Kurt Schlichter uncovers why DOJ is silent on the Mar-a-Lago raid, and why it's time for us to take the high road and not respond. Plus, Kash Patel explains why a Trump indictment is looming.
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00:04:59.000And then we're going to elect another president in 2024, and maybe President Trump, maybe someone else.
00:05:04.000But that person's going to be conservative woke.
00:07:35.000It is going to radicalize a lot of normal Americans because normal Americans are going, you, wait a minute, President Krusty sent guys with guns to raid the house of the guy who might run against them.
00:07:52.000You know, I'm not big into politics, but that sounds more like Uruguay in 1957 than it should sound like America in 2022.
00:08:02.000This is our Dobbs in the sense that Democrats thought, oh, boy, Dobbs is going to mobilize all our frustrated wine wives.
00:09:09.000Now, I like the old rule because I think it's, I think when you're raiding someone of another political party, even when maybe you've got problems.
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00:11:04.000Charlie, we want to be better than that.
00:11:07.000I mean, it's okay that they raid and they go after Stone and D'Souza and Bannon and Manafort and Navarro and Perry and O'Keefe and Giuliani and Eastman, but we can't go down to their level.
00:11:38.000What we can do is waive the previous requirement that had a reluctance and a reticence regarding criminal charges against political opponents.
00:11:50.000You have to be very, very clear that they did it.
00:11:58.000You do it when you have no other options simply because to attack a political opponent using the force of government immediately brings up legitimate questions.
00:12:08.000Well, that's the rule they got rid of.
00:12:23.000I don't know, say there was a relative of a president who seemed to be getting really close to a bunch of foreign potentates and maybe peddling influence.
00:12:34.000I'd like to see investigation prosecution of that.
00:12:37.000Or perhaps a former Secretary of State who puts massive amounts of classified information on a server in somebody's bathroom.
00:12:46.000I think that would be a fruitful subject of inquiry.
00:13:14.000I think it's very, very interesting that he's the one who signed off on this, particularly because there's some allegations that he has social media posts very critical of the president.
00:13:25.000You would think that someone like that would recuse himself.
00:13:28.000Again, another potentially fruitful avenue of inquiry.
00:14:04.000And again, we need to be very clear about the rule we're talking about.
00:14:06.000The rule we're talking about is a common sense and prudent reluctance to use the power of government and the power of law enforcement against political opponents because of the effect it has on our political system and the doubts it raises.
00:14:34.000Fine, but there are consequences to getting rid of the rule.
00:14:38.000This is not about doing what they do, which is attempting to frame their opponents, which is absolutely what they're doing.
00:14:44.000We are talking about something different, but it's going to, you know, it's going to be a real problem for them because, you know, I mean, if you send a bunch of forensic accountants to plow through Nancy Pelosi and Paul Pelosi's stock trades and their taxes, I wouldn't be deliberately.
00:15:02.000By the way, so some people say, well, we don't have that power.
00:15:05.000You're trying to tell me Nancy Pelosi hasn't traded a stock in a red state in the last 10 years.
00:15:09.000So let's say she's probably bought and paid a stock in Tennessee or she's free to go litigate to explain why a red state attorney general doesn't have that authority.
00:15:22.000I mean, I certainly, I'm certain a red state judge would take all her arguments fully into consideration, just like the arguments of conservatives are taken into consideration in Washington, D.C. Which is not at all.
00:18:37.000Your initial thoughts on the raid of Trump's home.
00:18:41.000A two-tier system of justice on full display in 2022, America.
00:18:47.000I prosecuted terrorists in foreign countries in Africa and the Middle East that now have a superior justice system than the United States of America.
00:19:03.000You're the political expert, but they come back to just smash them in the face in short order.
00:19:08.000Cash, there is a fair amount of cynicism in our audience about the rule of law, the FBI, but I think you have an interesting perspective to connect to seemingly unrelated pieces.
00:19:22.000The FBI is able and willing to do outrageous things because they were never held accountable for the other outrageous things they did.
00:19:58.000You're talking to the Russia Gate guy.
00:19:59.000You're talking to the guy that wrote the Nunes memo.
00:20:01.000You're talking to the guy that got 17 FBI agents fired, including a director of the FBI and the deputy director of the FBI.
00:20:08.000That's the power of congressional oversight when it's wielded properly.
00:20:12.000And I think that's the key takeaway because unless we do that again, come the midterms, we are never going to know the depravity and the depths of this.
00:20:20.000I mean, you have Christopher Ray going before the United States Senate and instead of answering questions about FBI whistleblowers, by the way, where are all the FBI whistleblowers?
00:20:28.000And not to Chuck Rassley, who's doing a good job.
00:20:30.000Chris Ray said he had to jet off on his private jet to his vacation home in the Adirondacks and answer questions of accountability to the United States Senate because the Democrats are in power and they don't care about accountability.
00:20:47.000And the department is not going to answer any questions.
00:20:49.000Merrick Garland's not going to do anything.
00:20:52.000He has no problem bringing political cases near an election, even though the mandate at the DOJ has been for 100 years never to do that, even though they preclude Durham from bringing them inside 90 days.
00:21:02.000But whoa, if it involves Trump, let's do it the day before.
00:21:05.000It's just going to get worse until November because they know the clock's running out.
00:22:37.000You just selectively talk about them when they have to do with Donald Trump.
00:22:40.000You leak classified information when it benefits you.
00:22:43.000Are you telling me this attorney general didn't call the White House and the White House counsel to say, hey, we're going to go gangster on a former president of the United States and go run roughshot into his home with 30 armed agents like we're in downtown Kandahar, Afghanistan?
00:22:58.000And for this White House to come in and say, well, we don't comment on it either.
00:23:01.000They're going to hide behind that till November until you subpoena these guys and hold them in contempt of Congress and threaten to throw them in jail, which is exactly what should happen.
00:23:09.000So for the next 90 days, it's going to be rough.
00:23:11.000And we're going to need whistleblowers.
00:23:13.000And I hope they start coming out in droves, but we're going to need Congress to have the will to say what Kevin McCarthy to do what Kevin McCarthy said last night, which is, Merrick Garland, hold your record.
00:23:51.000And I stick by my position that he's not going to be indicted because from public reporting, the best I can tell, there's two ways, twofold reasons to raid him, right?
00:23:59.000He's a president of the United States.
00:24:00.000I put out a statement on fightwithcash.com, which was President Trump's statement in October of 2020, where he declassified every document related to Russia Gate and the Hillary Clinton email scandal.
00:24:10.000Fast forward to December of January before he left office.
00:24:13.000He declassified whole sets of documents before he left office.
00:24:17.000He is the unilateral classification authority as commander in chief.
00:24:47.000He has some note to Ronald Reagan he wrote on the website.
00:24:51.000The other thing I want to chime in on is this Mark Elias.
00:24:53.000Remember, this guy that started the Russiagate hoax who got paid millions of dollars for the DNC by the DNC and Hillary campaign to perpetuate the biggest fraud and has been named a criminal co-conspirator by John Durham.
00:25:04.000He put out this note where he said, look at this statute.
00:25:05.000It says, if you take National Archives information, you cannot hold public office.
00:25:09.000That's true, except that statute doesn't apply to the president of the United States.
00:25:12.000The Constitution dictates the office of the presidency and a constitutional amendment only.
00:25:42.000They've shown that they have allowed FBI agents who fumbled and trapped people in the Whitmer case, FBI agents who lie to a federal court for Russia Gate, who called Russian, Hunter Biden's laptop Russian disinformation knowingly that it was false.
00:25:57.000These are the guys that got promotions.
00:26:26.000I mean, if that's, I saw that reporting, and if that's what they got, oh boy, they got a lot of problems.
00:26:31.000There was an amicable way to do this: issue a subpoena, talk to lawyers, get it done appropriately above board because it's a former president of the United States.
00:26:40.000They chose to go rogue and they have allowed government gangsters to run roughshot over our constitution.
00:26:46.000So the only argument that's out there that I can't answer is why has Trump not yet released the warrant?
00:26:54.000You know, there's probably a legal strategy in play.
00:26:57.000Look, me as a former federal prosecutor and public defender, I wouldn't release it right now either because you have to game out a strategy.
00:27:24.000Yeah, look, these warrants can be really long or really short.
00:27:27.000And they can just, you know, when you challenge it, you don't want to, you know, we don't want to do what they did, which is politicize it.
00:27:33.000When you challenge it, you want to be on the right footing in a court of law to say, Judge, we didn't do anything wrong.
00:27:39.000And then you are on such better footing.
00:27:40.000I'm like, I know where this judge is completely biased and should have recused himself from this case, but that's another story, how the FBI went selectively jurisdiction shopping with this guy.
00:27:51.000But he's not, he's a magistrate judge.
00:27:53.000He's not the guy that's going to decide the morrow issue.
00:28:09.000He is not an Article III judge as the other guys are.
00:28:12.000So, Judge Reinhart, who signed the warrant, who put him into place?
00:28:18.000The bench, the entire bench gets together in the Southern District of Florida, the federally appointed judges and select after a process, a certain number of magistrate judges.
00:28:28.000No, no, no, I'm talking about the one who signed the warrant, though.
00:28:30.000Was it a magistrate judge signed the warrant?
00:28:32.000A magistrate Reinhardt is a magistrate judge.
00:28:58.000Anti-Trump judge who drinks whiskey and eats Oreos while watching Sunday Night Football and then puts it on social media.
00:29:04.000Super weird and creepy during a hurricane.
00:29:08.000You know, I think there's a lot of questions.
00:29:10.000Oh, and by the way, Charlie, I don't know if you noticed this, but this same judge recused himself from Donald Trump's RICO case that he filed in the Southern District of Florida against the FBI DOJ and so many others.
00:29:22.000So why did he recuse himself from that case?
00:29:49.000Incompetence doesn't necessarily lead to criminality.
00:29:52.000So which out of those two scenarios right there seems more likely to you at this point?
00:29:56.000Within the IRS, probably incompetence.
00:29:58.000The IRS has one of the most antiquated computer systems in the world.
00:30:02.000And the fact that emails could have disappeared without Ms. Lerner knowing about it or Ms. Lerner being involved is entirely credible to me.
00:30:08.000Information came back up to her that said, this is what we have.
00:30:11.000She reported what she was told, and it turns out not to be true, but that's not a crime.
00:30:15.000If she didn't know it wasn't true, that's not a crime.
00:30:17.000And that's going to probably be where her defense lies.
00:30:19.000And one of the problems with that might be the fact that there have been some new emails surfacing that Lerner apparently warned some of her colleagues about that.
00:30:37.000It depends, again, how one reads that email.
00:30:39.000It could be read one way to say that destroy what we already have, which would, of course, be criminal, or it could be construed to say, going forward, recognize that Congress may ask for our emails.
00:30:49.000So be careful what you put in writing.
00:30:51.000Because I think at the end of the day, what originally happened here is probably not a crime.
00:30:56.000That is Judge Reinhart defending Lois Lerner, destroying evidence.
00:31:02.000That is the same judge who signed off on the FBI search of Donald Trump's home.
00:31:08.000Well, it just goes to the fact that this guy should have recused.
00:31:11.000I mean, he's fine to hold those beliefs and he's fine to have that opinion as a lawyer and later as a judge too.
00:31:17.000Of course, you can't erase your history, but that's why judges are supposed to be neutral arbiters of the facts and the law.
00:31:23.000And that's why there's a mandate for recusal when you cannot be so.
00:31:26.000And even when there's an appearance of impropriety, even when you can come in and say, oh, don't worry about it, I won't act on it.
00:31:32.000The appropriate thing to do as a judge, based on the judicial canons of ethics, which govern them, is to say, just so the public maintains integrity in the judicial system, I'm out.
00:31:43.000It's not like you're the only guy that can do this case.
00:31:45.000No, he wanted to do this case, and the DOJ and FBI wanted him to do this case.
00:31:49.000They selected him to do this case because they know how the carousel works and they know where they were going to get the best shot.
00:31:56.000And I think you're right, Charlie, they overshot.
00:31:58.000They're going to see that not only was his raid completely unlawful and unnecessary, but they went judge forum shopping, which continues the political.
00:32:06.000Let me ask you: so, there's this new Newsweek story out of which I don't believe it looks like damage control, but it says here, quote, What a spectacular backfire, says the justice official.
00:32:14.000I know there's much speculation out there that this is political persecution, but it really is the best and worst of the bureaucracy in action.
00:32:21.000They wanted to punctuate the fact that this is a routine law enforcement action stripped of any political overtones and yet got the exact opposite.
00:32:30.000I mean, I don't know if that's an anonymous source or what clown is saying that, but this is that every single thing they have done is intentional, it's planned out.
00:32:41.000You cannot conduct a raid quietly with 30 guys and fly them down from the Washington field office and hide the fact that they're going to do that and show up unannounced and get a search warrant and get a judge to authorize it.