Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - April 03, 2023


EPISODE 435： THE FUNERAL PROCESSION OF THE REPUBLIC


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Former President Donald Trump is on his way to surrender to a New York court to be arraigned on a felony charge of conspiracy to commit a crime. Former President Richard Nixon was the first sitting president to be charged with a crime for his role in the Watergate scandal.

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00:00:30.000 We've never really seen this before, which is a former president of the United States
00:00:39.400 on his way to surrender to a court, to a district attorney's investigator who will officially
00:00:46.360 arrest him, take his fingerprints, charge him with a felony, and then deliver him to a courtroom
00:00:52.260 where he has to enter a plea.
00:00:54.460 Durham probe into the Russia collusion host.
00:00:56.440 President Trump has just been impeached on both Article 1 and Article 1.
00:00:59.480 The only president of the United States to be impeached for a second time.
00:01:03.900 The January 6th committee releasing its final 845-page report.
00:01:08.080 Former President Donald Trump has been indicted.
00:01:11.360 Remember this.
00:01:13.460 Nothing worth doing ever, ever, ever came easy.
00:01:20.240 Following your convictions means you must be willing to face criticism from those who lack
00:01:28.980 the same courage to do what is right.
00:01:33.560 Relish the opportunity to be an outsider.
00:01:36.880 Embrace that label.
00:01:38.580 Being an outsider is fine.
00:01:40.660 Embrace the label.
00:01:41.940 Because it's the outsiders who change the world and who make a real and lasting difference.
00:01:49.560 The more that a broken system tells you that you're wrong, the more certain you should be
00:01:56.500 that you must keep pushing ahead.
00:01:59.360 This is a party that wants an outsider badly.
00:02:02.000 I continue to believe Mr. Trump will not be president.
00:02:04.440 You must keep pushing forward.
00:02:08.340 Never, ever give up.
00:02:11.300 There'll be times in your life you'll want to quit.
00:02:14.280 You'll want to go home.
00:02:15.780 I can't do it.
00:02:17.360 I can't do it.
00:02:19.200 Just never quit.
00:02:22.220 You will build a future where we have the courage to chase our dreams no matter what the cynics
00:02:29.660 and the doubters have to say.
00:02:32.320 You will have the confidence to speak the hopes in your hearts and to express the love
00:02:38.920 that stirs your souls.
00:02:41.340 And you will have the faith to replace a broken establishment with a government that serves
00:02:49.720 and protects the people.
00:02:53.160 If they're not coming after me, they're coming after you.
00:02:58.220 I'm just standing in their way.
00:03:02.620 4-3.
00:03:05.620 Today is 4-3.
00:03:07.200 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily, powered by Turning
00:03:13.500 Point USA.
00:03:17.980 2023.
00:03:19.440 I know, Dominique.
00:03:21.140 And, you know, there's certain dates, whether it be a military event or a tragedy, that we
00:03:34.880 always remember when we look back and we say, these are the days that America changed.
00:03:43.080 Because President Trump has not yet been arraigned.
00:03:48.920 But earlier today, I was guest hosting for Charlie Kirk when that motorcade came out, that SUV
00:03:58.280 motorcade from Mar-a-Lago into the airport, and he flew up to New York.
00:04:06.380 And I said, we are witnessing the funeral procession for the Republic.
00:04:13.520 And when you look specifically at that aerial shot, you have to understand that America has
00:04:21.100 now joined a very select club of countries that have arrested a former leader.
00:04:31.800 Countries like, oh, just storied, wonderful countries like Uganda and Nicaragua and Bolivia
00:04:39.020 and Cambodia, countries like, oh, I don't know, the Soviet Union, Communist China.
00:04:45.960 Well, Ukraine, by the way, don't forget Ukraine.
00:04:48.440 I will not be accused of Ukraine erasure around here.
00:04:54.440 Well, so this represents a new day for us as a country.
00:05:01.000 Do we have the Republic that was bequeathed to us?
00:05:06.020 No, we don't.
00:05:10.440 And for a long time, people have said, well, we just got to get back.
00:05:14.760 We just got to get back to the way things used to be.
00:05:17.320 We just got to get back.
00:05:18.260 They're not going back.
00:05:21.120 Okay.
00:05:21.340 You can't just find some, you know, magic lawsuit or find some magic beans or magic dirt
00:05:27.460 or whatever it is to, uh, to turn the country back to the way it used to be.
00:05:33.620 It doesn't work that way, but, but we now can look around and take stock of the country
00:05:43.940 that we currently are and we can decide which road do we want to go.
00:05:48.420 Do we want to continue down this road, the road of authoritarianism, the road of locking
00:05:54.440 up the leaders of the political opposition, or do we want to go down the road of rebuilding
00:06:01.020 America reborn?
00:06:03.640 The anger you feel today is the strength that will fuel you tomorrow as we go through all
00:06:13.000 of our new endeavors, as we go through everything with all that our country has gone through.
00:06:21.320 Now, with the state of affairs of American history, as it's been the world wars, Korea and Vietnam,
00:06:31.720 the civil war, our flag's been through a lot as Johnny Cash once said, and I think she can
00:06:41.860 take a whole lot more.
00:06:43.960 She can.
00:06:44.540 We're not going to let the events of today make us forget what America is all about, what
00:06:53.720 America stands for, and what America is, but at the same time, we're not going to take this
00:07:01.060 lying down.
00:07:02.060 So we're not going to take the bait.
00:07:04.220 We're going to stay peaceful, but we are going to remember this and we're going to respond.
00:07:13.080 Think about it, folks.
00:07:14.520 They want you to be scared.
00:07:16.180 They want you to be terrified.
00:07:17.940 They want you to be demoralized.
00:07:19.240 They want you to be quiet.
00:07:20.120 They want you to be silent.
00:07:21.700 They're the ones who are scared.
00:07:23.540 They're the ones who are desperate.
00:07:25.100 That's why they're doing this.
00:07:26.680 That's why they're doing all of this.
00:07:28.600 And DA Alvin Bragg, with the bodies lying in the streets of New York City, of murder victims
00:07:36.860 piling up day by day by day, he decides to do what with his free time?
00:07:42.680 Oh, he's going to go after Mr. New York himself, a man who was born and made on the streets of 1.00
00:07:52.600 this city where I am right now in New York City, because I have traveled up here and I will be
00:07:57.300 here tomorrow and I'm not going anywhere until this is over.
00:08:02.300 That's a promise.
00:08:03.720 That's a promise I'm making to you.
00:08:06.740 Stay tuned.
00:08:07.140 We're going to go through the rest of this.
00:08:08.540 Human Events Daily continues.
00:08:09.520 So, Donald Trump, I think, has walked back or tried to walk back some of what he's been
00:08:16.520 doing, but he is not going to enjoy the same First Amendment rights of speaking out.
00:08:23.040 If he ends up saying things that are inciting violence, the judge can severely restrict
00:08:29.400 what he's saying as a defendant out on bail, because that judge now has authority over him
00:08:38.020 that's going to obviously annoy Donald Trump to no end, who's not used to having somebody
00:08:44.380 telling him what to do, where the penalty for that can be additional charges or even going to jail.
00:08:50.720 So, the question we have before us, will there be a gag order in this case?
00:08:58.340 Well, I was digging through this and we're looking at Newsweek.
00:09:01.040 What does it say?
00:09:02.220 Gag orders are very common in criminal cases, particularly in cases where there is an enormous
00:09:08.020 amount of pretrial publicity, like this one.
00:09:12.420 The person expected to be responsible for deciding the conditions of Trump's release is
00:09:17.660 Juan Mershon, a New York State Supreme Court justice, who the former president has said
00:09:24.700 hates him and was handpicked by the prosecutors.
00:09:29.640 Others noted that attacking the judge is not the smartest move, et cetera, et cetera.
00:09:33.020 But so, what's really going on with a gag order?
00:09:36.260 A gag order is issued by the court to restrict information being made public about the case
00:09:40.960 it is overseeing, usually designed to prevent the release of information that might alter
00:09:46.300 the outcome of the case or parties from commenting on the case.
00:09:50.000 Under New York law, breaching such an order could be ruled as contempt, which is punishable
00:09:56.640 by a fine of up to $1,000 or 30 days in prison at the court's discretion.
00:10:06.560 They're trying to limit the public's discourse about the case.
00:10:13.100 Limit the public's discourse about the case.
00:10:15.340 Are you kidding me right now?
00:10:17.500 Now, we don't know if this is going to happen.
00:10:18.860 This might come down tomorrow.
00:10:19.860 So, we're told the timeline of things, President Trump in New York tonight, spending the night
00:10:25.180 in Trump Tower, the night in the tower, the night before.
00:10:30.820 And then tomorrow, he'll arrive at the courthouse.
00:10:33.460 We're told around 11 o'clock in the morning here, Eastern time in New York City.
00:10:38.380 Then he'll be there until about three or four.
00:10:41.740 The arraignment itself will take place at the courthouse.
00:10:44.480 I spoke to Gavin Wax of the New York Club, and he said that more than likely, what they'll
00:10:50.040 do is because the processing and the fingerprinting take place in the DA's office, which is just
00:10:56.300 across the street from the courtroom.
00:10:57.800 So, President Trump will arrive there at 11 o'clock.
00:11:00.520 Then he'll use a series of tunnels, which is coerfully referred to here in New York as
00:11:07.120 the tombs.
00:11:07.860 So, he'll be going through the tombs from the DA's office to the Manhattan Criminal
00:11:13.760 Court, where the arraignment will take place at 2.15 p.m. Eastern.
00:11:17.840 He's then expected to leave from the courthouse, go back to his plane at LaGuardia, fly down
00:11:24.320 to Mar-a-Lago, and deliver an address to the nation.
00:11:28.580 None of this has happened before.
00:11:30.360 But the idea that a gag order, which we'll know at that 2.15 arraignment in court, is complete
00:11:37.560 insanity, especially when you're talking about it.
00:11:41.060 They'll say, oh, it's very common in criminal.
00:11:42.900 Nothing about this is common.
00:11:44.700 Nothing about this is common.
00:11:46.520 Not even a little bit of this is common.
00:11:48.300 Look, do you really think that you're going to be able to clamp down on public discourse
00:11:54.000 of this case?
00:11:55.080 Are you kidding me right now?
00:11:56.260 No, of course not.
00:11:59.120 There's going to be nothing but public discourse.
00:12:02.440 It's the most important case in the entire world right now, the entire world.
00:12:09.200 Now, people will say, they'll say, well, what about murder cases?
00:12:12.580 What about rape cases?
00:12:13.360 What about all these other cases?
00:12:14.440 What terrible things are happening?
00:12:15.840 Look, look, I'm saying it's the most important case because it is a case about freedom versus
00:12:23.920 tyranny.
00:12:25.160 Are we going to be a country?
00:12:26.500 And in a sense, we already know, right?
00:12:28.700 In a sense, we already know because the idea that you would take someone who is, even if 0.82
00:12:37.820 you don't like former President Trump, you have to say that he is an individual.
00:12:46.040 He is his own man.
00:12:48.020 Nobody makes up his mind for him.
00:12:49.760 Nobody tells him what to do, what to think, what to say.
00:12:54.440 People have tried and he might listen.
00:12:56.380 Look, I had dinner with him not too long ago and he listened.
00:12:59.700 He's an excellent listener, by the way.
00:13:01.820 Actually, just not on his phone, not focused on anything else.
00:13:05.100 He's laser focused when you talk to him, but he makes up his own mind.
00:13:11.680 He's not one of these people that goes into Google and says, what's the science?
00:13:15.680 What's the, you know, what's the way things are leaning right now?
00:13:19.400 What's the, you know, what's this?
00:13:22.040 What's, no, not even a little bit.
00:13:23.820 He's one of the last people to be able to sit there and say, I disagree.
00:13:30.500 I'm going to do things a different way because I think this is the way to go.
00:13:34.240 And so to take a guy like that and have the full power of the state, of the establishment, of the people who want this to happen behind it, it is insanity.
00:13:49.440 And to think that you're going to be able to put a gag order on this and say, oh, well, you know, it's no big deal.
00:13:55.180 It's common in these cases, prevent discourse.
00:13:58.180 It's a joke, but it's also a trap.
00:14:00.600 It is also a trap because what they want, this judge, we're going to talk about him in the next segment.
00:14:04.740 They want him to be able to do is to come in and say he's broken the gag order and now we can throw him in jail because they want that image.
00:14:15.620 And I ain't talking about one of these mid-journey version five AI pre-created images.
00:14:19.580 No, no, no, no, no.
00:14:20.580 They want the real thing.
00:14:22.640 They want to put a former president of the United States behind bars.
00:14:27.860 Not because they claim he killed somebody, because they hate him and because they will do anything to our country to make their sick, twisted fantasies come true. 0.98
00:14:47.580 And you better learn to embrace the suck because all of this is coming. 0.96
00:14:52.480 We are laying out for you not what we don't want to happen. 0.98
00:14:56.660 Again, I'm explaining to you what I think is going to happen.
00:15:01.080 Stay tuned.
00:15:01.460 We'll be right back.
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00:16:03.960 A lawyer for Mr. Trump saying Sunday that he doesn't believe the judge is biased, but adding that his team will let this process play out and pursue legal options if needed because Mr. Trump's team vehemently believes that this is all political persecution, or, in Mr. Trump's words, a witch hunt.
00:16:23.260 You don't believe this judge is biased?
00:16:24.920 He's pushing out because he's the victim.
00:16:27.140 I have no reason to believe this judge is biased.
00:16:29.140 I've not been before him on this matter.
00:16:30.640 So we have to let this process play out.
00:16:35.260 Last year, this judge who will preside over Mr. Trump's arraignment and potentially his trial, as you said, Mitch, also oversaw the criminal tax fraud case against the Trump Organization.
00:16:44.940 Ex-CFO Alan Weisselberg pleaded guilty in that case.
00:16:48.880 He's currently in prison at Rikers.
00:16:50.740 And this judge is also presiding over a criminal case against former top White House advisor Steve Bannon, who is facing fraud and money laundering charges.
00:17:00.260 Now, Cy Vance, the former district attorney for Manhattan, says the judge is experienced.
00:17:05.160 He's going to want to set a firm trial date.
00:17:07.120 And there are many questions this morning whether this will go to trial before Election Day 2024.
00:17:12.980 So, Juan Mershon, Juan Mershon, the judge handling the case.
00:17:18.960 And here from NPR, and I'll even give NPR a little bit of credit, because NPR even says the judge handling the unusual and historic case.
00:17:30.220 So even NPR admits that this is an unusual case.
00:17:33.260 It makes no sense, because remember, we're told again that it's business fraud because payments that were used, they claim as hush money payments to some stripper using the word of a discredited lawyer and her former discredited lawyer, both of which have been convicted.
00:17:54.180 That's Michael Cohen and Michael Avenatti, that these payments were fraudulent and that the fraud was done to cover up a crime, the crime being that of a campaign finance violation.
00:18:07.020 And because it was a campaign violation, that is actually a felony, which makes it a felony charge.
00:18:12.820 Again, these are all sorts of things that even if it was a campaign finance violation, which it's not, even if it was last year, the Clinton campaign was able to settle a campaign finance violation with paying off a $130,000 fine.
00:18:30.520 Actually, and correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't that about the same amount that we're told Stormy Daniels was paid from the FEC?
00:18:37.720 This is what did Hillary Clinton do? 1.00
00:18:39.260 Oh, she funded the Steele dossier, actual election-related payments, the Steele dossier that was then used to become the Russia investigation, the Russia hoax, which lasted for years.
00:18:50.660 That was a fine.
00:18:51.460 The Obama administration paid the largest, or excuse me, campaign, the Obama campaign paid the largest ever fine in American history to the Federal Elections Commission for over $1 million of a fine for wrongfully recording payments and donations that were made to the campaign, not a criminal charge.
00:19:14.700 So again, let's look at this judge.
00:19:18.240 Now, of course, here we go.
00:19:19.580 Here we go.
00:19:21.460 NPR back at it.
00:19:22.600 Oh, Juan Manuel Marchand, a veteran of the New York high court system, who has spent more than 15 years on the bench and is no stranger to high-profile prosecutions, particularly those involving Trump and his associates.
00:19:39.820 What do we mean by this?
00:19:41.660 Last year, Marchand oversaw the closely-watched criminal tax fraud case against Trump's company, the Trump Organization,
00:19:49.480 where these entities controlled by President Trump were found guilty of 17 counts of tax fraud and falsifying business expenses, and again, in order to pay a penalty, a $1.6 million penalty.
00:20:03.740 And these were over these cases of benefits, fringe benefits that were given to employees, expenses that they were able to take, which is honestly, to be fair, pretty common stuff, especially for New York City and for companies there.
00:20:22.860 These are cases that would never, these are paper cases that would never, ever have been brought had he not run and won for president in 2016, and we're talking about running for president again.
00:20:34.680 Former Trump Organization chief financial officer, Alan Weisselberg, pled guilty in the case, served as the star witness, and even then, the judge handed him a five-month prison sentence, same judge, Juan Mershon,
00:20:53.560 and actually said that he would have handed him down a harsher sentence if he hadn't already agreed to the plea deal, according to Politico.
00:21:04.740 Mershon is currently also overseeing the criminal case against who? Steve Bannon.
00:21:10.880 You guys remember Steve Bannon. You've heard of him, right?
00:21:13.520 He's the host of a little TV show called The War Room here on Real America's Voice.
00:21:18.360 Of course, Bannon is facing, quote, fraud and money laundering charges related to the We Build the Wall situation.
00:21:25.860 Again, we would never know this, but let's go through, we would never have been talking to any of this stuff if it wasn't for Trump.
00:21:32.320 According to New York Law Journal, Mershon has been an acting judge of the New York Supreme Court since 2009.
00:21:38.980 People are saying he's smart, serious, and even-tempered.
00:21:42.880 Of course, that's NPR's, you know, setup.
00:21:45.700 He doesn't let prosecutors or defendants create any issues in his courtroom.
00:21:50.300 He doesn't let a media circus or any kind of circus happen.
00:21:53.860 So he doesn't let a media circus happen.
00:21:56.680 What do you think this case is, NPR?
00:21:59.660 What do you think we're here?
00:22:00.600 The whole thing is a circus.
00:22:02.380 It's a three-ring circus, and Juan Mershon is the ringmaster right now.
00:22:08.160 Not even Alvin Bragg, because Juan Mershon has the ability to look at these, he could look right now at these charges, and he could say, this is a joke, this is political, and he could dismiss it.
00:22:22.100 He could dismiss it right now if he didn't want the media circus.
00:22:24.800 And all of this would go away, and President Trump could hop back on that plane, fly right back to Mar-a-Lago, and perhaps, perhaps, we could start to try to go back to the country that we used to be.
00:22:38.320 But let me tell you something.
00:22:39.200 This judge, he's not going to do that.
00:22:41.700 He wants to play out the entire thing.
00:22:45.740 This judge is going to let it go all the way through.
00:22:51.140 And to be honest, I don't even know if there's a single judge in America that would do differently.
00:22:55.720 Maybe some of the very older judges.
00:22:57.440 Maybe someone like the judge that Kyle Rittenhouse had in his case.
00:23:01.580 Someone who actually understands the values of this country.
00:23:05.360 Someone who understands the history of American law.
00:23:08.800 And someone who could look at this and say, this is clearly being brought for political purposes.
00:23:15.700 You are not, you are not even coming close to satisfying any of the merits of the allegations that you allege here.
00:23:27.060 You certainly don't have evidence that it was covering up a crime.
00:23:29.720 You certainly don't have the ability to trump this up to a felony.
00:23:32.560 And that should, by the way, we'll see what happens with the president's legal team.
00:23:38.020 But the very first thing they should do is focus on that felony charge and try to knock that down.
00:23:44.760 Because it is the absolute weakest link.
00:23:47.440 And even CNN, even the New York Times, Maggie Haberman, they've all pointed that out.
00:23:52.120 So we'll see.
00:23:53.300 But folks, just as we close out here, remember.
00:24:01.200 There are times in life where you get a gut punch.
00:24:05.020 But it's also a gut check.
00:24:09.400 You need to take it, breathe in, and decide whether you're going to go down or whether you're going to keep fighting.
00:24:17.360 I'll tell you something.
00:24:18.860 I've already made my decision.
00:24:20.840 And I'm not going to stop.
00:24:23.000 Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay ashore.
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