The Young Turks - Bribe & Doom

Episode Date: June 4, 2024

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You're listening to The Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. Audio is hovering at minus 12 decibels. Wargo. I'm back. The guy! All right, live from the polymark studio in Los Angeles, the Young Turks,

Jank Ugar and a Kusparian with you guys, we have a hell of a show for you. Did Donald Trump bribe some other witnesses? Well, ProPublica has a really interesting story about that that we'll get to it a little bit later in the show. But first we start. ProPublica, got to keep it tight. Okay, I don't got 30 minutes to read one piece. Keep it tight. No, that ship has sailed.

When I see ProPublica, I know not tight. Not like, not toy like a tiger. But anyway, listen. ProPublica is the print version of Jenks Rants. Okay, never ending. Never ending. I was just about saying pro Publica has the best investigative report. reporting articles. So the thank you, I appreciate it. Okay, so seriously, ProPublica guardian lever

intercept. Awesome. Journalism as is supposed to be. Anyway, we'll get to that story in a little bit. First, Israel. Yes, let's begin with the blue balls of the ongoing war in Gaza of having to do with the ceasefire that's never going to come. Israel and Hamas are under growing pressure to accept a ceasefire deal that President Biden says could end nearly eight devastating months of war. The proposal gaining support from regional powers Egypt and Qatar. Hamas also praising the ceasefire proposal. But as momentum grows, there's new skepticism from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,

who Mr. Biden said had agreed to the deal. Israel has offered a comprehensive new proposal. Hamas needs to take the deal. But Netanyahu now says it's a non-starter unless Hamas is effectively destroyed. That's because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's number one. priority isn't the hostages in Gaza, isn't the Israeli people, isn't the assurance that he is engaging in this war without breaking international laws. His number one priority is himself, B.B. Netanyahu, and the far right extremists in his government threatened him

over accepting a cease deal, ceasefire deal, which is why he has now said that he rejects it. Jank, go ahead. Yeah, so I want to explain why Bangavir and Smokritch are actually powerless. So Netanyahu can make this deal any minute he wants because of something we're going to explain in a little bit. We hope do they get to this deal, massively conflicting reports. Back to you, Ann. Right. So there are again conflicting reports because Netanyahu says one thing. He gets threatened by the extremists in his government, and then he says another thing. That's what the story really is. Let's keep it real. But members of the Israeli government, including Netanyahu, after first telling Biden that he would accept the framework of the cease deal,

were later quick to claim that the Biden administration and what they laid out in their announcement wasn't an accurate representation of their demands. Now before we get to more of Netanyahu's response, here are the details of the three-phase proposal that Biden put forth. Phase one of the plan involves a six-week ceasefire in which the Israelis would partially withdraw. There'd be an exchange of some Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners and a surge in humanitarian aid. Phase two would see a permanent end to the fighting, the final exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners and a complete Israeli withdrawal. Phase three, the remains of dead hostages returned to their families and a plan to rebuild Gaza with foreign aid.

Now, an Israeli, apparently that final three to five year phase would also include the establishment of a Palestinian government that is not led by Hamas, obviously. Now, an Israeli official called Biden's description of the plan inaccurate, the official specifically disputed that Israel had agreed to fully withdraw troops from the Gaza Strip as part of a deal to free the 125 or so hostages. remaining in captivity there. I say 125 or so because the exact number of remaining hostages, meaning hostages who are still alive, is still uncertain. We don't know. There have been some reports indicating that somewhere around 82 to 83 hostages still remain alive, but we don't know the exact number.

They also said that while the White House described the plan as originating from Israel, it was actually a proposal put forth by mediators, which Israel made amendments and changes to, Netanyahu himself also put out a statement on Saturday this past weekend. Let's read those statements to you right now. Israel's conditions for ending the war have not changed. The destruction of Hamas, military and governing capabilities, the freeing of all hostages, and ensuring that Gaza no longer poses a threat to Israel. Under the proposal, Israel will continue to insist these conditions are met before a permanent ceasefire is put in place.

The notion that Israel will agree to a permanent ceasefire before these conditions are fulfilled is a non- starter. Far right members of his cabinet are so furious about the ceasefire proposal that they're now threatening to resign and collapse Netanyahu's precious coalition. Got a video on that or no? It is a reckless deal. There is no total victory except a total defeat for Hamas. I say that if Prime Minister Netanyahu continues to lead this deal, we will dismantle the government. to me. So, Jank, thoughts. Yeah. So first of all, the two biggest questions are, is it really a complete withdrawal by Israel? And do they really need to complete destruction of

Hamas? Because if you stick with the Ben-Kavir and Smotrich lines, the radical right wing of Israel, well, nothing's going to satisfy them. They want everyone in Hamas dead. There's no end to that war, right? So on the other hand, I'm actually quite surprised that Israel would agree to a complete withdrawal from Gaza, if that's true, that's terrific. But that's, and now comes the biggest question, which is, did Israel actually accept us or did they not? Let alone the super important details that I just outlined as to what's in the final plan, right? But Biden said that they had basically agreed to the deal already. And there are several ministers in the Israeli cabinet that say, yes, we agreed to it. And then there are several other ministers who

say no, we didn't agree to it. So the reality is probably that Netanyahu did agree to the deal, but he doesn't want to say that publicly to Ben Gavir or Smokritch because they would dissolve the government immediately. But part of the problem is that Netanyahu agrees with Ben Gavir and Smotrich. He is a radical, radical right winger who's never been satisfied with how much pain and destruction he's bestowed upon the Palestinians. So the reason why that's so important is.

because he actually doesn't need them for his coalition. Ben-Gavir and Smotrich have combined, their parties do, 13 seats. Well, if you lose those 13 seats, the really tiny majority that he has, the government would be dissolved. Wrong. Yer Lepid, who is the main opposition leader, says if they leave the government, we will join the government, he has 24 seats. So he doesn't need the radical right wing at all right now.

He's choosing to be in a coalition with. them than the reasonable secular opposition. So basically, this is Netanyahu playing Hamlet because Hamas has sent nothing but positive signals about the deal. And Israel originally proposed it, so it should already be a done deal. But Netanyahu is saying, I don't know, I'm thinking about killing more Palestinians. Now listen, the reason why I'm a little bit hopeful about how this is actually going to end is because I think that part of the deal was inviting Nanjahu to actually speak in front

of Congress. Mike Johnson had already done that, the Speaker of the House, but Schumer and the Democrats had not agreed. Now they have agreed. And I think that that was part of Netanyahu going, okay, I'll dump the right wing. I'll keep the, I'll bring in LePitt's seats. We'll end this thing. But, you know, I want more concessions about how many people I get to murder, blah, blah, blah. And I want to be fetid in Washington. I want to be a, you know, a hero, conquering hero. And I want endless standing ovations. And I think that's the deal. By the way, I hope that's the deal, because that would mean an end to the hostilities,

the end to the bombing, and complete Israeli withdrawal. I would be super surprised by the complete Israeli withdrawal. I would be very surprised if at the last minute, they didn't pull a Trump-like thing where they go, we're changing the deal. Now I want this thrown in and that thrown in. That's exactly right. So in other words, the pathetic, impotent Democrats got played again. Because that's what Democrats are.

No, no, we do know that, Jank. is no ceasefire. Let's keep it real. I love that you're hopeful. I love that you're optimistic. You are the polar opposite of me when it comes to most political issues. I am not optimistic. I am as pessimistic as can be because one of the players in this war is Israel and we're not dealing with honest actors here. So Hamas obviously terrible group as well, but when they say they accepted a peace deal, that usually is true, except when Israel says they accepted peace deal or make some sort of, you know, movement in that direction, it's usually not true.

In this conflict, in this stage of the conflict, for sure, in this round, I should say. Okay, but two more things that are important. Four hostages were revealed to be dead by Hamas. Now Hamas claims they're definitely dead. And so at least that's four more confirmations for the family members and it's tragic out in everywhere. I mean, imagine that's how your dad died or your son died. It's just the worst thing you can imagine. Now, Hamas claims they died in an Israeli airstrike.

We have no idea if that's true. But my point is, the longer we go, not only are there going to be hundreds of of more Palestinians killed and probably thousands of more Palestinians killed, innocent Palestinians. But hostages continue to die. Get them out of there. Get them out of there. You got a peace deal. Take the damn deal. And I think that's part of the reason why those four deaths were revealed to put extra pressure on. And there is massive pressure from the hostages family members in Israel. Well, look, even if an Israeli airstrike killed Israeli hostages, it's really Hamas's fault. Just remember that. I know. They always say that. They actually do believe that.

You just have to say that and not really think about it. And somehow it passes as a legitimate excuse for a huge portion of Americans. Yeah, including the entirety of the American government with a few exceptions. Yeah, now look guys, when they take the hostages in the first place, it's their fault for taking the hostages, no question. On the other hand, you can't evade all responsibility when you're the one who dropped the bomb and killed them if that's what happened. Look, very likely that did happen for some hostages. I don't know if it happened for these particular hostages, just like we don't take the idea. At the F at their word, we certainly don't take Hamas at their word.

How many thousands of bombs have been dropped on Gaza, a tiny 25 mile strip of land? It's an area of the size of Las Vegas, and by my calculations, they stopped reporting after the first couple of months, first three months, 45,000 had already been dropped. So probably nearing about 100,000 right now. That sounds about reasonable, no, in a densely populated strip of land? A hundred thousand different bombs, some of them, 2,000 pound bomb. that take out three football fields at a time have been dropped in an area the size of Las Vegas. Right.

But people claim, oh, they didn't mean to destroy all of Gaza. That was an accident. Right. That's the most preposterous thing that I've ever heard. Israel has a right to defend itself. Just repeat that over and over again. So if you agree with that, your smooth-brained, you know, thinking on this issue will totally, you know, justify what's happening with the atrocities that are taking place in Gaza.

Totally fine. Israel has a right to defend itself. a right to defend itself. Just like if anyone wrongs me, I have the right to, you know, break into their home and kill every single one of their family members. Maybe even kill their neighbors. Why not? Why not? I mean, I have a right to defend myself, no? Yeah, if a gang. Crazy lunatic thinking. Let's keep it real. I said this from the beginning. If a gang from Cleveland attacks people I know, family and friends, I don't get to kill half of Cleveland. That's insanity. You do if you're Israel. But if you're Israel, I tell I got a right to

defend myself. So I mean, they happen to be in the same area and they're this roughly the same race and that race doesn't really count. Anyway, look, last thing on this, if the deal happens, I'm thrilled because it ends the fighting and hopefully gets Israel out of Gaza. And by God, we have got to get to a two-state solution. Otherwise, this is never going to happen. And for those of you who think that all of this started on October 7th, I mean, you're absolutely ridiculous. It's a 57-year occupation. So, and then by the way, if you keep the occupation going for another a couple of more years, 10 more years, 20 more years, and then more October 7s happen, you will all pretend to be outraged, like, oh my God, I didn't, who would have guessed this?

I'm guessing it right now. More October 7s will definitely happen if you continue the occupation, because there is no set of people on earth that would ever accept being ruled by you forever and say, oh, I submit, I will never, I beg you, I beseech you, of course rule me, I am a peasant, your lives are more important, no, they're never going to accept the occupation. would, the Israelis wouldn't. I would hope to God, Jewish people wouldn't accept being occupied by a foreign power that has been nothing but brutal to them and has eviscerated them time and time again. So it will be endless violence unless the occupation ends.

If you don't know that, you're just saying I don't care, I don't care about the endless violence. I just want to take all as much of their land as humanly possible because that's exactly what Israel is doing right now in the West Bank. And God knows what they'll say about a so-called buffer zone in Gaza. Finally, if we're gonna, like, I want us, if we do the ceasefire, which I want, we're going to rebuild Gaza. I want that to happen, and that's great. But it does drive me crazy that we paid for the destruction of Gaza, and now we'll pay for the rebuilding of Gaza. We could have avoided all of that if we hadn't funded the genocide in the first place. Yeah, we couldn't avoid all of that because we're not actually governed by the American government.

We're governed by the Israeli government thanks to the Israel lobby that has. complete control over our lawmakers. in the talking points of Hamas. Being a real, genuine friend of Israel means to push Israel to put an end to this war. Being a genuine friend of Israel who cares about its future means put pressure on Israel to put an end to the apartheid and to the occupation. Nothing but this. What the Americans are doing and others is, you know, like a drug addict.

Supply the drug addict with more money. He will be very happy about it. He will buy more drugs, but that's not friendship and that's not care. Well, the US is certainly intent on enabling the drug addict. In this case, using Gideon Levy's analogy here, we're talking about Israel and its addiction to US bombs that it's currently dropping on Gaza. Now, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson is already attacking Jewish American Senator Bernie Sanders for refusing to attend a speech that a foreign government's foreign law.

leader plans to give during a joint session of Congress. Of course, I'm talking about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Now, before we get to Johnson's statements against Bernie, here's the context. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who funded the terrorist group Hamas and is now overseeing a genocide in Gaza, has accepted an invitation to speak during a joint session of Congress. He was invited by Mike Johnson in the House, and then later Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, in the Senate, he's the Senate majority leader. Now, Chuck Schumer engaging in this invitation is hilarious

considering the fact that he literally gave this speech on the Senate floor. The fourth major obstacle to peace is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has all too frequently bowed to the demands of extremists like Minister Smotrick and Ben Gavir and the settlers in the West Bank at this critical juncture, I believe a new election is the only way to allow for a healthy and open decision-making process about the future of Israel. Nanyahu is elated by the opportunity to engage in propaganda here on U.S. soil. He said so on X, writing I'm thrilled by the privilege to represent Israel before both houses of Congress

And to represent what he refers to as the truth about our just war against those seeking our lives to be, to the representative, war against those seeking our lives to the representatives of the American people and the entire world. Obviously, he wrote a statement in Hebrew and it was translated, which is why grammatically it's a little strange, but you get the gist of the statement there. Now, Bernie Sanders is understandably against this, especially considering the fact that there are possible warrants at play for people like Netanyahu in the Israeli government over war crimes that have been committed. That's according to the International Court, the International Criminal Court. So Bernie Sanders writes, Netanyahu is a war criminal.

He should not be invited to address a joint meeting of Congress. I certainly will not attend. He continues in this lengthy thread, writing Israel does not have the right to kill more than 34,000 civilians. It does not have the right to orphan 19,000 children. It does not have the right to annihilate Gaza's healthcare system, knocking 26 hospitals out of service, and killing more than 400 healthcare workers. It most certainly does not have the right to block humanitarian aid from coming in to the desperate people of Gaza, creating the conditions for starvation and famine. This is a clear violation of American and international law. But as we've learned, If Israel's doing it, it's totally fine.

There are other Democrats who say that they're considering not attending the speech. I don't like wishy-washy answers, but these are the people who are saying this. You have Representative Hank Johnson from Georgia, Representative Maxwell Frost. I would be surprised if he attended. And Representative Jan Shikowski, Jank. Yeah. So Bernie lived on a kibbutz. The only connection Mike Johnson has to Israel is APAC checks.

And if Hamas was giving those checks instead of A-PAC, Mike Johnson would invite the leader of Hamas to Congress and give him standing ovations. He doesn't care about Israel. Other than, of course, he's a lunatic evangelical. So he's hoping that Israel captures the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In other words, from the river to the sea. And then murders enough Muslims to start Armageddon, Apocalypse, where Jesus comes and kills us all in his lunatic interpretation of Christianity.

So that's who Mike Johnson is. He doesn't care about Israel at all. His best case scenario is we want Israel to kill all the Muslims before Jesus comes and kills all the Jews. So wow, what an ally you have in Mike Johnson. But hey, as long as the AIPAC checks clear, everybody is going to do standing ovations for a butcher. And that is going to be a seminal moment because he's definitely going to come. And they're definitely going to give him standing ovation after standing ovation. All the good and decent people will of course not be at the speech.

not be at the speech led by Bernie Sanders. And part of the reason Bernie Sanders is not going to speeches, not just because of the Palestinians that have been slaughtered, as he explains, but because it doesn't help Israel to celebrate basically the equivalent of a serial killer. And it is going to reveal to the American people, for at least those that are paying attention, who our Congress is. Everyone attending that speech has no morals at all. None. They're all going to give standing Ovations to a butcher. And look, I just look, if they're going to attend, I agree with you. I don't want to hear about how moral they are, how much they care about humanitarian rights

or human rights, I should say. And I certainly don't want to hear them criticize the lack of human rights in any other country. Like they have no leg to stand on, right? Like who are you to judge the morality or the human rights abuses of another country as you sit there, philating a war criminal. Yeah, there's no question about that. The hypocrisy will be through the roof. It's, I mean, look, this is a funny equivalent, but it is.

If there was ASPAC, American Syrian Public Affairs Committee, and they were giving $100 million in this election cycle, Mike Johnson, Chuck Schumer, and the rest would invite Bashar al-Assad to Congress and give him a standing ovation. Listen, that's a really good point. I wish you hadn't have called it ASPAC. No, I know, I did not purpose. Why'd you do that?

No, because Israel is in the name of APEC, and no one bothers, like, not a single reporter has ever noted that, oh, this is literally to serve a foreign government. Whereas if you call it ASPAC, people go, whoa, what the hell is that? Oh, American Syrian Public Affairs Committee, well, that would be showing their ass to Bashar Assad. And it's the same exact thing for APEC. If that hurts your feelings, oh, no, Syrians are evil and despicable Muslims. Muslims, Israel is beloved blah blah, blah, right? Sorry, one butchered his own people, the other one

butchered the Palestinian people and might have even allowed October 7th. I mean, but Netanyahu knew October 7th was coming and didn't do anything about it. That's part of why he's unpopular in Israel. In Israel, unfortunately, popular opinion doesn't think that they went too far in Gaza at all, at all. But they do think then Yahoo exposed them to the attack on October. over 7th. Now I want to go to what Mike Johnson said about Bernie protesting Netanyahu's speech before a joint session of Congress. He did so during an interview on Sunday on Fox News. Let's take a look. Bernie Sanders is parroting the talking points of Hamas and the Ayatollah in Iran. If that's

the side he wants to choose, so be it. Our Democrat colleagues have to make a choice. Are they going to stand with our most important ally in the Middle East at this most desperate time? As he's has traditionally been the case in Washington. We've had bipartisan agreement that we have to stand in solidarity with Israel. Or are they going to take this new side and stand with Hamas and the Ayatollah? Bernie Sanders has chosen a side. I hope that our other colleagues in the Democrat Party will stand up and do the right thing. Well, according to Mike Johnson's standards here,

the international community is parroting Hamas talking points. Yeah, because the international community all says take the God, damn deal, it's definitely the right deal. Yeah, they want to ceasefire and they see what they see the atrocities being carried out by the Israeli defense forces in Gaza and they're horrified. Yeah, well listen, look guys, Mike, if you haven't figured out that Mike Johnson's a useless servant of the rich and the lobbyists, you've got a lot of education coming your way. So, but he's using super harsh words saying that Bernie Sanders in favor of the Ayatollah in Iran

and Hamas, so am I allowed to use equally harsh words? I think Mike Johnson is dripping in blood that he's helped to slaughter so many Palestinians that whenever I look at Mike Johnson, I see blood dripping from his face. And that part is real, 36,000 dead, either burned alive or crushed by concrete. So that's who Mike Johnson is, he's a despicable human being. And Israel did 30 times the terrorism of Hamas, and he thinks that's our most important ally, The one who butchered 25,000 innocent women and children. Imagine a stadium full of people and imagine Mike Johnson giving a standing ovation to the serial killer who murdered everyone in the building.

And that's who Mike Johnson is. So I'm not at all surprised by, but it's not just Mike Johnson. Every Democrat and every Republican that gives that butcher a standing ovation is the most immoral son of a bitch you've ever seen. and it is about 85 to 90% of the United States Congress. Definitely belongs in the ass pack. I'm sorry, all right, we got to take a break. When we come, all right, sorry. Okay, well, we got to get to the next story. So let's take a break and when we come back, some big news out of Mexico.

They just had their presidential election. We're going to tell you who won and why it's a big deal. This was my ass. All right back on TYT, Jank Anna, Corey Weber and death metal John 69. Okay, they just joined by hitting the join button below. We appreciate you guys, Chaplain, Fred, and Lady F and T, both and Jan B, all gifted five Young Turks memberships on YouTube, you guys are the best, Anna. Big news out of Mexico from the weekend. Let's get to that story and more.

Claudia Seenbaum, a close ally of Mexico's current president, Andres Manuel López Obrador, declaring victory overnight. The election also happening across the U.S. with 20 Mexican consulates allowing voters to cast ballots. As a young adult, it is really exciting to come vote for my own country. In Mexico, some voters waiting hours at polling locations. I think it's a necessary change, and it's a good sign of progress in society. Mexico has made history, and they did so over the weekend by electing Claudia Schenbaum, the country's first female president. She's also the country's first Jewish president,

and that makes me want to immediately jump to a hilarious misconception that was uttered by a member of the Democratic majority for Israel. Let's skip ahead to that. Let's go to the graphic by Todd Richmond, who says, important to note that she is not involved in the Jewish community and thanked Jesus for her victory. Interesting, could it be that maybe she thanked Jesus because Jesus is the name of her husband,

which you can easily find on Wikipedia, Jesus Maria Tariba is the name of her husband. He says, which Mexico is mainly Christian, so like, I mean, look. Can you freaking imagine that that's what you, that is where your head immediately goes to. Oh, she think she, by the way, what if she actually did think Jesus Christ? Who cares? So what? Look, we should be celebrating a number of things.

Number one, first female president of Mexico, that's awesome, and they beat us to the punch. By the way, half of their Congress is women way way better than ours, a third of their governors are women, way better than ours. The first Jewish president of Mexico. That's awesome. Impressive, yeah. Yeah, that's terrific. And look at the wonderfully open-minded Christians in Mexico who said, yeah, we're happy to have a female Jewish leader. Consider the fact that Mexico did not give women the right to vote until 1953. Okay, so decades after the United States had done so, but they have obviously lapped us by electing the first female president in their country. I don't know if that's going to happen anytime soon here in the United States. But nonetheless,

I mean, it's not just the fact that, you know, she's a woman. It's not just the fact that she's Jewish. It's also what she stands for that is appealing to the majority of voters. She easily won. It was, I mean, it wasn't even a question. Fifty-eight percent of the vote went toward her. Shanebaum appeared likely to surpass even the massive number of votes President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador received in 2018. By the way, she's a protege. of his and she defeated her top rival Zochichel Galvez by a two to one margin. So that's a pretty big deal. She's not a contested election, she won easily.

Yeah, guys, the biggest news story out of this though, I don't think is that it's a woman president, Jewish president, et cetera, it's what she stands for. See, when you give people what they want, they're perfectly having to vote for any race, religion, et cetera. In fact, a lot of people forget this, Barack Obama had an 80,000. 33% approval rating here in America. And yes, his name was Barack Hussein Obama. America elected him twice and gave him a mass approval rating when they thought he was

going to do the things that they were in favor of. Okay. So in her case, why was she so popular? Well, that's because her predecessor, who's her mentor, tripled the minimum wage. He increased funding for taking care of senior citizens. He actually looked out for the average Mexican citizen. I know that comes as a shock to American politicians who've never once considered the idea, helping the average person.

Well, how would my donors benefit from that? So since Mexico is not run by legalized bribery and we are, our politicians never represent us. That's why they're never this popular. Like Obama got to 83% when he ran the campaign on change and hope, the minute he let go of all of those things and started serving the donors again like every Republican and every Democrat does, he lost his popularity. So it's actually not that complicated at all, do exactly as they did in Mexico. And you'll win by two to one margin, you won't have to worry about swing states or anything.

And this is all relatively recent. It's not like they had this giant advantage, this party only came out 13 years ago. Exactly. And already they're dominating. And that's because they actually, for the first time, delivered. And with her election, this party is going to continue dominating for at least another six years. And she ran on a platform similar to that of AMLOS. That's the nickname for now the, you know, the president who, the outgoing president.

She promised to expand the social programs created by Lopez Obrador. She pledged to maintain the North American Free Trade Treaty when it comes up for renegotiation in 2026, but said the economic changes of recent decades have created starvation wages. And just to give you a statement from, one of the voters who supported her. This is Roelio Librado, Librado, Galicia, who's 45 years old, a Mexico City engineer. By the way, she was also the mayor of Mexico City previously. Well, this guy voted for Shane Baum saying, I'm not saying this government doesn't rob.

They all rob, but they've distributed money to the poor, unlike other parties that just steal for themselves. I like that comment because he's not like overly enamored by any political group. He's he's very realistic about, you know, some of the flaws, even with the political party that he's currently supporting. But he's noting what it is, what characteristic he finds in this party, the Morena party that he favors, that he likes. And it's the fact that there is a redistribution of wealth that's very much necessary considering the conditions of those living in poverty are experiencing in Mexico. So one of our members on Twitch wrote in Old Boss 43, although old political parties in Mexico united to try to beat the new one,

Morena, that came into power. That's one example that we can beat the establishment if we're able to enlighten some on the right. The reason I read that comment is because it goes exactly in the direction that I wanted to go in. And I think they're absolutely right. Guys, look at how simple it is to get, remember, it's not like Mexico always got two to one. Morena has only been around for 13 years, and they did not get two to one margins in the beginning, nobody got two to one margins. They got that through simply doing these policy proposals. So you, and and what they did was they converted a lot of the right wing. You don't get to two to one advantage without converting tons of independence and right wingers. They're a very left wing party,

which by the way goes to exactly what I said in the book, Justice is coming. It's what exactly what we've been saying on the show all the time. As long as you have a progressive populace that delivers, you're going to sweep out both the establishment and the fake populist right that's represented by Trump. But you've got to deliver. So there are two choices right now for the Democratic Party, and you know which one they always take. One is do as as Morena did and deliver and it doesn't take much. Increase the minimum wage and increase Social Security. Boom, that'll probably do it in and of itself. That's just two out of dozens of proposals that they could do. Or stick with stupid establishment candidates who are in favor with the status quo and

corporate rule. Now, which one do you think the Democrats here in America have taken? Stick with the status quo and corporate rule, even though Americans hate the establishment. In fact, everyone across the world hates the establishment. So I want to just at least briefly discuss what the critics are saying about her and about AMLO. You know, the big argument against Amlow was that he was engaging in undemocratic behavior. And one of the efforts that's noted was the possibility of having the Supreme Court in Mexico chosen by popular vote as opposed to having government officials handpick who's going to be on the Supreme Court. How is that undemocratic exactly? Yeah, no, it's the opposite. So it's using democracy through a popular vote to

decide who the Supreme Court justices or the Supreme Court judges are in this case. So in terms of that specific proposal, I have no opinion because I think that it's both systems, the politicians picking them, and it being an election creates different upsides and downsides. But that's not the point. The point is, look at this new thing. You know how when Trump started saying fake news, right wing despots across the world started saying fake news, right? Detour d'a in the Philippines, Erdogan and Turkey immediately picked it up, Netanyahu and Israel, they were all like, and Putin, fake news, fake news, right? Now there's a new talking point spread by Biden and the Democrats, anyone who's your opponent

is against democracy. Now look, in Trump's case, I think it's true. I've explained it a hundred times. But look at them so easily using that same talking point, when a left-wing populist movement challenges the rich and powerful in that country. All of a sudden, you're going, you're democracy. No way, okay. Well, why are they against democracy? Because they want democratic elections for Supreme Court. It's crazy. It's insane. Wait, do you guys even understand the meaning of words? Yeah. The other criticism is that she, along with Lopez Obrador, are, you know, too critical of business owners and of the rich, which, you know, obviously these are individuals who feel attacked because there's a real effort to

redistribute wealth in Mexico. And they obviously don't like that. But in regard to trying to consolidate power and engage in undemocratic behavior, Shane Baum tried to assure critics that she would not use her mandate to concentrate power. Quote, we're Democrats. And by conviction, we would never establish an authoritarian or repressive government. And obviously by Democrats, she means they believe in a democratic system of government, not Democrat as in Republicans versus Democrats. Yeah.

All right. Now, back finally to the historic nature of this. So Israel is elected a female prime minister. Turkey is elected a female prime minister. Germany has, now Mexico has, and on and on the list goes. But America, nope, still not there yet. Can we please let go of the stupid preconceived notions? Just pick the best candidate, whether they're a man or a woman.

Agreed with that statement fully. Yeah, no matter what race they are, no matter what religion they are, and deliver for the people, people and have them pick you no matter what your race or religion is. It's not complicated. The only reason the Democrats don't do it here is because they're getting bribed by their donors. The Republicans are always the party of the rich and powerful anyway, so they're happy to go along. Let's do a little bit more like Mexico did in this particular case and actually improve the living standards and you'll get the results that you want that.

All right, we gotta take a break when we come back. We'll talk a little bit about this Exposé by ProPublica regarding alleged and possible witness hampering by Donald Trump. Donald Trump didn't want you to see this report. A cease and desist letter made that abundantly clear, but we've got the details and we'll share them with you when we come back. Obrador. All right, back on T.I.T. Jank, Anna, Alpha Dog, and Jean Bell, they just joined.

And Jesse gifted five young turks memberships. Earlier in the show, we had ASPAC, and now we have Azrol Dragoon, who writes in in the YouTube member session. Some of us from Mexican heritage follow Jenk and Anna, and Mexico does listen. That's awesome. Love it. If we had any effect in that outcome, I couldn't be happier. Definitely. All right, Anne.

All right, well, we've got a pretty explosive story for you, one that the Trump campaign didn't want you to see, but oops, you're about to see it. The Trump campaign attempted to stop ProPublica from publishing one of its exposés on potential witness tampering by Trump, sending the journalistic outlet a cease and desist letter. Well, the plot failed, and now we're gonna share what Trump didn't want you to know about, didn't want you to see. So this detailed ProPublica piece, and it is detailed, it'll take you about 20 to 30 minutes to read it, describes how nine people who have been named as witnesses in Trump's criminal

cases received all sorts of goodies as long as they weren't cooperative with investigations. Now that's like the heart, the angle of this story, and the goodies that we're talking about include things like large pay raises, massive severance packages, new job, and promotions, and even shares and cash from Trump's media company. Those shares, I don't know how much they're going to be worth, so cash in if you can, cash in as soon as possible. Now one campaign aide had his average monthly pay double from $26,000 to $53,500. That's monthly pay.

Another employee got a $2 million severance package barring him from voluntarily cooperating with law enforcement, and one of the campaign's top officials had her daughter hired onto the campaign staff where she is now the fourth highest paid employee. I guess it pays to be loyal to Trump. Now, the timing of these pay raises and other financial benefits also raises some eyebrows. One aid, for instance, was granted a position on the board of Trump's social media company after he was subpoenaed, but before he testified. Come on, it's so brazen. It's so brazen. I know, but you see, here's the thing. He's going to get with it, of course, right? Why? Yeah. Because what are you going to do? Like if it was,

he was a normal criminal defendant, oh, they'd add so many charges on top. You're trying to bribe witnesses, oh, you got the subpoena, then your pay increases before you go to test. Come on. This is a layup, right? But they're not going to bring these charges because that the manga guys would cry uncontrollably, uncontrollably. He flooded the zone with so much criminality. that he gets to get away with most of it. I've got more on that in a little bit. So I wanna give you the examples that were highlighted by this ProPublica piece. And look, I'm gonna exclude some of the examples because they're lawyers.

And so were these lawyers that were called to testify against Trump? Like- So we'd have to look into more of the details because so many of his lawyers were also defendants and witnesses. Because they signed papers, one of them signed a paper saying that Trump didn't have any more boxes when they definitely knew that he did have boxes and you can't do that. Others, you can't tell your lawyer that you committed a crime. That's why a lot of times crafty lawyers will tell you, don't tell me anything. Let me tell you a story and then you tell me whether that's true. Okay. Wait, you can't tell your lawyer that you committed a crime?

No. I didn't know that. Yeah. And so. I thought lawyers knew that sometimes. some of their clients committed the crime. Well, they know, but technically they don't. Especially if you're gonna, and obviously this is, I think it's fairly clear,

but if you're gonna commit a crime, you definitely can't tell your lawyer. Lawyer has an obligation to report it if you're gonna commit a crime. Interesting, okay, good to know, good to know. Yeah, so when Trump goes into his lawyer, he's like, well, why don't you just lie in court and say I don't have the boxes, when I have the boxes right here, as we can both see. The lawyer is like, all right, well, I'm screwed. Okay, so then he's like, oh, maybe you need more money. But also, can I just- Again, to be fair, I'm not positive about those particular lawyers that got the races.

For those out there who are just hardcore Trump loyalist, Trump fans, Trump supporters, I'm just dying to know, and I want to talk to an honest actor who will honestly tell me the truth. Do you ever get super frustrated with him? Because like, okay, like, let me focus on a politician that I favor. I love Bernie Sanders. He's not perfect, he's a flawed politician, but out of all the politicians we've got in Congress, he's one of my favorites, because he seems very principled, right? If he was consistently doing things and saying things that was getting him in trouble,

I would be endlessly annoyed with him. I'd be so frustrated. Do these people not feel, like not only did these payments and goodies get paid out to witnesses in his criminal cases, But then after the fact, after his campaign knew that this ProPublica expose was going to be published, they send out a cease and desist letter, which makes the story even juicier, right? Yeah, it's a classic Trump blunder. But that question you asked, I've actually asked on Twitter many times. And I actually have a decent number of MAGA guys following me to troll me, because they hate me and all that stuff, right?

And interestingly enough, some of them give honest answers. So you get the usual, about two thirds in that case, super rough my reading of it, right, going, oh, no way, Trump doesn't commit any crimes. He's an angel. That's why I'm not worried about it at all. You guys made all that up, and you brought it in 2,000 meals. But that's normal. Okay, by the way, they withdrew 2,000 mules.

Salem Company, if you didn't hear, it's a fraud. And it was like, yeah, it's totally a lie. So they had to withdraw it from the market. That is hilarious. Yeah. So anyways, but a third of the MAGA guys go, no, I know, he's an idiot and he drives us crazy when he constantly does things to get himself in trouble when he doesn't have to, right?

And if he didn't do that, they'd be in much better shape, they'd be in infinitely better shape. So they are rightly frustrated at him, but they think as, you know, that actor, Randy Quaid said the other day, was it Randy or Dennis? I don't know. Anyway, the more popular and sane one said, said, yeah, but he's my a hole, right? Like they get, a lot of them get, yeah, he's a Dunder Mifflin, as I said, say to the kids so not to curse, okay, and say bad things. And but what am I going to do? I'm not going to vote for Biden. I'm not going to vote for the establishment, et cetera.

I respect that honesty. At least, at least these are people who are somewhat attached to reality, right? Yeah, exactly. Okay. I don't mind that at all. I mean, by the way. I can't stand the people who think that, no, Trump is perfect and he can do no wrong. Because these are not people you can have an honest exchange. change with, right? Look, and I'm happy, we've had to do that almost our entire lives voting for Democrats. So like, you know, I was very happy to vote for Obama in 08, et cetera, right? But I had to hold my nose and my ears and my eyes and everything to vote for Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. Do you think that I think there are bouquet of roses? No, I just thought Trump was worse, right? So we get it if you say that. But when you live in La La Land and you're like,

Oh, no, I bet the, you know, all those raises after the subpoenas and a $2 million severance package and all this was just a coincidence. And that's why they didn't want the story published because those were all coincidences at the same time. All right, brothers, sisters, whatever you want. But don't worry, he's going to get away with it because you guys do nothing but cry. No, no, it's not even about them crying. I just think he's just such a target rich environment for criminal cases. You get what I'm saying? And I hate that the hush money case is the one case that actually worked out.

Like that actually could proceed? Yeah, that proceeded that he was prosecuted under and was actually convicted of. Because out of all the criminal prosecutions, I feel the focus should have been on the fake electors scheme and on the classified documents stuff. But nonetheless, let's move on to the specific examples that were highlighted in this ProPublica piece. Starting with Alan Weisselberg, very loyal to Donald Trump, didn't incriminate Trump at all during his testimony. But he got paid for it. A lucrative severance package is what he received. There's Boris Epstein, who is a Trump campaign advisor.

The benefit that he got was doubling of pay. Yeah, it still couldn't fix his mouth, though. Oh my God, Jay. He always looks like that. He's the one that yelled out, Saramis. You remember that for a moment? Of course I do. How can I forget?

There's more. And by the way, the mask on Alan Weisselberg has nothing to do with COVID. That's just the gag that Trump put over his mouth so I couldn't talk. Okay, there's Margo Martin, who's a Trump aide. The benefit that she received was a 20% raise. I'm not too familiar with her, but she's, she got 20% raise. Yeah, and by the way, so now, okay, first of all, a 20% raise could happen. It's not that big in a deal.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Sorry to interrupt you, Jank, but to be fair to ProPublica, as they have noted, they did not find evidence that Trump personally approved the pay increases or other benefits. So that goes back to my point of Trump should have just left this alone. He should have just left this alone. Decease and desist letter makes it appear as though the Trump camp knows he engaged in wrongdoing and wanted to bury this story.

Because very, very, very likely he engaged in wrongdoing. But you got to my caveat, a couple of caveats here. Look, Trump controls his businesses very closely. Everybody who's ever worked with him says that. But right now they don't have evidence. We're clear when they do and do not have evidence that he personally ordered all of these salaries to go up. We also didn't have evidence that he paid the hush money until we did have the evidence.

And it turns out he did pay the hush money and order it, etc. But anyways, for now, though, it's important for you to know that they don't have that particular evidence yet. And some of these could have been perfectly normal under other circumstances. I'm sure plenty of people got 20% raises in that year in other contexts and maybe in other campaigns. So, and it's possible that some of them were perfectly innocent. And some of them were because they didn't want them to testify, right? So you guys get to make those decisions with the information we have public. This is not a trial. We're not convicting him on any of this yet and probably never will. Yeah, that's exactly right. And look, Trump has

has engaged in witness tampering in the past is going to graphic nine. Last year, Trump himself publicly discouraged a witness from testifying in the Georgia case. Trump posted on social media that he had read about a Georgia politician who will be testifying before the Fulton County jury, he shouldn't. So when you tell testifies that you, I'm sorry, witnesses to not testify. You shouldn't testify if you know what's good. Come on brothers and sisters, this is textbook witness tampering. Paying someone $20 million is right before they are set to testify is textbook witness

tampering. But anyway, look, the main reason you will not be charged with any of this is because people are exhausted and they're partly exhausted from the nonstop screaming from MAGA. You guys remember the meme about the Democrats who were upset when Trump won back in 2016? You probably, if you haven't seen this on the internet, you probably haven't gone on the internet. That's a pretty brutal meme. Yeah, and so that was like, ha ha, making fun of the left for crying, we got you. And then there was this guy now from the Trump trial when he got convicted.

And he's now the MAGA meme for crying. And there you go, I mean, that- Free Father Teresa? Free Father Teresa, and he's crying. Come on. Come on. But that right there, sorry MAGA, but that's now your poster, you know, child right there. Just be normal.

Just be normal. I don't, I just don't worship false profits, that's all I'm saying. Yeah, it's so obvious, like guys, if you're MAGA, you already know if some, like, if you're not an establishment, Dunder Mifflin, here we go again, like, because the establishment guys are like, oh no, if you take millions of dollars from Pfizer, I bet you can vote against them depending on your policy position and your ideas. No, we all know he's getting bribe, right? You take money from AIPAC, you take from the defense country, we buy, right?

We all know what Maga knows it. The only people who don't know it are people who watch cable news, right? Or those who are on cable news. Yeah, yeah, of course, the people on cable news are like, what? What do you mean? Millions of dollars don't affect anybody. Right, okay, anyways. But so you're saying, yeah, all of those other politicians are affected by the money.

But when Trump does these obvious brazen things, I've given like two million bucks to a guy right before he could or could not testify, you're like, I don't see it, I don't see it, okay, Whatever, here. All right, we got to take a break. When we come back, the Sandy Hook families are coming for Alex Jones and his media company. I'm gonna give you the details and more when we return.