Supreme Court rules that the President has immunity from criminal prosecution as long as he is not involved in certain activities that a normal person would be. But what does this mean for the rest of the country? And why is Joe Biden lying about this decision and why the media and the left are lying about it? In this episode, I explain why the left is lying and why they are trying to delegitimize the decision by trying to smear President Trump as being a crook and a criminal, and why Trump should not have immunity from prosecution at all. (Note: This episode was recorded before the Supreme Court's decision was released, so some parts of the discussion may not make sense unless you ve read the decision. I am not a lawyer, I am a layperson, and I have no idea how to read a law book. I just know that the law is not black and white, and the law does not say that a person can be a criminal even if they are involved in a crime. ) in this episode of the podcast, I discuss why the Left is lying about the decision, why they don t understand the law, and how they are just not smart enough to understand it, and what they should do about it and how to get it right so they can try to make sense of the decision and not get it wrong including the dissent from Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who does not seem to be an intelligent person or do they know what they re talking about it, at least not even about the law . but they re not even enough to read the law? the problem is that they are not even trying to understand the decision they re just not getting it right? and they re lying about what they are talking about it s just not understanding the law or they re trying to do not even reading the law and not even getting it properly that they re making any of it right, they re wrong about it ? this is not even doing it right at all, is just not doing it? or are they trying to be smart about it at all are they even listening to the law at all they re doing it correctly really not even listening is it really trying to get the law right, are they ? or not trying to make it right or not understanding it or correct at all?
00:00:00.000So yesterday, pretty much all hell broke loose.
00:00:03.000It didn't break loose because of a Supreme Court decision.
00:00:05.000It broke loose because the left has decided, along with the media and the Democrats, but I repeat myself, to lie about the Supreme Court decision in order to revive the flagging hopes and dead body of Joe Biden.
00:00:17.000Yesterday, the Supreme Court released a decision about presidential immunity.
00:00:21.000Now this decision, of course, is rooted in Donald Trump filing a lawsuit to stop the various Jack Smith lawsuits against him.
00:00:27.000His claim was that as President of the United States, no matter what he did while he was President of the United States, he has full immunity from criminal prosecution.
00:00:40.000The idea that the President of the United States is never, for any activity, able to be criminally prosecuted is really silly.
00:00:45.000If the President of the United States decided that in his home, in the White House, he was just going to murder a maid, for example, could he be criminally prosecuted?
00:00:54.000However, there is the idea that the President is, in fact, criminally immune from certain activities that a normal person would not be.
00:01:01.000So, for example, if I authorized somebody to go kill somebody abroad, I'd be criminally liable for that.
00:01:07.000If I'm President of the United States and, as Commander-in-Chief, I authorized SEAL Team 6 to take out Osama bin Laden, I'm not going to be criminally liable for that.
00:01:15.000So there's plenty of stuff that the President of the United States has to be able to do in order to ensure the functioning of the executive authority of the United States.
00:01:22.000The President does have outsized powers under our Constitution.
00:01:29.000That is not the way that immunity works.
00:01:31.000And that's basically what the Supreme Court found.
00:01:34.000So in order to understand why the left is lying about this decision and why Joe Biden is lying about this decision and the political games that are now being played, you have to understand the decision itself from the Supreme Court.
00:01:43.000So I'm going to go through that decision in a little bit of detail because the sort of final effect of this as far as President Trump Is that there are a couple of charges that Jack Smith has been pursuing that are basically DOA.
00:01:54.000And then there are several charges that are not DOA and that will likely be upheld when this thing is reverted back to the D.C.
00:02:01.000Circuit Court of Appeals because that's effectively what the Supreme Court did.
00:02:42.000He is not one of the more right-wing Members of the federal judiciary.
00:02:45.000Remember, it was Justice Roberts who saved Obamacare way back when.
00:02:49.000Justice Roberts has a view of the court that it should be minimalist in how it approaches decisions.
00:02:54.000It should draw decisions as narrowly as possible.
00:02:56.000So in this particular case, he said, OK, we're going to try to create some sort of system, some sort of framework for thinking about when the president is immune from criminal liability and when he is not.
00:03:05.000But we are going to restrict our judgment to very specific aspects of the charges being brought against Trump.
00:03:11.000We're going to say only a couple of these.
00:03:14.000And the rest of this stuff, we're going to push back to the courts.
00:03:16.000That does not sound like President Trump or any other president has endless immunity.
00:03:21.000The kind of immunity that the dissent in this case suggests.
00:03:24.000The dissent is written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who writes all of her opinions in CRAN because she is not an intelligent person and apparently does not know how to read the law.
00:03:35.000As it turns out on Twitter, pretty much nobody knows how to read the law or they're just lying about it.
00:03:40.000By my count, about 80% of legal analysts on Twitter fail basic reading comprehension.
00:03:45.000Another 17 or so percent succeed in understanding the decision, but then lie about it.
00:03:52.000So the Supreme Court starts its decision by defining the crimes for which Trump is being charged.
00:03:56.000And they essentially break them down into five categories.
00:03:59.000One, he tried to get state electors to change their votes.
00:04:02.000Two, he organized fraudulent state electors.
00:04:05.000Three, he tried to use the DOJ to conduct what Jack Smith called sham investigations, meaning investigations into electoral fraud that were really poorly based and resulted in nothing.
00:04:17.000Four, he tried to persuade Mike Pence to alter the results.
00:04:20.000And five, he tried to convince members of Congress to delay certification.
00:04:25.000Now, all those things, in my opinion, are morally wrong.
00:04:29.000That does not mean that they are legally criminal.
00:04:32.000And that's particularly true if you're President of the United States.
00:04:35.000Because as the court points out, you're the head of the DOJ.
00:04:38.000There are only three branches of government, not four.
00:04:40.000The DOJ is not an independent branch of government.
00:04:42.000The Department of Justice works for the President of the United States.
00:04:45.000If the President orders the DOJ to go ahead and investigate a thing, It is the job of the DOJ to go ahead and investigate the thing.
00:04:52.000So that falls within his purview of authority.
00:04:54.000Okay, so we'll get to how the actual ruling affects these various cases against Donald Trump.
00:05:00.000Well, this Supreme Court decision is really important.
00:05:02.000The Supreme Court actually made another decision last night about social media companies.
00:05:06.000They didn't come down hard on these social media companies.
00:06:24.000We conclude that under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature
00:06:28.000of presidential power requires that a former president have some immunity from criminal
00:06:32.000prosecution for official acts during his tenure in office.
00:06:36.000At least with respect to the president's exercise of his core constitutional powers, this immunity must be absolute.
00:06:41.000As for his remaining official actions, he is also entitled to immunity.
00:06:44.000At the current stage of proceedings in this case, however, we need not and do not decide whether that immunity must be absolute or instead whether a presumptive immunity is sufficient.
00:07:01.000The answer is, again, the executive has to be able to function in the constitutional order.
00:07:07.000So as the Supreme Court writes under Justice Roberts, a president inclined to take one course of action based on the public interest may instead opt for another, apprehensive that criminal penalties may befall him upon his departure from office.
00:07:17.000And if a former president's official acts are routinely subjected to scrutiny and criminal prosecutions, the independence of the executive branch might be significantly undermined.
00:07:25.000The framers' design of the presidency did not envision such counterproductive or burdens on the vigor and energy of the executive.
00:07:31.000The court also said there are in fact countervailing interests at stake when it comes to say criminal
00:07:35.000liability. Quote, we must however recognize the countervailing interest at stake. Federal criminal
00:07:39.000laws seek to address a wrong to the public as a whole, not just a wrong to the individual. There
00:07:43.000is therefore a compelling public interest in fair and effective law enforcement. The president
00:07:47.000charged with enforcing federal criminal laws is not above them.
00:07:49.000So in other words, the president is not above the law, but there are core constitutional functions where the president is immune.
00:07:53.000So for example, you could not bring a criminal prosecution against Barack Obama for droning Anwar al-Awlaki despite the fact that he's an American citizen overseas because he was a terrorist.
00:08:04.000Okay, so for all the Democrats who are freaking out today, and as we will see, claiming that Donald Trump now has the capacity to activate SEAL Team 6 to kill his political opponents.
00:08:13.000By the way, if Donald Trump had that authority, the current president is Joe Biden, so he could do that to Trump today.
00:08:17.000I noticed that Joe Biden isn't doing that because he doesn't believe this, because no one believes the claims the left are making about this particular case.
00:08:24.000But the actual person being protected here on this score would actually be Barack Obama for droning people like Anwar al-Awlaki.
00:08:31.000So here is how this actual decision breaks down.
00:08:35.000There's an excellent flow chart that was put out by a group called Just Security, run by Ryan Goodman.
00:08:44.000And here is sort of how this decision breaks down.
00:08:48.000So there are effectively two types of conduct that the president can participate in.
00:08:53.000One is official conduct and one is unofficial conduct.
00:08:55.000So unofficial conduct, we have the president stopping an intern, right?
00:09:30.000That'd be like pardon power or firing people who work in the executive branch or controlling recognition on the determination of foreign countries, right?
00:09:39.000That stuff that is like core presidential power.
00:09:41.000So if the president decided tomorrow to recognize an independent state of Kurdistan, he couldn't be criminally prosecuted for that.
00:09:46.000For example, he would have absolute immunity.
00:09:49.000And then there's a second type of official conduct.
00:09:53.000And that would be official actions with presumptive immunity.
00:09:56.000So this would be kind of like the confusing gray area.
00:10:00.000So let's say that the president, for example, is pressuring Vice President Mike Pence to change the electoral scheme.
00:10:06.000So the president very often has conversations with the vice president about a wide variety of topics.
00:10:10.000That in and of itself is in fact official conduct, but he's pushing the vice president to do a thing that is plainly not inside the constitutional structure.
00:10:20.000And not only that, If you prosecute the president for that, is that going to impede the functioning of the president on a go-forward basis, right?
00:10:38.000There is no case you cannot prosecute the president.
00:10:40.000Presumptive immunity means that we can presume the president has a certain level of immunity, but that can be overcome by a showing.
00:10:46.000That prosecuting the president on a particular charge does not in fact threaten the functioning of the constitutional structure.
00:10:54.000So here's what the Supreme Court writes.
00:10:56.000When it comes to absolute immunity, quote, the president is absolutely immune from criminal prosecution for conduct within his exclusive sphere of constitutional authority.
00:11:03.000Again, that would be like the president telling the DOJ to investigate a thing, right?
00:11:08.000That's a core constitutional function.
00:11:10.000You may not like what he does, that's a core constitutional function.
00:11:13.000That's how it shakes down in terms of the Trump case.
00:11:16.000Then you have those remaining official actions with presumptive immunity.
00:11:19.000And here's what the Supreme Court writes about that.
00:11:21.000Of course, not all of the president's official acts fall within his conclusive and preclusive authority.
00:11:26.000As Justice Robert Jackson recognized in a case called Youngstown,
00:11:29.000the president sometimes acts pursuant to an express or implied authorization of Congress
00:11:33.000or in a zone of twilight where he and Congress may have concurrent authority.
00:11:37.000Taking into account these competing considerations, we conclude the separation of powers principles
00:11:42.000explicated in our precedent necessitate at least presumptive immunity from criminal prosecution
00:11:46.000for a president's acts within the outer perimeter of his official responsibility.
00:11:50.000Such an immunity is required to safeguard the independence and effective functioning of the executive branch and to enable the president to carry out his constitutional duties without undue caution.
00:11:59.000Indeed, if presumptive protection for the President is necessary to enable the, quote, effective discharge of his powers when a prosecutor merely seeks evidence of his official papers and communications, it's certainly necessary when a prosecutor seeks to charge, try, and imprison the President himself for his official actions.
00:12:13.000Okay, so, again, this category, which is presumptive immunity, can in fact be overcome by a showing That the president's functioning will not be impeded by the prosecution of the president.
00:12:27.000So in this category, for Trump, would probably fall his pressure on former Vice President Mike Pence.
00:12:32.000So I would assume that the appeals court in D.C., Chupkin, is going to find that that charge is totally fine.
00:12:37.000That you can charge Trump with pressuring Pence to overrule the electors.
00:12:41.000Because that's not within his sort of official capacity to the extent necessary to provide him absolute immunity.
00:12:48.000So they remand this to lower courts for explication.
00:12:52.000Saying, as we explain below, the current stage of the proceedings in this case does not require us to decide whether this immunity is presumptive or absolute.
00:12:59.000Certain allegations, such as those involving Trump's discussion with the acting Attorney General, are readily categorized in light of the nature of the President's official relationship to the office held by that individual.
00:13:07.000Other allegations, such as those involving Trump's interactions with the Vice President, state officials, and certain private parties, and his comments to the general public, present more difficult questions.
00:13:16.000Although we identify several considerations pertinent to classifying those allegations and determining whether they're subject to immunity, that analysis is ultimately best left to the lower courts to perform in the first instances.
00:13:29.000It means that certain of these charges are going to get thrown out, like the DOJ charge, but a bunch of other charges not.
00:13:34.000A bunch of other charges are likely to be preserved against Donald Trump criminally.
00:13:38.000Now, in terms of timeline, because this is now going to get remanded back to the lower court, that means that the timeline here is stretched.
00:13:44.000That means Trump is not going to get charged on any of these criminal activities.
00:13:47.000He's not going to go to court on any of these criminal activities, alleged criminal activities, until after the election, which is why the left is so all fired mad.
00:13:53.000So the timeline on Trump's trials has now been moved out, which is good for Trump's election, but listen, the amount of uncertainty in the world right now is insane.
00:14:00.000Saudi Arabia, for example, recently ended its 50-year petrodollar deal with the United States that has the potential to weaken the U.S.
00:15:33.000Unable to muster any meaningful textual or historical support,
00:15:37.000the principal dissent suggests there is an established understanding
00:15:39.000that former presidents are answerable to the criminal law for their official acts.
00:15:43.000Conspicuously absent is mention of the fact that since the founding, no president has ever faced criminal charges, let alone for his conduct in office.
00:15:51.000Accordingly, no court has ever been faced with the question of a president's immunity from prosecution.
00:15:56.000All our nation's practice establishes on this subject is silence.
00:16:00.000And now, why exactly The Supreme Court has to write all of that?
00:16:27.000It suggests that core official authorities of the President of the United States are immune from criminal indictment.
00:16:34.000Non-core official activities are subjected to presumptive immunity that can be overcome by showing that you're not harming the constitutional order by criminally indicting the president.
00:16:44.000And then there are unofficial acts in which the president can be indicted willy-nilly.
00:16:48.000That seems like a fairly rote and along the basic lines of logic decision.
00:16:54.000That's not how Sonia Sotomayor takes it.
00:16:56.000She decides to go absolutely hog-wild nuts over this thing.
00:17:00.000Well, because she's a militant left-winger.
00:17:02.000And so her goal is to suggest that the Supreme Court has now given the president, presumably Donald Trump, even though he's not the president right now, absolute criminal immunity for literally everything, which is clearly not what the Supreme Court is doing.
00:17:17.000So here's what she writes in her unhinged dissent, and it is totally unhinged.
00:17:21.000I mean, this lady needs some Thorazine.
00:17:25.000She says, Today's decision to grant former presidents criminal immunity reshapes the institution of the presidency.
00:17:30.000It makes a mockery of the principle, foundational to our constitution and system of government, that no man is above the law.
00:17:35.000Relying on little more than its own misguided wisdom about the need for bold and unhesitating action by the president, the court gives former President Trump all the immunity he asked for and more.
00:19:07.000Let him exploit the trappings of his office for personal gain.
00:19:09.000Let him use his official power for evil ends.
00:19:12.000Because if he knew that he might one day face liability for breaking the law, he might not be as bold and fearless as we would like him to be.
00:19:23.000Orders Navy SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival?
00:19:26.000Okay, so the President has a conver- Let's take this to its logical conclusion using the model that we have set up under the Supreme Court majority.
00:19:32.000The President does speak to the military.
00:19:34.000The military does control SEAL Team 6.
00:19:36.000So, that, in and of itself, is inside the official act.
00:19:39.000However, The president ordering them to do something blatantly illegal like murder his political opponent?
00:19:46.000Prosecution of that crime would certainly overcome any presumptive immunity the president has in ordering his political rival to be killed.
00:19:53.000In fact, if the president were not, in fact, criminally indicted for ordering his political rival to be killed, then that would threaten the constitutional order.
00:20:06.000If they believed this, Joe Biden would have put out the hit on Donald Trump yesterday.
00:20:08.000He already authorized his DOJ to try and jail his political opponent.
00:20:13.000Notice the reversal that's taking place.
00:20:15.000Joe Biden's DOJ is trying to jail his political opponent in an election he is losing.
00:20:19.000And now, his suggestion is that if his opponent wins office, then somehow Joe Biden's gonna be driving down the street, and Donald Trump's gonna hit him with a drone.
00:20:27.000I'm sorry, this is ridiculous garbage.
00:20:30.000Sonia Sotomayor concludes her bizarre and nonsensical dissent, quote, never in the history of our republic has a president had reason to believe that he would be immune from criminal prosecution if he used the trappings of his office to violate criminal law.
00:20:42.000Moving forward, however, all former presidents will be cloaked in such immunity.
00:20:45.000If the occupant of that office misuses official power for personal gain, the criminal law that the rest of us must abide will not provide a backstop with fear for our democracy.
00:20:54.000I noticed something about the Our Democracy crowd.
00:20:59.000The Our Democracy crowd is perfectly willing to destroy the Supreme Court wholesale, as we'll talk about in a moment.
00:21:04.000They are perfectly willing to jail their own political opponents.
00:21:07.000They are perfectly willing to get rid of the Electoral College, stack the Senate, Use the administrative state in order to cram down a bunch of unconstitutional trash and avoid the actual edicts of the Supreme Court, the Our Democracy crowd.
00:21:18.000I noticed they don't seem to give a crap about democracy or the workings of the government.
00:21:22.000But now they're saying that the Supreme Court has given the president ultimate authority to murder his opponents or something.
00:21:29.000Democrats keep pretending that they give a damn about democracy.
00:21:32.000They don't care at all, which is just another reason why, for example, they've allowed crime to explode in all of our major cities, which is a reason that you should check out the Bernaless Lethal Pistol Launcher.
00:21:41.000It was developed by a team of common-sense gun owners who understand the importance of having choices.
00:21:45.000They engineered the Bernal Launcher as a powerful tool for self-defense, allowing users to de-escalate threatening situations without having to resort to deadly force.
00:21:52.000I'm about as pro-Second Amendment as it gets.
00:21:57.000If, God forbid, I have to react inside my own home, it would be nice to not have to actually, you know, kill somebody because that comes with legal consequences.
00:23:10.000The fear mongering is about to begin, at least from my perspective, and not because it's a matter of Um, making people scared for no reason, like trying to scare them about the diversity that exists within who I am.
00:23:25.000But scaring them because they literally are allowing him the ability to kill someone.
00:23:37.000And by the way, if Democrats really believed that, then they would be pushing Joe Biden to murder Donald Trump today because they really hate that guy.
00:23:42.000AOC, the irrepressibly stupid bartender, she put out a tweet saying,
00:23:46.000The Supreme Court has become consumed by a corruption crisis beyond its control.
00:23:50.000Today's ruling represents an assault on American democracy.
00:23:52.000It is up to Congress to defend our nation from this authoritarian capture.
00:23:55.000I intend on filing articles of impeachment upon our return.
00:24:00.000Again, these people pretending they give two good goddarns about democracy is really, really amazing.
00:24:07.000Adam Schiff, who himself attempted to undermine our democracy by lying for literally years that the Russians had captured our democracy, he put out a very long statement, deliberately misinterpreting the Supreme Court decision.
00:24:17.000Quote, effectively giving a president's immunity for any crimes
00:24:23.000committed while in office, as long as that president can plausibly claim the action
00:24:26.000was taken in some form of official capacity. It must now be presumed the president as king is
00:24:31.000immune from accountability. The rule of law applies to everyone except the most powerful person
00:25:02.000A president like Donald Trump next year, or whoever the president is, can take a blatantly illegal act, slap the label, hey, this is an official act, and write that in the preface to whatever the heck he's doing.
00:25:14.000And now we're going to have to have hearings and so on.
00:25:16.000before district judges and then appeals to determine whether it's truly an official act or not.
00:25:22.000If you're a Democrat who's running for the president, your path right now is clear.
00:25:27.000You have to run against the Supreme Court. You have to run against this decision.
00:25:32.000This is not America. If you want to make America great again, you got to return to the rule of law.
00:25:37.000This decision today, unfortunately, is a blueprint on how to end the rule.
00:25:42.000Are you are a blueprint on how to end the rule?
00:25:46.000Now again, the reason they're doing this, this has nothing to do with the law.
00:25:49.000This has nothing to do with the decision.
00:25:51.000I read you large chunks of the decision.
00:25:53.000That's clearly not what the decision says.
00:26:04.000They have to proclaim that the end of the Republic is nigh.
00:26:07.000They are just going to rev into high gear the entire Biden argument that January 6th represents an existential threat to the Republic and therefore the only person who can stop Donald Trump right now is Joe Biden and you have to vote for him even though he's addled with dementia.
00:26:21.000That is literally what this is all about.
00:26:23.000This whole thing is just about Joe Biden being a failed presidential candidate.
00:26:26.000If Joe Biden were leading in the polls, everybody would be like, okay, well, this seems like kind of another decision.
00:26:30.000If Joe Biden were up 10, nobody would care because this is a very rote, non-particular, non-controversial decision, frankly.
00:26:38.000Of course, the president has some level of criminal immunity for core official act.
00:26:42.000Of course, that immunity is not unending.
00:26:45.000There could be official acts in which the presumption of immunity is overcome.
00:26:50.000And of course there's unofficial action by the president.
00:26:52.000Again, why this distinction is somehow controversial is beyond me.
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00:27:52.000If there was no inflection point, Joe Biden's going to lose the election.
00:27:54.000So what they have to do is they have to say, the threat now really revved into high gear.
00:28:00.000The reason they have to do that, of course, is because Joe Biden died physically during a debate.
00:28:03.000So because Joe Biden died physically during a debate, you can't claim that Donald Trump is such a threat to the Republic that Joe Biden has to be elected because the polls are out post-debate and they are very, very bad for Joe Biden.
00:28:14.000According to the current polling data, Donald Trump is now up 4 in Pennsylvania.
00:28:18.000He is now up in New Hampshire, a state the Republican has not won in 20 years.
00:29:40.000So, the Democrats were trying to find some excuse for putting Biden back on the public stage to speak in a way that people would hear him.
00:29:48.000So they decided that because they have to play up this new inflection point, this false inflection point, they're gonna trot out Joe Biden.
00:29:54.000Now, they apparently also decided to go with Donald Trump's makeup artist, so they spray-painted this dude orange.
00:29:59.000And then they put him out there to read from a teleprompter for four minutes.
00:30:04.000And let me just explain to Democrats, you are not going to answer questions about the president's obvious dementia by putting him out there to read from a teleprompter somewhat credibly for four minutes and four seconds and then having him totter out the back while his aides close these giant wooden doors behind him without taking any questions.
00:30:23.000If the question about Joe Biden is, does he have the stamina and mental capacity to be president of the United States, a four minute demagogic speech in which he barely appears to be being held up by strings like a marionette.
00:30:36.000Jill Biden apparently is above him with the actual marionette strings.
00:31:26.000The presidency is the most powerful office in the world.
00:31:28.000for 10 minutes. He did not. He went for four minutes and four seconds, which is what normal
00:31:33.000healthy presidents do, by the way. And then he took no questions. By the way, the first
00:31:36.000question yelled to him as he exited the podium was, are you going to drop out of the race?
00:31:40.000So it didn't work. So here was Joe Biden trying to demagogue his way to the White House.
00:31:45.000The presidency is the most powerful office in the world. It's an office that not only
00:31:50.000tests your judgment, perhaps even more importantly, it's an office that can test your character.
00:31:57.000Because you not only face moments where you need the courage to exercise the full power of the presidency, you also face moments where you need the wisdom to respect the limits of the power of the office of the presidency.
00:32:10.000This nation was founded on the principle that there are no kings in America.
00:32:15.000Each, each of us is equal before the law.
00:32:42.000And by the way, if there's anyone who's ever been in love with executive authority, it's this guy who has signed more executive orders than any president in modern history.
00:32:49.000It's this guy who tried to use OSHA to cram down a VAX mandate on 80 million Americans, who spent the last several years trying to end around the Supreme Court, declaring that even though they have said he is not allowed to magically get rid of student loan debt, he can just do it.
00:33:42.000Again, the point he's making is you have to elect me because the Supreme Court won't stop President Trump from droning people, but I won't drone people because I'm so good.
00:33:59.000All of this, every element of this is a lie.
00:34:01.000Donald Trump's bizarre machinations between November 6th of 2020 and January 6th of 2021 Came to nothing because all of the institutions were arrayed against him.
00:34:17.000Okay, the institutions didn't just magically disappear.
00:34:19.000Again, now he's having to make the case that the Supreme Court is... Here's the thing that's amazing.
00:34:23.000He is making the case that he ought to be granted power because if he is not granted power, there are no limits on the presidency and Donald Trump will abuse his power.
00:34:30.000In order to make this case, he is fundamentally undermining the legitimacy of the Supreme Court of the United States.
00:34:35.000He's making the case the Supreme Court ought to be destroyed wholesale.
00:34:38.000So Captain Institutions and Democracy over here is saying the Supreme Court is fundamentally illegitimate because it just appointed a king.
00:34:45.000And that his political opposition is anti-democratic and anyone who supports his political opposition hates the country is what he actually said in the last debate.
00:34:54.000And he is such an extraordinary demagogue all for the pursuit of corrupt political power.
00:34:59.000The Biden family is repulsive in their pursuit of political power.
00:35:02.000And this lifelong corrupt politician claiming to be a man of principle standing in the breach to stop Hitler and Mussolini is a liar.
00:35:16.000It's continued the court's attack in recent years on a wide range of long established legal principles in our nation.
00:35:25.000From gutting voting rights and civil rights, to taking away a woman's right to choose, to today's decision that undermines the rule of law of this nation.
00:35:36.000Nearly four years ago, my predecessor sent a violent mob to the U.S.
00:35:41.000Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power.
00:36:38.000I'm not the one who directed anybody with regard to the January 6th indictment.
00:36:41.000Now he's saying, if Donald Trump is now criminally prosecuted and put in jail, then the Supreme Court has sinned, and the only way to stop Donald Trump is to elect me.
00:36:50.000He clearly wants him jailed, does he not?
00:37:38.000The American people must decide if Trump's embrace of violence to preserve his power is acceptable.
00:37:46.000Perhaps most importantly, the American people must decide if they want to entrust the president once again, the presidency to Donald Trump.
00:37:56.000Now, knowing he'll be more emboldened to do whatever he pleases whenever he wants to do it.
00:38:19.000Now, over 200 years later, with today's Supreme Court decision, Once again, it will depend on the character of the men and women who hold that presidency that are going to define the limits of the power of the presidency.
00:39:25.000He is lying about the Supreme Court decision in order so he can lie about the election.
00:39:29.000Meanwhile, calling for the jailing of his political opponent, but don't worry, Donald Trump is the fascist.
00:39:34.000He's attacking the Supreme Court and saying it's illegitimate, fundamentally, that they've undermined the constitutional order, that they reappointed a king.
00:39:39.000Don't worry, my opponent is the fascist, which is why you need to elect me.
00:39:43.000Good luck with this particular argument.
00:39:44.000Again, a lot of this has to do with him attempting to put out an image that he's still in charge, that he's still president, that it's not Jill, that it's not his team inside the White House that is manipulating his lukewarm body.
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00:40:33.000Now again, what Joe Biden was attempting to do last night was to reset the conversation in the aftermath of a disastrous debate that has destroyed his credibility, his White House's credibility, and the media's credibility.
00:40:42.000All of his allies have been laid waste by his debate performance last Thursday night.
00:40:46.000So they'll lie about the Supreme Court.
00:40:47.000They'll trot him out to speak for four minutes and four seconds before he wobbles back into the back room to be infused with the blood of a small child or something to keep him alive.
00:40:57.000But the reality is that what it was really about was an attempt to recapitulate his image in the public eye.
00:41:16.000I thought the President's statement tonight was very strong.
00:41:19.000It was the right statement, as has been the case with Joe Biden.
00:41:22.000And he reiterated why he ran for office, which was to save democracy.
00:41:27.000He reminded us that President Trump tried to upend the peaceful transition of power, and that he was standing between anarchy and democracy, and he was going to continue to do that.
00:41:37.000I've heard David make that argument a number of different times.
00:41:40.000Of course, how well you do in a debate doesn't really relate to how well you run a presidency.
00:42:53.000They don't like the idea that it's their fault that the senile old man decided to debate and then humiliated himself by falling on a banana peel on stage.
00:43:01.000And so all those leaks are coming out.
00:43:06.000Dems turn on Biden's inner sanctum post-debate.
00:43:10.000Inside the White House, Biden's growing limitations were becoming apparent long before his meltdown in last week's debate, with the senior team's management of the president growing strictly controlled as his term has gone on.
00:43:19.000During meetings with aides who are putting together formal briefings that they'll deliver to Biden, some senior officials have at times gone to great lengths to curate the information being presented in an effort to avoid provoking a negative reaction.
00:43:29.000It's like, you can't include that or that will set him off.
00:43:59.000So that is category number three is the aides who are like, yeah, man, we've been trying to deal with this crap for like years at this point.
00:44:59.000They have to act shocked because if they don't act shocked, it demonstrates they were in cahoots with the Biden team for literally years and lying to you, the people they actually owe responsibility to, the American public.
00:45:11.000So now you're starting to see members of the media being like, Oh yeah, that was crazy.
00:45:16.000Carl Bernstein was out there yesterday reporting that Joe Biden has been mentally unfit for a year.
00:45:47.000Well, these are people, several of them, who are very close to President Biden, who love him, have supported him, have been among them, or some people who have raised a lot of money for him.
00:45:58.000And they are adamant that what we saw the other night, the Joe Biden we saw, is not a one-off, that there have been 15, 20 occasions in the last year and a half When the president has appeared somewhat as he did in that horror show that we witnessed.
00:46:18.000And what's so significant is the people that this is coming from, and also how many people around the president are aware of such incidents, including some reporters, incidentally, who have witnessed some of them.
00:46:32.000But here we see tonight, as these people say, President Biden at his absolute best, and yet, These people who have supported him, loved him, campaigned for him, see him often, say that in the last six months particularly, there has been a marked incidence of cognitive decline.
00:46:55.000Now members of the media are coming out and saying the true thing.
00:46:57.000Now there are some members of the Democratic Party who are like, okay, guys, like, I can't.
00:47:01.000James Carville, most prominently among them, Clinton advisor, he's like, somebody else needs to run.
00:47:06.000There's just no other way to put this.
00:47:09.000We have a country that 72% want something different.
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00:48:46.000NBC's Kristen Welker, she says, listen, top Democrats would be relieved if Joe Biden dropped out of the race at this point, which is true, of course.
00:48:54.000I have spoken to some top Democrats who say that there would actually be relief if he were to step down.
00:49:00.000And one person said to me, look, everyone's counting out Kamala Harris because right now her poll numbers are below President Biden's.
00:49:07.000But if she were to Be the one to carry this torch into November.
00:49:13.000There could be a method of reintroducing her to the country that could be effective with independents, with moderates, with those critical suburban women that are necessary for winning the White House.
00:49:23.000We'll have to see how it plays out, though, because publicly speaking, the president, his family, his top aides defiant that he's not going anywhere.
00:49:30.000Well, I mean, there is one problem with that particular theory, which is that we all know Kamala Harris.
00:49:34.000She's been in the public eye for years, and she's awful at her job.
00:49:36.000For example, Kamala Harris appeared at the BET Awards.
00:49:39.000It used to be Black Entertainment Television.
00:49:41.000I don't know if they still call themselves that.
00:49:43.000So, here she was at the BET Awards being her absolutely insincere, unpalatable self.
00:52:17.000Everyone just needs to breathe through the nose for a minute, said Chris Korge, finance chair for the DNC.
00:52:22.000The senior Biden officials downplayed the political fallout of the debate, but provided precious little new information to the members of the National Finance Committee.
00:52:29.000Those financiers have been locked in a ceaseless, rolling conversation with their own networks on conference calls and signal threads since Thursday night about whether their investment in the Biden campaign has been the right decision.
00:52:38.000Their remarks Monday did little to stem the anxiety of the campaign's well-heeled patrons, according to people on the call, who described it while it was still ongoing.
00:52:45.000They were texting in the New York Times being like, my God, this is a bleep show.
00:52:50.000The Biden campaign took no live questions from donors.
00:52:54.000Some of those in attendance described it as almost facile and rudimentary.
00:52:57.000One donor asked the campaign how it would respond to a significant erosion of polling.
00:53:00.000The campaign largely dismissed the concern.
00:53:04.000Mr. Foulkes, deputy campaign manager, said, quote, I want to reiterate, without sounding Pollyannish or sounding defensive, at the end of the day, the one thing we are not going to do is win this race by continuing to talk about Joe Biden's age.
00:53:13.000We are here talking to you all because we know we have to address it.
00:54:39.000They said there were a lot of rumors yesterday about the Democrats dumping him for somebody else.
00:54:43.000And now you have to have every one of those candidates because, again, the Democratic Party apparatus knows you can't actually get rid of him.
00:54:48.000There's no real mechanism for getting rid of Joe Biden.
00:54:51.000So many of these candidates, after having leaked to the press that they're into it, Now they're having to quickly backpedal.
00:54:57.000So Gretchen Whitmer, the governor of Michigan, her team apparently told the Biden campaign that donors were telling them that he's already lost Michigan.
00:55:03.000So yesterday she put out an ad saying, no, no, no, I am so loyal to Joe Biden.
00:55:07.000I'm the most loyal to Joe Biden, which again, that's smart politics because unless Joe Biden steps out, she ain't got a chance of getting in.
00:55:21.000So what are Democrats actually going to do?
00:55:22.000They're going to cram Joe Biden down their party's throat.
00:55:26.000Apparently, the DNC is now considering formally nominating Biden as early as mid-July to ensure the president is on November ballots, while helping to stamp out intraparty chatter of replacing him after last week's poor debate performance.
00:55:37.000They're like, OK, we're going to ram this through.
00:55:38.000We're going to end all questions today.
00:55:59.000Bad president, senile, has actually exceeded his constitutional authority, should not be president anymore, and everything else is a footnote.