Verdict with Ted Cruz - April 14, 2023


White House Whistleblower - Alleges Job Biden Committed Criminal Acts in front of Him


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Former White House stenographer Mike McCormick files a whistleblower complaint with the FBI alleging that former Vice President Joe Biden conspired with his son Hunter to enrich himself and his family in a kickback scheme. Senator Ted Cruz reacts to the allegations.

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00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
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00:00:05.240 Welcome.
00:00:06.040 It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz.
00:00:08.140 Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:09.320 Senator, the headline that basically no one's seen because the media has run away from it
00:00:15.880 is an ex-Obama staffer, a stenographer, has blown the whistle on Hunter Biden,
00:00:24.320 Joe Biden, and a kickback scheme.
00:00:27.180 His words after Hunter joined Burisma, he said this was, quote, malfeasance in office.
00:00:34.760 And I'm going to play for everyone what he said.
00:00:37.940 But he says he has reached out to the FBI and he has heard nothing for them from them as a whistleblower.
00:00:45.120 Your initial reaction.
00:00:48.680 Well, I think it's a very concerning allegation.
00:00:51.600 It is an allegation with significant indicia of credibility.
00:00:55.420 This individual worked in the White House for 15 years.
00:00:59.240 He was a stenographer.
00:01:01.340 He was on Air Force Two with then Vice President Joe Biden.
00:01:06.940 And he has filed a formal complaint, a whistleblower complaint with the FBI.
00:01:12.260 The FBI has ignored him.
00:01:14.680 Here's what this individual, the Obama White House official, Mike McCormick, said, quote,
00:01:19.660 quote, in February, I went to the FBI and filed one of their tips on their website.
00:01:24.800 If you do that and you're lying to them, you go to jail.
00:01:29.220 I'm not lying.
00:01:30.520 I'm telling the truth and I'm not going to jail.
00:01:32.960 And he continued saying, quote, Joe Biden is a criminal.
00:01:37.480 He was conducting malfeasance in office to enrich his family.
00:01:41.660 Jake Sullivan, who's the current national security advisor, is a conspirator in that.
00:01:47.760 And there's more Obama officials involved in it, I believe.
00:01:52.500 Here, listen to what he said describing his whistleblower complaint that the entire corporate
00:01:57.840 media is ignoring.
00:01:59.080 In time, a former Obama White House official says he wants to testify to a federal grand
00:02:04.820 jury because he says he has information about then Vice President Joe Biden's role in his
00:02:10.700 son Hunter's business.
00:02:12.600 But he says the FBI has been ignoring him.
00:02:15.720 Former Obama stenographer Mike McCormick joins us now.
00:02:19.000 Mike, thanks for being here.
00:02:20.020 You say you are a witness to a crime.
00:02:23.360 Walk us through why you say that.
00:02:26.440 Yes.
00:02:27.040 Hi, Ashley.
00:02:27.720 Hi, Todd.
00:02:28.200 Thanks for having me.
00:02:29.140 Sure.
00:02:30.000 So in April 2014, I was in Air Force Two with Joe Biden and Jake Sullivan.
00:02:38.340 At the time, no one knew that Hunter Biden was already on the board of Burisma Holdings,
00:02:44.820 the natural gas conglomerate from Ukraine.
00:02:48.380 Joe Biden is directing Jake Sullivan in the front of the plane what to say to the press.
00:02:53.920 My job as a stenographer on the plane is to record what the vice president or a senior
00:02:58.920 administration official says to the press.
00:03:01.480 So I'm sitting back there with a tape recorder.
00:03:04.460 Jake Sullivan comes back and somebody asked him about fracking.
00:03:07.940 His answer is, well, we're bringing a lot of American assistance over for fracking.
00:03:13.480 Burisma was the direct beneficiary of that fracking.
00:03:17.640 And that's what I recorded.
00:03:20.160 And that's in a White House transcript.
00:03:22.920 In the transcript, you don't know who Jake Sullivan is.
00:03:25.740 It's a senior administration official.
00:03:27.820 I'm the witness that says Jake Sullivan is the guy who said it.
00:03:31.840 And he should be investigated because, at the time, Hunter Biden was on the board of Burisma.
00:03:39.500 And Joe Biden is bringing American taxpayer money to enrich that company and himself and his family.
00:03:47.500 Senator, you hear this.
00:03:49.560 He says it's in a transcript.
00:03:51.920 He's the stenographer that did the transcript.
00:03:54.840 People don't realize a senior level, you know, White House staffer is Jake Sullivan.
00:03:59.620 How damning is this evidence and testimony, in essence, whistleblowing from a man that clearly had been there in the room and had been doing this for more than a decade?
00:04:11.480 Well, it's extremely concerning on multiple levels.
00:04:14.400 On one level, this is a White House official who is sitting on Air Force Two with the vice president and with the individual Jake Sullivan,
00:04:24.340 who is right now the national security advisor to Joe Biden, the president.
00:04:28.480 He is alleging criminal conduct by both of them.
00:04:33.300 On the face of it, that's got that's got real force.
00:04:37.320 But you then go to the next step, which is that he raised this to the FBI months ago.
00:04:44.480 And he says the FBI hasn't talked to him, hasn't interviewed him, hasn't put him before a grand jury, has had zero interest in what he has to say.
00:04:54.820 Now, pause and reflect.
00:04:56.240 The last podcast you and I did, we talked about how the FBI is placing undercover agents inside of Catholic churches to spy on Catholics who are people of faith and are religious.
00:05:11.580 They've got the time and resources, apparently, to try to infiltrate the Catholic church and try to flip clergy to spy on their parishioners for them.
00:05:22.660 But the Biden Department of Justice apparently has zero time to even talk to a 15 year White House veteran alleging criminal conduct.
00:05:36.800 That is truly stunning.
00:05:38.600 It is dismaying.
00:05:39.500 And I got to say, look, this reminds me of a lot of the topics we cover on verdict, because in any sane world, this would be on the six o'clock news.
00:05:50.460 In any sane world, you wouldn't be hearing about this for the first time right now on this podcast.
00:05:57.280 Now, maybe you watched Fox and Friends this week.
00:06:00.360 And so you saw the interview.
00:06:01.280 That's about the only other place you'd hear this, because if you watch CNN, this whistleblower doesn't exist.
00:06:07.960 If you watch MSNBC, nothing to see here.
00:06:10.480 ABC, NBC, CBS.
00:06:14.160 They do not cover news.
00:06:16.360 This also.
00:06:17.820 Look, we've talked at length about the Biden Department of Justice under Merrick Garland, and they have leaked that they're investigating Hunter Biden.
00:06:25.640 The relevant question has always been, is that investigation to hold Hunter out as a scapegoat and make it about his personal substance abuse issues?
00:06:37.560 Or are they willing to examine the corruption that implicates his father?
00:06:41.540 The fact that they won't even talk to this witness, it tells you something really powerful, that this is, sadly, an incredibly political Department of Justice that has no interest in even beginning to examine the growing pile of evidence of corruption by the current president of the United States.
00:07:03.140 This reminds me, Senator, and I want to play this real quick.
00:07:07.140 It reminds me of Tony Bobulinski, when he came out as a whistleblower right before the election.
00:07:13.320 And then finally, because he came out as a whistleblower, the FBI said, all right, come on in.
00:07:18.580 We want to talk to you.
00:07:20.260 And they did nothing with what he told them after the fact.
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00:08:50.100 Senator Tony Bobulinski, when he sat down and did one of his first big interviews, it wasn't that he was just confirming everything that Hunter Biden did.
00:08:58.120 He was confirming who the big guy was.
00:09:00.200 He was confirming these business deals with CEFE.
00:09:03.220 And he did these interviews because the FBI wasn't doing their job.
00:09:06.860 I didn't generate that email.
00:09:08.820 James Gilliard generated that email.
00:09:11.080 And in that email, James Gilliard goes through intimate detail of what each individual's requests were from a compensation perspective and how the equity in the enterprise would be divvied up.
00:09:24.140 Very important.
00:09:25.440 May 13th.
00:09:26.660 That email was generated by somebody else to me.
00:09:28.900 In that email, there's a statement where they go through the equity.
00:09:34.560 Jim Biden's referenced as, you know, 10 percent.
00:09:37.240 Doesn't say Biden.
00:09:38.180 It says Jim.
00:09:39.040 And then it has 10 percent for the big guy held by H. 0.91
00:09:42.440 I 1,000 percent sit here and know that the big guy is referencing Joe Biden.
00:09:49.000 It's that's crystal clear to me because I lived it.
00:09:52.080 I met with the former vice president in person multiple times.
00:09:55.460 And I had been meeting and talking with Hunter Biden and Jim Biden and Rob Walker and James Gilliard.
00:10:01.980 Where the media has tried to hide, and I personally feel it's disgusting, is between that May 13th email and the final document that was executed called Oneida Holdings LLC.
00:10:14.860 In Oneida Holdings LLC, the equity is broken up 20 percent Hunter Biden, 20 percent Jim Biden.
00:10:24.060 Well, there are LLCs that represented them.
00:10:27.240 Right.
00:10:27.620 20 percent James Gilliard, 20 percent Rob Walker, and 20 percent me and my investment entity.
00:10:35.400 What I'd ask the American people to read and look at is how from May 13th to the final Oneida document that got executed, did Jim Biden go from a 10 percent owner to a 20 percent owner?
00:10:48.400 I mean, Senator, these are two people with very clear specifics.
00:10:52.580 Tony Bobulinski whistleblowed.
00:10:54.180 He meets with the FBI.
00:10:55.480 The FBI agent who was supposed to be his, quote, point of contact, we now know as a disgraced FBI agent who did nothing but actually try to say that this was a smear campaign against the Bidens and to shut it down as disinformation.
00:11:08.940 What Tony Bobulinski said.
00:11:10.600 Now you got a stenographer saying I witnessed a crime and I can tell you there was other officials there that witnessed it, too.
00:11:17.880 I'm the one that did the notes and the FBI doesn't even talk to him.
00:11:22.080 Well, and it's worth underscoring that both of these witnesses are serious, credible whistleblowers.
00:11:29.020 Bobulinski was business partners with Hunter Biden, with Joe Biden's brothers.
00:11:33.540 He was actively involved in these business organizations, and he's testifying about the crime he witnessed firsthand.
00:11:41.860 This stenographer spent 15 years in the White House.
00:11:45.100 He wasn't out on the periphery.
00:11:46.900 He was sitting on Air Force Two with Joe Biden, with Jake Sullivan.
00:11:51.000 And the fact that under Merrick Garland, the Department of Justice has zero interest in hearing this, they're like the three monkeys, hear no evil, see no evil.
00:12:01.600 They do say evil, but they don't want to hear or see it.
00:12:06.020 And I got to say, it reminds me also of earlier allegations.
00:12:11.920 These are not new allegations of corruption and conflict of interest.
00:12:17.620 Hunter Biden and Joe Biden had been facing these allegations for a decade.
00:12:22.640 And I want to remind you back of questioning that I questioned George Kent.
00:12:30.460 Now, who is George Kent?
00:12:32.060 George Kent is currently the Biden ambassador to Estonia.
00:12:36.160 And George Kent has been a career Foreign Service officer, and he was the U.S. Deputy Chief of Mission in Ukraine from 2015 to 2018.
00:12:48.660 Now, George Kent had a moment of fame because he was a witness in Trump's impeachment, and he sat there with his bow tie expressing great dislike for Donald Trump.
00:13:00.540 And so the left got all excited about George Kent, but before he became a star witness in Trump's impeachment, George Kent had one brief moment of courage and clarity where he raised directly to the Obama White House his concerns about Hunter Biden's conflict of interest concerning Burisma.
00:13:25.880 The exact same topic, by the way, this new whistleblower is talking about, and I got to tell you, the reaction, that committee was chaired by Gene Shaheen, the Democrat from New Hampshire.
00:13:38.700 It was a subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and she did not want him to answer these questions.
00:13:45.040 We had some real fireworks.
00:13:46.380 And so, Ben, I think we're going to play the entire questioning.
00:13:50.700 It's extended, but I think it is worth revisiting because, like this whistleblower this week, the corrupt corporate media completely ignored it because if it doesn't fit their political narrative, it does not exist, and they refused to report on it.
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00:14:40.200 And this was back November 29th, 2022.
00:14:44.060 Here it is.
00:14:45.280 Thank you, Madam Chair.
00:14:46.140 Welcome to each of the witnesses.
00:14:48.520 Mr. Kent, you have been outspoken throughout your career speaking against corruption.
00:14:56.200 And I want to talk about corruption.
00:14:58.140 I want to talk in particular about corruption in the current administration.
00:15:02.500 And I have serious concerns about corruption of President Joe Biden that extends for considerable time, both his time as president and his time as vice president.
00:15:12.860 To take one obvious and troubling example, accounts linked to the Biden family's personal finances received millions of dollars through ties to CEFC China Energy.
00:15:25.440 This is where we get the infamous quote about 10 percent to the big guy from the Chinese communists.
00:15:32.640 But you've also been involved very directly with Ukraine and corruption in Ukraine.
00:15:39.080 And I will say you showed real courage speaking out against what I think was the very obvious concerns of corruption of Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, in Ukraine.
00:15:52.800 In particular, on November 13th, 2019, you testified to Congress that you had become concerned with Hunter Biden's status as a board member of the Ukrainian natural gas company, Burisma.
00:16:05.980 You said you had raised those concerns to the White House in February of 2015.
00:16:10.940 And in particular, what you said is I became aware that Hunter Biden was on the board of Burisma.
00:16:15.980 Soon after that, in a briefing call with the national security staff of the office of the vice president in February of 2015, I raised my concern that Hunter Biden's status as a board member could create a perception of a conflict of interest.
00:16:30.160 Tell me, why did you have this concern about, as you described, a perception of a conflict of interest?
00:16:35.000 Well, Senator, I can give you and every member of this committee my commitment that I will always raise concerns to members of any administration and to Congress when I have concerns.
00:16:49.760 And so I was made aware of information and I passed that along to the staff of the office of the vice president.
00:16:58.280 So why were you concerned? Why were you concerned about Hunter Biden being on the board of Burisma?
00:17:02.240 The issue at hand was the owner of the company, Zlochevsky, had awarded himself gas contracts.
00:17:10.500 And as I testified both in the impeachment hearings and in the Johnson-Grasley hearings of 2020, our concern was about the corrupt acts of Zlochevsky, the ex-minister.
00:17:22.740 And the FBI had been pursuing freezing his assets and it was in the interest of the United States to remain at the gold standard of our own actions.
00:17:34.740 So the Ukrainian oligarch who owned Burisma, there was very substantial evidence of corruption on his part.
00:17:40.900 And he named Hunter Biden to his board of directors.
00:17:44.560 To your knowledge, does Hunter Biden speak Ukrainian?
00:17:49.340 I've never talked to Hunter Biden, no.
00:17:52.500 To your knowledge, did he have any knowledge before serving on that board about anything concerning oil or natural gas?
00:17:59.180 I'm not aware of his EV.
00:18:01.680 To your knowledge, did Hunter Biden have any qualification whatsoever for that board job other than the fact that his daddy was the sitting vice president at the time?
00:18:10.920 Senator, no one consulted me about who was on the board of Burisma.
00:18:17.840 There was another American, Kofor Black, who was a former...
00:18:20.840 I asked a question.
00:18:21.880 To your knowledge, did Hunter Biden have any qualification to be on that board other than the job his daddy had at the moment?
00:18:28.900 I am not familiar with his resume, sir.
00:18:32.720 Okay.
00:18:33.220 He was paid $83,000 a month by this Ukrainian oligarch.
00:18:38.900 You're an expert in Ukraine.
00:18:40.220 Have you ever been paid $83,000 a month?
00:18:42.480 I'm a public servant, sir.
00:18:43.740 I've never served on a corporate board.
00:18:45.500 So does that mean, no, you haven't been paid $83,000 a month?
00:18:47.960 I have not been paid $83,000 a month, no, sir.
00:18:50.660 So, look, the concern here is not Hunter Biden's own problems, but rather it is official corruption from the then vice president of the United States, Joe Biden, and now the president of the United States, Joe Biden.
00:19:02.020 Let me ask you, while his son was on the board of Burisma making a million dollars a year, did Joe Biden do anything that benefited the corrupt oligarch who was paying his son a million dollars a year?
00:19:12.960 Vice President Biden led our efforts to fight corruption in Ukraine.
00:19:18.640 Let me ask you the question again.
00:19:20.120 Did Vice President Joe Biden do anything that benefited the corrupt oligarch who was paying his son a million dollars a year?
00:19:26.340 He did not.
00:19:27.220 He did not.
00:19:27.880 Well, it's interesting.
00:19:28.760 Someone who disagrees with you, Mr. Kent, is Joe Biden.
00:19:31.780 And I want to read from what he said on January 23rd, 2018 at the Council of Foreign Relations.
00:19:37.500 Quote, this is Joe Biden speaking.
00:19:39.720 And I went over, I guess, the 12th, 13th time to Kiev.
00:19:43.600 And I was supposed to announce that there was another billion dollar loan guarantee.
00:19:47.680 And I'd gotten a commitment from Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk that they would take action against the state prosecutor, the prosecutor that was investigating Burisma.
00:19:57.080 And they didn't.
00:19:59.020 So Biden continues.
00:20:00.620 I said, no, I'm not going to.
00:20:02.400 We're not going to give you the billion dollars.
00:20:04.280 They said, you have no authority.
00:20:05.660 You're not the president.
00:20:06.640 The president said, I said, call him.
00:20:09.240 I said, I'm telling you, you're not getting the billion dollars.
00:20:11.880 I said, you're not getting the billion dollars.
00:20:13.480 I'm going to be leaving here.
00:20:14.640 And I think it was about six hours.
00:20:16.100 I looked at them and said, I'm leaving here in six hours.
00:20:18.860 If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money. 1.00
00:20:23.760 Well, son of a bitch. 1.00
00:20:25.460 He got fired. 1.00
00:20:27.080 Let me ask you something.
00:20:28.420 Do you think Joe Biden holding a billion dollars hostage to force the Ukrainian government to fire the prosecutor that is investigating the corrupt oligarch who's paying his son a million dollars a year?
00:20:41.480 Did getting that prosecutor fired benefit that oligarch?
00:20:45.340 Thank you, Senator Cruz.
00:20:46.820 Senator Van Hollen.
00:20:47.320 Are you going to allow him to answer the question, Madam Chairman?
00:20:49.400 I am not going to allow him to answer the question.
00:20:51.420 Why are you covering for the vice president?
00:20:52.980 Do you not want to answer that question?
00:20:55.400 He said that the vice president does nothing to benefit the oligarch.
00:20:58.240 I think it's unfortunate for you, Senator Cruz, to put in position that are uncomfortable the nominees to be our ambassadors.
00:21:06.040 OK, this is because they have testimony.
00:21:08.220 This is sworn testimony.
00:21:09.480 I understand that you want to cover for the vice president.
00:21:12.180 And he already answered that he is going to raise those concerns any time he has responsibility.
00:21:15.140 Was his testimony true or false that Biden did nothing to benefit the oligarch?
00:21:19.180 I don't know what his testimony was.
00:21:19.600 Let him answer the question.
00:21:20.740 Why are you afraid of him answering the question?
00:21:22.820 I'm not.
00:21:23.380 I just want to move on.
00:21:24.480 But you won't let him answer it.
00:21:25.420 I asked a yes, no question.
00:21:27.300 Will you allow him to answer the yes, no question?
00:21:29.620 Yes.
00:21:29.940 You can answer yes or no.
00:21:31.160 Thank you.
00:21:32.120 The prosecutor who was fired by the Ukrainian parliament did nothing to investigate Slicevsky.
00:21:37.100 And everything that Vice President Biden, the State Department and the U.S. Embassy did acted in good faith to reduce corruption and help the Ukrainian people.
00:21:45.540 So firing him did not benefit the oligarch.
00:21:46.960 Thank you, Senator Cruz.
00:21:48.180 I mean, Senator, that is welcome to the Congress, right?
00:21:53.740 This is how much the Democrats will jump in to take fire on basic yes or no questions about the Biden corruption because they know how bad it is.
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00:23:13.960 Senator, your reaction, as I said it again a moment ago, I'll say it again.
00:23:18.800 Democrats will do anything to make sure the Bidens are protected from answering questions.
00:23:23.620 Well, that's exactly right.
00:23:25.580 You could see Gene Jahein desperately jump in there and not want him to answer the question.
00:23:30.760 By the way, the question is obvious.
00:23:32.400 Did firing the prosecutor who was investigating the corrupt oligarch who was paying Hunter Biden a million dollars a year, did that benefit the corrupt oligarch?
00:23:42.520 No kidding.
00:23:44.140 Duh.
00:23:45.020 And I got to say, look, Kent is perfectly happy to be a Democrat partisan.
00:23:50.400 So even though he raised it at the time, that little brief moment of courage went away.
00:23:56.100 And so he just tried to say, no, it was perfectly fine.
00:23:58.480 We saw nothing wrong with it now.
00:23:59.880 But it said it speaks volumes how desperate Shaheen was to get in and say, no, no, no, don't answer, don't answer, don't answer, don't answer with no substantive response.
00:24:12.520 By the way, in that hearing, no Democrat senator jumped in and said, oh, the facts are different.
00:24:20.420 Here's why that's wrong.
00:24:21.400 By the way, in that hearing, her comment was, I think it's wrong for you to make a nominee feel uncomfortable.
00:24:31.880 I'm sorry.
00:24:32.600 I thought the Constitution provided that the Senate has advice and consent.
00:24:39.180 And it becomes very clear she views her job as protecting the Biden White House from political problems.
00:24:48.000 Because if she didn't view it that way, any fair-minded senator would want the answer to that question.
00:24:57.300 When you've got a whistleblower who's raised serious concerns about corruption, the Senate ought to be concerned about them.
00:25:08.320 But today's Democrat senators, there's not a one of them who's concerned about them because their view is partisanship trumps everything else.
00:25:20.600 And I've got to say, part of the reason they can have that attitude is the rabid partisanship of the media.
00:25:28.640 Listen, if you're a Democrat senator and you hear this Q&A, in a normal world where you have a media reporting on what happens, you'd be a little reluctant to jump in and seem like you're eager to cover up the wrongdoing.
00:25:45.440 That is not a good look, to put it mildly.
00:25:48.920 But why is it that the Democrats are not worried about this?
00:25:52.920 Well, it's very simple.
00:25:54.460 Because they know, they know to a metaphysical certainty that CNN will never cover it, that MSNBC will never cover it, that the New York Times, the Washington Post, that the entire corrupt corporate media won't cover it because if it doesn't fit their political agenda, from their view, it doesn't exist.
00:26:14.560 Yeah, that goes back to Tony Bobulinski.
00:26:16.780 I mean, this is a guy that's an actually and a human being that did business with Hunter Biden, had multiple meetings with then Vice President Joe Biden, had meetings with James Biden.
00:26:28.680 He was involved in the Biden crime family.
00:26:31.880 And once he was involved, he got to see how it worked.
00:26:34.740 He knew who the big guy was.
00:26:36.260 And what did the FBI do?
00:26:38.480 They, after they met with him, they tried to shut it down where everything that Tony Bobulinski gave them could not be seen by anyone by saying, by labeling it as disinformation.
00:26:50.860 It's not just they sat down with him.
00:26:52.740 They then tried to cover up what he gave them.
00:26:55.060 Well, and contrast this to the behavior of the FBI, the behavior of the Department of Justice, and the behavior of the entire corrupt corporate media when it came to allegations against Donald Trump, when it came to the Steele dossier, something that was fantastical on its face.
00:27:14.060 Something that we now know was paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC, something that on the face of it, it was essentially rumors at a bar, some drunk guy going, well, you know, I think Trump is doing this.
00:27:30.000 And every scurrilous allegation, no matter how flimsy, no matter how not backed up by the facts, would be echoed on the front pages of the New York Times breathlessly.
00:27:44.640 And in contrast, look, these are witnesses.
00:27:49.800 Bobulinski was a business partner, was an active participant in what he is testifying is a criminal, essentially a criminal bribery scheme.
00:28:01.920 The stenographer was a White House employee for 15 years, was physically in the room with the vice president and today's national security advisors.
00:28:12.760 And yet, this is not news they're willing to cover.
00:28:17.980 And contrast the two, and let's be clear, the New York Times and the Washington Post both won Pulitzer Prizes for their false reporting on the Trump-Russia collusion that turned out not to be Russia collusion,
00:28:32.300 but that titillated the fantasies and made the hearts go pitter-pat of leftists.
00:28:40.220 And I've got to say, Ben, it's gotten particularly funny.
00:28:43.220 I don't know if you've seen that Saturday Night Live, which sadly is not funny very often anymore,
00:28:51.560 but SNL has done a mocking ad for what they call CNN Zen,
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00:30:47.740 This is the Saturday Night Live clip.
00:30:49.720 It's hilarious.
00:30:50.800 Here it is.
00:30:52.340 These days, it's hard not to feel stressed out and overwhelmed.
00:30:56.420 Sure, Trump got indicted.
00:30:57.660 But now everyone says the case against him is weak and that he'll never serve any jail time.
00:31:03.120 As someone whose entire personality is hating Donald Trump, you need more.
00:31:07.420 You need to feel calm and reassured.
00:31:09.460 You need the newest meditation app.
00:31:11.880 CN Zen.
00:31:13.120 You're looking up what suits even the most militant liberals with sensual details from Trump's arrest.
00:31:18.120 Featuring your favorite CNN anchors and correspondents.
00:31:20.920 He's the first American president to ever be indicted.
00:31:24.240 This is truly a historic and humiliating moment. 0.98
00:31:28.080 Trump is a sad, defeated man.
00:31:30.660 They made him come from Florida, where it's 80 degrees, to New York, where it's only 60 degrees. 0.71
00:31:36.320 How depressing for him.
00:31:37.980 And his motorcade wasn't even that big.
00:31:41.080 I thought it would be bigger, but it was so small.
00:31:45.780 Donald was all alone.
00:31:48.040 No family or friends to support him. 1.00
00:31:51.240 I shouldn't say this as a journalist, but what a loser. 0.98
00:31:56.220 Let New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman soothe you to sleep. 0.99
00:31:59.540 This is his worst nightmare, and he's really freaking out.
00:32:03.600 Because now he knows there are consequences.
00:32:06.860 Consequences.
00:32:07.420 You can also listen to clips of Trump and his allies desperately spiraling.
00:32:12.620 Please, Donald J. Trump is an innocent man, and he needs your help.
00:32:18.220 Send him all your money today at DonaldJTrumpRU slash fundraisingscam.guilty.
00:32:27.080 Trump's next court appearance won't be till at least December.
00:32:29.900 That's why CN Zen has a whole section of Trump indictment ASMR.
00:32:34.540 Can you hear him getting fingerprinted?
00:32:36.540 And the DA opening his big leather briefcase.
00:32:44.000 Ooh, and the little gavel from the judge.
00:32:47.340 I wonder if he'll even hear handcuffs.
00:32:51.160 With additional in-app purchases, like audio erotica of District Attorney Alvin Bragg reading all 34 felony counts.
00:33:00.620 Count one, falsifying business records in the first degree.
00:33:04.940 Count two, falsifying business records in the first degree.
00:33:09.620 Count three, falsifying business...
00:33:11.620 I hope his couch isn't as flimsy as the DA's case.
00:33:15.760 CN Zen.
00:33:16.880 Because you waited seven years for this indictment, and you want every delicious detail.
00:33:22.520 And what ethnicity is Trump's judge again?
00:33:26.260 Hispanic.
00:33:28.080 CN Zen.
00:33:29.320 In your mind, he's already in jail.
00:33:31.460 I mean, that may be one of my favorite skits from SNL Center ever, and I can't actually believe they did this.
00:33:42.840 Basically mocking the case, and also the psychos are obsessed with Donald Trump being indicted.
00:33:47.600 When even SNL is making fun of CNN and the corporate media for being utterly corrupt and in bed with Trump, you know it is obvious and undeniable.
00:34:00.560 Yeah, it's truly amazing.
00:34:02.900 I think it's a great point to leave on.
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