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June 9, 2023 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson
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🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: President Trump Indicted By Biden | Trump RESPONDS 🔥 | End Of America?
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jesse watters
We have a Fox News alert.
Donald Trump says on Truth Social that he's been indicted.
Quote, the corrupt Biden administration has informed my attorneys that I have been indicted, seemingly over the boxes hoax, even though Joe Biden has 1,850 boxes at the University of Delaware, additional boxes in Chinatown, D.C., with even more boxes at the University of Pennsylvania, and documents strewn all over his garage floor.
Where he parks his Corvette.
and which is secured by only a garage door that is paper thin and open much of the time.
unidentified
Thank you.
Thank you.
benny johnson
Well, ladies and gentlemen, here we are.
We predicted this for quite a while, but it sure is nice to be sailing over the cliff with you all.
It sure is nice, too.
See the destruction of America from the bow of the boat, along with some of my favorite friends, the people who follow our show, The Benny Show, have been hearing for the better part of two weeks that the Biden Department of Justice would be destroying our nation as we know it, turning us into a third world banana republic by indicting their foremost political enemy.
Now the left has been...
Having a psychosexual fever dream over indicting Donald Trump federally for a very long time.
They couldn't even keep it in their pants when it came to Alvin Bragg.
They just couldn't resist.
Donald Trump threw a toothpick away on the wrong side of the road when he was jaywalking.
And, well, that means you go to jail in New York, apparently.
Allegedly.
But now, tonight, there is a new indictment because Donald Trump...
Essentially held onto records that he is legally able to hold onto, and then told the government to F off, and now they are indicting him.
Ladies and gentlemen, they've been wanting to do this for a very, very long time.
Here's the news, and more importantly, Donald Trump just released a video seconds ago, and so we will let Donald Trump speak for himself.
Speak for himself.
Donald Trump has been indicted.
Here are the charges.
Donald Trump indicted, charged in classified documents pro.
Federal grand jury approves seven counts, including obstruction, false statements, order to appear in a court in Miami on Tuesday.
Trump says it's a dark day for the United States.
The other one would be the Alvin Bragg case, which is...
Absolutely duty-bound to fall apart.
That's what we're hearing.
Trump claims he's an innocent man in both cases, and he's running for president in 2024, the first time in American history that anyone has indicted their political opponent.
Our producer here, ALX, tweeting and breaking, Donald Trump has been indicted, summoned to appear in court.
Donald Trump truthing this.
The corrupt Biden administration has informed my attorneys that I have been invited seemingly over the box as hoax.
Joe Biden kept...
Thousands of boxes at the University of Delaware, next to his Corvette on the garage floor, a paper-thin, secured only by a paper-thin garage door.
Some of the time, I have been summoned to appear in federal court in Miami Tuesday at 3 p.m.
I never thought that it would be possible that such a thing could happen to the former president of the United States, who received far more votes than any sitting president in the history of our country and currently leading by far candidates, both Democrat and Republican polls.
I am an innocent man, Donald Trump says.
Ladies and gentlemen, we know for a fact that Donald Trump is an innocent man.
And more importantly, we know that the Department of Justice is, of course, using two different methods as it pertains to the law and order in this country.
So says Elon Musk also.
Elon Musk responding to our producer ALX here saying there does seem to be a far higher interest in pursuing Trump compared to other people in politics.
Very important that the justice system rebut what appears to be different enforcement or they will lose public trust.
Yes, that is effectively what everyone is saying here, including Marjorie Taylor Greene, who says Democrats must literally shake and sweat when they see amazing, packed-out Trump rallies and overwhelming winning poll numbers week after week.
They must lay awake at night in panic.
At the thoughts of us winning in 2024.
Marjorie Taylor Greene echoing this fantastic account and wokeness, one of my favorites.
Hunter Biden, zero indictments.
The big guy, zero indictments.
The Clinton, zero indictments.
Epstein, zero indictments.
Anthony Fauci, zero indictments.
D.C. Insider Traders, zero indictments.
Iraq War Criminals, zero indictments.
COVID Criminals, zero indictments.
Elon Musk responding to this with a...
Man with an eyeglass emoji.
Hmm.
What could it be?
Donald Trump is responding to this allegation in a video.
He just posted it.
We have it loaded up.
Donald Trump says as a caption to the video, I am an innocent man.
Here's what President Trump has to say.
donald j trump
Very sadly, we're a nation of decline, and yet they go after...
A popular president, a president that got more votes than any sitting president in the history of our country, by far, and did much better the second time in the election than the first, and they go after him on a boxer's hoax, just like the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, and all of the others.
This has been going on for seven years.
They can't stop.
Because it's election interference at the highest level.
There's never been anything like what's happened.
I'm an innocent man.
I'm an innocent person.
They had the Mueller hoax, the Mueller report, and that came out.
No collusion after two and a half years.
That was set up by Hillary Clinton and Democrats.
But this is what they do.
This is what they do so well.
If they would devote their energies to honesty and integrity.
We'll be a lot better for our country.
They could do a lot better.
They could do a lot of great things.
But when you look at what's happened to our country in the last three years, we were energy independent.
We had a strong military that wasn't woke.
We were doing so well.
We were respected all over the world.
We got the biggest tax cuts in history, biggest regulation cuts in history.
And what do you do?
You have a president where an election was taken.
Got more votes than any sitting president in history by far.
Never anything even close.
And they come after me because now we're leading in the polls again by a lot against Biden and against the Republicans by a lot.
But we're leading against Biden by a lot, a tremendous amount.
And we went up to a level that they figured the way they're going to stop us is by using what's called warfare.
And that's what it is.
This is warfare for the law.
And we can't let it happen.
We can't let it happen.
Our country is going to hell, and they come after Donald Trump, weaponizing the Justice Department, weaponizing the FBI.
We can't let this continue to go on because it's ripping our country to shreds.
We have such big problems, and this shouldn't be one of them.
It's a hoax.
The whole thing is a hoax.
Just like Russia, Russia, Russia, just like the fake dossier was a hoax.
You saw the Durham report.
You saw the Mueller report.
It was all a big hoax.
You had two impeachments and they lost and we won.
And we had tremendous support.
But that was a hoax and a scam.
And now they're doing it again.
It's just a continuation.
Seven years.
Even after I'm out.
But it's called election interference.
They're trying to destroy a reputation so they can win an election.
That's just as bad as doing any of the other things that have been done over the last number of years, and especially during the 2020 election.
So I just want to tell you, I'm an innocent man.
I did nothing wrong.
And we will fight this out just like we've been fighting for seven years.
It would be wonderful if we could devote our full time to making America great again.
And that's exactly what we did.
But now, again, our country is in decline.
We're a failing nation.
And this is what they do.
I'm an innocent man.
We will prove that again.
Seven years of proving it.
And here we go again.
Very unfair.
But that's the way it is.
I just want to thank everybody.
We are doing something very special for our country.
We're putting America first.
I always put America first.
And that's why we were in a position.
Unfortunately, that position is no longer valid because they've done such a poor job.
But we're in a position where we're going to make America great again.
I'm innocent and we will prove that very, very soundly and hopefully very quickly.
Thank you very much.
unidentified
Thank you.
Thank you.
benny johnson
Whoops.
Sorry, guys.
This is...
Thanks.
I see ya.
Sorry, my poor team.
Yeah, I was muted there.
My apologies.
I want to make sure that we give Donald Trump the full floor and that you are able to hear the full video from Donald Trump.
Everyone else will play snippets, and we wanted to play the full thing.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is what happens when you're live and when you're just sitting in your kitchen drinking a...
I promise you that is exactly what that is.
Certainly not a Bud Light, although you could assume that, given the fact that I just talked for 20 seconds with my mic off.
So here we are, ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump's full truth social here saying this is election interference.
A continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time and make America great again.
Now, some of the very interesting things that are happening right now in the world, and they are happening quickly and they are happening fast.
So what do we know about what is about to happen to Donald Trump?
Trump will be arrested, booked, and appeared before a judge before he goes to the courthouse on Tuesday, according to ABC News.
That is Tuesday in Miami.
So that's when that is going to happen.
Donald Trump's attorney, Alina Haba, had this instant reaction on Fox News to this information.
jesse watters
President Trump's attorney, Alina Haba.
So just to summarize, Fox has not confirmed the indictment.
The former president has just announced this on Truth Social, that he has been informed by his attorneys that he will be indicted over what he calls the boxes hoax.
Alina, what can you tell us?
alina habba
I can tell you that's exactly how I would characterize this, for the president to be indicted for something that every other president, every other non-president, including vice presidents, have done shows what a sick world we are living in.
I am petrified for the country at the moment, Jesse.
Sad for my client, although he is resilient and strong.
And it just tells me, once again, why we need him back in the White House.
It is a very sad state of affairs in this country.
jesse watters
Have you spoken to the former president since this happened?
Have you had any conversations with his legal team?
What's the sense there?
alina habba
I would never discuss any privileged conversations that I have, of course.
I can tell you that, obviously, he put something out which says he's been indicted.
It speaks for itself.
I can also say that there is a two-tier system of justice that we are seeing right now.
Hillary Clinton smashed a computer, got rid of emails.
We had recordings in sock drawers.
We have Biden and Obama who are hiding things.
Biden still has things in Chinatown in his home with a son who's a drug addict.
And I think that that's why he's so ahead in the polls, and that's why he'll probably win.
benny johnson
So this is obviously going to be, and we want to thank everyone watching on Rumble.
We really appreciate you and we really appreciate that community.
This is obviously going to be something that is going to galvanize the Republican base.
You're already seeing it here.
Some of the responses, Clay Travis, one of my favorites, saying Joe Biden entered office claiming that he wanted to restore normalcy to the country and defend democracy.
His Department of Justice has now indicted their chief political rival for the White House, something that has never happened in 240 years.
The United States is officially a banana republic in Biden's America.
Matt Gaetz is saying, Yeah, this is all planned.
Mike Davis saying, effectively, that this is election interference moments ago on Fox.
jesse watters
So if it goes to D.C. right now, we're in June 2023.
You've got a Republican primary just starting to heat up.
What is the timetable for a trial in the middle of a Republican primary?
Possibly a general election.
unidentified
Well, that's the issue.
This is clearly election interference by Joe Biden.
This is clearly election interference.
Isn't it funny that the day that Joe Biden gets caught taking $10 million from Burisma, Biden's Attorney General Merrick Garland greenlights this indictment of his leading presidential rival?
I mean, the timing is just coincidental, right?
Here's what happens.
Trump could try to move to dismiss the indictment, the sufficiency of the indictment early on, because there's not a legal basis for the indictment.
The Presidential Records Act, not the Espionage Act, applies.
I doubt a uniparty judge is going to go along with that, and so this will probably have to get resolved by the Supreme Court.
It should be nine to nothing by the Supreme Court if they actually follow the law, but at the end of the day, Trump may get...
Elected in 2024 as a convicted felon who the Supreme Court has to reverse his conviction because it's a bogus conviction.
jesse watters
Oh my God.
Oh my God, that will be something.
Mike Davis, thank you so much.
unidentified
Thank you.
jesse watters
And again, Fox News has confirmed former President Donald Trump has been indicted and has been ordered to appear in federal court in Miami on Tuesday.
benny johnson
So, get ready, ladies and gentlemen.
It is going to be the rumble in the jungle.
Charlie Kirk saying about Miami, every Republican running for president should suspend their campaign.
Go to Miami and show support.
If you do not, you are part of the problem.
Either we have an opposition party or we don't.
Go to Miami on Tuesday and show solidarity or we will mark you as part of the opposition.
Charlie Kirk coming in very, very strong.
I've heard Donald Trump call Charlie Kirk his fourth son.
Speaking of one of Donald Trump's sons, Donald Trump Jr. saying this, Biden's corrupt DOJ is openly interfering in the 2024 presidential election to stop Trump because they know that Biden cannot beat him in a fair race.
That is what this is really about, and everyone knows it.
Ladies and gentlemen, Mike Davis, our in-house attorney on my show, has this to say as it pertains to his snap reaction to this news.
unidentified
The judge is going to go along with that, and so this will probably have to get resolved by the Supreme Court.
It should be nine to nothing by the Supreme Court if they actually follow the law.
But at the end of the day, Trump may get elected in 2024 as a convicted felon.
benny johnson
Correction, ladies and gentlemen, my apologies.
We're going to Matt Gaetz responding here live on Newsmax.
That was Mike Davis.
That was a mistake on our end, having the same clip in twice.
Although, I do think worth noting a very interesting point.
Could Donald Trump be elected as a convicted felon?
Are we ready for that?
And also potentially pardoning himself, running on a platform of pardoning himself, maybe along with all the January Sixers?
Is that a platform that we're ready for, America?
Ladies and gentlemen, Matt Gaetz, take it away.
unidentified
We have much luck with this as it moves forward.
And what about all the allegations of prosecutorial misconduct that we've seen just in this case alone?
Yeah, the prosecutor seems to be someone with an axe to grind.
It seems to be why that prosecutor was selected for this purpose.
If you look at some of the prior political activity and connection to left-leaning political figures and groups.
This was a hit job.
And it is stunning to think about that courthouse in Miami bearing out the scene on Tuesday where Donald Trump will prevent himself.
I believe that's the same federal courthouse where they held Manuel Noriega, the former dictator of Panama, and then to think we would visit this harm in my state, on our country.
It is such an abusive federal power.
We should immediately be holding congressional hearings on this to ascertain by what authority was this Jack Smith individual kind of screened and reviewed for bias and to what extent were civil liberties potentially violated.
We know in the New York Alvin Bragg case that Mark Pomerantz fled the fifth when asked whether or not he broke any laws when trying to get Trump.
We've got some more details here, Congressman.
The former president's been indicted on at least seven federal charges, including illegal retention of classified documents, obstruction, and on conspiracies.
So the first one, illegal retention of classified documents.
Okay, fine.
So let's charge President Biden with the same thing.
Let's charge Mike Pence with the same thing.
In fact, it's even worse because neither of them could declassify the documents that they've taken.
But we also have obstruction.
And we have conspiracy.
Do you have any clarity on what they're going to try and do with conspiracy here?
I mean, the obstruction is obvious.
They think that's because he slow walked the return of them.
He wasn't giving them back as fast as they wanted.
What do you think conspiracy means in this thing?
Well, you know, as to the obstruction, it's a common theme from the Department of Justice.
They've got a weak underlying matter to kind of layer in obstruction to try to bring this air of criminality over what would otherwise be a non-criminal negotiation or interaction with compliance with the Federal Presidential Records Act.
And keep in mind, there's no Vice Presidential Records Act.
President Trump had more authority to have these records, certainly, than Joe Biden did as the former vice president.
And so if there's legal ground to stand on, these are not equivalencies.
President Trump on far better legal ground.
I think you'll probably find a pretty favorable jury in Miami-Dade County.
President Trump's got a lot of fans down there, and so I think that's a...
benny johnson
Very interesting point there by Matt Gaetz.
You can probably find a very, very positive jury for Donald Trump in Miami.
That's actually not a bad...
Because he is going to be tried in Miami.
It's going to be a very, very different ballpark.
And, by the way, a lot of based Cubans in Miami that don't like communism and don't like communist tactics.
Much like Josh Hawley, who is tweeting, if people in power can jail their political opponents, we do not have a republic.
Josh Hawley, warning of that.
The House Judiciary Committee saying witch hunt.
A man who serves on the House Judiciary Committee, Matt Gaetz, you just heard there.
And we have our first president.
Presidential candidate in the field, the Republican field for the Republican presidential race, Vivek Ramswami, is the first Republican presidential candidate to come out with a statement on this.
Let me read you in part of the statement.
We cannot have two tiers of justice, one for Trump and one for Biden, one for Assange, one for Manning, one for BLM and Antifa, one for peaceful protesters on January 6th.
Strong.
I never thought that we'd see the day.
The U.S. president deputizes the DOJ to arrest his rival in the middle of an election.
Obama shamefully tried to deputize the FBI to infiltrate Trump's 2016 campaign, but they're leaving nothing to chance this time around.
The federal police state is outright arresting Trump.
This is an affront to every citizen.
We cannot devolve into a banana republic where the party in power uses police force to arrest political opponents.
It's hypocritical for the DOJ to selectively prosecute and persecute Donald Trump but not Biden.
That's exactly and 100%.
Totally and completely.
Correct.
Joe Biden, by the way, had absolutely no right, no plenary power to classify or declassify records.
That power is vested completely inside the executive, which is an article of the Constitution, which is, of course, given to one man.
Joe Biden illegally had classified documents.
Joe Biden had no right to them.
Barack Obama could save Joe Biden with a word, but he won't.
Because I think they're planning on taking down Joe Biden as well.
That's my own contention.
But they're going to get Trump first.
There are also serious legal questions about President Trump's power to declassify documents and the potential legality over the classification of federal documents in the first place.
That's what the courts decide.
But we, the people, decide who governs this nation.
This is a strong statement.
A strong statement by, again, Vivek Ranswamy.
It would be much easier for me to win this election if Trump weren't in the race, but I stand for principles over politics.
I commit to pardon Trump promptly on January 20, 2025, to restore rule of law in this country.
Hot damn, man.
Way to go, Vivek.
And here he is, presumably following up with a statement.
Man.
Son of a bitch.
Dude went hard in the paint.
This is a great statement.
I wouldn't change anything about this statement.
Way to go.
Our favorite legal scholar was on Fox just moments ago.
His name is Jonathan Turley.
He's the person that was trusted by Tucker Carlson.
He's the person who's trusted by us.
He's a constitutionalist.
I don't think he's a red hat MAGA supporter.
I think he's a constitutionalist.
He's very clear-eyed on these subjects.
And he was saying that Donald Trump should now run on pardoning himself.
unidentified
But as with many of these cases, Jesse, it comes down to timing.
They don't have a lot of runway before the presidential election.
And the court's going to be in a tough position how to deal with this criminal case when you have the leading candidate for president who wants to be campaigning.
Then there's the final issue here, which is going to get really wicked.
And that is...
Trump could run on pardoning himself.
You know, for people that feel that this is biased, that this is part of a pattern, he could turn this on his opponents and actually run on his right to pardon himself.
So if he's elected, even if he's convicted, he could pardon himself or he can do so before a trial occurs.
jesse watters
Yeah, the good old pocket pardon.
So Fox is hearing that it involves obstruction and handling of documents.
mishandling of documents.
benny johnson
Jonathan Turley continues on there in his argument in favor of Donald Trump and his argument against the security state doing this to him.
Let's have a listen.
Jonathan Turley, again, one of our favorite legal scholars.
unidentified
There's a big debate as to whether you should or be able to impeach someone for conduct before they became president.
One of the interesting things here is that Joe Biden, as president, has been denying these allegations.
So there may be a bootstrapping that can occur.
Democrats just created a precedent that you can impeach a former president because President Trump had left office by the time of his Senate trial.
And so they may have created precedent that would allow you to impeach Vice President Biden to go back retroactively to impeach.
So this is just going to get very, very near.
jesse watters
So you could have a federal trial of Donald Trump and an impeachment trial of President Biden.
At the same time in an election year.
2024 is going to be crazy.
unidentified
Yeah, this is good for those of us on the legal commentary side.
jesse watters
All right.
Thank you very much, Professor.
Unbelievable.
unidentified
Thank you.
jesse watters
Let's turn it over to...
benny johnson
Ladies and gentlemen, you can see here, recently published, June 8th, published today.
Biden classified document investigation shows few signs of wrapping up soon.
Oh, interesting here.
So Joe Biden hasn't even been interviewed.
By his special counsel, do you know that there is a special counsel looking into Joe Biden's handling of classified documents?
Do you know that Joe Biden's classified documents were essentially shoved into a Chinese whorehouse?
And that Joe Biden himself had no idea who was fondling these classified documents, that Hunter Biden had access to them, that they were kept inside of an office that the Chinese government had a key to?
The CCP-connected Chinese business partners for Hunter Biden's Chinese business had access to the classified documents here?
But they haven't even tried to turn up the heat on Joe Biden.
Biden advisors, for instance, have determined he would provide an interview to a special counsel investigation in his classified documents once Biden's legal team and the Justice Department agree on the conditions.
Oh, interesting.
But Biden has yet to be interviewed.
Suggesting the investigation will not be nearing a close.
Meanwhile, they're nearing a close for Vice President Mike Pence classified documents investigation.
Along with Donald Trump, as we are reporting now.
So what does that look like for Joe Biden?
Well, we have the video that should be in Cooperstown right now.
Joe Biden being asked about keeping classified documents in the trunk of his Corvette.
unidentified
Mr. President, thank you.
Mr. President, classified material.
jesse watters
Next year, Corvette.
What were you thinking?
joe biden
Let me get a chance to speak on all this, God willing, soon.
But as I said earlier this week, people and by the way, my Corvette's in a locked garage.
OK, so it's not like you're sitting out in the street.
But anyway, yes, as well as my Corvette.
But as I said earlier this week, people know I take classified documents and classified material seriously.
I also said we're cooperating fully and completely with the Justice Department's review.
As part of that process, my lawyers reviewed other places where documents from my time as vice president were stored, and they finished the review last night.
They discovered a small number of documents of classified markings in storage areas and file cabinets in my home and my personal library.
This was done in the case of the Biden Penn Center.
The Department of Justice was immediately, as was done, the Department of Justice was immediately notified.
And the lawyers arranged for the Department of Justice to take possession of the document.
So we're going to see all this unfold.
I'm confident.
unidentified
Thank you very much.
benny johnson
Yeah, so interesting here.
There has never been, and this is, God has a sense of humor.
There has never been a greater example.
Of the break inside of our nation.
The fever dream.
The psychosexual obsession with getting Trump of the left.
And the reason why is because Trump showed them all to be frauds.
Trump showed that the American people hate them.
We hate the little world that they've built.
We hate the oligarchy.
We hate taxation without representation.
We are the true patriots.
We are the actual soul of America.
And we despise being lorded over and ruled over by unelected super governments that we have no control over.
That's not the way any of this is supposed to work.
And I will, by the way, state with one word, Very rare, but I think very well-deserved compliment to a guy who has, I don't have a lot of respect for, but who told the truth one time in one very chilling morning to Donald Trump on the first day of Donald Trump's presidency.
Chuck Schumer, who, again, I don't typically compliment, went on television and said, there are seven ways.
To Sunday.
For these sons of bitches to get back at you.
Ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump and the entire country is learning what a depraved and sick warning this actually was.
We'll have more for you in the morning on my show at 11 a.m. about this topic.
We'll also have experts Mike Davis joining the show along with Donald Trump's personal attorney, Alina Haba.
But I'll...
Send you off tonight with this chilling warning that turned out to be shockingly true from Democrat Senate Leader Chuck Schumer.
unidentified
Taking these shots, this antagonism, this taunting to the intelligence community.
chuck schumer
You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.
So, even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he's being really dumb to do this.
unidentified
What do you think the intelligence community would do if they were motivated to?
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