00:00:41.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:50.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:14.000That is the opening question I want to ask you.
00:01:17.000I've been hearing that for quite some time, and I think people mean well when they say that.
00:01:23.000But for the last couple of years, ever since Biden was implemented as president of the United States, I have been hearing, well, Charlie, this is going to backfire.
00:01:33.000The trillions of dollars of spending, this will backfire.
00:01:35.000The open border, that is going to backfire.
00:01:38.000The environmental fanaticism, this is going to backfire.
00:01:41.000The raiding on Mar-a-Lago, this is going to backfire.
00:01:45.000The spying on moms and dads, school boards, that's going to backfire.
00:02:54.000And that's not to say that people can never be held accountable and there is not an equal and opposite reaction bubbling up.
00:03:00.000But what I am saying is we have to resist the talking point that just because something unjust happens, there will be a guarantee of a political backlash.
00:03:22.000But I think we as conservatives see things that are so out of alignment with reality and normalcy.
00:03:28.000And so we had a wonderful Turning Point USA event last night.
00:03:31.000And some of our generous supporters said, well, Charlie, you know, if they arrest Trump, this is going to backfire and this is really going to wake people up.
00:06:25.000You might say, well, Charlie, what's going to take?
00:06:27.000It's actually going to take us less about thinking that the news cycle is going to determine and dictate political outcomes that we find to be favorable.
00:06:35.000And we have to do the work to build the infrastructure, long-term infrastructure.
00:07:55.000I'm building it out because I don't want you to be passive and to be a spectator, acting as if you're saying, well, this thing's about to turn around because they've overreached and it's coming back in our direction.
00:08:12.000But boy, that certainly is the attitude I've been receiving in your emails from many of you and also the event that we had yesterday.
00:08:20.000And look here, the media just has to run enough interference and smokescreen.
00:08:24.000This Politico article is extraordinary.
00:08:26.000I mean, this woman, Erica Orden, I don't know who she is, but she would have been a perfect member of the Pravda publication during the Soviet Union.
00:08:37.000It is so unbelievably intellectually dishonest.
00:09:46.000So when I say there might not be a backlash or we can't count on it, it's because the media does this and people say, well, you know, Alvin Bragg is by the book and he's politics averse.
00:09:56.000This Erica Ordin person for Politico, I mean, she should be ashamed, obviously.
00:10:23.000We're going to go indict a former president for the first time in American history over a created, fabricated, and just completely new interpretation of criminal law.
00:10:36.000Do you think a backfire or a backlash or a boomerang is inevitable?
00:10:40.000Because I've been waiting for it for a couple years, and I'm afraid it's not going to happen automatically.
00:10:45.000It's only going to happen if we put in the work.
00:11:09.000Overall, 3.4% increase in year-to-date major crimes, according to New York Police Department stats.
00:11:15.000To be fair, on the bright side, the latest numbers show that murders are down, but they're up over the last couple years.
00:11:23.000So Alvin Bragg, New York City prosecutors, have been forced to toss out 69% of criminal cases while shootings rose 102% and murders rose by 51%.
00:11:36.000This is a man who wants to become the first prosecutor ever to indict and arrest a former president.
00:11:43.000And by the way, this is all while an increase at record highs.
00:11:48.000You have Gian Coloney, an adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, quote: This is the thing that people have to think about.
00:11:57.000We had a pretty close to a record increase in crime last year.
00:12:03.000At the same time, overall major crimes are up 35.2% in New York City.
00:12:13.000And he wants to be the first person to indict a former president.
00:12:16.000In the history of the country, there is no going back from this.
00:12:19.000And by the way, the left that is cheerleading this, Joe Scarborough and all these people that are saying, oh, yeah, well, a crime is a crime is a crime is a crime.
00:12:26.000Once we, as conservatives, get our act together and we start indicting Democrats, former president, Democrats, Uniparty Republicans, you guys have lost all of your moral rights to complain.
00:12:39.000I think it's wrong what's happening here, but I'm not going to forget this, and many conservatives aren't going to forget this if Donald Trump is arrested.
00:12:46.000As I say, it's time for us to do subpoenas and investigations into the legitimate crimes of the Democrat mafia.
00:12:52.000We said that yesterday, and it needs to happen.
00:12:54.000If you have an attorneys general in your state that is not actively investigating one of the members of the Democrat Party, you should ask them, like, why are you not doing this?
00:13:03.000They're about to indict a former president.
00:13:05.000All they understand is power, equal and opposite reaction.
00:13:10.000By the way, Fulton County might indict Donald Trump, the Department of Justice, and we're just supposed to say, well, you know, I really hope everything's fine and we're going to take it.
00:13:17.000But here's the buried lead that nobody wants to talk about.
00:13:20.000Republicans are actually cheering on these indictments more than some Democrats.
00:13:28.000There's a major community of Republicans out there that are quietly snickering and sneering, hoping that Donald Trump actually gets indicted.
00:13:38.000Like, oh, finally, we can turn the page.
00:13:42.000Finally, we can move past Donald Trump.
00:13:48.000When in reality, Donald Trump is just in the way.
00:13:53.000Donald Trump is just in the way of you, them coming towards you, the people.
00:14:00.000By the way, if Donald Trump would have all of a sudden took a pivot towards neoliberalism and invade the world and invite the world and keep borders completely and totally wide open, then they would have said, all right, whatever.
00:14:13.000No, Donald Trump wants to get back to the White House and is making commitments and promises that are a legitimate threat to their internationalist globalist aims and ambitions.
00:14:25.000There's an entire community of Republicans that are cheering this on, that are hoping this happens.
00:14:32.000And we're getting a fair amount of emails from you say, well, Charlie, come on, of course there's going to be a backlash.
00:15:17.000Instead, the most operative question is: what are we going to do?
00:15:20.000What is the change we are going to effectuate?
00:15:24.000Politico writes: in recent weeks, Trump has already sought to paint Bragg as a liberal firebrand.
00:15:30.000I mean, how does Politico write this stuff?
00:15:32.000Promoting criticism about his progressive policies on ending the prosecution of minor offenses and curbing jail time for certain crimes.
00:15:40.000So here's the best solution for Donald Trump: Donald Trump should go to New York and commit a violent felony, and then they would drop all charges.
00:15:49.000Donald Trump should just go on the subway and mug somebody, and then they would drop all charges and he'd be free to go.
00:15:56.000Donald Trump should just go loot a department store.
00:15:59.000Go to a Walgreens and just steal a bunch of stuff.
00:16:02.000That's almost a guarantee that Alvin Bragg won't come after you.
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00:17:47.000Attorney Costello came out, and because of the waiving of the attorney client privilege, he was able to discuss freely and openly about his relationship with Michael Cohen and how Michael Cohen is materially lying to, quote-unquote, get Trump.
00:18:32.000I called him up after I saw Michael Cohen on TV stating things that he said he was going to tell the grand jury and had told the grand jury that were contrary to what he told us when we first represented him in April of 2018.
00:18:48.000So I'm sitting at home watching these lies and I said, I've got to do something about it.
00:18:52.000I don't represent Donald Trump, but I do stand for justice and I think I have a legal obligation to inform both sides.
00:19:01.000And so effectively, if you listen to the entire segment, it's a long segment.
00:19:04.000He went in and he has the emails and the texts and the phone calls and he has a sworn waiving of attorney client privilege, which I don't know why Michael Cohen signed.
00:19:14.000That's just really bizarre and strange.
00:19:25.000So the entire case is basically built on Michael Cohen saying Donald Trump had an affair allegedly with Stormy Daniels, and then he wanted to pay hush money payment, which is not illegal, by the way.
00:21:02.000Obviously, he was not able to effectively defend himself in the grand jury situation with his lawyers.
00:21:08.000So he said, the last thing I have to preserve my name and my reputation and the reputation of his supporters because he's a representation of the supporters in the movement is to play offense and to put them on defense.
00:21:58.000The district attorney has the documentation in order to validate every single statement that I've made and to basically dispel anything that Bob Costello has to say, which is probably, again, why they didn't need me for rebuttal.
00:22:19.000So he's arguing that this is all a tactic.
00:22:26.000It's Donald Trump pushing back against kind of the public relations narrative.
00:22:31.000But I want to ask a very important question, which is, is there a kind of a get Trump war room that exists?
00:22:37.000Is there a war room where there is kind of a central nervous system, if you will, where they're going through the different ways that they can go after Trump?
00:22:47.000And this is something that Jim Jordan wants to find out.
00:22:50.000Has Alvin Bragg communicated with the Biden Justice Department?
00:22:59.000Has Alvin Bragg been talking to other outside district attorneys?
00:23:09.000Joe Scarborough thinks that Donald Trump is trying to get people to do another January 6th, and now the Justice Department is going to have to hire more people to prosecute him.
00:24:39.000But yet, Donald Trump, the victim of extortion, for the first time in this country's history in the most novel, novel, untested legal theory of prosecution is being subject to a grand jury investigation.
00:24:51.000This is historic what we're seeing here.
00:25:14.000And somebody said, well, Charlie, and this is a top kind of Republican donor type, establishment donor guy, and we don't see eye eye in a lot of stuff, but we're still on good terms.
00:25:24.000He said, Charlie, I know you're not going to like me saying this, but I hope he goes to jail.
00:25:28.000It'd be good for the conservative movement.
00:25:32.000That is an attitude of a lot of Republicans, certainly not in this audience and not with you.
00:25:37.000But I sure hope you understand that there is a uniparty push for this.
00:25:42.000There is a demand in Washington, D.C., almost like just get him out of the picture.
00:25:48.000And what they're really saying is, get those Trump people out of the picture.
00:25:52.000Get you out of the picture, that you're finally engaged, that you're finally involved.
00:25:58.000And isn't it curious that the one guy that has diversified and expanded the Republican Party is the one that they want to get rid of the most?
00:26:37.000At how many Republicans who know that this is wrong happening to Trump, they're kind of like shrugging their shoulders and they say, yeah, it's wrong.
00:26:51.000Goes to show the poison that has infected the Republican Party.
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00:29:06.000I want to play this piece of tape here.
00:29:10.000Let's go to Maxine Waters saying Donald Trump is sending out a message to rile up far-right groups to act out on another January 6th play cut 20.
00:29:18.000This is Donald Trump sending messages out to domestic terrorists that he's worked with and he helped to organize for the invasion of the Capitol on January 5th.
00:29:30.000He's sending out a message to them to get ready to protest any arrests, indictments, et cetera, that he may have.
00:29:38.000So he's basically talking to the proud boys, the oath keepers, QAnon, KKK.
00:29:47.000You got any else you want to add to that?
00:30:17.000And while Alvin Bragg, I mean, this is such a ridiculous politico piece, and I could go through several others, you have to understand something about the left, which is, yes, the left has cover of their media.
00:30:33.000But if Alvin Bragg ends up doing this, it is damaging.
00:30:42.000And for any establishment Republican out there or anybody out there that is listening to my voice and you say, oh, I don't like Trump and I don't like this.
00:30:50.000You are cheering for the shredding of America.
00:30:54.000America is not a place where you lock up political opponents you don't like, especially on petty differences.
00:31:03.000And by the way, the threshold basically is Hillary Clinton walks for what she did.
00:31:40.000But if you're a Republican out there and we have a sizable audience and you say, boy, I hate Trump, you need to really have some reflection on that.
00:31:50.000And I hope that this motivates you to speak out on principle at how outrageous this is.
00:31:56.000On principle at how these are just conjured up charges.
00:32:04.000And the argument that is true, but it's overused, to be honest, is, well, if they can do it to Trump, they're going to do it to somebody else.
00:32:14.000But if it just is done to anybody unjustly, it should fire you up.
00:32:18.000Any injustice should prick your soul towards action, period.
00:32:25.000Not to mention, they're doing this in the arena and the venue where they can find the most humiliation possible for Donald Trump, where he was once the kind of darling of New York City, Woman Rink, Convention Center, Plaza Hotel, doing the Hyatt deal, Trump Tower, massive developer, came in after the World Trade Center, owned golf courses in one of the bureaus, all that sort of stuff.
00:33:15.000Let's get back to sending money to Zelensky.
00:33:19.000If this Rubicon is crossed, and if you don't know what the Rubicon is, the Rubicon is a river in Italy when Julius Caesar, he was deployed up north and was fighting what basically is the Germans or the Goths, won a bunch of wars there, came back down south, and he was given a direct order that if you cross the River Rubicon, it will turn the Roman triumphant into a civil war.
00:33:44.000And Julius Caesar had to make a decision.
00:33:46.000He took his troops and he crossed the River Rubicon, and it turned the entire Roman, it was at the time a Roman Republic, into a very bloody civil war that Caesar ended up winning.
00:33:57.000But that's where we get the term crossing of the Rubicon.
00:34:09.000I sure hope they don't for the good of the country, for the good of the promise of the Founding Fathers, that you can go after on petty differences a former president.
00:34:17.000And if you're out there and you say, I hate Trump, he's the worst, he's all these different things.