On the heels of a tragic shooting in Utah that claimed the life of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, Stephen A. Smith took a rare detour from his usual sports commentary to deliver a sobering message on humanity, unity, and the role sports must play in a fractured America.
“We saw this man speaking &#8230; and we saw him struck by a bullet in his neck,” Smith said, not mincing words describing the heinous act that took place at Utah Valley University. A 31-year-old father of two was gunned down in broad daylight, in front of his wife and children. And the horror of it, Smith said, transcends politics. It’s about a life lost — a husband, a father, a fellow American — executed for simply expressing his beliefs.
“There&#8217;s a lot more love and a lot more brotherhood and sisterhood and humanity that goes on in this world that does it than doesn&#8217;t,” he stated. “Yet the few who are evil amongst us are the ones that screech and make the most noise. And it&#8217;s affecting us in a way where it&#8217;s getting to a point where you&#8217;re going to get scared to walk out in the streets. You&#8217;re going to get scared to show love and affection and even to say hello to your fellow man and woman, your neighbor.”
While Smith emphasized that Mad Dog Sports Radio is not a political soapbox, he made clear: “I don&#8217;t care what his political beliefs were. I don&#8217;t care what he felt. I care about the fact that a man was gunned down in front of two of his children who are 5 years of age or less. That he&#8217;s dead at the age of 31. That his wife is a widow. That his children are fatherless because his ideas and his beliefs differed from somebody else.”
That, he said, is the only thing that should matter. Not party. Not ideology. Humanity.
Smith blasted those online who celebrated Kirk’s death. “Shame. Shame on you,” he declared. For Smith, the very idea that someone could cheer the assassination of a man for his views marks a grotesque turning point in our moral compass.
“At some point in time, we got to remember that and remember to remind one another that there&#8217;s far more love in this world than hate and not allow evil and hate to dominate us and to strip us of what truly makes us the greatest nation in the world,” he declared. “It&#8217;s that mosaic that we live under, a willingness to embrace any and all and find a way to agree without being disagreeable. Not even because we may want to all the time, but because we know it&#8217;s what&#8217;s best for a society to be civilized and positioned to prosper. Someone forgot about that yesterday and murdered Charlie Kirk. Others forgot about it by parading online and celebrating an evil, vile occurrence.”
The ESPN host, unapologetically black and proud of his journey, highlighted moments of unity he experiences every day. “I see people looking at me and smiling and saying, ‘What’s up, Stephen?’ and they don’t look anything like me. And I don’t care — because they’re showing me love, and I’m showing it right back.”
In closing, he reminded listeners: “He&#8217;s gone at 31 just because he expressed thoughts that differed from somebody else apparently. And some might blame it because, ‘oh my God, he&#8217;s friends with the president’ and they may not be a Donald Trump supporter. I&#8217;m saying bump all that. He&#8217;s a human being living in the United States of America. This is America. We&#8217;re not supposed to condone stuff like this. We&#8217;re not supposed to say it&#8217;s okay.  I don&#8217;t give a damn who you are. Black, white, or anything in between. You&#8217;re a human being. That&#8217;s your fellow man and fellow woman out there.”
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‘Shame On You’: Stephen A. Smith Condemns Those Celebrating Charlie Kirk’s Death

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Daily Wire Editor Emeritus and bestselling author Ben Shapiro ripped into leftist talking points during viral exchanges on multiple shows over the past week. 
Shapiro was interviewed on shows that are known for criticizing the conservative viewpoint, such as CNN’s “News Night With Abby Phillip,” “The Stephen A. Smith Show,” and “The Breakfast Club,” hosted by Charlamagne tha God. While Shapiro spent some time talking about his new book, “<a href="https://store.dailywire.com/pages/lions-scavengers-by-ben-shapiro-available-september-2-2025?srsltid=AfmBOopBsREVpdysJqEC0X-XIA7sZncCOwG9LjkcX4PpVqrJXnVl1TVH">Lions &amp; Scavengers</a>,” most of his discussions on the shows focused on pushing back against leftism. 
<h3>Pro-Life Masterclass</h3>
Shapiro joined the “Breakfast Club” to talk about a range of issues, but one topic gained a lot of attention: abortion. The Daily Wire editor emeritus defended an unborn baby’s right to life against pro-abortion arguments from co-hosts, Jess Hilarious and DJ Envy. 
“I don’t think that the subjective definition of life is how we define life,” Shapiro said. “We all agree, for example, that a one-month-old baby should not be drowned. Right, we all agree on that. And that’s not up to the personal … and the question is, well, why? Because we now understand that the one-month-old baby, everyone agrees with this, right, that — except for Peter Singer at Princeton — that a one-month-old baby has an independent interest in life.”
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&#8220;You&#8217;re talking about what a woman should be allowed to do. I&#8217;m talking about the definition of personhood of the separate person inside the woman.<a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@benshapiro</a>&#8216;s argument against abortion on <a href="https://twitter.com/breakfastclubam?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@breakfastclubam</a> is a must watch ⬇️ <a href="https://t.co/3imJE2K9hI">pic.twitter.com/3imJE2K9hI</a>
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1965046952141435332?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“The argument I don’t like is that it’s up to every single person to define when life begins,” he added.
Charlamagne then weighed in then, saying he would argue that life began when there was a heartbeat.
“If life begins at the heartbeat … you’re talking about abortion restrictions very early on,” Shapiro said.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@benshapiro</a>: The argument I don&#8217;t like is that it&#8217;s up to every single person to define when life begins.<a href="https://twitter.com/cthagod?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@cthagod</a>: I think it begins when there&#8217;s a heartbeat.<a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@benshapiro</a>: If life begins at the heartbeat &#8230; you&#8217;re talking about abortion restrictions very early on. <a href="https://t.co/nM4IYeQGeO">pic.twitter.com/nM4IYeQGeO</a>
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1965050577844625723?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Shapiro also shot down the argument that rape and incest are a reason to keep abortion legal. 
“People choose that argument because it&#8217;s the hardest one to make emotionally from the pro-life side … but the vast majority of abortions have nothing to do with rape or incest,” he said. 
<h3>Major Mamdani Burn</h3>
Shapiro ripped NYC socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s record and his rapping ability during his appearance on “The Breakfast Club.” 
“The guy has not held a job and he&#8217;s going to be the mayor of New York&#8230; after being a failed rapper&#8230; I&#8217;m a more successful rapper for God&#8217;s sake than Zohran Mamdani,” Shapiro said, referring to his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiros-facts-tops-billboard-charts-as-best-selling-rap-single">chart-topping single</a> with Tom MacDonald. 
“You had one record, dude,” Charlamagne said. 
“And let me tell you, it was a banger,” Shapiro replied. 
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@benshapiro</a>: &#8220;The guy has not held a job and he&#8217;s going to be the mayor of New York&#8230; after being a failed rapper&#8230; I&#8217;m a more successful rapper for God&#8217;s sake than Zohran Mamdani.&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/cthagod?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@cthagod</a>: &#8220;You had one record, dude.&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@benshapiro</a>: &#8220;And let me tell you, it was a banger.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/gTgEoSsEQQ">pic.twitter.com/gTgEoSsEQQ</a>
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1965054387761668497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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<h3>Social Security Smackdown</h3>
During a debate on Social Security on CNN, Shapiro explained to the panelists how the entitlement program works and how it’s on a path to bankruptcy. 
First, Shapiro shot down the idea pushed by Phillip that Social Security is just a system in which Americans “pay into” to receive that money back at retirement.
“Well no,” Shapiro shot back, adding, “I promise you the amount that people are taking out is not the amount that is going in, which is why we are going bankrupt.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@benshapiro</a> teaching <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a> panelists how Social Security works is the video you didn&#8217;t know you needed😂 <a href="https://t.co/W54BsyPYKp">pic.twitter.com/W54BsyPYKp</a>
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1963081890799264170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Later in the panel discussion, Ana Kasparian, host of the leftist show, “The Young Turks,” argued that spending on defense and foreign aid was a bigger problem pushing the country toward bankruptcy than Social Security. 
“You don’t think the trillions of dollars we’ve spent on wars in the Middle East might have something to do with that?” she asked. 
“That is not even remotely a percentage of what we spend on Social Security,” Shapiro replied. And, of course, he was correct. In 2024, Social Security accounted for 21% of the federal budget, totaling $1.5 trillion. Defense spending, meanwhile, made up 13% of the budget, or $872 billion.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/AnaKasparian?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AnaKasparian</a> suggests military spending drives debt more than Social Security:<a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@benshapiro</a>: That&#8217;s not even REMOTELY a percentage of what we spend on Social Security.<a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ScottJenningsKY</a>: You think Israel is a bigger portion of our budget than Social Security? <a href="https://t.co/FbD18tnGnP">pic.twitter.com/FbD18tnGnP</a>
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1963087926188740635?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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<h3>Western Civilization History Lesson</h3>
During his interview with sports and radio host Stephen A. Smith, Shapiro said that Western Civilization must be “upheld,” pushing back against the scavenger mindset that wants to tear down the traditions and values that came before us. 
Shapiro argued that Western Civilization is built upon biblical values combined with reason, which have given the world the renaissance, the enlightenment, balanced powers in government, free speech, private property, and free markets. 
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/stephenasmith?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@stephenasmith</a>: Does Western Civilization need to be torn down? Define Western Civilization. <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@benshapiro</a>: &#8220;Western Civilization needs to be upheld&#8230;Biblical living combined with the application of reason&#8230;leads to the great prosperity and freedom we have today.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/qwVvQa9Px3">pic.twitter.com/qwVvQa9Px3</a>
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1963775080158409045?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Shapiro’s defense of conservative values make for great viral clips, but it’s even better to read from his new book, “<a href="https://store.dailywire.com/pages/lions-scavengers-by-ben-shapiro-available-september-2-2025?srsltid=AfmBOopBsREVpdysJqEC0X-XIA7sZncCOwG9LjkcX4PpVqrJXnVl1TVH">Lions &amp; Scavengers</a>.” The book is a gripping exploration of the ongoing war between those who cherish our nation and those who seek to undermine it.

Lions & Scavengers

WATCH: Ben Shapiro Destroys Leftist Narratives During ‘Lions & Scavengers’ Media Blitz

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Comedian and HBO host Bill Maher demanded answers when he discovered that former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg — who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 and garnered a sizable chunk of the party&#8217;s support — was getting no love from black voters.
Maher discussed the <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5430756-buttigieg-black-voter-challenge/">phenomenon</a> with guests Dr. Phil McGraw and Stephen A. Smith during his Friday night panel discussion, and it was Smith who finally gave him an answer: &#8220;[Buttigieg] doesn&#8217;t move us.&#8221;
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&#8220;Democratic primary voters, 16% would support Buttigieg,&#8221; Maher read from his show notes. &#8220;That&#8217;s the highest of any candidate. Pete Buttigieg.&#8221;
Smith&#8217;s response to that was immediate: &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe it. I think that&#8217;s just a poll number. I can&#8217;t see that happening.&#8221;
Maher went on to qualify his initial statement, noting that there was some disparity in that support.
&#8220;Okay, but wait. 16%. Black voters? Zero,&#8221; Maher clarified. &#8220;Zero. You don&#8217;t usually see zero. Anywhere. Zero&#8217;s low.&#8221;
&#8220;For who?&#8221; Smith quipped.
&#8220;For Buttigieg,&#8221; Maher said. &#8220;Okay, explain that. I mean — why do black voters have this — I mean, he&#8217;s a nice guy &#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;Yeah, he&#8217;s under indexing a little bit with black voters,&#8221; McGraw added with a laugh.
&#8220;A little? What is that all about.&#8221; Maher asked again.
&#8220;He doesn&#8217;t move us,&#8221; Smith replied, prompting laughs from Maher and the audience. &#8220;I respect the man. I&#8217;ve interviewed him before. Very nice man, highly intelligent. But you gotta be able to move us, bro. He doesn&#8217;t move us.&#8221;
The audience kept laughing as he added, &#8220;You can speculate as to why that is, I&#8217;m not going there. He doesn&#8217;t move us.&#8221;
Comments from popular radio host Charlamagne tha God appear to back up Smith&#8217;s assertions, as he complained in 2024 that the Democratic Party had no viable prospects ahead of 2028.
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🚨NEW: Charlamagne and Andrew Schulz say Dems got NOBODY for 2028🚨
SCHULZ: &#8220;They don’t even have one person to be president.&#8221;
CHARLAMAGNE: &#8220;Not one! &#8230; I saw Bill Maher say that the Democratic ticket, I don’t know if he was being funny &#8230; John Fetterman and Pete Buttigieg.… <a href="https://t.co/ofXLFAg9bH">pic.twitter.com/ofXLFAg9bH</a>
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&#8220;They don’t even have one person to be president,&#8221; Jason Schulz said.
&#8220;Not one!&#8221; Charlamagne agreed, adding, &#8220;I saw Bill Maher say that the Democratic ticket, I don’t know if he was being funny &#8230; John Fetterman and Pete Buttigieg. That ain’t gon&#8217; do it bruh &#8230; The Democrats are in such shambles.&#8221;

Transportation Secretary Buttigieg Testifies On 2025 Budget In House Hearing

Pete Buttigieg Polls A Literal Zero With Black Voters, And Bill Maher Wants Answers

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ESPN host Stephen A. Smith, who is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/espn-host-stephen-smith-consider-run-president" target="_blank" rel="noopener">considering</a> a run for the presidency in 2028, said on Sunday that he believes the Democratic Party needs to be &#8220;purged&#8221; of its far-left tendencies before he would associate with it as a candidate.
CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper asked Smith on this Sunday&#8217;s <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/04/politics/video/sotu-jake-tapper-interviews-stphen-a-smith-on-potential-presidentila-bid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">episode</a> of &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; whether he would run for the White House as a Democrat.
&#8220;You know what? I&#8217;m an independent. I&#8217;m a registered independent. I would lean — who leans left. I&#8217;m fiscally conservative when it comes to my money. I&#8217;m socially liberal. I&#8217;m liberal when it comes to social issues pretty much across the board. I believe in living and let living,&#8221; Smith said.
&#8220;So I&#8217;m a moderate,&#8221; he went on. &#8220;And I would say, if I had to run, it would be as a Democrat, but I&#8217;m not happy with the Democratic Party. So the Democratic Party, as presently constructed, it would pretty much need to be purged in order for me to assume that I would want to be associated with them and I would garner their support, because I don&#8217;t like the way they have gone about doing a lot of things for a very, very long period of time.&#8221;
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Smith added: &#8220;And I think that I don&#8217;t view Donald Trump as winning the election. I view the Democrats as losing the election, as absolutely, positively blowing it with some of their actions. And that&#8217;s why I think that, again, if somebody was to associate me with that, the party, as presently constructed, where it leans so extremely left, or at least has spent the vast majority of time doing that, oh, that is not something that I would vibe with at all. I would definitely be looking to be a game changer in that regard.&#8221;
When pressed by Tapper, Smith said that he would not name anyone he thinks should be &#8220;purged,&#8221; but the media personality did take aim at the &#8220;extreme left&#8221; of the party.
&#8220;We know how they go about operating. We know what we lean towards when it came to open borders. We know that the spending was excessive, even though it&#8217;s excessive on the Republican side as well. I think a $37 trillion budget, when Republicans try to act like it&#8217;s just the Democrats, that&#8217;s not true. But the Democrats certainly shouldn&#8217;t be absolved from blame in that regard,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;Certainly, with identity politics, woke culture, cancel culture, I thought that that was something that ravaged our nation psychologically, because you had people literally scared they were going to lose their jobs if they pronounced the wrong pronoun, for crying out loud,&#8221; Smith continued. &#8220;It got that bad.&#8221;
Smith said he believes the focus on &#8220;the individual&#8221; rather than &#8220;actual policies&#8221; is one reason why Trump won a second term.
&#8220;I&#8217;m talking about what they preached and what they talked to the American people about more so than what they&#8217;re doing. The kind of messages that they were disseminating was incredibly uncomfortable to listen to and to hear,&#8221; Smith said.
&#8220;And I thought that it wasn&#8217;t emblematic of what most Americans are thinking about. They&#8217;re trying to pay their mortgages, rent, buy food and groceries, pay gas and deal with the prices, the cost of living. And they want safety in the streets. That&#8217;s primarily what most American citizens are about, trying to live in peace and harmony,&#8221; he added.  &#8220;And that&#8217;s not something that I think either side has promoted along the way. And that&#8217;s why I think the state of the nation is what it is at this particular moment in time.&#8221;

Stephen A. Smith Refuses To Associate With ‘Extreme Left’ Of Democratic Party

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ESPN host Stephen A. Smith said on Sunday that he has &#8220;no choice&#8221; but to consider a run for president.
Smith, who recently <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/stephen-a-smith-says-democrats-lost-hints-seriously-considering-presidential-run" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a> the Democrats to be &#8220;lost,&#8221; refused to rule out a future campaign for the White House during an interview on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week&#8221; with anchor Jonathan Karl.
&#8220;I have no choice because I&#8217;ve had elected officials, and I&#8217;m not going to give their names, elected officials coming up to me. I&#8217;ve had folks who are pundits come up to me. I&#8217;ve had folks that got a lot of money, billionaires and others, have talked to me about exploratory committees and things of that nature,&#8221; Smith said. &#8220;I&#8217;m not a politician. I&#8217;ve never had a desire to be a politician. I just signed a contract extension with ESPN. I am very, very happy with my day job.&#8221;
He added later, &#8220;But here’s the reality, people — literally, people have walked up to me, including my own pastor for crying out loud, who has said to me, you don&#8217;t know what God has planned for you. At least show the respect to the people who believe in you, who respect you, who believe that you can make a difference in this country to leave the door open for any possibilities — two to three years down the line. And that&#8217;s what I’ve decided to do.&#8221;
Smith acknowledged that he sees Democrats who &#8220;clearly are more qualified than me.&#8221; Maryland Governor Wes Moore, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, and former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who resigned from office in 2021 amid controversy but is now <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/andrew-cuomo-launches-bid-to-be-mayor-of-new-york-city" target="_blank" rel="noopener">running</a> to become New York City mayor, all got name-dropped.
&#8220;I would hope somebody else would step up that&#8217;s more qualified than me, but if it has to come down to me, it is something I would consider. Yes, I would, because I don&#8217;t mind the thought of tussling with these folks at all on the left or the right. All of them disgust me to be quite honest with you,&#8221; Smith said.
The ESPN host also responded to Steve Bannon <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-going-run-third-term-230023061.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> on Bill Maher&#8217;s HBO show, &#8220;Real Time,&#8221; that only Smith or another celebrity would be a cause for concern for him in a prospective 2028 election match-up against Trump, assuming that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-probably-messing-with-you-about-3rd-term-thune-tells-reporters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a way around</a> the Constitution&#8217;s 22nd Amendment forbidding a third term can be found.
Bannon is &#8220;trying to be slick because he&#8217;s looking at a non-political individual like myself, looking at me as a populist, but you better be careful what you ask for because some of the stuff that Trump and the Right has been trying to get away with, like circumventing the 22nd Amendment of the Constitution, talking about how there could be a third term,&#8221; Smith said.
He continued, &#8220;Excuse me, be careful what you wish for because if any GOP member, if any Republican supports that, I don&#8217;t want to hear a word out of their mouth ever again about following the Constitution, the Constitution, the Constitution. That&#8217;s what they&#8217;ve been living off for years, and then you&#8217;re talking about circumventing the 22nd Amendment, and you think that&#8217;s cool? No way. That&#8217;s not something that we should stand for.&#8221;
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Stephen A. Smith Says He May Have ‘No Choice’ But To Run For President

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Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) made it clear on Friday that he was still willing to run cover for an obviously diminished former President Joe Biden — even after a slew of Biden&#8217;s former aides and media personalities have admitted just how compromised he was during his term in the White House.
Just off his record-setting filibuster stunt from earlier in the week, Booker made an appearance on Stephen A. Smith&#8217;s podcast, and he visibly balked when Smith asked what he would say to voters who were reluctant to trust the Democrats who covered up Biden&#8217;s obvious decline in the lead up to the 2024 presidential election.
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NJ Senator Cory Booker (D) goes on Stephen A. Smith&#39;s podcast and is asked why Dems continued to cover-up Biden&#39;s declining mental status.
Cory responds by continuing to cover-up Biden&#39;s declining mental status.
&quot;I don&#39;t even know why that&#39;s an issue &#8230; I don&#39;t know, man. I… <a href="https://t.co/qB6PEcs6rS">pic.twitter.com/qB6PEcs6rS</a>
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&#8220;You brought up Joe Biden, and you talked about what legislation he obviously signed off on,&#8221; Smith began. &#8220;I ask this question: what about people that look at the Democratic Party right now and say, &#8216;You know this man was debilitating,&#8217; and you have the Republicans leaning on the fact that you hid that from the American people? And they think that that plays a role in things that are being held against you right now as a party. To that, you say what?&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t even know why that&#8217;s an issue,&#8221; Booker shook his head. He went on to say that he had spoken to Biden on the phone earlier that same day and &#8220;he sounded very compos mentis, he got very argumentative — not argumentative with me, but very fired up when he was talking with me. I don&#8217;t know, man.&#8221;
Booker continued in that same vein, insisting over Smith&#8217;s objections, &#8220;I never saw it. And he would call — this man would literally call me up to discuss policy. I&#8217;ve met no — I&#8217;ve met no president like him!&#8221;
In recent weeks, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jake-tapper-who-ignored-signs-of-bidens-decline-releasing-book-on-the-cover-up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">several books</a> have been announced that will detail Biden&#8217;s decline as seen by insiders — in some cases, authored by people who helped to cover up that decline while Biden was still in office and even seeking a second term.

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ESPN host Stephen A. Smith on Tuesday told Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro that there was “absolutely nothing” that could get him to change his mind about Derek Chauvin.
Shapiro <a href="https://x.com/realDailyWire/status/1904610435820589375" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joined</a> “The Stephen A. Smith Show” to make his case for pardoning Chauvin, the police officer convicted for killing George Floyd. Earlier this month, Smith<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stephen-a-smith-attacks-me" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> suggested</a> Shapiro&#8217;s motives were disingenuous, and that he would not have called for Chauvin to be pardoned if he were black, or if Floyd was Jewish.
But even after Shapiro outlined the evidence for why Chauvin should not have been charged with murder, Smith remained unmoved.
“What would it take for you to change your mind on the case?” Shapiro asked after noting that Floyd had requested to leave the police car and that Chauvin was following protocol in detaining him.
&#8220;There&#8217;s absolutely nothing that could convince me that Derek Chauvin deserved a different outcome,&#8221; Smith said.
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Facts don&#39;t care about your feelings.<a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@benshapiro</a>: What would it take for you to change your mind on the case?<a href="https://twitter.com/stephenasmith?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@stephenasmith</a>: There&#39;s absolutely nothing that could convince me that Derek Chauvin deserved a different outcome. <a href="https://t.co/kBwYo7uPco">pic.twitter.com/kBwYo7uPco</a>
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Smith also attempted to argue that Shapiro could not weigh in on the Floyd case because he did not have the “lived experience” of “black folks.”
“What about the argument that when we talk about black folks, you can talk about data all you want to … but the real experiences that we endure from time to time, is not something that you can necessarily calculate,” Smith said. “How seriously do you take those assertions coming from a community whether it’s your own, mine, or anybody else&#8217;s?”
.<a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@BenShapiro</a> calmly dismantles the “lived experience” argument:<a href="https://twitter.com/stephenasmith?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@StephenASmith</a> responds: “Yeah, you make a valid point.”<a href="https://t.co/k4WinhZELt" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> pic.twitter.com/k4WinhZELt</a>
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Shapiro admitted it’s true that we can “never fully get into one another&#8217;s shoes,” but said that “when it comes to making public policy then the only sort of gauge that you can have really is the data.”
“When it comes to trying to craft law, for example, making law based on the personal feelings of people’s quote unquote lived experiences, is a bad way to make law that is going to have to be generally applicable.”
Smith agreed and said “Yeah, you make a valid point about policy when you talk about policy. You can’t just go by personal experience. It’s got to be the numbers. It’s got to be the data.”
Shapiro earlier this month launched &#8220;The Case For Derek Chauvin,&#8221; a five-part series diving into the Floyd incident and making the case for Chauvin&#8217;s innocence.
&#8220;The evidence demonstrates that Derek Chauvin did not, in fact, commit the murder of George Floyd,” Shapiro said. “George Floyd was high on fentanyl; he had a significant pre-existing heart condition. George Floyd was saying he could not breathe before he was even out of the car. He was in the car saying he could not breathe.”
The first three episodes of that series are<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-chauvin-trials-dirty-secret-shapiro-exposes-d-c-influence-on-floyd-autopsy" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> now streaming</a> on DailyWire+.
Related:<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-suck-right-now-stephen-a-smith-tells-dems-not-to-even-think-about-running-kamala-in-4-years" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> ‘They Suck Right Now’: Stephen A. Smith Tells Dems Not To Even Think About Running Kamala In 4 Years</a>

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A lot of people have been asking why I’ve focused on the pardon of Derek Chauvin. After all, he&#8217;s convicted on both federal charges as well as state charges.
There are a few reasons. 
The first and most obvious reason is that there is a likelihood he serves less time if the federal charges are relieved because federal inmates can&#8217;t earn good-time credit that reduces sentences. That happens at a much lower rate at the federal level than it happens at the state level. With Chauvin&#8217;s concurrent sentences, he has roughly a 22.5-year sentence on state charges and 21 years on federal charges.
But under Minnesota state sentencing structure, inmates usually serve about two-thirds of their sentence behind bars and one third under supervised release. So he would serve roughly 15 years of the 22.5-year state sentence in actual confinement under the state charges, thus less time in jail.
But the second reason I have focused on pardoning Chauvin is that when someone believed to be not guilty is languishing in prison, that is the time when the President of the United States ought to either commute his sentence or pardon him. 
Chauvin is the perfect example. It is immoral to allow a person whom you believe is innocent to languish in prison just because that person was made into the face of American racism. With no evidence of such a claim, Chauvin was made the face of American racism before his trial. Every media outlet in the country decided he was guilty. 
The governor of Minnesota decided he was guilty. The mayor of Minneapolis decided he was guilty. The presidential candidates on the Left side of the aisle at that time, including Joe Biden, decided he was guilty. Thus, it was necessary for the jury to convict him in order for an entire narrative structure to be created.
That was wrong.
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There are many people who object to all of this. One of those people is Steven A. Smith, a loud-mouth on ESPN. When I say loud-mouth, I mean the man does not have a volume that goes below eight on the spinal tap scale. I&#8217;m not sure that there is such a thing as a normal Stephen A. Smith voice, and I say this as a long-time viewer of ESPN. Every time Smith comes on the TV, you have to turn down your volume significantly.
Smith is very angry that I have suggested that Chauvin ought to be pardoned. He <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5EhE8LcwNU">said</a> on his show, “Would you have taken that position if George Floyd was a Jewish person? A white Jewish person? If a black cop had his knee on a white Jewish person for over nine minutes, Ben Shapiro, would you have called for that individual to be pardoned?” 
First, let&#8217;s start with this: I don&#8217;t know why he believes that it would be important, even in his stupid example, for it to be a “white Jewish person” as opposed to just a Jewish person.
His claim is that I am a tribal identitarian; thus, I would be just fine with the wrongful prosecution of a cop if a Jew died under the knee of that cop — even if the cop was not responsible and the fact patterns were exactly the same — and George Floyd’s name had been Harold Bernstein (or something equivalent), and the cop had been named George Floyd, a black man.
That is intensely stupid. It&#8217;s intensely stupid for a variety of reasons. Why don&#8217;t we begin with the first? This would not have been a national news story if that were the case. The reason this entire story was national news is because of the race of the people involved. In fact, when black people were routinely beating up Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn, it was covered up by the New York Times. It was not a national story. 
The reality is that this was made a national story specifically because the media had a preexisting narrative of race in America, and this fulfilled their narrative, even if the facts didn&#8217;t match.
Second, if, in fact, the facts had matched, and this was a Jewish person who had been arrested for counterfeiting (for passing counterfeit bills), had been high on fentanyl with a preexisting heart condition, and then had died under the knee of a cop, would I have said that the cop was innocent?
Yes, because if the cop is innocent, the cop is innocent. That&#8217;s the way this works.
The race or religion of the pseudo-victim is irrelevant to the question of whether this person was in fact murdered or not.
Stephen A. Smith is one of the deepest racial identitarians in our society. He does it all the time. All the time. He does it when he talks about sports — all the time. If you&#8217;re talking about Nikola Jokić, the greatest basketball center of our generation, he&#8217;ll talk about how Jokić should not be included in conversations for MVP specifically because of his race.
The reason Smith makes these kinds of statements is because he is projecting. He is projecting a racial conversation where none exists. I’m a Boston Celtics fan, so the following example with Smith from just a couple of years ago springs to mind.
Danny Ainge was the chief of basketball operations for the Boston Celtics; then, Brad Stevens was elevated to fill his position. Stevens is a really good president of basketball operations. How do we know this? The Celtics won an NBA championship last year, and he&#8217;s been one of the most successful NBA executives in all the NBA over the course of his tenure.
But Smith was firmly convinced the only reason Stevens was elevated was because of his race, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ESPN/comments/1dk2a26/from_3_years_ago_how_does_anyone_like_or_respect/">saying</a>, “It&#8217;s moments like this where I get on people&#8217;s nerves, particularly white America and the NBA community specifically, because I point out it&#8217;s beautiful to be a white guy. It&#8217;s just beautiful. You know, you&#8217;re a question mark as a coach in some people&#8217;s eyes, including in Boston. But somehow, someway, you’re moving upstairs.”
It’s worth noting that “it&#8217;s beautiful to be a white guy in America” has not precluded Smith from a five-year $100 million contract for ESPN, a failing network with plummeting ratings.
The reason that Smith is exercised over the George Floyd situation is specifically because of a racial narrative that is not predicated on facts. Now, he&#8217;s projecting that onto me as being some sort of racist for suggesting the racial narrative should not predominate. This is the whole reason that Black Lives Matter was such a mistake and failure, because it was racializing of a question that was not, in fact, racial.
This is just more evidence that what I&#8217;m saying about Chauvin is true, that the reason that Chauvin is in prison right now is because he was the wrong race and George Floyd was the wrong race. Because of that, Chauvin is in prison.
Here&#8217;s the dirty little secret: It never would have been a national news story if the races had been reversed, or if both people had been white or both people had been black.
And that means the officer would have been assessed on the facts of the situation rather than the racial narrative that people like Stephen Smith were propagating.

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&#8220;The View&#8221; host Whoopi Goldberg admitted during Tuesday&#8217;s broadcast of the midday talk show that she used her platform on ABC News to help spread Democratic talking points.
Goldberg and her cohosts spent a good part of the show sparring with Stephen A. Smith, who argued that Democrats so far appear to be learning all the wrong lessons from their losses in the 2024 election cycle.
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Whoopi Goldberg admits Disney and ABC News&#39;s The View is platform to promote Democrat talking points: STEPHEN A. SMITH: [Y]ou&#39;re talking about what he&#39;s doing. But before you brought that up you brought up the message that the Democratic Party was disseminating. I&#39;m challenging… <a href="https://t.co/XEZVbXzWTs">pic.twitter.com/XEZVbXzWTs</a>
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Smith argued that the 2024 election was not so much about President Donald Trump and the Republicans &#8220;winning&#8221; as it was about the Democrats losing because they couldn&#8217;t get a handle on a message that resonated with the American people.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not about him winning. It was an indictment against the Democratic Party and what the Democratic Party was offering the American citizens,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We might sit up here and talk about, hey, you should be a party for the working class, which the Democratic Party was once known for — they&#8217;re not known for that right now. Why? Because their message was catering towards others and towards other issues.&#8221;
&#8220;The forgot about the people that brought them there, that elevated the Democratic Party to what it was over these last few decades. That&#8217;s why they lost. He didn&#8217;t win, the Democrats lost,&#8221; Smith insisted.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s remind people what those issues were,&#8221; Goldberg replied. &#8220;Making sure that families had what they need &#8230; making sure stuff is there. Making sure that the America we all grew up in, where you could come and be whoever you were supposed to be or want to be, you still have that right.&#8221;
&#8220;All these things are the things the Democrats have always said, but now we have a guy who&#8217;s in who says you know, I&#8217;m gonna bring down the price of eggs, but first I&#8217;m gonna cut all these jobs,&#8221; Goldberg continued. &#8220;And I&#8217;m not gonna see why they need to be cut, I&#8217;m just gonna cut them &#8230; that&#8217;s what he&#8217;s doing.&#8221;
&#8220;You&#8217;re talking about what he&#8217;s doing,&#8221; Smith pushed back. &#8220;But before you brought that up, you brought up the message that the Democratic Party was disseminating. I&#8217;m challenging you on that. That is not what they were doing.&#8221;
&#8220;Oh, yes, it was. I was here. We did it!&#8221; Goldberg exclaimed.

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The hosts of ABC News&#8217; &#8220;The View&#8221; ganged up on guest Stephen A. Smith on Tuesday, pushing back on his claims that President Donald Trump&#8217;s 2024 election victory amounted to a mandate to govern in the way he had promised on the campaign trail.
The show&#8217;s hosts — including fellow guest and former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre — complained that Trump&#8217;s slim margin of victory with regard to the popular vote meant that he did not really have the mandate Smith said he did.
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&#8220;He&#8217;s been going around with his cronies touting his so-called landslide and blowout win, but he won the popular vote by 1.5%. One of the smallest ever and he won the general election by less than 50%. So what kind of mandate is this?&#8221; Joy Behar began.
Smith, a sports commentator, pushed back, saying that he believed it was a mandate — and he laid out in detail the reasons he felt that way.
&#8220;It is a mandate and I&#8217;m going to explain why — and I don&#8217;t mind the question, but let me be very clear: I&#8217;m not supporter of Trump, I&#8217;m a supporter of truth,&#8221; Smith said. &#8220;And here&#8217;s the facts. The man won every swing state. He increased in terms of his voter turnout in his favor from the standpoint of blacks, Latinos, and young voters. He increased his numbers in that regard from 2020. 89% of the counties shifted to the right! That&#8217;s a mandate!&#8221;
&#8220;We can sit up there and play around all we want to, in 2020 Trump didn&#8217;t win the popular vote,&#8221; Smith continued. &#8220;He didn&#8217;t win the Electoral College vote. As a matter of fact, the Republicans haven&#8217;t won the popular vote if I remember correctly since 2004 — but they did this year. So 20 years after they last won the popular vote, they won the popular vote, they won the Electoral College vote, the man won every swing state &#8230; I don&#8217;t understand how people can look at that and say there&#8217;s no mandate. There&#8217;s a mandate.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, it&#8217;s a different definition of a mandate, I guess,&#8221; Behar protested.
Smith kept going though, arguing that the massive shift to the right was a clear directive for the Democratic Party to &#8220;find a new strategy&#8221; going forward.
As Smith left the set, Jean-Pierre was coming in — and she immediately informed him that she disagreed with his assessment.
&#8220;He won with the smallest margin of the popular vote since the 19th century,&#8221; Jean-Pierre said, brushing aside every argument Smith had made to assert that Trump did not, in fact, have any kind of mandate.

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ESPN host Stephen A. Smith said Democrats have no one right now who could run for president in four years and said that former Vice President Kamala Harris should not even think about running in 2028.
During “The Stephen A. Smith Show” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrXqnGXVyPM">podcast</a>, Smith shut down the idea of running for President of the United States himself after his name started polling as a possible candidate to run for the top of the Democrat party.
The host said that while he has “zero desire” to be a politician, if he also said, &#8220;If I had a really, really good shot to win, I can’t deny that it’s something I would consider.”
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&#8220;Let me tell y’all something, if you’re the Democrats,” Smith said. “That is why Stephen A. Smith is in the news – because y’all don’t have anybody. Who you got? Who you got? Kamala Harris better not run.”
“She better not run. She’s not going to win the presidency in 2028!” he added. “Keep in mind — respect for her. I’m not going to disrespect the former Vice President of the United States. I will never do that, but we gotta be real about something here. When she ran for election on her own, she couldn’t make it to Iowa in 2020.”
“She ultimately positions herself [and] gets the vice presidency,” Smith continued. “They win the election in 2020. Joe Biden is feeling himself after the liberals won the midterms. And instead of being a transitional president like he promised, the man backstabbed the liberal party, and turned around and said, ‘I’m staying.’ They wanted him out.&#8221;
The sports host then turned his ire towards the Democratic party as a whole and said that Trump won because Democrats depended “on the legal system to wipe him out” instead of beating him at the ballot box.
&#8220;One of the reasons I think he won, because he was saying, ‘You can’t beat me! You’re using this to get help because you can&#8217;t beat me on your own!’” Smith said of Trump. &#8220;Who else you got? [House Minority Leader] Hakeem Jeffries?&#8221;
“I personally support Wes Moore, the governor of Maryland, but I don’t know how much of a national figure he is. I already interviewed [Pennsylvania governor] Josh Shapiro,” he added. &#8220;I’m in the news because the Democratic Party is here. Dammit, lower than that. Down to the bottom. They suck right now. Horrible. Because they don’t have a voice. Where the hell is the voice?&#8221;
&#8220;That’s why Stephen A. Smith is a candidate,” Smith continued. “Who the hell told y’all I’d wanna be a Democrat? I have conservative ideas. I believe in free market capitalism. I believe in patrolling our borders. I believe in strong national security. But you are right, I’d probably be a Democrat. A moderate. A centrist leaning left.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stephen-a-smith-admits-he-was-foolish-to-vote-for-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephen A. Smith Admits He Was Foolish to Vote For Harris</a>

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ESPN host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/stephen-a-smith">Stephen A. Smith</a> admitted he voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrat nominee for president in 2024, and said he now feels foolish for doing so.
During Smith’s appearance on “<a href="https://x.com/EricAbbenante/status/1883002908414812428">Real Time with Bill Maher</a>,” he compared former President Barack Obama’s popularity to that of Harris and said, “Obama resonated more because the people chose him to be the Democratic nominee for the presidency of the United States of America as opposed to somebody backdooring their way into the position.”
Smith then called out the other guest on the show, California Democrat Representative Ro Khanna, for being one of the many Democrats who had touted former President Joe Biden’s mental sharpness, the <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/25/stephen-a-smith-damn-fool-kamala-harris-ro-khanna-bill-maher/">Daily Caller</a> noted.
“I know that you supported Biden, obviously you spoke about his mental acuity and all of that other stuff. But we all saw what we saw,” Smith told Khanna, referencing the disastrous debate over the summer between President Trump and then-President Biden.
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“Kamala Harris, who didn’t resonate during the primaries in 2020 — couldn’t even get to Iowa — suddenly is the Democratic nominee,” he added. “And then you all go, and then you roll up at the [Democratic National] Convention in Chicago, and everybody’s like, ‘She’s a rockstar!’ So, it was like, wait a minute, how’d that happen? How’d that happen? I don’t know how that happened.”
“So, you are looking at all those things and you are saying, Yes, I voted for her. A lot of people voted for her. But in the end, we end up feeling like damn fools,” Smith continued, per the <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/01/26/sports/espns-stephen-a-smith-admits-he-feels-like-a-fool-for-voting-for-kamala-harris/">New York Post</a>. “Because we supported it. We fell for the okiedokie as they say. You know she did. If you had a primary, the likelihood is that she would have not been the Democrat nominee and you can’t say that about Trump. You can’t.”
The <a href="https://x.com/EricAbbenante/status/1882996909889011785">ESPN host</a> then pointed out that, in the end, the “American people still said ‘He’s [Trump] closer to normal than what we’re seeing on the Left,” despite the fact that he’s been impeached by Congress and convicted in the court system. 
“Why? Because something pertains, when you talk about the transgender community for example, and you talk about issues that pertain to less than one percent of the population, the Democratic party came across as if that was more important than the other issues,&#8221; Smith said.
“Then you turn around and look at the Left and you say &#8216;What promises did you keep?&#8217; What resonated with the voter out there?” he added. “What voter can look at the Democrat party and say &#8216;there&#8217;s a voice for us, somebody who speaks for us, that goes up on Capitol Hill and fights the fights that we want them fighting on our behalf.”
“They [Democrats] didn&#8217;t do that. That&#8217;s why their behinds are home, and that man is back in the White House,” Smith continued, noting that in week one Trump’s already fulfilling campaign promises. “He&#8217;s doing what he said he was going to do.&#8221;

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