The Charlie Kirk Show - May 31, 2022


Michael Sussmann’s Get Out of Jail Free Card


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Former FBI agent Michael Sussman was acquitted by a jury of his peers in a D.C. court. This is a huge win for President Trump and his supporters. Joe Biden's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal says it all.

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00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody.
00:00:00.000 Today in the Charlie Kirk show, I had a whole show planned, and then the breaking news happened with Michael Sussman, and I'm not happy about it.
00:00:06.000 So we talk about the Sussman acquittal, and then we talk a little bit about Joe Biden's op-ed when it came to economics in the Wall Street Journal.
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00:01:49.000 It's unfortunate these news items that pop up.
00:01:54.000 I want to get into Joe Biden's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, but first, some breaking news.
00:01:59.000 Michael Sussman has been acquitted by a jury of his peers in Washington, D.C.
00:02:05.000 The Federalist wrote, quote, while prosecutors presented overwhelming evidence over the last two weeks that Sussman lied to then FBI general counsel James Baker in 2016, an acquittal by the D.C. jury still seems likely.
00:02:18.000 Now, to give you an idea of how extraordinary it is to get acquitted by a jury of your peers, I believe it's less than 1% of all trials that go to, all cases that go to trial actually end up in acquittal.
00:02:33.000 But Michael Sussman knew that he could navigate a Washington, D.C. jury.
00:02:38.000 These are his people.
00:02:39.000 There were three Hillary Clinton donors that were allowed to be on the jury, one AOC donor, and Judge Christopher Cooper was an Obama appointee.
00:02:54.000 Judge allows Hillary AOC donors in jury pool for ex-Clinton lawyers Russia trial.
00:03:00.000 So Michael Sussman, who was accused of lying to the FBI, not just accused, we have the evidence.
00:03:05.000 He did it.
00:03:06.000 It's in a text message.
00:03:07.000 He said that he was going to go to James Baker on his own capacity when in reality he was being paid to do this, was acquitted by a jury of his own peers.
00:03:17.000 This is a huge blow to John Durham, no doubt.
00:03:22.000 It's a blow to all decency and justice.
00:03:24.000 I'll be very honest.
00:03:25.000 They're allowed to spy on a president, lie about it, use campaign funds to do it, infiltrate a campaign, all the while there is no justice and no accountability.
00:03:40.000 Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, they all come under massive scrutiny by the federal government and have to experience the full weight of the prosecution.
00:03:54.000 Washington, D.C. has 76% of their registered voters are Democrats.
00:03:59.000 6% are Republican.
00:04:04.000 You're not going to get a fair trial in Washington, D.C.
00:04:06.000 It's just not going to happen.
00:04:07.000 If Kyle Rittenhouse was tried in Washington, D.C., Kyle Rittenhouse would be in jail right now.
00:04:14.000 So Michael Sussman got away with it.
00:04:16.000 He was the chief architect who designed the entire scheme and the entire concoction against Donald Trump.
00:04:26.000 Him alongside Mark Elias and Hillary Clinton and Robbie Mook and many others.
00:04:34.000 So we're going to keep an eye on this story as it unfolds, which just goes to show the corruption and the depth of how insidious our system is.
00:04:45.000 They would not want to indict a peer of their own.
00:04:49.000 A lot of swamp creatures in the D.C. jury pool.
00:04:53.000 It's extraordinary.
00:04:54.000 It's so clear what he did.
00:04:56.000 The mountain of evidence that he lied to the FBI, a text message.
00:05:01.000 Do you think that if Donald Trump Jr. or Eric Trump or Ivanka Trump, if any of them had text messages saying that they were going to go to the FBI and say, hey, I'd like to give you some information, I'm not being paid by anybody.
00:05:19.000 It's in my own personal capacity, even though they were being paid.
00:05:22.000 Do you think they would be convicted by a D.C. jury?
00:05:26.000 This is not good for our society.
00:05:28.000 Let me just say this.
00:05:29.000 This is very, very bad for our civilization.
00:05:32.000 If half the country feels as if the government is going to target them for not minding their P's and Q's and dotting their I's correctly and believes that the government has been completely taken over, which it has been, by deep state malevolent forces with the intent of putting them in jail, and the other half of the country can just get away with whatever they want, it's not good for America.
00:05:55.000 It's not good.
00:05:57.000 This is a pressure cooker that is going to, it's going to hit a boiling point.
00:06:04.000 Americans have seen the crimes, the lying, the cheating, the stealing, the leaking.
00:06:14.000 Rudy Giuliani's apartment gets raided.
00:06:17.000 James O'Keefe's apartment gets raided.
00:06:20.000 Steve Wynn gets targeted by the federal government.
00:06:24.000 But Michael Sussman gets to walk free.
00:06:29.000 Now, John Durham did his best.
00:06:30.000 He presented the best evidence he possibly could, but in a D.C. circuit, and he's able to walk free.
00:06:38.000 That didn't happen for Roger Stone or Paul Manafort.
00:06:41.000 They had to get pardons, or Michael Finn, Michael Flynn.
00:06:44.000 He had to get pardons.
00:06:47.000 Now, this begs the question, though, which is, what is it going to take to actually achieve some form of justice at this point?
00:06:56.000 And I'd love Kash Patel's thoughts on this and Devon Nunez.
00:06:59.000 I don't know if we're ever going to get justice, even close to it, for the Russia Gate hoax.
00:07:05.000 Bob Mueller, the entire gang of prosecutors, not just prosecutors, the entire gang of Clinton operatives that put this forward.
00:07:20.000 I don't know if they're ever going to be held accountable.
00:07:21.000 It's a very depressing story.
00:07:23.000 I'll be very honest with you.
00:07:24.000 It's not easy to do this.
00:07:27.000 You do absolute evil and you spy on a president and you try to infiltrate the campaign.
00:07:32.000 You use campaign funding to do it, which is illegal.
00:07:36.000 You lie to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, all these things that Republicans and conservatives go to jail for.
00:07:43.000 But if you're Michael Sussman, you're fine.
00:07:46.000 The equivalent would be: do you think Roger Stone would have gone to jail or Michael Flynn?
00:07:51.000 Well, Roger Snow never went to jail because he got pardoned.
00:07:53.000 Or Michael Flynn would have had to go through this if he had a trial in Wyoming.
00:07:58.000 Of course not.
00:07:59.000 It's supposed to be a jury of your peers.
00:08:01.000 That's an interesting way to put it.
00:08:03.000 These are Michael Sussman's peers.
00:08:05.000 They were not Paul Manafort's peers.
00:08:07.000 It's just, it's such an extraordinary violation of the American promise of justice.
00:08:14.000 And look, the system played itself out, so we can only complain so much, right?
00:08:18.000 Went to trial, went to jury.
00:08:20.000 But you look at the mountain of evidence.
00:08:22.000 And this story, I totally disagree with it.
00:08:25.000 It's from the Federalist.
00:08:26.000 It says, even if the jury doesn't convict Michael Sussman, the special counsel is one.
00:08:31.000 I disagree.
00:08:32.000 They walked free.
00:08:33.000 They're going to consider this to be a vindication.
00:08:35.000 MSNBC is going to have a field day where they're going to say, oh, the Trump-appointed John Durham suffers a big loss.
00:08:41.000 It's an overreach of government.
00:08:43.000 This is a, that's all fueled by the big lie.
00:08:47.000 The Federalist wrote: The jury in the Michael Sussman criminal case resumes deliberations today after the long Memorial Day weekend.
00:08:54.000 While prosecutors presented overwhelming evidence over the last two weeks that Sussman lied to then FBI general counsel James Baker in 2016, an acquittal by the DC jury still seems likely.
00:09:06.000 Judging the success of the special counsel John Durham's probe into the investigation of Trump and those associated with the Trump campaign and administration should not rest on the outcome of Sussman's prosecution, however.
00:09:16.000 In fact, even if the special counsel's office scores a conviction in its false statement case against Sussman, that would do very little to right the scales of justice, unbalanced by more than five years of the politically motivated abuse of power that began as Crossfire Hurricane and continued even after special counsel Robert Mueller issued his final report.
00:09:33.000 They got away with it, and they're going to continue to get away with it.
00:09:37.000 I mean, we were told to trust Durham, trust the process.
00:09:41.000 No one's in jail.
00:09:42.000 No one's going to jail yet.
00:09:43.000 We'll see who Durham's next target is, but this is a massive blow to his credibility.
00:09:48.000 It is.
00:09:49.000 The media is going to go after him relentlessly.
00:09:53.000 I hope he continues, and we're going to hope that he continues his pursuit of justice.
00:09:57.000 But as it is right now, you're allowed to lie to the FBI, spy on a president, infiltrate a campaign, use campaign funds to do so, and laugh all the way to the bank.
00:10:07.000 Michael Sussman has been acquitted by a jury of his peers.
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00:11:33.000 Clinton campaign lawyers get away with it.
00:11:35.000 That is the takeaway from today.
00:11:38.000 We know we have two tiers of justice, a two-tier justice system.
00:11:41.000 We had hope in Durham.
00:11:43.000 Had hoped multiple times in conversations with the great Kash Patel that something was going to result in this, and there would be indictments and convictions.
00:11:51.000 And you cannot have a country where the everyday person believes that if you think the wrong things, then you have a higher and more likely chance to go to prison.
00:12:03.000 Michael Sussman got to get out of jail free card because he was a Clinton lawyer, not a Trump lawyer.
00:12:09.000 What does that say for our country?
00:12:11.000 And by the way, it's not like Republican attorney generals are going after left-wing people.
00:12:17.000 No, of course not.
00:12:18.000 This was such an egregious and flagrant and transparent crime.
00:12:25.000 And there was no justice.
00:12:27.000 I was just texting with some people that would know.
00:12:29.000 I said, is Durham done?
00:12:31.000 I mean, he has no credibility after this.
00:12:33.000 I mean, he might be able to recalibrate and continue forward and do a couple more indictments.
00:12:37.000 But when you bring a very simple case to trial and you lose, I mean, it's a massive blow to your operation as a prosecutor.
00:12:47.000 This was supposed to be the easy one, by the way.
00:12:49.000 This was supposed to be the one that you build the case on, you get him convicted, and then maybe between sentencing, you're able to get some negotiation.
00:13:02.000 Now it's a total free-for-all.
00:13:04.000 Hillary Clinton is cackling right now. 1.00
00:13:08.000 Robbie Mook is enjoying some sort of fruity drink on the beach of Spain, wherever he had to go, where he told the judge he had to travel to.
00:13:18.000 This is not good.
00:13:20.000 It's not.
00:13:21.000 I know someone just emailed this freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:13:24.000 What's the good news?
00:13:25.000 There is no good news with this.
00:13:28.000 No, it's actually awful and terrible.
00:13:31.000 It is.
00:13:32.000 After three years, John Durham has been looking into this.
00:13:35.000 And the number one case he had, the easy one, the layup, was Michael Sussman.
00:13:41.000 That was the one that was the easiest of all of them.
00:13:43.000 And he loses it when it goes to trial.
00:13:46.000 Forget the higher-up ones.
00:13:48.000 Forget Andy McCabe or James Comey or Peter Strzzok.
00:13:52.000 If you can't win the Sussman one, well, then you can't build the larger, more important case of criminal conspiracy, of abuse of power, all these other types of charges begin to fall apart.
00:14:11.000 So Michael Sussman was the Clinton campaign operative lawyer, who then, by the way, could just casually call up the general counsel at the FBI, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, like, hey, I want a meeting.
00:14:24.000 And by the way, nothing I'm about to tell you, I'm being paid for, even though he was being paid for it.
00:14:30.000 It was a direct and blatant lie to the Bureau.
00:14:35.000 But the jury pool acquitted him because they said, oh, look at this poor man who's going to go to jail.
00:14:39.000 He was just trying to save us from the carnage that was Donald Trump.
00:14:46.000 The D.C. jury pool was probably not weighing the facts and the circumstances.
00:14:49.000 I mean, the case was thorough.
00:14:52.000 Durham did his job.
00:14:55.000 This is not an attack on Durham, but it's kind of hard to believe how you could bring a case to trial that is this bulletproof and it still gets acquitted.
00:15:09.000 And Durham is proving that the entire collusion hoax was a Hillary Clinton enterprise, but now there's going to be an asterisk on this every time we tell the story.
00:15:17.000 I'm like, oh, well, this is a conspiracy because when it was brought to trial, he was acquitted.
00:15:22.000 Now, you might remember Bob Mueller brought one Democrat to trial.
00:15:28.000 And that Democrat was one of the general counsels for Obama on a FARA violation, a federal, a foreign agent registration act violation.
00:15:38.000 And you know, that was the only case that Bob Mueller lost.
00:15:41.000 It's the only case the Mueller team was not able to bring to conviction.
00:15:44.000 When you go to trial in a D.C. jury and you're one of them, it sure feels as if, and it seems like, there's a wink and a nod.
00:15:52.000 Oh, he's part of the regime.
00:15:56.000 Let him off.
00:15:57.000 And you have three Clinton donors and one AOC donor.
00:16:00.000 Why did John Durham allow those people in the jury pool?
00:16:06.000 That remains a mystery.
00:16:08.000 If half the country believes there is no justice system, of which I believe currently, I do not believe there is a justice system for the ruling elite.
00:16:16.000 I believe currently, cynically, and I will be very honest with you, that if you are part of the Democrat Party, next to murder, drive-by shootings, well, arson, you don't actually go to jail for, looting you don't go to jail for, I don't really know if you'll ever be held accountable.
00:16:35.000 I don't.
00:16:36.000 But if you are on the right in this country, if you go take a selfie in the Capitol Rotunda, if your name is Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, if you're Paul Manafort or Roger Stone, if you're a major Republican donor, they're going to put everything they can at you.
00:16:51.000 And not only that, when you're in front of that D.C. jury pool, you stand no shot.
00:16:56.000 Justice cannot become revenge.
00:17:00.000 This is not good.
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00:19:07.000 Okay, we're going to keep on going through this Durham story.
00:19:12.000 I mean, look, the judge, John Durham didn't push for accusal of Judge Chris Cooper, even though Michael Sussman was friends with the judge.
00:19:22.000 Judge Cooper's wife represented former FBI lawyer Lisa Page.
00:19:28.000 The judge and his wife were married by Merrick Garland, and Cooper was appointed by Obama.
00:19:35.000 It is rigged top to bottom, everybody. 0.93
00:19:37.000 It is just a disease temple, a cesspool of corruption.
00:19:41.000 That's not a good thing for people to believe about their government or their capital.
00:19:46.000 The country is fracturing in front of our very eyes.
00:19:52.000 Yeah, I mean, we were just texting with Kash Patel.
00:19:56.000 He said, basic points, I was the last man to have any faith in D.C., in the Department of Justice.
00:20:01.000 Now it's gone.
00:20:02.000 Burn the whole thing down.
00:20:03.000 He means it metaphorically, by the way, for.
00:20:06.000 Because, you know, if we say that, unlike the left, we will be convicted by a jury of our peers and put in front of a court.
00:20:12.000 Michael Sussman will not be done.
00:20:17.000 So that's a joke for all of you out there.
00:20:20.000 We're actually taken very literally and will be prosecuted maliciously.
00:20:25.000 For those of us that love the country and that are patriots, for those of you that are patriots out there for the rest of your life, let it be a message to you.
00:20:33.000 If you get too popular, if you get too rich, you will be targeted by your government.
00:20:38.000 Michael Sussman got paid to fleece the country.
00:20:41.000 He got paid by a campaign to lie to America, dragged this country through the mud for four years, through the lie of Bob Mueller, the lie of Alphabank, all of that, and then gets away with it.
00:20:54.000 The ends justify the means.
00:20:55.000 That is the belief of most D.C. Democrats.
00:20:58.000 Those jurors are smiling and chuckling to themselves like, boy, we got back at Trump this way.
00:21:04.000 They did this to obliterate the Trump presidency based on a total categorical fabrication, a lie, a fiction, a creation of one's imagination for the sole intent purpose of destroying Donald Trump.
00:21:19.000 And one of the people that lied to the FBI, that put our country through that madness, we can't even get him on a technical crime that he so obviously committed.
00:21:30.000 Just look at the text message.
00:21:34.000 Now, jurors don't have to explain their decision, guilty or not guilty, that's it.
00:21:38.000 But you got to wonder what their explanation would be.
00:21:43.000 We do not have a justice system anymore in our country when it comes to the top levels.
00:21:46.000 There might be a justice system for still for murder and for rape and for things on a local or county level, but at the top levels, to be able to hold the ruling class accountable, and just let me be very honest.
00:21:58.000 If you do not have a system to hold your rulers accountable, well, then you don't have a system.
00:22:04.000 You don't.
00:22:06.000 This series of indictments, this chapter that we are living through, is so instrumental.
00:22:12.000 It was so important to be able to have some form of faith in our country, in our judicial checks and balances.
00:22:23.000 And is anybody above the law?
00:22:25.000 I mean, that is Tom Fitton's line, judicial watch.
00:22:28.000 No one is above the law.
00:22:30.000 And we'll have Tom Fitton back on the program.
00:22:32.000 Actually, there are people above the law.
00:22:34.000 The Clintons are above the law.
00:22:36.000 They do whatever they want and they get away with it.
00:22:39.000 The Obamas are above the law.
00:22:41.000 The Bidens are above the law.
00:22:42.000 We'll see what happens with Hunter Biden.
00:22:44.000 But after this, maybe Hunter Biden would be acquitted by a jury of his peers and a jury in Delaware.
00:22:50.000 Who knows?
00:22:52.000 But we do know that Donald Trump has been investigated by the New York Attorney General and the Manhattan Attorney General or the District Attorney relentlessly for years.
00:23:01.000 We know that every single Republican gets under massive scrutiny from the federal government.
00:23:09.000 But all there was, there was just one request.
00:23:11.000 Can we hold some of the people accountable that put our country through the mud, through the dirt, so make sure it doesn't happen again?
00:23:16.000 That was just our ask.
00:23:19.000 The demand and the thirst and the appetite for justice amongst the conservative base has been extraordinary because they see their allies, they see their team members, they see their fellow patriots get indicted and get cross-examined and not just cross-examined, their lives ruined.
00:23:41.000 And Michael Sussman walks away freely.
00:23:47.000 Clip 18, play tape.
00:23:50.000 The problem for Durham is the jury and the judge.
00:23:53.000 I mean, he's facing a jury that has three Clinton donors, an AOC donor, and a woman whose daughter is on the same sports team with Sussman's daughter.
00:24:03.000 I mean, the exception of randomly selecting people out of the DNC headquarters, you could not come up with a worse jury.
00:24:09.000 Welcome to Washington, D.C. All right.
00:24:12.000 Jonathan Turley, as always, thank you.
00:24:13.000 Thank you for following all of this.
00:24:15.000 DNC headquarters, that's Jonathan Turley.
00:24:18.000 You could not have come up with a worse jury.
00:24:19.000 Well, there you go.
00:24:20.000 How did John Durham put up with that, by the way?
00:24:22.000 Why didn't John Durham say, Your Honor, you can't be on a jury trying to judge about Hillary Clinton, trying to rule on Hillary Clinton-related activities if you yourself were giving money financially to support Hillary Clinton?
00:24:38.000 I don't know why John Durham put up with that.
00:24:41.000 We were told for years that justice was coming, and we were cynical and we were skeptical.
00:24:46.000 Now, what is the path forward with this?
00:24:48.000 I mean, we got to keep building.
00:24:48.000 I don't know.
00:24:50.000 We got to keep fighting.
00:24:51.000 I'm not saying give up, but I'm being honest with you.
00:24:53.000 I'm not going to all of a sudden dress up something that isn't.
00:25:01.000 Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:25:04.000 I want to get into this story here.
00:25:06.000 It's Joe Biden's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.
00:25:09.000 Joe Biden, my plan for fighting inflation.
00:25:12.000 This signals panic at the White House over the coming midterm elections as Joe Biden tries to pivot and tries to convince people that everything's actually terrific.
00:25:25.000 Everything's phenomenal.
00:25:27.000 So Joe Biden starts his op-ed by saying the global economy faces serious challenges.
00:25:32.000 Inflation is elevated.
00:25:34.000 By the way, Joe Biden didn't write this op-ed.
00:25:36.000 This is written by some sort of academic committee that he appointed.
00:25:41.000 Energy markets are in turmoil.
00:25:43.000 He blames Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.
00:25:47.000 Supply chains that haven't fully healed are causing shortages and price hikes.
00:25:52.000 Americans are anxious.
00:25:53.000 Yeah, that's the least of it.
00:25:56.000 I know that feeling.
00:25:56.000 I grew up in a family where it mattered when the price of gas or groceries rose.
00:26:02.000 We felt it around the kitchen table.
00:26:04.000 But the American people should have confidence that our economy faces these challenges from a position of strength.
00:26:10.000 In January of 2021, when I took office, the recovery had stalled and COVID was out of control.
00:26:15.000 In less than a year and a half, my administration's economic and vaccination plans helped achieve the most robust recovery in modern history, Joe Biden writes.
00:26:24.000 The job market is the strongest since the post-World War II era, right?
00:26:28.000 So here's the problem.
00:26:30.000 We know working people are just getting absolutely pummeled by this economy.
00:26:37.000 And if you read this op-ed by Joe Biden trying to convince you everything is wonderful, it feels like a lecture.
00:26:42.000 Now, liberals are experts at lecturing.
00:26:44.000 They don't actually ever have dialogue, which comes from the Greek word dialogos, which means through reason.
00:26:50.000 They just talk at you.
00:26:51.000 They don't talk with you.
00:26:53.000 It is a common characteristic of a liberal elitist.
00:26:57.000 Lecturing, they're the best at lecturing.
00:27:00.000 But if you read this here, it's this long, meandering, overly academic argument that Joe Biden obviously didn't write, lecturing people about esoteric economic data, which actually in reality causes more anger and more dissension and more frustration.
00:27:21.000 And so basically, they're kind of waving their wand being like, stop complaining, okay?
00:27:25.000 Everything's great.
00:27:26.000 Didn't you know that monthly average job creation ships in the next year from current levels to half a million to something closer to 150,000?
00:27:35.000 So one of his arguments is about unemployment.
00:27:38.000 Now, unemployment is a terrific metric at times of being able to judge economic success, but it's not the entire economy.
00:27:48.000 Soviet Union had low unemployment.
00:27:50.000 Obviously, everyone went to work.
00:27:52.000 You've got to go dig the ditch to fill the ditch back in.
00:27:54.000 Go dig the ditch in the morning and you fill the ditch back in in the afternoon.
00:27:58.000 They had low unemployment.
00:28:00.000 They went to work.
00:28:01.000 The question is, did they have freedom?
00:28:03.000 Did they have liberty?
00:28:04.000 Did they have purchasing power?
00:28:05.000 Are they able to own property?
00:28:06.000 Of course not.
00:28:08.000 Joe Biden doesn't talk about how the average price of groceries has skyrocketed nearly 30%.
00:28:13.000 I went to Safeway over the weekend and I bought like a week's worth of groceries.
00:28:18.000 It was like $300.
00:28:22.000 There's nothing extraordinary that I purchased.
00:28:26.000 $300.
00:28:30.000 Gas is way up.
00:28:31.000 Price of living has skyrocketed.
00:28:34.000 And what is Joe Biden doing?
00:28:36.000 Joe Biden says, look, it's Vladimir Putin's fault.
00:28:39.000 This entire op-ed that he wrote in the Wall Street Journal, it signals panic at the White House.
00:28:47.000 Bloomberg News writes that inflation is rising faster than pay for many American workers.
00:28:53.000 New research finds many lower income earners are looking to tax refunds to ease financial pressures.
00:29:02.000 Wages are not keeping up with inflation.
00:29:05.000 They aren't.
00:29:06.000 And yet Joe Biden's approach is, I'm just going to kind of tell you how wonderful things are.
00:29:10.000 Didn't you know that monthly job creation ships in the next year from current levels are actually up?
00:29:15.000 I mean, it's such a overly academic argument.
00:29:19.000 And honestly, it's the carnage of the academics.
00:29:24.000 It creates a lot of anger from people when they get pointed at by their leaders being like, actually, things are wonderful.
00:29:29.000 Why don't you understand?
00:29:31.000 We're going to keep going through Joe Biden's ridiculous op-ed here where he just kind of points his finger at you and says, don't you understand how good things are? 0.75
00:29:38.000 Why don't you like me? 0.83
00:29:40.000 See, overly academic arguments.
00:29:42.000 There actually is an interesting piece here in the NBC News inside Biden's White House.
00:29:50.000 He is so confused, Biden is, why he's less popular than Trump.
00:29:54.000 He can't figure it out.
00:29:56.000 There's a whole quote here that's just hilarious.
00:29:59.000 I'll find it in a second.
00:30:00.000 But I want to make another point here about the Michael Sussman thing.
00:30:02.000 We're kind of doing this on the fly.
00:30:04.000 This news literally broke as we were coming on air.
00:30:06.000 Michael Sussman being acquitted.
00:30:13.000 When you have a society where there are people that are untouchable, you don't have a republic.
00:30:21.000 You no longer have a democracy.
00:30:23.000 We've never been at democracy, but you certainly don't have that.
00:30:26.000 You have something different.
00:30:27.000 And it's not even about hypocrisy.
00:30:29.000 It's about hierarchy.
00:30:31.000 You have something that's closer to kind of a more industrialized caste system is the best way to kind of describe it, where you have a group of people at the top of your society that are the rulers and the ruled.
00:30:50.000 And so you have an entire inversion of the society that was originally designed where we want to live in a country where the many rule the few. 0.96
00:30:59.000 They want to live in a country where the few rule the many. 0.97
00:31:04.000 What happens when the few step out of line?
00:31:06.000 What happens when the few use their power and abuse their power in such an egregious and transparent way?
00:31:14.000 What is the course of action?
00:31:16.000 Well, the founding fathers wanted to make it clear that anybody could go to jail, that anybody could be held accountable.
00:31:25.000 This was a promise of a constitutional form of government.
00:31:28.000 If you don't have that form of government, you live in an autocracy or a dictatorship or in some form of a kind of combination of those factors.
00:31:40.000 The idea that no one is off limits keeps the ruling class on their toes.
00:31:46.000 It makes them hopefully behave a little bit more ethically.
00:31:48.000 They're always going to be corrupt, but the idea that anyone could go to jail at any time hopefully has kept this country on the straight and narrow.
00:31:59.000 But boy, is that not true.
00:32:01.000 How many decades has it been now where the same groups of people, the same families of people, from the Clintons to the Obamas to the Clinton Associates, they are untouchable, which is hilarious because in the caste system in India, the untouchables are the people at the lowest level. 0.95
00:32:20.000 They're the ones that you just stay away from.
00:32:22.000 Where in this current metaphor, the untouchables are actually at the top because they are untouchable by the law.
00:32:29.000 There's nothing you can do that can trip them up.
00:32:32.000 They will get their pension.
00:32:33.000 Just ask Lois Lerner, the chief architect of the IRS scandal. 0.99
00:32:37.000 They will get their money.
00:32:40.000 Hillary Clinton, did she get held accountable for the email servers? 1.00
00:32:44.000 Of course not.
00:32:45.000 James Comey?
00:32:46.000 Peter Strzok?
00:32:46.000 No.
00:32:47.000 Nope.
00:32:48.000 Nope.
00:32:48.000 Lisa Page?
00:32:49.000 Sussman? 0.99
00:32:50.000 Nope.
00:32:51.000 So what can one do?
00:32:54.000 Nothing.
00:32:56.000 We got a lot of work left to do before we ever hold these scoundrels accountable. 1.00
00:33:01.000 Got a lot of government to win back.
00:33:03.000 A lot of new institutions to rebuild.
00:33:09.000 Today's verdict confirms what so many of us knew for a long time is that there's no fair trials in Washington, D.C.
00:33:16.000 It's a two-tier justice system. 0.63
00:33:18.000 We've known that.
00:33:19.000 Equal treatment under the law is a promise of the United States Constitution.
00:33:22.000 That is a foreign concept in the kingdom of Washington, D.C.
00:33:28.000 They are, they currently have January 6th defendants as political prisoners, and Michael Sussman can walk free.
00:33:37.000 If you are wearing the wrong hat, vote for the wrong guy, or believe the wrong things, that means you have a higher likelihood to go to jail, be targeted by your government, audited by the Internal Revenue Service.
00:33:56.000 We are living in an open-air police state.
00:34:02.000 Sussman went through the process.
00:34:04.000 He decided not to plea, decided to play it out with his buddies.
00:34:08.000 Wink and nod to the judge.
00:34:10.000 I know you.
00:34:11.000 Wink and nod to the woman on the jury.
00:34:14.000 We're all Clinton donors.
00:34:15.000 Kind of the secret handshake.
00:34:19.000 And he walks free.
00:34:23.000 But the grandmother that walked into the Capitol Rotunda that took a selfie on January the 6th, jail and called a felon the rest of her life. 1.00
00:34:31.000 Michael Flynn, targeted, and no one who targeted Michael Flynn has been held accountable.
00:34:36.000 The two-tier justice system is alive and well, and I do not have good news to share.
00:34:41.000 Not that it's going to get better and all this.
00:34:42.000 Nope, this is a seemingly intractable problem, and I'm open for recommendations and suggestions on how to fix it, but it's not going to happen anytime soon.
00:34:50.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
00:34:52.000 Email us your thoughts.
00:34:52.000 There's always freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:34:54.000 Thank you so much for listening.
00:34:55.000 God bless.
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