The Young Turks - Trump's Speech After NYC Arraignment

Episode Date: April 5, 2023

TYT reacts live to Trump's speech after being arraigned in NYC. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to The Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. Welcome to what is usually a member's only bonus episode, but on this special occasion, we have opened it up to the public. Come one, come all. Because Trump will be holding a press conference today to talk about his arraignment. More like a depressed conference, am I right? Zinger.

Because of his legal troubles. John Iderola was kind enough to come back to work to help me do this coverage. There will be a member's only bonus section later where we'll just do our analysis. So you can become a member by going to t.com slash join or if you're watching us on YouTube, just click on that join button. You can become a member that way as well. So, John, I have not talked to you at all about the news of today, the arraignment itself. Or about anything. You never text, you never call.

I mean, I could if you want me to. Yeah, you were busy arguably doing a show. Yes. So I don't know. Maybe my, I feel probably different than you might think or that most people might think. And I don't mean about like where I think this is going to go. I think everybody on the network has been very clear about their actual expectations or hopes or combine those two things into one thing. More about the process where, I don't know, I just, I'm not as excited as I would want to be about the process. That does not mean that I don't have room for excitement. His speech tonight, I think, the chaos that it'll generate, I'm down for that.

But the legal process, so we got the indictment. And then they said when the next court date is, did you see that? Oh, I didn't know. When is the next court date? I think it's December 5th. I'm probably not even going to be alive come December 5th. And I'm supposed to invest my spirit in that. Those wheels of justice, they just keep on spinning slowly, very slowly. It's very normal, but come on, seriously.

That's so weird. I wonder why it takes that long. Just a busy court system, I don't know. Well, delaying is a tactic by the defense. So I wonder if the defense played a role in that. I haven't seen any indication that it's on them yet. They might, well, they will try to get that pushed back. They were trying to get it moved to Staten Island and everything. Right, right.

They're going to do all sorts of stuff. For now, it just seems like, yeah, these sorts of things take literally years. So, you know, it's still going to be during. Oh, it's like December 5th. And I think the actual beginning of the trial process, I think is the beginning of January, which is like go time in the Republican primary. Yeah, I'm sure that'll work out real well. So I'm looking forward to that.

I just, anyway, we'll see how it plays out. But I'm more curious, look, like I've said before, I'm going to repeat it again. Out of all of the investigations that Trump is facing, he, in my opinion, based on the evidence that we've seen, the evidence that we have, he broke the law, so I don't want to minimize that. But what he did in stealing top secret and classified documents and taking it home with him to Mara Lago, I think that's more serious. The efforts to essentially commit fraud in the 2020 election, right? He told election officials in Georgia to find him enough votes so he wins the state, like just make up votes. I mean, the guy loves fraud. There was also a coup. It's easy to

forget that, but there was a coup attempt. An attempt, yes, yeah. Yeah, I, yeah, look, I am all for beginning a process of normalizing holding powerful people accountable for the things that they do. Thousand percent. I would have ordered it in a different way. I don't know, maybe this is like the legal amuse bush and Fulton County drops in a couple weeks, you know, once our palate has been prepared fully. Maybe it's better, maybe doing the little one first and then hitting us with January 6th and Fulton County and the rape trial that he has. Isn't it weird that you can forget about the alleged rape trial of a former president?

Yes, E. Gene Carroll, right? Yes, exactly. That's a civil suit, by the way. Exactly, yes. So I don't know, maybe ordering it this way allows people to continue to be like, oh dear God, this is even worse. Whereas if you led with the first one, and then you came out, the hush money, be like, whatever. I don't know, maybe that's strategic. They're not coordinating. It's not like that. Yeah, so I don't know. We'll see how it all plays out.

But the one thing that resonated with me was when you said, like, I thought I would be more excited. And I'm right there with you. I mean, I'm not really excited. I just think it's important to hold everyone accountable, regardless of what, their status is in society, right? That there shouldn't be a two-tier justice system. So I feel like this is the right thing to do. But the reason why we're probably not like, woo, like super excited and like giddy about it is, I don't know, man. Because look,

at the end of the day, it doesn't actually improve anyone's life, right? So like I get giddy when there's actual policy that's going to lead to material benefits for ordinary people. And like with this, it feels good because Trump's a bad guy should be some consequences for what he does. But if you take a step back and I ask Republicans to think about it this way as well, when you're super excited and you're like vociferously supporting your preferred Republican candidates because of how vicious and cruel they are to various groups of people, whether it be transgender people, whether it be immigrants, like doesn't really. really improve your life? Are they really representing your best interests? Or are you just getting your rocks off by watching your preferred politicians be ridiculously cruel to others? Yeah. Like, my point is, you should have higher standards, you know, for politicians in general. And that

goes for both sides. Yeah. And I wouldn't like try to convince you that like, no, you shouldn't draw any pleasure from people you've been misled, I would say generally, to believe are terrible, are suffering in some way, I guess. We like joking about dark Brandon occasionally. But imagine if that was the only thing that we cared about. Imagine the state of our show, of us. It's like, oh no, he did a dark Brandon, and now I'm good. I don't need to retire ever or have health care.

I'm all good, baby. That would be super weird. And that is what they're actually doing. They want a baseball bat next to Alvin Bragg's head, and they're good. Yeah, I mean, some people just see. And look, I also understand it, right? Because when politicians in the political system stops representing the best interests of the electorate and it's been that way for so long, politics just devolves into a reality show, cults of personality and a blood sport. And so to some extent, I think voters have been conditioned to think this is all politics is. It's owning the other side. And if you really ask yourselves, as I've asked myself today, does it feel really good to just own the other side? I mean, sure, temporarily, but it's not even about owning the other side. For me, it's just, I want justice.

I want, I want him to be held accountable the same way anyone else would if they committed the same crimes. Yeah, and even, I understand that I've sort of spun out on this tangent because this is something that I think bothers both of us and has for a very long time. to the extent that even I have a desire to own the other side, like, I think you can sort of compare people on, if you were to start at the very top of the other side, how far down do you still draw pleasure from the owning of them? I do for the people at the top. Trump gets owned or whatever I'm happy, governors, senators, representatives, some at least, perfectly happy. But for some on the right, it's like second grade teacher that lives 2,000 miles from them that they've never met. I want a person to suffer. I know. I get nothing from a

random conservative suffering. I wouldn't want it at all. Same. I agree. I think it's really weird to derive your strength and your vigor from that sort of thing. Yeah, I don't really enjoy watching ordinary people suffer in any way, even if I disagree with them politically. So John's a good dude, John's a good dude. I try. And look, I was going to try really hard to not mention how good your haircut looks, but I can't help it. Your haircut looks so good. Thank you. So the reason I try to performatively act like a good guy, just to generate these sorts of compliments. She wasn't going to do it until I was a nice guy. No, it's, that is a great haircut. Thank you. I appreciate that. I'm going to say you didn't go to Jenks' favorite

fancy hair salon known as Supercuts. Supercuts? No, this time I did not. Have I been to a Supercuts That's close to our office 20 times. Yes. But no, I went to a slightly nicer place. Yeah. I looked at a couple of others and I looked at their prices and what's going on with hair cutters recently? Oh my God, don't even get me star. $60 for a haircut? What am I, Pete Buttigieg? Back off. You're not allowed to complain about $60. I am a woman. I have this much hair. You guys want to know how much I get my hair done. Like when I, the works, Okay, not just the roots. So hair, cut, color.

Cut, color, highlights, blow dry. $225. Oh, John, you are very sweet. I added the 25 based on your facial expression. Okay, so I go to, the woman I go to is actually a childhood friend. I grew up with her, she lived across the street for me, I love her, and for the longest time, she would give me a massive discount. Well, the pandemic was obviously not good for hairstylists, people who work in salons.

Anyone. Basically anyone, yeah, a lot of people like lost their jobs or had to shut down their businesses. And so I told her, I was like, stop giving me the discount. I want to pay full price because I want to help, you know, like I can do it, don't worry about it. It's 450. Oh God. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you know what, she does a great job.

and I'm happy to pay the full price. That is what she charges. She is incredible, amazing. I mean, your hair looks great. Believe me, I know. By the way, I regret all of this now. I do that twice a year. In between, I just do my roots,

which doesn't end up looking as good, but I'll get by. Your hair is solid. You have nothing to worry about. But anyway, so do we have any kind of timeline for when he's supposed to get him out? I imagine there's like a big crowd outside of Mar-a-Lago. So Trump was scheduled to do his press conference at 515 Pacific time, 815 Eastern time.

It is not surprising to me that it is now that time and the press conference hasn't started. I think he'll probably be a little late, but we're going to stick by this and immediately as soon as he starts his speech will show you what he has to say and then we'll give you some analysis on it. Go ahead. Okay, I mean, if there are more updates than definitely, but at the very least, I'm kind of curious what you think he's gonna use this opportunity for. Oh, it's gonna be lunacy, like he's gonna complain, he's gonna talk about how he's such a victim. This is, how many times he's gonna say witch hunt? Oh my God, I mean.

Should we drink? Do we have whiskey? Well, wait, where are we going with this? I wish we could have a counter. I mean, I'm gonna say at least 10. You know what, why don't we do healthy drinking? So every time he says witch hunt, we take a sip of water, hydration. You've become so much more fun over the years.

You wild one, calm down. There are kids watching. But anyway, sure, I didn't bring my water. No, I was kidding. We're not going to do the hydration thing. I'm actually feeling a little bit dehydrated. I should probably. I'm still hungover from WrestleMania.

Anyway. Oh, I want to ask you about that. Well, we'll talk about it. There's the president being indicted as we speak. So yeah, I think look, at least 10 times. So for his speech, my expectations, like him coming out and whining and presenting himself as a victim and all of that, that's nothing. Like that doesn't even register for me on the lunacy scale. I am just waiting to see how much he is going to push the judge to put a gag order on him.

I love that you brought up the judge. Dude. Yeah. Dude, okay, so a little bit of context, if he is convicted of these charges, remember 34 counts of felony falsifying documents, if he is convicted on all charges, he could serve a maximum of four years in prison. Now, it is a- For each charge. For each charge, okay, but it's discretionary, meaning the judge gets, it's not mandatory, meaning the judge gets to decide how much time he spends in prison. But Homeboy can't help himself, and he's been going after the judge viciously. And the judge is a professional, so like, why don't we talk about that?

I want to get into some of the details, including some of the ridiculous attacks on the judge. So, all right, so Donald Trump has been arraigned, Donald Trump has been arraigned on 34 counts of felony falsifying documents. And this is, of course, the case having to do with. with the hush money payments that were paid to Stormy Daniels in the lead up to the 2016 election. Now the reason why it's considered a felony is because he is being accused of falsifying the documents in order to cover up another crime. And the other crime has to do with campaign finance violations. Because the money that was paid to Stormy Daniels is considered campaign financing, right? Money to help. It could be considered. It could be considered

that because it was meant to, obviously it's hush money, so prevent her from talking about the affair that they had, which could have hurt Trump's chances in the 2016 election. So they tried to suppress that along with other unsavory things that Trump had done, right? We'll learn more and more about that as this case unravels. With that said though, the judge overseeing this case has already been attacked pretty viciously by Donald Trump. So it's worth knowing who the judge is and what this could mean for Trump. Now, the judge presiding over the trial is Judge Juan Mershahn, who has already been attacked pretty viciously by Donald Trump. I'm going to give you a few examples. In a truth social post

on March 31st, Trump wrote this. The judge assigned to my witch hunt case, but he is assigned to your case. What does that mean? He is assigned. I don't know why that's in quotation marks, but okay. The judge assigned to my witch hunt case, a case that has never been charged before, hates me. His name is Juan Manuel Marchan, who was handpicked by Bragg and the prosecutors and is the same person who railroaded my 75-year-old former CFO Alan Weisselberg to take a plea deal pled guilty even if you are not. 90 days, fight us in court, 10 years life. Basically, he took a plea deal because if he went to trial and was found guilty, he could have spent 10 years in prison. And as we know, Donald Trump for decades has argued that these pleas are often,

they lead to unjust outcomes for everyone, regular people as well, not just his former CFO. I mean, he's well known for that. He's well known for making that point. It's consistent. I have to give him credit words too. So he's complaining about the judge. Don Jr. did something particularly vicious by posting a picture.

feature featuring the judge's daughter. It's just, so they're going after the family members, it's just gross. Now keep in mind, if Trump is convicted of the 34 counts of falsifying documents, each count carries a possible maximum sentence of four years in prison. It's discretionary, meaning the judge will get to decide how much time, if any, Trump spends behind bars. And so maybe keep your powder dry and don't attack the judge the way you've been attacking him, you know?

Because if you do get convicted, he gets to make a decision about your sentence. Now a few more details about the judge here. He is a veteran of the New York court system with 16 years on the bench. He did in fact preside over the case against Trump's or the Trump organization's CFO Alan Weisselberg. And Trump is not happy about that. So he thinks that this is a witch hunt. He thinks that there should be a different judge presiding over this case. But he doesn't get to pick and choose who the judge is.

He doesn't get to pick and choose how this case plays out. Now his defense attorneys are trying to get the case thrown out. They're arguing that they can use the so-called Clayton motion. Have you heard of this? You're gonna have to talk about it. It's unique to New York and the argument is you should throw out the case, even if there is merit to the allegations in the name of justice. It's a really weird, like basically- So it's a get out of jail free card.

Pretty much, yeah, and I think the argument here is he's a former president, this sets a bad precedent, so it's better if we just throw this out. Which would set a great precedent. Which was set the best. Only the most awesome. The best precedent. The biggest precedent. Delicious president.

Okay. I love that like, they understand that if you just say to America, hey, so. Oh, it's about to start. It's about to start. We'll return to that. Okay. American as I can be free. Isn't this yet another song that he has been asked.

many times to stop using. Probably, but he can't help himself. I love when he comes in, he does this a bunch of times. I'm so excited. So this is awesome. I just want to go to prison. Okay, but a few more details on the Clayton motion. It states that it is in the interest of justice,

regardless of the merits of the case, to dismiss the case. I mean, depending on how you'd like to define justice, perhaps. Unique New York. New York. Yeah. It is unique to New York.

Those two guys that you just saw the older guy and the younger guy, they sum up every male supporter of Donald Trump, both the young and the old look exactly like that. Every single one of them. It's weird. Yeah. All right. Great camera position, good staging. People are fired up.

Anyway. So after his arraignment in New York, Donald Trump traveled back to Florida. He is at Mar-a-Lago to do this press conference. He is already nine minutes late, and that is annoying, considering I have already been on air for two and a half hours and would like to get off camera as soon as possible. It's inconsiderative of him, really. He should have been thinking of you. Should have been thinking about me. Look, I guess we have to, again, give some credit except this time I'm not being as sarcastic. There is actually a crowd there.

In New York, he mostly failed. Like, most of the people there were CNN camera people. Like, but but he actually has some people there that looks like at least dozens. No, I mean, look, he is popular among the Republican electorate. There's no denying that. It doesn't serve us, it doesn't serve us well to pretend like he's not popular with the Republican base. He is. But I was surprised at how much of a just nothing the New York thing was. And look, I think that that might also have something to do with the fact that January 6th taught some of his supporters important.

lessons. Yeah. You know, maybe don't riot. Maybe you just let someone else do it. Yeah, or if you're gonna protest, which is totally fine, don't get violent. And it's, I'm 100% supportive of that, even if I'm against the message that the supporters are trying to carry. Yeah. You know, the crazy thing is, it says text Trump to 8802, or 88022. The crazy thing is, you can actually text any word you want. Doesn't have to be Trump. I can think of others that I would text to that number. I'm just saying you can't, hypothetically, you shouldn't. You're not a Trump supporter, why would you?

You're a criminal. All right, all right, let's do it, let's hear what he has to say. God bless you all. We're going to count which hunts. What's your number? I guess 10. And I never thought anything like this could happen in America. Never thought it could happen.

Well, it did, it did. The only crime that I have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it. From the beginning, the Democrats, spied on my campaign, remember that? They attacked me with an onslaught of fraudulent investigations. Russia, Russia, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine,

impeachment hoax number one. Impeachment hoax number two. The illegal and unconstitutional raid on. Mar-a-Lago right here. They're lying to the FISA courts, the FBI and DOJ, relentlessly

pursuing Republicans, the unconstitutional changes to election laws by not getting approvals from state legislators. The millions of votes illegally stuffed into ballot boxes and all caught on government

cameras. You're being investigated for your election, denies. Like, stop. Imagine if Bernie just came out. He just whined and whine. He doesn't do that. The millionaires and the billionaires. Yeah, but that's about, that's about something real, not just about, they're so mean to me.

I know. According to the pollsters would have made a 17 point difference in the election result. Oh my God. Like 20 million people, but it changed their mind. 16.9. It would have been in our favor. Not my favor. Not my favor, our favor, because our country is going to hell.

Now, we remember the 51 intelligence agents who said Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation. It didn't exist. It was Russian disinformation. Remember that? Where is the bad thing they're supposed to be on it? Others and dong photos, I understand there's those disinformation. I don't care. Yeah, I don't. And so much more. I'm sure they've had it.

There's no way that Tucker and Sean haven't seen it. And now this massive election interference at a scale, never seen before in our country. Beginning with the radical left, George Soros back prosecutor, Alvin Bragg of New York. It has begun. Who campaigned on the fact that he would get President Trump. I'm gonna get him. I'm gonna get him. This is a guy campaign.

He wanted to get President Trump at any cost and this before he knew anything about me. Didn't know a thing about me. He was campaigning. As it turns out, virtually everybody that has looked at this case, including rhinos and even hardcore Democrats, say there is no crime. They don't say that. And that it should never have been brought. Never have been brought.

Everybody. He is he going to attack the appearance of Stormy Dayhouse? Even people that aren't big fans have said it. They said this is not the right thing to do. It's an insult to our country as the world is already laughing at us for so many other reasons like our open borders are incompetent withdrawal from Afghanistan, where we left behind American citizens. Are you going to talk about the trial? I don't think he wants to talk about the merits of it, no. Lost 13 magnificent young lives and far too many to mention that are so badly hurt with the loss of arms and legs and facial obliteration.

The most embarrassing time in our country's history, in my opinion. Then give up on energy independence and even energy dominant. We're going to be dominant within six months, more than any of the nation times two. We had this all just three years ago. Don't try to do math. Crime statistics, if you look in Democrat run cities, numbers the likes of which we have never seen before, the open threats by various countries of the use of nuclear weapons, something never mentioned or discussed by outside nations during the Trump administration in which could very well

lead under the Biden administration's leadership to an all-out nuclear world war three can have engaged in a Twitter back and forth with the leader of North Korea about using nuclear weapons. An economy that has been crippled by the biggest inflation we have seen in more than 60 years and a military that I used to defeat ISIS in four weeks. They said it would take four years. Four weeks. Actually, the Kurds helped us to feed ISIS and then you allowed the Turks to come in and slaughter them in Syria.

That has now gone woke at the top levels by trying to indoctrinate everyone down to the lowest ranking patriot. But now they have really stepped up their efforts by indicting the 45th president of the United States who received. 75 million votes, which is more than any sitting president in the history of our country. Biden is the sitting president, and he got millions more than that. It's just factually inaccurate, buddy, but you can try again. And in the wings, they've got a local racist Democrat district attorney in Atlanta,

who is doing everything in her power to indict me over an absolutely perfect phone call, even more perfect than the one I made with the president of Ukraine. Remember I kept saying that's a perfect call. This is like if chat GPT did a Trump rally. Nobody said, sir, you shouldn't say that. Many people on the phone were hung up and discussed because of something I inappropriately said. Because nothing was said wrong. In fact, at the end of the call, we agreed to continue our conversation about election fraud.

And election fraud, specifically in Georgia. At a later time, many people on the phone, including lots of lots of law. lawyers, nobody found anything wrong with that perfect call until a book promotion tour many months later. All of a sudden, they say, no, I remember. He's on tape asking Georgia election officials to find him, what, 11,000 votes? Yeah, but nobody on the call on a problem with the upcoming 2024 election. And it should be dropped immediately.

Immediately. It's kind of seeming like one of his campaign speeches, effectively. Yeah, yep. I'm bored so far. Then you have a radical left lunatic known as a bomb thrower who is harassing hundreds of my people day after day over the box's hoax. You know the box is hoax, as we call it. No, we don't.

No one calls it box. I don't think you did prior to today. Which was designed and approved by Congress long ago. It's a little incriminating to refer to the top secret document. The act on the pros to negotiate with NARA, the National Archives and Records Administration, which as of this date is a radical left troublemaking organization that red flags the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights as dangerous and triggering. Can you imagine?

No, I can't. This is what I want to reassure my supporters, that I'm going to be fine legally. What I do is I gather them all together, and then I do an exhaustive rundown. of all the different crimes I'm alleged to have committed, one after the other. Good faith, proper way, in order to return some or all of the documents that I openly and in very plain sight brought with me to Marlago from our beautiful White House, just as virtually every other president has done in the past. When FBI and DOJ officials with NARA were here, I told my lawyer to show them the very secure storage room in which they were locked. The FBI's sole request in writing was, could you please put another lock on the door?

Yeah, why? He's like, man, they got me for this little one. It's a lot different. What are they going to do to me when it comes to the top of the case? classified documents. Yeah. And I'm assuming he's familiar with the update about their efforts after the subpoena to go through and call out documents to hide.

He took whatever they wanted including my passports and medical records. Everybody was in child. We know how touch you get about your medical records, I mean you'll break into a doctor's office and steal them. I forgot about that. That could happen today. I immediately thought of the Fourth Amendment that protects against unreasonable search and seizure. But they did it anyway because our justice system.

has become lawless. They're using it now, in addition to everything else, to win elections. Apparently, they're not looking at me through the view of the Non-Criminal Presidential Records Act. They came up with a new one. This is a new one. And they're looking at me through the Espionage Act. Think of that. How does that sound? Of 1917, where the penalty is death. Even though that has absolutely nothing to do with openly taking boxes of documents and mostly clothing and other things to my home, which President Obama has done, the

Bushes have done, Jimmy Carter's done, Ronald Reagan is done, everybody's done, in fact. There's no evidence that any other president took top secret documents that you can only review in a government facility from the White House to their personal homes. Intentionally. Intentional. And then was told to give them back and refused to and hid some, then gave some back, but kept the others, and then was asked to give the rest and wouldn't, so they had to do a raid. But you know what? Thanks for reminding everyone that you're also facing that investigation, Trump. Real smart. Good move. He's only looking at Trump. Yeah, Joe Biden took massive amounts, more documents, even removed many boxes to Chinatown. You believe that?

Just got $10 million from China. Where did that come from? I guess they were banking on Hunter's expertise and had others stored in unsecured offices in Pennsylvania and strewn all over his garage floor where his now very famous Corvette is also stored all over the floor. He has a Corvette? Does he really have a Corvette? Yeah, he has Corvette. It has nothing to do with the doctor.

Perhaps most importantly, he has 1,850 boxes in Delaware. Oh, that's a lot of boxes. Which he is refusing to give up. Sounds like a box hoax to me. But isn't that real obstruction? That's obstruction. As president, I have the right to declassified documents. So if they ask you to give boxes back and he refused to,

according to him, that's obstruction and that's a crime. Take them with me. It's automatic, declassified. Biden was vice president. He had absolutely no right to declassify as vice president. He doesn't come under the non-criminal presidential rights. Presidential Records Act, he comes under the very criminal federal records. Okay, great, let's prosecute him too.

Can we move on? Because they don't follow the law, which has very severe penalties. Yeah, coming into one of these speeches, if you don't daily follow all of the Trump world stuff, the references make no sense. No. Like the famous Corvette to us, I know that he has one. For all I know, Jesse Waters has done nine hours on his Corvette at this point. Like they have a cinematic universe.

You have to have watched all the Disney Plus shows and the movies and the spin-offs and read the graphic novel to get what any of this means. His documents entirely. Is it going to be a long-stage? So many thousands and thousands, it's okay with him. They like to say that I'm obstructing, which I'm not. Because I was working with narrow very nicely until the raid on my home. But Biden is obstructing by making it impossible to get the 1,850 boxes or explain why many documents were located in China. In Chinatown.

Can't explain it. Why were they in Chinatown? I don't know. Lastly, I'm under investigation. This time a civil investigation by another racist in reverse who also campaigned on I will get Trump. Racist in reverse means at their person of color. That's literally all that it means. Never ran for office.

I will get him. Her name is Letitia James. And she proclaimed while campaigning, quote, I look forward to going into the office of the Attorney General every single day, suing him and then going home. Before she knew me, she announced what is fueling my soul right now is Trump, and that she had her eyes on Trump Tower. Those eyes are focused on Trump Tower. Didn't know the young lady. She even assured her supporters in an election promise that we're going to. to definitely sue him.

We're going to be a real pain in the ass. He's going to know my name personally. Apparently it worked. He just mentioned a lot. And then she claimed that I was an illegitimate president.

Think of that. With all we did. It's weird when you accuse a sitting president of being an illegitimate president, right? For like years and years that you actually won. That would be wild. history, right to try, people able to get drugs now that aren't approved. Hopefully you don't have that problem.

Leticia James vowed to use every area of the law to, quote, investigate President Trump and his business transactions. Those transactions are going to be investigated, she said. And that of her family and his family. Because we're going after his family, and we're going after them hard. This is all before entering office and all before knowing anything at all about me. But you're going to get me. This is why, along with unrelenting crime, so many people and companies are leaving New York.

She said that I falsified my financial statements, but in fact, we're proving and will prove that my financial statements, were substantially more than we submitted, not less. And in all cases, have a strong disclaimer clause in them, which tells the institutions that may look at that if they want to, not to rely on the statement. Dude. But they've got a problem. If you had more than you're saying, that sounds like a fraud, you just did. Very under leveraged, they can't believe.

All the stuff they're running gave. Like, how are you allowing this to happen now? A very little debt relative to the value of assets. As long as he doesn't directly threaten the judge, I think they think, sure, he's lying to his supporters, but he does that all the time. Look, one of the reasons why I don't mind this as much as I normally would is because at least we have one thing where the indictments have now come out. And we have others where it looks like they're going to. All of these nonsensical claims that are based on literally nothing, they don't matter once the legal process has actually begun. Yeah.

I hope. When you're when you're hoping that someone will actually push through an investigation, then all of this blushing. matters, but hopefully he's just going to be a participant now in a legal process. This is with my family built a fantastic business. My room is done a great job. He's done a great job and I have another son here who's done a great job. great job. I'll go back to you with her names.

And Ivanka and Barron will be great someday. I have a great job. Another senator did great job. Look at Tiffany. But I have a great family and they've been a fantastic family. I appreciate it very much. Poor Tiffany. They've gone through hell.

So she's suing me over banks that weren't defrauded when she should be focused on violent crime that's driving people out of the state. This is a persecution, not an investigation. She's put our family through hell. It's cost hundreds of millions of dollars to defend, but our heads are held very, very high. They want to settle the case, but I want no part of that. We'll see. We'll see. He settled before. We were today in a city that was so great just four or five years ago. But now we're there, spend time there today as you possibly read, with a local failed district attorney charging a former president of the United States for the first time in history.

How does he a failed district attorney? On a basis that every single pundit and legal anna said, there is no case, there's no case. They kept saying there's no case. It might be that they end up failing. That is a failing of the law. That's it. There very much should be a case. He clearly spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to affect the result of an election

and went through complicated machinations to hide that. If that's not illegal, it's only because people like Donald Trump have helped to elect people who are going to write the campaign finance laws in a way that allows them to get away with This. The criminal is the district attorney because he illegally leaked massive amounts of grand jury information. They really think that that's a great point. First of all, we have no idea if he did.

There's no evidence that he leaked anything. But what's the difference? The number of indictments was released two hours before the document was out. How would that matter? He leaked that he was going to be arrested next Tuesday. Now sure he was lying, but. His administration was riddled with him. leaks.

And what's, but leaks matter if it allows you to know something you wouldn't otherwise know. That's when leaks and whistleblowers matter. Getting a 90 minute jump on something and a relevant detail that we had already heard. Right. What's the difference? In order to get Trump, can you imagine that? Hillary Clinton's lawyer, Democrat lawyer, Democrat firm.

Ultimately he quit as chief prosecutor because Bragg didn't think he had a case. Think of the same guy that brought this ridiculous thing today. That is true. Two prosecutors quit Alvin Bragg's team because they didn't think Bragg was gonna pursue criminal charges. And then Bragg did, so big ups to Alvin Bragg. Yeah, a very different obviously interpretation than his. Yeah.

Really reprimanded, he was reprimanded so strongly. I've never seen anything like it, I've probably the end of it. But what he did was probably very illegal, but he was very, very strongly reprimanded. Even District Attorney Bragg was furious with him. I think Bragg, I don't know. In the office because of it. But hope is never lost because various prosecutors in the DA's office also quit because they thought President Trump was being treated very unfairly. How about that?

Isn't that great? Oh, I love them. I'd like to meet them. I'd like to meet them. The DA's office. I just want us to be past this era of American politics. He even had a web page. He is an absurd thing.

Meet the team of me. that we have to deal with. Who have done this to President Trump. That was the title. Isn't that nice? They immediately had to take it down. Meanwhile, overall, crime in New York was up 30% last year. Much more than that the year before.

With felony assaults, robberies, and burglaries all up by massive, massive numbers. Not the same place that I know. Not the same place that you know. And this is where we are right. now. I have a Trump-hating judge with a Trump-hating wife and family whose daughter worked for

Kamala Harris and now receives money from the Biden-Harris campaign and a lot of it. We recently had another trial and the same judge told the fine man who worked for me for many, many years. Keep talking about the family. If you admit your guilt,

you will be in jail for 90 days. But if you don't, it will If we go through a trial and you're found guilty, you're going away for 10 years and maybe longer, which for a 75 year old man with a great family really means life. If you had a bad family, it wouldn't be so bad. It's the great family that really makes it feel like life. It's a vacation.

Yeah. Because it's right out of the old Soviet Union, that's where we are. They said you say anything about Trump, meaning that's bad. And you won't even have to serve the 90 days. You'll walk free. And they say that to many of my employees. We have this Jack Smith lunatic threatening people every single day through his representatives. They're threatening jail terms.

But talk about Trump and you'll go free. This is where we are as a nation. Who would have thought they can't beat us at the ballot box? So they try and beat us through the law. I feel like we have. That's the country in which we live, however, right now. The USA is a mess. Our economy is crashing.

Inflation is out of control. Russia has joined with China. Can you believe that? Remember when Trump kept pushing the Federal Reserve to continue quantitative easing and super low interest rates, which kind of led to what we're experiencing now with the economy? I remember that. coalition would have never happened, if I were your president, would never have happened.

Nor would Russia attacking Ukraine have happened. All of those lives would be saved. All of those beautiful cities would be standing. Our currency is crashing and will soon no longer be the world standard, which will be our greatest defeat, frankly, in 200 years. There will be no defeat like that. That will take us away from being even a great power. If you took the five words presidents in the history of the United States and added them up, they would not have done near the destruction to our country as Joe Biden and the Biden administration have done. Incredibly, we are now a failing nation. We are a nation. We are a nation in a nation. decline. And now these radical left lunatics want to interfere with our elections by using law

enforcement. We can't let that happen. Thus far, he's avoided other than mentioning the family of the judge. He hasn't yet called for massive protests. With all of this being said, is that something? And with a very dark cloud over our beloved country. to attack Ron. I have no doubt, nevertheless, that we will make America great again. Thank you very much. God bless you. And God bless America. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. He's tired. He's going on a couple flights today. It's too much already. I'm proud to be an American where at least I can be free. Does anybody look at that room and think, this is nice. I do not.

USA, USA. USA. No, that was great. I thought he was gonna go on for three hours. It was, he was all over the place. There was no core message in that speech. It was stream of almost consciousness. You know, but seriously, I mean, it was, he's obviously upset.

There was no real message there. He just rift for, I don't know, how long was that 30 minutes? Yeah, I mean, he went through most of all of the cases. He I don't, he mentioned Jack Smith, I guess. So he like sort of tangentially mentioned the January 6th investigation. So he mentioned most of those. He's attacked all of the figures involved in these. So basically that speech amounts to a day and a half of his posts on truth social.

Mm-hmm. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Look, I think strategically for him using this an opportunity when he knows the vast majority, like I would assume that if if addressed by him is going to draw a lot of MAGA people to watch, it's going to be this one, use this one to attack Ronda Santis. Because you can actually get something out of that. Telling them to attack to hate the DA and the judge, like that's already locked in. They all hate brag once

they learn who the judge is and he'll have them at Juan. Once he has that, they hate them, that's easy. I don't know why you focus on that. Is what we just saw supposed to supposed to be him demonstrating strength? He seemed tired to me. I think what that was to be frank was just an effort to fundraise. I really think that's what that was about because there was no point to that speech. I think that he accidentally gave his thought process away or whatever you want to call it. Because it was clear that he's concerned about the other.

investigations and what that might lead to, because I got to be honest, I did not have much faith in Alvin Bragg. I did not have much faith on this indictment. I did not think this indictment would ever happen. I remember. But took years and years and years. I remember being very critical of Alvin Bragg after two of his prosecutors jump ship because they're like, this is not a serious prosecutor. Alvin Bragg, this district attorney, he's not going to press criminal charges. So we're not going to waste our time. And I remember, being really irritated by that because it just felt like every district attorney, every prosecutor who was considering investigating Trump and potentially prosecuting Trump got scared and then pulled

out. And I thought that was what was happening with Bragg. But to Bragg's credit, he decided to pursue this. I don't, look, do I think that it's political? Yeah, I think there's an element of this that's political. But that still doesn't answer for the crimes that he committed. Right? And I do believe he committed these crimes because people surrounding him suffered the consequences of that. Michael Cohen, his former fixed attorney, he went to prison over the hush money payments. Under Trump's DOJ, yeah. Under Trump's DOJ, exactly. So why is it that people surrounding Trump keep getting caught up in his criminality? But Trump himself doesn't ever face any consequences. Yeah, I mean, he's had to pardon multiple people. You know, Manafort and Roger Stone and others have,

They've all suffered the consequences. Everyone around him was doing crimes and he is just an angelic being who has never done anything wrong. Yeah. Some people believe that. I think it's madness. Now, to be fair, I don't think Trump had anything to do with what Bannon did. Bannon just stole money from Trump supporters by pretending like he was gonna build a wall. So he crowdfunded an insane amount of money and then put it in his pocket.

So that is why he was prosecuted and then Trump later pardoned him. That was actually, I think, his final act before leaving the White House. So anyway, all right. So let's go for like another four minutes. At the top of the hour, we'll take a break and we'll switch over to our members only stream. If you're watching this live right now, you're able to do so because we've made this portion of the show public for everyone, even though it's typically for our members only. You can become a member where we do all sorts of members only exclusive content. Go to t.yt.com. join to become a member or you could click on that join button if you're watching us on

YouTube. Members help support the show. They help fund the show so we don't have to rely on any corporate sponsors or corporate advertising. And without them, we wouldn't be able to do what we're doing. So thank you for your support. And we will be doing a member's only analysis at the top of the hour. John, final words on this before we wrap. Yeah, I think it was a waste of opportunity. Look, the people in the room seem to like it. they cheered occasionally, there's no way that they weren't bored for a significant part of that. Yeah. They have heard him say every one of those words in roughly the same order many, many times. But they like him. I'm sure it produced enough little tiny clips that Fox is going to

use them for the next day or two. Not because they actually liked that speech or believe that he's innocent, they don't, but they need to reassure him that they don't hate his guts and think that he's a demon. So they'll play those and they'll comment on it. And I'm sure Janine Piro will Pino Noir her way through a defense of Donald Trump tomorrow. So he's gonna get what he wants in terms of the new the news cycle. But again, like I said, all that stuff is free. They were gonna do that. Yeah. I think why not uses an opportunity to hit round DeSantis. He even had the opening. We just love the drums. Let's keep it real. I want something. Yeah, what I got was nothing. What I got was nothing. That really was ridiculous. I mean, there was no point to it. He

He was just all over the place, right? There was really no focus. And honestly, the fact that he's still repeating election lies, knowing that he's facing an investigation in Georgia for how we tried to overturn the election there, not a good look. And also, even his base is sick of it. Like his, get over it, you lost the election, move on, but he can't help himself. Yeah, look, some people might be wondering, well, okay, aside from the Ronda's saying, what could he have used this for? Well, he could, and he's had months to put this together, have come

up with some better explanation for the business expenses, like some better explanation for what happened with the call of Georgia's, some better explanation for almost literally any of these things. What he instead did was give the same sort of fig leaf excuse that he always does. The call was perfect, people were on it, they didn't drop off. Yeah, yeah, you can say that. And Trump fans are like, yeah, that makes sense. If everybody doesn't hang up, then I guess it's not a crime. But that doesn't change the status quo. That doesn't win over anyone, saying that the call with Ukraine was perfect.

It's a meaningless statement at this point. It literally changes nothing. And when it comes to what you did with Stormy Daniels, this could have been opportunity for him to come out and say, like, really like throw a bomb and be like, you know what? I've had personal failings in the past. I have tried to shield my wife and my family from them, but that nothing of any of this had to do with the campaign. Thus, this cannot be the felony that they say it is. He could have done

something to change the status quo, but instead he just repeated the same sort of obvious lies about what happened that he said in this case for literally years. So before we switch over to our members only stream, I just want to say, howdy to our new members. That includes Douglas Carson. We've got, we've got, Annie Kolarulik, Omer, Fancy, Richard Merrow, Derek Fike, Dallas David Ochoa, Marcus Trowick, Gillian C, RJ. Thank you, RJ, great handle. I really appreciate it. And Susan Englehart, thank you for becoming members. We're gonna have an awesome analysis about this speech and what the future holds for Trump. Right now, after this break. We'll see you there.

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