Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 3/21/2023 – Trump’s Troubles

Episode Date: March 22, 2023

Why are people saying Trump is about to be arrested? (He said it.) But is he not lying for once? We break down all the investigations, including a new sixth one that just dropped, and whether it’ll really be a 17-year-old affair with a porn star that ends our long national nightmare. (It won’t.) All that and plenty more, so join us. Support the show

what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you this is a remote remote edition for me at least i'm coming to you from my hotel room in bozeman montana we're going to push through we're going to have a good time either way that's why i got the earbuds in all that stuff the microphone might sound a little different but bear with us we're going to have a good time it is Tuesday, March 21st, 2023. I'm Trey Crowder. That's Mark Aegee. What's up, Mark? What's up, Trey?

My microphone's better than it used to be, but anybody still listening to this is fine with not that great sound anyway. No. I just had some left over Chinese food, boss. I'm feeling good. I think... What was it? What's your go-to, China?

Because, like, you eat pretty healthy most of the time, don't you? So what do you get from a Chinese place? I got some wonton soup. some flaminion and asparagus and red peppers. I forget what the dish is called, but it's really good. Okay. I think Chinese is maybe my favorite,

my favorite leftovers. I know people go pizza, but I think I go Chinese. Yeah, I don't know. Chinese and any kind of Italian food, the leftovers are good. They're solid. The flavor's mild.

Do you heat them up? They don't lose anything. I do appreciate that. Seems like maybe noodles are the key ingredient outside of pizza, of course, but pizza just stands alone. Pisa's in its own tier. You know, like you can eat pizza cold straight out the fridge or you can heat it up and it's not as good, but it's still pretty good. Put in the air fryer, a lot of options with pizza.

But like anything with noodles and sauce, you microwave it, it's probably going to be pretty good. Yeah, yeah. Shout out to our Guido cousins for inventing, you know, hidden leftovers. Before we get to the show today, so Los Angeles School District is on shut down for the next three days because of a strike from support workers. They're looking for a 30% pay increase because they can't afford to live in Southern California on whatever you make driving a school bus and doing janitorship, which I understand and fully support because that can barely make it more money than that.

So this teachers walked out also in solidarity. And I want to say, like, we talked about the railroad strike a lot recently, and it's sort lost, yeah, people want pay raises, but, like, also for, like, public safety reasons. Like, like, the railroad workers are trying to say that, like, something like the East Palestine thing was coming, and then

it, of course, came, but, like, do you want a school bus driver who's sleep deprived because he's working two other jobs? Right. Right. That's public, that's your kids' lives. Yeah. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not trying to diminish any of this. I'm just genuinely kind of intrigued

by it because, like, I've only ever lived in Burbank since I'm move to the Los Angeles area. And like, one of the first things I noticed was that they don't have school, but there are no school buses. Like, my kids walk to school, my son's school, they don't have buses. I didn't even know buses were a thing in the Los Angeles school district. But apparently they are in the other, with the other schools and whatever else.

But yeah, that's the type of thing. It's like you people are, you know, they want to get pissed off or call them lazy. It's like, how much money these people want? just enough to not have to also work at Burger King or wherever to be able to afford to live in Southern California. I'm constantly amazed at people's resilience and ability to live. Because like, look, without getting too much into my finances, I'm fucking having two kids in school and living in Southern California, I'm all the time like, this is outrageous. How do people afford this? fucking place, right? And it's like, I do pretty well. And I see, I see other parents at

school pickup wearing like a, like a vons out for like a, they work at the grocery store or something like that, just like regular working people. And like that shouldn't be shocking. It shouldn't be surprising. Regular working people should be able to afford to fucking live. But it is surprising because the world, the world we live in, I'm all, every time I see those people, I'm like, I literally just want to grab them by the shelters and be like, how do you do this? Like, how are you here? You have children in this place with like, it blows my mind. So.

Yeah. Yeah. I've seen school buses around. And also they were picketing at a bus yard. It started pre-dawn out here in the San Fernando Valley. And I want to shout out to a teacher slash skewer, skewser, what do you call the viewers? Skewards. Skewards, I think, yeah.

Named Kelly, don't want to use her last name who hit us up on Twitter and invited us out to the picket lines. But I had to work all day prep in the show and you were in Bozeman so we couldn't make it. But we should guys the best of luck in solidarity forever to Kelly and her fellow teachers and supporting the support workers. Also, before we get to the show, I want to do a quick hitter updates on three dipsets who we love to talk about. We talked about Congressman Andy Ogles recently.

He's the guy who lied about his resume before he got elected, pretending he was like a cop, anti-sex trafficking expert, economist, all that stuff was made up. A lot about Winnie where he got his degree. It turns out he also, he started a goat on me after his baby was still born, which condolences to him for that, him and his family. No one knows where the money went. Like he was supposed to build like a memorial garden.

They would have like a statue of Jesus and a statue of little babies and Jesus looked out of the babies and some trees. and like a bench for people to sit on where they contemplated the babies. And it doesn't exist. This was like a few years ago. And they asked him where the money was and he can't say.

And he blamed, so first time I blamed the reporter saying how he knew politics was a nasty business, but he can't believe that the reporter would call up his friends and family and ask about his deceased child. The reporter's like, they called me because they're pissed off because they wonder where the money went. Right?

And then he blamed government bureaucracy saying that he couldn't figure out to get the permitting done to like build a memorial site and then he said well they didn't raise enough money to do what he wanted to do so he's blaming the people who donated it for not fucking donating enough but anyway still won't answer the question

of where the money went yeah so this guy's from where else Tennessee of course and like I this this whole story is like it's hard for me because as a dad I'm very, very, very sensitive to anything that has to do with kids in any sort of distress or let alone dead children.

So like a father starting to go fund me for a stillborn baby, it's one of those things that's like kind of dystopian, but it's also like it just makes me sad and empathetic way, right? but I like the idea that and we don't have all the details we don't know what all happened but the idea that a guy could do that and then just keep all the money and not like that they could exploit their dead child to just enrich themselves like I cannot devise for you mentally a bigger piece of shit in my personal estimation than that. I don't think there's anything lower than that. And maybe if there's something else to this story or whatever, I don't know, then okay, fine. But like it seems like he has stillborn

child. He posted a go fund me. He got a response from it. People people's compassion spoke out, sent him all this money. And from all we could tell, he just kept it. And I cannot think of a shittier way to be

than that. Like it it really, really, really bothers me a lot. Like, if that's what he actually did, this dude is the lowest of the low, which is really saying something in the realm of Tennessee politics. And he should have fucked himself. It is possible he did something, like maybe he'd possibly donate the money for charity,

but all he did was say that. And the reporter would say that, right. He would just say that. Like, if that's what he did, he would just say that and nobody would have a problem with it. But the fact that he won't answer the question, I mean, what other conclusion are you supposed to draw, you know? Yeah.

The report even was like, sir, this doesn't even have to be a story. Just tell us what the money is and this is the end of it. And he's like, nope, just ran away. So,

because like if you say you gave it to ex-organization, the next phone call is going to be the organization. So you can't even just like lie about it. I do, I do kind of want to give a mini shout out to news channel five though in Tennessee. But just because like we've had a lot of their shit. on the show recently because in the fucking you know carnival hellscape that has been Tennessee politics lately news channel five is apparently holding some of these people to task or you know like

trying to trying to make them answer for some of this stuff and and I just want to let them know that I appreciate that because it would be real easy to just to just not you know like in a state like Tennessee in the current state of it but it seems It seems like they're trying to keep it pretty real. So I appreciate it. Shut up, all the news that's fit to the best, whatever, what's a local news expression? What do they say?

Like the, we're on your side or whatever? It's the thing a little news says. Another news story, first off, well, this is about a week old. So it turned to this guy who got deported to Brazil is saying that it's George Santos's fault because he was accused of running credit card skimmer. frauds, where you, that's where you, like, put little devices to skim the cards to get the numbers off of them in ATM machines. And he says that Santos taught him how to do it was the mastermind of this skim fraud ring.

So this is pretty funny. It's possibly guys just butt hurt over being deported. But I think, yeah, no reason not to believe him. You can tell me, like, I'm not going to disbelieve any bad story about George Santos at this point. Right. Yeah. Which is kind of ironic because you're not going to believe any positive story. or like anything that he says,

you're going to default to not believing it, but anything negative about him, you're going to default to believing it. Yeah. He was apparently, because this guy, I guess he would fly from Florida to Seattle to do the fraud, which the FBI says it's common,

because you don't want to do, you don't want to pull this kind of thing in your own neighborhood. So that's where he got busted. But Santos was asked about it since you brought up what Santos said, and he said, no, no, he wasn't in on it. He was questioned, but he wasn't in on it.

He wasn't in on it. He was an informant. So he was an undercover agent for the FBI, is what he's saying here. So, yeah. Anyway, yeah, this fucking guy. Lastly, before we get, one more thing of this, actually. So, not as you're out for DeSantis, I'm not talking about just Trump world, about his own former staffers.

There's this deep dive into, like, why his staff thinks he's so off-putting. They're basically saying he doesn't have the juice for national campaign, and I've got to say I agree. Because he's not just apparently off-putting on camera. He's off-putting interpersonally. And the anecdotes in this are great. For example, they say out like a 2019 flight from Tallahassee to D.C. He was in a meeting and just like in a plane just eating pudding with his fingers.

Okay. Well, listen, I got to be honest with you, Mark. Far be it from me. Because I have a specific story that relates directly to this. Okay. I can't go too hard on DeSantis in this particular instance because of this. years ago we meet Corey and Drew we had a stand-up show in Brooklyn right and we were there a day early and the show was on Sunday so we're there on Saturday Tennessee plays Texas A&M that day right

it's in the fall I find a Tennessee balls bar in Manhattan and I go to it and it was we lost of course but it was incredible atmosphere all these other Tennessee fans in the middle of Manhattan. I loved it. It was great. So I'm a little drunk. That night, Sturgle Simpson is playing a show in Brooklyn. So I leave this

concert. I'm already pretty drunk. I go to a fucking Sturgele Simpson show and get progressively drunker, right? At this show, there's Corey and Drew and also this real top-level producer,

his brother, who works with him and I'm just leaving their names out for whatever legal reasons. I don't know. They're great people. But anyway, uh, he's like, and I hadn't met them yet. Like we're about to start working with this like these really successful people with a production company and the guy's brother is there, right? I meet him.

We go to the show. I cry throughout. This was the, uh, this was the, uh, this was the, a sailor's guide to earth tour. So Sturgle's just singing about fatherhood and stuff. I'm a weeping mess. the whole time, right? I've just met this producer who wants to work with us. We get a cab together on the way out of there, right?

Me, him, and Corey. But before we get the cab, me and Corey see a Popeyes across the street. So we go to the Popeyes and get, you know, a bucket of chicken and some mashed potatoes with gravy, right? We get that, we get in the back of the car with this producer who we've just met and he's taking us all to Queens or wherever we were all at, right? And on the way, me and Corey were taking our bare fingers, scooping up mashed potatoes with gravy,

dipping that into the fried chicken, you know, detritus, like the, like the chicken crump, the crumbs at the bottom of the bucket, right? So you got fingers covered with fried, with mashed potatoes and gravy. you dip them into fried chicken crumbs, right? Now you've got a nice little popsicle. We're feeding those to each other, right? So I'm shoving my chicken gravy fingers into Corey's mouth. He's shoving his into my mouth.

We're both just like fucking sucking him off and talking about how great it is in front of this dude who wants to work with us who we've just met for the first time. So my point is, far be it for me to shit on Ron DeSantis for this particular thing, eating pudding with his fingers. Like, it would make me a bit of a hypocrite. A couple of things. The first one's a question. Did you continue working with this guy for a long time? Dude, I want to tell you what happened.

I want to tell you what happened. I shouldn't. I'll tell you afterwards. Okay. It's pretty funny. But I don't want to put them on blast. or nothing, but yeah. But that's a long,

for the audience, that's a long no. Secondly. No, we didn't. No, we didn't, but it wasn't because of me

and my gravy fingers. That's all I'm saying. Secondly, are you the governor of Florida? Third, what's interesting to me is not that he eats put him with his fingers.

I'm sure we've only eaten putting with their fingers. It's why are people collaying in the tall grass with his story to smack him with it. They don't like it. That's what's interesting to do about this. Because like,

that guy imagine if you got your own talk show or something and you start seeing that story in the fucking newspaper like, why's that guy doing this to me? All right, so here's let me read this quote. He would sit in meetings that eat in front of people, the former Zana Stamford told the Daily Beast, always like a starving

animal who's never eaten before, getting shit everywhere. So like he's eating pudding like the fucking Swedish chef and this guy banked that memory to shank him later and that's the part that hits for me. But see, But that's the type of thing that, like, that type of thing used to torpedo a political campaign, like, literally just that, I feel like.

Like, for a very long time in this country, it's like, if you're running for president or something, demonstrative proof could come out that you eat pudding with your fingers, and the whole country would be like, well, he's out. Do you know what I mean? But, like, we no longer live in that world, dude. Like, fucking Howard Dean, he got torpedoed for saying, wha! Really enthusiastically, like, that killed his whole campaign, right? But now, because of what we're going to be talking about a little bit later in the show

with Trump and all his indiscretions, like, there's no line for any of that. You can do whatever and still hang in there, you know. I was listening, like, okay, so, yeah, you're right. The other example is that, like, Dan Quill, Miss Spelling Potato. yeah yeah um what's his name or michael duccas wearing the weird hat in the tank right all that stuff would but like there's just too much news now it's hard for anyone's story to stick um it's just like yeah the pudding thing happened in 1986 there'd be like five that's and no sketches about it everyone would see he'd be done right yeah um yeah but just like it's just uh you know it's too much fucking

news the 24 hour cycle and so much shit going on the world but also like it like the trump stuff we're talk about like 50 Trump scandals today and half of them I've fucking forgotten about. But anyway, so one of the things we get to the show, we talked on Friday's episode, Patreon app about the state senator in Varsco named Michaela Kavanaugh, who'd been mounting a three-week filibuster. And I wanted to say I misunderstood something because she had come to an agreement for the audience doesn't know. The Republicans were trying to pass an anti-trans bill.

And she basically occupied the floor of the Senate. for three weeks. It would not let anything pass. And that's like half the legislative session are past zero bills. So her exact quote will, I will burn this session to the ground. And so far she has.

And she came to an agreement late last week to stop the filibuster so they could debate the bill. And I thought that meant she was going to allow a vote on it, but it's not. Right. So I wanted to give her more props. What happened was she allowed debate,

during which debate, she got like three or four others Democratic state senators to commit to helping with this filibuster, so the burning the section to the ground will continue if they try to pass this bill after they debate it. And also, they got a bunch of Republicans to say a bunch of ridiculous shit on camera. So, uh, Democrat doing politics. Uh, you like to see it every now and then. Yeah. Yeah. Hell yeah. All right. Well, let's get into it with us. As always, his producer, Matt, this is weekly skews. I'm in Montana. Mark's in his normal locales. We're going to have a good

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and so far, no handcuffs. The question is, given all the lies he's told, why did we believe him in the first place? Is this actually going to happen? If he ever says going to happen, it's hard to say, we're going to break all that down as well as the myriad legal cases he has raging at the same time a little later. But first, we begin with the Daily Dumbass.

Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's D.D., anybody who thought Jesse Waters of Fox News didn't know how babies are made. is his thoughts on the Stormy Daniels situation. Alvin Bragg's bringing to the table. There's no proof Trump slept with Stormy. There's no baby. And Trump didn't use campaign funds, Alvin.

I don't know why this killed me so hard. It's like, does he think every time you fuck? Right. This might a lot of their policies, actually. Right. If you get accused of fucking around or whatever by your spouse, you'd be like, well, ain't no baby. You see a baby around here?

No, that's what I thought. and shut your goddamn mouth. Like, of course, it doesn't work that way. There's a whole lot of other, you know, steps you got to go through to prove that type of thing outside of just a baby. I don't know. Do you know what the numbers are? Like, they're pretty low, right? Like, for having a sexual encounter resulting in a baby, statistically speaking, despite what, like, Alabama's team mom's numbers would lead you to believe.

Like, it's actually pretty statistically unlikely, right? I mean, most people I know that were trying to have babies took a while. But it is funny, we're talking about Trump having sex with a porn star who's literally had sex on camera thousands of times. So I guess Jesse Waters thinks she has thousands of babies. Thousands of babies, right. Yeah. Oh, God.

It's all so stupid. But yeah, we got so much to show to get to tonight. We only have one dumbass. But really, the honorablementer dumbass is everyone involved in this segment because America is Trump has broken all of her fucking brains to such a degree that nobody can think

sanely anymore. Like I saw a bunch of otherwise sensible people arguing that Trump being indicted would be good for him. Yeah. Well,

I don't know about otherwise sensible but I know that like I mean, I don't know if she was arguing it would be good for him, but like Marjorie Taylor Green, her whole thing was like, was like,

I hope they realize that if they do this, this, he's only going to become more popular. You know, it's like, like, all that's going to do is rally everybody in support of him. Sure, Republican primary voters, because they have opposition of defiance disorders. Like, anything you tell them is bad, they're going to think it's good, right? But that doesn't mean a normal sane person is going to love Trump more when he's on trial for cheating on his. I'm not sure when exactly Baron was born in relation to this, but he's either just born and Balani was pregnant.

with a porn star, not just one porn star when you get to it, but three porn stars and a Playboy model. So like, this is like, the idea that this is going to turn on those like a suburban mom is like fucking crazy to me. But like, anyway, to start where we're starting here, the only reason there's an expectation of trouble is going to be indicted today is because Trump said so, right? Right. And to assume he's not making shit up is a pretty big leap at this point.

Absolutely. you're so right like you like i so he said so on saturday and i made one of my videos about it and i said in it that i never thought i'd see the day that i was still skeptical i said all that but i also said you know the man themselves says it's going to happen so why not but in retrospect i feel dumb for having said that because of like all the other shit he has said like that's like the main thing he's known for is saying things that aren't true or do not

happen. So I don't know why I guess in my head I was just like well this is bad for him. The idea of this is bad for him which as a raging narcissist he would never say or he would never admit to. So if he's saying it himself then it must be true.

But I kind of feel silly for that in retrospect like just given the way he is and his track record. like he's got some angle or something right well he's got well i do think it means he thinks he will be indicted at some point right i think well one he's got a huge fundraising bump out of this that's good now he gets two rounds of fundraising bumps now when he says it's about to happen whenever it actually does happen uh he also drawing the the distinction got a bunch of republican leaders to commit to them, which isn't exactly a primary

endorsement, but it's really close to it, because they can't help but criticize the liberal New York DA is going after their demigod. So, like, that's, it gets his name back in the news in the way that's good for people who are likely to vote for them in the primary. By the way, he did a poll over the weekend. This is after this news came out. He's still polling over 50%

of Republican primary voters, so he locked them in. He's ahead of the Santa's like 28 points, if you're curious. But this is sort of a story about how, like, the rest of the world's largely moved on. Hey, I'm sorry, real quick, just since you brought that up. I don't know how feel about that like how do you feel about that about about trump beating desantis by that much at this stage of the game where we're at like how's that make you feel what do you take away from that

i don't know man predictions of mugs game i thought i thought i thought hillary beating trump was a lay up in 2016 i thought it'd be really funny to watch i thought i thought that desantis i mean we've talked about it a bunch like before desantis ever even emerged as desantis we were talking about how like oh what's really scary is the people that will emerge in the post Trump era who are but they're like also competent

they're not fucking full bore lunatics like he well I mean they are but you know what I mean they're like actually they're not complete dipshits and I had thought Ron DeSantis I was like he's here they've arrived it's that guy that's the guy that's the guy we're all worried about showing up he's here now

right but is it just like just a, you can't coach that thing when it comes to Trump. Do you know what I mean? Like you could try to emulate it all you want, but there's just something else about it. Like, I don't know. I'm not going to lie.

I'm kind of surprised. I thought that like, because we talk about Trump's popularity dwindling. And I know this weekend with him calling for protests, I think we've got some clips and some images and stuff of how those turned out. And it seems like he's falling. off, but at the same time, he's dominating DeSantis by 28 points.

Like, I just can't make heads or tails and none of this shit, is what I'm saying. Like, I don't know how to think about any of it. They're Republican primary voters who were torn between Trump and DeSantis. So I think trying to put your head in their space is not a fucking, just don't even Well, that's the most common mistake I make on this show. It's like the longest running thing with me on the show is trying to make sense of the nonsensical that's going on in their brains. But anyway, go ahead.

If you're asking me, who's more likely to win the primary? I think it's definitely Trump if he's alive. And if you're asking me, if he, if he's not the nominee, it's probably because he makes some sort of plea deal to not participate in politics anymore, that he'll immediately break. And if you're asking me who I'd rather Biden who are facing the general,

I guess I go Trump because he's already lost the popular vote twice. And people might, but also DeSantis is terrible. on camera. There's a terrible on camera. He's putting with his fingers. I don't fucking know. Who knows? All right. So this is a story about Republicans being unable to let go of Trump no matter how much of an anchor around him is and also damn

dithering for no fucking reason because they're also fighting the last battle like the last war like they always are. But so to put us in context about where the status of all the investigations around Trump are, there are six investigations of Trump going right now that I can count that we know about. And I thought it was just five. There's a new one thrown in the pile in the last couple

weeks that I didn't know about yet. But in case you don't know what the RLR, I'll let Trump introduce a few of them if you got this video match. Whether it's the Mar-a-Lago raid or the unselect committee hoax, the perfect Georgia phone call who was absolutely perfect, or the stormy horse face Daniels extortion plot. They're all sick and it's fake news. All right. They couldn't get him no better lighting than that. Is it the lighting or is it the makeup or what is it? But he looks like a caricature of himself right there.

Like we all know about the raccoon eye, the reverse raccoon eyes he has. But they're really prominent in that example. That's like Trump is Trumpiest dude. Fucking stormy, hurt, horse face Daniels. The Georgia call, which was so perfect, couldn't have been more perfect. It's wild. Am I frozen or is Mark frozen? What's happening?

Mark's frozen? Matt says Mark's frozen. Is that correct, Matt? Send me a private chat. He's back, Matt says. I still don't see him. Okay. I'm on my back?

Okay. Okay. I think you're back now. Okay. All right. So, all right, let's run through all the investigations of him. All right. You got the classified documents thing, which Trump just

talked about. You got the, you got the, you got the, D.O.J's investigation to, like, January 6th and the coup plot, right? No one knows what's going on with any of these. There has been some movement lately. Special counsel locked in at least eight secret, it's at least eight secret court battles involved in these investigations, trying to get cooperation. This week, one of Trump's lawyers is ordered to testify, and Pence said he won't completely contest his subpoena, so that's good. But, like, before we get to the rest of them, on the DOG investigations, What the fuck is taking so long, man? Like, it's just like, like, right.

If Trump, if Trump, like, people get talking about, well, they're going to get, like, talking about the story of the nearest thing. It's like getting Al Capone on tax evasion. No, it's not. It's not like that. Because no one thought when the government could only get Al Capone on tax evasion, they had legalized murder, all right? But if you don't push back against the coup attempts.

Right, right. This is, this is about, like, the basic pillars of constitutional government. Yeah. I mean, that's kind of what I've been thinking the whole time. Like, yeah, the whole Al Capone tax evasion thing, this whole time I've been like, really, it's going to be that. That's the thing that's going to take him down. I don't know how you don't have a very pessimistic takeaway from that situation. And yeah, you're talking about the DOJ.

What are they doing? It's like, because if the New York's Attorney General's office manages to levy actual charges related to the Stormy Daniels case, to me, all that does is raise further questions. questions about what the fuck the DOJ is doing then like if because I thought I've said for week I've said for weeks months however long I've been saying I didn't expect shit to happen because that's just the way things go in this country like people like him they don't face consequences it just doesn't happen do I want it to happen of course do I think it's going to happen not for a fucking second right but if if the New York AG management is to like bring something against him for this porn star shit.

The implication of that is that it could also happen in the cases of sedition and election fraud, right? Hypothetically. So then the question becomes why is that not happening then? Like, I just thought we didn't do it at all, right? But if we're going to do it even a little bit, then what about these other, objectively larger offenses he has that nothing has happened

in regards to for this long. Like what the fuck is that about? What are they waiting for? Why? I think, look, you and I are pretty cynical about this stuff anyway, but like this is like more agreed.

Like, like so Nixon didn't go to prison for Watergate, but he was forced to resign. Like there was some fucking consequence. He died like sort of disgraced. There was a story this week that confirmed we all already knew that Ronald Reagan had conspired to keep their Iranian hostages held longer to fuck Jimmy Carter. A couple of people did go to jail or Iran-Contra, but they got pardoned.

Bill Clinton should have fucking resigned over the Monica Lewinsky shit for reasons we don't need to get into. Nobody's in prison for any of their Iraqi war crimes, including Ron DeSanches who tortured people at Gitmo. The 2008 financial collapse, no one's in fucking problem for that, trouble for that. open epidemic, no one's in trouble for that. But, like, if DOJ's in the office asked, they basically admitting the political corruption's legal, and it leads, like, as you're saying, are generally above the law,

as long as what they do isn't really tacky shit, like fucking a porn star. All right. So, like, yeah, I think today, I think today is the, I think today is the 20-year anniversary of the bombing of Baghdad. Yeah, the beginning, the shock in all campaign. in Iraq and it's like yeah that happened 20 years ago today it kicked off and it's like no one how

how is none of that shit war crimes like how is there not do you know what I mean knowing what we know now knowing that it was all bullshit from the very beginning none of that ever mattered right and it won't ever matter like they're not there's not ever going to be any repercussions for that that's exactly what I'm talking about like I you know it's just the rules are just different, man. They're just different at certain levels of society. The rules are not the same in so much as they even exist at all. You know?

Yeah. So the third investigation that probably won't go anywhere is the one in Atlanta led by Fannie Willis, a DA in Fulkin County. So that's the one about the perfect phone call Trump talked about. Fourth is this set of investigation, some criminal, some civil into Trump's corporate enterprises. That's the one where Alan Weisselberg went to jail and the Trump organization got in trouble. Trump organization got convicted, even though a lot of nobody else, but Alex Weisenberg did.

Those are still ongoing. Maybe there's more about that. There's supposed to be, Trump's trying to delay that case. It's supposed to be a hearing about $250 million in fraud, a lawsuit related to that today. But it got pushed back because someone called in a bomb threat after the indictment announcement. But the bomb threat, no one knows. It turned out to be deemed not credible and no one knows it was related to Trump at all. You know, it's a big courthouse and a wide variety of crazy people out there.

Fifth is the long-running investigation that this one we're talking about, the Stormy Daniels thing, that Alvin Bragg is leading and the hush money payment of the story, Stormy Daniels. But I also think, like, we'll get into it. I don't think it's just related to Stormy Daniels. This is the one that Trump said is going to be arrested on Tuesday for and called on his followers to protest, which maybe led to the bomb threat. I don't know. And the sixth one, the new one, we didn't know about it.

about involves both DOJ and the SEC and it's about like stuff happening financial shit at true social and I read up on it but it's fraud shit that I couldn't even wrap my mind around what was going on and that's the first time I thought maybe Trump is smarter than this because he's like I don't understand these fucking words but it's apparently a pretty high level fraud um anyway there is a federal grand jury impaneled and this was an interesting tidbit in there it part of it involves two loans totaling $8 million. There were wired in Trump media through the Caribbean from entities connected to an ally of Putin.

So do with that way you will. Going back to the New York thing is for most of we're going to be talking about. Everyone's assuming this is just about Stormy Daniels, but they also have him dead on some black letter fraud. Like, he did a bunch of shit that's been very public where he would like have a apartment built, like a condo building. And when he wanted to pay taxes on it, would say it was worth $1 billion. We want to get a loan based on it as collateral.

will say it was worth three billion. One of those is a lie. That's fraud. Right. Right. So that's like. But is that like, is that like, is that like, uh, I'm not saying it makes it right either way, but is that like standard operating procedure with high level landlords like that. Do you know what I mean? Like is that just one of those things that they all do. You know, like with the tax loopholes and shit. It's just like, no, that's just what you do. Like, right. It's a good example. What I was saying earlier, like it's illegal, but they all get away with it because they all do it. And it's like, yeah, well, that's just what you. It's like, you know, Trump in that one debate in 2016, as somebody evading taxes, like, yeah, that's because I'm smart, you know, like that whole attitude. Yeah, but is this out of bounds for- That doesn't matter. No, that matter. I know.

I know that. Everybody speeds, Trey, but like when you get caught, that's not a fucking defense, right? Right. If somebody looks into it, you get caught, you're in trouble. Now the bank's not going to press charges because they value Trump as a customer and don't want to fuck with him. But on the other side, the government has an interest in, catching tax cheats.

So, like, yeah. Anyway, so just a matter by the background of the Stormy Daniels thing, if you don't remember, Michael Cohen paid Stormy $100,000 to keep her quiet about an affair with Trump. After dithering, Trump finally reimbursed him early in 2017 after taking office.

If you don't remember, the affair itself is hilarious. It happened at a celebrity, began at a celebrity golf tournament in 2006, where Trump was hanging out with Ben Rafflesberger and playing against Ray Romano. He allegedly had sex with three or four women over the weekend, three of them porn stars and the fourth of the Playboy model. I do want to say, the man was 62 at that point. I got to give it up for the fucking stamina.

Stormy was one of the porn stars. Jessica Drake was another. And I think the Playboy Boney was Karen McDougal, who'll be talking about it a little bit. And if you're wondering how he did it, the golf, by the way, he came in 62nd out of 80. It just made me laugh. So, anyway, the crowns, it is about Stormy Dan. It would be how that money was justified in, like, tax stuff and whether or not it was an illegal campaign contribution. But all that has led us to this video clip from Tucker Carlson, hit it, Matt.

And in fact, settlements like this, whatever you think of them, are common, both among famous people, celebrities, and in corporate America. The results is usually known as an NDA, a non-disclosure agreement. In this case, you can believe whatever side you want to believe, but paying people not to talk about things, hush money, is ordinary in modern America. All right. So it's perfectly normal to shoot on your wife with four different women in one weekend with a new board at home and have your lawyer pressure them to sign NDAs. I do, I do think that like, show me the lie. Like, I think he's right about like the world he operates. It is normal in that world.

But to present it as a rationale for why it should be fine is the part that, you know, pisses me off. Do you know what I'm saying? like, yeah, he's not wrong. All those fucking plutocrat motherfuckers, they do do that all the time. But like, but that that don't make it okay, you know,

like, but you can just tell people like, yeah, this is what everybody does. They're like, yeah, it's what everybody does. But like, I do want to remind people that, that the only reason Tucker Carlson has his job is because the previous guy in his time slot was busted for a bunch of sexual harassment

by people, women who broke their NDAs. So that's full circle moment here So congrats to Tucker on his promotion Because women came forward and broke their NDAs But I've signed a few NDAs in my life Most of them were just to like stop Stop you from telling people about work you did for them They didn't want people to know you did

Like uncredited work, right? I only said one in my life that They could possibly be connected to covering up any sort of fucking malfeasance And even that it wasn't like anything serious So there's just like office politics shit. But yes, it's too normal. But like he's not making the point he thinks he is. There are too many NDAs and they're too restrictive.

And we need just like non-compete clauses and stuff unless you're giving away trade secrets. There's no reason to ever have a fucking NDA. Right. And they're going after the New York DA, Alvin Bragg, really hard for this. And that's really fucking funny to me because throughout this process, he's been a sniveling coward. If he has don't remember the order of events here, Michael Cohen got three years. for the exact same crime. He didn't serve all of them, but he got sentenced to them. So inditing Trump after he left office for the same thing should have been a fucking layup

when you already got his co-conspirator under the same sentence. But he didn't. In fact, he was slow walking it at that point or sandbagging it, which is why an attorney who worked for him named Mark Pomerantz resigned and called him out for being in a coward. And here's a video from Pomerant's in 60 minutes last month. folks this is one of the darkest days in that's the wrong video man anyway i'll just tell you what it is so pomerance uh went on went on 60 minutes was basically saying that like how how easy investigation was and he talked about the real estate fraud that i brought up earlier and how they had him fucking dead to write some of this shit there didn't need to be any contemplating any

dithering any fucking around you have a guy who committed fraud on paper and then signed the paper that's smoking gun done right right yeah and if you if you we talk about criminal stuff yes everybody commits crimes of varying degrees

all the time and I saw Alan Dershowitz go on and say well you look for the crime and then you figure out the person who did it you don't investigate a person's life to see what crime they did but New York State DA New York City DA has been invested in Trump for all sorts of of fraud for 20 years they know the fraud

happened this isn't like making up a crime and trying to find somebody fitted or anything like that. We all know that you've got to be a fucking moron to think Trump's not a criminal. If you know anything about his business career, making real estate deals with the mob, they already caught him 30 years ago. His dad bailed him out. His casino was going under.

So his dad went in about $3 million with the casino chips and then just lost him. Stephen from going under. Ivaka testified under oath. They laundered money for the Iranian Republican Guard, which is designated a terrorist group, the real estate property, and Pfizer-Bijan. Like, there's not like, this isn't like some innocent guy getting harassed.

You're like, well, it's unfair. These are old charges to bring him up now. It's like, I don't give a fuck. The guy's a dangerous republic. The dangerous people who you want to fucking put away, right? Yeah, it just, it seems to me like people in that world that he inhabits. You know, I was saying earlier, I don't, I don't expect to ever see him face repercussions because we just don't do that here.

And it seems like the only exception of that is when one of those people, because, a threat to the rest of those people. Do you know what I mean? Like Jeffrey Epstein or something. Like the moment that, like they've got a tacit understanding that they are all kind of above the law, it seems to me. Like the only time that's ever proven wrong is when they turn on each other. You know, when like when somebody becomes a threat to the rest of the fucking fraternity

or whatever, then they might go down. But outside of that, it's not going to happen. And I'll go to my grave believe in that if I don't ever see any kind of proof otherwise. You know, it's just to me that that's how it works. Martin Scraly got in trouble for fucking over the rich people eventually, finally. And the same thing with the guy from Enron was he was busted for frauding investors, not all his employees who killed themselves after he lost in the NFL. Dan Snyder, you know, pimped out his cheerleaders, all this shit, all this terrible stuff for years.

Nothing ever happened. Then it came out that he was fucking other. out of money and now all of a sudden he's about to sell the team or looking to sell the team, you know what I mean? Because like that's the only rule you can't break is that you can't, you can't cross the rest of the club.

You know, as long as you don't do that, you're fine. But if you can't threat to the rest of them, then you might be in trouble, maybe. What's the line of the departed where it's like, there's all ultraviolent circle past? He goes, that's not a guy you can't hit, but it's almost a guy you can't hit.

Yeah, you can't hit. Anybody, except for these, the repeat right so um so anyway black took office in 2020 and 21 and in that moment he was getting roasted from both sides from the right for being soft on crime because he stopped doing stuff like prosecuting people for subway fare evasion stealing two dollars and fifty cents from the city when streets are free and because he uh and he got so he was also getting roasted by the msnbc types for being soft on trump all right so black then eventually gave up and started the grand jury process which i assumed at the time was an ass covering process. It's like, well, we tried better more we can do, right? Because prosecutors hate

going out on limbs. They don't like losing. And trying a former president is a risky proposition, especially on sort of tenuous old charges. Right. But so then this week, Trump basically called brag a bitch and threatened his staff's lives. So now he has to do something or he looks incredibly feckless and weak, even though he already look feckless and weak. So here we are. Now they actually do it. expect an arraignment next week we're probably only going to happen because Trump ran his mouth. But also, and an underreported element of this is Trump did threaten a bunch of violence and then nothing happened.

So Bragg has nothing to be afraid of, right? Because like today was supposed to be the day of like the streets were supposed to be on fire today, right? Like he said on Tuesday, today was the day, take to the streets, fight back, take the nation back. I'm in a pretty red state up here in Montana. I see some kids skateboarding. Yeah. So stone of grounds about all I see in the streets out here.

I'm not seeing the mayonnaise brigade taking the country back where I'm at. Yeah. We, uh, so Fox News went all in, too. We don't have to show the video map, but like trying to gin up violence, people saying, like, this will tear the country apart and the people will not stand for it. Jesse Waters said that this would be like putting all 74 million of Trump's voters in jail. So how did the people show up for Trump today, that showed the video? This is yesterday, actually.

Show the video. One more time. That, Mark. You see the flare of that band-or wheel coupled with the horn? Come on. What are you going to do? He's lost the juice, man. He's lost it.

See, this right here, this is exactly what I'm talking about at the very beginning of the show. Like, it's hard for me to reconcile this with the polling numbers as compared to DeSantis and all that shit. I don't know what to make of it. You know what I mean? Because, like, on the one hand, it feels like, like you said, he's lost the juice. But then on the other hand, he's stomping him into the, his only real competition into the ground. Like, I don't.

But there's no real competition. I just don't know what to think or what to make about any of that shit. I don't know why it's that confusing. You know how sometimes the NFC, like an NFL division, we have somebody make the playoffs with a 7 and 9 record? Right, but, but if, but if the, but if the, like, if the MAGA crowd are the equivalent of the NFC South this year, right, where the division winner has a losing record,

then like, what are we all so worried about? You know what I'm saying? The NFC South is not a, they're not a threat to the rest of the league in terms of the Super Bowl. Do you know what I'm saying? But it's like we're like, no, we're on the verge of fucking Civil War Part 2. World War 3 over here. That's where the cultural war is at. It's like, which one is it? You know what I mean? Because like, should we just be laughing at them or like, is shit really about to go down? Like, which one is it? And I vacillate between the two. It's both. It's both. It's not super confused to me. It takes one radicalized

person to shoot up a fucking Walmart in El Paso. Right? It takes one person to shoot up a gay bar in Colorado it takes four or five proud boys to fucking firebom a drag show it takes um it only took like a couple thousand people to january 6 that came in from all over the country they can be a small minority and terrifying and when you combine that with the fact that they provide like they move the overton window of provide color for the few air quote sane republicans who are still in the party like them combine creates enough like political force to control congress of 46% of popular vote because of because of gerrymandering right yeah so they can be a rapidly diminishing minority

and also a threat to the republic at the same time. Yeah. All right. That does like it to me. And you've made me feel a little better about it. Yeah. So they put, because of the fears around Trump's base,

they put up like a bunch of like, you know, fencing and barriers around the courthouse. And there was, not being totally fair, the protests we just showed at Trump Tower where there were five people and one one with his showfar,

wasn't supposed to be the big one. the other one was supposed to be the this one was supposed to be the big one it was hosted by new york young republicans club and there were five times many reporters there as as trump supporters and a couple of the reasons for this are really funny to me because he does have more support than people who showed up but uh trump has convinced his own people that any sort of mega protest is ginned up by federal agents who are trying to entrap them so he sabotaged his own support with conspiracy theories. And protest organizers who were there admitted they thought turnout was low because they're

spooked by Trump's own talking points about protests being federal agent traps. Even the people who showed up at this protest, Ray, accused their fellow protesters of being federal agents. Yeah. Yeah. I just, that's what like, and yet there's such a threat. Because I mean, like, they are. they do feel like a threat but it don't

make me feel good about myself but that's true you know it's like pretty low bar it seems like but that's why it's important to like like that's why it's important like having somebody with a megaphone to rally even a small

group of insane people is dangerous that's why all these efforts all these cases should be doing anything they could to expel Donald Trump from the Bali politic is a fucking virus and it's like they're not acting in these sort of urgency that like if some fucking black swan event happens again

like 2016 ends up back in office he's never leaving he's never fucking leaving anyway I wanted to show this video from today's protest the ones we showed you a minute ago from yesterday

this one had a little bit more energy if you got this one Matt this is fucking hilarious we're going to fuck Joe Biden we're going to fuck Joe Biden we're going to fuck Joe Biden. All right.

So that's a, if you just listen to the podcast version, that's a guy dressed like I think a bison maybe as an homage to the Qamon, QAnon shaman, riding an extra tall bicycle with a Trump flag as a cape yelling, we're going to fuck Joe Biden.

Just one guy. I argue with that. You know what about? Yeah. Yeah. Rock, solid political discourse right there. There's one sort of case that's, I know I don't know about made way too much show. We can't get to it all.

But I do want to talk about John Edwards for a second, people are comparing Trump's case to John Edwards. And they're sort of similar because I don't know if you guys remember John Edwards or ran for president a couple times. Yeah, 2008, Hillary and Obama in that primary, he was the third guy. It came out that he had been cheating on his wife, right? And his wife was sick or something. It was pretty bad.

His wife was dying of cancer and he got a campaign aide pregnant. Yeah, right. Yeah, that's about as rough as that situation gets. So he was accused of pretty, hit with pretty similar charges to what Trump could be theoretically facing with Stormy. But the two things are not, and Edwards got off, by the way. He was not convicted. But there's a few things that make this pretty different. One, Edward had, Edwards had a kid.

So, like, I want my kid to be able to eat and have a roof over his head is a good reason to funnel money to her that's not, I'm trying to cover this up for the campaign, right? also Edwards wife didn't know about it so he can he could claim I didn't want my wife to find out as a valid excuse Melania knew about all Trump's like side pieces so like I wanted to save my marriage is not a good motivation and Karen McDougal who he would theoretically on trial for the stormy McDaniel stuff but Karen McDoodle is also wrapped up in this because Trump's allies the national inquirer paid her 150 grand to buy her story and then never printed it so like and these both these things happened during the campaign season. They were 10-year-old affairs.

So the question becomes why now in 2016? The only reason that makes any sense is the election. And we don't have to show the video. We've got time. But Trump also went on TV, and he can't even claim he didn't know this was illegal because he went on TV and ran his mouth about John Edwards' case when it was happening because he has to go on TV

and run his mouth about everything. Well, the other thing, and this is maybe stupid to say, I mean, it's like apples and oranges or it doesn't make sense. But also, I know we're talking about legal reports. percussion's here, but going back to our conversation earlier about Howard Dane and all that stuff, whatever, like, that was the end of John Edwards. Do you know what I mean? Like, John Edwards was a Democrat. That happened. And then the entire American left was like, well, not that fucking guy. That guy seems like a shady, duplicitous, you know, ne'er do well. And that was

the end of his political career, right? Whereas Trump is still the prevailing force in right-wing politics, despite all this. So, like, that's another factor I feel like deserves to be pointed out, in my opinion. Like, where they talk about both sides or whatever, it's like, not really, though. Like, it's pretty different the way the two things were treated. I think 25, 30% of people are hardcore gone. Another 15 to 20 would like to vote Republican if you presented it with the same candidate. And, but a lot of those are persuadable.

And, like, you just got to give up. you just got to give up on the 25 to 30 and be like prosecute him because the people saying that this would be good for Trump are fucking insane to me if Trump, if it's good for Trump, why is he crying about it?

Right. Like he knows it's bad for him. Like he doesn't want every night at the 6 o'clock news they're talking about this gross affair with a porn star during like his six month trial leading up to the election. Like how are suburban voters

and like are sane people going to feel? about that. Anyway, so. I don't know. Well, we've only got a couple of minutes left, but Matt, if you got a comment or two, you could throw it up there. If you got any, we'll see how that goes. Oh, I do want to say that, like, if Trump did convict it, he's a first time felon

with no other criminal record convicted of anyway. So, like, he'd probably get probation anyway, but he's still going to fight it to do the note. Best for Moore says, dang, I want another hour. Sorry, buddy. The sun's going down in Bozeman. I'm going to be shit. I'm going to be shrouded in the dark here soon, so you have to call it.

Also, I've got to get a bison burger or something like that, you know. Trying not to get a fight with a real cowboy, you know, if you've got to seen Yellowstone, you know how Montana is. No, I don't know. It's a lovely place. It is snowing here. It's snowing here and, well, it's not actively snowing now, but it's been snowing. And I've been walking around my thickest winter coat with my hood up and everything,

and I've seen eight-year-olds in T-shirts, I swear to God, North is white. Wow. Kim Cousado says, how's your bracket, Tray? Mine ain't shot the hell, but I do have Tennessee in my sweet 16. Normally, I would criticize such a decision, but hey, looking good this year. I didn't do a bracket this year. It was one of those things where it's like, you know, selection Sunday happens three days later, the shit happens. And I just like, I got busy, got caught up, and then it was too late. Mark, did you do a bracket? How's yours out? Look, everybody's bracket's pretty fucking busted at this point. Yeah, I mean, the 16C beat of one. So that's going to happen. oh boy alice says hit the like button y'all thank you laura yeah like share

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Yeah, thank you, Matt. Appreciate it. Actually, I don't know why I said that. I thought he put up the thing. Anyway, fucking goddamn, listen, before we go, as a reminder, go traycrouter.com, check out the dates. Check out the special on Amazon, mine, Corey's, Drews, all of the above, if you wish.

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