Trump's lawyers have agreed to postpone sentencing in the hush money case, but do not want the case thrown out altogether. The president-elect was found guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in this case, making him the first convicted felon elected to the nation s highest office.
00:00:00.000In Donald Trump's criminal hush money case, the Manhattan D.A. has actually agreed to postpone sentencing, but does not want the case thrown out altogether.
00:00:07.680The president-elect was found guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in this case, making him the first convicted felon elected to the nation's highest office.
00:00:17.320So the district attorney is saying that they want to defend the conviction in this case that was returned by 12 New Yorkers in May.
00:00:23.820But they're saying that they will agree to postpone the sentencing in this case.
00:00:28.260Part of the reason they said is that Trump's attorneys plan to file a motion to dismiss the case based on a number of factors.
00:00:35.740And the D.A.'s office is saying that they are going to oppose that.
00:00:38.700And because whatever the decision is, it will likely get appealed.
00:00:42.260That would ultimately end up postponing the sentencing.
00:00:45.160So they're saying at the outset they're not going to oppose it, but they are going to defend the conviction.
00:00:49.900And in this letter to the judge, they write no current law establishes that a president's temporary immunity from prosecution requires dismissal of a post-trial criminal proceeding that was initiated at a time when the defendant was not immune from criminal prosecution.
00:01:04.920And that is based on unofficial conduct for which the defendant is also not immune, saying that the judge has many things to consider.
00:01:13.000But also within that, not just the presidency, but the integrity of the criminal justice system, the concept that no one is above the law.
00:01:19.900So prosecutors laying out here that they do want to defend this verdict and that they are willing to litigate for it.
00:01:27.100They also asked the judge to move quickly, asking for them, for the judge to set a deadline for the Trump's lawyers to file this motion and give the prosecution a deadline of December 9th.
00:01:36.820So indicating that they do want to get this litigation underway and ultimately so they can continue to defend this conviction.
00:01:47.060This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:01:51.940Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people.
00:01:57.100Here's another time I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
00:02:01.500The people have had a belly full of it.
00:16:30.220To say there's a lot going on is an understatement.
00:16:34.220There's so many important battles going on right now, both here in the imperial capital, also down in Mar-a-Lago, people, you know, working through the transition, working through who's going to have certain positions, policies, all that.
00:16:49.220Also, it appears that the Biden regime is trying to initiate an active shooting third world war with the Russians.
00:17:02.220So this FBI director, remember Cash is one of the contributors here to the show.
00:17:06.220We also made a film right before I went into Danbury prison.
00:17:10.220We were able to finish the film Government Gangsters off of the book Government Gangsters, the bestselling book by Cash Patel.
00:17:20.220Cash had been the general counsel of the House Intelligence Committee and a special investigator on the House Intelligence Committee under Devin Nunez.
00:17:30.220He was there when myself and Reince Priebus and others were being grilled by Shifty Shift and Swalwell when Paul Ryan, the gutless coward who's on the board of Fox and should be forced to resign, you know, a publicly traded company, supposedly a conservative network that has its independent director trashing the nominee for the Republican Party.
00:17:53.600That would be Donald Trump constantly say he's not going to vote for him.
00:17:55.920He's a terrible person, terrible human being.
00:17:58.080And then after Trump wins a landslide, crickets don't hear from Ryan.
00:18:05.500It made him recuse himself from the Russia hoax Intelligence Committee investigation where Shifty Shift would go on Rachel Maddow every night in a lie.
00:18:18.360Yes, and Rachel Maddow and Shifty Shift, when Matt Gaetz is announced as Attorney General of the United States, there will be eventually a criminal investigation into the vast criminal conspiracy to take out President Trump for years and years and years.
00:18:35.360And Shifty Shift and Rachel Maddow, you will be rolled up in that.
00:19:37.800This is the relationship between the Justice Department and the FBI is the same relationship that's shared between the U.S. State Department and the CIA.
00:19:48.340You need two brains that understand each other.
00:19:50.880You can't really have a compromise candidate where one person supports the president and the other person is looking to put a knife in the president's back.
00:19:59.920That is simply untenable when you're dealing with the kind of special compartmentalized operations that happen at the FBI level.
00:20:07.020It's simply too dangerous to put someone in there who is going to try to hide things from a Justice Department that is not on the same page agenda wise.
00:20:15.740So, Rogers is a former agent, correct?
00:20:22.740Just ran for the U.S. congressman, talk show host, ran for the Senate up in Michigan, barely lost.
00:20:32.840Why does the MAGA right, and particularly the ultra MAGA, or as Elon must say, the dark MAGA element of that, that understands and every day is in a fight with the deep state,
00:20:45.340why are we particularly upset about a guy like Mike Rogers, who in normal times would be looked at as a fine, you know, center-right candidate put up by a Romney-type Republican administration, sir?
00:21:02.780Well, I have one issue first and foremost, which is free speech on the Internet.
00:21:06.500And Mike Rogers is the former head of the Intelligence Committee, overseeing the CIA while Russiagate was happening,
00:21:16.580basically greenlighting all of the Russiagate predicates that turned out to be complete BS.
00:21:22.960Mike Rogers, who is on the board of directors of the Atlanta Council, which is probably the number one apex predator in the entire censorship industry,
00:21:33.900the Atlanta Council was holding censorship training meetings for hundreds of journalists around the world.
00:21:40.960This is at the top of my X feed right now.
00:21:44.400However, you can watch a 45-minute video where Mike Rogers' Atlantic Council was literally holding up on a jumbotron slide decks of Trump tweets and how you could report them for disinformation.
00:21:57.040This whole thing was set up initially under the predicate that Trump's win in 2016 was illegitimate because of Russian interference on social media.
00:22:05.620Mike Rogers, using his CIA connections there, was part of the IRI's Beacon Project.
00:22:11.260The IRI is the CIA wing of the GOP that is married since birth to John McCain, George Bush, Dick Cheney, Mitt Romney.
00:22:21.800Mitt Romney is currently on the board of it.
00:22:23.900Mike Rogers is currently affiliated with the IRI's Beacon Project.
00:22:29.400The Beacon Project was a GOP CIA snake operation to censor social media because Trump won using social media.
00:22:38.080They started something called the Beacon Project, which basically sought to be a real-time disinformation dashboard, sort of like a beacon scanning light out into the Internet in order to detect false narratives circulating online.
00:22:54.220In particular, those that supported Donald Trump because Donald Trump was assessed by the intelligence community under Mike Rogers' watch as being a potential Russian asset.
00:23:04.960IRI has then gone on to promote censorship laws around the world.
00:23:09.760IRI played a major role in the construction of a censorship industry in Brazil because it's technically folded out of a CIA cutout called the National Endowment for Democracy.
00:23:22.800It's fully funded by the State Department.
00:23:24.960IRI teamed up with Hunter Biden's NDI in order to construct a censorship apparatus within Brazil, touching their judges, touching their universities, touching their largest circulation newspapers in order to get anti-misinformation laws passed, to censor social media, to censor encrypted chat.
00:23:44.280They basically swallowed the Internet whole.
00:23:47.280They promote the EU Digital Services Act, which is pushing for a 6 percent global revenue fine on X because Elon Musk is not censoring Trump enough.
00:23:56.000They are going around the world, 140 countries, to try to encircle populism worldwide, to get it back into the Coke and Pepsi choice between a Hillary Clinton or a Mitt Romney-type president.
00:24:09.060And Mike Rogers is at the center of that.
00:24:10.960And so how does a guy like Rogers, because this has been very well documented, and for people that are part of, in the tip of the spirit of this revolution, Mike, your work, which is fundamental to both seizing the institutions and forcing change, how can we be in a situation?
00:24:34.740I mean, when they told me Mike Rogers was shortlisted for the FBI director, I actually thought it was a joke.
00:24:50.780There weren't a lot of great candidates in the primary.
00:24:53.460And, you know, he did as good as he could, got a lot of support from the big donor class.
00:24:58.240But that's very different than being director of the FBI, particularly Gates and this incredible crew over justice.
00:25:05.560And there's so much we have to do to basically purge the American Gestapo.
00:25:11.040How are we in a situation where you have Kash Patel on one hand, who is just fantastic in every level, and you got Mike Rogers on the other?
00:25:21.480I can't really peer through the fog of war on that.
00:25:23.940My sense is that there are donor considerations and there are negotiations in progress with the Republican wing of both the House and the Senate, because in order to get the Trump agenda done, you're going to need that coalition.
00:25:39.240Otherwise, you will have peel off of Republicans joining with Democrats to block every aspect of the Trump budget, every aspect of Trump appointments.
00:25:48.000And so there is this sort of deal with the devil aspect that I think the Trump inner circle is having to navigate.
00:25:55.340I think that there was political capital expenditure on putting in Matt Gaetz and Bobby Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth.
00:26:24.640And but that is that is one of those situations where everything is going to run through state.
00:26:29.820State is is the Mac daddy over the CIA.
00:26:33.980State is is where all this censorship came from in the first place when you had a state department that effectively betrayed the Trump administration 1.0 and did back channel diplomacy with Europe to get censorship laws passed there.
00:26:47.760That did back channel diplomacy with the tech companies in order to have them end up snaking the sitting president of the United States.
00:26:59.420It's it's state who's got effective control over USAGM and the Open Technology Fund over USAID, which is 50 billion dollars worth of NGO firepower.
00:27:09.580It's it's state who back channels with the universities and the private sector companies because they all depend on state to negotiate on their behalf in order to maintain their profits as multinational corporations or banks.
00:27:22.880And so you need someone rock solid in there.
00:27:28.480Benz, can you hang on for one second or a short commercial break because I want to this should be a teaching moment.
00:27:40.040I think it's very important for the war room posse and the cadres to fully understand.
00:27:45.920We've talked about a lot of the last couple of years, but this is a live fire exercise where you're selecting a director of the FBI and what this means for this movement going forward with the interconnections.
00:27:58.480And how Mike Benz and his great his great research and investigation can get you up to speed came from the first term of President Trump.
00:30:05.900Their foot soldiers don't want to watch anymore because they were lied and misled by these people.
00:30:09.720And if you go back and watch the election night coverage, you can really see how they were misled all the way up until the numbers started really coming in about 1030.
00:30:16.800I write around the time North Carolina was called.
00:30:20.280You could see the people at Howard University and then in MSNBC, et cetera, start to realize the reality that Trump was going to win and win in a landslide, take all the take all the battleground states, win the popular vote.
00:30:38.540One of the things we're fighting for here, and I say that you can't stop because now in this period, we must start the process of seizing the institutions.
00:30:50.960This is a system that is corrupt and quite dangerous to its own citizens.
00:30:56.520We need to seize those institutions and purge and purify them and make sure that they're back to what the founders and the framers wanted, which was a limited government that provided just that government you need to kind of help or assist in organizations of things to promote the well-being, the general happiness, the liberty and freedom of its citizens.
00:32:06.360In fact, there's a lot we disagree on.
00:32:09.660But that's OK, because we agree on certain of the fundamentals.
00:32:13.360And one of those is the deconstruction of the administrative state.
00:32:16.340Both the libertarian populist billionaires and us on the right understand that this beast, this Leviathan, is so outside the concept of what the framers and the revolutionary generation thought of.
00:32:28.820And we have a couple of, I don't know if I call them Sherpas or Force Recon.
00:32:41.720A handful, just a handful of very smart, very dedicated, very tough individuals who, before the Trump administration, maybe been around the rim,
00:32:52.540but within the Trump administration, have been students of this and see it, and they can report back.
00:32:57.640And our own Natalie Winters at a very young level, age, is coming up to speed on that.
00:33:03.080But one of the practitioners and one of the most impressive people in this is Mike Benz.
00:33:07.920After I left the White House, Mike Benz came over with Darren Beatty.
00:33:11.400I think Darren Beatty just left the White House.
00:33:12.900And Mike was on the administration, and they walked through how we actually won in 2016 with the inadvertent help of big tech,
00:33:23.360who didn't quite understand what Cernovich and the Pepes and people were doing, but they were going to correct that.
00:33:30.960So Benz knows that intersection, they talk about intersectionality.
00:33:34.900We'll give you intersectionality of big tech and big media and in Wall Street and the in the intelligence apparatus.
00:33:43.300Think about Tulsi's got 18, 18 agencies that report to her with budgets, you know, hundreds of billions of dollars and tens of thousands of practitioners.
00:33:55.320Mike Benz is someone that can take you through that.
00:33:57.560And so Mike Benz, the one thing I want for this cadre, for this audience, for the posse, is this has to be a teaching moment for you.
00:34:07.940This is the true wilderness of mirrors.
00:34:11.040And remember, the key in intelligence is always the misdirection play.
00:34:15.840So Benz, I want in this Kash Patel Rogers fight at the FBI to make sure that we get the posse totally up to speed with what's happening.
00:34:26.800Because, and here's the power of, and when I say seize the institutions, some of the institutions you're talking about, and I want to go back over it, were founded by people that were our forerunners in the anti-communist movement.
00:34:40.280The Jesse Helms and others, the Ronald Reagans, these things were set up to take on the Bolsheviks, to take on the global spread of communism.
00:34:47.680And it's been twisted, and twisted, and the guns have been turned on the populist nationalist movement.
00:34:54.960So Benz, walk us through one more time, and I want to get people access.
00:34:57.920One thing I love about you, you put up tremendous content, and you make it accessible.
00:35:02.820And I will tell the audience, this kind of stuff is addictive.
00:35:06.740Once you start understanding how the pieces come together, you're going to sit there and go, wow, I now understand why Trump needs RFK.
00:35:14.320I now understand why, you know, Trump needs Tulsi Gabbard and Matt Gaetz and Kash Patel.
00:35:23.400Yeah, and on that note, we were just talking about Mike Rogers.
00:35:26.200At the top of my X feed, if people want to get educated, it's at Mike Benz Cyber.
00:35:30.280I have five post threads around the various networks that Mike Rogers has run his career through that are involved in all of this,
00:35:39.600from the Atlantic Council to the MITRE Corporation to the Harvard Belfer Center to the IRI.
00:35:45.800Steve, on your point about the origins of the persecution of populists coming from our diplomatic efforts to try to sway countries away from communism,
00:35:58.640And, in fact, these institutions, institution is such a watchword for the blob, for the State Department, the intelligence community, and the Pentagon.
00:36:08.940Institution has a sort of technical meaning there, and it means asset, asset of the foreign policy establishment.
00:36:15.580So they will refer to their suite of so-called democratic institutions, which means institutions that promote democracy within the region,
00:36:24.160institutions at the university level, institutions at the media level, institutions at the NGO level, or even at the for-profit level, or at the government level.
00:36:34.220And we have codified into our foreign policy establishment playbooks, into our intelligence community playbooks, even to our defense playbooks,
00:36:43.180this concept that populism is an attack on the institutions, and therefore an attack on democracy.
00:36:50.800And so, Ronald Reagan inherited a thorny problem in the early 1980s.
00:36:55.900The Church Committee hearings had just taken place in 1975 and 1976.
00:37:00.960They were hugely embarrassing to the Central Intelligence Agency, which, at that point, had had 30 years without any oversight by Congress.
00:37:10.560In fact, my pinned tweet on my ex-account is a 40-minute lecture on the history of the intelligence state.
00:37:15.480You can watch that to get immediately up to speed.
00:37:18.120But that will take you through this evolution.
00:37:20.300So in 1975, 1976, these Church Committee hearings were holding up very embarrassing things for the CIA,
00:37:26.380like the heart attack gun showing plausible deniability to induce a heart attack so that it wouldn't look like a bullet wound,
00:37:33.260so that our spy agencies could assassinate people in the dark.
00:37:37.600It revealed things like Operation Chaos for the CIA to manipulate student newspapers on college campuses here in the U.S.
00:37:46.120It revealed things like Operation Mockingbird for global control of international media,
00:37:52.120Wisner's Wurlitzer, even things around, you know, the famous MKUltra.
00:37:56.340All these things were hugely embarrassing to the CIA.
00:37:58.900And Jimmy Carter rode to power in 76 on the back of these scandals around the Central Intelligence Agency and went to war with them.
00:38:09.180He did the Halloween massacre, laying off 30 percent of the CIA in a single day, massively slashed its budget.
00:38:14.740So Ronald Reagan inherited this problem where he wanted a robust anti-communist capacity within the intelligence state,
00:38:22.020but could not get it past Congress, which was already the Democrat Congress was already opposed to many of the foreign intervention actions of the Reagan administration.
00:38:31.600So they came up with a cute trick around something called the National Endowment for Democracy,
00:38:36.200which was that instead of having the CIA do it, they would have it be funded by the State Department.
00:38:41.960Instead of calling regime change or soft power influence operations a cloak and dagger spy capacity,
00:38:49.060they would call it a democracy promotion capacity.
00:38:52.680And so we effectively used that to win the Cold War.
00:38:57.240This is what this is how we were able to flood so much money into Europe around Poland and around Hungary
00:39:04.840and around peeling off Soviet satellite states was because not everyone who participated had to have a national security clearance.
00:39:12.200We could onboard hundreds of institutions, hundreds of thousands, millions of people without it all being a cloak and dagger CIA shop.
00:39:21.080So NED was so celebrated as a CIA alternative, it was actually requested by Ronald Reagan's CIA director, William Casey, in 1983,
00:39:31.520that in 1997, David Ignatius in The Washington Post said,
00:39:36.040we don't even need to bother confirming a CIA director because the NED does all the effective things that the CIA used to do.
00:40:01.200And suddenly the entire rules-based international order, which had been completely controlled by the blob,
00:40:08.480by these rogue institutions for eight decades effectively, was now in the hands of the people.
00:40:15.380We actually had a true democracy for a brief moment in time.
00:40:20.060The response was to use our democracy promotion programs to shut down democracy by labeling the new threat to democracy,
00:40:27.520not communism, not terrorism, but populism.
00:40:31.340And this has been codified into the intelligence agency playbooks.
00:40:34.700It's been codified into the State Department, in USAGM, in USAID, in DHS, and the National Science Foundation, and the FBI itself.
00:40:44.220They view, and not just view, they put in writing, they put on video, they put in their playbooks that populism must be stamped out in order to protect democracy.
00:40:57.360So all of those programs have to go to donuts.
00:41:01.600They have to be X'd out entirely, or their existential existence has to be threatened with the stroke of a pen, as Kamala Harris once said.
00:41:37.080Best place 24-7 is at Mike Benz Cyber.
00:41:40.300I probably do 50 to 100 posts a day with all the research here.
00:41:43.500If you want to learn more about the National Endowment for Democracy and the IRI networks that both Mike Rogers and Marco Rubio have a strong affiliation with,
00:41:52.100on my foundation's website, it's foundationforfreedomonline.com.
00:41:56.080We just published a big report yesterday about a stealth agreement reached between the CIA cutout and the State Department
00:42:02.100to prohibit public disclosure of their government grants.
00:42:05.980So they've effectively classified a private NGO, which is funded entirely by the U.S. State Department.
00:42:13.500They're not even trying to hide today anymore.
00:45:55.660And as Mike Davis said, these are the bottom of the barrel.
00:45:58.320These are guys, men and women, that couldn't get through in normal times.
00:46:01.500Elizabeth Warren has called general quarters on this.
00:46:07.340It's absolutely jammed what they're trying to do.
00:46:11.160And people have to go, and you have to put your shoulder to the wheel, and you've got to use the procedural things to slow it down.
00:46:17.440We could turn over to President Trump, you know, I don't know, 20, 25 judicial slots.
00:46:24.860Think about what that would mean in the first six months of a second term.
00:46:28.660And right now we're on the cusp of Biden having put more judges in, I think over 300, than President Trump, close to it.
00:46:38.520This is a fight worth having, and this is why it needs to be in the Senate, all hands on deck.
00:46:44.280The Senate's got a lot of tough work, and they shouldn't be sitting there spending time on an omnibus bill.
00:46:50.360And for people telling President Trump, oh, we want to start with a clean slate, no.
00:46:56.040It's just going to bury the country further into debt, and it's going to make the doge guys, what they're doing, even harder.
00:47:02.920Someone down there has to kind of lay out the interconnective pieces of this for the president.
00:47:07.680So the Senate, we need the Senate right now stopping judges, and we need the Senate to combat what Rachel Maddow's laid out as a pretty brilliant strategy.
00:47:18.260She wants, while they control the Senate, to start having many confirmation hearings to scuff up, to scar, I don't know, random people like Pete Hexeth and Matt Gaetz, those two in particular.
00:47:31.920And maybe we throw in Tulsi Gabbard in there.
00:47:37.820That war has got to be fought up in the Senate, but it's got to be fought 24-7.
00:47:42.600And it's going to take brains and toughness and stamina.
00:47:45.960That's why we've got people that are traveling around the present, even people that are down in Mar-a-Lago, I understand your work in transition is very important.
00:47:52.300But, hey, some of that's going to do remote.
00:47:54.780You're just going to have to because we need all hands on deck up here.
00:47:58.560In the House, the same way, you've got to get to—we're not believers in CR, but if a CR gets us to kick it down the road for 30 or 60 or 90 days into past January 20th when Trump controls it, and this is why I think it's very important for the president now to, like, I don't know, name Russ Vogt back at OMB.
00:48:23.680He was with you in the first term and did a magnificent job.
00:48:26.540And we have so many tough things to work on, including Vivek and Elon in the Doge team, right, lead story right here in the New York Times today, the beloved New York Times, chop first and fix later how Musk tames cost.
00:48:44.580Well, hey, maybe that's not a bad way to do it.
00:48:47.060But that all dovetails into this appropriations process.
00:48:50.800We do not need to approve a $6 or $6.5 trillion budget and appropriate that when we believe it might be a trillion dollars of either taking programs and departments out or just cuts of waste, fraud, and abuse.
00:49:05.500Don't vote for it and then have to do it.