Michael Knowles Supports Trump Call to Investigate Kamala's Celeb Supporters

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Conservative commentator Michael Knowles says President Donald Trump looking into celebrities that didn't support him isn't a big deal ... 'cause he claims Democrats have done investigations just like it after past elections.

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00:00Michael, let's just, let's get real for just a second.

00:05The thing that all three of them have in common is they were his political enemies.

00:09That they didn't want him elected.

00:10They all supported Kamala Harris.

00:12They all showed up for Kamala Harris.

00:15He hated Taylor Swift for that very reason.

00:19But he's using the Justice Department to investigate, not coincidentally, the people who were against

00:29him.

00:30And isn't that retribution?

00:31Isn't that what he's been calling lawfare?

00:34This is lawfare.

00:35Doesn't retribution belong outside of our justice system?

00:40I don't think it's exactly that.

00:42I mean, this kind of investigative work goes back a long way.

00:46Back during the Obama era, I was part of a group that was associated with the Tea Party.

00:50Barack Obama sicked his IRS under Lois Lerner to go heavy after all of the potential Tea

00:55Party groups.

00:56And that's wrong.

00:57Totally uncontroverted.

00:58That's wrong.

00:59Sure.

01:00You know, Barack Obama, sorry, Joe Biden was investigating Catholic churches.

01:04That's another group that I'm a part of.

01:05And it was suing nuns and going after Catholics pretty hard.

01:08So in this case, you say, OK, well, he's also Catholic.

01:10Exactly.

01:11That's that doesn't.

01:12He's Catholic.

01:13Say it again.

01:14But Biden is Catholic also.

01:15So.

01:16Yeah, he says he's Catholic.

01:17I don't know.

01:18He sure has a strange way of showing it.

01:19But but but but so you could say, OK, is Trump just doing the same thing that his predecessors

01:24did?

01:25I think so.

01:26You know, the lawfare that we see we saw under Joe Biden, where the former president top political

01:31rival at the time was prosecuted on four different fronts, had his house ransacked.

01:35That that is a totally other level here.

01:37What Trump is suggesting is there might have been a campaign finance violation, which,

01:41by the way, Democrats and Republicans are investigating all the time.

01:44I know.

01:45But you know what?

01:46Then go after the candidate.

01:47You're going.

01:48First of all, Oprah's already made it clear because she had that very public town hall with

01:52with Kamala Harris and made it clear I didn't take any money.

01:56But she did.

01:57Her company took money.

01:58She obviously doesn't personally need money because she's one of the richest people on

02:00the planet.

02:01But her her company.

02:02This also New York Times.

02:03By the way, you are totally.

02:04You are totally.

02:05If not millions of dollars.

02:06You are totally allowed to fund the event.

02:09The production.

02:10It's not that she made the production.

02:11I mean, my God, Michael.

02:12I don't know.

02:13Guys, how many.

02:14Michael, he is on the White House in the White House driveway selling Teslas to his biggest campaign

02:21dope?

02:22No, he's buying Teslas.

02:23He was buying Teslas.

02:24So, look, there will be an investigation.

02:26You're smiling.

02:27And we'll see.

02:28Michael, come on.

02:29Does it cost hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars to put on a podcast?

02:31I don't know.

02:32Maybe we're just more efficient than the Kamala Harris campaign was.

02:34They'll investigate it like they investigate every presidential campaign.

02:37But when you start using the government, using the Department of Justice to run these

02:43investigations, which are clearly just to go after your opponents, I just don't get why

02:48you can't see that that is exactly what he was yelling at about the Democrats doing.

02:53If there was no impropriety, the investigations will turn up no problems.

02:56I get it.

02:57That was not the case with the Obama administration.

02:59Michael, investigating creates a chilling effect on America.

03:03Look, I agreed with you on Obama and the Tea Party.

03:08I agreed with you on that because I know what happened.

03:10Take it back to McCarthy.

03:11Go ahead, Hart.

03:12And I also think there were some issues certainly with Trump during the Biden administration

03:16where they were targeting him.

03:18I get it.

03:19Not with all of it, but some of it.

03:21And I agree with you.

03:22Why can't you just be open enough to say there's a line that shouldn't be crossed?

03:27Because this is so obvious.

03:29It just seems to me, look, I want to get back to a place where there is no more lawfare

03:33of the sort that we've seen Democrats in particular push for the last 15 years.

03:36The only way you're going to get back to that is not by unilaterally disarming and saying,

03:40well, okay guys, do you double pinky promise that you're not going to do it again next time?

03:44Is it to triple down?

03:45No, it's to use the law in a just way, in a small way.

03:49You're just investigating some campaign finance violations.

03:51This is not just.

03:52Who's to say what's just, Michael?

03:53He has no evidence.

03:54Do you guys really think, do you guys think it cost hundreds of thousands if not millions

03:58of dollars for Kamala Harris to put on an event with Oprah?

04:01You don't think there might have been a little bit of graft in there?

04:03There might have been a little bit of pay to play?

04:05Oh, okay.

04:06So, Michael, what about the lotteries that Elon Musk was putting on?

04:11Should we investigate those?

04:12But wait a minute.

04:13I want to answer that question, that the Justice Department should not be saying theoretically,

04:19you know, it probably cost more money, so maybe it's them.

04:23That's not the way justice works.

04:25You follow evidence.

04:26And when you don't follow evidence, and you come up with theories to go after your opponents,

04:31it corrupts the system.

04:32But there's a lot of evidence.

04:33There's a lot of evidence.

04:34That's the point of the investigation.

04:35No, there isn't.

04:36There isn't.

04:37There isn't.

04:38There is a lot of evidence that Oprah Winfrey's company took a lot more money than was necessary

04:41to put on that event.

04:42And maybe, especially at a time when you had the Biden administration going around the

04:47world, shaking down foreign leaders to enrich the Biden family, maybe there was a little

04:51graft.

04:52Now, I'm not saying there certainly was graft.

04:53And I agree with you that investigations created chilling effect.

04:56But we can't only have that chilling effect made on ordinary conservative Americans at the behest

05:01of Democrats.

05:02You've got to make sure that it's a fair playing field for everybody.

05:05All right.

05:07I'll be watching.

05:08This is a great video for you, guys.

05:10I'll have to take care of you.

05:11Yes.

05:12Thanks.

05:15Thank you, everybody.

05:17I enjoyed today.

05:18Oh, my Lord.

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