The Young Turks - Trump Releases Ridiculous New Ad And Michael Flynn Called Out By Judge

Episode Date: December 19, 2018

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Thank you, Granite, Experian with you guys. Donald Trump, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. Tick, lots of trouble. So we're gonna break down his hilarious Mike Flynn excuses and lies a little bit later. Mike Flynn's in some good amount of trouble, which puts Trump in even further trouble. And it goes on and out. So Green New Deal. Yeah, hello, it's awesome.

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has begun in some creative ways. And so recently, an ad was put out there featuring his campaign supporters and something that people can do to thank the president. Take a look. President Trump has achieved more during his time in office than any president in history. And that is why I need every Trump supporter to pick up the phone right now and deliver a personal thank you to your president. We have a booming economy, historic low unemployment, including the lowest unemployment rate

for minorities in history. We were bringing jobs back to America through new trade deals, and the world is a safer place. We need to let President Trump know that we appreciate what he's doing for America. I need you to call the number on your screen and deliver a thank you to President Trump. Call or go online now. Call 800-684-3043 now and press 1 to tell President Trump thank you. Thank you, President Trump. Thank you, President Trump.

Thank you, President Trump. President Trump needs to hear from his supporters by calling 800-6-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-1. 43043 or visit Donald J.Trump.com slash TV to thank President Donald Trump. Okay, two of my favorite things from that ad. First was the, after listing a number of things that Donald Trump didn't actually accomplish, he said that Trump has made the world a safer place unless you're a Washington Post journalist who gets murdered and dismembered by the Saudi royals. Not a safer place for those people. Other thing is, there was one fact in that, and that fact was Trump needs to hear from his supporters. That's true, that's true.

He needs to hear how much you love him because he has the thinnest skin ever. But you know what? I think that it was a compelling video, and it actually wanted, it made me want to call and thank Trump. And I wanted to share that call with you guys, so let's take a look. Thank you for calling to show your support for President Trump, and thank him for his efforts. to make America great again. After the tone, state your name and leave a brief thank you message for President Trump. Again, state your name and say thank you after the tone.

Hey, what's up, individual one? My name's Anna, and I just want to thank you so much for leading the effort in dismantling the Affordable Care Act. You know, my mom had kidney transplant surgery two years ago, so she's got a very serious pre-existing condition. But thanks to you and congressional Republicans, people like my mom can look forward to having their private insurance companies drop them for preexisting conditions. So thanks for that. I'm especially impressed by your determination to drill and mine in national parks. People often say that you don't have enough experience to be president, but those people probably don't know that you've had a lifetime of drilling other women behind your wife's back. Also, don't think I forgot about those tax

cuts for your rich buddies. I mean, I'm really grateful for that, especially since it's going to cost the country $2 trillion over the next 10 years. Lastly, I do want to express my gratitude for showing how strong the country is by directing Border Patrol agents to pepper spray migrant women and children. You know, that really proves how strong we are as a country and how our leadership is just big league. And finally, you continue to demonstrate your true bravery through your tweets, especially when you complain about S&L making fun of you. So again, thank you, Mr. President. I really appreciate all your hard work.

Beach. I didn't expect that last part. I did that as a joke and the editors kept it in, so. Okay, okay. So I'm glad you pressed that you hung up before saying that, because there's some chance that they will really They're not that bright, you know what I'm saying? Like, oh man, you should hear this one message. I mean, this woman is totally into you.

I mean, she thanked you like five different times, like macing the women and kids in the face. She thought that was strong, right? Okay, now as usual with this stuff, let's break it down if Trump was someone in your life. Like whenever you think about it, like I remember when he said, you know, there's two things I'm best known for in my life. Being mentally stable and like a smart person, okay? Somebody in your real life said that, you'd like literally call the police, like he's obviously

God needs medication. Let's make sure he doesn't have weapons. Right, exactly, right? So in this case, could you imagine somebody comes to your house like a friend? Because you know what? I need you to call this hotline to thank me, okay? That's what you need to do. Thank me.

But like anybody, I mean, imagine, okay, now let's, even if it's like politics for media, Imagine Sean Hannity does a thing where, you know what, I need you to thank me, okay? It's preposterous, it's preposterous. But imagine Obama did it. Oh my God, what would Fox News do? If Obama did an ad say, I need all Americans to call to thank me because I've been so goddamn great, you know what I'm saying? I've been so strong, you should thank me for it.

You know what Fox News would do? What we're doing right now? Yeah, maybe. Probably not as funny, but they would like lose it over it. Yeah, and so just so if you're wondering why, and I like that they couldn't get any actor to do that. Is that Brad Pascrell, the guy you saw that Oaf from beyond the wall, okay, that thug is his campaign manager.

So the campaign manager had to do the ad, he's like, nobody else's gonna step up, nobody else, all right. All right, yeah, you should thank Mr. President Donald Trump called his number, okay? Which campaign manager stars in a campaign ad? And what's Donald J.Trump.com slash TV? Are they already planning for Trump TV after he is impeached? Probably. No, seriously, that's a private, that's a, that's not a government website.

So yeah, it is not a government website. Also, look, I think that journalists, even though this seems like a joke of a story on the surface, I think journalists should look into this because this is an effort to fundraise for Trump's reelection campaign, that's what this is really about. Of course. And so if he's directing people to go to a non-government website to raise the money, is that problematic? Like I don't know if there are any issues there. Well, yeah, I mean, you can't go to a government website to raise for his campaign, but

I don't know why it's slash TV, that's weird, right? Okay, so, and then it just in case you were wondering what the purpose is, in their mind it's a win-win because they're like, oh, we get to brag about Donald Trump, and I don't know if they're collecting phone numbers. So there might be a reason why they're asking you to call in so that later they can text you to get out the vote, to fundraise, et cetera. Look, and progressives do it too, okay? I mean, when they call for impeachment and then collect all your emails, et cetera, right?

In this case, they're collecting your phone numbers, which might be even more valuable. So buyer beware, I know you want to go and leave messages like Anna did, but just so you know. Star 67 still works. So if you want to leave a call thanking the president, you can shield your number. Okay, don't say anything physical, okay, secret service will come for you. Don't do that, otherwise, have fun. Yeah. All right, you know what, I'm gonna do one more story before we go to break, and it's an update

on Michael Flynn, so let's get to it. Michael Flynn was set to be sentenced today, however, the judge has decided to postpone his sentencing if he agreed to a specific deal. So at Flynn's sentencing hearing, Judge Emmett Sullivan actually called Flynn's crimes, quote, a very serious offense and said he was not hiding his disgust at what Mr. Flynn had done. So Flynn had lied to the FBI about a number of things, including his conversations with a Russian ambassador. But he also lied about the fact that he was essentially a foreign agent. He was doing work on behalf of the Turkish government.

And he, again, had not been forthcoming about those things when he was being questioned by the FBI. Now, the judge continued to say, all along, you were an unregistered agent of a foreign country while serving as the national security advisor. Arguably, that undermines everything that this flag over here stands for. Arguably, you sold your country out. Now, Flynn does face some time in prison, even though prosecutors have asked for leniency in this case. case because he has cooperated with prosecutors, especially in the Russia investigation. So Flynn does face up to six months in prison, but federal prosecutors have recommended a lenient sentence, including the possibility of probation because Flynn has provided, quote,

substantial help with multiple criminal inquiries, okay? So until now, we were unsure of what other criminal investigations he was involved in, or at least helping in. But just this week, we found out what he is actually assisting prosecutors with. So on Monday, federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment featuring two of Flynn's former business associates of conspiring with Turkey in 2016 to pressure the United States to expel a rival of President Erdogan, prosecutors said Flynn aided them in the case. Okay, so let's break this down.

There'll be hilarious Trump excuses in a second. But first, I wanna give my assessment of the serious serious. with different charges. So he lied to the FBI, sure, that's a serious charge. For me, it depends more. For the law, it doesn't depend at all. He lied to the FBI, that's a very serious charge, sad day for him, right? In terms of how much I would want prosecutors to press on that, I'd ask why, what was he lying

about? So we'll come back to that in one second. The second charge, I think, is massive, and partly why he might be cooperating with them on the first charge, which is the being an unregistered foreign agent for Turkey. You know, the plan was to kidnap someone in Pennsylvania and somehow get them over to the Turkish government. And Michael Flynn was participating in that. That's nuts.

And so that's a massive, crazy crime. And then he's still an unregistered foreign agent when he's our national security advisor, beyond unacceptable. So to me, that's a far more serious crime. And the fact that he's not going to get any, likely not going to get any jail time for that, I mean, you had to have a lot of cooperation to get there if you ask me. So let me jump in because the cooperation is really key here. Based on the judge's statements, it appeared that the judge did take these crimes seriously

and was willing to sentence him to incarceration if he didn't agree to a deal with the judge. So what's the deal? The judge essentially told him, we can postpone your sentencing until after you have completed your involvement in these various investigations. And so what was implied by the judge is that he is unlikely to serve any time behind bars if he continues to cooperate with investigators and agrees to this deal. If he were to not agree to the deal, then it was likely that he could have been sentenced to some time behind bars.

So now let me tell you what's happening behind the scenes. Because Flynn's lawyer did a little gambit. I think that's what might have set off the judge, where right as they were going to go to sentencing, he suggested that perhaps the FBI was not clear with Flynn before they sat down that this was an official investigation and he should not lie to the FBI. Now, why did they do that? That was them dipping their toe in the water and seeing if Trump was going to pardon them right away.

Because basically saying, hey, President Trump, we're giving you an understanding. excuse here and Trump jumped all over it in one case in one sense by saying oh you see that poor Michael Flynn the FBI didn't tell him they were the FBI and he's poor little national security advisor former defense intelligence agency chief retired three-star general he couldn't possibly know that lying to the FBI is a crime I mean what a preposterous defense what an insane defense that is so bad sounds like Rudy Giuliani came up with it And so, of course, Fox and friends were all over it.

They were saying, well, you know, maybe he thought they were just buddies talking. When the FBI comes to question you about a case, they are not your buddies. Also, yeah, and he was asked by the judge if he felt that he was tricked into lying to the FBI, and he very specifically said, no, I knew that it was a crime to lie to the FBI. So that is relevant. That happened just today. Yeah, and so that goes to the second part.

So they do that little gambit, Trump jumps all over and he's like, and so does Fox. Oh yeah, yeah, poor Flynn, FBI tricked him, et cetera, right? And then, but Trump does not give him a pardon, and that would have been outrageous. But since he didn't get the pardon, Flynn's like back in the same situation, he might get some jail time. So when the judge says, hey, go back and cooperate a little bit more and then you might not get jail time, all right, now Flynn's made his decision because in court, he said what Anna just told you, which is, no, the FBI did not trick me, I knew I was lying to them. I'm totally guilty. So now he has no more outs. He has to go cooperate even more with the prosecutors, which then finally leads us back to why did he lie in the first place? So if they asked him about, I don't know, look,

these are all bad, but I would understand, you know, if he cheated on his taxes, he cheated on his wife, et cetera. You know, it depends on the context in which they're asking him that these are all illegal, but you can make different political judgments about. it, right? But in this case, why did he lie? No, no, no. It wasn't about any of that. It was because he had met with the Russians and talked about sanctions.

But wait, that's the core of the corruption here and the core of why the Russians wanted to collude. Remember, the sanctions against the oligarchs put into place by Obama, they hate those sanctions could affect their pocketbooks. Vladimir Putin and all of his top allies in Russia are affected by those sanctions. So that is the actual collusion between the Trump campaign and administration and Russia. So Flynn is at the heart of that. And so that's why when the FBI comes and says, did you meet with the Russian ambassador?

He's like, no, Russian ambassador, what name so, right? He lied about it to cover up the underlying problem, which is that they were having a conversation about lifting the sanctions for the Russians after they did Trump to solid of helping him get elected. So, how much evidence has Flynn given about that? So how much did he communicate with Trump about it? How much was it a quid pro quo? That's at this point impossible to know the details of it. But is it about the core of the issue?

Absolutely. No question about it. So that's why, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. Today's events took what was a really bad situation for Donald Trump and made them even worse, now Flynn is going to cooperate even further with prosecutors about the underlying problem. Now before news broke indicating that he had accepted the judge's deal and the sentencing will be postponed, Trump had tweeted about this. And his tweet seemed pretty measured, all things considered, he's usually not measured at all.

And I want to just share what he had to say. He said, good luck today in court to General Michael Flynn will be interesting to see what has to say, despite tremendous pressure being put on him about Russian collusion in our great and obviously highly successful political campaign, there was no collusion. So I read you that because there was collusion. I mean, the way that he communicates through Twitter on this very issue, this is my read obviously, makes it abundantly clear that there was collusion. Of course, of course.

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I'm not gay. I don't know why you would say that, I'm definitely not gay. And you'd be like, all right, dude, nobody cares, what's going on, right? Now, in this case, of course, a lot of people care, but he keeps screaming to the abyss. There's no collusion. The heart of this case is obviously about collusion. That's why he lied in the first place. That's why he met with the Russians in the first place.

So he's in a world's trouble. And this whole thing of like, hey, Michael Flynn, oh, you're a good guy, he treated you badly. Stay with me. That's not going to work. You're such a knucklehead. Look, he's just too stupid to do an effective cover-up. Yes. You can't just nudge the guy.

He already did his gambit. You should have known you either pardon him now or that's it. He's going to turn even more evidence against you. He can't see simple things like that, which I'm thrilled about because it makes him much more likely to get caught. And that's why I premised the idea that he'll never make it to the end of his term. too dumb to cover things up. In fact, last thing I'll say about that is, in the Michael Cohen case, speaking of the tweets,

he tweeted out about how Michael Cohen's a rat. Who talks like that? A mob boss? Exactly. There's a literal answer to that. Mopsters talk like that. No innocent person goes, oh, why did he rat me out? What a rat given all the information to the cops.

Yeah, if you're innocent, what is there to rat about? What is there to rat about? Yeah, he can't be a rat unless he has dirt on you. But that's so obvious, that's why I keep telling you. The one thing that people still underestimate is his level of stupidity. Who would be dumb enough to call someone a rat when they're being investigated? That's like raising your hand and saying, I did it, and I wish he didn't turn evidence against me.

It's pretty amazing, it really is. And my advice to anyone who was involved in the Trump campaign or is currently somehow involved in Trump, if you find yourself in the middle of an investigation, cooperate with prosecutors. If you are waiting on Trump to do you any favors, you're in a lot of trouble. Cooperate with the prosecutors. You have a, it's a safer bet to go in that direction if you're trying to avoid time in prison. Yeah, pull to shoot, dude, that's my advice. Pull to shoot.

Get the hell out of there. Anyone left on that ship? You want to talk about rats. Okay, they should be scoring for the exits right about now. Let's take a break when we come back. former editor for the National Inquirer opens up about possible criminal activity by Jared and Ivanka. Oh, that's an amazing story.

I mean, just when you think they can't break records on lying, not only is there hilarious lies in that story, but man, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, and now it's the kids. Is all I gotta say, we'll be right back. All right, back on TYT, Katlyn Sousa from Montana, you have 50 bucks on Amplify program. Thank you, we appreciate it. There's so many more media figures out there. Morning, New York Times, Washington Post. They all need Young Turks membership to get the progressive message to them.

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How incredibly sad. Agreed. Mr. Hatt and Klogg says they better start taking bail money donations instead of campaign donations, elbow from the sky. Winsong says Flynn hasn't told Mueller everything. He hasn't talked about the triumvir in between Donald Trump, Flynn, and Putin. Why else would Donald Trump treat Flynn just like he treats Putin? That's an interesting point.

I hadn't quite thought of that. In fact, thanks for reminding. I just want to quickly point out for all the people who are like, oh, yeah, you know, FBI tricked Flynn into lying and it's outrageous, it's terrible, it's no big deal that he lied to the FBI. Donald Trump's reason for firing Flynn in the first place was that he lied to Mike Pence. Oops. They seem to have conveniently forgotten that at Fox News.

Okay, Mermaidum says this is reminding me of the hilariously ignorant, I asked if he was a cop. They have to tell you if they're a cop. And on Twitter, Sedway says, I've been watching TYT live since I moved to Mexico four years ago. Finally joined with Anna, although I love Brent and Ben and John and Brooke, too. I had to give it to Anna for the win. What? You didn't even mention you.

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But look, we need the members to be sustainable and be home of progressives. So this is a perfect time to join. So t.com slash join, please. Okay? All right, Anna, what's next? All right. The National Inquirer has been given immunity in the investigation of illegal campaign contributions for the Trump campaign.

Now, the National Inquirer assisted Donald Trump and Michael Cohen in killing a story involving one of Trump's alleged mistresses. Now, with that said, an ex-national Inquirer editor was on Ari Melburgh's show on MSNBC to talk about his experiences when he was working for the tabloid. And he had some pretty interesting things to say, let's take a look at the first part. Do you have reason to believe Mr. Pecker knew other incriminating things about Trump that have not come out? Yes, certainly. Do you know what any of those are?

I know some of them. And there are stories involving, of course, the Trump-Kushner family. There are stories of, you know, sibling rivaling with the children, backbiting discord with his wife. Would you describe them because obviously we're talking about things that haven't come out and we obviously haven't verified them. But would you characterize them as merely embarrassing, if you will, or do any of them arise to the level of being potentially criminal? Well, actually, both. I mean, they're certainly embarrassing. And then when you get involved with, you know, the actions of his children, including

his daughter and son-in-law, we're getting closer to criminal activity. Whoa, okay, that came out of nowhere. So this story has a hilarious component as well, which we're going to get to in a little bit. But why in particular, Jared and Ivanka on the criminal activity as opposed to Donald Trump? We already know the criminal activity related to Donald Trump in the National Enquirer. They pay the hush money for him, which is an illegal campaign contribution. And he is potentially a co-conspirator in that felony.

And that's certainly what the prosecutors seem to indicate and what they have made public so far. They don't list his name. They call him individual one, but it's obviously Donald Trump. But Ivanka and Jared, so let's listen a little bit more here. And then I'm gonna tell you what we think he might be referring to, which also relates to the hilarious part. So let's watch the second clip.

And when you say another shoe to drop, can you give us any more insight on what you're talking about? I think there's, I think the special that they racked last winter is particularly curious. It was racked at Walmart. It was a glossy. It had a picture of the prints on the cover. There were pictures of President Trump inside.

The prints of... It seemingly came out of left field. It wasn't the typical American media product. Which prints? MBS. And so you're talking about your belief that there may be some other financial incentive for some of that coverage? I certainly do. And do you have, I have to ask this, do you have any specific evidence of that?

Or that's just what folks are talking about that you know at AMI? It just, it smells fishy, in addition to shortly after that cover was racked, American media, which is basically a cash poor company somehow came up with the funding to buy up their competitors from the Bauer organization. Okay, so what is he referring to? And we looked into it, because I'm sorry that I'd missed this at the time, because it is glaring. So, the company that makes the National Enquirer put out a magazine called The New Kingdom, and it's 100 pages, no ads, and all it does is tell you how awesome Muhammad bin Salman is and how great the Saudi kingdom is.

In fact, in it they call it the magic kingdom, as if it's Disneyland. Yeah, they did Disney, Disney-Fi it. Yeah. But one other thing that I want to mention quickly is, you're right, all it is like a glowing magazine, about Mohammed bin Salman, it refers to Saudi Arabia as our closest Middle East ally destroying terrorism? That's, of course, as usual. Not the ally part, but destroying terrorism is the exact opposite.

They have funded terrorism throughout the world. Okay, now let's get to some of the funny parts before we get to why. Why on God's green earth is this happening? So they mentioned what Anna said. They called the Magic Kingdom. And then they have all this glowing stuff. They say he's, Muhammad bin Salman is controlling a staggering $4 trillion business empire. He's building a $640 billion sci-fi city of the future.

And that his main goal is, I swear to you, I'm not kidding, quote, spreading happiness. I mean, spreading body parts is more like it, but that's the insane magazine that was put out. They said his economic diversification isn't just about protecting the rich elite. Muhammad bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia is all about the poorer in the middle class. Hilarious. He's turning Saudi Arabia into a quote, a global investment powerhouse at Tech Hub. And get this, the city he's going to build as a quote, utopian city, the likes of which

the world has never seen. I mean, it is one absurdity after another after another. And they were charging 1399 for this and printed 200,000 comments. Who the hell would buy that? Right? No, it's obvious. It's literally the most obvious propaganda piece I have ever seen in my life. And so of course, there's not a single critical thing of him.

And interestingly enough, it's not just pictures of Muhammad bin Salman and Saudi Arabia. And they also go nuts about how awesome the country of Saudi Arabia is. They talk about their falcon hunting and their horse racing. And they talk about their vegetation and animals and how wonderful this place is. So then they asked American Media Incorporated back then when it first came out. They're like, so no one paid you guys for this? You just decided that maybe Americans will gobble this up and it'll be a great selling magazine? They're like, yeah, that's right, nobody paid for it at all.

It's not at all propaganda. No, we just thought it'd be a best seller. No, no. And let me add again, emphasize what you said earlier. There were no ads in this magazine, which means they didn't make, well, if anyone bought it for $14. Right. Well, yeah.

I can't imagine anyone did. But you know, there was no ad space in the magazine. So what was their incentive? There had to have been an incentive in publishing this. Of course, of course. I mean, look, I will guarantee it to you. I'll bet any amount of money that the Saudis and or the Trump organization, people involved in the Trump organization, paid for this.

Of course they did. So why the Trump organization, how are they connecting? First of all, David Pecker, who runs National Enquirer, is friends with Donald Trump. He does propaganda for him all the time, not just on the hush money, which he is now admitted on the mistresses covering up all of his affairs, but he did positive propaganda for Donald Trump throughout his career, and then during the campaign, he did negative stories about his opponents. Ted Cruz's dad killed JFK, and Ted Cruz had five mistresses, which might be even more absurd

than the Saudi peace, right? So that's the connection to the Trump's, but also the person who has featured the second most in this magazine, number one is Muhammad bin Salman. Second is Donald Trump. And Salman is quoted as saying Donald Trump is a president who will bring America back on the right track. And so obviously AMI got paid for it. Now it doesn't matter what the speculation is because David Pecker has turned evidence.

So he has already told prosecutors very, very likely, this is a second case about who paid for this magazine in the second case. And if it turns out that people of the Trump organization coordinated payments to National Inquirer and funneled money from Saudi Arabia, well, that's collusion number two. So look, it's not, if Trump was a private citizen and he's just brokering this weird business deal, that's his business, right? But is there something connected to politics here when they're supposed to be serving the people of the United States of America, but instead they're serving a foreign country?

And did they get something in return? So that's why the former editor of the National Inquirer, the guy you just saw saying, hey, they should look at Ivanka and Jared Kushner, meaning they might have arranged this deal, and did they get something financially in return from the Saudis? That's bad news for the Trump administration and for Trump himself because the one way that I've been telling you from literally day one that he resigns is they say Donald, we got you and Ivanka. What are you going to do now?

So in the end of what Jerry George said, Jerry George is the former editor at the National Inquirer, he said something about a media acquisition between the National Encore, AMI and something else. So it could be, you know, money or some sort of funding that they've received for creating this magazine in order to help with that acquisition. I don't know. But it appears that he knows something and it's not really our job or anyone's job other than investigators to look into it to see if there were any crimes committed in any

type of deal here. MAGA guys, just hold your powder dry on your lies and absurd defense. here. Because remember, Pecker already turned in the evidence. You're gonna be proven wrong, you know, in a matter of time. They don't care. So I know, but I could picture that now and there's stupid-ass red hats like, no, no, no, the Crown Prince is a great guy.

He said, the National Enquirer in Donald Trump, they did a wonderful job in promoting this Muslim fundamentalist dictator who chops up people. Of course it was, yeah, it was a hot seller, that's why they did it. You know what the National Enquirer claimed at the time? They're like, what, what? It was a feature like we'd done on Elvis and the Beatles. Oh. Come on.

So, all right, good luck to you, brothers. But it looks like, again, the Trump family is in a world of trouble. Tick, tick, tick. I was just about to say. Tick, tick, tick. Oh, Ivanka. Orange might look good on her. Oh, it's so your color.

Oh, my God. Well, it might be soon. All right, we got to take a break. When we come back, Roger Stone, more legal trouble. We'll tell you what happened when we- Finally has admitted at least one set of lies that he has done, but in a spectacular fashion. You're going to love that story. We hope you're enjoying this free clip from the Young Turks.

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out of that. Green New Deal, insanely popular, I can't wait to tell you about it. And then, of course, the mainstream media will do a progressive embargo on it. And then how much did the average worker get from the Trump tax cuts? All amazing stories. Let me just give you a couple of quick comments here. Colin says, given a choice between the deep state and fascists, I'm with the deep state. These are the times that we're in.

We're having to make insane choices like that. But I hear you, Colin. I just don't even, which is the best member handled. First name is I just. The second name is don't even. It's true. Become a member, you'll see it. He says, yes, the propaganda is kind of funny, but it's also dark as hell.

These are unbelievably dark times. Yes. And Shihara writes in, I feel like several MAGA people just set their TVs on fire in the front yard after hearing that last segment. Okay, one could only hope. Mr. Rustard on Twitter says, I'm looking forward to seeing what Ivanka can come up with to spruce up that orange suit. And VVV-Zero says, Saudi Arabia, come for the terrorism, stay for the murder.

National Inquirer should have tried that in their propaganda for them. All right, so, and one more thing, remember guys, it is a free week of trials here. So t.t.com slash holiday gets you a free week of Young Turks membership so you can try it out. All right, Anna, what's next? All right. Following a defamation lawsuit, Roger Stone has admitted to spreading lies about a self-exiled Chinese businessman living here in the United States.

Now he slandered the man on Info Wars and has now been forced to apologize for it. And even though he was sued for a large amount of money, $100 million to be exact, he has agreed to instead put out advertisements admitting that he had lied about this individual's reputation. Now, the agreement requires Stone to run ads in national newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal, apologizing for making defamatory statements about a Chinese businessman who is a vocal critic of Beijing. That's part of the reason why he's living here in the United States.

It also requires Stone to publish a retraction of the false statements on social media, doing so exempts him from paying any of the damages. Now, I wanna also just side note mention that he keeps talking about. how all these legal troubles and it's so expensive and I don't know how I'm gonna pay for all of this. And so he's fundraising, trying to get people to pay for his legal expenses. Now I have no doubt that there are some legal expenses because he's a bad guy and he's involved in all sorts of shady stuff.

But he will not have to pay that $100 million amount. Like he is gonna put out those ads, but that's it. Also Stone was also accused of violating U.S. election laws by by making political donations. Wait, what? Oh, okay, sorry about that. I misread that. So come back to me, let's take that part out.

So what did he say? How did he defame this Chinese businessman? Well, apparently, according to this settlement, it resulted from this lawsuit by the Chinese businessman who sued Stone for falsely accusing him of being a turncoat criminal who is convicted of crimes here and in China. That's what he said when he was on Info Wars. He further said or accused this businessman of violating U.S. election laws, this is very funny and ironic, by making political donations to Hillary Clinton.

So foreigners cannot make campaign contributions to U.S. politicians. But Roger Stone lied and said that this Chinese businessman did so. Finally, the Chinese businessman claimed that Mr. Stone was paid to make the defamination remarks about him on Info Wars. He said the payment ultimately came from a Chinese American media tycoon named Bruno Wu, who this Chinese businessman, Guo, previously accused of being a spy for the Chinese government. Now, Bruno Wu and Guo were in legal contest as well, accusing each other of several different things.

But here's a couple of really important takeaways. Now look, it's wonderful that there's at least a little bit of justice. that is finally visited upon Roger Stone. And as I told you before, we were, of course, as always shown to be right. He is in this case literally a proven liar, an adjudicated liar. And so that's a statement that you could say about him to the end of time. Everybody knows he's a liar. He brags about lying.

But in this case, the second part's more important. It's fun to talk about, ha ha, they got Roger Stone, it's a bad guy, we all know it, etc. But, and info wars making, putting things on there that is not factual and, you know, and the sun rises and, you know, in the east, goes down in the west, the sky is blue, the grass is green. We all know that, but having it go to court and then a settlement, et cetera, is a different animal altogether. But the second part's the important part, look, the Chinese government.

does not like that Guo was criticizing them. And they made up some charges against them, and they want him back. Kind of like the Saudis wanted Jamal Khashoggi back. And so when Roger Stone makes up lies about him and says he committed crimes in China and committed crimes here in America, well, it could have led to his deportation to China, where God knows what would have happened to him. Certainly prison for an incredibly long time, it appears completely on. unjustly.

And remember, Roger Stone is deeply connected to Donald Trump. He's the man who convinced Trump to run in the first place. Could he have gotten Trump to then say, hey, look, the Chinese are looking for him and actually send him back? We just saw that Trump for an ally or someone he thinks if it's something benefits him, let the Saudis chop up a guy. So in this case, it's not funny. Roger Stone was looking to ruin this guy's life for money.

And didn't mind sending him back to a gulag and perhaps even to be killed at some point. The Chinese have absurd laws on execution for a variety of offenses. I don't know that that would have happened to go in this case, but I tell you, I wouldn't want to be gull if he got sent back to China. And Roger Stone is a despicable person who would have done that to another human being full well known, knowing that he's lying, he got paid to lie. And he thinks, oh, I ruined that guy's life. And he has to spend maybe the rest of his life in a Chinese prison and his family's ruined

and everything is ruined, but I made an extra dollar, of course I'm gonna do that. Yeah. That's how, these are the monsters that we're dealing with. So, and I also want to note that the settlement does make one thing absolutely clear. So remember, the accusation was that there was a Chinese businessman who had basically given this information to Stone, and then Stone had defamed the plaintiff in this case, right? Now Stone's settlement, this is noted in the settlement, identifies Mr. Wu, that's the businessman, as the apparent source of the information about Glow, and says it was conveyed to him by a former

member of Mr. Trump's presidential campaign. Yes, Sam Nunberg. Yeah. So now, speaking of Trump, there's another relationship here. Trump, of course, is back stone all the way. Why? Because Stone has a lot of incriminating evidence on Donald Trump on probably a number of issues. And he is not cooperating with Mueller.

So Trump keeps tweeting about how Stone's got guts, okay? Whereas Michael Cohen is a rat. I mean, how much like a mobster does he sound? It's ridiculous. She's like, that guy won't turn evidence against me, he's got guts, he's a good guy. The other one's a rat giving all the evidence. You idiot, you're accidentally admitting that you did it, right? But he's too stupid to realize that.

But what's his main claim about Roger Stone and why he should be believed over Robert Mueller and the entire FBI? He says he has a lot of credibility. He is, in this case, literally a proven liar. Trump looks at that and does not see that as the bug. He sees it as the feature. And then he goes out and makes the preposterous case that Roger Stone has credibility. and that's why we should believe him over the FBI.

Okay, Trump's a criminal, he's trying to cover his tracks. Roger Stone's a criminal, Roger Stone's a liar. These are now, at least some of it as you see here, like the lying part is clearly proven and admitted to, and he's going to have to put it all over the papers. I'm a liar, I'm a liar, I'm a liar, and he tried to just absolutely destroy this guy's life. He's such a terrible person. But for all you MAGA guys, really? You think Roger Stone is the one that's credible?

And Donald Trump is the one that's credible? Okay, listen, if you choose to be a moron, that's up to you. Nothing I could do about that. And Fox News, oh my God, defending guys like Roger Stone, it's humiliating, man. And by the way, thank you though. We appreciate you showing your true face. Through all of this, we got to see who the good guys and bad guys are. Before you could have said, hey, look, some people just have difference of opinion.

And that turned out to be true in some cases. Wallace has been pretty vigilant in holding conservatives accountable. He's still a conservative, I still disagree with him. Napolitano is very conservative, but has been absolutely vigilant about what's true or not true. So those are the heroes, even though I totally disagree with them on every other issue. Shep Smith has been vigilant. Almost everyone else at Fox News, Fox and Friends, John Hannity, in Harris Faulkner

lately, total embarrassments defending these minds. monsters and obvious liars. And that goes on your career for the rest of time. Enjoy that. One final point I want to add to this, that actually doesn't have anything to do with Roger Stone, is the fate for Guo in America. I would be worried if I were him. If Trump continues to be in charge, he has made it very clear that he has no problem holding

certain individuals hostage or using certain individuals in the case. negotiations with China. So negotiations regarding trade, for instance, right? And so we have decided to convince Canadian authorities to basically arrest a CEO from China. And Trump has made it clear that, hey, you know, maybe I can intervene in this case if it'll help with the trade negotiations with China. Look, I'm bringing that up because that is unprecedented and that is not the way America is supposed. supposed to operate. We don't hold people hostage in the middle of trade negotiations.

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