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It is Verdict with center Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you as always, and with this week being New Year's we had had an original plan which was to give you the top ten predictions that we made on Verdict in the last year that came true. They were big predictions, and it was to set the record straight for so many on the left and the media that listened to the show of just how right we were and how
ahead of things we were. And if you listen to the show, you know that we compiled this list a list to help arm you so that you can fight back against the liberals and the narrative that they pushed out on so many things that they're oh so wrong on. Now, with this terrible tarist attack in New Orleans and the other terarist attack out in Las Vegas in front of the Trump Hotel, we clearly changed things and did a special podcast that came out on Thursday with the latest
news we had there. If you missed that show, go back and listen to it because there's a lot that the Senator talked about, especially when it comes to the FBI and what should be happening come January the twentieth at the inauguration of Donald Trump and what changes we need to have immediately, make sure you go back and listen to that special pod we did on Thursday. Now it's Friday, and this was supposed to be part two
of our list. What we've decided to instead to kind of reset all this because of the terrorist attack and that special episode is we are going to give you the first part of that list again right now for you in case you missed it, and then on Monday we will have for you the second part of that list of these predictions that we made months in advance, some of them over a year in advance, that became true in twenty twenty four heading into twenty twenty five.
So with that being said, here is part one of that list of the predictions that became react that we called here on Verdict weeks, months and even over a year ago.
We're going to go through ten predictions that on this podcast we have made that had proven correct and the principle going forward, if you want to know what's going to happen next, what's going to happen in twenty twenty five, what's going to happen in twenty twenty six, what's going to happen going forward. Well, listen to verdict, because we're
going to keep making predictions. And so far our batting record is pretty damn good in including some predictions that at the time we made them were widely, widely ridiculed and deemed crazy tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theories. And now they are indisputably correct.
And let's go back, and let's start with one that's way back, and now we have a lot more confirmation to say, yet again we were right. I want to go back to March the tenth of twenty twenty Rch tenth, twenty twenty. Get that in your head. We're in twenty twenty five now, January first, and you said that in fact, COVID nineteen you believe was coming from a lab, that this wasn't some man made this wasn't some organic thing.
This was clearly man made. And if you said that, by the way, on social media, you were shut down. You were put into what we referred to as social media jail. Your reach was limited, you couldn't run ads. It changed looks.
People in twenty twenty. In twenty twenty, Facebook and Twitter and Google, they were all actively suppressing saying that that COVID was a man made virus, that it was not something that had just naturally leapt from an animal to the human population, but rather that it escaped from a lab. It was suppressed. We now know that that Facebook, that doctor Fauci was communicating with Mark Zuckerberg asking him to
suppress it. And yet somehow, starting back in March of twenty twenty, this show was laying out the facts, and for our loyal listeners and viewers, they were hearing the facts about COVID right at the very beginning. Give a list in March tenth, twenty twenty.
This was just a bad case of bat soup. That people ate something they shouldn't have eaten, and that's how it spread. Others have pointed to this strange coincidence that there is a virus testing laboratory in Wuhan. Do we have any sense of the true origins of the virus, Well, we don't know for sure.
I've asked medical experts and they've said, based on the sequencing of the genomes, it does not appear to be artificially created. That it appears to be a virus that has occurred in nature. You're right that a lot of people have focused on the Wuhan Virology Institute that is located right there, and indeed they've got researchers there that are studying coronavirus and studying bats. I mean that raises some obvious questions. At the same time, it's it's very interesting.
Do you remember back last fall when when the Houston Rockets, when Daryl Mory, the general manager, tweeted out about Hong Kong. He said, stand with Hong Kong, stand for liberty, right, and and the NBA went crazy, and China went crazy, and the NBA apologized profusely. I have to admit, it's kind of the same thing that anyone suggests, well, well, gosh, you know, there are thousands, hundreds of thousands of cities
all across the world. It just so happens this outbreak is there right where this virology lab is, and the collective media acts with this outrage of okay, take your take your tin hat off. How dare you even ask that question? You know it, it's obviously a question that people are going to inquire. Look, the first step needs to be stopping this this virus, stopping the disease and
protecting human life. Right now. But but there are certainly going to be questions following up if if there is any connection or not, And that seems that least a reasonable question.
I asked you listen to that, and again we're going back now to twenty twenty for that. You were spot on and that was something that the media and social media said made you a conspiracy theorist.
Yeah, and listen, there are two predictions that that came out that we were laying out. Number one, that that COVID did not occur just naturally, did not occur in a wet market from someone eating bat soup, but rather than it escaped from a lab. And number two that in particular it came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. And look, early on, you're dealing with limited information. I was trying to do my best to walk through that limited information. By the way, I got to say in
that clip, Ben, you sound kind of funny there. You know, you don't have much of sun time. You know, you sound like you sound kind of like a yalea. It's a little weird.
I've always, you know, wanted to know what I'd sound like if I went to the Ivy leagues and now I know, compliments of Michael Knowles for making that happen right.
And for long time Verdict listeners. Michael Knowles, my dear friend, Ben's dear friend was my co host for the first couple of years, and so that was Michael and me back then before Ben came on board. That was in March, March tenth of twenty twenty. Let's go forward a month later to April. To April we had a little more information. I want to listen. I want you to listen to Verdict laying out the evidence that this virus not just escape from a lab, but escape from the Wuhan Institute
for Virology in Wuhan, China. Give a listen.
I want to turn for a moment from the economy into the virus itself. And I want to take just a slight victory lap because I remember on this very show, Senator on March tenth, over a month ago, you suggested that there was very likely a link between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and this virus that just so coincidentally happened to occur within a couple of miles of that institute. During that time, the mainstream media said this was crazy.
This was a conspiracy theory, there was no evidence of it. Now we are getting multiple reports all saying that the virus came from the lab. My question here is not my point is not just to take a victory lab. My question is did the US government know that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was conducting this sort of dangerous research? And if we did know, why didn't we stop it?
Absolutely yes, the US government knew, and in fact, when you and I brought this up on March tenth, over a month ago, you're right, it was treated as tinfoil hat, conspiracy theory, nut jobbery. Well, it turns out there wasn't
just one. There were two labs within miles of where this outbrook break occurred that were studying coronaviruses from bats, and that there were internal State Department wires before this pandemic, raising concerns about the security and the those labs and that an accidental a virus could escape and cause a global pandemic. But I'll tell you it's worse than that.
And let me give you some breaking news right now, which is the US government was funding the Chinese research at the Wu Hunt Institute of Virology, your taxpayer dollars and my taxpayer dollars. And let me give you specifics that we just got today today in inquiring of the National Institutes of Health, did any of your money go to the wu Hunt Institute of Virology. The answer is yes,
And here's what they told us in writing today. They said, in fiscal year twenty nineteen, the funding for the Wuhun Institute for Virology was seventy six thousand dollars and the three hundred and one dollars seventy six thousand, three hundred and one dollars. Now what did it go to? And
I'm repeating what NIH has told me in writing. It went to It was part of an overall three two point seven million dollar funding program that went to six years in sites in China, Thailand, Cambonia, Laos, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Banmar. And here's what they were studying. These are
Nah's words. The project included studying viral diversity in animal parentheses, bats reservoirs, surveying people that live in high risk communities for evidence of bat coronavirus infection, and conducting laboratory experiments to analyze and predict which newly discovered viruses pose the greatest threats to human health center.
It's pretty clear, and that's part two of this prediction. You were right as well.
Yeah, look and we now know this like what we were predicting then that was crazy fringe theory has now all been confirm. Let's fast forward to February twenty twenty three. February twenty twenty three, The Washington Post reported, FBI director said COVID nineteen quote most likely originated from lab incident. That's the FBI's position now. June of twenty twenty three,
The New York reported New York Post reported quote. US taxpayers supported research in three Chinese labs that included risky gain of function experiments with coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the National Institution Institutes of Health NIH and the US Agency for International Development USAID provided two million, one hundred and sixty eight thousand, three hundred and forty five dollars in grant funding to the Chinese research institutions
between twenty fourteen and twenty twenty one. According to the Government Accountability Office, The report shows one million, four hundred and thirteen thousand, seven hundred and twenty dollars in subgrants allocated by the Manhattan based EcoHealth Alliance went to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where hazardous research was conducted on back coronaviruses. July of twenty twenty three, Reuters reported quote US suspends federal funding to Wuhan lab over non compliance.
December twenty twenty four, Fox News COVID most likely leaked from Wuhan lab, social distancing not based on science, select committee fines. And then finally December twenty sixth of twenty twenty four, just a few days ago, The Wall Street Journal wrote the bomb Setshell story that we did an entire podcast on entitled Behind closed Doors the Spy World
scientists who argued COVID was a lab leak. Well, there were scientists arguing that behind Closed Doors, but there was also the Verdict podcast making the argument laying out the facts right at the very beginning, and I gotta say, on COVID, we were proved exactly right.
Final question on this prediction, looking forward, do you think we're going to learn a lot more about Fauci, the cover up, and COVID win Donald Trump is inaugurated after January twentieth.
So I do, and I am urging the incoming Trump administration to engage in full transparency. That's a discussion I have had with Pam Bondi at the Department of Justice. That's a discussion I've had with with Cash Battel, who will be going to the FBI. It's a discussion I will have next week with RFK Junior, who will be coming in as HHS Secretary. Every one of them, I am urging, use full transparency, make it public, let the public know. And I'm going to keep pressing them to
do that. And I think that they're going to follow through. We're going to know a lot more. That is a very good thing.
Let's move on to another prediction. This may be one of my favorite predictions that we've ever made here on this show, because when we said it, we got a lot of pushback and there are a lot of people that said what you were saying was just absurd. We had our ten foil hats on again. I mean, there were people that were angry over this. And that was the big prediction that you made that Joe Biden would not be the twenty twenty four Democratic nominee.
Well, that's right, And I made two related predictions. Number one, early on, I said, I believe Joe Biden would not be the Democrat nominee. He would not be on the ballot in twenty twenty four. I also predicted, I said the only people there were. When people were later talking about replacing him with Gavin Newsom or Gretchen Whitmer some other people, I said, no, that will never happen. The
Democrat Party is a bean counting party. Next in line is Kamala Harris, and the Democrat Party cannot cannot push her aside, cannot push an African American woman aside for a white guy like Gavin Newsom. Their party would spontaneously combust if they tried to do that. So I said, the only people who could replace Joe Biden are Kamala har Harris or Michelle Obama. And I did lay out
that I thought Michelle Obama. If I were a Democrat, I would much prefer Michelle Obama to Kamala Harris because Kamala Harris, as the whole world is seen, is a lousy candidate. So if you're a Democrat who wants to win, and you're stuck with Kamala Harris. There's only one human being who can push Kamala Harris aside. That is Michelle Obama. Now what I think happened. I think they tried with Michelle.
I think Michelle said no. And so prediction number one that Joe Biden would not be the nominee that came one hundred percent correct. Prediction number two that he would be replaced either by Kamala Harris or Michelle Obama that came true as well, although I did think Michelle Obama
had a very real possibility. So let's listen. This first excerpt is from September eighteenth, twenty twenty three, so more than a year, a year and three months ago, where I laid out laid out this possibility and give a listen. Here's the scenario that I think is perhaps most likely and most dangerous. In August of twenty twenty four, the Democrat kingmakers jettison Joe Biden and parachute in Michelle Obama, and I want you to pause and reflect on it.
No, I'm pausing, and I'm reflecting, as we said, and so is everybody else listening right now.
I view this as a very serious.
Danger I'm smiling right now because it terrifies me, and I also could totally see this happening.
So Michelle Obama, number one, you don't infuriate African American women, which is a critical part of the constituency that Democrats are relying on to win. But number two, you avoid the problem if you pick from any of the four. The other three are pissed because they're all, to some extent peers, they're rivals, they're all jabbin knives at each other. Michelle Obama, because she was first Lady, has the ability to kind of parachute in above all and say, hey,
we're not picking among any of you. You guys can all fight it out. Next time. You're all gonna be on the same level. We're coming. This is the Obamas saving the day, and I think in terms of a solution that unifies Democrats, there ain't nothing like that. I also think Michelle is not all that eager to run for president, but to parachute in in August of twenty four, a couple of months before the presidency and suddenly wake up and be president not a bad gig. It's not
a bad gig at all. Now, would she do it. I don't know. I've met Michelle, but I don't know her personally in any meaningful way. I don't know if she would do it. I do think Barack Obama is already running the Biden administration. I think he is already the puppet master behind this Biden White House. I don't
think Joe Biden is the decision maker. And so when I see the media turning on Joe Biden right now, I think the odds of Michelle Obama parachuting in in August of twenty twenty four have risen dramatically, and that ought to scare the hell out of anyone who is unhappy about the direction this country is going and doesn't want us to go even crazier in an even worse.
Direct, in an even worse direction.
Well, and there you heard in September of twenty twenty three making the prediction that Joe Biden would be jettisoned. And by the way, at the time that happened, very few people were making that prediction. When we put that
podcast out, it drove a lot of news. There were headlines, There were people that were shocked when I laid out that Biden was not capable, that his mental capacity had diminished, that he was not going to be the nominee, that the Democrats realized it, that they were going to jettison him. The media ridiculed it. But you go forward to February
of twenty twenty four, I went on Maria Barbiromo. I said, I think Obama's driving the train, which is which is also what I said back in September twenty twenty three. John Harwood, who you know, was the former journalist for the Wall Street Journal and for NBC, and who's a hard leftist, a vicious leftist. He retweeted my comments on Maria Barbaramo and his entire commentary was quote impossibly stupid conversation. So that was his learned journalistic view is that it
was impossibly stupid to say that. I will tell you just just in November of this year, I retweeted Harwood shot at me and I just said, I want to know why nobody trusts the media. Just nine months ago, a fake quote journalist claimed it was quote impossibly stupid to observe that Joe Biden was not mentally competent to be president. Now everybody admits it. What say you, John Jay Harwood of course, Harwood didn't respond at all. He
ignored it. All right, Let's go forward though. Not only did we lay it out in September of twenty twenty three, but then fast forward to the debate, the debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, that was on June twenty eighth, twenty twenty four. You and I recorded a Verdict podcast immediately after the debate. We went live, recorded it that night, and give a listen to what the Verdict podcast said the night of the debate.
Tender Cruz. I didn't think it could actually be this bad. It was worse than even I think either of us could have imagined. And now the Democratic Party is screaming replaced the president.
Well, you and I are sitting here at is ten seventeen pm Texas time, at is eleven seventeen pm East Coast time, the night of the debate. The debate just ended, and I have to say we have just witnessed what I believe is the most consequential presidential debate in US history. Sometimes debate change debates change things. Sometimes they don't. I believe to bite tonight's debate change things fundamentally, And I
believe the odds have now skyrocketed. I believe the odds are north of eighty percent that the Democrat Party will remove Joe Biden from the ticket and replace him. And I believe they are likely to replace Joe Biden with Michelle Obama because Biden did so disastrously badly tonight that Democrats across the country are in utter freefall and complete panic. We're going to break all that down tonight.
Yeah. And by the way, this was a prediction that you made on this show back in September of twenty twenty three, that the Democratic king makers could bring in Michelle Obama will break all that down center yet another prediction there Again, you go back and look at the night you made it right at that debate, and you said there's no way he's going to be on the ticket, and it was absolutely correct.
Well, to be fair, what I said was the odds were north of eighty percent that he would be pulled off the ticket. That prediction that Joe Biden would be removed from the ticket, which by the way, is unprecedented and was almost universally ridiculed in the media, that prediction came one hundred percent true. I also articulated there were only two people who could replace him, Kamala Harris or
Michelle Obama. I believe Michelle Obama was more likely. The Michelle Obama thing did not come to pass, but the Kamala Harris thing did. And in fact I predicted that the Democrat Kingmakers with jettison Biden in August of twenty twenty four. They in fact did so on July twenty first of twenty twenty four, so I was ten days off in terms of predicting it. And by the way, to be clear, I predicted that way back in September
of twenty twenty three, so over a year earlier. I predicted within ten days when they would throw Biden off the ballot. And I'm gonna make actually a brand new
prediction here. I'm going to predict that in the next year or two we're going to get confirmation that there was serious outreach to Michelle Obama to see if she was willing to replace Joe Biden on the ballot, and that Michelle Obama said no. I don't know that, but my instinct, my judgment tells me that happened, and we'll see in the next year or two if that gets confirmed. We'll have a subsequent podcast. If that gets confirmed publicly,
we'll go back and revisit it regardless. Prediction number three, Joe Biden will not be the nominee. Check true. Prediction number four Joe Biden will be replaced by either Kamala Harris or Michelle Obama check true. So that's four predictions. Let's move on to prediction number five.
Number five is another big one here, and that is the prediction that Joe Biden would pardon death Row inmates. You said that it was gonna happen, and it did.
Plus the even more i would say disgusting deal that was given out to Khalead Sheik Muhammad, the mastermind of nine to eleven to spare his life, the mastermind of nine to eleven, and a man that was also before even nine to eleven involved in many other terrorist attack that killed women and children and the elderly innocent bystanders that he did around the world.
Well, and this is a prediction that we made on August eighteenth, twenty twenty three. Give a listen to what we said back in August of twenty three. Any Way, I'm going to make a prediction as well, which is that these are not the only mass murderers that I think this administration is going to refuse to follow federal law and impose the death ben I'm going to make a prediction right now, which is Joe Biden, before war he leaves the White House will commute the sentence of
every federal prisoner on death row. That he will do it for every one of them. And that includes It includes the white supremacist and Nazi who murdered nine African Americans at the Mother Emmanuel Ame Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in a horrific hate crime. He's on federal death row. It includes the Boston bomber who murdered innocent people by exploding a bomb at the Boston Marathon. One of the
two brothers is still alive. He's on death row. And my prediction right now is Joe Biden intends to spare every one of these mass murderers, every one of them. Many of them are racist, bigoted, homicidal lunatics, and I think we're going to see him commute all of their sentences before he leaves the White House.
Well, if you won't, if you won't take out the mastermind of nine to eleven, and you won't give him the death penalty. Is there anyone that you'll give it to? I mean, it doesn't. It doesn't get any worse than this.
It doesn't. And yet that's exactly what he's done.
Well, So my prediction again in August of twenty three, is that that he would he would remove the death penalty, that he would commute the death penalty for the federal death row prisoners that has come to pass. Now, to be clear, this prediction proves slightly off. I predicted that he would commute the sentence of every single federal death row prisoner. He instead commuted the sentence of thirty seven out of the forty federal death row inmates. And so
there were three he did not. And interestingly enough, the three he did not are the three that I identified in October, or rather in August of twenty twenty three. So the three he did not were the murderer at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, the murderer at the Mother Emmanuel Church in Charles in South Carolina, and the Boston marathon bomber. And those three are the only three he
did not. Now I identified those three because they're the most horribly egregious, they're the most famous and infamous that they are. Two of the three at least are vicious, unrepentant racists. And so I have to say my prediction it was not one hundred percent right. It was ninety two point five percent right, because instead of commuting forty death sentences, Biden commuted thirty seven out of forty, and he left the three most egregious and famous ones off
the table. Why because they knew that the press was so utterly corrupt that without those three that they would get almost no criticism for it, That would you would just go under the carpet, not really be seen. And I have to say I underestimated the incredible cynicism. And I got to say nonetheless that that is a profound disrespect for the rule of law. Among those that that Biden did commute the sentences was was a Nazi and an Aryan Brotherhood racist. You know, Joe Biden stepped forward
and said, hey, we're the Democrat Party, We're here. We're here for Nazis and klansmen. I mean it. But ninety two point five percent prediction correct. And sadly, another element of this prediction just just became confirmed moments ago. So so this episode, we were talking about the plans to spare the life of Khaleade Shake Mohammad, the mastermind of nine to eleven, and this podcast put enormous public pressure
on the White House. The White House Koreem John Pierre was asked about it, and the heat became so much that they backed off of it. Well, sadly, the news just broke that they're going back to trying to spare Khalead Shak Muhammad. They're trying to do it literally on the way out that door. And the contempt that Joe Biden, this entire White House has for the voters. They are trying to break everything on the way out the door. They're trying to frustrate Donald Trump every way they can.
They are such vicious partisans that there is no respect for the Constitution, for the rule of law, no respect for the voters. They don't care what the voters said in November. They are trying to literally break everything on the way out the door. And I gotta say it is grotesque.
It really is. We're gonna have part two of our predictions. We will continue this on Friday morning, so may make sure you hit that like subscribe auto download button, and we will keep giving you hard hitting predictions so you know what's actually gonna be happening in this new year.
It is going to be a very fun one, especially with Trump in office, Republicans control of the House in the Senate, and we're gonna have a lot of predictions for you, So make sure that subscriber auto download button, and on Friday will have part two two of this. Also, don't forget grab my podcast, the Ben Ferguson Podcasts on those in between days and I'll keep you update on the latest breaking news as well, and we'll see you back here Friday morning.