The Great America Show - TRUMP SENTENCING DATE JUST DAYS AWAY

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.

00:01:47.100 Well, I mean, first of all, thanks 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,

00:02:31.220 okay, since this trial started, since Alvin Bragg brought this ridiculous case, what kind of

00:02:38.460 communications, what's going on between authentic campaigns and Democrats who have a vested interest

00:02:44.060 in a specific outcome of this trial. And so we want that information. And we've now sent two

00:02:50.500 letters. We started back on August 1st with the first letter. We've got nothing from them. So we

00:02:55.800 said, look, we're going to issue a subpoena, which we did yesterday.

00:02:59.980 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,

00:03:12.900 her pocketing over $2 million just from working on that case alone. Why that's so unreasonable,

00:03:18.820 especially when President Trump still has the gag order on. I want to read this for the audience.

00:03:24.140 This is a tweet from Mike Nellis, the CEO of the company, in response to your subpoena. And like you

00:03:29.780 had mentioned on August 16th, you had sent a letter asking for them to turn over documents.

00:03:33.160 And like most Democrats do, they ignored it. So here's the letter that the tweet that he had put

00:03:37.720 out breaking. We have just received a subpoena from Jim Jordan and the Republican-led House

00:03:41.900 Judiciary Committee. This is yet another abuse of power aimed at promoting baseless right-wing

00:03:47.560 conspiracy theories that link our company, authentic, to Donald Trump's fraud trial.

00:03:52.140 We are thoroughly reviewing the subpoena with our legal team and will provide updates as soon as we

00:03:55.960 have more information. Let us be clear, these allegations against our company are completely false

00:04:00.660 and purely politically motivated. This is a blatant attempt to intimidate us and divert attention

00:04:05.440 from Donald Trump's conviction. We refuse to be bullied and we will not allow House Republicans or MAGA

00:04:10.580 extremists to spread lies about our work. We remain steadfast in our mission and deeply grateful

00:04:15.340 to the unwavering support of our friends and family. So what part of what you've asked him to produce

00:04:20.400 is untrue? The fact that they've made millions of dollars up the case, the fact that President Trump

00:04:24.720 is gag ordered when his daughter's out there raising millions of dollars for people like Adam Schiff

00:04:29.340 and the Senate Majority Pact, what part of it is not true that he's saying, Mr. Chairman?

00:04:35.620 Well, the other thing he didn't say in there is, in one of their responses to us, they've sent us

00:04:40.000 back two letters. One of their responses, they said, we do have some documents relative to this

00:04:45.840 request that you've asked, or this request from you, but we don't think it meets a legitimate

00:04:52.460 legislative purpose. So we don't think we have to send that. Well, that's not how it works. We

00:04:59.180 determine the legislative purpose. And oh, by the way, we actually went to court when Alvin Bragg

00:05:04.240 argued the same thing. We went to court and the judge says, no, Mr. Pomerantz, you have to be

00:05:10.540 deposed. You have to sit for a deposition in front of the Judiciary Committee. So we won. The one time we

00:05:15.280 went to court relative to this case, we won. The House won. Judiciary Committee won. So if that's

00:05:21.540 what they want to do, okay. But our record right now is one and oh, and we determine the legislative

00:05:25.220 purpose. And the courts have said the legislative purpose is a broad category. We've got legislation

00:05:32.160 we've passed on that deals with venue. If you're some rogue state prosecutor going after a federal

00:05:37.820 official, federal officials should have the ability to move that to a federal court. If our bill that we

00:05:42.880 had passed out of committee, if that were law right now, Judge Bershon wouldn't have presided over

00:05:46.800 this case. So there are all kinds of reasons why we need this information.

00:05:50.260 Why is it that it constantly, whether it be, I mean, issues with COVID regarding Bill Gates is

00:05:55.600 involved or Klaus Schwab, we have this case. Why is it that whenever there's some sort of suspect

00:06:00.740 thing going on, it's always the same actors involved and their family members involved?

00:06:05.800 The Clintons, you had the daughter of the Clintons working on everything. Kamala Harris, 1.00

00:06:10.940 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?

00:06:19.620 And why do people think it's so peculiar to look into things that don't seem right? Like a judge

00:06:27.340 whose daughter is fundraising off of a case. And this isn't a, not that a civil case is right,

00:06:33.800 because we saw what they did to President Trump in New York with the civil case. This is a criminal

00:06:37.180 case that holds jail implications. Why do these Democrats think that it's a right wing conspiracy

00:06:43.180 theory? It's MAGA extremists coming after us when there's a serious problem here when you've raised

00:06:49.140 nearly a hundred million dollars off of your father. Yeah, this, I mean, come on, anyone with

00:06:55.080 common sense, it does. This doesn't pass the smell test. We can all see that Judge Bershon should have

00:07:00.280 recused himself. Everyone understands that multiple legal scholars have said this makes no sense for

00:07:06.040 him to preside over this case. And then when you couple that with the kind of rulings he did in

00:07:10.620 the course of this case, and the fact that the gag order still sits there, and the fact that on the

00:07:15.140 18th, here's something really important. President Trump is asked to postpone the sentencing date,

00:07:22.400 and Alvin Bragg has said he's okay with that. Well, why hasn't Judge Bershon, almost always the judge

00:07:28.720 will say, oh, if both parties say it's okay, we'll do that. But Judge Bershon has not said that yet,

00:07:34.300 which makes me wonder, is he going to try to go ahead and have a sentencing hearing prior to the

00:07:39.920 election, even though President Trump and Alvin Bragg, the prosecutor, have said they're fine with

00:07:44.760 it being pushed back to after the election? That tells you, if he doesn't rule the right way, that

00:07:49.100 tells you just how political he is. You know, it's sort of interesting, like you had mentioned,

00:07:53.460 the first time Bragg agreed to postpone it, I said, wow, that's interesting. Now, the second time,

00:07:57.880 I'm like, well, what? I mean, does Bragg realize that they've screwed up royally here? I'm starting to

00:08:02.540 really wonder. And I mean, there's no doubt that Bragg definitely had political pressure to bring

00:08:06.940 this case. I mean, there's evidence now that shows that. And I'm sitting here wondering,

00:08:10.860 well, maybe Alvin Bragg is maybe feeling bad that it's come to this far, or he's feeling bad that

00:08:15.540 he's going to be in a little bit of trouble. I want to ask you, Mr. Chairman, what do you say to

00:08:20.840 the people, and I've worked in Congress before, I know everything takes a million years to get done,

00:08:26.160 but what do you say to the people who just say, well, it's another strongly worded letter,

00:08:30.440 when are we going to see, you know, action taking? What do you say to those critics?

00:08:35.460 Well, I say that, you know, three weeks ago, GARM, the Global Alliance for Responsible Media,

00:08:41.940 which was censoring conservative websites, conservative platforms, telling companies,

00:08:48.080 oh, you don't want to advertise on these conservative shows and platforms and websites.

00:08:53.560 They discontinued operation because of our investigation. I say the disinformation governance

00:09:01.220 board that was trying to, that Department of Homeland Security was trying to form,

00:09:05.540 that went by the wayside. They said, 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 from

00:09:19.600 Zuckerberg, which he, you know, we did a year and a half investigation and Mark Zuckerberg admits

00:09:25.960 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,

00:09:36.940 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.

00:10:03.000 We're talking with House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan. We're coming right back.

00:10:12.420 We're back. We're talking with House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan. Congressman,

00:10:16.780 before we went to break, you had mentioned Mark Zuckerberg submitting a letter to Congress,

00:10:21.780 and I found it very interesting. I just want to read a quick excerpt from it, if I if I may.

00:10:27.560 In 2021, and this is from Mark Zuckerberg to your committee in 2021, senior officials from the

00:10:32.160 Biden administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressure our teams for months to censor

00:10:36.520 certain COVID-19 content, acuting humor and satire and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams

00:10:42.780 when they didn't. In a separate situation, the FBI warned us about political information,

00:10:47.800 Russian disinformation about the Biden family and Burisma to the lead up to the 2020 election.

00:10:54.200 What has caused Mark Zuckerberg now to come out and start admitting these things? Is something going on?

00:11:00.240 Well, I think he knew we weren't going to stop. We've we've interviewed or deposed,

00:11:04.780 I think, over a dozen people from Facebook, including their number three in the company in

00:11:11.180 Meta. Sir Nick Clegg, former deputy prime minister of Great Britain, now works for Meta. We we deposed

00:11:18.200 him. I think they knew we weren't going to stop. We're going to get to the facts, get to the truth.

00:11:22.080 And so he just came clean with a letter and basically four points. As I said before,

00:11:26.360 they were pressured to censor by the Biden-Harris administration. They did, in fact, censor.

00:11:31.920 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.

00:11:52.740 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.

00:12:07.120 endorsed President Trump last week. He said RFK Jr. said in that speech when he endorsed President

00:12:13.120 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 it's

00:12:41.700 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.

00:12:56.900 You had mentioned Zuckerberg. I want to read a second part of the letter because it's very

00:13:00.740 interesting. This is from Zuckerberg to your committee. Apart from content moderation,

00:13:05.820 I want to address the contributions I made during the last presidential cycle to support electoral

00:13:10.580 infrastructure. The idea here was to make sure local election jurisdictions around the country

00:13:14.940 have the resources they needed to help people vote safely during a global pandemic. Now, the first

00:13:20.940 thing 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 that's

00:13:30.680 got an endless, as we know, an endless supply of money. There's they have no problem spending billions

00:13:35.340 of dollars over in Ukraine. Why do we need these public private companies spending money for our

00:13:41.240 election infrastructure? We we don't. It shouldn't have happened. It is not consistent with how our

00:13:46.680 system is supposed to work. And I think he's he's got an earful over the last few years after he did

00:13:54.260 that. And that is why he is no longer going to be engaged in that in those with those donations.

00:14:01.020 I think what needs to happen to these people is exactly what's happened to President Trump. You know,

00:14:05.100 they think by going after you with lawfare, it's, you know, whatever these people need to be drained

00:14:10.800 of all their resources. They need the money needs to be spent prosecuting and persecuting these people

00:14:15.440 so that they feel the pain of what President Trump has went to. But a big a big part to blame,

00:14:20.960 I think, is the media. And I want to read this headline to you because this came out after you

00:14:24.540 received the letter and it's from none other than Politico. Politico, quote, Trump claims Zuckerberg

00:14:30.320 plotted against him during the 2020 election and soon to be released. Book. Well, I don't I'm not

00:14:36.460 sure really where the claim is when we just read that letter that Zuckerberg admitted to it.

00:14:41.260 Yeah, he admitted to four. Like I said, he admitted to four facts. I got pressured. We succumbed to that

00:14:47.080 pressure. We also craddled back the story and we're not giving Zuckerberg, which we did in 2020.

00:14:52.360 I mean, you can't change the four facts he outlines in that in that statement. But that's today's press.

00:14:59.680 Today's press are cheerleaders for the left. I always say the left has a template, John.

00:15:05.780 The left's template is the left will tell a lie. Big media will report the lie. Big tech will amplify

00:15:15.140 the lie. And then when you tell the truth, they call you names. They'll call you racist. They'll call

00:15:20.280 you extremist. They'll call you whatever. You know, they'll say you need to be investigated because

00:15:24.680 you're a parent showing up at a school board meeting concerned about you. I mean, it's just that's the

00:15:28.840 template. And then what always happens is our position turns out to be true. And by that point,

00:15:35.280 they don't say, oh, we're sorry, we were wrong. They're already on to the next lot.

00:15:40.160 Exactly. Exactly.

00:15:41.420 That's how they operate.

00:15:42.580 You know, there's I was talking to somebody the other day. There's no really no integrity. And

00:15:46.060 Lou is one of the last people in this industry who had integrity and was accountable and held

00:15:51.160 himself accountable and all of us accountable for things that we did wrong. And I think a big part of

00:15:55.500 that is Section 230, which we heard RFK talking about the other day with Tucker Carlson. Why

00:16:00.980 should these media conglomerates who have done so much damage to this country and to the American

00:16:06.720 people, 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 don't

00:16:22.480 even know what the hell happened. Yeah, no, it's a fair question. And you think about it that I think

00:16:28.660 it's something we have to look at in a in a broad sense, though, because right now we got Musk who's

00:16:33.120 bought Twitter and he is pro First Amendment, strong defender. He's done great work for us, for the

00:16:39.420 country, for the world in protecting free speech. We want him to be able to do it. But when they when

00:16:46.420 the concern is when other platforms are limiting and attacking the First Amendment and they don't get

00:16:52.220 held accountable for that. So we're trying to figure out the right way to do it without hurting

00:16:57.080 the people who are for the First Amendment like Elon Musk. But also, of course, we want the full

00:17:03.740 robust debate. I just get so frustrated with this whole disinformation, the games these people play.

00:17:10.060 What I point to is, though, the work we've done, GARM has been discontinued.

00:17:15.900 The disinformation governance board is gone. Elon Musk has now purchased Twitter, which is,

00:17:21.460 you know, a true, truly embraced the First Amendment. So we've got to look at all that

00:17:27.180 and make sure we the bottom line is protect the First Amendment. You know, it's funny that back

00:17:31.960 to the Zuckerberg thing, he says he regrets and pretty much saying he's sorry. And it's not he's

00:17:36.500 not sorry he did it. He's sorry he got caught, which I don't know why he didn't think he was

00:17:40.080 going to get caught. I want to turn to Kamala Harris prepping for a debate with Google's lead 1.00

00:17:45.960 defense attorney. Karen Dunn. Like I said earlier, it seems to be there's always some sort of

00:17:52.160 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 in collusion.

00:18:17.100 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,

00:18:25.460 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.

00:18:35.500 Yeah. I just want to wrap up here. I know your time is valuable and we really appreciate it.

00:18:40.020 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, we have a

00:18:51.460 funding battle of just about a month election? I think the strategy is pretty simple. We should

00:18:57.580 put the same after this is the bill that we've passed out of the House, which, you know, says that

00:19:02.920 you have to be a citizen of the United States to be on a state's voter registration

00:19:06.960 roles and the safeguards to make sure that citizens, only citizens are voting. So I think

00:19:15.620 that makes sense that that that and we'll I'll stipulate, OK, we'll spend at the level

00:19:21.100 that's already been set, which I think is too much money. But let's let's just OK, we'll take

00:19:26.040 that. But let's put that bill that says only citizens should be participate in our federal

00:19:32.280 elections. Let's put that bill on the spending bill and send that to Chuck Schumer. And I think

00:19:37.820 that is just that is so that's a position the American people are like, well, of course,

00:19:41.880 who would disagree with that? Well, unfortunately, Democrats do. But that to me seems to be the

00:19:47.140 smart strategy when we get back in September. Yeah, like you said, they're not going to cut

00:19:51.060 any spending on a CR anyway, so you might as well get out of it, get something out of it.

00:19:54.320 But 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

00:20:02.100 knife through your back, really, what the hell are you supposed to do? It's a really crappy 0.98

00:20:06.140 situation. But the leader of our party is the guy who's at the top of the ticket. And if President

00:20:10.520 Trump wants us to fight for that, I think we should do it and insist on that being on the spending bill.

00:20:15.840 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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TRUMP SENTENCING DATE JUST DAYS AWAY

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