Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden has been under investigation since 2019 for a wide variety of tax and gun crimes. He was also under investigation for a separate set of gun crimes, but a plea deal was struck between the DOJ and Hunter Biden s legal team that immunized him from all further criminal charges. And then, suddenly, the whole thing blew up. And it was only a matter of time before the true cover-up began. In order to understand why the Joe Biden DOJ appointed David Weiss as Special Counsel in a case he was already investigating, you have to understand the timeline of events leading up to Hunter Biden's plea deal and the eventual dismissal of the case by the DOJ, and how the DOJ covered up the deal to protect Joe Biden from all of the other crimes that were being pursued by the FBI and DOJ against Hunter Biden. In fact, according to IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley, David Weiss said he had actually been denied special counsel status in the Hunter Biden case. And then he added that he even testified to Congress that he requested special counsel authority and was denied it. Not important, right? Not so important! Not only that, but he was actually prevented from pursuing any leads that could have led him to any other criminal charges against Joe Biden, including those that were related to the corruption that was going on at the very person he was investigating. So what happened? Hunter Biden was not the only one being covered up, was he covered up? by his own father? or was he just a victim of a cover up, too? Or was he really covering up his own crimes, or was there something bigger than Joe Biden involved in the corruption, or is there something going on this whole thing? ? Or is there a coverup even going on? In this episode, we'll find out what happened, and find out who really is covering up the truth and why? and who s really covering it up the real cover up and how it s actually covering up what s going on or what s really going on, and what s actually going on here? What s the real in this episode of of . is it really happening, you ll be shocked to find out by listening to this episode? of course you ll have to tune in to hear the full story of what s happening, right here on this on this podcast.
00:00:00.000So, it was only a matter of time until the true cover-up of the cover-up began.
00:00:04.000So, in order to understand why the Joe Biden DOJ just appointed David Weiss Special Counsel in a case he was already investigating, you have to understand the timeline.
00:00:14.000So basically, Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, has been under investigation since 2019.
00:00:19.000He's been under investigation for a wide variety of tax offenses.
00:00:21.000He was also under investigation for gun crimes.
00:00:24.000Well, just a few weeks ago, it turned out that a plea deal had been cut between David Weiss, who is the And Hunter Biden's legal team.
00:00:35.000And that plea agreement was a sweetheart deal, without a doubt.
00:00:38.000The way the sweetheart deal worked was this.
00:00:40.000Essentially, he would get no time whatsoever for any of his tax crimes.
00:00:45.000And he would also get no time, he'd get a diversion for his gun crimes.
00:00:50.000But not only did the plea deal do that, it also basically immunized him from all further criminal charges with regard to anything tax or funding related, which of course is all the Hunter Biden, Joe Biden stuff.
00:01:01.000That's all of his Foreign Agents Registration Act violations.
00:01:04.000That's him going abroad, picking up sacks of cash and questioning whether those crimes involved Joe Biden.
00:01:09.000All of that would have just gone away.
00:01:11.000And the DOJ tried to bury this in the deal.
00:01:13.000The DOJ, instead of putting this in the plea agreement with regard to the tax charges when they went to court, instead they put it in the diversion agreement with regard to the gun charges so that it was not actually under the purview of the judge who was presiding over the tax charges, but it would be left to the judge to actually enforce that plea agreement nonetheless.
00:01:31.000Are you guys Basically wiping away all of his other crimes with this plea agreement, or are you not?
00:01:35.000And at that point, the DOJ, which was in fact attempting to wipe away and cover up all of Hunter Biden's other crimes with the plea agreement, at that point, they got caught with their hands in the cookie jar and said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:01:44.000We weren't trying to wipe away all these future crimes.
00:01:47.000And when they said that, Hunter Biden's legal team was like, well, then we don't have a deal.
00:01:52.000You think he was just going to plead out on the tax charges and the gun charges without wiping away all future prosecutions on similar charges like the corruption with Joe Biden or the Foreign Agents Registration Act issues?
00:02:03.000You think we were just going to sign our names on the dotted line for a kind of quasi-sweetheart deal?
00:02:07.000No, we want the whole thing, otherwise we're going to court.
00:02:09.000And the DOJ said, well, we were going to give you the whole thing, but then we kind of got caught giving you the whole thing and the entire arrangement blew up.
00:02:15.000The judge in that case said that she had never seen any deal remotely like that deal.
00:02:20.000And all of this, played simultaneously with IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley testifying before Congress that David Weiss, the U.S.
00:02:30.000Attorney in this particular case, had not been granted special counsel status.
00:02:34.000Well, if he'd been given special counsel status, he would have been allowed to prosecute Hunter Biden basically wherever Hunter Biden committed a crime.
00:02:40.000He would have been given enough independence to go after Hunter Biden however he believed he needed to go after Hunter Biden.
00:02:46.000But according to Gary Shapley, David Weiss said that he had actually been denied by Joe Biden's DOJ special counsel status in the investigation of Hunter Biden.
00:02:56.000In fact, here is the IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley testifying in open congressional testimony that David Weiss said he was denied special counsel status.
00:03:05.000And that's when David Weiss, on October 7, 2022, said that the D.C.
00:03:47.000Okay, so Shapley said he was actually prevented from pursuing any leads that involved Joe Biden, including an infamous 2017 email from James Gilliar, a business associate of Hunter Biden, which bore the subject line expectations and outlined a provisional agreement for equity in a deal with a Chinese energy company that included the famous phrase now ten held by H for the big guy.
00:04:04.000Shapley says he wanted to investigate that and he was prevented from doing so by David Weiss and by the people who are in charge of this investigation, who were not given special counsel status.
00:04:12.000Now, the DOJ then said, well, We didn't give special counsel status because he never asked for special counsel status.
00:04:17.000But of course, that's not how special counsel status works.
00:04:20.000You don't walk into the DOJ's office and say, I would like special counsel status.
00:04:25.000You don't walk into Merrick Garland's office and say, listen, I hereby request special counsel status.
00:04:29.000You are given special counsel status voluntarily by the DOJ because they want to establish some form of independence from the actual investigation that's going on.
00:04:37.000This, for example, is why they gave special counsel status to Jack Smith in the Donald Trump investigation so they could at least claim that it wasn't Merrick Garland and Joe Biden doing that.
00:04:44.000They didn't bother doing that with Hunter because they clearly wanted their finger still in the pie with regard to Hunter Biden.
00:04:50.000Okay, well, all of this controversy led up to Merrick Garland over the weekend on Friday announcing that David Weiss would now be appointed the special counsel.
00:05:00.000Now understand the timing here is everything. David Weiss should have been appointed
00:05:03.000special counsel if they want a special counsel like at the very beginning. Then he would have had
00:05:07.000the full powers to go after Hunter Biden but he was not given that special counsel status so he didn't
00:05:11.000have the power to go after Hunter Biden. Then David Weiss anytime during the subsequent
00:05:16.000period Could have been given that special counsel status and then he was not.
00:05:19.000And then the Hunter Biden plea deal came through and it blew up.
00:05:25.000And now it appeared that David Weiss was going to be dragged in front of Congress to explain why he was not given special counsel status.
00:05:31.000And he was going to have to actually testify in Congress under oath in danger of perjury.
00:05:36.000He was going to have to testify whether Merrick Garland and the DOJ had basically told him how to handle the case.
00:05:40.000So in order to force all that, Merrick Garland and the DOJ then gave him special counsel status.
00:05:45.000And in doing so, they accomplished a couple of things.
00:05:47.000One, they backfilled the special counsel status when it was basically too late.
00:05:50.000And two, they now essentially prevent Congress from calling him in for questioning, because anything he is questioned about now, he can say is part of an ongoing investigation until he can't answer it.
00:06:01.000So if he is asked about why he wasn't given special counsel status before, he can say, well, I have special counsel status now, and I can't really speak about what was happening before, because that is all part of a case that is now ongoing.
00:06:10.000So this is a cover-up of a cover-up, understand?
00:06:12.000The original crime was Hunter Biden and Joe Biden and doing whatever it was they were doing.
00:06:16.000We still don't know all the answers there, but it's pretty obvious what was going on.
00:06:20.000And then part two was the cover-up, which was appoint a person who is not a special counsel to investigate that thing and have that person cut a sweetheart deal with Hunter Biden.
00:06:28.000And then when that blows up, you get the cover-up of the cover-up, which is now give that exact same person special counsel status.
00:06:32.000As we'll explain in just a second, it probably isn't even legal under the special counsel statute to actually give David Weiss special counsel status at this point.
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00:07:40.000Okay, so as it turns out, it may not even be legal for Merrick Garland to do what he's doing.
00:07:44.000Here is Merrick Garland appointing David Weiss Special Counsel.
00:07:48.000This appointment confirms my commitment to provide Mr. Weiss all the resources he requests.
00:07:53.000Attorney General Merrick Garland said David Weiss himself asked for special counsel status after leading the criminal probe into the president's son since 2018.
00:08:03.000The appointment of Mr. Weiss reinforces for the American people the department's commitment to both independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters.
00:08:14.000Okay, so just a few minutes after this happened, DOJ lawyers then asked the court in Delaware, where this entire plea agreement blew up, if they could withdraw the case against Hunter Biden so they could refile the charges in Washington, D.C.
00:08:24.000and California and quote-unquote, do it the right way.
00:08:28.000But as the Wall Street Journal's Holman Jenkins points out, this whole thing is a sham.
00:08:33.000According to Holman Jenkins, he says, to get fully right-side up, even by its own dubious standards, the department needs not just to name a special counsel in the Hunter Biden case, it needs to return to the status of ordinary prosecutor Jack Smith, the special counsel in the Donald Trump case.
00:08:46.000How can it be a conflict of interest for the department to throw the book at criminals who also happen to be the president's political enemies?
00:08:52.000Smith was only named after a leak signaling Joe Biden's displeasure with the department for not being aggressive enough against Mr. Trump.
00:08:57.000The DOJ has every natural incentive to throw the book at Trump.
00:09:00.000If it couldn't convince itself it had sufficient grounds, this might be a problem, but it's a corruption of the special counsel concept to believe it's a problem the special counsel regulation should solve.
00:09:08.000Merrick Garland's Friday announcement in the Hunter Biden case is bizarre in a different way when examined against special counsel logic.
00:09:13.000Garland said the Hunter investigation, quote, reached the stage where such an appointment was appropriate, but what stage?
00:09:18.000They went through the entire investigation, literally the whole investigation, and then they tried to cut a sweetheart deal, and then it blew up.
00:09:23.000At which stage was it not appropriate to actually make him special counsel?
00:09:27.000The answer is this stage, because as it turns out, the special counsel is supposed to come from outside the government.
00:09:32.000You're not supposed to just give an ordinary attorney working for the government special counsel status this way.
00:09:39.000Saying that it has now reached a new stage is an absurdity, as Holman Jenkins points out.
00:09:44.000He says, this would be the stage where IRS collaborators publicly accuse Weiss and his DOJ overseers of violating normal procedures to go easier on Hunter than they would on any other alleged offender.
00:09:54.000Is Mr. Weiss, the special counsel, now going to investigate Mr. Weiss, the ordinary U.S.
00:09:57.000attorney's problematic handling of the case?
00:09:59.000Like, how's this going to work exactly?
00:10:02.000Is Mr. Weiss going to start noticing the accumulating evidence that Joe Biden actively abetted his son's access peddling scheme?
00:10:08.000Is he going to follow up on charges by his own IRS colleagues?
00:10:10.000His actions in the investigation were tainted by favoritism toward Hunter?
00:10:14.000The only reason they're doing this is so he can refuse to testify in front of the House committee.
00:10:19.000Recently, this would include unearthing the alleged receipt by multiple members of the Biden family of millions of bucks from Hunter's international dealings.
00:10:25.000So now this is basically just a way of shielding David Weiss from the investigation of the original cover-up by creating a new cover-up.
00:10:33.000This is what the head of the House Oversight Committee, James Comer, was saying.
00:10:36.000He said, I was about to connect Joe Biden to criminal activity and then they dumped this on us.
00:10:40.000We've produced more evidence than anyone that's supposedly investigating this criminal activity by the Biden family.
00:10:48.000And right as we get to the point to where we've traced it to Joe Biden, and we're at a position where we can win in court to fight their attorneys and get their actual personal bank records, He comes out with this.
00:11:01.000This is another attempt to try to obstruct.
00:11:03.000They're going to try to use this in court when they say, no, we can't give the Oversight Committee our bank records because there's an ongoing investigation by David Wise.
00:11:13.000It is absolutely absurd on every level.
00:11:15.000Now, Democrats in the media are predictably spinning this as, now everyone's being super unfair to Hunter Biden.
00:11:20.000So here's Democratic Representative Jerry Connolly saying that, you know, normal people wouldn't be subjected to this level of scrutiny.
00:11:26.000If a normal person bought a gun, claiming they were not a drug addict, while they were a drug addict, and then a girlfriend threw it in a trash can across the street from a school, and then it disappeared, do you think that person would not be in jail?
00:11:38.000If a person committed crimes to the tunes of millions of dollars in tax evasion, Do you think that would just go by the wayside and no one would care?
00:11:45.000Do you think there would be no Foreign Agents Registration Act investigation of $20 million entering a family's coffers because they're traveling around the world making promises on behalf, presumably, of the Vice President of the United States?
00:11:59.000A lot of people make assumptions about people in public life getting a special deal, wink-blink.
00:12:04.000Often it's the opposite, that they're going to get no cornice cut at all.
00:12:11.000They're going to have the book thrown at them because nobody wants to be perceived as showing favoritism in the justice system or in the police unfolding acts.
00:12:50.000It's pretty obvious what is happening here.
00:12:52.000My favorite defender here is Joy Reid.
00:12:53.000Joy Reid, who is constantly talking about the two-track system of justice in the United States, the systemic racism of the criminal justice system.
00:12:59.000Well, now she's out there saying, Hunter is... I mean, I just can't believe how unfairly Hunter is being treated.
00:13:04.000In other words, he's being treated differently because he's Joe Biden's son.
00:13:08.000I want to read this little piece here.
00:13:10.000The particular gun charge that the Feds brought against Joe Biden.
00:13:14.000A drug user in possession of a firearm is rarely brought as a standalone crime, especially now that roughly a fifth of the country uses cannabis, with an inevitably significant overlap with the nation's estimated 80 million gun owners.
00:13:26.000When the Feds do bring this type of case, they come down hard, but it's usually a tool they use to take down Tough to arrest criminals, like militant white nationalists, Islamist terrorists, or narco traffickers.
00:13:39.000I think all the evidence that I've seen so far in this case is that Hunter Biden, he could be a terrible guy, I don't know, never met him, is being treated worse than anyone else would be.
00:15:30.000That would have been the question, would it not?
00:15:31.000What added authority does it give to Weiss?
00:15:36.000And what are the implications for Hunter Biden himself?
00:15:41.000The primary added authority is really independence.
00:15:44.000The Special Counsel no longer will have to be ruled over by the Attorney General, although technically, Special Counsel does have to report to the Attorney General.
00:15:54.000And in a way, the Attorney General had already indicated that David Weiss had broad investigatory power.
00:16:01.000So the real question is, what inference can we draw from David Weiss's request to become Special Counsel?
00:16:09.000I mean, the inference is that he wants to cover up what is going on clearly.
00:17:36.000He had to conclude that it did, if you're Garland.
00:17:38.000Was there a conflict of interest at play here?
00:17:41.000I mean, it is pretty amazing when even CNN is like, guys, this is pretty weird.
00:17:45.000Meanwhile, Hunter Biden's attorney, Abby Lowell, was asked point blank if Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings would in any way connect back to Joe Biden.
00:17:52.000Listen to the lawyerly language here from Abby Lowell.
00:17:56.000But can you answer the question about whether or not you're, from what you know, if you're confident that this won't in any way link back to the president?
00:18:03.000What I know is what the evidence has revealed.
00:18:05.000I mean, that is what people should focus on.
00:18:07.000It's not as if this started yesterday or a week.
00:18:10.000It started for five years with so many people in the United States, including with the power of subpoenas, as Mr. Weiss has had, to look at every transaction that Hunter was engaged in, in any place in the world in which he was engaged.
00:18:24.000They came up with the decision that the only two charges to file were two misdemeanors and a gun-diverted charge.
00:18:31.000Not any of the other things that the MAGA right wing have been yelling, from money laundering to foreign corruption to foreign agent, none of that.
00:18:47.000So there won't be any evidence that's uncovered?
00:18:49.000I know the evidence is uncovered thus far, but where is the full-throated, Joe and Hunter were not in business together in any way, shape, or form.
00:18:58.000No money that Hunter ever took in from a foreign source was used to Joe's benefit, nor was Hunter Biden ever associating Joe with the business of his foreign businesses.
00:19:25.000And the answer is, now they're afraid that they got caught with their hand in the cookie jar, so maybe fairness might look like that a little bit.
00:19:32.000When you say force, who are you referencing?
00:19:35.000Well, what I'm referencing is, and this is not a surprise or a secret, right?
00:19:39.000From the moment this arrangement and agreement has been announced and filed, you have every MAGA, right-wing, fanatical person yelling and screaming and saying it's not right and it's not fair and it's not just.
00:19:53.000You have the former president trying to use Hunter Biden as a way to excuse his own conduct.
00:19:59.000And at some point, that could pierce, the noise could actually be so noisy that it'd get in the way of the facts and the law.
00:20:08.000Wouldn't that be a tragedy if it turns out that the giant bubble that you've created with the help of Joe Biden's DOJ actually started to cave in?
00:20:16.000If somebody actually popped that bubble, what a tragedy that would be.
00:20:18.000Okay, we'll get in just one second to President Trump, who's responding to all of this first.
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00:21:28.000Well, actually, Trump formally nominated Weiss for U.S.
00:21:31.000Attorney for the District of Delaware, and Weiss was sworn in while Trump was President of the United States.
00:21:37.000So, um, that's not, like, the best statement from Trump, but suffice it to say that he is obviously correct that Weiss is a stooge on behalf of the DOJ at this point.
00:21:49.000And the fact that he's now basically escaped any sort of congressional scrutiny by being appointed special counsel is pretty obvious corruption.
00:21:56.000Well, meanwhile, President Trump's presidential run continues.
00:22:00.000He is facing down, presumably, some sort of indictment that is going to come down either this week or next week.
00:22:05.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Georgia has become ground zero for exhaustion over the legal drama surrounding Donald Trump and the GOP debate over whether to stick with him in 2024.
00:22:12.000Georgia, there are still signs that voters have tired of the 2020 election replays and of Trump himself.
00:22:18.000That kind of Trump fatigue is pervasive in Georgia, according to Republican strategists, which is a serious problem for him in a general election.
00:22:26.000Right now, the possibility of another indictment looming is pretty obvious.
00:22:29.000President Trump put out a statement over the weekend going after the Fulton County DA, Fannie Willis.
00:22:34.000He went after her pretty hard, obviously.
00:22:46.000But as these cases stack up, it is going to provide a serious challenge to his ability to actively run a campaign.
00:22:53.000According to Breitbart.com, Fannie Willis is planning to bring multiple witnesses before a grand jury next week as part of her investigation into President Trump.
00:23:02.000Trump wrote, I hear that racist Fulton County District Attorney, phony Fannie Willis, who weekly presides over one of the deadliest communities in the United States with thousands of murderers, violent criminals, and gang members roaming the streets while going on tried-free and are treated with kid gloves, is using a potential indictment of me and other innocent people as a campaign and fundraising con job, all based on a perfect phone call as President challenging election fraud, my duty, and right.
00:23:24.000This would be Trump's fourth indictment in the past five months, and of course, it would bleed into the presidential election.
00:23:29.000Trump was asked whether he'd be taking a plea deal in Georgia, and correctly, he said, uh, no way, man.
00:23:53.000These indictments were brought out by Biden, who can't even put two sentences together.
00:23:59.000This is Joe Biden, because he can't win the election by himself.
00:24:03.000He can't win the election based on votes.
00:24:05.000So what they did is they got the Attorney General to do it.
00:24:08.000And then you see how stupid they acted yesterday with the appointment of the special counsel.
00:24:15.000So, that of course is going to be Trump's line all the way through the election.
00:24:18.000The question is whether that is going to be a winning message in a general election.
00:24:21.000That's something that Republican voters are going to have to decide.
00:24:23.000I was talking with some friends over the weekend and we were all agreeing that the reason that Republicans, many of them, love, love, love Trump is because of course he was a hand grenade that was thrown into the sort of dead of vipers that is American politics.
00:24:36.000But the question is, what happens if that hand grenade becomes a dud?
00:24:40.000Or what happens if it starts to blow up in your hand?
00:24:42.000That's something Republicans are going to have to decide.
00:24:43.000Do they think that Trump is still more of a tool against the left, that he is capable of victory in a general election?
00:24:48.000Or is he a hand grenade that is going to blow up in their hand?
00:24:50.000Right now, the polls suggest that Republicans are very much on board with the idea that Trump is still the best guy to nominate.
00:24:57.000The RealClearPolitics polling average has Trump riding very high at 54%, has Ron DeSantis at 15%, has Vivek Ramaswamy at 6, Pence at 5, Haley at 3, everyone below that.
00:25:08.000Now, the polling on Ramaswamy is very weird.
00:25:11.000As I say, full disclosure, I'm friendly with Vivek.
00:25:13.000Of course, I'm friendly with many of these candidates is the truth, but Vivek's polling is super weird because all of the online polls have him at 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and all of the phone polls have him at 2.
00:25:25.000Which suggests that these may not be the most reliable polling statistics for Vivek because he's the only one who you're seeing picking up support right now other than Trump.
00:25:34.000Trump is actually on a bit of a high right now in terms of his polling numbers.
00:25:38.000DeSantis has declined in the RealClearPolitics polling average from about 25% in April all
00:26:52.000I believe if you have an opportunity to do good things for your community or your country, that you have a responsibility to do that and to get that done.
00:27:02.000And so that's really, I think, influenced me all the way up to the present in terms of what I'm looking to do.
00:27:08.000Like with running for president, I'm not running to be somebody.
00:27:11.000I'm running to do things on behalf of the country and for the American people.
00:27:16.000Okay, so, obviously, that's a nice line, but the big problem for DeSantis is that in terms of who is a more exciting candidate, who's the one who's going to suck all the air out of the room, there's no question that Trump is a much more exciting candidate.
00:27:29.000According to the Washington Post, the crowd that had craved to watch Governor DeSantis flip pork chops with Iowa's governor suddenly looked toward the sky.
00:27:39.000When Trump got to the pork tent midday, with DeSantis' camp far away resting in the shade, he didn't partake in the actual grilling.
00:27:45.000So, that kind of behavior could theoretically harm Trump in an Iowa caucus.
00:27:58.000Remember, he didn't win the Iowa caucuses the first time around.
00:28:00.000It was actually Ted Cruz who won the Iowa caucuses.
00:28:03.000Trump then did what he has become famous for doing.
00:28:05.000He denied that Ted Cruz had won the Iowa caucus.
00:28:06.000He suggested that Ted Cruz had stolen it from Ben Carson, that Ben Carson had dropped out, And that he had not formally dropped out, but Ted Cruz was telling people he had dropped out.
00:28:15.000And that meant that he picked up Ben Carson's votes and they should have gone to Trump and really Trump won Iowa and all of the rest.
00:28:20.000So Trump, you know, theoretically could lose Iowa again.
00:28:23.000But here's the footage of Trump's plane arriving.
00:28:25.000And again, there is the man does have a political magic to him in terms of retail politics.
00:28:32.000You stop making them do gender pronoun classes.
00:28:53.000Well, it actually turned into a bit of a brawl.
00:28:57.000A bunch of Trump fans, who are being extraordinarily rude, which, again, not super shocking.
00:29:02.000We saw some of this behavior in the 2016 election as well.
00:29:04.000They started trying to drown out the interview between Kim Reynolds and Ron DeSantis.
00:29:08.000I gotta say, for a lot of Republican voters, if they look at this, They have to wonder, is this the sort of behavior that actually is going to win in November of 2024?
00:29:16.000I don't know that it's going to appeal to any people who are going to be swing voters or suburban moms in 2024.
00:29:21.000Anyway, here was Kim Reynolds versus Trump fans.
00:29:25.000So Ron's out there doing the 99 County Tour.
00:30:41.000But that's just how he operates, to attack one of the best governors in the country.
00:30:46.000I mean, obviously DeSantis is right about all of this, but this is really one of the questions.
00:30:50.000Again, to go back to the hand grenade analogy, the question is, is the hand grenade effective or is the hand grenade not effective?
00:30:58.000If the idea was that Trump was going to come in and he was going to wreck the status quo, the question is, what does that mean?
00:31:05.000Wreck the status quo in terms of actual policy because the truth is that in terms of upending democratic policy, DeSantis has done a hell of a lot more in the state of Florida than Trump did as president of the United States.
00:31:13.000But if what we mean is that Trump ticks off all the people we like to watch ticked off, there's no one better in politics, probably in history, than Trump at that.
00:31:21.000The question is whether that actually adds up to a policy win.
00:31:25.000So Republican voters are going to have to decide kind of what they want here.
00:31:28.000Do they want the best shot at winning independence?
00:31:30.000Do they want the best shot at winning nationally?
00:31:32.000Do they want the best shot at winning in places like Georgia and Wisconsin and Arizona?
00:31:36.000Or do they want the guy who's going to piss off the left the most?
00:31:38.000Because if they want the guy who's going to piss off the left the most, You're never going to do better than Trump.
00:31:42.000Trump ticks off the left better than literally anyone in the history of humanity.
00:31:45.000Okay, in just one second, we'll get to the latest on the economy, because again, Joe Biden remains an incredibly weak candidate.
00:31:51.000And I focus on that because it is important to recognize that if Republicans lose in 2024, that is Republicans' own fault.
00:31:57.000I think it was Republicans' fault they lost in 2020.
00:31:59.000They're running against a doddering old fool who could not leave his basement, and whose entire party was endorsing mass rioting in the streets, as well as a giant national COVID lockdown, and somehow Republicans found a way to lose.
00:32:11.000You can blame whoever you want for that, but the fact is that Republicans should have run away with that election.
00:32:16.000So if they blow 2024, I'm not sure who you blame then.
00:32:19.000They blew 2018, they blew 2020, they blew 2022.
00:32:22.000If they blow 2024, at some point can somebody be held responsible for blowing all of that, or is it just going to be pointing the finger again?
00:32:27.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
00:32:29.000First, if you're like most Americans, you might be struggling to make ends meet.
00:32:32.000By the time you pay the bill, fill up your car, and grocery shop, there's almost nothing left.
00:33:33.000Also, If you're planning to send your kids off to college this year, you know that they are going to try to brainwash your kids.
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00:34:17.000Meanwhile, the death toll continues to mount over in Maui and the President of the United States is back at Rehoboth Beach again.
00:34:23.000So he just went on a 14-day beach vacation and he came back for like four days and now he went back to the beach because he is no longer with us.
00:34:32.000And he was asked apparently about the rising debt toll in Hawaii while he was on the beach.
00:34:35.000And he said no comment and then he headed home.
00:34:37.000So slow clap for a very, very caring, deeply compassionate president of the United States.
00:34:43.000Meanwhile, we now have more stats about how much families are paying than they did two years ago.
00:34:48.000According to CNN Business of all places, the typical American household spent $709 more in July than they did two years ago to buy the same exact goods and services according to Moody's.
00:35:32.000I mean, that's true, but you also added $900 to your debt, which is what Joe Biden has been doing with regard to inflation.
00:35:38.000Mark Zandi, the chief economist at Moody's, said high inflation over the past two-plus years has done a lot of economic damage.
00:35:43.000Most of that increase in household spending is driven by housing costs, which have surged.
00:35:47.000He added that families are also spending more at the grocery store on buying, maintaining, and insuring vehicles and on recreational services like cable.
00:35:54.000Paychecks have not grown by nearly as much as the cost of living.
00:35:58.000This is why I keep saying that gravity is going to drag the economy back down.
00:36:02.000The Wall Street Journal has an entire piece on America's credit rating.
00:36:07.000According to Spencer Jacob, writing for the Wall Street Journal, investors have historically paid a steep penalty to hunker down in super-safe short-term government securities.
00:36:15.000For example, $100 invested in three-month Treasury bills in 1928 grew to only $2,141 by the end of last year, while it became $46,000 invested in medium-grade corporate bonds and a whopping $624,000 if invested in stocks, according to data from NYU finance professor Aswath Damodaran.
00:36:32.000Especially in the years following the financial crisis, anything short-term and safe paid next to nothing.
00:36:37.000But the Federal Reserve's fight against inflation has amplified the risk of an unthinkable fiscal crisis made possible by decades of Washington dysfunction.
00:36:45.000So that means that people are actually spending a bunch of money to get into short-term government securities, which pays you almost nothing.
00:36:54.000Although they were called certificates of confiscation in the inflationary 1970s, longer-term treasuries have been the go-to asset in times of crisis.
00:37:00.000The 10 years no yield is literally the risk-free rate used to value all other securities.
00:37:04.000But the government's pile of debt has now swelled following the war on terror, the global financial crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
00:37:10.000Low interest rates and Fed bond buying masked the strain.
00:37:12.000Interest costs were recently no higher than in the early 1990s.
00:37:15.000But the Treasury barely seized the opportunity to lock in those rock-bottom rates by issuing more long-term notes and bonds, and now it is too late.
00:37:22.000Long-term budget forecasts say the U.S.
00:37:23.000debt held by the public will surpass its GDP this fiscal year.
00:37:27.000Interest on the debt will equal three quarters of discretionary non-defense spending.
00:39:37.000But, in the end, this is all they have.
00:39:39.000They're gonna try and scare Americans about the Republican Party.
00:39:41.000And the truth is, so far, it's worked.
00:39:43.000I mean, Republicans can say that it hasn't, but it absolutely has.
00:39:47.000Since 2016, when Donald Trump was elected, ever since then, the case Democrats have made is, the crazy has to stop.
00:39:53.000And then they point at a bunch of Republican candidates, ranging from Hershel Walker in Georgia, to Blake Masters in Arizona, To Doug Mastroianno in Pennsylvania.
00:40:06.000And it turns out that Republicans should stop banging their head against a brick wall.
00:40:10.000Perhaps the best way to run against somebody supremely unpalatable, like Joe Biden, supremely irritating, like Kamala Harris, is to run somebody who's actually somewhat palatable.
00:40:22.000Because the truth is, if Republicans can't get excited to vote against Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, I don't know what business Republicans have getting into a voting booth.
00:40:30.000I mean, just because Joe Biden is an incredibly boring elderly fellow does not mean you shouldn't be excited to vote against him and get him out of office.
00:40:38.000But I suppose that if all of politics just becomes a battle of personality, then we are in a race to the bottom from here until the end of time.
00:41:12.000If Republicans cannot actually achieve victory against Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, I don't know what they do for a living or why we should continue to support them in any way, shape, or form.
00:41:20.000And I'm sorry, but blaming everybody else for losing is not going to cut it.
00:41:24.000All right, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:41:27.000So, last week, Which one of you is from the New York Times?
00:41:33.000And I hold by that because she lost to a wet rag in Katie Hobbs.
00:41:36.000However, she did have herself a nice moment in Iowa over the weekend.
00:41:40.000She was asked about whether there are in fact two genders.
00:41:42.000She was milking a cow at the time and here was her response.
00:41:46.000Which one of you is from the New York Times?
00:41:48.000You know there's only two genders, right?
00:41:52.000There's only two genders and they know that in Iowa.
00:41:56.000I challenge the New York Times reporter and the Washington Post reporter to try to milk a cow and then try to milk a bull and see how that goes.
00:42:10.000So, there is a song that has gone completely viral by a Virginia country singer named Oliver Anthony, who's a former factory worker, who was apparently really, really down on his luck, and he was asked to play a song at sort of a local event.
00:42:21.000And the song that he played is one that he calls, Rich Men North of Richmond, which of course is a reference to the people who occupy Washington, D.C.
00:42:29.000And this thing has gone unbelievably viral.
00:42:31.000I mean, millions and millions of views.
00:42:36.000I've been sellin' my soul Workin' all day Overtime hours For bullshit pay So I can sit out here And waste my life away Drag back home And drown my troubles away It's a damn shame What the world's gotten to For people like me And people like you Wish I could just wake up And it not be true But it is Oh it is, living in the new world, with an old soul.
00:43:15.000Rich man knows the rich man Lord knows it all Just wanna have total control Wanna know what you think Wanna know what you do And they don't think you know But I know that you do Cause your dollar ain't sh** And it's taxed to no end Knows the rich man Knows the rich man Okay, so this song obviously has hit a nerve with people because it is, I think, the cry of a lot of people in the United States who are just trying to work a job and make their way in life and feel like there are too many people who have their hand in their pocket, particularly elites in the federal government who believe that their money should go to other people.
00:44:00.000Some of the lyrics in the song are, Lord, we got folks in the street ain't got nothing to eat and the obese milking welfare.
00:44:05.000Well, God, if you're five foot three and you're 300 pounds, taxes ought not pay for your bag of fudge rounds.
00:45:18.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:45:24.000Alright, so I don't know why Disney keeps deploying Rachel Zegler to say things about Snow White that are likely to alienate pretty much anybody who would ever want to watch this movie.
00:45:33.000So they're making a live version of Snow White, a live-action version of Snow White, which is really stupid since the original is, of course, a film classic.
00:45:40.000Rachel Zegler, who is playing Snow... diversity.
00:45:46.000Because we can't do Snow White anymore, because obviously that'd be racist.
00:45:50.000Tiana must remain a black princess forever, but Snow White cannot be a white princess, even if her literal name is Snow White, because she has skin as white as snow.
00:45:57.000That is literally the line in the movie.
00:46:00.000I mean, I'm sorry, I didn't make it up.
00:46:38.000So no prince, or a different kind of prince?
00:46:40.000We have a different approach to what I'm sure a lot of people will assume is a love story, just because we cast a guy in the movie, Andrew Burnham.
00:46:50.000It's one of those things that I think everyone's going to have their assumptions about what it's actually going to be, but it's really not about the love story at all, which is really, really wonderful.
00:47:05.000You probably didn't, because if you watch the movie, you'll remember Snow White literally standing above a well and singing a song where she says that she wishes for the one I love to find me today.
00:47:37.000And everyone would've been happy, right?
00:47:39.000I mean, not so happy because she would've been dead, but still, he's a creepy rape stalker.
00:47:44.000And so it would've been better if she had bitten into the apple and died, and then she never would've gotten kissed, and then she would be dead.
00:47:51.000In fact, there's like a bunch of princesses who would still be dead if we just, you know, abided by Me Too.
00:47:57.000Because it turns out that even when a woman is in love with a man, and even when they want to be together, the worst thing that could possibly happen is for him to kiss her while she is dead.
00:48:30.000What do they think the market for this is?
00:48:31.000A quarter of the parents were like, I'm desperate to bring my child to a movie that is not about Snow White, but is in fact about a self-empowered woman that's like atomic blonde, but for children.