Morning Wire - Trump Pleads Not Guilty & Gabon’s Coup | Afternoon Update | 8.31.23

Episode Date: August 31, 2023

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I'm Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Thursday, August 31st, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update. Former President Trump pleaded not guilty in Georgia today. Trump was charged in Fulton County earlier this month on 13 felony counts related to his efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 election. Trump also waived his right to appear in person at his arraignment hearing next week. The GOP frontrunner released a video Thursday morning, blasting Fulton DA, fond of Fondon. for her case against him and 18 other co-defendants. Why is there so much murder, I mean murder in Atlanta? Why is there so much violent crime in Atlanta? People are afraid to go outside to buy a loaf of bread.

One big reason is that failed district attorney, Fannie Willis, who is campaigning and fundraising off, get Trump. We're going to get Trump. Not the murders, we're going to get Trump. Frankly, she's like others that. are also in her position. House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer said on Wednesday that an impeachment inquiry into President Biden was likely imminent, as some Republicans have asked for the impeachment process

to move forward after months of investigations. Comer, who has led the investigations into the Biden family's overseas business dealings, spoke with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday. There's no question. Hunter Biden was enriching himself and his family, while riding on Air Force 2 at the expense of the American taxpayer. But what's more concerning is what Joe Biden's role was in all of this. And again, Sean, this is an investigation of Joe Biden. And what we're doing now is we're putting a timeline together on all these bank transfers

that we've identified, all the bank wires communications that Hunter had with his father, with his so-called associate. The Oversight Committee on Wednesday called on the National Archives to produce records detailing when and where Hunter had access to Air Force 2. That's the plane that transports the vice president. According to recent reports, Hunter accompanied then-Vice-President Biden on more than a dozen foreign trips on Air Force 2. As Ukraine continues to fight against Russia, new reporting sheds light on what the U.S. objectives are as it continues to support the Eastern European nation militarily and financially. Here with more is Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce.

An anonymous State Department official told reporters, reporters Wednesday, quote, it's very important that Ukraine win this war, and by win, I mean, as President Biden said, Russians leave all of Ukraine. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reports that the Ukraine counteroffensive has pierced Russia's defensive line hundreds of miles northeast of Crimea after months of struggling to make any advances. On Wednesday, Ukrainian foreign minister Dmitro Kuleba had choice words for Ukrainian critics. Criticizing the slow pace of counteroffensive equals to spitting into the face of Ukrainian soldier who sacrifices his life every day, moving forward, and liberating one kilometer of

Ukrainian soil after another. I would recommend all critics to shut up, come to Ukraine and try to liberate one square centimeter by themselves. And then there's Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who told Tucker Carlson that he has a different plan to help bring an end to the war. So if you were in charge of NATO, if you were, say, Joe Biden, what would you your next move be in the war in Ukraine? Peace immediately. Call back Trump. That's the only way out. Unrest in Central Africa continues as a group of mutinous soldiers from the Republican Guard in Gabon announced this week that they have ousted President Ali Bongo on Dimbab, and placed him under house arrest. Hours later, the leader of the military group who removed him was hoisted around the streets

of the nation's capital as supporters cheered. Bongo, who was seen by many Gabonese, as corrupt, especially after cutting internet throughout the country during the last election, was able to send out a message from his presidential palace asking for help from around the globe. I'm to send a message to all the friends that we have all over the world to tell them to make noise for the people here have arrested me and my family. Meanwhile, the European Union's foreign policy chief, Joseph Borrelli, expressed concern about the entire region. The whole area, starting with Central African Republic, then Mali, then Burkina Faso, now an easier, maybe Gabon. It's in a very difficult situation.

And certainly the ministers, today, defense ministers, and tomorrow, Ferengna, first ministers, have to have a deep thought on what is going on there. A Colorado school board has sided with a middle schooler saying he is allowed to wear a patch of the GADSEN, flag at school after initially being told that he could not display it. The yellow Gadsden flag depicts a coiled rattlesnake with the words, don't tread on me, and was flown during the Revolutionary War. Twelve-year-old Jaden Rodriguez was pulled out of class at the Vanguard school for displaying the flag on his backpack.

Rodriguez told Daily Wire, Editor Emeritus, Ben Shapiro, that an anonymous teacher at the school claimed that the flag was associated with slavery, which led to him being punished. I don't know what they're talking at all. It's a revolutionary flag. Like, it has nothing to do with slavery. It was meant a warning sign not to tread on our rights in the revolution, which is funny because they tried to tread on my rights and then they found out. All right, those are your drive home updates this afternoon.

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