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Welcome to Political

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Beatdown. Cohen, it

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was a beat down

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this morning. DC

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Circuit Court of Appeals, as

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we predicted, Donald Trump's

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appeal on the issue

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of absolute presidential immunity,

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which was rejected by

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the Federal District Court

0:23

in Washington, DC. Trump

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appealed that to the DC Circuit Court of

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Appeals, claims he has king-like,

0:31

authoritarian-like immunity, and that's

0:33

what was before a

0:36

three-judge panel that oversees

0:39

the district court. This

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three-judge panel was grilling

0:45

Donald Trump's lawyers. It

0:48

was also grilling Special Counsel Jack

0:50

Smith's team, but I thought Special

0:52

Counsel Jack Smith's lawyers handled

0:54

it well. Well, then you do

0:56

know the famous line, if the

0:58

boxing glove don't fit, Donald Trump's

1:00

got to take a shit. Well,

1:03

Cohen, I know you were... I've

1:05

heard that expression before. And Cohen,

1:07

I know you were taking copious

1:10

notes during oral

1:12

argument, and I think you want

1:14

to share the notes that you took with the

1:16

brigade of the writer? I had just gotten off.

1:18

I was visiting my parents in

1:21

Florida, and I was

1:24

watching. And I saw

1:26

how Donald von Schitzenpant

1:29

was passing notes and then got

1:31

extremely angry. And I figured

1:33

the only reason that he could be

1:35

getting angry, then, is because of

1:37

your very now

1:39

famous hashtag of DonaldStinks.

1:43

And so I just grabbed

1:45

ahold of this pen, and I...

1:48

Yeah, that's the famous pen. And

1:50

I just started to sketch. And

1:53

here's what I sketched. Trump.

2:01

Yeah, those

2:03

are the two lawyers that were there

2:05

at the United States Court of Appeals

2:07

for the District of Columbia in the

2:09

very specific case of

2:11

United States of America versus

2:14

Donald von Schitzenpans, signed by

2:16

yours truly today, the 9th

2:18

of January 2024 with

2:21

the very famous question, do

2:24

I stink? And

2:27

there's a reason that his lawyer's

2:29

name is John Sauer because the

2:31

scent was putrid and sour

2:35

as well. But let's dig into

2:37

it because not only

2:39

was Trump smelling putrid, but the

2:41

arguments by his lawyers were not

2:44

just putrid, but you know, I

2:46

thought kind of traitorous and treasonous.

2:49

What I like about

2:51

this three judge panel is

2:54

that it existed in the world of

2:56

facts and they didn't

2:58

let Donald Trump's lawyers or any of

3:00

the lawyers just go on tangents and

3:03

have their talking points. So of course,

3:05

Donald Trump's lawyers were armed with the

3:07

talking points. They were going to cite

3:09

Marbury versus Madison and all of these

3:11

things that actually don't stand for the

3:13

proposition that they claim it does. But

3:16

I thought this moment, unlike

3:18

there was a lot of moments from

3:20

this DC Circuit Court of Appeals, but

3:22

I want to play this one where

3:24

it's Judge Pan is examining

3:28

this absolute presidential immunity

3:30

argument being espoused by

3:33

Trump's lawyer and basically testing its

3:35

limits. So are you saying

3:37

that Donald Trump could order

3:40

SEAL Team Six to

3:42

kill a political opponent? I have said

3:44

this on this show. I have

3:47

been saying this since the day we

3:49

started the beatdown, that my

3:51

biggest fear is if Donald Trump

3:53

regains the office in 2024, that

3:57

no one will be safe. How many times

3:59

have you heard me use the

4:01

expression. All of a sudden,

4:03

a bunch of guys will jump out of

4:05

some black van, beg to tag you, and

4:07

send you off to Guantanamo Bay. Or as

4:10

Donald likes to, of course, use the

4:12

term of Ditmo. That's

4:15

exactly the question that

4:17

Judge Pan today asked

4:19

Trump's attorney, Sauer.

4:22

What's Sauer's first name, Ben? I couldn't

4:24

catch it. But the first thing- John

4:26

Sauer. John Sauer. There

4:28

you go. That's a great name, by

4:31

the way. So could you imagine? He

4:33

could not answer that question. Sophie,

4:35

if you got that video, let's do it. Order

4:39

SEAL Team Six to assassinate

4:41

a political rival? That's an official

4:43

act in order to SEAL Team Six? He

4:45

would have to be and would

4:47

speedily be impeached and convicted before

4:49

the criminal prosecution. But if you

4:51

weren't, there would be no criminal

4:53

prosecution, no criminal liability for that.

4:57

Chief Justice's opinion of the murder

4:59

against Mackensen and our constitutional supervision

5:02

and the plain language of the impeachment

5:04

judgment clause all clearly presuppose that what

5:06

the founders were concerned about was not-

5:08

I asked you a yes or no

5:10

question. Could a president

5:13

who ordered SEAL Team Six to assassinate

5:15

a political rival who was not impeached,

5:18

would he be subject to criminal prosecution? If

5:21

he were impeached and convicted first. So

5:24

your answer is no. My

5:26

answer is qualified yes. There is a political

5:28

process that would have to occur under our

5:30

structure or our constitution, which would require impeachment

5:32

and conviction by the Senate. In these exceptional

5:35

cases, as the OLC member itself points out

5:37

from the Department of Justice, you'd expect a

5:39

speedy impeachment and conviction. But what the founders

5:41

were much more worried about than using criminal

5:44

prosecution to discipline presidents was what James

5:47

Madison calls in Federalist number 47, the

5:50

new fangal and artificial treasons. They

5:52

were much more concerned about the abuse of

5:54

the criminal process for political purposes to

5:56

disable the presidency from factions and

5:59

political opponents. Of course, that's exactly what we see

6:01

in this case. Cohen, I

6:03

want to get your reaction to that. I

6:05

mean, how many times have you heard me again

6:08

say it on this show? How

6:10

many times do I

6:12

have to scream from the rooftop

6:14

and say it's exactly why we

6:16

must ensure that we are registered

6:19

to vote and when we are

6:21

registered, that everyone in our circle

6:23

has to be registered as well,

6:25

because this is what Donald Trump

6:27

intends to do. He's actually looking

6:30

for an answer from the court.

6:35

Yeah. And it was chilling, you know,

6:37

to hear that. And I like that

6:40

the court didn't just

6:42

allow Donald Trump's lawyer to

6:44

start uh, citing

6:46

a federalist paper that actually

6:48

doesn't apply. It's like, here's

6:50

a real world example, Mr.

6:52

Sauer, Donald Trump

6:54

or any president orders, seal

6:56

team six to kill their

6:58

political opponent under your

7:01

view, that would constitute an official

7:03

act because a commander in chief

7:06

can order the military to

7:08

do things. So it's an order

7:10

to the military official act, but

7:12

it is kill your political opponent.

7:15

And the answer by Trump's lawyer

7:17

is that the only way there

7:20

could be a criminal prosecution ever

7:23

is if there's an impeachment in the

7:25

house and a conviction

7:27

in the Senate, and then

7:30

just maybe, just maybe after

7:32

that, you can then

7:34

have a criminal prosecution. So if all

7:36

of MAGA in the house were

7:39

to basically say, no, we're not going to

7:41

impeach Donald Trump for killing, uh, his political

7:43

opponent, we're not going, we're not going to

7:46

impeach Trump for killing an opponent or whoever

7:48

from killing an opponent, then you

7:50

cannot have a criminal prosecution. And

7:52

what you get is what

7:55

you've been saying all along Cohen,

7:57

an authoritarian regime. That's, that's what

7:59

it is. And is it me or

8:01

does sour sound like in

8:03

between speaking and

8:06

listening to the questions by Judge

8:08

Penn? He's like smoking a hookah

8:10

or something, right? It's

8:15

like, I mean, there's something definitely

8:17

there. I mean, look, since Donald

8:19

likes to make fun of everybody,

8:21

you know, lawyer Froggy over there,

8:23

I mean, this is really the

8:26

best argument that Donald and his

8:28

people can put forth when you're

8:30

talking about, you know, the Court

8:32

of Appeals in the District of

8:34

Columbia, that the president has absolute

8:37

executive immunity to do whatever he

8:39

wants. And all he needs to

8:41

do is to hide it, right,

8:43

or disguise it as

8:46

in the guise that he's doing

8:48

something in

8:51

his presidential duties. I mean,

8:53

I'm really not sure. And

8:55

she tried so hard, Judge

8:57

Penn. You know, she technically

8:59

she could have just stopped

9:01

it, you know, right there

9:04

and stopped allowing this guy

9:06

sour to go ahead and

9:08

to continue to play the

9:10

wordsmith game. She could

9:13

have easily done that. And

9:15

I'm a little disappointed that

9:18

everybody seems to let Donald get

9:21

away with this sort of nonsense,

9:23

because I don't care

9:26

what side of the aisle that you are on.

9:29

Republican, Democrat, independent, makes no

9:32

difference at all. Under

9:35

no circumstances is the President of the

9:37

United States. As

9:39

president, acting in his

9:42

official capacity to send SEAL

9:44

Team Six to kill a

9:46

political opponent, another American citizen.

9:49

It's actually unconstitutional. I mean,

9:51

think about when the United

9:54

States, you know, went after

9:56

Osama bin Laden. That

9:59

was... authorized, not just of

10:02

course by the president within

10:04

which to pull the

10:06

trigger, but it's done

10:08

with so many different committees and

10:10

members of Congress and the

10:13

Joint Chiefs of Staff. I

10:15

mean, this is literally the

10:17

question posed. Can

10:20

Donald Trump authorize

10:22

SEAL Team Six to kill

10:24

a political opponent or a

10:27

critic or anyone he wants

10:30

and claim it as part

10:32

of his executive duties? And

10:34

the fact that they could not answer

10:37

that question, the fact

10:39

that this was not a

10:41

softball question is

10:43

very disturbing and it should be extremely

10:45

alarming to each and every one of

10:47

us. Cohen, but it's worse

10:49

than that. They did answer the question.

10:52

They answered yes, that

10:54

unless there was an impeachment and

10:57

conviction by the Senate, yes, a

10:59

president could have Navy SEAL Team

11:01

Six kill the political... Well, Sauer

11:04

actually uses qualified yes. So what

11:06

he's doing again is he's playing

11:08

the word game, but he's playing

11:11

the word game with a judge,

11:13

with a court

11:16

of appeals judge who

11:18

is far brighter

11:22

than John Sauer is. I

11:24

can assure you on that. And

11:27

look, it's really a sad

11:29

day for America when

11:32

somebody who is

11:34

most likely going to be

11:36

the Republican nominee, despite

11:39

all the success that Nikki

11:41

Haley seems to be gathering

11:43

in New Hampshire, but assuming

11:45

Trump becomes the nominee and

11:48

becomes the representative of the

11:50

Republican Party. First,

11:52

the comments about the Civil

11:54

War, now about having the

11:56

executive right within which to

11:58

use the military. Kerry or

12:00

SEAL Team Six to assassinate

12:03

United States citizens because they're

12:06

either his political opponents or

12:08

they're his nemesis,

12:10

they're adverse to his positions.

12:14

This is extremely scary times

12:16

for this country. David

12:18

Blight Co-in, you mentioned Nikki Haley

12:20

because today Donald Trump was the

12:23

same time his lawyers were making the

12:25

argument that SEAL Team Six could kill

12:28

political opponents and there would

12:30

be absolute presidential immunity. Donald

12:32

Trump went back to the

12:35

playbook and so he's saying

12:37

that Nikki Haley is

12:39

ineligible to be the United

12:41

States president and he's

12:43

reposting an article from one of

12:45

these right-wing propaganda networks and

12:48

saying that because her parents were

12:50

not US citizens at the time

12:52

of her birth in 1972, she

12:54

should be disqualified. He's doing the birtherism

12:57

thing all over again to

12:59

Nikki Haley. By the way, as Nikki

13:01

Haley is making a fool of herself

13:03

and saying under the 14th Amendment section

13:05

three, he should not be disqualified and

13:07

she's going and supporting him

13:09

and not giving any pushback there.

13:12

So what does Donald Trump do to

13:15

her? What he does to everybody. You're

13:17

not a real American, you're not born

13:19

here, you're disqualified, you're ineligible. Let me

13:21

just play for you though the

13:24

special counsel Jack Smith, very

13:27

important and powerful retort

13:29

to what you just heard from Donald

13:31

Trump's lawyers. So Jack Smith's team was

13:33

represented at this oral argument by a

13:36

lawyer by the name of James

13:38

Pierce. One

13:40

of the things that I found impressive

13:43

about James Pierce is that there were

13:45

multiple opportunities where the court was

13:48

telling Jack Smith's team that

13:50

there could be technicalities here

13:53

that Donald Trump's appeal could be

13:55

rejected on, whether it's based on

13:57

jurisdiction, whether it's based on a

13:59

new law. numerous other issues, but

14:01

Jack Smith's team says, yeah, you know

14:04

what, we know that it may be

14:06

more expedient and quicker if we argued

14:08

you don't have jurisdiction. But these arguments

14:11

that are being made by Trump here

14:13

are so inflammatory and we're the Justice

14:15

Department. We're the Law

14:17

and Order Department. And so when

14:19

an argument's being made that

14:22

the executive can assassinate

14:24

political opponents, we

14:27

want to be very clear as the

14:29

Justice Department that that needs to be

14:31

heard loud and clear that that is

14:34

not okay, that we do not

14:36

stand for that. That's why we want you

14:38

to rule on that, Rusty Cercorbiolis. Here

14:40

was the argument by James Pierce from

14:42

Special Counsel Jack Smith's team. Play the clip. Based

14:45

on questions of separation of

14:47

powers, of constitutional text, history,

14:50

precedent, is there

14:52

in fact immunity for a former president?

14:55

You think the answer to that is no, for

14:57

of course all the reasons we put in the

14:59

brief and I'm happy to sort of address here.

15:03

Candidly, I think if the court gets to

15:05

that second question, there are some hard questions

15:07

about the nature of official acts. And frankly,

15:09

as I think Judge Pan's hypothetical described, I

15:12

mean, what kind of world are we living

15:14

in if, as I understood my friend

15:16

on the other side to say here, a president

15:18

orders his SEAL team to

15:20

assassinate a political rival and

15:23

resigns, for example, before an

15:25

impeachment, not a criminal act. President

15:28

sells a pardon, resigns, or

15:30

is not impeached, not a crime. I

15:33

think that is extraordinarily frightening future. And

15:35

that is the kind of, we're talking

15:37

about a balancing and a weighing of

15:39

the of the interest. I think that

15:41

should weigh extraordinarily heavily in the court's

15:43

consideration. So, and before getting

15:45

to that argument, the court continued to

15:48

say that based on

15:50

the prevailing case law about

15:52

what's called interlocutory appeals, appeals

15:55

in the middle of a criminal

15:57

case before there is a conviction.

16:00

This case from 1989 called

16:02

Midland Asphalt, the decision that

16:05

was authored by Justice Scalia,

16:07

seems to indicate that because

16:09

absolute presidential immunity isn't codified

16:12

in a statute and it's

16:14

not directly mentioned in the

16:16

Constitution, that those are

16:18

the only circumstances where you can

16:20

take an interlocutory appeal. For example,

16:22

the double jeopardy clause or the

16:25

speech or debate clause, things that

16:27

have strict textual support and there

16:29

is none for absolute presidential immunity.

16:31

All you have is an adverse

16:33

inference based upon the impeachment judgment

16:35

clause of Article 1, Section 3, Clause

16:38

7. There was an initial

16:40

issue that this Court of

16:42

Appeals may not have jurisdiction to

16:44

even hear this in the first

16:46

place and send it directly back

16:48

to the trial court, Judge Chukin,

16:50

to have an immediate trial. By

16:53

all accounts, whether you were talking about

16:55

the merits where Trump's lawyer was making

16:57

the argument that the Navy SEALs could

17:00

kill a political opponent and there would

17:02

be absolute presidential immunity unless there was

17:04

an impeachment or a conviction, or then

17:06

before that procedurally, the issue on jurisdiction,

17:09

this wasn't close, Michael Cohen.

17:11

That's why it was so important that

17:14

we played here on the

17:16

Midas Touch Network, the full thing, because

17:18

I want people to hear what

17:20

is happening in the- They're not

17:23

doing what Donald does then. That's

17:25

something that I think our brigaders

17:27

obviously know and they know well,

17:30

that what we do is we

17:32

don't go ahead and give you

17:34

the bits and pieces, the one-liners,

17:36

and without the context and without

17:38

any follow-up here. These

17:40

are their words. It went on

17:43

even longer. This

17:45

judge, Judge Pinn, didn't stop.

17:49

Let me just try to

17:51

get this straight from you, because

17:54

I can't seem to get a yes or a

17:56

no. if

18:00

you wanted to waste 10

18:02

full minutes of listening to

18:04

the exchange back and forth,

18:06

you will realize that there's

18:08

a real sickness at

18:10

that table between Trump and

18:13

his lawyers. There is something

18:15

very, very wrong going on

18:17

over there, and it's something

18:19

that involves and

18:22

can unfortunately affect each and

18:24

every one of us. You know, you

18:26

too, Ben, let me be very clear

18:28

about it. You know, you're on certainly

18:31

the Trump radar. Now, I don't think

18:33

that you're as high up on the

18:36

list as say myself, and I'm not

18:38

trying to one-up you on this one.

18:40

I'd rather it be somebody else, but

18:43

let me be clear about it. Every

18:46

single person who Donald

18:48

Trump is angry at, you

18:51

now have to wonder, wait, wait, wait. If

18:54

this guy wins and

18:56

the inauguration is on a Tuesday,

18:59

do I have to fear Tuesday night,

19:02

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, that I'm going

19:04

to be walking with my family

19:06

or walking by myself and, you

19:08

know, just, you know, next

19:11

thing I know, a bunch of guys jump

19:13

out of a truck because that's what Trump

19:15

is saying. That's what

19:18

John Sauer is saying,

19:20

that he has the

19:22

absolute privilege as

19:24

President of the United States to

19:26

do. And then the greatest is

19:28

he then tries to go ahead

19:30

and to project it on, well,

19:32

this is part of like what

19:34

the Biden administration is doing. I

19:36

mean, it's really, truly, it's a

19:38

sick art, but this guy has

19:40

certainly mastered it. Well,

19:43

when you have propaganda networks that

19:45

will take that message and blast

19:48

it out, and then you have

19:50

all the other media

19:52

out there, the other major media

19:54

that both sides the issues, it's

19:57

relatively easy to do. that

20:00

if that microphone keeps on blasting that

20:02

out. So we showed you there just

20:04

some of the main arguments

20:07

from the oral argument. We have

20:09

the full oral argument

20:11

that's loaded on the Midas Touch

20:14

network as well. You could hear the full hour

20:16

and five hour, ten minutes of it. So

20:19

you can judge for yourself. But

20:22

here's what Fox had to say

20:24

about it. After all of this,

20:26

after Trump's lawyers got destroyed, after

20:28

objectively, whether it's on the procedural

20:30

grounds or on the merits, this

20:32

was a wipeout. There's no

20:35

other way to categorize this or characterize what

20:37

this is. It was a wipeout. But here's

20:39

what Fox had to say about what went

20:41

down. Play this clip. So on

20:43

his last, I have to

20:45

tell you, Harris, I thought the three judge

20:47

panel was somewhat skeptical of the

20:50

Department of Justice's argument. You could tell

20:52

they were concerned about precedent that they

20:54

would set if they said a precedent

20:56

is not immune for from prosecution for

20:59

acts conducted during office. They also obviously

21:01

are wrestling with what what does in

21:03

fact, don't happen if a president, say,

21:05

commit some kind of crime while in

21:08

office. What happens after that? But I

21:10

certainly walked away from there not thinking

21:12

that they had landed anywhere

21:14

in particular, but they that they themselves are wrestling

21:16

with it as well. We'll look here. Everybody's reputation

21:18

is on the line here. Everybody.

21:22

So they know they have to get this right. Whichever

21:24

way it comes. That's right. Yeah, they're they're

21:26

on the line too. Great to see you.

21:28

Thank you very much. Great. You

21:31

saw that right there. Great reporting.

21:33

Great reporting. Thank you. You couldn't

21:35

figure it out. You couldn't figure

21:37

it out because you're a dumb

21:40

shit. That's the fucking problem. Because

21:42

you care more about playing

21:45

to this fucked up audience

21:47

that Fox has versus protecting American

21:49

democracy. By the way, the first

21:52

time that this idiot opens her

21:54

mouth and says something that Donald

21:56

doesn't like. Yeah, don't think that

21:59

you're immune. from prosecution either. And

22:01

by the way, I forget the name

22:03

of the host on that

22:05

Fox show. If you left it up

22:07

to Donald, you wouldn't even be allowed.

22:09

You wouldn't even be allowed to be

22:12

a host. I mean, listen to what

22:14

he said, even for God's sakes. It's

22:17

beyond baffling. Listen to

22:19

what he said about how he

22:22

would have resolved the Civil War

22:24

quickly, as opposed to the way

22:26

Abraham Lincoln did it. Where do

22:28

you think he's going with that

22:30

comment? You think that that's a comment

22:33

that he's so smart that he could

22:35

have figured out how to bridge and

22:37

negotiate a deal between the North and

22:39

the South? Of course, the only thing

22:41

that they were fighting about was slavery

22:44

and knowing Donald to be the racist

22:46

that he is. Where do you think

22:48

he's going with that comment? For

22:51

God's sakes, if that doesn't

22:53

disqualify him, if Roe versus Wade

22:55

doesn't disqualify him, if the fact

22:58

that he believes he could kill

23:00

somebody or send the military a

23:02

seal or seal Team Six to

23:05

come get you because he's angry

23:07

at you, if that's not a

23:09

disqualifier, forget about the four indictments,

23:12

maybe soon five, forget about the

23:14

91 criminal charges against them, forget

23:16

about the accusation or the allegations

23:19

of sexual assault, or I think

23:21

the court even described it as

23:23

rape, forget about all that shit,

23:25

the fact he believes that he

23:28

can call out the military to

23:30

do what Vladimir, for example, Putin

23:32

does when, what was his name?

23:34

Mikhail Chodakovsky walked into the Kremlin

23:36

and said to Putin at the

23:38

time, I think he was the

23:40

richest Russian on the

23:43

Forbes list, that he's going to

23:45

use his 18 or 28 of $38 billion

23:49

in order to run against Putin

23:51

for the presidency. Putin called the

23:53

military up. He never left the

23:55

Kremlin. They literally jailed

23:58

him and they jailed him. And

24:00

then they took away all his

24:03

money. So folks, where do you

24:05

think that we're heading? We are

24:07

heading by a copycat wannabe authoritarian

24:10

dictator, Fuhrer Mannach, supreme

24:12

leader, scumbag. I mean, where are

24:14

we going? This is why we

24:16

have to fight. And when I

24:18

say fight, I'm not talking about

24:20

fighting like January 6th. We have

24:22

to fight at the ballot box.

24:24

We have to fight to get

24:26

people registered as Democrats. And we

24:28

need that blue fucking tidal

24:31

wave more now, more

24:33

now than ever before. We need to

24:35

expand and to grow the Midas Touch

24:37

network. We need to expand and grow

24:39

political beat down brigade. We need to

24:41

be able to show up to DC

24:44

as a force of a million, a

24:46

million, so that people understand we

24:48

are not going to be ignored.

24:50

We need to increase the size

24:52

of Mayakkopa and bring it

24:55

so that you could hear like legal

24:57

AF or you hear the Midas Brothers.

24:59

Everything on this network that you're going

25:01

to hear is going to be relevant

25:03

in the upcoming election. I mean, we

25:05

sit and we listen to things, or

25:07

I shouldn't say we, because I certainly

25:10

didn't listen to that Fox bullshit. But

25:12

the fact that there are people that

25:14

are listening to this and that they

25:16

accepted. You know, when I was

25:18

just with my parents in Florida, there's

25:20

a whole group of older, older people.

25:22

I'm talking about retirees that listen to

25:24

Fox 24 seven. And

25:27

they of course had to come over

25:29

and try to convince me on how

25:31

smart they are, right? I mean, some

25:33

of them certainly went Ivy league and

25:35

so, but they could be some of

25:37

the dumbest motherfuckers you've ever met. They

25:39

spew the same horse shit that this

25:41

idiot was spewing. They talk about Alina

25:43

Haber as if she's the next, you

25:45

know, I don't even

25:47

know who to describe her

25:49

as, you know, in terms of

25:51

legal capability, but a genius, a

25:53

rocket scientist, I mean, she's as

25:56

dumb as shit in the arguments

25:58

that. making

26:00

consistently lose and they don't

26:02

even understand that Donald's losing

26:05

in the courts. They legitimately

26:07

think that he's winning them

26:09

all. I'm so baffled,

26:12

Ben. Well, when that's

26:14

all they watch, and

26:16

you have Harris Faulkner there, that's the name

26:18

of the Fox host, the

26:20

guest was the former Department

26:23

of Justice spokesperson for Donald

26:25

Trump, which they don't show

26:27

that, but they just act like this

26:29

is someone giving their legal analysis

26:32

of what went down. When

26:34

they're calling themselves news, when

26:37

they're reporting about events that happen,

26:39

people rely on the news and

26:41

that they're going to get accurate

26:43

info. And if you want

26:46

to talk about the big lie, imagine a

26:48

big lie getting pumped 24 seven

26:52

by a propaganda

26:54

network into

26:56

the United States of

26:58

America to try so

27:00

hard to divide the

27:02

American people, to

27:04

put all that negative energy out

27:06

there by just blatantly lying over

27:09

and over again about what went

27:11

down. And then you notice too

27:13

what Harris Faulkner did at the

27:15

end there, there was a

27:18

veiled threat. A lot

27:20

of people's reputations are on

27:22

the line and she's

27:24

talking to the judges

27:26

and she's talking to people. If

27:29

you get this wrong, serious things

27:31

are going to happen to you is what she's

27:33

saying. There's no, why

27:36

would you ever say that? Who as

27:38

a reporter says people's reputations are online?

27:40

Isn't that an obvious thing? That every

27:42

day your reputation is on the line.

27:44

When you go out, when we're doing

27:46

this podcast, our reputations are on the

27:48

line. When I teach at USC as

27:50

a law professor, my reputations on the

27:52

line. When I go in front of

27:54

every judge every day, my reputation is

27:56

on the line. When I have small

27:58

interactions with people every day, day.

28:00

No matter who I greet, whether it's

28:02

a waiter at a restaurant, whether it's

28:04

an attendant, wherever, my reputation is off.

28:06

So why would you say that unless

28:09

it is a veiled threat directed at

28:11

people who you think are watching this

28:13

to let them know. Be very careful

28:15

of what it is that you do

28:17

right there. Hey

28:19

Ben, you remember on our last

28:21

show, I turned around and actually

28:23

on the last like five or

28:26

six shows, I turned around and

28:28

I said, don't be surprised if

28:30

Trump wins. And

28:32

when he stated that he's going to

28:34

rewrite the constitution, I say so often

28:36

already that it's almost irritating, but

28:40

it's worth repeating again and

28:42

again because it's our future.

28:44

He's going to rewrite the

28:46

constitution. He's going to destroy

28:48

the tripartite system of government.

28:50

No more legislative branch, no

28:52

more judiciary. Why, why,

28:54

why would he do that? Now couple

28:56

that to what we just saw today.

28:59

You may remember I had turned around

29:01

and said he's going to do it

29:03

so that he becomes the king, right?

29:05

All power conferred upon the executive branch.

29:08

No one to stop him. All right.

29:10

If no one's there to stop him,

29:12

now all of a sudden he has

29:15

the ability to just pick up the

29:17

phone. And because of these folks are

29:19

going to be signing loyalty oaths, he'll

29:22

start locking up Supreme Court judges.

29:24

He'll start locking up federal court

29:27

judges like the three that were

29:29

on the panel today,

29:32

the district court judges, anybody that

29:34

he thinks did him wrong. Enjoy.

29:38

Enjoy Guantanamo Bay. Enjoy

29:40

super maths. Enjoy a

29:42

gulag because he thinks

29:44

it's fucking funny. This

29:47

idiot doesn't understand that, you know,

29:49

yeah, it's funny for him because

29:51

he's the one that's going to,

29:53

he's going to create a civil

29:55

war. That's what he's looking to

29:57

do. And I'll tell you, Ben,

30:00

And I can't say it

30:02

enough, the registration,

30:06

extremely important. And what

30:09

I really love to do, just because we have a

30:11

lot of people with us today,

30:13

if you're registered, if

30:15

you're registered to vote, I don't care. Registered

30:17

Republican, Democrat, doesn't make a difference. If

30:19

you're registered, just hit that blue heart.

30:22

So we know, and if you're not,

30:24

right, do a red heart

30:26

so we know that you promise,

30:29

you're taking a loyalty, promise oath

30:31

to Ben and I right now

30:33

that you will absolutely do it

30:35

this week, that you'll do it

30:38

when we finish with this, you

30:40

know, our program, that you will

30:42

go online and that you will

30:44

register because it's that easy. Yeah,

30:46

I mean, I want to see blue, I

30:49

want to see blue across the line. Exactly.

30:51

That's what I want. You know, by the way,

30:54

hey, Ben, real quick question. What's your favorite charity?

30:57

My favorite charity, one in nine is

30:59

a breast cancer charity that I

31:01

used to do events with growing up. And

31:04

I have a bunch of brigade ers

31:06

that are asking if I can auction

31:09

off the old do I

31:11

stink, you know, put it in a little frame,

31:13

send it off to them or something like that.

31:16

I'm happy to do that. For

31:18

you, I would donate it to your favorite

31:20

charity. Also I'd be remiss

31:22

if I didn't mention one of the

31:25

charities I sit on the board of,

31:27

which is Know Your Rights Camp, where

31:29

I developed a autopsy initiative where we

31:31

provide free second autopsies to anybody who

31:34

lost a loved one to a police

31:36

related death. It doesn't matter what your

31:38

politics are. It doesn't matter what your

31:40

view is. If you lost a loved

31:43

one to any police

31:45

shooting or excessive force and you just

31:47

need answers, the Know

31:49

Your Rights Camp autopsy initiative that

31:51

I started with Colin Kaepernick pays

31:53

for it, no questions asked, whatever

31:55

the cost is. And we have

31:57

pathologists across the country that offer

32:00

that service. So let's do

32:02

the first one. Let's do the first one.

32:04

Your breast cancer one. And then I'll start

32:07

doodling for the next show. I'll

32:10

try to find something funny to doodle and we'll do it.

32:14

This is some breaking news right now

32:16

as well that ABC is reporting

32:19

this and it just broke over

32:22

the wire. Donald Trump intends to

32:24

personally deliver part of the defense's

32:26

closing argument at the

32:28

conclusion of his civil

32:31

fraud trial in New

32:33

York on Thursday. Sources

32:35

familiar with the former

32:38

president strategy tell ABC News so Donald

32:40

Trump is going to want to represent

32:43

himself and be a fool, have

32:45

a client as a fool of his own client

32:49

right there. And

32:51

we will see what Donald Trump ends

32:53

up doing. I want to talk about

32:55

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32:57

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35:58

a great day. So a lot

36:01

of breaking news over the past two

36:03

to three minutes. That's why I love

36:05

doing this show live so we can

36:07

stay on top of all the breaking

36:09

news and development. So you have Donald

36:11

Trump saying he's going to represent himself

36:13

and do part of the closing argument

36:16

himself in the New York Attorney General

36:18

Civil Fraud case on Thursday. And

36:21

then you also had moments ago

36:23

Donald Trump posted that

36:25

the reason that he appears

36:28

so frequently on Epstein's plane

36:30

log is that this was

36:33

AI doing it. That his

36:35

name's actually not on it. And all of

36:37

the references to him in the court file,

36:39

all of the references to him on the

36:41

plane, all of the communications

36:43

between him and Jeffrey Epstein. Him

36:46

saying that he likes Jeffrey Epstein and

36:48

that he knows that Jeffrey Epstein likes

36:50

to be with young girls or young

36:53

women, young girls. That all of that

36:55

actually Michael Cohen, he's now saying it's

36:58

AI. And what I noticed, let

37:01

me just give you the 2002 quote from

37:03

Donald Trump, just so I'm very specific. In

37:05

2002, Donald Trump told New York

37:08

Magazine, quote, I've known Jeffrey Epstein for 15

37:10

years. Terrific guy. He's

37:12

a lot of fun to be with. It's even

37:14

said that he likes beautiful women as much as

37:16

I do, and many of them are on the

37:18

younger side. Now Donald Trump is posting on

37:21

his social media that all of this,

37:23

the logs, everything is made up. It's

37:26

all fake. It's all AI,

37:28

he says. And I

37:30

noticed this. I

37:33

saw this argument. Roger Stone made the

37:35

argument. Roger Stone was caught on tape

37:37

threatening to kill Congress

37:40

member Swalwell and threatening to murder

37:42

him. And Stone's response was, that's

37:45

not true. That's made up. That's AI. And

37:48

I saw that AI thing where he said it

37:50

was AI three days ago or four days

37:52

ago when that story broke. And I was thinking

37:54

to myself at the time, that's

37:56

where they're going to go with everything. They're

37:58

going to push out. All this

38:01

AI stuff themselves and

38:03

then anytime they engage in the

38:05

conduct They're gonna say the real

38:07

facts are all AI

38:10

and here you're seeing Donald Trump

38:12

right now post all of these

38:14

Connections his friendship all of that

38:16

is based on AI generation Friend

38:19

then myself, but it's artificial

38:22

Insemination have to do with any Horrible

38:26

I mean, you know, it's it's what an asshole

38:30

It's a good impression of him, but that's what he's

38:32

doing. I mean just think about in one day. Oh

38:35

Should I add to that too because in the

38:37

same one day? Donald Trump in

38:40

the past 24 hours Donald Trump also

38:42

said that he wants to see the

38:44

economy be destroyed. Oh So

38:46

we're Donald Trump's lawyers are saying

38:49

that SEAL team six could kill

38:51

his political opponents Donald Trump saying

38:53

all of these links to Epstein

38:55

are based on Artificial

38:57

intelligence that this is all AI Generated

39:01

Donald Trump's also saying he would love

39:03

to see the economy crash right now because

39:05

he says he doesn't want to be Herbert

39:08

Hoover Play

39:11

the clip When

39:13

there's a crash, I hope it's gonna be during

39:16

this next 12 months Because

39:18

I don't want to be Herbert Hoover the one

39:20

president. I just don't want to be Herbert Hoover.

39:22

I Hope the

39:24

economy Crashes in the

39:26

next 12 months that that's his

39:29

message and the MAGA base

39:32

Eats it up. They'll love it. They'll love it. I

39:34

mean such a big it's such a a

39:37

message of love and it's a message of

39:40

American Future think

39:42

about other things that Ben

39:45

and I have talked about regularly on this show

39:47

Which is that Donald Trump

39:50

legitimately wants to burn the country

39:52

down Because he

39:54

lost the election. That's what

39:56

he wants to do. He wants to burn the

39:58

country down Who gets

40:01

hurt most if

40:03

the stock market crashes? Do

40:05

you think that the top 1% really

40:08

is gonna change, it's gonna change

40:10

their lives? They're not gonna be

40:12

able to fill up their planes

40:15

or their, you know, or their

40:17

limos in order to take them

40:19

to the plane, to go to

40:21

their 15th house? The answer is

40:24

no, it's the average American. It's

40:26

the working class American. It's the

40:28

retiree with their 401ks or

40:31

their pension profit sharing, right? I

40:34

mean, that's who's going to get

40:36

not just hurt, but decimated when,

40:38

if and God forbid, that what

40:41

Trump is asking for or what

40:43

Trump wants to see. So how

40:45

can these people show loyalty to

40:48

a man who wants to basically

40:50

put them on the street to

40:52

make sure that all

40:54

the money that they have from

40:56

their work that would have gone,

40:59

for example, into their 401k, their

41:01

stock market, portfolios, whatever it might

41:03

be, that he wants to see it

41:05

crash? I mean,

41:08

it's like going and buying, you know, some

41:11

puzzle, a

41:13

thousand piece puzzle and say, yeah,

41:16

you know, I really hope

41:18

that it's missing six pieces. I

41:20

mean, that's how stupid that

41:22

Donald Trump's statements are, but that's

41:24

what you get when you support

41:27

somebody like Trump. You get

41:29

stupidity to the nth degree. Terrible,

41:32

it's pure evil. That's

41:35

really what it is, it's pure evil. And

41:38

in that same interview that he's giving to Lou

41:40

Dobbs, who

41:43

no longer on Fox because of the

41:45

defamatory statements that he was

41:47

making, he's on, Trump is

41:49

giving that interview on something called Lindell

41:53

TV, Mike Lindell's TV network

41:55

is where he on. And

41:58

here Donald Trump talks about a

42:00

proud election denier. This is what he says in

42:02

the interviews. He wants the economy to tank and

42:05

says that he is a proud election

42:07

denier. Play this clip. People,

42:10

they use the term election denier.

42:12

I'm an election denier. I'm

42:14

an absolute election denier. Okay,

42:18

he says that there. And here's what Donald

42:20

Trump has to say about immigration.

42:23

And he says that

42:26

people are coming in from the Congo.

42:28

Here's what he has to say. Play this clip. They're

42:31

coming in from the prisons all over the

42:33

world. This isn't just in South America. All

42:36

over Africa, in the

42:39

Congo. The other

42:41

day, people released from prisons in the

42:43

Congo. In fact,

42:45

some of these people make our prisoners look like very

42:47

nice people. Oh,

42:51

oh, God. I mean, pathetic.

42:55

There's no way. It's

42:58

so pathetic that even melanoma

43:00

doesn't want to be anywhere

43:02

near Donald von Schitzen pants.

43:04

I mean, she wants nothing

43:06

to do with him. She's

43:09

the wonderful first lady that is

43:12

off with somebody else. I mean, you

43:15

blame her. Honestly, it's

43:17

probably the smartest move that she's

43:20

made so far. I mean, you

43:22

can't say stupid shit like this

43:24

and be the Republican nominee. I

43:27

don't care. Go for Nikki

43:29

Haley. Go for the sanctimonious,

43:31

the snot nose, the fuck face,

43:33

whatever you want to call him.

43:35

Go for Chris Christie. Go for

43:38

anybody else. It makes no

43:40

difference. You can't go for

43:42

somebody. You cannot be interested

43:44

in the nomination and

43:46

the potential victory for somebody

43:48

who's talking about, oh, the

43:50

Congo. Some very

43:53

fine prisoners here in America

43:55

have said that they're worse.

43:57

What the fuck is he talking

44:00

about then share with me please because

44:02

even I don't know what he's talking

44:04

about. Well what I

44:06

like though now is that

44:09

President Biden's finally going on the offense and

44:11

people could say we wish he would have

44:13

gone on the offense earlier. Well look sorry

44:16

President Biden was governing the country.

44:19

He was getting inflation under control, he

44:21

was putting the economy on the right

44:24

direction, he was spending three years doing

44:26

the actual job, the job

44:29

of the United States presidency and taking

44:31

it very seriously and that doesn't mean

44:33

campaigning every day that's just not what

44:35

he was doing. If you want someone

44:37

who's a perpetual campaigner who isn't doing

44:40

the you know basic blocking and tackling

44:42

of being a president he's that's that's

44:44

not your guy. But

44:46

now he's going on the offense

44:48

and he gave a speech in

44:50

Valley Forge in Pennsylvania, he gave

44:52

another speech in Charleston, South Carolina

44:54

at the church that was the

44:56

site of the horrific white supremacist

44:59

mass shooting in 2000 and

45:01

in 2015 and President

45:05

Biden's given a very powerful speech

45:07

defending democracy and I want to

45:09

give credit here to Morning

45:12

Joe because they did a great

45:14

kind of Midas Touch style supercut

45:16

comparing President Biden's speech

45:19

to Donald Trump's speech over the same

45:21

48 hour period.

45:24

I want to share this with you

45:26

in a moment as well but even

45:29

before that you had President Biden come

45:31

out with a press release about Donald

45:33

Trump's statement saying in response to Donald

45:36

Trump publicly wishing for an economic crash

45:38

in the next 12 months you

45:41

had the Biden campaign release the following statements.

45:43

Donald Trump should just say he doesn't give

45:45

a damn about people because that's

45:47

exactly what he's telling the American

45:49

people when he says he hopes

45:52

the economy crashes in his relentless

45:54

pursuit of power and retribution Donald

45:56

Trump is rooting for a reality

46:00

Americans lose their jobs and

46:02

live with the crushing anxiety of

46:04

figuring out how to

46:06

afford basic needs President Biden

46:08

has delivered where Trump has failed

46:10

the American people on day one

46:12

He got to work fixing the

46:15

economic crisis Trump left behind by

46:17

helping to create over 14 million

46:19

jobs including bringing back

46:21

hundreds of thousands of Manufacturing jobs

46:23

and lowering costs for families the

46:25

bottom line president Biden wakes up

46:28

every day working and rooting For

46:30

the American people Donald Trump spends

46:32

every day Worried about

46:35

himself and play this supercut that

46:37

was done by Morning Joe. It's it's really

46:39

well done play this clip for

46:42

the first time in our history Insurrectionists

46:44

have come to stop the

46:46

peaceful transfer transfer of power in America

46:48

millions of people are storming the United

46:50

States when you talk about insurrection

46:54

What they're doing that's that's the real deal

46:57

That's the real deal not Patriotic

47:00

Lee and peacefully Trump's mob wasn't

47:03

a peaceful protest Was the

47:05

violence all released the J6 hostages

47:08

Joe? Release them

47:10

Joe Trump's assault in democracy isn't just

47:12

part of his path It's

47:14

what he's promising for the future stay in

47:16

those voting booths You should stay there and

47:18

watch and if you see bags

47:20

of crap coming into the voting areas

47:23

You got a topic the legal path

47:26

Just took Trump back to the truth That

47:30

I'd won the election and he was a

47:32

loser We're gonna win for the third time

47:34

and I just don't want the results of

47:36

the second for me and common law campaign

47:38

is about America's about you first. They say

47:41

sir How do you

47:43

do it? How do you wake up in

47:45

the morning and put on your pants? Look

47:47

at the authoritarian leaders and dictators Trump

47:49

says he admired president Xi of China

47:52

Strong smart tough Putin liked

47:54

me. I liked I got along I

47:56

got along with Kim Jong-un Saddam Hussein

48:00

I will say they hung that sucker. He spit right

48:02

in their face, but you know, tough guy. When

48:04

he visited a cemetery

48:07

called Dead Soldiers,

48:10

suckers and losers.

48:12

John McCain for some reason couldn't get his

48:14

arm up that day, remember? He goes, after

48:17

all we've been through in our history,

48:19

from independence to civil war. The civil

48:21

war was so fascinating, so horrible, because

48:23

I was reading something and I

48:26

said, this is something that could have

48:28

been negotiated. I refuse to believe that

48:31

in 2024, we Americans will

48:34

choose to walk away from what's made us the

48:36

greatest nation. We're being laughed at all over the

48:38

world. We're a failing nation.

48:42

A powerful supercut there. Michael Cohen, your

48:45

reaction to watching them? I don't think

48:47

that there's a reaction that I can

48:49

give that's any different than yours or

48:52

any of the viewers, including the ones

48:54

who are, you know, Trump supporters here.

48:57

There is no comparison between these

48:59

two individuals. They

49:05

are polar opposites of one another.

49:07

One of them is a decent

49:10

human being. It's a person who

49:12

cares about America. He may care

49:14

about himself and his political position.

49:16

Sure, I'll grant him that, but

49:18

he cares about America. Then on

49:21

the other side, there's an individual

49:23

who doesn't give a shit about

49:25

anyone or anything other

49:27

than himself. I mean, he's talking about

49:29

how wonderful the civil war was. It

49:33

was incredible. It was brutal. I

49:36

mean, listen to the words, they

49:38

hung them. He spit in their

49:40

face. I mean, think about the

49:43

person that you're going

49:45

to be voting for. Do

49:48

you want somebody who is

49:50

vile, who's a

49:52

vile, racist, sexist,

49:55

misogynistic, xenophobic, homophobic,

49:57

Islamophobic, anti-semite? You

50:00

want that to be the president of

50:02

the United States going into 2024? What

50:06

the hell are they thinking on the

50:08

other side? Listen, Joe Biden's not perfect.

50:10

And I think Biden himself will tell

50:12

you that he's not perfect. Everyone makes

50:14

mistakes. And I don't think that there's

50:16

any two of us on

50:18

this show right now who agrees 100%

50:22

with the other on every single position

50:25

that Joe Biden is taking. But

50:28

one thing I can tell you,

50:30

every single person on this show

50:32

has absolutely nothing in common with

50:34

Diaper Donald, with Donald Von Schitzenpants.

50:36

And I think, Ben, that our

50:39

new campaign should be stop the

50:41

stink, right? Vote for Joe. Then

50:43

we got to go with something like that.

50:45

I mean, let's just keep rolling with the

50:48

stink because, you know, he's talking

50:50

about how there's shit over there.

50:52

No, no, no. That's because it's

50:54

leaking out of the bottom of

50:56

his diapers. I don't understand why

50:58

people are still showing up following

51:00

and supporting this maniac. And

51:03

I want to give credit where credit is due

51:06

there to Morning Joe. That was a great supercredge.

51:08

Great, Joe. I want to

51:10

see more competition in

51:12

the pro-democracy space. I

51:15

welcome anything that resembles

51:17

and looks like Midas. Bring it

51:19

on. Please. That's what we should

51:21

be competing about. The love

51:23

of our country and making content

51:25

that shows that type of contrast.

51:28

And so while you see Morning Joe,

51:30

I think doing great work with that

51:33

specific supercut, now I compare

51:35

that to like, okay, well, how has

51:37

the paper of record, the New

51:39

York Times been covering all of

51:41

this, right? So on January 6th

51:43

itself, the front page

51:46

doesn't mention January 6th. There's

51:48

no mention of the insurrection

51:51

on the front page of the New

51:53

York Times. Instead, there's an attack on

51:55

President Biden that says Biden's

51:58

squeezed by both sides. on

52:01

immigration on the front page of

52:03

the New York Times article criticizing

52:05

President Biden for trying to find

52:08

common ground on

52:10

the border situation. And the

52:12

New York Times is attacking him for that,

52:14

not mentioning any of the things that you

52:17

just saw in the supercut about Donald Trump.

52:19

Alright Salty, now pull up that other image. This

52:21

was what was on the digital side

52:23

of the New York Times. After everything that

52:26

you just saw, this is how

52:28

the New York Times headline read. Trump

52:30

responds to Biden's speech, calling

52:33

him a threat to democracy. Mr.

52:36

Trump campaigning in Iowa suggested

52:39

that Mr. Biden, they don't even call him

52:41

President Biden in the headline by the way.

52:43

That's New York Times right there. Mr.

52:46

Trump, Mr. Biden, he's President Biden

52:48

New York Times. He's the president right now. Says

52:52

Mr. Trump campaigning in Iowa

52:54

suggested that Mr. Biden was

52:56

trying to divert focus away

52:58

from issues such as the

53:01

economy. And by the way, as absurd

53:03

as the headline is, even

53:06

the implication that Biden's trying

53:08

to divert focus away from the issues

53:10

of economy, that's actually the opposite of

53:12

what Donald Trump's been saying. If

53:15

you just listen to what Trump is

53:17

saying, the reason that the economy is

53:19

good right now that Trump deserves the

53:21

credit for it, that it's off the

53:23

stinky ass fumes of Donald Trump's economy.

53:26

That's the statement that Donald Trump is

53:28

making here. I think we have like

53:30

this is this stuff so easy to

53:32

find. Like the fact that that's

53:34

the headline. Play this clip because this is

53:36

the message that Trump says about the good

53:38

economy right now. Play this clip. We have

53:41

an economy that's incredible. We have an economy

53:43

that's so fragile. And the only reason it's

53:45

running now is it's running off the fumes

53:47

of what we did, what the Trump admit.

53:49

It's just running off the fumes. So

53:53

I'm not asking that it could

53:55

run off the fumes and run

53:57

better. I mean, that's generally not

54:00

how fumes of gas, you know,

54:02

work. The car is not going

54:04

to run as fast, or it's

54:06

not going to, I mean, it's

54:08

just, again, it's just more stupidity,

54:10

right? Stop the stink,

54:13

stop the stink. And New

54:15

York Times, come on, serious?

54:17

How fucking pathetic is that?

54:20

I mean, how your thing is that

54:22

this is the way, number one, Ben,

54:24

you are a thousand percent

54:26

correct. Show President Biden

54:29

the respect that he deserves. I

54:31

mean, you got Alina Habadabadaba, and

54:33

you got the rest of these

54:36

fucking jerkoffs constantly demanding that the

54:38

press, constantly demanding that judges refer

54:40

to Donald as Mr. President when

54:43

they speak to him. No, he's

54:45

not the President, Joe Biden is,

54:47

and New York Times owes Joe

54:50

Biden an apology. They owe us

54:52

the reader of that paper an

54:54

apology. He's not Mr. Biden.

54:57

He is President Biden, learn

54:59

some respect. And here's the

55:01

thing, I just want the New York

55:03

Times and other media just be

55:05

a mirror, just

55:07

show and say what

55:10

it is that happened. Why are you

55:12

going out of your way to

55:14

affirmatively help Donald Trump and normalize

55:17

the behavior that we all just

55:19

saw on the supercut? And to

55:21

your point- It's all about the,

55:23

it's all about the Benjamin's Ben.

55:26

No doubt about it. And so here's the

55:28

next headline from New York Times. This is

55:30

how they describe the cult,

55:33

the death cult behavior of

55:35

MAGA. This is how they frame it. Trump

55:38

is connecting with a

55:40

different type of evangelical voter.

55:42

They are not just the

55:44

church-going conservative activists who once

55:46

dominated the GOP. At

55:49

Mr. Trump's rallies in Coralville,

55:51

it was Joel Teddy, a

55:53

27-year-old local evangelist who

55:56

does not lead a church, who delivered the

55:58

opening prayer. The crowd responded

56:01

tepidly to his impassioned recitation

56:03

of several Bible verses. But

56:06

the rally goers roared to life when

56:09

he set aside the scripture and

56:11

told them what they had come to hear. This

56:14

election is part

56:16

of a spiritual battle. Then he said,

56:19

when Donald Trump becomes the 47th president

56:21

of the United States, there will

56:23

be retribution against all

56:25

those who promoted evil in this

56:27

country. Notice, New

56:29

York Times is packaging death

56:32

cult behavior in the form of

56:35

something legitimate. Do they ever write

56:37

stories how actually President Biden is

56:39

building a huge coalition of real

56:42

conservatives, actual Republicans,

56:45

Democrats, liberals, progressives, independents,

56:47

people who want normalcy?

56:50

Do they write? No, no, they write

56:52

the story that Donald Trump is attacking a

56:54

bunch of cult followers who

56:56

warn that the biggest threat, Michael Cohen,

56:58

to our country right now, that the

57:01

type of people who the New York

57:03

Times are promoting believe

57:05

that there will be technologically

57:07

advanced mermaids who are

57:10

going to cause harm to our country.

57:12

For the New York Times, that's just

57:14

a different type of evangelical voter. By

57:16

the way, this is what's happening at

57:18

these Trump events. Take a look at

57:21

what went down at the Trump Doral

57:23

a few months back where one of

57:25

the big MAGA followers named Prophet Amanda

57:27

Grace talked about the real

57:29

concerns impacting the American people. Take a

57:31

look at this. There's

57:34

wickedness attempting to completely cover this

57:36

nation in perversion and seductive

57:38

seducing spirits. I have never seen more

57:40

images of more mermaids and water people

57:43

in my life. That's

57:46

a division in the kingdom of darkness and

57:48

they're highly technologically advanced. And

57:52

we have to understand what we're dealing with.

57:56

And we have to understand the rules of

57:58

engagement in spiritual warfare. And

58:01

we are meant for hand-to-hand combat and We

58:04

are meant to bring our cries before the

58:06

throne of God to bring judgment on the

58:08

rulers of darkness of this world and of

58:10

this nation Because the rulers

58:12

have set up a throne in this nation.

58:14

They've set it up darkness

58:16

has completely covered and eclipsed the

58:19

White House of this nation and

58:22

Then while that's going on Cohen I know

58:24

right then Donald Trump goes on his social

58:26

media platform and these are all the ads

58:29

you see on Trump's platform where he holds a Thousand-dollar

58:32

bill and it goes Trump is issuing

58:34

a free $1,000

58:37

bill to all supporters liberals

58:39

are Furious and then at

58:42

the events Where

58:44

Donald Trump's pews all of this

58:46

nonsense? What does he do

58:48

at each of the appearances? He usually

58:50

goes as part of the staging of

58:53

this right? they usually go to some

58:55

restaurant or some store and Trump will

58:57

buy like a pizza and He'll

59:00

chew the pizza and he'll say to

59:02

his supporters who wants to eat the

59:04

pizza from my man Play

59:06

this clip Does

59:23

anybody want to eat the pizza I've eaten and I'm gonna throw

59:25

it to you in a second cone But here's the point I

59:27

want to make if you

59:30

make people feel worthless

59:33

and then you give them like a peanut They

59:35

will think that Wow Donald Trump's giving

59:38

me this one of

59:40

the when I watch that that reminds

59:42

me of you know, like Saddam Hussein

59:44

throwing bread at people or Kim Jong-un

59:47

throwing from throwing toilet paper

59:49

Come to open it's an

59:52

all-american experiment is that people

59:55

people are great People deserve

59:57

the best we can all Follow

1:00:00

the american dream and for trumpets and

1:00:03

all these magma republican governors It's let's

1:00:05

just treat people like crap and

1:00:07

then use the propaganda Networks of

1:00:09

fox and others to just blame

1:00:11

the other side for all of

1:00:13

their problems And then we

1:00:16

go it takes a dictator to fix

1:00:18

it It is the authoritarian playbook that

1:00:20

we never thought we'd see here. It's

1:00:22

here We need to confront it right

1:00:25

now Cohen give you the

1:00:27

last rant listen Let me start with

1:00:29

the two fingers salud goes to um,

1:00:31

john sour, you know today because he

1:00:34

is assisting trump

1:00:37

Knowing that what he is

1:00:39

doing will ultimately Destroy

1:00:42

democracy It will

1:00:45

ultimately place the

1:00:47

lives of thousands and thousands

1:00:50

and thousands potentially hundreds of

1:00:52

thousands of people in Jeopardy

1:00:54

the entire country will be

1:00:57

in jeopardy from an authoritarian

1:01:00

Who will jail people at

1:01:03

his whim so to john

1:01:05

sour? Fuck you you

1:01:07

idiot think before you act just because

1:01:10

just because you're sitting there by donald

1:01:12

doesn't mean you have to play this

1:01:14

bullshit All right, stop

1:01:16

passing around the notes. All right

1:01:18

stinky will pew there has to go

1:01:21

and short of that Listen, I am

1:01:23

going to turn around to say I'm

1:01:25

going to combat that Evangelical

1:01:27

moron that standing up there talking about

1:01:30

mermaids and ai in there a highly

1:01:32

intelligent mermaids that I don't even know

1:01:34

what they're doing It's up there with

1:01:36

the jewish space lasers. You want to

1:01:38

talk you want to bring a fight?

1:01:40

You think that you're gonna bring the

1:01:43

fight? Let me be very clear you

1:01:45

half a big moron, right? We

1:01:48

outnumber you we are smarter than you

1:01:50

we are stronger than you We may

1:01:52

not yell as loud as you do

1:01:55

my ass me of course But we

1:01:57

may as a group may not yell

1:02:00

as that, but we have beaten the

1:02:02

shit out of this group for

1:02:04

the last four election cycles

1:02:06

and our job together.

1:02:08

All right, you, Ben,

1:02:10

myself, the entire brigade

1:02:12

family, this community, we

1:02:14

are going to fight

1:02:16

like hell to ensure

1:02:19

that we beat the shit out

1:02:21

of them at the ballot box.

1:02:23

They can threaten all they want.

1:02:25

They can make their bullshit, you

1:02:27

know, idle threats. They don't mean

1:02:29

anything. Our job is

1:02:31

to ensure that every single person

1:02:34

we know is fully

1:02:36

registered and make sure that these

1:02:38

folks get to the ballot box.

1:02:41

That's the single most important thing. Forget

1:02:43

about just only being registered. You got

1:02:45

to get these folks to the ballot

1:02:47

box. We need to vote blue. There

1:02:50

needs to be no doubt, no

1:02:52

doubt whatsoever who wins this election

1:02:55

by a landslide. All right. And

1:02:57

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1:02:59

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