The Great America Show - THE MOST CONFLICTED JUDGE IN HISTORY

00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody, and welcome to The Great America Show. It's great to have you with

00:00:05.960 us. Well, President Trump is set to be sentenced to New York in just under three weeks on September

00:00:10.540 18th. That's just about seven weeks before Election Day. This, of course, is the sentencing

00:00:15.020 for his New York Stormy Daniels hush money sham case. President Trump's attorneys have

00:00:19.300 requested that the sentencing date be moved until after the election, because clearly

00:00:23.160 it's election interference. Alvin Bragg has written to Judge Wanmerchant that he does

00:00:27.400 not oppose the delaying of the sentencing, so now it sits in the lap of Merchant to make

00:00:31.340 that decision. From the inception of this case, Merchant has been highly conflicted. It's

00:00:36.900 not just the unconstitutional gag orders placed on President Trump or the witnesses who were

00:00:41.140 not allowed to testify under President Trump's behalf. It goes way deeper than that. Judge

00:00:46.240 Merchant's daughter, who also happens to be a Marxist dem, runs a political concern firm

00:00:50.460 called Authentic Digital Marketing, a firm that, according to the New York Post, has helped

00:00:55.300 Democrats raise $93 million off the Trump case alone. One of the firm's biggest customers

00:01:01.220 just so happens to be the Harris campaign, who has paid over $7 million for their services

00:01:05.780 rendered. You're probably thinking the same thing as me. How is it possible that a judge

00:01:10.660 was able to preside in perhaps the biggest court case in history when his daughter is

00:01:14.920 working for the same folks that brought the case in the first place? House Judiciary Chairman

00:01:19.320 Jim Jordan says something doesn't seem right, and he's taking action to get to the bottom

00:01:23.140 of it all. To take all this up and much more, our guest today is none other than the man

00:01:27.180 himself, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan. Mr. Chairman, thank you so much for joining

00:01:32.240 us. We really appreciate you taking the time. I want to start with first you subpoenaing

00:01:37.980 the company of Juan Merchant's daughter, who's made millions of dollars off the case of President

00:01:43.060 Trump. If you will, tell us about that, please.

00:01:46.920 Well, I mean, first of all, thank you for having me. So first, think of the larger context. This

00:01:52.480 is Judge Merchant, who should have recused himself from this case, where he's in the conduct of the

00:01:58.420 trial, he's allowed, put the gag order on President Trump, still has that on President Trump, wouldn't

00:02:03.840 allow the expert witness on campaign finance, Brad Smith, wouldn't allow him to testify and tell

00:02:10.120 the jury in the court, you know, what was going on in this case. While he's doing that, presiding over

00:02:17.800 this trial, his daughter had made millions of dollars, literally millions of dollars from her 1.00

00:02:23.720 work for Kamala Harris in 2019, and then Biden Harris in 2020. And what we want to know now is, okay,

00:02:31.460 since this trial started, since Alvin Bragg brought this ridiculous case, what kind of communications,

00:02:39.060 what's going on between authentic campaigns and Democrats who have a vested interest in a specific

00:02:45.380 outcome of this trial. And so we want that information. And we've now sent two letters,

00:02:50.920 we started back on August 1, with the first letter, we've got nothing from them. So we said, look,

00:02:56.960 we're going to issue a subpoena, which we did yesterday.

00:03:00.000 Yeah, I don't know why it's so unreasonable for you guys to be investigating a company that's raised

00:03:05.040 $93 million, according to the New York Post, $93 million off the case in total, her pocketing over

00:03:13.900 $2 million just from working on that case alone. Why that's so unreasonable, especially when President

00:03:19.740 Trump still has the gag order on. I want to read this for the audience. This is a this is a tweet

00:03:25.340 from Mike Nellis, the CEO of the company, in response to your subpoena. And like you had mentioned

00:03:30.140 on August 16, you'd sent a letter asking for them to turn over documents. And like most Democrats do,

00:03:34.880 they ignored it. So here's the letter that the tweet that he had put out breaking, we have just

00:03:39.180 received a subpoena from Jim Jordan and the Republican led House Judiciary Committee. This

00:03:43.400 is yet another abuse of power aimed at promoting basic baseless right wing conspiracy theories that

00:03:48.540 link our company authentic to Donald Trump's fraud trial. We are thoroughly reviewing the subpoena

00:03:53.660 with our legal team will provide updates as soon as we have more information. Let us be clear,

00:03:58.120 these allegations against our company are completely false and purely politically motivated. This is

00:04:03.160 a blatant attempt to intimidate us and divert attention from Donald Trump's conviction. We

00:04:07.720 refuse to be bullied and we will not allow House Republicans or MAGA extremists to spread lies about

00:04:12.520 our work. We remain steadfast in our mission and deeply grateful to the unwavering support of our

00:04:17.020 friends and family. So what part of what you've asked him to produce is untrue? The fact that they've

00:04:22.140 made millions of dollars up the case, the fact that President Trump is gag ordered when his daughter's out

00:04:26.720 there raising millions of dollars for people like Adam Schiff and the Senate majority pack.

00:04:31.520 What part of it is not true that that he's saying, Mr. Chairman?

00:04:35.660 Well, the other thing he didn't say in there is in there, one of their responses to us,

00:04:39.640 they've sent us back two letters. One of their responses, they said, we do have some documents

00:04:44.760 relative to this request that you've that you've asked this request from you. But we don't think it

00:04:51.700 meets a legitimate legislative purpose. So we don't think we have to send that. Well, that's

00:04:57.100 not how it works. We determine the legislative purpose. And oh, by the way, we actually went to

00:05:02.100 court when Alvin Bragg argued the same thing. We went to court and the judge says, no, Mr. Pomerantz,

00:05:09.340 you have to be deposed. You have to sit for a deposition in front of the Judiciary Committee.

00:05:13.660 So we won. The one time we went to court relative to this case, we won. The House won. Judiciary

00:05:19.820 Committee won. So if that's what they want to do, OK. But our record right now is 1-0. And we

00:05:24.540 determine the legislative purpose. And the courts have said the legislative purpose is a broad

00:05:28.540 category. We've got legislation we've passed on that deals with venue. If you're some rogue state

00:05:36.580 prosecutor going after a federal official, federal officials should have the ability to move that to

00:05:40.400 a federal court. If our bill that we had passed out of committee, if that were law right now,

00:05:45.400 Judge Bershon wouldn't have presided over this case. So there are all kinds of reasons why we

00:05:48.920 need this information. Why is it that it constantly, whether it be, I mean, issues with COVID regarding

00:05:54.840 Bill Gates is involved or Klaus Schwab, we have this case. Why is it that whenever there's some sort

00:06:00.160 of suspect thing going on, it's always the same actors involved and their family members involved?

00:06:05.100 The Clintons, you got the daughter of the Clintons working on everything. Kamala Harris, 1.00

00:06:11.160 you know, it's not much family, I guess, to be working on things. Hunter Biden over in

00:06:15.240 Burisma in China, working on things on behalf of his father. Why is it always the same actors? And

00:06:19.700 why do people think it's so peculiar to look into things that don't seem right, like a judge whose

00:06:27.540 daughter is fundraising off of a case? And this isn't not that a civil case is right, because we saw what

00:06:34.480 they did to President Trump in New York with a civil case. This is a criminal case that holds

00:06:38.220 general implications. Why do these Democrats think that it's a right wing conspiracy theory? It's

00:06:43.920 MAGA extremists coming after us when there's a serious problem here when you've raised nearly 0.85

00:06:49.400 a hundred million dollars off of your father's. Yeah, this I mean, come on, anyone with common

00:06:55.320 sense, this doesn't pass the smell test. We can all see that Judge Bershon should have recused

00:07:00.660 himself. Everyone understands that multiple legal scholars have said this makes no sense

00:07:05.920 for him to preside over this case. And then when you couple that with the kind of rulings

00:07:10.120 he did in the course of this case, and the fact that the gag order still sits there, and

00:07:14.280 the fact that on the 18th, here's something really important. President Trump is asked to

00:07:19.100 postpone the sentencing date. And Alvin Bragg has said he's OK with that. Well, why hasn't

00:07:26.440 Judge Bershon almost always the judge will say, oh, if both parties say it's OK, we'll

00:07:31.700 do that. But Judge Bershon has not said that yet, which makes me wonder, is he going to

00:07:36.180 try to go ahead and have a sentencing hearing prior to the election, even though President

00:07:41.360 Trump and Alvin Bragg, the prosecutor, have said they're fine with it being pushed back

00:07:45.600 to after the election? That tells you if he doesn't rule the right way, that tells you

00:07:49.580 just how political he is. You know, it's sort of interesting, like you had mentioned, the

00:07:53.560 first time Bragg agreed to postpone it, I said, wow, that's interesting. Now, the second

00:07:57.500 time, I'm like, well, what? I mean, does Bragg realize that they've screwed up royally

00:08:01.560 here? I'm starting to really wonder. And I mean, there's no doubt that Bragg definitely

00:08:05.660 had political pressure to bring this case. I mean, there's evidence now that shows that.

00:08:09.440 And I'm sitting here wondering, well, maybe Alvin Bragg is maybe feeling bad that it's

00:08:13.780 come to this far, or he's feeling bad that he's going to be in a little bit of trouble.

00:08:17.600 I want to ask you, Mr. Chairman, what do you say to the people? And I've worked in

00:08:22.320 Congress before. I know everything takes a million years to get done. But what do you

00:08:26.600 say to the people who just say, well, it's another strongly worded letter? When are we

00:08:31.100 going to see, you know, action taking? What do you say to those critics?

00:08:35.520 Well, I say that, you know, three weeks ago, GARM, the Global Alliance for Responsible Media,

00:08:41.800 which was censoring conservative websites, conservative platforms, telling companies,

00:08:47.940 oh, you don't want to advertise on these conservative shows and platforms and websites.

00:08:54.100 They discontinued operation because of our investigation. I say the disinformation governance

00:09:01.240 board that was trying to, that Department of Homeland Security was trying to form,

00:09:05.560 that went by the wayside. They said, oh, we're no longer going to do that because of stuff we were

00:09:09.300 working on in Congress. And frankly, good guys like you on the outside who were getting the truth

00:09:14.160 to people. I look at the IRS no longer making unannounced visits. I look at the letter we got

00:09:19.400 from Zuckerberg, which he, you know, we did a year and a half investigation. And Mark Zuckerberg

00:09:25.700 admits in a letter he sent to us earlier this week, the Biden-Harris administration was pressuring us

00:09:30.620 to censor. We, in fact, censored. And we throttled back the Hunter Biden story. And oh, by the way,

00:09:36.920 I'm not going to do Zuckerbucks anymore. So just sometimes doing the oversight changes what happens.

00:09:42.820 And so we just got to keep that up. And then we can't prosecute anyone because, you know,

00:09:47.760 we don't control the Justice Department. That's that's what the attorney general to decide. 0.98

00:09:51.260 Right. We're going to take a quick break here. You had mentioned Mark Zuckerberg. I want to take

00:09:54.460 that up on the other side of this break, because that's another important issue going on as we

00:09:57.880 will go into the 2020 election, 60 days, 60 plus days away. We're going to take a quick break.

00:10:03.020 We're talking with House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan. We're coming right back.

00:10:06.480 We're back. We're talking with House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan. Congressman, before we went

00:10:17.400 to break, you had mentioned Mark Zuckerberg submitting a letter to Congress. And I found

00:10:22.400 it very interesting. I just want to read a quick excerpt from it, if I if I may. In 2021. And this

00:10:28.540 is from Mark Zuckerberg to your committee. In 2021, senior officials from the Biden administration,

00:10:32.840 including the White House, repeatedly pressure our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19

00:10:37.500 content, including humor and satire and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when they

00:10:43.240 didn't. In a separate situation, the FBI warned us about political information, Russian disinformation

00:10:48.580 about the Biden family and Burisma to the lead up to the 2020 election. What has caused Mark

00:10:55.060 Zuckerberg now to come out and start admitting these things? Is something going on?

00:10:59.460 Well, I think he knew we weren't going to stop. We've we've interviewed or deposed, I think,

00:11:05.340 over a dozen people from Facebook, including their number three in the company and meta Sir

00:11:12.060 Nick Clegg, former deputy prime minister of Great Britain now works for that. We we deposed

00:11:18.220 him. I think they knew we weren't going to stop. We're going to get to the facts, get to

00:11:21.380 the truth. And so he just came clean with a letter and basically four points. As I said

00:11:25.940 before, they were pressured to censor by the Biden-Harris administration. They did, in fact,

00:11:31.520 censor. They did, in fact, throttle back the Hunter Biden laptop story, even though at the time

00:11:36.620 our FBI had the laptop and knew it was real. And of course, he also included the letter,

00:11:41.820 the fourth fact, which is no more Zuckerberg's going to certain boards of elections in cities

00:11:47.300 around the country to have an impact on our election process. So I think that's all good news.

00:11:52.560 And just I think shows just how pervasive the left now, how how pervasive the left is in embracing

00:12:00.160 this censorship concept. I would argue this is why this is the main reason why RFK Jr.

00:12:07.140 endorsed President Trump last week. He said RFK Jr. said in that speech when he endorsed President

00:12:13.140 Trump, the same thing he said when we had him come testify a year ago in front of our committee,

00:12:17.280 he said, when you look at history, the good guys aren't the ones who were involved in censorship.

00:12:21.780 And that is so true. So, yeah, this is this is, I think, big news. And frankly, coming out at this

00:12:29.160 time, when we think about two years ago, October or four years ago in October, when they throttled

00:12:34.280 back the Hunter Biden story that had an impact on the election, in my judgment. So we got to be

00:12:37.860 concerned about what they might try this time around. You know, I was just telling somebody,

00:12:41.600 it's the same reason that Elon Musk is hated by all the wrong people. Joe Biden, Kamala Harris,

00:12:46.500 these world leaders like Emmanuel Macron and Justin Trudeau and down in Venezuela and down

00:12:52.720 because they're trying to do the right thing, I think, after what we've seen.

00:12:56.880 You'd mentioned Zuckerberg. I want to read a second part of the letter because it's very interesting.

00:13:01.840 This is from Zuckerberg to your committee. Apart from content moderation, I want to address the

00:13:06.680 contributions I made during the last presidential cycle to support electoral infrastructure.

00:13:11.280 The idea here was to make sure local election jurisdictions around the country had the

00:13:15.220 resources they needed to help people vote safely during a global pandemic. Now, the first thing

00:13:21.060 that comes to my mind is why do we need public or private by public? I mean, publicly traded

00:13:25.780 companies, private companies will say paying for our elections. We have a federal government

00:13:30.340 that's got an endless, as we know, an endless supply of money. There's they have no problem

00:13:34.440 spending billions of dollars over in Ukraine. Why do we need these public, private companies

00:13:39.020 spending money for our election infrastructure? We we don't. It shouldn't have happened. It is not

00:13:45.640 consistent with how our system is supposed to work. And I think he's he's got an earful

00:13:51.600 over the last few years after he did that. And that is why he is no longer going to be engaged in that

00:13:57.580 in those with those donations. I think what needs to happen to these people is exactly what's

00:14:03.920 happened to President Trump. You know, they think by going after we with lawfare, it's, you know,

00:14:08.560 whatever. These people need to be drained of all their resources. They need the money needs to be 1.00

00:14:13.060 spent prosecuting and persecuting these people so that they feel the pain of what President Trump

00:14:18.200 has went to. But a big a big part to blame, I think, is the media. And I want to read this

00:14:22.760 headline to you because this came out after you received the letter and it's from none other than

00:14:26.660 Politico Politico quote. Trump claims Zuckerberg plotted against him during the 2020 election

00:14:32.940 and soon to be released book. Well, I'm not sure really where the claim is when we just read that

00:14:38.640 letter that Zuckerberg admitted to it. Yeah, he admitted to four. Like I said, he admitted to four

00:14:44.000 facts. I got pressured. We succumbed to that pressure. We also craddled back the story and we're not

00:14:50.500 giving Zuckerberg, which we did in 2020. I mean, you can't change the four facts he outlines in that

00:14:56.580 statement. But that's today's press. Today's press are cheerleaders for the left. I always say the

00:15:04.560 left has a template, John. The left's template is the left will tell a lie. Big media will report

00:15:13.280 the lie. Big tech will amplify the lie. And then when you tell the truth, they call you names.

00:15:18.760 They'll call you racist. They'll call you extremist. They'll call you whatever. You know,

00:15:22.760 they'll say you need to be investigated because you're a parent showing up at a school board meeting

00:15:26.640 concerned about you. I mean, it's just that's the template. And then what always happens is

00:15:31.600 our position turns out to be true. And by that point, they don't say, oh, we're sorry, we were

00:15:37.300 wrong. They're already on to the next lie. Exactly. Exactly. You know, there's I was talking to

00:15:43.740 somebody the other day. There's no really no integrity. And Lou is one of the last people in

00:15:47.820 this industry who had integrity and was accountable and held himself accountable and all of us

00:15:52.520 accountable for things that we did wrong. And I think a big part of that is Section 230,

00:15:56.740 which we heard RFK talking about the other day with Tucker Carlson. Why should these media

00:16:01.860 conglomerates who have done so much damage to this country and to the American people,

00:16:07.540 whether it be covid, whether it be these elections, the lies, why should they be afforded

00:16:12.860 Section 230 protections where they're allowed to do and say whatever the hell they want? And like you

00:16:17.960 said, when they get proved wrong, they gaslight and they're on to the next thing. And people

00:16:22.260 don't even know what the hell happened. Yeah, no, it's a fair question. And you think about

00:16:27.160 it that I think it's something we have to look at in a in a broad sense, though, because right

00:16:32.180 now we got Musk who's bought Twitter and he is pro First Amendment, strong defender. He's

00:16:37.220 done great work for us, for the country, for the world in protecting free speech. We want

00:16:43.940 him to be able to do it. But when they when the concern is when other platforms are limiting

00:16:49.720 and attacking the First Amendment and they don't get held accountable for that. So we're

00:16:53.700 trying to figure out the right way to do it without hurting the people who are for the

00:16:58.960 First Amendment like Elon Musk. But also, of course, we want the full robust debate.

00:17:05.300 I just get so frustrated with this whole disinformation, the games these people play.

00:17:09.600 What I point to is, though, the work we've done, GARM has been discontinued. The disinformation

00:17:16.840 governance board is gone. Elon Musk has now purchased Twitter, which is, you know, a true,

00:17:23.240 truly embrace the First Amendment. So we've got to look at all that and make sure we the bottom

00:17:29.200 line is protect the First Amendment. You know, it's funny that back to the Zuckerberg thing,

00:17:32.980 he says he regrets and pretty much saying he's sorry. And it's not he's not sorry he did it.

00:17:37.460 He's sorry he got caught, which I don't know why he didn't think he was going to get caught.

00:17:41.400 I want to turn to Kamala Harris prepping for a debate with Google's lead defense attorney, 1.00

00:17:47.020 Karen Dunn. Like I said earlier, it seems to be there's always some sort of

00:17:52.180 connection to somebody doing something wrong. And the thing that I say it's the easiest thing to do

00:17:58.960 is follow the footprint. Go look at the money that's being spent. Go look at how much money

00:18:02.660 Google's giving Kamala Harris. And I don't know the number, but I'm just saying any there's always a

00:18:06.940 footprint for something. Unless you're the 20 year old shooter who tried to assassinate a president,

00:18:10.660 then there's no footprint of anything. But it just goes to show you further inclusion.

00:18:17.020 Why is the Google's lead defense attorney prepping Kamala Harris for a debate? 0.99

00:18:21.900 My gut tells me just like this is this is the left. You know, the left is,

00:18:25.440 you know, the left is for the Democrat Party. And they're they're now the party of censorship.

00:18:32.000 They're now the party of just big government. You know, that's just that's just who they are.

00:18:35.040 Yeah. Yeah. I just want to wrap up here. I know your time is valuable and we really appreciate it.

00:18:40.200 But the House GOP is bracing for another pre-election spend down. Government, I think,

00:18:45.500 runs out of funding October 1st. Are we setting up for a disaster here as you know,

00:18:50.880 we have a funding battle of just about a month election?

00:18:53.760 I think the strategy is pretty simple. We should put the save act. And this is the bill that we've

00:18:59.400 passed out of the House, which, you know, says that you you have to be a citizen of the United

00:19:05.140 States to be on a state's voter registration rolls and the safeguards to make sure that citizens only 0.76

00:19:12.380 citizens are voting. So I think that makes sense that that that and we'll I'll stipulate, OK,

00:19:19.840 we'll spend at the level that's already been set, which I think is too much money. But let's let's

00:19:24.980 just OK, we'll we'll take that. But let's put that bill that says only citizens should be participate

00:19:31.280 in our federal elections. Let's put that bill on the spending bill and send that to Chuck Schumer.

00:19:36.840 And I think that is just that is so that's a position the American people are like, well,

00:19:41.200 of course, who would disagree with that? Well, unfortunately, Democrats do. But that to me

00:19:46.600 seems to be the smart strategy when we get back in September. Yeah, like you said, they're not going

00:19:50.860 to cut any spending on a CR anyway, so you might as well get out of get something out of it. But

00:19:54.460 the problem with that is you've got there's a report out today that Mitch McConnell is actually

00:19:58.120 lobbying against it over in the Senate. So when you have your own party, you know, stabbing the knife

00:20:02.280 through your back, really, what the hell are you supposed to do? It's a crappy situation.

00:20:06.980 But the leader of our party is the guy who's at the top of the ticket. And if President Trump wants

00:20:11.060 us to fight for that, I think we should do it and insist on that being on the spending bill.

00:20:15.920 Chairman Jorman, thank you so much for joining us today. I really appreciate it.

00:20:19.260 Thank you, brother. Take care. Thanks, everybody, for being with us today. Please be sure to join us

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THE MOST CONFLICTED JUDGE IN HISTORY

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