, like sort of like what was a little bit there. It just wasn't there at all. Dr. Baker, who did the official autopsy, he had a chance to explain himself multiple times publicly.
in trial, and he was very clear that he attributed Floyd's death to the stress of the overall interaction and the demands it made on his heart. He didn't a single time mention Floyd's difficulty breathing. And his specialty as a forensic pathologist is determining cause of death, right? So the guy who's paid by the state to figure out what killed Floyd.
His theory was not that it was Chauvin's weight on his back. And the reason this was important is in the conclusion of the trial, the prosecution essentially had to reject that theory. They rejected the theory of their own uh, their, their own, um, pathologist because they knew it didn't, uh, implicate Floyd, right.
They didn't implicate Chauvin rather, but if you actually look into it, they had no reason to reject it. There was nothing. There was no other evidence at trial that found a problem with the autopsy. The autopsy was very reasonable and it just didn't implicate Chauvin.
So Coleman, obviously one of the big issues surrounding the George Floyd case is the fact that it became a national issue, which effectively deprived Chauvin of his right to a fair trial. It's the highest profile criminal case that we've had in this country since the O.J. Simpson trial.
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