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June 14, 2023 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson
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BACKFIRE! Media PANIC, Cut Feed As Trump Turns ARREST Into Campaign Rally | Polls SURGE
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unidentified
Bearing into President Biden and the Justice Department hours after entering a not guilty plea in federal court.
benny johnson
Jonathan Sari, live outside the courthouse in Miami.
Jonathan.
unidentified
Good morning, Todd and Carly.
Former President Trump struck a defiant tone accusing the Biden administration of orchestrating the indictment against him to interfere with the upcoming 2024 presidential election.
Listen.
donald j trump
This is the most evil and heinous abuse of power in the history of our country.
A very sad thing to watch a corrupt sitting president at his top political opponent arrested on fake and fabricated charges of which he and numerous other presidents would be guilty right in the middle of a presidential election in which he's losing very badly.
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Mr. Trump delivered his speech at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
It was followed by a private fundraising event, which was expected to raise $2 million for his presidential campaign.
This came just hours after the former president pleaded not guilty in a Miami federal court to 37 counts related to the alleged mishandling of classified White House documents that he brought with him to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida after leaving office.
Mr. Trump's personal aide and co-defendant, Walt Nauta, also appeared in court but was unable to enter a plea at the time because he has yet to obtain a local attorney.
Outside the courthouse, hundreds of pro-Trump supporters gathered with smaller groups of anti-Trump protesters.
Police reported no major incidents.
A trial date and location is yet to be set.
An attorney who represented the former president when he was indicted in New York earlier this year It is unconscionable for a president to indict his leading political opponent, because how could they look so ridiculous to go and indict President Trump for the same thing that Joe Biden may have done?
And I agree with what Matt just said.
The law is on President Trump's side here.
This is not a case.
The Espionage Act does not rule supreme here, and it's not going to apply at the end of the day.
And President Biden and his top officials have remained silent on the indictment.
Politico is reporting that they have explicitly ordered Biden's re-election campaign as well as National Democrats to do the same so as not to cause any perception that the president is trying to meddle with the legal process when it comes to the Trump indictment.
But First Lady Jill Biden appeared to briefly deviate from this during a small fundraiser.
On the Upper East Side of Manhattan, she said that she was surprised how many Republicans continue to support Mr. Trump despite the indictment.
Uh-oh.
Guess what day it is.
Guess what day it is.
Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike.
What day is it, Mike?
Guess what today is.
Hey, camel, where's my cake?
joe biden
How happy are you that we're going to jail?
alan dershowitz
I'd say happier than a camel on Wednesday.
unidentified
Pump day!
I love it.
benny johnson
I love those memes.
Today is Wednesday, June 14, 2023.
Donald Trump vows to investigate Biden crime family in defiant speech after his arrest.
Hey, Trump, you're supposed to be arrested.
You're supposed to be sad.
alan dershowitz
Why aren't you sad?
joe biden
We're sad.
benny johnson
We don't like ourselves.
Top Republicans vow to make 17 secret Biden bribery recordings public.
And official spokeswoman for Donald Trump, newly minted Alina Habba, joins the show.
My name is Benny Johnson, and this is The Benny Show.
Ladies and gentlemen, they went and raided Mar-a-Lago.
What's at Mar-a-Lago?
unidentified
Well, a lot of secret service, a lot of locked doors, a lot of security.
benny johnson
I've been to Mar-a-Lago.
It's easier to get into the green zone in Baghdad than it would be to get into Mar-a-Lago.
Easier to get into Fort Knox.
And what does Fort Knox and Mar-a-Lago have in common?
They're both made out of...
Gold, ladies and gentlemen, is the true and complete and total forever projection of value and reality of value.
It is something that has held its value for all time.
When something's covered in gold, you know it's valuable.
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All right, ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump arrested yesterday.
We were live for five hours.
We covered the whole thing.
We had a blast.
I hope that you joined us.
If not, we have something very special for you today.
Ladies and gentlemen, the nuclear codes have been lost.
That's right.
Nuclear codes, they're gone!
What's going on?
Oh, not Biden, even though...
If there was a president to actually lose something, it would be Joe Biden.
No, no!
Bill Clinton lost the nuclear codes.
Did you know this?
Let's just go through a little people's history here.
The favorite family of libs.
Is it the Obamas?
Is it the Clintons?
I don't know.
It depends on who's flying on the Lolita Express.
Bill Clinton lost the nuclear codes.
Did you know that?
Not only lost them once, he lost them for months.
A comedy of errors kept anyone from finding out.
The codes that were needed to launch the U.S. nuclear strikes were kept close to the president at all times.
A department within the Department of Defense is tasked with overseeing the aspects of the nuclear code process.
During Bill Clinton's presidency, officials from that department discovered the codes had gone missing and that Bill Clinton was responsible.
Oh my.
Oh my goodness.
Oh, wow.
Well, is Bill Clinton in jail?
Not just for the Epstein stuff, but like, maybe for this?
Apparently the Epstein stuff's fine.
Libs don't actually care about our children.
They care less, actually, about the predator, Bill Clinton.
They love the predator, Bill Clinton.
They actually wanted to put Bill Clinton back in the White House.
We're the only ones who stopped him, and now we must be punished.
Well, it's not just that.
You know Bill Clinton kept private documents inside of his sock drawer?
No, check this out.
Bill Clinton's secrets in his sock drawer.
This from CBS News, 2007.
It's a good thing for him Bill Clinton had lots of socks.
Ugh, tube socks.
It's where he kept all of his secrets recorded on tape.
Huh?
Bill Clinton kept tapes in his sock drawer.
He later used them for his autobiography.
In the sessions, Branch would tape his own recordings of Bill Clinton talking about classified documents, over 70 recordings, inside of his sock drawer.
A fitting room.
The tape wasn't hard.
Finding room for the tapes wasn't hard because Bill Clinton has lots of socks, according to the author.
Huh?
They wrote books about it.
The Bill Clinton tapes is a book.
This is CBS celebrating the fact that Bill Clinton kept classified documents in his sock drawer.
They clapped.
They clapped.
It's so fun.
Isn't that exciting, ladies and gentlemen?
How about this?
How about this one?
This one wasn't celebrated.
In fact, somebody went to jail for this one.
You know a guy who worked for Bill Clinton?
Speaking of drawers, shoved classified document down his drawers.
Do you know that?
Do you remember this?
It's from 2004.
So, maybe a little bit in the ancient history for you.
Sandy Berger, Clinton's top national security aide, pleaded guilty to shoving classified documents down his pants.
And then cutting them up with scissors.
Did you know that?
Here's the article.
From NBC News.
Oh my.
Oh my.
Let's just read the top line here.
Sandy Berger was President Clinton's top national security aide.
He pled guilty on Friday to taking classified documents from the National Archives.
He said it was an honest mistake when he shoved the documents down the front of his pants.
Oh my God.
Guilty, Your Honor, Berger responded with his plea.
What did he get?
Oh, he was charged with unauthorized removal and retention of classified material.
It was a misdemeanor.
He got a $100,000 fine.
Plea agreement.
He didn't have to do any jail time.
No jail time.
Had to pay a little fine.
That's just starting off.
Important reminder, and this is a little more famous.
You probably don't know about those three cases.
A little more famous.
You know Hillary Clinton installed a private server in order to sidestep record-keeping laws.
The reason she did that was so that there was no government records of her communications in order to grift through her Clinton Foundation.
Illegally retained thousands of classified materials, removed classified markings from those materials.
People without security clearances managed her server.
Server security was so bad that it was hacked.
She destroyed 33,000 subpoenaed emails.
Physically destroyed phones and servers with a hammer.
ALX, get me that CNN fact check.
I gotta get that CNN fact check.
Man, that thing is money.
Do you know that the Obama, DOJ, and the FBI colluded to get Hillary Clinton out of jail for free?
I don't think the preponderance of the crimes that she broke, the laws she broke, is fully known to the American people.
The FBI then went on to agree to destroy all incriminating evidence that they had then gathered against Hillary.
Did you know this?
Did ya?
Because if you asked Hillary Clinton about it on the campaign trail, hey Hillary, why did you wipe your server?
Here's the response you got.
hillary clinton
What, like with a cloth or something?
benny johnson
Well, no.
Oh, it's a cloth!
You're so funny, Hillary.
Please don't make me hang myself in my prison cell with toilet paper.
Yeah, ladies and gentlemen, we live inside of a clown world.
That's just the Clintons.
You see, that's just one family.
One.
We ain't talking about the shredder company that showed up outside of Dick Cheney's house.
We're not talking about Barack Obama.
Having his classified documents next to a McDonald's in Chicago with a padlock on it.
You know that?
That's where Obama kept his documents.
We ain't talking about George Bush losing over 40,000 emails, the Bush administration.
We're not even talking about the current president.
I mean, we're just going to look at, let's just look at the Clintons alone.
Losing the nuclear codes.
Breaking every law on the books.
Your national security advisor shoving the documents down his pants.
And if you want more drawers, I got them for you.
Bill Clinton kept all of his stuff in his sock drawer.
Classified documents.
Classified recordings.
He was sued for it, and the federal government said, you can't have the documents because the president has privilege to keep them.
That's the established law up to this very point, and at this point, this is the moment that everything suddenly snapped and broke.
They're singing a different tune, baby.
Mabel's on the rooftop, it's a hot tin roof, and she's singing a different song now.
Listen to Hillary Clinton talking about Donald Trump just yesterday.
hillary clinton
I have a lot of reactions to it.
And I think the best reaction publicly is, you know, let's see it unfold and see what happens, right?
This is on a track about him, not about anybody else.
No matter how much they try to confuse people and how much they try to, you know, raise extraneous issues.
unidentified
Hmm.
benny johnson
Oh, my.
Oh, it's so bad.
It's so terrible.
We've got to bring down the full weight of the law.
On to Donald Trump.
Meanwhile, James Comey let Hillary Clinton off scot-free.
You know she was even asked about that?
Watch.
unidentified
Republicans claim that you got off, you did the same thing and got off scot-free.
Why did your friend Jim Comey let you off so easy?
hillary clinton
That's a really good question.
I can't figure that one out.
You know, I do think it's odd, let's just say, to the point of being absurd, how that is their only response.
You know, they refuse to read the indictment.
They refuse to engage with the facts.
There's nothing new about that.
And what they refuse to admit is, you know, this is on a track about him.
Not about anybody else, no matter how much they try to confuse people and how much they try to raise extraneous issues.
And it's going to be fascinating, I guess, in a bizarre and sad way, to watch them spin themselves up.
If you watched any of the news programs this weekend, their efforts to defend this man are truly beyond anything that I ever thought possible.
In our country, I mean, it is so— It's beyond anything I thought possible in our country.
benny johnson
It's profoundly disturbing, Hillary would go on to say.
Profoundly disturbing.
Because Donald Trump not only took the classified documents, Donald Trump smashed them documents with a hammer!
Trump took a hammer and he broke—did you know this?
Donald Trump broke— His documents with a hammer!
Did you know it?
unidentified
Bam!
benny johnson
That's what Trump was doing!
Just like this!
Oh, my God.
Hold on.
My producer's telling me.
My producer's telling me.
Oh, I'm sorry.
It was Hillary that did that?
Oh, my God.
I just.
unidentified
Whoa.
Whoa.
benny johnson
I'm so.
Oh, and CNN got fact check live.
Because they didn't actually know that Hillary Clinton smashed her devices with a hammer, the ones that were under subpoena with 33,000 emails on them, that were illegally set up by people without classified authority, that were hacked by the Russians and the Chinese, and ISIS, and Osama bin Laden, for all we know?
Oh, got it!
Let's play the tape.
unidentified
President, they destroyed blackberries with hammers in the State Department.
That's not what won the president say.
Evan, Evan, Evan, hold on.
Can you fact check that?
Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on.
rachel maddow
Evan Perez, hammers?
Fact check that for me, please, on the fly.
unidentified
Yes, they did, Brooke.
Thanks, sir.
As you mentioned, there were 13 devices, mobile devices, and five iPads that the FBI said that, you know, in some way were used with her private email server, and they did, in some cases, just...
That is absolutely not following the rules and regulations of the State Department.
You know it.
Your 52 reasons just went down to one.
No reasons left.
Listen.
benny johnson
Greatest video in the history of CNN.
Excuse me.
unidentified
Excuse me.
benny johnson
Can we fact check that?
Can we fact check that?
Actually, yeah.
unidentified
Hillary Clinton destroyed a lot of her emails with her devices with a hammer.
benny johnson
Yeah.
But is Hillary saying that the law and order in this country is being destroyed by Donald Trump?
You see what's going on here?
Do you see?
Do you see what's happening?
Donald Trump was never in the club.
When you're in the club, when you're in the oligarchy, you see, you get not only a right, you get the obligation.
To have all of the security state defend you.
James Comey and the FBI made up reasons to let Hillary Clinton out of jail.
Donald Trump did a scintilla of what Hillary Clinton did.
Did Donald Trump keep a couple of mementos for himself?
Yes.
Did Donald Trump keep some love letters from Kim Jong-un?
unidentified
Oh, Kim Jong-un, your rocket fires into the sky, and my rocket shoots into the sky, and they meet and they kiss.
benny johnson
Is that what Donald Trump kept?
Sure.
Yep.
Is there some statute that you're breaking?
Am I breaking the law right now?
You're probably breaking the federal statute watching this show.
There's always a federal law you can break.
I'm not trying to say Donald Trump didn't take some knick-knack from his, some memento from his presidency.
I'm trying to say that every one of them did that.
And much, much, much worse.
And it's only Donald Trump that gets charged.
Now, Hillary Clinton don't have no power.
Epstein Island's been closed down, so she really doesn't have any power.
No more temples to worship at.
But there is a man who actually does technically have power, at least in theory.
His name is Joseph Robinette Biden.
And what you'll find curiously enough is that Joseph Robinette Biden and Mike Pence, who's running against Donald Trump, well...
Those two guys also mishandled classified documents.
Mike Pence had a bunch of classified documents at his house.
And Joe Biden had 1,800 classified documents in five different locations up and down the eastern seaboard, including, but not limited to, locked in the trunk of his Corvette in his garage that had a key to it that was owned by a man named Hunter Biden, where Hunter Biden had business meetings with his Chinese business partners.
Did you know this?
Did you know that another stash of Joe Biden's classified documents were kept inside of a think tank that was funded by the Chinese government?
Oh.
Well, that seems a little suspicious and a little worse than Donald Trump giving his love letter from Kim Jong-un.
unidentified
I just love the writing.
I love Kim Jong-un's writing.
It's so special.
His penmanship.
The best.
benny johnson
No, guys.
It is much worse.
So when Joe Biden's asked about it...
You'd think that would lead the news.
You'd think someone would look at this with clear eyes and say, well, hot damn.
I mean, yeah, sure, Donald Trump had a thing, a knick-knack from his administration.
Maybe he should have given it back.
Maybe not.
Who knows?
It's Donald Trump.
He wasn't home alone.
But what Joe Biden did is way worse because Joe Biden was not president when he stole these classified documents.
Yet here's how Joe Biden responds.
When asked that question.
Oh, and it falls to Peter Doocy, of all people, to demand he answered.
tucker carlson
Thank you, Mr. President.
benny johnson
Classified material.
jake tapper
Next year, Corvette.
What were you thinking?
joe biden
I'm going to 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.
Okay?
So it's not like they're sitting out in the street.
jake tapper
But anyway.
joe biden
Yes, as well as my Corvette.
But as I said earlier this week, people know I take classified documents and classified materials 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, you're going to see, we're going to see all this unfold.
I'm confident.
Thank you very much.
unidentified
Thank you very much.
benny johnson
How you doing?
unidentified
Good to see you.
I'm the one who's in the first place.
Hey, baby!
Oh!
benny johnson
The classified documents was sitting next to my hippity-boop.
And I sat down with Corn Pop.
Corn Pop?
I said, "What did them classified documents there?" And I said, "Why you have so much pomade in your hair?
Corn Pop, get off the diving board." That's when I shoved my classified documents down the front of Corn Pop's pants.
And then there was a transgender activist that went topless at the White House.
unidentified
I just couldn't help but look.
benny johnson
Joe Biden!
When he did...
Is so much worse on every legal level than what Donald Trump did.
So we can look back into the ancient history, and I think it's important to tell you that Bill Clinton had people shoving documents down their pants.
That Hillary Clinton, of course, had to collude.
The FBI had to literally spend months and years figuring out a legal way to let Hillary Clinton out of jail so that she could become their next boss.
But it's actually...
More imperative to look at the guy who's literally, supposedly running the country right now as it pertains to these charges.
So that's our breakdown.
What happened yesterday?
Donald Trump went.
We were live for three and a half hours, Royce.
Three and a half hours.
We were live.
Donald Trump drove to the court.
Not guilty.
Y 'all got to feel me.
Walked out.
No mugshot.
No fingerprinting.
No surrendering.
And then Donald Trump went.
And he did the thing that he's not supposed to do.
Because you see, the entire superstructure in Washington has colluded.
Republicans and Democrats, the Uniparty colluded in order to put Donald Trump in jail.
They colluded in order to break the spirit of you, me, and our movement here.
They colluded in order to say, we finally got you, you bastards.
You came into our house, now we're going to come into your house and smash some stuff up.
We're going to put Donald Trump in jail.
For the crimes, of course, that we are guilty of.
We ourselves are guilty of.
This is one of the many times that Donald Trump has been punished or charged with crimes that his predecessors or the current president has currently committed.
Donald Trump was impeached for Joe Biden's crimes in Ukraine.
We now know that.
But, you know, it didn't go as planned.
Donald Trump went from the court appearance, and there were no cameras in the court.
We have no photos of Trump in court or anything like that.
That wasn't allowed.
Donald Trump went from that court appearance to, what, to go sulk inside of one of his mansions?
No.
Donald Trump went to the Versailles restaurant in the Cuban, Little Havana area of Miami, Cuban neighborhood, and he got prayed over by pastors and spiritual leaders.
Here's what it'll look like.
unidentified
This time he gets raised.
Father, as Cuban Americans, we declare communism will not come to our shores.
Father, we thank you that you have been to give you the opportunity for this time.
In Jesus'name.
Amen.
Amen.
Jesus!
benny johnson
Donald Trump went and bought everyone little sticky Cuban pastries, tasty treats.
Donald Trump had happy birthday sung to him.
The reaction from CNN tells you everything you need to know about this moment.
Listen to Jake Tapper shake with rage, hold back tears with a quivering lip that he's bit with his top two teeth.
Jake Tapper screaming, screaming with soy-filled rage at the CNN control room.
That he doesn't want to see people celebrating or praying or singing happy birthday.
It's Trump's birthday today.
Happy birthday.
Let's throw some birthday cakes in the comment section out for Donald Trump.
Let me see them birthday cakes rolling through.
Let me see some birthday cake emojis for Donald Trump in the comment section.
It's Trump's birthday today.
What a gift.
What a present to Trump.
Nonetheless, they were singing happy birthday to Donald Trump for that reason.
And Jake Tapper had this hysterical.
Post-menopausal reaction.
jake tapper
...national security laws and then obstructing and refusing to cooperate with the FBI.
elie honig
Whatever this spectacle is that's unfolding before us, let's remember what this case is about.
Let's remember what this indictment charges.
Again, Donald Trump is charged with a series of federal felonies for mishandling the most sensitive government documents that we have and for obstruction of justice along with Walt Nauta.
Who is charged with intentionally setting up lies to the grand jury, to the FBI?
Any way you look at this, and again, despite whatever may be going on in that restaurant, this case isn't going to be settled legally in a cafe.
It's going to be settled in the court based on the facts and law.
jake tapper
The folks in the control room, I don't need to see any more of that.
He's trying to turn this into a spectacle, into a campaign ad.
That's enough of that.
We've seen it already.
Let's go over again the 37 charges that Donald Trump is facing.
benny johnson
We don't need to see that.
Okay?
We don't need to see it.
They're singing Orange Man Happy Birthday.
Orange Man.
He's bad.
They're upset because you're not upset.
They're upset because I'm not upset.
They're upset because they live miserable.
Cretan-like, goblin-like little lives.
They're always miserable.
They've always been miserable.
Nothing on this earth, no amount of power will statiate them, although that won't stop them from trying to gain all power over you in some type of fascistic, dystopian future that they have planned for you.
But ladies and gentlemen, they'll never actually truly be happy.
They'll be miserable.
They can't stand the fact that they haven't broken us yet.
They can't stand the fact that they haven't broken you.
And that is why we try and do an optimistic show.
That's why we try and laugh a little bit around here.
The worst thing that a tyrant can suffer is ridicule.
They can't stand that we are joyous when they've done everything in their powers to try and tear us down.
They can't tolerate it.
They can't stand being made fun of.
Donald Trump singing happy birthday in their face while he eats a guava pastry.
unidentified
Mmm, it's delicious.
benny johnson
They can't stand, they can't take it.
unidentified
It breaks their brains!
benny johnson
And they are broken.
Because Donald Trump went and he gave triumphant remarks at bed minister that night.
That very night, he flies to bed minister and gives remarks.
And they wouldn't play it.
Oh, they wouldn't play it.
Not CNN nor MSNBC would play the leading Republican candidate, the former president of the United States, standing before an audience on the night he was arrested by his chief political opponent and speaking for himself.
No, that's not newsworthy.
Listen.
jake tapper
We do have now some of the sound, as I told you, we're not in the audience.
We're not carrying his remarks live because, frankly.
He says a lot of things that are not true and sometimes potentially dangerous.
benny johnson
No, he didn't say things that are not true and sometimes potentially dangerous.
Says the number one water pail carrier for the Russia collusion hoax.
Jake Tapper's body double over on MSNBC, Rachel Maddow, had this to say.
rachel maddow
Court judges are supposed to.
Now, I need to say that former President Trump has just started making public remarks, just as he did on the evening of his first arraignment on criminal charges.
That was April, when he was booked on 34 felony counts brought by the state of New York.
Now, tonight, after his arraignment on federal felony charges, he's speaking again, this time to an audience of his supporters that's gathered for a campaign fundraiser tonight at his golf club and summer home in New Jersey.
We knew heading into this that he...
He was planning to make these remarks.
We are prepared for his pre-fundraiser remarks tonight to again be essentially a Trump campaign speech.
Because of that, we do not intend to carry these remarks live.
As we have said before in these circumstances, there is a cost to us as a news organization to knowingly broadcast untrue things.
We are here to bring you the news.
It hurts our ability to do that if we live broadcast what we fully expect in advance to be a litany of lies and false accusations, no matter who says them.
And I do not say this with any glance.
We take our responsibilities seriously.
We revisit decisions like this all the time.
We make the best call that we can in real time, every time.
But tonight, our call is this: we will monitor that speech by the newly indicted former president.
We will not carry his remarks live.
If he says anything newsworthy, we promise we will turn that right around and bring it back to you.
unidentified
Oh!
benny johnson
Oh!
There's a cost to you as a network for broadcasting untrue things.
There's a cost to us for speaking lies.
We think Trump will lie, so we, MSNBC, we won't lie to you.
There's a cost to us.
Oh, really?
Really, you salt queen.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have a fun little reminder.
A trip down the primrose memory lane for you this morning of Rachel Maddow staring right down the barrel of the camera and lying for years to her audience.
The salt must flow.
Let me see those salt shakers in the comment section.
Let me see them while we play this wonderful little clip of Rachel Maddow lying professionally to her audience.
Salter!
rachel maddow
Let's go!
We're still, every day, dealing with this question of whether or not our president was chosen, not just because of a foreign intelligence operation.
We're grappling with this existential question as to whether his campaign was part of that foreign intelligence operation.
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benny johnson
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You feel a song coming on, Royce?
You feel a song coming on?
I feel a song coming on.
Mmm!
Mmm!
I'm feeling it.
Wow!
There's a song in my soul here.
It's almost like I'm seeing all these salt shakers flooding the comments because the salt must flow for all these salty Russian agents because it was literally them pushing Russian propaganda on us.
I'm feeling a salty song springing forth out of my soul.
Ladies and gentlemen, would you like a salty song?
A salty, salty singing songbook song?
For these salty libs?
Saying that they refuse to broadcast lies to their smart audiences?
unidentified
Mmm!
benny johnson
Ladies and gentlemen, the banger of the summer.
Trump, Russia, possible collusion.
unidentified
Go.
Here comes a big change.
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Trump, Russia, possible collusion Trump, Russia, possible collusion.
Putin and the criminals and be in collusion with Putin.
And the criminals and be in collusion with Putin.
and the criminals and be in collusion with Putin and the criminals and be in collusion.
This president, this president in collusion with Putin and the criminals and be in collusion.
This president, this president in collusion with Putin and the criminals and be in collusion.
Ha ha ha ha ha!
Yeah!
benny johnson
It's a banger!
They don't like it when they have to eat their own porridge.
Eat the porridge!
They don't like it when we call them out.
And we're going to call them out.
Donald Trump's personal spokesperson will be joining us, ladies and gentlemen, very soon, Alina Haba, the official spokesperson for Donald Trump, will come on this show in just a moment.
Maybe we'll play her that banger.
Maybe we'll play her that song.
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Ladies and gentlemen, what did Donald Trump say last night?
We covered his TikTok of his day.
We were live for his entire arrest arraignment in Miami, plus his stop at the Cuban pastry shop, plus the arrest.
The only person who was really arrested yesterday was a lib protester.
It was hysterical.
Donald Trump got to bed minister last night and made comments, first off, talking about the most heinous abuse of power in the history of our country.
And he's right.
Watch.
donald j trump
Today we witness the most evil and heinous abuse of power in the history of our country.
Very sad thing to watch.
A corrupt sitting president had his top political opponent arrested on fake and fabricated charges of which he and numerous other presidents would be guilty.
Right in the middle of a presidential election in which he is losing very badly.
This is called election interference and yet another attempt to rig and steal a presidential election.
More importantly, it's a political persecution like something straight out of a fascist or communist nation.
This day will go down in infamy and Joe Biden will forever be remembered as not only the most corrupt president in the history of our country, but perhaps even more importantly...
The president who, together with a band of his closest, thugs, misfits, and Marxists, tried to destroy American democracy.
benny johnson
Fact check true.
We are in the midst of a cold civil war.
We've broken the threshold of locking up our political enemies.
This is what happens in every failed society.
I think that there's a lot of people who are asleep.
It's our job to wake them up.
We are in the midst of a cold civil war in this nation.
One side has decided that the other side must entirely be subjugated.
And the left is going to weaponize all vectors of power against the right.
And this is what you see.
This is what you see in Putin's Russia.
This is what you see in Iraq.
unidentified
We invaded Iraq to spread democracy!
benny johnson
Yeah.
Yeah.
locking up our political enemies while our cokehead sons travel the streets and destroy lives.
What does that sound like?
Uday Nkusei Hussein?
Hunter Biden?
Joe Biden, anyone?
one We're inside of an oligarchy, and they are now at the stage where they lock up political opponents.
It always goes one way.
It only ever goes one way, okay?
The breaking, the balkanizing, the fracturing of our society.
It snapped.
Donald Trump winning this election broke these people.
And now they're going to turn to more cruel and unnatural tactics for us.
Psychological warfare is something that Donald Trump talked about last night.
Hadn't heard that one on the trail before.
Listen.
donald j trump
Don't forget this persecution is being done by the same weaponized agencies that for seven years have been running illegal psychological warfare campaigns against the American people.
Much as if they were trying to destabilize a foreign country.
From the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, to the no-collusion Mueller witch hunt, to impeachment hoax number one, impeachment hoax number two, the 51 lying intelligence officers, how about them?
They said it's Russia disinformation, and they knew it wasn't, which made about, according to some of the great pollsters that are right here, made from anywhere from a 10 to 17 point difference.
benny johnson
So, Joe Biden is orchestrating, organizing, and ordering his political opponent to be put in prison for 400 years.
400 years.
On his birthday.
Oh, man.
The irony is not lost on these people.
They are evil.
On his birthday.
Put him in jail for 400 years.
Hillary Clinton?
Got away with murder.
Bill Clinton?
Lost the nuclear codes.
Kept the stuff in his sock drawer.
Had his top officials shoving documents down their pants.
That's just one family inside of the ruling elite.
That's just one family inside of the ruling elite.
But Donald Trump gets 400 years in prison.
See how that works?
Donald Trump says he will be the vengeance candidate and he will put Joe Biden in prison if he is elected president.
Watch.
donald j trump
If the communists get away with this...
It won't stop with me.
They will not hesitate to ramp up their persecution of Christians, pro-life activists, parents attending school board meetings, and even future Republican candidates, which they do.
We must end it permanently and we must end it immediately.
Now that the seal, so important, is broken.
The seal is broken by what they've done.
I will appoint a real special prosecutor.
To go after the most corrupt president in the history of the United States of America, Joe Biden.
And the entire Biden crime family.
Name a special prosecutor.
benny johnson
What could have been?
People inside of the Trump administration, close friends, close allies of mine, friends of mine, told me that Donald Trump could have put a special...
Prosecutor in place, special counsel, to look into Hillary Clinton's emails, the Clinton Foundation.
These were ongoing investigations when Donald Trump became president.
Could have looked into the Biden corruption from the start.
Just appoint a special counsel.
Let them do their work.
Make sure it's a good and honest person.
Outside of political pressures.
Independent.
Get the facts.
But they didn't want to do it because they didn't want to break the country.
They wanted the country to heal.
That's the problem.
That's probably the biggest mistake of the Trump administration.
A misunderstanding of the enemy at your gates.
You see, you don't sing kumbaya with these orcs.
Their entire driving purpose, the entire goal of their lives is destruction.
You can see it everywhere in society.
Everywhere in society.
Go drive around through America.
Go look at small towns.
Destruction is their only end goal.
The movement of everything prosperous or everything good from this country to China.
That's the goal.
That's the end game.
There's nothing good in it for you.
Donald Trump stopped that process.
Didn't start any new wars.
And so Donald Trump must be punished.
Fox News, who I'm not trying to compliment here, I'm of course on the side of Tucker.
Fox News trying to sue Tucker Carlson to keep him quiet.
That didn't work.
Tucker Carlson dropped an incredible new episode last night.
But give credit where credit is due.
Fox News had a great chyron.
Check this out.
This is a really good one.
Can we make this a little bit bigger?
This was the chyron of Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
They were speaking at the same time.
Wannabe dictator speaks at the White House after having his political rival arrested.
Good one.
Good one, Fox.
I'll call balls and strikes around here.
Now, let me tell you, a strike against Fox News is that they're suing Tucker Carlson to keep him quiet.
That didn't work.
Tucker Carlson dropped an episode last night that was incredible.
And really brought me back from the brink on a number of issues.
I watched it with my wife.
I'm like, ah, man, Tucker, doing it again.
Tucker Carlson talking about why they must destroy Trump.
Why?
The true reason that Donald Trump is not allowed to continue his political career, why they have to put him in jail.
Watch.
tucker carlson
But because Joe Biden and his many allies, from Chuck Schumer to Mitch McConnell to Paul Ryan and every single news anchor on all of television, all of them believe that Ukraine, its borders, its future, its infrastructure are all more important than the town that you live in.
They sincerely think that, and it's obvious.
Everyone in power thinks that, except for Donald Trump.
Whatever else you say about him, Trump is the one guy with an actual shot of becoming president who dissents from Washington's long-standing pointless war agenda.
And for that, that one fact, they're trying to take Trump out before you can vote for him.
And that should upset you more than anything that's happened in American politics in your lifetime.
Even if you don't plan to vote for Donald Trump, even if you would die before voting for Donald Trump, which is your right and a lot of good people feel that way, even still, the destruction of our democracy, which is the right of voters to support any candidate they want, even candidates who don't want war with Russia, the destruction of that should keep you up at night.
benny johnson
Ladies and gentlemen, we're going to get Tucker's tweet here.
We're going to put it up on the screen.
I want you to see it.
I want you to go and watch it.
I give very few direct orders on my show.
You must go watch this 13-minute banger from Tucker Carlson from yesterday.
You have to go on Twitter.com.
You have to search Tucker Carlson.
You can find Episode 3. It's called America's Principles Are at Stake.
I believe it's been seen by 50 million people, which is, of course, a massive order of magnitude more.
55 million.
Correction.
140,000 retweets.
500,000 likes.
This is the most important monologue that Tucker Carlson's ever given.
If we had a different style show, if we had like a three-hour show, then I'd play the whole thing.
It is profound.
It is Tucker at his best.
He's hitting his stride here.
And the ultimate point that Tucker makes is the way civilizations go is the ruling class decides that permanent war is the only way to enrich itself and to keep the population scared and working.
And so ruling classes always, always deteriorate into permanent war.
Donald Trump stopped permanent.
We've never seen more peace break out across the globe than when Donald Trump was president.
And for that reason alone, he must be stopped because war is great business if you run the war economy, which many of these people do.
That's what they bet on in the stock market, and they get rich off it.
It's how people like Nancy Pelosi can...
Go into Congress penniless and come out $100 million, $200 million.
Who knows what her net worth is?
Permanent war is the business of Washington, D.C. It's evil.
The left used to be against it.
Now when the left's in control, they're for it because then they can get rich off it and the rest of us get poorer.
It grinds us into powder.
It destroys what is good in our country.
And it is the same thing with every great society.
It is how every great society collapses.
If you're looking at Great Britain, the British Empire, The German Empire.
You're looking at empires across Europe.
The obsession with fighting wars.
Roman Empire.
Greeks.
Every single society collapses.
And ours will too.
Because of the short-sighted sycophantism of the ruling class and oligarchs in charge.
And Tucker Carlson calls them out and just absolutely destroys them.
And saying this is why they're really going after Trump.
This is why Trump must be stopped.
Not because he held on to some poem that was written to him with a cartoon drawing by Kim Jong-un.
And he sits down at the pool at Mar-a-Lago in the moonlight and reads it and sings Rocket Man softly over the water.
No.
No!
That's not why Donald Trump was arrested.
Donald Trump was arrested because he stopped the war machine.
Because Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump were like, Hanging out together.
Donald Trump was bringing Israel and the Middle East together.
All these sultans and all these Arab kings were suddenly, like, clapping hands with Benjamin Netanyahu.
Peace was breaking out around the world.
Kim Jong-un welcomed Donald Trump into an active war zone.
Do you know that we're still at war with North Korea?
There's never been a ceasefire.
We're still at war with North Korea.
And here you have Kim Jong-un.
Welcoming Donald Trump into North Korea.
Donald Trump steps into North Korea.
Maybe one of the greatest moments in American history.
Yeah.
Can't have that.
No.
Remember.
Remember, ladies and gentlemen.
Ukraine's the good guys.
Yeah.
One of the good guys was on our show yesterday.
His name's Jim Jordan.
Jim Jordan honored us by joining us live on the show.
We thought that it would be important for us to replay what he said about Donald Trump.
And this abomination of justice, watch.
jim jordan
I'd say that every single election they've went after this guy to try to impact the American election process to interfere in our election.
2016, it was the fake dossier that they knew was fake, that they used to spy on his campaign.
2018, it was the Mueller investigation.
Three years, 19 lawyers, 40 agents, $30 million, found nothing.
Then in 2020, it was the suppression of the Biden laptop.
51 former intel officials used their title, used the gravitas of former head of the DNI and former head of the CIA to give us a false narrative about that laptop and what they said in that letter was false.
2022, they raid his home 91 days before an election, and here we are, President Trump leading in every single poll in the 2024 race, and he's going to be indicted here in a few minutes.
So it is as wrong as it gets.
In the country, I think anyone with common sense sees the double...
benny johnson
So, anyone with common sense?
Somebody with common sense is Elena Haba, the spokesperson for Donald Trump, who will be joining us momentarily.
One of the things I'm going to ask her about is going to be this article, ladies and gentlemen.
I'll make sure those 17 recordings of Joe Biden and Hunter Biden are released.
Republican Steve Scalise vows to make the Bursama calls public.
Steve Scalise says that the calls from Joe Biden...
Recorded on the phone demanding money from Ukraine for American policy, which is an impeachable offense, are made public.
Good on Scalise, watch.
unidentified
Grassley on the Senate floor yesterday said there are a couple videos, 17 in total between Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and Fort Nashua.
Are you gonna press to make those videos public?
We're gonna press to get everything we can out.
You know, Senator Grassley's done a great job through his career at getting whistleblowers to step forward.
And in fact, he brought some of those whistleblowers to Chairman Comer.
We've been able to use that to get subpoenas to get more information about this web.
I mean, the Biden family was fighting this.
And what they were able to do is go through other means to find out these bank accounts that showed millions of dollars going to Biden family members.
Has anybody in the mainstream media cared about that?
And I think it angers people that they see the treatment very differently.
You'll find out every day about Trump.
If you're watching most news stations, you won't find out anything about all of the facts that have been uncovered on shell accounts, dummy accounts that have been having money moved around, millions of dollars to people who just have the last name of Biden.
And some of it coming from foreign countries.
It should be alarming to everybody.
We're going to keep digging.
benny johnson
Get going.
Get going!
Although, first time I've seen Republicans have balls in my lifetime in Congress.
Never seen anything like it.
Republicans are actually, like, doing their jobs.
They're really holding these people into account.
The Biden family is actually legitimately scared.
Joe Biden was asked about this at the White House yesterday.
Tell me if this man looks confident to you.
You accepted bribes, President Biden.
unidentified
Is that true?
benny johnson
Would you comment on the arrest of the former president, sir?
See if you can tell if See if you can spot where the press covers Donald Trump and Russia a little bit differently than they're covering Joe Biden in Ukraine.
See if you can spot a little differently how the press handled both those men.
Joe Biden sauntering off into the sunset.
Or so he hopes.
There's someone who's going to try and prevent that easy and early Joe Biden retirement.
Somebody who works for the man who promised that he will appoint a special counsel to look into all of Joe Biden's crimes.
In his next term as president, the official spokesperson for Donald Trump, Alina Hava, joins the show now.
Alina, I know that you are in a very, very busy time, and so we thank you for being on the program.
What a based shirt!
Ultra Maga, make America great again.
That's a beauty.
That's a beauty.
unidentified
I always think I picked my beauties just for you, Benny.
benny johnson
You're all...
You're always on point.
You're always flossing.
You're always flossing.
The drip is so hard.
So thank you.
unidentified
So hard.
alina habba
Floss so hard.
benny johnson
Thank you.
alina habba
You know, I feel ultra MAGA today.
It's the king of MAGA's birthday, so why not?
I'm definitely ultra MAGA.
I was just with him.
He's in good spirit, so it's all good.
unidentified
It's all good.
benny johnson
We did birthday cakes in the comment section earlier.
The comment section filled with birthday cakes up and down.
Everyone, everyone singing along and saying, oh, wow, what a nice birthday present to put him in jail for 400 years.
Really nice.
These are really sweet people.
alina habba
Yeah, they're sick people.
They're really sick people.
But I love, you know, last night when he was speaking, like you said, and he said, I'm going to make sure that I have my own special counsel appointed and I'm going to investigate them.
Number one, I hope I am that special counsel.
Number two, I have to say that I think that that's exactly what's going on is they're so afraid of him winning and cleaning up the mess that is the deep state right now.
And the only way that they can prevent it because his polls are so high is by putting him in jail.
That's the only thing they've got.
And that's such a desperate, pathetic move.
And I think the American people get it, honestly.
I mean, I'm with him all the time.
And the amount of people, Benny, that go up to him, that support him, that are cheering the people that we saw in Miami yesterday in the motorcade as we were pulling up to court.
I mean, it is a movement.
You know, Hillary Clinton tries to call us a cult.
It's not a cult.
unidentified
It's called a movement.
alina habba
It's called love of this country.
So I'm really proud of him, and I'm proud to work with him and for him.
benny johnson
Tucker Carlson releasing just an absolutely spectacular show last night defending Donald Trump, saying you don't get to pick your martyrs.
You get to pick your principals.
Donald Trump seemed to be standing on principal yesterday.
And then to the shock of all of us, including the tens of thousands of people that were watching our show live as we covered it, Donald Trump goes to the Versailles restaurant, prays with people, buys them some...
Sweet cookies and some delicious Cuban pastries.
Talk me through this.
You were with him the entire day.
We covered your statement in front of the courthouse.
Can you give us sort of a tick-tock?
What did you see yesterday?
alina habba
Yeah, absolutely.
I'm happy to.
Well, I'll start from the beginning, which is that he woke up in his normal, let's get him mood.
I mean, that's literally what he said to us.
unidentified
Let's go.
alina habba
Let's get him.
And he was like, he's defiant.
He is strong.
And I can't imagine myself being in that position and not being nervous or concerned.
None of it.
I mean, really, truly none of it.
From the minute we left Doral.
And got in the motorcade.
And then we got, you know, he gets there and, you know, he's like, look at the support.
Look at the love.
This is amazing.
He's not even thinking about what they're trying to do to him because to him it's like another day.
I always say that, but it truly is.
And I think people don't realize that.
He doesn't flip out.
He doesn't get nervous in the back when he's with his lawyers.
He's interested.
He asks good questions.
He wants to understand things.
unidentified
But he does not...
alina habba
He does not get phased.
So we got to the courthouse.
He obviously went underground.
So it's unfortunate because he really wanted to speak to everybody.
And I want to say that, and I haven't said that yet, but he did fight hard to be able to get out and speak to people.
But unfortunately, because he is a candidate, because he is a former president, it was not secure enough with Secret Service and the rest of it.
But otherwise, he would have been out there instead of me.
But, you know, that's why I made those comments.
And then we got back into motorcade.
We're already actually very late for his speech in Bedminster, and he didn't care.
He wanted to go to Versailles.
He wanted to see the people there.
He knew there were people there waiting, and he was not going to...
Make any changes to his schedule or disappoint anybody.
And it was beautiful.
They started singing happy birthday to him outside.
And, you know, they were going crazy.
It was so exciting.
And you saw, you know, Telemundo and you see Fox.
I mean, every kind of American you could have.
And I love that because these are the people that are cloths and are bedrock and the people that we fight for.
Yeah, then we went back and he was, you know, watching TV, listening to music.
Went back, did his speech and crushed it yet again.
I mean, he's amazing.
He's amazing.
And then went to a dinner, actually.
unidentified
And then had a dinner after that and played Phantom of the Opera.
alina habba
But, you know, he is a warrior.
That is the best word.
Yesterday I saw a warrior.
A happy, American-loving warrior.
unidentified
Really.
benny johnson
So he was just like, I want to go to the bakery.
This is a famous bakery.
People don't understand how famous this place is.
alina habba
Yeah, he had heard about the coffee, Cuban coffee and all that, and he was like, "I want to go," and we went.
And I was in the car and I could hear it on Secret Service to say, you know, we're going to go to Versailles.
I was like, okay, let's go.
And it was cool.
unidentified
And then we all ran out of the cars to, you know, make it out in time to get back on the plane.
alina habba
And we were literally, I was running in high heels just so that we could get there and then make it to the plane to be back in Bedminster for his speech.
But he wanted to do it and that's who he is.
benny johnson
So there was a coordinated attempt and I have never seen it like this strong.
Clearly an order has gone down to owned and operated and controlled corporate media to not cover Trump.
We played Rachel Maddow having a panic attack meltdown last night, along with Jake Tapper having a post-menopausal episode on CNN because they saw this footage and they said, cut away!
Cut away!
We can't allow for Donald Trump to be seen.
Pray it over, right?
Or for people to sing him happy birthday.
It breaks the narrative.
I've never seen a coordinated effort to simply not show his speech last night they wouldn't cover, right?
Saying there's a cost to them.
alina habba
As if they really care about disinformation, the same people that peddled and pushed.
All the things that we now know were true per Durham.
You know, I am so sick of the double standard.
And everybody's always like, be careful.
You know, you go on to, you're very out there.
I was like, be careful.
We have to do this.
We have to do what you and I do.
Because they're doing the opposite.
They're shielding the American people, the people that need to see the truth, from real information, from who he actually is, so that they can paint a picture.
It's like the indictment.
Let's cherry pick sentences.
Let's put it together and let's write a story that makes it sound like he was instructing people to do things that they shouldn't do.
And he was in collusion and colluding like something, frankly, Hillary Clinton does, you know, and let's just paint that picture and let's silence his voices.
Let's silence his spokesperson.
You know, I was on CNN a bunch of times and I'm happy to go on there.
Actually, I love going on there because I feel like I can have a conversation with people that don't get to hear from us.
What they did yesterday, I mean, Rachel Maddow, what a disgrace.
I mean, come on.
Like, come on.
Pathetic.
benny johnson
What would be your commentary, let's say they had you on, and you do go on CNN, and we plan our days around it, because we're like, oh man, she's going to bring the fire, it's going to be a flamethrower, it's going to be great.
What would be your comment to these news organizations who decided just not cover your can?
That's the new tactic, right?
Don't give Trump any oxygen.
You saw that.
Chris Licht was fired from CNN.
Because he gave Donald Trump a platform.
alina habba
Right.
Put your big boy pants on, folks.
That's what I would say.
Put your big boy pants on and let's fight fair.
Put your boxing gloves on, get in the rink.
The problem is they don't have anybody that can actually put boxing gloves on because their leading guy can't walk upstairs.
So they've got a problem.
So they have to play dirty.
unidentified
So I would say, why don't you try for once to just let us...
alina habba
The American people make a decision for who we want to represent us.
You don't get to decide that.
Put your big boy pants on, Rachel.
You can put on Donald Trump.
You can't be doing any better, honey.
And let's roll.
Let's roll into 24. That's what I would say.
unidentified
Just about our problem, you don't have a good opponent.
alina habba
That's not my problem.
You know, I mean, he's ready to go.
He'll talk to anybody.
But they have no option other than silence at this point because they have no one with a voice that anyone cares about.
This is what it is.
unidentified
There's that hop of fire for you, Benny.
benny johnson
The flamethrower.
Yeah, Rachel Maddow.
You okay, hon?
You okay?
unidentified
You doing all right?
benny johnson
You seem like you need a vacation.
unidentified
Do you need melatonin to go to bed tonight?
alina habba
You know, yeah, no.
benny johnson
Yeah, you need melatonin shoved inside of the olive in your double vodka.
Yeah, martini.
Yeah, warm.
Serve it to me warm and up.
What is the plan going forward?
What does the campaign look like going forward?
What does the legal strategy look like going forward?
What can we expect to see in the coming days?
alina habba
Well, we have a great legal team so far for this case in particular.
Obviously, you know, I'm on a lot of cases up north.
And I think the campaign now, as we're inching closer, you know, we're 18 months out and we're going to get our voice out there, obviously.
I'll be part of that plan.
And then, frankly, keep doing what we're doing because it's working, which is sit back and let them just make the bed for him.
They literally just keep attacking him and it just raises his poll numbers and it gets people scared.
So a lot of the work, I have to say, thank you, Democrats.
You're really helping us out here in the polls because you're so obvious and the American people are so petrified right now that there are people that were on the fence that are now flipping.
And we'll vote for Donald Trump.
So, frankly, in my opinion, if they just keep going like this, we're solid for 2024, you know?
But we're going to keep going.
And legally, obviously, we have strategy.
unidentified
We have to get our side of the story out on what happened with this.
alina habba
The indictment doesn't speak to that.
It's one-sided.
And, you know, we have great attorneys that I am really blessed to work with, both the campaign side and attorneys.
And we'll keep rocking and rolling.
benny johnson
Final question.
Congratulations on the official title of spokesperson for Donald Trump.
Thank you.
unidentified
I'm excited.
alina habba
Thank you.
benny johnson
I expect many more hits on CNN.
They won't let Trump on, so they've got to bring you on.
alina habba
We'll see.
benny johnson
Let me ask you, in your official capacity now, in your official capacity, Donald Trump's esprit de corps.
What's the attitude?
What's the vibe?
What's the feel like?
What's the energy like?
alina habba
For Trump right now?
benny johnson
Yes, yes.
unidentified
Power.
alina habba
We're just all power right now.
Honestly, look at him.
He was up there.
They're singing happy birthday.
We're power.
We're going to go.
We're going to roll.
We're going to hit him hard.
And we're going to hit him hard in court.
unidentified
And we're going to hit him hard in the polls like we have been.
alina habba
We've got a great base, but now it's about talking to the people that are undecided.
And that's what we're going to do.
I'm excited for them.
I'm really excited for the next 18 months.
And we have big things planned that, unfortunately, I can't always let you know everything.
But we're doing great.
benny johnson
Well, we'll be along for the ride.
We're very excited to keep up.
And, man, we were covering everything live yesterday.
And it was great because everyone knows you on the show.
And so when you came out to give your statement, everyone was like, It was cool.
alina habba
You know what?
I will say it was one of those surreal moments where I was walking out.
I didn't feel like every other moment and it should have been a somber moment, but it wasn't at all.
I think AP had a picture that was sent last night and I was smiling because I was like, wow, this is so exciting that I get to be a part of something that is so big and that is so corrupt, but I hope we can fix.
And that's where my hope is that very soon.
We will turn this country around.
And I will have done the most smallest part of trying to help the American people see what I see behind closed doors.
And, yeah, it was something I'll never forget on many levels.
It was a sad day.
But to be honest, the Trump team, the campaign, everybody on the Trump team, the legal, the attorneys, we were all, like, ready to rip and happy and moving because watching those people, you know, and they need it and they see it.
This is corruption, and it has to stop.
So hopefully we get back in.
I think we will, and we'll clean it up.
We'll clean it up quick.
benny johnson
What was the word?
Defiant, right?
unidentified
Defiant.
benny johnson
It is defiant.
Yes, yes.
Defiant till the end, Alina Haber.
Thank you so much.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
On the upgrade, and we look forward to having you back very soon.
alina habba
Thank you very much.
I appreciate it.
unidentified
Thank you.
benny johnson
you Well, ladies and gentlemen, we did put up Alina Habba's Twitter handle there.
If you wish to follow Alina Habba, we encourage you to do so.
I normally do the shout-out there.
Completely forgot.
Completely forgot.
You've got to follow Alina Habba.
Official spokesperson for Donald Trump.
There she is right there.
unidentified
Boom.
benny johnson
Alina Habba.
25,000 followers.
We've got to get those numbers up.
Those are rookie numbers.
Okay, ladies and gentlemen, we got it.
We got them.
Boom.
Got them.
Devin Archer is being brought, going to be dragged in to be subpoenaed and be deposed by Congress in 24 hours.
This is Hunter Biden's business partner.
We're going to stay on this story.
This is the most important story.
They want to distract you.
This is the most important story in America.
Jim Jordan on Devin Archer.
And what's going to happen when they depose him, the guy who managed all the body bags for the Biden family?
It pertains to whistleblowers.
I know there's been a lot of them.
Devin Archer was just subpoenaed.
Will you get a chance to ask Devin Archer any questions?
What questions do you want?
What do you want to learn from Hunter Biden's top business partner?
jim jordan
Yeah, that's from Chairman Comer.
I think that's a good move.
We support that.
And during that, when he comes in for his deposition, we would certainly be a part of that.
And there's a host of questions you want to ask.
And I think, I mean, obviously one of the first questions you ask is what we were just talking about.
Who's the big guy?
Who is it?
Who is it?
Who do you think it is?
If you don't know, if you don't, if you can't tell me, who is it?
I mean, there's lots of questions that I think make sense that the American people would like to know the answer to.
benny johnson
Who's the big guy?
Who is it?
Boy, it'd be interesting to ask the country's foremost legal scholar on this.
It'd be interesting to ask a lifelong Democrat, Hillary Clinton supporter, Bill Clinton supporter, like, how guilty is Joe Biden?
It'd be interesting.
The best defense lawyer in the country, if they were to turn on Biden for these kind of things, Alan Dershowitz did, in a clip that sort of shocked us.
Dershowitz was on the show a couple days ago.
Royce?
Yeah?
A couple days ago?
We asked about this, but we didn't get this answer.
Hot damn.
Listen.
sean hannity
We know now that he selectively redacted information that was pertinent and key, especially mentioning the possibility that there are 17 tapes held by a Burisma executive, 15 with Hunter, two with Joe Biden, as an insurance policy should something go wrong.
I don't think you'd hold on to tapes unless they were incriminating, do you?
alan dershowitz
Of course not.
But we still have to apply the presumption of innocence, even in the context.
unidentified
I agree.
sean hannity
But I'd like to know why the FBI has not been cooperative.
alan dershowitz
No, they should be cooperative.
And if there is evidence of bribery, that is an impeachable offense under the Constitution, unlike what Donald Trump was impeached for, which were not impeachable offenses.
There has to be transparency.
That's why I also want the trial of Donald Trump to be televised.
I think today's hearing should have been televised.
We have to know how our justice system is operating.
Half the country doesn't trust our justice system.
And the idea that we have probably the most important trial in modern American history, hidden from the public view, will simply raise the question again, what do they have to hide?
benny johnson
What do they have to hide?
Hmm.
What do they have to hide?
Cold Civil War.
Ladies and gentlemen, they are going to weaponize every single reign of power.
They know they don't have the people on their side.
They know they don't have the population on their side.
They lost in 2016.
And they know for damn sure that the radical, sociopathic, deeply disturbed propaganda that they're pushing right now on you, your children, your family, that that is not embraced.
Biological, common sense, Christian, more moral Americans.
They know what they're doing.
They're attempting to project that you are a conquered people, that they're in charge.
Are they?
The projection of power is very important.
The projection of power is what wins you matches and games and so forth.
The projection of power is an art form, and that's what they're trying to project here.
We're in control.
Are they?
Are they?
Or is it us, the American people?
Some of that repulsive degeneracy was on display at the White House as activists went topless at the White House.
We can't even play you the footage here because, well, we'll probably get our content age-gated.
But let's just say a bunch of activists.
This article will have the images blurred so we can scroll through it.
A bunch of activists went to the White House and exposed their body parts and jiggled them.
I want to make this very clear.
I'm against this happening no matter who they are, no matter what they represent.
This is open degeneracy and filth at the White House.
It shouldn't be tolerated.
It is, of course, tolerated because, well, Joe Biden is a person who raised a guy named Hunter Biden.
You crack open his laptop and you see a lot worse stuff, actually.
But nonetheless, this was full and open.
Disgusting display at the White House.
Shockingly, the White House has condemned it.
The White House slammed the behavior as inappropriate and disrespectful.
This behavior is inappropriate, disrespectful.
Any event at the White House is not reflective of the event we hosted to celebrate Alphabet families.
Oh, okay, so you're admitting that there were children there.
Got it.
Hundreds of guests were there and attendance individuals in the video would not be invited to future events.
White House Press Secretary Cringe Jean-Pierre said.
Ladies and gentlemen, we're doing this story because, well, we love our cringe Jean-Pierre stinger, and we're going to use it as much as we possibly can.
Ladies and gentlemen, our nuclear cringe of the day.
unidentified
The End On the exposure incident on the South Lawn, having received the statement that the White House believes that was inappropriate, disrespectful, is there going to be a greater effort in the future to communicate a code of conduct for White House guests?
karine jean-pierre
Look, as you mentioned, the statement that we put out, you heard from us earlier today, the behavior was simply unacceptable.
We've been very clear about that.
It was unfair to the hundreds of attendees who were there to celebrate their families.
We're going to continue to be clear on that.
And that type of behavior is, as I said, unacceptable.
It's not appropriate.
It's disrespectful.
And it really does not reflect the event that we hosted to celebrate the LGBTQ + families.
Again, hundreds of families who were here to celebrate their community and who are here in attendance.
Look, individuals in the video certainly will not be invited to future events.
And this has not occurred before, right?
This was not a normal thing that has happened under this administration.
But we've been very clear about how we saw this particular behavior.
benny johnson
This hasn't occurred before.
Has it occurred to you to crack open Hunter Biden's laptop and just have a little looky-poo?
I mean, if you do that, make sure that you have plenty of...
Make sure you have plenty of Purell to squeeze into your eyeballs after you see the contents of Hunter's laptop.
But yeah, no, actually this is in line with you people because you people are vicious, repulsive, reptilian liars.
You people lie for a living.
That's what you do.
You lied.
Joe Biden's marriage is a lie.
Joe Biden cheated on his wife with his babysitter who was cheating on her husband.
That's how you get old bath sheet Jill.
Bath curtain Jill.
Shower curtain Jill.
Biden.
Their marriage is a fraud.
Ashley Biden's diary says that Joe Biden showered with her and made her feel really uncomfortable.
Well, why isn't that an important story?
That's really weird.
You're not allowed to talk about it?
Of course I'm allowed to talk about it.
This is my country, too.
And Hunter Biden's laptop had to be, the contents of which were posted publicly, had to be taken down because it showed child predation.
And you people are upset because an activist got naked at the White House?
Well, yeah, that's upsetting.
But it's low on the scale of things that we should be upset about.
Much like what Donald Trump did, is very, very, very, very, doesn't even register on the scale of abusive mishandling of classified information.
Our national secrets, our nuclear codes, and so forth.
But the only person who gets arrested is Donald Trump.
The only people who get looked at is Donald Trump.
Because, ladies and gentlemen, they view this movement, they view us as the enemy.
And if you wish to fight the good fight, well, you're going to have to have some weapons.
What does that look like for us?
As spiritual beings having a human experience?
Not the other way around.
Humans having a spiritual experience?
Nope.
We're spiritual beings having a human experience on this earth.
It looks like we have always.
We look to where we have always looked to in our past, in our present, and in our future, which will be the scriptures and the real truth.
Mankind has always faced horrific troubles in their times.
You are not rare or unique.
Be uplifted.
Be joyful.
Be happy.
Be happy warriors.
And march forward with the knowledge and the armor of God on your side.
Philippians 4.9, verse of the day.
What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me.
Practice these things.
And the God of peace will be with you.
Man, I love that.
The God of peace.
The God of peace.
We did a three and a half hour live yesterday.
I hope that you joined us for it.
We were laughing.
We were rocking.
We were rolling.
I had on two of our producers who recently had dinner with Trump the night before or had eight-hour dinners with Trump last month.
Close to the guy, close to this orbit.
We were having a good old time.
These people can't break us because our treasure is not stored up on this world.
Our treasure is eternal, and so are our principles, and that is what we fight for every single day.
God, family, country, ladies and gentlemen.
That's the way to be.
It's your boy Benny.
This is The Benny Show.
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