THE MOST CONFLICTED JUDGE IN HISTORY
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Juan Merchant's daughter runs a political concern firm that has helped Democrats raise over $93 million off the Trump case. She's also been working for Kamala Harris and Joe Biden. How could a judge be impartial in the biggest court case in history when his daughter is working for the same folks that brought the case in the first place? House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan says something doesn't seem right and he's taking action to get to the bottom of it.
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Hello, everybody, and welcome to The Great America Show. It's great to have you with
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us. Well, President Trump is set to be sentenced to New York in just under three weeks on September
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18th. That's just about seven weeks before Election Day. This, of course, is the sentencing
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for his New York Stormy Daniels hush money sham case. President Trump's attorneys have
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requested that the sentencing date be moved until after the election, because clearly
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it's election interference. Alvin Bragg has written to Judge Wanmerchant that he does
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not oppose the delaying of the sentencing, so now it sits in the lap of Merchant to make
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that decision. From the inception of this case, Merchant has been highly conflicted. It's
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not just the unconstitutional gag orders placed on President Trump or the witnesses who were
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not allowed to testify under President Trump's behalf. It goes way deeper than that. Judge
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Merchant's daughter, who also happens to be a Marxist dem, runs a political concern firm
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called Authentic Digital Marketing, a firm that, according to the New York Post, has helped
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Democrats raise $93 million off the Trump case alone. One of the firm's biggest customers
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just so happens to be the Harris campaign, who has paid over $7 million for their services
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rendered. You're probably thinking the same thing as me. How is it possible that a judge
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was able to preside in perhaps the biggest court case in history when his daughter is
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working for the same folks that brought the case in the first place? House Judiciary Chairman
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Jim Jordan says something doesn't seem right, and he's taking action to get to the bottom
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of it all. To take all this up and much more, our guest today is none other than the man
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himself, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan. Mr. Chairman, thank you so much for joining
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us. We really appreciate you taking the time. I want to start with first you subpoenaing
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the company of Juan Merchant's daughter, who's made millions of dollars off the case of President
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Trump. If you will, tell us about that, please.
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Well, I mean, first of all, thank you for having me. So first, think of the larger context. This
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is Judge Merchant, who should have recused himself from this case, where he's in the conduct of the
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trial, he's allowed, put the gag order on President Trump, still has that on President Trump, wouldn't
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allow the expert witness on campaign finance, Brad Smith, wouldn't allow him to testify and tell
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the jury in the court, you know, what was going on in this case. While he's doing that, presiding over
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this trial, his daughter had made millions of dollars, literally millions of dollars from her
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work for Kamala Harris in 2019, and then Biden Harris in 2020. And what we want to know now is, okay,
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since this trial started, since Alvin Bragg brought this ridiculous case, what kind of communications,
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what's going on between authentic campaigns and Democrats who have a vested interest in a specific
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outcome of this trial. And so we want that information. And we've now sent two letters,
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we started back on August 1, with the first letter, we've got nothing from them. So we said, look,
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we're going to issue a subpoena, which we did yesterday.
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Yeah, I don't know why it's so unreasonable for you guys to be investigating a company that's raised
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$93 million, according to the New York Post, $93 million off the case in total, her pocketing over
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$2 million just from working on that case alone. Why that's so unreasonable, especially when President
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Trump still has the gag order on. I want to read this for the audience. This is a this is a tweet
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from Mike Nellis, the CEO of the company, in response to your subpoena. And like you had mentioned
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on August 16, you'd sent a letter asking for them to turn over documents. And like most Democrats do,
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they ignored it. So here's the letter that the tweet that he had put out breaking, we have just
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received a subpoena from Jim Jordan and the Republican led House Judiciary Committee. This
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is yet another abuse of power aimed at promoting basic baseless right wing conspiracy theories that
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link our company authentic to Donald Trump's fraud trial. We are thoroughly reviewing the subpoena
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with our legal team will provide updates as soon as we have more information. Let us be clear,
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these allegations against our company are completely false and purely politically motivated. This is
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a blatant attempt to intimidate us and divert attention from Donald Trump's conviction. We
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refuse to be bullied and we will not allow House Republicans or MAGA extremists to spread lies about
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our work. We remain steadfast in our mission and deeply grateful to the unwavering support of our
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friends and family. So what part of what you've asked him to produce is untrue? The fact that they've
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made millions of dollars up the case, the fact that President Trump is gag ordered when his daughter's out
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there raising millions of dollars for people like Adam Schiff and the Senate majority pack.
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What part of it is not true that that he's saying, Mr. Chairman?
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Well, the other thing he didn't say in there is in there, one of their responses to us,
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they've sent us back two letters. One of their responses, they said, we do have some documents
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relative to this request that you've that you've asked this request from you. But we don't think it
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meets a legitimate legislative purpose. So we don't think we have to send that. Well, that's
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not how it works. We determine the legislative purpose. And oh, by the way, we actually went to
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court when Alvin Bragg argued the same thing. We went to court and the judge says, no, Mr. Pomerantz,
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you have to be deposed. You have to sit for a deposition in front of the Judiciary Committee.
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So we won. The one time we went to court relative to this case, we won. The House won. Judiciary
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Committee won. So if that's what they want to do, OK. But our record right now is 1-0. And we
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determine the legislative purpose. And the courts have said the legislative purpose is a broad
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category. We've got legislation we've passed on that deals with venue. If you're some rogue state
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prosecutor going after a federal official, federal officials should have the ability to move that to
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a federal court. If our bill that we had passed out of committee, if that were law right now,
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Judge Bershon wouldn't have presided over this case. So there are all kinds of reasons why we
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need this information. Why is it that it constantly, whether it be, I mean, issues with COVID regarding
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Bill Gates is involved or Klaus Schwab, we have this case. Why is it that whenever there's some sort
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of suspect thing going on, it's always the same actors involved and their family members involved?
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The Clintons, you got the daughter of the Clintons working on everything. Kamala Harris,
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you know, it's not much family, I guess, to be working on things. Hunter Biden over in
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Burisma in China, working on things on behalf of his father. Why is it always the same actors? And
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why do people think it's so peculiar to look into things that don't seem right, like a judge whose
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daughter is fundraising off of a case? And this isn't not that a civil case is right, because we saw what
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they did to President Trump in New York with a civil case. This is a criminal case that holds
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general implications. Why do these Democrats think that it's a right wing conspiracy theory? It's
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MAGA extremists coming after us when there's a serious problem here when you've raised nearly
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a hundred million dollars off of your father's. Yeah, this I mean, come on, anyone with common
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sense, this doesn't pass the smell test. We can all see that Judge Bershon should have recused
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himself. Everyone understands that multiple legal scholars have said this makes no sense
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for him to preside over this case. And then when you couple that with the kind of rulings
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he did in the course of this case, and the fact that the gag order still sits there, and
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the fact that on the 18th, here's something really important. President Trump is asked to
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postpone the sentencing date. And Alvin Bragg has said he's OK with that. Well, why hasn't
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Judge Bershon almost always the judge will say, oh, if both parties say it's OK, we'll
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do that. But Judge Bershon has not said that yet, which makes me wonder, is he going to
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try to go ahead and have a sentencing hearing prior to the election, even though President
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Trump and Alvin Bragg, the prosecutor, have said they're fine with it being pushed back
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to after the election? That tells you if he doesn't rule the right way, that tells you
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just how political he is. You know, it's sort of interesting, like you had mentioned, the
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first time Bragg agreed to postpone it, I said, wow, that's interesting. Now, the second
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time, I'm like, well, what? I mean, does Bragg realize that they've screwed up royally
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here? I'm starting to really wonder. And I mean, there's no doubt that Bragg definitely
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had political pressure to bring this case. I mean, there's evidence now that shows that.
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And I'm sitting here wondering, well, maybe Alvin Bragg is maybe feeling bad that it's
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come to this far, or he's feeling bad that he's going to be in a little bit of trouble.
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I want to ask you, Mr. Chairman, what do you say to the people? And I've worked in
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Congress before. I know everything takes a million years to get done. But what do you
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say to the people who just say, well, it's another strongly worded letter? When are we
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going to see, you know, action taking? What do you say to those critics?
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Well, I say that, you know, three weeks ago, GARM, the Global Alliance for Responsible Media,
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which was censoring conservative websites, conservative platforms, telling companies,
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oh, you don't want to advertise on these conservative shows and platforms and websites.
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They discontinued operation because of our investigation. I say the disinformation governance
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board that was trying to, that Department of Homeland Security was trying to form,
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that went by the wayside. They said, oh, we're no longer going to do that because of stuff we were
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working on in Congress. And frankly, good guys like you on the outside who were getting the truth
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to people. I look at the IRS no longer making unannounced visits. I look at the letter we got
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from Zuckerberg, which he, you know, we did a year and a half investigation. And Mark Zuckerberg
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admits in a letter he sent to us earlier this week, the Biden-Harris administration was pressuring us
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to censor. We, in fact, censored. And we throttled back the Hunter Biden story. And oh, by the way,
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I'm not going to do Zuckerbucks anymore. So just sometimes doing the oversight changes what happens.
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And so we just got to keep that up. And then we can't prosecute anyone because, you know,
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we don't control the Justice Department. That's that's what the attorney general to decide.
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Right. We're going to take a quick break here. You had mentioned Mark Zuckerberg. I want to take
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that up on the other side of this break, because that's another important issue going on as we
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will go into the 2020 election, 60 days, 60 plus days away. We're going to take a quick break.
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We're talking with House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan. We're coming right back.
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We're back. We're talking with House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan. Congressman, before we went
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to break, you had mentioned Mark Zuckerberg submitting a letter to Congress. And I found
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it very interesting. I just want to read a quick excerpt from it, if I if I may. In 2021. And this
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is from Mark Zuckerberg to your committee. In 2021, senior officials from the Biden administration,
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including the White House, repeatedly pressure our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19
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content, including humor and satire and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when they
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didn't. In a separate situation, the FBI warned us about political information, Russian disinformation
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about the Biden family and Burisma to the lead up to the 2020 election. What has caused Mark
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Zuckerberg now to come out and start admitting these things? Is something going on?
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Well, I think he knew we weren't going to stop. We've we've interviewed or deposed, I think,
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over a dozen people from Facebook, including their number three in the company and meta Sir
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Nick Clegg, former deputy prime minister of Great Britain now works for that. We we deposed
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him. I think they knew we weren't going to stop. We're going to get to the facts, get to
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the truth. And so he just came clean with a letter and basically four points. As I said
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before, they were pressured to censor by the Biden-Harris administration. They did, in fact,
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censor. They did, in fact, throttle back the Hunter Biden laptop story, even though at the time
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our FBI had the laptop and knew it was real. And of course, he also included the letter,
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the fourth fact, which is no more Zuckerberg's going to certain boards of elections in cities
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around the country to have an impact on our election process. So I think that's all good news.
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And just I think shows just how pervasive the left now, how how pervasive the left is in embracing
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this censorship concept. I would argue this is why this is the main reason why RFK Jr.
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endorsed President Trump last week. He said RFK Jr. said in that speech when he endorsed President
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Trump, the same thing he said when we had him come testify a year ago in front of our committee,
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he said, when you look at history, the good guys aren't the ones who were involved in censorship.
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And that is so true. So, yeah, this is this is, I think, big news. And frankly, coming out at this
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time, when we think about two years ago, October or four years ago in October, when they throttled
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back the Hunter Biden story that had an impact on the election, in my judgment. So we got to be
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concerned about what they might try this time around. You know, I was just telling somebody,
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it's the same reason that Elon Musk is hated by all the wrong people. Joe Biden, Kamala Harris,
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these world leaders like Emmanuel Macron and Justin Trudeau and down in Venezuela and down
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because they're trying to do the right thing, I think, after what we've seen.
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You'd mentioned Zuckerberg. I want to read a second part of the letter because it's very interesting.
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This is from Zuckerberg to your committee. Apart from content moderation, I want to address the
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contributions I made during the last presidential cycle to support electoral infrastructure.
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The idea here was to make sure local election jurisdictions around the country had the
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resources they needed to help people vote safely during a global pandemic. Now, the first thing
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that comes to my mind is why do we need public or private by public? I mean, publicly traded
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companies, private companies will say paying for our elections. We have a federal government
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that's got an endless, as we know, an endless supply of money. There's they have no problem
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spending billions of dollars over in Ukraine. Why do we need these public, private companies
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spending money for our election infrastructure? We we don't. It shouldn't have happened. It is not
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consistent with how our system is supposed to work. And I think he's he's got an earful
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over the last few years after he did that. And that is why he is no longer going to be engaged in that
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in those with those donations. I think what needs to happen to these people is exactly what's
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happened to President Trump. You know, they think by going after we with lawfare, it's, you know,
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whatever. These people need to be drained of all their resources. They need the money needs to be
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spent prosecuting and persecuting these people so that they feel the pain of what President Trump
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has went to. But a big a big part to blame, I think, is the media. And I want to read this
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headline to you because this came out after you received the letter and it's from none other than
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Politico Politico quote. Trump claims Zuckerberg plotted against him during the 2020 election
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and soon to be released book. Well, I'm not sure really where the claim is when we just read that
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letter that Zuckerberg admitted to it. Yeah, he admitted to four. Like I said, he admitted to four
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facts. I got pressured. We succumbed to that pressure. We also craddled back the story and we're not
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giving Zuckerberg, which we did in 2020. I mean, you can't change the four facts he outlines in that
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statement. But that's today's press. Today's press are cheerleaders for the left. I always say the
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left has a template, John. The left's template is the left will tell a lie. Big media will report
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the lie. Big tech will amplify the lie. And then when you tell the truth, they call you names.
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They'll call you racist. They'll call you extremist. They'll call you whatever. You know,
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they'll say you need to be investigated because you're a parent showing up at a school board meeting
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concerned about you. I mean, it's just that's the template. And then what always happens is
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our position turns out to be true. And by that point, they don't say, oh, we're sorry, we were
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wrong. They're already on to the next lie. Exactly. Exactly. You know, there's I was talking to
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somebody the other day. There's no really no integrity. And Lou is one of the last people in
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this industry who had integrity and was accountable and held himself accountable and all of us
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accountable for things that we did wrong. And I think a big part of that is Section 230,
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which we heard RFK talking about the other day with Tucker Carlson. Why should these media
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conglomerates who have done so much damage to this country and to the American people,
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whether it be covid, whether it be these elections, the lies, why should they be afforded
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Section 230 protections where they're allowed to do and say whatever the hell they want? And like you
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said, when they get proved wrong, they gaslight and they're on to the next thing. And people
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don't even know what the hell happened. Yeah, no, it's a fair question. And you think about
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it that I think it's something we have to look at in a in a broad sense, though, because right
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now we got Musk who's bought Twitter and he is pro First Amendment, strong defender. He's
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done great work for us, for the country, for the world in protecting free speech. We want
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him to be able to do it. But when they when the concern is when other platforms are limiting
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and attacking the First Amendment and they don't get held accountable for that. So we're
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trying to figure out the right way to do it without hurting the people who are for the
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First Amendment like Elon Musk. But also, of course, we want the full robust debate.
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I just get so frustrated with this whole disinformation, the games these people play.
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What I point to is, though, the work we've done, GARM has been discontinued. The disinformation
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governance board is gone. Elon Musk has now purchased Twitter, which is, you know, a true,
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truly embrace the First Amendment. So we've got to look at all that and make sure we the bottom
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line is protect the First Amendment. You know, it's funny that back to the Zuckerberg thing,
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he says he regrets and pretty much saying he's sorry. And it's not he's not sorry he did it.
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He's sorry he got caught, which I don't know why he didn't think he was going to get caught.
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I want to turn to Kamala Harris prepping for a debate with Google's lead defense attorney,
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Karen Dunn. Like I said earlier, it seems to be there's always some sort of
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connection to somebody doing something wrong. And the thing that I say it's the easiest thing to do
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is follow the footprint. Go look at the money that's being spent. Go look at how much money
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Google's giving Kamala Harris. And I don't know the number, but I'm just saying any there's always a
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footprint for something. Unless you're the 20 year old shooter who tried to assassinate a president,
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then there's no footprint of anything. But it just goes to show you further inclusion.
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Why is the Google's lead defense attorney prepping Kamala Harris for a debate?
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My gut tells me just like this is this is the left. You know, the left is,
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you know, the left is for the Democrat Party. And they're they're now the party of censorship.
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They're now the party of just big government. You know, that's just that's just who they are.
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Yeah. Yeah. I just want to wrap up here. I know your time is valuable and we really appreciate it.
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But the House GOP is bracing for another pre-election spend down. Government, I think,
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runs out of funding October 1st. Are we setting up for a disaster here as you know,
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we have a funding battle of just about a month election?
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I think the strategy is pretty simple. We should put the save act. And this is the bill that we've
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passed out of the House, which, you know, says that you you have to be a citizen of the United
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States to be on a state's voter registration rolls and the safeguards to make sure that citizens only
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citizens are voting. So I think that makes sense that that that and we'll I'll stipulate, OK,
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we'll spend at the level that's already been set, which I think is too much money. But let's let's
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just OK, we'll we'll take that. But let's put that bill that says only citizens should be participate
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in our federal elections. Let's put that bill on the spending bill and send that to Chuck Schumer.
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And I think that is just that is so that's a position the American people are like, well,
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of course, who would disagree with that? Well, unfortunately, Democrats do. But that to me
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seems to be the smart strategy when we get back in September. Yeah, like you said, they're not going
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to cut any spending on a CR anyway, so you might as well get out of get something out of it. But
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the problem with that is you've got there's a report out today that Mitch McConnell is actually
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lobbying against it over in the Senate. So when you have your own party, you know, stabbing the knife
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through your back, really, what the hell are you supposed to do? It's a crappy situation.
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But the leader of our party is the guy who's at the top of the ticket. And if President Trump wants
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us to fight for that, I think we should do it and insist on that being on the spending bill.
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Chairman Jorman, thank you so much for joining us today. I really appreciate it.
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Thank you, brother. Take care. Thanks, everybody, for being with us today. Please be sure to join us
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