The Adam Mockler Show - Trump ARRESTS JUDGE.. then tries to HIDE IT!

Starting point is 00:00:00 All right. We have some major breaking news, and this is important. Trump's FBI just arrested a circuit court judge in Milwaukee, and we don't exactly know why. Then FBI director Cash Patel posted a tweet explaining why, then subsequently deleted that tweet roughly 10 minutes later, meaning they're not confident in their arguments, meaning we don't really know what's going on here. And this is, again, a major escalation in the current clash between branches. And Trump has spent the past month, scratch that. Trump has spent the past decade undermining our courts, our judge. rule of law in any way that he can because he hates process. Michael Popak was the first one to make this point to me, but he thinks that when Trump was sitting there in that courtroom about a year ago, it made Trump realize how much he hates process of any kind. That's why he's stripping away due process. That's why judges are getting arrested. That's why Trump constantly attacks the courts.

Starting point is 00:00:50 He just hates process. But over the past two months since Trump took office, his attacks on the judiciary have escalated. We've seen Chief Justice John Roberts have to come out in remembrance. rebuke Trump. This is not normal. A Supreme Court justice who was usually liked by Trump had to come out late at night and say that Trump needs to stop calling for federal judges to be impeached. This is not normal and it is insane that the president has to be rebuked by a Supreme Court justice. All right, this brings us on to today when we learn that the FBI arrested

Starting point is 00:01:20 Wisconsin Judge Dugan for obstruction, which only escalates a massive war that is ongoing. And can I just, before I jump into the story, this isn't even about enforcing immigration law. If it were, they would have gone through the normal channels, the normal courts. There are many, many immigration judges that you can talk to, but that's not what happened. They sent out a random haphazard tweet after arresting a judge. Like, just to take a step back one more time, if you're going to do something as important as arresting a judge in Milwaukee, a circuit court judge, you better damn well have the court filings ready. You better damn well have your statement ready before. You can't do it in this sloppy message where you send out tweets

Starting point is 00:01:57 and then you delete the tweet. That's not how rule of law works in America. It's kind of just sending the message, if you're a judge and you don't curtail your rulings to fit our presidency, or sorry, our administration, then you're going to get arrested. Incredibly scary. Let's break down this Cash Patel tweet in just one second, but let's lay the groundwork.

Starting point is 00:02:13 By the way, make sure you drop a like and subscribe to help boost this insane story. So federal judges arrested Milwaukee Circuit Court judge, Hannah Dugan on obstruction charges, says FBI director Cash Patel. We had to learn it from Cash Patel. Cash Patel made the announcement in an ex-post, which was quickly deleted. Dugan is accused of helping an undocumented immigrant evade arrest, according to Patel and Patel only. We don't have any documents.

Starting point is 00:02:39 We have no proof. We have no photos for arrest. All we know is that Cash Patel sent out a post, then Cash Patel subsequently deleted that post. Is that not kind of scary that you can get arrested? And the only proof of your arrest out there is this bug-eye dude who deletes tweets 10 minutes after. But let's continue. This says federal agents arrested. a Wisconsin judge on Friday after she allegedly helped an undocumented immigrant evade arrest,

Starting point is 00:03:02 FBI director Cash Patel said. Patel announced in an ex post that she had been a charge with obstruction, but that tweet was quickly deleted. The FBI did not immediately respond to requests for comment on why the post was removed. Something about this is very, very sketchy. I mean, yeah, the sketchy part is that a judge got arrested, but the way that FBI director Cash Patel is dealing with this is very, very sketchy, doubly sketchy. The tweet was quickly deleted.

Starting point is 00:03:25 The FBI did not immediately respond for a request for comment, but a senior law enforcement official confirmed to NBC news that Dugan was arrested about 8.30 a.m. local time in the parking lot of her courthouse for allegedly, allegedly, assisting an undocumented immigrant and avoiding arrest after he appeared in her courtroom last week. Dugan is in custody pending her planned presentment later Friday. How absurd must that be? To be a judge, you spent the past few decades as a judge, now you're going to be sitting in the opposite chair across the room. That's just insane. So FBI Director Cash Patel's tweet reads, and this is the one that he deleted. I had a screenshot of it. It says, just now the FBI arrested Judge Hanna Dugan out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on charges of obstruction after evidence of Judge Dugan obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week. I'd like to see the evidence.

Starting point is 00:04:10 Show it to us. I mean, you should have this evidence prepared when you're doing something as important as arresting a judge. No, you should have everything prepped. Okay, to continue. We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse. allowing the subject an illegal alien to evade arrest. Thankfully, our agents chased down the perp on foot, and he's been in custody since, but the judge's obstruction created increased danger.

Starting point is 00:04:35 Okay, now that I've read that post, by the way, my hotel room lights just turned off. I have no clue why it got so dark in here. But now that I've read this post, there are a few takeaways that I want to point out. First of all, I already talked about how process is the enemy in Trump's world. He's never had a respect for checks and balances. In fact, he wants to actively erode any check possible, whether it's the media checking him, whether it's courts and judges checking him, whether it's law firms. You guys have heard about the law firm suits lately.

Starting point is 00:04:59 Whether it's universities or individual students, he does not care about checks and balances. He views legal process, not as a safeguard to democracy, but like a bug, like a nuisance that you have to flick off your shoulder or whatever the hell. So first of all, process is not going to happen here. That's the scary part. But secondly, Cash Patel is not an apolitical FBI director. It's almost funny saying those words out loud. Cash Patel is about as far as possible from apolitical as it gets. And you know what kind of annoys me? Biden tried so damn hard to make his entire administration very moderate, not moderate politically, but moderate in terms of how they wield power.

Starting point is 00:05:35 So Merrick Garland. It was like a moderate dude who decided not to go hard after Trump. And how come why are the Democrats just so feckless with who they appoint? I'm not saying we should appoint somebody like Cash Patel on our side. But if they're going to be arresting judges with Cash Patel, can we not have at least a little bit of pushback or safeguard or strong voices out there? But the third thing is this is kind of how institutions collapse across countries. The judicial branch is supposed to be entirely independent. And when the administration, the current presidential administration, is arresting judges to get them to curtail how they rule, how they act, how they speak, how they operate on a daily basis, then that is a slippery, slippery slope. This is exactly how it happens. This is how democratic norms are slowly eroded as judges are arrested. And the judicial branch is then forced to bend the knee to the executive.

Starting point is 00:06:22 branch if they don't want to be arrested. Now, here's the thing. We don't actually know what Judge Dugan did or what evidence there is, and that's the problem. We have no effing clue why this judge was arrested. We only have a now deleted tweet from FBI director Cash Patel. Now, if the FBI came out and was like, hey, this judge had a bunch of like dead bodies in her basement or whatever, then of course we're going to be like, yeah, she should get due process, but that's terrible. That's not what happened. There was no actual evidence of any wrongdoing. This judge didn't hurt anybody. We don't know what the judge did. And that's scary to me. And without knowing what the judge did, Trump supporters are still endlessly defending this. So imagine a reality where Trump supporters

Starting point is 00:06:59 are able to endlessly justify arrest after arrest after arrest because they think that it's justice. They believe that the institutions are already so corrupt that arresting these judges is somehow a step in the right direction. They think that the institutions are so corrupt that we don't need due process or anything else. And that's something we need to push back against. I understand that America is far from perfect. I'm in debt. I have family members who almost died because of the health care system. I mean, I understand that America has a lot of problems. But for all of our problems, we don't just want to like take a wrecking ball to every single institution like USAID or the HHS. There are ways to reform these things about taking an effing wrecking ball to them. People are incredibly

Starting point is 00:07:38 dissatisfied with our institutions and for a lot of good reasons, but it doesn't mean that we remove due process. That doesn't mean that we arrest judges and we deport people with zero due process or trial whatsoever. A lot of people get that confused. It doesn't have to be so extreme. Just because my family member was screwed over by the health care system. Yes, it makes me angry, but I want to reform the health care system. I don't want to go and see immigrants get deported and watch U.S. aid just allow diseases across the globe to spread.

Starting point is 00:08:04 So there is a middle ground where you can be rational and want to work towards a better America. That's not what's happening here. This is towards a more authoritarian America, and I'll leave it at that. Drop a like, subscribe. I love you guys. I'll see in the next one. Peace out.

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The Adam Mockler Show - Trump ARRESTS JUDGE.. then tries to HIDE IT!

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