The Young Turks - Iran Deal, and Eric Schneiderman

Episode Date: May 8, 2018

The Young Turks 05.08.18: Iran Deal, and Eric Schneiderman A portion of our Young Turks Main Show from May 8, 2018. For more go to http://www.tytnetwork.com/join.  Hour 1:Segment 1Cenk Uygur. President Donald Trump announced the USA’s withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear deal, according to the President the deal was “a big lie”.   Segment 2Eric Schneiderman, New York’s Attorney General has been accused of abusing a number of women both mentally and physically. Since the allegations, Schneiderman has stepped down from his position at Attorney General. Republicans react to Schneiderman's accusations and resignation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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on the Iranian regime. We will be instituting the highest level of economic sanctions. sanction. Any nation that helps Iran in its quest for nuclear weapons could also be strongly sanctioned by the United States. America will not be held hostage to nuclear blackmail. We will not allow American cities to be threatened with destruction, and we will not allow a regime the chance death to America to gain access to the most deadly weapons on Earth. Today's action sends a critical message. The United States no longer makes empty threats.

When I make promises, I keep them. Okay, that's as disastrous as you could possibly have. Let me break it down for you. First of all, filled with complete and other lies. So he talked about how Iran is holding us hostage. How so? We already have a deal with them. And we took away their uranium and their nuclear energy program.

They didn't have a nuclear weapons program. But we foreclosed any opportunity for them to have a nuclear weapons program by ending their nuclear energy program. By the way, we have nuclear energy. We have nuclear weapons. So do our allies like Israel that are also in the Middle East. You know how we did it? We froze the assets of the Iranians, their own money. We held their money hostage.

And then we blackmailed them because we basically took away their money in a way that I think was totally wrong. But I'm happy we did. look, I know it's wrong, but on the other hand, we took away their nuclear energy program. It was a great deal. It was an unbelievable deal. We returned nothing except basically they're stolen money to them, okay? We're the ones who took hostages and did blackmail of Iran. It's just, it's true.

And I'm telling you, look, at the end of the day, it wound up really great for us. So I'm not necessarily opposed to that policy. It was pretty cold-hearted policy. And we were not in the right. But that's okay. We got a great result. well Donald Trump just ripped that deal up right now and then he says they've threatened American cities with destruction no they haven't where when did they threaten Seattle or San

Antonio no we're the ones invading countries in the Middle East so it's not to say that I like the Iranian regime I don't want them having nuclear weapons I don't like their regime I don't buy any of this nonsense about how they're having elections you know look I know our own donors have our oligarchy where they choose who the candidates we vote for our. But yes, the mullahs do something even more stark and clear. And yes, it is clearly run by the Ayatollah and the oligarchy of the mullahs in Iran. I am against their form of government, and I want to liberate the Iranian people. But they did not threaten to destroy our cities. We're the ones starting wars in the Middle East. So that's just not true,

categorically not true, that they tried to say that they were going to destroy us. It's just preposterous. We don't need this conflict. And Donald Trump has opened up a can of worms. Of course, he has no idea because he's a mental midget. And so, he's like, oh, I'm going to deliver on my promises. And I'm not going to allow them to gain access to

nuclear weapons. We already did that. That was the point of the deal. So now, Iran says they will fiercely resist this and are now threatening to reopen their nuclear energy plan. Yeah, well played Donald Trump.

total absolute moron. By the way, if you're a libertarian and you voted for Donald Trump, you're an absolute sucker. I told you he was a pathological liar. I told you that he would just get, do whatever the folks with money, the donors told him to do. And they told him to start this conflict. And he has started this conflict. If we get into a war with Iran, that'll be way worse than what we had in Iraq. And Iraq was already an epic failure.

one of the worst decisions America has ever made. Land-wise, Iran is four times the size of Iraq. And Iraq has 37 million people. Iran has 81 million. They have a real army, and they have real allies like Russia. This is an epic failure on the part of Donald Trump. Well, John Bolton, now is national security advisors and neocan who pushed for the Iraq war. He told them, oh, yeah, we got this.

We got this. Just like we did Iraq, this is going to be great, great. Mike Pompeo, another neo-conservative war hawk, monger. So, yeah, yeah, yeah, go get it, Mr. President. We don't need any peace deals. We'll show the Iranians, total idiots. So, look, I know the military industrial complex that funds all these politicians think, oh, that last war turned out disastrous for everyone else,

and 5,000 Americans died in Iraq. But who 50,000 got their limbs blown off, got severely injured. But who cares? We made money. You think the Iraq war was a disaster for you. You're right. But was it a disaster for the people who made the war happen? No.

No, the defense contractors made billions upon billions of profits. By the way, so are the oil companies because wars in the Middle East create instability in the oil markets and oil prices go up. So the people who paid for that war, we need to talk about a relatively, new show called Un-F-The-Republic, or UNFTR. As a young Turks fan, you already know that the government, the media, and corporations are constantly peddling lies that serve the interests of the rich and powerful. But now there's a podcast dedicated to unraveling those lies, debunking the conventional wisdom. In each episode of Un-F-The-Republic, or UNFTR, the host delves into a

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you've been fed over the course of your lifetime. So search for UNFDR in your podcast app today and get ready to get informed, angered, and entertained all at the same time. Got everything they ever bargained for, but they're making a wrong gamble in Iran. Believe it or not, Iraq was a small-scale war. Iran will not be small-scale. It will, let alone the carnage that it could create. It will devastate the global economic markets. And then all those donors will go, oops, except a couple of them.

the donors who say, oh, whatever the Israeli right wing wants, well, then we're going to give it to them. And by the way, the other faction here that is monumentally apart, is the new regime in Saudi Arabia. They hate Iran. They're fighting Iran on a proxy war in Yemen. So, well, Donald Trump has a lot of deals with Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia also buys a lot of weapons from our defense contractors. So the powerful people in this country are like, oh, yeah, Saudi Arabia is right.

We can just win a war with Iran. No big deal, let's rip up the peace treaty and let them pursue their nuclear energy program again. It makes no sense if you're a rational human being and you care about the American people. But if you don't care about the American people, you're in a defense contractor and you make money from death and war and destruction. You're an oil company. It might make sense in the short term. But even for those guys, in the long term, they're going to get way more than they bargain for, unfortunately. And I hope to God it doesn't lead the war, but it doesn't look good right from the get-go.

So let me give you more details. Huff Post explains the U.S. will not extend waivers on sanctions targeting Iran's nuclear program, effectively ending its compliance with the 2015 international agreement under which Iran accepted restrictions on its nuclear program in exchange for economic relief. Now, let's be clear. Later, they will lie, and if most of the American media will call it 15. and say, oh, Iran was the one that broke the deal. No, no, you just saw it with your own eyes. We broke the deal.

We broke it. Okay? Now, here's one other lie from Donald Trump. Watch. At the heart of the Iran deal was a giant fiction that a murderous regime desired only a peaceful nuclear energy program. Today, we have definitive proof that this Iranian promise was allowed. No, you're the only liar in the room.

So what he's referring to is Nenayahu's total BS speech about, oh, my God, Iran lied. Now, in brackets, is in the past. Wait, there's a giant difference. If Iran lied in the past, and again, I don't trust their regime, I don't think they're good guys at all. I think they impress their own people. But if they lied in the past before the deal, and we caught them, and then we made the deal, and they have not lied since, okay, you make peace deals with your enemies, not with your friends. If they lied after the deal, well, that would be really important and they would be in violation

of the deal. But let's clarify here. Again, Huff Post explains, much of Netanyahu's presentation centered on information that was publicly available in a 2007, declassified intelligence report, and Netanyahu did not state that Iran was in current violation of the deal. all that was was marketing with old information just like the lead up to the Iraq war old outdated information and then you put it in the same sentence as well

I mean I had to kill the deal because Iran lied wait they lied back in 2007 it has nothing new with this deal and we already knew that it's declassified information so when Trump makes it seem like Iran broke the deal by lying about this deal that is totally 100% not true

In fact, his own defense secretary doesn't think it's true. I'll get to that in a second. So why is he doing this for a number of reasons? One, on the campaign trail, he had called this the worst deal ever. Now, that leads to, so why do he call it the worst deal ever? Why? Because, one, he's a lying politician, and he had to say, I make the best deals. Everybody else is terrible.

They make the terrible deals. The worst deals. We haven't been winning. We've been losing it. I'm going to start winning. So that was a strategy, and a bunch of idiots believed that it voted for. Yes, I'm talking to you, the Trump voters. Oh, no, and especially the libertarians, though, or the ones that fancy themselves libertarians.

Oh, no, no, Trump is for America first, and he's not going to get us involved in wars in the Middle East. He said Iraq was a disaster. Why did he say that? Because everyone else sucks and Trump is the best. Oh, Bush, he didn't know what he was doing. I'm running against Jeff Bush. The Iraq war was a disaster, even though he was in favor of the Iraq war. I said many years.

He said, oh, I said it was wrong. He said it way after everybody realizes the Iraq war was wrong. So just nothing but nonstop lies. But the second reason he said it during the campaign is everything Obama does, I spit on it. I'm against it. Paris Climate Accord, well, then I'm against it. Well, the whole world's for it. Well, Obama was for it, so I'm against it.

Iran deal, Obama was for it, so I'm against it. Obamacare, he was for it, so I'm against it. And the list goes on and on and on. He has a sick, sick problem with Obama. So anyway, I'll leave that portion of it alone. Well, let's go back to Trump in the past. Trump has long pressed his advisors to come up with an alternative strategy to contain Iran's nuclear efforts. When his advisors failed to deliver, Trump ordered Congress in October to pass legislation

that would unilaterally change U.S. commitments under the deal. In other words, he's like, I'm going to make the best deals. Okay, all my advisors. come up with a better deal than this. They come back to him, they're like, sorry, Sandra Report, this is actually a great deal, and we literally cannot make it any better. Don't get that I'm going to go over to Congress, Congress, you make it better. Sorry to report, Mr. President, but you're an idiot, and us Republicans were liars,

and we lie all the time in the middle of elections because we hate the other side, and we want our supporters to hate the other side. So we pretended it was a bad deal, but in reality, we literally have no idea how to make it better. So Congress passed nothing. Okay. So, is it true that Iran is a violation? Again, he's, that lie is so bold and brazen that he barely, he grazes it by saying Netanyahu and Iran and they were so lying. But he can't actually say that they violate the deal because they haven't. The International Atomic Energy Agency, which monitors the use of nuclear energy, has verified Iranian compliance with

the agreement multiple times since 2015 when they struck the. deal. Most recently in March of this year, they are in compliance. We are sending invasive researchers and people who were trained at the International Atomic Energy Agency to do this for a living into their country, which we would never allow in our country. Could you imagine if the UN came in and said, that's a step aside, we're going to inspect all your nuclear not only weapons programs, but energy programs. We would never allow them to do that in America. But Iran agreed to it because we held their money hostage. And they report back, no, they don't have it.

They're not pursuing a nuclear energy program. They're not. They're in compliance. Okay, but they're not alone. Defense Secretary James Mattis, that's Trump's Defense Secretary, an outspoken critic of the Iranian government, testified before Congress on April 26th of this year that the nuclear deal provided, quote, robust measures to inspect Iran's nuclear program and verify that it is complying with the deal. So, unsurprisingly, another lie by the Trump White House that is not, can't even be verified by their own defense secretary or the U.N. So last month, an Iranian foreign minister, Javad Zarif, suggested if the U.S. pulled out of the nuclear accord, his country could also exit the deal and resume its nuclear program at a much greater speed. Iran has no reason to continue to abide by the agreement if the economic benefits start to diminish, she said.

Oh, boy. The whole world needs to buckle up for this. And look, let's talk about is there any way to avoid conflict? Let me give you this one part that's important. As Health Post again explains, but most of the economic benefits Iran receives through the nuclear deal do not come directly from the U.S., which maintains a primary embargo against Iran. When Trump previously waived sanctions, he suspended secondary sanctions, which penalize other countries for doing business with Iran. So that's good news, bad news.

The good news is most of the benefits, economic benefits of Iran, come from the other countries involved in the deal. European countries in Russia, okay? So now, obviously Russia is also part of Europe, but the European countries are one block, France, Germany, et cetera, and Russia is a separate power. And they all agreed to it. The U.S. agreed to it. The Russians agreed to it, Europeans and the Iranians. So now the Europeans and the Russians want to continue the deal.

So they might continue the deal, which might, might keep Iran in the deal and then not restart their nuclear energy program and not create more hostilities. Now, we've taken away a lot of their incentive to do so. Now, the bad news is, now Trump is saying, don't test me. I mean what I say. Remember, what he's actually threatening is action against our allies. He's saying if our allies do business with Iran, which they are now under the old deal, he's like, I'm going to strike against our allies, obviously not militarily, but economically.

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What a terrible, terrible idea. So not only do you violate a peace deal for no goddamn reason, but then you turn around and antagonize our allies and the Russians against us. This is the one moment where I hope and pray that Trump actually does have a deal with the Russians and is colluding with them. Look, if you say it right now, it certainly doesn't look like it. Russia doesn't want him to do this. You are right about that.

So let's see how this thing plays out. Because I'm crossing my fingers and here again, I hope he's got a deal. Where Putin says, what are you doing? No, no, no, back down, right? Look, it's too late. He did the press conference. It appears to be too late. But who knows with Trump?

But by the way, if Trump thinks, I don't need Putin anymore and they had a deal, these are ifs, okay? And Putin goes, what did you say? Well, then the next shoot a drop would be whatever Putin has on Trump would start to get released. So, now, look, that might get Trump out of office if I'm right about that. But Mike Pence also agrees with John Bolton, Mike Pompeo, and the Republican donors, and also wants this war. He might want it even more than Trump. And he doesn't appear to have any deal with the Russians.

So now the last part of this is, guys, you put aside the speculation on the Russians being able to stop this or not? And let's just assume for a second, there's no secret deals or anything. So we have us, Saudi Arabia, and Israel, and some of the other Sunni governments, our side. Okay. And we're the ones violating the deals. Okay. On the other side, you have Iran, Russia, and then you've got to see where China and Europe come out on this. But if we start an actual war with Iran, again, they think it's going to be a pushover. No, Iran has a real army and they have a ton of people. And they have, it's, and it's tough geography over there. They've got

mountains, they've got their weapons programs, conventional weapons, deep in the bunkers inside the mountains, they got 81 million people. We think we have air superiority and sea superiority against just Iran, maybe. If Russia comes in, no, not at all. But even if there's a quote unquote just against Iran and hence against all the Shia Muslims in the world is basically what it'll come to, they have, they could plant mines all over the water and that could do untold damage to our ships. Here's another thing they could do. They could release 100, a thousand, 10,000

drones into the sky. And then all of a sudden, and where are they going to get them from? First of all, we've been selling those drones all over the world. Second of all, they could easily buy it from the Russians or the Chinese. And then all of a sudden, the air superiority we thought we had, oops, Jesus Christ,

the sky is filled with drones. So look, I hope to God it never comes to any of that. But we're messing now for the first time with an actual world war. Not a little war in the Middle East. And yes, I'm referring to Iraq, which was an epic disaster as compared to Iran would be a little war in the Middle East. So that's what Donald Trump did today. And unfortunately, since the Republican Party is deeply corrupt, even if you got Trump out of office. It wouldn't get any better. Well, now with this press conference, it can't get any worse.

But Pence is not any kind of saving grace. So the Republican Party has spoken. They are for war. They will always be for war. And God help us if this triggers that conflict in the Middle East. And right now, we're headed on that path with nothing but. neo-conservatives surrounding Donald Trump, telling him, oh, Mr. President, you're a stable genius. You're so tough and strong. Of course, you'll be able to bully the Iranians and get them to do whatever you want and bully everyone else allied with Iran. Of course, and even our allies. Of course, they'll be pushovers, Mr. President. Everyone else is weak. And you're incredibly strong, Mr. President. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I like that. I like that kind of talk. And so now

we're on this path. God help us all. If those hostilities start, there is no end to them, and it would be a disaster like we have not seen in our lifetimes. All right, I got to take a break. I'll be right back. You're right in the middle of this podcast. We've got another great segment coming up for you. If you'd like the full show, which is actually five segments, go to t-y-tnetwork.com slash join. You become a member. You support the show. You support independent media, and you get the whole two-hour show ad-free every day. Let's go do it now. All right, back on a young turks. Not a lot of time here. So I'm going to read one tweet and the rest will be YouTube super chats. Chris Allen makes a great point. Trump's stirring up more

war. That peace price is probably on its way. Remember, a bunch of Republicans submitted Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. I don't know if it's their idea of a sick joke. Okay, Mr. Steve-O on YouTube super chat says Breaking, Robert Mueller's team has questioned a Russian oligarch about his company's 2017 payments to Michael Cohn.

Ooh. So, but with the Ron War coming, what difference does it make? Okay, I hope it doesn't. I hope it doesn't. I hope it doesn't. Okay. So Chris Shield says, wasn't a Russia that released a video showing a simulation of striking Florida with an

ICBM, but yeah, let's get deep in the Middle East, SMFH. So, yes, it was actually Trump's buddy Vladimir Putin who actually threatened American cities, not Iran. But Trump never said a word about it. Never said a word. Okay, so let's see how that turns out. Sophia Lambert says, Iraq 2.0 commences with veteran designers Bolton, Netanyahu, and Haspel at the helm. Three times the bombs, blood and brutality, courtesy of cadet Bonespurs Entertainment and GOP Jellyfish Incorporated about right. But there's also Sheldon Adelson who has given tens of millions of dollars to the Republicans in an effort to start a war in the Middle East on behalf of the right-wing government of Israel.

Perhaps mission accomplished. Perhaps we should have a democracy instead of an oligarchy where rich billionaires who run casinos or perhaps even the ones that bankrupted them could just take over the country and do whatever the hell they want with it. Okay, let's go over here. Eric Schneiderman was the Attorney General for the state of New York

and he was a great fighter for regular Americans. He really was. He fought against Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley when they did the abuses in the financial industry back in 2007, in 2008. He took on Exxon Mobil for climate change. He fought for women's rights in very substantive ways. He fought to make sure that women who were entering clinics could do so safely

and not be accosted by protesters yelling and abusing them. And the list goes on and on of all the positive things that Eric Schneiderman has done. So I'm going to overshare here and tell you that when this story broke yesterday, it broke in the middle of our live show. And I said, no, no, no, no, wait a minute, wait a minute, we got to read the whole story. No way we're going to rush on air with claims of sexual, basically assault and abuse that Schneiderman has done against at least four women. I said, he's going up against Trump, Trump opponents, somehow wind up having stuff leaked about them. So hold on, hold on, okay. and the New York Attorney General, well, one in the past was Elliot Spitzer, and he fought against Wall Street.

He was called the Sheriff of Wall Street, and all of a sudden, powerful people found allegations against them, also involving sex. So I said, let's see what the source is. There's hatchet men out there for the right wing. Well, I looked at the source after the show, and it turns out they got him. and it is damning. First of all, it's the New Yorker and two people reporting on it. One is Ronan Farrow, his credentials in this field, impeccable. The second is Jane Mayer simply put one of the best reporters in the country. So, no, no, these allegations are very much real.

So let me begin to tell you what Schneiderman apparently did. The four women involved, as Farrow and Meyer explained, They allege that he repeatedly hit them, often after drinking, frequently in bed, and never with their consent. Manning Barish and Selveratnam, those are the two that came out publicly, categorized the abuse he inflicted on them as, quote, assault. They did not report their allegations to the police at the time, but both say that they eventually sought medical attention after having been slapped hard across the ear and face and also choked. Now, Schneiderman claims that they were just doing role-playing, as you're going to find out in the piece.

No, that does not appear to be what happened. Selverotnum says that Schneiderman warned her that he could have her followed, and her phones tapped, and they both say that he threatened to kill them if they broke up with him. Schneider's been a spokesperson said that he never made any of these threats. Well, they are well documented, as you're about to see, and that obviously would be an enormous abuse of power on top of the sick assaults that are alleged here. A third former romantic partner of Schneiderman's told Manning Barish and Silveratnam that he also repeatedly subjected her to non-consensual physical violence,

but she told them that she's too frightened of him to come forward. The New Yorker has independently vetted the accounts that they gave of her allegations. A fourth woman, an attorney who has held prominent positions in the New York legal community, says that Schneiderman made an advance toward her when she rebuffed him. He slapped her across the face with such force that it left a mark that lingered the next day. She recalls screaming in surprise and pain and beginning to cry and says that she felt frightened. She has asked to remain unidentified but shared a photograph of the injury with the New Yorker. Hard to get more credible than these allegations. This is not, as in the

case of Al Franken, someone who works at a conservative media outlet with some allegations that some right-wing apparatchiks knew ahead of time about? No, these are incredibly credible witnesses, talking to very credible reporters, and they have some evidence backing them up as well. So let me give you more. First, Schneiderman says that in the privacy of intimate relationships, This is his denial, basically, and partly admitting it, I have engaged in role playing in other consensual sexual activity. I have not assaulted anyone. I have never engaged in non-consensual sex, which is a line I would not cross. Now, if you notice, one, he admits that some of these allegations did, in fact, happen.

He's just saying that they had consented to it. But not even exactly. Remember, he's a lawyer, he said that he would never cross the line of non-consensual. sexual sex. But those are not the allegations. The allegations, there's non-consensual violence. Now, not only violence during sex that they did not consent to, but violence outside of sex they did not consent to. And in one case, when a woman said no to him, he slapped her across the face. And again, in a way that left the mark. So Manning Barish, one of the women involved here, says, I want to make it absolutely clear. And she dated him for a number of years. She says,

this was under no circumstances as sex game gone wrong. This did not happen while we were having sex. I was fully dressed and remained that way. It was completely unexpected and shocking. I did not consent to physical assault. He hit her so hard,

she bled from the ear. She had to go to a doctor. The doctor confirms that is, in fact, what happened. She was afraid to, and embarrassed to admit to the doctor at the time, that it was because she was slapped across the face. But when the New Yorker reached out to the doctor later and asked, were the injuries consistent with the possibility of being slapped across the face and in the air, then doctor confirmed yes. And he also confirmed, most importantly, the severity of the injuries.

And apparently she was affected by that for years. And the bleeding continued after that day. And from time to time, you know, she would again have problems with the ear. blood would continue to come out. So not, not a light situation here, significant in that case. In the following days, Manning Barish confided to three close female friends that Schneiderman had hit her. All of them have confirmed this to the New Yorker. She was distraught one of the friends, a high-profile media figure, says she was very, very upset. This wasn't a gentle smack. He clocked her ear. I was shocked. Okay, so this is not just stuff that's coming out against Schneider. now. This was documented

years ago. She told her friends and they confirmed it. It was absolutely damning. Now, another part of this, you can say it's small, but to me it shows character or lack thereof and it greatly bothered me, and especially from

a guy that I thought was on the right side and had done great things publicly. He would constantly belittle and demean these accomplished women. Whenever he started dating them, and he would just say nonstop things that brought him down and depressed them, he would attack them on their strengths. Now, they were all progressive women, and one of them was going to go to, the manning bearers, was going to go to a rally against gun violence after what happened in Newtown.

Now, that makes a lot of sense. And she wanted to be part of change, and she was participating in that process, and knew some of the organizations. organizers and Schneider made fun of her and everyone else who attended a rally and he called the demonstrators quote losers so while publicly appearing to be on the side of progressives apparently people go in a protest he thought privately were just losers okay and then um one time he was using her computer and she was working on an important political project and he apparently said quote oh look at little me me so cute. She's working. Now, if it was just one person, you're going back decades and the man

is reformed, well, you'd still have a ton of issues because this is assault. So I'm not in any way minimizing that. But it would be a slightly different issue. But this does not go back decades. This is from 2013 on, all the way to 2017. So that's last year. And so it's very recent. you say you see that quote and you say well maybe that's just the one person they had a bad breakup but it isn't one person it's at least four people and they have incredibly similar accounts and now let's go to tanya salveratnam she said he had said that he would have to kill me if we broke up on multiple occasions he also told me he could have me followed and could tap my phone no that's absolutely beyond the pale uh as is all of this

So, and again, that abuse of power cannot be tolerated. So, look, Elliot Spitzer, I think, was in a lot of ways a hero for how he stood up for the average person against Wall Street. And they found out that he was going to prostitutes. You can be really upset at his breaking of his marital vows. You can be upset that he prosecuted people who went to prostitutes. suits before, and that hypocrisy's I get, right? But it was consensual affairs with prostitutes, which I think should be legal. So that's in a totally, totally different category. Here, you have a guy saying, while he's attorney general, I will have you follow it, I'll have

you time. In one case, he said, when one of them jokingly said, hey, you're jaywalking, and that's against the law, he apparently seriously told her, I am the law. No, no way. Has to step down immediately. And by the way, he has. So Schneiderman took about three hours after the story broke to say, okay, no Moss. And he stepped down. I'll get back to consequences for him in one second. But unfortunately, there's more here, and it is devastating.

The former girlfriend, another one, told Salverotnum, she'd once been so afraid of Schneiderman that she'd written down an extensive account of the abuse, locked the document in a safe deposit box, and given keys to two friends. Oh, that's disastrous. This is not a misunderstanding about what was agreed to or not agreed to in sex. Again, a very, very serious issue, but a different issue. This is women who are so afraid for their lives. And by the way, Selveratnam also told a couple of friends,

if anything happens to me, it was Schneiderman. That's how scared she was. And another girlfriend locks it up in a safety deposit box. If anything happened to me, it was Schneiderman. Oh, disaster. Okay, so, God, why? Sometimes it's hard not to despair of humanity.

Jesus Christ. Selverotnam says, sometimes he tell me, oh my God, listen to this. Sometimes he'd tell me to call him master, and he slapped me until I did. Important context. Selverotnam, who was born in Sri Lanka, has dark skin,

and she recalls that he started calling me his brown slave and demanding that I repeat that I was his property. Oh. All right, well, there goes Schneiderman. And in fact, CNN reporting, shortly after he announced his resignation, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office

said they had opened an investigation into the allegations against Schneiderman. And as well, they should. So, Eric Schneiderman is going to, and given that Donald Trump has very similar allegations against him, including by one of his ex-wives, I assume that we'll be awaiting the president's resignation momentarily as well. All right. Speaking of which, let's go to the Republican reaction.

Eric Schneiderman has been accused by four women who dated him. actually three women who dated him, and one who he made advances to, who rejected him of assault. He slapped that woman across the face who did not agree to relations with him. He apparently slapped, choked, spit on the other women. Now, context before the Republican reaction. Schneiderman has been a vocal opponent of Trump pursuing a series of legal actions against his policies as president and filing numerous lawsuits against his enterprises long before he took office. It's true. He's fought Trump for years now. And in fact, he just got a $25 million settlement

on the scam that was Trump University. And he was in the middle of making sure that New York could prosecute Donald Trump if Donald Trump tried to pardon people like Michael Cohen or others involved in some of the cases that relate back to him. I thought his efforts there were fantastic. And in fact, I recently did a video about that particular fight that Schneiderman was in to make sure that we could hold Trump and his associates accountable at the state level. Now, having said that, it turns out the Schneiderman in his private life was an absolute disaster and resigned and should have. And the Manhattan District Attorney Office is looking into possible charges against them. So, a gleeful response, of course, from the Republicans

which is understandable. Kelly Ann Conway simply retweets an old tweet from Schneiderman and says, gotcha. And the tweet, of course, had said no one is above the law and I'll continue to remind President Trump and his administration of that fact every day. So give the devil their due. She's allowed to say got you all she wants on this case. Donald Trump Jr., the president's son, says about another tweet about sexual assault survivors from Schneiderman, this didn't age well. true enough. Dina Loche, a despicable spokesperson for the NRA,

says literally fighting women is not the same as fighting for women, but he did fight for women and apparently did fight them in his private life, so both are true. But they get to gloat. I get that, and it is fair, and Schneiderman deserves it.

What's interesting is that Donald Trump, back in 2013, almost predicted this. in a sense I'll give him credit for that he said weiner is gone spitzer is gone next will be lightweight attorney general eric schneiderman is he a crook wait and see worse than spitzer or weiner now understand that schneiderman was pursuing him for violations of the law including the scam called trump university schneiderman eventually won on that and trump paid out $25 million.

So, and Trump makes a lot of brash allegations against all of his opponents. So a broken clock is right twice a day. On the other hand, there are a lot of cryptic references that Trump makes to other famous people, sometimes famous Democrats. He did this to Bill Clinton to, hey, Bill, don't make me say the things I know. What did they know? What do they know about each other? What are they doing in these elite circles where they won't, you know, dish the dirt on, on each other?

So I don't know if that's the case. All we have is that tweet to go on. And as I just explained to you, it could be for a couple of different reasons. But now we're going to get to the Republican hypocrisy in a second, but hold a little bit more gloating this time from Fox News. Tonight an alleged physical abuse of multiple women by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. So-called champion of choice. and the report is getting stunning reaction almost instantly. It's interesting to note that in 2013, Donald Trump tweeted, quote,

Weiner is gone, Spitzer is gone, next will be lightweight A.G. Eric Schneiderman. Is he a crook? Wait, N.C. worse than Spitzer or Weiner. So they kept rubbing it in throughout the day, and that's totally fine. Calling him a so-called champion of choice, he actually was very much for pro-choice and actually passed legislation. Look, there's a lot of irony and hypocrisy when it comes to Schneiderman on Schneiderman's side. When he was a state legislator, he pushed for a bill that would outlaw choking more clearly and give more severe consequences. One of the things he's accused of is choking, non-consensual.

So their right to rub it in any way they like. Now, of course, two can play at that game. Let me tell you about Rob Porter, one of the top age to Donald Trump. You remember he resigned in disgrace because I could go over a thousand allegations here, but let's just go to one of his ex-wives, Colby Holderness. She said the thing that Rob Porter would do most frequently is he would throw me down on a bed and he would just put his body weight on me and he'd be yelling at me. But as he was yelling, he'd be grinding an elbow or knee into my body to emphasize his anger.

The choking was just very scary and dehumanizing. That sounds almost identical. to what Schneiderman did. But let's be fair here. Okay. And let's give Donald Trump a chance to respond. Maybe he was just as tough on Rob Porter as he, as him and his allies are being on Eric Schneiderman. So this was what Trump had said about Rob Porter when he left the White House. Let's watch. Do you have a comment on this reporter? Thanks, guys. Well, we wish him well. He worked very hard. I found out about it

recently and I was surprised by it. It was very sad when we heard about it and certainly he's also very sad. Now he also, as you probably know, he says he's innocent and I think you have to remember that. He said very strongly yesterday that he's innocent. Okay, he said it very strongly. I mean, we have such an only even playing field here in America. Democrats get accused, if they did it, like in the case of Schneimer, it certainly looks like he did it. They immediately resigned.

Republicans, the way they deny it very strongly. And so he was very sad, not for the victims, if you notice. He was very sad for Porter that he got found out that he did domestic violence against his partners. In fact, I'm going to read you Graphic 48 here, because Trump had gone on to say about Porter, we certainly wish him well. it's obviously a very tough time for him he did a very good job while he was in the White House we hope that he will have a wonderful career I don't remember Schneiderman or

I'm sorry Trump or Kellyanne Conway or anyone else saying about Schneiderman it's a sad time for him we wish him well I hope he has a wonderful career but I'm not done so in the 1990s Harry Hurt the 3rd wrote a book called Lost Tycoon, The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump. And in it, he talked about what his ex-wife, Ivana Trump, said in a divorce deposition.

Now, this is under sworn testimony. It's under oath. And by the way, Ivana does not exactly deny it. I'll get to that in a second as well. Here's the description from, funny enough, Jane Mayer of the New Yorker, the same person who broke the Schneiderman story. Hurt obtained a copy of her own sworn divorce deposition from 1990, in which she stated that the previous year, her husband had raped her in a fit of rage. That's Donald Trump raping his wife.

In Hertz's account, Trump was furious that a scalp reduction operation he'd undergone to eliminate a bald spot had been unexpectedly painful. Ivana had recommended the plastic surgeon. In retaliation, Hurt wrote, Trump yanked. out a handful of his wife's hair and then forced himself on her sexually. Well, that sounds

even worse than what Schneiderman did. What Schneiderman did was terrible, the choking, the slapping, the spitting, and the terrible things that he said to these women. But no one's accused him of rape. Trump's own wife at the time said he raped me,

yanked me around by the hair, etc. There's more details. After according to the book, she spent the night locked in a bedroom crying. In the morning, Trump asked her, quote, with menacing casualists, does it hurt? Trump has denied both the rape allegation and the suggestion that he had a scalp reduction procedure. Just think, okay, look, first of all, this is not a gray area. This is not he said, she said. he doesn't even, you know, he paid her $14 million, and I'm sure for a number of different reasons

and they had just gotten divorced. But Ivana Trump is very clear about this in under oath. And again, I'll get to her so-called clarification in a second. So he drags her out by the hair, he rapes her, she cries all night, he comes back. And then forget the tone of voice. He callously asks her if she's okay. But then he denies the ring. and the scalp reduction procedure. That's like saying, hey, did you commit a triple homicide? I deny the triple homicide plus the jaywalking. Who cares about the jaywalking?

What? But no, it's all about his own ego. Hey, hey, I don't have a bald spot. Oh, my wife, did I rape her? Yeah, no. I mean, I paid her off. But no, I didn't rape her. But I definitely don't have a bald spot.

Hertz said that the incident, which was detailed in Ivana's deposition, was confirmed by two of her friends, just like Schneiderman. The girlfriends at the time confirmed that Schneiderman's girlfriend had told him at the time. Ivana at the time had told her girlfriends that Donald Trump had physically assaulted her and raped her. Now to her non-denial denial. She confirmed that she had said in a deposition that her husband had raped her. So not even denying it.

She confirmed she absolutely said it under oath. And I guess if she lied, she should be locked up in prison. That's a hell of a thing to lie about somebody, right, about rape. But added that she did not want those words to be interpreted in, quote, a literal or criminal sense. What other sense is there for the word rape? Is there a non-literal version of rape? is there a non-criminal version of rape? So, Ivana Trump, what did you mean if you didn't mean literal or criminal?

Or were you happy to take the money? Look, Ivana Trump is also a victim. So, okay, it is what it is. She's covering for him, but doing a very, very poor job at it because she says, yes, I did say under oath that he raped me. It just wasn't criminal rape. Again, I don't know non-criminal rape. I don't know what that means. So should Schneiderman resign? Absolutely. And he did. Should Donald Trump resign? Well, he did the same and worse. He absolutely positively should resign by the Schneiderman standard. But yet in this country, it's not how it works. But a Democrat does something wrong. And sometimes if they just allege that he did something wrong, gone, immediate resignation. When a Republican does something heinous, despicable, nope.

No resignation, no apology, no consequences. The Republican Party and its followers that tolerate this are grotesque. There's no Democrat today in the country going, oh, no, Schneiderman should have stayed. Oh, so what? So what that he beats people? Oh, those are just allegations. Who cares? Who cares that there's incredibly good reporting by Rono Farrow and Jane Mayer at the New Yorker.

Who cares about the victims? no Democrat is saying that. No liberal that is saying that. When it's a Republican, oh yeah, so what, so what that he raped his wife? I mean, she said it on their oath, she confirms she says it on the earth. So what, so what, so what. I want the president. I like the president.

He hates the same people I hate. I don't care that he raped people. Just own it, Republicans. Own it. That's who you are. You're monsters. Just live with it, young Turks. Thanks for watching.

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