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That's 1-800-684-3110. Later in the broadcast, we're going to get into this issue of abortion. I know it was discussed yesterday with our brief filed in Massachusetts. But also on display last night at the Democratic National Convention, we're going to be talking about that with C.C.
Howe from our team at the ACLJ. We'll talk more about politics too with Rick Grenell later in the broadcast. And I want to hear from you too if you tuned in last night to the DNC or you've seen the clips and seen the commentary. One thing is it was a very long, listen, these conventions are always long. They go pretty late into the night. But what happened with the DNC last night is usually at least the keynote speaker, who was supposed to be Joe Biden last night, gets in before, you know, 11 o'clock at night. I think central time it was 11, so eastern time after midnight. But his speech was not over until after midnight central time.
So you're talking about 1 a.m. ish on the eastern time. And again, you brought up, Will, this was all supposed to be about joy and it's kind of like the opposite of what the Republican convention was. And it's not about anger, it's not about gripes and issues. And yet everyone that spoke yesterday was angry. I mean, they were, you know, from what we saw, angry. There was a lot of intense rhetoric, a lot of screaming, a lot of shouting. And again, it doesn't seem like joy to me.
That's right. And we'll play clips of this to break them down for you as we go throughout the broadcast. But as we've seen, the tone was supposed to be joy from this Harris campaign. She's been saying it on the campaign trail. Tim Walz, they've been trying to cast as this kind of happy-go-lucky running mate and he has his goofy way.
He comes out on stage. But for night one, to set the tone of the entire convention, it was a lot of anger, a lot of yelling, a lot of demonization. There wasn't a lot of the Obama-style hope that they're trying to cast the Harris campaign as.
Because if you think back to the 2008 convention when Barack Obama was selected, you knew that there was no way that John McCain could beat him. Mainly for a lot of the political temperature, but the fact that the emotion was completely different at that convention. It was not this demonization and yelling convention, but that's what we saw last night. So all these attempts to convey this as a Obama 2.0, a hope and change kind of feel, a joy campaign, that is not what came through on night one at the DNC. It's an abortion convention. We're already seeing in today, in the background of before the DNC, before the convention of night two begins, you have both of the Obamas speaking tonight. But there's still big reproductive health, that's also known as abortion, that is the wording that is showing up on the staging.
And you wonder, we're going to talk through last night of kind of how they displayed that last night, Will. And the misinformation they utilized to try and scare voters away from the Republicans when it comes to issues like life. But really, it wasn't the people that were speaking giving their personal experiences. All three of those ultimately would not be something that we would usually consider as outside the exceptions that are generally accepted from the pro-life community and people like President Trump. So they couldn't find people that wouldn't fall under general Republican, conservative, and even pro-life organizations and the exceptions they support. But Will, we do see that language popping up yet again inside the convention hall, which it might be part of the theming every single night.
That's right. And as we know, Planned Parenthood had that mobile bus where you could get free abortions outside with the weird ads that said, beat, beat and tried to make it like some sort of like almost lighthearted thing that you could go sign up to get at the DNC. Clearly, they think that's the winning issue for them.
So as you said, Jordan, I expect we will see a lot more of that in the days ahead at the DNC. It's shocking how at the DNC yesterday that taking the lives of the unborn is celebrated at the ACLJ. We're dedicated, as you know, to defending life. It's why we launched our Life and Liberty Drive, where a group of ACLJ members have agreed to match your gifts. Now, as we battle on the left's radical abortion, General, we want you to fight with us at ACLJ.org.
Welcome back to secular. So at night, a week that was supposed to be big for Joe Biden. It's it's so bizarre to say that, you know, he spoke last night.
CNN said it was the old lion's last roar. Someone else would see it said, I wish it was just a little shorter. Right. Because it got close to an hour long. It was already the difference between Republicans and Democrats. I do think is the difference is they'll just kind of go on and go on and go on and go on and even take people off that.
James Taylor never got to play. Didn't see it. Yeah. I mean, so like, you know, things like that. And yet they you know, they kind of expect people to just stick with it. Whereas Republicans, again, they've got to schedule. They stick with it.
They get the people through. And again, it was interesting because Joe Biden in this lion's last roar was very angry, sounding. It was a lot of screaming. There was just a lot of that last night, even from Hillary Clinton that we heard.
Right. Well, so it was we got not just Joe Biden, but we got Hillary Clinton as a comeback to on night one. And listen, I think a lot of people, because how late this got probably didn't even watch even if they were trying to. Most of Joe Biden's speech, depending on where they live in the country, what part of the country you live in, you may have seen Hillary Clinton or not. And again, I think you you you bring these people back on the first night so that you're not addressing them by the final night.
That's right. And as you mentioned, it drug on as I was watching when there kept being moments. I'm like, oh, this is the person that's going to introduce Joe Biden, because a lot of the the in-between programing, the smaller names, you don't know who's next. They kind of try to keep it a surprise when Jamie Raskin comes out. But then so Chris Coons was up there. I'm like, that would make sense. They are very close of a close relationship.
Nope. It wasn't him that introduced him. Then Jill Biden gets up there. Wasn't her. Then finally, Ashley Biden, his daughter, was the one who introduced the President.
But we're going to start a little bit earlier in the night with this bite. This was when Hillary Clinton decided to turn something that was used against her on Donald Trump. And let's just take a look at this and see how the tone was set on this joyful DNC.
Donald Trump fell asleep at his own trial, and when he woke up, he made his own kind of history, the first person to run for President with 34 felony convictions. As vice President, as vice President, Kamala sat in the Situation Room. You see a very creepy smile from the former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, former first lady with that lock him up chant. Jordan, that was something that was so unbecoming of Donald Trump in 2016.
Obviously, he did not lock her up, but now they are celebrating and she's joyfully smiling. This is the lady who took classified documents and bleach-bitted them from her devices. Again, Hillary Clinton would be just as angry at a lot of these FBI actors and how they treated her campaign as Donald Trump. Because remember, it was Jim Comey who came back days before the election will and reopened the investigation into Hillary Clinton, days before the Presidential election. It certainly is going to have an effect when something like that is done. And yet, they kind of forget that part of history.
They forget the history that the deep state was even utilizing bad actions and bad decisions that were injuring them and that would anger them. And it's all focused on Donald Trump and his 34 convictions. Listen, I think last night, in one sense, you had to let Joe Biden have his hour-long-ish speech.
At the same time, the people's attention on a convention, if you want to go by night, the least attention is going to be on the first night. I mean, probably Joe Biden got some extra attention, some extra eyes because he is the current President of the United States. And as you said, Will, this is so kind of unprecedented to have a sitting President who is not assassinated or something like that decide not to run again, even though they won the nomination.
They went through the process to get the nomination again, and yet they decided very late in the process, after a Presidential debate with Donald Trump, that, oh, you know what, I'm not going to run again. In fact, we're going to give this to Harris. He said, yeah, of course he wasn't pressured to do that. I don't think anyone believes that.
And you see his kind of, his attitude was extremely aggressive last night, I say, Will. Well, and, you know, we talked about the weaponization of these agencies. This was a state senator that, I don't know if they think she's a rising star in the party, but somehow she got a speaking slot on the first night of the DNC. This is Mallory McMorrow from Michigan.
She's a state senator there. And as Rick Grinnell always says, if the Democrats accuse you of doing something, they're probably doing it themselves. The fact that they are so unself-aware with a statement like this, let's go ahead and play by two. Donald Trump would be able to weaponize the Department of Justice to go after his political opponents. He could even turn the FBI into his own personal police force. That is not how it works in America. That's how it works in dictatorships.
Because if you're Barack Obama, you took the IRS into your own force and they went to the FBI and they went to people like Jack Smith at the DOJ to try and get Tea Party activists prosecuted criminally. So it happened under the Obama administration. And then we know there was the weaponization that has taken place, whether it's the agents showing up at people's door, pro-life protesters' door, going into places of worship, undercover. We have seen the weaponization most recently, I think at the highest and worst level, has been against Donald Trump himself with all these different cases, whether it's the two federal cases, two civil cases out there, Georgia and New York.
You've got, of course, the New York City criminal and you've got, of course, the federal case out of Washington, D.C. So who weaponized the Justice Department? It was the Obama administration. Following up, it was followed by the Biden administration, who continued to weaponize the justice system against President Trump and they continue to do so to this day. I mean, it's like when Harris was talking about inflation really only being an issue the last three years. Well, the only people that have been in office are you and Joe Biden.
That's right. At the executive level. So all these issues, the Department of Justice has been weaponized. Lawfare has begun in the United States. It started with the Tea Party and the IRS. But if you want to look at individuals and politicians utilizing it against other politicians who may be a threat to their power, you look at what has happened to Donald Trump. So shame on that that state senator for forgetting what history actually shows that it has been Republicans who have had to put up with this lawfare launched against Republicans and conservative activists since President Obama was in office.
But I doubt we're going to hear much about that tonight for Barack Obama or his wife, former first lady Michelle Obama. That's right. And as one of our producers pointed out, they called Eric Holder Barack Obama's wingman, the attorney general of the United States, the one who was responsible for such wonderful accomplishments like Fast and Furious, where they ran guns to Mexico and lost them all. And then those guns were used by the cartel in crimes. That's the gun control party.
They were losing weapons of war, as they like to call them. Yes. It was meeting with the next attorney general, Loretta Lynch. Leticia James. Oh, yes. Right. Sorry. Loretta Lynch.
On the tarmac. I mean, like, while they're being investigated, it is again, it is to me, it's just infuriating the way they tried to rewrite history and hope that those watching just don't remember or that you just don't care. Because if you have Donald Trump and Trump arrangement syndrome, you don't care that it's happening to Donald Trump. In one sense, you've got Hillary Clinton saying how great it is that he's facing 34 felony counts. You have another politician saying he's scary because he will utilize the system against political actors. And yet it is Donald Trump who's had the system will utilized against him. It is why we have to take a stand at the ACLJ, whether you fight again against the abortion that is on full display at the DNC yesterday.
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But I really encourage you folks again today. We know what's coming tonight with the Obamas. We know what's coming the third night with Bill Clinton and the governor of Minnesota. There are always, too, some surprises thrown in as well, Will. So you've got the big names, but also always surprises. And then we'll play some of Joe Biden's bizarre remarks, too, in his speeches.
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Double the impact of your donation today. I know you guys talked about it yesterday, Will, but this idea that there's the abortion and vasectomy truck outside the DNC, this is not like it used to be in the past where they still do like to put it broadly as reproductive rights. But the word abortion is used over and over and over again. We heard these personal stories of people that they went to, women that they went to, but the actual stories that they had weren't really abortion stories at all, which is what we get to when we say abortion distortion or these misconception or misinformation about what abortion is really about because their stories were, again, babies that had not survived the pregnancy. So, again, that would, of course, be covered under exceptions to remove those unfortunate situations. Even the woman who was claiming that a rape exception wouldn't apply to her, ultimately was, again, a situation where it was a miscarriage. That is the majority of Americans and where Donald Trump is and the Republican Party is, CC, protects those exceptions and on miscarriages doesn't even consider that an abortion.
Absolutely. And miscarriage, you know, I'll be very clear about this, miscarriages are not now nor have they ever been considered an abortion for any legal purposes. So, all three of those examples were actually miscarriages and so they don't even have to fall into an exception. Miscarriages have never been considered abortion for legal purposes. Well, you take these women, this is the best they can find and we'll see tonight, maybe they've got people that have more direct experience with actual abortion, but they take these women who really don't even meet the definition of abortion, even with groups like ours at the American Center for Law and Justice, because of the exceptions that we support and they find them to utilize them as these abortion advocates when the truth is what they experienced and what they actually went through would not even be considered an abortion by a pro-life activist.
Right. And you're exactly right. This is more of the abortion distortion. They like to spin it. They like to play on people's emotions and they like to say things like, oh my gosh, you know, what Trump and the Trump administration would do is absolutely come after women who have miscarriages, or if there is a life-threatening situation, which almost every state, I think every state has an exception for the life of the mother. And so what they're doing is they're playing on people's emotions, but they're using the exceptions to the rule. And so they're not, once again, playing fair or stating the facts. I want to play for you, again, kind of how they set the stage for this, Will, so that people could see. This is Amanda Zyrowski and she takes charge at Donald Trump and why a second Trump term would be so dangerous.
Take a listen, though, on why by 23. Today, because of Donald Trump, more than one in three women of reproductive age in America lives under an abortion ban. A second Trump term would rip away even more of our rights. Passing a national abortion ban, letting states monitor pregnancies and prosecute doctors, restricting birth control and fertility treatments.
We cannot let that happen. All right. But in these situations, again, it's not about, it wasn't about birth control. It's not about, again, having a miscarriage. But this is this is obviously because we saw it today, too, in the background, just they're preparing for tonight. That reproductive health is coming back again tonight.
Absolutely. They think this is their this is what they can win on. This is an issue that they can win on. But again, they have to distort it.
They have to spin it to be able to win it. And even when you hear what she just said, you know, she talks as if abortion is a right. And the Supreme Court was very clear in the Dobbs decision that abortion is not a constitutional right. But guess what is life is a constitutional right. So they're spinning it once again and they use it for, you know, reproductive health care and access to reproductive health care. And that's not what this is about.
This is protecting human life in the womb. Well, and unfortunately for a Democrat Party that has the entire week of programing, they're deciding to move forward with a misinformation campaign about the reality of what it is. They are using three women last night that had traumatic, in some cases, very horrific stories in their past, and they're using them as political pawns. And one, I don't think it's fair to them, regardless of their political beliefs, to be used as pawns in this way and to be put on that platform to spout misinformation.
Like even in that bite we just played, none of that is reality about what the platform of the Republican Party or what President Donald Trump has even said himself about what he would do in his second term. So instead they're using the traumatic instances of these women's lives and putting them on a stage and having them give that emotive political call to action on many things that aren't even reality. And that's the abortion distortion factor.
And they're using that on night one in primetime as their rallying cry. Right. Not reality, because once again, miscarriages have never been considered an abortion. And also because also these situations would fall into exceptions.
The life of the mother is always an exception. And so again, they're spinning it, they're using the abortion distortion, which is what the Democratic Party has to do in this situation with abortion. So I want to get to the phones. 1-800-684-3110. Let's go to Don in Texas on Line 2. Hey Don, welcome to Secular, you're on the air.
No, thank you. I just noticed a comment that was made a little bit ago about lawfare and the history of it. And the thing that occurs to me is if people weren't paying attention the first time when Obama was going after the Tea Party and all that kind of stuff with the IRS, they're likely not to remember it now. If they weren't paying attention then, they probably aren't paying attention now. That's part of the problem. So the collective memory disappears because nobody was paying attention the first time.
Well, and I think, again, that's why the ACLJ exists. It's one to remind you that when they have a speaker that they put up, a state senator states, you know it's going to be Donald Trump who's going to weaponize the FBI against Democrats. When the FBI and the Department of Justice has been weaponized against Republicans for nearly a decade now and we are still fighting those cases, whether we have to fight for whistleblowers, whether we have to fight for pro-life organizations that have been demonized, whether we have to fight against spies going inside traditional Catholic churches and places of worship because they believe that's where domestic violent extremists have a fertile ground. And so they're going in and spying on churches.
What we know is this. The Obama team weaponized the DOJ bureaucracy, not just political appointees, but bureaucracy against the political class but also against grassroots Americans. What happened under President Trump was they took the politicization and weaponization of the Department of Justice and they turned it on the leading candidate for the Republican Party who is still the nominee and has been a leader even after the second election when he did not retain his additional four years in office. And yet, will they have the gall to say it is Donald Trump who has those 34 felony convictions, who has cases still going on civilly in New York, who's got criminal cases in Georgia, who has these other criminal cases hanging over his head in Washington, D.C. and Florida. But it is Donald Trump who they say will bring lawfare to Washington. It was the Democrats who brought lawfare to Washington, D.C. That's right. And that's why the ACLJ is here and why we're not going away is because we've been fighting this battle for a long time, whether it be misinformation coming out of the Massachusetts government against pregnancy resource centers or whether it be the targeting of the deep state against conservatives and Christians across the country. Join today, Life and Liberty Drive, ACLJ.org. Fight with us. Keeping you informed and engaged now more than ever, this is Sekulow. And now your host, Jordan Sekulow.
All right. So we know what night one was full of at the DNC. We had, of course, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, a state senator, three people who actually didn't need abortions because they had missed care just so the actual procedure utilized would not be considered an abortion. They wouldn't even fall under the three exceptions for abortion because they'd fall outside the definitions of even lawful abortions in states with very real restrictions on abortions. Children who, again, who have died in the womb and these pregnancies that, again, that's not an abortion. The idea that the situation involving the rape, a horrible story, but she also miscarried before having an abortion. That's not something they would even fall under abortion. There's always the exception for rape that pro-life activists and activists like us, the ACLJ are supporting, not because that is the mass amount, Will, or the norm when it comes to abortion. They tried to make it last night.
Those are the exceptions for a reason and why they are the exceptions that we support as well. That's right. And I think we should get to the phones here and get back to what the people thought. And if you watched last night, if you have comments on it, call us at 1-800-684-3110. We're going to go to line three. Mike is calling from New Jersey. Mike, you're on Sekulow. Hey, Mike, you there? Say Mike's not there? All right, we're going to go to Michael calling from Florida on line four.
Michael, you're on the air. My perception is from the get go of this administration, meaning back when we had Biden in the bunker, we have been experiencing the great deception. And my question is, with regards to Kamala and what she is looking towards, I don't see any way that the party is going to allow her to do the debate. Because once she does that, everything will be exposed.
Well, I think this is where we are really, Mike. This week, it's for Kamala Harris to get through. If you get through this week and do decent, which is how low the bar is for her will, if she does decent this week, it's not that we're going to be talking about, I don't think, her convention speech a month from now. But if it's not the typical Harris who makes statements that just kind of don't make sense or that clearly are flubs, but she comes off as stronger or sometimes have more with it, she can change the narrative of the Presidential race.
That's about it. I think that that's all she can do with this speech. She can either make matters worse for herself by kind of being the same old Kamala Harris that we've seen that's been kind of awkward on the campaign trail. Bizarre in the way she talks to the campaign trail, not really with it on the campaign trail, or it could be the Kamala Harris that people have got imagined in their head, or at least like me believed was the Kamala Harris who was the Attorney General of California and a prosecutor in California and a US Senator who could speak their mind without feeling like they were about to have a nervous breakdown.
That's right. And once again, this will be a teleprompter speech, it will be in front of a large crowd, but I do believe that they are planning on this being a big moment for her. And they are making sure that all of those safeguards for their candidate are in place, whether it be rehearsal time on the speech, well in advance copy, any revisions done well in advance. And then obviously it's on teleprompter, she's given many of these speeches before. So I don't think that the DNC is going to be a moment that people are like, who is this candidate?
Why are they running this person? But once again, as the caller pointed out, and I disagree with the caller, I do believe she will debate on September 10th. They both agreed to it. I don't think politically there's any way for her at this point to pull out of that. So I think it'll happen.
And that will be a bigger moment in the campaign when the two of them face off as compared to the DNC speech that we'll see later this week. Folks, we'll continue to take your calls. 1-800-684-3110.
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We're going to get to those in a moment. We've got Rick Rinnell joining us now. Of course, Rick, who served in the Trump cabinet.
He's also served in political campaigns. And so, Rick, I guess just right off the bat, I want to get your thoughts on the first night of the Democrat National Convention. Joe Biden, who gave a very late speech that I think most people had probably already shut off their TVs for, even if they were kind of interested to see what he had to say about being moved out of the presidency or walking the party line, which he ultimately did. But I just want your reaction to that first night of the DNC, because I think it's kind of a preview of how it's going to escalate each night.
Look, it was right out of the gate. It was far left woke. I mean, they even had the governor of Kentucky, who's supposed to be a moderate, completely going crazy left woke. I think what the reality is, is even when conservatives or moderates get in front of this Democrat crowd, the mob far left radical communist fascists in that room completely overtake people. They can't speak truth to power. Politicians like Governor Beshear showed up and immediately knelt to the far left. And this is what's scary to me, is that when you look at tampons in boys' bathrooms and the inability to say that a woman is a woman, and then trying to cut red meat because it's bad for climate change and the open border. I mean, you just look at the Democratic Party of today, and it's scary. It doesn't have any common sense, and it's chasing the moderates right out of the party. Independents are abandoning this party, and it's on full display all week in Chicago. You know, I want to play this fight for Biden. And, Will, this is a misstatement.
He didn't catch himself, though. And it kind of is the truth. That's right, yes. So President Biden last night, Rick, he showed up later than probably he was expecting or hoping for. But what we saw was when this campaign has been pushing that they're bringing back joy, we saw a night full of yelling and a lot of angry faces at the DNC last night. But President Biden, giving his kind of farewell to the party speech, made this misstatement. But I want to get your take on it, because did he accidentally tell the truth? Maybe one of the first truths at the DNC last night.
Let's play it by three. Biden when Donald Trump left office and unlike Trump, we will not demonize immigrants, saying they're the poison of blood of America, poison of blood of our country. Tom and I are committed to strengthening legal immigration, including protecting dreamers and more. A lot of gaslighting in that speech, too, because the actions haven't been done, whether you support liberal policies on immigration or not. The only actions they've taken are actions that have made America less safe on the southern border.
So more drugs flow in and more bad actors come in the country. Look, I'm not sure that he is making a mistake there, because I live in California and the entire state is a sanctuary state, a really nice name for a terrible idea, which is you get to break immigration law and be protected against punishment and enforcement of breaking that law in a city or a state. So throughout California, you can ignore federal law when it comes to immigration and not be punished, because we are a sanctuary to being punished.
And it's really an outrageous concept that I think too many conservatives have allowed to continue. But remember, you have a party in California that Kamala has been the head of that wants health care and driver's license to illegals. They want to move to allow illegals to vote.
This is a system that is not going to work in the Midwest. As soon as people find out exactly what Kamala Harris wants, what the far left woke San Francisco radicals want, they're going to run from this. And Joe Biden, I think, slipped up.
But I'm not sure that it was a mistake as much as it was in his head. This is what he believes, which is we're going to normalize being illegal in America. Yeah, I want to go to Bobby in New York on Line 6. Take that call while Rick is on the air with us.
Hey, Bobby, welcome to Secular. You're on the air. Hi, from Niagara Falls on the American side. And I just made a small contribution of $25, which I do occasionally. And hi, Will. Hi, Jordan. My question is that I'm very worried that these guys are so good at propaganda and they're so convincing that I'm worried that it's going to harm the Trump campaign in a major way in the sense that it's going to put Trump way behind. What do you guys think?
And thanks for everything. Rick, I don't think that anybody's ever going to be way behind. I think Joe Biden had hit probably the max of how far he'd be behind.
It was still within striking distance. It was just getting a little bit out of hand for the Biden campaign and Democrats. So they thought they just switched to someone else to kind of restart this campaign with Harris. What we do know is it's going to be a very close election. Both sides are well funded.
Donald Trump and J.D. Vance and his entire campaign have had to retool, just like the DNC is retooling as well, but retool their statements, retool their attacks because they are dealing against a very different top of the ticket nominee. Look, I think there's no question that the Democrats have the media in their pocket and they're going to continue pushing lies, pretending like somehow the borders closed, that we don't have wars and that inflation is not a problem.
Last night, the word inflation was only mentioned three times throughout the entire evening. So they don't want to talk about those issues. And so they're going to spin this. But I think it's going to take a whole bunch of money to convince the American people and convince independents that somehow gas prices are not high, that grocery prices are not high, that we don't have wars. I mean, they have to literally suspend reality in order to get what they want.
And I think that's going to be too expensive. The American people see it, independents see it. And I think that they're going to be in a really terrible position to try to spin their way out of it. I wanted to follow up on that, actually, because according to some analysis, inflation was only mentioned about three times last night. And when Kamala Harris decided to make her very first policy speech on Friday, which was panned by CNN and The Washington Post as terrible idea on price controls that she wants to put in place on to help combat inflation because, you know, the greedy grocery store chains are out of control. But you almost thought that that was going to be kind of the lead off theme of the DNC when she was able to captivate the media cycle starting on Friday, going into this convention. And instead, it was mostly about abortion last night. And it seems that that may be the continuing theme throughout the rest of the week.
But what was your take on that? She gives this huge policy speech about this is where we're going and then it's almost completely ignored on the first night of the convention. Well, I don't think that they have much to talk about when it comes to job creation or how to combat inflation. I mean, Kamala is left to try to say on day one, I'm going to do something about how high prices are and how terrible the economy is, except she was part of making the decision. We were told that she was the last one that Joe Biden would talk to before he would make these decisions and she broke the tie in the Senate.
She broke it in favor of spending massively government spending, which creates inflation. And so she's got a very difficult time to run away as the vice President from these policies. But yet she's trying to spin her way out with a lot of help from the media. And again, I go back to they're going to spend a whole bunch of money to try to tell us that things are OK and that somehow Kamala is equipped to make them better. Rick, we'll go back to you throughout the week, especially as we lead up to the Harris speech to the nation, which I think is the most important part about these conventions is getting to know the person running for President, especially when on one side you have someone who is not the incumbent President of the United States. She's been a vice President. Her speeches have not gone great.
A lot of word salad, a lot of confusing statements, a lot of contradicting views that they will put out even on on that economic message. So we'll definitely want to come back to you, Rick, and we appreciate being part of our team. And folks, as the abortion industry is disturbingly celebrated at the Democrat National Convention this week, we need you to stay with us. Our pro-life cases do require immense resources. Your gift today takes a stand for life and help saves babies lives.
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All right, welcome back to Secular. So tonight, again, just to prep you, we're going to hear from the Obamas, Michelle and Barack Obama. I'm sure others, but that is the major prime time speech. It will be interesting to see how in the weeds Barack Obama gets in the dirt when he goes. You know, in the sand trap, if you will, in the sandbox, in the dirt with Donald Trump. And does he go after Donald Trump, or is he really just promoting Joe Biden and thus Kamala Harris?
And that will be, again, very interesting to see. Also, what is Michelle Obama's role? She usually, again, when she speaks on issues, it's usually not so politicized, which is what leads to her kind of national popularity. She's left that to her husband. But when you're speaking at a Democrat national convention, your husband's not on the ballot.
You would imagine that there are going to be political barbs inside her prepared remarks, because why would you even, even though she's so popular, you don't want her speaking and taking up time if she's not prepared to do that. Let's go to the phones, Will. That's right. We're going to go to David calling on Line 1 in California. David, you're on Secular.
Hi, thanks for taking my call. If I may, I have a comment and a question. The comment is, President Trump didn't ban abortion, right? He just took it away from the federal government and gave it to the state's individual as it should be, correct?
Yes. Well, and actually it was the Supreme Court. It wasn't Donald Trump.
Donald Trump put Supreme Court nominees in place, but it was justices of the Supreme Court who ultimately overturned Roe vs. Wade and took the issue out of the federal government and put it to the states. Right. Okay. And that's kind of what I meant, but I wasn't wholly sure. My question is, the abortion issue, am I paying with my tax money?
So it's interesting, Will. I mean, we don't pay for it internationally, but what we see is that Planned Parenthood gets about half a billion dollars a year in federal taxes. And even if that money cannot be used directly to pay for abortions, what it opens up is they raise another about half a million dollars a year. So that half a million dollars they raise, because they're getting a half a million from the U.S. government, that can't go to abortion specifically. So the other half, it gets offset, and they've got about 500 grand to perform. And that's why that abortion truck can go around Chicago.
That's right. So the industry of abortion is billions of dollars a year in the United States. Planned Parenthood gets federal taxpayer dollars for the other services they say they provide. If you look at their annual report, they try to claim that abortion is a very small percentage of what they do.
It's not reality. They put on their annual report, if a person comes in, checks in, then goes through a normal screening process, those are all services they're providing. So they try to beef up their numbers. But they also try to say that the federal dollars aren't paying directly for abortion, when in reality, because money is fungible, if they have to worry a lot less about covering other things at their clinics, they can provide a lot more abortions, and that's the reality of it.
So they would claim your taxpayer dollars aren't directly paying for abortions, but the fact that they are getting half a billion dollars a year from the federal government, it's definitely helping that industry. Yeah, let's go to Susan in Maryland online. Hey Susan, welcome to Sekulow. You're on the air. Yes.
I wanted your feedback on, the convention does not look natural to me. It looks like the Academy Awards show of leftist ideas. The states are not being recognized. The labor is only recognized by the labor unions, and it appears to me like they're disenfranchising a huge audience.
You know what? That huge audience of delegates didn't have to do this, Susan. That's why the Democrat Party is a much better organized party.
You say it's whether or not it's orchestrated and produced. It absolutely is, but they've got a hold will on their delegates. So when they needed those delegates to go from Biden to Harris, it was really no issue.
That's right, and Susan is 100% correct that it doesn't feel natural in that it feels like the states are disenfranchised. A weird speech last night, too, by Joe Biden. Because he got up there, sounded tough, sounded kind of with it, and yet he's being forced out and being forced out aggressively by his own party, even though he's the one that, in quotes, beat Donald Trump. That's right, and you see the awkward video of Nancy Pelosi chanting, we love Joe, in the crowd with everyone, when she is the one who helped orchestrate the coup against him with Chuck Schumer and the Obamas. The fact of not feeling natural is correct because it's not a natural process for the Democrats. They decided to skip the primary season and then force out their candidate who went through primaries.
There were votes cast for Joe Biden to be the nominee again and replaced him with the vice President, who to date has not received votes for that office. That's right, 30 days, no press conference, not getting one this week. She's got a big speech to plan for. Let's go to Tim calling on Line 4 in Colorado.
Tim, you're on Sekulow. Hi, yeah, my question is how is the DNC able to pick Kamala Harris and Trump state law requiring a primary to be put on a ballot in November? Well, I think, listen, they would love to put this on ballots in November, and that's because we have failed so far on the pro-life cause. When we've had ballot initiatives, Will, things have not gone great.
When it's been legislators who are elected by the majority in their districts, but it's more of a constitutional republic, it's not just all of us going to vote. We have seen statutes go in to protect life. Where we have seen the pro-life movement fail so far has been when there's been a pro-life amendment or a pro-abortion amendment proposed to a state's laws or constitutions, and getting beat even in states that are red, 60 to 40, because it's just like the stories of those women that they put up last night. None of which would have fallen outside of the exceptions that all Republicans, at least in Washington, D.C., and most elected Republicans, including President Trump, have said they will always make sure any kind of any restrictions whatsoever on abortion is that that will not be in place for, again, the life of the mother, for rape, or for incest. And we know out of all three of these, it ended up being that the children were stillborn. And so, again, that's not rape will to remove the body, which is no longer alive.
That's right. And as you see the issues that they are bringing up, they are, once again, putting forward misinformation. That's something that they claim that the Republicans are doing.
They tried to put in a misinformation czar. We see that in Massachusetts, they're running a misinformation campaign against pregnancy resource centers, and that's what we're fighting back against. Regardless of the attacks that come from the left, they are never going to play fair against conservative ideology and conservative values.
They are going to find a way to beat it no matter what. And that's why organizations like the ACLJ exist is so that we can fight back. We're a grassroots organization. We represent members of the ACLJ from all over the country that have conservative ideology, that have conservative beliefs that are founded in Judeo-Christian values.
That's why we fight because we know that the federal government is weaponized against those very values. We know that the FBI was putting spies inside churches, and what was one of their big concerns? That the issue of abortion was going to be a big deal in the run up to this election. And why do we know that they thought it was a big deal? Well, the DNC is making it a big deal.
They put it as the showcase of night one at the DNC, and they're going to be doing it every other night as well. We will not stop fighting for the truth, and we will continue to fight, and that's why you need to join our Life and Liberty Drive today. We are assisting efforts to stop pro-abortion amendments in states. We are filing amicus briefs in states and Supreme Courts to defend life. We are bringing our own U.S. Supreme Court case to defend life and pro-life counselors that have filed another Supreme Court case to defund Planned Parenthood. Last night, we tied our lawsuit, we filed our lawsuit against the state of Massachusetts and the abortion industry. Here's what I need you to do. I need you to make a donation to the ACLJ. We need you right now because we're not just going to do this case in Massachusetts that we've walked you through kind of the charges we'd like to bring. We're going to work on the civil side of this case. We are also going to work on a counter-campaign in Massachusetts.
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