Episode 106 - Woke Rioters Escape Justice in Portland. Big Tech Attacks Ric Grenell. Anarchists' Kidnapping Plot Shut Down by Trump DOJ.
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Summary
Joe Biden gets home field advantage from the depths of his own basement in a virtual debate. A man who was supposed to deliver mail to a polling place instead faces one count of obstruction of justice and could be sent to prison for a crime that could have been committed in 1929.
Transcript
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You all were not telling the truth and you should not be trusted.
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Congressman Matt Gaetz, thank you for what you did for your country tonight.
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Be offended with the Democratic whip, not House of Republicans.
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Welcome to Hot Takes. I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz.
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The Presidential Debate Commission, unyielding in its demand that the debate be a virtual meeting of the candidates
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rather than the live and in-person debate that the president has requested
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and that the commission originally contemplated.
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But Joe Biden, presumably getting home field advantage from the depths of his own basement,
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I was on the Sean Hannity program last night to discuss. Take a listen.
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You reported on the Commission on Presidential Debates, Sean,
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and I have to say the Commission on Presidential Debates looks more like a boring Washington, D.C. dinner party
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I would almost rather let the cast of Love Island set the rules for the next debates.
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And of course, the commission, which represents the elite,
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wants to give Joe Biden the home field advantage of a Zoom call from his own basement.
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But when the jobs of Americans are on the line, when our national security is on the line,
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And whether people like or dislike the president, they can see from the debates
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he is a person in command and he will fight with everything he has
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for the great people of this country, for our success and our enduring prosperity.
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And it's true that the Presidential Debate Commission is a biased organization.
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Check out the recent story in revolver.news highlighting the associations and relationships
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that even the purported Republicans on the Presidential Debate Commission
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have to sum up the top color revolution organizations linked to the Steele dossier and more.
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the Commission on Presidential Debates is little more than a commission to real elect Joe Biden.
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And I think that that would be a fair criticism.
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The Revolver News piece criticizes Frank Ferenkopp, the co-chair of the Commission on Presidential Debates.
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And while at first glance, it might appear that he's a Republican Party type guy,
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he is long associated with the groups that curated, disseminated, shared, reviewed the Steele dossier,
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specifically the International Republican Institute linked to well-famed, neoconservative John McCain.
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And the president also, I think, is correctly focused on having a fair debate.
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He joined us on the Sean Hannity program to discuss that matter and much more regarding his health and the country.
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But, no, I'm not interested in doing a virtual—I'm not Joe Biden.
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I'm not going to do a virtual debate, sit behind a computer screen.
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And that gives him the answers because they'll be handing him the answers, just like he gets when he asks—
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He does them, and they give him the answer, and they give him the question, and they give him what kind of a news conference.
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I don't mean because he's with me and he's my friend and he's done a great job as vice president.
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A lot of people have said that for a long time.
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And he was just—he couldn't believe some of the things she was saying.
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I got the biggest tax cuts ever given, as you know, Sean, better than probably most.
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But he's going to end those tax cuts and reverse them, and now people are going to pay $2,000 plus child tax credits, all that.
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It's going to put our country into a depression.
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And your 401ks are going to go down the tubes, and your jobs are going to go away,
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and you're going to have a depression the likes of which our country has never seen before, and that possibly includes 1929.
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Mail-in balloting is continuing to show its frailty.
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This news comes out of Channel 8 ABC in Newark, New Jersey.
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U.S. postal worker in New Jersey arrested, accused of dumping mail and election ballots.
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There were hundreds of pieces of mail, about 100 ballots that a 26-year-old New Jersey resident was supposed to deliver,
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and instead faces one count of obstruction of the mail.
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Well, that could be as much as a $250,000 fine and six months in prison.
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So we'll continue to follow the story, but here in New Jersey, yet another example of mail-in balloting,
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showing that it's no panacea, that really, honestly, the best way to vote may be live and in person.
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Now, for those who request a ballot, receive a ballot, return a ballot, can verify the receipt of that ballot,
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that it's been properly voted, like for those in the state of Florida,
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I think this still can be very much a reliable system,
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but in New Jersey and in places where ballots are just being sent out indiscriminately,
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we really may have a question about the legitimacy of the vote,
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and that's why we must watch things very carefully and report when we see suspicious activity like this.
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It looks like President Trump will be cleared for public events as soon as Saturday.
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The physician, Dr. Sean Connolly, writing a memo to Kayleigh McEnany,
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since returning home, his physical exam has remained stable and devoid of any indications to suggest progression of illness.
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Overall, he's responded extremely well to treatment without evidence on examination of adverse therapeutic effects.
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Saturday will be day 10 since Thursday's diagnosis,
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and based on the trajectory of advanced diagnostics the team has been conducting,
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I fully anticipate the president's safe return to public engagements at that time.
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Safe return to public engagements by Saturday, direct from Dr. Connolly.
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Great to see our president doing so well and so eager to get back to fighting for our great country.
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Another story we've picked up from one of our favorite aggregators at Revolver.News
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shows the extent to which people participating in these riots and protests are able to do destruction
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and not face any consequence, not face any real accounting for the damage that they would do to other people.
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The story in Revolver.News shows that while wildfires have ended Portland's streak of nightly demonstrations,
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police still arrested more than 200 people the other night.
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Indeed, most of the suspects had their charges dropped or dismissed, some as soon as the day after their arrest.
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As of October 5, charges had been dropped in around 90% of the cases stemming from September's protest activity.
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90% of the cases where there had been an arrest, and remember, there weren't even arrests in every circumstance
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where there was arson or violence or destruction of property or harm to our fellow Americans.
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But even in the cases where there was an arrest, here now this analysis showing as much as 90% of the charges
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And I want to take this moment to just stress the importance of voting.
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Now, I know plenty of people who live in states where they just think,
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oh, well, my vote doesn't matter because maybe I live in a really blue state and I intend to vote red,
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Well, you know, up and down the ballot, there are people running for everything from state attorney
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to city council to mayor, and we need votes for people who I think understand the difference
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between the American way of life and this violent, dangerous mob that we've seen in places like Portland.
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And so, you know, please get out and make sure that you're supporting the candidates
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that support our brave men and women in law enforcement,
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and that we do not allow the destruction that we saw in Portland to spread to our great nation.
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Something big is happening, or maybe not happening,
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in the Trump administration's fight against big tech tyranny, big tech bias,
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and it's a bias against free speech and an exchange of ideas.
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I have long said that Congress will not regulate big tech because Congress is bought off by big tech
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through political donations, PAC fundraisers, but also you have members of the families of lawmakers
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And so, obviously, you're not going to see entities regulated where they have such a grip
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on the people who could do the regulation in elected office.
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That's why I've advised President Trump to use his appointment powers to the Federal Election Commission,
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the Federal Communication Commission, and get people on those entities that will demand
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the transparency and accountability, and that will bring the might of our government to bear
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on behalf of our people, not these big tech oligarchs.
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President Trump is set to nominate an FCC commissioner, Nathan Symington,
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who isn't part of the big tech mafia in Washington.
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Breitbart News has a good story that we'll share on social media.
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Lobbyists nervous about Trump's FCC nominee, and by all accounts, they should be nervous
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because in Mr. Symington, you have someone who I think is prepared and capable to take
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Tucker Carlson had commentary on this and a good amount of criticism for those who are
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unwilling to take up and vote on this nomination.
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Republicans still control the Senate, so you would imagine they'd be busy confirming the
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president's nominees while they're still able to.
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In some cases, they are blocking conservatives from getting appointments, even now.
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A month ago, the president nominated a man called Nathan Symington to serve on the FCC.
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If you're worried about the unchallenged power of big tech, and you should be, you ought to
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They are hoping instead they'll be able to confirm a Joe Biden appointee next year.
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The president has complained about this, including on Twitter, but they've ignored him.
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The next time you hear Republicans in Washington pretend that they care about free speech,
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pretend they're going to do something about the shocking abuse of the tech monopolies.
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Right now, they have a chance to help fix that problem, but they're refusing to do anything.
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The FBI has thwarted an attempt to kidnap the governor of Michigan.
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The president had strong and colorful reaction to this, tweeting,
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Governor Whitmer of Michigan has done a terrible job.
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She locked down her state for everyone except her husband's boating activities.
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The federal government provided tremendous help to the great people of Michigan.
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My Department of Justice and federal law enforcement announced today that
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they foiled a dangerous plot against the governor of Michigan.
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Rather than say thank you, she calls me a white supremacist, while Biden and Democrats refuse
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to condemn Antifa, anarchists, looters, and mobs that burn down Democrat-run cities.
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Defending all Americans, even those who oppose and attack me, is what I will always do as your
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Governor Whitmer, open up your state, open up your schools, and open up your churches.
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Some in the media were quick to blame the president for the effort to kidnap the governor of Michigan
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So because they were white males, they obviously had to have every negative thought, feeling,
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or plan they've had inspired by President Trump.
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He showed some of the video of one of the planners, one of the perpetrators.
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And it amazes me that people actually believe that when he's shown over and over and over again
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Every single person that works for government is your enemy.
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Governor Whitmer likely owes the president an apology for blaming him.
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It was the president who stepped in, fought against these anti-government anarchists, the
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same type of anarchists who are burning our cities and causing harm to our people.
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Thank you, President Trump, and let this be a reminder, perhaps not to just jump to conclusions
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based on someone's gender or the color of their skin.
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Former Acting Director of National Intelligence, my good friend Rick Grinnell, posted an image
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of the ballot fraud, the ballot mismanagement in the mail-in system going on in California.
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He showed how the right mail, the right ballots weren't being sent to the right people,
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That's right, Breitbart has the story, Twitter locks out account of Rick Grinnell over voter
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Twitter locks out account of the former Acting Director of National Intelligence after he
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shared an image of ballots sent to him by a friend living in California who says they
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were addressed to his parents, who he claims have been dead for 10 years.
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So folks who have been dead for 10 years get ballots sent to him.
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Rick Grinnell exposes it, and then Twitter locks him out of his account.
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This is proof that big tech is putting their thumb on the scale.
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They're trying not to arbitrate the truth, but to hide the truth.
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Thank you, Ambassador Grinnell, for getting the information out before the people.
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We need to take action to make sure that the big tech oligarchs cannot limit what people see
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and analyze to draw their own conclusions about the world around us.
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