Former Vice President Joe Biden has been charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to wire money, and conspiracy to obstruct justice. But while Donald Trump enters the criminal bar on the federal docket, Joe Biden continues to be subject to very little scrutiny by members of federal law enforcement. And this discrepancy is very clear to pretty much everyone at this point. Today's special guest, Alex Blumberg, explains why this is a problem, and why the FBI should be much more interested in investigating the Biden family than they are in bringing charges against Donald Trump. He also points to a new report from a whistleblower who alleges that the FBI has audio recordings of phone calls between Joe Biden and Ukrainian oligarchs, and that they have evidence that proves Joe Biden was aware of these conversations. And guess what? The FBI doesn't even care about that. They care more about investigating Donald Trump and his alleged collusion with the Russian government. And that's not even close to as bad as they make it out to being in touch with the truth about what really happened in the Trump/Russia dossier, the so-called "sordid" document written by George Papadopoulos, the infamous dossier written by Glenn Thrush and the infamous "Stefan Nellis. And, of course, they don't even bother to mention that the dossier is a fake dossier, which was written by an ex-British intelligence officer who was in fact written by a Russian intelligence officer, not a Russian spy. . Learn more about the dossier in today on our new show, "The Dark Side of Politics." Subscribe to our new podcast, The Dark Side Of Politics. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Podchaser Subscribe on Stitcher Subscribe on Pocketcasts Subscribe on PODCAST Connect with your Local MP3 Player Subscribe on Spare Cash App Subscribe on the Podcharts Subscribe on Itunes Learn more About Meals on the Podcasts on the Same Day Join Us On Your Local Podcasts On The Same Page and We'll Be on Social Media Thanks for listening to Our Podcasts? & Share Us On Social Media Connected? Subscribe To Our Insta v=Apostcode Connected to Our Story? & Subscribe to Our Stories On The Podcharity Leave Us On A Podcasts And Share Our Story On The Vineyard On This Podcasts & We'll Have A Podcast Out?
00:00:00.000Well, today is one of the most crucial days in the history of American politics when the former president of the United States and current Republican frontrunner shows up at a federal courthouse in Miami to turn himself in for arraignment.
00:00:15.000While Donald Trump is about to enter the criminal bar on the federal docket, Joe Biden continues to be subjected to very little scrutiny by members of federal law enforcement.
00:00:24.000And this discrepancy is very clear to pretty much everyone at this point.
00:00:29.000Because when we look at our political class, generally speaking, I think most Americans, they look at the political class, they see a lot of people who seem to be corrupt, people who seem to violate the rules, skirt the rules, but only certain types of people seem to get fully investigated and then prosecuted.
00:00:41.000The discrepancy between Hillary Clinton's behavior and her exoneration at the hands of the FBI and Donald Trump's behavior and his criminal indictment at the hands of the DOJ.
00:00:50.000That discrepancy is very clear to everybody, but it's also clear to everybody that the current occupant of the White House, his entire family has been making millions of dollars off of his name for years while he was vice president of the United States, going around and picking up bags of cash.
00:01:03.000And now we have this information that has been very little covered by the legacy media.
00:01:06.000This information from a whistleblower in what's called the 1023 form, suggesting that Joe Biden was fully aware of Hunter Biden working with Burisma in order to essentially facilitate bribery while he was president and vice president of the United States.
00:01:19.000The goal apparently was for Burisma to Open business arrangements in the United States using Hunter's relationship with Joe to pave the way and also to get Joe Biden to exert pressure on a Ukrainian prosecutor to go away because that Ukrainian prosecutor was looking into Burisma.
00:01:36.000These questions have been very open for a very long time, but this whistleblower document, which the FBI was refusing to turn over to Congress, has now been looked at by members of Congress and some of the information that's being spilled out there by Pretty serious people, right?
00:01:49.000Not fringe members of the Republican caucus, but people like Senator Chuck Grassley.
00:01:52.000Long time Republican senator from Iowa.
00:01:55.000So yesterday, Senator Grassley, he pointed out that it is fascinating how law enforcement, federal law enforcement has been laser focused on Donald Trump, but there's been almost no laser focus on the Biden family.
00:02:09.000Based on the facts known to the Congress and the public, it's clear that the Justice Department, the FBI haven't nearly had the same laser focus on the Biden family.
00:02:26.000So he's obviously right about that, and everybody knows that he is right about that.
00:02:30.000So Grassley went on to actually describe some of the information in this so-called 1023 whistleblower document.
00:02:36.000Some of that information includes the fact that apparently the person who's making the allegation says that there are taped recordings, like audio recordings, between not Hunter Biden and Ukrainian oligarchs working with Burisma, but Joe Biden and Ukrainian oligarchs working for Burisma.
00:02:51.000Now, that doesn't mean that bribery was facilitated on the phone call, but it does raise some pretty serious questions as to why Joe was getting on the phone with the people that Hunter was picking up cash from.
00:03:00.000I mean, that obviously creates a pretty significant appearance of impropriety, given the fact that Hunter was completely not in the government at the time.
00:03:07.000A lot of people have been comparing, for example, Jared Kushner and Donald Trump to Hunter Biden and Joe Biden because Jared Kushner now runs a very well-funded hedge fund that has a bunch of Saudi money in it.
00:03:17.000The difference is that Jared Kushner was actually working for the American government and facilitating peace policy in the Middle East when he was working for Donald Trump.
00:03:24.000Hunter was basically freelancing out in Ukraine, snorting coke off the floor while picking up giant checks from Burisma with no expertise in either natural gas or Ukraine while facilitating phone calls between his pops And these Ukrainian oligarchs, and apparently some of those phone calls are now on tape.
00:03:57.000According to the 1023, The Foreign National possesses 15 audio recordings of phone calls between him and Hunter Biden.
00:04:08.000According to the 1023, the Foreign National possesses two audio recordings of phone calls between him and then-Vice President Joe Biden.
00:04:22.000So the real question here is whether the FBI has actually done any of the research on this sort of stuff, because the FBI was more than happy to launch an entire investigation based on garbage information about George Papadopoulos mouthing off in bars.
00:04:36.000Based on the Steele dossier, which is a compendium of nonsense.
00:04:38.000They launched a full-scale four-year investigation into Donald Trump and supposed Russian collusion.
00:04:42.000But meanwhile, they have a whistleblower who's alleging actual taped phone calls between the Vice President of the United States, now the President of the United States, and corrupt Ukrainian oligarchs who are paying his son.
00:04:52.000And we have no information as to whether the FBI is actually even bothering to investigate any of this.
00:04:57.000Meanwhile, James Comer, the Republican congressperson who is on the House Oversight Committee, he's been saying that the Biden family pretty obviously is shuttling around money here.
00:05:09.000This trail gets hotter and hotter and the bribery scandal grows and the evidence points to it.
00:05:15.000Does this not constitute an impeachable offense for President Biden?
00:05:22.000If we can trace bribery, it sure does.
00:05:24.000But look what we've already found, Larry.
00:05:27.000The Biden family has at least 20 shell companies that were created for the sole purpose to launder money to at least nine Biden family members.
00:05:36.000When you create a bunch of shell companies for the sole purpose of laundering money, that's called racketeering.
00:05:41.000And the money laundering, those aren't my words, those are the words of at least six Big publicly traded banks that filed bank violations against the Biden family.
00:05:51.000They said it sure appears that they're money laundering.
00:05:56.000Now, the lack of investigation into the Biden family is going to be the political pushback that you're going to get from the Trump camp, and that you should get from the Trump camp, which is, again, Donald Trump, when it comes to this indictment on mishandling of classified information, on charges of obstruction of justice, and all of the rest, what he has to prove in a criminal court, which we'll get to in a little while, in order to preserve a defense, in order to actually succeed in his defense, that's a different thing from what he has to do in the public eye in order to push forward electorally.
00:06:22.000And the push forward electorally is actually fairly easy here.
00:06:26.000They've been out to get me since day one.
00:06:28.000If they actually cared about this sort of stuff, they would have gone after Hillary, and they would currently be going after Joe Biden.
00:06:34.000And by the way, Representative Comer also has now issued a subpoena for former Hunter Biden business partner Devon Archer for deposition this week.
00:06:42.000We have not heard back from Archer's attorney.
00:06:45.000And of course, it is Devon Archer who is helping facilitate a lot of the deals that Hunter Biden was making abroad.
00:06:49.000Basically, he was the handler for Hunter Biden because Devon Archer was not nearly as much of a crack addict, apparently, as Hunter, and so he was kind of squaring him around to pick up these bags of cash while using the big guy's name.
00:07:01.000Okay, in just one second, We'll get to the other myriad absurdities plaguing the Biden administration as Donald Trump prepares to head to a Miami courthouse for his arraignment first.
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00:08:22.000If the focus ever goes back to Joe Biden, he's in serious trouble.
00:08:25.000This is the rule of elections, and this is something both Republicans and Democrats should keep in mind.
00:08:29.000I think Democrats understand this, which is why they want Trump top of the headlines.
00:08:32.000The more people are discussing Donald Trump, the less they are discussing Joe Biden being very bad at his job, the less they are discussing Joe Biden's corruption.
00:08:40.000And the thing about Trump is that Trump really likes talking about Trump, so he's happy to talk about Trump all day long.
00:08:44.000But the problem is that was his actual electoral strategy in 2020, and it didn't work out particularly well.
00:08:49.000So do you want to talk about Biden or do you want to talk about Trump?
00:08:52.000We should be talking about Biden since he's the actual president of the United States, not a former president who is currently running for president of the United States.
00:08:58.000But all the talk is about Trump because the media loves that storyline.
00:09:02.000But while Joe Biden is being boring, his policy is not boring at all.
00:09:06.000See, the thing about the Biden administration is that he puts you to sleep because he is a doddering old fool.
00:09:12.000And feels unthreatening because he is a doddering old fool.
00:09:15.000But his agenda is actually extraordinarily threatening.
00:09:18.000It's like the core values of the United States.
00:09:20.000I'm not even talking here about the sillinesses of Karine Jean-Pierre, who apparently violated the Hatch Act because she kept talking about mega-MAGA Republicans in the run-up to the 2022 midterms, according to the Office of Special Counsel.
00:09:32.000According to NBC News, that Office of Special Counsel has now determined that she violated the Hatch Act.
00:09:37.000Now, they decided to close the matter without further action.
00:09:39.000Of course, of course, because this is the way that it works.
00:09:41.000If you are a Democrat and you violate the Hatch Act, nothing happens to you.
00:09:44.000The Hatch Act, in and of itself, is a ridiculous piece of legislation.
00:09:47.000But, you know, there are little things like that, but then there are much bigger things.
00:09:49.000Okay, so, you may be wondering, who are the kinds of people who are standing behind the Biden administration?
00:09:55.000Well, as it turns out, one of those people is not George Soros, but his son, Alexander Soros.
00:10:01.000So, remember, supposedly he's anti-semitic to talk about how George Soros is a nefarious force in American politics, which he is.
00:10:07.000He defunds the police prosecutors all over the United States, he funds wildly anti-Israel clauses all over planet Earth, and then hides behind his Jewish ethnicity in order to shield himself from criticism, which is quite disgusting.
00:10:18.000As an Orthodox Jew, let me just say right here, right now, it is not antisemitic to call out George Soros and his garbage spending is bad for the country and bad for the world.
00:10:26.000His political bona fides are very bad.
00:10:28.000Well, now he is handing over his fund, his money, to his 37-year-old son, Alexander Soros, a self-described central left thinker who grew up self-conscious of the family's wealth and wasn't thought to be a potential successor.
00:10:41.000He said that he is broadening his father's liberal aims, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:10:44.000He's gotten more political compared to George.
00:10:46.000He recently met with Biden administration officials, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
00:10:50.000He also met with Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is in increasingly fascistic fashion, going after political opposition and rigging the system over there, as well as Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is definitely, definitely not Fidel Castro's son.
00:11:03.000The Soros Nonprofit Open Society Foundation, known as OSF, directs $1.5 billion a year to groups such as those backing human rights around the world and helping build democracy.
00:11:12.000Well, that is a euphemism in the United States at the very, very least.
00:11:16.000Alex said he was concerned about the prospect of Donald Trump's return to the White House, suggesting a significant financial role for the Soros organization in the 2024 presidential race.
00:11:24.000Remember, it's anti-Semitic to mention George Soros and Alex Soros spending hundreds of millions of dollars to try to defeat Republicans, but they're allowed to do it.
00:11:32.000As much as I would love to get money out of politics, as long as the other side is doing it, we have to do it too.
00:11:36.000He said, well, he doesn't want to get money out of politics, then he'd be irrelevant.
00:11:38.000No one would ever heard of Alex Soros if it weren't for money in politics.
00:11:41.000He'd just be another 37-year-old dweeb living off dad's money.
00:11:45.000In contrast with some on the left, Alex believes that speech on college campuses and elsewhere has become too restricted, but he does meet apparently on the regular.
00:12:10.000According to the New York Post, VP Harris has been huddling with Alex Soros.
00:12:14.000Harris greeted Open Society Foundation's Chair Alexandra Soros shortly after flying back to Washington from Philadelphia just last week, where she held an event with the Service Employees International Union.
00:12:24.000At that point, Alexandra Soros treated great to catch up with Madam Vice President Kamala Harris.
00:12:28.000The Vice President did not acknowledge the sit-down on her public schedule.
00:12:32.000But he's made a dozen other visits to the White House, according to official visitor logs, including to attend a swanky state dinner for French President Emmanuel Macron late last year.
00:12:41.000He also contributed almost $750,000 to the Biden Victory Fund in 2020, and he's put another $11 million in the pockets of left-wing PACs since 2010.
00:12:50.000His father, George, donated $125 million to Democratic groups and candidates in the 2022 cycle through his Democracy PAC.
00:12:58.000So these are the people who the Republicans are going to have to go up against.
00:13:03.000The George Soros-funded far-left crowd who thinks that the height of human bravery is a man gallivanting around dressed up as a woman with surgeries to prove it, jiggling his bare breasts on the White House lawn in the name of sexual fluidity and individual freedom.
00:13:17.000That's what the Republicans have to go up against.
00:13:19.000So naturally, the Democrats would prefer that you put your focus on Donald Trump, which is why all the focus in the media today will be on the former president of the United States showing up in corrugated that in just one second.
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00:13:44.000We're just going to continue spending, which seems to be the plan.
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00:14:36.000Okay, so meanwhile, and the biggest news of the day in the media will not be Joe Biden or his agenda or anything else.
00:14:41.000It'll be Donald Trump heading to court.
00:14:43.000So according to Politico, at about 3 p.m.
00:14:46.000today, Trump is going to be heading to a federal courthouse in Miami on Tuesday.
00:14:51.000Before departing for Florida, the former president spent Monday morning at his clubhouse in New Jersey where he spoke with aides and met with a congressional ally.
00:14:56.000Trump and his team of advisors and attorneys plan to spend Monday night at his golf resort in Miami, that's at Doral apparently, preparing for his court appearance and trying to bolster his legal team.
00:15:04.000It is unclear at this point, by the way, who exactly his lawyers are because he just switched over a bunch of his legal team.
00:15:10.000Politico playbook actually has a pretty good rundown on what Trump's defense could theoretically look like.
00:15:16.000They say, this would be Ryan Lizza, Rachel Bade, and Eugene Daniels reporting.
00:15:21.000They say that it's unclear who exactly is going to be representing Trump at this point.
00:15:26.000Trump has been scrambling to identify a seasoned Florida trial lawyer willing to take the case.
00:15:29.000Trump attorneys Todd Blanche and Chris Kyes, who are leading that search, are likely to appear today in court.
00:15:34.000So what exactly will the defense look like?
00:15:35.000They talked to a guy named Timothy Parlatori, who left the Trump team last month.
00:15:41.000And parlatory made a sort of compelling case as to exactly how Trump could defend himself.
00:15:45.000He said there are a few things that Trump is going to do.
00:15:47.000One, he's going to pursue aggressive discovery.
00:15:48.000So whenever you have an indictment like this that spilled into public view, you now need full discovery from the prosecution, right?
00:15:53.000You need every document that they've looked at is now the defense is entitled to it.
00:15:57.000So the defense has to look at all of that stuff and see exactly what the alternative explanations for Trump's behavior could be.
00:16:03.000They're also going to look at the possibility of prosecutorial misconduct.
00:16:06.000You remember just a few days ago, Donald Trump went on Truth Social, and he alleged that the Justice Department's counterintelligence chief, Jay Brat, had pressured Trump's co-defendant, Walt Nowda.
00:16:14.000That is the aide that Trump was directing to move boxes around, allegedly.
00:16:18.000Trump alleges that Jay Brat pressured Walt Nowda during an interview by mentioning that Nowda's attorney, Stanley Woodward, was applying for a presidentially nominated D.C.
00:16:28.000So what they're going to try and say is that it's witness tampering, that basically Nowda was in the room with his attorney, that the DOJ said to his attorney, listen, you're up for a D.C.
00:16:35.000You know, you need your guy to talk here, which of course would be illegal.
00:16:39.000You're not allowed to pressure a client by pressuring the attorney with the threat of essentially excommunication from a judicial seat.
00:16:47.000They're also going to attack the search warrant.
00:16:48.000Parliamentary said he'd go after the legitimacy of that search warrant.
00:16:50.000The Trump team will finally have access to the unredacted version of the search warrant, which, again, we're gonna have to see what the grounds were for the search warrant in the first place.
00:16:59.000Remember, what the search turned up were a lot of the confidential documents that Trump had already testified, his lawyers had already testified, that he didn't have.
00:17:05.000But you have to have good grounds for the search warrant.
00:17:07.000It can't just be we feel like writing up a search warrant.
00:17:16.000So it would not be a shock if the grounds for the search warrant were bad.
00:17:20.000Also, the defense is going to try to exclude notes that were taken by Trump's lawyer, Evan Corcoran.
00:17:25.000So a lot of the indictment is rooted in the allegations of Evan Corcoran, who's Trump's lawyer.
00:17:29.000That was stuff like Trump saying, what would happen if the documents just disappeared?
00:17:33.000What would happen if we destroyed the document?
00:17:35.000Now, Trump can make the case even then that that is attorney-client privilege.
00:17:39.000So basically, the government made the case that Corcoran had to turn over those notes because here's the deal.
00:17:43.000You're not allowed to conspire with your lawyer to commit a crime.
00:17:46.000Attorney-client privilege applies to virtually everything.
00:17:49.000You can tell your lawyer that you have committed a crime in preparing your defense, but you can't say to your lawyer, I'm about to commit a murder tomorrow.
00:17:55.000Can you help me preemptively with how I should handle this?
00:18:00.000That is now you attempting to facilitate a crime with your lawyer, and attorney-client privilege does not cover that.
00:18:06.000And so if you're planning a crime with the lawyer or asking the lawyer to help you plan a crime, attorney-client privilege does not cover that because there is a criminal exception to the law.
00:18:16.000It's called the crime-fraud exception.
00:18:17.000So the prosecution is arguing that essentially Trump has been asking, can I get rid of the documents?
00:18:22.000What happens if they're just destroyed?
00:18:23.000That that violates the crime-fraud exception.
00:18:26.000Presumably Trump's lawyers will try to argue That's not right.
00:18:30.000Quote, So making the case that, you know, when you ask your lawyer, like, is it legal for me to do X or is it legal for me to do Y or what would the consequences be if I did X or Y?
00:18:36.000That's not the same thing as planning the actual crime.
00:18:37.000it shouldn't have been the evidence for a charge,"
00:18:41.000So making the case that, you know, when you ask your lawyer, like,
00:18:44.000is it legal for me to do X or is it legal for me to do Y?
00:18:46.000Or what would the consequences be if I did X or Y?
00:18:49.000That's not the same thing as planning the actual crime.
00:18:51.000That seems like a pretty good defense, actually.
00:18:54.000Parlatory also alleges a pattern of misconduct he says he witnessed inside the grand jury,
00:18:57.000where prosecutors repeatedly asked about privileged attorney-client communications,
00:19:00.000then argued to jurors that invoking the privilege was evidence of guilt.
00:19:03.000That, of course, would justify a motion that the entire grand jury process was flawed, because you're not allowed to use failure to testify against yourself or failure to break privilege as guilt.
00:19:14.000If I grill you and you say, listen, that's privileged.
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00:21:12.000The reason that Trump's poll numbers have not collapsed, aside from the fact that a lot of Republicans are very loyal to him on a personal level because they believe that he pulled out a miracle in beating Hillary Clinton.
00:21:21.000The other reason is because virtually all Republicans agree, even if you think that Trump never should have done what he did here.
00:21:26.000Even if you look at the conduct, you know, like, this looks like criminal conduct to me.
00:21:29.000Even if you think all of that, you can still think, as I do, that this is a full-on double standard.
00:21:34.000And you can see it in the end-ending hypocrisy of Democrats who have obviously committed crimes.
00:21:40.000Actually, going around on MSNBC and CNN, the galling nature of these people going around claiming that Donald Trump needs to be indicted for a crime while they themselves have committed pretty obvious crimes is pretty insane.
00:21:51.000So, for example, John Brennan, who is the former director of the CIA.
00:21:56.000If you go all the way back to 2014, he openly lied to Congress.
00:22:31.000He has been, I think, for many years and will continue to be, which is why I just find it so, so Disheartening, and it makes me angry when I hear people like Lindsey Graham make excuses and apologies for Donald Trump.
00:23:02.000As it turns out, Brennan was actually forced to apologize privately to the Intelligence Committee chairs.
00:23:05.000Now, if he had not been a member of the Democratic administration at the time, he certainly would have been brought up on some sort of contempt charges by the Senate of the United States.
00:23:15.000They didn't do it, presumably because he was a Democrat and part of the administration, which is, again, the rule.
00:23:35.000I mean, that's just beyond the scope of reason in terms of what we would do.
00:23:43.000Okay, so he is a, as The Guardian said back in 2014, And yet John Brennan is walking around free as a bird and talking about the importance of the rule of law.
00:23:50.000Now this sort of stuff is incredibly galling.
00:23:51.000entire first term in the White House, Brendan Bilt oversaw, executed, and excused America's
00:24:25.000And then, in 2021, he had to settle with the DOJ a wrongful termination suit that he filed in 2019.
00:24:31.000He was fired in March of 2018, 26 hours before his scheduled retirement, because McCabe, as it turns out, leaked information to the Wall Street Journal about an investigation into the Clinton Foundation, and then misled agents who questioned about it on four occasions, three of which were under oath.
00:24:45.000That was according to Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
00:24:47.000So basically, in order to show that James Comey's FBI was on the up and up, he was leaking information without authorization to the press.
00:24:53.000He then claimed, of course, that Comey had allowed him to leak that information.
00:24:57.000Then in 2020, the Justice Department, shocker, announced that they were not going to prosecute McCabe.
00:25:04.000So this is a person who leaked information to the press, which is one of the allegations against Trump, is that Trump was saying classified information leaking to the press.
00:25:12.000McCabe leaked an investigation to the press.
00:25:15.000He ended up being fired for it before he could retire.
00:25:19.000And then here he was defending Hillary Clinton on national television yesterday.
00:25:24.000Let's talk about the Hillary Clinton case because that was a serious breach of protocol and she was criticized by the FBI director at the time for being, I think he used the word reckless, I might be wrong, but what is the difference?
00:25:36.000There's huge differences here Jake and unlike what you've heard from uh... congressman mccarthy and biggs our system is not
00:25:42.000based on you know we don't play by organized crime rules it's not you take out one of
00:25:46.000my guys i take out one of your guys it's all equal
00:25:48.000every one of these cases is analyzed based on the evidence evidence that
00:25:52.000you've been able to uncover during the course of the investigation
00:25:55.000in the clinton case top-secret documents thirty-seven secret dot are not
00:26:00.000documents content that was that was judged to be at that level
00:26:04.000and ten at the confidential level Important to note that none of that was actual documents bearing headers and footers and classified stamps and portion markings and all the sorts of things you expect to see.
00:26:17.000Okay, so he's now defending Hillary Clinton.
00:26:19.000So Hillary Clinton, who absolutely criminally was hiding information and obstructing it, and had it, by the way, not stored on like hard copies in a bathroom like Donald Trump, actually had it stored on a server that James Comey admitted in his failure to indict.
00:26:33.000He admitted that Hillary was likely exposed to hack by foreign sources.
00:26:37.000So it's very likely that information ended up in the hands of nefarious foreign sources.
00:26:40.000Andy McCabe, who himself leaked information To the press and was fired for it.
00:26:45.000He's now on national TV talking about the evils of Donald Trump.
00:26:48.000This is the sort of stuff that, politically speaking, is good for Trump, at least in a primary.
00:26:52.000Now, in a general election, I don't think it's going to help him very much because, again, everybody knows about all this stuff going in.
00:26:56.000All this is baked into the cake already.
00:26:58.000People think of Trump what they think of Trump.
00:26:59.000However, you want to know why Republicans are rushing to Trump's defense.
00:27:08.000And it's also driven by the fact that the media are obviously just salivating over this.
00:27:12.000The media have been wanting Trump in jail since day one.
00:27:14.000Anna Navarro, over at The View, again, politics for dumb people.
00:27:17.000She says she hasn't had this much fun reading anything, she's talking about the indictment here, since Fifty Shades of Grey.
00:27:23.000So first of all, that shows you something about her sexual and literary taste, and it also shows you something about her IQ.
00:27:28.000This man is so unfit, and any Republican candidate who is not jumping at this opportunity to say, hey, he is unfit for office, I'm the future, they're not running seriously.
00:28:24.000Even if you believe the allegations against Trump, it is very, very dangerous to prosecute him under these circumstances for the future of the United States, because once you have a double standard, that double standard will not stand.
00:28:34.000There will be a single standard, and if the single standard is you prosecute your political opposition, That would be the standard.
00:28:40.000We'll get to more on this in a moment.
00:28:41.000First, picture that perfect summer night.
00:28:42.000The kids aren't actually bugging me for a change.
00:29:20.000I gotta tell you, there's nothing more irritating than you're about to get started on the barbecue and you look at that propane tank and it is empty.
00:29:48.000We're currently looking for a motion designer to join our fast-growing creative department.
00:29:52.000You're going to work alongside designers and video editors with direction from the director of video advertising and make animations for trailers, promos, brand ads.
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00:30:01.000You're going to need to be able to take input and direction from supervisors.
00:30:04.000You've got to thrive on receiving creative and constructive feedback.
00:30:19.000Okay, meanwhile, if turnabout is fair play and the way that American politics from here on in is going to work, then what this means is that the Biden family better prepare that the minute they're out of power, whether that is in January of 2025 or whether that is in January of 2029, There will be prosecutions coming for them.
00:30:43.000Remember that Donald Trump did not prosecute Hillary Clinton even after taking office under the assumption that you don't go after your chief political opposition, right?
00:30:51.000It's just not a thing that you typically do.
00:30:53.000Joe Biden has had no problem having Merrick Garland do it.
00:30:55.000Now again, I think this is about Merrick Garland and Joe Biden.
00:30:58.000A lot of people are on Jack Smith, the special counsel in this case.
00:31:01.000If you're Jack Smith and your literal job is to just look at the facts on the ground in Donald Trump's classified documents case and you just look at that fact pattern, it's very hard to see how Jack Smith could have said, it doesn't look like a crime to me, we're done.
00:31:15.000Then it's up to Merrick Garland and Joe Biden to take into consideration the actual political ramifications for the country should they decide to go forward with the prosecution of Donald Trump.
00:31:23.000So, blaming it on Jack Smith is wrong.
00:31:27.000It is Merrick Garland, the AG, and Joe Biden who are not doing their jobs in protecting the country from the ramifications of weaponizing law enforcement only for one side.
00:31:37.000Again, the basic rule of authoritarianism is, for my friends, anything.
00:32:47.000The only way that you actually restore the credibility of the justice system is to have Republicans prosecute Republicans and Democrats prosecute Democrats.
00:32:54.000Because the minute that this now crosses the aisle, we've become so politically polarized and partisan that if the basic line here is that Republicans are just supposed to accept that Republicans who are guilty of crimes get indicted, and Democrats who are guilty of crimes get slots on CNN and MSNBC, That is not a workable solution for anyone.
00:33:11.000In order to reestablish credibility when credibility has been lost, when an institution has lost its credibility, everybody has to do something painful.
00:33:20.000The sacrifice in this particular case would be Joe Biden looking at this and saying, listen, I think that he probably committed the crime, but guess what?
00:33:27.000I'm not going to prosecute him because we believe that Hillary Clinton should have been prosecuted.
00:33:33.000Or at the very least, you could... I mean, this would have been an easy call, by the way.
00:33:36.000The DOJ could have said, at the same time they were doing this, politically speaking, Merrick Garland could have said, we're also bringing charges against Hunter.
00:33:51.000Again, the double standard is what's going to destroy the credibility of the institution.
00:33:54.000The only way to restore the credibility of the institution is even-handed application of justice against your own side, not when it looks politically valuable to go after your chief political opposition.
00:34:03.000And that's why this thing is going to remain incredibly polarized.
00:34:07.000Kevin McCarthy, the Speaker of the House.
00:34:09.000He actually made this point with regard to Andrew McCabe.
00:34:50.000You can ask me any question you want, but I'm entitled to answer the question, okay?
00:34:55.000You can't put words in my mouth, even though your network can hire Andrew McCabe, who was fired from the FBI for leaking classified documents.
00:35:14.000That media double standard, the fact that if you commit a crime and you are a, if you're James Comey and you're horrible at your job, and you're the person who basically destroyed all faith in the justice system in the United States, you get just treated as national hero by the left.
00:35:30.000Meanwhile, Republican candidates are trying to figure out exactly how to handle the Donald Trump situation.
00:35:35.000Most of the Republican candidates seem to be coming down on the same side of this, which is it is a double standard.
00:35:40.000And also, these are serious allegations, which, by the way, is true.
00:36:25.000...about how they should look at this.
00:36:28.000Two things can be true at the same time.
00:36:30.000One, the DOJ and FBI have lost all credibility with the American people, and getting rid of just senior management isn't going to be enough to fix this.
00:36:39.000This is going to take a complete overhaul, and we have to do that.
00:36:43.000Two, the second thing can also be true.
00:36:46.000If this indictment is true, if what it says is actually The case.
00:36:52.000President Trump was incredibly reckless with our national security.
00:36:56.000More than that, I'm a military spouse.
00:36:58.000My husband's about to deploy this weekend.
00:37:01.000This puts all of our military men and women in danger if you are going to talk about what our military is capable of or how we would go about invading or doing something with one of our enemies.
00:37:13.000And if that's the case, it's reckless, it's frustrating, and it causes problems.
00:37:31.000But that does not change the fact that the double standard is in fact a massive double standard.
00:37:36.000Okay, time for some things that I like and some things that I hate today.
00:37:39.000JP Morgan is now having to shell out $290 million to Jeffrey Epstein's victims, according to CNN.
00:37:46.000Apparently, they're doing this to settle a class action lawsuit from Epstein's sexual abuse of victims.
00:37:51.000According to David Boies, who's one of the victims' attorneys, a big Democratic attorney also, the victims had accused the bank of enabling sex trafficking by the deceased financier when he was a client.
00:38:00.000A joint statement from the nation's largest bank and attorneys for the victims said, quote, they have informed the court they've reached an agreement in principle to settle the putative class action lawsuit related to Jeffrey Epstein's crimes.
00:38:08.000Now, to be fair, JPMorgan Chase is worth like trillions of dollars.
00:38:12.000So, a $290 million settlement sounds like a lot of money to regular folk, but it actually is not all that much money.
00:38:18.000It's not clear exactly how many people are going to benefit.
00:38:20.000the settlement, JPMorgan Chase will not admit liability in the case, but upon the settlement's
00:38:24.000approval, the bank will put out a statement regretting its association with Epstein.
00:38:27.000It's not clear exactly how many people are going to benefit.
00:38:30.000Apparently, there are more than 100 women who are expected to seek compensation. So what
00:38:38.000Well, they also have litigation pending between JPMorgan and the US Virgin Islands.
00:38:42.000Essentially, the allegation is that JPMorgan Chase was informed over and over and over again that Jeffrey Epstein was using its bank accounts in order to facilitate His sex crimes.
00:38:54.000That's the basic allegation, is that there are a bunch of red flags and they just failed to recognize the red flags.
00:39:00.000The lawsuit claimed that JPMorgan ignored, according to the New York Times, repeated warnings that Epstein had been trafficking teenage girls and young women for sex even after he registered as a sex offender and pled guilty in a 2008 Florida case to soliciting prostitution from a teenage girl.
00:39:12.000The complaint said that the bank overlooked red flags in Epstein's activity because it valued him as a wealthy client who had access to dozens of even wealthier people, so basically the idea was that he was a go-between for future JPMorgan clients since they started looking the other way at major transfers of funds coming out of Epstein's bank account that were being used to facilitate sex trafficking.
00:39:30.000Court documents and deposition testimony reviewed by the New York Times revealed that bank employees had filed numerous suspicious activity reports about Epstein's repeated large-cast withdrawals.
00:39:38.000The legal documents revealed that after designating Epstein a high-risk client in 2006, the bank kept him on as a customer despite all of those media reports.
00:39:46.000And they continue to provide banking services to him all the way up until 2013.
00:39:53.000So, what did they know and when did they know it?
00:40:06.000We know that he was blackmailing people, right?
00:40:08.000I mean, that's pretty clear at this point, that he had tapes of everybody, that he was essentially bringing people there, blackmailing them, and then using the money in order to treat famous people to trips to his island where he would then blackmail them.
00:41:54.000It means taking the people you're selling to and making sure your workforce looks like them, making sure you can reflect their values, being able to connect to that.
00:42:06.000They don't think about any of that stuff.
00:42:07.000They think about how it's going to live their lives or what's going to get them satisfaction.
00:42:11.000Now, that is not true at all, and Cuban is going to take it in the teeth if he continues with this.
00:42:17.000According to the Wall Street Journal, companies' mentions of green and social initiatives during earnings calls have fallen off sharply in recent quarters, reversing a more boastful approach taken over the past few years amid intensifying pressure from some investors and conservative activists.
00:42:30.000DocuSign, for example, where Chief Financial Officer Cynthia Gaylor in March 2022 said the company achieved carbon neutral status during that year.
00:42:38.000Well, now, at the time, she said the company was continuing its efforts to reach net zero, but company executives have not mentioned sustainability initiatives, carbon neutral status, or net zero emissions on earning calls since.
00:43:00.000listed companies mentioned environmental, social, and governance, DEI, or sustainability on 575 earnings calls from April 1st to June 5th.
00:43:07.000That is down 31% from the same period last year.
00:43:10.000That's the largest such year-over-year decline and the fifth consecutive quarter of year-over-year drops following a pickup in these discussions.
00:43:17.000So, Mark Cuban can talk all he wants about getting rich by going woke, but I fail to see any of the evidence of this.
00:43:24.000By the way, while we're talking about some things that we hate, I have to say, this is an amazing headline.
00:43:30.000So, there's a piece from the Washington Post called, quote, Target Stores See More Bomb Threats Over Pride Merchandise.
00:43:35.000Now, you read that headline, and you would think, who exactly is, who exactly is threatening with the bombs?
00:45:05.000I mean, she's a crazy person, by all available evidence.
00:45:08.000So, Robbie Starbuck, who is a great follow over on Twitter, he recently accused Megan Fox of forcing her three sons to wear girls' clothing against their wishes.
00:45:17.000And he tweeted out a picture of the actress with her boys, Noah 10, Body 9, and Journey 6.
00:45:24.000Starbucks used to live in the same community.
00:45:26.000And he said he saw two of her sons have a full-on breakdown, saying they were forced by their mom to wear girls' clothes as their nanny tried to console them.
00:45:46.000Irregardless of how desperate you may become at any given time to acquire wealth, power, success, or fame, never use children as leverage or social currency, says the lady dressing her boys as girls, for the...
00:45:56.000For the joys of being known as a virtuous mom.
00:45:59.000Especially under malevolent and erroneous pretense.
00:46:01.000Exploiting my child's gender identity to gain attention in your political campaign has put you on the wrong side of the universe.
00:46:07.000I have been burned at the stake by insecure, narcissistic, impotent little men like you many times.