Ep. 2084 - Priest Killed by Falling Crucifix During Mass: Here's What People Don't Get
The Michael Knowles Show
October 19, 2026
The new White House press secretary steps down after just a week on the job, France is burning again, and a viral video shows a Catholic priest killed during Mass by a falling crucifix. Ep.
Speakers Michael Knowles, Donald Trump, Alyssa Slotkin
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Michael Knowles (3:02)
This episode is brought to you by Cardiff, America's favorite small business lender with over $12 billion funded since 2004 Apply in under 3 minutes for same day funding up to $500,000 at cardiff.co/knowles. The new White House press secretary steps down after just a week on the job. France is burning to the ground and most people are getting the reason why wrong. And an Ecuadorian priest is killed in horrifying viral footage after a crucifix crushes him during mass. And in that case, most people are getting the reason why really, really wrong. Confusion abounds. I'm Michael Knowles. Welcome back to The Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. You know how much I hate to say I told you so. You remember a few weeks ago, I've been saying it pretty consistently. I said, hey, if the Democrats win the midterms, it's not that they're going to pass a bunch of bad policy. If they won't, Trump will stop that. The problem is they're just going to go after, not only Trump, not only his administration, but everyone even vaguely around Trump, everyone within a 3 billion mile blast radius of Trump. Remember I said that? I said, that's the thing they're doing? Well, Democrat Senator Alyssa Slotkin has just admitted on camera that that is correct. She said that what the Democrats have to do is imprison Trump supporters and therefore discourage anyone from ever even considering. Even to a teenage kid, even considering supporting a Republican in the future. We'll get to that because we are weeks away, less than weeks, gosh, what is it? Two weeks away now from midterm elections when all of that could happen. First though, let's start with France. France is just on fire right now. There was a viral video going around yesterday of the historic Limoges Town Hall, which has stood since 1876, burning and collapsing. Now we see images of France on fire with some frequency and often it's confined to one area or another, some neighborhood of Paris. In this case, France is just on fire. I've been hearing from people who, friends and friends of friends who are in France, this is not just confined to the ghetto, no-go zone neighborhoods here. Even like the really nice neighborhoods of Paris, even towns around France are on fire right now. And people don't really know what this is about. So the consensus view is that this is because of all the migrants, because of all the Muslim migrants in France, that is why France is burning to the ground. And there's a kernel of truth in that, but it's missing the bigger picture. So these protests and riots and arson attacks and looting and assaults and all the rest, this began as a student movement, a student as it so often does, it begins as a student movement in the poorer neighborhoods. And then it's spread everywhere. So far, there are about 550,000 to 800,000 rioters. So you're now approaching upwards of a million people rioting and burning down France all around the country. There have only been 2,400 arrests. Doesn't take a math PhD to know if you got 800,000 people burning down the country and only 2 to 3,000 people being arrested, you have roughly 797,000 people who are still burning down the country. 1,000 police and gendarme and other security personnel have been injured. And so everyone's blaming it on the migrants. And I'm all for blaming the migrants and I think they should all be deported in their country, in our country, in all the countries in between. So I don't think I'm going soft in any way on the migration issue, which remains one of if not the top issues in the entire West.
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