On January 25th, 2019, former Vice President Joe Biden was arrested by the FBI at his home and charged with lying to Congress regarding a false charge of conspiracy to obstruct justice against President Donald Trump. The charge was later declassified as a result of a declassification effort by the Department of Justice.
00:01:09.460Well, I just returned from what could be the greatest single and largest single gathering of pro-family, pro-freedom, pro-U.S. Constitution, pro-God, young people in America's history.
00:01:25.880I went to the Turning Point USA's America Fest 2025 in Phoenix, Arizona.
00:01:35.320I had an all-star lineup of important conservative speakers, including highlights by Vice President J.D. Vance, who spoke almost immediately after me, as well as the National Security Advisor, Tulsi Gabbard.
00:01:52.000I heard excellent speech by Tucker Carlson, my good friend Jack Posobiec, and a number of others.
00:01:58.500Because I had but 10 minutes, I took the opportunity to recount the fact that on January 25, 2019, when 29 heavily armed FBI agents stormed my home at 6 o'clock in the morning to arrest me for the completely fabricated crime of lying before Congress regarding Russian collusion,
00:02:22.500that we now know, based on the documents released by Tulsi Gabbard and declassified, never actually existed.
00:02:30.740It was a frame job to pressure me to testify falsely against President Donald Trump and insist that there was Russian collusion when there was none.
00:02:39.620It was an awful process, but after I was arrested and my wife and I were perp-walked for the CNN cameras, I was taken handcuffed to Miramar, to the FBI's station there, to be fingerprinted and to be mug-shotted.
00:03:15.660I was allowed to speak to my lawyers, but I chose not to speak to them in the FBI headquarters.
00:03:20.680I thought, quite frankly, there was a high probability the conference room they had provided was probably being listened to.
00:03:27.320And they told me that the government had agreed to release me without bond.
00:03:34.040I told them I would, of course, plead not guilty.
00:03:36.820They informed me that the prosecution intended to release me without bond, which, of course, demonstrates that the whole idea that I had to be arrested in the manner I was, because I was a flight risk, was not true at all.
00:03:50.180If I was a flight risk, why didn't they demand a $250,000 cash bond?
00:03:55.240Anyway, by that time, I went through arraignment and the mob scene at the federal courthouse.
00:04:02.520Subsequent to being at the FBI session, I was returned to the federal courtroom.
00:04:07.660I was in a holding cell there with three African-American gentlemen.
00:04:14.040Unfortunately, I had been arrested about 6 o'clock in the morning, 6.11, actually, 6 in that area.
00:04:22.500It was now 11 o'clock, and I was about to be arraigned where I would plead not guilty upstairs in a courtroom full of reporters, reporters high-fiving each other.
00:04:33.360I, of course, had leg shackles and was cuffed at this time.
00:06:20.580And I must say that throughout my trial, Charlie became a very vocal critic of the prosecutors and the judge and all the other basic unfairnesses.
00:06:30.340The fact that I was never allowed to present any reasonable defense.
00:06:35.840That my prosecution was based on the false notion that the Russians had conducted an online hack of the Democrat National Committee.
00:06:44.260The government claimed it in all of their papers but provided no proof of it because it never actually happened.
00:06:50.640The judge would not allow me to produce forensic evidence or expert testimony to prove that the file stolen from the DNC
00:06:59.260had indeed been downloaded to some kind of portable drive, taken out the back door.
00:07:05.300The download times of the files tell that story.
00:07:10.960I was not allowed to make that argument.
00:07:14.260Unlike James Comey, I was obviously not allowed to leisurely turn myself in,
00:07:19.540even though James Comey was charged with the exact, exact same crime that I was.
00:07:25.460I made this point in my remarks to Turning Point USA.
00:07:29.600And I think the most important point that I made in that brief 10-minute speech
00:07:33.500was the fact that those who have great trepidation about the 2026 midterm elections,
00:07:41.680those who say the Republicans are certain to lose the House,
00:07:45.200do not recognize that in politics a week is a lifetime.
00:07:50.380Secondarily, the fact that the president has laid the groundwork for the greatest economy this country will ever experience
00:07:56.960in his tax cuts, in his regulatory cuts, doing away with taxes on Social Security,
00:08:02.100doing away with taxes on tips, his regulatory cuts, a more sound monetary policy.
00:08:09.820Once we get a Federal Reserve Board that is not politicized,
00:08:13.880once Jerome Too Late Powell's term ends,
00:08:19.540it is outrageous to me that under Powell, the Fed cut rates deeply to help Joe Biden's re-election,
00:08:27.080even though unemployment and inflation, the two measures that the Federal Reserve is supposed to use
00:08:34.380to make that determination, are actually lower today than they were when the Fed cut rates for Joe Biden.
00:08:41.700Then they gave us this small cut when we needed a larger cut.
00:08:45.960That was a bow to public opinion, I think, because any reasonable financial analysts,
00:08:51.660people like Barry Habib, for example, will tell you that we need a rate cut.
00:08:58.600Stephen Moore, Larry Kudlow, people that I really respect.
00:09:02.160And, of course, then you had the sideshow of Lisa Cook.
00:09:05.620Lisa Cook is the Federal Reserve Board governor
00:09:08.900who got caught not only plagiarizing in her academic past,
00:09:13.200but also got caught claiming two different residences as her principal legal residence
00:09:18.860and therefore obtaining a favorable mortgage rate and insurance rate and tax rate