Trump picks Howard Lutnick as his next commerce secretary, a judge won't toss the Stormy Daniels case, and a new report on the CIA stepping down before Trump takes office. Also, a hacker has obtained the transcripts of Matt Gaetz's damaging ethics report.
00:00:00.000Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Tuesday, November 19th.
00:00:05.880Wheels on President Trump's transition team are going round and round as they continue to fill up roles in the cabinet.
00:00:12.500Today, President-elect Donald Trump announced he has tapped his transition team co-chair and Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick as his next commerce secretary.
00:00:21.820This, of course, despite Lutnick's push for treasury secretary role, President Trump figuring that Lutnick fits better in ad commerce.
00:00:30.000We've got some news out of that New York courtroom where Judge Juan Merchant resides, you know, that courtroom where they've politically persecuted Donald Trump for the Stormy Daniels hush money payments.
00:00:41.800Yeah, that same court in it. Well, Judge Juan Merchant today saying he will not toss that case against President Trump as we previously expected him to do so.
00:00:50.820So instead, Juan Merchant, who must have been gotten to by Alvin Bragg and the rest of the Marxist Dems, says that he will now sentence Donald Trump on November 26th.
00:01:01.000Now, the interesting thing about this case is President Trump cannot start his appeal process until he is sentenced.
00:01:06.520So depending on what that sentence is on November 26th, less than a week from today, President Trump will be able to start his appeals process.
00:01:15.480It's unlikely, highly unlikely, I should say, that President Trump heads to jail, depending on Merchant's ruling.
00:01:23.580Even if he does rule, we can get an emergency injunction from the Supreme Court.
00:01:26.820So it's unlikely President Trump goes to jail.
00:01:28.800But after the sentencing, President Trump will be able to start his appeal where the case should be thrown out immediately after that Supreme Court ruling of presidential immunity.
00:01:39.780If you folks remember, Merchant allowed testimony from former White House staff and under that Supreme Court ruling, he was not allowed to do that.
00:01:49.320So the case should be thrown out nonetheless.
00:01:51.340Looking over now at the Matt Gaetz attorney general controversy that we've heard for the last week or so, a hacker, a quote hacker, has reportedly obtained the transcripts of the testimony in the, quote, damaging lawfare ethics report of Matt Gaetz.
00:02:09.080So we're unsure of who exactly this hacker is.
00:02:11.560I'm sure it was just one of those very nice Democrat staffers who want to tank Matt Gaetz's chance of becoming the next attorney general.
00:02:20.300What they don't realize is President Trump can just go ahead and appoint him through a recess appointment.
00:03:25.740We also take up 2020 and what the Republicans have to do once President Trump's back in office to ensure that a repeat of 2020 never happens again.
00:03:35.540You remember that whole steal that they concocted and, you know, put upon us?
00:03:40.540Yeah, we need to investigate that, folks.
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00:03:56.140I'm John Fawcett with this midday update.
00:03:58.180I hope you all are having a great day, folks.