Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlowe is back on the show to discuss his new book, Breaking the Law, about how the Deep State is trying to destroy the values that made this country great.
00:06:21.000Hey guys, welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.
00:06:24.000Today, we'll have a fan favorite, Alex Marlow, will be back on the show.
00:06:30.000He wrote Breaking the News, Breaking Biden, and is now out with the book, Breaking the Law.
00:06:37.000Today, we'll expose the apparatus behind all of the coordinated hoaxes and the corruption.
00:06:43.000We'll name names, we'll follow the money trail, and move our country one step closer to getting some real justice for those who deserve it.
00:06:52.000Because what the left is doing isn't just random chaos, guys.
00:06:56.000It's a coordinated lawfare machine built to destroy the values that made this nation great.
00:07:03.000So, we'll get into all of that with Breitbart News editor-in-chief, Alex Marlowe, in just moments.
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00:09:29.000I mean, we've talked a lot about sort of the fake news media.
00:09:32.000We've talked a lot about the deep state.
00:09:34.000But in this new book, Breaking the Law, you really take it all even further in trying this coordinated campaign of lawfare altogether.
00:09:44.000How do you approach putting this book together?
00:09:46.000Yeah, well, first of all, for me, I realized that I couldn't even keep all of the major cases straight that you and your family were going through, especially your father, obviously.
00:09:57.000And he was asked to go through six major cases.
00:10:00.000There were actually ancillary cases too.
00:10:01.000There are six major cases all at the same time, all in an election year.
00:10:05.000And unless you're, you know, someone who is a, you know, a Mike Davis or a Megan Kelly or someone who's like a professional legal pundit, Jonathan Turley, you know, you can keep all six of them straight.
00:10:16.000And I'm thinking, so how are we supposed to fully understand the extent of the lawfare, what was done?
00:10:22.000And so I methodically went through, I went through the whole history of lawfare, starting with Franklin Roosevelt.
00:10:27.000Try to go through that as quickly as I can.
00:10:28.000And then really focus on all of those six cases.
00:10:31.000And Don, I found two things in every one of the six major cases against you guys that I saw, two things that are really interesting.
00:10:39.000They were all way more, I would say, punitive, way more directed, way more political than I even anticipated.
00:10:47.000And all of them had ties to Joe Biden's White House to one degree or another.
00:11:00.000Luckily, we've seen some investigations announced, but the thought that this could go on, this country is beneath our country and there needs to be accountability.
00:11:06.000Yeah, no, I'm not a lawyer, but I feel like I've played one on TV because when you're attacked that much, you sort of learn all aspects of law that you had probably no interest in learning before.
00:11:29.000So for me, I am a student of Andrew Breitbart.
00:11:32.000I was his first employee 17 years ago.
00:11:35.000And Andrew focused during his time on Earth on the three core cultural institutions that he believe were guiding our politics.
00:11:43.000He's famous for the Quo Politics's downstream of culture.
00:11:46.000And so what he was talking about was the entertainment media, Hollywood, et cetera, the news media, the establishment news media, and academia.
00:11:55.000So we basically neutralized the entertainment media.
00:11:58.000Now basically all of the, you know, the Rosie O'Donnells of the world are there to entertain people like you and me in our shows.
00:12:04.000You know, the movies are getting less woke and no one's going to the movies anyway.
00:13:02.000You see, it doesn't seem like a coincidence to me, but the second USAID was killed, all of a sudden, all these sort of left-wing provocateurs on TV that are, you know, basically activists paid to be comedians, not so funny, as evidenced by their ratings and how much they lost.
00:13:19.000All of a sudden, they're all getting canceled.
00:13:21.000It's almost like the slush fund disappeared.
00:13:23.000So we're no longer going to subsidize their propaganda.
00:13:26.000But they are really good at evolving and adapting and changing.
00:13:32.000I've always said, hey, I'd love to have a level playing field, but as long as that's not going to be the case, we better be playing the same game as them.
00:13:38.000Meaning, I don't care if we're playing T-ball or hardball, but if they're playing hardball, we better damn well be playing the same game.
00:13:44.000How do we catch up on the lawfare side?
00:13:47.000I don't want to take eight, 10 years, 15 years, whatever it took us to sort of beat down those other four, your other three major branches of propaganda till we figure out this one.
00:13:59.000And by then they'll be on the next thing.
00:14:01.000So how do we get ahead of that game to slow down that curve a lot faster?
00:14:05.000And what do you think is next for them?
00:14:07.000Yeah, I think for starters, just being diligent and paying closer attention.
00:14:10.000And I know that's something that we try to do at Breitbart News.
00:14:14.000Your father's obviously great at it, but you're trying to understand where the threats are coming from.
00:14:18.000But then once we identify really actually dealing with them, and that's why I'm so heartened, it's an amazing week because we saw announcements of special prosecutor into Jack Smith and then a DOJ investigation into Letitia James, who were two of the villains of breaking the law.
00:14:32.000But I mean, they're two of 24 villains.
00:14:35.000I mean, there should be another half a dozen investigations.
00:14:37.000And I make recommendations at Breitbart.com this week on where they should go next.
00:14:42.000Judge Wad Rashan's got to come up pretty soon.
00:14:46.000There's a bunch of names that you'll hear that need to be investigated, ought to be investigated.
00:14:50.000But one thing that is really important, we're also talking about a Russiagate these days.
00:14:55.000The convicted felon branding that your father has to endure from the Stormy Daniels, Not a Hush Money case, the fake records case, all of that has to do with Michael Cohen and the fact that the DOJ and then the Southern District of New York got access to his Gmail account because of the Russia collusion hoax.
00:15:16.000They would not have been able to win that case if not for access to Michael Cohen's information that they got from the fake Russia collusion hoax.
00:15:22.000If we had somehow been able to stop the Russian collusion hoax in the crib and had not spun out of control the way it had, the convicted felon branding never would have happened.
00:15:30.000And it wouldn't have had to distract your dad, who can still appeal and probably will and will probably win eventually.
00:16:39.000Letitia James said he's the biggest threat to demographics.
00:16:41.000She's going to go after him while she was campaigning before she actually had any access to information.
00:16:46.000She just threw it out there because, hey, that's going to be popular in a sort of a uni party state like New York, especially in New York City.
00:16:56.000The other thing I want investigated is that Tish James went to the White House at least three times during this.
00:17:02.000The Reid Hoffman who bankrolled the Eugene Carroll, or as your dad calls her, the woman, the woman case, which is completely absurd.
00:17:09.000And if people read my telling on that case, if you're not laughing, then we don't share the same sense of humor.
00:17:14.000It's so ridiculous when you're done getting through all of her claims that you can't help but laugh at it.
00:17:48.000And that's why all these people need to be held to account or else we're running the risk is going to happen again.
00:17:54.000I mean, Alex, you've written about the media and breaking down the Biden family corruption.
00:17:59.000Now you're focusing on the legal system.
00:18:00.000In your mind, how troubling is it that these institutions, the media, the political establishment and the courts all have been caught acting as arms of the far left-wing Democrat Party.
00:18:13.000And what's been the trajectory of that since January 20th?
00:18:17.000Are we making any gains against this madness or is it just sort of a push-stall tactic right now till they have someone that perhaps has less of a soapbox or is less willing to fight the way that they fight, et cetera?
00:18:29.000It's, oh man, it's such a great question.
00:18:31.000We have to be in a wartime footing because we can't let our guard down and we have to assume that they're sharpening their blade.
00:18:37.000They're going to have another great charismatic, persuasive candidate who's going to captivate people's attention with great ideas down the pike, that they'll never run out of money, that they'll never run out of energy.
00:18:46.000We have to assume that because if we rest on our laurels and if we feel like, well, we've got a great bench, we're all organized, we're all fun now.
00:18:54.000They even gave us Sidney Sweeney for free.
00:19:04.000But doesn't it say something that they, I mean, that they can't comprehend that, like, I don't know, like people may be attracted to attracted people.
00:19:12.000Like the fact that they can't even get that, but they had no problem force feeding us like some sort of, you know, trans whale, you know, in what's supposed to be, you know, sexy stuff or athletic wear.
00:19:24.000And it, you know, someone who's 400 pounds overweights, you know, clearly healthy in their mind.
00:19:29.000I mean, does not, I mean, I feel like this is a battle we should be able to win.
00:19:34.000I mean, if politics is downstream of culture, and I agree with Andrew Byrd 100% on that, if they still can't comprehend that, how is it that we can't win this?
00:19:43.000I mean, is it just that we're just not fighting the same way?
00:19:46.000We're still not accustomed to, you know, everything we've seen for the last 10 years hasn't changed our mindset.
00:19:51.000Because I mean, I guess I'm a fighter, but I come from a sort of a line of fighters.
00:19:54.000I didn't probably realize I was a fighter until they tried to throw me in jail for bullshit.
00:20:01.000And your family comes up in so many of these cases where not just your dad, it's his most ardent supporters and it's his family members.
00:20:07.000I mean, they're trying to get all you guys.
00:20:08.000And I would love to, that's why I was saying to you, Avir, I want to interview you on it.
00:20:11.000I want to hear what your experience was because it seems so much worse to me having gone through it as a person who was obviously a observer of this and someone who understands it as Edward Breitbart, but did not have all the detail.
00:22:02.000No, they just want to take away your freedoms.
00:22:05.000That is their passion, their vocation, their hobby, all wrapped up into one.
00:22:12.000But you're right that we have to have some fun in this process.
00:22:15.000Last week, I posted up a meme on Instagram.
00:22:18.000It was my father throwing a green dildo onto a WNBA court from the roof of the White House.
00:22:23.000I mean, it was just a play on what was going on with the WNBA, which I think probably the greatest thing to happen to WNB ratings since Caitlin Clark, Dildo Gate, I guess.
00:22:37.000Like, they can't, you know, how disgraceful.
00:22:40.000They literally can't even step back and have fun for a moment, even on something so absurd.
00:22:45.000You know, it makes it feel like if we play that game, you know, especially for the youth vote and people who are like, okay, you know what?
00:22:54.000Not everything has to go some sort of level of decorum.
00:22:56.000They certainly don't play that way, but they're incapable of humor at this point.
00:23:02.000I have, I'll tell you how overwhelmed they are, Don.
00:23:06.000That on my podcast, I said that I bought my seven-year-old WNBA tickets and I bought an unnamed green sex toy to bring to specifically to throw it onto the court.
00:23:19.000I'm trying to get the Soros-funded freaks to write something about how insane the Breitbart editor is.
00:23:24.000And they don't have time because they're too overwhelmed.
00:23:27.000Well, I want to thank CNN for the free promotion of my Instagram account and a general sense of humor, but I'm like, man, it's like, I can't believe they actually spoke about it.
00:23:37.000Yeah, you've got a little higher profile than I do, but mine's pretty high and they missed it.
00:23:41.000And I was hoping they'd give me a hard time.
00:23:43.000Look at how this horrible, you know, Breitbart dad, what he's doing, which I did not do that.
00:23:48.000I just, I just rented him the moon bounce with the water slide on it.
00:23:51.000Well, listen, Alex, now that they're not allowing bags into the WNBA game, if you want to play the green sex toy game, there's going to be, there's a level of commitment that I'm not quite sure I'm willing to make to get to make that happen, as funny as it may be.
00:24:07.000So, you know, I guess they're stepping up their countermeasures.
00:24:12.000But to tie this to Andrew, Andrew dreamed of a conservative movement in a Republican Party that's fun.
00:24:19.000He dreamed of a Republican Party where the left was the joyless scolds and we were the ones who were having a great time with the best memes and the hottest chicks.
00:24:28.000And the left seems to be trying to deliver that for us right away.
00:24:35.000I like to check in with Pod Save America from time to time, which used to be kind of a cool left-wing podcast for like 20 minutes, but then they got so full of themselves and they took themselves so seriously and they got so angry and so smug.
00:24:46.000And they just look so sad now every time they're forced to podcast.
00:25:12.000I mean, you could see that even from 1516, you know, they take something he said, you know, and when you put it in print and you change the punctuation a little bit, it's like, wow, that's, but then you see the video.
00:25:20.000It's like, oh, like he's so clearly joking.
00:25:23.000Everyone gets it, but for them, you know, wantonly sort of disregarding the obvious humor in it.
00:25:37.000Do you think the Republican Party can continue that after Trump?
00:25:41.000Or do you go back to sort of the humorless kind of Mitt Romneys of the world, the Liz Cheneys of the world, where we get back into that Rigmarole where we're playing that same glum game as them?
00:25:52.000I think we have a bench that can probably do it, but Trump's a unique guy.
00:25:56.000Do you think they can handle that and keep it going?
00:26:00.000And I think that there's some that's definitely characteristics we need to keep an eye on as a movement because part of what I think the you know, I was very vocal about praising the podcast strategy at the end of the 2024 election.
00:26:14.000When I saw that happening, talk about one of those things where it's good to get out ahead of stuff.
00:26:18.000That was a positive one where I was trying to be very vocal and to tell people, no, this is a big deal.
00:26:23.000That Trump is going around these comedians' podcasts, JD was as well, and showing up on these podcasts and trying to reach people who are sort of maybe interested in politics, but aren't going to sit down and listen to a political show or go to Breitbart's front page or something like that.
00:26:37.000Maybe that's not who they are, but we can still reach those people.
00:26:48.000If we do that, we have a big advantage because most of them aren't fun.
00:26:51.000They have a couple of fun people, but overall, they're mostly very upset, very angry, very old.
00:26:56.000And that's an advantage we've got to preserve.
00:26:59.000It feels like their Fun people aren't allowed to be fun because, you know, if you are that person, you're not going to get the funding required from New York City, Los Angeles, sort of the big money apparatus because you have to believe that a three-year-old should be able to change their gender without parental consent.
00:27:15.000And you must believe that men should be playing in women's sports.
00:27:17.000And if you don't, or if you have even a reasonable approach on any of these things, you're sort of out of that money apparatus, which makes all of that political stuff work for them.
00:27:32.000You know, they spend $20 million on the consultants to try to help them win back the young male vote.
00:27:39.000And then what's the first thing they do afterwards is they just, they take a hot chicken jeans and just declare she's a Nazi and anyone who supports her is a Nazi.
00:27:47.000And then they went out and they actually.
00:28:10.000I was causing problems and learning a lot about the left, learning about that they have this really joyless mean side.
00:28:16.000And it's one of those things where we can capitalize on this and we should.
00:28:21.000And the other thing that they did was no one just took a mea culpa on that and say, we shouldn't have done that and criticize their own side.
00:28:28.000You see the Pot Save America fools saying that, no, you guys on the right blew it out of proportion.
00:29:22.000And then during that time, we need to be very vigilant about recruiting.
00:29:27.000So that's why I say warfooting, making sure we're reaching out to all the coalitions.
00:29:30.000And you do that with promises made, promises kept.
00:29:33.000And that's why the Epstein stuff was such a disaster, even though I don't think most people care about Epstein nearly as much as the online right.
00:29:39.000But the problem with it was they promise something and the rollout gets botched and then people get disappointed and they get worried.
00:29:52.000If we can avoid those mistakes while running up the score, I think we're going to continue to pull people in to the point where people remember they voted for Trump, even if they didn't.
00:30:00.000Yeah, no, I think that makes a lot of sense.
00:30:01.000I mean, maybe to just circle back to the book, you know, it gets into the superstructure of donors and activists behind all of the madness as well.
00:30:12.000And, you know, you talked about Reid Hoffman, obviously, but what are some of the other key players and organizations that are funding the lawfare and making that happen?
00:30:19.000Yeah, I'm glad you asked about this because I think this is one that I think a lot of the audience cares about.
00:30:24.000The number one, and it's the name that everyone knows, but it's still, I don't think people fully understand it.
00:30:30.000And it's part of what going through the exercise of going through a book.
00:31:12.000We act like this is some sort of fringe right-wing thing is not at all.
00:31:15.000This is an existential threat to the United States of America from this guy.
00:31:19.000And I put a lot of the detail on the type of money that's spent.
00:31:22.000There's some new names that people understand.
00:31:25.000This guy named Herb Sandler, who runs a thing called the Sandler Foundation.
00:31:29.000If you read A story that's a hit piece on Clarence Thomas or a story that's a hit piece on Samuel Alito, somebody that's trying to make it so that if you're a conservative originalist judge or justice, that your life is a living hell.
00:31:40.000Probably written by someone who's got money from the Sandler Foundation.
00:31:43.000Herb Sandler was a billionaire banker, not someone who spent his time doing anything super important.
00:31:49.000But what he did do with all the money he made is he used philanthropy.
00:32:18.000We got to use some serious air quotes of that one.
00:32:20.000Well, it's activism where they weaponize both, you know, sort of real news is not really important or fake news, and they amplify it in order to try to create media narratives funded by both of them, Herb Sandler and Soros' Open Society.
00:32:36.000You know, Reid Hoffman, who I mentioned earlier, who funded the Eugene Carroll case, him and Sandler and the Sandler Foundation, him and Soros, him and Lorene Powell Jobs, who I talked to you about in past shows, who bankrolls The Atlantic and other outlets.
00:32:49.000So it's really a handful of these billionaires funding dark money operations like Arabella Advisors.
00:32:55.000And these are the things that are always funding the left-wing grassroots.
00:32:58.000So there's always money in their coffers so that they can essentially use things like media to target people for harassment.
00:33:04.000And it was a name I hadn't heard before, but this guy, Herb Sandler, the Sandler Foundation, funding the Center for American Progress, ACLU, Human Rights Watch, Sierra Club, one left-wing group after the next.
00:33:15.000But that's just the ones where you can see it on paper.
00:33:19.000They just use shell companies and dark money and a huge apparatus that they've created in order to funnel money into lawfare.
00:33:26.000The last one I'll bring up for now, and then I'm sure you'll want to talk about some of this.
00:33:30.000But David Brock, guy from Media Matters, he's a guy who's a donor magnet.
00:33:35.000If he wanted to fund a Democrat adopting Stray Cats initiative, all of a sudden the donors would be there for him.
00:33:43.000If he funds Media Matters, he starts Media Matters.
00:33:46.000He launched this thing called Project 65.
00:33:48.000Don, the whole point of Project 65 is to get people who represent your father and his allies, get them debarred, literally kick them off the bar.
00:33:56.000So not only can they not get a major white shoe, glossy law firm, they can't work at all.
00:34:02.000And that's the stated purpose of the organization, well-funded by the same billionaires who are behind Media Matters.
00:34:42.000But your book makes sort of bold predictions about where all the lawfare is heading.
00:34:47.000What should an everyday person listening to this podcast be looking out for to protect themselves and their families?
00:34:52.000Because again, I think if there's one thing we've proven is that if they can do it to Trump, they can do it to anyone.
00:34:58.000But more importantly, if they will do it to Trump, meaning someone who has a large soapbox, has the money to fund the legal teams and the tens, hundreds of millions of dollars we've spent defending even nonsense.
00:35:16.000So I go through early on when I'm trying to set the stage for the major Trump cases in breaking the law.
00:35:23.000I go through some of those J6 cases and they're appalling.
00:35:26.000Some of them were people who were not even there, who maybe wandered around the Capitol peacefully, and they were hauling these guys in, waiting for them to come off of Southwest flight to the airport on the tarmac in front of their kids to haul them in.
00:35:39.000They're that nasty and they're that vicious.
00:35:42.000And we need to be prepared because if we ever let them in power again, that they're not just coming after Trump.
00:35:46.000His quote, which I refer to three, four times in the book, that they're not just coming after me.
00:36:00.000And all of you are absolutely would be in the crosshairs.
00:36:03.000So, elected leaders, if you're watching this, you guys need to put pressure for investigations, hold people accountable, make people think twice before engaging in lawfare.
00:36:10.000But for those of you who are not, you got to stay engaged civically.
00:36:57.000Like, what do you mean there's an election going on?
00:36:59.000It's like, no, you just lost control of your Supreme Court, which is going to decide redistricting.
00:37:03.000So a state that we won, you know, six weeks later, you can literally lose that state potentially, not because people wouldn't have voted that way, but they're apathetic.
00:37:19.000The last piece of the book, it's the sort of conclusion portion is a warning that if we let our guard down right now, if we let starting with the Russians, with Comys and the Brennans of the world, and then into the law fair with the Letitia James and the Jack Smiths and the Weimar Shawns, if they all get away with what they did, then they're just going to repeat it again.
00:37:38.000And the only way to stop them long term is to win every single election.
00:37:54.000You got to power through it and to understand that these people, the Soros-funded DAs who are controlling our crime in our streets, they're going to be in charge of the whole country if we're not careful.
00:38:05.000Yeah, it's a scary prospect, but definitely within the realm of possibility.
00:38:10.000I mean, if they had their way, they would certainly make that happen.
00:38:12.000I bet we're the front line of defense against that.
00:38:16.000Yeah, they're very beatable, but it is, I think if you let your guard down and just have a good time right now because we're winning and we're racking up wins at a record level, then you're making a grave mistake.
00:38:29.000I think we can have a great time while still trying to run up the score and to bust the bad guys.
00:38:34.000So, Alex, your work at Breitbart has always really been about exposing the truth, even if it's not popular or mainstream.
00:38:40.000What's the number one lie, you know, false flags, false narrative about the legal system that you hope breaking the law completely shatters for the American people?
00:38:49.000Yeah, unfortunately, a lot of people think that a lot of people pursue law with the concept of law and order as the goal, that they actually like the concept of law and order.
00:39:04.000They're really here in the legal profession to use the law to advance a political narrative.
00:39:09.000And that's way more common than I'd anticipated.
00:39:12.000That huge sections of the areas that I researched just showed a deep politicization from the law schools to the bar associations to the funding mechanisms to the way these big white shoe law firms operate.
00:39:23.000A lot of them are really looking to get political goals and to not really adhere to some sort of concept of law and order.
00:39:29.000They see law and order as very easily malleable and it can go with the left-wing political zeitgeist.
00:39:36.000And this goes back all the way to Franklin Roosevelt.
00:39:38.000I chart this, that the law is basically up to interpretation for whatever the liberal vibe is at the moment.
00:40:26.000It's sort of hard that you could be the editor-in-chief at Breitbart with the decades of indoctrination, but we do see some of the worst forms of law affair coming from your home state of California.
00:40:37.000What is it about California and the political machine there that seems to be at the center of every hoax, witch hunt, form of idiocy that we see out there today?
00:40:48.000Yeah, it's become a self-fulfilling prophecy out here because the state, because it is so beautiful and because there is so much money and there's so much opportunity.
00:40:58.000There's just great vacation destinations.
00:40:59.000There's so many jobs with Hollywood and Silicon Valley and with the university systems that it just people just show up here.
00:41:15.000And then you find yourself back out here, even though you know the politics are totally toxic.
00:41:19.000And so what that's done, and I'm part of the problem in some ways, is it's enabled the far left to dominate.
00:41:25.000So it's a single party state with single party run cities.
00:41:29.000If you look at it, the political gulf, the voter registration gap, I think is under 20%, Democrat to Republican.
00:41:36.000But in terms of the elected officials, it's a gap of like 60 plus percent because just the way things are broken up, Democrats win almost every election, even though there's so many Republicans who are here.
00:41:47.000And we Republicans who are here, we comfort ourselves enough that we end up staying and not leaving and paying into all the madness.
00:41:53.000But then we just get overwhelmed at the polls.
00:42:02.000So what are the practical steps, whether legislatively, culturally, or otherwise, that you recommend for people who want to fight back against that level of corruption, whether it's there or elsewhere in some of these very blue states to help restore integrity to our legal system?
00:42:17.000Yeah, it's hard to think of it that way, particularly in a state like this.
00:42:22.000It's nice to try to make sure you're living in, if you have family, you try to live in places where you feel like they'll be protected, where they'll see equal justice under the law.
00:42:31.000So, and that's the risk in a lot of these far left areas.
00:42:34.000And if you rebreaking the law, you go through it, you see areas in New York and Maryland and D.C. where if you get in trouble in those areas, you're dead to rights if you're a conservative.
00:43:17.000And like, you know, he's going to take 1% of the vote, but he could split an Alvin Bragg vote to give it, yeah, he's never going to win anything.
00:43:31.000I mean, I feel like Cuomo, when he's like, well, we got to figure this out.
00:43:34.000It's like, no, no, no, you ran already.
00:43:36.000And listen, full disclosure, my first political fundraiser ever was for Andrew Cuomo because I was a real estate guy.
00:43:42.000We built buildings and he was running for attorney general of New York.
00:43:44.000And if you're going to build a building, you need the attorney general to sign off on any offering plan that you do.
00:43:48.000So like, you know, I know some of these players well.
00:43:51.000You know, during 16 and that term, I mean, during the beginning of COVID, really, you know, if they need, he back channeled through me because we have a bunch of friends in common and we were pretty close, even if I didn't agree with a lot of his politics.
00:44:06.000But the difference between him and other candidates was then when he got on TV, he could not help but take the bait.
00:44:13.000Meaning Trump could have done everything that he asked for, but he knew that if he said the opposite or if he said something against Trump on TV five minutes later, they'd give him all the clicks and likes.
00:44:21.000And, you know, he was running, I guess, as a Cuomosexual or whatever it was at the time.
00:44:25.000You know, it was sort of an amazing thing.
00:44:30.000So, you know, I sort of feel like you ran in a Democratic Party, primary, you lost.
00:44:34.000Like, let one, you know, let, you know, I guess, you know, one, one of the other guys win.
00:44:41.000I mean, I guess the existing mayor has probably got the best chance of the remaining, but you can't have Curtis Silo in there.
00:44:48.000You can't have, you know, Cuomo in there splitting that remaining vote because everyone's running as an independent for the sake of running.
00:44:54.000That's a way to guarantee communism in New York.
00:44:57.000And as a former New Yorker, as someone who still has a lot of assets there, you know, that's really scary.
00:45:02.000But I'm also of the mindset that maybe it just has to just burn down.
00:45:06.000Maybe they just have to destroy themselves for us to see.
00:45:09.000Because I, you know, as bad as that is for us personally and for the place I grew up in and loved and whatever it may be, maybe it's what the country needs to see, you know, when it goes to hell in a handbasket to understand that your communism is not the answer.
00:46:49.000That is just the, that was a low moment for America that he's lying about the virus and he's getting all these seniors trapped with other seniors so they're going to die.
00:47:00.000Well, and he also got, you know, like a five to seven million dollar, you know, book payment for a book that didn't sell any books.
00:47:05.000And it was just like, you can see that the entire apparatus, everything else that we're talking about was at play.
00:47:31.000I'm not, you know, I'm not entirely sure.
00:47:33.000But yeah, for a guy that was put out there that much by the Democrat Party and then to get me too essentially, says, says all you probably have to know.
00:47:41.000So it's sad, though, that we can't learn some of these lessons, but I'll tell you what we can do is we can hold up some of these places as an example.
00:47:50.000And it's helpful because we're talking a lot this week about Trump trying to federalize law enforcement for DC.
00:47:56.000And then I saw a blaring headline that, oh, he could come for LA next as an LA resident.
00:48:14.000I mean, do you think that any of these Democrats that actually live in DC and are afraid of getting mugged or carjacked on a daily basis, do any of them really think it's a bad idea to actually do something about the crime in D.C.?
00:48:25.000I know they point to like statistics and it's like all statistics.
00:48:28.000Like it's not a statistic if you stop reporting the crimes because you know nothing's going to happen or if you're told not to report the crimes or if you change the way you know, no, no, no, well, to, you know, worry about, you know, attempted murder, like the guy has to really actually almost be dead as opposed to getting shot at multiple times and yada, yada, yada.
00:48:46.000I mean, it seems like the crime stats themselves, if you really look at it, haven't changed, just the way they report them has changed, which allows them to come up with this notion that it's a super safe city, even though no one actually believes that.
00:48:57.000Yeah, I think that you identify one of the tricks and I lay out how they do this in breaking the law.
00:49:03.000And so again, thank you so much for the ability to plug it.
00:49:07.000But the, I walked through how that's part of the reason why you have so much chaos is that for them to enforce the law would necessitate an uptick in crime stats.
00:49:15.000And when you're in a single party state, you don't want that to happen because it just broadcasts to the rest of the city that you're incompetent.
00:49:22.000So you might feel like that's a necessary evil if you've a political party who's who's confronting you on it, but there's no relevant opposition party in a lot of these cities where this is happening.
00:50:06.000And so there's no way that he can just come in and come up with some great idea that we could have tried 10, 20, 30 years ago and didn't and be correct about it.
00:50:16.000They will not allow that to happen rationally.
00:50:19.000And you can watch them work it out on CNN and MSNBC every night.
00:50:22.000Yeah, I mean, it sort of feels like their argument about gerrymandering down in Texas where they're all up in arms, but I'm like, they didn't seem to have a problem with Massachusetts or the numerous other states where there's almost no representation because they gerrymandered the hell out of these areas where you take a major thing and you take all of the farmland and we're just going to add it in here, even though it has nothing to do and it's not contiguous.
00:50:44.000You see some of these maps of these congressional districts and you say, how is it even possible?
00:50:50.000And yet, if Texas does something that could even appear to be that, even if it's clearly to me, far less flagrant than anything they've done for the last few decades, now it's an outrage cycle and they just refuse to talk about what they themselves have done for that long.
00:51:06.000And I think that this is a real something that I would like to be a part of the solution here, but it's so hard in the online world.
00:51:14.000I noticed this after the Iran bombing, where a lot of my favorite people said this is going to be the beginning of World War III.
00:51:22.000And I feel like I'm a student of Donald Trump's foreign policy, which I think got an A first administration, despite all the headwinds on foreign policy.