Special counsel Jack Smith is now asking the Supreme Court to decide a question he says is at the heart of American democracy, whether Donald Trump is protected by presidential immunity. Harvard University President, Claudine Gay, is awaiting a decision on whether or not she will be dismissed from her position. President Biden has a full day of meetings with the full Senate, Speaker of the House, and Vice President Biden today, seeking more aid from the U.S. in the Ukraine crisis. Special counsel Jack S. Smith is circumventing the traditional appeals process in his criminal case against the former president, calling it a matter of "imperative public importance." A Satanic altar is on display in the Iowa State Capitol.
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00:20:27.960We're talking here with Darren Beattie.
00:20:29.540Now, Darren, intersectional politics are in a free fall.
00:20:33.000Biden standing is in absolute free fall.
00:20:35.140Young Americans are completely turning against him in droves.
00:20:40.760And so the crackdowns on President Trump and President Trump supporters are increasing.
00:20:46.640Now, I was with the president, a number of others, on Saturday night in New York City.
00:20:52.100Major Gala was held in the very room where Hillary Clinton declared Trump supporters in half the country to be deplorables.
00:20:59.500From the same stage where she said that, Trump delivered a strong missive saying that he will take back the White House in 2024.
00:21:08.240Now, we've been focused a lot on the civil trial, the fraud trial going on in New York State.
00:21:15.340But the Jack Smith cases are still going on.
00:21:18.620And we're now hearing that there's this urgent extreme direct order to the Supreme Court with Jack Smith regarding, I believe it's this insurrection case, the Jan 6 case.
00:21:28.720Tell us what's the status of this and what are the stakes?
00:21:30.680Well, the stakes are tremendously high for a number of reasons.
00:21:36.380First of all, it's one of the major criminal cases against Trump and, therefore, one of the major vehicles that the DOJ and the regime more broadly is trying to use in order to triple Trump's otherwise seemingly smooth path to another term in the White House.
00:21:56.140You know, it's clear at this stage, given what the polling reflects, not just in terms of the primary, but even in the general election, unless there is some kind of extraordinary extra intervention on the part of the regime, Donald Trump could very well become the next president.
00:22:18.380So this is one of the major points for that, but it's more than that, because what it effectively is, is an attempt to criminalize what they would call disinformation in relation to the 2020 election.
00:22:35.340It's effectively saying Trump's effort to enforce election integrity or get to the bottom of things or to reflect his actual understanding of what happened, that that's effectively illegal, which is a very bizarre position to have, a very dangerous position to have.
00:22:53.580And, of course, if they're right here, it sets the precedent in advance to criminalize any attempt to question whatever tricks they have up their sleeve for 2024.
00:23:06.640You know, it's very strange to me as well, because they're going into this Supreme Court decision on the question of presidential immunity.
00:23:13.500And one of the arguments that Trump's defense team has made, and it's a strong one, by the way, the idea that the president is immune from actions taken during his, at least immune from criminal prosecution for actions taken as president.
00:23:29.940Now, of course, we look at these because we understand that actions taken in the course of his duties as president are rectifiable, of course, by the process of impeachment.
00:23:40.840This is what it's in the Constitution. It's very clearly defined.
00:23:44.040And in fact, he was impeached for this. The impeachment failed and he was able to he was able to sustain.
00:23:49.160He was not convicted. And so when it goes to the Supreme Court, does this really set a new standard whereby in any president could be potentially arrested or indicted for actions taken within office that previously would have fallen under impeachment jurisprudence?
00:24:05.780Yes. And that's another aspect of this.
00:24:07.980There are actually quite some interesting and striking similarities between this criminal case and the criminal case that we've discussed extensively against Doug Mackey, a.k.a.
00:24:20.340Ricky Vaughn, for the tweet mocking Hillary Clinton, for which he was found guilty and faces seven months in prison,
00:24:27.500because there is no clear delineation of the scope of the statutes that they're enforcing these conspiracy against rights that this, you know, where does that end?
00:24:42.020There's no clear delineation whatsoever.
00:24:44.240So under this type of innovation, potentially any president and presumably any Republican president can simply expect to be indicted on the basis of whatever the Democrats decide that they don't like under the basis of this broadly construed conspiracy against rights argument.
00:25:03.560So, yes, I think the fate of this case is intertwined with the question of whether this type of hyper aggressive anti-democratic lawfare will simply become a part of our politics indefinitely, which is to say we have no politics in the ordinary understanding of the term.
00:25:23.520Well, and this, of course, and this came up in the Bannon case as well, where he's been sentenced to four months in prison.
00:25:35.200Matt Gaetz made a joke the other night about how War Room Prison Break is going to be the next iteration of the War Room podcast, possibly the best one, War Room Prison Break, when Steve Bannon breaks out of prison for four hours a day to continue to host the War Room and then return back in.
00:25:52.040But this was because he essentially called presidential exemption over his testimony to the Jan 6th committee because this has been a precedent for a very long time that the legislature does not have the separation of powers issues here.
00:26:12.000That the legislature doesn't have the ability to go to the president's inner circle or the president's staffers and constantly haul them up and ask them about private conversations with the president.
00:26:23.260And were they to do so in this, this element is very similar to presidential immunity because it would essentially freeze the role of the presidency to allow them to conduct their business.
00:26:35.520And it would negate the power of the president to begin with.
00:26:38.960So what I see here are separation of powers issues from the legislature on one hand and the judiciary on the other.
00:26:47.220Absolutely. That's one of many problems with this.
00:26:50.920So it's is a complete sham case. And I think it bears mentioning kind of interesting that the judge in this case has an interesting provenance and is known for being especially aggressive when it comes to January 6th cases.
00:27:08.920Incidentally, I think she is responsible for sentencing who Tina, the alleged or maybe convicted Russian spy, but is very much an enforcer for the Democrats ideological narratives at the intersection of Russia hysteria and anti Trump.
00:27:32.200So that's another kind of interesting thing. And also she happens to be of the same type of extraction as Kamala Harris, Jamaican and also Afro-Indian, which is an interesting overlap.
00:27:48.200Well, and didn't, didn't Joy Reid also say, and by the way, I covered that Maria Patina case, even after she had been held in solitary for such a long time in the courtroom.
00:27:59.080And so got to, got to actually be with her, see the judge there in the courtroom, covered the Bannon trial.
00:28:04.440Usually I cover pretty much all the trials actually now that I think about it, but Joy Reid actually said something about how this was, and I'm paraphrasing, I don't have the exact quote in front of me, by the way, executive privilege.
00:28:14.040That's what I was talking about for Bannon. She said it was almost demographic justice for Donald Trump, demographic justice that he was facing a judge with the background that you just described.
00:28:27.720What does Joy Reid mean when she says that?
00:28:30.580Well, it's interesting that she would say that. I mean, there are a number of different ways to cut this question.
00:28:37.040Of course, what she means is this intersectional point that, you know, Trump represents, you know, the bad white guy.
00:28:46.640And here we have a woman person of color. You know, she, this one presumably is not gay, but, you know, nobody's perfect.
00:28:55.980Not everybody can be the Harvard president who is the black woman, a lesbian, who's actually named gay.
00:29:07.640Not everyone gets that perfect resume, but at least in the case of the judge here, you get a lot of intersectional point, black and a woman,
00:29:19.880and of course an enforcer for the Democrats and going against Trump. But from another perspective, it's interesting that Joy Reid would say that because she is black American interaction.
00:29:32.040And it's interesting that for, you know, the DEI paradigm tends to recruit a lot of recent immigrants to serve as sort of functional comissars and tend to leave.
00:29:46.140You mean like Barack Obama and Kamala Harris?
00:29:49.040And the judge in the Trump case, Chetka, whatever her name is.
00:29:54.780Tanya Chutkin. It was demographic reality. That's what Joy Reid said, by the way. I pulled it up.
00:30:00.280August 4th, he's facing demographic reality because his judge is a Jamaican woman of color.
00:30:07.620See, I was told all of that was a conspiracy theory.
00:30:09.800Given that formulation, I would unfortunately have to agree with her.
00:30:15.920This is, he is facing the demographic reality. She's absolutely right.
00:30:21.180Everyone needs to read Bonfire of the Vanities or watch the movie because you will understand exactly what's happening to Donald Trump right now.
00:30:33.620Darren Beattie, final word, one minute. Where can people go to follow you and give us your final word on this?
00:30:40.400Absolutely. Go to revolver.news. We've got some hot news stories up. We're covering everything.
00:30:46.620And I'm on Twitter at Darren J. Beattie. And people love our Gitter account as well at revolver.news. So stay tuned. A lot more comments.
00:30:57.360I see you have a, I see you have a review up. There's a new Barack Obama-backed Netflix movie that talks about the world falling apart because of white people.
00:31:05.960Apparently. Go check that story out. Revolver.news. Yeah, that's who's causing the world to fall apart, people.
00:31:11.740It's the white people. It's Big Whitey who's behind everything.
00:31:16.980Jack Posobiec. Stay tuned. Come back with more on the satanic display in Iowa.
00:31:21.600Evita Duffy joins us around the bend here at Human Events Daily.
00:31:25.060And Jack, where is Jack? Where is Jack? Where is he? Jack, I want to see you.
00:31:38.060Great job, Jack. Thank you. What a job you do. You know, we have an incredible thing.
00:31:43.040We're always talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys, and these are the guys who should be getting Pulisic.
00:31:48.800All right, Jack Posobiec back here, live, Human Events Daily, Washington, D.C.
00:31:55.540Now, I may be in Washington, D.C., but something you may not know about, and certainly if you follow me on X or anywhere, you've heard me talk about this,
00:32:04.180and apparently I'm one of the only conservatives in the entire country who wanted to make this a national issue,
00:32:09.260but guess what, boys and girls, we are going to.
00:32:11.080Up at the Post Millennial, Governor Kim Reynolds in Iowa is now under fire because of a satanic idol and ritual altar are on display at the Iowa State Capitol this Christmas time.
00:32:25.120And I put up on X.com that this statue of Bamafet, the pagan demon, who is one of the lieutenants of hell,
00:32:35.600one of the lieutenants of Satan, is now publicly displayed this Christmas in the Iowa State Capitol.
00:32:41.300Iowa, we're told, is one of the most conservative Christian states in the nation.
00:32:45.540We're told Kim Reynolds is one of the biggest defenders of Christianity, and this is what's up at our Capitol right now.
00:32:53.420So according to many people who are very upset that I've talked about this,
00:33:01.140they've community noted me, and they said the Iowa Capitol is controlled by an Iowa legislature, not Governor Reynolds.
00:33:08.820The Department of Administrative Services manages access for displays at the Capitol,
00:33:13.040which are open to anyone through an application process and do not discriminate on the basis of religion or ideology.
00:33:19.700And so we have this situation where conservatives and Republicans are defending a satanic ritual display put up by a group of people who are not, by the way, religious in any way.
00:33:33.620They call themselves the satanic temple.
00:33:35.200They're a bunch of Reddit LARPing atheist neckbeards.
00:33:39.600But I wanted to bring on my favorite anti-communist, Evita Duffy, a writer at The Federalist, to kind of break this down.
00:33:45.080Because, you know, Evita, we always say that the communists are really satanists, and boy, it just seems like they're just really doing it all out in the open now, isn't it?
00:34:04.100They actually say that the satanists, the satan temple, that they don't actually believe in satan.
00:34:09.120So to say that they're going to display something in a public area on religious grounds is ridiculous because they self-admit that they're actually not a religion.
00:34:18.120But then the other thing is, of course, what do we want to promote as a society, right?
00:34:22.520Are we a country founded on Christian values or not?
00:34:27.320And the founding fathers, they talked a lot about this.
00:34:30.700They didn't want corruption between a church and the government where there was, you know, like in the same way that we would oppose, you know, crony capitalism, right?
00:34:39.420Having corruption between the church and the state.
00:34:42.900But they also really valued Christian values, right, and a moral society.
00:34:47.840And so they would never have greenlit a satanic display in a public building.
00:34:54.580They would never want to promote that to the public.
00:34:57.180And I like that you brought up the communist aspect of this because that's really where all of this is rooted in.
00:35:04.060Like I said, it's not a real religion.
00:35:05.900They are very much a religion of Marxism, right, of modern leftism.
00:35:12.160They have seven tenets, the satanic temple.
00:35:14.700One of their tenets is the struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
00:35:22.040Essentially, what that is, is all of BLM, right, is everything the left does, the excuse getting rid of morality, moral, right?
00:35:29.580This is moral relativism of throwing out laws and norms and rules for whatever pursuit of justice that they deem.
00:35:37.360Marxism exists and these groups exist to pervert, overthrow and destroy the social norms of whatever country they target.
00:35:46.680So in this country, because a place like Iowa has a Christian heritage and a Christian background, what do they do there?
00:35:57.140So we are dealing with communists here who are using Satanism and using our tolerance and using our values and using our libertine nature because of this strand of conservatarianism, which has taken over, really just taken over the Republican establishment, which has taken over so much of the conservative movement.
00:36:15.580And it's very clear, and I think it's so great that you are able to identify this for exactly what it is, Evita.
00:36:23.080You see it so clearly because they are just naked communists, and all they wanted to destroy it, they would tear down statues of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Teddy Roosevelt and all of our founding fathers.
00:36:36.200And they would put up temples and statues and ritual altars to Bama Fett.
00:36:40.380But, Evita, what is it about our leaders?
00:36:43.820Why won't Kim Reynolds or just anyone in her office put out a tweet or put out a statement, pick up the phone and say this should be taken away, this shouldn't be displayed in our state capitol where children might be visiting during Christmastime?
00:36:57.060Why is it that they're so terrified to pick up the phone or even just call on the police and have this thing hauled out?
00:37:03.640Yeah, I think that they don't really believe in anything.
00:37:06.000I think that's the problem with a lot of Republicans.
00:37:07.820They're people that are attracted to power, right, attracted to going into office, but they don't really have the authentic conservative and Christian values that our country was founded on and that we need people to actually be emulating as we're fighting these political and spiritual battles in America.
00:37:23.740When we talk about this Satanist movement, right, it's not they actually say it's not really about Satanism.
00:37:29.920It's it's about justice and it's about opposing Christianity and Christianity is is the most essential, you know, warding of Marxism across the world.
00:37:41.700Right. We talked about the Spanish Revolution all the time that there was a reason that the communists are always target number one.
00:37:47.460Right. They want to get rid of the Catholic Church. They want to get rid of religion in general.
00:37:51.920And so that's why they want to put themselves on display during Christmas.
00:37:55.780So at a time where we're always remembering the birth of Christ. Right.
00:37:58.960And we have these beautiful manger scenes and Christmas lights and all.
00:38:03.040This is what they this is what they do. And to have leaders that in France, in France,
00:38:07.600Robespierre was not stopped until he marched Carmelite nuns, the Carmelite nuns and massacred them in public in Paris under the guillotine.
00:38:18.940And he did it under the color of law. He said it was a legal execution where he was chopping the heads off of the Carmelite nuns in the square.
00:38:27.420And there were people running around saying, well, it's it's it's by the letter of the law, so we should let him do it.
00:38:32.560That was finally the point where Robespierre was taken out. But they got to the point.
00:38:37.360It got so bad that he was executing Carmelite nuns.
00:38:40.640So if you don't believe that we are on a slippery slope right now and we are in the midst of spiritual warfare,
00:38:44.900then you need to understand your history. You need to listen to Evita Duffy because all of this has happened before.
00:38:51.140Yeah, I mean, and I don't it really bothers me when we have politicians who don't understand the spiritual underpinnings of of what of what the Satanists are doing.
00:39:00.120Right. But what the left is doing in general, you can actually make parallels to what's happening in college and universities.
00:39:04.500Right. All of the universities where these were founded by by the Catholic Church, frankly,
00:39:08.420but all of them were were overwhelmingly Christian until very recently.
00:39:12.260Suddenly they become secular and we have all these fake fields of studies propping up.
00:39:16.100Right. You have fat studies. You have critical race theory, disability studies, feminism.
00:39:20.780These aren't real fields like physics or or chemical engineering or mechanical engineering.
00:39:25.220These are these are these are Marxist masquerading as as as real fields.
00:39:30.760This is the same thing that's happening now. This is Marxism masquerading as a religion.
00:39:34.280And because we're all moral relatives, relativists now, we have to just accept them as as OK in our society.
00:39:39.820When back in the day when we actually knew who we were and we had a Christian identity,
00:39:43.620this never would have been able to to to to be allowed in a state capital. Right.
00:39:48.820This is a symbol of how far we've descended into irreligiosity and lost our identity as a people.
00:39:57.100And when you lose your identity as a people, that's when really, really scary things start to happen.
00:40:01.460For over 150 years in the United States from our founding, the people who wrote the First Amendment itself would have never agreed to something like this.
00:40:10.800And in fact, the state legislatures around the country that ratified the Bill of Rights and ratified the Constitution itself all had or by vast majority had blasphemy laws on the books,
00:40:23.740which obviously attacking Christianity, this this Temple of Satan, they are an anti-Christian hate group.
00:40:30.300But let's say that let's say that you and I wanted to put together a group that was attacking, you know, attacking the Jewish faith or the Islamic faith or Hindus or Buddhists.
00:40:40.020And we tried to put our display up there. We would be laughed out. We'd probably be arrested.
00:40:44.700We might even get, you know, in trouble for even just mentioning it here because everybody would know that.
00:40:48.940But it's only Christianity that's allowed to be mocked like this.
00:40:51.440It's only Christianity that we see now state sponsored, state sponsored displays attacking Christianity in state capitals under.
00:41:00.780And this is what this is what is so important.
00:41:02.840That's why you need to listen to Avita Duffy, that there are Republicans sitting back and letting this happen.
00:41:08.340There are Republicans in complete vapor lock.
00:41:10.520And when you push against them, they give you these glib answers about, oh, well, religious freedom, religious freedom.
00:41:15.960It's not a religion. It's not a religion.
00:41:17.520They tell you, go to the website, read their readings.
00:41:20.000Avita Duffy's done it. She's got the seven tenets right there.
00:41:59.980Jack Posobiec here, live Human Events Daily, Washington, D.C.
00:42:04.300We're in Washington, D.C., but I'm talking about what's going on in Iowa.
00:42:09.120In the Midwest, the American heartland right now is currently under siege by a satanic entity, a satanic ritual altar.
00:42:20.600That's being displayed, full display, at the Iowa State Capitol, full state backing.
00:42:25.840And we're told that we have to do this because it's their religion.
00:42:29.500And even though the group that's putting it up is just basically some red atheist LARPists who have no LARPers, who have no actual physical place whatsoever.
00:42:37.560And by the way, so we see the satanic temple putting up these ritual altars in the Iowa State Capitol.
00:42:44.200They're creating after school Satan clubs all over the country down in Texas, the satanic temple.
00:42:50.200But this is all just a massive communist project, a massive communist leftist project to completely pervert our culture by going after our heritage and our values.
00:42:59.420They're now challenging the heartbeat bill, demanding they should have religious exemptions for it because they've also decreed this is down and they're trying to take it to the Supreme Court.
00:43:08.680They're trying to make it so that they can get an exemption for abortion because they claim that abortion is a satanic ritual of theirs down in Texas.
00:43:17.360Evita, what is wrong with our leaders that they can't simply call this out for what it is and fight back?
00:43:24.080Why are they so terrified by this ideology of being obsessed with doing nothing and not actually fighting for our culture?
00:43:34.060I think that there there's a there's a problem within the right to sort of take take cues from the left that they've sort of destroyed.
00:43:43.520Right. What it means to be a be an American.
00:43:46.420They've they've said that we're not a we're not a Christian nation anymore.
00:43:50.460They they've they've they've twisted things and Republicans have now reverted to just slowing down the process of of progressivism instead of actually embracing the opposite of that, the conservatism, the Christian values that our country was founded on.
00:44:03.760And here's the real problem with what the satanic temple and what leftism in general is presenting to us, because if we deny God in our founding and the Christian values that we were founded on.
00:44:13.380Right. We're endowed by our creator, we're certain inalienable rights. Where do those rights come from then?
00:44:18.180And if they don't have if they don't have a real founding, if it was it was based off of a lie of some sort of figment of of the founding father's imagination, this this, you know, sky God or whatever that's actually fake,
00:44:30.440then you don't really have the inalienable rights at all because they weren't based off of anything.
00:44:34.300And then rights start to become taken down, right, and dismantled in the name of justice, which is actually what the satanic temple says they want to do.
00:44:42.100They want to get get rid of all laws and norms as long as it's for the purpose of of of justice.
00:44:47.900And this is where society starts to be dismantled and go into complete anarchism.
00:44:53.100This is this is full, full chaos that we're facing and that Republicans can't see the the the end game of all of this is really, really disturbing.
00:45:04.800Well, I can see it right here, because this is the.
00:45:10.960This is the wages of sin, because you have allowed yourself to be deceived by worm tongued liars and slick arguments, people who are being completely deceptive with their language, saying and turning around.
00:45:24.600And I've even seen someone I've even seen someone on this this representative, John Dunwell, and he's got like a thousand word thread and he's been arguing with people.
00:48:06.860I don't know if we can fix our leaders so much as we have to go even farther back.
00:48:11.720We have to take your kids at a public school is the first thing, right?
00:48:14.660This is where the Satan clubs are happening.
00:48:16.380They've taken prayer out of school and then they have implemented after school Satan programs.
00:48:20.640And then at the same time, they're getting cultural Marxism implemented into math and science, critical theory into into all of these, you know, subjects that are supposed to be just about learning.
00:48:32.880So go taking your kids out of out of the the indoctrination machines in public and public schools, sending them to Christian universities.
00:48:41.840That's really the only the only thing I can see we can do.
00:48:44.240And the problem that we're facing now is people are going to become even more unhappy than they already are.
00:48:49.300Right. We have depression, suicide, anxiety.
00:48:51.700It's it's it's it's out of control for a lot of young people.
00:48:54.380When you even further take religion and purpose and morality out of out of people's lives, things get even worse.