0:04

Every individual charged

0:06

in the indictment is charged

0:08

with one count of violating

0:11

Georgia's Racketeer Influenced

0:14

and Corrupt Organizations

0:16

Act through

0:19

participation in a criminal

0:21

enterprise in Fulton County,

0:23

Georgia, and elsewhere to

0:26

accomplish the illegal goal of

0:29

allowing Donald J. Trump

0:32

to seize the presidential term

0:34

of office beginning on

0:36

January 20th, 2021. Hey

0:41

everyone, welcome to

0:44

what is now the fourth

0:46

Gaslit Nation indictment special

0:49

in this red hot American summer. I'm

0:51

going to give you a quick rundown of this

0:54

latest indictment, but first I

0:56

just want to say hello

0:57

to our YouTube

0:59

viewers. Yes, Gaslit Nation

1:02

is doing YouTube videos

1:05

and that's important because

1:07

Elon Musk, apartheid Barbie,

1:10

has destroyed Gaslit

1:12

Nation's reach on Twitter. He came

1:15

in with whatever the fuck his whole like

1:17

far right boys club.

1:19

It's like a literal far right boys club. There's

1:22

been reporting on how some of these Nazi

1:24

influencers are being paid and so on and

1:26

is boosting their traffic and

1:28

suppressing stuff like ours that talks about

1:30

Ukraine and Russia. All those

1:33

topics that Elon Musk conveniently doesn't

1:35

want you to know about. So in

1:38

order to rebuild the traffic

1:40

we lost from the Elon Musk purchase of

1:42

Twitter, we are entering, venturing

1:45

in the brave world of YouTube,

1:48

TikTok and so on. How do

1:51

I feel about this? Well, as a mom

1:53

of two little girls who, you know,

1:55

is dealing with all sorts of stuff, the genocide

1:58

in Ukraine. I have somebody

1:59

my family home extremely emotionally dependent

2:02

on, close to, who is going

2:04

through a horrible, horrible time with

2:06

a terminal illness, has to be on oxygen

2:08

and so on. So the last thing I want to do

2:11

is appear before you on

2:13

camera. Really the last thing I want.

2:15

But I also believe

2:18

that we have to reach, especially now, as

2:20

many people as possible and

2:23

my desire to do that, my determination

2:25

to do that, my determination to ensure

2:28

that democracy prevails in this election, that

2:31

people who are traitors to our country

2:33

do not win in this upcoming election. All

2:35

of that surpasses however the hell I might be failing.

2:38

I always believe that if you use your voice for

2:40

a higher purpose, that is what will carry you. That

2:43

is the wind in your sails. So just like

2:45

I don't always feel like picking up the phone and

2:47

phone banking, but I will do it. I will knock

2:49

out 100 phone calls in a day, I will

2:51

knock out 1000 phone calls in a midterm.

2:53

I

2:54

make those phone calls regardless

2:57

of how I feel, how tired I am, no matter

2:59

what else I rather be doing. So I'm sort of taking the

3:01

same approach to appearing on camera before

3:03

you. And I want you to take note

3:05

of my hair on this day, August 15, 2023, because

3:09

I have no doubt as we continue this, but

3:12

as we move along, this hair is going to

3:14

become like a full on hairsprayed Fox

3:17

News befant just for the hell of it, just for fun,

3:19

just to add a little bit of pepper

3:21

flakes into this

3:23

journey. All right, so let's get

3:25

to it. So Fannie Willis, the

3:28

opening clip that you heard was Nazi Hunter,

3:31

Fulton County Attorney General Fannie

3:33

Willis announcing the indictment of Donald

3:35

Trump

3:37

and 18 co-conspirators for a sprawling,

3:40

sprawling, organized crime operation,

3:43

trying to overthrow the results in

3:45

Georgia. As

3:46

I've been saying on the show, representation

3:49

matters. Fannie Willis, a black

3:51

woman, an expert in Rico,

3:54

surrounded by experts in Rico, came

3:57

in with a very.

3:59

very deeply

4:02

well done, well like strongly, strongly

4:06

baked indictment of

4:08

Mafia organized crime boss

4:10

Donald Trump and the reason why

4:12

it matters that a black woman is doing this

4:15

in Georgia, the heart of the civil

4:17

rights struggle is because

4:20

it's black communities, it's non-white communities,

4:23

it's communities that have always been scapegoated,

4:26

LGBTQ communities and so on that are

4:28

on the frontlines of fighting an existential

4:30

crisis right now and the reason

4:32

why so many other people have woken

4:35

up to what Trump is trying to do including Republicans,

4:37

including independents, is because

4:40

finally this authoritarian history

4:41

that built the United States of America is

4:43

impacting white people too. So that's why

4:45

you have this broad coalition and it's really

4:48

a reminder to us that diversity matters and representation

4:51

matters and I'm starting with that because

4:53

I want to highlight a gaslet nation listener,

4:56

we're gonna shift gears for a second because this is important,

4:58

this needs our attention.

4:59

Nicole Spear, a scientist

5:02

and a council member in Boulder, Colorado

5:05

is running

5:06

for mayor of Boulder right now.

5:09

She wrote back in the day that her

5:11

motivation to run for office in the first place,

5:13

which is extremely daunting thing to do and she won

5:16

her race, she wrote on Twitter that

5:18

she was inspired to do so by gaslet

5:21

nation, by this podcast and

5:24

that is why we, this is why we do

5:26

the show. This is why I will

5:28

turn on this camera even when I don't feel like it is

5:30

because of listeners like that. We're trying to

5:32

reach Nicole Spears out there. The science,

5:36

the

5:36

science believers, the fact-based

5:38

thinkers, the ones with the good

5:41

hearts, the lion-hearted out there,

5:43

that is who we need to run for office.

5:45

As hard as that is, as daunting as

5:47

that is, Nicole ran for

5:49

city council in Boulder and won and now

5:51

she's running for mayor and she's going to win and we're going

5:53

to help her win. So please, please,

5:55

please join me in donating whatever

5:57

you can by going to Nicole. for

6:00

Boulder.com, Nicole for

6:02

Boulder.com. She's running

6:04

against two establishment politicians who

6:07

were able to retire around the age of 50, so

6:09

you know that that

6:13

they've got their own war chest, so we need to help

6:15

her through grassroots power to

6:17

build a war chest. And that is for Nicole Speer,

6:20

a scientist and council member running

6:23

for City Council,

6:24

who won her race for City Council,

6:26

who's now running for mayor. And we're gonna put

6:28

her over that finish line, so please join me

6:30

in donating at NicoleForBoulder.com.

6:33

That means so much to me and our community.

6:35

We can all rally for Nicole Speer now

6:38

and elect the woman mayor

6:40

of Boulder, Colorado. And that

6:43

is how we take back our democracy. That's how we

6:45

strengthen our democracy, is community by community.

6:47

So thank you so much, Nicole Speer, for

6:50

running for office, for doing

6:52

what needs to be done to protect our democracy where

6:54

you live, and people can learn more about

6:56

you and your amazing work by going to NicoleForBoulder.com.

7:00

All right, so thank

7:02

you. Also another announcement, thank you to everyone who

7:04

joined the Gaslight Nation live taping

7:07

with the Risk storytelling podcast

7:09

on August 5th. We are

7:11

going to do another one, another live taping in

7:13

New York City. It won't be live streamed, unfortunately,

7:16

but you can join us for that on Monday,

7:18

September 18th at 7 p.m.

7:21

at P&T Knitwear. That

7:23

is going to be a live taping with me and

7:25

Russian mafia expert Olga Lottman. And

7:29

we have a new guest

7:30

joining us, and that is historian

7:33

Ruth Ben-Ghiat, who is the author

7:35

of the best-selling book Strongmen,

7:38

Mussolini to the Present. Strongmen

7:40

is a book that if

7:43

you love Gaslight Nation, you'd love Strongmen if you

7:45

haven't read it yet. Ruth is wonderful. So

7:47

we're gonna be having a big discussion about

7:51

what the hell do we do with a

7:53

four-time indicted career criminal, wannabe

7:58

authoritarian, running for president.

7:59

president, how do we rebuild

8:02

democracy in America? How do

8:04

we sustain ourselves in the fight? What

8:06

resistance to these dictators work? How

8:08

do these dictators work together

8:10

in the transnational crime syndicate? What

8:14

do we do about all this? So that's the conversation that's happening

8:16

Monday, September 18th at PNT

8:19

Netware at New York City, an independent

8:21

bookstore, and that's 7pm with Olga

8:24

Lottman and Ruth Ben-Ghiat and myself for

8:26

Live Taping Gasol Nation. And

8:28

for our Patreon listeners

8:29

who support the show, we're going to do

8:32

a special meetup with me before

8:34

that taping, and that'll be at 6pm,

8:36

and I'll leave the details for the Patreon community.

8:39

If you want to

8:40

join that special meetup before the Live Taping,

8:42

go to patreon.com forward slash

8:44

gaslit, patreon.com forward

8:47

slash gaslit, and I look forward

8:49

to seeing everyone there. These Live Tapings

8:51

are fun. I'm super nervous

8:54

before each one.

8:55

I think that no one's going to go except

8:57

my husband who has no choice but to go to these

9:00

things. And I'm always so shocked when there's actually

9:02

people in the audience and I get to meet people, I get to meet listeners,

9:05

and I love it so much. And I'm thanking you

9:07

all who come to these events, and I

9:09

love, love, love hearing from you and talking from you and learning

9:11

so much from all of you. Thank you, thank you.

9:14

All right. So

9:16

now let's get to the indictment fun. As

9:19

you probably heard by now, Trump and 18

9:21

others have been charged. Trump

9:26

now faces 91 felony counts. They

9:29

have until Friday, August 25th

9:31

to surrender. This is a state

9:33

case. So if Trump is charged,

9:36

he cannot

9:37

overturn it if he becomes president.

9:40

The RICO charges historically have been used to

9:42

fight organized crime. The mafia, as I mentioned earlier,

9:44

Fannie Willis is a RICO expert who surrounded

9:47

herself with other RICO experts.

9:50

This is a very tight case. Yes, it's sprawling.

9:52

Yes, it's ambitious. It's

9:55

extraordinarily play by play detailed,

9:58

showing that Fannie Willis, of course, brought

9:59

receipts, she knew what she was doing in

10:02

bringing this. And the RICO charges

10:04

will include jail time if convicted

10:06

and with a minimum of five

10:09

years, a minimum of five years. Fannie

10:12

Willis says she plans to try all 19

10:14

defendants together, which is

10:17

going to be a Kremlin clown

10:19

car

10:20

of a circus, of a trial obviously,

10:23

and you know Sidney

10:25

Powell, Giuliani, Trump,

10:29

all of these other poor bastards

10:31

who, you know, these like smaller fish that

10:33

are probably sitting there like looking like a

10:35

deer in headlights because they betrayed

10:38

their country. They really

10:40

put their neck on a line for somebody who has

10:42

no problem destroying

10:44

whoever he needs to get to the top. So it's going

10:47

to be wonderful to watch. It's

10:49

going to be obviously

10:52

very, you know, a lot of ups and downs and all that

10:54

and it's going to obviously play against Trump

10:57

and some of the reasons for that we'll get to. But

10:59

here are the red flags.

11:01

Trump can of course drag this out. Trump's

11:03

team, like lawyer goon squad team, could try to kick

11:06

this to the federal courts hoping they'll have

11:08

better luck there because you know Trump of course famously

11:11

packed the judges.

11:12

He and McConnell were

11:15

able to seize 30% of

11:17

our courts so he was he's going to try

11:19

to get this into the appeals

11:21

process and so on and kick

11:23

it to a higher court. The

11:26

other red flags are that yeah

11:28

maybe

11:29

this can just drag out and it's not

11:31

going to have any effect on the election and

11:33

the election is going to be extremely close

11:35

in these must-win races. You have

11:38

Trump

11:39

and his team trying to fundraise off

11:41

this obviously. They're playing

11:43

the martyr card and that is going

11:45

to infuriate their base and drive

11:47

out their base and the big advantage they have

11:50

on the left is that they have the

11:52

propaganda empire, the disinformation machine,

11:55

that is all being amplified by the Russian-Baa

11:58

operation which is of course going to still

11:59

be in effect because the Russians desperately

12:02

need their boy Trump to win so

12:04

that they can then

12:06

continue their

12:09

pillaging of the United States, like getting entrenching themselves

12:11

deeper in the US and weaken

12:14

the global democratic alliance

12:17

and seize Ukraine for once and for all and

12:19

just strengthen themselves and live

12:21

above accountability and so on. And it's going to be

12:23

obviously a dark cloud over the world if it

12:26

should get to that. So

12:28

it's things are going to be very tense

12:30

from here on out, it's still early days. But

12:33

let's look at so those are the red flags

12:35

and of course you have

12:36

threats of political violence against

12:39

Fannie Willits and her team and so on. So as as promising

12:43

as these charges are,

12:45

it's things can go all sorts of ways.

12:47

But here are here's the good news. With

12:51

18 charged besides Trump, that's a lot of

12:53

opportunity to flip some of those

12:55

idiots against Trump. And more

12:58

those who are like like lower fish on that totem

13:00

pole would be more likely because

13:02

they don't have his war chest, they don't have his

13:04

sheen, they don't have his prime time

13:06

power. So with 18 charged

13:10

some of those lower smaller fish could

13:12

flip on Trump and could allow Fannie Willis

13:15

and her team

13:15

to circle Trump and get

13:17

him, nab the big fish, landing him

13:20

five years in jail minimum. Fighting

13:22

these charges, all of these 19 people

13:24

including Trump, fighting these charges, that

13:27

is going to be incredibly expensive.

13:29

Which isn't a small thing. You might think well daddy wore

13:32

bucks is propped up by all this dark money and that

13:34

is absolutely true. But regardless it's

13:36

still going to be a drain on resources.

13:39

Resources they need for these

13:41

must win state, must win races

13:43

including House and Senate.

13:45

We're talking about with Trump being

13:47

the front runner in the Republican primary so far,

13:49

we're talking about the rotten heart

13:52

of the Republican party being

13:54

on trial here in Georgia. And

13:57

with this being one of four indictments. all

14:00

of these political battles are

14:02

going to continue to be a drain

14:05

on the far right war chest. They're going

14:07

to spread, yes, they're extraordinarily

14:09

wealthy, I understand, they're masters of the universe,

14:12

they're the oligarchs. But it

14:14

still takes money away from

14:16

other must-win races. And as we've

14:18

seen, like also money alone doesn't win

14:20

races, but it's still going to be a drain on them. I'm

14:23

fighting, so let's see, it's very now unlikely

14:26

with this trial

14:28

that's coming up in Georgia, it's now very unlikely

14:30

that Trump wins Georgia, given that

14:32

Georgians

14:32

are going to be in the heart of this

14:35

media circus. And yeah,

14:38

so Georgia, he

14:40

lost it famously by the 11,000 votes,

14:42

so it looks like

14:44

we're going to be within the margins of another

14:46

Biden victory there, knock on wood. Another

14:49

thing to look at is the recent bellwether

14:51

election in Ohio, where a coalition

14:54

of voters in Ohio defeated

14:56

a GOP effort to protect

14:58

the abortion ban there. And that

15:01

recent victory in Ohio

15:04

is significant because it's a reminder

15:06

that even in the heartland,

15:09

in states like Ohio that were traditionally

15:11

purple, that have become more red,

15:13

thanks

15:14

to Republican gerrymandering.

15:16

And a lot of efforts Republicans have made investing

15:18

in the all-important state level. Even those states

15:20

show that you have Republicans and independents

15:22

who are tired of Republican

15:24

extremism who are going

15:26

too far. And so what

15:28

this election is going to come down to, because

15:30

remember the Constitution still

15:33

allows

15:34

Trump to run. And the charges

15:37

that Jack Smith brought in the third

15:39

indictment were surgical, they're more narrow.

15:42

And so nothing here

15:44

so far is stopping Trump from

15:47

running. So that means it's going to, yes,

15:49

come down to the gasolineation phone banks. We're all going

15:51

to do with each other come

15:53

fall, maybe even sooner in 2024.

15:56

It's going to come down to us. And it's

15:58

going to come down to communities like ours.

15:59

all across the country doing whatever they can wherever

16:02

they can. I know that does not sound fair, I know that's not

16:04

fair, but as I've been saying on this show

16:06

since the beginning of the show, Trump should

16:09

have never been even allowed to run for office. A

16:11

well-known Kremlin operative like Paul Manafort

16:13

was the smoking gun, the clear signal

16:15

to the American intelligence community that

16:17

if Paul Manafort was running Donald Trump's campaign, that

16:19

meant the Kremlin was running Donald Trump's campaign.

16:22

So the establishment stopping

16:25

us from saving us from Trump should

16:27

have happened a long time ago. Like

16:29

the FBI

16:29

has no excuse because they knew Ukraine

16:32

brought the FBI in in early 2014 to help them

16:34

hunt

16:36

down Yanukovych's

16:37

stolen

16:40

billions from Ukraine. Paul Manafort

16:42

would have been somebody on their radar and doing

16:44

that. So the FBI had no excuse

16:46

and I understand that all of these inside

16:49

the Beltway folks, these

16:51

prosecutors are now making money off of book

16:54

deals and they're going on cable news now and they're

16:56

not going to be the ones to tell you this, but I'm

16:58

telling you this is you should have been stopped a long

17:00

time ago. The establishment failed us, the

17:03

intelligence community failed us, and

17:05

Obama's foreign policy team failed us. And

17:07

if you want to know more on that, just go to

17:09

our transcripts page. We've been covering that for a very long

17:11

time. So here we are because

17:14

too many people failed us. So now it's again

17:17

coming down to us to stop a

17:19

career criminal, a well-known Russian

17:21

mafia asset. Just look at the Mueller report and the Senate

17:23

intelligence report from one of the

17:25

worst traitors that have ever plagued

17:27

this country, a proud neo-confederate,

17:30

a grandmaster of the KKK from becoming

17:33

President of the United States. Yes, it's coming down to us. It shouldn't

17:35

be, but that's where we are. And as

17:37

an independent

17:37

film producer, somebody that had us to stare

17:40

at reality in the face over and over and over

17:42

again just to get my film made, I had

17:44

to stare into the dark abyss of

17:47

my reality all the time. Like here I have

17:49

all these limited resources, I have all of this

17:51

working against me. What am I going to do? I'm

17:54

applying that same scrappy determination

17:56

to where we are now as a country. Yes, it's

17:58

coming down to us to stop.

17:59

him but please please please look at Ohio

18:02

which is the special election Ohio as

18:04

an important bellwether reassurance that

18:07

enough Republicans and nothing dependents are tired

18:09

of this extremism and it with

18:11

all of these with all of these trials

18:14

popping off now with these four indictments the

18:17

Kremlin clown car is gonna be on full display

18:19

you're gonna have a sitting Powell Giuliani

18:22

running their mouth Paul Manafort well-known

18:24

Kremlin operative Paul Manafort running their mouth all

18:27

over the propaganda machine of the

18:29

right

18:29

and they think they're gonna be in

18:32

their determination like they're there they're

18:34

hail Mary pass what they have to

18:36

work with is to drive out

18:38

the base with their with their nonsense on

18:40

it's a weaponization of government with

18:42

the martyrdom of Donald Trump that's

18:45

what they're going to use to infuriate

18:47

their base drive them out and likely

18:49

along the way drive some of them to commit acts

18:52

of political violence but they're not

18:54

going to reach the independence they're not going to reach the

18:56

Republicans have left the party and I assure

18:58

you one of some of my

18:59

optimism and talking this way comes from

19:02

my own phone banking I would talk to

19:04

a lot of independents who had never voted

19:06

in their their life who were determined

19:08

to vote because they because Trump scared them because they had

19:10

studied Third Reich history

19:13

they'd studied the rise of Hitler's they knew they had

19:15

to vote they knew they had to become active that's

19:17

what we're dealing with now across the country and

19:19

if you're feeling despondent discouraged

19:21

and cynical about all this join me

19:23

in making phone calls and you'll hear from

19:26

other Americans in Wisconsin Michigan

19:28

Pennsylvania and Arizona and Georgia

19:30

that they are independents maybe

19:32

like you they're former Republicans

19:34

or Republicans maybe like you and

19:37

they see very clearly like you what is

19:39

going on we are not alone in this

19:41

so please please please keep that in mind remember that

19:43

that's the fact and

19:46

so that's

19:47

that is that Oh Fannie Willis

19:50

whoo Fannie

19:52

Willis I'm and yeah

19:55

this is now a Fannie Willis fan account a

19:58

Fannie Willis fan YouTube page I'm so

19:59

Willis knows what she is doing.

20:02

She telegraphed the American people. She

20:04

told them very clearly, like, I understand that

20:06

I am sticking my neck out there. I'm risking

20:08

my life for this democracy and for my country.

20:11

She thanked her security team in protecting her

20:13

and her team and she said they've been protecting me,

20:15

they've been keeping me safe and they're gonna continue

20:17

to do that.

20:19

That is not a small thing that she said

20:21

because as we've seen with the

20:23

many lives that Donald Trump has tried to destroy,

20:26

that you

20:27

know, especially with these election observers

20:29

who are just doing their job and monitoring

20:31

a polling place. We need more good people doing

20:34

that and they're being intimidated, they're being scared out of that

20:37

work. Fanny Willis knows

20:39

the risk that she and her family and the people

20:41

around her are taking by bringing

20:44

justice and accountability and she

20:46

let us know, yes I know my life's

20:48

on the line, but I've got good people around me

20:50

and they're gonna stick by me and I'm not going to be

20:52

intimidated by this organized

20:55

crime operation. That is what she said in her

20:57

press conference. That is what I heard and

21:00

it's reassuring to hear that. I hope to God that

21:02

that team is hyper vigilant, takes

21:04

nothing for granted and understands

21:06

how precious their

21:09

charge is right now. Like what they're, you know, who they're protecting.

21:11

It's extraordinary important. So I have,

21:14

I do have faith in

21:16

the work they're doing down in Georgia. I do

21:18

understand the historic significance of it

21:21

in the larger journey of America's confrontation

21:24

with our own authoritarian history in the march towards

21:26

civil rights and I do believe that this is something

21:28

that is going to tip the scales in the favor of democracy

21:31

as we move towards 2024 and I understand

21:33

there's plenty of red flags, there's plenty of

21:35

ways that that the Trump Kremlin

21:38

clown car can work this, manipulate this and

21:40

we're still early days but so far what we've seen

21:42

so far is very promising. And

21:44

that brings us to what needs to happen

21:46

next. So you have Paul Manafort wasting

21:49

no time getting on Sean

21:51

Hannity's Russian State TV program on

21:53

Fox News and basically

21:55

coming out with the talking points as I already mentioned is

21:57

you know the Paul Manafort saying oh Donald

22:00

Trump's a martyr just like me and he's of

22:02

course pushing his own book where he rewrites

22:05

history and frames himself as a martyr

22:07

for the cause. Never mind that he's a long-time

22:09

Kremlin operative who worked closely

22:12

with the Donald Trump of Ukraine, Yanukovych,

22:14

and he did all sorts of things including

22:18

dividing Ukrainians against each other, playing up

22:20

those culture wars, turning Ukraine,

22:22

you know, trying to stage these protests, these

22:24

anti-NATO protests in Crimea, seating the groundwork

22:26

essentially for Russia's invasion, seizure

22:29

of Crimea, and so on and so on, even

22:32

advising Yanukovych as Yanukovych had his

22:34

riot police, his snipers,

22:37

shooting, killing pro-democracy protesters

22:40

in Kiev. And, you know, Yanukovych's

22:42

forces were working with Russian-trained

22:45

snipers and other military on trying

22:48

to violently suppress what was a popular uprising.

22:51

And Paul Manafort was in the heart of that as the hand

22:53

to the Donald Trump,

22:56

wannabe king, Viktor Yanukovych, who had a

22:58

sprawling McMansion paid

23:00

for, built with stolen

23:03

money from Ukrainian people. Okay?

23:05

And how much of that money did Paul Manafort get?

23:08

So he's back. So we'll play a little bit

23:11

of a clip of what how he's trying

23:13

to spin this all so we get an idea of what we're in for.

23:15

All of these theories are meant to have one

23:18

purpose, to derail

23:20

Donald Trump. And what they don't understand is

23:22

that the fair-minded Americans on top of those

23:24

who believe in Trump are starting to see

23:27

that this weaponization is

23:29

a threat to their rights. And parents

23:31

at school board meetings, Catholics at

23:34

pro-life conferences, they're

23:36

starting to see the infiltration

23:38

of what is the abuse of Donald Trump's

23:40

constitutional rights. And I think as

23:42

a result, that's why he's

23:45

getting stronger, not weaker with these charges. But

23:47

look, they're trying to keep him in courtrooms,

23:50

probably this one they'll start trying

23:53

to ask a November court date so that they can

23:55

have November and January and March and

23:57

May, you know, and trying

24:00

to have something happen that

24:02

can expose it. Well, it's

24:04

not fair. People see it. And

24:06

I trust the American people. I trust that we're

24:09

gonna find that even in Fulton

24:11

County, where they're relying on Trump

24:13

saying he tried to find me 11,700 votes, well,

24:16

what was he supposed to ask for, 6,000 votes? Of

24:19

course he was gonna ask for the amount of votes that would win him

24:21

the state.

24:21

So I cannot emphasize how dangerous

24:24

Paul Manafort is. I understand that the DOJ

24:26

treats criminals like him as though they're nonviolent,

24:28

but they are, as I've said many times on the show,

24:31

the Paul Manafort's of the world are extraordinarily

24:34

violent. Anyone who has served, who has

24:36

worked for, taken money from Russian oligarchs,

24:39

they are on the payroll

24:41

of the Russian mafia state,

24:44

of the Russian mass murdering terrorist

24:46

state. For instance, there are these two

24:49

Russian oligarchs, including one

24:51

of the

24:51

fancier ones who cleans up very nice

24:54

in the West, Mikhail Friedman, who were just sanctioned

24:57

by the US for supplying

24:59

financing to the Russia's

25:02

war machine that's carrying out genocides

25:05

across Ukraine, including the systemic rape of

25:07

people, including children in front of their parents. That's

25:10

who Paul Manafort represents. Paul

25:12

Manafort was able to be, Paul

25:16

Manafort is somebody who should still

25:18

be in prison. Andrew Weisman, one

25:21

of the leading prosecutors on Mueller's team, wrote

25:24

a piece for Just Track Security, which

25:26

I could link to in the show notes.

25:27

He wrote a piece where he said that,

25:29

hey, Paul Manafort's coming out with a book. Well, the

25:31

DOJ should look into how that clearly violates

25:34

his plea deal and so on.

25:36

And so Andrew Weisman makes the case on how

25:38

Paul Manafort should still be on the DOJ's

25:40

radar. And if the DOJ would wake

25:43

the fuck up, Merrick Garland, and go

25:45

after Paul Manafort, who is a clear traitor

25:48

to our country, who is currently using

25:51

Fox News to try to rally Trump's

25:53

base, which we've seen has

25:55

no problem turning to violence to try to

25:57

overthrow our democracy and intimidate public

25:59

officials. Okay, so that's what Paul Manafort

26:02

is doing. He did the same thing to help bring Yanukovych

26:04

to power. He did the same thing to bring Trump to power. And

26:07

now he's doing it again. And it's very clear

26:09

that he's got a lot of money at stake.

26:11

Because if he can get Trump elected again, and Russia

26:14

will be very happy with him, and he

26:17

would get a lot of that easy Russian money flowing

26:19

to him if it's not already flowing to him now. So

26:22

Paul Manafort needs to be investigated. The DOJ

26:24

needs to wake up. Jack Smith

26:26

needs to bring

26:29

his square

26:29

jaw over to Mayor Garland and say,

26:32

get on this. Because Paul Manafort is a

26:34

national security threat. He

26:36

has no business going on Sean Hannity and

26:38

spewing his Kremlin talking points for a well-known

26:41

Russian asset. Like, get on this yesterday.

26:44

We're sitting ducks if you don't

26:46

finally bring Paul Manafort, the head of the torturer's

26:48

lobby, to justice. He's an inherently

26:51

violent man. But

26:54

I was impressed to see that he finally came to terms

26:56

with the hair dye. He's no longer using that

26:59

sweaty, melty Rudy Giuliani hair dye.

27:01

So that does show a tiny bit of growth.

27:03

But he's still a queer criminal. He's still a traitor of a

27:05

country and he needs to be locked up. So

27:08

Paul Manafort understands the dark arts

27:11

of all this stuff. We're going to have extremely close

27:13

elections in these must-win states,

27:16

in the blue wall of the Midwest and Arizona,

27:18

and even, yes, Georgia. And so Paul

27:20

Manafort is someone who knows how to tip

27:23

those scales. Like

27:25

I said, he's going to cash in on

27:27

that opportunity.

27:30

When he goes on Fox News, the Kremlin sees

27:32

this. The Kremlin knows that he's still in the game.

27:35

So do you understand there's clearly

27:37

going to be something transactional going around

27:40

right now between Paul Manafort and the Kremlin, with Paul

27:42

Manafort out there

27:44

basically telegraphing, letting the Kremlin know,

27:46

I'm out here fighting for you because I'm out here

27:48

fighting for Trump. Okay.

27:51

And so, yeah, we

27:53

just, this guy needs to be locked up. He needs

27:55

to be investigated. So I'll move on from that

27:57

because I feel like I'm just going to keep repeating myself in

27:59

rage. So now Rudy

28:02

Giuliani, another highlight

28:04

of Fannie Willis's indictment is that

28:07

Moscow's mayor, I mean New York's mayor,

28:10

Rudy Giuliani, he was hit with RICO charges,

28:12

the same RICO charges that he used to take

28:15

down the Italian mob to

28:17

make room for the Russian mafia in

28:19

New York City. You know,

28:20

Giuliani is someone who like

28:23

Trump used the apprentice, Giuliani

28:26

used his time as New York City mayor and

28:28

taking down the Italian mob, really bragging

28:30

about he's the RICO guy, he's the RICO guy

28:32

and then he gets hit with RICO. So that's nice, it's a very

28:35

cherry on the Sunday there, thank you Fannie Willis.

28:38

And I want to just sort of back into

28:40

how like

28:41

sort of the significance of

28:43

that. When Giuliani

28:45

cleaned up New York City from the Italian

28:47

mafia, what happened? The Russian

28:50

mafia moved in, the Russian mafia came

28:52

and started to grow. Why

28:55

is that so significant? Well I spoke to a long time

28:57

developer, somebody who was very

28:59

active

29:00

in Russia and other post-Soviet states

29:07

in the early years, in the car bomb 90s and so

29:09

on, who told me that Russia was

29:12

the only country he worked in globally

29:14

in working on these massive development projects,

29:16

like building buildings, and he said that

29:18

Russia was the only country he worked in

29:20

globally where the money tap

29:23

was always on, where they always brought their own

29:25

money. He never had to bring outside capital

29:27

into Russia, the money was always there.

29:30

Russia is a country because

29:32

of the corruption, because

29:34

of all of the pillaging from all

29:36

of their natural resources, because of

29:39

the Kremlin's court of oligarchs that

29:41

the FSB controls, because

29:43

together you know Putin

29:45

is the whole

29:47

sort of FSB apparatus

29:50

which today makes Putin one of the wealthiest, men

29:53

if not the wealthiest man in the world

29:55

given the entire pool of money that he controls

29:57

with all of these Russian oligarchs.

29:59

The money was always there. The

30:02

money was always easy. That

30:04

is what made Fred Trump. And that

30:06

is what made Donald Trump. Fred Trump

30:09

ate from that easy Russian money trough and building

30:11

up Brighton Beach.

30:12

Donald Trump

30:14

built off his father's legacy by developing

30:16

Little Moscow, Sunny Isles, Florida, making

30:19

that into the Brighton Beach of Florida. And

30:22

Rudy Giuliani made way for all of this by

30:25

helping the Russian mafia push out their

30:27

competition, the Italians. The Italians

30:29

simply did not have easy money on

30:31

the level of the Russians. And that's why the Russians

30:34

were able to come in and entrench themselves

30:36

in the US and within a few short

30:38

decades help bring one

30:41

of their assets to power. That is why early

30:43

on on this show I said the election

30:45

of Donald Trump is a marriage between the Russian mafia

30:47

in the West and the Russian mafia in the East.

30:50

That's what we're facing. And

30:53

Paul Manafort and Giuliani were key

30:55

to making that happen. When Paul Manafort was

30:57

going through all his legal troubles where he was

30:59

being squeezed by the Mueller team who did

31:01

not squeeze him hard enough in my opinion

31:03

because the guy got away he

31:06

was able to have a case that could be pardoned and

31:08

there's been no backup cases, no safety guards

31:10

since. So you guys should,

31:13

hey Mueller team, you should have seen that pardon

31:14

coming because Trump was dangling

31:16

the pardon right before your eyes. And so you should

31:18

have had some mechanism in place, something ready

31:21

to go for when Trump would have hit one

31:23

of the worst criminals that have ever wreaked

31:25

havoc not just in the US but in Ukraine.

31:28

You should have had something ready for that and you didn't. So

31:30

I'm sorry Mueller team, you did not go far enough with

31:33

Paul Manafort. But when he was going through

31:35

all that and he was busy, he was cooped up

31:37

in prison I asked on this show,

31:40

I'm like who is going to be the next Paul Manafort? Who's

31:42

going to go take Paul Manafort's business

31:45

with pro Kremlin politicians in Ukraine? And

31:47

sure enough it was Rudy Giuliani who was out there

31:49

trying to create some fake scandal on Biden.

31:52

CNN even reported that he was going after my sister

31:55

like pushing Zelensky's team to invent dirt against her

31:58

and Biden, my sister being a Oksana

32:00

Cholupa, the independent DNC contractor who'd warned

32:02

anyone who would listen that if Paul Manafort was

32:04

here managing Trump's campaign, that meant the Kremlin was here

32:07

and so on. So Giuliani

32:09

is just, you know, so Giuliani

32:11

was just the new Paul Manafort was just sort of

32:13

an extension of that whole operation. And

32:16

I want to really stress to people how

32:18

significant this is, because what we're really

32:20

talking about are not just threats

32:22

to our democracy, but national security

32:24

threats, national security threats.

32:27

These are people that were serving the Kremlin's interests. And

32:29

it shows, it absolutely shows, because

32:32

in Trump's own Brighton Beach

32:34

in Florida, Sunny Isles, the little

32:37

Moscow, Florida, where there's all this dark

32:40

Russian money, these LLCs buying

32:42

up all of these condos. Recently,

32:45

the FBI, just this last May, did

32:47

a raid on a Russian-owned condo

32:50

in a Trump Tower building where

32:53

they found, where they arrested these Russians

32:56

who were trying to help the Russian terrorist

32:58

state circumvent sanctions by

33:00

smuggling them much needed parts

33:02

for their airlines. Okay? And

33:05

so that just goes to show that that is the

33:07

legacy of Fred Trump, that is a legacy of Donald

33:09

Trump. They are traitors to our country. They sold

33:11

us out. They sold us out for that easy,

33:14

easy, easy, dirty Russian money. Fred

33:17

Trump started this, Donald Trump built on it, and

33:19

Don Jr. and Eric Trump have both

33:22

admitted that they are dependent on Russian

33:24

money. And of course, Ivanka cast in on this as

33:26

well, built her legacy off of it. So

33:28

remember, everything that's happening with these indictments,

33:31

this is the fourth one, in this Red Hot American

33:33

summer, everything that's happening with these indictments,

33:36

it is not just a threat to a democracy, it

33:38

is a national security threat. So wherever you're listening

33:40

around the world, understand that we

33:42

here in America, we're fighting for our country, we're fighting

33:45

to protect the most vulnerable communities, we're

33:47

fighting to protect people

33:49

who are being violently scapegoated

33:52

right now through all this genocidal rhetoric right

33:54

now, the LGBTQ communities, the

33:57

obviously women with the abortion bans

33:59

that are

33:59

taking lives and so on. We are fighting

34:02

for our own country. We're fighting to take it back. We're

34:04

fighting to rebuild what we've

34:06

lost. And we're also fighting for you,

34:08

wherever you live in the world, because the

34:11

global democratic alliance, I don't know

34:13

if American democracy cannot survive if

34:15

Trump gets into the White House. And I don't think,

34:18

like the global democratic alliance, I don't know what they

34:20

would do if America falls.

34:23

And I don't know, I shudder to think what Ukraine

34:25

would do if America falls. And

34:27

so what we're really fighting here in

34:29

the United States, what Fannie Willis is putting

34:32

her life on the line to do is protect all of us.

34:34

And thank you for that. This is a very strong indictment. It's

34:36

a very promising indictment. And I know

34:38

as scary as things are and overwhelming as things

34:41

are, we're gonna keep doing what we've always done. We're

34:43

gonna fight for the truth. We're gonna try to sustain

34:45

and be as resilient

34:47

as possible in self-care and take care of ourselves

34:50

and take care of our community as much as possible. Refuse

34:52

to abandon anyone. We're gonna carry each other

34:54

through this and we're going to get through this. And I do

34:57

believe with that Ohio bellwether election

34:59

that ultimately we're going to stop him again

35:02

because

35:03

we have no choice.

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