The Young Turks - Backstabbing The Blue

Episode Date: August 15, 2022

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YouTube, t.yt.com slash join everywhere else. Casper, how are you doing? I'm doing well, Yugar. How you doing? Pretty good, good. Okay, so we've got amazing news. I think Let's let them have it. We do. Let's let them have it. Obviously, we're going to get into the Trump, FBI issue, lots of the, a huge portion of the show is dedicated to that. But we do start off with some international and foreign policy related news, because I think it's important to not get distracted by everything else that's happening domestically and focus on how, you know, we have a congressional delegation provoking more tension. with China. How great. So let's give you the details on that story. Less than two weeks after Nancy Pelosi took a trip to Taiwan, a congressional delegation is traveling there for the sake of private interests. And it's important to keep that in mind when you hear some of the cover story provided by these congressional leaders and the excuses

that they're using for visiting Taiwan. Now, the delegation includes Senator Ed Marquis. You have Representative John Garimendi, Representative Alan Lowenthal, Representative Don Byer, and also Representative Amua, Amada Coleman Radwagon. Now, or raid wagon. Now, some of those people you might not have heard of, but as you can see, it's a bipartisan delegation who took a trip to Taiwan. And what's the purpose? Why are they doing this? Especially considering the fact that it is provoking China, they have now started conducting military exercises. in retaliation of these types of visits. And the group, led by Markey, will meet with Taiwan's president and foreign minister

and will also hold discussions with the Taiwanese Parliament's Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee on security and trade issues. Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. And of course, China sees this as provocative because while Taiwan wants the ability to govern itself and determine what type of government. It is functioning under. China very much sees Taiwan as it's as part of its own country. And while the United States continues to push the messaging that it supports Taiwan and its ability to engage in self-determination, again, China sees that as provocative and is inching us closer and closer to something that could involve military action. And that's what's really terrifying about this. Now, according to the Wall Street Journal, Taiwan accounts for about 70% of the

the world semiconductor supply. And it's the world's largest contract chip maker. It's known as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co or TSM for short. TMC is currently investing about $12 billion into a new plant in Arizona. And so there is a trade relationship there. But if that's the reason you have members of Congress visiting, that should be plainly stated. But obviously, there's more to it than that. TSM is the exclusive supplier of Apple's silicon processors, I'm sorry, yes, for iPhones and Mac PCs as well as the manufacturing partner of other U.S. companies like AMD, Broadcom, and Qualcomm.

And during her visit to Taiwan, Pelosi met with the chairman of this company. His name is Mark Liu. And what happens to the semiconductor industry of China invades or blocks or blockades Taiwan? Well, that's a huge consideration here. A year long disruption, for instance, to Taiwan's chip supply chain could cost global electronics companies some $490 billion in losses. And that's according to a 2021 report by the Boston Consulting Group and Semiconductor Industry Association. Should Taiwanese chip output be disrupted permanently, it would take at least three years and $350 billion to build production capacity elsewhere to make up for it, the report said.

And I've got a lot more detail to get to in this, Jank, but any time the United States pretends to care about the freedom, the liberty, and the safety of individuals in another country, that's usually a cover story. It's usually because of various financial and business interests rooted here in the United States. Yeah, so Jacob and had an interesting article showing how much everyone on cable news was cheerleading for it. MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, hey, we found agreement in the country. All, of course, by very wealthy anchors and very wealthy guests, some of whom work for think tanks funded by defense contractors. I'm sure that's a wild coincidence, of course, never revealed to their

audience, and they all had an orgy of agreement that we should saber-rattle against China and Nancy Pelosi. Fox News complimenting Nancy Pelosi, MSNBC complimenting the idea of aggravating China, potentially leading to a war. Funny when the money lines up, all the media lines up. And they're lining up for what? I mean, on this one, it's absurd on top of absurd. We looked into the semiconductor angle because something clearly doesn't add up here. On the surface, they're saying Pelosi's randomly going and now we've got a new delegation also randomly going to check China. Why?

What is China doing? Is there hostilities between China and Taiwan? Of course, China's been doing their own moves in regards to a couple of islands off their coast, which are technically part of Taiwan. So it's not like China's innocent and has done anything and has no bad intentions ever. At the same time, there wasn't anything in particular now that China had done that Pelosi was responding to. That's why cable news just set up a completely alternate reality. They almost all lied and said that Pelosi was going as a response to China. But China didn't do anything. I mean, certainly not.

recently, certainly not in any connection to this trip. So in Washington, it's always the money. One, defense contractors need a new threat, whether any hostilities break out or not. It's a good excuse to build more weapons. And then the Chips Act just passed. It has to do with semiconductors. 70% of the semiconductor industry, as Anna just pointed out, tie into Taiwan. I don't know yet exactly what the answer is, but it would be surprising if that didn't have something.

do with it. Yeah, it seems like, look, anytime there's some nonsensical foreign policy move, or something done by leadership that doesn't appear to be the most diplomatic, it's usually done on behalf of their corporate donors and corporate interests. What I want to understand a little better is why it is that we need a foreign corporation to invest in a semiconductor manufacturing plant here in the United States when Congress just allocated a ton of taxpayer money to essentially do the manufacturing here in the United States. Like, listen, nothing against Taiwan, but the whole idea of doing this was supposed to make us a little more independent, especially after we saw how incredibly fragile our supply chains really are,

certainly during a global pandemic. So the idea, and we've seen what foreign investment in the car industry here in the United States has led to a lot of people losing their well-paying union jobs and then those jobs get placed with, you know, jobs that are provided by a foreign company that's actually based in China, those jobs, as you can understand, probably already guessed, are not unionized jobs. The hours are far more grueling. The workers get less benefits. I just don't really understand why we're headed in this direction. Again, when so much money was already allocated by Congress in order to manufacture semiconductors here in the United States. I mean, they talk about being independent, but they're never really serious about being independent, especially when you consider

they're now talking about taking all this investment from a Taiwanese company. Yeah, so buckle up because everyone in mainstream media thinks we need a new enemy and maybe a new conflict or a new war. And when they do that, it is a enormous propaganda machine. And so there's no need to provoke China on any of this. It's absolutely mental to do it. And I guarantee you, it's always the defense contractors that agitate for more conflict, for sure. But there's usually a second thing that puts it over the top. And in this case, it looks like it's the semiconductor industry.

They've got some angle they're playing in Taiwan, whether it's to appease someone for losing business or it's to give them a reward. award to do more business. But everybody's looking to get paid. That's what Washington is all about. This has absolutely nothing to do with a response to China, because in the short term, China didn't do anything to respond to. So if you see anyone in the media lying about how America had to respond to China, nothing but a bald face lie. And to your point, Jank, I just want to provide the receipts for what you're talking about regarding the media. So let's get that. second video here ready to go because this is the kind of conversation you can expect from corporate media in regard to these visits to Taiwan and these provocations that are starting

by U.S. lawmakers like Nancy Pelosi and this delegation. So let's take a quick look at that video and I'll let you have the final word. Let's watch. I'm going to show my buys here right up. I was like, yes, thank you, Nancy. And because of the debacle in Afghanistan and the failure to deter Russia in Ukraine, Taiwan has become the test, the test of American credibility, not just in the region, but worldwide. Xi Jinping is trying to rewrite the status quo in our relationship with Taiwan because he thinks he can get away with it. And he already has, in some ways, changed that status quo because he's elevated just a routine legislative trip to Taiwan to something that requires

presidential level attention and presidential level pressure. It's very important that we not allow him to do that. The New York Times in an op-ed yesterday said, nothing good will come of it. Taiwan will not be more secure or more prosperous as a result of this purely symbolic visit, and a lot of bad things could happen. You've outlined some of those. They go on to say these include a Chinese military response that could result in the U.S. being plunged into indirect conflicts with a nuclear-armed Russia and a nuclear-armed China at the same time. Your response to that? Well, he's totally wrong. From the Democratic Party point of view, whether it's primaries or the midterm elections,

Nancy Pelosi has just stolen an issue away from Republicans. Wow, I mean, what an election-winning issue, provoking potential conflict with China at a time when we're already dealing with Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the economic, you know, ramifications of that, which everyone else is bearing the burden of. I mean, it's just, it's so incredibly stupid, but you're absolutely right when you target the way the media has covered this jank. I mean, it's nothing but raw, raw, let's do it. Let's cheer for Nancy Pelosi. And I just find it hilarious that the former head of the Republican National Committee is one of the individuals who's cheering Pelosi and others on. Yeah, on MSNBC, they warmonger

by saying this is the test of American credibility. Well, I don't even know what that means. That's the kind of thing that idiot talking heads that are bribed by defense contractors say. So how is China testing our credibility? Are there aircraft carriers on their way to Taiwan? If there were, that would be testing our credibility. But there are no such things. We're going and poking them in the eye for no goddamn reason. How is that testing our credibility?

It sounds like we're testing their credibility for no reason to start a fight. Who's testing us? What the hell is he talking about? But on MSNBC, they're like, yes, way to start more conflict. What happened? I thought you guys were the left leading channel. It's a joke. The whole thing's a joke.

It's all corporate media. And then on Fox News, all of a sudden they're kissing Nancy Pelosi's ass. What happened? I thought you guys were lions fighting against those. Those Democrats were awful and all this stuff. Now, no, when she wants to start a war, all of a sudden Fox News says, they just stole an issue from us. To Anna's earlier point, what issue?

Were they running the midterm elections on whether Nancy Pelosi was going to go Taiwan or not. No, God damn it, now we can't say she's not going to Taiwan. You're going to run ads on that? No, what are you talking about? Is there a single voter in the country who thinks, well, you know, I wasn't going to vote. But now that Nancy Pelosi went to Taiwan, like they just, they're so used to lying to their audience for corporate cash that they're just not even trying anymore.

It doesn't matter, go start a war, say the dumbest things. I mean, we said Saddam Hussein attack was on 9-11. That wasn't anywhere near true. We'll make up anything. It doesn't matter. Just gibber your word salad. Let's start a war ready. K-Bull news.

Kable news for war. They're only people in the country who want more. Last thing. It's not that China wouldn't love to take Kinman and some of the islands off their coast. And maybe even Taiwan one day. But this doesn't make it less likely that they'll do that. It makes it more likely that they'll do that. More likely.

Because it gives them a provocation. for no reason. So now they could say, well, we're responding to a provocation when there wasn't one before. And who loses the whole world? Who wins? Greedy defense contractors, probably someone in the semiconductor industry, and all the corrupt politicians and all the corrupt corporate media. Listen, whenever it comes to foreign policy, especially, if it don't make sense, it's definitely making dollars. So we'll see how this plays out. We'll stay on the store and give you guys detail. as it develops. But my hope is it doesn't develop. My hope is they just let this go and they don't further provoke China toward more aggression. Anyway, we gotta take a break though. When we come

back, we'll get into a discussion with all the latest regarding the FBI's search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago home. What kind of cover are Trump's lackeys providing for him and his potential criminality? We've got those stories and more coming right up. All right back on TYT, Jank, Anna, Eddie La Cica, Robert Ferrante, LifeGur, and Mika, we're all doing the show together today because they all just became members by hitting the join button below the video on YouTube. You guys are amazing, American heroes. We appreciate it.

You're helping us spread the truth to the best of all of our abilities. Everybody else out there, t.com slash join. Come be a hero today. Casper. Let's get to our next story. My life was put in danger. Former FBI agent turned Pennsylvania Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick appearing on Face the Nation after the FBI and DHS joint warning was released on Friday.

Among the threats was a plot to place a so-called dirty bomb in front of FBI headquarters, as well as online posts calling for civil war in armed rebellion. The bulletin capped off a tense week for the nation's top federal law enforcement agency. Federal officials are warning the FBI, DOJ, and even some members of the judiciary, that there are credible and violent threats against them. And the warning is of course coupled with very specific violent incidents that have taken place following the raid of Trump's Mar-Lago residents over the fact that he had taken home with him classified documents, including documents that were so sensitive that they can only be viewed in government facilities. He had also lied to federal authorities about having those documents in his possession. But nonetheless, his supporters have decided. to come out, not only in defense of Trump, but they have in some cases even threatened violence or have used violence against federal officials. And I want to talk a little bit

about that in more detail. Now just as a refresher, the raid led authorities to more than two dozen boxes that contained 11 sets of classified documents, some of which were labeled top secret, okay? And so following these threats in an in a In a memo that was obtained by Ken Clippenstein over at the Intercept, the FBI and DHS issued this joint intelligence bullet warning of these threats of domestic violence. For instance, a gunman on Thursday attacked an FBI office in Cincinnati, a story that we talked about in great detail. And the Department of Homeland Security distributed an intelligence bulletin to law enforcement

around the country that warned of quote, an increase in threats and acts of violence, including armed encounters against law enforcement, judiciary, and government personnel after the search. Also, the FBI and the DHS have obtained or observed, I should say, an increase in violent threats posted on social media against federal officials and facilities, including a threat to place a so-called dirty bomb in front of FBI headquarters and issuing general calls for civil war and armed rebellion. And I should also note that in a story that broke a little later today, there was a man in Pennsylvania, Trump supporter, who was arrested for making very specific threats of violence against the FBI. Another gunman, by the way, crashed a car into a barricade outside the Capitol

around 4 a.m. on Sunday after he exited the car and it became engulfed in flames, he shot into the air several times before killing himself, according to the Capitol police. And then there's There's one other thing I wanted to mention before I go to you, Jank, and that's the fact that Breitbart decided to publish the names of FBI agents who were there at Mar-a-Lago as the raid was taking place. And of course, considering the sensitivity of this topic and the rabid Trump supporters who are willing to carry out acts of violence, this is a way of intimidating FBI officials and putting their lives in jeopardy, really. Breitbart published the names of FBI employees involved in Monday's search. Breitbart reported that FBI gave two receipts listing

the seized items to Trump's attorney. The longer receipt was signed by FBI special agent. We redacted it. I didn't want to share their names here. And the shorter receipt was signed by another person we redacted and includes redacted, Breitbart's article stated. While not redacting the names, of course, it is unclear who that person is and the handwriting is not the clearest, Breitbart wrote at the time. So Jank, you talk about this all the time, you know, the idea of stochastic terrorism. But let's also keep it real. In the last week, we've seen very real attempts by the extreme right wing to carry out serious acts of violence. And this has been ongoing. It's not like this Trump raid is the first time we've seen it.

Obviously January 6th is another example. We've seen instances of right wing gang members in this this country ambush cops and shoot them as they're in their police cruisers. You know, this longstanding notion that the right wing is pro law enforcement is laughable to say the least, their pro law enforcement, as long as law enforcement is raining terror on the left or people of color. Yeah. So things have gotten way, way worse. I remember when it was a big controversy, when Sarah Palin talking about politicians that should be targeted had Gabby Giffords in the crosshairs. Now, that's bad, really bad Gabby Giffords was shot in the head, but it was more oblique.

There was more vague references to targets and crosshairs and stuff like that. Now they're just saying it, let's go to the FBI and kill them. And the guy in Pennsylvania was super clear. He's just like, I'm just going to kill as many FBI agents as I can before they kill me. And so, and now right wing media, Breitbart, putting out the names of the FBI agents, I mean, that is so direct. And as always, there's, of course, the, you know, the double standard. If because they had killed, let's say, an unarmed black men, or for any reason,

we at the Young Turks put out the names of FBI agents that the government had not. put out, I think we'd probably be deplatformed everywhere, right? We would immediately be taken off the air. How dare you? You're putting these guys lives in danger. These are no good liberals targeting law enforcement. Cops are going to get shot. This is outrageous. The right wing does it. Nothing happened to Breitbart. Nothing at all. And nothing's ever going to happen to them. And so when they keep encouraging violence and they're allowed to encourage violence, Hey, look at that, we get violence. So before you could say, hey, you know, they're kind of saying something.

It's rhetorical. It could mean something political. It could mean something aggressive. It's hard to tell. Can you really put it at their doorstep? No, now they're just saying it. And so there's no ambiguity left at all. And everyone all the way up through Trump is saying the FBI are terrible.

we should dismantle them as soon as we get back into office. They're attacking them in every imaginable way. Critique of the FBI is the most normal thing in the world. I would join critique of the FBI. But saying here is their names and somebody should go do something about it. It's not a legitimate political critique that's putting their lives in danger. The right wing does it all the time and there's never any ramifications. Yeah, and let me just add a little something to that because you mentioned the importance.

of critiquing the FBI, and certainly the FBI has a lot of room for critique and criticism, especially given its terrible history and taking part in orchestrating coups of democratically elected leaders, stuff we talk about on the show all the time. But I've seen a lot of, to be generous, I'll just refer to them as the brain dead leftists in this country, who will take someone like Marjorie Green saying defund the FBI and be like, based, Marjorie Taylor Green, so based. Yeah, except let's really understand what they want here. The right wing isn't interested in doing away with federal law enforcement that, again, reigns terror on democratically elected leftist leaders in other countries, or reigns terror on

ordinary Americans who might be people of color, who might be activists, feminist, environmentalists. I mean, again, long history of the FBI doing all these terrible things to various groups of people in this country. The right wing loves that. The right wing is not used to a traditionally conservative federal agency targeting one of their own. And so when they call for defunding the FBI, what they're really calling for is ensuring that the FBI continues to demonize and focus all of its energy. on going after left wing groups while completely leaving the right wing alone, or more importantly, providing cover for some of the potential criminality that the right wing engages in in this country. Yeah, and so look, I just had a conversation with Brianna, Joey Gray about this. And my point is that you want to have a legitimate discussion about, you know, how much funding the FBI should have, how should, how large should their scope be.

great, I'm happy to have that at another time. But right now when you say, oh, let's de-legitimize the FBI, as they're finally holding someone in the elites accountable, yes, Donald Trump, former president of the United States, a so-called billionaire is among the elites. And for the first time, we have the FBI holding him accountable. It's a good start. I wish they would hold all politicians accountable, right? And we can work towards that. But to jump in and go, how dare you hold the elites accountable for the first time in your history, let's shut it down now, is obviously absurd, okay? And last thing is, on the doxing issue, I mean, Taylor Lorenz, if she put in something about a flower in the neighborhood of someone's cousin's neighbor, they'd be like,

oh my God, she docks, she docks. I can tell that flowers over there that the cousins connected to the neighbor who's connected to that guy, she docks, right? And then right when goes out of their minds, as if that's the most important. Here, Brian, Bart doxes, FBI agents, as people are threatening to shoot them left and right, everybody's like, everybody in the right way is like, oh, no, that's, that one's no big deal. Yeah. They're not even trying to make sense. Exactly.

Well, I do want to reset and get into the Trump part of this because his inflammatory language continues despite the fact that there are credible violent threats and already violent actions toward federal officials over this raid. Following the FBI's raid into Trump's residence in Mar-Lago, and of course this is after it was discovered that he was still keeping sensitive and classified documents that he was not authorized to keep in his residence, he decided to continue using all sorts of crazy defamatory language that targets the FBI, targets the DOJ, and even targets the federal judge who signed off on the necessary warrant so the FBI could conduct that rate in the first place. And that infamatory

language has consequences because as we've seen, some of his supporters have already carried out acts of violence. Some of his other supporters have specifically said that they're going to carry out acts of violence like one individual in Pennsylvania and they've been arrested as a result. But the inflammatory language continues. He says on truth social for instance, and this was over the weekend, oh great, it has just been learned that the FBI in its now famous raid of Mar-a-Lago took boxes of privileged attorney-client material and also executive privileged material, which they knowingly should not have taken. By copy of this truth, I respectfully request that that these documents be immediately returned to the location from which they were taken.

Thank you. So again, he wrote that on truth social. And I don't know if he's aware of this, but those aren't really like truth social isn't the official channel in which you request attorney client documents to be returned back to you. But nonetheless, everything that he does is meant to direct hatred and violence toward the individuals who, again, legally, raided his property after they obtained the warrant from a federal judge and after they had been working with Trump for months to get like two months ago, bro, you got to hand over these documents, like you got to do it. You can't, we let's stop playing this game. Two months passed, he refuses to do it. And yeah, the FBI gets that warrant and they conduct the raid.

But he makes himself out to be some sort of victim. By the way, it has not been confirmed that they took documents pertaining to attorney client privilege, and I would take anything Trump says with a grain of salt. But he didn't leave it there. He also wrote, quote, just left a large gathering of people. And all they could talk about was the complete and total stranglehold that the radical left Democrats have over the DOJ and FBI. The FBI is led by the way, by Christopher Ray, who was appointed by Donald Trump and confirmed by Republican senators during his term. It shouldn't be that way. Nobody goes after BLM, you sure about that? Antifa or the rest, despite murder, beatings and burning down large sections of cities. A very unfair double standard,

he argues, they definitely won't attack the home of a former Democrat president, nor should they. It is also out of control, great simmering anger. And so, again, the inflammatory language continues. acts of violence are carried out, threats of violence are carried out. And then later, Trump does a classic Trump move of speaking from both sides of his mouth, right? On one hand, he riles people up and he directs violence and attention toward various groups of people that he disagrees with or individuals who are rightfully investigating him and his potential criminal acts. And then he turns around and says, I'm willing to do whatever is necessary to calm everybody down. And he did that during an interview with Fox News Digital. Trump said he will do whatever he can to help the country after the FBI's raid of his Mar-a-Lago home last week,

telling Fox News Digital that the temperature has to be brought down while stressing that the American people are not going to stand for another scam. In fact, he says, people are so angry at what is taking place, whatever we can do to help. Because the temperature has to be brought down in the country if it isn't terrible things. things are going to happen. So, Jank, he loves the violence, as we learned on January 6th, as violence was being carried out on his behalf, and he refused to step in to stop it. Yeah. So I think you made him sound a little too sultry there, but it's more goofy than that.

The anger is terrible, it's a simmering anger. Everybody should be super, super mad and do something about it. But I'm trying to bring the temperature down. Okay, trying to bring it down, but it is a scam and no one will stand for this unjust scam again. And they should, if they are so angry, they should do something about it. But I'm the guy who's trying to cool things down, okay? No, you're not. You're all you're doing is stoking the fires and you love it.

As Anna pointed out on January 6th, they told them, hey, look, these guys are attacking the Capitol. And he's told them, don't do anything. They said, they're chanting about murdering Mike Pence. And his chief of staff came back in and told others, President Trump approves. He didn't do anything about it. He, he, like, we're still having a conversation about this monster. And that's because, again, giant percentage of the country likes monsters. After he didn't do anything about his supporters trying to murder his own vice president.

In fact, he egged them on with a tweet. We should do that as well. After he knew that the guy's life was in danger. I mean, the guy's a monster of monsters. bird his ex-wife on a golf course for a tax cut. I mean, this guy, there's no bounds to him. And yet, you know, a third of the country at least goes, if there's one politician we know is definitely not lying, it's Donald Trump. You're like, how could that make any sense to you guys? And I always say shoe on the other foot. I apply that to us, but I apply it to them as well.

Do you think Obama could have just walked out? Do you think he should be able to walk out of the White House with nuclear secrets? No, of course not. I mean, why would you, right wing, why would you want that? What if he sold it? What if he wasn't going to sell it to sell it, but he was going to keep it as a momento? And somebody walks into his house and cleaning lady takes it and they sell it to the Russians, the Arabs, or whoever it might be, Saudi Arabia, etc.

Like, that's obviously wrong, right? They're like, no, if Trump does it. If Trump does it, then it's awesome, man. He stood over the documents and he was like, dude, I declassify you. I mean, I don't know if that was after the FBI planted him or before the FBI planted him. But they

planted him and he didn't know anything about him. But he knew enough to declassify him. I just, I just find it fascinating that the same people who think they need like bazookas to fight back against a tyrannical government are the

same people who are calling for a tyrannical government. Really, think about it. 100%. They're calling for a government that treats its president as if he is above the law regardless of what he does, regardless of what criminality he might engage in, regardless of what kind of treason he might be committing. I mean, that just blows my mind. It really does. Because to me, if you really love the country, then you understand that, you know, ensuring that one individual has unlimited power and is always above the law, that is an incredibly dangerous precedent to set. And that's what they're fighting for, tooth and nail. They really think, no, Trump should be able to take incredibly sensitive, classified documents that you're not, you're not even, you're, he doesn't even have the ability to declassify some of these documents because they're so sensitive that they could only. be read in a government facility. Yeah, it doesn't matter. The facts don't matter.

They just don't care because they love their daddy. It's like little kids thinking about their literal daddy. Daddy's my hero, I'm gonna protect my daddy no matter what. Well, Daddy's screwing you over. And daddy might be engaged in some incredibly dangerous crimes that put this nation's national security at risk. But who cares? They love their daddy. So the right wing is so proud of themselves.

figured out that politicians in general are corrupt. Congrats, okay. So low bar, you cleared it, you're right, most of the politicians are corrupt. That doesn't mean that Donald Trump is not corrupt. No, they love daddy being corrupt. Daddy can be corrupt. No, but- Daddy can be corrupt. To Anna's point, it's not just that they're like, oh, okay, we found the one uncorrupt

politician. No, they go, the other direction, they go, Trump is allowed to be corrupt. He's allowed to take nuclear secrets. home, he's allowed to do anything he wants with them, he's allowed to do to threaten the Ukrainians to get a political deal for himself to attack his political opponent. But if Biden did that, if Biden called the Ukrainians and said, hey, I'm not going to help you unless you attack Trump right now. They're like, oh, look at it's corruption. Hurt your Biden, Joe Biden. Their head's exploding. Trump does 10 times worse. They're like, that's awesome. We need a strong leader who's willing

to be corrupt. Okay, there's nothing you could do to help them. I mean, we can play these games. We're right about everything. And it's so easy to defeat them. Okay, do you just ask them, whenever Trump does something, do you think Kamala Harris should be allowed to do the same thing? And watch their heads explode. Because they have no answer. They're never going to have an answer. Okay, if Mike Pence can unilaterally decide the Trump won the election, can Kamala Harris do that? No way, man, only two Republicans get to break the law, not the Democrats, okay? And then, okay, can Kamala Harris take home the secrets and maybe sell our nuclear codes or whatever else to the Chinese.

Don't you gobbler is the common traitor are doing? But Trump's doing that. I love it when Trump does that. Well, okay, then we, nobody can help you because you refuse to have intelligent thought. I just, I don't know how to communicate with you. Are you, we're not talking the same language. Okay, then you celebrate how corrupt and awesome and evil and criminal your leader is. Congrats.

Yep. Don't worry, they will. Well, we're gonna take a quick break. When we come back, there is something else worth discussing in regard to the story. And it's the ever changing, ever devolving excuses that GOP lackeys are using to provide cover for Trump. We'll give you those narratives, we'll debunk those narratives. We'll have an awesome time. Don't miss it, we'll be right back.

All right back on ZyT, Jank and Anna and Lisa with you guys, Lisa two series just became a member and Mayday renewed their membership. So thank you guys. We appreciate it. It's a big join button below the video on YouTube. That's one way to do it. Of course, the standard way to do it is. t-y-t.com slash join. And you get all of our programming, including old school tonight, which is going to be really fun with Banglebe and Mark Thompson. All right, Anna, what's next? Let's get to our next story. Sources now confirmed that a lawyer for former President Trump signed a letter in June, asserting there was no more classified information stored at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

But when the FBI executed a search warrant on Monday, agents recovered 11 sets of classified documents with at least. least one marked as top secret SCI, which is one of the highest levels of classification. The newly unsealed court documents outlined three potential crimes that are being investigated. So far, the DOJ has not filed any charges. Now, while the DOJ has not filed any charges, the walls do appear to be closing in on Trump, especially given some of the revelations we've been hearing about what the FBI was able to obtain from his Mar-a-Lago residents.

And again, this is after Trump's lawyers had lied to federal officials about the existence of these classified documents to begin with. A federal judge unsealed the warrant authorizing the search and an inventory of items removed from the property by federal agents. The list showed that the FBI had retrieved 11 sets of classified documents as part of an inquiry into potential violations of the SB. Apeonage Act and two other laws, including obstruction of justice, by the way. And that has to do with the fact that the lawyers had lied to federal officials about the existence of these classified documents in Trump's residents at Mar-a-Lago. And some of those documents were marked classified T-S or SCI, which is shorthand for top-secret sensitive compartmented information. Such information is meant to be viewed only in a secure

government facility. And as you guys can imagine, Mara Lago, not a secure government facility. And so what kind of excuses are Republicans coming up with now? What kind of cover are they providing for Trump? Given the fact that they were demanding that the warrant be unsealed, the warrant was unsealed. Trump's lawyers were trying to prevent it from being unsealed, but it got unsealed. Republican lawmakers got what they wanted? And so what now? You know, they get to see this information that they claimed, you know, needed to be out there, but they're still providing covers. So Trump and his allies have argued that former President Barack Obama also mishandled documents, which by the way is an allegation quickly dismissed

as false by the National Archives, that the judge who signed the warrant authorizing the search must have been biased and that the FBI might have planted evidence that the documents were covered by by attorney client or executive privilege and that Trump had declassified the documents. Now, in fact, why don't we go to this next video? Because it shows you exactly what you're likely to hear from Trump cronies. One of them is on Fox News and he purports that, you know, these these weren't actually classified documents because Trump single-handedly declassified them, duh, and get a load of the evidence he provides. Let's watch. This is from President Trump's office, it just came in a few minutes ago. As we can all relate to everyone, as we can

all relate to, everyone ends up having to bring home their work from time to time. American presidents are no different. President Trump, in order to prepare the work the next day, often took documents including classified documents to the residents. He had a standing order. There's the word I've been looking for. That documents removed from the Oval Office and taken to the residents were deemed to be to classified the moment he removed them. Yeah, yeah. Donald Trump's term is up and he wanted to take the work home. Because you know, Trump is such a hard worker sitting in front of a TV with his executive time meant for Fox News watching while guzzling down big gulps and eating his Big Macs.

Like what? But that conflicts a little bit with another narrative that we're seeing from the right wing. And that's the narrative regarding the FBI allegedly planting evidence. Let's watch. The president has claimed he can classify information, and we think this is going to be part of what is said by his defense team, and that this is a joke. This is momento. And quite honestly, I'm concerned that they may have planted something. You know, at this point, who knows?

I don't trust the government. And that's a very frightening thing as an American. If I didn't want to be an American and go to a nut, this is third world stuff. We've heard it. This is Cuba. This is Cuba, Jank. The FBI allegedly planted evidence. And also the evidence that was planted by the FBI was declassified by Trump.

So Trump did nothing wrong. Yeah. So but maybe that first guest there had the magic answer for that. So he says there was a standing order by Trump. Whenever I do something, it's not illegal. Oh, I'm sorry, that was Nixon. Trump's was the same thing, but for these circumstances, whenever I take top secret documents that, by the way,

are not legally allowed to leave a certain building, even if it's the president, it doesn't, the previous laws do not matter. I can take them home and they are by definition declassified. Okay. So that way he's saying, I didn't even have to look at him. I didn't even have to know what was in him. I have to do anything, they're just all declassified, okay?

Maybe that could help explain how they would be declassified if the FBI planted them. Because if the FBI planted them, Trump never looked at him, so he never declassified him. Wrong. They're at Mar-a-Lago. If anybody brings anything over to Mar-a-Lago, they're magically declassified. So the FBI, while they were planting the evidence against Donald Trump, accidentally declassified them because of his standing order, And that's why all of this makes sense, if you're a lunatic. If you're a lunatic, exactly. But like my point is, they don't even care if they have contradictory narratives to provide cover for Trump. I mean, we saw the same strategy following January 6th.

It was Antifa. It was, no, it was actually the intelligence community with provocateurs. They'll come up with anything they can think of, it was BLM, anything they can think of. And even if there are contradicting narratives, it doesn't matter. Because members of Trump's base will take whatever they prefer and they'll just run with it. And so it doesn't matter, this man can literally do no wrong in their eyes. All they need is the cover story they can run with. And I actually want to talk a little bit about how seriously Trump took the the mishandling of classified documents when Hillary Clinton had a private email server,

which by the way, Hillary Clinton was investigated by the FBI. And the reason why her home wasn't raided by the FBI is because when that investigation was taking place, during the 2016 presidential election, an incredibly sensitive time, she was cooperating with that investigation. Two months prior to the raid in Marlago, federal officials were trying to get Trump to just hand over the classified documents that an FBI informant alerted them to. But he refused to do so. And if you're not going to cooperate with an investigation, we should live in the type of society that holds you accountable similar to how any other ordinary American would be held accountable. But Trump thinks he's above the law

and that type of mentality is further enabled by Trump supporters. And what they're calling for is this extreme power concentrated in the executive branch for one specific person. And that goes against everything this country is supposed to be about. But they don't care. Because again, as long as daddy's in charge, they're happy. But I also want to remind you of how Trump was discussing the mishandling of classified documents back in 2016. This is the final video. It's been going viral recently for obvious reasons. Let's take a look at that. On political corruption, we are going to restore honor to our government.

In my administration, I'm going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information. No one will be above the law. Laws for thee, but not for me. And of course, and by the way, that speech was in August of 2016, and of course he was talking about Hillary Clinton there. And in 2018, he actually made the penalties and the laws around the mishandling of classified documents far more harsh and robust. So he doesn't want to basically follow the same laws that he made much more hard.

during his administration because he thinks he's above the law. Yeah. So there's no point in arguing with the right wingers anymore. They just don't believe in anything. They're nihilists. Like now they're against the rule of law. And right wingers go, no, man, that's just set up. And we love rule of law when it's bashing black people across the head. I mean, we love rule of law overall, okay? All right, well, if you do, you're supposed to say, hey, this is unfair because you're supposed to have evidence. No, he didn't take them home. No, it's okay to take him out of a facility

where the law clearly states no one can take it out of the facility. But they don't bother making a counter argument. They don't say, oh yeah, the president has some secret authority to take it out of that building. They don't say that. They don't ever bother presenting any evidence. They just go, we don't like when the law is applied to drop. Okay, so you never meant rule of law. You meant, hey, I want to be able to oppress others and I want to use the cops to do that. But if you're ever going to use the cops to guess me or my, you know, the Don that leads our criminal enterprise, then then I hate you and I despise the rule of law. So what do we have in a conversation? Look, guys, it's all of this is so easy to prove

it by the right way. Take the same exact thing Donald Trump did, take those nuclear secrets home, apply it to Biden, Hunter Biden, and see what they say. Can Hunter Biden, hey, He was visiting his dad, sees the nuclear secrets in a room that he's not supposed to take him out of. It's okay. They say Joe Biden has a standing order to declassify anything he looked at. He looked at it with Hunter. Hunter took him home. And then maybe he did or didn't sell him to the Russians or the Saudis.

But hey, Hunter can take him home, right? If Hunter Biden had done that, every Republican in the country's head would have exploded. They would have already raided the capital again, right? They're like, okay, so now is Trump allowed to do the thing that you would have hated if Hunter Biden did? it? Like, yes. Okay, well, then I can't talk to you anymore. And can I just, I mean, I were never going to break through to them in any way. But if there's seven Republicans left that are not insane yet, okay, can you at least acknowledge that him taking the nuclear secrets home was incredibly dumb? Like, because right now, their go-to defense for why? Why didn't

even do it? We think we're worried that maybe he wanted to sell it because he's the dumbest man in America. He thought he could get away with that. He's so stupid. He's unbelievably stupid, right? But okay, like, no, nobody's watching the president, you moron. Nobody's going to notice nuclear secrets missing, dumbest man on earth. But okay, let's say you're a Republican, you think this guy's a genius. Why did he take him home? Oh, the momentum. That's the smart reason to take him home, momentum, nuclear secrets. No, nobody actually believes that. You just want him to be A dictator, just admitted, just admit who you are. Early on after the raid happened, someone close to him was quoted in one of these, you know,

major newspapers. I forget if it was the Washington Post or the New York Times, but he, someone close to Trump. And he or she was someone who commented anonymously said that they suspect that Trump might have wanted to sell these momentos, basically, not really fully understanding. the impact of, you know, maybe selling state secrets, nuclear codes, things like that. It's what someone who's clearly not wealthy does. And as we've seen from Trump in so many other instances, he's always looking for a way to make a buck, even if that means selling out his supporters, even if that means selling out the country. So look, we can only speculate as to

what he was planning on doing. But I just want, look, I want everyone to be treated as as if the law applies to them. I don't want anyone to be held above the law, including Democrats. I don't care, I have no loyalty to Democrats. I have no loyalty to any damn politician. If they break the law, we should live in a country that puts country above your chosen daddy, right?

And in this case, unfortunately, you have a huge portion of the country that puts Trump ahead of everything else, including the country, including the country, and including the best interest of their own family, really. Yeah, no, we're just better than the right wing. We care about facts, we care about logic. So if it hurts your feelings, I don't care.

Try to look into a fact for once in your life. Here, I'll prove it for the thousandth time. Okay, if Bernie took home nuclear secrets as a momento, I would say, what are you? Mental? Are you insane? Why the hell would you do that? That doesn't make any sense. You should be in a world of trouble for doing that, right? Meanwhile, because why?

Because we're honest and we're rational. and we don't have this, like, sexual fetish with defending one guy, right? So if one of our own does something stupid, we call them out all the time on the show. But for you guys, listen to the excuse that Anna said that one Republican used there. Just when I thought they couldn't get any dumber, Trump was taking them home as a momentum and might have sold pictures of it innocently. Oh, I was going to sell this momento. Does it have the nuclear secrets on it?

Oh, golly, gee. Oh, I thought it was going to get $100 for this momentum. Did I get $2 billion instead? And you believe that? No, please. Republicans, Jesus Christ, have some self-respect. No one's that stupid. Are you?

Are you that stupid that you would believe in an excuse like that? Jesus. All right, that does it for the first hour. We're going to take a quick break. When we come back, we'll explain exactly why Republican lawmakers are providing cover for Donald Trump, even if they know that he potentially broke some very serious laws. We've got that story and more coming right up. They call them dumps, big massive dumps.

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