April 4, 2023 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| From a fancy dining car, they're probably drinking coffee and smoking big cigars. | ||
| Well, I know I had it coming. | ||
| I know I can't be free. | ||
| But those people keep moving. | ||
| And that's what tortures me. | ||
| Back at it. | ||
| Man, we are rocking and rolling. | ||
| We're not going to miss a beat here. | ||
| Not guilty. | ||
| Y 'all got to feel me. | ||
| Donald Trump walked into the courthouse, said not guilty, and walked right out. | ||
| No perp walk, no mugshot, no handcuffs, and a bunch of cops looking scared. | ||
| And a district attorney, of course, looking scared. | ||
| And now this entire case is falling to pieces. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, we're going to hear from Donald Trump, the man himself, in just a few minutes. | ||
| We have a live shot of Mar-a-Lago. | ||
| We can show you. | ||
| We are ready and prepared. | ||
| You can see sort of the crowd gathering there. | ||
| This is where Donald Trump will come in. | ||
| Too bad he doesn't have the golden escalator. | ||
| That would be dope. | ||
| Doesn't have the golden escalator, but Donald Trump will be walking in soon. | ||
| I mean, I don't think he's... | ||
| Is he walking in right now? | ||
| My goodness. | ||
| Let's see. | ||
| Looks like perhaps some Trump family members may be walking in right now. | ||
| Man, I'm glad we went live 20 minutes early. | ||
| Okay, what do we got? | ||
| We got Don and Kimberly and Tiffany Trump walking in right now. | ||
| We also got the great Danny D 'Urbina who is there at... | ||
| And Matt Gaetz, it looks like. | ||
| Danny D 'Urbina is the... | ||
| The man we have on the ground will bring you some of his reporting. | ||
| Marjorie Taylor Greene. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Do we have audio here? | ||
| Do we have any sound here? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So this is just the feed that we have currently. | ||
| And you're seeing some of the individuals inside of the Trump orbit. | ||
| Some Trump family members, some Trump staffers, some dear Trump loyalists and friends like Marjorie and Matt, who are also friends of the show, who we love, walking in there, but not Donald Trump. | ||
| Donald Trump is expected to speak in the next 15 minutes. | ||
| And you never know, Donald Trump is, according to reports, quite feisty right now. | ||
| After a day where he absolutely and completely destroyed. | ||
| Now, you say, Benny, he got arrested! | ||
| Huh, yeah, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| What Donald Trump did today is prove, once and for all, that everything he's ever told you was correct. | ||
| That there is a corrupt, rigged system that is rigged against you, the American people, that is rigged in favor of a system that wants to crush you, and if they can crush Trump, they can crush you. | ||
| Are you a billionaire? | ||
| Do you have skyscrapers with your name on them? | ||
| If you do, great. | ||
| Good for you. | ||
| I'm proud of you. | ||
| But most don't. | ||
| So if they can go after Donald Trump, if they can create, essentially, charges out of literally nothing, and we'll get to that in just a second, then they'll come after you. | ||
| Donald Trump, ladies and gentlemen, he's changed his bio on Truth Social exactly to that. | ||
| They're not after me. | ||
| They're after you. | ||
| I'm just standing in the way. | ||
| Let's cover some quick breaking news right now. | ||
| Donald Trump did actually have victories in court today. | ||
| No, Benny, he got arrested. | ||
| Well, a couple of things here. | ||
| One, Donald Trump did have victories in court today. | ||
| Donald Trump was the victor in, curiously, the Stormy Daniels case, where he was awarded $122,000 in attorney fees. | ||
| This means that Stormy Daniels now has to pay... | ||
| $600,000 to Donald Trump total. | ||
| Eric Trump breaking the Ninth Circuit awarded Trump $122,000 in attorney fees. | ||
| Just released. | ||
| Harmeet Dillon saying congratulations. | ||
| Firm obtained over $600,000 in attorney fees in favor of the meritless litigation initiated by Stormy Daniels. | ||
| So Donald Trump victorious. | ||
| Here are some of the sights and sounds from today. | ||
| We have the image. | ||
| That rocketed around the world of Donald Trump, sort of politely sitting there inside of the courtroom, listening in, Donald Trump staring down the cameras, and this, the iconic photo. | ||
| This is the iconic photo. | ||
| This is the photo that has changed the world forever. | ||
| Looks like it's straight out of a Batman movie, doesn't it? | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| Corrupt, evil Gotham City. | ||
| The man versus the machine. | ||
| What an incredible image. | ||
| You couldn't ask for better iconography. | ||
| If you were Donald Trump. | ||
| Now, some of the smartest people online have been absolutely torching this indictment. | ||
| The indictment has been released. | ||
| It has been unsealed, as it were. | ||
| And one of my favorite attorneys, and a next-level genius as it comes to dissecting lawsuits, an account called Technofog, said there's a curious omission from the Donald Trump indictment. | ||
| The specific federal law that Trump violated. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| Oh, the defendant orchestrated a scheme to influence the 2016 presidential election by identifying and purchasing negative information about him to suppress its publication. | ||
| Oh, you mean like they did with the laptop? | ||
| Like they did with Hunter Biden's laptop? | ||
| Are you effing kidding me? | ||
| And I'm gonna blow a gasket right now. | ||
| This is... | ||
| Are you... | ||
| Were you born yesterday? | ||
| Were you dropped on your head? | ||
| Did you put your head in a microwave? | ||
| Put it on high? | ||
| Rotate? | ||
| Defrost? | ||
| Oh my god! | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Whew man, we have a lot of stuff to cover here. | ||
| We're gonna try to get to all of it. | ||
| They didn't mention, they didn't note the laws that were broken. | ||
| There were no laws broken. | ||
| This is called politics! | ||
| Donald Trump coming out swinging. | ||
| Check this out. | ||
| This is an amazing, amazing statement from Donald Trump here on Truth Social. | ||
| Alvin Bragg shut down New York City, brought in 38,000 NYPD police officers, will spend an estimated $200 million of New York funds on a totally legal $130,000 NDA. | ||
| What a great way to frame that. | ||
| On top of that, the Ninth Circuit just awarded me $122,000. | ||
| For Horseface Stormy Daniels. | ||
| So Donald Trump coming out swinging along with some Republicans. | ||
| Republicans have been doing just absolutely great. | ||
| And guys, add that Eric Trump video. | ||
| I want to see that one. | ||
| Let me know when that one's added. | ||
| Got some incoming, incoming from Eric Trump. | ||
| Elise Stefanik issuing the best statement of the day so far. | ||
| Shameful the arrest of President Trump is unprecedented, chilling chapter in the left's weaponization of the justice system against their legal leading opponent. | ||
| Dangerous and illegal overreach of radical DAs has completely backfired. | ||
| The correct far left Democrats would rather desperately tear apart the fabric of our country than face President Trump at the ballot box. | ||
| President Trump will defeat the latest witch hunt, defeat Joe Biden, be sworn in as president of the United States January 2025. | ||
| five. | ||
| So this is obviously pro-Trump side. | ||
| What about never-Trump side? | ||
| You got like Matt Walsh, who's not a big Trump fan. | ||
| Almost no one on the right or the left thinks this indictment is anything other than flimsy garbage, leftist shills, and anti-Trump establishment Republicans are even coming out against it. | ||
| Bragg made his play for name recognition and now will be universally recognized as a disgrace. | ||
| Elon Musk sitting here saying if the Democrat Party had a time machine, why do time travelers keep trying to kill me? | ||
| I'm just a realtor. | ||
| Donald Trump, 1980. | ||
| This is a real Elon Musk meme. | ||
| Let's look at this thing. | ||
| 276,000, like 33,000 retweets. | ||
| Cernovich, a man who has openly said, That he is not on the Trump train anymore, that he would prefer DeSantis, is now officially converted back over to the Trump train. | ||
| I think the Trump indictment, which I read, would be laughable in any other circumstance. | ||
| In the same offense, it is the same offense copied and pasted 34 times with a date change each time. | ||
| This is the biggest farce I have ever seen. | ||
| Wow! | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, we got some breaking news clips of Donald Trump rolling in. | ||
| We'll soon be walking into Mar-a-Lago. | ||
| We'll cover it live. | ||
| Let's get to the tapes, okay? | ||
| Here's Donald Trump from seconds ago posted by his son, Eric Trump. | ||
| Donald Trump in the car, arriving at Mar-a-Lago, soon to speak to all of us. | ||
| you you you That is President Trump. | ||
| Rolling through. | ||
| Again, we have a man in the room at Mar-a-Lago. | ||
| The problem with reporting from Mar-a-Lago is the internet is just rough. | ||
| The connections there are just very, very difficult. | ||
| But Danny DeArbina, which is our wonderful, intrepid reporter there, has been sending us footage. | ||
| This is what it looked like driving in tomorrow. | ||
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This is what it looked like. | |
| Alright, so everyone is in a party mood, a party atmosphere here. | ||
| It seems like people are going to be vibing. | ||
| This is just going to roll. | ||
| And speaking of people who wish to roll Trump, a bunch of Trump haters were on TV today literally destroying Alvin Bragg and destroying this indictment. | ||
| Let's begin. | ||
| I mean, it's hard to really know where to begin. | ||
| John Bolton's the guy who wants to run for president against Donald Trump. | ||
| He's super anti-Trump. | ||
| John Bolton on CNN airwaves today saying, this is worse than I thought. | ||
| One big picture. | ||
| What do you think of the indictment? | ||
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Well, speaking of someone who very strongly does not want Donald Trump to get the Republican presidential nomination, I'm extraordinarily distressed by this document. | |
| I think this is even weaker than I feared it would be. | ||
| And I think it's easily subject to being dismissed or a quick acquittal for Trump. | ||
| Just speaking, going back to the days when I represented Jim Buckley and Gene McCarthy and the constitutional challenge to the underlying federal statute here passed in 1974, I can say there is no basis in the statutory language to say that Trump's behavior forms either a contribution or an expenditure under federal law, the two key definitions at issue here. | ||
| If it did, it would mean that every single expenditure a candidate made Could be taken to have something to do with this campaign. | ||
| Do I buy a $1 comb to comb my hair or a $10 comb to comb my hair? | ||
| If you can construe the statute to cover this behavior, then I think it violates the First Amendment because you're deeply into territory that makes this statute absolutely, a federal statute, too vague for enforcement. | ||
| And as what I understood the district attorney to say, that he thinks there's a New York election law involved here. | ||
| All I can say is the Federal Election Campaign Act absolutely preempts any state or local law to the contrary. | ||
| So, that's John Bolton just absolutely blowing a monster hole in this entire titan. | ||
| I mean, where do you even start? | ||
| John Bolton is saying that he's one of the guys who set up the federal statute for a federal election campaign law. | ||
| He's a really good person to book to speak on this. | ||
| Maybe we should try and book him on my show. | ||
| I'd be happy to have him on to talk about this. | ||
| If he really is indeed somebody who crafted federal campaign law, John Bolton is a barnacle, been around D.C. forever. | ||
| Saying it's worse than I thought, that he has no case. | ||
| This is going to be thrown out on standing. | ||
| And this is a guy who prefaced his entire comment saying, uh, yeah, I don't want Trump to be president of the United States. | ||
| CNN also included Jake Tapper, again another TDS deranged lunatic there on the channel, who will lie about Republicans at any opportunity he gets, to say, uh... | ||
| Hey guys, this wasn't a good day for Democrats. | ||
| This may be or may not be. | ||
| Your reaction now that you've had a chance to go through it, is it what you thought it was going to be and are you unimpressed? | ||
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It is what I thought it was going to be in terms of focusing on the payments that were made, the falsification of the records and really tied to the payment that was made. | |
| To Stormy Daniels, in terms of a case that's being brought against a former president, it's a little underwhelming. | ||
| There's not more to it. | ||
| There's not more violations, tax violations. | ||
| There's not an incredible new set of facts that we didn't know about publicly. | ||
| It's really the facts of this case as they have existed for basically almost seven years. | ||
| Mm-hmm. | ||
| Yeah, so they got nothing. | ||
| Again, they got absolutely nothing. | ||
| These people are being completely clowned. | ||
| Kevin McCarthy is saying that he's now going to put the full pressure and weight of Congress on Alvin Bragg, investigating him for federal crimes, for interfering in a federal election. | ||
| Yikes! | ||
| Did Donald Trump look nervous today? | ||
| We covered the TikTok of Donald Trump's day in and out of the courtroom. | ||
| Here's Donald Trump entering the court. | ||
| Let me tell you, does this look like a nervous... | ||
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Yeah, no. | |
| No, it does not look like a nervous man. | ||
| Trump in court. | ||
| This was the look that Donald Trump gave as he stared down the cameras. | ||
| Just absolutely epic. | ||
| Donald Trump, sort of like a boss moment. | ||
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He is this morning that he wanted to address the events of the day himself, personally, and directly. | |
| All right, well, here comes his legal team right now. | ||
| They are on the way in, which means that he will be right behind them, I would imagine. | ||
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Which one was his turn? | |
| So let's not forget that Alvin Bragg not only is he setting precedent for bringing criminal charges for the very first time in this nation's history against a former president, but he's taking a case. | ||
| And this is the hush money that was paid to Stormy Daniels. | ||
| Back in 2016, just before the election, he's taking a case that the feds said they wouldn't prosecute. | ||
| Here comes the former president. | ||
| Let's just listen in to this. | ||
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President Trump, will you come speak to us? | |
| President Trump? | ||
| President Trump? | ||
| And he went right into the courtroom. | ||
| We thought that he was going to come up to that camera, but change of plan. | ||
| Change of plans. | ||
| Speaking of somebody who actually had this planned the entire time, there's been some ping-pong balling around the internet of clips and footage of Joe Biden. | ||
| We were able to assemble a couple of clips of Joe Biden on multiple occasions talking about how excited he would be to lock up Donald Trump. | ||
| Now, this is very curious because cringe Gene Pierre had... | ||
| Yet to say today, hold on, I'm just making sure that my team isn't telling me that Trump is speaking yet. | ||
| No, but we will, of course, go directly to Trump once he is speaking. | ||
| Cringe Jean-Pierre was asked today by Peter Doocy, are you a little worried here that if you can just indict any former president for any little thing that... | ||
| Well, I don't know. | ||
| Maybe the DA in Little Rock, who's a right-wing MAGA supporter, is going to go after the Clinton Foundation? | ||
| Maybe DAs inside of Dallas, Fort Worth, or Houston will go after the Biden crime family for trying to sell Texas oil to the Chinese? | ||
| You a little worried about that? | ||
| Listen to the White House today. | ||
| Let me tell you, they don't sound confident. | ||
| Biden is a lawyer. | ||
| And the president of the United States and the commander-in-chief, but go ahead. | ||
| He is, but as a lawyer, is he concerned at all that a local DA indicting a former president could, down the line, open up the possibility, set the precedent, that local DAs that don't like former President Biden could indict him? | ||
| I'm not going to comment from here. | ||
| Why don't you have more to say about the Trump indictment? | ||
| It is an ongoing case, and I've been very clear about that. | ||
| We've been prudent about that, not commenting on ongoing cases, and we're going to stick to that. | ||
| But for better or worse, all that anybody in the country is talking about at this exact moment while we're in here is Trump. | ||
| And they look here to find out what the White House thinks about it, and... | ||
| Well... | ||
| I think the American people should feel reassured that when there is an ongoing case like this one, that we're just not commenting. | ||
| And so, does the lack of comment mean that you do not think anything happening in New York today is one of the top issues facing the country at the moment? | ||
| That's your assessment. | ||
| That's not my assessment. | ||
| I'm just laying out the facts that we are just not going to comment on an ongoing case from here. | ||
| And we've been very consistent. | ||
| very prudent, and we're going to stick there. | ||
| That Alvin Bragg go and prosecute Donald Trump, that Donald Trump deserves to be prosecuted, so that they can kick him out of the 2024 presidential election cycle. | ||
| That is the only thing that has been consistent here, is the White House attempting to rig the system against you, the American people. | ||
| Now we have a long series of videos of Joe Biden actually doing this, not just his little gremlin-like minions, but actual, literal Joe Biden, talking about using any means necessary to keep Donald Trump off the ballot. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, you want receipts, baby. | ||
| We got them for a day. | ||
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The G7 conversation was tied to your predecessor, who is about to launch another campaign. | |
| So how do you reassure them if that is the reason for their questioning, that the former president will not return, that his political movement, which is still very strong, will not once again take power in the United States? | ||
| We just have to demonstrate that he will not take power by, if he does run, making sure he, under legitimate efforts of our Constitution, does not become the next president again. | ||
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Oh, we've got to make sure that he's a legitimate, doesn't become the next president again. | |
| This is Joe Biden. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| So, Joe Biden is, and forgive me, I got a little ahead of myself. | ||
| My team is getting all of the clips loaded here from Joe Biden because he was asked about this directly today. | ||
| And also, it is pretty remarkable that they don't think that turnabout will be fair play. | ||
| That the turntables shall turn, ever turn styling, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| What's going on here? | ||
| You have a situation where they believe that this will never be turned back around on them. | ||
| And I don't know how that's going to be possible to prevent district attorneys in L.A. I'm sorry. | ||
| Not in L.A. The next clip I'm playing you is from L.A. And it's a very bad one. | ||
| Remember when Jimmy Kimmel had Joe Biden on? | ||
| Like the softest softball interview you've ever seen for the softest brain and the softest mushy mouth applesauce eating. | ||
| Plastic grin guy you've ever seen. | ||
| Whew, man, it was such an embarrassment. | ||
| Jimmy Kimmel had to cut to commercial break once because Joe Biden was rambling and didn't know where he was or what he was doing. | ||
| But Joe Biden did make one sentient point during that interview, and it was to say that he's going to lock up his political enemies. | ||
| Watch. | ||
| You'd often get asked, look, the Republicans don't play it square. | ||
| Why do you play it square? | ||
| Well, guess what? | ||
| If we do the same thing they do, our democracy would literally be in jeopardy. | ||
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Well, yeah. | |
| Not a joke. | ||
| I understand that argument, but also it's like you're playing Monopoly with somebody who, you know, won't pass go and won't follow any of the rules, and how do you ever make any progress if they're not following the rules? | ||
| Well, you've got to send them to jail, you know. | ||
| There's that little box in there. | ||
| Directly to jail? | ||
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So, they think it's a joke. | |
| They're laughing. | ||
| I think this is really, really funny. | ||
| As we played you in this morning's show, there are multiple world leaders around the globe who are openly saying that this isn't funny. | ||
| Viktor Orban from Hungary is saying we stand with you against the political persecution, Donald Trump. | ||
| And the president of Mexico, who's about to join the BRICS system in order to destroy the American dollar, is also saying the same thing. | ||
| In the New York Post this morning, Alvin Bragg's indictment of Donald Trump might open a Pandora's box for Democrats. | ||
| Uh-oh. | ||
| Let's take the Clinton Foundation, described by whistleblowers as the largest unprosecuted fraud ever. | ||
| Bill and Hillary Clinton registered as a tax-exempt charity, but have used it for their own personal piggy bank. | ||
| The foundation keeps offices in Little Rock, Arkansas, where a new Pulaski County DA... | ||
| Will Jones, is his name, is a Republican who last year beat a Soros-backed Democrat for the job. | ||
| He might well be able to get creative with a tax fraud case against the Clintons. | ||
| Over the objections of local anti-tax advocates, the Clintons allegedly pressured Little Rock officials to float close to $20 million in bonds to buy land to construct the building, house their supposed non-profit, along with the Clinton Presidential Library. | ||
| What's more, whistleblowers have accused the Clinton Foundation officials, including the former president, of using tax donations for personal use, like private jet travel with Jeffrey Epstein. | ||
| Other red states could manufacture indictments against Democrats. | ||
| brother Jim Biden has gotten into hot water for allegedly defrauding healthcare companies. | ||
| Oh, ho, ho, ho! | ||
| Jimmy allegedly conned the founder of Fort Lauderdale-based AmeriCorps Health into thinking that he could be a rainmaker based on his big name, snagged a corner office at the headquarters where he displayed framed photos of him and Barack Obama. | ||
| But instead of bringing in business, Biden allegedly shook down AmeriCorps for personal loans he used to repair his family vacation house in Florida. | ||
| Ron DeSantis, go after the Bidens right now. | ||
| Look at these dirty scum. | ||
| Look at these scumbags. | ||
| Go after them right now. | ||
| The Bragg playbook. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, to be sure, nobody is insisting on ginning up charges against prominent Democrats as Bragg had done against Trump. | ||
| But the GOP frontrunner for election in the White House, the point is that what Bragg is doing could now happen anywhere. | ||
| You can be sure there are prosecutors across Florida and Texas right now that are looking for a state law hook into the Biden family, says Tom Fitton from Judicial Watch, friend of the show. | ||
| The moment such indictments is unsealed, Democrats and their media propagandists will lose their minds. | ||
| Yeah, he's right. | ||
| So is this going to backfire big on Democrats? | ||
| Well, I mean, we're already starting to see it a little bit. | ||
| I mean, you're starting to see some wins in the court for Trump even today. | ||
| Fox News couldn't help themselves. | ||
| They couldn't help themselves. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| When they heard the news that Stormy Daniels has now been demanded to pay Donald Trump in excess of $600,000. | ||
| Fox News, straight news anchors were like hysterically laughing. | ||
| They couldn't hold it back. | ||
| They were hysterically laughing today when they found out this news. | ||
| It is one of the funniest clips. | ||
| Made me very, very happy when I saw it. | ||
| Check this out. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| You know, we're getting some messages from people in the Trump circle. | ||
| Eric Trump saying... | ||
| This just happened. | ||
| The Ninth Circuit just awarded Trump $121,000 in attorney fees from Stormy Daniels. | ||
| Order just released. | ||
| This is an addition, he says, to the $500,000 that she already owes him. | ||
| Obviously, interesting timing on that one, Brett. | ||
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It's not exactly the stuff of a political slogan. | |
| Vote for me. | ||
| I collected $121,000 from a porn star I had an encounter with. | ||
| Oh, good. | ||
| Bill, your thoughts on that judgment? | ||
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I mean, that was expected. | |
| I mean, he's entitled to those fees. | ||
| The timing, I have to say, is very curious. | ||
| And it does raise this issue of sort of the underlying issues that we're talking about here. | ||
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But I'm afraid... | |
| This is just the beginning of two years where we're going to have a lot of heavy breathing about a lot of legal developments, and it's unfortunate because it'll divert attention from the serious issues that the country face, and we have to wrestle within this election. | ||
| So even the straight news reporters at Fox were cracking up about this. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, we are hearing reports right now that Eric Trump has walked into the building and that we can actually see Donald Trump. | ||
| Here is the live shot right now. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the president of the United States. | ||
| Get that audio up. | ||
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President Donald J. Trump. | |
| And I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free. | ||
| And I won't forget the men who died who gave that life to me. | ||
| And I gladly stand up next to you when they met her still today. | ||
| But there ain't no doubt I love this land. | ||
| God bless the USA. | ||
| From the lakes of Minnesota to the hills. | ||
| of Tennessee, across the plains of Texas, I'm seeing this time and see. | ||
| From Detroit down to Houston, and New York to L.A., where there's pride in every American heart, and it's time we stand and say, that I'm proud to be an American, where at least I'm I know I'm free. | ||
| And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me. | ||
| And I gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today. | ||
| But there ain't no doubt I love this land. | ||
| God bless the USA. | ||
| God bless the USA. | ||
| USA! | ||
| Thank you very much everybody. | ||
| We have to save our country. | ||
| God bless you all. | ||
| God bless you all. | ||
| And I never thought anything like this could happen in a moment. | ||
| 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. | ||
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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. | ||
| And just recently, the FBI and DOJ in collusion with Twitter and Facebook in order not to say anything bad about the Hunter Biden laptop from hell. | ||
| Which exposes the Biden family as criminals and which, according to the pollsters, would have made a 17-point difference in the election result. | ||
| We needed a lot less than that, like about 16.9. | ||
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It would have been in our favor. | |
| Not my favor, our favor. | ||
| Because our country is going to have... | ||
| And 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? | ||
| And that was all confirmed strongly by the FBI when they all knew that it wasn't Russian disinformation. | ||
| And so much more. | ||
| Our elections were like those of a third world country. | ||
| And now this massive election interference at a scale never seen before in our country, beginning with the radical left, George Soros-backed prosecutor, Alvin Bragg of New York, who campaigned on the fact that he would get President Trump. | ||
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I'm going to get him. | |
| I'm going to get him. | ||
| This is a guy who can't pay. | ||
| You want to get President Trump at any cost in this? | ||
| Before he knew anything about me, he 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 and that it should never have been brought. | ||
| Never have been brought. | ||
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Everybody. | |
| Even people that aren't big fans have said, they said, this is not fair. | ||
| 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, our incompetent withdrawal from Afghanistan, where we left behind American citizens, $85 billion worth of the best military equipment in the world, lost 13 magnificent young lives and far too many to mention that are so badly hurt. | ||
| The loss of arms and legs and facial obliteration. | ||
| The most embarrassing time in our country's history, in my opinion. | ||
| Then our give up on energy independence and even energy dominant. | ||
| We're going to be dominant within six months, more than any other nation times two. | ||
| We had this all just three years ago, our raging... | ||
| 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, which could very well lead under the Biden administration's leadership. | ||
| To an all-out nuclear World War III. | ||
| It can happen. | ||
| We're not very far away from it, believe it or not. | ||
| 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. | ||
| To kill al-Baghdadi in Soleimani. | ||
| 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. | ||
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| 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 one was more perfect. | ||
| Nobody said, sir, you shouldn't say that many people. | ||
| We're 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 lawyers, nobody found anything wrong with that perfect call until a book promotion tour many months later. | ||
| All of a sudden, they say, you know, I remember Trump. | ||
| Making a call. | ||
| Just look at that. | ||
| This fake case was brought only to interfere with the upcoming 2024 election. | ||
| And it should be dropped immediately. | ||
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| Then you have a radical left lunatic known as a bomb thrower who is harassing hundreds of my people day after day. | ||
| Over the boxes hoax, you know, the boxes hoax, as we call it. | ||
| Just so everyone knows, I come under what's known as the Presidential Records Act, which was designed and approved by Congress long ago just for this reason. | ||
| Under the act, I'm supposed 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? | ||
| This is what we have to deal with. | ||
| But there is no criminality under the Presidential Records Act. | ||
| That is not what it's all about. | ||
| We were negotiating in very 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 Mar-a-Lago from our beautiful White House, just as virtually every other president has done in the past. | ||
| When FBI and DOJ officials with narrow and 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? | ||
| We immediately complied. | ||
| It's a lot different than the Biden situation, isn't it? | ||
| The next thing I know, we were raided by many gun-toting FBI agents who took whatever they wanted, including my passports and medical records. | ||
| Everybody was in shock. | ||
| Nobody had ever heard of such a raid before. | ||
| I can't even believe it. | ||
| Who would think 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 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 has done. | ||
| Everybody's done. | ||
| In fact, Hillary Clinton got rid of 33,000 emails, and that was okay. | ||
| But nobody's done it like Joe Biden. | ||
| This lunatic special prosecutor named Jack Smith, I wonder what it was prior to a change. | ||
| Who others of his ilk say he's even worse than they are, is only looking at Trump, yet Joe Biden took massive amounts more documents, even removed many boxes to Chinatown. | ||
| Can you believe that? | ||
| He's 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 screwed all over his. | ||
| Garage floor where his now very famous Corvette is also stored. | ||
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All over the floor, including classified documents. | |
| But that's okay. | ||
| Perhaps most importantly, he has 1,850 boxes in Delaware, which he is refusing to give up. | ||
| But isn't that real obstruction? | ||
| It's obstruction. | ||
| As president, I have the right to declassify documents. | ||
| And the process is automatic if I take them with me. | ||
| It's automatic. | ||
| Declassify. | ||
| Biden was vice president. | ||
| He had absolutely no right to declassify as vice president. | ||
| He doesn't come under the non-criminal presidential records act. | ||
| He comes under the very criminal federal records act, unfortunately for him, but it's not going to matter because they don't follow the law, which has very severe penalties. | ||
| He had classified documents that he took while he was a senator, which is absolutely inexcusable. | ||
| And other senators, including Democrats, are outraged. | ||
| But he's not being harassed and hounded like the people who work for me are. | ||
| In fact, they seem to have forgotten about his documents entirely. | ||
| 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 Nara 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 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. | ||
| I will get him. | ||
| This was her campaign. | ||
| 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 knows him. | ||
| She announced, what is fueling my soul right now is Trump. | ||
| And that she had her eyes on Trump Tower. | ||
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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 definitely sue him. | ||
| We're going to be a real pain in the ass. | ||
| He's going to know my name personally. | ||
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| laughter Thank you. | ||
| And then she claimed that I was an illegitimate president. | ||
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Think of it. | |
| With all we did, with all we did on energy, with all we did on the military, taxes, biggest tax cuts in history, biggest regulation cuts in history, right to try, people able to get drugs now that aren't approved. | ||
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Hopefully we 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. | ||
| She's 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 there which tells the institutions that may look at that if they want to. | ||
| Not to rely on the statement. | ||
| But they've got a problem with their case because, number one, I'm very under-leveraged. | ||
| They can't believe it. | ||
| All the stuff they read and gave. | ||
| And have very little debt relative to the value of assets. | ||
| And importantly, not one bank has lost even one dollar. | ||
| She was investigating me to save banks. | ||
| They have very good lawyers. | ||
| But they didn't lose a dollar. | ||
| With us during this period of time. | ||
| In fact, the banks we're talking about made almost $200 million off Donald Trump, and they liked me very much. | ||
| We never missed a payment, never got a default notice, had a great relationship with all of them. | ||
| I don't need banks. | ||
| We have a lot of cash. | ||
| Built a great business with my family. | ||
| You've got a fantastic business. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| I have a son here who's done a great job. | ||
| I have another son here. | ||
| He's done a great job. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| And Ivanka and Barron will be great someday. | ||
| He's tall. | ||
| He's smart. | ||
| But I have a great family and they've done a fantastic job and we appreciate it very much. | ||
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They've gotten good luck. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| 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. | ||
| So here we are now, where we were today, in a city that was so great just four or five years ago. | ||
| But now we're there, and 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 on a basis that every single pundit and legal analyst said, there is no case. | ||
| There's no case. | ||
| They kept saying, there's no case. | ||
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Virtually everyone. | |
| But it's far worse than that because he knew there was no case. | ||
| That's why last week he delayed for a month and then immediately took that back and threw this ridiculous indictment together. | ||
| Came out today, everybody said, this is... | ||
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There's nothing here. | |
| Not really an indictment. | ||
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There's nothing here. | |
| Our lawyers came to me and they said there's nothing here. | ||
| They're not even saying what you did. | ||
| The criminal is the district attorney because he illegally leaked massive amounts of grand jury for which he should be prosecuted or at a minimum he should resign. | ||
| And Alvin Bragg's wife confirmed a report that claimed her husband has Trump nailed on felonies. | ||
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She has since locked down her Twitter account. | |
| His chief prosecutor, who represented the Democrats and crooked Hillary Clinton in a firm run by Chuck Schumer's brother, Robert, he quit the firm in order to go to work in the DA office. | ||
| 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. | ||
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Think of that same guy that brought this ridiculous thing to them. | |
| Yet during his investigation, this prosecutor named Mark Pomerantz wrote and published a book saying all sorts of privileged things and has been very strongly recognized. | ||
| Really reprimanded. | ||
| He was reprimanded so strongly. | ||
| I've never seen anything like it. | ||
| Probably the end of it. | ||
| But what he did was probably very illegal. | ||
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But he was very, very strongly reprimanded. | |
| Even District Attorney Bragg was furious with him. | ||
| They were having a tremendous fight in the office because of him. | ||
| 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. | ||
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How about that? | |
| Isn't that great? | ||
| Oh, I love them. | ||
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I'd like to meet them. | |
| I'd like to meet them. | ||
| The DA's office even had a web page. | ||
| Meet the team of executives who have done this to President Trump. | ||
| That was the title. | ||
| Isn't that nice? | ||
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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 that. | ||
| We recently had another trial and the same judge told the fine man who worked for me for many, many years that if you admit your guilt, you will be in jail for 90 days. | ||
| But if you don't, 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. | ||
| What the prosecutors and judge did to that man, I will never forget. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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? | ||
| Saudi Arabia has joined with Iran. | ||
| China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea have formed together as a menacing and destructive coalition. | ||
| It 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. | ||
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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 worst 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. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Incredibly, we are now a failing nation. | ||
| We are a nation in decline. | ||
| And now these radical left lunatics want to interfere with our elections by using law enforcement. | ||
| We can't let that happen. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| With all of this being said, and with a very dark cloud over our beloved country. | ||
| I have no doubt, nevertheless, that we will make America great again. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| God bless you and God bless America. | ||
| Thank you very much, everyone. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Okay, ladies and gentlemen, here we are back on What's Up. | ||
| Keep them rolling. | ||
| I was telling my team the fact checks from PBS. | ||
| We read the comments. | ||
| We read them every single show. | ||
| We are very sorry. | ||
| We thought that Fox News would have the most solid feed. | ||
| We will talk you through what happened there, and then I'll give you the biggest piece of news from that, which is that Donald Trump turned down a plea bargain. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| But, ladies and gentlemen, let's keep the shot rolling and see if Donald Trump does anything inside of this room of avid supporters. | ||
| For those of you that had trouble with some of the audio during the feed, we apologize. | ||
| Fox News' entire feed was really, really quiet. | ||
| Fox News is typically always the best in these scenarios. | ||
| Our other favorites are right-side broadcasting, and they had trouble. | ||
| Then Rumble went down. | ||
| During the speech, Rumble added like a 505, 404. | ||
| And so we were looking for dependable feeds. | ||
| We would never want to turn down or turn on PBS, of all places. | ||
| But unfortunately, that was what we were left with, to have solid audio. | ||
| Who could have guessed? | ||
| That it would be PBS and not Fox News to have solid audio. | ||
| Just letting you guys know, we would never ever play you quiet audio on purpose. | ||
| That was Fox News' feed. | ||
| It was a real problem on their channel. | ||
| Fox News had a direct camera there, and their mic must have been off. | ||
| Their equipment must have been off. | ||
| Typically Fox, very dependable. | ||
| We scrambled to find another feed, and you saw a switch there to the PBS NewsHour feed. | ||
| Anyway, that is why it was a little bit quiet. | ||
| We appreciate your patience. | ||
| And waiting, it looks like Donald Trump has left. | ||
| The biggest piece of news there in this speech, which is the moment when Donald Trump really solidified his front-runner status here inside of the GOP primary, Marjorie Taylor Greene looking ecstatic there, is this looks like old Trump. | ||
| I'll say it, and I said it before. | ||
| When Donald Trump made his announcement at Mar-a-Lago in this very same room... | ||
| I've been in this room a million times. | ||
| Every fundraiser, every big to-do in Florida typically happens in this room. | ||
| Donald Trump, there's Mike Lindell, Scavino. | ||
| Oh man, what a crew. | ||
| So, Mike Lindell, gonna sleep well tonight, I think. | ||
| But, man, when Donald Trump made his presidential announcement, a lot of people said it was low energy. | ||
| A lot of people said that maybe Donald Trump doesn't have his heart in it. | ||
| I think this is different. | ||
| This is different. | ||
| This looks like 2016 Trump, 2015 Trump, all over again. | ||
| This was a very different energy here. | ||
| And obviously now a uniting cause for Republicans and conservatives. | ||
| And of course the reactions are pouring in. | ||
| Producer ALX is gathering a bunch of them for us. | ||
| We saw... | ||
| All of Donald Trump's children there, Eric, Tiffany, Don Jr., were there for the post-indictment speech, along with significant others. | ||
| But if you're talking about a major takeaway from the speech, yo, this is it. | ||
| This is the biggest takeaway from the speech right here. | ||
| Trump said that he turned down a settlement offer. | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| That means, in this case, which is not a civil case, that Alvin Bragg offered Donald Trump a plea bargain. | ||
| That means that Donald Trump would plead guilty, and then he'd have his penalties reduced. | ||
| Maybe, you know, you'd have no prison time, you'd have to pay a fine or something like that, right? | ||
| Donald Trump said, no, we are going to trial. | ||
| Wow! | ||
| That is a huge piece of news that we did not know about this instance. | ||
| Holy smokes. | ||
| That's huge. | ||
| And also, the judge did not issue a gag order against Trump. | ||
| That was a big piece of news that we found out that Alvin Bragg was going for a gag order against Trump. | ||
| The judge essentially said today, just be careful what you say on social media. | ||
| Whatever. | ||
| Yeah, right. | ||
| Yeah, whatever. | ||
| So, ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump's speech obviously hitting hard. | ||
| Joe Biden, very focused speech. | ||
| Very important speech. | ||
| Possibly the most important speech of Donald Trump's entire life. | ||
| I mean, arguable? | ||
| I mean, I haven't seen this kind of energy since the golden escalators. | ||
| And that's a lot of energy. | ||
| That's a lot of energy, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| So, yeah, we had some... | ||
| We had some major news breaking inside of that speech. | ||
| And also we had a very small contingent of glitches for audio that we fixed quite quickly. | ||
| This is what it looked like. | ||
| Donald Trump's speech from Mar-a-Lago, Florida. | ||
| Here are all of the broadcast. | ||
| Here's all the broadcast coverage. | ||
| Trump's children, close advisors at Mar-a-Lago speech. | ||
| Here are some of the photos hitting the wire. | ||
| Don and Kimberly. | ||
| Eric and Laura Trump. | ||
| Laura Trump will be on the program tomorrow. | ||
| Laura Trump will be joining us live exclusively tomorrow. | ||
| You have Tiffany Trump. | ||
| This is Tiffany Trump. | ||
| Donald Trump's daughter. | ||
| And Donald Trump speaking. | ||
| Does that man look scared to you? | ||
| No. | ||
| Ah, Carrie Lake was there. | ||
| Now that I did not see. | ||
| Maybe some of you with sharp eyes had seen it. | ||
| Carrie Lake was there. | ||
| Spectacular. | ||
| Mike Lindell, naturally. | ||
| Roger Stone. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Some guys wearing some fancy outfits. | ||
| Boom. | ||
| There you have it. | ||
| Is there any chance that we could get Danny Day Urbina live? | ||
| No? | ||
| Unfortunate. | ||
| Unfortunate. | ||
| So Donald Trump said this wasn't a crime. | ||
| Was he right? | ||
| Is Donald Trump right about this? | ||
| Was this not a crime? | ||
| Alvin Bragg today, one, offered Donald Trump a plea bargain. | ||
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| nope. | ||
| Donald Trump didn't take it. | ||
| Donald Trump says, let's go to trial, buddy. | ||
| And now, you're getting Alvin Bragg sounding a little scared. | ||
| This was a clip we didn't get to in the beginning of the show, but I think this is important for context. | ||
| Alvin Bragg not being able to name a crime. | ||
| Alvin Bragg did a press conference today, and he couldn't name what Donald Trump was guilty of. | ||
| He couldn't name the federal statute that Donald Trump had violated here in this crime. | ||
| I mean, guys, this is going to land Alvin Bragg in jail. | ||
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| And they would then conceal another crime, but the indictment does not specifically say what those crimes were. | ||
| We are assuming, perhaps, that they might be election-related. | ||
| I'm wondering if you can specify what laws were all spoken. | ||
| So let me say as an initial matter that the indictment doesn't specify because the law does not so require. | ||
| In my remarks, I mentioned a couple of laws, which I will highlight again now. | ||
| The first is New York State election law. | ||
| Which makes it a crime to conspire to promote a candidacy by unlawful means. | ||
| I further indicated a number of unlawful means including more additional false statements including statements that were planned to be made to tax authorities. | ||
| I also noted the federal election law cap on contribution limits. | ||
| But why weren't there those crimes charged? | ||
| Why were they charged those crimes? | ||
| Well, we... | ||
| I'm not going to go into our delivery process on what was brought. | ||
| The charges that were brought were the ones that were brought. | ||
| The evidence in the law is the basis for those decisions. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| Okay, Alan Bragg. | ||
| Buddy, does he look scared to you? | ||
| This man looks very, very scared to me. | ||
| Going to put his head under the broken... | ||
| Ice cream machine at McDonald's as soon as he gets out of that press conference. | ||
| Alvin Bragg couldn't name the crime. | ||
| Reporters are like, what the hell is the crime here? | ||
| All of the legal minds online are like, what the hell is the crime? | ||
| And he couldn't name it. | ||
| Alvin Bragg, this is from Kevin McCarthy. | ||
| Alvin Bragg is attempting to interfere in our democratic process by invoking federal law to bring politicized charges against President Trump, admittedly using federal funds. | ||
| Well, at the same time arguing that the people representative of Congress lacked jurisdiction to investigate this farce. | ||
| Not so. | ||
| Bragg's weaponization of the federal justice process will be held accountable by Congress. | ||
| Good for you, Kevin McCarthy. | ||
| Boom. | ||
| Gold fat retweet there. | ||
| Donald Trump has said that Alvin Bragg is himself the real criminal here. | ||
| And boy, he would be proven correct. | ||
| Polling is really, really collapsing on this. | ||
| This has been a disaster of a day for Democrats. | ||
| This has been a disaster of a day for Democrats. | ||
| And I wasn't planning on saying that. | ||
| I thought they might be able to get one up on the news cycle here. | ||
| They might have gotten their headline, but it's not what they wanted. | ||
| Here's Donald Trump, a clip from Donald Trump today saying, from the speech moments ago, saying Alvin Bragg's a real criminal. | ||
| The criminal is the district attorney because he illegally leaked massive amounts of grand jury for which he should be prosecuted or at a minimum he should resign. | ||
| Yeah, or at a minimum, he should resign. | ||
| Some of the headlines are breaking right now. | ||
| Energetic Trump speaks at Mar-a-Lago after arrest. | ||
| Fake case was brought only to interfere in the upcoming 2024 elections. | ||
| People hate that. | ||
| People get pissed at that. | ||
| We cover today on the show. | ||
| They want me to settle the case, but I want no part of that. | ||
| I told you that's the biggest piece of news out of here, that they tried to offer him a plea agreement, and he said no. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Donald Trump introduced as the next president of the United States as he enters the room at Mar-a-Lago. | ||
| Trump, the only crime that I have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it. | ||
| Well, well, well. | ||
| How the turntables turn. | ||
| Here's from the Daily Mail, defiant Trump. | ||
| The only crime that I have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation. | ||
| Defiant Trump tears into Alvin Bragg in the investigation against him at Mar-a-Lago's speech as fans and family, including Tiffany, Eric, and Don Jr. | ||
| No, Melania. | ||
| Donald Trump looking spry. | ||
| There he is. | ||
| Donald Trump saying that the last five presidents were also or actually criminals. | ||
| Yikes. | ||
| This is one hell of a line that's been rocketing around the internet. | ||
| The USA is a mess. | ||
| Our economy is crashing. | ||
| Inflation is out of control. | ||
| Russia has joined with China. | ||
| Can you believe that? | ||
| Saudi Arabia has joined with Iran. | ||
| China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea have formed together as a menacing and destructive 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. | ||
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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 worst 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. | ||
| Boom. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Donald Trump, the headlines are rolling in here. | ||
| I think that this is really an important moment to sort of see. | ||
| A lot of people using the word defiant, calling the efforts against him persecution, not prosecution. | ||
| People are starting to really pick up on that. | ||
| Alvin Bragg could not name a crime. | ||
| But what about Alvin Bragg's felony? | ||
| Very interesting. | ||
| This is based on Alvin Bragg leaking. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, this is, of course, not something that Democrats were expecting. | ||
| They've been very, very coy, very, very shy today. | ||
| Donald Trump, I think probably the biggest piece of news that he made during this speech, They want to settle the case, but I want no part of that. | ||
| Take it to trial. | ||
| So they're saying this will be the trial, and that trial will be in, or the next court hearing date will be in December 4th. | ||
| Huh? | ||
| December? | ||
| It's like right around the corner from the Iowa caucuses. | ||
| So there's your political election interference here. | ||
| The only case that Alvin Bragg hasn't dropped, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| And we are witnessing history. | ||
| We've been on it all day today. | ||
| I don't think that this is going to affect the American people the way that Democrats want it to. | ||
| I believe that the American people are going to say with a singular voice, we actually hate interference. | ||
| We had on a guy this, we played you a clip from an interview last night with one of the pollsters from the Clinton era. | ||
| Talking about how when Republicans really went hard after Bill Clinton, when half of those guys were banging their interns, it didn't work out well. | ||
| Bill Clinton had a very, very poor approval rating, and then his approval rating shot up after the government was weaponized against him. | ||
| And you are starting to see that right now. | ||
| One of our favorite reporters from on the street, he does on the street interviews. | ||
| His name is Cheney rich. | ||
| He was out today asking people questions about Donald Trump and whether this indictment has changed their opinion of Donald Trump. | ||
| I believe that these people speak for the vast majority. | ||
| Of individuals around America. | ||
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Do you support Trump being indicted? | |
| Definitely not. | ||
| That man is the GOAT. | ||
| He ran the fuck out the country. | ||
| They're just trying to set him up, for real. | ||
| Trump 2024 for sure. | ||
| Trump 2024. | ||
| No. | ||
| Fuck no. | ||
| It's a witch hunt. | ||
| They're doing whatever they can to get rid of him because they know he's powerful and they know he can actually do a good change in this country. | ||
| My boy Donnie is watching. | ||
| You have more supporters than you ever know, bro. | ||
| Oh, I just seen that shit two days ago. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| They don't trick y 'all dumbass to get Trump out the chair and not look how that shit done backfired on y 'all dumbass. | ||
| Trump got my back. | ||
| Trump for life. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| We try as hard as we can to give you language warnings on the show. | ||
| We always want to try and put together a family-friendly show, but whatever. | ||
| I mean, this is just how people talk in the street. | ||
| And do those people look like MAGA supporters to you? | ||
| Well, I mean, I guess if you're not paying attention. | ||
| But if you are paying attention, you'll realize that what they've done now... | ||
| Is try and crucify Donald Trump. | ||
| They're going to make him a rock star. | ||
| They're going to make him an icon. | ||
| More than he already is. | ||
| He's already the most famous celebrity that has ever lived. | ||
| The most famous mortal celebrity that has ever lived. | ||
| And now they're going to give him rock star status. | ||
| The best rock stars all have mug shots. | ||
| We didn't get a mug shot today. | ||
| We didn't get a handcuffing today or a frog walk today. | ||
| But we did get Donald Trump saying not guilty, walked into the court, walked out, flew home and gave a very, very good speech. | ||
| The best speech I've seen from Donald Trump in quite a while. | ||
| Defiant, filled with vigor, with a singular focus, and rested and ready, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| I think like many things, this is going to backfire. | ||
| It's going to backfire very, very badly on Democrats. | ||
| Careful what you wish for. | ||
| Turnabout is fair play. | ||
| When will the Little Rock district attorney be charging the Clintons for the Clinton Foundation crimes? | ||
| Let's look into those flights with Jeffrey Epstein, shall we? | ||
| Oh, how the turntables turn. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for tuning in. | ||
| We have been covering history here, and this is once again our probably fourth or fifth hour live today. | ||
| We love all of you. | ||
| We care about you, and we want you to be informed, and so we thank you for joining with us and watching tonight. | ||
| See you in the morning. | ||
| Laura Trump will be on the program, 11 a.m., on The Benny Show. | ||
| It's your boy Benny, fighting for a better America. |
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