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00:01:35.000Georgia was supposed to be the big one.
00:01:37.000Georgia was supposed to be the big one.
00:01:41.000Of all the indictments that Donald Trump has been battling, Georgia had a different wrinkle.
00:01:47.000Number one, it was one, as Rachel Maddow would remind us time and time again, Donald Trump could not pardon himself because it was a state crime, not a federal crime.
00:02:00.000It was going to be right before the election.
00:02:01.000And you have this wild woman, Fannie Willis, down in Fulton County, who seems to just be an unguided missile for the Democrat Party.
00:02:14.000Now, as the great Rush Limbaugh taught us, you could tell a lot based on how things are going of whether or not the heroes the media builds, whether or not they still treat them as heroes.
00:02:26.000Have you noticed, as I read the New York Times every morning, so you don't have to, they haven't been doing big puff pieces on Big Fanny Willis recently.
00:03:16.000Now, we're going to get to this later in the hour.
00:03:19.000How Nikki Haley has now just been endorsed by Liz Cheney.
00:03:22.000How Nikki Haley serves the purpose of the Democrat regime to try to weaken center-right Republican support and to introduce different narratives to try to make it harder for Donald Trump to win in November.
00:03:56.000We're going to learn a lot in the coming days and weeks.
00:04:00.000We're going to learn a lot because there's this alleged romantic relationship that Fannie Willis had or has currently with Nathan Wade, a special prosecutor who is not by any objective measurement qualified to be a special prosecutor.
00:04:22.000Now, we discovered that Wade had been paid over $600,000 for his efforts, far more than any other special attorney on the case, even though he is the least qualified.
00:04:32.000They found him billing for 24-hour days and for undescribed strange and mysterious meetings with personnel from the Biden White House counsel's office.
00:04:42.000And we're not going to forget that because I really believe my gut instinct is that Nathan Wade leads us to Biden knowing Biden orchestrating Biden designing the lawfare operation against Donald Trump.
00:04:58.000So what's new in the last couple of days?
00:05:00.000For starters, Nathan Wade's ex-wife, Joycelyn Wade, who he filed for divorce form literally one day after joining Fannie's team, has come forward with receipts and credit card statements indicating that Nathan bought airplane tickets to Miami in California on behalf of Fannie Willis.
00:05:19.000According to the complaint, they went on multiple lavish vacations together.
00:05:24.000The Daily Caller reported yesterday, meanwhile, that Fannie Willis failed to disclose these plane tickets from Wade on her annual financial disclosure reports.
00:05:32.000Richard Painter, former White House ethics lawyer under George W. Bush administration, said the caller, this is definitely an ethics violation and potentially illegal.
00:05:40.000Fountain Filton County Commissioner Bob Ellis has demanded documents from Fannie Willis to investigate whether funds paid to Wade were misused for personal gain.
00:05:50.000This morning, Georgia Republicans in the legislature introduced a bill to impeach Fannie Willis.
00:05:56.000Even if they do, it takes two-thirds of the Georgia Senate to convict, and the Republicans don't have the votes unless at least five Democrats join them.
00:06:04.000Still, they have a Senate majority, and Georgia's Senate is considering an entire special investigation of Fannie Willis, which the focus of that investigation should also involve what did the Biden White House know?
00:06:16.000What did the White House counsel office know?
00:06:18.000Why was that in an invoice that said public corruption investigation and referencing the White House Counsel's office?
00:06:26.000Fanny has said she will respond in a court filing of her own by February 2nd, a week from today.
00:06:31.000And there will be a court hearing regarding this filing on February 15th.
00:06:35.000Now, this person, Anoush Kadori, a former federal prosecutor, just wrote a big piece for Politico.com: quote, a reality check on the Fannie Willis scandal.
00:06:45.000This piece is seriously critical of Miss Fanny's behavior.
00:06:49.000Now, let me say this: this is now the third or fourth piece written by Democrat or center-left Democrats that are saying this Fannie Willis thing is a disaster.
00:07:00.000We saw that by that Ellie race hustler on MSNBC with the hair.
00:07:04.000When a criminal defendant lodges a serious allegation of impropriety against a prosecutor, the best approach is for the government to address it quickly and directly, even if the allegation is irrelevant, overblown, or otherwise.
00:07:18.000Willis has almost certainly done the exact opposite.
00:07:23.000That has had the wholly foreseeable effect of making it look like she had something very serious to hide.
00:07:30.000In fact, her recent speech in a church was evasive on pretty much every material factual question.
00:07:38.000Even Norm Eisen, who is one of the most radical left-wing activists in the legal community, says at a minimum, Nathan Wade has to recuse himself.
00:07:47.000He's advocating that, of course, because Wade is expendable without derailing the case and Fanny isn't.
00:07:52.000Now, a lot of people, not just in the conservative world, can sense that things are falling apart for Fanny very, very fast.
00:08:00.000She could very easily be disqualified from this case, or at a minimum, be forced to recuse her whole office.
00:08:06.000That could easily completely blow up the case.
00:08:09.000But if it doesn't, it'll almost certainly delay proceedings for months past the November election.
00:09:00.000You have all these co-defendants that she's doing this RICO operation that are trying to save their own tail, people that are signing agreements that very well might not be rooted in truth, but for self-preservation, the Georgia one was building as the most serious.
00:09:14.000So, for example, if Jack Smith were to get a court date before the election, which looks less and less likely, potentially Donald Trump could pardon himself.
00:09:24.000There was always just kind of a way that he could navigate it.
00:09:26.000Plus, federal court is a long, exhaustive process, not to mention the federal court system has a much better appellate system than what they have in Fulton County.
00:09:38.000So, there's all these things that we were thinking about when it comes to the federal system that isn't as simple, that isn't as serious.
00:09:58.000And we're going to play this piece of news of Fannie Willis, who broke her scandal on the scandalous affair and improper use of taxpayer funds on MLK Day.
00:10:08.000Did Fannie Willis defend her behavior?
00:10:11.000Did she say that Nathan Wade was the most qualified person ever?
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00:14:13.000They were hyping her up as the savior.
00:14:20.000She was supposed to save the 2024 election.
00:14:24.000And we should just pause for a moment and appreciate how funny this is.
00:14:28.000That the prosecutor who's supposed to be in charge is actually the one that ends up backfiring in real time.
00:14:39.000My favorite article, though, is thenation.com.
00:14:43.000The Fannie Willis scandal is bad, but it doesn't change her case against Trump.
00:14:47.000While the allegations that Willis had a romantic relationship with prosecutor Nathan Willis, Nathan Wade, are serious, they don't affect the merits of the charges against the former president.
00:14:57.000Quote, I can't really defend Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis.
00:15:00.000I want to because her prosecution of Donald Trump cronies involved in the conspiracy to overturn the election in Georgia is critical.
00:15:06.000I want to because the Republican push to turn her personal missteps into a reason to dismiss her case is both wrong and infuriating.
00:15:12.000I want to because like Isa Ray, I'm rooting for everybody black, but I can't or won't defend her from the salacious allegations leveled against her because if true, they represent a textbook case of public corruption, even if they shouldn't affect the case against Trump.
00:15:27.000Continues by saying, the story begins with Willis hiring of a lawyer named Nathan Wade as one of the special prosecutors in the Trump election case.
00:15:35.000According to Michael Roman, one of the 19 people Willis is prosecuting.
00:15:40.000Willis and Wade are romantically involved.
00:15:42.000Wade was, of course, paid for by, paid for his work on the case.
00:15:45.000And Roman alleges that Wade spent some of the money on Willis in the form of vacations and dinners and whatever else couples who don't have children together do with massive amounts of time.
00:15:55.000Willis denies that there was any impropriety, but has assiduously avoided denying the underlying charge.
00:16:00.000Now, mind you, this is one of the most radical people.
00:16:02.000You've probably seen him on MSNBC, a hyper-partisan individual.
00:16:07.000Continues by saying at the end of his piece, All that's left for now is the very long fall.
00:16:12.000Let's hope she doesn't drag the case with her on the way down.
00:16:17.000Well, when you start to build up something this big, when you start to build up something this massive, then don't be surprised when it starts collapsing.
00:16:26.000Don't be surprised when it starts falling apart.
00:18:16.000Now, one of the things that is occurring, and the RNC kind of played around with this yesterday, Tyler Boyer submitted a resolution to make Donald Trump the presumptive nominee, is why is Nikki Haley still running?
00:18:32.000They want to just keep this alive, that Donald Trump has to spend necessary time going to more of these states that are not going to be critical into November.
00:18:41.000And don't get me wrong, I love the state of South Carolina.
00:18:44.000And if it means that we get to end the political career of Nikki Haley by a double-digit margin, then terrific.
00:18:52.000But that time is much better spent for Donald Trump campaigning in Georgia, Donald Trump campaigning in Wisconsin.
00:19:01.000Is Nikki Haley keeping her brand alive to be the new labels candidate?
00:19:06.000What does success look like for Nikki Haley?
00:19:13.000Now, one of her biggest fans is Liz Cheney.
00:19:16.000That tells you everything you need to know.
00:19:18.000Nikki Haley and Liz Cheney are one and the same.
00:19:23.000Now, if you're in the Nikki Haley camp, they probably said, oh, boy, why did Liz Cheney say the quiet part out loud?
00:19:28.000They're probably freaking out because they're trying to do everything they can to make themselves seem more conservative, to try to navigate the primary.
00:19:35.000But now, Liz Cheney says that Nikki Haley should stay in the race through Super Tuesday.
00:21:16.000Liz Cheney, a former congresswoman from Wyoming who's doing a panel in Texas, is super concerned about who the governor of Arizona is going to be.
00:21:24.000It was because in Arizona, Cheney and McCain and Romney, they have reigned supreme over Arizona and taken advantage of the very conservative voters of the state as the state has now become far less conservative.
00:21:36.000So Liz Cheney was obviously very invested because Kerry Lake would have secured the border.
00:21:40.000Kerry Lake would have mobilized the National Guard day one.
00:21:43.000Kerry Lake would have declared it an invasion.
00:21:45.000She would have been way ahead of what Greg Abbott is now doing.
00:21:47.000Kerry Lake would have done that in the first couple of days.
00:21:51.000Kerry Lake would have forced the issue.
00:21:54.000And so it's easy to underestimate this, but what Liz Cheney did, again, there were so many shenanigans around the Kerry Lake race, but one of the reasons why it was even competitive, and I remember I started to see these billboards pop up in Phoenix, and I will fully acknowledge I thought they'd be ineffective.
00:22:10.000It turns out they were somewhat effective, which was Republicans against Kerry Lake.
00:22:15.000Liz Cheney being an ambassador of the Unit Party, they were running all these ads, and I was like, oh, that's such a stupid ad.
00:22:49.000There is no reason for her to get out of this race, whether she takes him head on in South Carolina and very competitive, or whether she fights a war of attrition.
00:23:21.000To be honest, I think we all would waking up with that terror every day.
00:23:27.000The essence of this is now that we enter the lawfare primary, Nikki Haley is doing everything she possibly can to erode and deteriorate and diminish support on the margins.
00:23:42.000Polsters are showing that Donald Trump in some states like Pennsylvania, and this is to be expected, so it's not a cause for alarm yet.
00:24:21.000You have to take this Liz Cheney thing very seriously for no other reason than Liz Cheney and Nikki Haley, they have access to the capital flows, to the cheap Wall Street money.
00:24:31.000They could raise $250 million at an instant.
00:24:34.000You might say, oh, what's the big difference?
00:27:11.000Her whole life, Nikki Haley has dreamed of becoming president.
00:27:14.000I don't think that's ever going to happen.
00:27:16.000Nikki Haley, your entire political career, you will not be able to have a presence on another stage politically in the conservative movement without being booed.
00:28:54.000In fact, if you listen carefully to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast and you listen to Thought Crime, we've been saying this Trump campaign has been incredibly disciplined.
00:29:02.000That the people around Trump, they've done a wonderful job.
00:29:05.000They did a great job in Iowa, a great job in New Hampshire.
00:29:09.000And there's an Axios piece that is really powerful.
00:29:11.000Behind the curtain, Trump's exponential power surge.
00:29:14.000Something shocking and telling has unfolded beyond Donald Trump's onstage, online, and courtroom theatrics.
00:29:20.000He's running a professional, well-managed, and disciplined presidential campaign.
00:29:24.000His 2024 operation is more sophisticated, dare we say more traditional, than the slap-dash improvisation of his White House and two previous runs.
00:29:48.000They deployed him to McDonald's and Burger Kings.
00:29:51.000How many times has Trump went to UFC and gone viral?
00:29:53.000He's done all these different podcasts, Nelk Boys, all these different kinds of one-off when there's more risk and there's more openness.
00:29:59.000They let Trump beat Trump in that way.
00:30:01.000But also, to Susie Wiles and Chris Lasavita's credit, they didn't take the bait and do this stupid debate.
00:30:07.000They didn't do, you know how much pressure they were under to have Donald Trump on a debate stage with these clowns, except Vivek, the clown show?
00:30:36.000The Iowa operation was a spectacular display in grassroots organizing.
00:30:41.000In fact, it highlights this here in the piece.
00:30:46.000It says, in Iowa, the campaign sent Iowa GOP suggestions for caucus locations, installed heavy-hitter surrogates across the state to speak on Trump's behalf, precinct captains in gold embroidered hats with a suggested three-minute speech in hand were at every single precinct.
00:31:00.000The once mighty Reagan Bush GOP establishment, committed to a muscular foreign policy, that's a way to say it, unfettered free trade, has given way to a Trump republicanism that's skeptical of large companies and institutions, hawkish on trade, and modest in foreign policy.
00:31:13.000Says here, maybe the biggest shocker is Trump took indictments on 91 felonies in four criminal cases.
00:31:18.000He says, I've been indicted more than Al Capone, Trump said to a crowd in his final New Hampshire rally.
00:31:25.000There is a really, really amazing line here in the Axios piece, which is that if this is how he's running his campaign, he could change America permanently if he runs the government this way.
00:31:40.000His advisors see this as a template for governing if he were to win.
00:31:44.000And by the way, this is freaking out the left.
00:31:46.000It's the exact opposite of what they thought.
00:31:48.000They thought they had Donald Trump psychologically mapped.