Donald Trump is in court for an arraignment in federal court in Washington, D.C. today. Trump has been charged with 78 felony counts, including conspiracy, conspiracy to obstruct justice, conspiracy against the United States, and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, among other charges. If convicted on all counts, Trump could face a maximum sentence of 641 years in prison, which is not counting additional criminal charges he might face in Georgia, where he is also facing a criminal investigation. Trump is the most likely person to be the Republican candidate for president in 2020, which means there is a real possibility that Trump could be in prison in the middle of next year. And if that s not bad enough, a presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump is back on the table, in which Biden could theoretically have the candidates in jail across from each other, shouting at each other across the bedsheets. This is a wild one, and it could be even more entertaining than the presidential debates we ve all been waiting for. If Trump is convicted, he could face the maximum sentence possible, which could put him in prison for the rest of his adult life. If he's not convicted, there's no question that he's going to serve a long term sentence, but it's not likely to be much longer than that, and he could still be released from prison before the 2020 election, which would be an absolute disaster. . . . unless, of course, he runs for re-election in 2020. What's the worst thing a person could do in 2020? vote for a presidential candidate in 2020 that doesn't have any chance of being sent to prison for a lengthy term? What s the President Trump could do with a life sentence that doesn t involve any kind of criminal record at all the things he s been charged in this country? other than serve time in a federal prison sentence than he s got a criminal record that he s not even been convicted of a crime he s done in a fair chance of getting a chance to vote in a trial? in this episode, we ll talk about that, right here on this podcast! and much, and much more. ... and much much more! Enjoy! - Tom and Jerry! -- Tom -- Tom's new book, "The Devil Next Door" is out now? -- is that a good one? -- is it any good? -- and it's coming out soon?
00:00:00.000All righty, so today the former president of the United States is expected to appear in person for his arraignment in federal court in Washington, D.C.
00:00:08.000Simpson day, where the president is trailed by helicopters as he leaves Mar-a-Lago, and then he gets on a plane, and then he goes to Washington, D.C., and then he goes into a courthouse, and then he exits a courthouse.
00:00:17.000And we're going to get all the usual hullabaloo about how this is historic, and it's the biggest thing that's happened in the United States since ever, and it's like an amazing, amazing day for the left.
00:00:36.000So it's the arraignment world tour here with the Trump campaign.
00:00:40.000And this is not Donald Trump's fault because this indictment is garbage.
00:00:43.000The indictment, as I discussed yesterday, is charging crimes that are not actual crimes.
00:00:48.000They are suggesting that Donald Trump, for example, committed some sort of fraud against the government of the United States, which is a lie.
00:00:54.000That is not, in fact, how that law works.
00:00:56.000What they wanted to charge him with was incitement.
00:00:58.000What they really wanted to charge him with was he is the one who created the riot on January 6th.
00:01:02.000But the problem is it doesn't fulfill the actual elements of incitement because incitement under American law requires that you actually tell people to go do the thing.
00:01:08.000It is not enough to say, well, you know, I really, really don't like that guy.
00:01:11.000And then somebody goes and they burn down the guy's house.
00:01:32.000It's just him being a bad president at that time.
00:01:36.000Which, again, his activities during January 6th, I think were egregious.
00:01:39.000I think his activities between the election and January 6th, particularly in the aftermath of state certification of votes, I think it was wrong.
00:01:47.000It turns out you can do lots of things in America that I personally think are egregious, wrong, and damaging to the country that are not crimes.
00:01:52.000It happens pretty much all the time and every single day.
00:01:55.000So, former President Trump, again, he's going to show up in Washington, D.C.
00:02:02.000And this just underscores the fact that not only could President Trump's life be at risk here because he now faces 78 felony charges across three criminal cases.
00:02:11.000If Trump were convicted on all counts, according to Politico, and given the maximum statutory penalty for each one, he would face a whopping 641 years in prison.
00:02:19.000Which I assume means he would not survive prison, although he is 70% preservatives at this point because he eats so much McDonald's and Diet Coke.
00:02:28.000That is not counting additional criminal charges he might face in Georgia.
00:02:32.000The actual plausible criminal term is probably nothing like that.
00:02:35.000In both state and federal courts, judges have wide latitude in sentencing.
00:02:38.000None of the crimes Trump has been charged with carry a mandatory minimum sentence.
00:02:41.000Defendants with no prior criminal record rarely receive the maximum.
00:02:45.000And sending Trump to prison could raise pretty unprecedented practical and legal issues, given the fact that right now, he's the most likely person to be the Republican candidate for president.
00:02:53.000So there is the actual real possibility that Donald Trump could be campaigning from prison in the middle of next year, which again, high drama.
00:03:02.000And maybe, I mean, I would love to see a presidential debate in which Joe Biden Being corrupt with Hunter and having violated the law?
00:03:09.000You could theoretically have a presidential debate in which you have the candidates in actual jail cells across from each other at Folsom and just shouting at each other across the hallway as flaming bedsheets fall around them, which frankly would be more entertaining than most presidential debates at this point.
00:03:27.000Not only that, it is very clear that Jack Smith wants this stuff prosecuted like as fast as humanly possible.
00:03:33.000Donald Trump's defense attorney, John Lauro, he said prosecutors want to force a trial in 60 to 90 days.
00:03:38.000So if I get my math right, that means that they want to force the trial in like October, November, sometime presumably before the primaries begin.
00:03:47.000The prosecutor says, let's go to trial, I'm ready in 70 days.
00:03:50.000Fair enough, you're not ready in 70 days.
00:03:54.000How about he had three and a half years, why don't we make it equal, okay?
00:03:58.000The bottom line is that they have 60 federal agents working on this, 60 lawyers, all kinds of government personnel, and we get this indictment and they want to go to trial in 90 days.
00:04:12.000justice? The prosecutor's not here to say, maybe he's investigating so that he's ready to go to
00:04:17.000trial. Is it justice to force a former president of the United States to trial in 90 days when
00:04:23.000you've had three years to investigate? Well, as you well know.
00:04:25.000So there are two things that are happening right here from a sort of political perspective.
00:04:32.000One is, the entire election cycle will now be about January 6th.
00:04:35.000It'll be about Donald Trump's activities, his legal activities, it'll be about classified documents.
00:04:39.000That is what the election is going to be about.
00:04:41.000And that is what Democrats want the election to be about.
00:04:42.000They would love nothing better than that.
00:04:44.000This is why you have Michael Beschloss, who's the world's worst historian and writes speeches for Joe Biden, comparing January 6th to 9-11, which again, this is such an absurdity.
00:04:52.000January 6th was a rally that turned into a fairly small-scale riot in the context of the 2020 riots, which was the most damaging riots in American history in terms of property damage and many lives were lost.
00:05:05.000Michael Bush lost comparing a bunch of dolts going into the Capitol building.
00:05:12.000Because the reality is that the one officer who died, Brian Sicknick, died afterward, and it is unclear that the cause of death was directly related to January 6th.
00:05:20.000But put all that, the only person who actually was killed that day was Ashley Babbitt, of course.
00:05:24.000Comparing that to 9-11, in which 3,000 Americans died in a full-scale attack on the United States, including both the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
00:05:32.000Comparing that to Pearl Harbor, like, Michael Beschloss is, he is a terrible historian, but this is the narrative.
00:06:11.000What we see in this indictment is that on January 6, 2021, Donald Trump, just like those other threats to American democracy, tried to destroy our system.
00:06:24.000Okay, so he is now comparing Donald Trump to Osama bin Laden and Hirohito.
00:06:29.000This is where Democrats want to go, and they'd love to run this election.
00:06:31.000They ran the selection playbook in 2020.
00:06:33.000They ran the selection playbook in 2022.
00:06:35.000And it actually went pretty well for them.
00:06:38.000I remember a lot of us were pretty exercised about what I think is still the worst presidential speech I've ever seen given.
00:06:43.000Joe Biden's bizarre and fascistic speech in front of the Independence Hall, where he completely misread what liberty is and then declared all of his political opponents enemies of the Republic.
00:06:53.000Blood Red Independence Hall with the soldiers flanking him in the background.
00:07:02.000Point number two is that if you bog down your political opponent with lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit, criminal case after criminal case after criminal, that keeps him pretty busy.
00:07:11.000And not only that, if you hit him with a bunch of criminal cases that are pretty obviously politically motivated, it elevates him in the primaries.
00:07:17.000So Democrats are getting kind of all the things they want here.
00:07:20.000First, Let us talk about the fact that Big Tech, Big Government, these are not trustworthy sources.
00:07:26.000They would like to silence any dissenting voices into submission.
00:07:29.000In fact, they work hand in glove together.
00:07:30.000There's literally a story out today that the White House contacted Facebook and asked them to ding DailyWare's traffic, like degrade DailyWare's traffic in 2021.
00:08:44.000I don't mean Democrats shipping in ballot boxes in the middle of the night or dead people voting in Chicago in 1960 or stealing an election for Al Franken over Norm Coleman in Minnesota.
00:08:54.000That's not what I'm talking about here.
00:08:55.000What I'm talking about here is the pre-rigging of the 2024 election by essentially Making Donald Trump the Republican nominee, knowing that the amount of baggage he brings into the general is going to drag him down in the general election.
00:09:07.000Because that seems to be the most predictable way that this election cycle goes.
00:09:10.000It is very difficult to believe that independents are going to think like Republicans and conservatives on these issues.
00:09:15.000Because most people don't watch this stuff at the granular level.
00:09:17.000If you listen to this show, you are more politically informed than about 98% of the American public.
00:09:22.000The rest of the public, a huge percentage of the public does not follow this stuff closely.
00:09:25.000And so when they see headline after headline after headline suggesting that Donald Trump is a criminal, if they are not in the 40% base of Donald Trump, if they're in that 10%, which tends to be less engaged, tends to be less informed, which tends to not listen to conservative podcasts, but may turn on CNN every so often, that the people who catch the news, whether they're not reading the sports section, For those people, do you think they're going to be granularly involved in whether the DOJ was weaponized against Donald Trump?
00:09:55.000Because after all, Donald Trump has been arguing that for years.
00:09:57.000He was right, but those arguments kind of are baked into the cake.
00:10:00.000So the question becomes both practical and messaging.
00:10:04.000On a practical level, how is Donald Trump going to contend with the fact that he is likely to have at least four ongoing criminal trials in the middle of this election cycle?
00:10:41.000Every dollar Donald Trump is bringing in is being spent right now on legal.
00:10:45.000Every moment that Donald Trump is online is being spent thinking about legal.
00:10:49.000Every so often he sideswipes Ron DeSantis just to kind of keep him down, but most of his focus right now is going to be on the legal cases and ranting about Jack Smith and stuff.
00:10:57.000Well, that's an awful expenditure of time for a presidential candidate who needs to run an election in swing states in order to win.
00:11:04.000Beyond that, think about the practicalities.
00:11:07.000Think about where he actually has to physically be.
00:11:10.000In many of these cases, he's going to have to be for days or weeks.
00:11:15.000Florida for his case on classified documents, or in Washington D.C.
00:11:19.000for the January 6th indictments, or in Georgia for electoral interference indictments that are shortly to be coming, or in New York for the Stormy Daniels nonsense.
00:11:28.000He's going to have to be in all of those places.
00:11:29.000Just on a practical level, this is a very, very difficult case for Donald Trump to run.
00:11:35.000Because they've set up all of these obstacles.
00:11:36.000Again, this is why I say it's been rigged.
00:11:38.000Once you bring a bunch of specious allegations against Trump and you lock him up in terms of his time and his money for the next year and a half, that is a form of rigging the election.
00:11:46.000And as a as another component of this, by doing this, you're also helping to rig the Republican primaries in a bizarre sort of way.
00:11:53.000When all of the media coverage goes toward Donald Trump, it sucks all the air out of the room.
00:11:58.000It means that Donald Trump, with all of his baggage, is likely to be the nominee because everybody on the Republican side of the aisle, myself included, We all look at Trump and we're like, that guy's being victimized and we would like to give him as much power as he can have in order to smack back.
00:12:36.000That's the thing we should all be focused on if we actually care about fixing the system and making sure that you don't get bad indictments against political opponents.
00:12:43.000So the question really, as always, comes back to victory.
00:12:46.000So, again, that's practicality number one, is his time being stacked up.
00:12:52.000Him being basically jammed up all the way until election day with criminal cases.
00:12:58.000And then again, there's message number two, which is the message that Democrats are going to ram down, push it, push it, push it, push it.
00:13:04.000And these criminal cases allow them to do it every day because Trump is going to be in court talking about it every day, on Truth Social talking about it.
00:13:10.000If there's one person who likes talking about Trump more than Joe Biden, it's Donald Trump.
00:13:28.000I'm just asking, is it the thing that is most likely to result in actual victory?
00:13:35.000As we'll see in a second, it is quite probable that Joe Biden basically set all of this up, at least in terms of the incitements that are now coming down from Jack Smith.
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00:15:12.000But, and this is the New York Times reporting, back in March, he does have opinions.
00:15:17.000In the past, Mr. Biden privately told his close circle of advisors that Mr. Trump posed a threat to democracy and should be prosecuted for his role in the events of January 6th, according to two people familiar with his comments.
00:15:27.000He also told confidants he wanted Attorney General Merrick Garland to stop acting like a ponderous judge and to take decisive actions.
00:15:35.000Well, that's weird that he then did those things.
00:15:38.000And this is very much like when Barack Obama said, wouldn't it be great if the IRS, wouldn't it be great if the IRS went after all my political opponents?
00:15:47.000And then magically the IRS did just that.
00:15:49.000And then people are like, well, you didn't order them to do it.
00:15:50.000Right, when you say publicly you want the people who work for you to do a thing, typically they tend to do the thing.
00:15:56.000If I were to suggest on my show that I want my team to get me a birthday cake tomorrow for no reason, I assume somebody would probably hear that and maybe go get a birthday cake tomorrow.
00:16:07.000Even if I didn't explicitly tell them, by the way, guys, I don't need the birthday cake.
00:16:10.000But that is the way that this sort of stuff works.
00:16:14.000When the boss says a thing and he says it in public, the subordinates tend to do the thing.
00:16:20.000Is it a coincidence that Joe Biden wanted these things to happen and now they are magically happening?
00:16:24.000Is it also a coincidence that Barack Obama apparently told Joe Biden earlier this summer that Donald Trump's political strengths could actually be a problem for him?
00:16:36.000And so maybe, maybe, it might be kind of nice if something would happen to that guy, right?
00:16:39.000I mean, if he just got hit with a bunch of indictments, that wouldn't be a terrible thing.
00:16:43.000According to the Washington Post, at the lunch held in late June at the White House residence, Obama promised to do all he could to help get the president reelected, according to two people familiar with the meeting.
00:16:52.000But he also warned that Donald Trump's political strengths, including an intensely loyal following, a Trump-friendly conservative media ecosystem in a polarized country, underlined his worry that Trump could be a more formidable candidate than many Democrats realize.
00:17:04.000Well, you know what is a great way to undercut that opposition is by locking him up with a bunch of false legal charges that could, in Washington, D.C., quite probably result in a conviction.
00:17:15.000Neil Kagel, former federal prosecutor, he says this will almost certainly result in a conviction, which, again, it's in Washington, D.C., so yeah, there's a real good shot.
00:17:22.000And free speech, I mean, Trump's defense has been, well, I just said it, I didn't actually do anything.
00:17:27.000But that is never your defense in the law.
00:17:30.000Like, you and I, if I, you know, order you to kill someone, you know, or, you know, conspire with you to kill someone through my words, or, you know, something like that, that doesn't mean that I like, well, it's only speech, therefore, I can't be prosecuted.
00:18:08.000There's every possibility that Donald Trump could be convicted and convicted in short order in Washington, D.C.
00:18:12.000In terms of the danger to Trump, Again, you have to stack it up in sort of two categories.
00:18:17.000One is the actual solidity of the legal case.
00:18:20.000In terms of the solidity of the legal cases that are currently outstanding against Trump on the criminal basis, by far, the most grave charges are the classified documents charges.
00:18:27.000Those ones, there's pretty solid evidence that Trump did the thing.
00:18:30.000That's not with regard to the political concerns.
00:18:32.000The political concern, of course, is the double standard with Hillary, but it's a whole different thing.
00:18:36.000In terms of which charges are the most dangerous in terms of the stuff that Trump has violated, the rankings go Florida case, D.C.
00:18:44.000indictment, which again is specious, and Manhattan indictment, which is super duper specious.
00:18:48.000In terms of actual danger to go to jail, D.C.
00:19:00.000It is rigging it when if suddenly there are a bunch of legal cases that arose against Joe Biden just prior to the election in which he had to sit in the dock, a bunch of DAs decided to just try him month after month after month for a bunch of specious charges.
00:19:11.000Yes, that would be a form of election rigging in the same way as a form of election rigging when the federal government literally lied to people about whether Hunter Biden's laptop was real, causing social media censorship of the New York Post story.
00:19:25.000You have a singular experience of January 6th.
00:19:26.000as I've said, is the Democratic message, which is that Donald Trump is the worst person to ever
00:19:29.000person. And Nancy Pelosi is trotting that one out.
00:19:32.000Apparently she's heartbroken. There's nothing I hate more than crocodile tears. This is like crocodile
00:20:00.000And I just want to commend the January 6th committee, the House committee, bipartisan committee, Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney and all the members of the committee and the staff for the work that they did.
00:20:14.000They made a foundation of facts about facts and the law and made a criminal referral to the Justice Department.
00:20:25.000So, um, she seems very heartbroken, doesn't she?
00:20:28.000Or maybe she's super happy this gets to be the narrative going forward.
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00:21:24.000Now we get to the two things can be true at once.
00:21:26.000It can be true the Democrats are trying to rig the election in their own favor by both elevating Donald Trump in the primaries and also degrading him in the general with all of these legal cases which achieve all of those things both for narrative purpose and for actual practical day-to-day time on target purposes for Donald Trump.
00:21:41.000It can also be true that Donald Trump made some of this bed himself.
00:21:46.000I mean, there are a lot of people who are very angry at Mike Pence today.
00:21:49.000And they think that Mike Pence should have come out strong against the indictment.
00:22:28.000Justice Kamala Harris does not have the unilateral ability to overturn the election.
00:22:31.000And I'm constantly amazed by anyone who gives any credence to this legal theory.
00:22:34.000And there were people who were doing it for like several months.
00:22:38.000I can't see any reason to do it other than for a sort of nefarious purpose in the sense of self-aggrandizement because it was so obviously legally specious and silly.
00:22:46.000The vice president does not have the capacity to simply put aside state-certified votes.
00:22:51.000If he did, that would make him a dictator.
00:23:12.000It wasn't just that I asked for a pause.
00:23:15.000The president specifically asked me, and his gaggle of crackpot lawyers asked me to literally reject votes, which would have resulted in the issue being turned over to the House of Representatives, and literally chaos would have ensued.
00:23:31.000So Martha, people can read the indictment, and frankly, I've said before, I had hoped it had not come to this point.
00:23:40.000You know, I don't know if the government can meet the standard, the burden of proof, beyond reasonable doubt, for criminal charges.
00:23:48.000But the American people deserve to know that President Trump and his advisers didn't just ask me to pause, they asked me to reject votes, return votes, essentially to overturn the election.
00:24:04.000Don't be angry at Mike Pence for what Donald Trump did.
00:24:21.000By the way, it should be noted at this point that of all of the cabinet officials who served under Donald
00:24:25.000Trump, a grand total of four have currently endorsed him.
00:24:27.000He didn't fight against election fraud, which we will now be easily able to prove based on the most recent fake indictment and information, which will have been made available to us, finally, a really big deal.
00:24:36.000The VP had power Mike didn't understand, but after the election, the RINOs and DEMs changed the law, taking that power away.
00:24:42.000Donald Trump talking about loyalty with regard to Mike Pence is really pretty gross.
00:24:47.000This falls under the two things can be true at once rule.
00:25:03.000Everybody who's watching should have said that she was a kook the whole time.
00:25:06.000We looked at her claims and we established on the show that her claims were kookery from basically the very beginning.
00:25:12.000He had on Rudy Giuliani on his legal team.
00:25:14.000It turns out that Rudy seems to be now, unfortunately, he went from being America's mayor when he was a terrific mayor of New York, an American hero in the aftermath of 9-11, and a pretty formidable presidential candidate at the beginning of the 2008 race, into a man who appears to be a habitual drunk.
00:25:30.000I mean, there's an outlet out, there's a lawsuit out right now from a former assistant in which the former assistant accuses him of sexual harassment and other And and other sort of sexual misconduct.
00:25:45.000And I'm just going to she has tapes of Giuliani talking to her.
00:25:50.000Giuliani, again, it's these are the people that Trump had around him.
00:27:02.000Just because you are being prosecuted and persecuted by your political opponents doesn't mean that you are actually good at the thing or that you aren't making obstacles for yourself by hanging out with people like Rudy Giuliani.
00:27:14.000For example, while Rudy Giuliani shows up at like Four Seasons Gardening with hair dye dripping down his face.
00:27:21.000Does that sound like the mark of a good candidate?
00:27:25.000Again, Donald Trump is a lot of things.
00:27:26.000I've said before, he's a genius for telescoping the id of the Republican base.
00:27:33.000He can put his finger directly on the pulse of the Republican base.
00:27:36.000He feels what they feel, and that is an extraordinary power.
00:27:38.000Also, he has no discipline whatsoever.
00:27:40.000He surrounds himself with the absolute worst people who apparently are there just based on some sycophantic level of personal loyalty to him.
00:27:50.000And he is not a meticulous tool on behalf of his own positions.
00:28:14.000So the question is, is that the person, and then put aside the electoral record, is that the person that Republicans want to nominate?
00:28:21.000Do you wish to be suckered by Democrats into doing precisely the thing they would like you to do, which is to nominate Donald Trump so they can hit him with 83 false indictments between now and the election, lock him up, and hit him with a media wave suggesting that he is a criminal?
00:28:33.000And do you think that Donald Trump is going to be able to overcome all of those obstacles?
00:29:32.000DeSantis is finally doing the thing that he needs to do, which is he is aggressively finding people on the left to punch.
00:29:37.000So according to Politico, DeSantis has now agreed to debate Gavin Newsom on Fox News, which is good.
00:29:44.000Now, Newsom is a very clever guy, so DeSantis is really going to have to prep for this.
00:29:48.000This is the debate that really the country should have is whether we wish to be more like Florida or whether we should be more like California.
00:29:53.000I have a personal stake in this debate since I literally moved my family from California to Florida and my company from California to Florida and Nashville.
00:30:04.000I think that it would be the debate that actually is worth watching as opposed to, you know, two old men screaming at each other about their personal corruption.
00:30:13.000According to Politico, the Florida Republican and California Democrat have repeatedly sparred over policies in their respective states, each representing one side of the ideological spectrum through occupying different political perches.
00:30:24.000DeSantis is trailing Trump for the Republican presidential nomination.
00:30:26.000Newsom is basically running as a shadow candidate in case Joe Biden should fall over and smack his head.
00:30:34.000On Wednesday, DeSantis agreed to the debate.
00:30:37.000So it should be a fascinating development.
00:30:39.000It's something that DeSantis obviously needs to do.
00:30:40.000And he needs to show that he can be a better candidate, a better weapon against the left than Trump is.
00:30:59.000It's not about which Republican candidate can tear down Trump because
00:31:03.000no Republican candidate can tear down Trump.
00:31:04.000It's about demonstrating to Republicans that the best person to achieve the agenda that Republicans want to see achieved, and to stop, for example, the weaponization of the DOJ, the person most likely to beat Joe Biden is the person who should get the nomination.
00:31:16.000Right now, the polling data is not suggesting that it's DeSantis above Trump.
00:31:20.000That can change, and it can change pretty quickly.
00:31:23.000I just, again, remind people that the candidate who is Not facing down four separate criminal indictments between now and the election is probably going to not have quite as many obstacles as the guy who is.
00:31:38.000It seems tautological, but it's worth noting.
00:31:41.000Again, not an emotional argument, just a purely factual argument.
00:31:46.000The guy who has to spend all of his time in court or the guy who doesn't have to spend all of his time in court and who also doesn't hire, you know, some of the worst advisors in the history of advice.
00:31:55.000Okay, in just one second, more breaking news on Joe Biden and Hunter Biden.
00:32:00.000Devin Archer did an interview with Tucker Carlson, and good for Tucker for getting the interview because honestly, it's kind of astonishing that Devin Archer would sit down with him given his legal situation, but we'll get to that in just a moment.
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00:34:04.000Okay, meanwhile, more breaking news on Devin Archer.
00:34:07.000Apparently, Fox News has now gained access to the transcript of the conversation between Devin Archer and congressional investigators.
00:34:13.000According to Fox News, Devin Archer, Hunter Biden's former business partner, told investigators that Hunter used his, quote, very powerful name to, quote, add value in pitching and securing foreign business ventures.
00:34:24.000Archer said that Hunter Biden, quote, would not be so overt or overtly say, we're going to use my dad for this.
00:34:28.000Instead, Archer said that he would use it to get leverage.
00:34:31.000He said, quote, defensive leverage, that the value is there in his work.
00:34:34.000The value that Hunter Biden brought to it was having, you know, there was the theoretical was corporate governance, but obviously given the brand, that was a large part of the value.
00:34:40.000Yeah, they weren't bringing in Hunter Biden, a drug addicted, crack addicted, whore addicted, derelict to do corporate governance.
00:34:47.000That's not exactly the person that you're like, hey, you know that guy who's a crack hound?
00:34:51.000The one who's snorting Parmesan cheese off the carpet?
00:34:53.000Let's bring him in for corporate governance.
00:34:57.000I sit on the board of a large privately held company.
00:35:17.000Like, what is the value of Hunter Biden?
00:35:19.000Across his entire life, what is the value of him?
00:35:22.000Like, really, name a productive thing that Hunter Biden has done other than having a last name that is the same as that of a senator, VP, and then president.
00:35:30.000Archer told investigators that Hunter put his father, then VP Joe Biden, on speakerphone while meeting with business partners at least 20 times.
00:35:38.000Archer said that the idea was to, quote, sell the brand.
00:35:40.000He said, that brought the most value to the brand.
00:36:11.000We would say we had unique understanding of D.C.
00:36:12.000and how it operates and how that, you know, could positively reflect on the terms of our business.
00:36:17.000Referring to Burisma, Archer told investigators Hunter used the brand of Joe for having doors open, which sent the right signals for Burisma to carry on its business and be successful.
00:36:25.000Archer said, my only thought is I think Burisma would have gone out of business if it didn't have the brand attached to it.
00:36:30.000When pressed, Archer just kept repeating that.
00:36:32.000He kept saying they were able to survive for as long as they did just because of the brand.
00:36:36.000Because people would be intimidated to mess with them.
00:36:46.000They were afraid that if they messed with Burisma legally, the Vice President of the United States might withhold a billion dollars in aid to get the prosecutor fired?
00:36:55.000And meanwhile, Devin Archer did an interview with Tucker Carlson, in which he openly said selling access to Joe was certainly an abuse of soft power.
00:37:04.000I guess I'm pivoting against the lie that I'm hearing people tell with a straight face.
00:37:08.000Congressman Goldman, for example, that we don't really know what was going on.
00:37:55.000But here's the Vice President of the United States saying to you, a man in his mid-30s, who's not a government official, I'm sorry I was occupied with the guy who runs the world's largest country.
00:38:05.000I would much rather talk to you and thank you.
00:38:08.000And he was thanking me and thanking Hunter, I think, at the end of the day for bringing this idea of this government regulatory strategic advisory business into the private equity world.
00:38:18.000And I think he was excited about the prospects for Hunter and, you know, he was just thanking me.
00:38:27.000But he's the Vice President of the United States and he's talking about foreign business deals with you and thanking you for that.
00:38:34.000I think, again, it goes back to my earlier point, and yeah, I think I hit, at the time, I think I hit the jackpot in finding the regulatory environment or company that can navigate right to the top.
00:38:46.000But, you know, obviously, as time's told, you know, being a little bit too close to the sun ends up burning you.
00:38:53.000Okay, so at this point, I think that we can point out that there will be a fallback defense, because the defense that Joe didn't know what was going on is obviously a lie.
00:39:01.000The idea that Joe was not involved in any way with his son's businesses is obviously a lie.
00:39:49.000According to NBC News, in recent weeks, President Joe Biden realized his silence was no longer tenable, that it was time for him to publicly recognize his four-year-old granddaughter caught up in a bitter child support case involving his son Hunter.
00:40:01.000But before he could do so, he wanted to take one final step, getting the green light from his son, which he received last week, one source said.
00:40:07.000And on Friday, Biden finally spoke out about his seventh grandchild, whom for years he wouldn't so much as acknowledge in public.
00:40:13.000Now the president wants to meet little Navy Joan Roberts of Arkansas and dispel the notion that he was ignoring a vulnerable member of the Biden family tree that is at the root of his political identity, according to the people familiar with the matter.
00:40:47.000Family dramas typically play out in private, though rarely when the nation's first family is involved.
00:40:51.000The president, who has wrapped himself in family throughout his career, is now in an improbable twist, having to explain why he publicly ghosted a young girl, who is as much his grandchild as any of the others whose high school graduations he attends, or who playfully call him Pop.
00:41:02.000Publicly claiming Navy Joan is a member of his family may offer Biden a measure of peace.
00:41:05.000Politically, however, it also serves to blunt a GOP line of attack.
00:41:10.000It's obvious that he was ignoring his granddaughter because he doesn't care about that granddaughter.
00:41:15.000He doesn't care about the granddaughter because Hunter clears the checks for him.
00:41:20.000The White House declined to comment on any of the family developments, including whether Biden wants to meet his granddaughter in person.
00:41:24.000Instead, a White House aide referred to Friday's statement and called the issue a private family matter.
00:41:28.000That's weird that it's a private family matter.
00:41:31.000Again, I love that they're now claiming privacy.
00:41:32.000No one knows any of Biden's other grandchildren other than Navy Jones specifically because he doesn't ignore any of his other grandchildren, so it's not a story.
00:42:13.000Weeks after, President Biden and congressional Republicans came to the brink of a historic default, warning about the growing debt burden and political dysfunction in Washington.
00:42:21.000Well, you know, one way to solve the debt burden is to stop spending $7 trillion a year.
00:42:27.000But the Biden White House is like, nah, Fitch just got it wrong.
00:42:30.000Now, I will remind you that when Moody's downgraded Israel's credit, like a few weeks ago in the aftermath of judicial reform in Israel, the entire media cited this as evidence that Israel's economy is about to collapse.
00:42:42.000When Fitch downgrades America's credit rating because we are spending way too much money and we will never catch up, When President Biden took office, their own measures started to track back towards AAA.
00:43:00.000If you add that observation to the economic tailwinds that are ongoing now, despite the Fitch's, I think, out-of-step forecast about where the economy is headed, I think you recognize why some folks yesterday were calling this, and I'm now quoting from a bunch of different statements from mostly non-partisan people, bizarre, inept, arbitrary, absurd, strange, puzzling timing.
00:43:26.000Well, there's only one problem with this, which is that America owes way, way, way too much money, and that it's just a reality, and nobody is going to take this on at all.
00:43:35.000The fact is, again, because we have jacked up our interest rates, that means that the interest payments that we are taking on our new debt is going to be extraordinarily high.
00:43:42.000The amount of money we're going to have to dedicate to paying off all of our creditors for decades to come is extraordinary.
00:43:48.000Net interest is going to reach $745 billion in the 2024 fiscal year.
00:43:52.000That is three quarters of all discretionary spending excluding defense in the United States.
00:43:57.000That's just the interest on our debt, and it's only going to get larger.
00:44:01.000Again, the fact is that as a share of GDP, the projection of U.S.
00:44:05.000debt as a share of gross domestic product continues to rise absolutely astonishingly and dramatically, which is one reason why you're starting to see credit downgrades.
00:44:13.000That's going to continue so long as the program of the United States is to spend more and more and more money.
00:44:17.000The Biden administration, their plan is denial.
00:44:19.000And so the strategy of the Biden administration is to pretend that, you know, that doesn't matter, as always.
00:44:24.000So Janet Yellen, proud feet, she says that it's puzzling to get this credit downgrade.
00:44:29.000And this administration deeply cares about fiscal responsibility, which is strange because people who care about fiscal responsibility don't spend $7 trillion a year In the longer term, the United States remains the world's largest, most dynamic and most innovative economy, with the strongest financial system in the world.
00:44:51.000Fitch's decision is puzzling in light of the economic strength we see in the United States.
00:44:57.000I strongly disagree with Fitch's decision, and I believe it is entirely unwarranted.
00:45:02.000Fiscal responsibility is a priority for President Biden and me.
00:45:07.000Earlier this year, The president signed debt limit legislation that included over a trillion dollars in deficit reduction.
00:45:17.000His budget would also improve the fiscal outlook by reducing the deficit by 2.6 trillion dollars over the next 10 years.
00:45:28.000They're going to reduce the deficit, guys.
00:45:30.000By that, they mean that they are going to supposedly spend less money over what we actually are paying than they did previously.
00:45:38.000Not that they're going to reduce the debt.
00:45:39.000That's not a thing that is going to happen.
00:45:41.000By the way, the economy is still on tenderhooks here because, as the Wall Street Journal points out, earnings season is still Coming.
00:45:48.000We're going to find out how the earnings of these companies are going to do and we'll see how that impacts the stock market.
00:45:52.000While stocks have climbed, corporate profits have fallen.
00:45:54.000According to the Wall Street Journal, companies in the S&P 500 are set to log a roughly 7% year-over-year decline in earnings for the second quarter.
00:46:01.000Which, again, it's hard to see how the stock market keeps increasing while earnings are going down.
00:46:05.000We are also going to see the jobs market that is cooling pretty rapidly.
00:47:24.000The number of stars who can open a movie in America, that is down to basically Chris Pratt.
00:47:30.000No one opens, Tom Cruise, Chris Pratt, that's the entire list.
00:47:33.000You know who's not on that list is Rachel Zegler.
00:47:35.000Rachel Zegler, however, is part of the actor strike and she says that um because she she essentially
00:47:41.000Promotes the labor theory of value when it comes to acting here. Uh, yeah, this is this is not going to be how this
00:47:47.000this labor strike gets solved If i'm going to stand there 18 hours in a dress of an
00:47:52.000iconic disney princess I deserve to be paid for every hour that it is streamed online
00:47:57.000Uh, well then you could negotiate that in your contract, but you're not I noticed
00:48:02.000So, what she's saying there is that because she's standing there in a Disney dress, she should get paid for every hour that Snow White and the non... that Latina Snow White and the non-dwarf dwarves of various diverse backgrounds and sexual orientations, for every hour that's... I mean, the bad news for her is that's going to get streamed, like, for two hours.
00:48:54.000Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:49:00.000So there are some people today who are laughing and celebrating at the separation between Justin Trudeau and his wife.
00:49:05.000First of all, I didn't even know that dude was married to a lady.
00:49:07.000But, in any case, Justin Trudeau, that's a Babylon Bee joke, by the way, so credit to the Babylon Bee.
00:49:12.000In any case, Justin Trudeau, who is for sure not Fidel Castro's son, In any case, he and his wife, Sophie, said Wednesday they have separated after 18 years of marriage.
00:49:24.000The way that they announced this is on their respective Instagram accounts, which is the way that most honorable people do this thing when you have three kids, is you go to your Instagram accounts and then you let the world know that you don't like each other anymore.
00:49:33.000Sophie and I would like to share the fact that after many meaningful and difficult conversations, we have made the decision to separate, Justin Trudeau said on Instagram, and they both asked for privacy.
00:49:42.000A separate statement from the couple said they've signed a legal separation agreement.
00:49:45.000They remain a close family, and Sophie and the Prime Minister are focused on raising their kids in a safe, loving, and collaborative environment.
00:49:50.000Both parents will be a constant presence in their children's lives, and Canadians can expect to often see the family together.
00:49:55.000I'm sure the Canadians will be absolutely thrilled.
00:49:58.000They have two boys, 15 and 9, and a 14-year-old daughter, so congratulations to them on helping to completely screw up their kid's life, even worse than it is screwed up, being public figures.
00:50:06.000The two met in June 2003 at a charity gala.
00:50:10.000Justin Trudeau in his memoir said they chatted and flirted for much of the evening, then they went on a dinner date.
00:50:14.000And then he said, I felt a giddy sense that Sophie would be the last woman I ever dated.
00:50:38.000Uh, the reason I put this in Things I Hate is because, again, the... the kind of... no one should ever revel in somebody else's divorce when they're a kid.
00:50:47.000Because it screws up kids incredibly badly.
00:50:50.000The kind of soft-peddling of the effects of divorce on children in our society is astonishing.
00:50:54.000And what's amazing is that it's become so rote.
00:50:57.000If you go back to, like, the late 1970s, before no-fault divorce became a sort of commonplace aspect of American life, and you watch a movie like Kramer vs. Kramer, which talks about the effects of divorce on children, divorce is devastating to kids.
00:51:21.000So, the fact that these people who've been married for 18 years have decided to divorce while their kids are still, their youngest is nine, that's a disaster area.
00:51:41.000But if none of that is happening, it's just people like, I don't feel like living with you anymore, Uh, you're, you're doing the wrong thing.
00:53:19.000Also, that's not what the word sanctimonious means.
00:53:22.000In the words of Mandy Patinkin, I do not think that word means what you think it means.
00:53:27.000I think what she was going for was, there's no sanctity to marriage, which is a hell of a statement considering that literally it is the most sanctified institution.
00:53:35.000It is the institution with the most sanctity in human history.
00:53:39.000But to her, it's just a piece of paper, so I have a question.
00:53:43.000Getting marital advice from a lady who just reads you a list of her marriages, this is like somebody giving you financial advice after going bankrupt eight times.
00:53:50.000Well, you know, paying off your debts, it's not something you have to do.
00:53:54.000I mean, you sign a document saying you're supposed to pay off your debts, but there is bankruptcy.
00:53:58.000Why are you committing to paying off your debts, man?
00:54:27.000So, this one is actually quite important.
00:54:30.000We now have actual open evidence that the Biden White House asked Facebook to degrade the traffic of Daily Wire, my company.
00:54:38.000According to Just the News and John Solomon, the memos...
00:54:42.000Suggest that the Biden White House inquired in meetings with Facebook executives asking whether Facebook could tweak its algorithm to showcase stories from the New York Times and Wall Street Journal over content posted by, quote, polarizing conservative journalists and commentators in early 2021.
00:54:53.000The memos, reviewed by Just the News, chronicle a series of meetings between the White House digital director, Rob Flaherty, and executives from Facebook, now known as Meta, in spring 2021, as the first questions about the efficacy and safety of the COVID-19 vaccine began surging on social media.
00:55:08.000The memos delivered recently under subpoena to the House Judiciary Committee make clear the White House was actively interacting with Facebook and sometimes pressuring the social media giant to moderate content in a way that would encourage more Americans to get inoculations.
00:55:19.000On April 14, 2021, for instance, the White House's flarity asked Facebook whether it could promote The New York Times and Wall Street Journal over The Daily Wire.
00:55:28.000Flaherty asked Facebook employees, quote, if you were to change the algorithm so that people were
00:55:32.000more likely to see New York Times, Wall Street Journal, any authoritative news source over
00:55:36.000Daily Wire, Tommy Lahren polarizing people, you wouldn't have a mechanism to check the material impact?
00:55:40.000Daily Wire, of course, we are a site that filed a landmark lawsuit challenging the OSHA
00:55:50.000We were the only major company in the United States on the right to actually file a lawsuit against the OSHA vax mandate, while other major media American companies on the right were actively forcing their employees to get the shot.
00:56:00.000We were suing the federal government to stop it.
00:56:03.000Well, we are not afraid to sue the federal government again.
00:56:05.000We are not afraid to sue the Biden White House.
00:56:07.000First of all, there may be criminal violations right here.
00:56:11.000Flaherty is cited in the notes as asking the question because, candidly, there is not a lot of trust toward Facebook.
00:56:15.000And the Biden White House wanted to know whether the platform was, quote, finding things that are effective that you aren't doing to combat resistance to vaccines.
00:56:22.000In terms of interventions, know that there are groups that are hotspots.
00:56:26.000If violating content approved gives the group a strike.
00:56:29.000I'm uncovering new examples on comments.
00:56:31.000Public figures on comments might be contributing more.
00:56:33.000The notes quote the Facebook executives as saying, So we are absolutely pleased to look into the effects on our business of the Biden White House engaging in an absolute First Amendment violation.
00:56:45.000There's no question this is a First Amendment violation.
00:56:48.000It is a First Amendment violation because the federal government cannot force or even pressure a private company into censoring information.
00:56:55.000That is a First Amendment violation pretty clearly.
00:56:57.000And as my friend and lawyer Kurt Schlichter says, it's a criminal violation.
00:57:01.000Government officials were attempting to use government power to suppress the civil rights of American citizens.
00:57:10.000Certainly, we are examining all of our legal options at this point, and we have no hesitancy whatsoever about going at the Biden and White House again.
00:57:18.000It cost us, like, millions of dollars to go after the OSHA VAX mandate.
00:57:21.000We helped overturn the thing and prevent 80 million Americans from having to take the shot if they didn't want to take it.
00:57:26.000We are perfectly happy to do the exact same thing with the Biden White House right now to stop them from ever violating the civil rights of Americans by pressuring Facebook and other social media companies again.
00:57:37.000And by the way, we have looked at the traffic on our website and whether it declines in the aftermath of this conversation.
00:57:43.000Suffice it to say, evidence will be presented.