Verdict with Ted Cruz - November 21, 2022


Gay Marriage, Hunter Biden, & Crypto-Corruption With Democrats!


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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) joins me on today's show to talk about the latest on same-sex marriage, the Respect for Marriage Act, and whether or not the Supreme Court will ever revisit Roe v. Wade.

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00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
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00:00:04.300 There's a major issue in the Senate with gay marriage, 0.88
00:00:07.540 and Republicans seem to be running to the wrong side of the issue.
00:00:11.220 Plus, we also have problems at the DOJ.
00:00:14.800 And now, finally, the president is starting to feel some heat on a new investigation.
00:00:19.640 And lastly, there's some cryptocurrency issues with corruption with the Democratic Party.
00:00:25.360 This is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz.
00:00:27.860 Senator, a lot's happened since Election Day.
00:00:30.340 Nice to sit with you finally after a week of you barnstorming the country.
00:00:34.960 And I want to get into something that's exciting.
00:00:37.260 Verdict has really been driving the news.
00:00:39.320 There's an extremely important issue that's happening in Washington, D.C. right now
00:00:42.540 on the issue of gay marriage.
00:00:44.540 They actually led with your comments from this podcast on Fox News Sunday.
00:00:50.320 And I want people to take a listen to what it is that you had to say
00:00:53.520 and why this is driving the news.
00:00:55.000 Take a look.
00:00:55.520 Think about the same-sex marriage bill, the Respect for Marriage Act,
00:00:59.220 that essentially has gotten through this first vote in the Senate.
00:01:01.940 It will have more action down the line.
00:01:04.000 But it essentially ensures that all 50 states will recognize same-sex marriages from other states.
00:01:08.700 Conservatives are warning, though, that the Biden administration could end up using this as a weapon.
00:01:12.600 Here's something that Senator Ted Cruz said on his podcast about it this week.
00:01:15.740 Any charity that believes marriage is the union of one man and one woman,
00:01:22.440 any charity that does not embrace same-sex marriage,
00:01:26.160 this bill is designed to strip their 501c3 status,
00:01:30.560 to persecute the churches and universities and schools and charities.
00:01:35.000 So Senator Mike Lee has offered...
00:01:36.720 First of all, let's make one thing clear.
00:01:38.980 Okay.
00:01:39.700 One more time, Ted Cruz is 100% wrong.
00:01:44.260 Okay, let's talk about why.
00:01:45.020 On that statement.
00:01:46.140 You would not see, and one of the things that gained 12 Republican votes,
00:01:50.080 and I think more on Final Passage,
00:01:53.140 is there were greater protections for religious freedom put in.
00:01:55.940 And so you see the Mormon Church.
00:01:59.000 You see a number of mainstream Protestant denominations.
00:02:03.440 You see a series of other faith organizations actually support this marriage equality law.
00:02:10.320 And remember, this marriage equality law is not only about same-sex marriage,
00:02:14.080 but it also validates something that literally 60 years ago in my state of Virginia was illegal,
00:02:21.920 which was interracial marriage. 0.78
00:02:23.320 I think this is where the vast majority of Americans are at.
00:02:27.160 I think you will see the numbers even go up in the Senate.
00:02:30.780 Okay.
00:02:30.960 As we get to the Final Passage, we saw 47 House members.
00:02:35.560 Mr. Cruz, one more time, saying stuff that has no basis in truth or fact.
00:02:40.440 That's just how we roll.
00:02:43.140 So hold it there.
00:02:45.220 All right, so if you look at that segment, I got to say Mark Warner,
00:02:48.840 he really typifies the Democrats because he calls me a liar
00:02:51.580 while not responding to one word of the substance of what I said.
00:02:56.740 And that really is the Democrat M.O.
00:03:00.480 Listen, this bill, let's talk about what this bill does accomplish and what it doesn't accomplish.
00:03:06.300 The Democrats are pitching this as a bill to protect the right to same-sex marriage
00:03:11.860 and to protect the right to interracial marriage.
00:03:14.480 Well, both of those are protected right now by existing law.
00:03:19.060 The U.S. Supreme Court has held that gay marriage is a right,
00:03:23.760 and it held many decades ago that interracial marriage is a right.
00:03:28.360 That ain't changing.
00:03:29.760 And it's important to note the Democrats pitched this entire bill based on a false premise,
00:03:34.820 which is they suggested there's some chance the Supreme Court might revisit the gay marriage ruling.
00:03:40.920 Well, the majority opinion in Dobbs, the decision overturning Roe v. Wade,
00:03:46.280 said not once, not twice, but three times they were not going to revisit that decision.
00:03:53.440 In fact, the third time, Justice Alito, writing for the majority, said,
00:03:56.640 I don't know how to say this anymore clearly.
00:03:58.780 We are not going back to that decision.
00:04:01.560 So all of this, this bill is based on a lie,
00:04:04.800 which is a bunch of Democrats and a bunch of folks in the media scaremongering
00:04:07.980 that the Supreme Court's going to overturn a decision that they told us three times
00:04:12.120 they're not going to overturn.
00:04:13.520 In other words, it's all political cover for them.
00:04:15.400 It is purely political cover.
00:04:17.500 And it's based on Justice Thomas wrote a concurrence
00:04:22.120 that was examining the legal basis for Roe v. Wade,
00:04:26.220 which is a legal doctrine called substantive due process.
00:04:28.620 And he pointed out that it had been the legal basis for other decisions
00:04:33.200 like the gay marriage decision.
00:04:34.960 But no other justice joined Clarence Thomas in that concurrence.
00:04:39.320 So unless you believe that Joe Biden is going to nominate
00:04:43.460 and the Senate is going to confirm four new justices to the court
00:04:47.600 who are to the right of Clarence Thomas,
00:04:50.980 the chances of the Supreme Court overturning that decision are 0.0%.
00:04:55.180 And Mark Warner knows that.
00:04:56.840 Every Democrat knows that.
00:04:58.100 But this is scaremongering.
00:04:59.720 So you say, OK, if the court's not going to overturn it,
00:05:02.900 what harm does this bill do?
00:05:04.960 Well, let me tell you, this bill does considerable harm
00:05:07.600 because you know what this fight really is about.
00:05:11.400 It is about the Biden administration being able to persecute people of faith,
00:05:18.720 being able to persecute churches, K-12 schools,
00:05:24.260 universities, and charities that believe...
00:05:28.820 Specifically, they're religious-based and Christian.
00:05:31.720 Christian, or for that matter, Jewish, or for that matter, Muslim,
00:05:35.460 any religious organization that believes marriage is the union of one man and one woman.
00:05:40.540 So whatever it might be.
00:05:42.480 And let me point out, this is not a hypothetical threat.
00:05:44.900 I want to read to you from the transcript at the Obergefell oral argument,
00:05:50.360 which was the gay marriage oral argument,
00:05:52.360 where the Solicitor General, Don Varelli, he was in the Obama Justice Department,
00:05:57.300 and Justice Alito asked whether the next step would be for universities opposed to same-sex marriage
00:06:07.560 to lose their tax-exempt status.
00:06:09.880 So this is in the oral argument, and here's what General Varelli replies,
00:06:13.180 quote,
00:06:13.820 It's certainly going to be an issue.
00:06:16.680 I don't deny that.
00:06:18.200 I don't deny that.
00:06:19.860 Justice Alito, it's going to be an issue.
00:06:23.760 That's what the Obama DOJ said.
00:06:26.200 And this bill is all about teeing up the Obama, or rather the Biden IRS,
00:06:32.840 to target Christian university, Christian schools, churches, and charities.
00:06:38.360 And by the way, this is also not hypothetical.
00:06:40.380 The city of Philadelphia went after and targeted Catholic charities
00:06:44.240 and said they're not allowed to engage in adoptions
00:06:48.100 because Catholic charities in Philadelphia won't provide an adoption for a same-sex couple.
00:06:53.780 Now, to be clear, same-sex couples can adopt kids in Philadelphia.
00:06:57.220 There are lots of adoption agencies they can use.
00:07:00.520 But the city of Philadelphia said, well, if Catholic charities won't participate,
00:07:04.160 you're out of the business.
00:07:05.060 This bill is all about setting up the IRS to start stripping tax-exempt status
00:07:12.280 from organizations they hate.
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00:08:49.380 Now, let's play out.
00:08:52.080 Let's continue this because the discussion goes on,
00:08:55.120 and everything Mark Warner says about it is wrong,
00:08:57.300 so let's hear what he has to say.
00:08:58.700 Senator Mike Lee is among those who say
00:09:00.160 there are sort of toothless protections in there for religious minorities, 0.97
00:09:03.140 and not minorities, but people who hold whatever faith they are,
00:09:06.540 this conviction about traditional marriage is his wording.
00:09:09.440 He's offered this amendment.
00:09:10.360 I've got it here in my hand.
00:09:11.340 He says it's done in good faith.
00:09:13.600 It will offer further protection to people and religious organizations.
00:09:16.580 Why not allow a vote on the amendment?
00:09:19.100 If that is truly an issue, and it may get you more votes,
00:09:23.120 but more protections for those who have religious freedom.
00:09:24.900 I would first of all point out the fact, you know,
00:09:27.540 I believe Mike Lee is a member of the Mormon Church.
00:09:33.540 His organization, his church...
00:09:36.080 But he's still got concerns.
00:09:36.820 His church endorsed the legislation.
00:09:39.940 My understanding, and I have not followed all of the ins and outs of what happened two nights ago,
00:09:44.840 I believe there was an offer on a 50-vote margin for Mr. Lee to have that kind of amendment.
00:09:51.180 I think this is a series of folks that just don't want this to happen,
00:09:55.660 and they're going to throw up roadblock after roadblock after roadblock.
00:09:59.020 Would you let them have a vote on the amendment?
00:10:00.420 Again, my understanding is that that vote was offered.
00:10:04.840 Okay.
00:10:05.220 My understanding is they want to try to do it after Thanksgiving.
00:10:07.580 There's a lot of time to be done then.
00:10:08.700 If the vote was offered this week, which I believe it was,
00:10:13.300 and I'm sure your viewers will correct me if I'm wrong, but that was kind of the...
00:10:18.020 Yeah, and talking with his office, they want to offer this up after Thanksgiving, so...
00:10:21.740 Other than simply trying to delay,
00:10:24.820 other than simply trying to burn off the clock so that we can't get to things like the defense bill...
00:10:29.400 But this may be his vote.
00:10:30.760 If he had a chance to have the vote on Thursday, why didn't he take the vote then?
00:10:36.920 Okay, let's stop it right now.
00:10:39.500 So there are several things in what he says.
00:10:42.500 First of all, let me point out that Mark Warner... 0.97
00:10:45.300 Look, most Democrats are arrogant, condescending, and supercilious. 0.98
00:10:50.140 But that nasty little jab that... 0.99
00:10:52.720 Well, Mike Lee's a member of the Mormon Church.
00:10:54.260 The Mormon Church supports it. 0.97
00:10:55.540 I mean, going after Mike on his faith, that's disgusting. 0.91
00:10:59.320 Yeah, it's an attack on his faith. 0.71
00:11:00.500 Mark Warner ought to be embarrassed and ashamed.
00:11:04.160 Now, what happened here with the Mormon Church, 0.99
00:11:07.200 because actually he goes on to repeat Mormon Church like 19 times.
00:11:10.420 Well, unfortunately, there is a senator who supports this bill from the state of Utah,
00:11:17.800 who's named Mitt Romney,
00:11:18.920 who happens to have some real juice within the Mormon Church.
00:11:22.860 He's kind of a big deal in Utah.
00:11:26.160 And Mitt Romney has pulled out all the stops lobbying his church,
00:11:30.020 and he convinced one senior figure in the church to put out a statement in favor of this bill.
00:11:36.000 That senior figure, I'm sorry to say, got terrible legal advice.
00:11:39.320 And if Mitt Romney weren't lobbying the heck out of it,
00:11:43.540 I assume they wouldn't have done the statement, but Mitt was able to get it done.
00:11:46.980 Now, what Shannon Bream there says is the provisions in the bill are toothless, and they are.
00:11:54.480 So what the bill is, the Democrats put into the bill language that says,
00:11:58.540 nothing in this bill shall be construed to deny tax-exempt status to anybody.
00:12:04.480 Now, this is, I'm going to explain something to you, and this is why people hate lawyers.
00:12:11.200 Nobody's suggesting the bill is going to deny tax-exempt status.
00:12:14.840 What's going to happen is after the bill passes,
00:12:18.060 the Biden IRS is going to deny tax-exempt status,
00:12:21.600 and they're going to say, you know what?
00:12:23.000 It's not the bill doing it.
00:12:24.280 It's us.
00:12:25.860 We are doing it.
00:12:27.960 And so Mike Lee has drafted an amendment.
00:12:29.920 It's a strong amendment that prohibits the Biden IRS from stripping tax-exempt status
00:12:36.220 for any institution based on their views on marriage.
00:12:41.320 That's what the Democrats are blocking.
00:12:43.500 Now, this is an example.
00:12:45.580 And it's not controversial.
00:12:46.880 What he's asking for is exactly what anyone would ask for in this scenario.
00:12:51.560 They're just terrified that you would take away the power of the IRS
00:12:54.180 to then literally destroy conservative Christian religious organizations.
00:12:58.920 This is an attack on religion.
00:13:00.720 So it is controversial because today's Democrats hate religious liberty.
00:13:05.460 They want to use the IRS to go after religious institutions.
00:13:10.160 Mike Lee's amendment would prevent them.
00:13:12.260 Now, you just heard Mark Warner say several times we offered him a vote.
00:13:16.900 And this is where actually verdict takes people inside the Senate in a way it's really hard
00:13:21.280 if you're not serving in the body to understand the games that are being played.
00:13:24.840 It's true.
00:13:26.180 They did offer a vote, said we'll have a vote on the floor of the Senate
00:13:28.780 at a 50-vote threshold should Mike Lee's amendment be adopted.
00:13:33.240 Now, here's what will happen if there's a vote on the Senate floor at a 50-vote threshold.
00:13:37.620 The amendment will fail.
00:13:39.780 Why will it fail?
00:13:41.980 Every Democrat will vote no.
00:13:44.220 There are 50 of them.
00:13:45.640 Game over.
00:13:46.120 And there are also 12 Republicans who are supporting this.
00:13:49.740 So at a 50-vote threshold.
00:13:50.900 By the way, even if every Republican voted for Mike Lee's amendment.
00:13:53.820 So let's assume best case.
00:13:55.880 All the D's vote no.
00:13:57.600 All the R's vote yes.
00:13:58.800 Kamala Harris shows up.
00:14:00.640 Tiebreaker.
00:14:01.080 Cast the tie-breaking vote no.
00:14:02.900 And Mike's amendment fails.
00:14:04.220 Now, what Mark is saying is we'll give you your vote, you little children. 0.96
00:14:07.680 Now sit down and shut up and let us pass the bill. 0.96
00:14:09.720 Well, in order for this bill to pass, there's one more vote that matters, which is the Monday
00:14:16.820 after Thanksgiving.
00:14:18.540 The final vote is at a 60-vote threshold.
00:14:22.040 They can't pass this bill without 60 senators voting yes.
00:14:28.160 Now, as we discussed on the Friday podcast, 12 Republican senators voted yes.
00:14:35.240 Those 12 are Susan Collins of Maine, Rob Portman of Ohio, Tom Tillis of North Carolina,
00:14:41.840 Mitt Romney of Utah, who's leading the charge on this, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Roy Blunt
00:14:47.360 of Missouri, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Cynthia
00:14:52.080 Lummis of Wyoming, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Todd Young of Indiana, Joni Ernst of Iowa.
00:14:57.860 Those are the 12.
00:14:59.920 Now, I'm going to set aside for a second that several of those are retiring.
00:15:04.040 Rob Portman's retiring.
00:15:06.100 Roy Blunt's retiring.
00:15:07.320 Richard Burr's retiring.
00:15:08.840 And I find it particularly noxious that retiring Republican senators run and embrace the left
00:15:14.760 on the way out in a way they would be very unlikely to do so if they actually had to face the voters
00:15:18.980 again.
00:15:19.240 Had to run for your action, yeah.
00:15:20.260 But you know what?
00:15:21.160 This will be very popular on K Street when they're lobbyists.
00:15:24.140 And it's, you want to see the swamp?
00:15:25.880 This is the swamp.
00:15:27.820 But there's another very simple point.
00:15:29.740 If you want to prevent the Biden IRS from targeting and persecuting Christian churches, schools,
00:15:38.860 universities, and charities, three of these 12 need to say to the Democrats, either adopt
00:15:47.640 Mike Lee's amendment or we will vote no on cloture on Monday.
00:15:53.660 If three of the 12 grow one vertebrae of a spine.
00:16:01.540 And this is where, look, my frustration with Republicans.
00:16:05.700 This should not be a hard one, by the way.
00:16:07.340 This should be a very simple three of the 12.
00:16:09.920 There shouldn't even be 12 to start with.
00:16:11.440 It should be trivially simple.
00:16:12.820 And it's the difference between a show vote.
00:16:15.160 If we got the vote, Mark Warner said, we'll give you a vote.
00:16:17.300 We'll give you a vote.
00:16:18.060 That's because he knows they can win the vote.
00:16:20.200 And I'll tell you, I was talking with one of the Democrat leads last week in the cloakroom.
00:16:25.860 And that senator was saying, well, the Democrats won't accept Mike Lee's amendment.
00:16:30.240 They're just a hard no.
00:16:32.660 Well, you know what?
00:16:33.760 If you don't accept the amendment, the answer ought to be your bill won't pass.
00:16:38.440 And that's our hard no.
00:16:39.520 That's how the game should be played.
00:16:41.380 Except Republicans never play hardball.
00:16:45.680 It's a game.
00:16:46.800 It's a charade.
00:16:48.180 Three of those 12.
00:16:49.460 You can see the 12.
00:16:50.720 Any three of them could say, if you want to pass the bill, you must adopt Mike Lee's amendment.
00:16:59.620 And by the way, the Democrats argue, oh, our bill already does exactly what Mike Lee's amendment does.
00:17:06.080 Well, if that's the case, it ought to be easy to adopt Mike Lee's amendment.
00:17:09.120 Bingo.
00:17:09.480 It doesn't.
00:17:10.680 They are lying.
00:17:12.220 And in fact, I'm going to make a prediction for you right now.
00:17:14.420 If the 12 Republicans declined to stand up to the Democrats and say, I will vote no on cloture unless Mike Lee's amendment is adopted, not a fake vote, not a pretend show vote.
00:17:28.560 It's adopted in the bill.
00:17:30.120 If that doesn't happen, my prediction is in the next two years.
00:17:35.060 So Shannon Bream is a graduate of Liberty University, largest Christian university in the country.
00:17:39.980 I'm going to make a prediction for you.
00:17:40.940 I'm going to bet you $100 that if the Republicans can't find a backbone, that in the next two years, the Biden IRS will go after Liberty University to strip their tax-exempt status.
00:17:54.920 I believe that's what this fight is all about.
00:17:58.220 And the Democrats are playing games trying to hide from it.
00:18:02.960 And they also see an opportunity here.
00:18:04.660 You just mentioned it.
00:18:05.740 You go back to the game.
00:18:07.280 They understand that there are some senators that would traditionally say no to this, who are retiring, and they can get them to say yes to it now.
00:18:14.660 Part of it's the timing.
00:18:15.840 It has to be the timing.
00:18:17.220 Yes.
00:18:17.780 And by the way, it's designed so that this key vote is the Monday after Thanksgiving.
00:18:23.880 It's what's called the comeback vote.
00:18:25.240 So it's scheduled for 5.30 p.m. on Monday.
00:18:27.220 So everyone flies in and you literally get off the airplane and come straight to vote.
00:18:31.100 So there's no discussion among Republicans and what they're counting on.
00:18:35.480 Look, I understand why these 12 Republicans voted for this.
00:18:41.140 There's no doubt public views on gay marriage have changed.
00:18:44.560 And there are now a significant percentage of Americans who support gay marriage.
00:18:49.740 And those numbers have changed dramatically.
00:18:51.540 Not too long ago, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton pretended they opposed gay marriage.
00:18:56.980 So, I mean, there's no doubt the public opinion has changed significantly.
00:19:01.280 What I urged my colleagues, I said, listen, if you've decided as a political matter you want to say you support gay marriage, I got a suggestion for you.
00:19:09.800 Type up a press release.
00:19:11.300 And send it out.
00:19:12.080 That says, I, Senator, so-and-so embrace gay marriage and think it's awesome, hunky-dory cool.
00:19:17.200 That's all fine.
00:19:18.180 You want to do a press release?
00:19:19.300 Knock yourself out.
00:19:20.700 Make your own political determinations on that.
00:19:22.680 This is about empowering the Biden IRS to persecute the people they believe that are their enemies.
00:19:34.040 And it's not just the people they deny tax-exempt status to.
00:19:36.660 These abusive thugs that Biden employs are going to go to a hundred different schools and universities and charities and demand change your position, abandon what you believe your faith teaches. 0.77
00:19:55.620 You must embrace gay marriage or else we'll deny your tax-exempt status. 1.00
00:20:01.120 So, they may only get...
00:20:02.340 And try to survive without that tax-exempt status.
00:20:04.220 To be clear, none of these universities or schools will be able to make it if they lose their tax-exempt status.
00:20:09.440 Just like many of the churches in the country, if they lost their tax-exempt status, they would no longer be able to afford even the property taxes of the church and where it is in their city.
00:20:17.500 And it's not just tax-exempt status.
00:20:19.420 It's you're ineligible for any government benefits.
00:20:22.460 You're ineligible for any government contracts.
00:20:24.120 So, what did the city of Philadelphia try to do?
00:20:26.720 Catholic charities can't do adoptions.
00:20:29.100 Now, that got struck down in court, but this bill could change that.
00:20:32.400 That's what makes this so dangerous.
00:20:36.080 Look, you know, a university that refuses to knuckle under, this administration could say no student can get a Pell Grant to go to your university.
00:20:43.880 We're going to cut off.
00:20:44.740 It's not just tax-exempt status.
00:20:47.000 We're going to use the muscle of the federal government to persecute you.
00:20:52.740 And for the life of me, I don't understand why anyone, much less 12 Republicans, would be part and parcel of empowering the Biden IRS to persecute people of faith.
00:21:07.600 Verdict listeners are very engaged.
00:21:09.800 They like to get involved.
00:21:10.760 What is the ask of listeners right now?
00:21:14.880 What can they do to try to stop this?
00:21:17.620 Is it to go and call these 12 senators?
00:21:19.560 The only way this gets stopped.
00:21:20.160 Is it to call your friends in these states and say, call these senators?
00:21:23.440 And specifically, because I get this all the time and you do too, but people say, what am I asking for?
00:21:28.480 Is it you're demanding the Mike Lee Amendment that this is you must adopt that?
00:21:33.280 The only way it gets stopped, and it being the threat of the Biden IRS targeting and persecuting people of faith, is if the Mike Lee Amendment is adopted.
00:21:45.680 And so I believe all 12 of those Republicans should say we will vote no on cloture, the 60-vote threshold, unless the Mike Lee Amendment is adopted.
00:21:58.480 And by the way, all 12 of those Republicans say, oh, we want the religious liberty protection.
00:22:03.660 So that's what they're saying.
00:22:06.380 So to make what they're saying true, we need three of those 12 to say, I'm a no on cloture, unless the Mike Lee Amendment is adopted.
00:22:16.120 You now know your marching orders.
00:22:17.620 If you're a listener to Verdict, this is exactly why we do this show.
00:22:21.120 You need to get involved.
00:22:22.400 Call your senators.
00:22:23.400 You know what you're asking for there, especially if you have family and friends in these states.
00:22:28.400 You need to let them know and tell them this is what we have to do, and it has to be done very quickly because this is going to happen right after Thanksgiving.
00:22:36.580 It's going to happen a week from today.
00:22:38.720 It will be the Monday after Thanksgiving at 5.30 p.m.
00:22:42.640 By 6 p.m., they will either have 60 votes or they won't.
00:22:46.480 And this is what they think of the American people.
00:22:48.520 I want to be clear.
00:22:49.720 There's a reason they're doing it over Thanksgiving.
00:22:51.200 They did this on purpose because they think you're not paying attention.
00:22:53.800 They're hoping you're not paying attention.
00:22:55.260 A lot of people take the week off.
00:22:57.140 A lot of people spend time with their family.
00:22:58.740 You're going to see your family.
00:23:00.060 My family's coming to see me.
00:23:01.400 Everybody operates pretty much in that same world.
00:23:04.340 You take a few days off.
00:23:05.460 You hang out with your family.
00:23:06.520 You make memories.
00:23:07.640 And you usually are disconnected from what's happening politically.
00:23:10.800 That's why they make the first vote 5.30 when you come back from the day after Thanksgiving.
00:23:15.360 Well, and sometimes those votes are non-consequential.
00:23:17.880 Sometimes it's a non-controversial district judge or something.
00:23:22.460 But the decision to put this vote on the comeback vote, they don't want the 12 Republicans to feel any heat.
00:23:28.700 And so the calculus, if you're a Republican doing this, you'll get praise from the donor world.
00:23:34.080 The people who write checks, they love this vote.
00:23:36.240 They want you to go hard left.
00:23:39.040 They're perfectly fine.
00:23:40.340 Most of the donor world is perfectly fine with Republicans screwing people of faith.
00:23:45.000 It's the activists in the base that, you know, wonder of wonders, actually care about protecting our religious liberty and will hold people to account.
00:23:54.280 And what Chuck Schumer is counting on is that most of the activists in the base are going to be eating turkey and stuffing, which I'm looking forward to eating turkey and stuffing.
00:24:03.600 Sure.
00:24:03.940 But not actually engage in the fight until it's a done deal and it's all over.
00:24:07.760 It is not all over.
00:24:09.780 And three of those 12 Republican senators could insist Mike Lee's amendment was adopted.
00:24:15.460 And if that would happen, the Biden IRS would not be able to persecute people of faith.
00:24:20.960 Senator, one of the most exciting things about verdict and growing, going to three days a week, a lot of people that actually watch the podcast once a week, they watch it.
00:24:29.260 They may not realize you can get this podcast to audio shows on top of that.
00:24:33.520 We did breaking news, for example, this weekend.
00:24:35.440 We did a special podcast talking about what had happened with it, with them deciding to have a special prosecutor going after Donald Trump.
00:24:43.040 But the numbers have been growing and people are using this podcast to inform their friends, but also to drive the news that we just talked about on Fox News Sunday.
00:24:50.720 And that's why you wanted to do this in the first place.
00:24:53.780 And it's actually happening, which I love.
00:24:55.880 Yeah, look, this podcast drives news in a way that very few, if any, podcasts do.
00:25:01.820 We've been at this point multiple times.
00:25:04.480 The White House press secretary has had to respond to verdict from the podium in the White House press briefing.
00:25:10.720 You can see the Sunday shows are being driven by this podcast.
00:25:14.880 And one of the reason is the numbers and the numbers are remarkable.
00:25:17.420 So let's take last week.
00:25:18.760 Last week, we had between 700,000 and 800,000 downloads.
00:25:23.860 That's just last week.
00:25:25.420 How does that compare to TV news?
00:25:28.300 Well, CNN averages for the total day 658,000.
00:25:33.740 So we're beating CNN, their average in any given day.
00:25:36.960 How about primetime?
00:25:38.320 Well, CNN's primetime averages 655,000.
00:25:41.860 What about particular shows?
00:25:43.320 Wolf Blitzer.
00:25:44.700 Wolf Blitzer, a 6 p.m. show, averages 750,000.
00:25:48.760 So we're right there with Wolf, Aaron Burnett, 788,000.
00:25:53.080 We're right there with Aaron.
00:25:54.460 Anderson Cooper, 829,000.
00:25:56.880 All right, congratulations, Anderson.
00:25:58.200 You're about 29,000 above where we were last week.
00:26:01.500 Yeah.
00:26:01.680 And that dynamic is very simple.
00:26:05.440 When we are regularly, week after week after week, beating CNN across their lineup, across their primetime lineup, that is a testament to our listeners, to our viewers.
00:26:18.860 And it's why – I think the reason is this podcast has content you can't get anywhere else.
00:26:25.180 Yeah.
00:26:25.580 You can't understand – look, you look at that segment where Mark Warner is spinning like crazy and is dissembling.
00:26:34.720 And he just says anyone who disagrees is lying.
00:26:36.680 Now, note, note, he doesn't actually discuss the language of the statute.
00:26:40.940 He doesn't discuss the Mike Lee Amendment.
00:26:43.160 He just screams, well, we convinced his church to support it, so ha-ha.
00:26:46.940 To understand – and by the way, you know, someone thinking, well, they offered a vote.
00:26:51.440 I don't understand.
00:26:52.140 What's wrong with that?
00:26:52.940 But this show explains what the games are that are being played by the corrupt players in Washington.
00:26:59.740 We've made it easy.
00:27:00.680 There's a lot of people that come up to me and have said, hey, I watch this show.
00:27:04.800 How do I get the other two?
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00:27:08.280 The easiest way that you can get the podcast is – and we've tried to make it easy – is you can actually just text the word VERDICT to 24005.
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00:27:33.440 And I've had a lot of people come and going, how do I get the other ones?
00:27:36.500 That's how easy we've tried to make it for people to be able to grab it.
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00:28:09.020 I want to get also into, there were some very interesting dynamics this week that have changed in Washington.
00:28:17.760 Democrats are terrified of Republicans taking over the House.
00:28:20.700 We've talked about that a little bit last week.
00:28:22.760 But now what we've seen is now they're going for revenge.
00:28:25.900 They're going for the jugular.
00:28:27.200 They're going after Donald Trump.
00:28:28.540 They're afraid that we're going to expose the FBI and expose the DOJ for their corruption.
00:28:33.280 Now, I want to go to Jim Jordans because he made an accusation this week about the FBI, the DOJ, just saying, can you guys stay out of our elections?
00:28:42.360 And I want you to watch us and then get your reaction because I think he's on to a point now that he realizes that they are actively trying to interfere in our elections every single time there is an election.
00:28:53.900 Undoubtedly.
00:28:54.260 Is the FBI going to quit interfering with elections?
00:28:58.200 2016, they spied on President Trump's campaign.
00:29:00.600 2018, it was the Mueller investigation.
00:29:02.200 2020, they suppressed information about the Hunter Biden story.
00:29:04.920 2022, they raided the president's home.
00:29:07.380 91 days before an election.
00:29:08.860 Maybe it'd be nice if the FBI and the Justice Department just stayed out of it and let we, the people, decide who we think should represent us, who we think should lead us.
00:29:17.160 That's supposed to be how America works.
00:29:18.620 So this is the focus on the Judiciary Committee, the political nature of the Justice Department and the linkage now to what was happening with the Hunter Biden story.
00:29:27.240 Again, just 15 days before we have a presidential election.
00:29:33.160 You know, you look at the president.
00:29:34.560 He announces, former President Trump, he's going to run.
00:29:37.400 And they immediately say, OK, watch this.
00:29:38.880 We're going to have a special prosecutor.
00:29:40.480 We still do not have a special prosecutor for all of the crimes that have been laid out.
00:29:44.580 James Comer made it very clear this week he's accusing now Joe Biden of committing major crimes.
00:29:51.900 And you have now this dynamic where the DOJ and the FBI are saying, you don't screw with us.
00:29:56.360 You don't call us out.
00:29:57.620 We'll come after you. 0.99
00:29:58.740 We'll come raid your house. 1.00
00:29:59.660 We don't care if you're a former president or not.
00:30:01.580 You don't ever call us out at the top leadership.
00:30:05.420 Well, look, what Jim Jordan is saying there is exactly right.
00:30:07.960 And as you know, it's the topic of my brand new book, Justice Corrupted, How the Left Has Weaponized the Legal System.
00:30:13.940 Barack Obama did this.
00:30:16.360 He turned the Department of Justice and the FBI into his partisan enforcers.
00:30:22.040 And he appointed people.
00:30:23.180 He appointed attorneys general Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, who were perfectly happy to be brazenly political.
00:30:30.920 And the FBI, they now use the FBI as their stormtroopers.
00:30:35.540 And I got to tell you, by the way, Ben, I hear all the time.
00:30:38.000 This past week, I heard from an FBI agent who pulled me aside and said, look, there are so many of us, so many agents who are so upset about what's happening to the FBI that it's being turned political and we're horrified.
00:30:51.960 But this agent also told me they were afraid to speak out.
00:30:57.260 They didn't want to lose their job.
00:30:58.680 And they said, look, I feel like if I say anything, I'll be fired.
00:31:03.700 It is a culture of intimidation.
00:31:06.180 It is a culture of hard partisans.
00:31:08.700 And I got to say, I'm very glad that Jim Jordan in the House are going to investigate the politicization of the Department of Justice and the FBI because they are trying to influence election.
00:31:19.780 Let's be clear.
00:31:20.660 They know what they're doing.
00:31:21.780 They know that when they, as the FBI did, when they ask Facebook, please suppress any discussion of Hunter Biden's laptop before the 2020 election, they say, this looks like Russian disinformation.
00:31:37.260 Well, it wasn't Russian disinformation.
00:31:38.460 It was true. 0.75
00:31:39.480 It was factual.
00:31:40.560 And they knew that.
00:31:42.240 But they knew that it was politically harmful to Joe Biden.
00:31:44.880 And the oligarchs and big tech said, more than happy to comply.
00:31:49.460 The FBI should not be influencing elections.
00:31:52.140 The DOJ should not be influencing elections.
00:31:54.360 And Merrick Garland is the most corrupt attorney general we've ever seen in terms of being willing to corrupt the Department of Justice and FBI and use them as political weapons.
00:32:07.660 And the fact that his response, Donald Trump announced for president, OK, I'm appointing a special prosecutor.
00:32:15.560 We're going to indict you.
00:32:17.340 That's politics.
00:32:18.320 It's not justice.
00:32:19.000 I go back to Garland.
00:32:20.340 You and I mentioned this the other day, but I think it's worth revisiting.
00:32:23.920 Garland is a guy that was very upset because he truly believes now he should be on the Supreme Court.
00:32:28.900 He understands.
00:32:29.740 Very glad he's not.
00:32:30.420 Yeah.
00:32:30.620 I mean, very glad he's not.
00:32:31.900 But he's very angry.
00:32:33.340 And it's like it's an obsession.
00:32:35.580 I believe he's gone to the point of being a psychopath where it's like, all right, you guys didn't let me have my vote.
00:32:41.260 You didn't let me get on the Supreme Court.
00:32:43.640 There's going to be hell to pay forever and ever and ever.
00:32:46.580 Amen.
00:32:47.040 As long as I have this opportunity to stick it to you and I'm going to come out and I'm going to do everything I can to undermine you as a party or anybody in the Republican Party that gets in my way.
00:32:57.440 So I'm going to press back on you a little bit.
00:32:59.580 I wouldn't use a word like psychopath.
00:33:01.480 I think it's a combination of things.
00:33:05.760 I don't know Merrick Garland.
00:33:06.860 I've met him a couple of times, but I don't know him very well personally.
00:33:10.720 I think he's a weak man.
00:33:13.560 I think he's unwilling to stand up to the partisan hacks in the White House.
00:33:18.340 So you think it's more of a top down thing?
00:33:19.840 I think the White House is the corruption that the fish rots from the head. 0.89
00:33:24.720 It is the Biden White House that is fundamentally corrupt.
00:33:27.820 But I do think Merrick Garland is different from an Eric Holder or a Loretta Lynch who were deep partisans.
00:33:34.920 I actually think Garland justifies to himself what he's doing.
00:33:40.900 I think he believes he's not being partisan.
00:33:43.780 Wow.
00:33:44.040 I think he's drunk the Kool-Aid so much that he's someone who's very self-righteous.
00:33:50.680 And does he have a grievance because he was denied the Supreme Court?
00:33:57.300 Yes.
00:33:57.900 Are his feelings hurt deeply?
00:33:59.900 I'm sure, although I'm not an armchair psychologist, even though we're sitting in armchairs.
00:34:05.420 I don't know.
00:34:06.400 I ain't a shrink.
00:34:08.040 But my sense of it, you look at something like something we've discussed at great length, using the FBI to target parents who speak up at school boards.
00:34:18.060 I think the Biden White House told him to do it, and he just was happy to roll over, and he justified to himself, well, it's just fine.
00:34:26.900 I'm just asking them to investigate, and there's nothing about that.
00:34:31.420 I think he is fundamentally a weak man who will not push back against anything the White House demands.
00:34:38.200 And you've got to understand, it's not just the AG.
00:34:41.060 There are all these hard partisans that are burrowed into senior positions at the Department of Justice, senior positions at the FBI who are driving partisan outcomes.
00:34:50.360 And I think Merrick Garland is all too happy to comply.
00:34:53.280 And the consequence, I believe, and I detail this in my book, Justice Corrupted, Merrick Garland has done more to undermine the integrity of the Department of Justice than any attorney general in history.
00:35:08.780 And included within that is John Mitchell, who was Nixon's attorney general, who resigned in disgrace and went to prison.
00:35:15.100 Let's talk about the strategy of Republicans in the House.
00:35:18.100 I've got to give them some credit so far.
00:35:20.420 A lot of times we get power and we screw it up.
00:35:22.800 We've seen it happen over and over again.
00:35:24.320 We don't go all in like Democrats do.
00:35:26.540 The way that Jim Jordan's came out, the way that James Comer came out, James is doing something I think that's very interesting.
00:35:32.340 He's actually saying here are crimes we believe that the president was a part of.
00:35:36.080 Take a look.
00:35:36.540 Whistleblowers describe President Biden as chairman of the board for these businesses.
00:35:41.340 He personally participated in meetings and phone calls.
00:35:44.980 Documents show that he was a partner with access to an office.
00:35:49.720 To be clear, Joe Biden is the big guy.
00:35:55.240 This evidence raises troubling questions about whether President Biden is a national security risk
00:35:59.960 and about whether he is compromised by foreign governments.
00:36:04.240 Despite the president's claim that he wasn't involved in Biden family business schemes,
00:36:09.040 these photos show Joe Biden meeting with his family associates while vice president.
00:36:14.760 I mean, he was selling out the White House the entire time when he had access to as the vice president.
00:36:20.040 Clearly, I think he's doing the exact same thing now.
00:36:22.140 But is he a threat, do you believe, to our national security based on the way that he described it?
00:36:26.840 Yeah, of course he is.
00:36:28.140 And let me commend Comer and how the House is starting to begin these investigations
00:36:32.840 because the focus needs to be on Joe Biden.
00:36:36.180 This is not about Hunter Biden any more than if you're going after the mafia
00:36:42.280 and you catch some low-level enforcer or you're going after a drug cartel
00:36:48.540 and you catch some mule who swallowed balloons full of heroin.
00:36:52.920 It's not about the poor schlub who got caught.
00:36:57.420 Yeah.
00:36:57.520 It's about the boss.
00:36:59.800 It's about the big guy.
00:37:01.060 It's about the godfather.
00:37:02.980 Joe Biden is the godfather.
00:37:05.580 He is the one who ultimately is profiting on this corruption.
00:37:10.560 He is the one who is abusing official authority
00:37:14.340 to further the criminal activity of his family members.
00:37:19.840 And that's why this is an issue of public corruption.
00:37:22.460 So DOJ, going back again to the politicization of DOJ, they desperately want to keep this on.
00:37:28.520 Oh, look, Hunter Biden has a drug problem.
00:37:31.320 You know what?
00:37:32.300 We wouldn't be talking about it if it was just one deeply troubled soul.
00:37:37.020 The reason we should talk about it and the reason why the corporate media and the Democrats
00:37:42.100 desperately don't want to talk about it is there is now growing evidence of corruption
00:37:47.960 from Joe Biden himself when he was vice president of the United States
00:37:52.840 and now when he's president of the United States
00:37:54.920 personally enriching himself, enriching his family
00:37:58.320 by selling official favors to enemies, hostile foreign governments.
00:38:05.240 That is an issue of highest importance.
00:38:09.960 And the Democrats and the media desperately want to cover it up.
00:38:12.880 50 different countries they were trying to do business in.
00:38:15.340 And I was shocked by that number coming from whistleblowers.
00:38:18.360 All those backed up now by the emails from the bag man and Hunter Biden, James Biden.
00:38:24.000 This wasn't just Russia and just China and just Ukraine.
00:38:28.500 50 different nations basically means you go out and you just throw hooks in the water 0.96
00:38:34.320 anywhere you can to get your hands on some cash.
00:38:36.900 And whoever's willing to basically play the game, the Biden game,
00:38:42.000 give us money.
00:38:42.900 We'll give you access.
00:38:43.880 What do you want?
00:38:44.700 How much?
00:38:45.280 I didn't even think it could get this bad.
00:38:47.040 And yet here we are talking about it.
00:38:48.380 50 nations as they just as they laid out this week.
00:38:50.980 Well, I think what is being laid out as the agenda for oversight in the House is incredibly important.
00:38:58.560 And you know what it also is?
00:39:00.300 It's an indictment of the Department of Justice because Merrick Garland doesn't want to look into any of that.
00:39:06.320 Because you know what?
00:39:07.460 He works for the big guy, too.
00:39:08.980 He's the political enforcer that pretends to be the cop.
00:39:12.600 And so somebody is focused on rule of law, and that's going to have to be the House of Representatives.
00:39:18.760 By the way, in the Senate, Senate Democrats on Judiciary Committee have zero interest.
00:39:23.340 They don't care what evidence there is of official corruption of Joe Biden.
00:39:29.080 They are partisans first, second, third and every day of the week.
00:39:32.660 You bring up corruption.
00:39:34.820 We've got to go into the cryptocurrency disaster.
00:39:38.180 Some people may say this is inside baseball.
00:39:40.040 I don't really care.
00:39:40.960 Here's why you should care.
00:39:42.980 You've got a guy who's young.
00:39:45.000 You have a guy that's literally been asked by Democrats to come to Washington and to help them regulate the cryptocurrency industry.
00:39:53.520 He happens to become the second largest donor of anyone in this last cycle that we just had, the midterm elections, as a donor of the Democratic Party.
00:40:02.800 Who was number one?
00:40:03.640 I don't even know who number one was.
00:40:05.040 George Soros.
00:40:05.320 George Soros.
00:40:05.840 There you go.
00:40:06.340 So he barely, you know, doesn't beat out George Soros.
00:40:10.340 But he, out of nowhere, becomes the second largest donor.
00:40:12.880 He also planned to, quote, in his words, be a billionaire donor to the Democratic Party in 2024.
00:40:20.720 Let me tweak that slightly.
00:40:22.040 It's not a billionaire donor.
00:40:24.120 It is to donate over $1 billion to electing Democrats in 2024.
00:40:31.680 Yeah.
00:40:31.780 You know, he put over $10 million in Joe Biden's campaign.
00:40:35.120 Sam Bankman-Fried, the evidence right now that is coming out is incredibly damning.
00:40:40.280 It is evidence that suggests a Bernie Madoff-style fraud, an Enron-style fraud that cost investors billions of dollars.
00:40:49.900 And he, in turn, invested quite wisely in supporting Democrat politicians who would essentially greenwash what he's doing.
00:41:01.000 Because they like his money, they would give cover for him.
00:41:05.300 Now, there will be countless lawsuits.
00:41:08.640 There will be investigations.
00:41:10.440 And if the evidence backs up what seems to be the case right now, that it was fraud, that it was deliberate fraud, I assume he is going to be prosecuted for engaging in fraud.
00:41:21.840 My question to you right now, is Joe Biden going to return the cash?
00:41:26.260 Over $10 million to Joe Biden, to the big guy.
00:41:29.860 Now, mind you, the big guy is willing to take cash from communist China.
00:41:34.640 The big guy is willing to take cash from countries all over the world.
00:41:37.360 Is the big guy willing to take cash from someone right now with serious, credible evidence of massive fraud that caused billions of dollars of harm?
00:41:50.080 And every other Democrat who cashed the checks, will they give it back?
00:41:55.880 And I'll tell you what, don't give it back to him.
00:41:58.060 Give it to the victims of the fraud.
00:41:59.620 Yeah.
00:42:00.180 Let's start with Joe Biden saying, I was wrong to take $10 million and I'm going to give it to the people who got screwed. 0.59
00:42:09.240 And by the way, who are some of the people that got screwed?
00:42:11.560 There were pension funds that invested with FTX. 0.94
00:42:14.240 That means they're little old ladies. 1.00
00:42:15.800 That means they're people whose savings were damaged.
00:42:21.480 And Joe Biden and the Democrats were complicit in it.
00:42:24.120 Will they give the money back?
00:42:26.000 And I'll give you one response to that.
00:42:28.180 Don't hold your breath.
00:42:29.200 Yeah.
00:42:29.620 Even Maxine Waters, she brought him into the house.
00:42:33.440 There's video that now has gone viral that we've been able to find. 0.99
00:42:36.380 And I want to play this because this is literally her looking at the scumbag, blowing him a kiss. 0.99
00:42:41.420 It's a guy that's advising her on how to regulate or should they not regulate the cryptocurrency industry. 0.97
00:42:48.240 Take a look at this.
00:42:49.240 Her blowing him a kiss and just saying, oh, we love you so much.
00:42:53.680 Thanks for coming out.
00:42:54.760 There she is on the left.
00:42:55.680 You see him with the big hair on the right.
00:42:57.300 Blow a kiss.
00:43:00.080 Thanks for coming.
00:43:00.880 She's asked, by the way, because she got a lot of his cash.
00:43:04.200 She was asked by a reporter, hey, are you going to give away back this money that he gave you?
00:43:08.320 And look at her response.
00:43:09.760 Do you think some lawmakers that got donations from FTX's founder should give that money back?
00:43:14.960 Well, I don't want to get into that.
00:43:16.280 I don't want to get into that.
00:43:17.900 No, of course she doesn't.
00:43:18.560 I'm sure she doesn't want to get into it.
00:43:19.900 Obviously not.
00:43:20.840 I wouldn't want to talk about it either if I were her.
00:43:23.160 When you've been taking cash from someone who has been implicated as front and center in a massive fraud, it's not good to be funded by them.
00:43:32.940 And I want to I want to highlight something.
00:43:35.020 So Sam Bankman Freed, perhaps unintentionally, has been really explicit in admitting the complete fraud that ESG and all of these lefty woke policies are in in the business world today.
00:43:52.140 And he recently had a series of direct messages with a reporter.
00:43:57.300 So he's in Bahamas at his company headquarters in Bahamas.
00:44:00.220 And the reporter says, quote, you were really good at talking about ethics for someone who kind of saw it all as a game with winners and losers.
00:44:10.700 And here's Sam Bankman Freed's response.
00:44:13.980 Yeah.
00:44:15.440 He he.
00:44:16.960 I had to be.
00:44:18.280 It's what reputations are made of, to some extent.
00:44:23.360 I feel bad for those who get effed by it, although he didn't abbreviate effed. 0.88
00:44:29.800 But this dumb game, we woke Westerners play where we say all the right shibboleths. 0.95
00:44:39.180 And so everyone likes us. 0.97
00:44:41.140 I want to read that again, because that is one of the most candid statements.
00:44:46.580 At least he's honest. 0.93
00:44:48.280 By this dumb game, we woke Westerners play where we say all the right shibboleths. 0.96
00:44:59.480 So everyone likes us. 0.98
00:45:01.420 Look, Harvey Weinstein did this.
00:45:03.220 Yeah. 1.00
00:45:03.680 I'm sexually assaulting and raping women. 1.00
00:45:05.640 But you know what? 1.00
00:45:06.360 I give to Bill Clinton and Democrats.
00:45:07.860 So I got to be all right.
00:45:09.500 That's what Sam Bankman Freed was doing.
00:45:11.280 It was paying protection.
00:45:12.560 When he cut $10 million to the Biden campaign, it's 10 percent of the big guy.
00:45:18.720 And by the way, Sam Bankman Freed was making $20, $30 billion.
00:45:23.040 At one point, he was worth $20 billion personally, now bankrupt.
00:45:26.240 But he was worth this.
00:45:27.460 It reminds me of Narcos.
00:45:29.020 You and I have talked about this.
00:45:30.480 You pay everybody in the government.
00:45:32.020 So the government lets you keep selling your drugs.
00:45:34.640 He is just having to be a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme.
00:45:37.460 And it wasn't just money directly.
00:45:40.320 I think this is important.
00:45:42.700 Bankman Freed and his co-founders also donated over $300,000 to nine lawmakers of the House
00:45:47.900 Financial Services Committee, which is charged with regulating him, in essence, who are now
00:45:53.320 investigating the company for wrongdoing, having a press conference about it.
00:45:57.620 But Maxine doesn't want to get into that.
00:45:59.620 Yeah, doesn't want to get into that.
00:46:00.520 And also donated $5 million to a super PAC outside of direct contributions, a super PAC
00:46:06.580 that supported Biden in 2020.
00:46:08.660 So $5 million went to elect Joe Biden in 2020.
00:46:13.100 And then another $40 million this cycle alone, largely to Democrats.
00:46:18.440 He contributed $6 million to the House Majority PAC, Democrats, $1 million to the House Senate
00:46:24.420 Majority PAC, and nearly $900,000 to the Democratic National Committee.
00:46:30.540 That isn't even just, that's not even all of who he gave money to, but that's just some
00:46:34.120 of the highlights.
00:46:34.960 His mom helps run a giant dark money Democrat fund as well.
00:46:40.540 So that's the money you know about it.
00:46:42.120 It's not the additional money that he was giving.
00:46:44.760 And this is not different from paying protection funds.
00:46:48.540 And he admits that.
00:46:50.020 He admits he doesn't even believe all of his woke posturing.
00:46:53.620 But Democrats and the corrupt media, and they treated him, you know, CNBC described him
00:47:00.600 as the next Steve Jobs, the next Warren Buffett.
00:47:03.440 I mean, they, because he embraced lefty causes, they gave him protection.
00:47:10.220 And the guy who started Barstool Sports, he's pretty flamboyant, pretty blunt, does some
00:47:15.600 great pizza reviews.
00:47:17.440 He went on Fox News Channel this week and basically called out the media and the Democratic 0.99
00:47:22.020 establishment saying, if you guys don't report on this story, you're pretty much all scumbags 0.98
00:47:27.660 and a part of it because we all knew it was happening. 0.98
00:47:30.420 And he says, look, I'm involved in gambling and online gambling, for goodness sakes.
00:47:34.000 But I'm regulated to the hills.
00:47:35.980 They know everything I've invested in, where all my money goes.
00:47:38.640 And this is what he had to say about the Democrats and the media.
00:47:41.400 The thing that's shocking to me, and I'm in the gambling field, we're rigorously regulated.
00:47:46.540 Like, they know what I did 20 years ago.
00:47:48.340 Yes.
00:47:49.040 Everything.
00:47:49.760 If I do one thing weird, I hear about it.
00:47:52.580 There's companies writing articles.
00:47:54.420 We knew this guy was in the Bahamas.
00:47:56.020 Why?
00:47:56.400 Because it's unregulated.
00:47:57.680 Living in basically a Paul and Morris penthouse with like 20 people who were all having sex 0.68
00:48:03.940 with each other running this.
00:48:05.760 And it was well known.
00:48:07.120 I mean, if somebody did that in the United States, and meanwhile, he's cavorting with
00:48:11.240 politicians at the highest level of government.
00:48:13.860 The fact he wasn't investigated, to me, just shows what a lot of this country is all about.
00:48:20.060 People are just trying to make money.
00:48:21.280 They're being dishonest.
00:48:22.160 They're saying the right things to make money.
00:48:23.780 And he's lining everybody's pockets.
00:48:25.680 It wasn't obvious to me.
00:48:26.960 But if you're meeting with Gensler, and you're meeting with politicians, I don't know how
00:48:32.020 in a million years, they didn't know that.
00:48:35.040 He's obviously mad.
00:48:36.280 It goes back to the text messages that you read a moment ago.
00:48:38.540 How candid this guy's being.
00:48:39.660 He's like, look, I know the game.
00:48:41.080 I go to dinner with Democrats.
00:48:42.480 I hang out with Democrats.
00:48:44.000 They look the other way.
00:48:45.420 I get to live like I'm a billionaire in a Ponzi scheme, and they'll never figure it out.
00:48:49.480 Look, it is like Jeffrey Epstein.
00:48:51.060 Jeffrey Epstein, who was an original FOB friend to Bill, flew Bill Clinton repeatedly on the
00:48:56.760 Lolita Express. 0.98
00:48:57.840 Now, Jeffrey Epstein, we now know of his repeated pedophilia and sex with children. 0.87
00:49:05.060 And, you know, it was a massive Democrat fundraiser.
00:49:09.200 And yet, how is it that we don't have the client book?
00:49:12.900 Still to this day.
00:49:13.800 Look, we need to know the clients.
00:49:15.400 And you know why?
00:49:16.480 Because they don't want the clients made public.
00:49:19.740 They don't want them prosecuted because if you say the right things to Democrats in
00:49:25.660 the media, they'll cover up for you.
00:49:27.120 It's the same business.
00:49:28.660 Do you know what Jeffrey Epstein had in, I think it was the living room of his New York
00:49:33.680 Brownstone?
00:49:35.580 What was it?
00:49:36.160 He had a giant oil painting of Bill Clinton wearing a blue dress and high heels.
00:49:42.380 It's really quite a traumatic image.
00:49:44.060 It's not something, if you see it, you'll want to burn your eyes with bleach.
00:49:47.860 But he had it hanging on his wall.
00:49:52.260 You know, I'm reminded of a judiciary committee hearing where John Kennedy, my good friend,
00:50:00.980 with one heck of a sense of humor, he leans forward and he goes, Christmas tree ornaments
00:50:05.640 and Jeffrey Epstein.
00:50:07.960 Two things you know didn't hang themselves.
00:50:11.020 There it is.
00:50:12.620 Last question for you.
00:50:13.940 If the Democratic Party doesn't give back the money and the Democratic candidates that
00:50:19.160 took money.
00:50:20.060 And if we have a real media, they will call on the Democrats, put up the numbers, put
00:50:24.560 up every dollar each Democrat has had, and they will ask them like they did, like Fox
00:50:29.300 asked Maxine Waters.
00:50:31.300 But where's CNN?
00:50:32.120 Where's MSNBC?
00:50:33.320 She goes on those shows all the time.
00:50:35.160 Shouldn't the opening question, any time a Democrat who's cashed those checks goes on
00:50:39.580 the show, shouldn't the opening question, come on, CNN, let's see your great courage.
00:50:44.060 Opening question, are you giving back the money?
00:50:45.940 Why not?
00:50:46.400 How much is it?
00:50:47.220 Why haven't they asked to have the DNC?
00:50:48.200 I mean, this is not a little bit of money.
00:50:49.460 This is a lot of money that went to the Democratic National Committee.
00:50:52.140 If they don't give back this money, are they in essence complicit in this Ponzi scheme,
00:50:56.840 in your opinion?
00:50:57.800 Yes.
00:50:58.500 There it is.
00:50:59.480 I think it's a great way to end the show today.
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