Barack Obama May Have TANKED Biden | Breakdown | Huckabee

The FBI receives another black eye in the Whitmer kidnapping case, another piece of evidence that Gavin Newsom plans to run for president in 2024, and Obama's legacy comes back to bite Biden in the United Auto Workers strike. Hello, I'm Mike Huckabee with your September 19th edition of The Breakdown. In the big tech hellscape of today, conservative voices are often suppressed, but because of your support and simply interacting with our videos by liking, commenting, and or subscribing, we're able to get the message out to a much wider audience. Right now, we're very close to a million subscribers, and with over half of you watching, not even being subscribed yet, gosh, we could get there very quickly, and all you have to do is click that button. So if you get to the end of the video and you find it informative, please subscribe and give us your feedback in the comments below. In yet another black eye for the FBI, a jury in Michigan Friday acquitted three men accused in a plot to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer. This came after nine men were convicted, two of them frightened into taking a plea deal, and three who were acquitted who got retried and convicted. But in the process, it was revealed that the kidnapping plot was an entrapment scheme in which undercover FBI agents played all the key roles, duping their marks into going along with a kidnapping plot they never would have conceived on their own. Victoria Taff at PJ Media reports that the case was conceived of and overseen by the FBI's Stephen D. Antonio, who was so successful in wrangling into an operation some rubes upset over Whitmer's COVID lockdowns, that at the last minute, it was turned into a kidnapping operation that he himself was asked to run. By the way, the same fake play in the Capitol breach case. There's much to this that just stinks to high heaven. With this latest acquittal, I'm not certain whether the jury reached its verdict based purely on the evidence or if the FBI's squandering the public's trust played some role. Either way, it's another blow to the credibility of this agency that was once respected by all Americans, but is now so rotten that it needs to be stripped down to the ground and rebuilt from scratch. In other news, we have further proof that California Governor Gavin Newsom is angling to move into the presidential race. Well, if Biden is eased out and lately, it kind of seems like Democrats really are trying to ease Biden out. This president has a pattern at this point of either inventing or embellishing stories about his own past. Previously in his presidency, he claimed at one point he'd been arrested during a civil rights protest when in other versions of the story, he just said an officer had taken him home from a protest. He said he had visited the Pittsburgh synagogue where worshipers were killed in a 2018 mass shooting. In fact, he'd actually spoken to the rabbi, but never went. Newsom got legislators to agree to call for a constitutional convention to pass a 28th amendment that would be a laundry list of Democrat gun control laws. Most of them are already in effect in California, where by the way, they're doing no good whatsoever at lowering crime. You can't even have an amendment that conflicts with the Bill of Rights and two thirds of states would have to ratify it, which would never happen. But he's getting people to talk about his championing of gun control laws. And that's a big issue for diluted Democrat voters who may soon be looking for another disastrous candidate to back if Joe Biden drops out. So, score one for Newsom. Finally, the United Auto Workers Union is putting pressure on Biden after they failed to reach a new contract agreement with GM, Ford, and Stellantis. President Biden says he's the most pro-union president in American history, but you haven't endorsed him. What is it going to take for you to do that? Our endorsements are gonna be earned. We've been very clear about that, no matter what politician it is. We expect action. We expect action, not words. So the union has gone on strike against all three big US car makers for the first time in history. Ironically, when you consider the union bosses tied at the hip relationship with the Democrat party, most of the workers' woes are due to Democrat policies. During his presidency, Obama wanted credit for saving the audio industry from the Great Recession, so he pressured the union to accept a deal that didn't adjust wages for inflation. Now the workers are getting killed by Biden inflation and his mass immigration policies, which depress American wages, making new cars simply unaffordable for many, if not most Americans. On top of that, Biden's wrongheaded and bullheaded crusade to force everyone to buy electric cars, well, it's enriching auto CEOs with huge government subsidies while costing auto workers their jobs and for the simple reason, it just takes fewer workers to build an electric vehicle. The auto union accused Biden of giving billion-dollar loans for clean energy to auto makers with no consideration for wages, working conditions, union rights, or retirement security. It's a perfect storm of horrible Democrat policies by the very people the union bosses helped put in office. They'll order their workers to go on strike soon and probably lose their paychecks entirely to protest the results. But will they consider changing their political affiliations? I highly doubt it. The best hope for the union workers is the rising public resistance to being forced into battery-powered cars, which are starting to gather dust on dealer lots. Most of the early tech adopters, trend chasers, and green activists have bought them already and car makers are pulling back on EV production to focus on hybrids. Word is finally getting around that EVs are not better for the environment, they cost more than we were led to believe, they take forever to charge, and they poop out quickly. They've got all sorts of issues that make going a long distance an ordeal, and it's got this little quirk of self-immolating while belching toxic gas. They're quite literally the Joe Biden of cars. I don't just say all of that because of some personal bias. Many experts have spoken out against the dangers and inefficiencies of EVs. John Stossel has some great reporting on that. Batteries are really lousy at storing energy. They leak energy constantly. They leak and they don't hold a lot. Physicist Mark Mill says electric cars are great, but. Oil begins with a huge advantage over the chemicals that are in a battery. Oil has about 5,000% more energy in it per pound. The politicians are making us pay more to do things that hurt the environment. Lines going for miles in Poland. These are people picking up coal to take home to be sure they won't freeze this winter. This is crazy. So what we've done now is had our energy systems designed by bureaucrats instead of by engineers. And what we're getting is worse energy, more expensive energy, higher environmental impacts. He's right. We're having the future of automotive technology dictated to us by a president who I'm sure was once amazed by the invention of the TV remote. Political opposition to EV mandates is also rising with the House passing the Preserving Choice in Vehicle Purchases Act by 222 to 190. It would block the EPA from allowing states like California to impose stricter emission standards than the federal government in order to force residents to buy EVs. Eight Democrats joined 214 Republicans in voting that Americans should have the right to buy whatever vehicle they want. What a novel idea. Eight Democrats may not sound like much support, but it could be the first crack in the dam that's holding back the flood of reality. Well, thanks for watching. And if you enjoyed the video, I hope you'll subscribe to the channel below. Be sure to leave a like and share your thoughts in the comment section. Also catch the Live with Mike livestream this Friday, the 22nd. I'll be covering more of the news of the week and you can ask me anything you want. Also, if you want more of my news analysis and commentary, be sure to sign up for my newsletter at mikehuckabee.com. Comes to your email inbox twice a day. And here's the really good news. It's totally free. That's gonna do it for this edition of The Breakdown. I'm Mike Huckabee. ♪ Yeah ♪