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  • Please welcome Tomi Lahren.

  • -♪ ♪ -(cheering, applause)

  • Thanks. Thank you.

  • I'm in the lion's den, Trevor.

  • I am not a lion at all.

  • Is that, like, an African thing? No. Um, welcome to the show.

  • Be-Before we get into it, uh, I-I know who you are,

  • because I-I... my Facebook feed has you in it.

  • Uh, there are a lot of people who don't, so if you don't

  • know Tomi Lahren, this is a little taste of her show.

  • The protesters are still out in force, but let's be honest--

  • they're not protesters, they're crybabies with nothing better

  • to do than meander around the streets

  • with their participation trophies and false sense

  • of purpose. This isn't for Hillary.

  • I'm not even sure this is against Trump.

  • It's the same thing we've seen time and time again

  • with these so-called protesters and demonstrators.

  • It started with the Occupy Wall Street brats,

  • moved on to the more militant and overtly aggressive

  • Black Lives Matter More crowd,

  • cycled through the DNC-paid violence instigators

  • and now here we are, November of 2016,

  • with President-elect Donald Trump and a crowd

  • of misfit babies formed from every failed movement,

  • all sandwiched together to become the largest group

  • of whiners the country has ever seen.

  • -All right... -Pretty much covers it, doesn't it, Trevor?

  • Quick question-- like, why are you so angry?

  • I'm actually not that angry. It's just there's things

  • that need to be said, Trevor, and a lot of people

  • -are afraid to say 'em. -In an...

  • in an angry way. I mean, you can't say you're not angry

  • and, I mean, this is-this is what you're known for.

  • It's a strange thing to say-- "I'm not angry"--

  • but that is the one thing... It's like Ellen saying,

  • "I don't like dancing." It's like, yeah, you do, Ellen.

  • You do. You-you are angry about everything, it seems.

  • Some of these people just need to be called on their (bleep).

  • -You know? I mean, when... -What-what... But when you say

  • "your (bleep)," what in particular?

  • -Well, when you're... -'Cause this is the-this is the thing--

  • protesting a, you know, fair and free election...

  • that, to me, you-you're gonna get called on your (bleep)

  • a little bit. It's time to clear the streets, it's time

  • to accept reality, it's time to move on,

  • time to make America great again.

  • -You consider yourself a conservative. -I do.

  • -Okay. -I mean, a millennial, so I don't really like labels.

  • -But, yes, I'm conservative in thought. -Sorry, my brain...

  • You just gave a label to say you don't like labels.

  • -But, anyway, um... -We exist on a spectrum, Trevor.

  • I mean, you're... Would you consider yourself a liberal?

  • That was just... that was just funny. That was just funny.

  • -It was just a funny moment. Um... -I'm a millennial.

  • -We can surprise you. -It's just... it's just funny.

  • Um, in terms of Black Lives Matter,

  • like, you know, you have quite a record...

  • For somebody who is not racist,

  • you have to spend a lot of time saying, "I'm not racist."

  • Uh... what is your biggest issue with Black Lives Matter?

  • I think-- and I've said this many times--

  • it started with good intentions.

  • I think it was. It was well-intentioned.

  • The moment that they started pushing "hands up,

  • don't shoot"-- which is a false narrative,

  • proven time and time again to be a false narrative--

  • the minute that that became their slogan,

  • the minute that protesting turned into rioting and looting

  • and burning and militant actions,

  • that's when I lost respect for Black Lives Matter.

  • Okay, but, now, here's my thing.

  • Let's address each of these things one by one.

  • When you go, protesting, turning into rioting and looting,

  • that's not a Black Lives Matter phenomenon.

  • That is what happens when there is a protest a lot of the time.

  • There are people who rioted and looted

  • when teams won in Chicago years ago.

  • It doesn't mean that they are now bad people.

  • That's what happens...

  • There are some bad people in every instance.

  • Going back to Black Lives Matter, though,

  • for you to say that... You say they have good intentions,

  • they had the good intentions.

  • How are you labeling out the actions of a few

  • and condemning an entire group? I don't understand that.

  • Because they subscribe to the Black Lives Matter movement.

  • They say, we are the Black Lives Matter movement,

  • fry 'em like bacon, "F" the police.

  • They are saying those things.

  • These are a few people. These are a few people.

  • This is not the Black Lives Matter pro...

  • -These are... these are... -That is not the platform, though.

  • I saw it in my... my city of Dallas.

  • I saw what a Black Lives Matter protest looked like.

  • And I saw five fallen officers because of it.

  • -So I've seen... -That's not fair and that's true.

  • -That's-that's not... -No, no, no, no, no, it is fair, Trevor,

  • because the shooter said, point blank shooter said,

  • he's doing this because of Black Lives Matter.

  • Yes, and there are many things you can say.

  • I mean, if you go outside,

  • you can say anything about doing something because of...

  • You cannot deny that the man had mental issues, as well,

  • and he was in a tough place.

  • Just because you say the thing doesn't mean

  • -it's what it stands for, right? -Do you feel emboldened?

  • Because you're the same person...

  • You're the same person who argued on your show

  • that just because Donald Trump has supporters from the KKK

  • doesn't mean he's in the KKK,

  • so it goes against that argument.

  • He didn't say... he didn't say... No. No.

  • -(applause and cheering) -It goes against that.

  • You can't say he did it because of.

  • No, but, he, the shooter said, "I am..."

  • Yes, but Black Lives Matter has never said

  • go out and shoot people.

  • I'm saying, you're saying this to your audience,

  • and I honestly do not understand where you're getting that from.

  • Just because a person...

  • What if somebody says, "I felt emboldened by Tomi Lahren,

  • and so I went out, and I shot black people"?

  • Are you now responsible? Is that your black...?

  • But it's not one... Trevor, it's not one or two people.

  • -If you look at it... -How many people is it?

  • If you look at it in every city,

  • -look at the protests that have gone on. -How many people is it?

  • In Baltimore, in Ferguson, in New York City,

  • the protests that have now turned to anti-Trump protests.

  • -These are not a few people. -Okay.

  • -This is mass crowds of people. -Okay.

  • They're doing this in the name of Michael Brown.

  • They're doing this in the name of Freddie Gray.

  • They're doing it as the front of Black Lives Matter,

  • and the mainstream media is emboldening these people.

  • Okay, so then let's use that same logic

  • that you're using, then, and then go, police.

  • Are the police racist? Because police in many cities...

  • You look at Baltimore,

  • or you look at what happened in New York,

  • you look at what happened in the case of Walter Scott.

  • You tell me, are police racist?

  • Because they've been shown to harass black people unfairly.

  • They've been shown to shoot black people

  • when they're unarmed. Does that mean the police are racist then?

  • Because that's the same logic you're using.

  • -It's really not, though, Trevor, because... -It is.

  • the mainstream media is not emboldening them as a group.

  • -(groaning, booing) -It's not. And did you know

  • that a black man is 18.5 times more likely

  • to shoot a police officer than a police officer is

  • to shoot a black man? Those are statistics

  • -no one wants to talk about. -(booing, groaning)

  • Here's the thing. So, let me ask you this, then.

  • If you say, as you said when you walked out,

  • "I'm not as mean as people think I am,

  • I'm not the person that people think I am,"

  • what do you wish people would understand about you

  • that are in another bubble?

  • What do you wish people would understand about you

  • on the other side?

  • I wish that we could disagree with each other

  • without thinking that we are bad people or ill-intentioned folks.

  • So because I criticize a black person

  • or I criticize the Black Lives Matter movement,

  • that doesn't mean that I am anti-black.

  • It does not mean that I don't like black people,

  • or that I'm a racist.

  • It means I'm criticizing a movement.