Alvin Bragg announces a 34-count indictment against Donald Trump. It's a weak case, but it's still a strong case, which is what the left loves to complain about. Trump has been charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and conspiracy to make false statements, among other felonies, in order to conceal information about the 2016 election from the public and the election process. But it's really not much of a case at all, and I'll tell you why you should be mad at the left for not accepting the results of the election in 2016, and why it's time to go back in time and try to prosecute cases from a time before the election, before Watergate, and before Watergate was even a thing. And I'll explain why that's a bad idea, and how it's a waste of time and money, and also why Trump should never have been allowed to run for president in the first place, no matter what he's accused of doing. Also, I'll debunk the idea that Trump was caught on tape having sex with a porn star, and explain why it doesn't really matter anyway, because he won't have sex with anyone anyway. I'll also explain why he didn't even have to do that, and it's not even matter what happened in the election anyway, and that's why he should have voted for Hillary in 2016 anyway, not because he had sex with Stormy Daniels, and Billy Bush, not Billy Bush. Tweet me your thoughts on that! and let me know if you agree or disagree with me or don't you agree with my analysis of what happened? Tweet Meghan Blanchard's tweet if you think it was a good or bad tweet me or tweet me what you like it . Timestamps: 5:00 - What did you think of this episode? 6:45 - What do you think about it? 7:30 - Is this case? 8:00 9:40 - Is Trump guilty? 11:35 - Does this case a scam? 13:00 -- What would you like to see him go back to jail? 15:15 - Why Trump should go back? 16:30 -- Is this guy a crooper? 17:15 -- What's the real scandal here? 18:40 -- How much money should Trump have been paid? 19:10 -- Did he pay for the porn star?
00:00:19.000We had been led to believe that obviously this was a bunch of misdemeanors that had been spun into felonies, that these were state misdemeanors spun into state felonies that were then being linked to a federal felony charge that was never actually filed.
00:00:29.000It looked really weak, in other words.
00:00:31.000But we were told, you know, wait for the indictment to come out.
00:00:33.000Just wait, just wait for the indictment.
00:00:34.000Some of us were like, well, you know, I'm willing to go on the record and say that unless something shocking comes out in the indictment, this is a bunch of crap.
00:00:58.000It is Donald Trump lied about paying off various people, three specific people, a doorman, a porn star, and another quasi-porn star.
00:01:09.000And the idea is that in doing so, he did not declare these as campaign finance donations.
00:01:17.000These should have been categorized as campaign finance expenses as opposed to being paid under the table to Stormy Daniels or Karen McDougal or doorman number seven.
00:01:30.000And I'm going to go through the statement of fact here, which is supposed to be the predicate for the call for prosecution.
00:01:37.000Again, Alvin Bragg, the DA, is filing 34 separate counts in order to jack up the number of years of jail time Trump could theoretically do.
00:01:44.000He could theoretically face four years for each count, so 136 years in jail.
00:01:49.000In reality, even were Trump convicted, he's a first-time offender, so legally speaking, he would probably do zero jail time.
00:01:55.000But it makes everybody on the left feel all warm and fuzzy on their insides.
00:01:58.000They get that special tingle up their leg.
00:02:00.000And so Alvin Bragg putting it on the table that there may in fact eventually be a picture of Donald Trump wearing the bracelets makes everybody very hot and bothered on the left.
00:02:08.000But let's go through the statement of facts so that none can accuse you of not having actually gone through the facts.
00:02:13.000So here is what Alvin Bragg is claiming.
00:02:16.000He says the defendant Donald Trump repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal criminal conduct that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election.
00:02:26.000And this is, of course, the entire predicate for this investigation.
00:02:29.000No one on the left will ever accept the fact that Trump won the 2016 election.
00:02:33.000They didn't accept it because of Russia, Russia, Russia.
00:02:35.000And now they don't accept it because of Stormy, Stormy, Stormy or something.
00:02:39.000The same people, the exact same people will tell you that the hiding of the Hunter Biden laptop right before the 2020 election had no impact on the final vote.
00:02:46.000But supposedly, if we had all found out that Donald Trump in 2006 schtooped a porn star while his wife was pregnant, that that would have shaped the outcome of the 2016 election.
00:02:55.000And that's why Trump paid off Stormy Daniels.
00:02:57.000Now, I have a bit of a rebuttal to that, which is Trump was literally caught on tape three weeks before the election saying that he liked to grab women by the bleep and screw married women.
00:03:07.000Literally said that on tape to Billy Bush won the election anyway.
00:03:10.000So it's an absurd contention that this would have shifted the election.
00:03:13.000But again, the left cannot deal with the fact that Hillary Clinton didn't win in 2016, and they've been trying to reverse history ever since.
00:03:19.000So they're going to get into the dock.
00:03:22.000Brown, DeLorean and go back in time and try to prosecute cases from 2015-2016.
00:03:27.000From August 2015 to December 2017, the defendant orchestrated a scheme with others to influence the 2016 presidential election by identifying and purchasing negative information about him to suppress its publication and benefit the defendant's electoral prospects.
00:03:40.000In order to execute the unlawful scheme, the participants violated election laws and made and caused false entries in the business records of various entities in New York.
00:03:47.000The participants also took steps that mischaracterized, for tax purposes, the true nature of the payments made in furtherance of the scheme.
00:03:54.000So again, the complaint here is that it was actually a campaign expense.
00:03:57.000That Trump wasn't paying a variety of people off just because Donald Trump likes to quash rumors sometimes.
00:04:03.000No, he was doing it specifically for election purposes and that would have been okay if he had said in his campaign finance documents, for election purposes, I'm paying off Stormy Daniels.
00:04:10.000The big problem is, he didn't say, for election purposes, I'm paying off Stormy Daniels.
00:04:13.000Instead, he chalked it up to some other expense item in his New York business records.
00:04:20.000Alvin Bragg continues, one component of this scheme was that, at defendant's request, a lawyer who then worked for the Trump Organization as special counsel to defendant, this would be Michael Cohen, covertly paid $130,000 to an adult film actress shortly before the election to prevent her from publicizing a sexual encounter with defendant.
00:04:34.000Cohen made the $130,000 payment through a shell corporation he set up and funded at a bank in Manhattan.
00:04:39.000This payment was illegal, and Michael Cohen has since pled guilty to making an illegal campaign contribution and served time in prison.
00:04:44.000Further, false entries were made in New York business records to effectuate this payment, separate and apart from the New York business records used to conceal the payment.
00:04:51.000After the election, the defendant reimbursed Michael Cohen for the illegal payment through a series of monthly checks, first from the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, a trust created under the laws of New York which held the Trump Organization entity assets after the defendant was elected president, and then from the defendant's bank account.
00:05:05.000Each check was processed by the Trump Organization.
00:05:07.000Each check was disguised as a payment for legal services rendered in a given month of 2017 pursuant to a retainer agreement.
00:05:13.000The payment records were false New York business records.
00:05:15.000In truth, there was no retainer agreement, and Michael Cohen was not being paid for legal services.
00:05:19.000So in other words, if Michael Cohen had actually been a half-decent lawyer, and he had set up a retainer agreement, they would literally have no evidence that any of this ever happened.
00:05:29.000The rest of it is just filling in the details as to what that means, talking about stuff that we already know, talking about the fact that Donald Trump was working with AMI, which of course is the parent company, American Media Inc., of the National Enquirer.
00:05:42.000They were working to catch and kill stories and all the rest of this sort of stuff.
00:05:56.000And everybody basically recognizes that this is an absurdity.
00:05:59.000Even the people who want Trump to go to jail recognize, mainly, that this is an absurdity.
00:06:03.000Which means that Trump, you know, whether he goes to jail or not, is going to get a big boost from this because people who are unjustly persecuted, as he appears to be in Manhattan at the very least, He's going to get a boost from that.
00:06:15.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:07:30.000There are a couple of different groups that mobilized themselves to locate in front of Trump Tower a pro-Trump group, an anti-Trump group.
00:07:36.000And they basically had kind of these small clashes.
00:07:40.000One of the anti-Trump people put out a giant banner that said, Trump lies.
00:07:43.000And then a MAGA-hatted lady went over and started grabbing the banner.
00:07:52.000Look at the number of media versus the number of protesters, by the way.
00:07:54.000I mean, this is all the media's creation, in terms of why this is happening, because the media incentives for people like Alan Bragg are just too rich.
00:08:02.000In terms of why people are protesting and going out in the streets, because there are cameras on them.
00:08:06.000Look, there's a hundred cameras and, like, two people.
00:08:09.000Meanwhile, it is true that the amount of media coverage on the right-wing protesters was significantly higher than the amount of coverage on the left-wing protesters.
00:08:17.000Not a lot of traditional media coverage of, for example, this crazy lady who is out there screaming about race.
00:09:44.000Trump then went ahead and pled not guilty, as, of course, he was going to do.
00:09:48.000And then he sat quietly as the lawyers kind of talked with the judge and all the rest of it.
00:09:52.000The prosecutor who began to explain the charges, Chris Conroy, brought up threatening posts that Trump had made online, saying the former president had threatened New York City, the courts, and the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, which brought the charges against him.
00:10:01.000He handed paper copies of Trump's social media posts to the judge and to the defense lawyers.
00:10:05.000A lawyer for Trump, a guy named Todd Blanche, according to the New York Times, quickly objected, saying, The district attorney Alvin Bragg was watching from the first row of the audience, so Blanch immediately laid into the prosecutors for the publicity around the case, which is correct.
00:10:19.000They've been leaking all sorts of material.
00:10:20.000He also criticized Michael Cohen, Trump's former fixer and a key witness, and Mark Pomerantz, a prosecutor who worked on the investigation under Bragg's predecessor and published a book about his experience.
00:10:31.000The judge, a guy named Juan Merchan, went out of his way to say he did not plan to place a gag order on Trump.
00:10:36.000But he said, quote, I don't share your view with Mr. Blanche, that would that would be Trump's lawyer, about the justification for Trump's harsher rhetoric.
00:10:42.000So Trump's lawyer said he's using harsh rhetoric because he has a right to speak as he wishes to speak on a matter of public concern.
00:10:49.000And he's in the middle of a presidential race and he's being unfairly targeted.
00:10:52.000And the judge said, I don't share your view.
00:10:54.000And then he urged witnesses the case, as well as the defendant, to refrain from making statements, quote, with, quote, the potential to incite violence and civil unrest.
00:11:01.000So he rejected the idea of a gag order telling Trump he can't talk about the case, but he said that he might revisit that at some point in the future.
00:11:09.000Now put that in the back of your mind because that is going to come up very shortly because Trump then gave a speech in Mar-a-Lago last night in which he said a bunch of things that the judge will undoubtedly find somewhat inflammatory.
00:11:21.000So as far as what comes next, well, the next step, presumably, is that there are pretrial hearings.
00:11:28.000There will be defense motions to dismiss.
00:11:30.000If the judge is smart, he dismisses the case because it's unbelievably weak.
00:11:36.000In fact, the next time that Donald Trump is supposed to show up for an in-person hearing would be December 4th.
00:11:43.000December 4th of this year, according to Lauren Duval, who is of CNN, That is nuts and obviously designed by people on the left in order to push this all the way into the presidential cycle because every time Trump is in the news being persecuted by left-wing DAs, it boosts him in the primaries.
00:12:03.000So take this all the way into December and this is just going to lurk over the entire 2024 presidential race.
00:12:09.000This is why they're in fact doing this.
00:12:10.000They've been pretty open about the fact that they want Trump to be the nominee and they're certainly doing their best to ensure that that is precisely what happens.
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00:14:35.000He was married at that time to Elizabeth Edwards, his wife, who was cancer-ridden.
00:14:39.000And meanwhile, he was stripping the camerawoman, and he got her pregnant.
00:14:42.000And he had his donors basically pony up a million dollars to pay for child support and all the rest of this stuff to Riel Hunter. And then he was prosecuted federally for this and ended up with a hung jury. So the chances that this was going to end up with some sort of conviction, pretty low, at least in the real world. But this isn't the real world, this is Manhattan.
00:14:58.000All this about Alvin Bragg and Alvin Bragg alone. So Alvin Bragg, we should recall, it's a flashback to when Alvin Bragg was running for DA, said that he was going to go after Donald Trump. Whoever has this job, are they going to convict Donald Trump?
00:15:16.000Look, that, that, that is, uh, the number one issue we know he's investigating.
00:15:23.000And what I'll say is I'm the only, I was the first to announce against Cy Vance.
00:15:26.000I too have a lot of issues, which is why I decided to run.
00:15:30.000I also led the team that did the Trump foundation case.
00:15:33.000So I'm ready to go wherever the facts take me and to inherit that case.
00:15:38.000And I think, you know, I'd be hard to argue with the fact that that'd be the most important, most high-profile case, and I've seen him up front and seen the lawlessness that he can do.
00:15:50.000I believe we have to hold him accountable.
00:15:52.000I haven't seen all the facts beyond the public, but I've litigated with him, and so I'm prepared to go where the facts take me once I see them.
00:16:00.000So I mean, he was very early on saying that he wanted to go after Donald Trump.
00:16:03.000And yesterday he finally got his chance.
00:16:06.000He said everyone stands equal before the law, especially people who have not lived in the state of New York for quite a while and who happen to be on the Democrats hit list at the top of the list, actually.
00:16:17.000At its core, this case today is one with allegations like so many of our white collar cases.
00:16:26.000Allegations that someone lied again and again to protect their interests and evade the laws to which we are all held accountable.
00:16:36.000As this office has done time and time again, we today uphold our solemn responsibility to ensure that everyone stands equal before the law.
00:16:47.000No amount of money and no amount of power changes that enduring American principle.
00:16:54.000No one believes that this guy is about equal protection of the laws in the city of New York.
00:16:59.000There are murderers who are getting away with it in the city of New York, but Alvin Bragg is going after Donald Trump for a supposed crime that is not even articulated correctly in the law.
00:17:06.000Remember, the law itself is going to be a question.
00:17:09.000In the motion to dismiss, the question is going to be whether the state even has the capacity to charge Donald Trump with a misdemeanor that is being linked to a supposed federal felony when the federal government has not charged Donald Trump with that felony.
00:17:25.000Okay, so Article 175 is the question here.
00:17:29.000And Alvin, that article, which is the falsification of business records article, says you can link it to another crime.
00:17:35.000But it doesn't say that the crime can be a federal crime.
00:17:37.000It'd be very weird, in fact, to link a state crime with a federal crime so that you can avoid the statute of limitations.
00:17:42.000Remember, falsification of business records has like a two-year statute of limitations if it's a misdemeanor and a five-year statute of limitations if it's a felony.
00:17:48.000And you may have noticed that all of this was alleged to have happened in 2015-2016.
00:17:53.000And it is currently 2023, so we're well outside the statute of limitations for all of this, unless he ladles it into a federal crime that was never prosecuted.
00:18:45.000Also worthwhile noting here that I noticed that Hillary Clinton has been a longtime resident of the state of New York.
00:18:52.000And Hillary's foundation was engaged in some rather questionable practices.
00:18:56.000You have expended zero time and effort going into that.
00:18:58.000Just a few things that I have noticed about the way that law is done in the state of New York.
00:19:04.000Bragg says that Trump made payments to hide damaging information from the public.
00:19:07.000Which, again, I mean, Hillary Clinton, literally when she was running for president in 2016, paid a cut-out law firm in order to launder the Steele dossier through to the FBI.
00:19:19.000And nobody seems to bat an eye about that one.
00:19:22.000As part of this scheme, Donald Trump and others made three payments to people who claimed to have negative information about Mr. Trump.
00:19:32.000To make these payments, they set up shell companies, And they made yet more false statements, including, for example, in AMI, American Media Incorporated's business records.
00:19:45.000One of the three people that they paid to keep quiet was a woman named Stormy Daniels.
00:19:51.000Less than two weeks before the presidential election, Michael Cohen wired $130,000 to Stormy Daniels' lawyer.
00:20:00.000That payment was to hide damaging information from the voting public.
00:20:15.000He's just, he's just doing the same charge over and over and over and over in the hopes that one of them sticks.
00:20:19.000This is the definition of throwing crap against the wall here.
00:20:23.000Earlier this afternoon, Donald Trump was arraigned on a New York Supreme Court indictment, returned by a Manhattan grand jury, on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.
00:20:37.000Under New York State law, it is a felony to falsify business records with intent to defraud and intent to conceal another crime.
00:20:48.000That is exactly what this case is about.
00:20:52.00034 false statements made to cover up other crimes.
00:20:58.000This is obviously a malicious prosecution.
00:21:00.000Everyone knows it's a malicious prosecution.
00:21:01.000We'll get to Trump's response in just one moment.
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00:22:05.000Okay, so Trump obviously is not sitting on his hands while all this is happening.
00:22:09.000He put out a statement on his way back to Mar-a-Lago in which he lamented the state of the country, pointing out that this is unique in American history.
00:22:18.000And his campaign immediately launched into campaign mode.
00:22:23.000They were actually hoping for a mugshot.
00:22:25.000Because they didn't get one, they actually sort of just made one up and then they put it on shirts and sold the shirts.
00:22:30.000It's a fake mugshot underneath the text reads, not guilty and their campaign is offering the shirts in exchange for a $47 contribution.
00:22:38.000So Trump is making hay while the sun shines, politically speaking.
00:22:41.000He went back to Mar-a-Lago last night and he launched into what was a unique speech.
00:22:46.000I will say that it was unique mainly because this has never happened before in American history, in which a former president and presidential contender is hauled into court on flimsy charges.
00:22:57.000And so what you would have expected is Trump to be outraged.
00:23:00.000What I would have expected is a little bit more of a methodical attack on the left.
00:23:06.000That's what you would want here is for Trump to say, they're coming after me because they're coming after you, right?
00:23:10.000This is literally his truth social profile is they're coming after you.
00:24:02.000The only crime that I have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it.
00:24:13.000Now, when Trump says something like the only crime I've committed is to fearlessly defend the nation from those who seek to destroy it, it's a good campaign line, right?
00:24:20.000I mean, let's be real about this, which is that Trump, you know, did shtup a porn star and pay her off, but that's not the reason that he's being prosecuted.
00:24:28.000The reason he's being prosecuted is because he is a Republican, and because he was a Republican president, and because he may be a Republican president again.
00:24:34.000So he's certainly right about that on a general level.
00:24:38.000And then he launched into, quite correctly, a litany of all the times Democrats have come after him, and he's right about this.
00:24:43.000The fact of the matter is that certainly no president in my lifetime has been put under the gun quite like President Trump has been put under the gun by the left.
00:24:51.000They literally mobilized the entire law enforcement apparatus of the federal government to go after him for four long years with the Russia investigation.
00:24:59.000And now they're mobilizing Manhattan DAs to go after him for years-old crimes that probably aren't crimes in the first place.
00:25:06.000Here was Donald Trump on that last night.
00:25:08.000From the beginning, the Democrats Spied on my campaign, remember that?
00:25:15.000They attacked me with an onslaught of fraudulent investigations.
00:25:40.000The FBI and DOJ relentlessly pursuing Republicans.
00:25:45.000The unconstitutional changes to election laws by not getting approvals from state legislators.
00:25:54.000The millions of votes illegally stuffed into ballot boxes and all caught on government cameras.
00:26:00.000And just recently, the FBI and DOJ, in collusion with Twitter and Facebook, In order not to say anything bad about the Hunter Biden laptop from hell?
00:26:12.000And when he points out there at the very end that the FBI and the DOJ were working in collusion with Twitter and Facebook not to say anything bad about Hunter Biden, again, that double standard is the thing that's going to ring in the ears of many Americans, particularly in primary.
00:26:24.000Now, I have a lot of doubts that this is going to carry him forward through a general election, that there are a lot of independents out there who are going to swivel into the Trump camp based on all this.
00:26:32.000I've yet to meet an American who doesn't have a very strong opinion one way or another about Donald Trump.
00:26:36.000With that said, is this going to help in a primary?
00:26:38.000Yeah, because again, His whole case is that there's a double standard that has been applied to him, and that same double standard is applied to you, and he is a stand-in for you.
00:26:54.000I mean, if the left is constantly complaining that democracy is under threat, that Donald Trump is threatening democracy because he is doubting election results and all the rest of that, Well, is it fair to say that it is a massive election interference when you launch spurious charges against the leading opposition candidate?
00:27:10.000That seems like a massive piece of election interference.
00:27:13.000Even if you're somebody like me and believes that the left is trying to pick Trump, it's massive election interference.
00:27:16.000No matter how you slice it, it clearly is.
00:27:55.000As it turns out, virtually everybody that has looked at this case, including rhinos and even hardcore Democrats, say there is no crime.
00:28:05.000And that it should never have been brought.
00:28:09.000Now, it appeared in the speech as though Trump was now going to redirect about halfway through the speech into an attack on Biden more generally, saying the reason that they want to stop me from being president is because they're doing a crappy job and they need to protect the guy who's currently in office.
00:28:19.000And so he sort of swiveled about halfway through the speech and he started talking about the rest of the world laughing at us and gave a litany of Joe Biden's failures.
00:28:26.000Again, all this is perfectly appropriate.
00:28:28.000It's an insult to our country as the world is already laughing at us for so many other reasons, like our open borders,
00:28:36.000Our incompetent withdrawal from Afghanistan, where we left behind American citizens $85 billion worth of the best military equipment in the world, lost 13 magnificent young lives and far too many to mention that are so badly hurt with the loss of arms and legs and facial obliteration.
00:29:00.000The most embarrassing time in our country's history, in my opinion, Then our give up on energy independence and even energy dominant.
00:29:12.000We're going to be dominant within six months, more than any other nation times two.
00:29:24.000If you look in Democrat run cities, numbers the likes of which we have never seen before.
00:29:30.000The open threats by various countries of the use of nuclear weapons.
00:29:36.000Something never mentioned or discussed by outside nations during the Trump administration and which could very well lead, under the Biden administration's leadership, to an all-out nuclear World War III can happen.
00:29:54.000And then things started to get a little bit strange.
00:29:56.000Okay, and the reason they started to get a little bit strange is because he started to swivel into all of his other grievances.
00:30:00.000So instead of focusing it in on Alvin Bragg and just Alvin Bragg alone, and he's got a winning case there, he started to kind of go off on everybody who's been bothering him.
00:30:08.000And it turned into a giant sort of almost randomized list of the people who've been going after him. Now listen, I don't blame him on a personal level. I don't blame him whatsoever. As a candidate, you want to see some discipline.
00:30:19.000And as a candidate, just somebody who is trying to battle back against a machine that is victimizing him, going out there and sort of just naming a bunch of people you don't like, doesn't seem like the most methodical way of approaching it.
00:30:29.000But Trump has his own ways, obviously. So here is Donald Trump, for example, going after the Georgia election case that has yet to been filed. And in the wings, they've got a local racist Democrat district attorney in Atlanta who is doing everything in her power to indict me over an absolutely perfect phone call.
00:30:46.000Even more perfect than the one I made with the President of Ukraine.
00:31:07.000In fact, at the end of the call, we agreed to continue our conversation about election fraud, and election fraud specifically in Georgia, at a later time.
00:31:18.000Many people on the phone, including lots of lawyers, nobody found anything wrong with that perfect call until a book promotion tour many months later.
00:31:27.000All of a sudden, they say, you know, I remember Trump making a call.
00:31:56.000His lawyer may be ripping out his hair right now by the handful.
00:31:58.000But it is very Trumpian and Trump is not somebody who takes this stuff sitting down, which of course is what a lot of people love about him is the fact that Donald Trump has never taken any insult sitting down, right?
00:32:07.000This is a person who always punches back.
00:32:09.000So here he was going after what he called the boxes hoax.
00:32:13.000Then you have a radical left lunatic known as a bomb thrower who is harassing hundreds of my people day after day over the boxes hoax.
00:32:23.000You know, the boxes hoax, as we call it.
00:32:27.000Just so everyone knows, I come under what's known as the Presidential Records Act, which was designed and approved by Congress long ago just for this reason.
00:32:39.000Under the Act, I'm supposed to negotiate with NARA, the National Archives and Records Administration, Which as of this date is a radical left troublemaking organization that red flags the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights as dangerous and triggering.
00:33:10.000He also went on to, of course, call out Joe Biden for similarly holding classified documents.
00:33:15.000The next thing I know, we were raided by many gun-toting FBI agents who took whatever they wanted, including my passports and medical records.
00:34:42.000Now, I mean, one possibility is that Trump's team leaked it because, again, his team presumably had access to the indictment so they could defend against the indictment.
00:34:48.000But it's certainly quite possible that Alvin Bragg leaked it.
00:34:51.000Here was Donald Trump pointing that out.
00:34:53.000The criminal is the district attorney because he illegally leaked massive amounts of grand jury information for which he should be prosecuted or, at a minimum, he should resign.
00:35:08.000So you'll recall a little bit earlier on in the program, I pointed out that the judge had said that he was not going to issue a gag order on Trump, right?
00:35:14.000Everybody should be able to talk about the case, whatever.
00:35:16.000But, he said, if Donald Trump seems to be inciting, if he seems to be generating ire or violence or whatever, then he might think about a gag order.
00:35:24.000And Trump's lawyers are like, okay, fine.
00:35:27.000Well, Trump dropped this doozy last night.
00:35:29.000He went after the judge and then he went after the judge's wife and the judge's family.
00:35:33.000Now, the reason that he's pointing out the judge's wife and family is because the judge's daughter actually worked with the local Biden campaign.
00:35:43.000That'd be Lauren Merchan, the daughter of the judge presiding over the case.
00:35:45.000She's the president and partner at a digital campaign strategy agency that's done work for a lot of prominent Democrats, including Biden and Kamala Harris.
00:35:52.000Earlier on Tuesday, Trump had actually argued that the judge should recuse himself because of her work With that said, is it a smart political or legal strategy to talk about the Trump-hating judge and the Trump-hating wife and the Trump-hating family?
00:36:05.000Probably not the smartest legal strategy.
00:36:07.000It's definitely, again, not easy to be Donald Trump's lawyer.
00:36:10.000First rule of lawyering is tell your client to shut up so you do the talking.
00:36:14.000Donald Trump is not somebody who's going to sit down for that sort of thing.
00:36:26.000With all of this being said, and with a very dark cloud over our beloved country, I have no doubt, nevertheless, that we will make America great again.
00:38:04.000We'll get to the media reaction to this insanity, this circus, in just one moment.
00:38:09.000First, while kids in American towns are playing hide-and-seek with their friends, thousands of children in Judea and Samaria, the so-called West Bank, are suffering every day from the trauma of Islamic terror.
00:38:17.000The Shiloh Israel Fund was born out of one such moment.
00:38:20.000David Rubin, the founder of the organization, and his son were wounded in a horrific terror attack while driving home from Jerusalem.
00:38:25.000They narrowly escaped with their lives.
00:38:27.000David later realized his son was only one of thousands of kids in Israel who are suffering physically and psychologically from such attacks.
00:38:33.000David founded the Shiloh Israel Children's Fund to provide victimized kids with the life-saving therapies they urgently need to heal from their trauma.
00:38:40.000Shiloh Israel Children's Fund provides unique programs to help kids work through their trauma in ways that work for them.
00:40:15.000It is really, truly wonderful and enlightening.
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00:40:30.000While Democrats are reacting to the arrest of Donald Trump, Joe Biden was asked about it and he does what he did best.
00:40:35.000He laughed maniacally because he doesn't know what's going on around him 75% of the time.
00:40:41.000It's like someone just told him that there's a seven-year-old who just used herbal essences.
00:41:03.000Chuck Schumer, the Senate Majority Leader, he tweeted out, I believe Donald Trump will have a fair trial that follows the facts and the law.
00:41:09.000There's no place in our justice system for any outside influence or intimidation in the legal process. As the trial proceeds, protest is an American right, but all protests must be peaceful.
00:41:16.000You and your party literally protested Derek Chauvin into a murder conviction.
00:41:24.000You sent 20 million people into the streets based on the lie that American law enforcement are specifically targeting for death of black people.
00:41:31.000And then a jury convicted Derek Chauvin on the flimsiest of evidence of murder.
00:41:36.000So can we stop pretending that you don't believe in protests to affect the outcome of a criminal justice trial?
00:41:44.000But you know, we're going to pretend along with the Democrats.
00:41:46.000They're all in favor of the system when the system benefits them.
00:41:48.000They're very much against the system when the system does not.
00:41:51.000Corinne Jean-Pierre, World's Worst Press Secretary, she was asked about this yesterday.
00:41:54.000She said, I'm not going to comment on any of this.
00:41:57.000Does the White House believe that a former president, Coulter, should be indicted?
00:42:02.000I'm just not going to comment from here.
00:42:04.000Okay, well, she was called on the carpet by the New York Times' Michael Scheer, who says, well, it's weird, because you're not commenting on this, but you wouldn't shut the hell up about the 500 pending cases in terms of January 6th detainees.
00:42:17.000January 6th was just a different moment.
00:42:21.000It was something that was incredibly devastating.
00:42:28.000People died on that day and were harmed.
00:42:32.000And it was just something that we saw visually, that we reacted to, and many people were scared in that moment.
00:42:42.000And also, you know, we know that Americans still very much care about this.
00:42:47.000When it comes to a criminal investigation like this, that is ongoing, we are just not going to comment.
00:42:55.000So, we're not gonna comment on this, because it's not a matter of public concern, like January 6th was a massive matter of public concern, but not Donald Trump going to jail, maybe.
00:43:06.000Almost as bad as the members of the media, who had to pretend yesterday that they were very sad and sobered about all of this, when inside they were jumping up and down like screaming little girls at their first Miley Cyrus concert, back when Miley Cyrus wasn't doing pornography.
00:43:19.000Here is the media pretending to be sad.
00:44:08.000Oh, the truly fake tears from our members of the media.
00:44:12.000But here's the thing, even the members of the media are like, we're not sure that this is actually a very good case.
00:44:17.000There are a bunch of legal analysts, CNN, MSNBC, they're like, yeah, this is a pretty, pretty weak case.
00:44:22.000Even some of the people on the right, who you would not expect to say that this is a weak case, are now saying that this is a pretty weak case.
00:44:29.000Mitt Romney, for example, who voted in favor of Trump's impeachment said, I believe President Trump's character and conduct make him unfit for office.
00:44:35.000Even so, I believe the New York prosecutor has stretched to reach felony criminal charges in order to fit a political agenda.
00:44:40.000No one is above the law, not even former presidents, but everyone is entitled to equal treatment under the law.
00:44:44.000The prosecutor's overreach sets a dangerous precedent for criminalizing political opponents and damages the public's faith in our justice system.
00:44:50.000The charges and evidence will be duly considered, the outcome decided by a jury with an obligation to fulfill its responsibility with the utmost care and impartiality.
00:44:56.000The American voter will ultimately render their own judgment on the former president's political future.
00:45:00.000Finally, it's incumbent on all elected officials to discourage violence and anger in response to the situation.
00:45:05.000But even Mitt Romney's like, yeah, man, there is nothing here.
00:45:10.000Meanwhile, the Republican reaction has been, it has ranged from sort of the troubled, the upset, the deeply angry over the perversion of our justice system, to the relatively unhinged.
00:45:24.000So Marjorie Taylor Greene, there are certain things that you can liken Donald Trump's arrest to in foreign countries.
00:45:31.000Like, foreign leaders get arrested, and opposition leaders get arrested in foreign countries, and it truly is an awful thing.
00:45:36.000I would hesitate to put Donald Trump in the league of Jesus Christ.
00:45:41.000I mean, granted, I'm a Jew and I don't have the same belief system as many of my listeners about Jesus, but I'm pretty sure just having taken like a look at the New Testament that this is not a good comparison.
00:45:54.000President Trump is joining some of the most incredible people in history being arrested today.
00:46:00.000Nelson Mandela was arrested, served time in prison.
00:46:03.000Jesus, Jesus was arrested and murdered by the Roman government.
00:46:08.000There have been many people throughout history that have been arrested and persecuted by radical corrupt governments.
00:46:15.000And it's beginning today in New York City.
00:46:18.000And I just can't believe it's happening, but I'll always support him.
00:46:42.000There were two elections last night, and neither of them went in a conservative direction.
00:46:47.000One in Wisconsin, in particular, went directly against conservative beliefs and is going to have serious ramifications for the presidential race in 2024.
00:46:54.000So, I would urge conservatives not to take their eye off the ball.
00:46:57.000We can walk and chew gum at the same time.
00:46:58.000We can be incredibly pissed off and disturbed about what's going on in New York.
00:47:02.000We can decry a justice system that is now being weaponized against the political opposition.
00:47:06.000All of that is deserving of absolute attention and absolute outrage at the same exact time.
00:48:44.000Because what we are watching right now is losing in process.
00:48:48.000Last night, Wisconsin voters decided that they would like to shift control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court over to the left.
00:48:55.000This matters an awful lot because right now there is a law on the books in Wisconsin that, for example, bans abortion.
00:49:01.000That law has been on the books since 1849.
00:49:02.000It snapped back into place after the aftermath of Roe versus Wade and the left ran on that.
00:49:07.000And now they have shifted the balance of the Supreme Court.
00:49:09.000That doesn't just mean that there is likely to be a revision to abortion law in Wisconsin that will now legalize, again, the killing of babies.
00:49:15.000It also means that the redistricting that was greenlit by the Wisconsin Supreme Court and that has ended with six out of eight congressional districts in Wisconsin going Republican, And has led to a near super majority in the legislature for the Republicans.
00:49:28.000That redistricting is now likely to be overturned because of the partisan shift in the Supreme Court in Wisconsin.
00:49:35.000Because not enough Republicans showed up to vote.
00:49:37.000And because all of the focus was on other issues.
00:49:38.000And because Democrats were, in fact, very, very motivated to vote.
00:49:42.000When you are running in the game of electoral politics, the whole game is, make it very hard to vote for your opponent, make it very easy to vote for you.
00:49:53.000They ran a dead person against Donald Trump.
00:49:55.000They realized it was hard for people to vote for Donald Trump, and they tried to make it easy for them to vote for Joe Biden, because after all, he's just a corpse.
00:50:01.000The same thing sort of happened in Wisconsin, because again, Democrats ran on the idea that conservatives in Wisconsin were going to ban abortion outright, and also were going to cheat and steal the elections away from people.
00:50:13.000And meanwhile, they ran kind of a semi-non-entity in a left-wing candidate.
00:50:19.000Who's, uh, who, again, is now going to win, it seems, by a fairly large margin.
00:50:43.000Bleeping and moaning is not a substitute for victory.
00:50:46.000Meanwhile, over in Chicago, it appears, listen, Chicago is on its own road now.
00:50:49.000They're on their own road because, believe it or not, despite the je suis smilier insistence that this was in fact MAGA country, Chicago is not MAGA country.
00:50:58.000You'd be hard pressed to find five Republican voters in the city of Chicago.
00:51:01.000Well, now it appears that Brandon Johnson, who is a soft defund the police candidate, is likely to win the mayoralty in the city of Chicago over Paul Vallis.
00:51:11.000Valis was considered the sort of moderate Rick Caruso type in Los Angeles or like Eric Adams in New York and Brandon Johnson is much more radical.
00:51:20.000He has pulled into a lead and again basically that's kind of replacing Lori Lightfoot with Lori Lightfoot.
00:51:29.000So it looks as though Chicago is about to turn itself into full-scale Detroit.
00:51:34.000Which will be an entertaining thing to watch from the outside and horrifying for the people who are currently living in Chicago.
00:51:39.000Presumably this will also accelerate the journey of people who are not totally crazy away from Chicago.
00:51:46.000Okay, time for some things I like and then some things I hate.
00:51:48.000So, speaking of victory, I feel like I'm beating a dead horse here, but actually down here in the state of Florida, our current governor is doing things to actually win victories.
00:51:56.000One of those things, for example, is he is now moving toward banning, quote-unquote, gender-affirming care in Florida.
00:52:02.000He says physicians who now attempt to mutilate children on the basis of sexual and gender confusion will lose their medical licenses.
00:52:08.000This is what you actually call victory.
00:52:10.000You can either complain about the transing of the kids or you can do something about it.
00:52:14.000Or you can complain and use that to fuel do something about it.
00:52:18.000And it's sad that we even have to discuss this, but you've now seen kind of an explosion in doctors with these young kids, minors, giving them puberty blockers, hormone treatment, and doing surgery, sex change surgeries, of kids that are 15, 16 years old.
00:52:36.000And we've got, it's sad, we've got people in their 20s who went through this when they were minors.
00:52:42.000And they regret it, because these things were irreversible.
00:52:45.000So, in Florida, we have had our Board of Medicine institute rules so that in Florida, if a physician is doing this to minors, they are going to lose their medical license in our state.
00:53:25.000Apparently, Build-A-Bear, which is a store that I've taken my kids to a lot, right?
00:53:29.000This is where you actually go to the store and they have sort of these kind of teddy bear skins and you get the filling and you fill the bear and you take it home and the kids love it.
00:53:38.000They've decided that they need to drag queen the kids.
00:53:41.000So Build-A-Bear's workshop is now offering a new RuPaul drag queen bear.
00:53:46.000Which makes perfect sense because you definitely need to teach your kids about boys who dress up as girls.
00:53:52.000The stuffed animal immediately caused outrage online, according to the Daily Mail, with many calling out the business for selling the bear amid growing controversy regarding drag performances.
00:54:01.000The controversy first erupted online with my friend Matt Walsh's tweet, which included a screengrab of the Build-A-Bear website with the RuPaul bear advertised.
00:54:08.000The drag queen bear is stated as being included in the bear cave, but still shown on the general website, which is accessible to all.
00:54:13.000Apparently, it's for 18 plus shoppers, but it's right there at the top of the front page.
00:54:20.000Well, you know, the good news is that the blowback caused Build-A-Bear to at least remove this from the main website's carousel of revolving bears and pages.
00:54:27.000of a kind collector's item made in tribute to the world's most famous drag queen.
00:54:32.000Well, you know, the good news is that the blowback caused Build-A-Bear to at least remove this from the main website's carousel of revolving bears and pages.
00:54:39.000It is still apparently on the website, however.
00:54:44.000So you know why Build-A-Bear feels the necessity to do this?
00:54:47.000Again, this is a product designed for children.
00:54:49.000It's beyond me, except that all of our cultural arbiters have decided that all of this is the most important thing that you can possibly do.
00:54:55.000Speaking of which, in the most absurd Orwellian story of the day, according to the UK Daily Mail, angry parents fed up with a trans woman's domination of a female soccer league will now be offered sensitivity training to help them better understand trans issues.
00:55:08.000Yes, you're upset that your little girl is getting pummeled by a dude.
00:55:14.000Football Australia announced its high performance inclusion policy after Daily Mail Australia revealed that parents were campaigning for the New South Wales competition to ban trans women from female soccer teams.
00:55:23.000A trans woman has led Football NSW League's one women's first grade goal kickers table with seven goals.
00:55:31.000Allegations that a trans-ass leech injured females from an opposing side in a match two weekends ago has caused ire from parents.
00:55:36.000But again, good news, because now the parents will be forced to get sensitivity training.
00:55:40.000You will all be forced to go through the re-education program!
00:55:45.000So that you believe all the things that are very important!
00:55:48.000Yes, your daughter's being run over by a very large gentleman wearing a skirt, but have you understood that large gentleman's life experience and how he is in fact a woman?
00:55:57.000If you do not, then shut your piehole!
00:56:01.000According to the Daily Mail, Football Australia put out a media release announcing its plans to make soccer the most multicultural, diverse and inclusive sport in Australia.
00:56:07.000The policy will see Football Australia deliver LGBTQI plus minus divided by assigned training and support resources to the football community through its partnership with Pride in Sport.
00:56:25.000And even better news, apparently Colorado school districts are now doing similar sort of stuff.
00:56:29.000According to Fox News, a Colorado school district has a methodical system in place to keep parents in the dark on their child's gender transition in school, according to documents reviewed by Fox News Digital.
00:56:38.000Leslie Mecca, counselor at Bear Creek, a K-8 school in the district, sent an email to the Jeffco Public School District's Equity Office on August 29, 2022, asking for clarification on its recommendations regarding flagging an in-school social transition of a child's gender.
00:56:51.000Jeffco defines transition as quote, the steps a transgender person takes in order to align aspects of their life to be consistent with their gender identity.
00:56:57.000Apparently, Mecca says that the teachers in the school wanted to tell parents about kids at social transitioning, but they were told not to by the school district.
00:57:08.000Remember that time where it was, don't bother us, we just want to be left alone in our private lives, and how quickly that morphed into, we would like to choose your child's gender with your child at school and then not tell you?