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Glenn Beck and Jonathan Turley discuss the Supreme Court's recent ruling on the Trump vs. Obama Supreme Court case and the implications for the future of the presidency. Glenn also talks about a story about Dr. John Legend and his dog.
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So there's a big story about dogs that Stu's all over today.
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I've got, well, I'm going to save it for the show.
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Just that I want to be his friend so I can, you know, steal some of his viewpoints before he prints them and make them my own.
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Have you noticed Jonathan Turley is ripping this show off all the time?
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Just let's exchange digits and we can chat, you know, before you write your articles.
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What if I told you you could wake up a few weeks from now, just a few weeks from now, and be completely out of pain?
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Is this Dr. John's snake oil that I'm, I don't know?
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And I had no reason to think that other than it was all natural and it was, you know, a supplement and you buy it, you know, online and blah, blah, blah.
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Really, I'm going to take this natural supplement.
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Just try it for three weeks or three-week quick start.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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And everybody coming out and saying, he could go after us.
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Now that the Supreme Court has ruled, Donald Trump, if he is elected,
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he'll come in and he'll start putting people in jail.
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I want you to remember that here for just a second.
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Here's what the president had to say last night at a press conference.
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The presidency is the most powerful office in the world.
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It's an office that not only tests your judgment, perhaps even more importantly,
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Because you not only face moments where you need the courage to exercise the full power
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of the presidency, you also face moments where you need the wisdom to respect the limits
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So, Stu, like, what would some of those limits be?
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Like, you know, because it's an awesome responsibility to be president of the United States,
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You couldn't just go out and kill people, right?
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That's not what I've been hearing, Glenn, over the past 24 hours.
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My understanding is the Supreme Court gave a, like, James Bond license to kill to the president
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No, I don't think that's true, but we'll continue to listen.
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I didn't hear the whole speech, so we'll go on.
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I was thinking, like, something smaller, like, maybe you say, hey, you've got student loans.
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But the president couldn't just say, I'm going to just, you know, forgive all student loans, right?
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That, I mean, you're thinking of the old-timey America.
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There was a version of America where the, you know, the head of the executive branch
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couldn't just spend $500 billion on a whim without Congress.
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It would go to the Supreme Court, and then they'd tell the president to stop, and he would.
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And then, but in a slightly different way, like 1% different, and then sends it up through
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You know, when you restrain yourself from doing those things that you can't do.
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To respect the limits of the power of the office of the presidency.
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This nation was founded on the principle of kings in America.
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Like, for instance, if you were held in contempt of Congress, right, you'd go to jail, right?
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Like, Steve Bannon just went to jail yesterday.
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Another Trump advisor who said, no, I can't share that.
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But, yeah, but it's, but it's all, it's all equal, right?
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I mean, let's say somebody was, yeah, not releasing tapes of testimony.
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Um, and they say, well, that was executive privilege and they're in contempt of Congress.
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I mean, I don't know what you're talking about specifically, but what you just described
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does not sound at all like something that you would go to jail for.
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And Congress said, you have to produce this information.
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That doesn't seem like a jailable offense at all.
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Like, you know, it's like, I can see where you're getting confused here.
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Like, for example, if you were to, um, like, riot at a federal building, right?
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And then there's, there's another separate scenario where let's say you were to riot at a federal
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If you riot at a federal building, you're going to jail.
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But if you're just simply rioting at a federal building, then you don't go to jail.
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Um, so is it kind of like, cause it's a very subtle difference.
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It's kind of like when you're praying in front of abortion clinic, uh, you go to jail.
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And, but if you burn down an abortion clinic, you don't go to jail.
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Depends on, are they not, are you burning it down because they're not doing enough abortions?
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If you burn it down because they're not frequently aborting enough kids, then yes, you do not go to
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Uh, but if you burn it down because you think they're doing too many abortions, then obviously
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So if you burn down an abortion clinic, you would go to jail if you disagree with them.
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But if you, if you burn down the people's, uh, you know, uh, business where they were pro-life,
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Uh, they're pro-life, the owners of the, of the business.
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I just, I just want to make sure that I understand equal justice under the law, that we're all
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Today's Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity, that fundamentally changed for all,
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Today's decision almost certainly means that there are virtually no limits on what a president
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Because the power of the office will no longer be constrained by the law, even including the
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That is news that no matter what the president does, even if it breaks the law, you're not
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See, what the left is afraid of right now is what they're saying is he's going to silence
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Or he would put his, he'd put his, you know, former allies, I mean, his former foes in jail.
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You know, for instance, let's say you're, you're running against a guy who Donald Trump didn't
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Then he would just make up some charges and then get the guy arrested and then keep him,
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you know, in the court system until you finally got him into jail.
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Trump could do that, uh, because of yesterday's rulings.
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Uh, so that's pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty frightening.
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You know, I think if we're really going to go all the way, what should be terrifying is
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that Donald Trump could just round up a whole group of people because he didn't like them.
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Just round them up and then put them like in a concentration camp, uh, kind of like FDR
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did with the Japanese and that wouldn't be illegal.
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You know, he'd get out of office and he'd never pay the price that FDR had to pay.
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Well, yeah, that's over and over again by historians.
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Yeah, the guys who violate these are always the progressives, always the deep, deep progressives
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Now, when it comes to just killing people or doing something illegal, the Supreme Court
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So if the, if the president acts in an unconstitutional way, then you can get him.
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But unless it's, unless it's unconstitutional, he can't do it.
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So it would be unconstitutional to round up the people that disagreed with you.
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It would be unconstitutional to silence those who oppose you.
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It would be unconstitutional to go after your opposing political, uh, foe and try to put
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I mean, it's funny, this ruling is coming from Roberts, who's an institutionalist, right?
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Like if anything, we've complained about him a million times because he's so unwilling
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to shake up things just because, you know, it happens to be the constitutional way.
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Like it was, ah, it's going to shake things up and I don't want to give the impression
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that we're, you know, too impactful on society.
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What he's saying is, hey, we shouldn't have, I mean, in a way it's designed specifically
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to protect Joe Biden because everybody knows if there's no immunity, what do you think
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Donald Trump's going to do when he's president of the United States after what he's just
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He's going to go in there and find every little thing that he can and go after Joe Biden on
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So you think he's just going to sit back and be like, ah, you know, let me show you what
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I don't think that's the way that's going to go down in a way Roberts is protecting
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both sides from this back and forth that could easily come.
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However, what the president has done is not constitutional and he should go to jail, not
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The whole thing of, you know, of, you know, taking away your student loans and things like
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But I don't think that's something that you go after.
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At least as far as we know, while he was president, as far as we know, none of that
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But what I think Roberts is doing here is just setting a high bar.
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You can go after a president for the worst things in the world.
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So don't bother bringing up your BS nonsense every 10 seconds because it's not going to
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That is a that's a beyond the fact that we all knew what he said was true.
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Official acts would be you'd be have immunity for like you're not able under the law, Glenn,
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Like you don't just you can't just we like you couldn't send a drone to go start murdering
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The president with his powers, his commander in chief has powers that we don't have.
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Like we all know that there is some sort of implied immunity for official acts.
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So we all knew that we all knew unofficial acts would not be covered here.
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Yet they have to do this charade every single time and act.
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Seal team six might come and just start being utilized to kill people.
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How many how many different layers of checks and balances would have to including seal
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team six just going along with this, which they would not be covered to do.
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But like we're supposed to believe that Donald Trump would be completely fine for doing this.
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As the president is saying this, two things happened yesterday.
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Christian pro-life father of 11 is now facing over a decade in prison.
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He's going to be sentenced today for a peaceful protest in Tennessee.
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What he said yesterday is this, quote, it's real easy for me.
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I can go and go to battle and go to jail as an individual.
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The challenge comes when you're leading your family through it.
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When you're talking to your three-year-old and your 23-year-old and your other family.
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Vaughn said that he wanted to pray to God, quote, every day and get up ready to take on
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the day with whatever circumstances come my way with a humility and a grace and a spirit
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led life that represents all of us in our society and represents him and our community
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How many politicians order their life after truth and justice versus power, greed, negotiation
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So here's a guy who said, I believe what I believe.
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At the same time, Bannon also went to jail for a contempt of Congress.
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There are now 15, I believe, 15 people in the Biden administration that have been deemed
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I think he's a thought leader that I really strongly disagree with many times.
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If this is what it takes to stand up to tyranny, if this is if this what it takes to stand up
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to the corrupt criminal DOJ, if this is what it takes to stand up to Nancy Pelosi, if this
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what it takes to stand up to Joe Biden, then I am proud to do it.
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You have people crying that they might go to prison while they're putting prison people
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You are one of those guys that I have been watching since the Clinton thing, when I think you first
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And there are times, this is always a judge to me of when somebody is speaking their truth.
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And I hate that word, those words, but when they're speaking from a position where they believe
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this is the way it is, you piss me off sometimes, and you also really agree with me sometimes,
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And that's really the secret of the Constitution, right?
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And I think that the point is, I think, profound that you're making, and that the key about
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our system is this level of civility that we can disagree on occasion, but also recognize
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That's sort of what my new book's about, that there are certain core values that bond
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us to each other, even when we vehemently disagree.
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So would you say that that is the—because I've been trying to find what the problem
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is, and forgive me if you disagree, but I think the biggest problem is this whole early
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20th century progressive attitude that just goes beyond the Constitution and our written
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But we don't agree on even the Bill of Rights anymore.
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No, I agree with you, and it is coming from the left.
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That's what my new book talks about, that I do believe that the greatest threat that we
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have faced, particularly for free speech, is found in the times we're living.
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I think this is the most anti-free speech period in our history, and it is the most dangerous
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because there are differences, and one is this alliance that exists now that has never formed
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before of the government, corporations, academia, and the media.
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I mean, the sort of book goes through all the anti-free speech periods we've had.
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And we can't assume that just because we survived earlier periods with our Constitution intact that
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that that's going to be how this all plays out today.
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First of all, I love you, so I'm going to give you a piece of advice because you are a constitutional
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Three times now you've said, my new book, always say, my new book, The Indispensable Right.
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That way you just keep name dropping all the time.
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My new book, The Indispensable Right, talks about that.
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Anyway, his book is The Indispensable Right, and it is about the First Amendment and how freedom
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of speech, there is this systematic effort to take it out.
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Well, you know, I'm still sort of amazed that we've seen this anti-free speech movement progress
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I have a long chapter in The Indispensable Right.
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But I have a long chapter, for example, on academia and in higher education.
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I've got a colleague who has drafted a new amendment to the First Amendment and has been praised
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It is, she maintains that the First Amendment is excessively individualistic.
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And so the new amendment would allow the government to curtail free speech in the interest of equity.
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And other, you know, other professors have published anti-free speech books that have also
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been widely praised, saying that we have to get beyond individual rights.
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Some Georgetown professors, a Harvard professor, a Yale professor said, we need to break away
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So there's this war on rights generally coming from the left.
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And so they're raising a generation now of speech phobics, kids that have been told their
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whole lives, that free speech is harmful and triggering.
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And I think your new book, The Indispensable Right, talks about it, where, you know, you
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have this culture where we are teaching kids and everybody else, hey, that's harmful speech.
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Well, that could be a choice, but that's not that that speech.
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The only speech that needs to be protected is the speech that everybody disagrees with or
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You don't need to protect the nice, rosy speeches and the speech.
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The other part of that is, as you say, is now being institutionalized.
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It's taken taken some root with Cass Sunstein's works, hasn't it?
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And what you're seeing is that it's now in vogue to be anti-free speech.
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I mean, most universities have purged conservatives, libertarians, Republicans from their ranks and
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About 40 percent in one survey didn't have a single Republican on on the faculty.
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There was a you know, the book talks about how, you know, the Harvard Crimson had this
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hilarious piece, which wasn't intended to be hilarious.
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But they they did this huge piece on the last Republican on the Harvard faculty in this
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And they did everything but sort of poke him with a stick.
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I mean, they were sort of fascinated about this is a real Republican still on Harvard's campus.
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And I go I go into this and then this principle, right, because I I went to Chicago and loved it
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because when I went there, it was like the Star Wars bar scene.
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I actually lived in the in a way with the the Dorchester Cooperative where the book The Jungle
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And in the basement was a bunch of Trotskyites that would meet next door was a bunch of libertarians
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But I was fascinated to talk to people that saw what I was seeing and and but concluded
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something completely different from what I was concluding.
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That is, no, I feel sorry for students today because it now the sole sort of range of viewpoints
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I think that is starting to change somewhat in public.
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I don't it's not in academia and I don't know about your circles, but it is changing
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to where I once again have friends that are far left, you know, that we disagree with each
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other on a lot of things, but neither of us believe that our view should be enforced,
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you know, and and and people silenced for their viewpoint.
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The only way you learn and grow is if you have somebody say something that you are like, that's
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And then you're challenged on it or you challenge them and then you either discover you're wrong
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or they're wrong or there's something missing in the conversation that we both need to explore.
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I mean, the problem that I have is is how to regain greater intellectual diversity, particularly in higher education after this purging.
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There's just simply very few alternative viewpoints and it is still a vicious environment.
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You know, the book goes into stories of which book, which which book the indispensable right goes into these stories of academics.
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You know, there's one guy in North Carolina that they pursued for years.
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He had to go to court three times to keep his job.
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Then someone found out he made a joke to a bunch of friends at a lunch and he was put again under investigation.
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And on the last day that he would be a professor, he went home and blew his brains out.
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And he's not the only suicide that what people don't understand is that if you are dissenting voice today in higher education,
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they take everything away from you that an intellectual values, they take away publication opportunities, conferences, associations,
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I've had professors send stuff to my blog, which is a free speech blog.
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And these are, and I always write back, say, why don't you write this up?
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I, I don't, I can't lose this job and I can't be targeted.
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What people don't understand is the reason that academic blew his brains out is that he went home and realized
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that today was going to be my last day to do the only thing I ever wanted to do.
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So it goes beyond, let's move out of academia and talk about this,
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this monster of public private partnerships in social media, for example,
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where the government can come in and lay a heavy hand and sometimes they are willingly doing it.
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Sometimes they're doing it because we got to negotiate with the government on this
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and it's much more important, just let this go.
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I mean, it's, it's, it seems to me that the administrative state has found that we don't need Congress anymore.
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We can just get others in the private sector to do what we want them to do and silence people.
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And, and I go into a great depth about this, this alliance and how it has laid out the indispensable right.
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And I, you know, it's, this partnership is really quite daunting and it's been very successful.
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And President Biden has played a big role in that.
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I mean, Joe Biden is arguably the most anti-free speech president since John Adams.
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It's a compilation of clips from various episodes.
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If you want to dig deeper into this interview, check out the full podcast episode.
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So, uh, I don't know if you saw Vogue magazine.
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No, I don't even know where they sell those things anymore.
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Um, but, uh, Vogue magazine, Jill Biden was on the cover and they, that's why they had to leave the debate.
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And the very next day they had to be in New York, uh, with Annie Leibovitz doing a photo shoot with the whole family.
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Um, so she's on the cover and she's wearing a beautiful Ralph Lauren dress, uh, which only retails for about $5,000.
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So who doesn't have one of those in, uh, the closet?
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Um, there, uh, you know, it's, it's, um, it's an interesting look.
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She's wearing a $5,000 dress, uh, on the cover.
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And, uh, then she talks about food prices and she knows that food prices are up and people are really struggling.
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Uh, but she's, you know, she's a down to earth, Dr. B.
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She is, she's, uh, you know, she teaches in Wilmington and she shops for her own groceries and, uh, uh, and she's, you know, working at the community college.
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And she said, I assigned my students articles instead of books because books are expensive.
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Now she's married to, uh, Joe Biden, who is, has always been incompetent.
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That's why he's always a truck driver or, you know, I was, uh, you know, I, I taught, um, uh, constitutional law.
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He's, you know, he was, he was there marching with civil rights.
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Uh, he was standing up for Martin Luther King, you know, when he was in Congress.
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Uh, I don't know if he notices that he's always, he's making stuff up about himself.
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I think because he's a bit player in somebody else's show.
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He's always been a bit player and he wants to be the man.
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Uh, you know, he wants to, you know, give himself credit for something because he doesn't have anything real.
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Um, and I think, you know, he acted like a big shot and, uh, you know, he's not Bill and Hillary Clinton.
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Uh, he's not as subtle at bribery and theft, I guess in, you know, Chelsea's not a crack addict.
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So, you know, but I think, you know, he was playing the big shot by going over to, you know, Ukraine and say, yeah, I'm not going to give him that, you know, billion dollars unless they fire this prosecutor.
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He had to tell that story, even though it, it implicates him in crimes.
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He had to tell that story because it made him a big man.
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Now everything's starting to fold in on them and they, you know, they're going to get caught.
00:34:06.840
They're already the loans, the kickbacks, uh, you know, the, the 70 yellow flags from the treasury and banks.
00:34:20.300
Uh, he doesn't have the capability of hiding it anymore and she has to protect him and the whole family.
00:34:30.920
I mean, Barack was running a lot of the show behind the scenes, but Michelle's not going to risk anything to save the Bidens.
00:34:37.540
And Jill knows if Joe doesn't control the justice department, they're sunk.
00:34:42.620
I think she's trying to hold the crime family together as long as she possibly can.
00:34:48.620
Um, but also because she is, she's somebody who loves being the first lady.
00:34:56.180
You know, it's the one thing I had respect for, um, uh, Michelle Obama.
00:35:01.340
Now I lost respect cause she actually hated it and didn't want to be, you know, was, was just didn't want to be in the white house because of all the oppression and blah, blah, blah.
00:35:12.620
Um, but usually people who want it are dangerous when they have that much power.
00:35:17.200
You know, we've already had our first female president.
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I don't know if people know that, and this isn't a trick, you know, it's not like, yeah, uh, it's, we actually had a female president for 17 months and it was in 1919 and it was Edith Wilson.
00:35:35.400
Um, she actually became the acting president cause she assigned herself.
00:35:40.880
I mean, she, her husband was trying to push, uh, the league of nations, which then later became the UN and America wouldn't have it.
00:35:49.700
And so he got on a train and he was traveling coast to coast.
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And I think he was in California and in the middle of the speech, he did what Joe Biden is doing now.
00:35:59.180
Uh, uh, uh, and everybody freaked out and he couldn't recover.
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And so they rushed him off stage, put him on a train, rushed him back to, uh, uh, Washington DC.
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And when I say rushed him back, put him on a train.
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She puts him in bed and realizes, oh boy, we're, we're in trouble here.
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Cause you know, we're going to have to leave the white house soon.
00:36:37.420
She married, uh, some old guy when she was young, who owned the largest jewelry store, I guess, in, in West Virginia.
00:36:52.980
Uh, and then she decided I want to date Woodrow Wilson cause he's cool.
00:36:58.420
And, um, Woodrow Wilson fell in love with her, uh, because she had a kitten face.
00:37:08.100
Uh, Woody, but, uh, have you seen the cat lady anyway?
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And then a few years later, you know, he's, he's having a stroke.
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And now her ticket to being someone just dropped almost dead.
00:37:38.100
So they were, uh, they were in the white house with her kittenish good looks.
00:37:44.860
And, um, he's now in bed and everybody is talking in Washington, the cabinet, everybody, where's
00:37:55.220
the president now Woodrow Wilson gave her the keys, literal keys to all of the safe and
00:38:05.420
She would sit in on all of the war meetings and all meetings.
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And she would just take notes exactly what Jill Biden has been doing.
00:38:16.380
And then when he drops almost dead from a stroke, he's up in bed and she would go into the meetings
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I'm just supposed to take notes and talk to you about it.
00:38:33.980
So they, she'd take notes and then she'd go upstairs and then she'd scribble stuff on
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And she'd say, it's shaky handwriting, you know, cause he's, he, but he's, I went through
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She wrote the little notes and then she would go back and she would say, this is what he
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I think it was the treasury secretary is one of the secretaries, somebody in the cabinet
00:39:06.920
and they ordered a cabinet meeting to, uh, uh, come together and didn't alert her.
00:39:16.520
She blamed it on Woodrow, but he wasn't, he wasn't around.
00:39:26.400
Once this went on and, uh, she was, she called this her stewardship.
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I'm just, I'm just being a steward of the president.
00:39:34.780
I'm just, you know, the country's in need and the president needs some rest.
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And, uh, so he's just giving me the stewardship.
00:39:41.120
She was actually the president of the United States.
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She was the acting president of the United States.
00:39:47.780
And she convinced the vice president, uh, that the president didn't need to be replaced
00:39:53.880
because, you know, they talked about what, what do we, we, we should probably have the
00:40:01.900
It's always a couple more weeks, just going to be a couple more weeks.
00:40:08.040
Uh, and, uh, you know, he's working from the bedroom and, uh, you know, I'm, I'm just
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It's, it's really my, my sacrifice for the nation.
00:40:19.860
Well, eventually, um, the Congress got together of his own party and they marched to the white
00:40:30.420
house and they got the cabinet together and they said, Edith, I demand to see the president
00:40:39.800
We, we need to see him right now because she was telling the democratic party, he's going
00:40:51.920
So Edith Wilson starts to register her husband, Woodrow Wilson for a campaign.
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They said, uh, you're not running, um, we're going to let this run to run its course.
00:41:13.880
If you let us see the president right now, uh, and, uh, we won't kick him out of office,
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but, uh, he's not running for president for a third term.
00:41:33.240
Now, up until her death in 1961, she said, oh no, no, I, I was never the president.
00:41:44.560
Um, but I, I did know him so well that I did, you know, I just conferred that to the others
00:41:52.720
that that's what the president would want and would want to be doing right now.
00:42:00.460
Now, does any of that, any of that sound familiar?
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So Jill Biden likes being the, uh, the first lady.
00:42:17.780
Uh, she's dangerously close to being POTUS, not FLOTUS.
00:42:25.580
And from apparently good sources around those who know, I don't put any stock into this,
00:42:38.320
And I do believe that just like negotiations were underway with Nixon, with Nixon and Watergate.
00:42:44.920
They said, okay, you're leaving because you don't have, but we're not going to, he's Ford
00:42:51.160
So you don't go to jail and we're just going to walk away.
00:42:58.000
Um, she wants apparently protection from prosecution of the Biden family.
00:43:05.320
Uh, she wants $2 billion, a presidential library fund, uh, and she wants a guaranteed book deal.
00:43:14.640
Now, I don't know if any of this is true, but that's the kind of stuff that Edith Wilson
00:43:28.000
Uh, building her, her husband into something that he really wasn't, uh, to make sure that
00:43:38.060
she is remembered and powerful and that she gets the credit she deserves.
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I just thought it was an interesting, uh, history lesson today that maybe somebody might find