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Welcome to Political

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Beatdown. I'm Ben Myselis,

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joined by the one and only

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and a little bit well-rested

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Michael Cohen back from vacation,

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although he graced us with his presence

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while at vacation. Thanks for

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doing that, Michael Cohen. We've got a

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lot to discuss from Donald

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Trump being scheduled to surrender

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this week in Fulton

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County after the Ricoh criminal

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case was brought last week. Did

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Donald Trump already violate

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the conditions of his consent bond

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order with the threats and attacks

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he made at Fulton County District

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Attorney, Fawny Willis last night,

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a mere two, three hours after the

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consent order was entered in the

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first place? Also, moments before

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we went live, Donald Trump's former

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chief of staff and co-defendant

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in the Ricoh case, Mark Meadows,

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filed an emergency

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motion with the federal

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court where he's trying

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to remove the case before the judge

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even has fully accepted jurisdiction,

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begging the judge to stop

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him from being arrested before

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August 25th. We'll talk about what's

1:15

going on there. Also, Magdalene- Which

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happens to be my birthday. ... are threatening to shut down- Which,

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by the way, then happens to be my birthday.

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So, you know, my hope, my

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hope, my hope is that that's the day that

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Donald ends up, not on Thursday, but on

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Friday that he goes, and that would be the greatest

1:31

birthday gift I could ever get.

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Keep going. Well, Fawny Willis,

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if you're, what is it, Trump said Russia,

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if you're listening. Fawny Willis, if

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you're listening, Cohen's birthday is

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August 25th. Do it on

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that date. Also, are

1:46

threatening to shut down the government

1:49

unless the prosecutions

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against Donald Trump and January

1:53

Sixers stop, and

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also they want woke policies to stop,

1:58

whatever the heck that Also,

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the Trump propaganda media

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continues down its desperate

2:05

path of destruction. We'll talk

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about that and more here on Political

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Beatdown. But Cohen, I want to hear about

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your cases, the case that Donald

2:15

Trump filed against you in

2:17

federal court in the Southern District of Florida. Last

2:20

we left, we knew that there was a deposition

2:23

that was scheduled. You broke the news here.

2:25

I see right there the headline, but you broke

2:27

the news here on Political Beatdown.

2:29

It was scheduled for September 6th. There

2:32

was briefing on the scope and Donald

2:34

Trump wanting a protective order and not wanting

2:37

to be asked certain questions. Trump was saying,

2:39

and his lawyers were saying that it would be embarrassing

2:41

for him. He was going to invoke the fifth, even though it's

2:44

a case where he sued you. So where are we at, Cohen?

2:46

Well,

2:47

we're all crying for the victim

2:49

of the day. I mean, it's an absolute

2:51

joke that he thinks he has the ability

2:54

to tell my counsel what questions

2:57

they can and they cannot ask. I

2:59

mean, that is just insane. Now,

3:02

I will say that the judge correctly

3:04

turned around and said that there are certain

3:06

things that you can ask,

3:09

but if you start going

3:11

deeper than what is necessary

3:14

in order to prove your

3:16

case, prove the defense

3:19

of your case, he goes, then I'm going

3:21

to have to intercede and so on.

3:24

Now, look, between Ben Brodsky, my lawyer

3:26

down in Florida, and Daniel Perry, my lawyer

3:28

here in New York, we will not

3:30

go past what is necessary.

3:34

He makes very specific

3:36

allegations against me. Now,

3:39

those allegations

3:41

become broad in terms of scope

3:43

for damages, which is what he's asking

3:46

for

3:47

by suing for $500 million. I

3:49

have every right to defend myself

3:52

to our fullest capability,

3:54

and he will ultimately have to answer

3:57

my opinion

3:58

virtually all of the questions. not all

4:00

of the questions that will be posed to him

4:03

during his time under oath

4:05

for this sit-down deposition. Now, of course,

4:07

he also wants that gag, doesn't want anybody

4:10

to see it. And I understand

4:12

that because Donald Trump is possibly one

4:14

of the worst people to have as a

4:16

client when being deposed because he

4:18

doesn't care about the truth. And that's

4:21

the problem when you're doing a deposition,

4:23

you are under oath. So it's telling somebody

4:25

who is a habitual liar and

4:28

who really doesn't remember half

4:30

the stuff because it's so

4:32

blurred in his mind

4:34

because he doesn't remember what's true, what's not

4:37

true, what's real and what's fantasy

4:39

land. So keeping stuff

4:41

straight is very difficult for him.

4:43

And he'll always try to give an answer which

4:46

casts him in the greatest light.

4:49

That's not going to happen again with Donia Perry

4:52

and Ben Brodsky at the deposition.

4:55

So my belief and according to the

4:57

judge, he is not going to be

4:59

able to, and this is, you can look this up, it's on

5:01

NBC or Law 360. You

5:04

could take a look where they really

5:06

go into

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a tremendous analysis of

5:10

the hearing that took place. The judge

5:12

is not going to allow him to start

5:14

claiming the Fifth Amendment to

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answer questions.

5:20

And if in fact that

5:22

that happens, the judge basically

5:24

warned his attorney Alejandro

5:27

Brito that you will be treading

5:30

on very uncomfortable grounds.

5:32

So I'm excited for it. And

5:35

I can tell you that both Donia and

5:37

Ben Brodsky are very

5:39

excited for this deposition as well.

5:42

that

6:00

Midas Dutch Network decided, Maya Culpa

6:02

is cited, your book is cited

6:05

as places where you've

6:07

spread falsehoods. So

6:09

you need to defend yourself. He's seeking $500

6:12

million. So I would

6:15

anticipate that your lawyers would be

6:17

saying, okay, here you've alleged

6:19

in this federal lawsuit that Michael Cohen

6:22

is spreading falsehoods. Is that correct?

6:24

And Donald Trump will say, oh, I think that's

6:27

correct. Okay, well, please

6:29

state all

6:29

of the falsehoods that you allege

6:32

that he's made about you. Objection

6:34

over broad. You may answer the

6:36

question, answer the question. Please state

6:38

all of the falsehoods. Well,

6:41

how many falsehoods, I would ask it a little bit different. I would

6:43

say,

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Donald, how many falsehoods

6:46

do you believe Mr.

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Cohen has

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state, you know, Mr. Cohen has said about you?

6:53

And then he'll turn around and he'll say, I

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don't know, it's a lot. Okay.

6:59

Is it more than 10? Yes,

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definitely.

7:02

Is it more than 20? Right? Is

7:05

it more than 50? Is it more than 100? And

7:07

then we'll start to break it down, you know,

7:09

into, I mean, that's just how I see something

7:11

like this, you know, happening where right

7:13

now with the part where we're going through

7:16

the entire, as you said, you know, 80 page

7:19

plus document here and,

7:21

you know, pulling out a bunch of the

7:24

allegations, many of which are

7:26

either, I mean, this is the craziest part.

7:28

They either barred by the statute of limitations

7:31

or they're just completely inaccurate

7:34

in and of themselves. And the

7:36

defense, of course, to defamation,

7:40

even though Donald doesn't plead defamation,

7:43

which was smart on his lawyer's behalf, but

7:45

the defense to it, as we all know, is

7:48

veracity. It's the truth. So,

7:50

you know, it's, the whole

7:52

thing is really crazy. All I can do

7:54

is thank everybody for being a part

7:57

of this aspect of my life, this

7:59

part of the- journey in terms of holding

8:01

Donald accountable. I wish he

8:04

didn't, to be very honest with you. I wish he

8:06

didn't bring the lawsuit. And not because

8:08

I don't believe that the case will be dismissed.

8:10

Hey, Ben, let me ask you this. And I

8:13

want to ask this to the brigaders. So to

8:15

the brigaders, let's do something a little interactive.

8:19

If you believe that Donald

8:22

Trump will show up

8:24

to the deposition

8:27

on September 6, do

8:29

a thumbs up.

8:31

If you don't believe, which I don't believe,

8:33

that he's going to show up on September 6, he's

8:36

going to try to delay it because that's

8:38

part of the game. Hit the Michael

8:40

Cohen emoji. And I want to just see what people

8:43

are thinking here. I personally don't

8:45

believe that he's going to show up on

8:47

September 6. Nothing good

8:50

can come out of this for him. Because

8:52

let's not forget,

8:54

October, we

8:55

have the New York Attorney General

8:57

case, which is taking place

8:59

here in New York. It's

9:02

a civil matter. But this matter

9:04

is

9:05

going against him and his company

9:08

for a multitude of

9:11

crimes alleged by the New York AG, our

9:14

unsinkable Tish James, which

9:17

I do believe that I am

9:19

going to be. And I have no reason to

9:21

believe other than I was

9:23

deposed by Trump's

9:26

counsel not too long ago.

9:29

So I do believe that I will be a key

9:31

witness in that case as well, which

9:33

once again, I wish that I wasn't. People

9:36

think that this is fun. This is not

9:38

fun. And I can tell you that

9:41

his counsel here, as his counsel

9:43

will in Florida on cross-examination,

9:46

they're just going to attack me no different

9:48

than the Republicans attacked me during

9:50

my various different congressional committee

9:53

hearings. It's uncomfortable.

9:55

I'm

9:56

used to it. I'm prepared for it.

9:58

It's not fun.

9:59

pleasant, but it's necessary.

10:02

And I want to thank all the brigade ers again, you

10:05

know, for being a part of my life

10:07

and being a part of this journey.

10:09

As a recovering litigator

10:11

now podcast host and co founder

10:13

of the Midas Touch Network, I really appreciate

10:16

the strategy here by

10:19

your litigators in

10:21

this case who are defending you. And by

10:23

the way, want to give a special thanks to

10:25

all of the brigade ers who have contributed

10:27

to the Legal Defense Fund that have

10:29

allowed you to get those top notch

10:32

litigators, by the way, in the description

10:34

below on YouTube is where you can contribute

10:37

all that money goes to the legal

10:39

defense in the $500 million case

10:42

brought against Michael Cohen by Donald Trump,

10:44

you know, the first decision that your litigators

10:47

had to make is, were they going

10:49

to challenge jurisdiction

10:51

in Florida? And were they going to challenge

10:54

federal jurisdiction in Florida? What

10:57

that would have led to, even

11:00

if you would have prevailed on the jurisdictional

11:02

challenge, I think you could have would have

11:04

been years of delay,

11:07

as then the case would have to get refiled

11:09

in another jurisdiction, that

11:11

would take time and all the while Donald

11:14

Trump would be avoiding deposition, and

11:16

then using the lawsuit as part

11:18

of his PR propaganda

11:20

campaign. So the next decision

11:22

after deciding, okay, we're going to stay in

11:25

the Southern District of Florida, would

11:27

be what type of discovery plan

11:29

should you pursue? And there would be

11:31

some lawyers who would say, you know what, deposition

11:35

is our last discovery

11:37

tool. Some lawyers would say, first, you

11:39

submit your interrogatories, your

11:41

requests for production of documents, your

11:44

requests for admissions, file

11:46

a few motions to compel if

11:48

Donald Trump hasn't turned those over.

11:51

And then the depositions take place. But

11:53

what does that sound like? Delay, delay,

11:56

delay. And by the time you'd have Donald Trump's deposition,

11:58

let's face it,

11:59

probably be in August 2024,

12:03

that's exactly what Donald Trump

12:06

would want to happen. So what your

12:08

lawyers ultimately made the decision for

12:10

my evaluation, you haven't told me any

12:12

secret legal strategy. I'm just evaluating

12:15

it how I would evaluate any case from the

12:17

perspective as someone who used to litigate

12:19

in federal court all the time. They said, you know

12:21

what? We're okay not having

12:24

documents and emails

12:26

and all of these things. We have the documents

12:28

that exist that are public record. We

12:30

have the complaint. We don't need

12:32

more requests for production of documents

12:35

at this early stage before doing

12:37

the deposition. The most important

12:39

thing to do here is to prove

12:42

that this is basically a PR

12:44

stunt frivolous case by Donald Trump.

12:47

And the best way to do that is get him

12:49

under oath immediately. And as the plaintiff,

12:52

if he invokes the fifth in

12:54

a

12:54

case that he brought, that case

12:56

gets dismissed. And because

12:58

he's accusing you of making lies about him

13:03

in such broad generalities, your

13:05

lawyers are going to be able to get into, okay, well,

13:07

what are the lies? And you'll be able to

13:09

show that he engaged in this conduct.

13:11

And for those who saw the deposition,

13:14

and we've played it here in the Midas Touch network of Trump

13:16

in the E. Jean Carroll case,

13:19

I could only tell you on these

13:21

issues here as well, it's

13:24

going to be that times 100

13:26

with some of the issues being

13:29

addressed here. So that's how I think

13:31

that and why I think your lawyer's legal

13:33

strategy was brilliant.

13:34

Yeah, I mean, it does. It works.

13:37

You know, last night, Ben, I don't know if you had

13:39

a chance to see it. I did

13:41

send the clip to salty, but

13:44

there was I was on Caitlin Collins

13:46

with CNN last night. And,

13:49

you know, she brought up the

13:51

topic of Donald Trump

13:54

with a $200,000 bond

13:57

that he has to, you know, file

13:59

for the for this surrender

14:03

that's allegedly taking place on

14:05

the 24th on Thursday. And

14:09

while I'm sitting there at the desk

14:12

with Caitlin,

14:13

it dawned on me, holy shit.

14:17

I was given a $500,000 bond. And

14:21

I really want our brigade-ers to understand

14:24

the anger that this elicits

14:26

in me.

14:28

I get a $500,000 bond for paying a porn star

14:37

not to disclose an affair

14:39

and pulling Trump's mushroom pecker. That's

14:42

really what I am responsible for,

14:44

as well as the lie that

14:47

I had told Congress. And it's not a

14:49

multitude of lies, it's a lie,

14:51

which was the number of times that I claimed

14:53

to have discussed the failed Trump Tower,

14:56

Moscow, real estate project with

14:58

Donald. I was told, and I

15:00

did, I said three,

15:03

when the true answer was 10.

15:05

And I get a half a million dollar

15:07

bond that I had to post.

15:10

Trump, who's trying to overturn

15:12

a free and fair election,

15:15

who's putting the fucking squeeze on

15:17

Brad Raffensperger and others, the

15:20

Georgia Secretary of State, creating

15:23

fake electors. And now you see it with Roger

15:25

Stone with his video tape.

15:28

How stupid is Roger to do that? We'll

15:30

get to that shit in a second. But I said

15:32

to Caitlin,

15:33

it's so wrong, it's a

15:36

head scratcher. It's ironic

15:38

that I should have to do a $500,000 bond

15:43

and Trump is a $200,000 bond when

15:46

you start to compare the two together.

15:49

One, again, is to a porn star,

15:51

not to disclose the fact that the guy's got a mushroom

15:53

pecker,

15:55

whereas the other one is trying to overturn

15:57

our democracy and a

15:59

free and fair election. election

16:01

by installing fake electors trying

16:03

to steal documents, trying

16:06

to take

16:08

machines, officials who

16:10

were not really officials. I

16:12

mean, all of this fraud that

16:15

went on, he gets a $200,000 bond?

16:18

Well, look, I have nothing but respect

16:20

for this judge. So I'm not turning

16:22

around, and I'm not

16:24

casting any opinion onto

16:26

the number. Because even if it was a half a million,

16:29

it doesn't really mean shit to Donald. If

16:31

he doesn't have the cash available, he'll raise

16:33

it from his moronic magma

16:36

morons. So that's

16:38

not even really an issue here.

16:41

It's more

16:42

Judge William H. Pauli III, the judge in

16:44

my specific case,

16:46

looked to do anything that he could

16:49

to hurt me.

16:51

Because that's what I

16:53

believe that he was told to do. It's

16:56

my opinion. I mean, my

16:58

case, the sentencing on

17:00

the case was so absurd

17:03

based upon all of the facts which he

17:05

did not want to hear or see.

17:08

And the prosecutors didn't want me to

17:11

be releasing them and so on. It

17:13

was very, very organized and detailed

17:16

over that 48-hour period. That

17:18

Friday night when I was told, you have till Monday

17:21

to come in and to plead guilty, or they're

17:23

filing an 80-page indictment against

17:26

you, that's going to include your wife. All

17:28

right?

17:30

Overturning a free and fair election. And

17:33

in all fairness, it's one of the reasons I appreciate

17:35

you. It's one of the reasons I appreciate

17:37

my just touch network. It's one of the reasons

17:39

I truly, and I really mean this from my heart,

17:42

that I appreciate the political beat down

17:44

brigade-ers because this is not

17:46

an easy journey. And anybody

17:48

that thinks that this shit is fun, it's

17:51

not being the attacky

17:54

by Donald

17:57

and his magma morons. It's

18:00

never fun when they start beating

18:03

you up on the social media,

18:05

whether it's his untrud social or X

18:08

or threads or wherever else, that

18:11

these loonies decide that they want

18:13

to attack you on.

18:15

When you're the recipient,

18:17

and I said this on Caitlin yesterday

18:20

as well, when you somehow

18:22

attract the ire

18:23

of this Mandarin Mussolini,

18:27

I'm telling you, it's not fun.

18:29

He goes after you. He

18:31

goes after your family. They make

18:33

shit up. There's repercussions that

18:36

hurt your family, that

18:38

wipe your family's happiness out,

18:40

your finances. They really

18:43

have this. This Southern

18:45

District of New York, guys like Tom McKay,

18:48

who's now over at some big law firm, this

18:50

guy like Nick Roos, who I think is still there,

18:53

Andrea Griswold,

18:55

you have a whole slew of them. Robert

18:58

Kazami, who's over at, I think, like Guggenheim

19:01

Partners, Jeffrey Berman over at McDermott,

19:03

something like that. I mean, this is out of control.

19:06

These guys are all pulling down now, Southern Figure

19:08

contracts, and in their bios,

19:11

it's like, oh, successfully prosecuted. The

19:13

biggest US case for the

19:15

21st century, US

19:18

versus Michael Cohen, bullshit. What

19:20

you did is you threatened my wife and you knew

19:22

my Achilles heel, and you threatened

19:24

my family, which is my Achilles heel.

19:27

And at the end of the day, there was no decision

19:29

over the course of a weekend when you have nobody

19:32

to reach out to. Forgetting about trying to reach

19:34

government during the week. How about on a weekend, 5.30,

19:38

you get that call from your lawyer? Nah,

19:40

this is bullshit. And you know what? It's one

19:43

of the reasons why I am literally

19:45

at, I am right at the line

19:47

on this congressional run. And I swear

19:50

to the brigade-ers, you will be the

19:52

first ones to know whether or not

19:54

this thing is going forward. But as it

19:56

stands right now, I am speaking to a lot of

19:59

people

19:59

who are Democratic

20:02

strategists and people

20:04

who really know Congress and

20:07

how to win races, and they are

20:09

all gung-ho for me to do it. So

20:12

this is really pumping me up because

20:14

there is so much that needs to be done

20:17

to correct the wrongs that are going

20:19

on. It's why I would DOJ. It's

20:21

why people don't have faith in our government

20:24

any longer. And there has to be enough

20:26

people, people like Jamie Raskin, people

20:28

like Congressman Steve Cohen,

20:31

people like

20:32

Congressman, what

20:35

do you call it,

20:38

Dan Goldman, Steve Cohen, Jamie Raskin,

20:40

and so many and others why

20:43

they are so necessary

20:45

in order to ensure that

20:47

Congress,

20:48

despite the divisiveness that exists,

20:51

are working for you and me and

20:53

not for themselves.

20:55

Donald Trump was whining

20:57

about the conditions of his consent bond

21:00

order, which as stated in the

21:02

title, his

21:03

lawyers consented

21:05

to. His lawyers could have objected

21:07

to it, went to a hearing, and said that these

21:10

terms are inappropriate.

21:12

And Judge McAfee, who's presiding

21:14

over the case, could have made a ruling. Before

21:17

going into the bond conditions, let me just show

21:19

you the posts of Donald Trump whining

21:22

after the consent and bond order

21:24

was issued. I believe these posts to

21:26

be a violation of

21:28

the consent and bond order. Also, it's just

21:31

such a whiny, petulant

21:33

child as you read these things. And just very

21:35

bizarre and dangerous. Here's what

21:37

he writes. He goes, Donald

21:40

Trump posts this. The failed district

21:42

attorney of Fulton County, Atlanta,

21:45

Fawny Willis, insisted on a $200,000 bond for

21:47

me. I

21:49

assume, therefore, that she thought

21:52

I was a, quote, flight risk. I'd

21:54

fly far away, maybe to Russia,

21:56

Russia, Russia. Share a gold-domed

21:59

suite with Vlais.

21:59

Vladimir never to be seen or

22:02

heard from again. Would I be able

22:04

to take my very understated airplane

22:07

with the gold Trump affixed for

22:09

all to see? Probably not.

22:12

I'd be much better off flying commercial.

22:15

I'm sure nobody would recognize

22:17

me. Exclamation point. Then the other one he goes,

22:19

he goes, can you believe it? I'll

22:22

be going to Atlanta, Georgia on Thursday

22:24

to be arrested by a radical

22:26

left district attorney, Fonnie Willis, who is

22:29

overseeing one of the greatest

22:31

murder and violent crime disasters

22:34

in American history. In

22:36

my case, the trip to Atlanta is not

22:38

for murder, but for making

22:40

a perfect phone call. And he puts that in caps.

22:43

She campaigned and is continuing

22:45

to campaign and raise money on this.

22:48

And he puts this in caps, which hunt this

22:50

is in strict coordination with crooked

22:52

Joe Biden's DOJ. It

22:54

is all about election interference.

22:57

First off, there's absolutely no coordination

22:59

here.

22:59

If there was coordination, then she wouldn't

23:02

have indicted Mark Meadows in the first

23:04

place, which we'll talk about in a little bit. Or 18

23:07

other co-defendants. But by the way,

23:09

but then, interestingly enough, if

23:12

we're able to go back and if Salty can find

23:14

it, look at the tweet that

23:16

he put out, or I should say the post that he

23:18

put out when he was referring to

23:22

New York's attorney general, Tish

23:24

James, the exact same language.

23:27

Donald is a one trick pony.

23:29

It was the same thing. Witch hunt, the

23:31

radical. She campaigned

23:33

on it. Basically, he says these

23:36

sort of racist things. Why? Well, what's

23:38

the similarity between Tish

23:40

James and the similarity to

23:43

Fani district attorney Fani Willis?

23:45

They're both women of color. They're

23:47

both black women. All right. And they're women

23:49

of power. And they're women who really

23:52

have put the time and the effort in in

23:55

order to create an indictment that

23:57

is ironclad.

23:59

So what does he do?

24:00

Same bullshit, same stupid

24:02

post, same nonsense, same

24:04

witch hunt language, same

24:07

call to action, the murder

24:10

and violence. I mean, look at the language

24:12

that the guy uses. There's

24:14

a reason why he's using this language.

24:17

I just want people to understand, and when he puts murder

24:19

and violence in capital, just think

24:22

about who he's appealing to. He's appealing

24:24

to these guys with four teeth

24:27

and three brain cells, all right? That's

24:29

the problem, and that's the danger of

24:31

Donald J. Trump.

24:33

He's appealing to people like

24:36

the murderer, the terrorist who

24:38

killed the woman here in California

24:40

who had the LGBTQ plus

24:42

flag, and this was an individual

24:44

who was in all of the messages,

24:48

buying into all of the Fox and Trump

24:50

propaganda. We did a whole story where

24:52

we did a deep dive into the

24:54

social media profile of the

24:57

terrorist who committed the murder. It's

24:59

on MidasTouch.com right now. It is all

25:02

identical talking points

25:03

to the ones that Donald Trump

25:05

is putting out. By the way, Fulton County- Ben,

25:08

I would ask you just to read it just so that I can

25:10

prove my point that he's a one-trick

25:13

pony, and if you can, go for

25:15

it, Ben.

25:16

Yeah, so there it is right here. I

25:18

mean, this is what it says. An interesting

25:20

day spent with Attorney General and

25:22

her representatives. I strongly made

25:24

my points. They are irrefutable,

25:27

and it is a case that should not go

25:29

forward. My company and overall

25:31

value is far stronger and higher than

25:33

shown in the so-called financial statement. The

25:36

honorable thing to do would be drop

25:38

it and spend all this time, money, and energy

25:40

on fighting violent crime in

25:42

New York. It would make a big difference

25:45

and show real strength

25:46

and courage by the AG. By

25:48

the way, I remember that post. That was right after

25:51

Donald Trump actually sat for a deposition

25:53

and answered the questions, because if he invoked

25:55

the fifth, it would be used as an adverse inference

25:58

against him, and by stating. that

26:00

after the New York Attorney General deposition

26:03

in a case involving fraudulent

26:05

financial valuations, Salty pulled that

26:07

up one more time, he admits

26:09

in the post to fraudulent and phony financial

26:12

valuations by saying that

26:14

the company and overall value is actually

26:16

far stronger and higher than

26:19

shown in the so-called financial statements. The

26:21

financial statements are supposed to be accurate.

26:23

They're not supposed to understate or overstate

26:26

the finances and he admits to

26:28

what he's being

26:29

accused of in that civil

26:32

case. One thing to mention too though, Fulton County

26:34

District Attorney Fawny Willis last ran

26:36

in 2020. So when

26:38

she was running, it was before the January

26:41

6th insurrection and before

26:43

the crimes that are alleged in the indictment.

26:46

So she was not running on prosecuting

26:49

Trump for crimes that had not yet been

26:51

committed. She actually ran as a

26:54

pretty moderate centrist

26:56

person. You go back, she describes

26:59

herself. She goes, I don't view myself

27:01

as like liberal per se. I

27:03

don't view myself as conservative per

27:05

se. She goes, I'm straight down the middle,

27:08

law and order, no nonsense.

27:10

And we'll see that's exactly how she's

27:12

been prosecuting this case. It's how she's

27:14

treating Mark Meadows as well.

27:16

Go into this consent bond order for

27:19

Donald Trump. You'll see, as you mentioned Cohen, $200,000

27:23

in bond. But when you get to the next section

27:25

where it talks about the conditions

27:27

imposed on Donald Trump, here's where I believe

27:29

there was a violation in those

27:32

posts that I read. Here's

27:34

what it says. The defendant shall perform

27:36

no act to intimidate any

27:38

person known to him or her to be

27:41

a co-defendant or witness in this case,

27:43

or to otherwise obstruct the administration

27:45

of justice. This shall include but is not

27:48

limited to the following. The defendant,

27:50

Donald Trump, shall make no direct or

27:52

indirect threat of any nature against

27:55

any co-defendant. The defendant shall make

27:57

no direct or indirect threat of any

27:59

nature. against any witness. C, defendant

28:02

shall make no direct or indirect threat of any

28:04

nature against any victim. D, the

28:06

defendant shall make no direct or indirect

28:08

threat of any nature against the community

28:11

like Atlanta or any property

28:13

in the community. And E, the above shall

28:16

include but are not limited to posts on

28:18

social media or reposts a

28:20

post made by another individual on

28:22

social media. Cohen, those are the terms that Trump's

28:25

lawyers negotiated so when he goes

28:27

and whines about it, how do I know his lawyers did

28:29

it? Because here on political

28:31

beat down on the Midas Touch Network we look at the

28:33

documents and were evidence based

28:36

and so the documents say the above

28:38

caption matter having come before the court

28:40

for consideration of bond and

28:42

with consent of counsel for

28:45

the state of Georgia and for the defendant,

28:48

the court hereby grants an order. So

28:50

Donald Trump's lawyers agreed to this, he's

28:53

violating it. The question that

28:55

has to be decided though and we

28:57

see this in a reply brief filed by Jack

28:59

Smith soon is Donald Trump actually

29:02

wants to use pretrial detention

29:05

as a way to delay these

29:07

proceedings and Donald Trump cited

29:09

in the Jack Smith Washington D.C.

29:11

case other federal January

29:14

6th cases that took

29:17

about two to three years from

29:19

the date of indictment through

29:21

trial or technically through sentencing

29:23

and the thing with those cases

29:27

is they involved pretrial detention

29:29

litigation which takes up a lot

29:31

of time and that causes delay

29:33

and one of the things special counsel Jack

29:36

Smith pointed out in his reply brief

29:38

because he wants to set that January 2nd, 2024

29:41

trial date is your honor

29:43

Trump's most lawyers are citing pretrial

29:46

detention cases. This is not

29:48

a multi-defendant pretrial detention

29:51

complex case, four counts, no

29:54

pretrial detention, one defendant

29:56

in Donald Trump. That's Jack Smith's approach

29:59

and it'll be in

29:59

interesting to see what Fulton County District

30:02

Attorney Fawny Willis does because Jack

30:04

Smith's clearly not doing pre-trial

30:06

detention because he wants the

30:09

January 2nd, 2024 trial date

30:11

realizing that that could put Trump in prison for

30:13

the rest of his life.

30:14

What's interesting, Ben, is

30:17

Donald is trying to pretend, because

30:20

that's what he is. He's the great pretender. He's

30:22

trying to pretend that this

30:24

is nothing. He's already done it three

30:26

times. So now he's going to go to four.

30:30

And this bothers the living shit out of me. And

30:32

I said this once before to our brigadeors

30:34

on an earlier segment.

30:38

The second that he leaves Moron

30:40

Lago or Mar-a-Lardo or whatever

30:43

we want to call that shithole,

30:45

the second he leaves there with the caravan

30:47

of cars filled up with people who have

30:50

no purpose for being there, other than

30:52

to show that Donald has a little army

30:55

around him of people, they get

30:57

in. And the media is following

30:59

him

31:00

from the beginning to the time he

31:03

walks up the stairs, to the time

31:05

that he gets into the plane, to the time that

31:07

the plane takes off, to the time that the

31:09

plane lands, to the time that police

31:12

escorts are there, they shut down roads,

31:14

they get him to the courthouse. That's all

31:16

that they're talking about. Again, again, we're making

31:19

him into like a superstar. He is not

31:21

a superstar. He is not the president

31:23

of the United States. He is a former

31:25

president, a now four-time indicted

31:28

former president. And we are

31:30

making him into like a superstar, into

31:32

some dignitary. He is not.

31:35

He is right

31:37

now an indicted defendant, plain

31:39

and simple. And you know what? One of the reasons

31:42

why Donald is sort of

31:44

pretending you know, that this doesn't

31:47

bother him, that he's doing it for

31:49

you, that I'm all that stands

31:51

in between you and the

31:53

Biden administration's weaponization

31:55

of the justice department is me.

31:58

So all of this is bullshit. I'll tell you

32:00

something, if they turn around and said

32:02

to him, okay, Donald, unfortunately,

32:05

George is not like New York

32:07

and George is not like DC,

32:10

you gotta go through the whole process. They're

32:12

gonna strip you out. You're

32:15

gonna have to lift up that saggy

32:17

ball sack.

32:18

You have to bend down, cough. They're taking

32:20

your clothes, your shoes. They're gonna give you

32:22

while you're sitting inside the

32:25

cell. They're gonna be giving you an orange

32:27

jumpsuit. There's one big enough for your

32:29

ass. If not, like everybody

32:31

else, they give it to you either way too big or way

32:34

too small. They give you a pair of shoes that

32:36

don't fit either. Then you would

32:38

see him go into panic mode.

32:40

He thinks he's going in there

32:42

walking in like Caesar just

32:45

conquered a territory. He's

32:47

walking in through Rome. That's

32:50

how he's trying to portray himself.

32:52

But if he had to go through the process, like

32:55

everybody else, rest

32:57

assured, he'd be shitting a brick

32:59

right now, screaming at his lawyers,

33:01

you figure out how to get me. He would

33:03

be doing every trick in the book, not

33:06

to show up there. And he certainly wouldn't

33:08

be running his mouth the way he's doing

33:10

it, which is in contradiction to

33:12

exactly what the judge just told him not

33:15

to do, but no different than the Eugene

33:17

Carroll case. The idiot, and

33:20

I say it again, this fucking idiot

33:22

cannot keep his mouth shut, not

33:24

for 24 hours, no different

33:26

than the Eugene Carroll case, where

33:29

he went on CNN with once again, Kaitlyn

33:31

Collins for that town

33:34

hall, opened his mouth and started

33:36

doing exactly what he was told

33:39

not to do. Because the man baby

33:41

does not understand

33:43

guidelines. He doesn't

33:45

understand guardrails. He doesn't

33:47

understand anything except

33:50

for what he wants. He's just a big man,

33:52

baby.

33:53

Let's talk about, very

33:56

vivid, very graphic, but appropriately

33:58

stated. Let's talk about,

33:59

talk about is a nerd. I know what it's like to get stripped

34:02

out, all right, on a regular

34:04

basis, especially when they had us in

34:06

the solitary side. Now on the one

34:09

side where I was originally at, which was the camp,

34:12

then there's none of that

34:14

that goes on. But once you

34:17

go back and forth, like if you had to go to see

34:19

the doctor across, yeah, it's

34:21

the whole process all over again and again and

34:24

again. And I understand

34:26

it for a security purpose, unnecessary,

34:28

but nevertheless, I understand it.

34:30

If they put Donald through that, I

34:33

promise you he would be paler

34:35

than Casper the ghost. Well,

34:37

that surrender date is being

34:39

negotiated. The Fulton County Sheriff

34:42

said not going to treat him any

34:44

differently. We will keep everybody posted

34:46

when we know the specific date and time. I also

34:48

want to talk about Mark Meadows, who

34:51

is trying desperately not

34:53

to have to surrender motion

34:55

after motion and emergency motion

34:57

filed by Mark Meadows after

35:00

filing a motion to dismiss over

35:02

the weekend after filing a removal

35:04

notice the week before that one

35:06

day after the indictment

35:07

issued, what in the world is

35:09

Mark Meadows doing and what in the world are these

35:11

magma Republicans doing threatening

35:14

our country in a letter earlier

35:17

this week stating that they will not fund

35:20

the government if the prosecutions

35:22

against Donald Trump and the insurrectionists

35:25

continue. And if there's continued

35:27

woke policies, I mean, this is some

35:29

dangerous and deranged stuff. We

35:31

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after the show ends, that's when the

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dancing begins. So show ends,

41:48

dancing starts. But speaking

41:50

of dancing, Meadows-ish, Mark

41:53

Meadows, Donald Trump's former chief of staff

41:55

is trying to dance out

41:57

of being arrested. I mean.

41:59

Meadows has filed so many

42:02

documents right away. I mean the day

42:04

after the indictment

42:05

on August 15th He files

42:08

a removal notice to federal court

42:10

right away trying to get the case transferred

42:13

from state court to federal court And

42:15

the federal judge is like, okay. I mean, well, we'll

42:17

hear your arguments. It's not frivolous

42:20

on its face So the federal judge sets

42:22

an evidentiary hearing for August

42:24

28th Then over

42:27

the weekend, I think it was Saturday evening You

42:30

know during the storms out here in California

42:33

I saw mark Meadows filed a motion

42:35

to dismiss Like you're filing a

42:37

motion to dismiss in federal court the court

42:40

hasn't even accepted jurisdiction over

42:42

it there's a hearing on whether the courts

42:44

even going to have jurisdiction or remanded

42:46

so you're asking a court

42:48

that lacks jurisdiction to rule on

42:50

a motion to dismiss and Meadows argument

42:53

is under the supremacy clause the First Amendment

42:55

the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. He goes I was

42:57

just acting like a normal chief of staff,

42:59

you know Just trying to overthrow

43:01

the government just like our founders Anticipated

43:05

but you

43:05

know look Fulton County District Attorney Fonnie Welles

43:07

is gonna say you ain't engaging in any

43:10

normal conduct of a chief of staff You're

43:12

engaging in conduct that's trying

43:14

to overthrow our Constitution. You can't

43:16

invoke the Constitution as protection

43:19

So then Meadows filed that and

43:21

then moments before we went live Meadows

43:24

filed a emergency

43:27

motion with the federal court that doesn't

43:29

yet have jurisdiction Saying like

43:31

begging the federal court to step

43:33

in and try to block

43:35

Meadows from being arrested

43:37

and Meadows attaches correspondence

43:40

from Fulton County District Attorney Fonnie

43:42

Willis where she says

43:44

to Meadows lawyers. I'm

43:47

not granting any extensions

43:49

I gave two weeks for people to surrender

43:51

themselves to the court your client

43:53

mark Meadows is no different than

43:55

any other criminal Defendant in this jurisdiction

43:58

the two weeks was a tremendous

43:59

courtesy, at

44:02

12.30pm on Friday, I shall file

44:04

warrants in the system. My

44:06

team has availability to meet to discuss

44:09

reasonable consent bonds Wednesday

44:11

and Thursday. By the way, even Trump's

44:14

lawyers entered into a consent bond.

44:16

Granted, Trump is whining about it, but mostly

44:19

all of the co-defendants have entered into

44:21

consent bonds. But Mark Meadows,

44:24

with this feeling of infinite

44:26

privilege and that you just enter

44:28

into a consent bond,

44:29

then you can challenge it. If

44:32

you want to challenge it in federal court, there'll be a

44:34

hearing on August 28th. But

44:36

you see the difference here, Colin, right? You've

44:38

got Holton County District Attorney Fony Willis law

44:41

in order, and you've got Mark Meadows for

44:43

the first time in his life feeling

44:45

some level of accountability

44:48

into your earlier point, not even anywhere

44:50

near the accountability that it should. And

44:52

it's like motion, motion, help me, help me, please, judge.

44:54

You know, you know why, Ben? You know why? Because

44:57

for the exact reasons that I had stated

45:00

that Donald Trump would be paler

45:02

than Casper the ghost if

45:05

in fact he had to go through the process

45:07

the way everybody else goes through it.

45:10

And Mark Meadows is not going to

45:12

get the Donald J. Trump former

45:15

president treatment. That I can promise

45:17

you. And so this

45:19

whole process

45:22

is very gut wrenching

45:25

and Mark Meadows is now beginning to

45:27

feel

45:28

the pressure that

45:29

everybody else in America that ends

45:31

up having any issue whatsoever,

45:33

justified or not,

45:35

that they go through. Mark Meadows

45:37

is now feeling that pressure. And

45:40

I couldn't be happier, to be honest with

45:42

you, that he's feeling it. I warned that moron.

45:44

I warned him when I testified before the House

45:47

Oversight Committee and he decided

45:49

that he wanted to turn around and challenge

45:51

when I stated that Donald Trump is a racist.

45:54

And he paraded out Lynn Patton, the

45:56

only

45:57

biracial person that worked at

45:59

the.

45:59

Trump organization, right,

46:02

was Lynn, and to turn around and say

46:04

that she's very close with Eric and

46:06

with Lara Trump, so therefore Donald,

46:09

who hired her on behalf of the company,

46:11

which is not true, was actually Eric that

46:13

hired her at my request,

46:15

that clearly Donald cannot be a racist

46:18

as a direct result. It's really such a stupid

46:20

argument no matter how you want to slice it, but

46:23

I warn Mark Meadows, you are

46:25

selling your soul

46:27

to somebody who is soulless, and rest

46:30

assured, what he did to me, he's

46:32

going to end up doing to you because

46:35

you're not special.

46:36

Did he listen to me? The answer is no,

46:38

and you know what?

46:40

Sometimes you gotta learn your lessons there, Mark.

46:42

Now I did want to ask you something. The letter

46:44

that you've put up from the House

46:47

Caucus, that Freedom Caucus group,

46:49

can we post that one more time for a second?

46:53

Who signed this letter, Salty?

46:56

Is there a second page for this? It seems to be written

46:58

on behalf of the entire

47:01

Freedom Caucus, which is made up of

47:03

Gates and all

47:05

of the ultra,

47:07

ultra, ultra MAGA, they're all MAGA,

47:10

but it's that group of people

47:12

who really control Kevin McCarthy.

47:14

They're the ones who held up McCarthy's nomination.

47:17

So you're gonna really tell me that they put out, so

47:19

they put out a document that's unsigned?

47:22

Can you imagine? And that was the point.

47:25

I thought maybe we were missing a second

47:26

page onto it. Look,

47:29

this is the whole problem with the Lauren Boebert's,

47:31

the Marjorie Toilet Greens, the

47:33

Matt Gates, the whole group

47:35

of them. They're so entrenched

47:38

and they're so knee deep into

47:42

the dumpster fire of the

47:45

Trump cult that they don't even know what the

47:48

hell they're doing anymore. They don't know what to say. It's

47:50

all, how can I be more of

47:53

a shock jock than of a congressman

47:56

and the shit that they say and the stuff

47:58

that they put out. They're

47:59

too embarrassed.

47:59

to even put their names on it. Well,

48:02

you know what? To each and every one of you,

48:04

and you all know who you are, because I actually don't

48:06

know who's fully a part of this Freedom

48:09

Caucus. For you, you get

48:11

the two fucking fingers salute today.

48:13

Fuck you all in your stupidity. Do

48:15

you not understand how precious

48:18

democracy is? Do you not understand

48:20

that

48:21

the United States should never

48:23

be an autocracy? We should never be a

48:25

monarchy. And that's exactly what Donald

48:28

Trump is looking to do. How stupid

48:30

do you have to be to think that he

48:33

will be loyal to you when he becomes

48:35

the autocrat? In fact, he'll be just

48:37

like Caesar was. He's going to start stabbing

48:40

people and beheading people. It's going to be

48:42

no different than watching the

48:44

Handmaid's Tale when you're going to have

48:47

one commander

48:48

shooting and killing and throwing

48:51

another commander under the bus, because

48:53

Donald is the ultimate alpha.

48:56

He will not allow anybody else

48:58

and anyone who starts to think that

49:00

they too are an alpha will

49:02

get the Kim Jong-un treatment

49:04

of getting tied to a fucking tree and

49:07

having somebody with a rocket, right?

49:10

Shoot a rocket launcher at you, blow

49:12

you and the tree up while

49:14

you're watching this whole thing happening, like

49:16

supposedly Kim Jong-un

49:18

did to his uncle. This is who

49:20

Donald Trump is and the fact that

49:22

they're not able to see it. Members

49:25

of Congress. Now, forget about the

49:27

fact that whether or not he actually paid for

49:29

this young girl, took her over state lines.

49:31

I mean, does anything

49:33

anymore preclude any

49:36

of these GOP, you know, radical,

49:39

ridiculous fools? Does anything

49:41

preclude them anymore from running

49:43

or holding office? I mean, thank goodness,

49:46

at least the Queenspeople, right,

49:48

the Long Island Queenspeople that are in George

49:51

Santos' district.

49:53

Fortunately, they see through the fraud

49:56

that this guy is and chances

49:58

are that he's...

49:59

going to get the

50:00

shit kicked out of him at the upcoming

50:03

election. But

50:05

this is really no joke. How

50:08

many

50:09

George Santos's should exist

50:11

in Congress? How many Matt Gaetz's,

50:13

Josh Hawley's, Marjorie Taylor

50:15

Greene's? How many of them do we

50:18

need? And the answer is zero.

50:21

We don't want any of them. We really

50:23

need to stop this bullshit. And

50:25

that's why I say this every time, Brigators,

50:28

some people love it. Some people aren't so

50:30

happy with it. We must ensure

50:32

that a blue wave

50:35

in 2024 is

50:37

so significant that there

50:39

is no possibility whatsoever

50:42

of any of these individuals ever

50:45

returning back to D.C., starting

50:47

with the Mandarin Mussolini himself.

50:51

Because here are the facts. Donald

50:53

Trump and the Republicans

50:55

ran up the deficit to the tune

50:58

of trillions of dollars through

51:00

tax cuts for billionaires that

51:02

they did not pay for. On

51:04

the other hand, President Biden's

51:07

strategies pay for his

51:09

programs by closing tax loopholes

51:12

and making sure billionaires

51:14

pay their fair share,

51:16

that they don't pay less than

51:19

you pay. So money has to

51:21

come from places, and Biden's

51:24

been able to reduce the deficit

51:25

by finding where the

51:27

money comes from at its most simplistic

51:30

level. So here we have the arsonists,

51:34

the House Freedom Caucus right

51:36

here, saying that they're the ones

51:38

who want to put out the fire that they created,

51:41

but in reality, they just want

51:43

to increase the arson over

51:45

and over again and then blame

51:48

President Biden and then blame Democrats

51:51

where President Biden, against all

51:53

odds, has put the American economy in a

51:55

fairly strong position when

51:58

all economists doubted that that

51:59

That could be done. So, you look at this letter

52:02

and it says things like, however,

52:04

when Congress returns to Washington,

52:07

we will only have just a few days before

52:09

the government funding expires on

52:11

September 30th and time

52:13

is rapidly running out to enact

52:16

all 12 appropriation bills. Like

52:18

the ultimate gaslighting here. Y'all

52:21

are the people who left Congress and

52:24

didn't pass the appropriation bills. The

52:26

Democrats were saying they want to pass

52:28

the 12 appropriation

52:29

bills in its normal course.

52:32

The MAGA Republicans refused to do it.

52:35

Before I lose this train of thought, I'm so sorry,

52:37

pal.

52:38

But as I was reading that again, and

52:40

I'm so shocked, do you realize that

52:42

if that was you and me that put out a letter like

52:44

that, there's a better than likely chance we'd be

52:47

tried for treason?

52:48

I mean, think about what that letter is actually

52:50

doing. It's actually trying to stop

52:52

government from operating,

52:55

basically holding government hostage by

52:57

holding the purse strings. If that was anybody

53:00

other than members of Congress, that would

53:02

probably be treason. It's

53:04

amazing to me that they're getting away with this. And

53:07

where are the Democrats? For God's sakes,

53:09

it's the same thing I've been yelling at. You know,

53:11

one of the things I wanted to talk about also before,

53:14

you know, we got into everything, you know, I

53:16

just received and we're going to talk about it on Thursday.

53:19

I'm going to send it to Salty to post so everyone

53:22

can see it. I have two FOIA

53:24

requests. Can you imagine the lack of transparency

53:27

that government wants to permit? And

53:29

there's a reason for it.

53:31

873 documents allegedly

53:33

have been reviewed and so on, and they'll turn

53:36

over none. And the argument as

53:38

to why? Wait till Thursday. Wait

53:40

till you see what this is all about. It is insane.

53:43

This is the lack of transparency. And

53:45

this is the problem. Where are the Democrats

53:47

right now? All right. Who are still

53:50

at least the majority in this in the Senate? Where

53:52

are the investigations for

53:55

stuff like this against this House freedom? Where

53:57

are the investigations into the I.G.

53:59

to the transparency

54:02

of government when it comes to documentation

54:04

so that people like myself, I can turn

54:07

around and show exactly who

54:09

did what because what they did

54:11

is illegal. It's unconstitutional.

54:14

It's undemocratic. It's un-American

54:17

and it needs to stop.

54:19

All right. That's the bottom line. Sorry

54:21

about that, Ben.

54:22

No, it's an important point that you raised

54:24

right there. And what the MAGA Republicans are saying

54:26

in this letter is that they will stop

54:29

government funding, then they list their hostage

54:32

demands. Remember the same way they held our

54:34

economy hostage with the debt ceiling. And

54:37

so the first one, they talk about stopping

54:39

the flood of dangerous fentanyl into our communities.

54:42

We all agree with that. And President

54:44

Biden has many

54:46

plans about how to address it. What

54:49

MAGA Republicans want to basically

54:51

say is it's

54:52

Mexicans and people south of the border

54:54

smuggling it in backpacks

54:56

across the border where they're not addressing

54:59

the actual source of where most fentanyl

55:01

is arriving from. But I think

55:03

we can all agree that that should be addressed.

55:06

It shouldn't shut down our economy. We

55:08

should deal with it like intelligent adults.

55:11

But here we go, two and three. Two,

55:13

address the unprecedented weaponization

55:15

of the Justice Department and FBI

55:18

to focus them on prosecuting real

55:20

criminals instead of conducting

55:22

political witch hunts and targeting

55:24

law-abiding citizens. That's clearly

55:27

a reference. This is how MAGA Republicans

55:29

refer to Donald Trump and the insurrectionists

55:32

right there. And then three, end the

55:34

left's cancerous woke policies

55:36

and the Pentagon undermining our

55:38

military's core war

55:40

fighting mission. That's not what's happening.

55:43

Who's undermining the military's core

55:45

war fighting mission are MAGA Republicans

55:48

like Tommy Tuberville who are holding up the

55:50

nominations of military

55:52

generals and top-ranking military

55:54

officials to pursue their

55:57

kind of bizarre culture war MAGA

55:59

Republican.

55:59

agendas. And then finally, they can't

56:02

help themselves and say, they oppose

56:04

any blank check for Ukraine

56:06

and any supplemental appropriations

56:09

bill because they're doing Vladimir Putin's

56:12

bidding. And so this

56:15

conduct right here, Cohen, is not normal

56:17

at all. We need to call it out and

56:19

we need to put the pressure on them. And to your point,

56:22

Democrats need to put the pressure on them

56:24

as well. I want to leave

56:27

everybody. That's what and that's what,

56:29

thank goodness, again,

56:29

you

56:32

and I have been friends now for a long

56:34

time and I could not be more

56:37

excited to do this with you

56:39

and with the brigade is on this Midas

56:41

Touch network, making us top

56:44

two in the world on YouTube,

56:48

especially when it comes to news. Sometimes we're

56:51

number one in the world in all categories. Again,

56:53

thanks to you. But one of the issues

56:55

that really needs to be looked at here

56:58

and something we try to bring and

57:00

to discuss and to talk about

57:02

facts, not innuendo.

57:04

While we're sitting here as Americans

57:07

worrying about Donald

57:09

fucking Trump showing up

57:11

to Georgia for his fourth

57:14

indictment, two hundred thousand

57:16

five hundred thousand, who cares?

57:18

It doesn't really matter why we're

57:21

following him on his airplane

57:24

ride like this is the

57:27

frog, whatever it is, over at Disneyland,

57:30

right? Mr. Frog's

57:32

fabulous roller coaster ride

57:34

or something like that, where we follow him from

57:37

house to jailhouse

57:40

and then from jailhouse back to his you

57:42

know, Mar-a-lardo, you

57:44

know, social club

57:47

instead of worrying about

57:48

Hawaii, instead

57:51

of worrying about California,

57:53

instead of trying to figure out what to

57:55

do with the migrants, instead

57:57

of trying to figure out the

57:59

and to do things

58:01

to improve the economy. Instead

58:03

of worrying about infrastructure in America,

58:07

instead of turning around and worrying about

58:09

healthcare for all

58:11

Americans to make sure that our

58:14

older generation can afford the medication

58:17

that they need without being bombarded

58:19

by bullshit and having to

58:22

spend 12 hours in order to get

58:24

an authorization code,

58:26

which usually turns out to be wrong.

58:28

There's so many issues that

58:31

this country needs to face right

58:33

here, right now.

58:35

Climate change, certainly, and of course, Donald

58:37

doesn't believe in climate change, yet look

58:39

at California. Look at what's going on

58:42

in Hawaii. Look what's going on all

58:44

over the place, all right, where you have insurance

58:46

companies now that are bailing out of states

58:49

like Florida and California. How

58:51

are you gonna get a mortgage if you don't have home

58:53

insurance? The whole

58:56

thing is crazy, but instead we're worrying

58:58

about Trump and we're worrying about

59:00

Mark Meadows and the rest of these 18 other

59:03

co-defendants. Fuck them, that's what

59:05

I say. Fuck them all. Let them all

59:07

be held accountable. Let's kick all

59:10

of their asses out, right? Let them be

59:12

held accountable for their dirty

59:15

deeds and for their illegal actions

59:17

under the guise of, you

59:20

know,

59:20

under the guise of Donald Trump and the weaponization

59:23

of the Justice Department. This is about

59:25

time that we stop this nonsense

59:28

already and worry about the things that are important

59:30

to you, to me, to the brigaders, and

59:32

to all Americans. Enough is enough.

59:35

This is some breaking news over the wire

59:37

right now that Jack Smith's team in

59:40

a reply brief has told Judge

59:42

Cannon that a key witness

59:45

in Trump's Mar-a-Lago document

59:47

case, who I believe to be useful to Varys,

59:50

identified

59:50

as employee number four

59:53

in the brief and in the indictment retracted

59:56

false testimony after switching

59:58

lawyers and not-

59:59

having the lawyers provided by Trump's

1:00:02

political action groups and that's

1:00:04

one of the reasons that special counsel Jack

1:00:06

Smith wants to disqualify Trump's

1:00:08

political action group hired lawyers from

1:00:11

representing more witnesses. I will

1:00:13

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This is a where a couple of, if you've

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1:01:50

of UFOs or whatever they're called now. We're

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those guys. You are a

1:01:55

watcher of the Pentagon's YouTube

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channel. Yes, we're inside those.

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things and basically our job

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is to watch videos

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of you guys so we can infiltrate

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and take over society. We're not saying

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infiltrate. We're not saying infiltrate.

1:02:12

Okay. We don't use that word. We're watching from

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above and who else do we go for

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learned after years of watching

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American media is that the most reliable

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news source is Aaron Rupar,

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Ayson, Ron Dusantis. Philip

1:02:29

Kowski. Love that guy. I'm

1:02:31

actually on Ron's Twitter right now. Ron Dusantis

1:02:34

issues a pathetic, ridiculous statement

1:02:36

in response to the Trump indictment. What

1:02:38

a weirdo. It was

1:02:39

at the Declaration of Independence. It looks

1:02:41

like we the people. It looks like one of those posters

1:02:43

you'd get at like, you remember like Hot

1:02:47

Topic or like it was just

1:02:49

like those big stores that were like you could get

1:02:51

CDs and t-shirts and they had that section

1:02:53

with all the posters. Here's the

1:02:55

Magna Carta. Yeah. Here's

1:02:58

the way the people got it. Gonna

1:03:00

hang this in my dorm room flash.

1:03:03

Next to my radio and OK computer

1:03:05

poster. Now

1:03:08

in terms of some of these local DAs

1:03:10

in Florida, we've actually suspended

1:03:13

two, one in Tampa, one in Orlando

1:03:16

over the last year in front of the Constitution.

1:03:19

When he's in front of the Constitution with

1:03:21

no one else in the room with him, it's

1:03:23

like the most normal he's

1:03:27

been in a while.

1:03:28

Right. He doesn't have anyone to bobble

1:03:30

at. To just like

1:03:33

seed about their food

1:03:35

choices. Probably a lot of sugar. What

1:03:39

room is this? Is this like a room in his house?

1:03:41

Like you have your Constitution room, you have your

1:03:44

family room, your gaming room, your man

1:03:46

cave. This is We the People cave

1:03:52

with his bankers light on

1:03:54

in the background there. I mean, it looks like a sad

1:03:56

replica of the set from Better

1:03:58

Call Saul, which is. Honestly

1:04:00

a perfect metaphor. So

1:04:02

as room raiders we would say that

1:04:05

his We the People cave is Five out

1:04:07

of ten.