Donald Trump and 18 allies were indicted in Georgia on Monday over their efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state, with prosecutors using a statute normally associated with mobsters to accuse the former president, lawyers, and other aides of a criminal enterprise to keep him in power. It s a nearly 100-page indictment, it s 98 pages long. It details dozens of acts by Trump or his allies to undo his defeat, including beseeching Georgia s Republican Secretary of State to find enough votes for him to win the battleground state, harassing an election worker who faced false claims of fraud, and attempting to persuade Georgia lawmakers to ignore the will of voters and appoint a slate of Electoral College electors favorable to Donald Trump. Trump s legal team says the events that have unfolded today have been shocking and absurd, starting with a leak of the presumed and premature indictment before the witnesses had even testified. That s not really how this works, and it s much more complicated than you might think. The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) is a very controversial law that was passed in 1970, originally aimed at combating organized crime. And again, the basic predicate for the law is that it s difficult to charge upper-level gangsters with the crimes of their subordinates. This is why there was no way to actually rat on the boss. And therefore, the only way to charge a low-level hitman is to charge the right-level accountant. That's sort of like the Mafia. You don't have a right to flip on his boss. You can't flip on the right level hitman. You have to get the right to do it by threatening them with the murder of the boss, right? And so, therefore, it is easier than flipping on the mobster. That is the basic idea, because it's easier than that. If you indict the boss by threatening to get a murder on the scapegoat. It's easy to indict a criminal organization. It is easy to flip, right, because he's got it. And it's a whole bunch of flipping on his superior, right on the criminal organization? That's right, right to a higher level hitmen? That's a flip on a boss. And so on and so on, right up to flipping on a higher-level criminal organization, right in the middle of the hierarchy? That s a good day, right off the table, right there, right at the front of the office? That s the flip.
00:00:07.000She's very fond of charging RICO cases.
00:00:09.000She's now going to charge Donald Trump and 18 alleged co-conspirators in a giant RICO case.
00:00:16.000According to the Associated Press, Donald Trump and 18 allies were indicted in Georgia on Monday over their efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state, with prosecutors using a statute normally associated with mobsters to accuse the former president, lawyers, and other aides of a criminal enterprise to keep him in power.
00:00:34.000It details dozens of acts by Trump or his allies to undo his defeat, including beseeching Georgia's Republican Secretary of State to find enough votes for him to win the battleground state, harassing an election worker who faced false claims of fraud, and attempting to persuade Georgia lawmakers to ignore the will of voters and appoint a new slate of Electoral College electors favorable to Donald Trump.
00:00:51.000In one particularly brazen episode, it also outlines a plot involving one of Donald Trump's lawyers in accessing voting machines in rural Georgia County to steal data from the voting machine company, supposedly.
00:01:01.000Although, of course, the question there is whether they were looking for evidence of the possibility that the voting machines had been hacked or something.
00:01:08.000Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis announced the charges last night.
00:01:13.000Today, based on information developed by that investigation, a Fulton County grand jury returned a true bill of indictment, charging 19 individuals with violations of Georgia law arising from a criminal conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in this state.
00:01:43.000The indictment includes 41 felony counts and is 97 pages long.
00:01:51.000Every individual charged in the indictment is charged with one count of violating Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act Through participation in a criminal enterprise in Fulton County, Georgia and elsewhere to accomplish the illegal goal of allowing Donald J. Trump
00:02:19.000To seize the presidential term of office beginning on January 20th, 21.
00:02:26.000So yesterday was a complete mess at the Georgia courthouse.
00:02:29.000Apparently, there was a brief but mysterious incident in which the county website put up a list of criminal charges to be brought against the former president.
00:02:38.000And then, of course, something very, very similar went up very late last night.
00:02:42.000Trump's legal team says the events that have unfolded today have been shocking and absurd, starting with a leak of the presumed and premature indictment before the witnesses had even testified.
00:02:49.000That's sort of how the indictment reads.
00:02:50.000It's very long, it's very detailed, and it sort of goes over a lot of territory that has already been trod.
00:02:55.000They accuse Trump and his alleged co-conspirators of 161 acts.
00:02:56.000you in fourth grade attempting to write a very long five paragraph essay in the hope
00:03:00.000the teacher would give you an A even though the essay wasn't very good.
00:03:03.000That's sort of how the indictment reads.
00:03:04.000It's very long, it's very detailed, and it sort of goes over a lot of territory that
00:03:48.000So to understand how these charges work, you first have to understand what RICO is, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, how that actually works.
00:03:55.000It's a very controversial law that was passed in 1970.
00:03:58.000Originally, it was aimed at the mafia.
00:04:00.000And again, the basic predicate for the law is that it's very difficult to charge people who are upper-level gangsters with the crimes of their subordinates.
00:04:10.000Originally, you'd have a low-level hitman, and he would get charged with murder, and then he would refuse to rat on his boss, and there was no way to actually try the boss.
00:04:17.000And so what they did, is they started wrapping together the entire criminal organization in an effort to get the low-level hitman to flip on his superior, and to get that guy to flip on the boss.
00:04:34.000You charge the accountant with murder, and therefore, because the accountant is now wrapped into the giant conspiracy, the accountant doesn't want to go to jail for murder.
00:04:42.000The accountant doesn't want to go to jail at all, and so the accountant flips on the boss.
00:04:44.000That's what racketeering originally was.
00:04:47.000It comes from the term racket, which meant an organized illegal activity.
00:04:51.000All it requires, the violation of RICO, at least on the federal level, and the Georgia RICO statute, which is the one that's being charged, and it does make a large-scale difference, by the way, this is a state case and not a federal case, because what it means is that even if Donald Trump were elected president, he could not pardon himself of any charge for which he was found guilty in the state of Georgia.
00:05:10.000By the way, any accusation that the Georgia governor, who's a Republican, Brian Kemp, that Brian Kemp could pardon Donald Trump for this is not correct.
00:05:16.000There's a panel in Georgia that would actually have to sit and decide whether or not he would receive a pardon.
00:05:21.000He also does not have the power to summarily dismiss DAs in the state of Georgia, Brian Kemp.
00:05:26.000It is amazing that every time Donald Trump gets in trouble, there's always a lot of talk about how other Republicans have a responsibility to rescue him.
00:05:34.000And very often, that responsibility is not even within their power.
00:05:37.000I mean, this goes all the way back to January 6th itself, when Donald Trump suggested openly that Mike Pence had the ability to simply toss out electoral college votes that had been state-certified already.
00:05:47.000It's not the responsibility of any of these other people to bail Donald Trump out when they don't have the legal power to do so.
00:05:52.000If they had the legal power to do so, at least you can make the argument.
00:05:54.000But Brian Kemp doesn't even have that legal power in any way.
00:05:57.000Anyways, when it comes to the state RICO Act, which is very, very similar to the federal RICO Act, the way that racketeering basically works is racketeering is broadly defined as requiring at least a couple of acts of racketeering activity committed within 10 years of each other.
00:06:11.000And it also requires that there be a criminal conspiracy in furtherance of a crime.
00:06:15.000Criminal conspiracy in furtherance of a crime.
00:06:17.000Okay, what that means is that, let's say you and I, we decide that we're gonna conspire to go to the Walmart together.
00:06:23.000Not a crime, because that's a conspiracy without actual furtherance of a crime.
00:06:26.000You and I decide we're gonna rob a bank together.
00:06:28.000That means that if we go to Walmart to buy a shotgun, and we buy the shotgun at the local Walmart or something, normally that wouldn't be illegal.
00:06:36.000It becomes illegal because you and I are now planning to use that shotgun in the robbing of the bank.
00:06:40.000So many of the acts that Trump and his associates are being accused of are acts, quote unquote, in furtherance of the crime.
00:06:46.000So the real question in this case is not whether Donald Trump did all the things that the indictment alleges.
00:07:07.000Now, if he had gotten together with a bunch of his friends and he said, let's actually overthrow the federal government, it would look illegal.
00:07:12.000But then Jack Smith would be charging that on the federal level, right?
00:07:14.000He'd be charging him with actual insurrection, which he did not.
00:07:18.000He would also be charging him with incitement of riot, which he did not.
00:07:20.000When it comes to Georgia, the accusation is that Donald Trump essentially wanted to overturn the results of the Georgia election through illegal means.
00:07:28.000And he was pressuring people to do it through illegal means.
00:07:33.000Again, I think that it is doubtful that this could be proved in court, but it's also happening in Atlanta.
00:07:37.000So just like the Washington DC case, this means that you have a local jury that is not going to be friendly to President Trump.
00:07:43.000As I say, I think it's a doubtful charge because, for example, some of the things that are being charged here and some of the people being charged are some of the quote-unquote false electors, right?
00:07:51.000These are people who signed a document saying that they were the duly elected electors of the state of Georgia when they were not.
00:07:59.000But there's a problem with that, which is that if you go all the way back to 1960, for example, Hawaii Democrats actually did the same thing.
00:08:06.000Hawaii, believe it or not, was a very sort of razor's edge state between Republicans and Democrats in the 1960 election.
00:08:12.000So Democrats created an alternative slate of electors who signed a document claiming that they were actually the alternative slate of electors.
00:08:21.000So if you sign onto a document saying, I'm a member of the duly elected slate of electors, and then the state rejects that, is that illegal?
00:08:28.000If you take bad legal advice, is that illegal?
00:08:30.000Because it turns out that many of the people who are now being indicted are Donald Trump's lawyers.
00:08:35.000And so the idea here is that Donald Trump would have to show, it would have to be shown that Donald Trump knew for a fact that he lost the Georgia election, and that he then pursued a bunch of means in order to overturn that election.
00:08:45.000So you come back to the same thing that you have in the Jack Smith federal case, which is, what did Donald Trump know, and when did he know it?
00:08:51.000Do you think that he actively believed that he won the Georgia election and he was pursuing a bunch of legal strategies in order to assure that win, or did he know that he lost and he didn't care, and because he knew he lost, he was attempting to overthrow the election?
00:09:08.000Donald Trump actively retweeted an article after David Perdue who lost in a Senate race in 2021 largely because Donald Trump told everybody not to vote in 2021 in a runoff.
00:09:19.000After he lost, Donald Trump tried to prop him up to run against Brian Kemp for governor because Brian Kemp did not go along with Donald Trump's Georgia shenanigans.
00:09:27.000David Perdue got his ass kicked by like 50 points in the primary against Brian Kemp and Donald Trump then proceeded to tweet out an article suggesting that David Perdue had lost because of voter fraud.
00:09:36.000So it again, the case that Fannie Willis and company are going to make just to be totally legally fair here.
00:09:42.000The case they're going to attempt to make is that Donald Trump doesn't actually care at all whether he wins or loses an election.
00:09:47.000He's going to claim that he won and then he's going to attempt to overthrow the illegitimate results of the election.
00:09:51.000But Donald Trump also could legitimately believe that he won the Georgia election.
00:09:59.000The Secretary of State of Georgia has actually attempted to pry out information from True the Vote, which is the organization behind 2,000 Mules.
00:10:07.000And True the Vote has refused to turn over the information they say supports the idea of widespread voter fraud in the state of Georgia.
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00:12:25.000You have four major criminal cases that have come down in the last five months against the leading Republican contender for the presidency.
00:12:30.000That looks an awful lot like election interference just to any outside observer, obviously.
00:12:35.000Now, as I say, this particular case is extremely broad.
00:12:39.000Fannie Willis, Has now given Donald Trump a deadline to turn himself in.
00:12:45.000And people at the courthouse- I mean, it's all political.
00:12:46.000People at the courthouse are already saying that he's going to take a mugshot, which will easily be the most trafficked photo in human history.
00:12:52.000You can imagine that Donald Trump will smile for the photo.
00:12:54.000Because when you smile for your mugshot, you look cool.
00:13:37.000Who then went on a national media tour talking about the grand jury workings and was extremely weird.
00:13:43.000So Donald Trump's legal team is going to have something to hang their hat on here.
00:13:46.000Here is a flashback of Emily Kors, the grand jury foreperson who again is a weirdo.
00:13:52.000personally want to hear from the phone i want to hear from the former president
00:13:56.000but honestly i kind of wanted to subpoena the former president because i got to swear everybody
00:14:00.000in and so i thought it'd be really cool to get 60 seconds with president trump of me looking at him
00:14:05.000and being like do you solemnly swear and me getting to swear him in i just i kind of just
00:14:10.000thought that would be an awesome moment jury duty man It's the place where twelve people too dumb to get out of jury duty get to decide your fate.
00:14:18.000So, um, yeah, Donald Trump's team is gonna have something to say about all of that as well.
00:14:22.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:15:50.000And then there are a bunch of more local officials, including a bunch of people who signed on to the Alternative Elector Scheme.
00:15:56.000Okay, now, how is this going to play out?
00:16:00.000It is very likely that he faces, apparently he faces 13 charges and up to 71 years in jail.
00:16:08.000He's now facing, we are talking, 13 charges there.
00:16:10.000He's facing, I believe, 14 charges in Washington, D.C.
00:16:13.000He's facing a bevy of charges in the classified documents case.
00:16:16.000So, I mean, Trump is in serious jeopardy of going to jail.
00:16:20.000And as we say, because this is a state case, he cannot pardon himself.
00:16:23.000So the argument that Donald Trump must be elected president so that he can escape jail, which is an argument I'm seeing made right now, I don't see how that works.
00:16:30.000I don't see exactly how that argument is even operative.
00:16:34.000In terms of which of these cases poses the largest-scale legal threat to Donald Trump, this is the case that obviously poses the largest-scale legal threat to Donald Trump.
00:16:46.000It allows Fannie Willis to tell this overarching story, linking together his activities in Pennsylvania, and his activities in Washington, D.C., and his activities in Georgia, in this broad-based conspiracy in which she can connect all of these dots.
00:16:59.000So it's smart of her to charge under the RICO Act.
00:17:03.000To be simple about this, it is not a stupid charge for her to do this.
00:17:20.000Trump calls her an out-of-control and very corrupt district attorney.
00:17:22.000He declares the charges are part of a witch hunt.
00:17:25.000The case, again, is the fourth, targeting Trump just this year alone.
00:17:31.000The, the, this case probably will run all the way through the election because it is very large scale.
00:17:37.000Now she says, and this, this part, this part is crazy.
00:17:39.000She says she wants to try all of the defendants at once, like put them all in a room together and try them at once.
00:17:44.000Sort of like that scene where Harvey Dent tries everybody all together in the dark night You remember that scene where he brings in all of the corrupt mobsters and he puts them all in a room together and all of their lawyers are protesting and all of the rest of this?
00:17:55.000And he does this to throw a scare into them?
00:18:14.000Willis did not say whether she has spoken with Special Prosecutor Jack Smith at this point, which probably means that she has.
00:18:20.000She said she doesn't care whether this goes first or last, which means that it will go all the way through the election, without a doubt.
00:18:26.000Trump wrote on Truth Social, so the witch hunt continues.
00:18:29.00019 people indicted tonight, including the former president of the United States, me, by an out-of-control and very corrupt district attorney who campaigned and raised money on I Will Get Trump.
00:18:38.000And what about those indictment documents put out today, long before the grand jury even voted and then quickly withdrawn?
00:19:27.000It's why the Monica Lewinsky scandal happened.
00:19:29.000We've never had a case where a state criminal charge is filed against the sitting president of the United States before he became president of the United States.
00:19:35.000I don't even know how that would work.
00:19:37.000I'm not sure anybody knows how that would work.
00:19:40.000Let's say that you get hit with a murder charge and you run for the presidency from jail.
00:19:44.000Are you automatically freed from jail on the murder charge?
00:19:48.000Like, let's say that Ted Kennedy I've actually gotten hit with a murder charge, or at least a manslaughter charge, as he should have been in the case of Mary Jo Kopechny in Massachusetts, and then he had continued to serve in the United States Senate.
00:19:58.000Presumably, he still would have gone to jail.
00:20:01.000So, I don't know how any of this works.
00:20:03.000I'm not sure anybody knows how any of this works.
00:20:07.000Georgia represents probably the most serious threat to Trump's liberty, according to a wide variety of legal analysts, including Andy McCarthy.
00:20:14.000It is highly likely at this point, as I say, it is hard to imagine that Trump escapes all legal consequence for all of these charges.
00:20:23.000I'm not sure how he escapes what's going to happen to him in Washington, D.C.
00:20:30.000And when we say that it's outrageous, it is.
00:20:33.000It also means that the glass has now been broken.
00:20:35.000So what we're about to see next is what truly what we're about to see next is Republican DAs all over the country start to indict people like Joe Biden for things like racketeering and corruption as Vice President of the United States.
00:20:50.000Once the glass has been broken, it cannot be unbroken.
00:20:55.000The predictable result of this is not that Donald Trump gets elected president.
00:20:58.000The predictable result of this is that lawfare now becomes the way that political opponents go after each other on the regular in the United States.
00:21:05.000And that's going to be a really, really dangerous thing.
00:21:07.000Remember, Donald Trump was considered wildly out of the bounds of propriety when Donald Trump said to Hillary Clinton that if he was elected president, she would be in jail.
00:21:15.000You remember he said this during a debate.
00:21:18.000She said, well, what would you even do if you're president?
00:21:19.000If I were president, you'd be in jail.
00:21:21.000And then he didn't do anything about it.
00:21:23.000And a lot of people, myself included, thought, well that's probably good.
00:21:25.000We actually don't want people persecuting their political opponents.
00:21:29.000Well now we clearly have Democrats all over the country.
00:21:31.000From Manhattan, to now Georgia, to Washington D.C., to Florida, going after their political opponents.
00:21:37.000That is not a bell that can be unrung.
00:21:39.000Get ready for Republicans to do the exact same thing as soon as they have the power and the grounds to do so.
00:21:54.000All this is going to do is going to achieve a race to the bottom.
00:21:57.000Because again, once the law can be used as a weapon directly against your political opponents, why exactly would you allow the other side to use that weapon and to avoid culpability for their use of that weapon?
00:22:10.000It's hard to see exactly how this doesn't end poorly for pretty much everybody.
00:22:13.000We'll get to more on this in one second.
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00:23:23.000Again, the real question here is whether Rudy Giuliani or Mark Meadows decide to flip on Donald Trump.
00:23:29.000As the Wall Street Journal points out, a lot of these people are well-known co-defendants, and they're all legal advisors.
00:23:35.000Now, we already know that some of these people are, like Rudy Giuliani, is highly likely to get convicted in this case.
00:23:42.000The reason that Rudy Giuliani is highly likely to get convicted in this case is because he has openly had to apologize to a particular poll worker for suggesting and implying that she was corruptly bringing in empty ballots to the Fulton County vote counting location.
00:23:58.000Knowing, presumably, that she was not, in fact, doing that.
00:24:01.000Well, once you have people who are caught in false statements, it shouldn't be that hard to flip them.
00:24:05.000Sidney Powell, like, the question is, how strong is their loyalty going to be?
00:24:08.000So, Donald Trump has had the loyalty of subordinates for a very, very long time.
00:24:13.000In the Classified Documents case, for example, he has Walt Mata and a bunch of low-level aides who are maintaining their unwillingness to basically flip on him.
00:24:21.000Is that going to hold with somebody like Sidney Powell?
00:24:23.000Does it seem like Sidney Powell is somebody who is going to, you know, stick by her word here and hold by President Trump?
00:24:31.000Five of the co-defendants, Giuliani pal John Eastman, Kenneth Chesbrough, and Jeffrey Clark are identifiable though unnamed as co-conspirators in a separate federal indictment from Jack Smith.
00:24:40.000Some of the people who are gonna be called in this case, and again, it will be televised.
00:24:42.000Some of the people who are gonna be called in this case will include, I assume, the current Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, in Georgia.
00:24:49.000Brian Kemp, because he was called by Donald Trump, could actually be called to testify in this particular case.
00:24:54.000It will be televised, it will be a spectacle, and it will be an electoral disaster for Republicans if this thing runs all the way through the election.
00:25:00.000I know there are a lot of Republicans who are in love with the idea that this is gonna backfire on Democrats, and that the attempt to quote-unquote, get Trump, is going to lead to a revenge play by Trump, That ends with a Republican in the White House?
00:25:10.000I'd love to see the poll data supporting that.
00:25:12.000I've yet to see one iota of data supporting that.
00:25:15.000There's a lot of data to suggest that the targeting of Trump has helped him in the primaries.
00:25:20.000I've yet to see one piece, like one, a single piece of data suggesting that the American people are going to react to all this lawfare against Trump by voting for Trump.
00:25:31.000Even the most Trump-friendly polls don't show that.
00:25:34.000What they show is that a majority of the American public believes Trump should be indicted on something, which is a very bad indicator.
00:25:39.000I think they're wrong, but it doesn't matter what I think.
00:25:41.000It matters what the American public thinks because they're the ones who are going to be voting.
00:25:44.000Also, is Trump likely to win Georgia in the 2024 election if the entire case in Georgia is about how he was basically pressuring people into changing votes or into finding votes or whatever it is?
00:25:57.000Is that going to help his case in the state of Georgia?
00:26:00.000Remember, Brian Kemp Do you think Georgians are really fond of this sort of stuff?
00:26:30.000I say this because, again, Whatever sympathy I have for President Trump being targeted, and I have sympathy for President Trump being targeted for sure.
00:26:37.000The question for me, as a conservative, is who stops Biden?
00:26:40.000Who stops the bad policy that affects me and my family and you?
00:26:47.000You can have sympathy for somebody while still recognizing that the thing that shapes your life as an American is who is the President of the United States.
00:26:55.000And yes, it shapes your life that the DOJ is going after political opponents because those political opponents could be you.
00:26:59.000But the only way to stop that is power.
00:27:01.000The only way to stop that is to put someone in the White House who can actually clean out the DOJ.
00:27:05.000If Donald Trump can't make it, it does no one any favors to run him.
00:27:10.000This is going to linger over the entire election cycle.
00:27:13.000Right now, the court dates are spread out all over 2024.
00:27:17.000We already know that the classified documents case is likely to begin sometime in May.
00:27:24.000Right in the middle of the election cycle, like just before the conventions.
00:27:27.000This case is likely to begin, you would imagine, August-September, right before the election.
00:27:32.000There's every possibility that the Jack Smith indictment in D.C.
00:27:35.000is going to start even before the primaries.
00:27:37.000This thing is going to lurk over the entirety of the election.
00:27:41.000Now you have all of these other people who, as I say, could flip, including people like Ray Stallings Smith, who's an Atlanta-area lawyer who filed an unsuccessful lawsuit challenging Biden's Georgia victory.
00:27:53.000He was the subject of a complaint from a legal watchdog group to the state bar seeking disciplinary measures.
00:27:57.000Or Robert Cheeley, who's been hit with 10 counts.
00:28:01.000He presented Georgia state senators with video clips he claimed showed election workers at a downtown Atlanta precinct double and triple counting votes.
00:28:07.000And it turns out that that wasn't actually the case.
00:28:11.000And so the question is whether he knew that or not.
00:28:12.000Do you think these low-level officials want to go to jail for years on end?
00:28:17.000Do you think that's a thing that they want to do?
00:28:20.000And this is why what Fannie Willis is doing, you know, corrupt as it may be, bad as it may be for the country, it is smart legally because the chances of flipping somebody are pretty significant.
00:28:39.000And by wild, I mean really, really horrific for the country on pretty much every single level.
00:28:45.000Okay, in just a second, we'll get to Joe Biden.
00:28:47.000He's supposed to be Captain Sympathy, and yet he remains a person who is oddly unsympathetic to everybody who does not have the last name Biden.
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00:30:50.000So Joe Biden's appeal back in 2020, whatever appeal it was, is that he was supposedly a big contrast with Donald Trump.
00:30:58.000If you look at the latest polls from Gallup just before the election, they looked at character dimensions for the various candidates.
00:31:04.000And what they found is that 66% of American voters thought that Joe Biden was likable, as
00:31:10.000opposed to 36% who thought that Donald Trump was likable. 52% thought that Joe Biden was
00:31:14.000trustworthy, as opposed to 40% who thought that Trump was honest and trustworthy. But most
00:31:19.000importantly, 54% of Americans said that Joe Biden cared about people like them, as opposed to only
00:31:24.00045% who said that Donald Trump cared about people like them. Well, this has always been the lie about
00:31:29.000Joe Biden. He's not honest and trustworthy.
00:31:58.000We still have hundreds of people missing.
00:32:00.000The number of fatalities expected to climb further as authorities continue search and rescue efforts.
00:32:04.000According to the Hawaii governor, Josh Green, only 3% of the area has been searched.
00:32:08.000They're still bringing in 12 more cadaver dogs to help with the efforts.
00:32:11.000That death toll is definitely going to go up.
00:32:13.000So what is Joe Biden doing during all of this?
00:32:15.000Now, remember, we have a history in the United States of holding the president of the United States or even senators from a given state accountable for natural disasters where they are not Really hands-on, like right in the middle of it, just involved.
00:32:27.000You'll recall, of course, when George W. Bush was perceived as disconnected from the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
00:32:33.000Here, for example, is a montage of media coverage talking about the evils of George W. Bush when it came to his supposed dereliction of duty during Hurricane Katrina.
00:32:44.000A better leader would have flown straight to the disaster zone and announced the immediate mobilization of every available resource.
00:32:51.000The cool, confident, intuitive leadership Bush exhibited in his first term, particularly in the months following 9-11, has vanished.
00:33:00.000The New York Times, not unexpectedly, kind of chimed in.
00:33:03.000They said the president showed up a day later than he was needed, and they excoriated him for appearing casual to the point of carelessness.
00:33:11.000Harsh words coming from FEMA's former disaster response chief, Eric Tolbert, who says the government was not ready and shifted its attention from natural disasters to fighting the war on terror.
00:33:23.000Well, George W. Bush did a terrible leadership job during that crisis.
00:33:27.000He kind of acted like nothing was happening wrong for the first days.
00:33:30.000He had been in San Diego where he played air guitar, and then he did the famous flyover, being very detached From the devastation and that photograph that damaged his presidency immensely of him just peering down at the abyss.
00:33:44.000But it was also seen in our correspondent just referred to it, President W. Bush, George W. Bush flying over in Air Force One, not landing.
00:34:23.000You remember when Ted Cruz was in Cancun for a vacation and a freeze hit Texas.
00:34:27.000And supposedly the senator from Texas had to be on site suffering through the freeze despite the fact that really this was a state-level issue.
00:34:34.000Now again, Hurricane Katrina was a state-level issue.
00:34:38.000It was the mayor's issue when it came to New Orleans.
00:34:41.000And when it came to what was going on in Texas that really had very little to do with a senator who has very little power over any of that.
00:34:46.000But this is the standard to which we hold our presidents of the United States.
00:34:49.000It's why Barack Obama got big plaudits during Hurricane Sandy when he showed up in New Jersey and got a big ol' hug from Chris Christie.
00:35:23.000Remember that time where we had a giant crisis on our southern border?
00:35:27.000You know, like now because it continues and Joe Biden still has not made a serious visit to the southern border.
00:35:33.000This, in fact, is the way that Joe Biden governs.
00:35:35.000He governs in a way that if there were any other president, it would be treated as the sort of dereliction that it is treated as when it's just not Joe Biden.
00:35:42.000But as soon as it's Joe Biden, we're all supposed to ignore it.
00:35:49.000He spent a couple of hours on Rehoboth Beach.
00:35:52.000And he was asked about the rising death toll in Hawaii.
00:35:53.000This is after he took a 14-day vacation, and then he went back for another four-day vacation to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where he sits on the beach basically by himself, being an old man.
00:36:02.000And here's a picture of the President of the United States, hundreds of feet away from the photographers, sitting there, enjoying his life.
00:36:10.000He was asked about the rising death toll in Hawaii, and he said, no comment.
00:36:41.000Now, if it's heartless for everybody else, why would it not be heartless for Joe Biden?
00:36:46.000The answer is, it is heartless for Joe Biden.
00:36:48.000In fact, Joe Biden is now planning to travel to Lake Tahoe, Nevada on Friday, and he's going to spend a week there, leaving the following Thursday.
00:36:55.000So 14-day vacation, followed by a four-day vacation in Delaware, followed by like a week-long vacation in Lake Tahoe.
00:37:00.000You wouldn't want to break up his vacation, folks.
00:37:03.000You wouldn't want him to worry too much about what's going on in Maui.
00:37:13.000It's why he says things that are untrue on the regular.
00:37:15.000It's why he lied when he suggested that a drunk driver killed his wife and his daughter in a car crash and the guy wasn't drunk.
00:37:22.000It is why he goes to veterans houses and then he tells them like wounded veterans houses or gold star parents or gold star spouses and he tells them that his son Bo died in battle in Iraq or some such nonsense.
00:37:33.000All Joe Biden cares about is Joe Biden.
00:38:11.000This is why he has no problem plagiarizing and getting thrown out of his own presidential campaign for it.
00:38:16.000I mean, this was Joe Biden's shtick for years and years and years.
00:38:20.000And it just remains an object of enormous astonishment to me that the media were willing to go along with this narrative that Joe Biden was a decent elderly fellow who truly cares about people like you.
00:38:41.000This is true in personal relationships and it's true in politics.
00:38:43.000When people lie to you regularly, it means they don't respect you.
00:38:46.000It means they don't treat you as a normal human being.
00:38:49.000Because if they treated you as they would wish to be treated, presumably they wouldn't want to be lied to.
00:38:52.000But Joe Biden doesn't care about that.
00:38:55.000Later yesterday morning, Joe Biden tried to walk all of this back.
00:38:58.000He tweeted out, as residents of Hawaii mourn the loss of life and devastation taking place across their beautiful home, we mourn with them.
00:39:04.000Like I've said, not only our prayers are with those impacted, but every asset we have will be available to them.
00:39:10.000And then he says that FEMA temporary sheltering assistance is now available for residents who are displaced from their homes by the wildfires, allowing survivors to shelter in motels or motels temporarily as they develop a long-term housing plan.
00:39:19.000And then, guys, they're laser focused on getting aid to the survivors, including Critical needs assistance.
00:39:24.000A one-time $700 payment per household offering relief during an unimaginably difficult time.
00:39:32.000Now, far be it from me to suggest that we should just throw bags of cash at people, but if the idea here is that you have a federal crisis that necessitates a federal response, $700 a household?
00:39:44.000That's not even going to pay for like two weeks of groceries for your family in Joe Biden's America.
00:40:03.000And even if you think that's a good expenditure of defense money, you gotta start asking yourself, why $115 billion of aid to Ukraine and like less than $2 million to the people of Lahaina?
00:40:12.000Which is what that would amount to because there aren't that many households in Lahaina.
00:40:16.000And then Biden says, we're making sure all residents receive critical information so they can take steps forward to move forward in their recovery.
00:40:22.000This includes translating materials into the most common languages spoken in the- Oh my god, you mean they're actually gonna translate government materials into foreign languages?
00:41:02.000Well, because that plea deal blew up in open court.
00:41:05.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Hunter Biden's legal team said late Sunday the Justice Department had decided to renege on the previously agreed-upon plea agreement, escalating a dispute that is threatening to become a factor in the 2024 presidential race as President Biden seeks re-election.
00:41:18.000A major part of the botched deal, Hunter Biden's agreement to enroll in a diversion program for gun offenders, should stand, the lawyers argued.
00:41:24.000Prosecutors had agreed not to pursue a separate felony gun possession charge against the younger Biden as long as he remains drug-free and agrees to never own a firearm again.
00:41:30.000His attorney said he intends to abide by the terms of the agreement and expects prosecutors to do the same, but that's actually not what was in there.
00:41:36.000Part of that diversion program for gun offenders plea deal said that anything tangentially related to the tax charges would also be taken off the board.
00:41:45.000Prosecutors on Friday disclosed the plea talks with the president's son had broken down.
00:41:48.000AG Merrick Garland then named Delaware U.S.
00:41:50.000Attorney David Weiss as a special counsel, which of course, as we talked about yesterday, is completely insane.
00:41:55.000You're not supposed to take the person who was not a special counsel and was the investigating person and then make him the special counsel the minute that he gets called out for the sweetheart deal.
00:42:02.000That is obviously a cover-up designed at preventing testimony from that person in front of Congress.
00:42:08.000And meanwhile, Democrats continue to kick those goalposts into the ocean.
00:42:11.000Representative Jared Moskowitz, he says, there's no evidence that any of this links back to Joe.
00:42:14.000Well, isn't that a far cry from Hunter Biden never did anything wrong?
00:42:18.000And Joe never knew anything about this.
00:42:20.000And Joe was never connected in any way.
00:42:21.000There's no evidence to link anything back to Joe was true about Al Capone with regard to murder.
00:42:25.000They had to get him on a tax charge just because there's no evidence.
00:42:29.000That Joe Biden took, like, money directly into his bank account doesn't mean he didn't benefit from Hunter taking tens of millions of dollars into the Biden family bank account.
00:43:47.000And we're going to release a report about all of the foreign government emoluments, millions of dollars we can document that Donald Trump pocketed at the hotels, at the golf courses, through business deals when he was president and that his family got.
00:44:01.000But they've not laid a glove on Joe Biden.
00:44:04.000As president, they haven't been able to show any criminal corruption on his part.
00:44:09.000As president, they haven't been able to show any criminal corruption.
00:44:28.000And we have testimony from IRS whistleblowers to exactly that effect.
00:44:33.000Again, I think the House of Cards that is Joe Biden's reputation is crumbling.
00:44:37.000I think it's going to materialize if Republicans have the brains to, you know, run somebody who's able to make that the issue.
00:44:43.000Democrats, in order to distract, are of course going to now apparently indict President Trump every day of this week, every day of next week, and every week to come.
00:44:50.000And that's precisely what Joe Biden wants.
00:44:51.000Because again, when you focus in on Joe Biden, what you see is a corrupt elderly man who does not care about anyone except him and his immediate family.
00:44:59.000And if you focus on Donald Trump, Donald Trump is likely to lose.
00:46:02.000Okay, meanwhile, the craziest judicial ruling of the day.
00:46:06.000According to the New York Times, a group of young people in Montana won a landmark lawsuit on Monday when a judge ruled that the state's failure to consider climate change when approving fossil fuel projects was unconstitutional.
00:46:17.000The decision in the suit, Held v. Montana, coming during a summer of record heat and deadly wildfires, marks a victory in the expanding fight against government support for oil, gas, and coal, the burning of which has rapidly warmed the planet.
00:46:27.000Julia Olson, the founder of Our Children's Trust, which is a legal nonprofit group that brought the case on behalf of minors, said, quote, As fires rage in the West, fueled by fossil fuel pollution, today's ruling in Montana is a game-changer.
00:46:37.000It marks a turning point in this generation's efforts to save the planet.
00:46:42.000The ruling means that Montana must consider climate change when deciding whether to approve or to renew fossil fuel projects.
00:46:49.000Now, it's an absurd ruling because normally, in order to sue, you have to have standing.
00:46:54.000Standing means that you are damaged by the thing.
00:46:56.000And it's not enough to have general standing.
00:46:57.000If you don't like a law and the law damages you, you can't just sue based on general standing that you don't like the law.
00:47:09.000In order to have standing, it's gotta be like, I hit you with my car, now you have standing to sue me.
00:47:14.000But in this particular case, the court suggested that the mental anguish undergone by children because of climate change gave them standing to sue Montana for not considering climate change when determining whether or not to drill for oil.
00:47:27.000Emily Flower, spokeswoman for the Attorney General, said, The ruling is absurd, not surprising from a judge who let the plaintiff's attorney put on a week-long taxpayer-funded publicity stunt that was supposed to be a trial.
00:47:37.000It's a bizarre, bizarre case for sure.
00:47:38.000Michael Berger, who's the executive director of the Saban Center for Climate Change Litigation in Columbia, said, quote, this was climate science on trial.
00:47:44.000And what the court has found, as a matter of fact, is that the science is right.
00:47:47.000So now we have courts suggesting the science is right.
00:47:50.000And by the science is right, that means that if Montana drills for oil, then indubitably, this is going to create massive climate change that will kill your kids.
00:47:58.000Because now it is the job of courts, presumably, to decide the science.
00:48:04.000So first of all, not the purview of courts, actually.
00:48:07.000And you know what else is not the purview of courts?
00:48:08.000You simply give standing to plaintiffs who don't have it in the first place.
00:48:13.000The Montana case revolves around language in the state constitution that guarantees residents the right to a clean and healthful environment and stipulates the state and individuals are responsible for maintaining and improving the environment for present and future generations.
00:48:24.000But the right to a clean and healthful environment doesn't mean that the state doesn't have to do a balancing routine and figure out whether or not it is worthwhile for the citizens to, say, drill.
00:48:34.000So now, apparently, all these young people are going to sue in states ranging from Hawaii to Utah to Virginia.
00:48:39.000This is the first kind of case like this to go to trial in the United States.
00:48:45.000The state contended that Montana's emissions are minuscule when compared against the rest of the globe.
00:48:49.000The plaintiffs argued the state has to do more to consider how emissions are contributing to droughts, wildfires, and other growing risks.
00:48:59.000Many of the youngsters testified about the effects they had witnessed.
00:49:03.000So now we have 15-year-olds testifying about how they saw that it was really hot outside, and this is now the ground to shut down drilling in the state of Montana, thanks to this idiot judge.
00:49:14.000Why is it, exactly, that young people could not sue to stop, for example, pretty much every government program because they all take on debt?
00:49:24.000Why don't they say that the government has a responsibility to make sure that those who cannot vote are not burdened with the cost of policies that are undertaken now?
00:49:32.000That seems like a violation of equal protection, for example.
00:49:35.000You could theoretically make a crazy argument that the Equal Protection Clause, which says that every citizen is entitled to equal protection of the law, should protect people who are not able to vote yet in their interests.
00:49:46.000So, for example, if you saddle the country with, say, $32 trillion in national debt, that's going to hit my kids and my kids' kids.
00:49:53.000And say that the federal government shouldn't be able to pass laws that raise debt.
00:49:58.000That if they're actually going to, you know, actually spend money, then maybe people who are above the age of 18 should have to pay for that thing.
00:50:04.000Is that the direction that we're going to now have judges going?
00:50:06.000I highly doubt the left wants to go down this path.
00:50:09.000First of all, it's gonna get struck down at the Supreme Court level because it's obviously specious and stupid.
00:50:13.000But the fact that this is how the left would love courts to rule just demonstrates, once again, the left has no limits when it comes to power.
00:50:19.000They'll suggest that the right is power-hungry when the Supreme Court says, we will not step into the abortion debate.
00:50:25.000We will instead kick it back to the state and federal level.
00:50:28.000That apparently is an egregious usurpation of power by the Supreme Court.
00:50:31.000But it is a protection of rights When a local judge says that an entire state now has to stop drilling because a bunch of 15-year-olds are mad, which is literally what this decision is.
00:50:52.000Here's what David Brooks says, he says, over the past eight years or so, I've been obsessed with two questions.
00:50:56.000The first is, why have Americans become so sad?
00:50:58.000The rising rates of depression have been well publicized, as have the rising deaths of despair from drugs, alcohol, and suicide, but other statistics are similarly troubling.
00:51:05.000My second related question is, why have Americans become so mean?
00:51:09.000I was recently talking with a restaurant owner who said he has to eject a customer from his restaurant from rude or cruel behavior once a week, something that never used to happen.
00:51:17.000A head nurse at a hospital told me many on her staff are leaving the profession because patients have become so abusive.
00:51:23.000At the far extreme of meanness, hate crimes rose in 2020 to their highest level in 12 years.
00:52:07.000High levels of economic inequality and insecurity have left people afraid, alienated, and pessimistic.
00:52:11.000He says that he agrees to a certain extent with all of these stories, but I don't think any of them is the deepest one.
00:52:16.000He says, the most important story about why Americans have become sad and alienated and rude, I believe, is also the simplest.
00:52:21.000We inhabit a society in which people are no longer trained in how to treat others with kindness and consideration.
00:52:25.000Our society has become one in which people feel licensed to give their selfishness free reign.
00:52:29.000The story I'm going to tell is about morals.
00:52:31.000In a healthy society, a web of institutions, family schools, religious groups, community organizations, workplaces, helps form people into kind and responsible citizens, the sort of people who show up for one another.
00:52:39.000We live in a society that's terrible at moral formation.
00:52:43.000He says the moral formation comprises three things.
00:52:44.000First, helping people to learn to restrain their selfishness.
00:52:48.000He says that America used to be good at this.
00:52:50.000Second, teaching basic social and ethical skills.
00:52:53.000And third, helping people find a purpose in life.
00:52:57.000But he is missing why exactly all of this fell apart.
00:53:01.000Now, part of it was the increasing atomization of American society that we've talked about.
00:53:04.000And this ties back into the decline of church attendance, for example.
00:53:08.000It ties back into the rise of social media.
00:53:12.000You know, the sort of move toward individual expression, as opposed to a communal obligation, that led to this sort of breakdown, obviously.
00:53:24.000He says schools began to abandon moral formation in the 1940s and 50s.
00:53:28.000He says the post-war period saw similar changes at the college level.
00:53:32.000He says questions like, what is the meaning of life?
00:53:36.000In sphere after sphere, people decided that moral reasoning was not really relevant.
00:53:39.000Psychology's purview grew, especially in family and educational matters.
00:53:43.000It's vocabulary framing virtually all public discussion of the moral life of children.
00:53:46.000This would be the privatizing morality, the attempt to get away from the idea of a common good.
00:53:53.000He says the moral instincts Most of us who noticed the process of demoralization as it was occurring thought a bland moral relativism and empty consumerism would be the result.
00:54:18.000You don't have a moral compass to give you direction, no permanent ideals to which you can swear ultimate allegiance, and so people start to suffer from what Emile Durkheim has called anime.
00:55:32.000Niceness says that that is actually something you should not do.
00:55:36.000And so when you have an entire moral system that is based not on kindness, but on niceness, when you wipe away the moral framework and all you're left with is niceness, of course niceness is going to fall apart.
00:55:45.000Because what ends up happening is that people take advantage of the niceness.
00:55:48.000Niceness lasts only so long as someone's fist doesn't touch your face.
00:55:51.000But it turns out that doesn't last very long.
00:55:53.000It turns out that when you don't have a shared moral framework, kindness devolves into niceness, and then niceness is taken advantage of by people who have no care about you at all.
00:56:02.000And the people who actually don't abide by niceness are the beneficiaries initially.
00:56:06.000Then you have an actual prisoner's dilemma, a game theory prisoner's dilemma, in which the person who benefits the most is the person who is not nice, who violates all the rules.
00:56:13.000Because while you're playing by the nice rules, they're doing what they want, and they're getting ahead, and they're winning.
00:56:18.000And so you say, well, hold up a second.
00:56:45.000Well, because again, Democrats were relying on the niceness of Republicans while at the same time taking advantage of the lack of kindness in the system.
00:56:57.000So David Brooks is right when he says that lack of moral education is the problem.
00:58:07.000When you kill kindness, niceness will not remain.
00:58:10.000Meanwhile, the economy looks like it is about to turn bad.
00:58:12.000I don't understand people who say that basically what goes up is just going to stay up and never come down.
00:58:17.000It's like modern monetary theory, this idea that you can just inflate the currency and nothing will ever happen about that, so you get 40-year high in inflation.
00:58:24.000Right now, a lot of leds are blinking red.
00:58:28.000By the way, China is an incipient, looming disaster area.
00:58:31.000I have an entire episode of my new series, Facts, available on YouTube, where it really is seeing a lot of light, and also over on X slash Twitter, where it has hundreds of thousands of views, so it's probably at about a million views total at this point on various platforms.
00:58:44.000Talking about the various problems that China is experiencing.
00:58:49.000They have way more old people than they have young people, so no one's going to be able to pay the bills.
00:58:52.000They've got a serious debt problem, like a really serious systemic debt problem.
00:58:56.000And they're now pursuing autarkic economic policies that cut them off from the rest of the world market, which means they can't even use their comparative advantage properly.
00:59:03.000So they're really in a bleep load of trouble here.
00:59:07.000Right now, according to the Wall Street Journal, China's latest property crisis is threatening to spill over into the broader economy, worrying investors and causing a broad market sell-off.
00:59:13.000Chinese stocks fell in Hong Kong and mainland China on Monday, with real estate developers, electric vehicle manufacturers, and other companies in economically sensitive sectors declining the most.
00:59:22.000The Hang Seng Index, which is loaded with Chinese companies, dropped 1.6 percent, taking its year-to-date loss to 5.1 percent.
00:59:28.000The financial struggles of Country Garden Holdings, China's top surviving and privately run developer, have been front and center since it missed interest payments on two U.S.
00:59:36.000The property giant said that over the weekend, trading in 11 yuan-dominated domestic bonds has been suspended and intends to discuss repayment plans with investors.
00:59:44.000The property sector has gone from being a massive contributor to the country's overall growth to a massive drag on the economy.
00:59:49.000That is because China basically had a giant pyramid scheme going.
00:59:51.000Where they would take retirement funds from the people who lived in China, and they would tell them that if they invested in empty shell apartments in ghost cities, that this would eventually turn into real money because those ghost cities would then be populated and you'd make a bunch of money on those shell apartments.
01:00:06.000And it turns out that there was no one picking up rental on those shell apartments on the other end.
01:00:11.000So that money just disappeared into these vast cities that are completely empty at this point, all built around debt.
01:00:19.000New home sales increased in the first few months of 2023 providing a glimmer of hope.
01:00:23.000But the market then turned in April and nationwide sales of China's top developers have slumped ever since.
01:00:30.000Households are now borrowing less because they racked up high levels of saving.
01:00:33.000Chinese banks extended the equivalent of $47.8 billion in new loans in July that is down nearly half from the same month one year ago.
01:00:41.000Their currency is depreciating pretty significantly at this point.
01:00:45.000Again, if China's economy takes a serious dip, that's going to have a major impact on American markets.
01:00:50.000It's not going to be all roses for us because we are so intertwined with the Chinese economy.
01:00:54.000Again, thanks to a lot of bad foreign policy decision making over the course of the last few decades, particularly the decision to suggest that if we intertwined our economy with China, that magically China would liberalize, which of course they did not.
01:01:05.000Meanwhile, those higher costs, which are going to be brought on the American economy, thanks to the collapse of the Chinese economy, those higher costs are going to be exacerbated by a new model in the West of subsidization and attenuated trade links.
01:01:17.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the world's biggest economies are offering huge subsidies and a cutthroat ways to win the industry of the futures.
01:01:24.000The losers are all the countries that can't pay up.
01:01:26.000But the reality is that the losers are also the industries that aren't subsidized.
01:01:31.000Subsidies, you just take money from someone and you give it to another person in the hopes that that second person is going to use the money better.
01:01:37.000But why is the government picking winners and losers?
01:01:39.000How do they choose who gets to win and who gets to lose?
01:01:42.000Subsidized industries, by the way, over time tend to become fat.
01:02:01.000When you subsidize industries to the point where those industries don't really have to worry about their cost structure, they charge too much, their labor starts to cost too much, their parts start to cost too much, and eventually somebody undercuts them.
01:02:13.000Right now the level of subsidization is really, really high in major developed countries.
01:02:20.000I'm not sure why people think that this is a particularly good idea, particularly when you're talking about totally inefficient industries like clean energy.
01:02:27.000The US is now offering $369 billion in incentives and funding for clean energy as part of the Inflation Reduction Act.
01:02:34.000They're starting to see a few people who are building here, but mainly because they know that the United States government is going to pony up for a bunch of this.
01:02:42.000This is also combined with the downfall of globalization.
01:02:44.000Now, there are a lot of people who talk about globalism as a bad idea.
01:02:52.000If you're talking about international governance, Americans giving up their power to international organizations, I agree.
01:02:58.000If what you're saying is that international trade is a bad thing, Let me remind you that if it were not for international trade, if you don't like the inflation now, wait until international trade gets cut off.
01:03:07.000The reality is we all benefit from those wide open shipping lanes the United States has been insuring essentially since World War II.
01:03:13.000When those start to fall apart, when trade goes down, the cost on everything that you currently pay for is going to go up radically.
01:03:21.000It is not just a matter of globalization helping low-income countries.
01:03:24.000Or once poor countries like South Korea or Taiwan.
01:03:28.000It is also that the standard of living in the United States is way better now than it was in 1980.
01:03:31.000And if you don't believe me, go look at the crap people had in their house in 1980.
01:03:36.000Seriously, like pick up a product from 1980.
01:03:41.000I understand everyone wants to believe that the middle class hasn't gotten any richer since 1980 based on false pictures of the wage stats.
01:04:22.000So, it turns out that terrible economic policy has some after effects.
01:04:25.000This is why Republicans in the United States should take heart in the fact that eventually Joe Biden should pay for His economic crimes here.
01:04:34.000If Republicans have the brains to run somebody who actually has a shot at winning, that would be the big one.
01:04:39.000Not saying that Donald Trump couldn't win.
01:04:40.000He could, but his campaign would actually have to be about the issues, not about whatever the legal issue he has today is about.
01:04:46.000The reason I say this is because right now, Argentina is showing this is a possibility, which is kind of wild.
01:04:52.000So according to the New York Times, a far-right libertarian candidate won Argentina's open presidential primary election on Sunday, a surprise showing for a politician who wants to adopt the American dollar as Argentina's official currency and embraces comparisons to Donald Trump.
01:05:04.000Xavier Millet, 52, a congressman, economist, and former TV pundit, secured 30% of the vote, with 96% of the ballots counted, making him the frontrunner for the presidency in the fall general elections.
01:05:14.000He now has a clear shot at leading Argentina.
01:05:17.000Argentina's general election in October, which could go to a November runoff, will now become a new tested strength of the far-right across the world.
01:05:23.000Again, the way that this works is that if you are anywhere to the right of Karl Marx, according to the New York Times, you are far-right.
01:05:28.000Although hard-right forces have gained new influence in several powerful nations in recent years, including the U.S., Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, and Finland, they've suffered some defeats, including in Spain and Brazil.
01:05:37.000Millet has pitched himself as the radical change the collapsing Argentine economy needs.
01:05:41.000It could be a shock to the system if elected.
01:05:43.000Besides his ideas about the currency and central bank, he's proposed drastically lowering taxes, cutting public health spending, closing or privatizing all state-owned enterprises, and eliminating the health, education, and environment ministries.
01:05:56.000Sergio Massa, the Argentine center-left finance minister, finished second in the primary with just 21% of the vote.
01:06:02.000The third place finisher, Patricia Bullrich, is a conservative, and she's in third place at 17, which means the two out of the top three are conservatives, and nearly the top two.
01:06:14.000The Sunday results showed that Argentina's three separate coalitions have similar levels of support, making it unlikely that anyone will actually win in the first round.
01:06:22.000The center-right coalition's candidates received a combined 28% of the vote on Sunday.
01:06:25.000The center-left received 27%, both slightly less than Millet's total as well.
01:06:31.000Millet said, we're not only going to end Kirchnerism, that is a reference to former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, we're also going to end the useless, parasitic, criminal political cast that is sinking this country.
01:06:44.000He also thanks his sister and all of his dogs who are each named after a conservative economist.
01:07:04.000So, YouTube had to apparently reverse course after they attempted to throttle a video that we did for our new series, Facts.
01:07:11.000We did a video on YouTube about The organization GARM, which is essentially a consortium of advertisers that work to shut down all advertising on controversial platforms.
01:07:25.000By controversial, they just mean basically right-wing platforms, even if they're very mainstream.
01:07:29.000Well, YouTube then demonetized the video, claiming that it was conspiratorial.
01:07:33.000Media Research Center pressed YouTube about why monetization was suppressed.
01:07:37.000Apparently, YouTube effectively refused to acknowledge the platform had limited the video in the first place.
01:07:43.000A YouTube spokesperson said, in order for a video to monetize on YouTube, it must comply with our advertiser-friendly guidelines, which are publicly accessible and apply to all creators.
01:07:50.000Upon review, the video in question is currently monetizing, so they reversed themselves.
01:07:54.000Which is funny, because they didn't tell that to us.
01:07:58.000Again, they claimed that we discussed the New World Order, which is a non-monetizable conspiracy theory.
01:08:03.000But there's nothing that is conspiratorial about the actual episode, which simply names the various subjective guidelines put in place By these advertising collusive regimes.
01:08:17.000Elon Musk did see the video and he actually suggested that maybe the way to solve this would be to have a basket of safe content and a basket of unsafe content.
01:08:25.000That of course is not right because the problem is who gets to decide what is safe and what is unsafe?
01:08:28.000The same exact groups are currently using exactly those guises in order to push censorship.
01:08:34.000What we actually need to do is blow up these collusive enterprises entirely, and then advertisers get to decide on their own what they want to put their advertising on.
01:08:42.000If they did that, that would be a normal market mechanism as opposed to the sort of collusion that we're seeing right now.
01:08:56.000He was popularized, he's a former NFL player, he was popularized by the pic The Blind Side with Sandra Bullock.
01:09:01.000He has now petitioned a Tennessee court with allegations that a key element of the 2009 film was a lie created by the Tohey family to profit off of his expense.
01:09:10.000According to ProTalk, in the film, Orr is adopted by the Twi family to protect him from living on the streets.
01:09:15.000Orr says he was never adopted by the family.
01:09:17.000Instead, he says the Twis tricked him into signing a document making them his conservators.
01:09:21.000This agreement allowed the Twis to make business deals and profit off of Orr's name.
01:09:26.000The legal filing says the lie of Michael's adoption is one upon which co-conservatives Lee Antuhi and Sean Tuohy have enriched themselves at the expense of their ward, the undersigned Michael Orr.
01:09:34.000Michael Orr discovered this lie to his chagrin and embarrassment in February of 2023 when he learned that the conservatorship to which he consented on the basis of doing so would make him a member of the Tuohy family, provided him no familial relationship with the Tuohys.
01:09:46.000Orr says the Tuohy family used their power to turn his story into the blind side and then they allegedly received millions in royalties from the movie.
01:09:52.000Orr says he didn't get any money from any of that.
01:09:57.000Or his attorney says that he's deeply hurt by the situation with the Thuy family.
01:10:00.000We haven't heard a response from the Thuy family so far, but pretty ugly stuff, no matter what.
01:10:06.000I mean, the fact is that he was basically living on the streets when the Thuy family took him in.
01:10:12.000If they took advantage of him by having him sign a conservatorship agreement, but they didn't adopt him, and that gave them financial power over him, Even when he reached majority?