Donald Trump is the first Black person to ever be charged with a crime in the United States of America and the first black person ever to be prosecuted for a crime. President Trump is also the first person of color to be charged for the first time in the U.S. with a federal crime.
00:06:12.960To my liberal friends out there, all you're doing is showing that you're scared you can't
00:06:20.960beat them on the issues and the merits.
00:06:25.960That's why he keeps saying it's a political campaign against me.
00:06:30.960That's why he keeps saying they can't beat me at the election, at the polls.
00:06:35.960This is the only way they could do it.
00:06:38.960And if you don't put him in jail, and he still goes from being the presumptive GOP nominee to the official GOP nominee, and he goes to the polls, even though he was going to whine about winning and being rigged again, you have given more fodder to that argument.
00:06:58.960Which means we'll never have peace in this country, because tens of millions of people see what extent the other side is willing to go through just to keep him out of office because they can't beat him on their own merits.
00:07:15.960And they're gonna say, hey, you trumped this up against them again, and we'll have no peace.
00:07:24.960When all you got to do is figure out a way to beat him on the issues, but you haven't been able to do it.
00:07:37.960This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:07:42.960Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
00:07:47.960Here's the time I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it.
00:07:53.960I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not gonna stop it. It's going to happen.
00:07:59.960And where do people like that go to share the big line? Mega Media.
00:08:04.960I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:08:09.960Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:08:13.960If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:08:19.960War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Banff.
00:08:28.960It's Wednesday, 17 April in the year of our Lord, 2024.
00:08:33.960It is a day that Judge Mershon takes off every Wednesday or does other court business on Wednesday.
00:08:40.960So there is President Trump is not in court today.
00:08:43.960This will be his for the next, I don't know, six, eight weeks, probably through Memorial Day and into June.
00:08:51.960This will be when President Trump has the campaign, unless we do what President Trump did yesterday.
00:08:59.960I want to give a hat tip to Jason Miller and Stephen Chung and President Trump's team and the others, because it's a very thin bench over there.
00:09:10.960Very, very small staff, not a lot of resources spent.
00:09:15.960The bodega of visit yesterday was just magnificent.
00:11:35.960If you continue down this path, you're, you're, you're, you're never going to beat him.
00:11:43.960Because you're not using what we've traditionally done in this country to, on policies, on, on your positions, on your vision of where you see the country going.
00:11:56.960You have gone, and this is why on Saturday, I did coup d'etat Saturday with the coup d'etat.
00:12:01.960And particularly on this one, the combination, I did Kennedy first, and then Nixon.
00:12:06.960And Nixon was about the federal judiciary, DOJ, the Hill staffs.
00:12:11.960Obviously, Kennedy's was the deep state.
00:12:48.960Where is the full-throated defense, not just of President Trump, but of this entire process?
00:12:55.960This is why Mike Davis is working on, right now, the issue, and we're working on with some fairly dealt-in people about this criminal conspiracy, and preserve your documents.
00:13:05.960This is a criminal conspiracy to destroy Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.
00:13:11.960It's obvious between what's happening with President Trump and what's happening with the J6 and the J6 situation.
00:13:19.960You saw that yesterday in the Supreme Court, and you've seen how they're trying to get ahead of what the Supreme Court's going to do on the Fischer situation.
00:13:26.960On Capitol Hill, you see the same thing.
00:13:30.960They are not prepared ever to lose to MAGA.
00:13:35.960Right now on Capitol Hill, all of these positions, the pattern of recognition is very simple.
00:13:40.960They're doing everything to thwart Trump upon his return as the 47th President of the United States.
00:13:49.960And you don't see any full-throated defense of President Trump at all.
00:15:11.960The cost of goods continues to rise despite interest rate controls by the Fed.
00:15:16.960Since January 2021, cost of living is up 18%.
00:15:21.960The national debt continues to skyrocket, now significantly north of $34 trillion, causing many to worry when the House of Cards will come crashing down.
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00:17:18.960And that is a, that nobody is coming to save us.
00:17:21.960And this is really this fundamental test of the, not just the American system, but the American character.
00:17:27.960The, what's also important to keep in mind, beside the fact that, that, you know, no unicorn is coming over the hill to, to rescue us, is this is not going to be over after the election.
00:17:37.960I mean, I think it's, you know, vitally important to defeat Donald Trump, but we shouldn't be under any illusion that, that even in fact, he is, he is defeated, that this is going to be over.
00:17:47.960The reptile is going to be with us for a very, very long time.
00:17:50.960We are still going to be on a knife's edge.
00:17:53.960And I think that this is going to be something that we're going to struggle with for a very, very long time, because, you know, as I was listening to Eddie, I was thinking, of course, you know, these, these things have been with us for, well, the entire history of the country.
00:18:06.960But I, but I do worry that something is fundamentally broken in American culture, in American society, and that we haven't come fully to grips with that.
00:18:14.960Donald Trump is obviously a cause of much of what's happening now, but he's also a symptom.
00:18:20.960And so what broke so fundamentally that we've been having the, we, that we have to have these conversations over the last eight years, that there is a possibility that this country could take this particular course at this particular time in history.
00:18:34.960So, um, I'm, I'm really glad to hear, um, you know, Eddie, Eddie's argument.
00:18:39.960Um, and I, because I do think that we do need to look in the mirror and say, okay, um, this is, this is our ultimate test.
00:18:47.960And it is not by any means certain that we're going to, uh, that we're going to come out with flying colors.
00:18:52.960Uh, Charlie Sykes, uh, part of conservative Inc.
00:18:58.960And now, uh, analyst over at MSNBC, he's absolutely correct with one caveat.
00:19:03.960And this is where you can smell the fear we're going to win.
00:19:09.960And they know that we've hit an inflection point.
00:19:17.960They've got president Trump on what, how many criminal charges for what?
00:19:22.960700 years in prison to take his business.
00:19:24.960The other day, they're saying the bond companies, not the bond guy putting up the money is not legit.
00:19:30.960He can't put up the money on every aspect of president Trump.
00:19:35.960They're trying to destroy because they understand that he is a populist nationalist and is a new day in America and to throw out the globalist elitist that have destroyed this country.
00:20:24.960Of some of the smartest people in the world, the smartest central banks in the world are trying to hedge this massive turbulence we're going into.
00:20:34.960And the turbulence is that the little guy is not going to take it anymore.
00:20:38.960They're not going to participate in this phony process where you just have selection of leaders that continue to do the same thing and to lead the country to destruction.
00:20:53.960Huge analysis out now that we cannot sell the treasury.
00:21:00.960They can't refinance that one third that has to be financed every year kind of on a continual basis because they won't sell long term bonds tens and thirties as we call them.
00:21:24.960Actually, the third party groups are saying, hey, anything on the economy, all these kind of phony popping numbers is all because this massive Keynesian stimulus that continues.
00:21:35.960On Capitol Hill, Polly Pockets, Johnson hasn't come out with this plan.
00:21:40.960Remember yesterday we had good on there probably overnight this morning.
00:21:42.960No, now he's called for another leadership meeting this afternoon to get like his what he calls his war cabinet or his kitchen cabinet, whatever he calls it.
00:21:51.960Because he's bound and determined because he's he's a neocon and the neoliberal neocons control this country, not people that put America first and particularly not people put American citizens first.
00:22:26.960And I didn't think they were two great days in court.
00:22:28.960Because the judge, I think this jury, I think this jury does not look like a, to me, a fair jury when a guy says, first of all, the first guy answers.
00:22:38.960I think he's an Irish guy from from Ireland when he says, you know, they can all be fair.
00:22:44.960So when somebody tells me he watches Fox and MSNBC, I don't buy that.
00:23:05.960So after two terrible days, Trump goes yesterday to the bodega.
00:23:09.960And right there, you see the strength of MAGA in New York City.
00:23:16.960You see the strength of Trump and the human connection he has.
00:23:21.960And how thankful we ought to be that he made the conscious decision.
00:23:25.960Please remember when he's sitting there every day in that courtroom.
00:23:32.960In that courtroom with, I don't know, 20, 30, 40 years of prison time in front of him.
00:23:40.960But his decision to come back and to save his country is the reason he's there.
00:23:46.960If he had just gone back to Mar-a-Lago after they stole it and if he had been a good little boy and they gave him the big book deal and went down and had some 60 minutes remembrances of Trump.
00:26:06.960Go to the, go to the, go to where President Trump, look up at Harlem right there yesterday.
00:26:12.960Kindred spirits, and that's what they hate.
00:26:15.960And we understand the game, and the game's been explained now to the American people, and the more they have information, this is what Thursday's about tomorrow, is how do we use this show?
00:26:26.960The people, and the contributors, how do we use this knowledge to be able to promulgate it to you, that then you can promulgate it to others?
00:26:35.960Because that is part of the great awakening.
00:26:39.960In the common sense of the American people, which historically has been unparalleled in human history.
00:26:47.960We became the most powerful nation in the history of the earth, more powerful than the Spanish Empire, the Roman Empire, the Persian Empire, the Chinese Empire, the British Empire, the French, the Portuguese, the Aztecs, name it.
00:27:03.960Go back through, down through all the empires in the history of man.
00:27:08.960The most powerful nation, not just on this earth today, but in the history of this earth.
00:27:16.960It wasn't done through royalty or aristocracy or elites, although our elites historically have had the common good more in mind than today.
00:30:12.960Do not let these thieves steal your home in broad daylight.
00:30:18.960Friends out there, all you're doing is showing that you're scared you can't beat them on the issues and the merits.
00:30:31.960That's why he keeps saying it's a political campaign against me.
00:30:36.960That's why he keeps saying they can't beat me at the election, at the polls.
00:30:41.960This is the only way they could do it.
00:30:44.960And if you don't put him in jail and he still goes from being a presumptive GOP nominee to the official GOP nominee and he goes to the polls,
00:30:54.960even though he was going to whine about winning and being rigged again, you have given more fodder to that argument.
00:31:04.960Which means we'll never have peace in this country because tens of millions of people see what extent the other side is willing to go through just to keep him out of office because they can't beat him on their own merits.
00:31:21.960And they're going to say, hey, you trumped this up against him again.
00:31:28.960And we'll have no peace when all you got to do is figure out a way to beat him on the issues.
00:32:07.960Look at the destruction that's going on.
00:32:08.960Look at your state city hall where thousands of illegal alien invaders brought in here by the Biden regime and invited here by the global elites because they want lower wages, brother.
00:32:21.960That right there is the ticking time bomb to destroy the African-American community and the Hispanic community in this country.
00:32:27.960Citizens in this country should get a they should be preferred stockholders.
00:32:52.960Half of the world of three quarters of the world between World War one and World War two in the Cold War.
00:33:01.960We're the only nation on Earth that has cemeteries all over the world.
00:33:06.960You go to the Philippines, go to Europe, go to Asia.
00:33:12.960What other nation on Earth has its best and brightest buried on American soil that's been deeded to us, but in foreign countries and foreign lands.
00:33:23.960And for all that, you're at the bottom of the barrel.
00:33:31.960It's American citizens last and they pick up everything.
00:33:33.960So, Stephen, they're doing this because they can't beat us on policy.
00:33:40.960And the more that we're having an awakening of every ethnicity, every race and every class in this country makes us more powerful and them weaker.
00:33:51.960And that's why they will try more and more desperate measures.
00:34:00.960I had Julie Kelly and Mike Davis on here last night talking about how they're already trying to end run the Supreme Court when they rule against Fisher on this bogus, you know, official proceedings.
00:34:14.960They're already working how they're going to get around that.
00:34:17.960Just like on Capitol Hill, they're working nonstop, nonstop.
00:34:21.960I've had to stop Trump once he's reelected.
00:34:26.960And this would be Republicans, not just the Democrats, because you can't think of Republicans and Democrats anymore.
00:34:33.960That is an old way to think of politics.
00:34:35.960It is populist nationalism versus elite globalism.
00:36:01.960Mike Davis, your thoughts of where we stand on the first day off of what looks like I think could roll all the way past Memorial Day in June.
00:36:08.960And MAGA's got to be prepared for that.
00:36:23.960The first two days of this unprecedented criminal trial of a former president who happens to be the leading presidential candidate.
00:36:32.960It was predictable and predicted by us for nearly two years here on the war room.
00:36:39.960And that is, there is no way in hell that President Trump is going to get a fair trial in New York City.
00:36:46.960With this Soros funded Manhattan D.A., Alvin Bragg, who campaigned on the fact that he was going to get Trump.
00:36:55.960They brought this bogus legal theory against President Trump that took bookkeeping misdemeanors that are time barred, meaning beyond the statute of limitations by many years.
00:37:31.960The Federal Election Commission declined.
00:37:33.960Alvin Bragg himself declined until Matthew Colangelo got deployed from the number three office in the Biden Justice Department, a former top political operative and political appointee for Biden.
00:37:47.960And Tom Perez, the former Obama civil rights head and Tom Perez, the former labor secretary and Tom Perez, the former DNC chair.
00:37:56.960And then Colangelo went to work in the Obama White House as a labor relations advisor to Obama.
00:38:02.960And he went to work for this Democrat attorney general in New York.
00:38:05.960Matthew Colangelo is the key figure here.
00:38:08.960He is the key operative who went from the Biden Justice Department to Bragg's office to bring these unprecedented criminal felony charges against Trump.
00:38:20.960They're before this Manhattan Democrat.
00:38:23.960Hey, you're supposed to be spreading this gospel, the gospel according to War Room and Mike Davis on CNN right now.
00:38:32.960I just noticed we were getting ready to rip your CNN hit with Jim Acosta.
00:38:37.960And I got Adam Kinzinger up there smirking and laughing.
00:38:41.960And why is Mike Davis sharing his wisdom as he does daily here in the War Room when you're supposed to be in makeup up in CNN and on there?
00:38:50.960Because CNN's audience needs to hear about Matthew Colangelo.
00:38:53.960You know, our folks now can give you the dates of when he was actually number three in the Justice Department because of your work.
00:38:59.960The two people that seem to be crickets on this is CNN and MSNBC and on Capitol Hill, where I don't understand why the criminal conspiracy.
00:39:07.960I don't understand why Matthew Colangelo has not been called down to testify.
00:39:10.960I mean, Jim Jordan got something started a couple of months ago, sent a couple of nasty letters everywhere.
00:39:16.960But nothing's nothing. Why is this? Why is this not being shared with the American people?
00:39:21.960Of course, here we're doing a war room and the war impasse is doing great because now Matthew Colangelo is like a thing. Right.
00:39:27.960Because of you. But why did CNN cancel you? Why did they take Kinzinger over you, sir?
00:39:33.960Well, I would say this. I was booked on CNN last night.
00:39:37.960They they wanted me to come on Jim Acosta's show today at 10 a.m. Eastern.
00:39:41.960And I found out right before the show that they want to cancel.
00:39:46.960I would say this. Maybe it's because today is Jim Acosta's birthday.
00:39:49.960And I was going to go give his viewers a big birthday present.
00:39:54.960I was actually going to give them the real facts instead of the fake news that Jim Acosta presents to his dumb sheep viewers every day.
00:40:04.960And I was actually going to have a lot of conservative viewers tune in to CNN for the first time in many, many years to watch this hit.
00:40:12.960And, you know, maybe Jim Acosta doesn't want these CNN sheep viewers to know that Matthew Colangelo got deployed from the Biden Justice Department to bring this on.
00:40:23.960Hang on. Hang on. Fox. The Fox primetime audience can barely handle Mike Davis.
00:40:29.960CNN would have a they would do the vapor lock.
00:40:34.960They would go. What planet is this guy coming from?
00:40:36.960Matthew who what is this seconded from DOJ?
00:40:39.960Why is there crickets? OK, we understand.
00:40:41.960So Jim Acosta doesn't have enough guts to have you on to speak truth.
00:40:45.960He's going to have a good replacement. Adam Kinzinger part of this because J6 and of course, he got turfed out.
00:40:52.960Right. He was he was the odds against him were so bad he quit.
00:40:56.960Why is there crickets everywhere else? Why is there cricket?
00:40:59.960There should be a firestorm every day. You saw President Trump go to Harlem.
00:41:03.960He's beloved, absolutely beloved by the people. Why is there crickets in the first off?
00:41:10.960I don't know why the RNC every other day is not filing some lawsuit here.
00:41:15.960Where's the RNC? Where's the Republicans on Capitol Hill?
00:41:19.960The last time I checked, we controlled the House.
00:41:22.960Why is there crickets everywhere in official and every official Republican, including two thirds or three quarters of conservative media, sir?
00:41:33.960I would say right now with Kinzinger on CNN, maybe Jim Acosta can use his covid mask to wipe away Kinzinger's tears on CNN right now.
00:41:44.960I bet you Adam is on there crying. Maybe they have to change Adam's diaper for January 6th.
00:41:49.960But I would say the reason that remember this, remember what this Democrat judge did, this Manhattan Democrat judge, Juan Mershon, who donated to President Biden in 2020, who donated to another anti-Trump cause, whose daughter, Lauren Mershon, is a leading Democrat consultant and campaign fundraiser who's working for Biden and Kamala Harris and Adam Schiff and many other Democrats.
00:42:11.960This Lauren Mershon, the judge's daughter, has raised nearly $100 million for this criminal trial. She's profiting from this thing. And CNN doesn't want its viewers to hear this.
00:42:22.960This Judge Mershon put in an illegal unconstitutional gag order on a criminal defendant on President Trump, which turns the Constitution on its head.
00:42:31.960Gag orders are supposed to protect criminal defendants so they get a fair trial, not to gag them so they can't exercise their constitutional rights under the first, sixth and 14th amendments to speak out about the judge, the prosecutor, the witnesses, their staffs, their biases, the process,
00:42:49.960the process, especially when that prosecutor and that judge are so clearly partisan and they've politicized and weaponized the justice system against a criminal defendant who happens to be the leading presidential candidate.
00:43:02.180You will not hear any of this on CNN because they are the problem. They are part of the Democrats' lawfare and election interference against President Trump because these Democrat judges, these Democrat prosecutors, these Democrat witnesses, these Democrat hellholes,
00:43:19.960like New York, D.C. and Atlanta, these Democrat regime spokespeople, like CNN, they fear American voters on November 5th, 2024.
00:43:30.240They know American voters are going to put President Trump back in the White House.
00:43:33.720You're even seeing President Trump going up to Harlem, to a bodega in Harlem, and getting a hero's welcome.
00:43:40.660If that doesn't send chills down the spine of every Democrat in this country, they're not paying attention.
00:43:49.940This is going to break bigly for President Trump on November 5th, 2024, so long as the Democrats aren't able to put him in prison for the rest of his life.
00:44:10.920I want to warn you of a huge change that could be coming to our money and our bank accounts.
00:44:24.680First, think back to 9-11, shortly after the government pushed through the Patriot Act.
00:44:29.220This gave the government power to spy on innocent Americans by monitoring our phone and email and tracking our movement across the Internet.
00:44:36.700Now, Jim Rickards, editor of the independent financial newsletter Strategic Intelligence and New York Times bestselling author, is warning about a coming event that could elevate this governmental surveillance to a terrifying new level.
00:44:50.760In fact, some of the guests I've had on The War Room believe that the government will soon expand their powers to track our every move.
00:44:58.160If we say the wrong things on social media, donate to the wrong causes, buy firearms, or even vote MAGA, the government may be able to shut us out of our bank accounts.
00:45:09.180I can't say for sure if this will happen, but it's an interesting and dire warning.
00:45:14.700Fortunately, Jim Rickards, an American patriot and friend of mine, has made it his mission to educate us on what he believes is coming and how to protect yourself from the possibility of programmable money.
00:45:27.020Watch Jim's warning video now, before it's censored like I've been in the past.
00:45:41.300One of the reasons gold's bouncing on a macro level is, and now there's tons of analysis coming out, we're having a, as we warned, we're having a tough time selling U.S. Treasuries from the Treasury Department to fund these massive deficits.
00:45:58.020And Johnson and these guys are sitting there talking about $100 billion more on top of a $7 trillion, almost $7 trillion of spending they just approved, including a $3 trillion defense bill.
00:46:11.240And he wants $60 billion more for Ukraine.
00:46:47.040Unsustainability of our financial situation.
00:46:49.180And when it snaps, and already this is why inflation won't go away, this is why you can't get control of this thing until you take on the massive federal spending.
00:47:02.080Biden's up there yesterday in Scranton.
00:47:03.760Came and draw a crowd, tiny little crowd, 100 people, 150 people.
00:47:07.720And CNN's got Biden there, and today he's talking about tariffs on China.
00:47:12.580Got to have tariffs on China because he's going to go talk to the unions today.
00:47:32.720It's a federal court and a post office box for all the global corporations to have their headquarters because they play lollipop up there with them.
00:47:40.000He's on enforcing what should be enforced.
00:49:04.420And if they've got to use, if they've got to step back and say, this is so terrible that Manhattan's doing this, then that's what will happen.
00:49:13.140Don't let these cowards – the cowards aren't fooling anybody, right?
00:49:16.560And this is crickets right now because this is, as you've said, this is the end of the – this is the end of rule of law.
00:49:25.340This is – what they're doing to Trump is republic ending.
00:49:28.960What they're doing to their debt is republic ending.
00:49:31.480What they're on, the invasion of the southern border, a republic ending.
00:49:59.360We've said this for nearly two years on this show, Steve, since the unconstitutional home raid on President Trump for presidential records he's allowed to have under the Presidential Records Act.
00:50:12.120That this Democrat lawfare, this Democrat election interference, these four criminal cases against Trump, the civil fraud for non-fraud, the Gene Carroll defamation from some nut job trying to make money, these are republic ending tactics.
00:50:28.720And I would say to these Republicans, particularly these Republicans in Congress, who tend to be the biggest cowards in America, if you think that the Democrats are going to go away with this lawfare, if Trump goes away, you do not understand 100 years of Marxism.
00:50:45.800With 100 million people who have been killed by Marxist over the last 100 years, today's Democrats are leftists.
00:50:59.960They don't believe in due process and equal protection under the law.
00:51:04.440They believe in a politicized, weaponized justice system.
00:51:07.640And if they take out a billionaire former and likely future president of the United States, our country is done.
00:51:16.300They control every institution in America, including now even the military.
00:51:21.160The one institution they don't control is the Supreme Court of the United States.
00:51:26.380And if Biden or Kamala or Michelle Obama or whoever the hell they put up to drag Biden's decrepit old body across the finish line, if Democrats win, if Trump does not reclaim the White House on January 20th, 2025, it is over.
00:51:45.880The Democrats will take control of the Supreme Court.
00:51:48.360And if you think COVID lockdowns were bad and BLM and Antifa riots were bad, just wait.
00:51:54.340Just wait until they pack the Supreme Court, they control the Supreme Court, and there goes our God-given right to speak, to associate, to worship, to protect ourselves.
00:52:04.140We are going to become the hunted if Trump is not back in the White House and Democrats take control of the Supreme Court.
00:52:11.900Everything is on the line on November 5th, 2024.
00:52:15.420And these Republicans need to toughen up and get out there and support President Trump now.
00:52:22.280And that includes making a criminal referral on Joe Biden's obvious criminal conspiracy here with his Justice Department officials, his White House officials, these Democrat prosecutors, and these Democrat judges, and these Democrat hellholes like New York, D.C., and Atlanta to violate President Trump's civil rights and the civil rights of so many others like you.
00:52:45.160Steve Bannon, like Peter Navarro, like the attorneys working for Trump, the January 6th supporters, this is an obvious criminal conspiracy to violate civil rights, to interfere in the election.
00:52:56.900And Republicans in Congress, state AGs, people need to start stepping up.
00:53:02.980Two years ago, but definitely right now, we are in a criminal prosecution.
00:53:07.540We are, this week, the first criminal trial against a former president and likely future president.