Former Vice President Joe Biden takes the stand in Donald Trump's trial in New York City's Manhattan federal court on Thursday morning. Biden is accused of conspiracy, conspiracy to obstruct justice, conspiracy against the United States, and conspiracy to commit perjury.
00:01:02.000We are watching our country devolve into a communist hellhole.
00:01:06.000I would say 500 members of the media here.
00:01:08.000This city is overrun with illegal immigrants when the economy is absolutely imploding.
00:01:12.000And this is what the media is here focused in on. It's a joke.
00:01:14.000This is really an attack on a political opponent. That's all it is.
00:01:19.000Alvin Bragg reduced 52% of the felonies to misdemeanors.
00:01:24.000And here they're taking misdemeanor and making it 34 felonies.
00:01:28.000Democrat Manhattan Judge Juan Mershon donated to Biden.
00:01:32.000His daughter is profiting off this criminal prosecution.
00:01:36.000And we're not going to back down one inch on this.
00:01:40.000You're going to go after President Trump.
00:01:42.000I'm telling you right now, we're going on offense.
00:01:44.000We're going to expose the Biden family for the pack of feral dogs that they are.
00:01:49.000They asked for it and they're going to get it.
00:01:51.000The campaign dynamics, the optics of all this and the and the sustained eye resting that apparently happened in the courtroom.
00:02:06.000I mean, I do feel like if you if you call your opponent Sleepy Joe, you have one job for the rest of the campaign,
00:02:11.000which is like you've got to like clockwork, orange those puppies like open at all times.
00:02:16.000But it's also interesting, too, to imagine, I mean, again, this man who I think is not a particularly emotionally regulated individual
00:02:24.000and does not have a tremendous degree of self mastery and discipline in a situation in which, to your point, Ari, he doesn't control things in which he doesn't control the pace.
00:02:32.000The conversations are happening outside of his purview, but he has to sit there and watch it.
00:02:37.000I mean, it is I really can't think of a thing that's more nightmarish in some ways for him just at a personal level of like you don't you don't have like the stimulus.
00:02:45.000You don't you're not getting like little ego bumps from some social media replies and you just got to sit there and watch this day after day.
00:02:52.000I mean, this was day one. This is weeks and weeks of this.
00:02:55.000So just at the most sort of human level, I was just watching the reports today and thinking about just the sheer psychological torture.
00:03:03.000I really mean that that is this. And then also the point that he keeps making, which is which is true, although not for the reasons he says, which is he's not on the campaign trail talking to people like he's not doing events with like, you know,
00:03:15.000the the farmers in Michigan or whatever swing state rally he would be doing.
00:03:20.000He's sitting in a courtroom in New York where he's accused of serious crimes and felonies where a serious case is going to be presented.
00:03:25.000Yeah, I mean, I was struck by the visual of him in the courtroom. Obviously, cameras are not in the courtroom.
00:03:30.000We didn't see. But we did see the photo of him in the courtroom. He looks small and photo rough a little rough in that photo.
00:03:37.000I think it's fair to say. But he also was treated as every defendant would have been treated as if that's how our justice system should work.
00:03:43.000He walked down those same dark, dingy hallways. Right. That others did. He had to face the judge and answer some simple questions.
00:03:50.000That's not him to Chris's point, controlling his own narrative and kind of spouting out to the public. And that struck me. I was a little surprised by that.
00:03:59.000Thank you very much. This is a trial that should have never been brought. It's a trial that is being looked upon and looked at all over the world.
00:04:09.000They're calling. They're looking at it and analyzing it.
00:04:12.000Every legal pundit, every legal scholar said this trial is a disgrace. We have a trumpeting judge. We have a judge who should be on this case.
00:04:24.000He's totally conflicted. But this is a trial that should never happen. It should have been thrown out a long time ago.
00:04:31.000If you look at Jonathan Jeremy, Andy McCarthy, all great legal scholars, there's not one that we've been able to find that said this should be a trial.
00:04:42.000I called a, I was, I was paying a lawyer and marked it down as a legal expense. Some accountant, I didn't know, marked it down as a legal expense. That's exactly what it was. And you've been indicted over that.
00:04:58.000I should be right now in Pennsylvania, in Florida, in many other states, North Carolina, Georgia, campaigning.
00:05:07.000This is all coming from the White House, because the guy can't put two sentences together. He can't campaign.
00:05:13.000They're using this in order to try and win an election. And it's not working that way. It's working the opposite way.
00:05:20.000So check it out. Legal expense. It's called legal expense. That's what you're supposed to go.
00:05:25.000There's a trouble getting out there that nobody's ever seen it. Nobody has ever seen anything like it.
00:05:31.000So thank you very much for coming. I'm now going to sit down and call for many hours.
00:05:36.000I am now going to sit down. The voters understand it. All you have to do is look at the polls.
00:05:41.000This is a shame, a trial, and the judge should be accused of it.
00:05:48.000It's Tuesday, 16 April, year of our Lord, 2024.
00:05:57.000You see there, and we could have played a lot more of the MSNBC, CNN.
00:06:05.000They're sitting there just mocking nonstop.
00:06:07.000You see what this is about. President Trump, his own best spokesman, yesterday at the sticks, making a very concise case.
00:06:14.000And then this morning, we've asked Don Jr. to join us this morning.
00:06:17.000Don Jr., your assessment and analysis of where we are in this, sir.
00:06:22.000Well, Steve, it's absolutely insane, right? What those people on MSDNC and CNN, what they don't tell you is that the Southern District of New York, the FEC, the Federal Elections Commission, Cy Vance, the prior district attorney in New York, Alvin Bragg himself the first time around decided not to prosecute this case because they understood that it had no legs.
00:06:47.000Now, it may have legs in New York, not because of law, but because you have a jury pool and a judge that hates Donald Trump.
00:06:55.000That's really clear. They don't tell you that.
00:06:57.000They don't tell you, Steve, that they changed, literally changed, the stature of limitation rules in New York so that they could go after one man.
00:07:07.000That's not how this law is supposed to work.
00:07:10.000Alvin Bragg, who has taken the vast majority of criminals in New York, criminals like murderers and rapists and scum of the earth, drug dealers, and taken their felony offenses and turned them into misdemeanors, actually took this offense, which at best was a misdemeanor, and upped the statute to turn it into 34 felonies.
00:07:31.000That has never been done. They are literally custom tailoring the law to go after their political opposition. That's the interesting part here.
00:07:41.000We can say this till we're blue in the face. The people that you watched at the opening of this show, the people we're seeing on CNN, they're literally just neglecting all of these basic facts that I think if Americans—and I don't mean just conservatives.
00:07:56.000I mean, independents, even some Democrats who haven't lost their minds yet, if they understood just how shoddy this is, just how much they are breaking the rules and decency of our justice system to be able to weaponize it against Donald Trump, people would be shocked that this judge—there's literally a statute, a statute, a law written in New York that if you're within six degrees of separation of someone that could possibly profiteer from this,
00:08:25.000from this, you have to recuse yourself. This judge, his daughter, is one of the top Democrat fundraisers, does all of Adam Schiff's fundraising.
00:08:36.000She has an organization that she's in charge of that profits from this directly. If he says, you know what, Donald Trump's innocent, we've got to let him go, his daughter suffers greatly financially.
00:08:48.000There's an actual law, not just like, hey, these would be rules and norms and decency, you've got to recuse yourself. There's a statute in New York. It doesn't matter. They're ignoring that.
00:08:59.000The appellate division kicks our complaints about that back down to this very judge. That's how insane this is. This is Bolshevik stuff. It's happening right now.
00:09:08.000And again, the mainstream media, they're carrying the Democrat, you know, the DNC talking points. They're not talking about the facts of the case. They're literally taking the Democrat Party, Joe Biden tailored talking points and running with them as though those are facts of the case.
00:09:26.000Not talking about the clear miscarriages of justice that are going on before our very eyes, Steve.
00:09:32.000People, if they knew these details, if they understood everything that I just talked about, again, changing the law, moving stature of limitation regulations, you don't change our laws to accommodate or to be able to go after one individual.
00:09:46.000And that's not how it works. And yet that's what's happening right now in the People's Republic of New York.
00:09:53.000When you first started, all those people, Cy Vance, you named 10 people. They are all Trump haters.
00:09:59.560They are all Trump haters. And they decided.
00:10:02.260It was let go by a Trump person. No, no, no. The Federal Election Commission, okay, that's a governmental Washington, D.C. entity.
00:10:11.320Like, they are no Trump fans, Steve. Cy Vance, former district attorney of New York, no Trump fan.
00:10:19.360We've had plenty of stuff with them as it relates to even real estate. They didn't like us.
00:10:23.880The Southern District of New York, okay, not exactly Trump lovers, okay?
00:10:29.160These are—Alvin Bragg himself decided not to prosecute this.
00:10:33.520But then all of a sudden, they're meeting with Joe Biden.
00:10:36.020They have the number three person from some of the Biden entities move up into the Southern District of New York.
00:19:20.020They are doing that with intention heavily.
00:19:22.940They are all banded together to do whatever they can to function as the marketing department for Joe Biden and his radically failed Democrat Party.
00:19:31.700That's what's going on right now, Steve.
00:19:34.940You mentioned something in the previous block, too, about people should understand that this is not about Trump.
00:19:41.160This is about them, because if this is allowed to go down, it's going to go everywhere, and particularly in these big metropolitan areas.
00:19:48.080Dr. Peter Navarro is in federal prison.
00:19:50.500We just found out last night they're not going to give him any time off for good behavior.
00:19:54.380He's going to have to serve the entire four months.
00:19:56.660Tell me why you fear that if President Trump is banged up in this Moscow show trial of 1935 in Manhattan, this is something we should fear coming to everywhere in the United States.
00:20:10.580Listen, Peter Navarro, what was his crime?
00:20:12.740Standing loyal, being anti-China, leading that policy.
00:20:16.860I heard from him some of the other stories about the people he's actually serving with in prison.
00:20:21.260They're not going to give him a break.
00:20:22.560And don't forget, he's still under appeal.
00:20:25.440He's following what his lawyer said, you know, as it relates to executive privilege.
00:20:29.840That's under appeal, but they have him serve his sentence because they want to make sure they send a very clear message that you will be prosecuted if you stand in their way.
00:20:41.100If you stand up for what we believe to be the basic tenets of freedom and democracy in America, you will be penalized.
00:20:47.600You will not face any consequences if you're the most radically insane Democrat on the left.
00:20:52.140But if you're a conservative, that will happen.
00:20:54.180I've heard some of the stories from Peter.
00:20:55.740I'm going to try to make it down there and actually see him because he's being held in Miami, in Miami prison, you know, and he's still fighting for all of the things that we believe in.
00:21:04.760I mean, I published I published his book, The New Maga Deal.
00:31:14.140Talk about the rulings first that went against Trump.
00:31:16.320And then I want to talk about the sidebar situation.
00:31:19.020It should surprise no one that this Democrat DA, this Soros-funded Manhattan DA, teaming up with this Democrat Manhattan judge, biased judge, who donated to Biden, donated to another anti-Trump cause.
00:31:35.660His daughter, Lauren Michon, has a financial stake in this criminal prosecution.
00:31:40.300So it should surprise no one that Trump's not going to get a fair trial.
00:31:44.680He's clearly going to get railroaded in this New York City courtroom led by Democrat Manhattan judge, Juan Michon.
00:31:55.260There are like two million people in Manhattan.
00:31:56.84085% of that jury pool voted against President Trump.
00:32:01.180You have the juror questionnaire that Judge Michon submitted to the potential jurors where it asks these potential jurors if they follow President Trump on social media and President Trump's causes.
00:32:49.060You have the civil fraud lawsuit by Big Tish James, the New York Attorney General, for the non-fraud of a businessman paying back sophisticated Wall Street banks in full-on time as agreed with interest.
00:33:00.340They want to keep President Trump in this courtroom for the next two months because they know they fear American voters on November 5th, 2024.
00:33:34.540He ruled yesterday against and it was very dismissive.
00:33:37.960He said, hey, I understand it'd be very important for you to be at this, you know, Supreme Court hearing, which is this unique thing over immunity.
00:33:47.840Never been argued at the Supreme Court before.
00:33:50.440But he says you're under a criminal trial in New York and that takes precedent.
00:33:57.260How big a deal is that, him dismissing the fact that President Trump could have the option to attend the immunity hearing, of which I will announce Mike Davis is going to cover for War Room?
00:34:10.020Yeah, so the Supreme Court on April 25th is going to decide one of the most weighty constitutional cases in its history, whether the president of the United States, any president of the United States is immune from criminal prosecution.
00:34:27.260For his official acts, not his private acts, his official acts.
00:34:31.740And if the Supreme Court rules for Trump as they should, that means that anything that Jack Smith or Alvin Bragg or Fannie Willis, if they charge President Trump for his official acts, for example, because he contemplated firing his acting attorney general,
00:34:49.240that's part of the criminal indictment by Jack Smith, President Trump would be immune for those official acts.
00:34:54.640And then they would not be immune for personal acts, but for official acts.
00:34:59.560Federal judges are immune from criminal prosecution for their official acts.
00:35:04.380Why the hell would the president of the United States not be immune from criminal prosecution for his official acts?
00:35:09.980Does that mean the Trump 47 Justice Department can indict and try President Obama for capital murder for his extrajudicial drone strike on two American citizens, including a minor?
00:35:24.200Do the Democrats really want to go down this path?
00:35:26.820Can the Trump 47 Justice Department charge Biden for his illegal mass parole of 10 million illegal immigrants into our country and the resulting rapes and murders, the easily foreseeable rapes and murders by letting in fighting age, unvetted men from these hell holes around the world?
00:35:45.960And so President Trump absolutely should be able to go to his proceeding on April 25th.
00:35:52.540But this Democrat Judge Monmarchand is trying to keep him in his courtroom, even though New York statute specifically allows the prosecutor and the judge to excuse the defendant if they don't want to be there and their lawyer can represent them adequately.
00:36:12.180This is obvious election interference, and these Democrat prosecutors and these Democrat judges are not even hiding it anymore.
00:36:19.660And I would say this as a final point.
00:36:21.880This is an obvious criminal conspiracy by these Democrat prosecutors, these Democrat judges, these Democrat attorneys and other operatives to violate the civil rights of President Trump and to interfere in the presidential election.
00:36:36.140And they must face the most severe political, legal and financial consequences for this, because these are republic ending tactics by these Democrats.
00:36:46.740If they think that they can just throw the leading presidential candidates in prison instead of face him on November 5th, 2024, because these Democrats fear American voters, we're going to lose our country.
00:36:58.700This is how this is how the Roman Republic fell.
00:37:01.920I know how we – I know that in January of next year we can commence that, the criminal investigations.
00:37:09.180But doesn't the House Judiciary, don't they have purview over here to delve into this?
00:37:14.240Because this is a direct involvement with Matthew Colangelo and the Garland Justice Department, the White House.
00:37:22.780Why is Jim Jordan and the House Republicans not all over this?
00:37:27.460This is the moment to do it, not to wait until President Trump gets back in and do it then.
00:37:31.800Why are they not doing it and sending out criminal referrals?
00:37:37.500Well, I've had an interesting relationship with Jim Jordan, as you know.
00:37:41.820I've been highly critical of him on the big tech front.
00:37:44.720I started to praise him when he issued subpoenas for these records with these various Democrat prosecutors.
00:37:51.940I really do think that House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan needs to step it up because these Democrat prosecutors are obviously in a criminal conspiracy with Biden Democrats, Biden himself.
00:38:07.400Biden's fingerprints are on all four of these unprecedented criminal prosecutions of President Trump.
00:38:14.240You have Matthew Colangelo deployed from the Biden Justice Department for the first indictment ever of a former president.
00:38:20.580You have Deputy White House counsel to Biden, Jonathan Suh, waiving President Trump's claim of executive privilege on behalf of President Biden, which led to the Mar-a-Lago raid, which led to Jack Smith's two indictments.
00:38:33.540And then you had Nathan Wade, the big, dumb, unqualified prosecutor slash boyfriend of Fannie Willis in Georgia,
00:38:39.480who billed 16 hours for his meetings with the Biden White House, including the Biden White House counsel before they brought their unprecedented indictment against President Trump down in Georgia.
00:38:50.600So there are four criminal prosecutions, prosecutions against Trump.
00:39:24.800You can donate there at Article3project, at Article3project.
00:39:28.260And my personal is at MRDDMIA, an important case today before the Supreme Court's the Fisher case.
00:39:35.400Half of Jack Smith's criminal indictment against President Trump could go away after the Supreme Court decides the Fisher case for the other January 6th defendants on obstruction of official proceedings.
00:39:46.600That you have the Biden Justice Department politicizing and weaponizing, misinterpreting federal statute to go after their political enemies.
00:39:53.700By the way, we're trying to get Mike back on at 5 to talk about that.
00:40:02.020Mike, they will not rule on this, the Fisher situation, the case, until you believe June when they're ready to leave.
00:40:08.380Is that what your timing is about they'll hear it today, but they won't put out their ruling until June, mid-June or late June?
00:40:15.780Yeah, I imagine the Supreme Court will reverse these criminal convictions because the Biden Justice Department has intentionally misinterpreted and misapplied a post-Enron criminal statute on destruction of documents to go after January 6th defendants.
00:40:33.820This obstruction, charge, and conspiracy are two of the four criminal charges that Jack Smith brought against President Trump.
00:40:41.820I don't see how those two charges will survive if the Supreme Court reverses the criminal convictions of these January 6th defendants.
00:40:50.780And then you have presidential immunity that will be decided by the end of June.
00:40:54.480So you may have 20% of Jack Smith's case remaining starting on July 1st.
00:41:00.500And so is he going to go to trial against a former president of the United States and the leading presidential candidate with 20% of his dog of a case remaining?
00:41:09.780Remember, it's not a crime to object to a presidential election.
00:41:13.260It's allowed by the Electoral Count Act of 1887.
00:41:15.800Democrats didn't go to prison for objecting to Republican wins in 1968, 2000, 2004, and 2016.
00:41:22.860It's also not a crime to twist arms politically.
00:41:27.160And you have Democrats misapplying these laws, the RICO statute in Georgia and this obstruction statute in D.C. to go after Trump.
00:41:36.380They're trying to put him in prison because they know the American people want him back in the White House.
00:41:42.740But even if it's just this about stopping a government proceeding, if they rule and it doesn't come out until June or July,
00:41:53.520isn't it kind of mathematically impossible for Jack Smith to even get a trial before Election Day?
00:42:00.120Isn't it just the timing of that take the Jack Smith situation off the table?
00:42:06.800Well, D.C. Obama Judge Tanya Shutkin, a partisan in a robe like Judge Mershon,
00:42:13.040is going to do everything she can to accommodate Jack Smith and try to keep President Trump in the courtroom,
00:42:19.760in her courtroom, after Judge Juan Mershon keeps President Trump in his courtroom for the next two months.
00:42:25.700That's their election strategy is having Trump in the courtroom instead of the campaign trail.
00:42:30.480It's going to be very difficult for Jack Smith or Big Fannie Willis down in Georgia to win a criminal conviction before November 5th, 2024.
00:42:39.520But they're going to do everything they can to try to take him out.