Fishing and Fednapping and Fabrication, Oh My!
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In the immediate aftermath of the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, we discussed the potential corruption and abuse that could have taken place at the DOJ, the FBI and the White House. Now, with the hindsight of one week, we can say with certainty that the corruption was much, much worse.
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Last week in the immediate aftermath of the FBI's raid on Mar-a-Lago,
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we discussed on this show the potential corruption,
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the potential abuses that could have taken place at the DOJ and the FBI
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and the White House and all over the political culture that called this raid.
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we can say with certainty that the corruption and abuse was much, much worse.
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Senator, last week, we were shooting from the hip.
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The information was constantly changing about the Mar-a-Lago raid.
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We were told initially it was over classified documents.
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Then we were told it might be over nuclear secrets.
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Then that kind of seemed to fall apart given the timing of the warrants and the raid
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and the fact that we're already 18, 19 months into the Biden administration.
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What is really distressing, looking now at the warrant and what they were searching for,
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I actually think it had little to nothing to do with classified documents.
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What this was about was the FBI and DOJ wanting to send in a team to say,
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let's grab every piece of paper we can find, and maybe we'll get something incriminating.
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And look, that's not a new thing for law enforcement to do.
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Sometimes, you know, if you're going after Al Capone, you try to go after him on income tax evasion.
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It's not new for law enforcement to try to find a hook.
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And so the classified documents, the presidential records, they had a hook to say,
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well, he may have brought a piece of paper or maybe multiple pieces of paper that we've asked for back.
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And so we've got a claim to send in the troops.
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I got to say, though, look, we have a long tradition in this country of a peaceful transfer of power.
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By the way, we said that in the last pod, and it was very funny.
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In banana republics, tinpot dictators send their troops in to the home of the prior guy,
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When you send your troops in to raid the home of your predecessor, looking for evidence,
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What I can tell you is in 200 plus years of our nation's history,
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no president has ever done that to his predecessor.
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Look, each of our presidents, when the party shifted,
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they didn't necessarily love their predecessors.
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But it's not like Jefferson said, all right, let's bust down the door of Adams' house and
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Listen, it is certainly true that the laws apply to everyone, including former presidents.
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And if they violate criminal laws, they should be held accountable.
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That being said, when there's a specter of using the law enforcement machinery to target your enemies,
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It should be something that is exercised only when there is no alternative.
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Crossfire Hurricane, they sent in the wiretaps.
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They sent in the investigations on the flimsiest predicate.
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And then they created fraudulent documents to back up that predicate.
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And all of it, of course, was funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign,
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which multiple members of DOJ and FBI knew and didn't care about.
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I think they're frustrated because their January 6th investigation is not getting anywhere.
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And so they said, well, look, we got an excuse to go raid Trump.
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If they're going to say that Trump is Hitler, as they've been saying for years now,
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then they have to do absolutely anything they can to stop Hitler.
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And if that involves breaking some laws or if that involves abusing government power, well, who cares?
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That's a small price to pay, I think, as they see it.
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The FBI catches targets, terrorists, radical Islamic terrorists trying to murder people.
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It catches people who engage in child kidnapping.
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Like the FBI is a hugely important law enforcement agency.
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And I got to tell you, within the FBI, there are thousands and thousands of good and honorable law enforcement officers,
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people who signed up to be cops, people who signed up to catch bad guys because they wanted to protect America and keep us safe.
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And what is so infuriating is those FBI agents, their entire career and life is being cheapened,
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is being undermined by these political hacks who are leading the Department of Justice and who are at the senior levels of the FBI.
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I cannot think of anybody in modern times who's done more to damage the credibility of the FBI and the Department of Justice than Merrick Garland
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because when he turns them into a nakedly political group of stormtroopers, it's not the agent's fault.
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It's the politicized leadership's fault, and he is hurting the FBI and hurting the Department of Justice.
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Instead of lecturing people, how dare you say abolish the FBI?
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Look, they're saying it because you're a partisan hack.
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Why are they saying it, of course, is the question.
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And as you mentioned, they went in there with the charge to take pretty much everything they could.
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They went in, they took Donald Trump's passports, for goodness sakes, two expired passports and his current diplomatic passport.
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And then, of course, immediately CBS News denies this, says that Trump is lying about his passports.
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And then five minutes later, the DOJ was caught with egg on its face.
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They had to admit they did, in fact, take Trump's passports.
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So now, of course, the line is the DOJ, the FBI never took Trump's passports, and don't worry, they gave them back.
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All of this really, really reducing the credibility of the FBI and the DOJ.
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And as you suggest, this isn't about classified documents.
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This is about January 6th and the failure of the January 6th committee.
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The Republican face, the nominally Republican face of the January 6th committee, Liz Cheney, is almost certainly going to go down in flames tonight.
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All of the polls say she's going to be ousted from office.
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There was also, Senator, I don't know if you saw a really interesting article in Revolver News about the pipe bombs on January 6th.
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We've heard so much about the grannies that went into the Capitol.
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We haven't heard a whole lot about those pipe bombs.
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And we don't really know who planted the pipe bombs.
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And it seems like that would be pretty important when we're talking about that day.
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This would be the nearest that you got to serious political violence on January 6th.
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So there's a Revolver News report out that suggests that there are really more questions than answers when it comes to these pipe bombs.
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Why they were allegedly planted when they were.
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Why the FBI isn't releasing footage of the people planting it to try to figure out who actually did it.
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A whole lot of really strange aspects to this story.
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And then the strangest one of all you called out when you were grilling the FBI director, Christopher Wray,
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which is that the former head of the Detroit office for the FBI, this guy, Stephen Dunn, I've got Dan Tuono is his name.
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He was in charge of the operation to entrap people into trying to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer, the Democrat governor of Michigan.
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Shortly after that all fell apart, Stephen D'Antuono got a promotion.
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He was brought over, this would be in the months before January 6th, to head up the Washington field office for the FBI.
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This is one of the most prestigious posts you can have in the Bureau.
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And so therefore, he's the guy that's overseeing the investigation into January 6th.
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All of this has me scratching my head, Senator.
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I know it had you scratching ears, which is why you grilled Christopher Wray.
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And you got a lot of a lot of substance in that question.
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And let me say at the outset, it is interesting.
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Literally every single topic we are discussing in this podcast, every single topic that is leading the news right now is in my new book,
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Justice Corrupted, which you can pre-order right now on Amazon.
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In Justice Corrupted, I go into depth about Crossfire Hurricane and the partisan animus that led to that bogus investigation.
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I go into depth into January 6th and the pipe bomber and the investigation and the politicization of the investigation.
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I go into depth on the Gretchen Whitmer absolute debacle and explain how all of this is interconnected.
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Look, the FBI and the Department of Justice should be focused on criminals.
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It should be focused on people who commit crimes of violence.
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We saw all during Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots where the federal government essentially turned a blind eye because many of the hyper-partisan senior leaders at the Department of Justice and the FBI,
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even under Donald Trump, the burrowed-in career leaders who remained hard leftists, agreed with the politics of the rioters and the violent criminals and so gave them slaps on the wrist over and over again as they engaged in violent acts of terror,
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firebombing police cars, looting stores, murdering officers because of the politics they disregarded violence.
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On January 6th, Merrick Garland has claimed it is the largest and most significant investigation in the history of the FBI.
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So more than 9-11, like planes flying into the World Trade Center, flying into the Pentagon, 3,000 people murdered.
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And the reason it's more serious is because for them it's all about politics.
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They're targeting the little old ladies who were on the mall waving American flags, singing God Bless America.
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They're targeting, ultimately, every American who voted for Donald Trump, who spoke out in favor of Donald Trump.
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Just like the raid, the raid was a political persecution.
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One action that on the face of it certainly appears to be a crime of violence and was an attempt at a serious terrorist attack are the two pipe bombs.
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If pipe bombs had detonated on Capitol Hill, potentially killing dozens or more, that would have been a horrific act of violence.
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If you look at everything that transpired that day, you would think a multiple attempted bombing in the nation's capital
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would be really high on the priority list of let's get someone that's trying to blow people up and murder people.
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Like that, you know, between blow people up and murder people and little old lady waving a flag,
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maybe blow people up and murder people would be a higher priority in any sane world.
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We're now, you know, almost two years after the fact.
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Apparently, the pipe bomber dropped the bombs off at 8 p.m. the night before.
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If they've ever caught the guy, they've never told anyone.
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Apparently, the guy with the horns is a massive threat to the cosmos.
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But a ostensibly homicidal bomber, no concern, nothing to see here.
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When the DOJ or the FBI is before the Judiciary Committee, I asked them about it.
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Their attitude is we don't have to answer your questions.
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It's we don't answer to the American people.
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We decide what we want to do, and no one dares question us.
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And look, this Revolver article, I don't know how accurate or not it is.
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The implication is that the pipe bombs were not actually planted by real criminals but were part of a fraud.
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When law enforcement, A, doesn't make it a priority to target actual violent criminals and, B, answers no questions, has no transparency, and behaves as if they have no accountability, they shouldn't be surprised when they have no credibility and people don't trust them.
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Well, and especially on this issue, Senator, of Stephen D'Antuono, I mean, to me, that's the craziest part of all.
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Forget the fact that the timers on the bombs apparently were not functioning.
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The timing wouldn't have made a whole lot of sense.
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Forget any of the questions that were raised by that.
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The very fact that a guy who we know led an entrapment campaign, a poorly orchestrated entrapment campaign, by the way, in Michigan, then becomes the head of the Washington field office.
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I think we have the clip of your grilling Ray because initially Ray tries to deny it, and then you've laid out the facts, and he can't help but admit that you're right.
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There was the case against individuals charged with kidnapping and murdering Governor Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan.
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Well, the special agent in charge of that case has now been sent to D.C., to the Washington, D.C. office, and now leads the investigation regarding January 6th.
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The name of the individual is Stephen D'Antonio.
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He was run out of the FBI Detroit field office.
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And by the way, I will point out that the lead investigator, Special Agent Track, are you aware that he was apparently fired or allegedly beating his wife after coming home from a swingers party,
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and he'd made multiple derogatory political posts about President Trump showing political bias?
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I am aware of, I think, the incident you're describing and action that was taken about it.
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To clarify on the first part of your question, Mr. D'Antonio was the special agent in charge of the office, the Detroit field office,
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and is now the assistant director in charge of the Washington field office.
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I thought you were asking about the agent who was responsible for the investigation.
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So the guy in charge got promoted and is now in charge of the January 6th investigation?
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The guy in charge of the whole Detroit field office is now in charge of the whole Washington field office.
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So, and it's worth unpacking that for a little bit.
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And let's start out with what happened in Michigan.
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So if you remember in the fall of 2020, right before a big election, the FBI breathlessly
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announces that they've uncovered a plot to kidnap and murder the governor of Michigan, Gretchen
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If you've got a plot to do that, like go prosecute those guys, throw them in jail a long
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Now, I'll point out at the same time that that prosecution happened to perfectly align
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with the political narrative of Joe Biden and the Democrats because these alleged criminals
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were doing it because they were mad about Gretchen Whitmer's COVID lockdown policies.
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And because Trump had criticized Whitmer, the whole narrative was, you know what?
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See, any Trump supporter is a violent criminal.
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Look, those guys are literally trying to kidnap and murder a Democratic governor.
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So it fit the political narrative beautifully, which, by the way, the corrupt corporate media
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got, ran with, danced, celebrated, said, see, unless you are a violent murderer, too, you
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They're charged with various crimes all related to an alleged plot to kidnap and murder Gretchen
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At the end of the trial in federal court, the four defendants are convicted of zero counts,
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The jury comes back and says, not guilty, not guilty, not guilty, not guilty.
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So in the course of the trial, the prosecution gets zero convictions on anything.
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Typically, the prosecutors don't bring a case unless they can get you and they got the
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It was that the FBI informants, people who are on the payroll of the FBI, who are working
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for the federal government, that they were the ones that suggested the damn thing.
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They were the ones that kept urging him to do that.
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In fact, the defendants pressed back, said, hey, let's not do this.
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Let's let's not kidnap and murder the governor.
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Gosh, your idea is interesting, but no, thank you.
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And the FBI agents or the undercover informants kept saying, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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And that was the defendant's defense's arguments.
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Now, for any law enforcement, look, there's a general line.
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What are the rules governing undercover officers?
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Law enforcement all the time has undercover officers.
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You go in, you go into the mob, you go into a drug cartel, you have someone undercover
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who pretends to be part of it, and you can gather evidence and that can be used in a
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What is not legitimate, the line is you can't engage in entrapment.
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You can't be the one who is the source, the genesis of the illegal conduct, that it is
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an abuse of government power when they send an agent to you and say, hey, Michael, don't
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you really want to steal that fancy watch from behind?
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They can't go suggest to citizens they break the law.
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So this was all run out of the Detroit field office, the guy in charge of it, Stephen D'Antuano.
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This is one of the biggest scandals in the history of the FBI to lose a marquee front page, top
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of the fold banner headline case because of misconduct by your office.
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In any sane and ordinary and responsible law enforcement office, everyone involved would have been fired.
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The fact that in this FBI, the guy, A, doesn't get fired, B, gets promoted, but C, gets put
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I mean, that is, as I said at the end of that cross-examination, it is astonishing.
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And what it is, Michael, is it's a manifestation of that hubris.
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He's like, well, it was the line agents that did that.
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You know, whatever happened to Harry S. Truman, the buck stops here.
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Apparently, no one has accountability for anything.
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Well, I guess the line agents, the guy in charge, who allegedly beat his wife and was
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So, you know, really speaks to the caliber of folks, you know, he lost his job, but his
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boss got promoted that there is unfortunately a culture and I trace it back to the Obama
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years where the Obama years, they viewed DOJ and the FBI as their political stormtroopers.
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And what they did, they promoted from within hard partisans into senior positions and they
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And unfortunately, there are far too many of them.
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I mean, if you get a guy who was in charge of an operation that involved entrapment and
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hoaxes and misconduct, and then he gets the promotion, he goes to Washington, D.C.
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Already, there are a lot of questions about that day.
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One of the chief instigators among the people to say, go in, we have to go into the Capitol.
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When he did that in the streets of Washington, the people around him said, Fed, Fed, Fed, he's
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All the strange questions about the pipe bombs.
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And you add on top of that, the fact that there has been such misconduct, such abuse of power,
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such corruption at the FBI and the DOJ going back to crossfire hurricane and, and the
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I just, when people don't have faith in federal law enforcement and the political leadership
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of federal law enforcement, that's not our fault.
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That's the fault of the people who squandered that credibility.
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And, you know, Michael, what's amazing is the Democrats who have majorities in Congress
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have zero interest in discovering what happened.
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We've had no hearings on the Gretchen Whitmer case, on the entrapment, on, on the disastrous
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debacle of that case, because the Democrats have, are not interested in knowing what happens.
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Look, the, the cross-examination I had of, of Chris Ray, no Democrat had any interest in
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The guy involved in entrapment is now in charge of January 6th.
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And I will say one of the things that underscores the stakes of this election in November, if
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Republicans take a majority in both houses, we need to have hearings on these topics.
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We need to have hearings on every one of these topics.
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We need to drag Merrick Garland and Chris Ray down there and keep them there and make
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them answer questions, not let them get away with this, Blythe, you know, I am the king.
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I answer to nobody, which is the attitude they have.
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And I very much hope, A, that we win in November, but B, that we see that accountability.
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Of course, it's, it's urgent too, because they're busting into the doors at Mar-a-Lago today,
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but it really could be anyone who's considered a political enemy of our ruling class.
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Now, it's not only the Democrats who don't want you talking about this sort of stuff,
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Michael Steele was the head of the Republican National Committee.
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Now he's a talking head on MSNBC, and he only ever goes on the liberal shows and attacks
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He said, as directed at you, Senator, just sit the hell down, please.
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This, in response to your speech at CPAC, says it is more fascism than farce.
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And it really is about how we as a citizen respond to this, how we push back against it.
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Look, I'd say it's three things simultaneously.
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One, there's a whole cadre of squishy moderate establishment Republicans who barely believed
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And they were a real problem in our party for a long time.
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It was a reaction to these folks who didn't believe anything.
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Secondly, many of those same folks are now fully consumed by TDS, by Trump derangement
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They just hate Donald Trump so much that they're consumed by it.
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Liz Cheney is unrecognizable from who she was, you know, five, six years ago.
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Bill Kristol used to be Dan Quayle's chief of staff.
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He ran the Weekly Standard, which was a conservative publication.
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He now is indistinguishable from a raving left-wing Democrat.
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It's also worth remembering Bill Kristol discovered Sarah Palin.
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I know that now Bill and other people on the kind of squishy side or just outright now have
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They try to say Palin is the problem, Cruz, Trump, all these right-wingers in the conservative
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Bill Kristol discovered that lady and made her a national thing.
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Well, and what's funny, it's not just the folks that are destroyed by TDS.
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It's not just that they don't like what Trump says or does.
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It's not just that they say, well, we need to speak with greater decorum.
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They look at Build Back Broke and say, woohoo, raise taxes, spend money, more debt.
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I mean, their rhetoric is indistinguishable from Chuck Schumer's.
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And then the third dynamic is Steele, who I don't know the guy, but apparently makes a
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And there's a whole little cottage industry of, quote, former Republicans who get paid to
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Number one, you have to at some time have called yourself a Republican.
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And he helps because he was actually head of the RNC.
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So he's got a good, good sort of fake costume there.
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But then, too, you have to be willing to piss on Republicans all day long.
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They have no interest in you're actually considering substance.
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Your job is I am former Republican who says Republicans all suck.
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And it's how I get my measly little paycheck to pay the second mortgage on on my condo in
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And by the way, what he was reacting to was my speech at CPAC, the central thesis of which
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is revival is coming, that this administration has gone so extreme, people's eyes are opening
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up and they want to take the country back in the direction of free enterprise and freedom
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and defending the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
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Now's time for actually people who believe something to to lead.
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I always hear this with ex-Catholics or I don't even know if you'd say ex-Catholic,
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but you'll sometimes hear people say whenever pontificating on some matter of the church,
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they'll say, listen, I went to Catholic school and let me tell you and you can be certain
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every time someone says that they don't know anything about the Catholic church.
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And I think it's almost the perfect analogy where they'll say, listen, as a former Republican
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and then they go on and they misrepresent Republicans views.
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Because I think in 99 times out of 100, they never really believed that stuff to begin with.
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They never really knew what they were supposed to believe to begin with.
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And so it was a natural evolution for them to move over to the other side.
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I see that with virtually all of these so-called former Republicans.
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They're just kind of squishes who opportunistically were in the GOP while it served them.
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But because they didn't really believe very much on life, on liberty,
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on the American way of life, that they just switched when the going got tough.
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And so when they leave the party, I say, good, sayonara, glad.
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By the way, did you see there was a really weird article in the last week from some,
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I think CBS or I don't know, some media outlet about praying the rosary as a tool of extremist hate?
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It was like the most, okay, it was, it was so bizarre.
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Like it was like, okay, this is actually pretty good satire.
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Like I get this is really making fun of crazy lefties, except they write it anyway.
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Like, like they're just, it is making comedy harder because they will say any asinine thing.
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But what was your reaction to, to, all right, I'm going to play the straight man here.
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Michael is praying the rosary, a tool of extremist hate.
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Now the rosary has been around for what, roughly a thousand years.
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And really even earlier than that, because the, there were earlier forms of what became the rosary, Christian prayer beads, going back to the very earliest days of the church.
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And the Atlantic, whoever wrote this column, obviously doesn't know anything about that.
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In the subheader, they actually referred to the rosary as a sacrament.
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And again, you don't need to be a doctor of the church to know that the rosary is not a sacrament.
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Seven sacraments of the church, rosary beads are not one of them.
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And so they broadcast their ignorance basically from the headline of the piece, but then they spout off on it anyway because the author, just like so many liberals, is frequently wrong but never in doubt.
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I mean, I think they actually have a really clear political motivation here.
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They want to cast anything that is Christian as extreme or terrorism.
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And so when you see, when you see, as frequently occurs, little old nuns praying outside of a planned parenthood, praying their rosaries, why, that's a symbol of terrorism.
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We better call law enforcement out on them.
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And moulin la vee, that's what I say about my rosary.
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Well, and to be fair, though, you know, I guess The Atlantic does have a point.
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If I remember correctly, one of the Godfather movies, one of the assassins was dressed as a priest and carrying the rosary and committed murder.
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It's the only thing that one can do is sort of laugh at it and pray, I guess, is the other thing that we can do.
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But they're revealing such a degree of ignorance and such a degree of hypocrisy frequently.
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There's one story I have to get to before I let you go, which combines all of these things.
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In New York, my home state, in Washington, D.C., a place where you spend a lot of time, where I spend a lot of time, too.
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These are places that say we are open to immigrants, specifically illegal immigrants.
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And so then the governor of your state, Senator, decided to take them up on their offer.
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And he said, OK, we've got historic numbers of illegal aliens pouring across the border, probably going to be more than 2 million this year.
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If you want to take them New York, you want to take them D.C., put them on a bus for free.
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The governor's paying for it and ships them up to New York.
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The mayors of New York and D.C. are absolutely losing their minds over it.
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They're saying this puts a strain on the resources of these cities.
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I was previously told by these very same mayors and politicians that illegal immigration is a net contributor to our economy.
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And it's really great and it's really wonderful.
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And it doesn't put a stress on any of our resources.
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But now they're saying, not in my backyard, that illegal immigration is really great in the Republican states.
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It's not good in the blue cities that encourage it.
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You know, I got to say this story reveals, as you said, the fear and ignorance and the absolute hypocrisy of the left.
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So the mayors of both D.C. and New York have been holding press conferences, hysterical press conferences.
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The mayor of D.C., Muriel Bowser, has said that the 6,000 illegal immigrants that Texas has put on buses and sent up to D.C.
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has created a crisis and it is unacceptable and it has to stop.
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Since Joe Biden has become president, three and a half million illegal immigrants have crossed the border.
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We have towns in South Texas that have seen massive hundreds of thousands, millions of people coming through.
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I publicly urge the governor, if she thinks 6,000 is a crisis, we ought to send 600,000.
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600,000 would be roughly one-sixth of the number of illegal immigrants who have come in under Joe Biden.
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By the way, if she doesn't like it, she is a member of a party, the Democrat Party.
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The person responsible for these three and a half million dollars lives in her city in Washington, D.C.
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I can give her his address at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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He made a political decision to let three and a half million illegal immigrants in.
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His view was Texas, if it destroys communities in red states, that's great.
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Eventually, these folks will vote Democrat, he believes.
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So let there be lots of suffering and misery and poverty.
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Let there be women trapped in sex slavery.
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Let there be horrific abuse and disease and crime.
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If she wants to fix it, the leader of her party can fix it anytime he damn well wants by simply choosing to follow the law.
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Now, Eric Adams, the mayor of New York, in some ways is even funnier.
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He's done these hysterical press conferences, losing his mind, saying, please stop sending illegal immigrants to New York.
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He said, I'm going to send busloads of New Yorkers to go to Texas to campaign against Greg Abbott for governor.
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Now, I have to admit, I did have some great joy responding and said, well, actually, to be fair, there are already thousands of busloads of New Yorkers fleeing New York and coming to Texas.
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Now, they're coming to Texas because we're an oasis of freedom and New York is run by left wing numbnuts who are trying to recreate the hellscape of the 70s.
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Snake Plissken is going to have to sneak in and break people out of New York to go to paradises like Texas or Florida.
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Yeah. But secondly, you got to say, Eric Adams, I think he might be slightly off in his assessment of the politics of Texas because he thinks a bunch of left wing New York Democrats coming down to Texas saying, hi, we're New Yorkers.
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Please vote against your Republican governor.
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That is somehow going to cause Texans to go, oh, OK, we want our state to suck as much as you've screwed your city up.
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And in fact, I filed legislation that said we shouldn't just ship him to New York and D.C.
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We ought to ship illegal immigrants to Martha's Vineyard.
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We ought to ship him to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where Biden vacations.
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Every place that rich liberals sit and swirl Chardonnay, they ought to sit there and watch busload after busload after busload of illegal immigrants unloading.
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And by the way, the Martha's Vineyard mayor publicly engaged me and said, oh, we would love that.
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Let's just start with the 6,000 that went to Washington, D.C.
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They're willing to cause human suffering as long as it doesn't impinge on the view from their golf course.
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I'm just picturing it when it comes to the busloads of New Yorkers campaigning against the Republicans.
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And I'm picturing my cousin Vinny, you know, knock, knock on the door.
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Hey, you hear about all these youths they're shipping up?
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All these youths, you know, they're shipping them up.
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And the thing you're bringing up, by the way, Senator, it was just described by Mike Anton over at the Claremont Institute.
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A parallax being the position of an object seen from different vantage points.
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And he says that what the liberals are doing now is they're saying something.
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And then when the conservatives simply restate what the liberals have said, the liberals deny that.
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The conservatives, when they say it, are punished for it.
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The liberals are saying illegal immigration is putting a massive strain on the resources of our cities when it shows up here.
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And so we really just want to limit illegal immigration to the red states.
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The conservatives go out and they say, hey, illegal immigration is putting a huge strain on our resources.
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It's an awfully good question, but I will say it is a question that is causing people's eyes to open up.
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It is causing them to see the hypocrisy that is leading to a revival in November.
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And that is causing folks like our friend Michael Steele to lose their mind.
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I don't want to let our wonderful Verdict Plus subscribers down.
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And this question, very, very important, especially compared to all the stuff we've been talking about today.
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So I listened to groups like The Who, Genesis, The Kinks.
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I was supposed to go last weekend to Garth Brooks.
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I got invited to go backstage and meet Garth Brooks.
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I'm not someone who generally hangs out with like famous musicians, but it was cool.
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Hey, you want to come back and meet Garth Brooks?
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We were in D.C. all night voting on Votorama Saturday night.
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So not only did I see the Democrats bankrupt America, jack up taxes, pass a bill that will
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increase gas prices, increase inflation, but I missed the frigging Garth Brooks concert.
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And the fellow who had invited me to go, he sent me pictures from the concert, which was
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a little bit like sort of rubbing salt in the wounds.
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I'm like, yeah, that concert looks pretty amazing.
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And I'm, I'm down in the basement of the Capitol right now.
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If it makes you feel any better, Senator, I'm not convinced that you have not met Garth Brooks
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because I have never seen Garth Brooks and Glenn Beck in the same room at the same time.
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I have to say, by the way, this, this year, earlier this year, I was supposed to take
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the family to George Strait in concert at the Houston Rodeo.
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And, uh, we were coming back from spring break.
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We had been skiing and we ended up missing our plane.
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And so this has been a bad year for concerts because I've had two concerts.
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I was completely psyched to go to George Strait and Garth Brooks.
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And I missed them both, which, uh, which really sucked.
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But I did get to see the Eagles in concert, uh, this year, which was an amazing concert.
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Uh, but I would say, I don't know that I necessarily have one favorite band, but I'd say it used
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And probably Smokey Mike and the God King, I assume is a favorite of yours.
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I mean, we can get it more into it, you know, at a later date.
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Uh, we will be getting into a lot more at a later date because we are now accepting applications
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Uh, we're going to be doing three campuses apply today, yaf.org slash verdict.
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But before we go on the road, there is so much more to discuss.
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And that will be on the cloakroom with our friend, Liz Wheeler.
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So what we're going to talk about on cloakroom today is actually a continuation of what you
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And it's this distrust that the American people feel in our government institutions and what
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the recourse for this is, because there is this feeling in our country of hopelessness.
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What do we do to counter, you know, the FBI's abuse of power when they raided Mar-a-Lago?
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And in the wake, actually, of the Inflation Reduction Act, or so-called Inflation Reduction
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Act, people are also talking about this as it relates to fiscal responsibility in our
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There's a movement called Convention of States that's proposing an idea, but this isn't
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widely accepted in the conservative movement or the Republican Party.
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So we are going to break down what this is, what the pros and the cons of this are, and
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And if it's workable, how would we prepare for this?
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So it's going to be very in-depth, very nitty-gritty, and exactly what conversation our country
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