EPISODE 437： WE MUST BUILD THE NEW AMERICAN REPUBLIC
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Donald Trump was arraigned on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the First Degree, a charge that carries a penalty of up to five years in prison. Former New York City attorney general Eliot Spitzer joins host Alex Castellanos to discuss the details of the case, and what we can learn from it.
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Donald Trump was arraigned on a New York Supreme Court indictment, returned by a Manhattan
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grand jury on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.
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Under New York state law, it is a felony to falsify business records with intent to defraud
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34 false statements made to cover up other crimes.
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These are felony crimes in New York state, no matter who you are.
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We cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct.
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What about what you saw inside the 34 counts and how they structured it as you look on
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the inside and as it became aware, as you became aware of it, what was your take on the
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But what what really wasn't expected is that we're going to hand down an indictment without
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specifying what these alleged underlying crimes were.
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So every single count in this indictment, all 34, the same thing.
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That would not be within the statute of limitations.
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We don't even know if the felony is in the statute of limitations, but the misdemeanor would
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So in order to make this a case that can survive a test of those statute of limitations, they
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And so the way they they ramp up a misdemeanor false, false crime business records charged
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to a felony one is to say that it was with intent to defraud or intent to commit another
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crime made and conceal the commission of another crime.
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Are they doing it to some other state New York law?
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I mean, if you read this indictment, they could be doing it to a drunk driving case.
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I mean, honestly, that's how how vague this thing is.
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You know, I got a lot of people asking me, Poso, what do we do after the events of yesterday?
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You know, I know because in 2016, I was there at the Tower, D.C., all across the country, Cleveland.
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All throughout the administration, I was there.
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I've explained to you what's going on every step of the way.
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Explaining to you what was going on on the ground, calling out the lies in real time from the steps of the art museum.
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And now here we are again, 2023, New York courthouse.
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And many, many freedom-loving patriots were all there.
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We go forward by building the new American republic.
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You know, I hear so many people saying, you know, I want to go back to the old republic.
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I want to go back to the way of doing things in the past.
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Remember, we have the Constitution and things just seem to work so well and people would follow the rule of law.
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How does it work when you got a guy like Alvin Bragg who doesn't even understand the concept of the phrase rule of law?
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Who doesn't even understand abstract concepts like justice or fairness?
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How does a guy as unimpressive and stupid, just dumb, as Alvin Bragg get into Harvard and then Harvard Law?
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And the Supreme Court has a case coming up later this year specifically on the question of Harvard and how they've been letting people into their school.
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When you've got people like Alvin Bragg, lawyers, judges, an entire class of people that don't look at law as if it's the culmination of our civilization, they look at it as if it's just another tool to wield against their opponents.
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That's how you get people that look to use the legal system, the criminal justice system as a cudgel against their opponents.
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And that's obviously what George Soros has done here by backing people like this.
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Exactly the kind of thing that happens in Gotham City.
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So, of course, we see it happening in New York City.
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And we were talking about that when I had Gavin Wax and I was guest hosting for Charlie Kirk earlier this week on Monday, where you had this amazing city, this incredible city like New York.
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And how a guy like Donald Trump, way before he was president, years and years before, started investing back in New York in the 70s, rebuilding in the 80s.
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Giuliani comes in the 90s, starts cleaning everything up, brings back law and order.
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And suddenly they turn Manhattan into this amusement park, Times Square, into this amusement park that it is now.
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But suddenly the people that are running that same place are now turning against the very people that made it that way.
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Out of fear of what happens if, quote, those people get back in power again.
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Well, I have a message to the Alvin Braggs and the George Soros's and the Biden family and all the Clinton family and the rest of them.
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In fact, we are now sooner than ever to being back.
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And when we are back, we are going to remember how you acted when you were in power.
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with me. I'm the one for you. So that was video recorded by producer Meech was played everywhere
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yesterday. I don't believe that Meech has, uh, filed for any copyright claims or anything like
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that, but that was recorded from Meech reporting for human events daily yesterday in the New York
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park right outside the courthouse there where what you're viewing is that's actually two reporters
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essentially going at it where the guy with the boom microphone is. And again, we're told because
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we're still kind of in the fog of war on a lot of this, that he is a staffer, an employee for CBS
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news and the independent journalist, the person that he's assaulting and screaming that he will
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kill. He said, I will kill you is or in Levi, who is an independent journalist who often tweets
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viral clips under the handle viral news and why see. And this is of course we, so we wrote it up
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over at post-millennial and, and as you can see, the large man is grabbing and shoving Levi while
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reportedly screaming, don't F with me. The two men are separated. He's, he threatens him. He threatens
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to kill him. At that point. He returns. We're told with a member of the CVS crew, Roxanna Sabiri,
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uh, who was also there. Now this footage was caught on multiple, um, you know, from, from multiple angles.
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Uh, Ford Fisher has an angle. There's other angles that Oren has been posting himself. A lot of people
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can see this. And what's very interesting is that, and there are some questions as to his identity
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and we're, I'm not going to say his name or the name that we think now, because we haven't been
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able to independently verify it, but it seems this, I mean, obviously CBS knows who he is.
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He's an employee of theirs, but CBS news hasn't put out a statement on this whatsoever. So keep in mind
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that we were told that the Patriots who were there, the conservatives who were there, the America
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first supporters who were there, we're going to be violent. We were told they were the ones who were
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going to be rabble rousers called out Marjorie Taylor green. And the rest of us called out by
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mayor Eric Adams. He said, I heard a bunch of rabble rousers are coming to the city. I don't know why
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he's a Texas accent, but just go with it. I heard a bunch of rabble rousers were coming to the city
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to spread misinformation. Well, I'll tell you something. We don't take kindly to that in New
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York state. Really? You don't take kindly to that in a city where there's blood running through the
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streets because of the amount of murders are going up so bad. You know that by the way, Eric,
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do you know that you're being, being compared to Dinkins at this point with the amount of homicides
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that are going on in your city? They're saying as bad as it was when Dinkins was in, that's how bad
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you are, Eric. But I'll tell you something else, Eric, you weren't there, Eric yesterday,
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because you would have seen this and you would have seen that this was violence, not by any of
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any of the political protesters, believe it or not. And, and I gotta be, I gotta be honest.
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I was walking now to be clear. I did not go over, right? I did not go over and get in the face
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of any of the Antifa guys there. Cause I look, look, we got a situation on our hands.
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I got a job to do. I knew where I was going to be. If you want to come over and find me,
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come over and find me. But I was walking around all day. Uh, crackhead Barbie or whatever her name
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is, came up and asked me if I wanted to smell her diaper. So, uh, that was interesting. That was a
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thing that happened. And by the way, Meech also filmed that because here's the thing about Meech and a
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lot of these, the new generation of culture warriors, the new generation of information warriors
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understand. It's something that I wrote about in my second book, 40 warfare. And I explained the
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rules for a new generation of political warfare was that you need to be filming everything. When
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you were at this stuff, you need to be always rolling. So producer Meech had the wherewithal and
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you can go follow him at Meech memes. He had the wherewithal to have his camera in his hand
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to turn it on and hit the record button because, and I'll just say it, I'll just say it. Meech
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flew all the way across the country from Phoenix, Arizona to New York city in order to cover this
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event, to produce the show, to show all the shows that we did from there, not just to everything that
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we were doing and also reported on it. At the same time, Savannah Hernandez was on the other side of
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the park, but you have to understand that when you see something, you need to film something.
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It's not enough anymore to say, Oh, I was there and I saw it. Look at Kyle Rittenhouse. You think
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Kyle Rittenhouse got off because of the law? You think Kyle Rittenhouse got off because of the media?
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No, he got off because independent media was there filming every single step. He took that night in
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Kenosha because when Kyle Rittenhouse showed up, that's on footage. When Kyle Rittenhouse was being
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assaulted by that mob being chased down and they were trying to kill him, that's all on video.
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BG on the scene, Richie McGinnis, Julio Rojas, and of course our own Drew Hernandez were all
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there that night filming it, being able to give testimony later. The fact that it was all on film
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left the jury with no other option. They had to find him not guilty because they could see the truth
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And I never thought anything like this could happen in America. Never thought it could happen.
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The only crime that I have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who
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So, what's interesting, looking at this case from a legal perspective, because now we have to actually
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turn to the law of this. And DA Alvin Bragg, the idiot that he is, Fat Alvin, has really done,
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and it's amazing because you can actually see that even on the left, Andy McCabe, you remember him,
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the disgraced Andy McCabe, fired from the FBI by Trump. Even he was saying that he was disappointed
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by this case because CNN had been hyping this thing up all day, saying there was a smoking gun,
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there was a secret. They were trying to actually say that there was a secret indictment, something
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that was going to come out, some piece of a smoking gun that would even be far beyond what we knew.
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You know, Bill Maher and Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears had an exchange on Bill Maher's show about
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this over the weekend where Bill Maher was saying, you know, was asking her, what are your comments
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on the indictment? And Winsome Sears, Lieutenant Governor, very pathetic showing on her part,
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as a matter of fact, very weak, very cautious, very timid, terrified, honestly, is how I would
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describe her in this because she says, well, I'm not sure, but I think we need to wait and see.
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And even Bill Maher takes umbrage at that and he says, what do you need? Wait and see. We kind of
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know what the indictments are going to be. This has all been reported. And Winsome Sears, she's
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another one of these just, and I'm sorry, it breaks your heart and the establishment will do this every
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time. She just says, oh, let's wait and see. I'm not really sure what it's going to be, what's going
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to be in there. CNN, you know, and she's playing into this narrative that there might be another shoe
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to drop, that CNN might have something. And I'm sorry, but this type of loser mindset is why
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conservatives have lost for so many years in this country. You can win elections, but you lose the
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country on the ground because you don't say wait and see. You don't play along with these idiots and
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their silly games of there being a secret smoking gun. They have nothing. This is all hype. Look at
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that guy, Alvin Bragg. The only thing that can, that guy can hide from himself is I'm not going
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to say it, but there's probably something very close to him that he hasn't seen in a very long
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time. So we've got people, we've got people from on the right. People are not even necessarily Trump
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supporters, both Jonathan Turley and Andy McCarthy saying, look at this in the New York post,
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Bragg's case against Trump is utterly incoherent. Alvin Bragg alleges that Donald Trump defrauded
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voters into electing him president on November 8th, 2016. Alvin Bragg also alleges that the first
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crime Donald Trump committed occurred on February 14th, 2017. Are you seeing the problem here? There
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may not be enough space in the megaverse to describe the sundry flaws as from McCarthy in the
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Manhattan district attorney's indictment against the former president of the United States. It fails
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despite the 34 counts to even state a crime. In fact, the crimes that it seemed to be counted here
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are time barred under there beyond the statute of limitations. Bragg is attempting to enforce
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either federal election laws that a state prosecutor lacks jurisdiction to enforce or state election
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laws that do not apply to U S federal elections. The indictment is utterly incoherent. Uh, Bragg deduces
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that Trump was a thief who stole the election by sinister fraudulent schemes. The scheme Bragg accuses
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Trump of carrying out prior to the 2016 election are non-disclosure agreements, hush money deals
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to silence people who were otherwise poised to reveal information that would have damaged him
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politically. Yet there's nothing illegal of NDAs. They're a staple of cynical civil litigation and
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private negotiations. And while some of the underlying, uh, information if revealed, uh, presumably
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would have portrayed president Trump in an unsavory way. None of that information in and of itself
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involved illegal activity. In fact, to the extent anyone was on the edge of a crime,
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it would be the crime of blackmail and Trump being the victim of said, said crime, because these NDAs
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happened while people were making extortion threats to humiliate him. If they did not get their paydays,
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people like stormy Daniels, people like Karen McDougal and all of these others that come around,
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they are the ones running. Cause every time stormy Daniels runs out of money, what's she going to
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do? She's going to go and try to squeeze Trump. She's going to go try to squeeze him. Now I'm not
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saying, I'm not saying that what she says is true, but what I am saying is she knew that she had a card
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to play and she's going to play it for all it's worth. And folks, that's why you don't let people like
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that into your orbit. And then, so, so brag again, he knows that none of this is crimes.
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So he's making up crimes to fit his fever dream of a stolen election in 2016 by taking a single
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transaction, Trump's reimbursement to Michael Cohen of the 130,000 of Cohen paid to stormy Daniels,
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um, and slicing it into 34 transactions, which it wasn't each of which he brands a felony.
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Uh, he's got this, like this crazy flow chart up there and, and we're looking through it that no
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one was actually harmed by this. Obviously there's no, there's no victim of this crime.
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They're, they're talking about bookkeeping. Uh, and then again, we're also told that the payments
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didn't occur until February 14th through December 5th, meaning after the election. So he's got no
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jurisdiction. It would be, it would be the FEC that would have jurisdiction yet. They passed on this.
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It don't pass the test. Alvin Brett guys. We read this the right way last week.
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Brad couldn't get this past the grand jury. They were going to fold it in. And then, you know,
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what happened? A little thing called Nashville and not just a little thing. And I don't mean to be
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excited to that. A massive thing, the massacre of innocent Christian children in Nashville, Tennessee,
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America's heartland by a crazed transgender leftist. And suddenly they had to change the narrative
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and suddenly just like that magically overnight DA Alvin Bragg finds the votes. Not the first time
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someone magically found votes in New York city and the indictment comes through right. As we were told
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everybody was going to be leaving for a month because the indictment makes no sense. And even
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lawyers are pointing out it makes no sense. And this judge, now we know this guy's a liberal.
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He's going to let it go for it. He should throw it out. This case will be overturned on appeal.
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Alan Dershowitz has said as much on Charlie Kirk earlier today. And so what are we to make of this?
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It's simple. They have nothing. They're trying to stop the people of this country from taking back power
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and they are using any means at their disposal. You're being told you're not allowed to think these
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things or like these people. Well, you know what? We can see you, Alvin. In fact, it's hard to miss you.
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Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay short.