The Young Turks - Blockhead Hegseth

Episode Date: November 23, 2024

Sen. Lindsey Graham has offered absurd praise for Trump’s pick for Attorney General, despite widespread criticism. Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, previously wrote about the U.S. military potentially taking sides in a “civil war.” The sentencing in Trump’s hush money case has been postponed indefinitely, according to a judge’s ruling. Sen. Tom Cotton has made controversial remarks, suggesting the U.S. should invade the Netherlands to protect Israel’s government from an International Criminal Court arrest warrant." HOST: Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur),John Iadarola (@johniadarola) SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE ☞  https://www.youtube.com/@TheYoungTurks FOLLOW US ON: FACEBOOK  ☞   https://www.facebook.com/theyoungturks TWITTER  ☞       https://twitter.com/TheYoungTurks INSTAGRAM  ☞  https://www.instagram.com/theyoungturks TIKTOK  ☞          https://www.tiktok.com/@theyoungturks 👕MERCH  ☞      https:/www.shoptyt.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Obviously, young Turks, Jank Uger, John Adlerola, Polymarket Studio here in LA. So we've got some news on Donald Trump's nominations, obviously, and the one I'm most animated by honestly is Hegsef. The more you read about Hegsf, the more you realize there's nothing but just this pounding piece of meat in his head. He's a meathead who hates our constitution and our democracy and is a danger to the country. So I'm pretty clear on Hexon. Yeah, we don't know for sure, but it's looking like he might end the sterling reputation

of Fox News men. They've all been unimpeachable, and suddenly one of them looks like a creep. Huh, interesting. But anyway, jokes about the number of people on the panel aside, it is going to be novel to be able to have time to give my opinion on these stories. Oh, yeah, that's gonna be fun, I'm gonna do that. But anyway, you wanna get into it? Yep.

Okay, we can talk about all of those people and more. Over the past decade or so, we have had to watch as a never ending train of Republicans queue up to lick Donald Trump's boots. But I think all of them could take notes from Senator Lindsey Graham, who, when he saw that Pam Bondi was going to be the second pick for Trump's AG, here's what he tweeted. Well done, Mr. President. Making Pam Bondi for attorney general is a grand slam touchdown hole in one ace hat trick slam dunk Olympic gold medal pick. She will be confirmed quickly because she deserves to be confirmed quickly.

I don't know what. He's a full grown man. I don't know what that's supposed to be. I know what it is. It's a grand slam touchdown hole in one ace hat trick slam dunk Olympic gold medal ass kissing. I mean, if anyone deserves a gold medal and ass kissing, it's Lindsey Graham. So remember, like, when he thought Trump was going to lose in this election cycle, he started talking crap about him, okay?

The minute he realized Trump's going to win, he said, I meant gold medal ass kissing, please, please, Donald. So, but there's something more important than the usual Lindsey Graham groveling. And he's such a hilarious, pathetic snobler that we enjoy it. I took like I said this on yesterday's program I said it today this morning on Don Lemon's show I'm saying it here Pam Bondi is going to fly by in these confirmation proceedings she's going to be win easily confirmed is super easily and there is a there's one reason why because she's corrupt and the Senate loves corruption

absolutely positively loves it that's why when she was picked They know her record, which we're about to tell you, right? And when they saw how corrupt she is, they're like, yes, that's the right pick, okay? So Matt Gates, this guy was annoying, challenging Republican colleagues in freaking anti-war or something. Plus, he's a dirtbag. But they're all dirt back, so they didn't really care about that part, right? What they cared about is, ooh, Pam Bondi, unmitigated, unadulterated corruption. Yes.

So tell us about our next attorney general. Yeah, we're gonna get into all of those. I just wanna point out, and look, I, it feels weird that I have to be the person to do this. I don't have a reputation of being super into sports compared to some of the other people around here, although I do go to a lot of events of sport. It just feels super weird. Like he, is he on a thesaurus or something? Like did he chat GPT, what's an impressive sports thing?

Like Olympic gold medal, you're gonna put that in the same list as like an ace? I've played tennis, I've played volleyball. Those are wildly different levels of achievement. It just seems strange, like think before you kiss butt. I mean, there's an excellent chance that Lindsey Graham's never played a sport in his life. Which is fine, but you don't have to throw around the lingo. I generally do it as a self-effacing joke, but I don't think that's what he's doing here. He just is one.

But anyway, let's dive a little bit into the background and qualifications of Trump's new pick to be the Attorney General Pam Bondi. So we are learning a lot about her. And to be fair, she's popped up in the news previously, TYT has done stories on her. We want to get into a little bit of what Jake had been saying previously on the show about how likely she is to sort of sail through here because certain types of people who might have had a problem with a Matt Gates are probably not going to have a problem with her. And we're gonna play a little bit of Anna Navarro vouching for her on the view.

So you get an idea of what we're talking about. I have known Pam Bondi for many, many, many years. I will tell you, I don't want to ruin her reputation with MAGA people, but Pam Bondi and I hung out a lot when she was Attorney General of Florida and she would come to Miami. We drank a lot together. I liked her a lot. She's not a cook. What's a little election denialism between friends when, you know, at least, at least, listen, everything in life is relative people. Election denialism is a very big thing. Are you going to take them to find a folks? Let me, can I continue saying this? Everything in life is relative. There is no, accusation of sexual harassment or assault against her. There's no accusation. She's also qualified. She was a convicted of all 17-year-old. She hasn't killed a we had it a whale. She hasn't stabbed a dead bear cub. I mean, my God. We can't minimize some of the things that she has done. And I think we have a clip of some of her former comments. Why don't we take a little bit of

We're thrilled to have won Pennsylvania with 87% of the vote in, and we're up almost 400,000 votes. So we're thrilled. We do have evidence of cheating. We are not going anywhere until they declare that we won Pennsylvania. Yeah, eventually they did because they didn't win Pennsylvania, of course. And so look, Anna Navarro, I guess is like what, 8% joking there, 12% joking, I don't know. But I think her point is he, she hasn't done some of the stuff that Matt Gates has done.

She's not, you know, being accused of committing sex crimes or other crimes. I mean, you know, we'll see if anybody has access to her Venmo history. Feel free to send that to me. I'll protect your confidentiality and we'll see if there's anything in there. But the idea that simply because she's one of the nominees that isn't accused of sexual assault and hasn't done bizarre things with animals, well then I guess we're done. We can have her, even though she herself brought up the fact that what should be one of the most disqualifying things, a predisposition to allow a wannabe strong man to deny

the results of elections that he doesn't win. Like if that doesn't concern you about the chief law enforcement, someone who theoretically would be brought in to get involved with manipulating the results of elections, then I don't know what would. No, exactly as predicted, right? So Anna Navarro is a uniparti, corporate Democrat, former corporate Republican, loves Pam Bondi's corruption. They've had drinks over it. Okay. So, and look at what she's saying. Oh, there's no sex scandal and there's no animal scandal. So she's fine. I don't think that

that's the qualification for attorney general. Okay. So and to her, the idea of the over the top corruption that we're about to tell you about is more important than a sex scandal or what you did to a dead bear or worm is like, no. And part of the reason why guys, is they, as I've been telling you a thousand times, they use sex to attack anyone who isn't pro establishment, any kind of sexual allegations, etc. And some of them are totally real, right? So it's a mix bag on that stuff. But they also, they just don't find any of the awful things that we hate about politics to be offensive. They love those things. So that's why they view those kind of charges as a way to attack people they don't

like. But the minute that she likes Bondi, Bondi said that we should go after all the prosecutors and the investigators. We've got that clip. Why don't we play that? So yeah, we're going to play that clip for you in one second. And then it's Anna Navarro who was telling us Trump's going to take away democracy and going to arrest his political opponents, not concerned because she knows Pam Bondi and Pam Bondi's going to look out for the donors. She's fine. Interesting. Watch watch the actual Pam Bondi here. The Department of Justice, the prosecutors will be prosecuted, the bad ones. The investigators will be investigated because the deep state, last term for President

Trump, they were hiding in the shadows, but now they have a spotlight on them, and they can all be investigated. Yeah, I mean, you combine those two things. If he tries to challenge the results in an election, and by the way, not even necessarily like he runs for a third term or whatever. But just like, I don't know, maybe the midterms, maybe they lose a couple of Senate races in the midterms and oh, there goes Pan Bondi to hash things out. So she's willing to deny the results of elections.

She's his personal lawyer, which is already a big, norms are being shredded left and right in terms of the independence of the DOJ. But then we're also, we're now promising we're gonna weaponize the DOJ. You forget all that stuff we said about how that was a bad thing. No, that's specifically what we're gonna do. Anyone who investigated Donald Trump for the crimes, we all know he committed. He committed most of them in full plain sight. He got off because of judicial corruption, not because he didn't do those things.

If you rightly investigated him for crimes he doesn't even deny doing, then you yourself should be investigated for doing your goddamn job. Yeah, and she has a history of this as we're about to show you for benefactors. So in this case, Donald Trump's are benefactor, but in the past, other people have been her benefactors, and she has served them loyally. That is why Lindsey Graham and Anna Navarro are beyond themselves and going, this is the perfect corrupt pick, okay? So let me just remind you of one of the stories and John has a new one for you.

So yesterday we told you about how, but fun little details that I didn't mention yesterday. So the way that it broke down with her and Trump originally is she was attorney general of Florida, Trump was running a fake university, Trump university, and all the attorney general started investigating and realizing that it's not real at all and that he's robbing people blind. So she, I guess that same memo. And instead of launching an investigation, she calls Donald Trump and asks him for a contribution. Okay. And by the way, she, her lawyer confirms this. So then Donald Trump sends her $25,000 from his fake charity for us to get off on charges about his fake university. Okay, that is illegal. Later Donald Trump pays a $2,500 fine for

illegally sending her $25,000 from a charity to a political. action committee basically and so so then she goes four days later after she had the clear the check clears she goes oh I looked into it and decided that there's nothing here well you said like literally two weeks ago that you were considering investigating this and joining the case yeah I considered it and after the $25,000 check I decided not to okay so well and by the way remember that charity Donald Trump admitted was fraudulent paid a two million dollar fine and disbanded it and the university that she was originally considering looking

into also fraudulent Donald Trump also admitted that and paid a 25 million dollar penalty and by the way that penalty could have been larger if people like Pam Bondi joined in on that suit but since she got bribed by Donald Trump illegally in this case she dropped a case because she is and you're going to see it even more starkly in the next story she doesn't care about morality at all doing the job at all there's only one thing she's only one thing she cares about. Where's the money? Wherever the money is, I will serve those donors loyally and I will destroy law and order on their behalf. wrongly, if you don't think that what happened between Trump, her, and Trump

University was wildly, like, objectively corrupt, it's just bribery, that's all it is. Even if you set all that aside, she looked into it and thought there's nothing there. She was dead wrong. He was robbing people blind. He was robbing his most devoted followers blind, and she, in her official capacities, the AG of Florida, just couldn't see it. So even if you don't think she's corrupt, I guess she's incompetent. And do you want her to be the chief law enforcement officer of the United States? She's gonna be trying to take down transnational criminal organizations.

She's gonna be challenging big pharma and all that. She's so stupid, she couldn't even see the corruption in Trump University. And that's the most generous look at it, obviously. Yeah, obviously I think it's just corrupt, but- Yeah, but guys, think about it, right? So even Donald Trump, who never admits fault, admitted that it was a scam and paid a gigantic $25 million fine. Do you know how bad it has to be for Donald Trump to admit it and pay that large a fine?

And Pam Bondi couldn't see any evidence in a best case scenario as John laid out? So of course she saw overwhelming evidence and it shows you again what she cares about and doesn't care about. And so we're going to have someone who's really brazen here over the top in saying as long as someone with money gives it to me, I will do anything, anything that they want. So it's, it's, and look, Donald Trump is being loyalist, and so he thinks this is perfect. She's already proven her loyalty to me. She's already proven that she's willing to break the law for me. She's already proven she has no morals at all. And she said that she's going to illegally go after prosecutors and investigators.

She didn't, she never said, and I, why do I say illegally? She never said they had committed any crimes. Yeah. Right? She's just like, I didn't like what they did politically. so I'm going to target them legally. I mean, that is exactly what you said the Democrats were doing, except the Democrats actually had showed overwhelming evidence of the crimes of Donald Trump.

Here they're saying, I don't need crimes. All I need is Donald Trump to tell me to arrest our enemies, and I'll arrest them. And if you include a check, I'll give you special kickers on it. But now let's look about it from non-Trump perspective, so you know who she is and how this isn't about Trump. Okay, sorry, not involving him literally at all, but yeah, let's learn a little bit more about Pam Bondi who could well become the AG. So back in 2010, there were two attorneys in Florida. So they were working for the state attorney's general office and they discovered a scam.

They did great work in unveiling it. And here's basically what it looked like. So this is June Clarkson and Teresa Edwards. And what they found was that there was a group of law firms in Florida referred to as foreclosure mills because they were doing all these mass foreclosures. And one of the tools they used to do that was that they had hundreds of thousands of falsified documents that were used in the pursuit of these foreclosures. And a group of victims of the foreclosures had found these documents that were literally signed things like bogus assignee or whatever. They had documents dated 99999, which either proves that the documents were fraudulent or time travel

is involved. And I'm worried about either one of those incidents, but they had documents notarized on dates before they were allegedly created, more evidence possibly of a temporal incursion. The false documents were necessary because bankers, banks and lenders, striving during the housing bubble to sell mortgages and deliver them to investors, securitized the loans without maintaining chain of title botching the true ownership records. So there's like gaps in the documentation. And rather than that potentially be uncovered and a judge getting involved and that potentially

going against those with the mortgages and potentially going towards the actual homeowners, they just make it up. They just falsify a bunch of the documents so they can do their foreclosures and make more money. And so the Attorney's General Office, seeing this evidence being provided by the lawyers and the victims, open investigations into these mills. And before long, the bank stopped pursuing the foreclosures, which is a great thing because they're actually following the law. and also because people aren't fraudulently having their homes stolen from them. So at that point, Pam Bondi gets elected, Florida's Attorney General. And so she won election, thanks in part to donations, thousands of dollars in contributions

from none other than lender processing services and its affiliates, obviously, among the foreclosure mills. They got involved and they put money towards a candidate that they thought would go easier on them after they had been breaking the law, to be clear. And so the two attorneys who had first been pursuing these documents and these foreclosure mills were frozen out of the investigation. Within just a couple of months, they were actually fired despite doing an amazing job in unveiling this.

This is like the definition of justice. They get fired for their trouble. And so when asked why they were let go, their supervisor told them, it came from the top, Tallahassee didn't give me a reason. And of course, at that point, she is the top of Florida. Florida's law enforcement. And by the way, that wasn't all that Bondi ended up giving to the foreclosure mills, getting rid of this investigation.

After Clarkson Edwards left, the Florida Attorney General's office never issued another subpoena to any foreclosure mill or associated target. Boddy settled one case with a mill for just $2 million, a small portion of the profits that they had gotten from breaking the law. Other investigations were closed without charges. Top deputies from the AG's office became senior executives at LPS and other foreclosure mill. So literally, like it's even more direct than just lobbying, they literally, they shut down the investigations of companies that they were then hired at.

So they got paid beforehand, then they're in the AG's office, they shut down the investigations, and then they get paid again in the jobs, the most obvious corruption imaginable. And we have some other red flags that we should talk about, but that's pretty bad, Jake. Yeah, so guys, this is exactly what I mean when I say corruption. So it doesn't get any more direct then, oh, you gave me a campaign contribution. You're a criminal who's robbing my citizens blind. My job is attorney general is to protect the citizens of Florida. But I'm gonna screw them over because you bribed me.

In that case legally, campaign contributions, unfortunately are legalized bribes. So I'm gonna fire any prosecutor who would protect you. And I'm gonna make sure that your fines are minimal or go away. I mean, if this isn't corruption, what is? And if you're in Florida, you're a Republican, did you want to be robbed by a mortgage company? Did you want them to foreclose on you when you hadn't done anything wrong? Can you imagine how enraged you'd be, taking away your home, your personal property, when

you played by the rules and you did everything right? But her counter to you is, yeah, but I got a really large campaign contribution. So, and I served the rich, the elites, the establishment, et cetera. And look at how excited the establishment is when she's picked. So you can all close your eyes to it if you're on the right. And you could say no, Daddy Trump is always right. So she's protecting Trump and she's gonna arrest our opponents and serve the donor class. I'm here for it and I love it.

Well, okay, then I guess you never meant anything you ever said about the Democrats or the left or the establishment. So we're gonna get to find out who Trump is. I mean, we're pretty sure because he picks people like Pam Bond. right we know who Pam Bondi is right and now the next thing that we're gonna find out is who are the right wing voters so in this case you won't that you will not be faced with a decision it won't get to some votes will be close enough some issues will be close enough that right wing populist if I'm right could swing it

one way or another and they can either choose to go in the wrong direction and go oh yeah put throw away all the leftists yeah screw freedom we hate it right or they They could say, no, we didn't mean arrest them, that's crazy. We didn't mean serve the donors, that's crazy, right? But it won't be on this one, because she's gonna sail through. If I'm right, the establishment will love her and they'll put up a fake fight, oh, golly, gee, we are so worried about this or that, you are a bad Trump person, okay, but go on through, go on through right away, right away, okay, and you'll see, you'll see.

Yeah, yeah, because as bad as this looks, as far as we know, she's never gone buck wild at a cocaine orgy, so I guess she's cool. That's a sad standard for the top law enforcement officer. And I totally agree, like it's one thing for your chosen representatives to fail you and you to not mind, like they try and it doesn't work out or something. But when they're specifically and intentionally robbing you, it's very strange that that doesn't bother you. Like again, it's Florida.

the majority of the people who are having their houses stolen from them are Republicans. They might be Maga Republicans. She helped make that happen in the same way that it is Trump lovers who are being scammed by Trump University. She tried to keep them as screwed as they had been. And they don't mind. They just don't seem to care. And obviously we have a bit of a disagreement about some of the terminology. But like, I find this is to be a perfect example of why I think the populism of the right is an utter sham. It always comes down to this. She says the right thing about immigration on Fox News, and then she goes and delivers

to corporations. Their populism is, you know, Disney releases a movie where there's a gay kiss, so they say to boycott it, and then they cut Disney's taxes in half the next time they're in office. Like, that's what it is. It's like, it's identity politics and like culture wars in the front. But then the action is all delivering to the rich. richest and most powerful people in the country, not sometimes predictably, every single time. John, for the record, we don't have a disagreement on that.

You're talking about the Republican leaders and Trump and his crew. I agree with you. That's all they've ever done so far. I'm talking about the right wing populace of voters. Okay. Okay, and so we'll see if they have rebellion in them and if they believed in freedom or they actually secretly love corruption in the establishment as long as Trump does it. Yeah, I just want to mention one other thing possibly for a quick, I was doing more research

on Pam Bondi, so she had said last year, and we might have covered it at that point, that campus protesters who expressed support for Hamas, God only knows how they define that, should face FBI questioning. So look, she's supposed to be like, you know, she's not a judge or whatever, but she's a chief law enforcement officer. Has she literally ever seen the Constitution? Has she ever been within a country mile of the Constitution? She thinks First Amendment, no, Not if you say something I don't like, forget about it. And guys, you know, that's easy to decipher code word for anyone who protests Israel. So it's not like they're going to be like, oh, no, they were protesting Israel because we're spending too much money on Israel and then we're concerned about the war crimes.

Oh, but those guys actually support Hamas. Let's just target those guys. No, they're going to round up everyone. And they're going to say, how dare you not bow your head to Israel. So another reason why she's establishment and neocon, et cetera, that's a lot. That's why she's gonna fly through. And by the way, same thing with Hegsith, who we're gonna talk about in the next segment. Yeah.

Hegsith thinks that the US military should be used against Americans if they defy Israel. Yeah. Like these guys aren't populous, they're not America first, right? These are total frauds. So we'll see if right wing goes, yeah, as long as they're my frauds, I'm good with it. And I'm just, I know no one else is curious. Everybody thinks that the jury's in, but I'm curious as to which way they're going to going to go on that. Well, I'm, I'm curious with this Hamas thing, how many Democrats will end

voting for her. Maybe she'll get the 15. Oh, no, I'm not playing with you. Democrats might vote for her because she's so pro-corruption, pro-establishment, and they love that. Yeah. So she might get half the Democrats. Yeah, hell, she might get multiple votes from people she'll end up trying to throw in prison. But we'll see, see what Adam Schiff does. Oh, Adam Schiff, oh my God, he's like, wait, you're going to arrest every Israel protester? They're going to be dragging him away to a gulag and he's going to be trying to get to the button to vote for her as he's dragged away. Anyway, well, we should take our first break because we do have to talk about Pete Hagsith and the risk that he potentially poses to America.

All right, back on TYT, Cenk and John with you guys, but also Woman A.F. Thank you for gifting five memberships on YouTube. And Ramon, thank you for gifting 10. You guys are American heroes. John. Thank you. Let's talk about someone who's about as far from one as I can imagine. I was really hoping that by the time we went live, he would have pulled his nomination, but unfortunately not.

Pete Hagsith, who is Donald Trump's pick for defense secretary, has been getting a lot of attention throughout the week because of the accusations against him of sexual assault. And more details have been coming out throughout the week. But there is another reason that you should be very worried about this guy holding the particular office that he's nominated for. He wrote in his book, American Crusade back in 2020, that he could imagine a situation in which the military needs to use deadly violence against the American people. He wrote that in the event of a Democratic election victory in the U.S., there would be a, quote, national divorce in which, quote, the military and police, both bastions of free

loving patriots will be forced to make a choice and quote, yes, there will be some form of civil war. Now, of course, the Democrats did win in 2020. There was not a national divorce. The military did not begin firing on the American people, thankfully. But he assumed it would be the case. Now, he did at least say it's a horrific scenario, right wingers don't always add that when they fantasize about a civil war. It says nobody wants that, but it would be difficult to avoid. I disagree. I think there are a few things easier than not splitting the country into and killing people you disagree with. But he also went on in the book to say, so basically he was trying to advise and encourage conservatives to undertake a quote American crusade, literally

the name of the book, to quote, mock, humiliate, intimidate, and crush our leftist opponents, to quote, attack first in response to a left, he identifies with sedition, his word. And he writes of the book, quote, lays out the strategy we must employ in order to defeat America's internal enemies. And that sort of language he just uses constantly throughout the book. He describes leftists, progressives, and Democrats as enemies of freedom, the U.S. Constitution, and America, and counts Israel among the international allies who can help defeat such domestic enemies. So enemies, domestic enemies, the enemy from within, all of that stuff. He goes out To say the- Hold on, hold on, before you go any further, we've got to pause there.

Did you catch what he just said that we should use Israel to defeat enemies inside America? Yeah. What the hell does that mean? Is he going to bring Israeli troops like the IDF inside America to arrest, I'm going to guess, opponents of Israel, right? Like, we don't need their help in arresting, like if we have, we found a local terrorist, do we need to bring the IDF in to arrest the terrorists? I don't think he's talking about arresting, Jake.

Yeah. So what is this lunatic? I genuinely believe this guy's a lunatic. What is he talking about? You're going to bring the IDF on American soil to do what? To do what to the left or to your enemies or to their enemies? Are they going to round us up? Are they going to arrest us?

Are they going to kill us? What do you want the Israeli military to do on American soil? And how in the world do you call yourself America first after writing this garbage, this trash about how a foreign government should come and arrest American citizens if we offend that foreign government? Yeah. If anyone who calls this America first just apparently doesn't understand the words America or first.

Yeah, and by the way, how are you gonna call yourself the Secretary of Defense when you're promising preemptively to allow another country to invade and occupy our territory if that's What's what it takes to take out your political enemies? Oh, good news, we could all be Palestinians then, okay? So I look forward to Israel occupying us if our secretary of defense turns the country over to them. I mean guys, I didn't write this and it's not like we're taking it out of context or playing with the words.

The words are super clear to use Israel inside America. That's insane, it target his enemies and protect, like that's, it's mental, mental. Mental, if anyone said, oh, I'd like to maybe bring in the Saudi troops here to arrest Republicans I don't like. You'd be like, what? I find the right wing to be enemies from within. That's why I invited the Mullahs and the Ayatollah to come in and start rounding them up. Yeah. I mean, that person would have a 0% chance of getting to any post.

But I'm afraid of talking about it too much, because if we start talking about that angle too much, the Democrats might vote yes for. 100%. Your name could end up on a list. I'm not 100% sure he can write, but if he could, you could be on a list. Yeah, look, I think the proud boys are really concerning Patriot Front. So Canadian troops, come in, wipe out our militias. Mexican troops, Venezuelan troops. How would anybody accept us in any circumstance other than the magic word Israel? Yeah. And so Israel can come in and have to run roughshod over our freedoms? And this guy thinks he's a patriot? He sounds like a piece of crap sellout to me. He goes on to say, the hour is. late for America, certainly is feeling that way. Beyond political success, her fate relies on

exercising the leftist specter dominating education, religion, and culture, a 360 degree holy war for the righteous cause of human freedom. So he's just a Christian fascist. That's all he is. I'm not like a nuanced one or sophisticated one. He seems like adult, but to the extent that he could understand the words that he's using, the concepts that he's invoking, he believes that Christianity and American might should be used to wipe out his political opposition. And by the way, it is not a coincidence that the people with the fewest neurons there to rub together find it so appealing to just kill everyone you disagree with. A guy whose job is literally in political communication and persuasion has so internalized the complete lack of ability

that he and the right has to actually convince anyone of the superiority of their actual ideas finds very appealing the idea that we just line up everyone we disagree with and gun them down. But anyway, we haven't even gotten into how much he hates democracy, which he literally says, which we're going to read to you verbatim. So, but I want to make it another point. You mentioned Holy Warren there. He mentioned that, right? So there's some are trying to make excuses for him. Look, and can you find things where people go too far? Yeah, of course. So he has a we the people tattoo. So what? That doesn't mean anything, right? I'm in favor. we the people, right?

He has a tattoo where the last line of the flag is, I think, a, you know, a semi-automatic gun or whatever it is, assault rifle, okay? It's dumb, I hate it, but who cares? That's not, I don't, that he's a right winger, I get it. They like guns, they like the flag, they put the two together, I don't care, right? So no, we're trying to bring to you things that are actually concerning, okay? So when someone says holy war, if you just saw the other stuff, you might dismiss it and Oh, no big deal.

Oh, I heard online that the left wing is complaining about a cross he has as a tattoo. And so they're anti-Christian. No, brothers and sisters. The cross is a crusader's cross. Okay, fine. You know, you want to go back for historical context and you like, okay, I don't really care, right? But it has the crusader logo on it too. They're saying, okay, it's some Latin words that I'll find for you in a second.

Okay, that's a little bit more concerning. but by itself again not a big deal until you see this in his book he said he has a chapter entitled make the crusade great again oh okay wow see that doesn't seem as complicated now when you start talking about holy war wait is that you mean that symbolically or do you mean it literally because you have a chapter entitled make the crusade great again and then in that chapter he says, quote, whether you like it or not, you are an infidel, an unbeliever, according to false religion of leftism, you can submit now or later, or you can fight. So he's painting it as, we don't have a political disagreement.

No, I've invented a thing called the religion of the left, leftism. That's not a religion at all. He just made that up. And I think that those guys view you as an infidel. In other words, the left is associated with dangerous Muslims. and they're the kind of people who would call you an infidel. So let's do a holy warder,

crusade against them. You could wait till later, but I think you should fight now! Okay, all right. Then you're a freaking lunatic, right? This episode is brought to you by Square. You're not just running a restaurant. You're building something big.

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Preemptive war against your political opponents. What do you? Cobra Kai? Okay, like what, like, are you, like he's like one of those evil senseys in the Cobra Kai series? Oh no, I had a t-shirt. Yeah, he's like, he's like, uh, yeah, attack first. Okay.

Right, freaking Gallim, all right, keep going. He can be creased. He's not head of eagle thing. But anyway, no way. So, yeah, look, he said the infidel stuff. And again, it's all utter projection. He's literally advocating for everyone who disagrees with us is one group that needs to be literally destroyed. And aren't they aggressive in painting us all is the same thing.

But anyway, I didn't have the reference to democracy that you had. It would not be surprised to find out he wasn't a fan of it. But I have some updates on some of the allegations against him as well as indications from inside of the Trump camp that they're starting to grow a bit shaky on him. But was there another quote that you wanted to get to him? So he says, quote, for leftists, calls for democracy represent a complete rejection of our system. Democracy represents a rejection of our system. Democracy is our system. What the hell kind of lunatic talk is that? So wait, are you pro America or are you weirdly anti-American, anti-democracy? What a weird thing to say. He says, quote, they hate America, so they hate the Constitution and want to quickly amass 51% of the votes to change it.

No, brother, you amassed 51% of the votes to win an election in a democracy. Yeah. He's making it seem like democracy and getting to 51% is evil and bad. And if you really cared about the Constitution, you would what? Presumably destroy democracy and not let anyone get to 51% because then they would be the majority? No, and guys, look, I've described this type of character before, but Hegseth is like the embodiment of this way of thinking, and he's gone even further than I imagine that they would actually literally write down, right? To him, America is not democracy, it's not the U.S. Constitution, it's not the idea of all the people, by the people, for the people, it's me. I'm white, I'm Christian, I'm a white nationalist, I'm a Christian nationalist, and America is for me and not for you.

Okay, if you're a different religion, unless you're Israel, then you're welcome in, give me the money. Honorary. Okay, yeah. But everyone else, you're not real Americans, you're the enemy within. We're going to use the military against you, both the U.S. and the Israeli military. We're going to target you, and we're not going to let you get to 51%. Because democracy is dangerous because to us America is those ideas. But you remember J.D. Vance's speech at the RNC, he said America is not an idea.

It's land, okay? Because they want to say, we, it's the people who are here, the good white Christian nationalist folks who are here, okay, not this stupid idea about democracy. Now do you see why we were concerned about democracy? Because these kind of ghouls and goblins, and Trump picks them as potential. Secretary defense. By the way, there's more, okay? He says, quote, Eric, irreconcilable differences between the left and the right in America leading to perpetual conflict that cannot be resolved through the political process. So he just does, he literally

doesn't believe in the political process or democracy or getting to 51% to win an election. He thinks America stands for violent militarism where you do the crusades against, anyone in his holy war that he thinks doesn't belong to his group. I'm not done, John, there's so many quotes from this book, this guy's a lunatic. He said, America will decline and die, and national divorce will ensue, outnumbered freedom lovers will fight back, okay? Always violence, violence, violence. Oh great, this guy's gonna be in charge of the biggest military the world has ever seen.

He says, the military, the police, who you read that part, he says, see you on the battlefield, together with God's help, we will save America, Deuce Vault. And Deuce Vault is the, again, the charge of the Crusaders. That's the slogan of the Crusaders. And also incredibly popular in recent years amongst some gamers and lots of proto-fascists. Yeah, and so, oh, he's got another quote about cheating. Oh, here it is. He says, quote, the other side is stacked with enemies of freedom.

So here we go again, repetitive, enemies of freedom. Although ironically, he argues against freedom. It's amazing. And then he says, quote, Republican legislatures should draw congressional lines that advantage pro-freedom candidates and screw Democrats. So he's literally saying we should gerrymandered so they cannot ever win an election. We should screw them over and advantage the candidates that he agrees with. So DEI for fascists.

Well, look, again, they get so triggered by the word fascist. You've heard me defended in this context, and God, this ain't textbook. I don't know what this is supposed to be. I mean, this is textbook, right? But okay, but let's protect their sensitive feelings and call nationalism. And he proudly says he is a nationalist and that the left is trying to make the nationalism sound bad. Yeah, because there was a guy who called himself a nationalist named Adolf Hitler that went in the wrong direction. We're not saying, Hexas is Hitler yet.

But Hitler called himself a nationalist, and that's not a great role model. That's why we're concerned about that word. But if you say, if you only use that one word, it could mean a lot of different things. But when he says we should be Christian nationalists, we should do a holy war against everyone who disagrees with us, and we should use the military inside America, both U.S. and Israel is military, and then target our political enemies, don't allow them to have democracy, redraw the line so they can't possibly win, even if they have a majority. Well, he's saying, why don't we just end America and make it a Christian nationalist nightmare?

Oh, gee, I wonder why we're opposed to it. Yeah, he's arguably the worst person that could hold this position. I mean, if you're worried about the worst case scenario under a Donald Trump, him getting in, him being nominated at all is an indication that that is closer than we might think. And I love the idea that Democrats getting to 51% is unacceptable. They didn't even get to 50%. But they think they should be able to fundamentally remake what America is. And they want to gerrymander the House so they can never lose.

They already have, the Electoral College already advantages them. They already have a massive advantage in the Senate just baked into the structure of it. And thanks to both of those things, they automatically have an advantage in choosing Supreme Court justices. The House might literally be the last thing that they haven't fully manipulated. to their own benefit, and they're already a long way along that path because of the gerrymandering that already exists and that they will never fight against. It's madness. No, I know that most of the right-wing populace will never see any of this, right?

Because right-wing media will tell him, oh, Texas, pro-America, man, yeah, he's strong. He was in the military, man. Yeah, he's got a good Christian cross, man. Oh, he's so good, yeah, man. So right-wing media, are you going to lie about this guy? This guy who hates democracy and literally wrote it down in his. book, you're gonna lie about them, aren't you? You're gonna leave out all those facts, aren't you, right? So most of the right wingers are never gonna find out this guy actually

hates democracy. And so when you find out though, and he institutes what he is describing, you know what it sounds like, what he's describing, literally it sounds like tyrannical government, using the military to come in here, arrest your political enemies, and institute military rule and democracy. That's the tyrannical government you were worried about, and your boy here, Pete Hegesith, is the one promising it to you. So if you hear this news, understand he is not on your side. He's on the side of whatever particular lunacrous religious beliefs he has. And by the way, if you think, oh, so what, I'm a Christian, I don't mind that.

Yeah, what type of Christian are you? Because he's a different kind of Christian. Is it going to be your kind that wins or his kind that wins? Do you know all of his crazy religious beliefs? Do they match yours? Are you sure that they match yours? Are you Presbyterian? Are you Episcopalian?

Are you Southern Baptist? Do you know which of those he is? Right? Or is he not going to give a damn about any of that and just go, it's my holy war? Yeah. And I'll do whatever I like and I'll call it God's idea. Sure. Sure, brother.

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So check it out at t.com slash hope. Hello to everyone's dog. Okay, John. Okay, let's jump into it. The judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial announced earlier today that sentencing will be postponed indefinitely. We don't know exactly how long, but I'm guessing for the rest of time. That's what it's looking like. And it actually even gets worse than that, which we'll get into. Bear in mind if you're not familiar with this, and if you're not and you

voted. But anyway, he was convicted in May on 34 counts of falsifying business records over payments made to his then lawyer, Michael Cohen, to reimburse a $130,000 hush money payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels to keep her from speaking out about an alleged affair before the 2016 election. So we had been waiting to find out what the penalty for that would be, and sentencing had been scheduled literally months ago, but Judge Juan Mershan announced today that the Trump legal team's request to delay it indefinitely is going to be allowed. And that on top of that, he's going to allow them to file a motion to dismiss the case and

entirely. That's due by the second and then at some point he'll respond to it, but it is certainly looking like we're never going to be a justice out of this, which really isn't a surprise to a lot of people, I don't think, but it's becoming more official with every sitting moment. Now, I want to give you two statements. One from Trump lawyer Todd Blanche, who many people thought might be the AG, said, just as a sitting president is completely immune from any criminal process, so too is President Trump as president elect, which I don't. I don't think that's based on literally anything, but I do like the hint at least that Donald Trump could begin shooting people now and he'd be perfectly fine from prosecution.

And Stephen Chung, Trump spokesperson, said all of the sham lawfare attacks against President Trump are now destroyed and we are focused on making America great again. So it's great that Stephen Chung is having a good day. Yeah, so John, this is a tough one. Why is it a tough one? Because what are they going to do? put the president in prison? And yeah, he deserves it and he should be sentenced

and he shouldn't be above the law. But we all know they're not gonna do that. So, but then if you don't do it, and now Jack Smith is gonna drop the other cases, which I think is a mistake. I'm gonna come back to that in a second. Well then you are saying, oh, we were just doing this for politics.

And now that he won, we never meant any of these cases. We're just gonna drop them all. So, this is a no-win situation and it's brought to you by the incompetent weak, useless Merrick Garland, who started these trials way too late. And again, we're not Monday morning quarterback. We said in the beginning, why isn't he going? Why isn't he going? And in New York as well, Alvin Bragg, why isn't he going?

You can go back and look at my old tapes of me saying the coward of the country, Alvin Bragg. Get going. If you're gonna charge him, you have to charge him in the beginning, not near the end. And they waited for two and a half years, I guess it was political. I guess they didn't care at all. They were all just goddamn liars. We don't care about the law and just wanted to use it against Trump for politics. And now that it didn't work, they're like, ah, who cares, just drop them off.

And it's infuriating. Yeah. Yeah, I agree they're in a difficult position, but I don't have a lot of empathy for them. I think America's in a far more difficult position. I mean, we're all sitting here wondering what laws are still gonna mean anything going forward, but I don't think we need to look to the future. Most of our laws don't matter now, not when it's a billionaire who is violated them. Crimes count, I guess, unless you're popular, I guess unless tens of millions of people like

you, then you can do literally anything you want. And that's not me saying that, that's the judicial system saying that, and that's already true. And so we know it's gonna get darker from where we're at. Our starting point is already deeply unjust, which makes me even more worried about. Now that he knows, there's not even a hope of consequences. What won't Donald Trump do at this point? Well, that's the number one concern that I had after the election. One of the things that I said is, look, a lot of people freaked down, we're gonna leave the country and said, I wasn't in that camp, as you guys know from election night. I'm always in the camp of let's fight back, let's be fair, let's figure out what's

going to happen, best strategy going forward, et cetera. But one thing you have to be realistic about is there are no more breaks in the car, right? So there is no accountability at all. Not only is he immune from the law while he's president, now they're going to drop all the charges against them before he goes into office. None of the impeachments work, none of the indictments work, none of the convictions worked. Nothing worked. So if you think, oh, Donald Trump will be worried that they'll impeach him or try him. No, he won't. Of course he won. That's ridiculous. So if he decides to go in the wrong direction, there's nothing that can stop him. So that is deeply concerning. And so back to Jack Smith, no brother, if you believed in those cases, and I definitely

believe in those cases, you go forward and make Trump end the cases. Because then that way he is corrupt that he's ending the perfectly legitimate federal case against him. But if you drop it before he gets into office, it looks like you're dropping it because of political reasons. 100%. So these Merrick Garland, Jacksmith, all these guys, useless, useless, useless. Super fast. I don't want to play devil's advocate for him. Is it possible that if he winds it down, he has control over what information might be released.

But if he hangs on and Pam Bondi just throws his ass out the front door, then he can't release. information, he can't release evidence or whatever? No, I don't know why that would be the case at all. Look, I'm not discounting the possibility that there's something I haven't thought of. And look, Jack Smith is not Merrick Garland. Jack Smith is a professional prosecutor. He just got put on the case too late. And I disagree with this decision.

But it's possible that Jack Smith knows something I don't know. But having said that, barring and legal precedent I'm not familiar with, this looks like a bad decision. I agree. They should force Trump to end his own prosecutions. I agree. Final, was it not Jack Smith who chose to have the classified documents case be adjudicated by Eileen Cannon? Did he decide to do that? No, he chose not to do it in DC and she got randomly assigned to it. Randomly assigned. Okay, well, yes, okay. Still, that didn't end up helping out much. No, it didn't because Cannon is enormously corrupt and will do anything for Trump. So she stands a pretty decent chance of being on the Supreme Court. Also, it was locations in D.C.

they got robbed. So arguably, that should be where the case was adjudicated. But anyway, do you want to quickly do this? Yes. I don't know how much time we have, but we'll do what we can. Whatever you're ready, jump into it. First of all, food and water cut off a humanitarian crisis and destruction there. Shannon, as far as I'm concerned, Israel can bounce the rubble in Gaza. Yeah, so I don't expect much empathy out of Tom Cotton for what's going on in Gaza right now. but he is like one of the most notorious brainless allies of whatever Israel choose to do in our Senate. And yeah, his comments are pretty reprehensible. He has hinted, as we'll get into, that we might need to invade other allies of ours to help out Israel. So again, deeply

anti-war side of the aisle there, but I would remind you what this is all coming from. So if you weren't familiar yesterday. Arrest warrants were issued by the ICC against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the former Israeli defense minister as well, as well as an apparently deceased Hamas military commander. And so for the first two Israeli officials, the ICC found reasonable grounds to believe that they quote, each bear criminal responsibility for the following crimes as co-perpetrators for committing the acts jointly with others, the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare, and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts. It also found reasonable grounds to believe that, quote, each bear criminal

responsibility as civilian superiors for the war crime of intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population, which of course has taken the lives of tens of thousands of civilians. So that's the background for this. Tom Cotton is so angered by what the ICC did that he tweets this. The ICC is a kangaroo court and Karam Khan is a deranged fanatic. Woe to him and woe to him. Oh, big man, Tom Cotton, woe to him and anyone who tries to enforce these outlaw warrants, let me give them all a friendly reminder. The American law in the ICC is known as the Hague Invasion Act for a reason. Think about it, and they should, because he didn't. But anyway, he's not wrong that it is named that. So it will call that. The law is technically

the American Service Member's Protection Act of 2002. And so it was signed in sort of the close aftermath of 9-11 to intimidate any countries that ratified the ICC and to scare them away from doing it. That was the goal anyway, it wasn't super successful. But that law authorized the use of military force to liberate any American or citizen in a U.S. allied country being held by the court, which is located in the Hague. So they called it that implying that in theory, were they to drag someone in front of the The American military would storm the beaches and attack Holland or whatever.

This is madness. I don't expect anything more out of Tom Cotton, but what do you make of it? So he's saying if Holland arrest Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of a foreign government, that the American military should invade Holland to get Israel's leader back to safety. From the war crime charges that he faces for killing 44,000 people, including over 25,000 women and children who are all innocent. But this war criminal is so important in America, we should invade a NATO ally, destroy the entire allegiance, alliance, and declare war on them.

What part of this is anti-war? And what part of this is America first? So he's saying, no, Israel first. I mean, it's literally what he is suggesting. Israel first used the U.S. military to invade fricking Holland on behalf of Israel. Well, obviously not America first, obviously. No. Right?

But here's a note of encouragement, guys. So I know that a lot of you won't believe me and I know almost no one else on the left believes me. But you could actually go read it for yourself. So when I posted this on X last night, tons, hundreds and hundreds of right-wing populists saying he's not one of us. He's a neocon, and we know he's a neocon, an F. TomCon. So that is a super interesting development. And so I'm not telling you this because I've always told you this. No, I've always told you that in my experience, the Republicans that I've dealt with were never.

Like the leaders, the politicians, never honest, never. Media, never honest, right? And unfortunately that affected their voters. So but right now, there's a different kind of right wing media and it's loosely, like, there's many different factions, but one of the big factions is the bros. And the bros are not your old Republicans and they're not your old MAGA, right? And they are, and you're gonna hate some of their ideas, right? So when they say America first, they actually mean America first.

And so, and some of that you'll hate, right? But when they're seeing guys like Tom Cotton and others say, no, Israel first, we should do all the wars for Israel, we should give them $30 billion. They're not, like, I'm not seeing a lot of humanitarian and they're like, oh my God, my heart breaks for the Palestinian people. A couple, but not that many, I'm keeping it real, okay? But universally, they're like, no, we said it in anti-war. We're anti-war.

I don't know what part of that is hard for your stupid head to understand Tom Cotton. Wait, one cotton-picking minute here. He said anti-war, okay? We were aiming there from the start. Oh, so you didn't cotton to it? Anyway, okay, I get what you're saying. Do they think that Trump sees that tweet and he's like, that's unacceptable? No, no, that's the other interesting part.

Now, not all of them, not necessarily even most of them, but a lot of them are saying, yeah, Trump's problematic on Israel. Like, they can see, they can see. Do they like, he's clearly selling out to Israel. He's filling his cabinet with war mongers of Pete Heckers. Yeah, I did another tweet. All right. Okay, good.

No, no, listen, when I did another post where I said, you know that Marco Rubio, Elis Stephan, Mike Walson, Mike Huckabee, are team Miriam. They're Israel first, not America first. Again, read the comments, wall-to-wall right-wing populists. Some of them going, oh, no, BS, I don't believe you, blah, blah, blah. But a majority going, yeah, we know it sucks. And so Trump sucks on that, and let's see what happens. Okay, all right, maybe for the first time in my life, we might actually be having a nonpartisan

conversation. So let's see what happens and let's hope that I'm right. Usually I say I do a prediction and I go, I hope I'm wrong. In this case, I hope I'm right. Okay, guys. everybody check out damage report excellent show by john every morning at 10 a m pacific 1 o'clock eastern obviously we got a whole other great hour coming up for you guys come right back