Trump is not guilty in the first ever criminal trial of an ex-president. Judge Mershon returns to the bench, and the jury is back in deliberation. Stephen K. Bannon reacts to the verdict.
00:25:23.000Judge Merchant created a stew of bad instructions and bad moments in the trial that likely influenced the jury.
00:25:32.720So I think it will get set right in the courts eventually.
00:25:36.380But that's a one- or two-year process.
00:25:38.340Joe Biden and the Democrats knew it would be a one- or two-year process, right?
00:25:41.840They just want to be able to say, Donald Trump, we're running against a convicted felon,
00:25:45.780just like what's happened with Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, where they indicted him.
00:25:50.080We're now inspiring other countries to follow this model.
00:25:53.060The once great American jurisprudence system now is going to be held up and said,
00:25:57.320is this really what we want to be a model for in the future?
00:26:00.000This is a really consequential day for America.
00:26:02.340John, you've argued for a long time that we have to have a mass investigation in the House to think through legislation that could stop this, a vast—do you still believe that?
00:26:15.160Yeah, listen, there is so much evidence that the American public could benefit from between now and Election Day if Congress does its job.
00:26:22.640We can go back to one of the times, the earlier get-Trump scenarios.
00:26:27.120Let's go back to the 2019 impeachment trial.
00:26:29.880We can demonstrably show, Congress could demonstrably show, that the testimony used to try to get the president impeached is inaccurate and false.
00:26:38.660Right down to the fact that Joe Biden claimed and all of his witnesses claimed that it was career bureaucrats that recommended that the prosecutor's show can be fired.
00:26:48.600We now know career bureaucrats recommended the opposite.
00:26:52.700I sued and got the records from the State Department.
00:26:55.060But why not remind between now and Election Day that the evidence used in earlier get-Trump scenarios—Russia collusion, Ukraine, January 6—that it is flawed and in some cases downright inaccurate so that people start to judge this verdict in light of a seven- or eight-year machine.
00:27:12.060Congress could do a lot more between now and Election Day, whether they'll do it or not.
00:27:34.140The laptop, not meeting his partners, not knowing his family got China money.
00:27:39.360All those things can be litigated by Congress between now and Election Day, but it needs to be done better than the way they've done it to this point.
00:27:46.700They need to have a big-name council that doesn't let the members muck up the story, leads the American people through a narrative-telling thing through the witnesses so Americans can understand it, and simply not in the complex way that sometimes five-minute questions by members of Congress muddy it up.
00:28:02.880They need to run it like Watergate, they need to run it like the China money fundraising scandal of 96-97 with Fred Thompson, or Alphonse D'Amato's 1996 Whitewater hearings.
00:28:14.260A council lead the questions, get the public to understand the evidence, leave all the congressional antics on the sidelines or to later in the day.
00:28:21.620If they do that, they can really make a really strong case that the government has been weaponized to stop Donald Trump, often using false evidence.
00:28:33.000Real quickly before we go, we're going to bounce to some other folks.
00:28:36.260But, John, they just announced the sentencing of President Trump is going to be July 11th.
00:28:41.440That's only a few days before he takes the stage in front of the nation and the world to accept the Republican nomination for president.
00:28:48.140He's now leading. There's no coincidences, John Solomon?
00:28:52.820Just like the sign behind you always says, Steve Bannon, there are no coincidences, right?
00:28:56.240Of course, this has all been time to hit at this exact moment.
00:28:59.220Now, Donald Trump's lawyers can put a wrinkle in that.
00:29:01.560They could potentially get an injunction.
00:29:03.140They could potentially go to court and delay sentencing, much like what happened with Devin Archer in his long-running case from the Hunter Biden years.
00:29:11.320So there's a lot of tools in the defense team's arsenal, including going through the New York courts quickly than to go to federal court.
00:29:20.160But if there are none of those interventions, then July 11th, that's exactly what they want.
00:29:25.360They wanted the campaign general election season to start with Donald Trump having some sort of criminal conviction and sentence against him.
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00:31:29.540Well, they got him, and they got him good because he's unlikely to even be able to successfully appeal.
00:31:36.180He has to appeal first through the New York system.
00:31:39.000The New York system are all judges that don't want to be responsible for freeing Donald Trump.
00:31:44.560These are people who have to live with their families.
00:31:46.460These are people who don't want to be Dershowitz.
00:31:49.220People know what happened to me when I defended Donald Trump on the floor of the Senate.
00:31:53.240Nobody on Martha's Vineyard would speak to me.
00:31:55.800Harvard Law School canceled me after I'd been there for 50 years.
00:32:00.960And judges don't want that to happen to them.
00:32:03.320So I am not encouraged that he'll get a fair appeal, as possible.
00:32:09.080And ultimately, maybe he'll get to the Supreme Court.
00:32:11.600But by that time, the election will be over.
00:32:15.820What do you think about they've announced the sentencing for July 11th, just a few days before he takes the stage in front of the world to accept a Republican nomination?
00:32:35.680But I don't think he'll get prison time.
00:32:37.560But he might get some home arrest or probationary conditions or a big fine.
00:32:44.360This is a non-crime he's been convicted of.
00:32:46.640Never in American history has anybody been charged with a crime as ludicrous as this.
00:32:52.520Nobody has ever been charged with not reporting a hush money payment.
00:32:57.360If you have to report hush money payments, why would anybody ever pay hush money?
00:33:02.260And, you know, this is a stain, a terrible stain on the American system of justice.
00:33:07.440You know, in my book, Get Trump, I predicted this.
00:33:09.480I said there were going to be convictions, particularly in New York, where you have 85 to 90 percent of the jurors who don't want to see him president of the United States.
00:33:18.840And where you have a judge who has a clear bias because of his daughter and other activities and where he doesn't want to be the guy who freed Donald Trump.
00:33:30.020So this was a rigged case from the very beginning.
00:33:34.340And I was not surprised at the verdict.
00:34:18.160What may happen now is rogue Republican local prosecutors around the country may start indicting presidents, senators, people of the opposite party, and making up comparably weak cases and leaving it to local juries to decide who the next president or the next senator is going to be.
00:34:40.900So I think this is the first battle in what is a war of weaponized legal system and the criminal justice system particularly.
00:34:51.040It's a very, very dangerous day for America.
00:34:53.900Professor Dershowitz, how do people get your content?
00:35:50.240Well, President Trump will come back on July 11th for a sentencing hearing.
00:35:55.620I think what Professor Dershowitz said was, you know, pretty much makes my thoughts.
00:36:00.060Steve, what I could tell you in the courtroom there was when Mershon, the judge, came back in at 420-something in the afternoon,
00:36:08.400nobody was expecting, certainly myself included, that a verdict was to be reached this afternoon.
00:36:14.160I think just a few short minutes before, I had said that it seems more likely that we'll see a dismissal of the jury for the day.
00:36:22.480Maybe there'll be a request of different evidence or anything like that.
00:36:26.220And at that point, once we knew that there was a verdict, even though there was about a 20 to 25-minute delay,
00:36:33.000you had to know at this point, considering the jury pool of Manhattanites in a place where Joe Biden won with 86% of the vote,
00:36:40.960where they overwhelmingly elected the Soros-funded district attorney, Alvin Bragg,
00:36:45.220that this was not going to be good for the 45th president of the United States and the leading candidate for the president of the United States of America, Steve.
00:36:53.960It's a sad day in our republic, and sadly, it was palpable in that courtroom.
00:36:58.680Are you surprised you've sat through this whole thing?
00:47:38.580Yeah, well, Steve, you know, just to channel something you were saying a moment ago, I'm reminded of a St. Augustine quote, right?
00:47:48.160Hope has two beautiful daughters, anger and courage.
00:47:52.840Anger at the way things are and courage to ensure that they do not stay as they are.
00:47:57.300And that seems to be the prevailing consensus, the prevailing feeling out here, outside the courthouse right now.
00:48:04.300And I think, you know, again, to quote the opening of this show, what you're seeing here in lower Manhattan today is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:48:23.600Your friends and your family all know it.
00:48:24.920To everybody watching out there who understands it, they talk about it every day.
00:48:29.240And I think we have President Trump due to be coming out of the courthouse any second.
00:48:33.000And people, you will hear, you will hear what people have to say on this street corner.
00:48:38.640You will hear what people have to say in New York tonight.
00:48:40.840And you will hear what people have to say in America between now and November 5th.
00:48:44.480It is no surprise that four days before the Republican National Convention, they will bring him back here to sentence him.
00:48:51.220And again, just to stress the gravity of this moment, to stress the importance of this moment,
00:48:56.920to stress the fact that your country is slipping away from you right in front of your very eyes.
00:49:02.000There is a cavalcade of ordinary people out here today who are all on Trump's side.
00:49:07.740And the only ones I see grinning and smiling around me right now are the corporate media reporters who are gleeful,
00:49:13.880who are happy, who are delighted at what they've heard today.
00:49:17.720Don't forget, you know, I understand that there are problems with the appeals process here in New York,
00:49:21.920but don't forget, there is a long road ahead, ladies and gentlemen.
00:49:27.100Rahim, real quickly, particularly given the Vox Populi, the voices of the people we've heard down there through Ben Berquam and others,
00:49:36.500I'm getting reports now for some of the swells I know that live in the Upper East Side,
00:49:41.300and they say they're actually coming out of buildings and celebrating in the streets the guilty verdict.
00:49:46.320Talk to me about the tale of two cities, Upper East Side and what you're seeing there with the working class of New York City having President Trump's back.
00:49:58.420You know, you can tell it by the way they talk, you can tell it in the way they walk, you can tell it in the way they dress.
00:50:04.080The ordinary people, the working class people, the people who are awake before six o'clock in the morning and don't get home before sundown,
00:50:12.080are belligerent, rightly belligerent about what they're seeing, what they're hearing today.
00:50:15.480Many of them have taken time off of their work schedules.
00:50:18.060Many of them have been down here for the weeks that this has been going on and understanding and getting into the weeds on it.
00:50:24.980The people who are celebrating, you will know because I've seen them, I've met them, I've interviewed them, I've talked to them.
00:50:29.140I talk to them, unfortunately, every day in Washington, D.C. and New York.
00:50:33.980I believe, by the way, that we actually have the motorcade coming out here, so I'm going to make sure that we get the shots of that, Steve.
00:50:40.360And for the audience here, for the audience, if you can't see it, this is President Trump.
00:50:43.520It is motorcade coming out of the courthouse right now.
00:50:46.340Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up!
00:52:31.760This is exactly, this is exactly, Ben, you've got to stop picking.
00:52:36.220No, folks, this is exactly like when the early returns came out at 5 o'clock in the afternoon on the 8th of November of 2016.
00:52:47.060Jared Cushion and I got them, and President Trump was losing everywhere.
00:52:50.620It looked like it was going to be a blowout.
00:52:52.600And then starting at 8 o'clock, when votes started to be counted and through the evening, you saw they were all drinking champagne and Megyn Kelly and all of them were laughing.
00:53:00.460It was the end of Trump, Trump's humiliation.
00:53:03.820Well, by 11 o'clock at night, folks, they weren't laughing at all.
00:53:08.020At 2.30 in the morning, the Associated Press, on the 9th of November, the Associated Press called President, named President Trump, President-elect of the United States.
00:55:16.780How would he recommend, how do you recommend, we had these values, this is Memorial Day, we just commemorated Memorial Day to our honored dead.
00:55:58.720We've got to maintain the freedoms that were so, that for, you know, encased in blood, I'll put that that way.
00:56:06.820People fought so hard for that, and you can't take that for granted ever.
00:56:10.220So just remember, it's a precious thing that can easily fall away from us if we don't honor our justices and we don't honor our commitments to our values.
00:56:17.560Do you think this gets more people, the supporters behind President Trump, and even those that are on the fence?
00:56:22.060What do you think that does for them from here?
00:56:24.280Well, I think everybody can kind of see this as a sham.
00:56:26.520And I think people that really understand, everybody that are educated, will really take this apart and will understand what this has been.
00:56:33.120And that people that really do their research and understand what makes America special, our Constitution, our justice system, that I think they'll have a stiff upper lip and then continue to research that or continue to be committed to freedom.
00:56:54.560Ben, I want to find, let's get some more folks down there.
00:56:57.940I just want to say, he summed it up perfectly.
00:57:03.820If you believe America is a gift, you believe our rule of law is a gift, you've got to fight for this.
00:57:09.000You've got to sit there and go, I'm just not going to let it be taken away from us.
00:57:11.560President Reagan used to always say, and people, you know, when he said it, didn't really believe it, that freedom is only one generation away from leaving.