Ben Shapiro pushes back on the insurrection claim #benshapiro

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]Donald Trump was found guilty of inciting an insurrection. He has 34 felonies. So, you don't think that that is a threat? You can't even vote in a >> accurate. He wasn't found guilty of insur- inciting an insurrection.

[00:00:09]>> So, let me ask you let me ask you Ben, do you did did Donald Trump incite an insurrect an insurrection?

[00:00:14]>> He did not incite an insurrection by any legal standard. I disagree with a lot of the stuff he did between >> going to ask you by legal sex- standard.

[00:00:20]I'm asking you, did he incite an insurrection? Yes or no?

[00:00:23]>> No.

[00:00:24]He did not incite an insurrection.

[00:00:25]Insite- inciting usually requires you have to actually provoke the violence with intent to provoke the violence, not say peacefully protest at So, here's the thing so, you're an attorney, right? Intent, right? Cuz you can have manslaughter and you can have murder. One's intent, one's not, but you still killed somebody, right?

[00:00:39]>> Incitement is incitement is a is an intent crime. You cannot you can't incite without intent. On a on a legal base.

[00:00:45]>> here as a as a teacher cuz I have a lot of history context and as somebody that works in a criminal criminal justice reform. So, he has 34 felonies, correct?

[00:00:51]I mean, he's not been convicted of I mean, if you're talking about the New York case, you're talking about the New York case >> about the 34 felonies that he has on his He he's a convicted felon, yes or no?

[00:01:00]Cuz I want to make sure we're talking If we're saying that we're lawyers, we got to sit here and I'm so sorry, you've been voted out by the majority. Please return to your seat.

[00:01:07]>> was fun. Thank you anyway.