The Young Turks - Negative Nancy

Episode Date: May 1, 2024

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Now, the conversation surrounding the issue of Israel started with the national politics reporter for Time, his name is Eric Cortalessa, asking Donald Trump whether he would be willing to put conditions on military aid to Israel. So at first, he asks the question, Trump didn't answer it directly. He just kind of went on and on about all the wonderful things he did for Israel when he was in office. But then you have the reporter asking him again. Eric Cordillessa asks him, so you won't rule out withholding or conditioning aid. And Trump says, no, we have to be, meaning we have to be conditioning the aid.

But then he went on to hedge. And what I mean by that is listing all the ways that he has been a massive friend to Israel, saying, look, there's been no president that's done what I've done for Israel. what I've done for Israel, when you look at all the things that I've done, and it starts with the Iran nuclear deal, you know, Bibi Netanyahu begged Obama not to do that deal. I ended that deal, he continues to say, and if they were smart and energetic, other than trying to get Trump, they would have made a deal because they were in bad shape. They should have made a deal with Iran. They didn't prosecute that. They didn't make a deal, but I did Golan Heights. So the

The second part of what he said there, the graphic that I just read to you, to me is super unclear, who is they? Is he referring to the Israelis when he says they in that comment? And what I noticed is, while he did certainly have some critique of Benjamin Netanyahu, that was clear, he did also speak from both sides of his mouth, which is what he typically does with controversial issues, and we'll get to more of that in just a minute. Yeah, my overall read on it is that the upside of Trump is that he's so unpredictable. Why is that an upside in this particular case?

Because you know what the establishment is going to give you. If it's whether it's Nikki Haley or Joe Biden, they're going to back Israel 100%, no matter what happens, doesn't matter if there's 2,000 dead Palestinians, 20,000, 200,000. You know that they're going to support, they're going to wag their finger and support Israel a billion percent, right? With Trump, at least he's unpredictable, so you never know. But everything else is a disaster on this issue. So he keeps bragging about how, hey, I got them Golan Heights, which they were supposed

to return to Syria, but I guess we're just stealing land now, and I can go on and on, but all the times. But guys, what does this depend on? It depends on only one thing, whether Miriam Edelson gives them the money or doesn't. And that's gonna come up to some extent later in this portion of the interview. So let's get to the Benjamin Netanyahu criticism. So the reporter asks, is it time for Netanyahu to go? And Trump responds, well, I had a bad experience with Beebe, and it had to do with Soleimani,

referring to the Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani, who Donald Trump, of course, assassinated. Because as you know, by now, he dropped out just before the attack, and I said, what's that all about? Because that was going to be a joint, and all of a sudden, we were told that Israel was not doing it. So he was expecting a joint press conference with Benjamin Netanyahu after he ordered the assassination. Trump ordered the assassination of Qasem Soleimani. Netanyahu dropped out last minute apparently, according to Trump's version of events. And it seems like he has held a grudge about that. He says, I was not happy about that.

That was something I never forgot. And I want to remind you of something else he said about Netanyahu in just a moment. But Jake, jump in. Yeah. So he's got a couple of views with Netanyahu. But this clarifies which one got under his skin the most. Because he also didn't like that Netanyahu didn't lie about the 2020 election and pretend that Trump won, which would have been so bizarre, even for a monster like Netanyahu to do.

Because he wanted Biden, he sent him a whole bucket of money, right? But that turns out to be the minor thing. The major thing is, and it appears that Israel does fairly regularly, which is tell America, you go do this, go kill the top Iranian general. Oh, we're right behind you, big guy. We're right behind you. And then Netanyahu is a lot like Trump. So he screwed Trump.

And troops like, I'm not the guy who gets screwed. I'm the guy who does the screwing. What the hell is this? I thought we were doing it together. And it turns out, of course, Netanyahu lied to him and said, oh, golly, gee, did I get America to do an assassination for me? I guess I did. But my fingerprints aren't on it.

But brother, when you deal with Trump, he's going to out you. He's not going to listen to any normal diplomacy. So I want to remind you of something that Donald Trump specifically said, in regard to Benjamin Netanyahu several years ago when he was in office. This was during an interview with Axios for their podcast. Let's listen in. You've probably heard that Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, or BB, as he's called, were best buds that it was a bromence. Well, turns out that's bull-hs. By the end of his presidency, Donald Trump couldn't stand Netanyahu.

He thought Netanyahu was disloyal and ungrateful for everything he had done for him. By the time I talked to Trump in April 2021, he was over, Bebe. I haven't spoken to him since, right? I didn't talk to him. So Trump has had some negative feelings toward Netanyahu, which probably made him feel freed up enough to say some critical things about Netanyahu in the context of this interview because he attacked Netanyahu in regard to his failures in protecting Israelis on October 7th. He said, I would say that what happened on the October 7th should have never happened.

It happened on Netanyahu's watch. And I think it's had a profound impact on him despite everything because people said that shouldn't have happened. And then he goes on to talk about the hostages and the failure to get the hostages released. We'll get to that in just a moment, Jank. Yeah, I don't want you to misunderstand what I'm saying because at the end I'm going to show you why Donald Trump can't be trusted on this issue at all. having said that he does have a second advantage here, which is he doesn't like to be slapped across the face. And so Biden doesn't mind at all. So happens every day. Yeah, he'll say, I told Netanyahu that he is not to do X. Netanyahu come out like 30 minutes later,

a worldwide press conference and go, I'm doing X, what are you going to do by that? Slap him across the face. Can I actually give an example from today? So right now, and this is why I didn't care to cover the ceasefire negotiations that are happening in Cairo because I just know that they're going to fall apart. And today is a perfect example of why. So Netanyahu wants to invade Rafa. They're already doing airstrikes in Rafa, but they want to do a full-blown invasion into Rafa, which would be devastating for the civilian population that is basically sheltering there, more than a million displaced Palestinians. Well, Netanyahu made clear that whether there is a ceasefire agreement or not, the IDF will invade Rafa.

And then he'll turn around and say, we haven't come to a ceasefire agreement because Hamas refuses to agree to anything. They have outrageous demands. Well, a ceasefire would require both sides to cease fire. An invasion into Rafa after forging a ceasefire would violate the ceasefire, which shows that Netanyahu is engaging in these negotiations. in bad faith. Yeah, and so, look, I posted on social media that it was going to be a permanent ceasefire. And I was like, take it. Hamas should definitely take that deal if it's a permanent ceasefire and Israel actually withdraws from Gaza.

So I'm not looking at it like, oh, the Palestinian side, the Israeli side. I'm looking at, hey, do we have a real peace here, offer here? Because I would love that because it would save lives on both sides, right? But then of course it was a trick. Of course it was on a permanent ceasefire. It's 40 days and they say after that we're going to level Rafa. And then they got, I can't believe Hamas didn't take it. We were going to wait 40 days before we killed everybody in Rafa.

And now they don't want it. They're so unreasonable, right? But the point here in the context of the Trump interview is, Biden will get slapped around by Netanyahu all day long, open-handed slap, boy. What are you going to do about him? I'll give you $17 more billion. Whereas if you slap Trump around, there's some chance he's going to slap you back. So that's, I'm keeping it real.

That is an upside of Trump. Having said that, at the end of the day, he's the boy of all the donors anyway. We're all talking about rhetoric right now, right? And there has been rhetoric on, you know, the Democratic side with Biden and the Republican side with Trump. But the question is, do you actually hold the Israeli government's feet to the fire when it comes to how they carry out war, how they use American weapons that are sent over to them, or the funds that are given to them to buy American weapons?

Now, let's get to what Trump had to say about the hostages. He says, they have the most, meaning the Israelis, have the most sophisticated equipment. They had, everything was there to stop that, meaning stop what happened on October 7th. And a lot of people knew about it, you know, thousands and thousands of people knew about it, but Israel didn't know about it. And I think he's being blamed for that very strongly, being blamed, and now you have the hostage situation. So it's difficult to understand what specifically he's referring to when he says thousands and thousands of people knew. Is he referring to the intelligence that the Israelis had prior to the attack, which they decided

to just kind of brush under the rug and discredit? Remember, there was an intelligence report. There was someone within the Israeli military or intelligence community who was raising a red flag about what Hamas was planning to do, but they didn't think that Hamas had the capacity or capability to carry out the type of attack that they did on October 7th. So I think that's what he's referring to, but I don't know for sure. This is not that important, but my reading of that particular part was that, no, he was referring to the thousands of Palestinians or Hamas members who knew that particular thing because the Hamas guys were actually doing it. So they had spread it to so many people yet Israeli intelligence couldn't figure it out.

But Trump is not a guy known for doing a lot of reading or no having a lot of information. As Anna points out, Israeli intelligence did know about it. Netanyahu did know about it. They just chose not to do anything because they didn't take it seriously. Now moving on, he says of the hostages, and this is really devastating because when you stop and think about how some of this is very likely true, it is heartbreaking. He says, I think you have very few hostages left. You know, they talk about all of these hostages.

I don't believe these people are able to even wanting to take care of people as negotiations. I think he's referring to Hamas and how they're treating the hostages. I don't think, I think the hostages are going to be far fewer than people think, which is a very sad thing. And I will say this, Bibi Netanyahu rightfully has been criticized for what took place on October 7th. And look, we don't know how many hostages are left. You know, Hamas has released some of the hostages who luckily are still alive. And, you know, they're speaking under duress, which is why I feel uncomfortable airing those videos. So we know that some of them are alive.

We just don't know how many of them, given the siege of the Gaza Strip, given the lack of humanitarian aid going into the Gaza Strip, given the aerial bombardments that have taken place, it's really uncertain. So I think Trump is right about questioning the number of hostages that remain alive. Yeah, that part is probably true. Yeah. All right, final thing I'll bring up is he has seemed to have soured on a two-state solution. But I want to go to what he had to say about Aedelson, because at the end of the day, he's going to listen to his donors. I mean, historically, if you look at his track record, he has carried out what his donors have wanted. So he regurgitated some of the pro-Israel talking points meant to justify the persecution, repression, and even killings of Palestinians.

He says children grow up and they're taught to hate Jewish people at a level that nobody thought was possible. And I had a friend, a very good friend, Sheldon Aedelson, who felt that it was impossible to make a deal because the level of hatred was so great. And so Trump also said that Aedelson loved Israel more than anything else. He loved Israel and he wanted to protect Israel. And he felt that it was impossible to make a deal because of the level of hatred. The reporter asks, do you feel that way now? And Trump said, I disagreed with it. But so far, he hasn't been wrong.

Okay. So now that gets to two things. One's the small note, the other one's giant. The small note is Adelson's vicious racist against Muslims. And it's so ironic that he talks about. And now he's passed away. But that he talks about, oh, the Palestinians hate us so much. He funds every politician who will allow Israel to kill as many Palestinians, as humanly

possible while talking about how bad the Palestinians are. Come on, get out of here, man. People like Edelson and almost all of mainstream media and almost every politician in the country make it sound like the Palestinians are occupying the Israelis and that they have brutalized them and that they've killed 34,000 Israelis, starved nearly a million Israelis, as if the Palestinians are the strong ones, et cetera. All that is just nothing but projection. Sheldon Adelson's heart was filled with nothing but hatred, okay? So if you don't know he is, he was a casino owner. Now his wife, Miriam Adelson, has inherited his fortune. He was one of the richest people in the world. He made a lot of his money in Macau, China. He was brought up on corruption charges

related to China. And guess who let him out of those charges? Donald Trump with a slap on the wrist. He also wanted to shut down internet gambling. And while Trump was in office, they shut down gambling. Why? Because Sheldon Aedelson ordered Donald Trump to do it. Same reason why they moved the embassy to Jerusalem. And my favorite part, and I wrote all about this in my book, Justice is Coming. At the end, Trump threw in a pair of Ginsoo Knives and a presidential medal of honor for Miriam Edelsohn, Sheldon's wife, okay? Making a mockery of our country. I'm kidding about the Ginsoo Knives, but he really gave her one of, not one of, the top medal we have. Okay.

Oh, you have given me so much money and bribes. Here's a nice little trinket for your wife. Now that he's passed away, Trump is busy kissing Miriam Adelson's ass. And as soon as she ponies up the money, he'll turn around right away and go, I love BB. I don't know what you're talking about. I just made a deal. I just made a deal. And I'm now BB's boy.

And I'll do whatever BB tells me to do because that's what he did when he was in office. Shelton Adelson gave him $100 million through the super PACs and dark packs, et cetera, in 2016. And he did it again in 2020, $100 million. And I'm so angry at the Democrats for never pointing it out, because they're so intensely corrupt that he didn't even bother mentioning a hundred million dollar bribe that Donald Trump got. And of course, they do everything Israel ass. So they didn't point out that Trump does everything Israel as. And you know, Trump has no boundaries. So if Miriam bribes him enough or other people, he'll come in and go, you know what?

I hate Muslims. What a goddamn about Muslims? Unless there's Saudis buying my stuff, right? Kill them all. Kill their family members. That's what he said last time. Bannon from the country. They're all terrorists, et cetera.

So it depends. Maybe we get lucky and Trump miraculously doesn't get bribed by Edelson or someone else. Or the- Or the criticisms from the America first portion of his base start to go after him hard enough that he reconsidered whether that money is worth it. Yeah, I mean, Maga, where are you at? I mean, I know they don't know because the right wing media never talks about Donald Trump's corruption. And the funny part is mainstream media never talks about his corruption. Because then they'd have to talk about corruption overall.

Exactly. And they'd have to talk about campaign contributions. True. Right? Yep. So his biggest weakness, MAGA doesn't know, independence don't know. And I would be super curious to find out what MAGA thinks. If they find out that Donald Trump has been Sheldon Aedelson's bitch this whole time,

that he walked him around in a leash, America first. Give me another metal, bitch, right? That's what Sheldon did with Donald. So let's see what Donnie is going to do next. But don't judge what he says today. Wait till he gets bribed or doesn't get bribed. That will determine what Donald Trump does, because that's all he cares about is the money. When we come back from the break, we'll give you some updates on the student protests.

Things have certainly escalated on the campus of Columbia. We'll tell you why and how when we return. All right on TYT, Jank, Anna and Arnold Dungu. Arnold, thanks for hitting the join button. We appreciate you, brother, Anna. Well, there are some pretty big updates in regard to the student protests that have been taking place on college campuses across the country. And of course, on Colombia, things escalated last night. Let's get to the details.

Overnight, pro-Palestinian protesters gathering outside outside Columbia University's Hamilton Hall, then storming the building. Video capturing students, slamming desks, breaking windows, and barricating themselves inside. Just after 1230 this morning, dozens of students left the encampment. and entered the hall. Students defiant, refusing to dismantle their encampment. The standoff between pro-Palestinian protesters

and Columbia University's administrators devolved further yesterday, with a notable escalation after the school gave students the ultimatum to leave, either dismantle your encampment or face severe punishment, including suspensions and arrest. As you saw from the video we just showed you, the students who refused to leave the campus ended up breaking into an occupying Hamilton Hall, which actually has quite a bit of history that we'll get to in just a moment.

The protesters renamed the building Hins Hall to evoke the brutal death of the six-year-old Palestinian girl who suffered at the hands of the Israeli defense forces. We've covered her multiple occasions on this show. She was trapped in a car after, you know, all of her other family members died from an Israeli air strike. And then they struck the car again days later and she was found dead. So with that said, here are some more details about what happened on Columbia's campus last night. Columbia administration now telling students and faculty to avoid campus and warning that access to other buildings may be restricted. Columbia had started suspending students who remained in the pro-Palestine encampment outside their past Monday afternoon.

Some of them had been leaving. But shortly after midnight, a student smashed a window of Hamilton Hall with a hammer. The group Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine says that dozens have barricaded themselves inside Hamilton Hall. You can see them here in these images using furniture and other objects to blockade the doors. The people who are already inside Hamilton Hall decided to smash the windows and then put bike locks like around each door handle. Now the protest on campus, the encampment was peaceful and once they were forced to dismantle it, that's when things escalated. I just feel like Columbia has bungled this from the very beginning. I'll explain why in just a moment.

But I'm curious what you think, Jank. You know, I actually, even though the head of the university there, I can blame her for 100 things. And I've said to arresting those students and continuing to do all this. Me as a Columbia alumni, I'm enormously embarrassed. I won't give any more money to Columbia because, you know, the other alumni constantly are threatening Colombia. You better arrest those students.

They dare to protest against Israel. We'll have you fired, right? That's literal. Robert Kraft did that among, I'm sure. I'm sure many other alumni saying, how dare you not arrest these people who disagree with me? Okay, I'm alumni too, okay? Can I arrest all the pro-Israel protesters? By the way, like, so guys, this is the most important part.

And then we'll give you all the details of the protests, et cetera. But what does the media choose to focus on? So we had before the cable news attacked this topic, we had peaceful protesters all across the country. There'd been no reports of anything wrong, right? All of a sudden, cable news decided all of them at once. These protesters are evil and violent and terrible. And they found two or three videos, which we already showed you, okay? There were other examples, but they were small scuffles.

Like, I hate when those small instances are used to paint a picture of the actual organized demonstration slash encampments that are taking place. Those small scuffles existed. And those people, anyone who engages in any kind of, you know, assault against another student, anything that actually threatens the safety of another student or another protester should be dealt with immediately. But it would be wrong to paint a picture of the overall demonstration as a violent one. It's just wrong. But so like I said, two or three in the beginning, right?

And mostly done outside the campus by non-students. So that was what they wanted, okay? Yes, I'm saying the media and politicians wanted to use that to deceive you. So they took those videos like, aha, this represents all the peace protesters. How did they be in favor of Palestine? They're for violence. You have to arrest them all. Okay.

Now, then things got animated because they sent in the cops to arrest the students. So then you got more videos. But what's interesting is, if you go to ask any pro-Israel protests, ask them, Isn't that amazing? It never asked them, hey, what do you guys think about Palestinians or Muslims? Because I guarantee you, because I've already lived it, then not all of them, of course. But a huge chunk of them will tell you, killing Muslims is no big deal. Killing Palestinians is Tuesday, and they had it coming.

They had it coming! And we had killed 30 times what Hamas killed, but it wasn't enough. Now that to me is a thousand times more violent. And so if you wanted to find something wrong with either side, you could find two, three, or 12 or 20 videos on either side. But they don't want to find anything wrong with the pro-Israel protesters. So they never even ask. They never, they have signs calling for violence, calling for Israel to wipe out Gaza.

Not an issue, perfectly okay. And who's actually killing who? If you watch cable news all week, you know what you, the sense? you'd get, that the Palestinians are slaughtering the Israelis as we speak. That there's 30, like that all of Tel Aviv is gone, obliterated like Gaza. No, it's the other way around. So 98% of this is pure propaganda. And I've lived this movie several times, including the Iraq war.

All the peace protesters, you know what they were called? Pro terrorist. Just like this, another coincidence. Whenever it's peace or in favor of any, like, hey, maybe we shouldn't murder. are so many Muslims, that all of a sudden the Muslim guys, the peace protestors, the Palestinians are all terrorists, and the other side is moral and decent, as they're the ones doing the bombings. So you're going to see here, so guys, that doesn't mean it's right to break into a building. It doesn't mean that it's right to harass any Jewish students that's mental, that's insane.

We're 100% against that. But is a single person on cable news being fair or objective about this? Absolutely not. What I'm seeing is wall-to-wall propaganda. So we can share that with you guys. And then I'll say one last quick thing for now. I love that they named it Hins Hall because they, the IDF murdered that six-year-old girl. And they murdered the ambulance drivers who went to rescue her.

They knew that she was trapped. The ambulance drivers told them that they're going to rescue a six-year-old girl. And the IDF, at least those guys for sure are terrorists that murdered her. Terrorists. But nope, only Muslims can be terrorists. Israelis could never, ever, ever, ever be terrorists, even if they kill six-year-olds and cold-blooded murder. And the ambulance drivers that went to go rescue them,

thank you for calling it Hins Hall. And everyone should know about it. You know how many people on cable news has talked about Hinn now? After all the protests? None, zero. They mentioned, one person mentioned it, and everyone else is like, oh, yeah, the protesters are the evil violent one.

Don't worry about what they're actually protesting. don't worry about it, don't show it, don't show it. Oh, they're the violent ones. They're the other side killed 34,000. They're the violent ones, those goddamn peace protesters. So screw all of cable news and goddamn propagandas. Let's move on to some other news today, including, well, some of the things that Donald Trump has said that will further fuel the fears that those on the left have in regard to

him dismantling our democracy. Donald Trump is not dismissing the possibility of political violence if he loses the 2024 presidential race. Now we know about this, thanks to some of the quotes he gave two time during a lengthy interview. When asked about the prospect of violence tied to November's elections in a recent interview with Time magazine, Trump said, quote, I think we're going to win. And if we don't, you know, it depends. It always depends on the fairness of an election.

Now mind you, he is still claiming that what happened to him in 2020 is unfair. He still claims that the election was stolen from him, even though he has had dozens of opportunities before judge. to prove his case, he has failed to provide any evidence of losing the election. So the fact that he says something like this, of course, is it's the perfect, you know, quote for the fodder that Democrats are looking for to campaign on. So congratulations. In other words, he's saying there might be violence if I lose and tell my supporters that there was voter fraud. Now he also apparently thinks the election won't be rigged this time around like he falsely claimed in 2020.

I do think we're going to win. I don't believe they'll be able to do the things that they did the last time. And I don't think they'll be able to get away with it. Of course, no one got away with anything. He had dozens of opportunities to provide evidence in the courts to show that there was widespread voter fraud that would change the results of the election and overturn the results of the election. No evidence was provided.

And he also said that he would consider pardons for every one. one of his supporters accused of attacking the Capitol on January 6th. And so we'll get to that in just a moment. I'll give you his quotes, but Jank, why don't you jump in? Yeah. So look, this is why I can never support Bozo the clown, Bozo the fascist. So establishments a nightmare, I can't stand them. But then here comes Donald Trump pretending to be a populist.

And so people then go, oh my God, anti-establishment, we're really excited. And then what does he do? He takes in a fascist direction and ruins the whole thing. So we'll have to see if there's going to be violence. If I lose, of course there's going to be violence. Come on, MAGA, you don't see it? You don't see it? And probably a lot of the MAGA probably thinks, well, what do you mean?

I do see it and I like it. If they steal the election again, in other words, I don't give a goddamn about democracy. We should be in power. And if we're not in power, of course we're going to do violence. Well, come get your stupid-ass boy, okay, Donald Trump, constantly threatening to overturn democracy, not give a damn who actually won the election. He hates America. He despises America.

The idea of equality and freedom, no, he just wants to be the final boss. And he's like, well, if I win, of course, they won't be violence, but if I lose, well, like any good fascists, I'm going to bring as much violence as I possibly can, a piece of crap. Yeah, I'm worried that there's going to be violence, no matter what the results are. Okay, I don't I don't know if Democratic voters are going to be angry to the extent that I think Trump supporters would be angry if Trump were to lose, right? No, you know, Democrats are just going to cry. But I do think that some people are going to get super worked up.

I don't doubt that there would be protests on the streets. There would be counter protests. Things would devolve into violence as they typically do when these protests and counter protests take place. I am concerned about not only what the outcome of the election is going to be, but more importantly, what the response to the outcome of the election is going to be. We are so deeply divided. We exist in these filter bubbles where most Americans, you know, depending on what their news diet consists of, are only getting one side of the story. And so all of those Trump supporters who rioted on January 6th genuinely thought that the election was stolen. They genuinely did. And part of it is due to the lies that the Trump camp was spreading, and those lies were then amplified by conservative media.

So tons of Democrats get mad at me because I'm not angry enough at MAGA guys themselves. I've said a billion terrible things about the bad end of MAGA. I think that there are deplorable guys in MAGA. I think that a lot of them do have issues on racial and blah, blah, blah lines, right? But overall, they're human beings, they're Americans that were greatly deceived. They didn't think that Biden had won. You might think that's the craziest thing in the world, and I think that's the craziest thing in the world.

But they genuinely thought Trump won. But establishment media never, ever acknowledges that. And that's why I don't get mad at MAGA guys anywhere near as much as I get mad at Trump himself, all the goons at Fox News, everyone lying to you in right-wing media. pretending he won the election, then they had to pay nearly a billion dollars. Do you think they're going to pay a billion dollars? Because they weren't lying? They have an army of lawyers.

They were all lying. There's not a single shred of evidence that Trump has ever presented. And he's on charges right now. Why doesn't he present the evidence? What do you mean in this direction? I won the election. Here it is, right? Because he's a liar.

And he got all of you guys to believe that that it was in reverse, that the Biden team stole the election when in reality he was trying to steal the election. Donald Trump was one of the worst things to ever happen to this country, and not because of the establishment talking points, but because he took the populist energy in this country that was correct about how awful the establishment is. And then he redirected it towards fascism and personal narcissistic glory. In fact, if the MAGA guys ever find out what a bastard Trump is and how he screws them over over and over and over again. That's the thing Trump should actually worry about. All right, we're gonna take a break. When we come back, we've got more news for you,

including some updates on the hush money trial in Manhattan. Come right back. All right, back on TYT, Jink, and Anna and The Comet with you guys. Thanks for joining the comment. And Drew Wilson gifted 20 memberships. Thank you, Drew. You're awesome. And Director H gifted a membership, too. You guys are the best, Anna.

All right, some updates on the hush money trial in Manhattan. Okay, thank you very much. This gig order is not only unique, it's totally unconstitutional. the Republican candidate for president of the United States. I received this honor in record time. Nobody's ever got faster. It's never happened. Nobody's ever got the numbers that we got.

And I'm sitting in a courthouse all day long listening to this stuff. I mean, when you really think about it, it is an indictment on Joe Biden that Donald Trump is stuck in court for much of this election site. election cycle and the polls have them neck and neck. But nonetheless, Trump was slapped with fines today over his inability to keep his mouth shut and abide by the gag order issue to him in New York's hush money criminal case. Now the judge overseeing the case has held Trump in contempt for violating this gag order nine separate times. Now the judge determined that Trump had flouted the gag order by making nine public statements on social media,

truth social, of course, and on his campaign website as well in which he attacked both witnesses and the jury, meaning the jury that will deliberate and decide whether or not Donald Trump is guilty. Now the judge find Trump $1,000 for each violation for a total of $9,000, which isn't much money, it's a drop in the bucket for someone like Trump, I totally understand that, and the judge is going to explain why that number is so low in just a minute, but the judge also warned in the decision that he would not tolerate further violations of the order and said that if necessary and appropriate under the circumstances, he would impose an

incarceratory punishment on the former president, aka jail. Now the judge also explained that because the fines, which are limited by state law, were relatively little in comparison to Trump's wealth, he might be unlikely to deter or they might be unlikely to deter the former president from abiding by the court's order. The judge said that while he would prefer to impose commensurately larger fines, he instead had to consider whether in some instances jail may be a necessary punishment. Now, I don't, I don't, we'll see, I don't think Trump is going to abide by the gag order. I would be shocked if he was ever ordered to serve any time behind bars.

Nonetheless, Trump, Jesse Waters, weighed in and was very offended by what the judge did today. Let's watch. They are threatening to throw the Republican nominee for president in jail for talking, Harris, for talking during an election. Now, I'm not a lawyer, just play one on TV. But according to the gag, you could have the Loch Ness monster as a juror, And Trump can't say the Loch Ness monster is real. That's $1,000.

Boom, right there. It's not fair. It's unconstitutional. And it goes against everything that this country stands for. So I'm going to give you an example of one of the posts that Trump put out. But before I do, just a note, the judge also ordered him to take the post down by 2.15 p.m. today, which he did do. So before I get to some of the examples of what he had posted, Jank, what do you think about this gag order being violated and the fines that came along with it?

All right, I'm in a cranky mood. So I can't understand why it's so hard for Maga to understand this. And it's because they don't want to understand it. During a trial, you cannot attack the jurors. Do you think that you have a right to attack the jurors publicly? He does. He totally does. I mean, Trump thinks it, but I'm asking like, I mean, right wing media is like,

you like maybe I could find two people that aren't incredible liars. But everyone else, 98% of right wing media, if they're talking, they're lying, okay? So Jesse Waters, et cetera, they're trying to trick you. Oh my God, he was just wanted to have a roast beef sandwich and they told him you have no free speech, you're not allowed to talk at all. He was just going to make a campaign point, but they wouldn't let them, they're just a abusing this poor little victim. In reality, he's saying things that the judge told him you can't say because you can't

threaten the jury, you can't do, threaten the court members. By the way, he allowed, the judge allows Trump to threaten him. Yeah, that's true. Okay, he says, you can say anything you want about me. He is allowed to threaten the judge. Yeah, and, and which is unprecedented, but he's like, okay, I've got a weirdo fascist over here, so I guess I'll let him rip into me, but I'm not going to let him rip into the jury, etc.

This is just like the simplest rules designed so that mobsters don't intimidate the jury. But now your guy is a criminal. So now all of you guys are like, oh yeah, of course you have freedom who speaks to intimidate the jury. Maybe we go to their house and see how they like it. That's my freedom. No, it's not your freedom, brother. It's not freedom.

Yeah, and by the way, let me just be very clear. He doesn't have the right to threaten the judge's life, okay? But if he were to criticize the judge aggressively on social media, that would be totally fine. The judge has told him do that, but don't go after the witnesses and don't go after the jury. Now, last week during a hearing about Trump's alleged gag order violations, you know, his attorney had difficulty defending him because Trump violated the gag order. One of Trump's lawyers, Todd Blanche, claimed that the former president had not violated the order, but the judge chastised Blanche that day for failing to marshal facts or legal precedent in support of Trump. Quote, you've presented nothing, the judge scolded the lawyer, right? And then he rejected Blanche's argument that Trump's post didn't violate the gag order because they were responses to political attacks by adversaries, political adversaries.

By coincidence, they also happen to be the potential witnesses like Michael Cohen. So merely characterizing every one of defendants' postings as a response to a political attack does not make them so, is what the judge said. And the judge is correct. So here is the example that I was referring to. In one post for which Trump was fined, he attacked Stormy Daniels on his website, Truth Social, reposting a years old statement in which she denied having an affair with him. Trump added a comment falsely portraying that statement as newly discovered, look what was just found.

Will the fake news report it? The only problem is that wasn't a new statement from Stormy Daniels. It dated back to January of 2018 when she was abiding by a non-disclosure agreement that she had signed and so she was worried about violating that and facing a lawsuit from Trump as a result. Now during the hearing, the judge focused on. on Trump's lie about that statement. And so Blanche says, so that's not true.

And the, I'm sorry, the judge asked, so that's not true. And then Blanche responds, yeah, that's not true. And in another instance, Trump reposted a quote from Jesse Waters that read, quote, they are catching undercover liberal activists lying to the judge in order to get on the Trump jury. And of the 10 posts in question, the one that's, the judge actually ruled out as a violation of the gag order had to do with what Trump had to say about Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels. In a post, he referred to them as sleaze bags, and the judge said, I will allow it.

Look, I have a unique opinion on how juries should run. I think that they exclude way too much evidence from the juries because they go, oh my God, they'll get biased, et cetera. But what is Trump doing by taking an old statement of Stormy Daniels saying that? that they didn't sleep together. He's trying to influence the jury pool. It's like textbook what you're not allowed to do in the middle of a trial, right?

So, but on the other hand, freedom of speech. By the way, unless you're protesting Israel, in which case you should be arrested. Okay, but that's a different topic that almost all Republican politicians now agree with. But I think the funniest part of this is that's what he, that stormy Daniels statement is exactly where Trump page,

paid for. That's true. That was the hush in the hush money. So he gave her $130,000 to deny their fare. She denied their fare. She got the $130,000. And now that he's on trial for it, he's like, what, she denied their fare. Brother, you're actually kind of making the case against you, right? Yeah, that's true. And there's now a report out, of course, Donald Trump, very frustrated with those lawyers and his thinking of not paying them. Why? Because they're not putting together a very good case. Do you know why? Because there is no good case. He's giving them nothing to work with. I read the details of today's testimony. They have them dead to rights. They have all of the transactions. Here's this guy paying for that. Here's the guy who paid for it, saying,

yeah, we paid to make sure that it didn't get out before the election. We didn't even mind so much if it got out after the election, which proves it was about the election, okay? And then that they were funneling money to her in an illegal way in order to influence the election. And they have the paper trail. All right, Donald Trump, then what did you pay Michael Cohen for? Michael Cohen and every other person involved in this transaction says you paid to keep Stormy Daniels quiet. So it wouldn't affect your campaign. Nah, I went to Arby's.

I made that up, but he has no good explanation. So his lawyers go out there and they flail. They just do stupid things that he asked them to do. The judge slaps them down. He's like, hello, we're in a courtroom. You have to present evidence. And they don't because they don't have any. All right, let's move over to an interesting interaction that we caught over at MSNBC.

Nancy Pelosi had a sit down interview with Katie Tour and it was fascinating to say the least. Let's talk about it. Donald Trump is a great threat to our democracy. What is the democracy? What are the pillars? What are the pillars? A free and independent press to tell the story of what's going on, to keep everybody informed. Donald Trump has the worst record of job loss of any president. So we just have to make sure people know. That was a global pandemic. He had the worst record of any president. We've had other concerns in our country. If you want to be an apologist for Donald Trump, that may be your role.

You just witnessed Nancy Pelosi display, proudly display her hypocrisy in the context of the same interview, the same conversation within three minutes. That was incredible. She goes from fearmongering about Donald Trump and his lack of respect for freedom of the press, and then goes on to accuse an anchor at MSNBC, Katie Torre. of being an apologist for Donald Trump for simply stating a fact. That was an incredible moment and she should be called out for it. 100%.

But she's, this is what Democrats and corporate Republicans, both corporate parts of both parties, have been doing my whole life. They bully the press. You think Trump's the first one bullying the press? Definitely not. Okay, whenever they ask a question that the politician doesn't like, they lose access. Ask any journalist in Washington. If they're off the record, they'll tell you they're all obsessed with access. So thugs like Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell,

George Bush, et cetera, have been threatening them their whole lives. How dare you ask me a question? I didn't authorize. Can you believe Trump is against the press? Get out of here, man. And by the way, I just want to clarify, not clarify, but reinforce what Katie Turr said there. Look, I'm not going out of my way to defend Katie Turr, right? But she said, something accurate. So Democrats play this trick where they point to Donald Trump's jobs record and how it's so terrible, but they don't take it into account something that he had no control over, which was the global pandemic, which of course led to shutdowns. Shutdowns that the Democratic Party was fully in favor of and wanted to keep in place longer

than Republicans did, right? And so the unemployment rate fell from 4.7% shortly after Trump's election to 3.5% by the end of 2019, so before, before the pandemic took place. And that was actually below the Federal Reserve's expectations of about 4.5%. So the Federal Reserve was expecting the unemployment rate to be 4.5%, but Trump, during Trump's term, unemployment rate went down to 3.5% just before the global pandemic led to the shutdowns. Yeah, so technically Trump lost five million jobs in his term, okay? So I don't actually begrudge Nancy Pelosi for making that point.

She's a partisan. She's one of the leaders of the Democratic Party. She's making a point against Donald Trump. And technically it's true, no problem. The part that I object to is her then calling Katie Turr an apologies for Trump for pointing out reality. For doing her job. For doing her job. And really, MSNBC are apologists for Donald Trump.

That's so ridiculous. Okay, I mean, have you watched one minute of MSNBC? Okay, but the reason that Pelosi acts that way is because she's used to a lifelong, you know, career of, of every journalist in Washington kissing her ass. Admiration. Yeah, and they, her nickname is master legislator. I mean, it's hilarious, she's gotten almost no bills passed in her 200 year career. They got Obamacare passed with like 60 senators and 59.

I mean, they had super majorities and got two bills passed. Obamacare and Lily Ledbetter. They're still bragging about that. I mean, they didn't get it, they didn't, they could have codified so many things there. Higher minimum wage paid family leave. I know, but abortion, universal health care, everything. They didn't do, she didn't do any of that. And she's like, I came here to do an interview, your job is to fluff me.

Why aren't you fluffing me? Okay, so now, as opposed to us, you've seen me say 100 terrible things about, no, thousands of terrible things about Donald Trump. But did I ever tell you, oh my God, Donald Trump lost five million jobs? Yeah, he did technically, but that's not fair because he had a 3.5% unemployment rate, which is pretty good before the pandemic. Did he screw up the pandemic? I think he did, right? But any president would have lost a ton of jobs because of the pandemic. So it's true that Joe Biden has a better unemployment rate than Donald Trump pre-pandemic.

So give, and you've seen me criticize Biden a million times, but give Biden credit for that. But you've got to be fair, does anyone in new, like it, look. When you lie to people and when you mislead them and pretend as though all of those job losses were Donald Trump's fault when it wasn't his fault, it was, again, a global pandemic. And the right thing to do, I mean, it's debatable how long it should have occurred. thing to do at the time was to shut businesses down because we didn't know what the pandemic was going to mean. We didn't know how it was spreading. We didn't know how many people were going to die. That was what was supposed to happen. That was the right course of action for a

limited amount of time. And again, the amount of time can be debated. But the fact that she's being misleading, you think Americans aren't aware of that? When they see those kinds of lies, then they lose trust overall in the party that that representative is representing. And that's the Democratic Party. They don't realize that. They think Americans are idiots. We're not idiots. So rather than touting what Biden has accomplished during his economy, she goes negative. Because that's all Democrats are now conditioned to do. Negative, negative, negative. Even when they get things done, right? Even when they have things to celebrate, their minds are not trained to focus on using that as part of their campaign. They've been focused on negative campaigning

endlessly since what, 2015? And that's it. That's all they do. And it's misleading. People don't like it because it's dishonest. Yeah. And look, Pelosi and Trump both lie. And it's not like Trump is innocent. I mean, he lies a million times a day, right? And by the way, Biden is told outrageous lies. Outrageous lies, right? But the reason why both of them, Both the Republicans and the Democrats that are politicians are outraged whenever the press challenges them. It's because they're not used to it. They're used to the elites being pampered by the press and fetid by the press. So whenever the press actually does their job, they're bewildered by it.

They're like, I did not know that you were allowed to ask fair questions and actually state things that are true. Normally, when we tell you, shut up and repeat our propaganda, you guys do it. So, you know, credit to Katie Turr there for stating the actual facts of the situation. And I can't stand either side. So, okay, Democrats yell at me. Oh, no, Nancy Pelosi's lies are better than Trump's lies. Whatever. You guys fight over your dumbass lies.

But thank you, Katie Turr, for doing a good job on that one. All right. When we come back for the second hour of the show, we'll talk a little bit about, well, how the how Congress is basically planning to dismantle something fantastic that the Biden administration managed to do. It has to do with airline companies, how they've been screwing you, and how the Biden administration wants to ensure that you get your refunds. Well, Congress that's been bribed by the airline industries want to stop that from happening. Come right back. Perfect example of D.C. Perfect.

Thank you.