Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump Jr. Respond to the Trump Verdict
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On this episode of the Tucker Carlson's new show, Tucker sits down with a man who grew up in the shadow of the Soviet Union to talk about the fall of the USSR, the rise of the counter-espionage agency known as the KGB, and how the system was designed to keep us safe from the threat of revolution. Tucker is a former KGB operative who served as a member of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) unit tasked with bringing down the USSR. He's also a former CIA operative, a combat veteran, and an advocate for human rights and human dignity. Tucker and Tucker discuss the importance of human rights, the role of the press, and the need for democratic ideals in the 21st century, as well as what it means to live up to the ideals we were taught in our schools, and what it really means to be a spy. This episode is brought to you by The Daily Beast, and is produced by Tall Tales, a production of Gimlet Media, where Tucker and Brandon discuss the dark side of life, liberty and the pursuit of truth in a hyperactive world. Check out all of our content, including our newest podcast, "The Dark Side of the Mind." Subscribe to stay up to date with the latest episodes of The Dark Side Of! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices! Learn about our sponsor, sponsor, and fellow podcaster, Jimmy Kimmel, check out our new show Jimmy Kimmel Live! Click here to become a supporter of the show, "Jimmy Kimmel Live" Subscribe to our new podcast Jimmy Kimmel's new music, "Good Morning, Good Morning America" and much more! Good Morning Folks! Get a chance to learn more about Jimmy Kimmel and more, including his new book, Jimmy Carter's new book "Jimmy Carter's "The Good Morning Show" out there! click here! Jimmy Carter s new novel "The Righteousness," Jimmy Carter "The Man Who Couldn't Do It Better" CLICK HERE! CLICK HERE TO SUBSCullen's new novel, "HAPPY BECAUSE YOU'LLYNN'S FASTENDS, CHEASTER'S NEW FASTIE'S TALKER'S PODCAST? CHECK OUT OUR NEW EPISODES, "JAMES CARLSON'S SON, JORDY'S BONDS AND MORE?
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at tucker carlson.com here's the episode i used to think if you asked me like even a year ago i'd
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like oh come on they're gonna roll this guy over you know in a gurney uh get him over the finish
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line and i was like that's no one would believe that the whole premise of you know their democracy
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you know yeah really relies on people actually still buying it and i don't know that i don't
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know that they care anymore because like when they talk about democracy it's a soundbite right it's not
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democracy the way it's not the republic they're preserving opposite of what's happening
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once they it's almost like you get kidnapped and the kidnapper has a mask on but once he shows you
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his face he's got to kill you correct and they've shown their face yeah you know again they i don't
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think there's anything they wouldn't do i mean you put out something i think it was i think it was on
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twitter uh yesterday which was you know sort of that extreme like well if they can't get trump this
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way what's the next level and i i think we've they've proven that they'll do that in the past i think
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we're now figuring that out uh we understand it i think the system's probably been broken for
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you know much longer uh than any of us would care to admit and for me i i saw it firsthand at least
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61 years it's been broken since they killed the president in an election year exactly and you know
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for me i still even when we started this process even i'd say it's safe to say i was probably the
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number two target of you know russia russia russia um and i was like well there must be something to it
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i know i didn't obviously collude with russia but maybe you know maybe i took a selfie with an
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agent once because i took 10 000 selfies a day right so so you know there but even like knowing
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that i was a target i was like i still believed i guess because i wanted to right i want to know i
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get it america is the greatest place in the world and you can do and i'm like you know it's the fbi
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you know again there's some door kickers that i'm still like hey they're home team i get it they're
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doing eventually those guys are gonna have to speak up though right i gave we're long past i gave the
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door kickers a pass for far too long which is like hey you know they can't go against the leadership
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but like when you're watching this kind of bastardization of justice when you're watching
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this sort of lopsided level when they're you know they spend more time you know kicking down the doors
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of an amish farmer selling unpasteurized milk than actually going after people committing terror
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because you know they're trans or you know whatever it is that they are uh you really lose that ability
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to get that pass that i really wanted them to give but i you know i i wanted to believe
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that everything i grew up believing was accurate and it's all bullshit it's it's just all bullshit so
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we have to fix that that's that's why we fight now to actually make it so but you saw this on january 6th
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too i mean i know that joe scarborough and the rest of the liars presented those people as like
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insurrectionists and dangerous they were actually the most pure-hearted and the most naive about the i mean
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they were they were literally walking with pocket constitution saying no you can't do this they
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believed in the system much more than the people who put them in prison who don't believe in it at
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all without question and you saw that i mean you know the narrative was pushed so much the the clips
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that they used were designed to create something that didn't actually happen i mean it's so sick
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you know i always say you know it was the first unarmed insurrection in the history of insurrections i
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mean it's never happened before but arguably i'd say probably the most heavily armed populace if they
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want it to have been right of course but if but of course it wasn't an insurrection it didn't matter
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and they just wanted to run out of them like they could hardly believe this was happening
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and i think you're describing the same thing like you really believed it in our institutions and our
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norms and democracy i i i did and it took again i mean literally threats of you know you're going to
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jail for treason a crime punishable by death that's like not a great swing thought when you're going
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through it you know i mean i'm like wait a minute like if you're the father of five kids that's not
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yeah and and yet i still at the beginning of it i was like and then it just your your eyes start to
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open and you see the games and you see the people that are on your side and you see the you know the
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lindsey grahams of the world right they they get on tv and they're on you know fox or something like
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that and they're like well we must subpoena these people and we must get to the bottom of this i'm
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like well you're like the chairman of the judiciary committee like you have you have the authority to do
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that like like but you're talking about doing the thing that you have the authority to do
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but you're unwilling to actually exercise that power so that was what disgusted me most about
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like the republicans right it's you're telling your base the people who are watching you know
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like you're fighting but you know damn well that you're not actually fighting no right and we see
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that so much that's the difference between it's the difference between the democrats i mean they've
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shown hey they'll they'll put their opposition in jail they'll smother them they'll silence them
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uh there's nothing they won't do to preserve power we you know we'll write a strongly worded memo
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uh and do nothing to follow up and i think as long as you have that sort of imbalance uh in the
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response nothing changes because you know the democrats they'll take their win they'll run run to
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the bank they'll laugh their ass off along the way and uh nothing changes until we actually start
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fighting back i think a lot of people yesterday when that verdict came down i'm among them my first
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reaction was wow they'll actually hurt us like they would they would execute us me i'll just say
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speak for myself and there would be an msnbc panel of former federal prosecutors telling their audience
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that i deserved it and they'd be laughing the lincoln project would send out a you know congratulatory
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tweet and i was like wow this there's a there's sort of a lack of humanity there's a coldness there's
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an evil under all of this that i think i underestimate we i think we all did um and by the way i think
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many still do you know again it's hard to believe that you could live through these last eight years
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or whatever 10 years and and not think that i mean look at you know that that this is even you know
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within 10 points in terms of an election like i can't name literally a single metric a single one
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geopolitical economic or otherwise like where we're better off now and yet they'll outrace us they'll do
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this the media still pushes it as though you know joe biodynamics is doing wonderfully for you like
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i get it i'm the son of a billionaire if i'm pissed off at the grocery store like you know i'm not i'm
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not like one of these woke guys on one of these channels where it's like my three-month-old baby was
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talking about nuclear proliferation on the carillian peninsula talk or and and she was crying she's she
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was scared it's like i get it like i understand where i'm come from i'm totally comfortable with that
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i've been blessed but like if i'm sitting there with sticker shock like what's the country feeling
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you know if i see what's going on in my interest rates of my mortgage like man how much longer can
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we do this and then you talk about wars and trillions of dollars of spending and then the
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republicans are telling us that you know the ukraine is the number one most important issue for
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republicans across our country i've heard that from mitch mcconnell dozens of times it's just not
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right i've i speak in front of i've spoken in front of more republicans in the last year than mitch
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mcconnell has in his entire lifetime and i think i've surveyed probably i do it live like just at a
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you know a thousand people here 500 people here 5 000 people there it's not it's been a top 10 issue
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and about 60 65 000 people for three people one of them uh was a dc sort of beltway guy he felt very
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strongly about it probably he was profiteering off of it uh one of them misunderstood the question so he
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thought it was a double negative so it was not in fact a top 10 issue for him because i do is it top
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three or top 10 and one of them it was top 10 but not top three and i said sir you know and i'll ask
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him i don't care you know i want to hear it out like why is well i'm from kiev ukraine i was like
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i'm going to give you a pass so i'm going to effectively say out of about 65 000 people
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surveyed in the last you know let's call it two years 18 months whatever it is since the war started
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a little more i guess uh exactly you know basically zero people have been in favor of this but the
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leader of the senate will tell us it's the number one issue for republicans across the country it's
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just not so how can that i was in dc last night i never go back i'm from there and i took three people
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to dinner four people at the table nobody drank for all three i am a teetotaler so the other three
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and it's a good restaurant but not like a famous restaurant restaurant i've eaten at for many years
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the bill was eight hundred dollars for four eight hundred dollars not drinking not drinking and no
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nothing crazy like salad steak dessert 800 bucks and i thought you know i'm pretty insulated from cost
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but i thought i can't well i can't how do people live here my experience was opposite of that took two of
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my boys on a fishing trip and we were coming back traveling through an airport and we went to a
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mcdonald's and it was my 11 year old boy my 14 year old boy and me at the time it was the last and it
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was like 47 dollars and change for like an 11 year old child a 14 year old child and me i'm like
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again i it's not going to change my spending habits i'm not pretending i drive it my truck has
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700 horsepower like you know i'm not happy at the pump but like but if they're telling you the war
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against russia is the most important thing to america yeah no it's not they're lying so so both of us
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sort of skipped ahead past an analysis of the case and sort of taking it as a given that what we saw
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yesterday was grotesque and really sort of the end of a fair justice system but for people who've
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just heard that and not gotten some of the details that prove it to be true yeah can you just run
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through what the case was i i mean it's literally you know too much yeah but to the extent how much
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time we got but loria it's a books and records thing right i mean it's literally a filing it's
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like a misfiling and yet it's something that was never before tried as a felony uh like many of
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the other cases like when you know one of the cases in new york where they literally they changed
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new york state law to be able to for one year they changed the law for one year to be able to go back
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and change a statute of limitations so that you could go after my father and then after that year after
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that is filed and they go after my father that was a gene carroll case it reverts back to the normal
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statute of limitations because otherwise they wouldn't have been able to do it this was very
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similar this was a case that was you know at best misdemeanor type stuff remember hillary clinton started
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uh with with a similar thing she got fined uh eight thousand dollars i believe it was for starting what
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was the russia russia russia hoax with the uh steel dossier leaks and and all of this right that was an
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eight thousand dollar fine they want to put my father in jail for you know upwards of a hundred years
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depending on how you look at it and uh that's never been done before in these things because
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basically someone in an accounting department put legal expenses for you know paying a lawyer
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it's it's it's unheard of but you you have experts when they say well it's a federal election
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uh crime they wouldn't let the person who wrote the rules like wrote them is the foremost expert in
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all of that actually testify for us uh the jury didn't have to be unanimous on the things that they
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charged they just all had to sort of come to a general okay four guys agreed on this and four
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people agreed on that and four that's unanimous uh the bastardization of all of this thing and
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just having been in the courtroom candidly was watching you know when the prosecution you know
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uh objected to something that we said it was always you know sustained uh they let them you
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know just we couldn't ask anything when when it was us asking the questions the uncomfortable
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questions of their witnesses all of a sudden you know we were overruled every time uh it you just the
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list goes on so you've made the case and others who followed it carefully have made the case
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that this was a direct hit from the biden administration 100 point to a man called
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matthew colangelo yeah can you tell us who he is matthew colangelo was the number three guy
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in joe biden's justice department so from washington dc the other big part of this case you know as it
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relates to that was that they're trying to say it's a federal election commission case well name
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another case that's ever been tried that's a federal crime tried in a state court so matthew
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colangelo is number three at doj so that's about as high as a prosecutor can ascend correct and he
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was moved to new york don't forget alvin bragg the district attorney that actually tried this case
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turned it down years ago they could have done this seven eight years ago whenever it happened but they
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didn't the federal election commission the fec that would have you know would have been one of
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the things that's around it they could have tried the irs could have done these things because
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if it was a tax thing all of them chose to pass including again alvin bragg the guy who's trying
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it and just tried it right now passed on this a couple years ago biden's number three at his doj
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comes up and all of a sudden now they're filing the charges conveniently right before an election
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dumb question so the number three guy at doj who's ascended this ladder yes okay what is he doing
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in new york i mean that's a massive step down he's prosecuting his political enemies tucker okay but
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that's it but nobody there's you know there's no other there's literally no other explanation for it
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when you look at the bastardization of this you have a judge who's a biden donor his daughter is
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one of the number one democrat says he's literally a biden donor he's a biden donor like literally has
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written checks himself his daughter is one of the most prolific fundraisers for the radical democrats
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adam schiff and like she's made millions off of that this judge allowed his daughter's clients
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democrat mega donors to sit in the courtroom it's like having front row seats like you own the new
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york rangers right it's think of how insane that is right but can i ask a dumb question
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first of all why would the number three guy at doj wind up in a case in a state case that seems
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like he must have been sent one two if the judge was literally a biden donor and donating to among
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other things like the stop trump effort which i think was one of them how could he remain the judge
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how could he because it's new york what do you appeal it to you appeal it to another panicle panel of
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radicals right i mean it was like the new york ag case right we got fined almost a half a billion
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dollars for paying back a bank on time with interest the bank who's the alleged victim is
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on the stand being like no we love trump we want to do more business with trump not less having
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their portfolio was a feather in our cap that we use to generate other business doesn't matter you're
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a victim uh it it's it's pure and simple political prosecution you know persecution they're they're
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going after there's nothing that they won't do to stop trump and they understand now with years of
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experience in the white house i think you know going in as a novice was great in many ways but
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you also don't know who the snakes are you don't know who the people who are going to actually help
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you and be sort of loyal to the cause and that causes you know what being the duly elected president
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united states doing the things you said you would do versus doing what the swamp wants slow rolling
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what the president wants uh you know all those unelected officials and so i think the notion of trump
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coming back now actually scares them so much more because he has that knowledge he has that
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understanding and i think that will make him so much more effective in a second term well and also
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if you're going to kill the king you better kill the king yeah but you best not miss as the saying
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that's exactly right you may have come to the obvious conclusion that the real debate is not
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between republican and democrat or socialist and capitalists right left the real battles between
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people who are lying on purpose and people who are trying to tell you the truth it's between good
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and evil it's between honesty and falsehood and we hope we are on the former side that's why we
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actually happens in this barn when only an iphone is running tucker carlson.com podcast you will not
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regret it so are you worried well a couple questions will this stop the campaign like
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what effect is that uh listen i i spoke to my father you know right after the verdict you know
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today i mean you know obviously it's a somber moment i mean and you know yeah you know me well
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enough i you know i can pretty much you know fight through anything and we keep going and he will too
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but you know it is a somber moment but more so for our country so but if anything
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i would say it's actually strengthened his resolve i think he listen in 16 uh it was the
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elevator ride right before the escalator ride you know now we find out who our real friends are
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you know he knew what was going to happen he knew the celebrities would go but he knew that and he did
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it anyway i think after 2020 he understood that if he just went home he could go play golf and go
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back to building buildings and making millions and getting paid to give speeches and stuff like that
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there's just too much at stake and so he's he's just unwilling to stop i gotta think a lot of
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people are looking back to four years ago and reaching the conclusion well if they'll rig a trial
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they'll probably rig an election i think without question i think you know the reality is you know
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what i see you know on the ground the amount of people from the the demographics that probably have
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never voted republican before that are just you know you know grabbing me at airports or like
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even walking down the streets you know in new york the other day it's it's amazing i mean i i did a
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for example you know i i was one of the probably most out there people in terms of rallies and
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campaigns doing my own thing in 16 and 20 i think just for example october of 2020 i think i did 104
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rallies in that month so like four a day for a month straight like i i'm on the ground you know the
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energy in 2020 was better than even 16 amazingly enough but they they had that ability to weaponize
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covid and all of that stuff we saw the nonsense uh it's it's so much stronger right now and we're
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still six months out uh that doesn't mean they won't do you know again i i don't even pretend
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to think that hey it's gonna be fair and they're not gonna cheat and they're not i i used to probably
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think that hey there's only so far they can go like how you know they're gonna roll this guy over
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the line in a gurney and you know pretend he's because i used to think they actually had
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maybe a little bit of shame uh but that's not actually at all true i don't think they care
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anymore they're they're laughing at you know when they use democracy it's a soundbite but they're
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never laugh about at their cocktail they're never punished they weren't punished for the iraq war or
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the afghanistan withdrawal or the lies around covid the vaccine mandates they weren't punished for
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the 2020 election russia russia russia i mean russia not only are they not punished tucker they're
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they're given better jobs they they either keep their job and then they get a cnn
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contributorship to talk about preserving democracy but maybe i mean if you treated your kids this way
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they'd be sociopaths i think you allowed they are well they certainly are they are i'm sure they had
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boomer parents who indulge them of course but i mean someone needs to be punished at some point right
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so it stops i think without question i i don't think you know we have not done that well uh republicans
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right the democrats don't fear us because they know well we'd never play the same game because we
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actually believe what they think is that you know ha ha a soundbite we actually believe those things
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uh and it's actually hard it's hard for me to say those things because i'd love not to have to play
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that game but i i don't believe there's another answer other than like we have to fight fire with
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fire as long as we're playing t-ball while they're playing fast pitch hardball they're going to win
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they're going to take their power they're going to run to the bank they're going to and laugh every
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step of the way uh there's there's just not enough actual fighters there i mean when you look at
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even honestly look at the republican bench it's not very deep no you know in terms of the guys that you'd
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actually be hey who's the guy i want in a foxhole who's the guy that'll actually fight who's the
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guy that's not going to succumb to the pressures of washington dc who are they i mean like right now
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i mean i love a guy like a jd vance you know there there there are a couple but man that list is
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who's next mike lee is kind of becoming that guy yeah mike lee's a fighter i i like mike and you know
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and it's interesting it's one of those you know in 2016 mike lee and i almost got a fistfight on the
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convention floor like you know we were very different but like he's a guy that i text with
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probably daily yeah uh and so it's interesting that you know once you actually have that
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relationship you can actually people come around it's like okay you were actually right well people
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change on the basis of evidence and what they see my views are totally different from what they were
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10 years ago i think the problem with dc is for conservatives it's actually an easy existence you
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could be a republican in dc as long as you're republican light of course you know if you're like hey say
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whatever you want when you're speaking to a group of 10 people in your little hometown you know you
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come to dc you can vote with the republicans like 80 80 of the time when it actually matters as long
00:19:58.480
as you you vote with us the washington post isn't going to come after you they're not going to be
00:20:02.480
protesting in front of your home it's an easy existence you'll get invited to the cool person
00:20:06.100
christmas party and you know sorry holiday party i don't want to you know they don't celebrate
00:20:11.400
christmas because no they don't no well because they don't believe in god right the democrats their
00:20:15.760
their gods are evolving right they goes you know greta thunberg is the high priestess of climate
00:20:20.360
change fauci is the you know the lord of uh science yes yeah science and covid and these days it's
00:20:27.740
vladimir zelinski the you know the the high priest of ukraine which is apparently the number one issue
00:20:32.400
for republicans across the country but i've not yet seen that anywhere and so uh but but those are the
00:20:36.960
people they choose to be their deities and you know and everything follows that path until you know
00:20:42.080
they burn out flame out or you know get exposed for what they really are how can you run a
00:20:46.460
presidential campaign when you're um fighting multiple legal battles criminal well i mean that
00:20:53.880
that's by design right i mean of course you look at all of these things they they understand listen
00:20:58.400
joe biden in a basement is good for joe biden's campaign because if you put him on a stage it's a
00:21:05.300
negative right he's incapable of getting through a teleprompter he would get lost at this table
00:21:08.900
yes uh and i you know i don't say that as like glibly it's just no it's just it's sad i i feel bad
00:21:15.300
uh you know he can't get through basic things and yet he's the leader of the free world or whoever's
00:21:21.240
pulling the you know the marionette strings um you know trump locked in a courtroom for five weeks
00:21:28.020
while he should be campaigning that's that's really good for them because he can't he can bring that
00:21:31.920
message to people people you know understand what he's saying uh it resonates with them uh he's able to
00:21:37.880
bring people over who would not have otherwise been able to or would have ever voted republican
00:21:42.020
uh he's one of the few guys that can do that you know sort of expose the left for what it is expose
00:21:46.540
what we're talking about break through the noise uh put out there by you know the mainstream media
00:21:52.360
uh break through the noise and sort of the manipulation uh of big tech uh those are you know
00:21:59.440
and those are trillion dollar industries that are that are functioning as the marketing department
00:22:03.560
for today's democrat party and you know to be able to single-handedly sort of break some of those
00:22:10.560
walls down you know i mean if i felt like if if i was in charge of that if i was in charge of the
00:22:15.200
democrats i would be winning elections 99.9 to 0.01 you know like exactly and yet they're still close
00:22:21.060
uh you know i think our messaging is there and i think it's really important perhaps honestly the
00:22:26.480
stuff that they've done to my father our family perhaps it's the most important thing to happen
00:22:30.620
to america in recent history in that it's exposed just how bad it is you can't hide from it anymore
00:22:37.020
it's not like i get it like you come home from a long day at work you're trying to feed your family
00:22:41.000
you're listening to five minutes of you know brian stelter on tv he's like well there's got to be
00:22:45.340
something to it you know during the early campaign stuff if i watch tv to hear about myself i'm like
00:22:49.820
man i hate me too uh it's so bad people feel it every day uh they're not going for it anymore and i
00:22:57.320
think it's why they're you know watching you here or me on rumble or what you know whatever it may
00:23:00.900
be they're going to other places to hear an alternate viewpoint because you know the machine
00:23:05.700
just isn't delivering anymore and it's so unreal the but the machine knows that and the machine
00:23:10.600
exists to perpetuate itself that's the only point is to maintain power um these are incompetent people
00:23:17.020
with no other prospects in life other than running the machine so well not all of them are
00:23:20.480
incompetent you know when i see what they're good at machine running yeah when i see what tech is
00:23:24.720
you even see it now because i see you know just you know the algorithm it's like it'll show me just
00:23:30.360
enough of what i want to see but never promote anything else you know and my meta platforms i
00:23:34.340
haven't grown in three years and yet everyone that comes up to me hey you got the greatest instagram i've
00:23:37.820
ever seen so so the people who are already following me will see my stuff so it appears it's almost like
00:23:42.840
it's ai designed to to let you think you're not being censored or that you're able to see the stuff
00:23:50.080
that you want oh i'm aware they're preventing that growth you're you're well aware of that so yes you
00:23:54.360
know the evolution of that is making it harder you know in in 16 17 18 when i was starting to get
00:23:59.640
censored by you know let's call it twitter 1.0 you know they're like well how do you know you're
00:24:03.280
being said i was like well because yesterday i got 7 500 retweets on a post today i got three and it's
00:24:08.100
you know like i do my own social when i hit that button i know what it's going to do i know when it's
00:24:12.960
okay that's a decent post that's i don't know that's hot that's gonna go big and it's like when when
00:24:16.820
it goes big for about 30 seconds and then it's like just you you see exactly what they're doing but
00:24:22.020
they're they're coming up with better ways to make it appear as though they're not censoring
00:24:26.600
uh while while still you know continuing to perpetuate and push you know the ideals that
00:24:32.600
they they espouse and value no one interfered in the last election more than mark zuckerberg
00:24:37.660
or google and or sergey brenton that's exactly right so but let me ask you the the convictions
00:24:44.500
come down 34 yesterday and your father goes out there and just basically raises the middle finger
00:24:49.200
and says we're going to win anyway and within hours benning thompson of mississippi who's a
00:24:55.680
monster democratic congressman says um introduces legislation to to pull a secret service yeah so
00:25:01.460
basically they're saying okay we'll kill you now well they did that a while ago also if he goes to
00:25:06.280
prison we want to pull his secret service so basically if we put him in a cell we're going to
00:25:09.760
put him in a place where he could be murdered but that's a death threat of course it is but from a
00:25:13.620
member of congress again should it surprise us i mean you look at half the congressmen you know get
00:25:19.060
in their faces make them feel it i mean they can say these things and they are lauded as heroes if
00:25:23.660
we said something even remotely like that you know we're literally inciting violence i mean those words
00:25:28.080
are violence tucker we've we've seen this the the double standard uh that's out there i mean you
00:25:33.320
know but how hard is it for you congresswoman after congresswoman you have a hamas caucus you know
00:25:37.560
in congress calling for you know the death of people in the middle east it's you know well that's okay
00:25:42.760
you can't do that if we did something similar we'd be we'd be blocked we'd be off of every
00:25:48.320
platform we'd be canceled and uh you know again different games we're playing two very very
00:25:54.860
different games but that's so threatening we're gonna i mean tony fauci has seen he doesn't even
00:26:00.240
work for the government he's got secret service protection he walks in the dog park yeah in
00:26:03.880
washington dc i happen to know for a fact because it's my dog park uh former dog park and he's got
00:26:07.960
you know three guys following him but they want to pull it from your death yeah well look at what
00:26:11.980
they did with some of the justices the supreme court justices right i mean you think that they'd
00:26:15.920
be able to do what they've done to even i mean alito even this week you know we're gonna make him
00:26:20.900
recuse himself because his wife hung a flag upside down it's like well you know she can't express an
00:26:24.660
opinion uh what they've tried to do to clarence thomas what they did as it relates to gorsuch and
00:26:28.580
others you know uh it's insanity if they did that to ruth bader ginsburg if they were picketing in front
00:26:34.440
of their house like they did amy coley barrett that would be a serious problem those people would go to
00:26:38.900
jail of course but you know well we'll let the you know if that's the conservative justice we'll let
00:26:42.860
them suffer a little bit we'll we'll make sure it but but it's effective because then you see some
00:26:46.880
of them and they some of them are a little weaker than you know perhaps their principles and
00:26:50.480
you know they're man it's a little bit if maybe i got to go a little light on this one because
00:26:54.080
it's not worth the headache i mean when the democratic party's militia shows up outside your
00:26:57.840
house it's happened to me yeah you know people are intimidated by that of course and and we see it
00:27:02.820
you know across the board it's designed you know the hunter biden laptop that's russian
00:27:06.620
disinformation here's 52 intelligence officers signing off on it oh it must be four years later
00:27:10.600
oh no it's actually his laptop you know there's no accountability for that either but you know
00:27:15.080
they're like well no we're admitting it now it's like no but you got exactly what you wanted at the
00:27:18.300
time we understand there's no accountability for it you know that's election interference as much as
00:27:23.380
anything else also you know there was the stat like i think it was 17 percent of people said had
00:27:27.740
they known about the hunter biden laptop it would have changed their vote in 2020 i mean 17 percent
00:27:33.600
that's that's a lot of that's a lot of votes uh and yet you know that was the gospel and if you
00:27:39.480
said anything about it we've had the conversation about you know wuhan lab leak theory no no no of
00:27:43.760
course it didn't come from the lab that studies the virus in question that we fund it came from the
00:27:48.320
wet market three feet outside of the lab and if you believe otherwise we're gonna pull your funding
00:27:52.160
if you're a doctor you'll lose you know you'll lose tenure if you're at a university
00:27:55.660
you won't you know fauci's gonna not sign off on your your your grants anymore and even if you're
00:28:01.460
like but you don't have to be a science you're like don how would you know you're not a virologist
00:28:05.560
it's like you don't have to be a virologist to know that it happened there you just have to not
00:28:09.900
be an imbecile like you know you can you can have like mid you know double digit iq and be like of
00:28:15.920
course it came from the place that studies the exact virus in question that was at ground zero of where
00:28:21.640
it released and not from four feet outside of that like you like it's insane and yet think of the
00:28:27.940
truly intelligent people in positions of power and medicine and otherwise who went along with
00:28:33.620
this blindly because you know it was easier to do and you know there was a lot of money and
00:28:38.160
you know it's not kind of hard to do that now though i mean everything that's happened this
00:28:42.680
isn't all that long ago i mean right but at this but i do think at this point if you're still telling
00:28:46.740
yourself those lies you are lying to yourself you are a liar but it doesn't matter they correct it
00:28:50.760
years later but they they got what they needed out of the ruse right right they got what they needed
00:28:56.380
and again because there's no accountability after the fact it doesn't matter they'll do it again
00:29:00.140
and they'll make it the gospel for six months or you know they always said you know the difference
00:29:03.720
between the truth and the conspiracy theory is six months yeah you know now it's like six minutes but
00:29:07.460
they'll still get what they want out of that six minutes uh use it to manipulate whatever they need
00:29:11.640
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00:29:17.420
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so how does it play out from here over the next five months i mean they tried to put him in prison
00:31:09.420
they're still do you think he we got to overwhelm the margin of fraud so it's wait it's just to ask
00:31:13.820
it's july 11th is sentencing july 11th yeah by the way you think that's a coincidence that's four days
00:31:19.740
before the republican national convention you think that's a coincidental timing or do you think that's
00:31:24.140
designed to you know throw a wrench uh into that i mean you know yet another coincidence right but what
00:31:30.940
happens if they can they remand him and put him in jail then i imagine they will try right i mean why
00:31:36.860
wouldn't yeah of course like well you know does anyone think and again no that's too far that's
00:31:41.180
too far yeah yeah it's nothing's too far and again until it happens everyone we have to stop giving
00:31:47.420
them the benefit of the doubt thinking they're going to act above board this is an arm's length
00:31:51.900
transaction no it's not like what are you talking about there's not a single aspect of this case that
00:31:56.380
should stand in any corporate where do you appeal right now to the new york appellate division which is
00:32:00.860
just as radical you know you if and it's not just this case you look at all the shade all the craziness
00:32:07.180
around fanny willis right that case uh you look at jack smith and the fbi doctoring documents and
00:32:12.860
setting up staging photos and leaking it to the washington post the classified documents that
00:32:16.540
end up on the front page of the washington post that's fine uh each one of these things
00:32:22.300
wouldn't stand if we did this to meaning conservatives some sort of republican did this to obama
00:32:28.540
it would it would never end it would be a perpetual story and rightfully so and yet like hey as long
00:32:34.140
as it's against a conservative as long as it's against trump who's you know up against that machine
00:32:38.140
we're going to allow these things to happen not it's not like one of these things doesn't have any
00:32:42.460
uh serious hair on it right they're all shady as hell and yet it doesn't matter and our mainstream
00:32:47.660
media almost refuses to cover it uh they won't talk about these things uh you know my father in many
00:32:53.260
cases is gagged i mean think about that i mean you know first amendment is kind of the first
00:32:57.900
amendment right it's a big one for us uh the president former president of the united states
00:33:01.820
is not allowed to talk uh about the facts of the case because you know if people actually heard that
00:33:06.700
from him they'd realize just how much you know bs is in all of these things that's that should
00:33:13.020
trouble a lot of people you think it stops with trump like i mean think about that i mean
00:33:17.500
if they can do it to arguably one of the most you know out there most powerful people in the world
00:33:23.980
uh a bank account to be able to fight you know a base to push it you know venues to be a soapbox to
00:33:30.620
speak from if they can do it to him who can't they do it to but more importantly if they will
00:33:36.380
so flagrantly and so corruptly do it to him who won't they do it to i mean that's the question we
00:33:42.700
have to be asking i mean is anyone is anyone safe and it's you know it's like kova you know
00:33:47.820
people going blindly along no it's going to be different this time i'm like really you're like
00:33:51.580
that that's what you've got out of this but if they put the republican candidate who was leading
00:33:55.740
in the polls all things equal he becomes president again in november if they put him in jail right
00:34:01.020
before the presidential the republican convention on fake charges stemming from a rigged trial
00:34:09.020
they're kind of pushing violence aren't they listen how do they expect nothing like that
00:34:15.820
has ever happened in the reality you have to be careful even how you talk about that they are
00:34:19.900
pushing well they are they clearly are but you know again like nothing should surprise us right
00:34:25.900
the star witness of this case is someone who lied before every branch of congress was disbarred
00:34:30.300
uh you know lied to banks lied to wives lied to the press but we're expected to believe that he actually
00:34:34.860
told the truth in this one instance right that's that's who they hang their hand on because it
00:34:38.380
doesn't matter when it's when it's rigged the way it is it doesn't matter we're moving toward
00:34:43.820
something ugly and i don't want that no no one does um but you know they're not going to let it play
00:34:51.420
out i mean do you think they'll ever take their foot off the gas like no it's not they've gotten
00:34:55.980
away with it for years how should people respond do you think i think honestly the reality is everyone
00:35:02.620
has to get involved yeah uh and again just both sides i mean you have to have you know people
00:35:08.620
you know running for office and i'm not talking about president or congress like you know run for
00:35:11.900
your school boards i mean you know that's perhaps the thing that's most important to me like i
00:35:15.740
frankly there's a component of me that i don't want to win the presidency if we don't have congress
00:35:19.580
in the senate because i'll probably be up on charges again and uh we'll get to go through
00:35:23.500
impeachment you know three four five six seven eight nine and you know for the next four years
00:35:27.980
uh and you know i don't think that's a great place to be but i think you know apathy has caused
00:35:34.620
us a lot of problems especially on the conservative side hey we run businesses and we do these sorts of
00:35:38.300
things and you know we want to spend time with our families and all noble things and important but
00:35:42.940
we have to take the initiative to get involved at every level of these things because the left has
00:35:48.060
taken over every major institution in our country that controls i mean what what they're what
00:35:52.860
they've done in education manipulating our children what they've what they've done in entertainment
00:35:56.940
oftentimes the same thing uh it it can't stand if we actually want to have have a future uh you
00:36:04.220
know our kids they they graduate their high schools with higher districts you know no one can read or
00:36:07.980
do math but you know they know the four thousand three hundred and seventy six genders and i imagine
00:36:12.300
since this interview started there's probably another 15 that i haven't included that so i don't
00:36:15.980
want to be labeled as you know whatever you intend to a gender bigot by by not including them but
00:36:21.740
that's that's the last i've been able to keep track of um we just live in in perilous times
00:36:28.700
it does seem kind of heartening i think he raised more money in the hours after the verdict than
00:36:33.500
anyone's ever raised how much you raised uh it's over i think 38 million dollars that you know in
00:36:37.740
the first couple hours uh small dollar donors and then there was a bunch of big dollar donor stuff
00:36:42.140
that's what's interesting i mean there's there are tech vc guys respected guys uh that you know hillary
00:36:49.020
donors and even probably biden donors they're like okay i've seen enough um you know stroking
00:36:53.900
you know six and seven figure checks now because you know i i think people who are watching closely
00:36:58.380
enough truly understand uh just how far uh we we have fallen uh just how close we are perhaps to that
00:37:07.100
you know fulcrum point where there's a there's a point of no return right yes uh and i think if we
00:37:13.180
ever let it get there you know there's no question in my mind that the democrat elite they'd maintain
00:37:16.860
and seize that power and you know it'll happen like all uh sort of you know communist nations and
00:37:23.180
that's where we're at and i think people see that and people who may not even agree with trump on
00:37:27.020
everything and you don't have to agree with trump on anything like that you know i obviously agree
00:37:31.500
with him on everything tucker as as the dutiful stuff but you know it's reached a level of principle
00:37:37.260
though yeah but it's like again you know name name a metric where we're better off under joe biden
00:37:43.340
you know we're on the brink of you know world war three with the world's largest nuclear superpower
00:37:47.740
by volume of nuclear capable you know ballistic missiles like i don't know we're going to keep
00:37:52.540
funding that we we're okaying uh you know a guy that was a former like weirdo actor to send the
00:37:59.340
u.s made missiles into russia provoking that i guess and maybe that's what it is maybe that's
00:38:03.340
the next distraction right you know covid was the distraction for 2020 to allow them to manipulate
00:38:07.740
things maybe world war three is the distraction you know for this election some of us called this
00:38:12.940
a year ago yeah the senile man can't win they're gonna bring us to war yeah i mean honestly like i
00:38:18.940
don't say that lightly but i also don't say it like i don't know like would i be at all surprised
00:38:25.100
not even i think it's lunacy i think it's crazy but do i think they would do it a hundred percent
00:38:30.940
a hundred percent do you think since you last question but it's just and i may be skipping ahead but i i
00:38:36.140
don't think we're far from well we're at war with russia oh of course if we're targeting whistleblower
00:38:41.260
talking about the boots on the ground i mean that like i've never seen a whistleblower disappear
00:38:44.460
that fast in my life yeah you wonder why i wonder why huh it's almost like it's happening but they
00:38:49.500
would need you know the military's in very tough shape and recruitment is way down no one wants to
00:38:53.820
join the training military understandably now they're talking about well who would right well why
00:38:59.180
would you who's gonna the guys you'd want fighting a war for you you know good patriotic red-blooded
00:39:04.380
americans they don't want to go report to your trans admiral not because if the trans admiral was
00:39:09.820
patent maybe they'd do it yeah the trans admiral ain't patent no okay the trans admiral is only
00:39:14.220
an admiral because they're trans not because they're competent or capable and it doesn't matter
00:39:17.980
it's grotesque but a big part of you know signing up for that and possibly dying for your country is
00:39:22.220
actually believing in the things that you're fighting for that's the basics of patriots that's
00:39:25.660
exactly and if you don't believe in those things and you understand that you're going to be vilified
00:39:29.580
uh you know you're going to be forced to not learn how to shoot but do diversity training
00:39:33.100
why on earth would you do that i wouldn't and that's the problem they're facing and so
00:39:37.740
you know the one solution was take illegal aliens and put them in the military so we could have or
00:39:43.020
flood our borders and you know put them in the voting roster and that's another way to make a
00:39:47.580
pirate because you've lost other demographics that were reliable voters but they're also talking about
00:39:51.100
the draft you're hearing that all of a sudden well maybe we need a draft yeah so we can be a never-ending
00:39:56.060
wars you know again uh what no no one's articulated to me and i kind of do this now feels like for a
00:40:03.340
living like no one's articulated what does victory in ukraine look like i don't know what it means
00:40:08.940
like i don't know is it just like perpetual death of ukrainians and russians until they're all wiped
00:40:14.140
out and you know black rock comes in there and takes over all the farmland i mean is is that what it
00:40:18.140
is because it i mean feels like that's what it is to me they're going to they're already selling off
00:40:24.460
land in ukraine to foreign investors and they will flood ukraine with third world immigrants and
00:40:29.180
ukraine will not exist in 50 years there'll be no ukrainian nation and we betrayed them like no
00:40:34.700
other country ever but i just ask would people actually serve in a draft i'd have a hard time
00:40:41.260
honestly what is the the metric i use for this is not just the recruitment numbers but the amount of
00:40:45.820
guys that i know you know you know i shoot a lot and whatever the circles are tight like that are like
00:40:50.540
fourth generation army they're like they're like i would beat the crap out of my son if he decided
00:40:55.660
to like these are guys that you know their entire ethos is around that that military background they
00:41:00.940
are great friends and they're like i know they wouldn't even think about it they they disowned
00:41:05.260
their children if they joined this military today and that's sad it's the worst that's scary
00:41:10.700
well godspeed thank you for that thank you man thanks for listening to tucker carlson show if you
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