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Welcome to political beat down.

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I'm Ben Micellas joined by

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Michael Cohen. So we

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have Donald Trump's crashing in

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the polls. His stock is

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crashing. Yet you have the United

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States Supreme Court that is

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just freezing everything, not making

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rulings. And regardless of what

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their absolute immunity ruling is

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going to be, they've

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basically afforded this traitor absolute

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immunity already by not

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ruling, by staying the

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case in Washington, D.C.

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for Trump's attempt at overthrowing

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our free and fair election.

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And look, I think the

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American public now is very

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focused. We've got the debate

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next week that Donald Trump and his

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surrogates are making these excuses of, oh,

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President Biden's going to be on drugs.

0:56

Oh, it's rigged and CNN is going

0:59

to give him the questions in

1:01

advance or oh, it's not fair. But

1:03

look, I think the American

1:05

people or let's just say

1:07

that group of maybe like 20 to 30

1:10

percent of the American public that

1:12

just wasn't paying attention, not the

1:14

MAGA cult and not the kind

1:16

of pro-democracy community that follows us

1:19

every day. The rest of America

1:21

that I think is decent

1:23

people, a pro-democracy people, a supporting

1:25

our allies, people who have been

1:28

fed all of these false narratives

1:30

by the media for all this

1:32

time, they're starting to focus and

1:34

they're saying, what? What

1:37

did he say? He's calling

1:39

the January 6th insurrectionists hostages

1:42

and saying they're patriots who need

1:44

to be free. What? He's saying

1:46

he's going to pardon the Proud

1:48

Boys. What? He's having conversations with

1:50

Hannibal Lecter, fictitious murderers in his

1:53

own mouth. What's he saying? He's

1:55

making these posts every day with

1:57

QAnon memes and he's going into

1:59

churches. and cursing in places

2:01

of worship and claiming that there are

2:04

black churches that are filled with 95%

2:06

white people when they're all wearing, like,

2:09

what? What's going on here?

2:11

And I just think that's getting into

2:13

sharper focus. So where we see polls

2:16

like the Fox poll, the Fox poll,

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Michael Cohen, showing that there was an

2:21

11 point shift

2:24

in independent voters from their prior

2:26

poll, which had Trump up to

2:29

from the independents. Now President Biden

2:32

up nine from independents. And I

2:34

frankly, I think it's more than

2:36

that. I think it's significantly. I

2:38

think Trump has shrunk the

2:41

Republican Party in ways that these

2:43

polls don't, I think, fully appreciate

2:45

the intensity that the Republican Party

2:48

is much more culty and much

2:50

smaller. But the American people

2:52

are paying attention. And Michael Cohen, people

2:54

are paying attention to your new YouTube

2:57

page, which is crushing it as well. In

3:00

24 hours, I think we have just

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slightly over 8,000 subscribers and

3:05

over 3,000 viewed hours

3:11

so far on the handful of

3:13

clips. Thanks to thanks

3:15

to the Midas Touch team. I got

3:17

to tell you, they're really they're really

3:19

great. And I suspect it's going to

3:22

keep growing leaps and bounds. And I

3:25

appreciate you saying that because these

3:28

productions happen. We have Jeremy, we've

3:30

got Salty, we've got Sydney, we've

3:32

got Hayden and the

3:35

Midas Touch production team. Right. I

3:37

mean, you've been around some of

3:40

the best producers out there

3:42

from major networks. Isn't this

3:44

crew something special? Yeah,

3:46

they are. And they're very, they're

3:48

very funny. So as you know,

3:50

I'm doing my you know, my

3:52

intake and then the outtakes onto

3:54

it and song they're like, I'll

3:57

do like five minutes. And

4:00

then they're gonna be like, well, we're gonna take

4:02

that, like, about two or three minutes of it,

4:04

then we're gonna splice in the part that you're

4:06

talking about. But it's so

4:08

fucking funny, your delivery on it.

4:10

And the way that you sort

4:13

of explain it, you know, using

4:15

your Michael Cohen way of doing

4:17

it, he goes, it's so informative,

4:19

yet it's so funny.

4:23

He goes, you know, we just we

4:25

love it. I do, however, I

4:27

want to talk to you about, for example,

4:30

what you just said, these polls, and you

4:32

know, and I've said this over

4:34

and over and over again for many, many years,

4:36

I don't believe in any of these polls. I

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really don't even the ones like this

4:42

Fox poll that here seems to be

4:44

showing right since May, there was a

4:46

three point change in the presidential race.

4:49

Trump was ahead by one point last month,

4:51

we go back, I'll go back to that

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for one second. Trump

4:55

was ahead by by one point last month,

4:58

while Biden is up by two points today,

5:00

50 to 48. That's

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well within the margin of error. Now, I like

5:04

the fact, of course, that they remind you that

5:06

it's within the margin of error. And

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I'm going to turn around, I'm going to make

5:11

this prediction. All right, says food. All

5:13

right, you remember that when I was

5:15

right the last time, let me be

5:18

very clear about something, all of this

5:20

horseshit that you hear about how much

5:22

closer the polls are. And so that's

5:24

just to keep you engaged, to keep

5:26

you locked into their station so they

5:29

can keep selling their advertisement space

5:31

and that they can keep the

5:33

profits moving, you know, for their

5:35

company, instead of telling you the

5:37

truth. First of all, all of

5:39

these polls, imagine that you are.

5:42

So let's just take somebody's name is

5:44

John or Jane. And also,

5:47

yeah, hello, John, Jane. Yeah, it's Michael

5:49

Cohen here from the Midas Network Political

5:51

Deep Down Live Podcast. How are you

5:53

today? Oh, great. Thank you very much.

5:56

All right. Quick question for you.

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Do you mind if we ask you like 20

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questions regarding a poll and so on.

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Ah shit, you're kidding? Yeah, yeah, we

6:05

really would appreciate it. All right, ask

6:07

me, are you a Republican or a

6:09

Democrat? Now they already know who you

6:11

are because the only people that are

6:13

picking up the phones are people that

6:16

have picked up previously. So you already

6:18

know what they're going to say well

6:20

in advance. That was the point I

6:22

was trying to make when I'm speaking

6:24

years ago to Breanna Keeler on CNN.

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The polls are bullshit. Oh my God, they have

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500 people which

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is an enormous poll if you're

6:33

actually calling. The truth is

6:35

you already know in advance exactly

6:38

what these people are gonna say.

6:40

This person has voted Republican year

6:43

after year after year for

6:45

the last 20 years. They have never

6:47

voted for a Democrat in their life. Huh,

6:49

let's see. Well, you know, I really can't

6:52

vote for Trump but I really, you know,

6:54

but I really have never voted for a

6:56

Democrat. I can't vote for Joe Biden. They

6:59

already know where this case is going. They

7:01

know what the outcome of the poll is

7:03

gonna be. That's why I have no faith

7:05

in it. What do you get from

7:07

the Midas Touch Network from all

7:09

of the podcasts, whether it's my

7:12

may occult the podcast, legal AF,

7:14

my cellist brothers, you

7:16

know, mistrial, whatever, whatever,

7:19

what do you get here from political

7:21

beatdown? You get from us the

7:24

raw, the unfiltered truth

7:28

and the reality of what's really

7:30

going on. We're not gonna turn

7:32

around and create the Ben Mycelis,

7:34

Michael Cohen, you know, poll on

7:36

who's winning what. You already know

7:39

where that's gonna end up going.

7:41

Just imagine if we only poll

7:43

people that are right now followers

7:46

of political beatdown. Just

7:48

imagine what that poll would show. You would

7:50

have like a 90% Joe

7:53

Biden victory over Von Schitzen

7:56

pants. It's clear, right?

7:58

So what would be the... the point

8:00

for us to have a political beatdown

8:02

poll. That's not what we do. What

8:04

we do is we go to the

8:06

street, all right? And that's

8:08

really what you want. We go to

8:10

the street and we actually use,

8:13

we use our knowledge,

8:16

we use our relationships, we use

8:19

our intuition in terms of taking

8:22

the research that we take from

8:24

the street and we then apply

8:26

it to what's going on right

8:29

now in the political world. And

8:31

that's where, that's where we come

8:33

up with our, with our, I

8:36

don't wanna call it opinion, but it's our

8:39

understanding of what's going on right

8:41

now. And here's the funny thing,

8:44

nobody, nobody out there, none

8:46

of these fucking idiot political pundits, like

8:48

on the CNNs and the Foxes, not

8:50

one of them, hold

8:52

a candle to either myself or

8:55

Ben in terms of predicting

8:57

what has happened. I mean, I've been, basically

8:59

I've been almost 100% correct. Maybe

9:02

I'm 95% correct on everything that

9:04

I have said, going back, going

9:06

back to 2018, to 2018, when

9:11

I warned the country, I warned

9:14

certainly the House Oversight Committee that

9:16

if Trump loses in 2020, that

9:19

there will never be a peaceful transfer

9:21

of power again. And

9:23

what ends up happening? The son of a

9:25

bitch goes to head and he ends up

9:27

creating a January 6th insurrection. Meanwhile,

9:30

now everybody uses my language, there'll never

9:32

be a peaceful transfer of power. Hey,

9:34

great, thanks, why don't you attribute it?

9:36

Why don't you attribute it to the

9:38

guy who actually said it first? Yours

9:41

truly, that's what you get here on

9:43

political beatdown. And these sort of like

9:45

little rants, and so you're gonna get

9:47

that on my new YouTube channel, the

9:49

Michael Cohen show that I'm doing, thank

9:51

God to the help of Mike's Touch

9:54

Network, fantastic. You're

9:56

gonna get these nice little snippets,

9:58

so enjoy it. here where you

10:00

have us for the hour. Enjoy on

10:03

the Patreon where you get to ask

10:05

me your questions personally,

10:07

individually, and enjoy me on the

10:09

Michael Cohen show on YouTube. Look,

10:12

one of the reasons that our

10:14

predictions have been accurate is

10:17

that the data's there. And what

10:19

surprised me is

10:21

how the media has

10:23

ignored a lot of

10:25

the data that's right in their face

10:27

to push a narrative. So,

10:29

whereas they'll talk about this

10:31

poll or that poll that samples, let's

10:34

say 500 or 700 people,

10:36

which may have some statistical significance,

10:38

what I want to focus on

10:41

is, has

10:43

there been some scenarios where people

10:45

have been voting in

10:47

swing states already where we

10:50

can extrapolate hundreds of

10:52

thousands or millions the same way

10:54

in 2022 when everyone was

10:56

saying the red wave, you could

10:58

see, okay, who's voting early, who

11:01

hasn't voted early, you can look at party

11:03

affiliation, and you can say, well, wait a

11:05

minute, in the midterms, if there's going to

11:07

be a red wave, and there's

11:10

going to need to be some

11:12

record Republican turnout, because Democrats and

11:14

independents are at a record level.

11:16

So, it's going to have to

11:18

be balanced somewhere. No one was

11:20

talking about like the 40 million

11:22

votes that had already come in.

11:24

Similarly, Michael Cohen, we could look

11:26

right now at states

11:28

like Michigan and the Commonwealth of

11:30

Pennsylvania, we could look at what's

11:33

happened across the country in these

11:35

various primaries, where President

11:37

Biden's getting 90 to

11:39

95% of the vote, and Donald Trump

11:41

is losing about 20% of the vote

11:45

to Nikki Haley, there's like a 20% protest

11:47

vote to Donald Trump. And all the media

11:49

was telling us is that there was going

11:51

to be a 20 based

11:53

on their polls, like already, right, Cohen, they were saying

11:55

there would be about a 20 to 30% protest vote.

12:00

against President Biden. So

12:02

I said, okay, let's take a look

12:04

at, is that what's actually happening? And

12:06

no, President Biden's doing better in primaries

12:09

now than he did in 2020, than

12:11

he did in, you know, than he did in 2020, like

12:13

by far. And

12:15

he's doing better than what

12:18

Obama did in Obama's

12:20

second term reelection campaign against Romney.

12:22

So I'm looking at, wait a

12:25

minute, Biden's fundraising more than Obama.

12:27

Biden's numbers and the primaries are

12:29

better. Trumps are lower. Trumps are

12:32

following the trend that we're talking

12:34

about, that people are leaving the

12:36

Republican party. So I have statistically

12:39

significant data that just gets ignored by

12:42

the media. And that's what you talk

12:44

about all the time. And

12:46

you know, the funniest part

12:48

is while Joe Biden and

12:50

this administration are killing

12:53

it, they are doing phenomenal,

12:55

phenomenal work. Maybe one of the

12:57

best in at least

13:00

modern history. I mean,

13:02

whether it's the CHIPS Act, whether

13:04

it's the reducing of the, of

13:06

insulin and drug prices, whether it's

13:08

the infrastructure bill, whether it's

13:11

the assistance to Ukraine and what's

13:14

going on in terms of

13:16

trying to negotiate two and

13:18

a half thousand year, you know, conflict

13:21

in the Middle East and just

13:23

all the things that this administration, you

13:25

know, getting rid of a whole bunch

13:27

of the debt from the

13:29

student debt. I mean, just everything that

13:32

he's doing. That's not why Joe Biden,

13:34

believe it or not, it's not why

13:36

Joe Biden is actually up in the

13:38

numbers. Kid, you know, the

13:40

reason Ben, that Biden's

13:42

numbers keep climbing and

13:45

Von Schitz and Pans's numbers

13:47

keep decreasing is because

13:49

Von Schitz and Pans doesn't know how to shut

13:51

the fuck up. I mean, you

13:54

do not, if you have half

13:56

a brain, you do not

13:58

pat yourself on the dice. for, all

14:01

right, especially when it's full, to

14:03

congratulate yourself for being the guy

14:06

who overturned Roe

14:08

v. Wade's 50-year starring design

14:11

system that now

14:13

impedes upon a woman's right to

14:15

choose her reproductive decisions. You just

14:17

don't take it. I mean, you

14:20

know, the group

14:22

that he's pandering to are

14:24

small. They are minuscule compared to

14:27

the number of women voters

14:29

in the United States of America. In

14:32

fact, there are more women voters than

14:34

there are male voters. You

14:37

are committing political

14:39

suicide each and every

14:41

time that you open your mouth and you

14:43

say this stupid thing, and he does it

14:45

all the time. Then you

14:48

watch the unhinged Mandarin

14:50

Mussolini go on

14:52

a rant in front of a

14:55

rally where people are picking themselves

14:57

up and they're just walking out

14:59

because it's so stupid, right,

15:01

that he's sitting there talking

15:03

about if he

15:05

was on a sinking boat and

15:09

because the boat is powered now by battery.

15:11

I don't even know what boat he's talking

15:13

about. You know, after I saw that, I

15:15

was curious what boat is he talking about?

15:17

So I started to Google, you

15:19

know, I started to Google

15:21

what large boats are

15:24

powered solely by battery. And

15:26

they're all they're

15:28

on. I've seen some small ones that

15:30

are powered by, you know, that it's

15:32

like a one person or a two

15:35

person like scooter boat, almost like a

15:37

what do you call it, like a

15:39

wave runner, but electric. I

15:41

don't even know what the hell he's talking about. And

15:43

the next thing you know, now the sharks, right.

15:46

And it's either you get eaten

15:49

by a shark or you

15:52

get electrocuted. I mean, is

15:54

this really is this really

15:56

the kind of conversation that

15:58

you think Literally,

18:00

because we don't produce these

18:03

pennies. We don't produce

18:05

them. So where are you gonna get it from?

18:08

Oh, hello, we're gonna start

18:10

building manufacturing facilities in America

18:12

that will produce this pen.

18:14

No, we won't. No,

18:16

we won't. Just think about it

18:19

this way. If you're saying you're going

18:21

to fund our

18:23

entire government by tariffs, right,

18:25

taxes on imports from foreign

18:28

countries, well, the American economy

18:30

is so much bigger than

18:33

the rest of the world's economy.

18:35

So just if you think about it

18:38

at the most basic level, how can

18:40

you possibly fund the biggest

18:42

economy with tiny economies and

18:45

taxing imports on tiny, like

18:47

it just simply makes

18:49

no sense. So we're going to

18:52

fund our entire system here by

18:55

taxing the imports of other countries

18:57

while the other countries raise their

18:59

treasury in other way, like it

19:01

quite literally makes no sense now,

19:04

you know, as a form

19:06

of protectionism and as a

19:08

form of, you know, taking

19:10

strong positions against trade policies

19:13

and taking anti-dumping positions against

19:15

when other countries wanna flood

19:17

the market with goods at

19:19

certain prices in order to

19:21

try to undermine your market,

19:23

then there may be a

19:26

surgical need for tariffs in

19:28

specific situations, but the very

19:30

concept that to even

19:33

say that there are gonna be,

19:35

again, and it's just appealing to the

19:37

lowest common denominator because everyone's like, great,

19:39

no taxes, sure. But then

19:41

it's gonna, it's not gonna matter because it's gonna

19:44

turn our country into having the, our

19:47

country's gonna look like Trump's companies

19:49

and totally bankrupt. So another

19:52

way of looking at it is the same way that Trump-

19:54

They say the same way that Trump did, man.

19:56

What'd you say? Yeah,

19:59

that's a- great segue into

20:01

talking about yet another

20:04

more recent complete disaster. And

20:06

we're talking about DJT.

20:09

There you go. I mean, how

20:12

many 420,000 MAGA people own shares

20:15

in this worthless company? So there's

20:17

going to be 420,000 people.

20:20

It's good, I guess, for Amazon or

20:22

for Walmart or Costco, because these people

20:24

are going to take their stocks, their

20:26

stock certificates, they're going to put it

20:29

into a picture frame and they're going

20:31

to use it as a wall covering.

20:33

Maybe they'll put it in the bathroom

20:35

and they'll put it in their living

20:37

room or somewhere in their office to

20:39

show it's a stock certificate. It's

20:42

a stock that shows that not

20:44

only that I support Donald Trump, but

20:47

that I'm in

20:49

business with him, so to speak. And you can

20:51

take that worthless piece of paper. And when you

20:53

run out of toilet paper, you know what you

20:56

can do with it. If

20:58

you think about Trump media, it

21:02

is with all of Donald Trump's

21:05

undisputed influence, like it or not, he's

21:07

got a whole group of people there

21:10

who are his cult following, which

21:13

he says is he claims it's over

21:15

100 million Americans. I think it's closer

21:17

to 30 million Americans. But for

21:19

the sake of this exercise, use his

21:22

number. Say that he's got, this

21:24

will prove that those aren't the numbers. Say he's

21:26

got 100 million Americans who

21:29

support him. So you

21:31

would then think if he were

21:33

to launch a company like Trump

21:35

media, that's an alternative to Twitter

21:37

and alternative to other social media

21:39

platforms, that those 100 million

21:41

people would use something that they can

21:44

use for free. And then you can

21:46

build an advertising model around it. So

21:49

if you had 100 million people

21:52

and you can move them over to your

21:54

social media company, why is

21:56

it that the entire

21:58

revenue you do? generated in the

22:00

last three months, the first quarter or

22:02

so, was $750,000. Less

22:09

than what a single McDonald's franchise would

22:11

make in that time period, not to

22:13

mention Trump Media lost in the first

22:16

quarter of 2024, $327 million. That's on

22:18

top of the loss in 2023 of

22:27

about $58 million on $4 million in revenue in

22:30

2023. Now, the revenue is slightly less than 2024. $750,000

22:39

for this quarter gives you a

22:41

projection of under $4 million. Now,

22:44

your losses are $327 million. First off, where's that

22:46

money going? How could you lose that

22:54

amount of money? I don't

22:56

know where the money is going, so

22:59

let me be clear. All of this

23:01

is opinion of what I'm saying. That

23:03

money is going somewhere. Money doesn't

23:05

disappear. Money goes from

23:07

one place to another place. The question

23:09

is, where is that $327 million loss?

23:14

I don't have an answer. We don't have

23:16

an answer. It seems like with all his companies,

23:18

from their pockets to his pocket. It

23:22

certainly is a lot of money disappearing

23:24

or is being shown as

23:26

a loss in three months. If you

23:29

just take that, Cohen, there's

23:31

almost a perfect through line, though, into,

23:33

and why you said it's a perfect segue,

23:35

in how he would

23:37

want to handle the American economy,

23:39

and frankly did, but for President

23:42

Biden and adults in the room

23:44

saving it. We would be right

23:46

now in the most massive depression

23:49

if Donald Trump were still in office. Let's

23:51

be very, very clear about that. With

23:54

Donald Trump taking on all of

23:56

that debt, printing all of that

23:58

money recklessly, the tax cuts. to

24:00

the billionaire screwing over working class

24:02

people. It was a recipe for

24:04

disaster. And Trump's whole plan was

24:06

to pretend it doesn't exist. What

24:09

Trump would have done too, as

24:11

the Fed would raise the interest rates,

24:13

Donald Trump would try to take over

24:15

the Fed and say that you shouldn't

24:17

be able to do that. That should be my role, which

24:20

was created in direct response to the

24:22

fact that there was a great depression.

24:25

And I just, we are

24:27

so fortunate to be where

24:29

we are right now. And the

24:32

fact that there are even some business leaders

24:34

with all of his business failures, and I'm

24:36

sure you saw it going, the recent S-1

24:38

that he filed, he had a file in

24:40

amended S-1 that gave

24:42

all of these disclosures, all

24:44

of the bankruptcies he's been through in

24:46

his career, all

24:48

of the mismanagement, all of the

24:51

lawsuits over and over again. And

24:53

the fact that you have a

24:55

company that's only generated 750K in revenue and

24:59

a $327 million loss in a quarter that's

25:03

even trading at anywhere near it is,

25:05

it is so, it is

25:07

so Trumpy. You don't get more Trumpy than

25:09

this. And you pull up that graphic one

25:11

more time, Jeremy, so people can see where

25:14

the stock is right now. And

25:17

one of the things- It's trading right now with

25:19

$26.75 at

25:24

the closing right now of the bell. So here's

25:27

the funny thing as well. If

25:30

you take a look at all

25:32

of the failures of the various

25:34

different Trump enterprises, then if he

25:36

came in with his CV to

25:39

run Midas Touch, you would

25:41

turn around and you would laugh at him. You

25:43

would laugh. This is not somebody that

25:46

you're hiring simply because, oh my God,

25:48

this is a guy who's gonna take

25:50

my business, he's gonna grow it, expand

25:53

it and so on. That's never what

25:55

happens. In fact, you could look this

25:57

like 20, 30 different- companies

26:00

that have all closed

26:02

down, that they keep constantly

26:05

talking about. So the fact that

26:07

he wants to brag and talk

26:09

to you and tell you about

26:12

all of his incredible business successes

26:15

and his business acumen and that only

26:17

he can do X, Y, and Z.

26:19

And by the way, not only can

26:21

he do X, Y, and Z, he

26:24

can also do it in 24

26:26

hours, like resolve the Russia-Ukraine

26:31

conflict. He could put

26:33

an end to the

26:36

Israel-Palestinian, the Hamas war.

26:38

I mean, he could do all of this in 24 hours. It's

26:41

really truly amazing. And

26:45

the worst part, though, is you have these

26:47

magma morons. You know who I'm talking about.

26:49

You're talking about the folks with the three

26:51

teeth and the four brain cells that are

26:53

actually out there, or buying

26:56

NFTs of Donald with a

26:58

cape, wearing a Superman outfit.

27:00

Because anybody who can actually

27:03

resolve the Israel-Khamas

27:05

war in 24 hours, I

27:07

too would say that that

27:10

person is a Superman. Why?

27:12

Because that conflict's been going

27:14

on for over 2,000 years.

27:17

But this ass clown thinks he's going to

27:19

walk in, he's going to turn around and

27:21

tell Netanyahu, he's going

27:24

to turn around and tell the

27:26

Palestinian Authority and Hamas, if

27:28

you don't do this, there's going to

27:31

be real consequences. I'm going to go

27:33

to my friend, Little Rocket Man, and

27:35

we're going to come up with something really

27:37

beautiful, really big, really great, and it's going

27:40

to put an end to all of this.

27:42

And then they're looking at him, right, like

27:44

Putin will, they're scratching their head and saying,

27:47

what a jerkoff. If

27:50

you, one of the things, so I represented Colin Kaepernick,

27:56

it was business partners with Colin Kaepernick, and I just

27:58

remember as

28:00

Jeremy was putting up that graphic. I just

28:02

remember all of the right wing

28:05

was saying how disrespectful it was

28:07

to the flag when Colin

28:09

Kaepernick was peacefully protesting, keeping

28:11

to himself on the

28:13

sidelines, not bringing attention to it.

28:15

He spoke with a Navy SEAL

28:17

about doing it respectfully as well.

28:19

The Navy SEAL spoke to him,

28:21

taking a knee to just bring

28:23

attention to the disparate killings of

28:25

black and brown people in the

28:27

United States of America. That's

28:29

why he did it. He did it

28:32

in a respectful way. All you

28:34

heard from MAGA then was that's

28:36

such a disrespect to the flag.

28:38

You're disrespecting the flag. It

28:40

was never a disrespect to the flag

28:42

thing at all. That's actually what the

28:45

First Amendment is. Meanwhile, you've got all

28:48

these MAGA flags right now like this.

28:50

The MAGA flags, they don't

28:52

fly the American flag. They

28:54

fly Trump flags. They

28:57

fly these flags that have

28:59

Donald Trump's mugshot on

29:02

it, these Let's Go Brandon flags

29:04

that they have, or these white

29:06

boy summer banners that they hold

29:08

up at these events. They

29:10

don't sing the national anthem anymore.

29:13

They sing the J6 choir song.

29:16

Just think about this. Donald

29:18

Trump posts these photos of the

29:20

preamble of the Constitution hugging

29:23

him, and he has these photos of

29:25

Jesus on his shoulder. It's some real

29:27

strange stuff. Just think about this, Cohen. When you

29:29

go to a Trump event, when you don't go

29:31

to one, but when people show up there, it

29:34

says, please rise for the singing,

29:37

not of the national anthem.

29:39

Please rise as we sing

29:41

the J6 choir. They've been

29:43

horrifically treated, and they are

29:45

hostages. Please sing. It's a

29:47

different song, and it sounds

29:49

somewhat like the anthem, but

29:51

it is the violent insurrectionist

29:53

and Donald Trump song. They

29:56

replaced our anthem. They're in

29:58

churches cursing. huddles

30:00

up with Putin. It is some bizarre, bizarre

30:02

stuff, which is why the next topic I

30:04

want to cover with you is

30:06

the debate coming up next week.

30:08

And I want to talk about, you know,

30:11

obviously there are, you know, Fox is

30:13

ramping up the excuse mill right now,

30:15

right? They're saying it's going to be

30:18

rigged. They're saying that CNN's a propaganda

30:20

network. You have Lara Trump, Donald Trump's

30:22

daughter-in-law going on Fox and saying that

30:24

President Biden's going to be on drugs.

30:26

So I think we're going to see

30:28

a steady stream of that right now.

30:30

But I want to get your. Didn't

30:33

he agree to all the rules? Yeah,

30:35

yeah, yeah. Didn't he agree that

30:38

CNN was going to actually host

30:40

this? Yeah. Of course,

30:42

I mean, it's not like he, it's not

30:44

like they shoved it down his throat and

30:46

said, you have to do it. He could

30:48

have said, I'm not doing it. Right? I

30:50

mean, look, we all know that Donald Trump

30:52

is a master debater. All right. So, you

30:55

know, it's just going to be, it's going to be

30:57

wonderful to watch. I want

30:59

to, I want to talk about that with you.

31:01

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was really interesting. I

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did screw up by the way. You

37:38

know, listen, you know, I'm the truth teller here.

37:40

I did screw up. I told him that he

37:42

should use the code Cohen, right? Now

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it's the code beat. So hopefully I'll

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38:16

look forward to the debate, which

38:18

is scheduled for next week, assuming

38:20

Donald Trump doesn't back out, I

38:23

want to ask you about that

38:25

in a moment, you've got all

38:27

of the kind of the new

38:29

Republicans. What are the new

38:31

Republicans look like? What does it

38:33

mean to be in the Republican

38:36

party today with the MAGA takeover?

38:38

They're saying, look, Donald Trump is

38:40

bigger than the Philadelphia Eagles. He's

38:42

bigger than the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

38:45

He's got a humongous brand, they

38:47

say. They wear gold chains with

38:49

Donald Trump's face on it now.

38:52

And let me just show you one of

38:54

the big leaders of the Republican party. I'm

38:56

not making this up. This is one of the

38:58

major influencers and leaders of the Republican party

39:01

who's closely linked with the Trump campaign.

39:03

His name is Forgotchiyo

39:05

Blow or something like this. And you see

39:07

him in the photos often with the Lena

39:09

Haber when they wear Trump's gold chain together.

39:12

It's like a fake gold chain with Trump's, I think it's gold

39:14

fake, at least it looks like

39:16

it, with Trump's face on it with

39:19

the big MAGA hats. Here's

39:21

what this major Republican leader

39:23

has to say about everything here. Play this

39:26

clip. Never seen support for any president like

39:28

this ever, right? Donald Trump has the most

39:30

support out of anybody. Donald Trump is almost

39:32

bigger than the Philadelphia Eagles, the Tampa Bay

39:34

Buccaneers. I mean, his brand is humongous. That's

39:37

what they're saying there. And then

39:40

you've got... I'd rather own the

39:42

Tampa Bay Buccaneers or the Philadelphia

39:44

Eagles as opposed to owning the

39:47

Trump forum. That

39:52

guy, I think, thinks that he's really

39:54

famous because of the MAGA

39:56

world. I think that Lara Trump and all of the

39:58

other people, I think these kind of

40:01

maggots in their own little world. I

40:04

was watching Lara Trump answer

40:06

these questions last night. It came on my

40:08

Twitter feed. It was on my Twitter feed.

40:11

The way she was responding to these questions,

40:13

I think I responded to Brent. I'm like,

40:15

I think she thinks she's like Eller Swift

40:17

famous. I think they

40:19

buy into the

40:22

propaganda they're selling as well,

40:25

and they're so lost, and

40:27

they're so delusional that they

40:29

don't understand what

40:32

real influence is. Just

40:37

take a look at what they're being told every

40:39

day though. This is Hannity, and

40:42

this was from last night. Hannity talks

40:44

about why he thinks the

40:46

debate is going to be unfair. Now, what should

40:48

be clear is that Hannity

40:51

is a surrogate of Trump now.

40:53

Hannity doesn't independently go on

40:56

and have this segment just

40:58

because. He consults with Trump.

41:01

They talk about what to put on

41:03

Fox, and then he goes out there

41:05

and messages it for Fox that he's an arm of

41:08

the Trump campaign.

41:11

Here's what he was saying last night. Let's play it. All

41:13

right. We are only eight days away

41:16

from the first presidential debate, and I

41:18

think it is past time for the

41:20

moderators, you know, fake Jake Tapper on

41:22

fake news, CNN, fake Dana Bash to

41:25

get their network in check, because

41:27

right now we are witnessing North

41:29

Korea levels of nothing but outright

41:32

propaganda. And as you can see,

41:34

they're not doing journalism. They lie.

41:36

They say they're journalists. No, they're

41:38

not. They're state run media. They're

41:40

certainly not holding truth to power.

41:43

The state run media is simply

41:45

repeating White House talking points all

41:47

in what is a desperate attempt to

41:49

defend their chosen candidate. Take a look.

41:54

It's by the way, Hannity is truly

41:56

amazing. In fact, if you Google this,

41:58

so I want my brigade. right

42:00

now to Google this, Hannity acknowledging

42:03

that he is not a

42:05

journalist, that he is a

42:07

talk show host. Do you remember

42:09

that? Do you remember that went on when

42:11

they were trying to hold Hannity to journalistic

42:14

standards? Salty, if you're there, Jeremy, if you're

42:16

there, do me a big favor. See if

42:18

you can find that one. We're going to

42:20

pop it right up there. Hannity

42:22

went on and he was

42:25

crystal, crystal clear that he

42:27

is not a journalist, but

42:29

rather a talk show host.

42:32

And he could not and should not

42:34

be held to journalistic

42:37

standards. The greatest is

42:39

when they say fake Jake

42:42

Tapper. Now, I want to be clear. I'm not

42:44

a great fan of Jake Tappers. All right. Dana

42:46

Besh, she's okay. I'm going to like her, but

42:49

I'm not a great fan of Jake Tappers. But

42:52

fake Jake Tapper, fake

42:54

Dana Besh. What do you mean? They're

42:56

not real. Are they some sort of

42:58

a mannequin with

43:00

their faces installed onto it?

43:03

One of these sort of China

43:06

dolls that have AI in it that

43:08

interact with people. What

43:10

does he mean by fake, right?

43:12

By fake Jake Tapper, fake Dana

43:14

Besh. What makes them fake? The

43:16

fact that your furor,

43:20

Donald von Schitzenpans, agreed

43:23

to CNN. If you

43:25

have a problem with CNN, if somebody came

43:27

to me right now and I

43:29

was running for the presidency and it was

43:31

Fox News and they say,

43:33

we'd like to be the one in order

43:35

to host the first debate, I

43:37

would turn around and I would say, there

43:39

goes the two fingers salute to you. Ain't

43:42

fucking happening. Not the

43:44

first debate, not the second

43:46

debate, not the third debate.

43:49

How would sooner have individuals,

43:51

independent voters from the street

43:53

moderate the debate over a

43:56

Sean Hannity or formerly

43:58

Megan Kelly, where they were. the hell that

44:00

loser is at, News Nation or whatever the

44:03

fuck she ended up landing at. What's

44:06

the point to have them on? And if

44:08

it's enough, I believe, there you go. Sean

44:11

Hannity once again confirms he

44:13

is not a journalist. I

44:15

mean, there must be a

44:18

hundred articles that are exactly

44:20

the same as this

44:22

one. It's truly amazing. And now

44:24

he's questioning Jay Tapper,

44:26

Dana Banche, who, by the way, will

44:29

turn around and tell you that

44:31

they are journalists and so on.

44:33

So it's just amazing that they

44:35

how easily Fox News will go

44:37

out there and they will lie

44:40

to their viewers and that they

44:42

will come up with more horse

44:44

shit all in the name of

44:46

Donald J. Trump. It's amazing. And

44:48

the number of idiots that are

44:51

buying it. You know what? Sean

44:53

Hannity, congratulations. You, my friend,

44:55

my former friend, you today

44:57

get the two-finger salute for

45:00

being a fucking jerk off

45:02

and an asshole. All right.

45:04

You are helping somebody who

45:07

wants to overthrow our

45:09

democratic republic. You do not support

45:11

somebody who doesn't believe in the

45:13

Constitution. You do not support somebody.

45:16

He's got he's got daughter. He's

45:18

got a daughter. I happen to

45:20

admit it. She's a fabulous young

45:22

woman. Imagine just imagine for

45:24

a second that God forbid she

45:28

needed that she needed an

45:30

abortion or IVF or method press on

45:32

whatever the hell. And now

45:34

all of a sudden you got to go

45:36

to another state or because Sean has his

45:38

own airplane, right? You get onto

45:41

your plane and you go fly to another

45:43

country. Maybe you go to Canada or you

45:45

go to you go to England or Switzerland

45:47

or wherever you're going to go in order

45:49

to take care. So for you, it's okay.

45:51

But for everybody else, it's not Sean in

45:53

all fairness, smarten the fuck up.

45:55

And as a result, the two-finger salute

45:58

goes to you. Here's

46:00

the exact quote from Hannity,

46:02

and this came after Hannity's

46:05

text messages with Mark Meadows,

46:07

where they

46:09

were talking about overthrowing the government

46:12

is right around the time of

46:14

the insurrection. Hannity was also kind

46:16

of coaching Mark Meadows about what

46:18

to do and what Trump should

46:20

be doing relating to the January

46:23

6th insurrection. And so that's

46:25

where this quote from Hannity comes from. And

46:27

Hannity said, quote, I go out of

46:29

my way to explain what my job is,

46:31

because a lot of people in the

46:33

media mob do not

46:35

understand what we do. Hannity

46:37

said on his Friday broadcast.

46:39

Yes, I'm a member of the

46:42

press. I'm on the Fox

46:44

News Channel, which is a news channel,

46:46

but I don't claim to be a

46:48

journalist there in his own words. I

46:50

don't claim to be a journalist. Cohen,

46:53

you're also talking about women's

46:56

reproductive rights. Melinda

46:59

Gates just came out with a

47:01

powerful statement moments ago endorsing President

47:03

Biden. Here's what she had to

47:05

say, I've never endorsed a presidential

47:07

candidate before, but this

47:10

year's election stands to be so

47:12

enormously consequential for women and families

47:14

that this time I can't stay

47:16

quiet. Women deserve

47:18

a leader who cares about the

47:20

issues they face and is committed

47:23

to protecting their safety, their health,

47:25

their economic power, their reproductive rights

47:27

and their ability to freely and

47:29

fully participate in a functioning democracy.

47:32

In this election, the contrast couldn't

47:35

be greater and the stakes couldn't

47:37

be higher. I will be

47:39

voting for President Biden. And to

47:41

the extent there is a debate that happens

47:43

next week of Donald Trump. Melinda, I

47:46

think each and every one of us that are watching

47:48

is over 11,000 with

47:50

us right now. Just hit, just

47:52

hit the blue heart in honor

47:55

of Melinda Gates. It's a brilliantly

47:57

written statement that really goes

47:59

to the Fox News Channel. that

50:00

he's called for the Proud Boys to be released

50:03

from prison. How do I know he's going to

50:05

say that? Because he said that before. His statement's

50:07

out there, and we know he's going to say

50:09

that. Trump's going to

50:12

call for America to

50:14

leave NATO and for NATO to

50:17

be disbanded. Donald Trump will say

50:19

that he believes Vladimir Putin over

50:21

our intelligence agencies. So

50:23

that's what's going to happen at

50:26

this debate. And just think about those

50:28

points alone right there.

50:30

Just those points alone. You

50:33

know, and I think what President Biden has to do,

50:36

because Trump speaks in Trump language, like

50:38

it's his own language where he just

50:41

garbles all of his words. I

50:43

think what President Biden, or anybody who debates

50:46

Donald Trump, I think you have to basically

50:48

go, you know, look, I

50:50

just want everybody to be clear

50:53

what he just said. We

50:55

all need to be clear that he just

50:58

said that he wanted Roe v. Wade to

51:00

be overturned, and he supports

51:02

states monitoring pregnancies and monitoring periods

51:04

and locking women up. I

51:06

just want to be clear that we all

51:09

heard what he just said, because that should

51:11

not be the position of any American president.

51:13

Then move on in the

51:15

rebuttal. And every time Donald Trump says that, because

51:18

you know how Trump looks, I very powerfully do

51:20

this and very powerfully, and I think, and it's

51:22

all garbled together. So I never said that. If

51:26

you debate him, you have to then translate

51:28

him to the public. So it's

51:30

not as simple as that, because of course, you know, each

51:34

person has a certain time within which

51:36

to answer the question and the moderators

51:39

are really trying to push as much

51:41

of the questions through during the course

51:43

of the night. You know,

51:45

I'm going to share something then with

51:47

you, and of course with our brigadeurs.

51:49

I actually reached out to somebody who

51:51

was very close to Biden's

51:54

people and offered

51:57

my service in

51:59

order to help. Biden to come

52:01

up with responses that will get

52:03

under Trump's skin. Because

52:06

nobody knows Trump better than I.

52:09

And, you know, there's there's

52:12

got many of the

52:14

questions are going to irritate

52:16

him like the one that you just

52:18

asked. If you come out and you

52:20

confront him and the question is going

52:23

to be, do you acknowledge that you

52:25

free and fairly lost the election in

52:27

2020? Or do

52:29

you believe that you are

52:31

the victim of, you know,

52:33

a scam, you know, in

52:35

in in 2020 and you

52:37

still acknowledge the big law?

52:40

He has no choice but to

52:42

say that he believes that it

52:45

was stolen from him and so

52:48

on, which I think is truly

52:50

amazing. That's not

52:52

the way that Biden

52:55

needs to answer the

52:57

response. The first thing he

53:00

has to do is go right

53:02

to the heart of the issue,

53:04

which is Trump's brain. All

53:07

right. Donald Donald

53:10

believes that he won the

53:12

election because he's an idiot.

53:15

Because Donald Trump has

53:17

no comprehension of

53:20

reality. That's the way that

53:22

Biden has to say, maybe don't call

53:24

him an idiot because that's not Biden's

53:26

lingo. It's Michael's right. Like if I

53:28

was debating him, I would turn around

53:30

right if they said, you know, do

53:32

you know and what do you believe?

53:34

And I would start to laugh and

53:36

I would say because the guy's just

53:38

a fucking idiot. Right. And there's X

53:41

number of million Americans that believe that

53:43

this idiot should be the

53:45

president of the United States, despite the fact

53:47

he doesn't even acknowledge in the free and

53:49

fair election. Unless he

53:51

wins, it's got to be

53:53

a setup. It's the same thing that he's

53:55

doing right now. He's already

53:58

preparing in advance. to

54:01

tell you that this debate,

54:04

which of course I will win, is

54:07

rigged because he

54:09

has no idea what he's talking

54:11

about. And

54:13

because I will call him

54:15

out on each and every

54:18

lie, each and every misstatement,

54:20

malinformation, disinformation, that he tries

54:23

to advance to the American people,

54:25

I will call him out on

54:27

it and I will let you

54:29

know what is true and what

54:31

is not. Boom, that's

54:33

how you take him apart.

54:35

You have to constantly talk

54:37

about things that will get

54:40

under his skin. As

54:42

soon as you get under his

54:44

skin, he will lose it. He's

54:46

going to desperately try. That's what

54:48

his people are telling him. You

54:50

need to come out there and

54:52

you need to look exactly like

54:54

a president. You need to be

54:56

presidential in your demeanor. You need

54:58

to be presidential in your responses.

55:00

You need to be

55:03

the exact opposite of what everybody is saying,

55:05

that you're going to be very much like

55:08

what the media thought that they were going

55:10

to do or what Trump's attorney, the stupidest

55:12

lawyer of all time, Todd Blanche, thought that

55:15

he was gonna do it to me. He

55:17

was gonna get me out of the freak

55:19

out, pick myself up, walk off the stand.

55:21

Who knew what this idiot was dreaming of

55:24

at night as it related to me?

55:27

No, Trump is gonna try to be

55:29

presidential. He's gonna come in, he's gonna

55:31

try to look all presidential. He's gonna

55:33

try to behave in a presidential manner.

55:35

But once you get under his skin,

55:37

I promise you, that's

55:39

when he loses it and he

55:42

starts to go on these crazy

55:44

rants about sharks, right? He goes

55:46

about electrocution and batteries and windmills

55:48

and so on and all of

55:50

a sudden people, the

55:52

whole country will be watching this debate

55:54

and saying, and this

55:56

is a guy who's questioning.