The Dan Bongino Show - The Dan Bongino Sunday Special 09/03/23 - Mayor Glenn Jacobs aka Kane, Julie Kelly, Sean Davis and a Dan rant for the ages
Episode Date: September 3, 2023First up today, we talked with Glenn Jacobs, better known as Kane from the WWE. We talked about wrestling and transitioning into politics, and how Republicans need to approach things going forward. Ne...xt, Dan got a story about Lionsgate Films reimposing mask mandates right before the radio show started and that really set him off. Here’s an epic rant about mandates. Remember…do not comply! Then, we talked with Julie Kelly, who’s just about the only reporter covering the travesty that is the J6 political prosecutions and the prosecution of people protesting for life. Finally, we talked with Sean Davis of the Federalist about the Democrat playbook and how they’re going to try to do what they did in 2020, among other things. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First up today, we talk with Glenn Jacobs. I love this guy. Good friend, rising star in the
Republican party. Uh, you may have seen him before he was cane in the old WWE. Good man has some
interesting ideas about where the Republican party's moving towards in the future. We interviewed
him, asked him also about the interesting transition between professional wrestling and politics. And you'd be surprised. There's a lot in common there.
So check that out. So funny story for you. A couple of years ago, I'm at Politicon in LA,
in the heart of liberal America, where we're on the air right now. Hello to our conservative
friends out there at KBC. And I'm at this event i wind up uh storming off the
stage because of two idiots i got into a uh verbal thing with i was a moderator and this is dunson msnbc
so i i go to the next event i'm all fired up and at the next event i run in uh to this guy any i
was a big follower the wwe i i just love it it was entertaining it's just good
old-fashioned american entertainment at its finest so he's hard to miss i run into him he's a big dude
and i'm thinking wow i'm not really starstruck that often but this is really cool it was uh
glenn jacobs who who was caned in the wwe and I got to tell you, folks, he could not have been nicer.
I was really expecting something different.
Maybe, you know, I'm kind of busy.
And he couldn't have been nicer.
And we've been friends ever since.
That was about five years ago.
And we finally got him on the show.
Mayor Glenn Jacobs of Knox County.
It is so good to talk to you, sir.
Thanks for coming on the show.
Hey, thanks, Dan.
I appreciate it.
When you were telling that story, I was like,
I wasn't one of the idiots on the panel, was I?
No.
And if you were, I wouldn't tell you.
But no, you were one of the good guys, and you were so kind
and just such a genuinely nice guy.
I remember saying to my wife after the panel, like, my gosh, I didn't expect that.
I expected you to be rude, but you're such a big guy.
I mean, anyone who's seen you in character or out of character is Kane.
You know, you're a really, really big guy.
And you were just so pleasant, nice to talk to.
And I'm so glad we've stayed in contact.
Let me start with this question.
So you're in the WWE.
Your A&E special, by the way, I DM'd you afterwards because I was so blown away by it.
I didn't realize how many stops and starts you had had in the WWE until you settled into this Kane role.
And then it just became iconic.
I mean, you and The Undertaker.
Did you kind of know right away like you'd really hit something with
that? Yeah, I unfortunately not had some success with the other characters when I first got into
WWE in 1995. But obviously, when the Kane character came along in 1997, I knew that it was a big deal.
And they were putting me into a great position where I could be very successful.
I mean, the table was absolutely set for success, whether I could pull it off or not.
I think it was a question that a lot of people had.
But, yeah, I knew that.
I mean, you just don't get those kind of opportunities.
For those folks that don't watch professional wrestling. And Undertaker is literally the most iconic character
and figure in the history of WWE.
So coming in with the storyline against him,
I mean, it's like being traded to the Chicago Bulls
when Michael Jordan's there.
That's kind of the equivalent pro wrestling.
Yeah.
We're talking to Glenn Jacobs,
the Republican mayor of Knox County, Tennessee.
Just a wonderful guy.
I don't want to spend too much time, because you've become such a prominent voice in the Republican Party.
But a conversation I had with Tyrus, you probably know him from Fox.
He's in a different organization, but really nice guy.
And we were chatting on the radio one day.
And I talked to a lot of your former colleagues in the WWE.
I'm not going to name them.
You know who they are, but they're all just wonderful guys.
And I had mentioned on the radio without saying their names,
I said, Tyrus, I'm stunned how many of them are passionate,
one, about this country, but are real conservatives.
They really love the idea of defending God-given liberties.
You know, you don't see that in the entertainment industry.
He said, Dan, there's a reason why.
He goes, a lot of these guys are independent contractors.
They're running their own kind of semi-autonomous businesses.
They're busting their butts.
They're paying the government a ridiculous amount of taxes.
And they just want the government out of their lives.
And they're out there performing in what liberals call flyover country,
you know, what we call home.
And they're meeting real people.
He's like, I'm stunned when I meet a wrestler
who's not conservative.
And as a guy who's been at the height of the industry,
your thoughts on that?
Well, first of all, Tyrus is a good friend of mine.
He was actually in WWE for a while while I was there,
and I'm just so proud and happy
of all the success that he's had.
And he's just a sweetheart.
He's just a great dude.
And our stories are not identical, but kind of similar.
He grew up in a broken home and had a really rough upbringing.
I had loving parents, but we didn't really have a whole lot.
My dad was retired military and worked in factories and got laid off.
And when I think about my life and the fact that I've been very blessed to be able to have done
what I've done through the opportunities that this country has given me, I'm a product of the
American dream, man. You know, I got, I got, I failed at stuff and failed at stuff and finally
found something I was good at. And I was able to live a life that I never thought possible.
And that's the opportunities you get in this country.
If you're willing to keep at it, to use your God-given gifts and talents in a way that benefits other people,
and you're willing to work hard, there's no telling how far you can go.
And that's actually how I got into politics.
When you're talking specifically about the professional wrestling aspect of it.
We are independent contractors in WWE, which means we are not subject to withholding tax.
And I'll tell you something.
If we would like to see a lot more conservatives in this country eliminate withholding tax
and actually make people write a check to the IRS, see how much money you're really paying,
and then watch what the politicians
do with it. That's actually what really kind of drove me over the edge. And I realized I'm paying
all this money and they're just wasting it. And I could do much better, not only for me,
but for my community, if I were allowed to keep a lot more of that money.
Mr. Mayor, I say that all the time. I like you.
I have to cut a check every quarter.
The amounts are obscene.
And I say to myself, listen, I love my military.
I'm a constitutionalist.
I get the idea of post roads, our military accord system.
I understand that.
However, 40% of my income, what the hell are you doing for me?
I mean, really, 40% between state, local, and federal. I mean, they pick up the garbage.
That's it.
I mean, I've had the cops here once or twice because some lunatics showed up, but that's it.
What the hell are they doing taking 40% of your money?
What the feds do is it's just all political stuff.
And none of it actually, very little of it actually benefits people and it's stuff that
the state and local folks and being a local government i know this we could do a lot more
effectively at a much lower cost than what the feds do yeah we're talking to mayor glenn jacobs
of knox county tennessee you may have known him in a prior life as cane an iconic wrestling figure
from the wwe uh mr mayor so you are i, you're hands-on at the local level.
And I follow you on social media, and you're a really deep guy.
I mean, you really are into defending God-given liberty.
This is not some kind of a shtick for you at all.
I mean, this is real.
I can tell by the way you so passionately tweet about civil liberties.
Your thoughts about this metastasizing police state we're in now, the weaponization of law enforcement, the politicization of the court system in some respects, the endless attacks on things like your God-given right to self-protection.
I mean, pro-lifers finding themselves in jail, you know, for trying to defend human life while BLM and Antifa rampage
through the streets. I mean, the whole idea of a constitutional republic is that justice is
supposed to be blind and that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. No. And Thomas Jefferson wrote
that all people are created equal. He didn't say that they were in doubt or he didn't mean that
they were all in doubt of the same talents and abilities. What he meant was they're all supposed
to be equals under the law, as seen by government.
And that's not the case anymore.
We have two classes, the politically connected and the rest of us, frankly.
And what the folks on the left need to understand is as this continues, at some point,
they're going to realize that there are two classes, the rulers and the ruled. And
they think that they're going to be in the ruling class. They're not. They're going to be just like
the rest of us. That's what's happened around the world. But to your point specifically, it's
incredibly tragic and it's very sad because we are becoming a banana republic. I mean,
there's just no doubt about it. You can't speak your mind when big tech and the
government collude to silence dissenting voices. When you see what's happening, I mean, you're
talking about keeping Donald Trump off the ballot in certain states. You may not like Trump,
but what in the world? You want to talk about election interference, the weaponization of
federal agencies, and deciding we're going to prosecute these people, we're going to prosecute Donald Trump. Meanwhile, Hunter Biden's over here. Just ignore what he did. That just,
it doesn't, we're in a terrible, terrible situation. And if this continues, we're going
to go down the path that so many other great countries have gone down, which is from freedom back
to tyranny.
We're headed there like a rocket sled on rails at this point.
Yeah, we're talking to Mayor Glenn Jacobs, Knox County, Tennessee, a rising star in the
Republican Party.
You ask anyone out there, they'll tell you, keep your eyes on this gentleman.
Mr. Mayor, you know, as a medium-sized kind of
place, not really a small town
per se, but small enough, you
see it. I mean, the principle of subsidiarity,
you see it up close and personal,
which is the best management is local management
because obviously you get to know
people by face and by name and their
votes matter more too. And
that's a good thing. As a mayor, you want to
know that you're accountable to your constituents.
You see it better than anyone.
But if we're going to change this country, you know, Jordan Peterson argues in his book,
12 Steps, about how we got to start making our own bed first.
And I think the American Renaissance is going to start in places like Knox County, where
people just say, you know what?
We've had enough.
We are citizens of the United States of America. The Constitution matters here. The sheriff abides by it. I'm the mayor.
We're going to abide by it. If you want to do something extra constitutional in your liberal
city and burn that place to the ground, then you know what? I don't approve of it, but I can't
stop it. It's not going to happen here. And I think that's where the renaissance is going to
start. And I'll bet a lot of the citizens and your constituents feel the same way. Absolutely. Here in Tennessee,
we look out at what's happening in other parts of the country to shake our heads. We're a great
state. I don't generally praise politicians very often, but I think our General Assembly has done
a really good job. And frankly, Dan, you know this, that's where the power is supposed to reside.
It's not supposed to reside. It's not
supposed to reside in the federal government. That's an organization with very limited defined
powers. Most of the authorities reside with the state and also with localities by extension.
That's what the 10th Amendment is all about. And I absolutely agree with you. I think actually the
single most important thing that folks can do is ensure they have good people in their state legislatures, because we're going to
have to, good states like Tennessee, Florida, Texas, South Dakota, and others, you know, we're
going to have to build a firewall around our states to essentially keep some of the foolishness out.
One of the things that we've seen here is there's a lot of folks moving here from blue states.
And, of course, folks here get nervous because they think they're liberals coming in to take things over.
The folks that I talk to, they're political refugees.
They are fleeing the blue states and coming to some place where people think like them.
And I think that what we're going to see across the country is we're going to see an even further bifurcation of red and blue America.
And the red's going to get redder and the blue's going to get bluer.
And I'm with you.
It's like, man, you guys do what you want over there, but leave us alone here.
And let the people decide which is the best.
I guarantee you we'll win when that happens.
Folks, if you want to learn more about Mayor Glenn Jacobs, and you should, his website is jacobsformayor.com.
You can follow him on Twitter.
He's at Glenn with two N's, at Glenn Jacobs TN, short for Tennessee.
He's a great guy.
Again, you know him from the WWE, but he's a lot deeper than that character here.
He's a good man.
Follow him.
Mr. Mayor, I got to run, but I just want to say you were absolutely correct.
I've seen the same thing down here in Florida.
There's been this big fear about Northeastern liberals coming down here,
but the people coming down here are the firemen.
They're the cops.
They're the carpenters.
They're tired of that stuff.
That's why Florida's turned blood red.
It's because a lot of transplants want to go to Tennessee and want to go to
Florida and are looking for a refuge,
a refuge for freedom.
And it's guys like you doing it.
Hey,
you are welcome back
anytime by the way and i hope you'll come back again my audience loves you and by the way my
nephew is a an enormous fan uh my nephew james he wanted me to tell you how much he loves you
he watches you guys on video clips you and the undertaker so he he's my i love this kid so much
i don't have any sons so i've kind of like taken him in. And I just want you to know you impacted a lot of people's lives.
I know, you know, when you're doing it, it's a job,
but you're an important guy, man.
A lot of people care about you.
So thanks for what you did and what you're doing.
We appreciate it.
Dan, I appreciate it.
Thank you so much, man.
Thanks for having me on.
I'd love to come back, and I hope everybody has a great holiday weekend.
Thank you, sir.
Absolutely a done deal.
Folks, that was Glenn Jacobs.
And you may have known him as Kane,
but he is a really, really deep guy.
Follow him on social media.
You'll see what I mean.
He really deeply cares about this.
This is one of these rising stars
in the Republican Party
you're not done hearing about.
You got guys like him
and Mark Robinson out there.
These are guys who totally get it.
And I'm telling you, this renaissance is going to happen.
I live in a mid-sized town,
and this town has gotten redder and redder over time.
That's where the real renaissance is going to start.
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show started. That really set me off. Here's one of those epic rants you don't want to miss.
Remember, do not comply.
Hey, you all, you're all really smart people. You are. I mean, you listen to conservative talk radio and I don't just say that because you're customers of our particular product. I say that
because it's true. People who listen to conservative talk radio are typically, you know, way ahead of
the knowledge curve. I mean, how many examples do you need?
The collusion hoax, we knew that was garbage
from the beginning.
The Hunter Biden story we knew was real.
The Spygate story we knew was real.
I mean, you're all that much smarter
than your dopey liberal neighbors
who don't know a damn thing about anything.
I mean, it's evident in the polling data.
Folks, but I hope you understand this,
that none of what's going on is going to stop until you stop it.
You know, Ben Stein's dad, Herb Stein, the economist, said,
we can't continue, won't.
Now, he was talking about things like debt-driven economies
that you can drive yourself only into so much debt
until people start asking for their money back.
So what can't continue, it won't.
Eventually, it'll stop.
All debts are paid by the debtor or the creditor.
But folks, I hate to tell you, that applies to tyranny too.
And you're living in it right now,
and some people don't want to accept it.
They still want to accept that things are going to go back to normal.
You know, we're not going to have to get involved.
I'm sorry, but that's just bull.
That's just, you know, you know, the rest.
Jim was like, I saw Jim's like all of a sudden Jim's creeping back into the thing.
I know, I know it's not the podcast.
The podcast, I don't really censor myself too much.
I should, but I don't.
Right before I came on the air,
someone made a big mistake and sent to the show prep email, which I read.
A news article, was that you Jim, about Lionsgate?
Lionsgate, the movie studio, is now reinstituting a mask mandate.
It's not going to stop.
Listen to me.
It is not going to stop.
I work at this company here
and things only changed
when I got involved
and took a big hit in this company to do it.
That's a fact.
You lived through it with me on the radio.
None of this stuff is
going to change until you just
stop letting it
happen.
None of this is going to
change. You will
go through the same cycle
of madness and
hysteria and just craziness and lunacy every single
time until you say, this bull stops here.
There's too many of us.
Why are we doing this again?
Folks, it is time for brutally harsh political measures.
Political measures.
It is time for civil disobedience en masse.
Listen to me, please.
I'm begging you to understand this.
You cannot sit on the sidelines anymore.
I don't doubt that that's you.
Most of you are actively involved,
and I wouldn't blame you one bit if you're like,
you don't need to tell me this, Dan.
I'm involved.
I don't need to.
You're absolutely correct.
But there are some people listening who I swear to you
feel like if I just shut up and stay on the sidelines, it's going to stop.
It is not going to stop.
These people will push you and poke you and prod you like a Thanksgiving turkey until you're carved up and there's nothing but some dried out bones left.
They do this to you because they can.
they do this to you because they can.
You may say, oh, it's just one crazy Hollywood scene.
It's not.
It's starting again.
Do not comply anymore.
Take this as a national rallying cry.
Laugh it off.
I don't care. But just do something. You think I'm
crazy? Fine. Laugh all you
want. Just do something.
No more forced
injections. No more face
diapers on our freaking faces.
We are human beings.
We are not going to be masked
by a bunch of insane
freaking lunatics who think tissue paper over your face is going to be masked by a bunch of insane freaking lunatics
who think tissue paper over your face is going to save you
against a microscopic virus from China.
It is not going to stop you.
If you fall for this, you will fall for anything.
Just say no.
The left has worshipped the idea of civil disobedience for decades.
Now it's time to take it, to grab it, to own it, to be it, and take it for yourself.
Lionsgate Productions Movie Studio, you want to mess around? You think it's screwing around time?
you want to mess around?
You think it's screwing around time?
Make sure before you go to see any movie now,
you check to make sure,
see if it's a Lionsgate thing.
If it's a Lionsgate production,
don't even give them your money.
I don't care what it is.
Until you stop this,
it will never stop.
You are dealing with lunatics and maniacs.
They don't care that that diaper on your face does squat.
It doesn't do anything.
It is nothing more than a symbol of how they can give you the freaking middle finger and you will do it.
That's all it is.
These guys know this story drives me crazy because it has nothing to do with a mask.
I don't care about a damn mask. What I care about is being forced to do something by a tyrannical government that knows full well the something they're asking you to do is entirely ineffective
and tells you to do it because they want you to shut your mouth and do it
don't do it just stop
there are 330 million
God given free souls
who live in this country
there's a couple hundred thousand
of these idiots
pretending to be in charge
do not see a Lionsgate movie
and let them know
tweet about it trueweet about it.
Truth social about it.
Put it on Facebook.
If you do not make an example out of them,
like you did out of Disney and Target and Bud Light and these others,
if you do not teach one of them a lesson,
the others will fall in line because they are weak and stupid.
I am tired of these people.
I'm tired of being told what to do by people dumber than me.
Folks, I'm a guy of average intelligence.
I tried to get into medical school.
It didn't work.
Okay? I do not get into medical school. It didn't work. Okay?
I do not have a 170 IQ.
I just read a lot of stuff because I'm curious about the world.
I am tired of being tired of people in charge of my life, with air quotes,
who are freaking idiots.
Oatmeal brains in the White House showing up
at the most catastrophic disaster in the history of Hawaii,
telling a bull story about his house nearly burning down
while people lost their kids.
Saying how he almost lost his cat, Ruffles,
or whatever the hell the cat's name was.
Nobody gives a damn about Ruffles, dude.
These people lost their kids in a fire,
their homes, their lives, their moms, their dads.
No one wants to hear about O'Neal Brain's cat, Ruffles,
how he almost died in a freaking small kitchen fire 20 years ago you dipstick
we are being led by a-holes by stupid people do not comply anymore
i just thought about this today. I've got a dermatology appointment
for this skin cancer thing coming up soon. I check all the time. That office does this
whole mass craziness. That's it. New doctor. Don't comply anymore. Don't do the stupid anymore. And anyone who pulls the stupid, take your money and
go somewhere else. Folks, this should be civil disobedience on a mass scale. If not now, when?
How much more of this are you going to take? Folks, once one of them gets away with it,
we will be right back where we were on the 15 days to stop the spread,
which turned into total tyranny in this country.
Closing schools, arresting people
for surfing out in the ocean by themselves.
That happened here.
That wasn't North Korea, man.
That happened here.
That happened here. That wasn't North Korea, man. That happened here. That happened here.
You can't let it happen again.
You can't.
They are ramping up this COVID hysteria
because there's an election coming up
and you've got a kid sniffing, plagiarizing,
sociopathic lying,
showering with his daughter, bribe-taking, oatmeal brains,
loser in the White House who has almost zero chance of winning.
Their only chance is COVID craziness and a mass mail-in ballot election.
And if you let the craziness go, it is going to grow like a metastasizing tumor
inside this body politic,
and you're not going to be able to stop it. You have a chance to stop it now.
Send Lionsgate Studios a tweet, a true social, an email. You will not see any of their films.
They want to enforce this tyranny and be the first one out of the gate,
and they're going to be the first one to be made an example of. Ask every presidential
candidate what they think about it. Folks, I've never seen something so stupid in my
life. I've never seen something as dumb as this, how tyranny starts so easily.
You understand the government, every single serious healthcare public official in the government
knows and is laughing at the fact, is mocking you for putting that mask on.
They know this thing doesn't do anything.
Can you imagine putting on a condom and getting everyone you were with pregnant?
Would you wear it again? No.
So how come everyone who wore a mask got COVID?
Morons!
It doesn't freaking work.
Nearly everyone in the United States who put a mask on got COVID.
It's not even close.
Imagine putting that on your thing and you get syphilis the next day.
Well, that didn't work.
Why would you wear it again?
Jim, what are you laughing?
I'm dead serious.
Maybe it'll wake up the morons on the liberal side listening to the show right now who are
so stupid that they can't do simple logic and reason.
I ask every day, did you get COVID?
Yeah, I got it twice.
Oh, that did great.
That did great.
I got vaccinated too in 72 boosters.
This is my seventh time with COVID.
It worked out great.
Yeah.
You're real smart.
Yeah, right.
Mild case.
I'm vaccinated.
The seventh time was not a big deal.
I thought I had allergies.
It's working great.
It's working great.
Don't comply, man.
Don't comply.
I'm sorry, but you comply.
You're playing into this whole thing.
Listen.
I told you my story going through the cancer thing,
the people in the chemo room and stuff.
But I can't tell you how many stores I walked out of,
me and my wife both.
We were in a mall down in Palm Beach,
guy in the Apple store, security guy,
can't come in without a mask.
He said, guess I can't come in.
He's like, but I love your show.
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Don't do it, man.
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You got to stop this right now.
You have to stop it right now.
This tumor will not stop growing.
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for me is like a record here we talk with julie kelly who's one of the only reporters out there
accurately covering the police statements going on with the january 6th defendants and the war
on donald trump she has some fascinating information she's actually been there for
some of these trials she's doing really great So unfortunately, there aren't a lot of journalists
left. Matter of fact, I could probably count on my two hands, maybe some toes, how many there are
left. But one of them that's been doing just yeoman's work on the scandal involving the
persecution of a lot of people sitting in a D.C. gulag.
They're involved on January 6th.
It's Julie Kelly.
Julie Kelly, Darren Beattie, and others are some of the few who've actually kept on top of this.
She has a book out.
It's been out for a while, but it is the definitive account of January 6th.
And you might have a hard time finding it because it's called January 6th.
And you should pick it up.
Welcoming back to the show, the great Julie Kelly.
Julie, thanks for coming on.
We appreciate you doing this last minute.
Thanks a lot.
Oh, I'm always happy to be on, Dan.
Thanks so much for inviting me.
Oh, of course.
So I follow you religiously on Twitter and Truth
because you're just always a source of incredible information.
I think my audience needs to hear, and I'm not ashamed to say it,
one of my show prep sources
to go to is you.
Matter of fact, one of the
portions of today's show I covered
and the reason I want to have you on was due
to a tweet you had sent out yesterday.
This abomination
of a judge, and I use that term judge
loosely, Judge Chutkin, who is clearly a
political activist in D.C.
So yesterday there was a court filing and you got a hold of the transcript.
And this is incredible that the government is now acknowledging in the persecution of Donald Trump in Washington, D.C.,
that there is not a single case they have ever pushed to trial in five months from indictment to trial like they're doing with Donald Trump.
Not one, Julie, of the tens of thousands,
this is the first time they're doing it
and they're not even shy about it.
It's sitting right there in the filing.
I mean, this is an obvious election interference effort
and an effort to get ahead of the case in Florida, isn't it?
It is, Dan.
And I just posted the full transcript.
You have to buy transcripts.
So I bought it and I was going to write an article on it, but nothing I could say, Dan, can do Tanya Shutkin's words justice. So I posted the full transcript on my sub staff declassified with Julie Kelly. People have to read this aside from the screenshots I posted yesterday.
yesterday. It's not just Dan that she admitted that there is not a single incident or example of a case in D.C. federal court going from indictment to trial in five months, which then
she pushed to seven months thinking she's a big hero. I will tell you in covering January 6th
cases, the average time is about 14 months. And in high profile cases, say the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, it was almost
two years before they went to trial. So the idea that Donald Trump is expected to be ready to go
to trial in March, have pretrial motions ready in December. And the discovery in this case is
already 12 million plus pages. And she's actually, one of the most outlandish things she said in court
on monday was scolding trump's lawyers asking why they hadn't been preparing for this case for a
year that's what she said julie even see even cnn did you see the clip even cnn that disgrace of a
fake news allen i don't know if you saw the clip.
Even the CNN legal guy was like,
Judge, that's not the way this works, okay?
Like, I don't like, hey, I want to lock up Julie Kelly for a fake crime.
She doesn't know it's coming,
but her lawyer should be preparing for it right now.
Like, that's not how any of this works, Julie, at all.
And you could tell John Luro trump's attorney was completely
gobsmacked at the idea that a federal judge is sitting there telling him that first of all you
should have been preparing for this case a year ago even though he was just hired a month and a
half ago of course the indictment was handed down on august 1st but also going along with jack smith's
claim that well you don't need to look at all of the discovery because a lot of this comes from Donald Trump's own entities and it comes from the January 6th committee report.
So you guys already have all of this is publicly available.
That's what they said.
Well, John Lauer said, well, I don't know what the evidence we didn't know what the charges were going to be.
We don't know what evidence you're going to use, you know, as your case in chief, what you're going to present to the jury.
We can go through the entire January 6th committee report.
Who knows?
250 plus witnesses, grand jury testimony, subpoenas, FBI documents that they're expected to go through before December and January, make pretrial motions, and then proceed with jury selection.
She is, when I saw her name appear on the docket, Dan, I thought, oh, God, Trump is doomed.
I don't think he could do any worse.
He really couldn't do any worse from picking any judge in the country.
No, no, forget any judge.
Julie, any person with no legal experience at all.
You can just randomly, you know,
the William F. Buckley approach,
pick out the phone book, go, how about this guy?
This is clearly a far left radical activist
with no constitutional moorings whatsoever.
I want to bring up two points on this,
what you just said, talking to Julie Kelly,
author of the definitive book on January 6th
called January 6th, pick it up. By the way,
Julie, not to get off track, but Julie and I worked on a project together, some cinematography
and that'd be coming out soon. So we'll have you on. Yeah. Julie knows what I'm talking about. It's
like a movie kind of thingy. So let me you something you think you know the story about what's happening you ain't seen squat so you might see julie in an appearance in
that and it's it's good i got kind of a sneak peek let's say oh but julie a couple points oh
yeah i did i saw oh oh yeah oh it is just can't wait let me tell you something my my wife was
crying at the end crying it's that emotionally moving oh oh oh
wait you'll you'll see exactly what i'm talking about it is that it's that moving so good this
is a ridiculous claim so the the government is now saying in the persecution of trump because
the documents were in your possession you're supposed to understand what the evidence is
and already know it and i thought of an analogy as a federal agent.
I did a lot of bank fraud cases.
Imagine they said that about a bank fraud case,
that Julie Kelly, say, received a deposit from a Nigerian prince seven years ago,
and the government just found this out.
Like, you don't know that.
Like, you just found this money in your bank account.
Maybe it was $20 you didn't even notice,
and now you're being charged with conspiracy,
and the government goes, no, no, no.
No, your lawyers don't need to review this.
The bank records were in your possession.
The point is, yes, they were in your possession,
but they weren't being used against you
as evidence in a crime that's totally different.
That is a ridiculous assertion for the government to make.
And even worse, the worst thing that she said
in that hearing, if you can imagine there was something worse.
She compared January 6th to 9-11 and the Boston Marathon bombing.
What a disgrace. What an insult to the thousands of people killed on 9-11.
The eight-year-old little boy who was murdered at the Boston Marathon bombing.
murdered at the Boston Marathon bombing. And here she is basically comparing Donald Trump to the 9-11 hijackers and to the Tsarna brothers who, you know, legitimately terrorized the city
of Boston, not just killing three people, but injuring hundreds of people. So this is the kind
of lunatic that Donald Trump has to deal with in this case. And it's not, you know, her setting the trial date in March
is probably one of the least offensive things that she said or did in that hearing.
But Dan, I also poured through thousands of pages of transcripts
from January 6th cases in her courtroom.
And I have a full report at Real Clear Investigations
talking about more outrageous comments that she's made in court
suggesting Donald Trump should be behind bars, conversations talking about more outrageous comments that she's made in court, suggesting
Donald Trump should be behind bars, upset that he hadn't been charged already for January 6th,
and calling January 6th an attempt to overthrow democracy, that it's what one of the worst crime
scenes she's ever seen as a former public defender in Washington, D.C. She said January 6th, the
Capitol is one of the worst crime scenes she's ever seen.
She can barely stand to look at the videos.
No, the woman's an activist.
She's not a serious person.
I'm going to get that.
Do me a favor, Julie.
Text me that article because I'll tweet it out during the break here.
I want to get to something else, though, too,
because I don't want to leave these guys behind.
Like I said, Julie and I have been involved in a project, let's say. It's going to
be coming out shortly. We'll have some announcements about it. It is one of the most, I think,
important projects I've ever been involved in. And it describes the plight of a lot of people
who, during January 6th, were tried like animals, were treated like animals. Despite the fact that BLM and Antifa roan free,
roam free to terrorize the countryside and the cities.
You've got people, you had people who've killed themselves,
literally killed themselves.
The stories are incredible.
And you bring up, because you're not letting up,
you're a bulldog.
You're not letting up on this one bit.
The two completely disparate systems of justice
we have, where in one case, Judge Chutka needs to speed up the trial to get ahead of the Florida
trial so she can screw Trump over for the election. Yet in the other case with January 6th,
Julie, it's kind of weird. They're not in any rush to get these people out of the gulag
and get them to trial. And then one other thing I want you to address,
they're adding domestic terrorism enhancers.
Explain if you could.
Yes.
So what I was here for in D.C. this week was the sentencing of five members of the Proud Boys,
four of whom were convicted by D.C. during April of seditious conspiracy.
What this DOJ is doing, Matthew Graves, the D.C. U.S. attorney,
who you'll recall declined
to prosecute Hunter Biden for his tax crimes nonetheless continues to round up January 6th
to this day so he has been bringing what's called domestic terror enhancements to sentencing
asking for excessive prison time for people who are convicted of obstruction of an official
proceeding or seditious conspiracy.
This is the case with the Proud Boys.
But the trick is, Dan, and what I'll tell you, you know, I've been covering these cases for over two and a half years.
Yesterday was probably the worst day I've ever had.
Just personally sitting there seeing these men, these Proud Boys, so broken.
They didn't commit any violent crimes.
They walked into a building. Yes,
with some of their language, inflammatory, the things you and I wouldn't be saying in private
chats, sure. But they're broken. They're in orange jumpsuits. Four of the men have been in jail
since for two and a half, over two and a half years since their arrest in January and February.
They're completely broken. Their family
members could not even stand to go to the pre-sentencing hearing yesterday where Judge
Tim Kelly, a Trump-appointed judge and alleged conservative who has denied these men's rights,
kept them in jail, like you said, like animals, and then, of course, convicted quickly by a DC based jury. Dan, he spent almost
three hours reading an oral ruling, regurgitating every facet of the government's case against the
Proud Boys, talking about the idea that rattling a fence or someone breaking a pane of a window
in a Capitol can now be considered a crime of domestic terror.
This is what Judge Tim Kelly is prepared to do.
Now, Ahmet Mehta, another Obama judge, has already done this in the Oath Keepers case. But the idea that a so-called conservative judge who has acted as nothing more than a
rubber stamp for DOJ, an extra prosecutor, as one attorney told me, that he is going
to now be poised to go along with DOJ using these petty offenses, low-level offenses, list them to the, you know, what has to meet a crime of domestic terrorism.
Think about the dangerous precedents that this is setting, not just in Washington, D.C., but federal courts across the country.
not just in Washington, D.C., but federal courts across the country.
And I'll tell you, yesterday was probably one of the worst days.
And a defense attorney walked out and looked at me and said,
what you just saw was the end of a once great country.
Yeah, I follow you, like I said, religiously on Twitter.
And I could see, I mean, I could see you folks,
you can check out her writing yesterday. You were just pissed. I mean, there's no, you, I could tell you would,
cause you've been no one's been on this outside of you and Darren. I mean,
I know other people care about it.
I'm not implying we're the only ones who give a damn, but you,
there's no one who's covered as extensively as you two you've lived in and,
and, and breathed with this case. Julie, let me ask you the last question.
I only got about a minute left, but there is no justice in D.C. anymore.
I hate to say this, and they wanted it that way,
but you're not safe there as a conservative.
You will receive no due process.
You have no right to an attorney,
as they proved in the Donald Trump case.
The Constitution, I hate to tell you,
this has been declared null and void in D.C.
if you're the wrong political stripe.
That's right.
And for those who thought this would
just apply to january 6th five pro-life activists who were charged by the coj are now rotting in a
dc jail after being convicted by dc jury and the judge another a clinton judge i believe took them
immediately into custody they will be in jail awaiting their sentencing now for
blockading a Planned Parenthood.
Face act.
A face act.
A nonsense face act garbage.
That Markow case.
I mean, just you have no rights there, folks.
I wish the Constitution is it's a suggestion only in Washington, D.C.
The book by Julie Kelly is called January 6th.
It is the authoritative account of what happened that day.
I promise you.
There are details in there you have never heard before.
I strongly encourage you to check it out.
Julie, thanks for coming on last minute.
Always great.
We really appreciate it.
Always an honor to be on, Dan.
Thanks so much, and thanks for covering my work
and for speaking out for these people.
Yes, ma'am.
They deserve it.
Julie Kelly, folks.
Great reporter.
I mean, actual reporter.
There are so few of those left.
Follow her on Twitter and true social.
You won't be disappointed.
You'll find out what's going on in D.C.
You're not safe there.
I'm warning you now.
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Sean Davis of The Federalist is one of our favorite guests.
He tells it like it is no matter what the party, Republican or Democrat.
We discuss the Democrat playbook and how they're going to try to do what they did in 2020,
among other things.
Check this interview out.
and how they're going to try to do what they did in 2020, among other things.
Check this interview out.
You know, whenever things get hairy, I love to go to this guy because he's a real truth teller who's not afraid to take on either Republicans or Democrats.
He's got a history of doing it.
If you're not following him on social media, you should.
Sean Davis. Sean, welcome back to the show.
We've been trying to get you for a while because we need our fix here.
There's way too much going on. How you doing i'm doing great thank you for having me back yeah
of course we we always love your takes on things so sean i want to talk a little bit about the
debate obviously going on today but before we get to that in the first hour of the show um i was
making a point and and if you think i'm exaggerating what's going on please tell me because i i would
love to calm down myself and reduce my own blood pressure.
But they're running the same playbook, Sean.
They're not even they're not even like flipping the page or just rewriting the same text.
It's the covid hysteria.
They're going to keep Biden in the basement using the covid hysteria.
And then they're going to use that for a mass mail in balloting thing where we know mail in ballots are subject to higher rejection rates than in-person voting they're doing it again usa today just wrote a
piece about biden in the basement you're already seeing the mask nonsense and the craziness uh and
and the mail-in balloting push i promise you is about to begin the playbook is back again because
they think it works and it'll work again your Your thoughts on that? I don't think you're crazy at all.
I think we should absolutely be on the lookout for them doing that.
And the thing is, put yourself in the shoes of the left and the Democrat Party.
Why wouldn't they run that play again?
Like if you're a football coach and you can run it up the gap
and get 10 yards every time and they can't stop you,
you'd be nuts to not run
the same play again. So hopefully this is a wake up call to the idiots in charge of the Republican
Party in Washington that, hey, if you morons want to have jobs like going on in the future,
if you want to keep your precious little syndicures and your nice little seats in Congress,
you should probably do something about this, because if you don't, they are going to take back the House next year. They'll take the presidency and they'll keep the
Senate and they're going to pass the Supreme Court. And then, you know, Katie, bar the door
for whatever other nonsense they're going to push through. Yeah, Sean, we're talking to Sean Davis.
Sean, the the mask thing is the tip of the spear for them on this. You know, there's a reason for
it. It's a fairly obvious one. It's a, you you know a visual symbol of fear and subjugation you know the whole guiding
ethos of collectivists is subjugation which requires the axiomatically subjects um and then
they want you to look governed and and they want you to look subjugated and the mask is that symbol
that look i complied it's like a it's like a talisman for the left. It's like a shibboleth, like a code word.
Like, look at me, I'm a sheep and I'm proud.
I'm a sheep, I did it.
And I said to my audience before,
I've got no easy answers for them.
And I don't think I'm exaggerating this either.
If you comply with this this time, it will never stop.
Everybody has at least some form of immunity right now.
The overwhelming majority of Americans.
Can it be deadly? Of course. Is it likely going to be deadly for you? No, it's probably going to
be a really nasty cold now because everybody's had some form of immunity at this point to this
thing. If you comply now, Sean, this will never ever stop. It'll come back every year and you'll
be living with a freaking diaper on your face for the rest of your life.
That's exactly right.
I mean, honestly, if you haven't had it by like at least three or four times by now, what are you even doing?
But you're right about the mask.
The mask is it's meant to signal so many different things. One, it signals about the person who's wearing it.
They're compliant, that they're fearful.
about the person who's wearing it that they're compliant, that they're fearful. It also signals to people something dangerous is happening. You wouldn't be walking around and seeing people
in masks unless they're trying to protect themselves from something. So I think the
primary objective of this masking thing is to instill this constant fear that if it's bad
enough to have to walk around in a mask, well, obviously bad enough to where you can't go vote in person and you shouldn't be out shopping. And,
you know, we should do the whole thing by mail. And it's it's unacceptable. I mean,
I think most of us, probably all your audience, there was no masking in where I am in 2020.
The idea that they're going to do it again in 2023 to me is absolutely
laughable because at least where I am,
you're out there wearing a mask and walking around,
you're going to get mocked.
Like it's just not acceptable anymore.
And I'm at a point where I just want to go up to people and say,
I need you to take that off.
It's making me uncomfortable.
I feel unsafe.
I agree with you.
I agree with you. We're talking to Sean Davis. Please make sure you follow him on
Twitter and all the social media platforms. What's your, hold on, I just got to look here.
What's your Twitter? Oh, at Sean, at S-E-A-N-M-D-A-V, at Sean M-D-A-V. Follow this guy.
You will not, you'll thank me later. His takes, you're going to say, damn it.
Why didn't I think of that?
Now, whenever I steal something from him, I footnote it.
But I assure you, it happens often.
Because I'm always like, I should have thought of that first.
I could have claimed ownership.
But it's okay, Sean.
I kind of like my show lives vicariously through your cerebral cortex.
Let me get your take on the debate tonight.
So, listen, I'm a Donald Trump supporter.
I love Ron DeSantis.
He's the best governor in the country.
I find a lot of the goings on just ridiculous and foolish.
Why we're eating each other alive is frankly just dumb and completely counterproductive.
Primaries are a good thing.
Nasty personal primaries, I don't think are. Having
said that, I've tried to view this objectively, but I haven't gotten your take on this. I don't
think Trump should attend. I initially was like, well, he's a really good debater. The entertainment
portion, he's got down. And let's be honest, politics is 90% entertainment. But the more I
thought about it, as he starts to pull away in the primary,
it looks like a tactically kind of smart move
because he's trying to clear out basically the number two lane
while keeping the field big to split up the vote for plurality purposes.
He doesn't want a solid number two.
So if he gets off the stage and everybody beats up DeSantis or Vivek,
it keeps everybody in the race longer thinking they could be number two.
I mean, what do you think?
You think he should have attended or smart move to stay out?
Just as a consumer, I'm bummed that he's not going to be there
because I do find him entertaining.
And he's in peak form at debates.
I mean, you go back and look at those 2016-2015 primary debates.
They were amazing.
And it doesn't matter if you liked him or hated him. Everyone wanted to watch. So I'm bummed we won't get to see him just because he's so entertaining in that context. I have generally
two kind of inviolable rule of politics. One is whoever says the only poll that matters is on
election day, that's the guy who's losing universally.
And then to the guy demanding a debate, that guy's also losing.
And so from a tactical point of view, Trump's up by like, what, 40, 50, 60 points.
What incentive on earth does he have to go and debate?
And you look back at 2015, 2016, that was a close race.
I mean, he was still winning primaries handily, but that was a close race. There's a lot going on. This isn't a race. It's Trump versus a lot of people honestly trying to vie for attention for themselves. And why would he use himself and his star power to give them the attention they want to go after him? Just as a pure political matter, of course, he's not going to go to it.
There's no incentive for him to go to it.
Yeah, I agree.
And having run for office, I can attest fully to what Sean is saying.
You know, I was the underdog in pretty much every race I was in.
And we were always the ones, you know, calling for our opponent to debate because it's an
opportunity for you to hopefully get a zinger in and to kind of ride their coattails to some free, you know, earned media.
So you're 100 percent right on the debate stage tonight, though.
You know, you're one of these no BS guys.
It's what I like about following you.
You don't you know, you know, you don't put these nonsense kind of like cliched political talking points out there.
But I'm hearing a lot of stuff out there about the debates and i was watching some cable news this morning and a couple
of really smart guys were like you know people want to hear about the issues and all this stuff
sean i gotta be honest i don't really think that's the case at all i think people generally
understand the issues i think that's kind of a dumb thing to say people get that pretty much
every conservative on the stage is going to go for school choice,
reduced taxes, hopefully some semblance of a balanced budget or restraint on government
spending.
People get that.
I think it's more of kind of a commander in chief test that people want to see someone
with some leadership skills who's relatable.
And that's a word I did not hear on TV at all this morning on any of the cable news channels. People want someone who's relatable. And that's a word I did not hear on TV at all this morning on any of the
cable news channels. People want someone who's relatable. I mean, let's be honest,
Trump's substantive portions of the debate shown we're not good. The nuclear triad thing was a
disaster. The Planned Parenthood answer was not great, but he just seemed relatable. He was funny.
You know, he seemed like a guy who had enough Bravado that he could be you know
President I think it's more about
That the interpersonal stuff
I think the issue stuff is kind
Of secondary
Yeah and looking back at
2015-2016 what Trump
Communicated in those debates is
Was I'm not one of these people
I don't talk like these people
I don't think like these people I I don't think like these people.
I'm going to go up there and call Rosie O'Donnell a fat pig
and then be like, yeah, see, I'm not politically correct.
That's what people loved,
is because they were desperate for somebody
who wasn't from the system,
who wanted to go inside and blow up the system.
And that's why Trump ran away with it,
is because they knew he was that guy.
They didn't think anyone else was.
They go out there with their platitudes, or you know, the gentleman from here and the gentleman
from there. And I have a long history of co-sponsoring bills like everyone's done with
that crap. And it's similar in this election. Republican voters want to hear two things.
First off, they want to know how are you going to beat the crooked left and prevent them from
rigging another election in 2024? Number two, what are you going to do to completely destroy this corrupt, deep state, this lawless regime that throws its enemies in prison and gives its friends get out of jail free cards?
Those are the only two things people care about in the Republican Party.
They don't care about you trashing Trump.
They don't care about some letter you wrote and they don't care about your
10 year history of co-sponsoring bills. No one's ever heard of them. They want to know how you're
going to crush the left and how are you going to keep you from stealing this election? That's it.
Follow Sean on Twitter and True Social. He is at Sean M. M. D. A. V. Give him a follow. Sean,
last question for you is a guy who nobody understands government spending
better than you given your you know your prior uh work up there diagnosing all this waste and crap
i see two major problems right now the first problem is obviously the police state
it's clearly out of control uh between the weaponization of the fbi and the department
of justice we can't have a representative democracy moving forward. The second biggest problem is the mathematical certainty of a de facto bankruptcy. It's not
going to be a classic chapter 11. We can print our own money, but it doesn't matter if we inflate
away the value of our currency and everything you have in our currency denominated assets is
worthless, you're effectively bankrupt. I mean, you can have a wheelbarrow full of money, but it's
not going to buy anything. I see those as the two major problems. The police state, I mean, you can have a wheelbarrow full of money, but it's not going to buy anything. I see those as the two major problems.
The police state, I think, is fixable because personnel or policy, if we elect a Republican as president and we just do mass firings.
But I'm genuinely concerned about the financial state of the country.
As a guy who's looked at the books, do you think this is even savable at this point or is it is a de facto bankruptcy inevitable?
I don't think it's inevitable. I do think there are things we can fix but but if you just i was having a
conversation with a friend at lunch today and we're talking about uh what things cost when we
were kids you know our parents could get a house for fifty thousand dollars on one income they could
send their kids to college they could have cars cars that worked. You look at things now, you're not getting a house for under, you know, 200 or 300. Mortgage rates are 8%. New
cars are 50 grand. College is 200 grand. It's impossible to do anything on a single income.
And it's because of what our government has done to the currency and what it's done to the budget.
They spend money like they're a bunch of drunken sailors. And then they go and inflate away the value of our money to help pay off the debt
that they ran up. So like the first thing you have to do is just stop spending all this money that we
can't afford to spend. It's like Dave Ramsey talking to people. If you spend more than you
make each month, you're going to be in debt. Maybe you should stop doing that. So that's the first
thing we have to do. And then Medicare and social security are going to bankrupt the country if they're not reformed rapidly because
our unfunded liabilities there are like a hundred trillion dollars. It's unsustainable.
I keep trying to tell people that Sean, I only got about 30 seconds left, but
it is a mathematical certainty. These programs are going to go bankrupt.
We could stop this now. We could say to everyone
55 and older, listen, your life's been organized around this. We get it. We're going to fund this
out of the general fund. There's no trust fund. It's all a myth. But 55 or younger, I'm really
sorry. It's over. There's just no money. And I think our bond rating would go through the roof
right away as people realize we were serious. Sean, thanks so much for your time.
We love having you back.
It is an open invitation for you anytime you want to come on.
And I'm sure you're going to be watching the debate tonight.
So hopefully, maybe we can get you back next week with some analysis.
We really appreciate your time.
You're the best, Dan.
Thanks for having me.
You got it.
Sean Davis, folks, a good guy right there.
And I mean a good man.
He don't give a damn what your party is. He just cares about the future of the country. Give him a follow on social media. It's worth your time.
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