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Aug. 24, 2023 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson
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OUTLAW PRESIDENT! Trump Arrest Happening NOW | MUGSHOT LIVE | Fighting BACK
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donald j trump
What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people.
unidentified
The government is a state of government, and the government is a state of government, and the government is a state of government.
donald j trump
For too long, a small group in our nation's capital has reaped The establishment protected itself but not the citizens of our country.
That all changes starting right here and right now.
unidentified
Thank you.
Well, I know I had it coming.
I know I can't be free.
But those people keep moving.
And that's what tortures me.
I know I can't be free.
benny johnson
What's going on, ladies and gentlemen?
It is your boy, Benny.
We are live.
American outlaw Donald Trump up in the sky ready to land in Georgia.
Looks like we have a crystal clear day.
You are looking at the live shot right now of the sky as Donald Trump circles the airport in Atlanta ready to shut down all of Atlanta.
We are up in the helicopter right now watching.
The moment that we will all remember as the moment that we had the American gangster president made complete.
This is Donald Trump's moment.
This is a moment that we must all take a breath and understand what we're fighting against.
What we're actually looking at here.
Because they are throwing everything they have at Donald Trump.
There is nothing left after this.
Imprisoning your political enemies is the same as effectively assassinating them.
This is just the JFK job done in a different way, okay?
This is what they have been waiting for.
Today we will get a mugshot of Donald Trump.
All of the Keith Overmans drooling in their psychosexual, sad...
Fetishized TDS coma.
These guys are all sitting there.
It's not Trump's plane.
Okay, all right.
We're watching the planes coming in in Atlanta.
These guys have been waiting for years.
They've been waiting for decades, actually.
They loved Donald Trump back in the day.
Kathy Griffin, Oprah, the Clintons went to Donald Trump's nuptials.
But now, now they are.
Waiting for Donald Trump's mugshot.
Why?
Because he threatened the one thing you're not allowed to threaten.
Their power.
And that is precisely what all of this is about.
Power.
Because these people are Marxists.
And the reason why Marxists love power so much is because they know that they do not have the people on their side.
Nobody wants to live under Marxism.
Marxism is unnatural.
Marxism defies the way that God created us.
That is why Marxism must always be pushed on a population by the sword.
Must always be shoved down our throats.
Is it Donald Trump?
Is it Donald Trump?
Not yet.
Ladies and gentlemen, these cultural Marxists understand something that Karl Marx did not.
They understand that Karl Marx was flawed, in fact, in his original writing of the Communist Manifesto.
Karl Marx thought that it would be the working class that would rise up.
But the working class is on our side, you see.
The working class are for us, the people.
The working class doesn't believe in 279 genders.
The working class likes Donald Trump.
The working class votes for Donald Trump.
And so they are in a quandary.
And they decided to change communism and Marxism.
They turned it into cultural communism.
Cultural communism is a very specific type of communism where you grab and you seize, not the bottom, You go and you capture Hollywood.
You go and you capture the recording industry.
You go and you capture the courts.
You go and you capture higher education.
You go and you weaponize the courts against your political enemies.
And ladies and gentlemen, that is precisely what is happening here.
This is Marxism by a different name.
As ever, this is Marxism being shoved on us, And American people that do not want it.
And they are weaponizing now the only institutions under their control.
These dark blue, utterly sabotaged, completely decayed areas of America.
And the operations that they have inside of them.
People like Fannie Willis.
We've just exposed Fannie Willis on our social media as the fraud that she is.
And we are looking forward to doing that throughout the course of the evening.
We have a number of guests who will be joining us this evening.
Some guests that we are extremely excited about joining the program.
Some people who have actually been arrested here in Fulton County, Georgia will be joining the show and talking us through what is happening here.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a very interesting evening ahead of us, as we will also be.
Seeing Donald Trump's mugshot, something that we have seen from every one of the other co-defendants that has been arrested in Fulton County, Donald Trump will in fact be getting a mugshot.
He will be landing, and then he will be traveling to the court.
He will be presenting himself to the court.
There will be a camera inside of the court.
This will be a very, very different night than some of these other arrests that we have covered with Donald Trump.
But it all has...
The exact same motive.
The motive is to stop you from voting for Donald Trump.
Will it work?
The motive is to prevent you from voting for the person who you believe should be the president of the United States of America.
Will it work?
Will they stop you from voting for Donald Trump?
And we have, because last night we had a glitch, we have our YouTube comments up tonight.
Of course, we are streaming live on X. We are streaming live on Facebook, and we are streaming live on Rumble.
Yesterday, in a flaw, only Facebook comments showed up, so we thought we'd give love to our YouTube audience and let those comments flow in.
Let the salt pour over the screen, baby.
We're going to have a salty, salty night.
Donald Trump is in a spicy mood.
Very, very interesting it's going to be to see Donald Trump.
Now, I'll remind you that last time Donald Trump did one of these shebangs, we saw him get out of the motorcade, go to a bakery in Miami, speak with and sing happy birthday to people.
Donald Trump spoke to the press.
Donald Trump spoke to the media.
In Washington, D.C., Donald Trump spoke to the media at his plane.
Donald Trump's plane just landed.
In Atlanta.
And that is the shot that you're looking at right now.
This is the private airport at the Atlanta-Hartsfield-Jackson airport.
One of the largest airports in the world.
Salty, salty, salty night for us, ladies and gentlemen.
It is going to be salty for these libs.
Man, I'll tell you what.
They are, uh...
What?
Oh, the chat is...
The chat is raining salt.
They're not going to like what they've done here.
A man has been going viral.
All day.
Somebody who I don't know, who's a member of the Blacks for Trump, and he looked a reporter in the face earlier this morning in front of the courthouse, which is, by the way, swarmed with Trump supporters.
We're going to have a wild one for you.
Swarming with Trump supporters.
And we know some people there, and we will go live to the front of the courthouse as well.
Not only do we have people that will join live who have been arrested, we are working on this right now, I'll tell you exactly who in a moment.
Who have been arrested here and have mugshots in the Fulton County.
They'll tell us exactly what's going on here.
They will talk you through exactly what's happening.
There's Trump's plane.
There it is.
You can see the American flag on the tail there.
We had the honor of flying on the jet with Donald Trump a couple of months ago.
It was about six months ago?
Yep.
Six, seven months ago.
We flew on that jet with Donald Trump and there is Trump Force One.
Trump Force One rolling into the airport there.
Is it the saddest moment in American history?
Or is it the greatest moment in American history?
I ask you.
And thank you, Extra Cheese, for the super chat.
Incredibly kind of you.
We will use that to get Extra Cheese on the pizza that we'll probably order to the studio this evening.
Ladies and gentlemen, the reason why I would say it's the greatest moment in American history is because of this.
As we have elucidated for you, the communists are using the institutions and organs inside of their control.
As a last-ditch, paranoid, terrified effort to try and stop Donald Trump.
They are horrified about what may come with Donald Trump.
What may happen next.
They are so scared.
They wouldn't make these moves.
In football, it's called a Hail Mary.
I'm not a big sports fan, but it's called a Hail Mary.
This is a Hail Mary.
They are throwing everything that they can.
In a desperation attempt, you would never do that play unless you were desperate.
This is a desperation attempt.
This is not an act of strength.
This is an act of weakness.
That's why I say this may be the greatest moment in American history.
Because if we make it through this, if Americans are able to stiffen our upper lips and stand upright, be upstanding and march forward through this hell, Then we will have defeated a communist revolution the likes of which the Bolsheviks never even faced.
We will have defeated the communist.
Because the communist does not have the support of the American people.
Ladies and gentlemen.
And that was evidenced today.
Out front of the courthouse.
Out front of the courthouse there was a man who was standing there.
Part of a member.
A member of the group Blacks for Trump.
I'm going to play you a quick portion.
It'll be minutes until Donald Trump emerges.
Of course, we will cut back to any newsworthy event, but it takes quite a bit for them to taxi and for them to load up the plane and everything.
Ladies and gentlemen, this happened in front of the court today.
I want to show you what's waiting for Donald Trump in front of the court.
You're going to enjoy this.
This clip has been making all of the rounds.
Now, we've had to blur the man's shirt because on the man's shirt is the N-word.
Now, we don't use the N-word on this show, but we are for free speech.
We just have a rule on this show.
Of course, people, you know, people have a right to free speech.
So we have blurred and bleeped a little bit of what the man had to say.
But I want you to see it in its greatest totality that we can broadcast to let you know what is awaiting Donald Trump.
unidentified
I'm here to support President Trump.
You want to know why I'm here to support President Trump?
Because they done did black men like this for decades.
Make up charges and put them so I know Trump is innocent.
I support Trump against this corrupt, two-tiered justice system.
That's why I'm here to show my support as a black man for Trump.
And I'm wearing my shirt for Trump 2024 and I mean that.
What do you think about the indictments?
Oh, it's a bunch of bull****.
It's going around the country.
You know, Fanny Willis, she went to school with my sister.
She's full of s***.
So she's a puppet for the white liberal that is controlling everything.
She's in front, but the white liberal back there pulling those strings, telling her what to do.
That's what I think about her, making a fool of herself.
Do you think it's going to help his election?
Of course it is.
It's going to elevate him out.
I think we should make Trump king.
That's how I feel.
We should make him king.
Wouldn't that be like, kind of like communists did?
Nah, there's nowhere near communists.
Nah, we're just going to make him king, but we still got our freedoms and rights for everything.
He fought that.
Yeah, Trump for king 2024.
benny johnson
Trump for king 2024.
Do you hear it?
Do you hear the shock in the reporter's voice?
She's like, listen, the Trump for king thing, I'll let everyone debate that in the comment section, okay?
But he's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on.
Fannie Willis is just a tool of the white liberals.
Here in Atlanta.
And, oh, hot damn, do we have the receipts for that, baby?
Do we have the receipts for that?
Now, Royce, how would I...
I want to show these tweets.
unidentified
Put up your screen.
benny johnson
Okay.
All right.
So, ladies and gentlemen, we got the motorcade rolling in.
We're not going to move from this.
We're not going to move from this.
We got a couple of bombshell tweets to show you about what a fraud Fannie Willis actually is.
That man straight up there.
Again, debate in the comment section.
There's King Trump.
I see it in the comment section.
There it is.
King Trump.
Come on, baby.
Go in.
Get down in the comment section tonight.
We're reading it.
You're on screen.
Get in there.
Thank you.
We're not going to back away from Donald Trump obviously exiting his vehicle.
There's his motorcade in front of the plane.
The doors are opening also with the motorcade.
So we will be bringing you, we have a number of feeds monitored, okay?
Great Maga King, look at those crowds.
Drop me a crown for your boy!
unidentified
Ha!
benny johnson
Drop me a crown for the American outlaw.
I'm going to present to you tonight my thesis on this, which is that this is all they have.
Last night, Tucker Carlson asked a couple of times, wow, they're just going to kill you.
God forbid.
Truly say a prayer.
And Trump's response, we'll play it for you, if there's a lull in the action here.
But Trump's response was wild.
Because this is all they have.
This is the last they have.
Does this make you want to vote for Trump less?
Or does it make you want to vote for the political prisoner?
Every psalm is effectively written about how evil men make plans against the righteous and how those plans go up in smoke.
Will we watch...
Again, what do I mean by that?
The communists have nothing left.
The people are on their side.
Blacks for Trump aren't on their side.
That guy's sitting there being like, no, no, no, no, you don't understand.
You don't understand.
You see, this is going to make Trump more popular.
Black Americans vote for Democrats 95%.
If you lose, if they just turn that number to 85%, Democrats can't win a national election.
What if just a small percentage of black Americans said, wait a second, everything that Donald Trump is saying about a rigged system and a rigged system of justice is true.
That man has a mugshot.
What if?
What if, ladies and gentlemen, So is this the moment?
Again, we are monitoring all of the live feeds and all the news feeds.
We have an entire system here in the studio.
Rolls Royce is ready to go.
I keep telling Rolls Royce to get himself a camera.
He won't do it.
I want him to be part of the show.
He won't do it.
There he is!
unidentified
Alright, there's Rolls Royce!
benny johnson
He's real!
Shout out for Rolls Royce in the comments.
And the reason why Rolls Royce has to stay on screen is because...
That's a Rolls-Royce engine on that plane.
We saw it ourselves, right?
That's right.
All right.
All right.
Rolls-Royce, for Christmas, he's going to get his own microphone and his own studio and join the show.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are, again, awaiting Donald Trump to get off of his plane.
And I don't think we're going to cut from this shot.
We have so much loaded up for you.
And we have so much to bring you, but we do not want to cut from this shot, because we don't want to miss this moment.
In Washington, D.C., Donald Trump gave a triumphant fist pump and walked off the plane, and then he also spoke to the press at his plane, and so perhaps he will speak to the press as well, and we're not going to miss that.
We have a massive show lined up for you tonight, however, and a number of special guests.
And a number of clips, I think, that are very interesting throughout the day of what's happened.
I gotta tell you, Byron Donalds has been defending.
This is the congressman.
And there they are moving there with the staircase.
You can see the white car there.
That is the staircase underneath the plane.
Byron Donalds, the congressman from Florida.
Dude, this guy is in the vice presidential running.
He's in the vice presidential running.
Wait till I show you what Byron Donalds did to defend Donald Trump today.
Incredible.
So there's a massive press gaggle.
Those are the photographers.
They are being moved away or perhaps into position.
You can see the stair car there has been loaded up to the side of the plane.
And Trump has said on Truth Social that he will be arrested at 7.30.
There we are.
Here comes the footage from inside of the press pool.
Again, ladies and gentlemen, we are inside of the press cars here.
I am wearing my The Dawn.
Shirt.
When we get a mugshot, well, expect me to be wearing a very different shirt in the morning.
American outlaw.
American gangster.
What you're seeing here is not a broken shot, but a shot from a moving camera that is inside of one of the press vehicles.
And what they've done is they've adjusted the lens there.
They were, I guess, getting focus.
And they've adjusted the lens.
When there is audio on the video, we will bring it to you.
So you can kind of hear.
You can see this man with the earpiece.
He's a Secret Service member, presumably.
And the press have been told to get into this van.
And so this is the pool feed that we are getting currently.
So we'll be able to watch.
And we'll be able to see.
To my understanding, Donald Trump has not exited the vehicle, but maybe producer ALX, you can let me know if I am incorrect in that assumption.
unidentified
*Dramatic Music*
benny johnson
Well, there we go.
Okay.
There was a clip of him deplaning.
It wasn't on our live feed.
And Donald Trump is off.
There goes the motorcade.
Well, screw the pool report, I guess.
Ladies and gentlemen, the poolers did not do their job.
They were rushed.
It did look like they were quite rushed.
And we do have a clip of Donald Trump getting off the plane.
We'll play that for you presently, but let's watch the motorcade roll out.
There's a clip of Donald Trump getting off the plane.
Again, we will play that for you presently.
Donald Trump is moving.
This is a live shot of Atlanta from a helicopter over the Atlanta-Hartfield-Jackson airport.
Donald Trump is on the move.
Massive motorcade.
I count maybe 20 vehicles, if you include the motorcycles in this motorcade, maybe more.
Again, we want to thank our YouTube audience that came through.
We had 22,000 concurrence last night.
Our biggest show ever.
And we just want to say thank you to our YouTube audience.
And your comments are up on screen.
We are working on a system to get all comments up on screen for these broadcasts.
And today we are rocking with our YouTube comments and rolling with our YouTube community here.
And we just want to say thank you.
Thank you for the super chats.
Thank you for the people that are...
Supporting our show, and we deeply appreciate it.
So here goes the motorcade.
Donald Trump is on the move.
This is going to be a lot of footage of this motorcade, which, of course, never sees traffic.
There was one time when the Hamburglar, we call him, a lib, went running out in front of it.
The only time there's been any interest here, this is simply going to be freeway shots of the motorcade traveling around because they don't stop for no one, okay?
They don't stop for nobody.
Ladies and gentlemen, now will probably be a good time to play you Donald Trump getting off the plane.
Getting off the plane.
We have the clip.
It is loaded up.
We deeply apologize that the poolers did not get it.
But ladies and gentlemen, a fixed camera did get it and we had it for you instantly.
Ladies and gentlemen, here we go.
Again, you can trust us that we will, if anything actually happens, we will cut right back to the live shot.
Here's what Donald Trump did and said seconds ago because it looks like he turned and said a few words to the cameras.
Here we go.
unidentified
Motorcade, so I'm expecting.
There he is right there.
The president stepping out.
Let's listen in.
benny johnson
All right, ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump saying thank you very much.
I do fluently speak Trump.
I've watched that man say a lot of words.
Donald Trump saying thank you very much.
So nothing necessarily groundbreaking.
Not like last night, which was absolutely groundbreaking.
Thank you for joining us.
Again, we had 45,000 people watching across all of our platforms last night when we aired Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson live.
Plus went to the GOP debate.
So ladies and gentlemen, here we go.
This is Donald Trump traveling through the city.
Donald Trump will be traveling to the courthouse.
I do not know how long this trip will take.
I do not know how long the courthouse is from the airport.
But I do know this.
That what will be waiting out front of the courthouse will be absolutely wild.
Including, but not limited to, some members of Congress who are big time, we are big time fans of.
I want to bring to you, I think, the clip of the day when it comes to Trump surrogates, which is Byron Donalds, out front of the courthouse.
Again, we'll play you these clips.
If something happens, we will cut right back to the live feed.
Right now, the live feed is simply the cars traveling through the city.
Byron Donald's an incredible Trump surrogate.
My producer team is telling me it's a 24-minute ride, so we'll have a little bit of time here.
This is why we bricked out some of the most interesting things that happened today.
Byron Donald's just a magnificent voice for freedom.
He's a congressman from Florida.
Incredibly bright career ahead of him.
I know him personally.
Byron Donald's is a baller with a capital B. And...
He was out defending Donald Trump today.
Tell me if you think this is vice presidential material.
unidentified
Well, look, the indictments are nothing but election interference from the radical left.
This has been their mission all along.
But I want to speak directly to the American people, whether you're a Republican, a Democrat, or an Independent.
We cannot have the Democrats turn our institutions into political weapons.
If they'll do it to the former president, they'll do it to any other American.
And our country is based on freedom and liberty and free thought and free speech.
And just because you don't like how he took the last election, that is no reason to file criminal charges.
That is a disgusting use of power from the executive branch.
Yep, baby.
benny johnson
Byron Donald, I'm telling you, man.
I'm telling you, he's the real deal.
He's the real deal.
I speak with him a bit.
And he is the real deal.
He is rocking and rolling.
Along with Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is also out front of the courthouse today, Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Again, we have a 24-minute ride to the courthouse, so we might as well play some of the more interesting clips today.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, again, in front of the Fulton County Courthouse with our favorite rapper, Forgiato Blow.
Check this out.
marjorie taylor greene
October 1st, the state of Georgia is going to be convening a council, and they will be investigating Fannie Willis and providing oversight into her office.
That was a law that had been passed here in Georgia, and that's exactly what they need to do.
And then another thing that will be happening, and this is really important, is our Judiciary Committee is launching an investigation, not only into Fannie Willis, but also other state DAs and their coordination with the federal government and the Department of Justice.
And so we look forward to that.
You know, President Trump put out this on Truth Social.
You come after me, I'm coming after you.
And we know retribution is coming.
Well, I gotta tell you, President Trump has one of the best lists I've ever seen of over who needs to go down.
I need to see that list.
I'm sure it's pretty long.
Well, let's get him back in the White House and we'll watch it publicly.
benny johnson
All right, ladies and gentlemen.
So, again, here is the live shot of Donald Trump traveling through Atlanta.
Donald Trump, there is a massive amount of media waiting in front of the courthouse.
And ladies and gentlemen, we even have some people in front of the courthouse ourselves.
Forgiato Blow, our favorite MAGA rapper, will be popping on, I think, here during the live.
Producer ALX, he was on earlier.
Producer ALX has him at standby.
Ladies and gentlemen, important moments for us to understand exactly how corrupt these systems are.
Royce, can I pop up these tweets now?
Okay.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, this is something that we just produced that is going insanely viral right now.
You heard Marjorie Taylor Greene talking about Fannie Willis.
Fannie Willis is the prosecutor in Fulton County.
Fulton County is a county that went 80% for Biden.
This is a dark, hardened, blue county.
But who is Fannie Willis exactly?
Who is this woman?
Boy, it sure would be nice to actually know a little bit more about her.
Fannie Willis was born in California.
She's not from Georgia.
Fannie Willis is a hardened Democrat activist.
Fannie Willis is somebody who has regularly used her office to question our elections.
That's right.
Fannie Willis has used her public office to, in fact, engage in election conspiracies, which is precisely what She is trying to indict Donald Trump for.
And precisely what she has indicted Donald Trump for, she's trying to put him in jail for.
Let's make this a little bigger, Royce.
So, Fannie Willis has a Facebook page.
And we had a little birdie tell us that we should maybe go through there and check out old Fannie and what she has to say about elections.
interesting here.
Fannie Willis regularly questioned election results and used her office to push unfounded election conspiracies.
On the eve of Trump's arrest in Georgia, challenging an election, here Here's a deep dive into the prosecutor's history of doing the exact same thing.
Here you go.
This is a Benny Show exclusive, and I just want to start by saying thank you to the people who support us, for you just watching the show by supporting us.
You support our research team that can go through and do this kind of work.
Fannie Willis saying, Let's give an honest accounting.
Are they throwing out ballots?
Oh, no!
Hmm, interesting.
Throwing out ballots seems like a conspiracy.
Let's begin.
Fannie Willis is a hardened Democrat radical activist.
She's not an unbiased attorney.
Here she is posing with a BLM activist.
I didn't...
It looks like...
Man, it looks like it's been a tough road for Snoop Dogg.
Gotta tell you, this is a...
It's been hard on him.
Fannie Willis' page, pages, social media pages are littered with BLM propaganda and partisan adherence to left-wing ideology.
She openly worships Joe Biden, Kamala Harris.
Would she have an incentive to ensure that Donald Trump gets prosecuted?
Well, let's go ahead and look at Fannie Willis' office.
Fannie Willis, blatantly and actually quite illegally because you're not allowed to campaign from your office or be partisan from your office.
Has a proud Democrat mug sitting on her desk.
Imagine being a Republican and going in to face charges and you have a proud Democrat mug sitting there on the person who's supposed to administer justice.
But it gets much, much worse.
This is just surface-level stuff.
It gets so much worse.
As a public official, Fannie Willis regularly and consistently questioned Georgia's election procedures and pushed unfounded election conspiracy theories on her public social media profile.
This is the exact same thing that she's indicting Donald Trump for.
But far worse, you see.
In the days following the 2018 midterms, Fannie Willis expressed concerns about the election not being properly run by implying that all votes were not being counted.
This would count as a conspiracy theory.
Fannie Willis would go on to serve in public office in the year 2019 and 2020.
But nobody ever brought this up.
Seems like maybe she is attempting to question elections to assist.
In her own potential electoral victories.
In a Facebook post, she wrote, You all better start paying attention to what's really going on.
Indict Fannie Willis.
These are her posts, by the way, directly from her page.
Hours after the last ballots in the 2018 midterms were cast, Fannie Willis openly boasts about the power Georgia Secretary of State has to control elections.
Secretary of State will be definitely on the ballot.
The person controls elections.
I wonder if we yet realize that is an important role shaking my damn head, Fannie Willis says.
Two days following the 2020 election, she is now criminally indicting Donald Trump for questioning.
Fannie Willis directly calls the election a mess and posted this meme on her Facebook, seemingly agreeing with Trump that the election was poorly run, what we know so far.
In a subsequent Facebook post, Fannie Willis agrees with a racially motivated commenter that only white folk are voting in the election by expressing skepticism about voting data.
There are 116%, I'm so annoyed, she says, to a guy saying only white folk have been participating in the elections.
Willis then goes on to brag about the ability to install an administration that more closely mirrors our values.
Oh, interesting.
There are the comments right there.
Read them and weep.
In another Facebook post sent merely hours after the polls for the 2020 election had closed, Fannie Willis openly suggested that Fulton County officials are throwing out ballots following a mysterious water leak and directly called on third parties to intervene in ballot counting processes.
Georgia should determine who...
Georgia could determine who is our next president.
A team of lawyers need to watch them every single vote.
What ballots are they throwing out?
This is an unfounded conspiracy theory that this public official is propagating.
She is prosecuting Donald Trump for a social media post saying people should watch OANN.
This is from her indictment of Donald Trump, using Donald Trump's tweets.
This is Fannie Willis' serving in office.
Public office.
During those times.
She was a judge.
Can you believe that?
She was a judge.
Georgia, what the hell is wrong with you?
The Fannie Files, ladies and gentlemen.
Here they are.
The Fannie Files.
Alright.
That's our job.
I just want to say, as a note here, thank you.
Thank you for being part of the Betty Brigade.
Thank you for supporting our work.
It takes a large research team.
This is going thermonuclear.
I mean, everyone has...
Everyone has retweeted this.
Everyone.
Senators, members of Congress, we did the work that the lawyers should have been doing.
And people who have legal cases now have been telling us, thanks!
Goodness, I'm sending this all to my lawyer!
We're going to now use what our team has uncovered, which is publicly available information, we're going to use this in order to get it all tossed.
Fannie Willis should recuse herself and then should be disbarred.
Is what should happen here.
unidentified
But there's more!
benny johnson
Oh yeah, baby.
There's more.
Get ready.
Get ready.
Okay, let's hop back to the live feed.
Just wanting to say again, thank you.
Thank you for your support of us.
Thank you for your support of what we're doing.
By doing that, you provide for us researchers that can go out and dig through all of this information and get...
All of this information out there.
And this is going to actually, this may be the information, our team may have just produced the information that actually blows this case wide open for Donald Trump.
And proves that Fannie Willis herself is an election denier and is complicit in pushing unfounded conspiracy theories about our elections.
Therefore, Donald Trump cannot be charged.
Therefore, Donald Trump's lawyers can just argue, screw this, throw it out.
Walk away.
Not guilty, y 'all got to feel me.
Donald Trump here on surface streets.
It looks like he's going now on the surface streets here, ladies and gentlemen.
You can see this is the motorcade close up, so he must be very close to the courthouse.
He must be increasingly close to the courthouse.
And this looks like he is arriving now, potentially, at the courthouse here.
unidentified
There it is.
benny johnson
We're going to listen in.
This is Donald Trump's motorcade.
We are not sure which one of these vehicles Donald Trump is in.
Sometimes you can see him poking out the window.
You can see him with the right angle.
You can see him in the windows.
But they are tinted heavy black for a reason.
For the protection of the president.
And then these are the larger press vans.
Of course, and also the emergency vehicles, EMT, that travels always with the president with his blood type and so forth, in case there's any type of horror.
unidentified
Sarah, 2027.
benny johnson
Ladies and gentlemen, that is, I believe, Donald Trump heading into the parking lot, the private parking lot.
The gates are closing.
Of the courthouse.
Donald Trump is now going to go into the courthouse and we will have something entirely different than we've seen before.
The judges ruled that cameras are allowed inside of these courthouses.
Can you believe this?
There are cameras now inside of the courthouse.
We will now watch Donald Trump inside of the courthouse.
Wild.
To discuss exactly how that is going to work, And what that is going to mean for the internet, I'd like to bring on our intrepid producers of The Benny Show and incredibly sophisticated, sharp, news-breaking masters of the internet.
Danny DeArbina and ALX the Lord.
Danny, nice photo!
danny de urbina
There you go.
I got it early.
I got it early.
benny johnson
Alright.
That's good.
danny de urbina
I love my MAGA hat in Miami.
unidentified
I'm like, I gotta toss up the mugshot.
alex lorusso
MAGA hat stays on.
benny johnson
Oh, I hope that your MAGA hat stays on.
Okay, so here we go, ladies and gentlemen.
We got the team on here.
We are going to be seeing cameras in the courthouse unlike other versions of these arrests all around the country.
Am I wrong, ALX?
alex alx lorusso
So the judge has ruled that they can use them in the courthouse.
alex lorusso
I'm not sure if they're going to use it today just because today is processing.
I'm not sure if they're going to do a separate arraignment.
But going forward with the trial as well, I believe they can use the cameras in the courthouse.
It will all be up to, you know, the people on the inside.
But like I said, since it's just processing today, it might, they might not have the cameras, but we'll, we'll have to see.
But like I, like I said, they did rule that they can use them inside the courthouse.
benny johnson
Okay.
So what you're saying is there's a chance.
alex alx lorusso
There is a chance.
But like all of this, you know, a lot of people have been asking about like details and stuff, but We've never had a former president of the United States go through something like this.
alex lorusso
It's all very unprecedented.
So that's why a lot of people are very unsure.
You know, that's why we're getting all these obscure angles because it's so unprecedented.
Nobody really understands, you know, what to prepare for and, you know, what's allowed, what isn't allowed.
Some other people were even questioning if he was still going to get a mugshot because they said Secret Service could.
You know, just reject it flat out, even though everyone else in the case has had theirs.
And they've made it clear, the sheriff made it clear that Trump will be treated no different and that everyone will get mugshots.
So, you know, I'm hoping he still gets the mugshot, but we'll see.
Like I said, some people are saying the Secret Service can flat out deny it if they really want.
And, you know, Bongino had that point earlier that he should, you know.
You know, that's an absolutely great point.
benny johnson
So, I want to belabor this point, because ALX, you were just with President Trump in a private setting.
You don't mess around with the President.
unidentified
You can't...
benny johnson
It's hard to, like, describe.
They'll shut down entire cities.
They'll shut down airports.
They'll shut down places of commerce.
They'll shut down Wall Street.
The president rolls through.
Ain't nobody getting close to the president.
If Donald Trump, if they tried to put Donald Trump in prison, if they tried to put Donald Trump in prison, what they would need to do, effectively, is liquidate the rest of the prison.
They would need to free all the murderers.
Every single day.
You think they're going to let Donald Trump out into...
The prison yard?
You think the Secret Service is going to allow Donald Trump to be in the population of a prison?
With criminals?
Let's just for a moment here go back to the fact that Joe Biden invited an imam to an Islamic celebration at the White House and his background check wasn't 100% clear and so this guy who was invited by Biden couldn't even get into the White House.
They turned him away.
Sorry, pal.
You liked an ISIS tweet or something.
And they turned him away.
alex lorusso
Yeah.
benny johnson
And so then you're telling...
So that's what the Secret Service does.
And Joe Biden ain't nobody could get that guy into the White House.
Secret Service said no.
And so they're going to let Donald Trump in prison?
What?
unidentified
What?
alex lorusso
Yeah.
It's not going to...
Again, all of this is very unprecedented.
alex alx lorusso
So I would love to see him call their bluff.
benny johnson
Yes.
danny de urbina
That Johnny Cass cold open might actually come true now.
Him, like, lifting the weights in the prison yard.
unidentified
I do indeed love that.
benny johnson
Don't post Bond.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, we have a huge show lined up of clips, a bunch of stuff from last night, a bunch of stuff from earlier today.
We don't want to cut away in case anything happens.
However, this is a 60 seconds of Dan Bongino making this point.
Now, why would we play this?
Because Bongino was a Secret Service agent.
And Bongino is able to name the U.S. code that is associated with this and say, try him.
Try it.
Now, we don't have any indication that Donald Trump won't, won't post bond today.
But if he didn't, they would have to empty out all of the Atlanta jails in order to hold him.
Watch Bongino here.
And ladies and gentlemen, of course, if anything happens, we'll cut right back.
dan bongino
Folks, I don't think the Trump team should post the bond.
I don't.
This may sound like a crazy idea, but folks, we're living in crazy times.
And crazy times require different, crazy, bold approaches.
Fannie Willis wants to be a smart-ass tyrant, little socialist communist like she is down in Fulton County, Georgia?
Don't post.
Don't post a bond.
You're going to jail him?
Let's elect our first political prisoner.
Go ahead.
Go to jail.
Let the Secret Service shut the entire jail down, and we'll see how long you're willing to keep this charade going.
Let them put them in jail for a bit.
Folks, I know it sounds crazy.
Let the Secret Service shut that entire floor down, because remember, Title 18 U.S.C.
3056, and I believe 1752, the Secret Service has the absolute federal authority, the Supremacy Clause.
They can declare anything, a federally protected area, even a prison cell.
They can clear out that entire wing of the prison and make sure Donald Trump never sees another human being in that prison other than the Secret Service.
I wouldn't post.
benny johnson
Wouldn't post.
What do you think, Danny?
Post or no?
danny de urbina
I think he'll most likely post, but I personally would like to see him call Fannie Willis' bluff, someone I'm ashamed to even have my name rhyme with hers.
benny johnson
Alright, well, yeah, true.
Poor Danny.
So, listen, I'm sitting there talking with a couple of members of Congress in Nashville after a Donald Trump speech last week.
And these guys, all these guys are Freedom Caucus members, and they're all like, listen.
You don't understand.
When the president comes to Capitol Hill, Secret Service locks us in our offices.
We're members of Congress.
We have the pins.
We can go anywhere.
Secret Service locks us in our offices when the president comes to Capitol Hill.
What are they going to do to the inmates in a prison?
By the way, I would argue that most members of Congress should be in prison and should be inmates.
But what I'm saying here is, like, how are you going to do this?
How are you going to possibly lock up Donald Trump?
How are you going to do it?
I mean, legitimately, you would have to essentially liquidate your prison.
You'd have to get—the entire prison would have to be for Donald Trump.
That's what you have to do.
alex lorusso
Yeah, and it kind of reminds me of, you know, we've done, like, turning point events where Secret Service kind of comes in and takes over the entire building.
alex alx lorusso
So it's like, even if, like, for example, during COVID, it was a lot worse because they're worrying about, you know, the safety of the president with COVID going around.
A personal example, Charlie Kirk, it was the first rally back from COVID, and Charlie was like, "Oh, I'm going to try and get you in to meet the president or whatever backstage." But then Secret Service came in and was like, "Well, we can only take five people back.
We only have five COVID tests, and anyone within five feet of the president has to take a COVID test." So it's like, Secret Service comes in, takes over the building.
alex lorusso
It doesn't matter who it is.
It's the guy running the event.
It doesn't matter if it's the local police there.
The clause that Dan Bongino just cited is just for the safety of the president so they can come in.
Secret Service can come in and take authority and control over wherever the president is.
Same would apply to a jail, I'd assume.
benny johnson
Danny lives in Washington, D.C. I believe he's in his apartment in Washington, D.C. right now because he's a student at George Washington University.
Danny, you know what these motorcades are like.
You get locked down probably once a week.
Because the president just is passing by your building.
Am I wrong?
danny de urbina
Oh yeah, you can't get off.
You can't.
So, for example, Kamala Harris loves to come on our campus and talk about yellow school buses for some reason.
And she, if she's on campus, you cannot get within like a two block radius of her.
It's totally blocked off.
There's like 20 cars just like rushing through.
And that's for a vice president who is learning about Venn diagrams.
I can't imagine this being for like an actual president who, you know, So, what we're looking at right now looks kind of like a prison yard.
benny johnson
I mean, there's a bunch of barbed wire up.
This shot has got to just be the, presumably, like the blinking flashing lights inside of the motorcade, out front of the door that Donald Trump entered in and out.
But it's as close as we can get.
And this camera looks like...
Royce, this looks like it's zoomed in.
It's about racked, it's about as zoomed in as they can get right now.
So you have to assume that Donald Trump's inside the courthouse, yes?
alex lorusso
He is.
alex alx lorusso
And so Fox just has a helicopter shot overhead.
alex lorusso
So Trump has actually just been booked into Fulton County Jail.
He's awaiting his mugshot.
It looks like they booked him in.
I can see 6 '3", 215.
Blonde or strawberry and blue eyes.
His address and everything and booking number.
Right there, they booked him.
benny johnson
That's up online?
alex lorusso
Yep.
benny johnson
Let's get that link and we'll toss it up.
I mean, of course, I guess Mar-a-Lago is a public...
Mar-a-Lago is a public place, so presumably...
unidentified
Yep.
alex lorusso
His Palm Beach.
Yep.
Right there.
I just sent it in there, but...
benny johnson
All right.
alex lorusso
Yeah, but it has all of his charges, all the warrants.
benny johnson
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to—Royce, I'm going to toss on over here.
Is that cool with you?
Okay, there you go.
Yep.
So, ladies and gentlemen, what you're seeing right here is the Donald Trump booking, booked into the Fulton County Jail.
We're going to zoom in here.
So these are the—this is Donald Trump.
This is the address of Mar-a-Lago.
It's, of course, quite public.
The address of Mar-a-Lago.
It is technically a public place.
Here are the chargings.
White male, 215 pounds.
6 '3".
What a unit!
alex lorusso
What a unit!
benny johnson
Come on!
That's right!
What a unit!
215, 6 '3".
Come on, man!
Donald Trump's been lifting.
Blonde or strawberry?
Is that the hair?
unidentified
Yeah.
alex alx lorusso
They're calling him strawberry blonde.
They didn't want to put orange hair.
Skin orange.
benny johnson
I was like, is that the skin or the hair?
That's great.
unidentified
This is legendary.
benny johnson
Wow.
alex alx lorusso
Yeah, it's actually surreal to see.
benny johnson
Wow.
So then you can see the bond types here.
And you can see this is the dollar amount.
So you have $80,000.
And if you add all this up, it would be $200,000.
So what is the $80,000 one?
This is the violation of Georgia RICO.
alex alx lorusso
Yeah, the RICO one that everyone's obsessed with.
benny johnson
So that's going to be the one...
I mean, truly remarkable.
That's going to be the one that...
They will flip and charge Fannie Willis with.
I mean, I'm more convinced of this day by day because she's clearly...
She's clearly...
Like, going through her social media.
Danny.
Danny, go through her social media.
She's a couple fries short of the Happy Meal.
She's not a smart person.
She's not a particularly...
She's not a road scholar, okay?
She's not a particularly smart individual, okay?
You're talking very room temperature IQ.
And she's not doing this on her own.
That's what I believe.
I personally believe that this is done in coordination entirely with Merrick Garland's DOJ.
That there are people who are operating and running her.
And as the man said out front of the courthouse, she's just the tool of white liberals.
She's just a puppet of white liberals.
Your thoughts?
danny de urbina
Oh yeah.
And so reading her social media posts, I almost had to re-register myself into grammar classes.
It was just so painful to read.
She's not a particularly smart person, but there is a tick-tock to this, right?
So we're seeing that he gets indicted, and then a month later, he's got another indictment coming, and even before he can get his legal defense prepared, he's already getting indicted in a different state.
So there is some kind of coordination going on here, and it wouldn't surprise me if she is coordinating with the likes of Merrick Garland and the DOJ.
I think the RICO charge might actually backfire on them, especially reading this social media poster.
Literally doing the exact same thing that she's charging Donald Trump for is pretty rich.
So I think we'll be seeing more of that.
That might make some more news in the coming weeks.
benny johnson
I'm going to pop on over here.
Again, we are on the X platform.
Jack Posobiec tweeting this 100% real Fannie Willis.
With numerous grammatical errors and strange font shifts throughout.
Remember this.
Very important.
They posted the results of the grand jury like 12 hours before the grand jury voted.
Just remember what kind of an operation we're dealing with here.
So you write, you were like subliterate, like the indictment.
You write on a...
Chat GPT after hitting a bottle of Jack Daniels level.
And then you have this font.
You have three different fonts in your signature.
There are graphic designers on our team.
There are graphic designers on our team.
Eric is one of them.
And he is screaming in our chat.
Saying, good lord.
His eyes are bleeding right now.
After looking at this font.
danny de urbina
I think Fanny should give up law and pursue graphic design.
I think that graphic design is her passion.
benny johnson
What does this font say to you, ALX?
What does that say about a person, exactly?
alex lorusso
It says that they're very pretentious and they're trying to be more important than they actually are.
She's trying to be John Hancock.
But yeah, it was a tremendous courtesy.
The two weeks was a tremendous courtesy with weird spacing in between.
It's just like hilarious.
benny johnson
Disbar.
Disbar.
unidentified
Oh yeah.
benny johnson
Disbar.
This is the live shot, ladies and gentlemen.
You can see this giant Trump 1 banner.
You can see another camera here in front of the exit of the courthouse where Donald Trump entered and...
You have to assume that the motorcade is going to leave there.
And then you can see here the shot of the door, the doorway that Donald Trump used.
Here is the Trump One giant banner out front.
And ladies and gentlemen, we are efforting Forgiato Blow, who is in front of the courthouse.
We're going to see if he can join us presently.
Royce, are we able to do an audio only?
Are we able to have guests with audio only?
unidentified
Yeah, they would just be a great box.
benny johnson
Alright, we're going to see.
We have a member, I don't want to say who, we have a member that has been indicted in this indictment who can join with audio only because they're traveling right now and we're going to see if we can get them onto the program.
ALX, you see what we're working on here?
Gotcha.
Yeah, see if there's a way that they can join with just using audio.
Alright, ladies and gentlemen, so we await now the mugshot for Mr. Strawberry.
For the Strawberry King.
Okay.
Great.
Okay, we might get video or audio.
We'll see.
Ladies and gentlemen, we will be joined very soon by Jen Ellis.
Jen Ellis was booked into this same courthouse, and she will be able to explain to us she served as Donald Trump's attorney.
Hey, Alex, correct me if I'm wrong.
But she will be able to explain to us what Donald Trump is doing right now, what is happening at this current moment to, again, our strawberry blonde.
To our blonde or strawberry, as they say.
Yeah.
Okay.
We are monitoring the lights.
You can see the lights are there.
The cars are running.
The lights are flashing.
We are monitoring the feeds that are available to us.
Nobody has a feed inside of the courthouse.
Danny, is that correct?
danny de urbina
Nope.
I'm not seeing it anywhere.
benny johnson
Okay.
Okay.
danny de urbina
Yep.
benny johnson
All right.
I'm seeing strawberries and oranges.
Put it in the comments section.
I just want to say, shout out for your strawberry boy!
We have the strawberry...
What is it?
Strawberry shortcake?
danny de urbina
Strawberry shortcake.
unidentified
What is this?
benny johnson
No way.
I don't think that's real.
alex alx lorusso
A lot of people are posting it as if it's real, though.
danny de urbina
Yeah.
benny johnson
It certainly doesn't...
alex alx lorusso
The lighting is too good.
alex lorusso
Yeah.
The lighting is way too good.
danny de urbina
Yeah.
alex lorusso
That is not...
That's not it.
benny johnson
Okay.
There's allegedly a mugshot that is traveling around of our strawberry king.
And it's fake.
It's completely fake.
Don't believe it.
Some of the larger accounts are sharing it.
Don't believe it.
Different tie.
Unless Donald Trump changed the tie in the car.
No.
unidentified
No.
benny johnson
Thanks, team.
Again, we just absolutely have the greatest producer.
The greatest production team.
The greatest production team here.
We're not going to miss a beat for your strawberry boy.
Strawberry Shortcake.
Is that the character?
Yeah.
It's a cartoon?
alex lorusso
Strawberry Shortcake.
benny johnson
Alright, good.
Alright, ladies and gentlemen.
We just got confirmation.
Jenna Ellis, who epically changed...
Is that the motorcade movie?
No.
alex lorusso
Might be, actually.
unidentified
It looks like it.
danny de urbina
Those are a lot of cars.
alex lorusso
Yep.
It is.
Yep.
benny johnson
Really?
Okay.
Ladies and gentlemen, Jenna Ellis, who was booked at the Fulton County Jail and changed her cover image epically to her mugshot, will be joining the program soon.
Now, the motorcade is moving!
And here we go.
All right.
We got Trump.
We got Trump strawberries.
We got a sweet strawberry.
The street strawberries filling the comment section.
The strawberry blondes.
They listed him as strawberries.
alex lorusso
From an orange to a strawberry.
benny johnson
Orange and strawberry.
The sweet strawberry king.
Street strawberry MAGA king.
Yes, yes, ladies and gentlemen.
So the motorcade is moving.
The strawberry man.
alex lorusso
Looks like we got Jenna on.
benny johnson
Ladies and gentlemen, here we go.
So, we have Jenna Ellis on.
She is ready to go.
And she can fill us in.
Hey, Jenna, how are you?
unidentified
Hey, Benny.
Well, I'm not at the jail, so, you know, better right now, unfortunately, than Donald Trump.
I cannot believe they are putting him through this.
It is just absolutely absurd.
benny johnson
So, this, I mean, again, this looks like an incredible jail cell that you're in right now, Jenna.
Really.
unidentified
Big background, unfortunately.
benny johnson
Oh, really?
Okay.
unidentified
I wish.
benny johnson
Got it.
Yeah, that's the one they would have given Jeffrey Epstein or Jelaine Maxwell.
So can you talk us through what Donald Trump just went through?
You epically changed your profile picture to your mugshot.
What just happened?
We're all ears.
unidentified
Yeah, so my experience yesterday, it was like something out of a movie, frankly, because you go into the jail and an officer took me in custody down.
A hallway and then through a door that was basically the general population of a bunch of male prisoners that were just out, you know, roaming around in the open.
So it wasn't even like, you know, this was a container.
And there were a ton of jeers and catcalls and some other things.
And the officer who stood by me, I was so appreciative of her because she kept saying, you know, just look straight ahead.
We'll be fine.
You know, just walk through this.
But part of this, it's, I think, intended to intimidate and humiliate everyone who goes through this.
And so led over to the wall where the mugshot is taken.
benny johnson
I'm sorry, Jenna, can I please just stop?
You're joking.
You were in like the public prison yard?
unidentified
Yeah.
benny johnson
Among the prisoner population?
unidentified
Yep, and a fight actually broke out while I was in there, and two guards had to tell me to step back so that they could stop that while I was still in there.
So, I mean, this was something that even as an attorney representing criminal defendants in context, I mean, when I was practicing criminal law in Colorado, I've been into jails before as a lawyer.
Generally speaking, when you go in to see your client, they take you into a room.
There are other rooms that are private.
I've never been into what they call a pod with these general population, but that's what happened.
I mean, they just literally took me through the general population that was mostly, if not all men.
And so, you know, a lot of these like, you know, big guys.
And so thankfully I had a female officer accompanying me, but it was not comfortable.
benny johnson
So they exposed you to a all male prison population that was able to laugh or jeer or complain.
They, like, walked you through that.
That is disgraceful.
unidentified
It's like, I mean, literally, and this is not hyperbole or exaggeration to say that, you know, those scenes in the movies where there's an officer and they're, you know, they're taking the person down this hallway and there's, like, people in the cells.
Beside you that, you know, that are jeering at you and kind of like, you know, trying to get at you and whatever.
That was also part of this before I even went into the pod area that was the general population.
There were people that were just, you know, throngs of groups of people.
And I was told that the Fulton County Jail is well over capacity.
So they've had, I think, something around 71 deaths occur at the Fulton County Jail because of how horrendous the conditions are there.
But there were just, you know, groups of people that were jeering at the at the doors by the windows.
They were saying words to me that I would not repeat ever and much less in present company.
And that's where the mugshots are taken.
And so I anticipate that all of my fellow co-defendants would have that same experience unless there's more than one place that they take.
These mugshot photos.
But that gray background is what's in at least where I was in the sort of general population area.
And that was the first step, was to take the mugshot.
And, you know, and I've gotten a lot of both lauding and criticism from, you know, of course, depending on who it is, for smiling in my mugshot.
And for me, it was just a moment of saying, you know, the left wants to break us.
They want to intimidate us.
And for me, this was just a moment to say...
You're not going to do that to me.
You're not going to have the satisfaction of breaking me or seeing me in any way bothered.
I am confident.
I'm innocent.
And this is absolutely ridiculous.
And so I smiled simply because I have joy in the Lord.
And no matter what happens, my eternity is secure.
And Benny, I have to tell you, I love that you post scripture so often.
I follow you on social media.
And so much of what you post is so encouraging to everyone who knows and trusts the Lord.
So thank you for that.
But this is all genuine.
My faith is not new to me.
I've been a Christian my entire life.
I've, of course, grown in my faith.
But this, to me, is just the next thing that God has me walking through.
And he has been by me every step of the way.
And so, you know, this is just simply who I am.
And I wasn't going to look upset or bothered or anything else.
So I hope that President Trump smiles in his mugshot, too.
benny johnson
Oh, man, Jenna, this is just incredible.
First off, ladies and gentlemen, get Jenna to one million followers.
This is crazy.
She is just a handful away from one million followers.
Let's get Jenna to a million.
Greatest, greatest avatar on all of X, I would argue.
Greatest avatar on all of X. So what happens, like, so, okay.
You took this photo and you said in your mind, you must have thought through this, I'm not going to look like somebody who's miserable.
I'm going to instead smile.
And what was your thought process?
What did you want to reflect to the world?
What did you want to tell the world through this smiling mugshot?
unidentified
Yeah, just that we already have the victory.
And, you know, like my...
My former client before me, Pastor John MacArthur, and I know you covered that story when I was representing John MacArthur and Grace Community Church during the COVID shutdowns in the state of California and Los Angeles County, where they were, he was at the time an 84-year-old pastor who was being threatened with imprisonment simply for opening his church.
He met that challenge, and he ultimately, thankfully, wasn't arrested.
He never had to go through that, but he didn't know that at the time.
And he simply said, well, you know what?
Then I'll have a jail ministry.
Fine by me.
I mean, I'm standing for the truth, and I believe in the sovereignty of God, and I will face this challenge saying, what does the Lord have for me next?
And so he was actually my inspiration.
I've been in contact with him.
In fact, he texted me, and I'll pull this up really quick because what he said was just really sweet, and I just, I love and respect John MacArthur so much.
And he said, in response to this mugshot, he said, your smile is the testimony of a clear conscience, a true heart, and a calm spirit.
And I think that's an amazing description.
benny johnson
So you said, I'm not going to let you break me.
That's what you were thinking with that mugshot.
Because it is, without question, that is the most viral of all the mugshots.
I'm not sure if we'll get Donald Trump's mugshot, but that one kicked off.
And I'm so glad that you made it your profile picture.
unidentified
Yeah.
Yeah, well, and why not?
Because, you know, what I saw through a lot of people that covered the story, I mean, I didn't really think it would go viral.
That wasn't my intention to, you know, make this some kind of novel statement at all.
It was just, to me, if I'm going to have to go through this, I'm going to go through this with grace.
And I'm going to go through this with as much compassion for those who are persecuting me.
In fact, the officers who are at the jail, the sheriffs, they're doing their job.
They were very kind.
They and I actually thanked them at the end.
I said, you know, thank you so much for and especially the one who stood right by me through the whole thing.
I thanked her.
And, you know, she she told me that she's been there at the Fulton County Jail for about 17 years.
And, you know, so that's that's her life and her job.
And I don't think she ever expected this kind of emphasis on their particular jail.
So, you know, that's what the Lord calls us to as Christians is to.
To provide that kind of respect, even for the people who are tasked, unfortunately, with participating in this giant disaster that is weaponizing the government.
It is attempting to criminalize the practice of law, in my case and in the other lawyers' case.
And so I simply wanted to represent a...
True and faithful Christian, what I believe an officer of the court should embody and represent.
And so I saw all of this coverage of that mugshot that later, once I got my phone back and everything else, it had already gone viral.
And our good friend Robbie Starbuck was actually the first person to text me a picture of it.
And he said something like, wow, this is great.
And then when I finally logged back into Twitter, it had gone viral.
And so seeing all this coverage and saying, you know, some of the headlines were like, this is the face of courage.
This is how to have confidence in the midst of trials.
I just thought, you know what?
If that's encouraging other people to stand up for the truth, then I'm going to make that my profile picture and just say, if this is what people are seeing through this picture and through my countenance, then...
Bring it on.
And I'm going to have this as my profile picture to hopefully just inspire other people to simply stand up and don't let the bullying and intimidation and the sheer evil of what goes on in our world get to you.
benny johnson
Yes.
I mean, I don't want to dive too far into the apostles here, but jail was a common place for early Christians.
Jail was a place and persecution was a place that often the Christian faith suffered inside of the walls surrounding the earliest apostles, surrounding Christ himself.
I do not know.
I do not know if...
Sorry, it's looking...
Someone's circulating something that looks pretty legit as a Trump mugshot.
I just want to check to make sure of it.
If this is or not real.
But if you are persecuted, you're promised, one, in the Gospels that you're going to be persecuted for doing the right things in life.
And if you are persecuted, you should find joy in that.
And I think that's why your mugshot so resonated with people, especially people of faith.
What happens next, Jenna?
unidentified
I hope, yeah, I hope it does.
And before I get to that question, just on what you said as far as the Christian history, I mean, we do have a long tradition of Christians being in contradiction with the world and a false worldview that is always in an adversarial posture toward the truth.
And so there's always that tension.
And that's why the scripture promises.
That for those of us who stand up for the truth, we will be in that constant tension.
And we've seen, not only in scripture, but throughout world history, how Christians who have stood up for the truth have been persecuted in one form or another.
And it's not to measure anyone's...
Challenges, comparison to anyone else's, because people go through trials and heartache that nobody ever knows, that it's not on a national scale, it's not in a viral mugshot like mine, but at the same time, this is also why prominent Christians throughout history give us examples of how we need to face the trials in our lives,
and that's why in Hebrews chapter 11 and 12, we're given what the Bible describes, the author of Hebrews says, as the great cloud of witnesses that have come before us, because having faith, It's not just believing in God like we would believe in Santa Claus.
Faith is believing in the promises of God, that his word is true, that truth is the personification of Jesus Christ and his gospel and the salvation that we can have through faith in him, that he came literally in human form, died for us, and rose again three days later, and we have that promise.
And if we believe that he is Lord and confess...
And so if we believe in the promises of God, we will act on those promises.
That's what faith is.
And that's why our founders in the First Amendment enumerated this right that we have, not just to believe or to worship, but to exercise.
That is faith.
Faith is action.
And that's why the Apostle Paul says that faith without works is dead.
Why?
Because you can't just believe.
We can all just say what we think, but we will live and act what we truly believe.
So faith is genuinely acting on...
What we believe to be true about God and what we believe to be true about the reality to which we're presented.
And so then the author of Hebrews goes on to say in Hebrews 12, so therefore, since we're surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, people have come before us who have believed and acted.
That's all Hebrews 11, is these are the people who believed, they acted, they believed, they acted, they had faith.
Then we can run our race with confidence, looking to Jesus as the author and perfecter of our faith.
And so I want to run my race.
Whatever God has for me, that's all that I can do.
That's all that any of us can do as Christians is to run our race with endurance and look to Jesus.
So what comes next was your question, Benny.
Well, what comes next is, like the Apostle Paul before me, take advantage of all of my legal options.
And I'm very confident in my counsel.
I'm confident I will be vindicated because I am innocent of these charges.
And I will be exercising every possible legal...
Option that I have to challenge this ridiculous indictment.
benny johnson
So, what is the effect that this is going to have on the legal profession?
I asked Mike Davis this earlier.
I know you know Mike.
I know the Republican legal circles are quite small.
You're criminalizing your profession now, effectively, right?
It's similar to what they're doing with various lawsuits against media organizations.
They're criminalizing the free speech that drives my profession.
They're criminalizing your profession.
Am I wrong there?
unidentified
100%.
You're correct.
They are attempting to criminalize the practice of law that if you, on behalf of a client, petition the government for redress, you exercise the right to challenge.
Election outcomes, then that somehow means that you are part of a criminal organization or criminal enterprise or that you have had criminal conduct.
What this will do is have a chilling effect on the practice of law.
And I saw that already contemporaneously with the election challenges in 2020.
There were lawyers.
Who said, I can't do this.
I'm getting death threats.
I'm getting intimidation tactics that are being leveled against me.
I'm getting all of these threats from my employers or from bar associations.
I've personally had, I think it's somewhere up to like 50 different bar complaints.
That are attempting to disbar me and literally take away my ability to practice law, simply because my former client was Donald Trump, was their political opponent.
And so this goes well beyond Donald Trump, because this is not just about one person.
This is about the left systematically trying to destroy institutions that are in place for our protection and our liberty.
I mean, you mentioned journalism.
That's what they're trying to do with all of these intimidation tactics against James O 'Keefe, our good friend.
And again, like you, Benny, this is what they're trying to do to parents in school board meetings, putting them on domestic terrorism watch lists is what they're doing to pastors who want to stand up for pro-life messages.
They're getting raided by the FBI.
I mean, this is so much bigger than just Trump.
And I don't care who anybody supports in a Republican primary.
First of all, anybody who thinks that they want to run this country effectively and return us to the foundations of liberty in the Constitution.
Should be openly and in the strongest of terms condemning what is happening right now, today, to Donald Trump and to everyone else.
And if they're not willing to say that about Donald Trump just because he's their political opponent, then they don't deserve the office of the President of the United States.
But we all have to realize this isn't just Trump because he's the tip of the spear or he has been the head of the party or because he's polling the highest right now.
If it's not him...
Then it's going to be everybody else and it already is everyone else.
And so I stand shoulder to shoulder with my fellow Americans, conservatives and Christians and parents and pastors who are being targeted by a weaponized system.
This cannot stand if we want liberty to prevail and persist in this country.
benny johnson
You're so right about the multi-pronged approach here.
It really is.
They are truly going after everything that undergirds our American society, whether it be the family or the church or the politicians who wish to represent us.
And I would like to note that on screen here, of course, we have live, I assume that the fixation on this SUV means that Donald Trump is inside of it, and Donald Trump has exited these SUVs and given comments before, like he did in Washington, D.C. Jenna, hold on, we have some movement here.
I did want to note, as we were here in a holding pattern, you do have a give-send-go.
I'm looking at it right here.
It is pinned to the top of your Twitter feed.
Can you please explain how people can support you in your fight?
unidentified
Thank you so much.
I am not a person of personal wealth, and so I appreciate everyone who is supporting me and standing by me through this and praying for me and also helping support my defense.
It is very costly to defend something like this.
And so my website is givesendgo.com forward slash support Jenna.
And also our good friend Hermit Dillon also has an advocacy defense fund at libertycenter.org as well.
benny johnson
Just a second.
Just a moment.
We're getting audio.
donald j trump
If you challenge an election, you should be able to challenge an election.
I thought the election was a rigged election, a stolen election.
And I should have every right to do that.
As you know, you have many people that you've been watching over the years do the same thing, whether it's Hillary Clinton or Stacey Abrams or many others.
When you have that great freedom to challenge, you have to be able to.
Otherwise, you're going to have very dishonest elections.
It's taken place here as a travesty of justice.
We did nothing wrong.
I did nothing wrong.
And everybody knows it.
I've never had such support.
And that goes with the other ones, too.
What they're doing is election interference.
They're trying to interfere with an election.
There's never been anything like it in our country before.
This is their way of campaigning.
And this is one instance, but you have three other instances.
It's election interference.
So I want to thank you for being here.
We did nothing wrong at all.
And we have every right, every single right, to challenge an election that we think is dishonest, that we think is very dishonest.
So thank you all very much, and I'll see you very soon.
Thank you very much.
benny johnson
Okay, we're going to listen in, see if Donald Trump accepts any questions.
It doesn't look like it.
It looks like President Trump is walking to the stairs and out of sort of bounds of where any reporter could ask a question.
One of the questions was, did Donald Trump pardon himself?
Does Donald Trump potentially have a pocket blanket pardon?
Maybe Jenna would know.
Does Donald Trump have a pocket pardon that he could potentially execute in these situations?
unidentified
Not that I'm aware of.
I guess that is totally possible.
Wouldn't that be an interesting twist to this whole narrative?
benny johnson
Yes.
I've heard rumors.
I've heard rumors and rumblings.
And I'm relatively close with people who know things about things, but, you know, who knows?
We're not sure.
We're not exactly sure.
Ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump has boarded the plane.
Am I wrong?
Yeah.
Donald Trump has boarded the plane.
Okay.
So now I just want to put this up on screen.
This is, Royce, let's pop up Jenna Ellis' give, send, go here.
I want everyone to go and support Jenna Ellis and her legal defense fund.
This is the correct one.
This is the one that you have posted.
Yes, okay.
Yes, thank you.
And also, make sure that you are praying.
This is a spiritual battle.
There are demons.
Demons are real.
But also angels are real.
And we can call on angels.
We can move mountains.
And we can obviously support our fellow Christians and our fellow patriots who are fighting.
And Jenna is one of them.
Jenna, thank you so much for taking time out of your precious schedule to join us and to explain what just happened.
I'm so sorry that that happened to you.
And we are here to support you.
unidentified
Thank you so much, Benny, and thank you for your friendship over the years and your support now.
This has been a very clarifying moment to see who my true friends are, and you're one of them, and I sincerely appreciate you.
Thank you.
benny johnson
Well, enjoy that Chick-fil-A.
I did see you.
unidentified
Yes.
benny johnson
All right.
Thank you, Jenna.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are again going to hop back to our shot of the plane.
Donald Trump is aboard the plane.
We do not want to bring you fake news.
So I want to begin by saying, yes, ladies and gentlemen, I am about to show you what we believe is Donald Trump's mugshot.
Why am I not showing it to you immediately?
Our team has been ravenously checking online to see if this is the real mugshot.
Why am I showing this to you now?
Because what we believe happened is that this was a leak from inside of the courthouse.
Of the actual, real mugshot.
Our team has been searching like crazy.
And so I'm giving this image to you, the mugshot image, quote unquote, of President Trump.
Now, this image does match what Donald Trump was wearing, unlike the last fake one.
This image does match the camera quality and look.
Of other mugshots.
And this image does look like it was taken from a mobile phone of a computer screen inside of the courthouse.
I'm going to zoom in here on our strawberry orange.
danny de urbina
There's that strawberry hair.
benny johnson
Our orange strawberry.
As was listed.
We're not trying to make fun of it.
You'll either laugh or you'll cry.
So, this is it.
Is it?
I suppose we will wait and see.
However...
This is what Donald Trump was wearing, and this does look like it matches the quality of the photographs.
This, however, is a report that we received.
The mugshots will be released tomorrow at 4 o 'clock.
So what does that mean?
I suppose that means we'll have to wait and see whether we have been duped or not.
Again, I'm doing my best.
I would never lie to you, knowingly.
I'm doing my best to preface where this image comes from.
ALX.
Danny.
I guess Danny is still online.
ALX hopped off to go ravenously search for this thing.
Do we have any confirmation from any official media companies that this is real?
Or from any official sources?
danny de urbina
Yeah, so far just getting shared around all over Twitter.
X now.
But it does seem to be someone within the jail who took a picture of a picture off a computer screen.
So it seems that's what's circulating at the moment.
But again, it does match what we saw him wearing when he walked off the plane, that red power tie, the blue suit.
So it looks like it very possibly could be.
But of course, we can't confirm that until we get that directly from the jail.
benny johnson
Okay.
All right, ladies and gentlemen.
We have the mugshot.
Perhaps.
Perhaps.
Our team is good.
And we have a...
It looks like the comment section is going nuts.
Some people saying it's real, some people saying it's fake.
Our team is very good.
My team is allowing me to put this up.
They would never allow me to put this up were this 100% verifiably fake.
We believe that what happened and what often happens in these moments, we believe, That somebody may have leaked this photo from inside of the courthouse.
That's what we think.
We are loading up Donald Trump's comments.
We think that it's worthy of us effectively replaying them as Donald Trump's plane begins its taxi down the runway.
Again, the presumed Donald Trump strawberry blonde photo.
Down in the corner.
We'll see if this plays out, ladies and gentlemen.
But we are going to load up Donald Trump's comments.
We're going to play them back for you.
Sometimes there's so much news that happens so quickly, you want sort of a refresh.
Donald Trump did not face any of the leftist protesters or any of the positive protesters in front of the courthouse there in Atlanta.
Donald Trump...
Ladies and gentlemen, stopped and spoke to the cameras and was defiant.
He looked good.
He looked defiant.
He looked sharp.
And he said that I have a right to free speech.
I have a constitutional right to contest an election.
And as his plane sits on the tarmac, again, of course we would never...
We would never not show news, but as they prepare to take off once more, ladies and gentlemen, here is Donald Trump approaching his plane and speaking to us.
The only time that he actually did that in this trip.
Let's watch.
donald j trump
Thank you very much for being here.
I really believe this is a very sad day for America.
This should never happen.
If you challenge an election, you should be able to challenge an election.
I thought the election was a rigged election, a stolen election.
And I should have every right to do that.
As you know, you have many people that you've been watching over the years do the same thing, whether it's Hillary Clinton or Stacey Abrams or many others.
When you have that great freedom to challenge, you have to be able to.
Otherwise, you're going to have very dishonest elections.
What has taken place here is a travesty of justice.
We did nothing wrong.
I did nothing wrong.
And everybody knows it.
I've never had such support.
And that goes with the other ones, too.
What they're doing is election interference.
They're trying to interfere with an election.
There's never been anything like it in our country before.
This is their way of campaigning.
And this is one instance, but you have three other instances.
It's election interference.
So I want to thank you for being here.
We did nothing wrong at all.
And we have every right, every single right.
To challenge an election that we think is dishonest, that we think it's very dishonest.
So thank you all very much and I'll see you very soon.
Thank you very much.
unidentified
Mr. President, as elected, did you pardon yourself?
Mr. President, Mr. President, I was just given from the previous, sorry, that statement.
service so so
benny johnson
thanks okay great great Ladies and gentlemen, again, very interesting.
Donald Trump's plane is beginning its taxi on the runway.
Of course, the entire airport shuts down, just like the entire city shuts down when Donald Trump moves.
This has been a quick, quick execution here.
Danny D 'Urbina has what might be Donald Trump's mugshot.
A little bit of confusion.
There was just a notification sent out on Truth Social, which is, of course, Donald Trump's platform.
That his mugshot had been released, but then it was retracted.
What's going on there, Alux?
alex lorusso
So, I didn't actually get to click on the notification quick enough, but I am seeing that somebody actually, so they're comparing the screenshots of one of the other co-defendants and there's a mark on the wall on the top left corner.
And it seems to match the one in the one that's floating around.
But the issue is, like you said, it appears that somebody took a picture of the screen before they officially, you know, processed it and released it on the website.
So that's leading to confusion because a lot of people aren't publishing, like news agencies wouldn't publish it unless it's published by the jail first.
benny johnson
Got it.
alex lorusso
So perhaps Team Trump.
Posted the screenshot one, and they're waiting for the official one to be released by the jail.
And I've tried the jail's website, and it's completely down.
But that one does look legit, though.
And like I said, it looks like there's a mark on the wall on the top left-hand corner that's the same as one of the co-defendants that were booked as well today.
So it looks like this one might be legit.
benny johnson
Okay, alright.
Well, it's the best that we got right now.
It also looks very much like Donald Trump's presidential portrait.
Am I wrong?
alex lorusso
Oh yeah, for sure.
benny johnson
What I mean is it's the same expression, right?
He has a...
Yeah, that's right.
Like, he has this very specific expression when he's taking an alpha photo, and this looks a lot like his...
a lot like his...
photograph as...
The portrait for his presidential portrait, United States of America.
Very similar vibe.
alex lorusso
Oh yeah, for sure.
And I think it's a great photo if it is legit.
I like the energy there.
It's very defiant.
benny johnson
Yeah, I like it too.
Hot damn, man.
We're going to have that on a t-shirt tomorrow.
We're going to have that one on a t-shirt tomorrow.
The outlaw president.
That's a fake, yeah.
The outlaw president rolling through.
So, we have learned that they think that Donald Trump's hair is strawberry.
We have seen Donald Trump say a couple of words to the cameras.
There is his plane taxis.
Defiant.
Oh, got dark in Atlanta all of a sudden.
Okay.
Defiant And Seemingly In A good Spree de corps Right Because he wouldn't be Talking to the cameras He wouldn't be Taking mug shots Like this I think it's a great Mug shot Actually He wouldn't be Doing this If he wasn't In a Happy mood Yeah, for sure.
alex lorusso
And I did hear...
So I remember during the first indictment, the first arrest, remember they had the little party with dinner and music out on the patio before the first arrest.
And they were actually excited to get a mugshot, and they wanted a mugshot.
unidentified
Really?
alex lorusso
They were actually denied that in the first one.
And yeah, I forgot which publication came out with the article, but they said that he was blasting Elvis and Phantom of the Opera and everything, and that his team was excited for the mugshot.
So that was the first arrest the night before that.
And so, yeah, I think you would jump on...
Any opportunity to get one, just because what we've all discussed, it's a tangible piece of something that people can relate to and say that this is real.
Obviously, we've seen them in the past, but you get the courtroom sketch and then just a camera outside the courtroom, but a mugshot really solidifies it.
And a lot of people who feel that they've been treated unjustly by the criminal justice system or whatever can...
Kind of relate directly to that because, you know, he's become a political prisoner and, you know, it's going to become an image to rally behind.
So I think it's going to be insane.
benny johnson
Well, I mean, I got to tell you, it does look, it looks real to me.
It looks like what he would do.
The vibe is what I believe Donald Trump's mugshot would look like.
And so the best that you can do, I guess, effectively is guess until it is officially released, but I believe this is real.
I believe it's real.
Yep.
And that's a damn good mugshot.
I was hoping it wouldn't be all blurry and Trump would be making a different face.
I was hoping he'd be making a face like this.
danny de urbina
This will be the most widely viewed photograph in the history of mugshots, I believe.
benny johnson
Correct.
alex lorusso
Quite interesting.
I'm now seeing the post from Nick Sordor that says that it's not going to be released until tomorrow.
benny johnson
The official one.
alex lorusso
The ones that have blown up on social media are fake, it says.
I don't know if that includes the one that we're discussing, but this was just posted a few minutes ago.
benny johnson
Okay.
Alright.
I suppose we'll see.
I do like this one, though.
I hope this is it.
Alright, so what we saw last, I mean, this has been a wild 24 hours.
I mean, I guess in Trump world, this is just par for the course, but we saw Donald Trump getting millions and millions and millions of views last night on the Tucker, I mean, views that you can't even calculate, right?
So, like, that interview was then taken and repurposed on YouTube and repurposed on Rumble and put all over, and that thing has been viewed so many times.
And he absolutely dominated a debate that he wasn't even in.
alex lorusso
Oh yeah, for sure.
benny johnson
How is that possible?
alex lorusso
Yeah, and this isn't the first time he's done it too.
If you remember back in 2016, we kind of talked about this a little last night when he had the beef with Fox News.
He skipped one of the Fox News debates and held a rally.
I think it ended up being a veterans benefit or something like that, like fundraise for veterans.
But this isn't the first time he skipped a debate.
And that was...
I'm not even sure if he was the frontrunner at the time.
Ben Carson might have been in front of him at the time.
So, you know, he...
That's the...
It just shows how strong of a candidate he is that he can skip the debate and still, you know, be the topic of discussion there.
And, you know, doesn't really need to...
Give the time to the little ankle biters pulling at 1% and become a punching bag for them and potentially a little fundraising message.
So I kind of agree with him to skip the first couple, but I think it will be beneficial to him as the debate stage shrinks down to five or six candidates.
I think it will be kind of like a CNN town hall moment where he can sharpen his teeth and really dig into the other candidates that are giving him trouble.
benny johnson
So, Danny, not too far from where you live is a place called the Kennedy Center.
And a couple of months ago, a guy named Chris Rock, who's arguably one of the most famous comedians to ever walk the earth, stood in front of that Kennedy Center and said, you guys are going to turn him into Tupac.
He's going to sell more records.
You're going to make him, by arresting him, you're going to make him rapper.
And now Donald Trump has, of course, retained rapper attorneys to fight this battle from Atlanta.
What do you think, Danny?
They're going to turn him into Tupac?
Is this going to have that effect?
Is Chris Rock correct?
danny de urbina
I think it's going to be a total backfire.
We always talk about the weaponization of the judicial system, but this really encapsulates what that is.
By taking this mugshot, by booking him into a prison for the fourth time at this point, they are really turning him into a political prisoner.
I think it's going to totally backfire, especially when you see For example, Joe Biden, it's his DOJ who's indicting Trump.
And not in this scenario, but there's three others.
And his DOJ is indicting the former president.
And we're seeing, for example, Joe Biden really pushed for those crack laws.
And Hunter Biden's just literally posting it on his laptop.
It's all over the Internet and nothing happens.
And so I think you're going to see a really big backfire going on where it's like, hold up.
We've had, you know, this is not the country we grew up in.
And I think it's, yeah, I think it's going to totally backfire.
benny johnson
Ladies and gentlemen, we are awaiting Donald Trump's plane.
Again, as you can see, Donald Trump's plane there on the tarmac.
We're clicking through all of our other shots.
Donald Trump is awaiting takeoff and, oh, there, uh-oh.
Looks like they just cut the feed.
Okay, alright.
Hey, let's go back.
I have to show everyone a couple of important things.
Let's pop back over here.
So, ladies and gentlemen, again, they called Donald Trump strawberry.
They said his hair was strawberry.
Okay?
Now, for your viewing pleasure, we asked AI to create Strawberry Trump.
And this is what AI has done.
AI has created Strawberry Trump.
This is Trump with strawberry hair, according to AI.
This is an exclusive photograph.
We do not know when this was taken.
It looks like somewhat recently.
This might have been the dinner with ALX, where ALX was wearing poop socks.
Also an epic photo.
Strawberry Trump.
AI.
There you go.
Here's our strawberry.
Can I get strawberries in the comment section, please, for our strawberry king?
alex lorusso
The dessert at our dinner was actually...
Three scoops of vanilla ice cream, both times, and little dishes around our massive bowl of ice cream, and it was all toppings that you could put on, like cookies, whatever.
So we did have ice cream, but no strawberries.
benny johnson
Okay.
So we have...
So apparently the comment section's losing it right now, according to Ashley.
Another absolutely wonderful meme maker on our team.
Look at this, ladies and gentlemen.
unidentified
Look.
benny johnson
Have a look.
You're a strawberry king.
danny de urbina
You're Chef Trump.
Let him cook.
benny johnson
Sorry.
This one's going to send me.
unidentified
Oh my god!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I can't!
benny johnson
The angry little face.
Oh, it's great!
danny de urbina
Is that Janet Yellen?
unidentified
I love it.
benny johnson
I just love it.
Oh, our Strawberry King.
Sweet Strawberry Trump.
Sweet Strawberry Trump.
Ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump's plane is still taxiing.
We got you.
danny de urbina
Is that the new MAGA hat?
benny johnson
I love this one.
What a great thing to wear in your head.
What do you think, boys?
Are those edible?
unidentified
I don't know.
These are good.
alex lorusso
We'll get more.
benny johnson
We'll get more for tomorrow's show.
alex lorusso
She might accidentally eat the mushrooms in China again.
benny johnson
Yes, this looks delicious.
Let me see.
I see strawberries.
I can see the comments here.
The strawberries are flooding the comments section.
If you just happen to join us, the reason why we're doing this is because they listed Donald Trump's hair as strawberry in his court booking official documents.
That we do have.
That we do have.
Strawberry lives matter, says David Leatherwood.
David himself is a bit of a strawberry.
Our resident strawberry.
Hop on the feed.
We got room for David.
David's finally up.
We've been waiting for David.
There he is.
danny de urbina
There he is.
benny johnson
Okay, so, David, do Strawberry Lives matter?
unidentified
You know, some people say that we don't have souls, but it's not true.
Strawberry Lives do matter.
Ginger Lives matter.
You know, as the Team Benny resident, Strawberry Blonde, I have to represent for Donald Trump.
I think it's hilarious, and these memes are absolutely hysterical.
The wonders of AI, right?
benny johnson
The wonders of AI?
I mean, you say AI.
I don't know.
These look much more real than Donald Trump's mugshot.
danny de urbina
Is this the one that Fallen County Jail leaked?
benny johnson
This is the leak.
This is the mugshot.
Yes, that's right.
David, in your...
Twitter cover profile.
You're wearing an outfit quite similar to this.
unidentified
Dude, his pink jacket is on point.
I mean, he's looking great in that pink jacket.
The Strawberry King.
danny de urbina
He's pulling it off.
unidentified
He's looking tasty.
benny johnson
Okay, hold on.
Hold on.
unidentified
Whoa, whoa, the live feed.
benny johnson
The live feed.
Here we go.
Sorry, guys.
Sorry, boys.
Here we go.
Popping on.
There we go.
That's the jet taking off.
We've been watching.
It's been taxing for minutes on end.
And there you go.
It just took off.
alex lorusso
There we go.
Trump force one.
benny johnson
Just took off.
There it is.
The sweet strawberry king.
In his strawberry...
alex lorusso
Pretty quick looking.
benny johnson
That was.
What is it?
842 Eastern Standard Time?
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
alex lorusso
It was in and out.
danny de urbina
I wonder if they're watching the plane from the plane again.
benny johnson
Ladies and gentlemen.
Ladies and gentlemen.
One of our intrepid video experts has just said that CNN has confirmed that this is the mugshot.
This is the mugshot.
So what you see there in the corner, joining the live, effectively, behind Danny DeArbina, or in the corner next to David, that is officially our Strawberry King.
unidentified
Yep.
He looks.
danny de urbina
He looks.
unidentified
On CNN's page.
Don't be proud of us.
benny johnson
We will put up...
Of course, we will never show you anything without directing you to the source.
And again, consider the source.
However, we can show you here the article.
And I will bring you the article right here.
Okay, ladies and gentlemen, this is CNN.com.
This is CNN covering...
And then Donald Trump's mugshot has been released, CNN says.
So this is...
Boom.
There it is.
unidentified
Boom.
benny johnson
Let's pop on over.
Stop giving CNN page views.
Here we go.
Boom.
There it is.
There's the little decal and everything.
This is it.
This is now officially it.
I mean, right?
Like, the reason why is not because we care or trust about CNN.
It's just that CNN has lawyers.
And they've already been sued by Nick Sandman enough times, and they're going to wait for the official shot.
David, what do you think?
What do you think?
This is better than I thought it'd ever be.
I thought they'd try and screw it up and make him not look cool.
This looks effing awesome.
unidentified
He looks so bad.
He looks so mean.
He looks so tough.
He looks like a badass, like certified.
I mean...
That's our president of the United States.
I mean, it's just, we've all been, you know, it's been so hyped up, right?
Like, we've all been waiting for this moment.
So we had the first indictment, and it was like, is he going to get a mugshot?
No mugshot.
Then it was like, the second indictment, no mugshot.
Third indictment.
You know, then finally, fourth indictment.
Of course, it's good old Fannie Willis down in Georgia is going to give us our mugshot.
And it's finally here.
This is the moment.
And I got to say, it pays off.
Like, it fulfills the expectations.
He looks so cool.
benny johnson
He does.
Danny, is this your new wallpaper?
danny de urbina
It's currently getting made.
I think we're going to plaster.
I think this is a main wall right here.
It's just going to be all the Trump mugshot.
I'm definitely getting a teacher with this.
This is badass.
benny johnson
Based.
So now I guess we can say it.
We can say it.
This is the official mugshot.
We were right.
We were right.
We were cautious.
We didn't want to lie to you, but we were right.
There it is.
alex alx lorusso
Just screams retribution.
benny johnson
It does.
It absolutely does.
Speaking of screaming retribution, ladies and gentlemen, we've brought you...
We wanted to sort of limit what we played for media here and let the event stand for itself.
Give a little bit of a commentary on cultural Marxism up front and then about us marching forward.
However, there is a Trump who has been on television while we were doing this broadcast.
His name is Donald Trump Jr.
And he has been commenting on what's happening to his father not too far down the road.
Donald Trump Jr. at his home in Florida commenting on his father's booking in Georgia.
And so we thought that this would be pertinent for you to watch and see.
unidentified
With every indictment because the American people understand what it means.
They understand it's abject nonsense.
They understand that if the Democrats and the people in power in the Uniparty can do this to Donald Trump, someone with billions of dollars to defend himself, a huge platform, half the country by his side, they can do it to anyone.
And more importantly, if they'll do it to that guy, they will do it to anyone.
You know, Trump...
They're not after Trump.
They're after all of us.
Trump's just the guy that's stopping it from happening.
And that scares the Republicans in Washington, D.C., the rhinos and the Democrats more than anything, Eric.
eric bolling
And maybe Fox.
And maybe the board at Fox as well.
I will tell you this.
The numbers are in.
Last night's Fox debate, the lowest in their history.
Lower than when they did Fox business debates with your father.
But lowest of any GOP primary debate.
Your father doesn't show up.
Their ratings tank.
They don't let you in.
I guarantee you, Don, I guarantee you if Suzanne Scott, Jay Wallace, or Rupert Murdoch picked up the phone and called Ronna McDaniel and said, let them in, you're in that spin room.
Final thought?
benny johnson
So Donald Trump there was being asked, and we had our clip cut off just a little bit early there.
Donald Trump was asking about being kicked out, effectively, of the Fox News debate last night.
Which is just a bad look.
Bad look.
This was the debate team on.
This is why we look a little bit tired tonight.
This was the debate team on last night.
We were on for three hours.
Guys, this wasn't a great look last night for the RNC or for Fox News.
Am I wrong?
alex lorusso
Kind of reminded me back of...
2016, when the GOP establishment were trying to gatekeep Trump, right down to even the convention when we had certain people even speaking there who were trying to contest and, you know, take votes away from him at the convention and then refusing to back him on stage.
You know, they had no shot.
It just reminds me of those, you know, little sneaky tactics with the GOP establishment back then.
So, yeah, to have the former president's son not be welcome at a GOP event, you know, it just leaves a bad taste in your mouth.
And, you know, we've heard like rumors that Tucker's name was banned from Fox News.
You know, other things like that.
So it just emphasizes the importance of independent media like ours and just like everyone posting on X and independent media on other platforms because we can say what we want.
We can have on who we want.
There are no blacklists.
But a lot of people, you know, they see that and they're like, come on, like Don Jr.?
Really?
They're not going to let the former president son in?
It's just insane.
benny johnson
Yeah, that's exactly right.
I think they were upset because they were getting so destroyed for free on X, actually.
I mean, that's what we saw, right, Danny?
danny de urbina
Oh, yeah.
I mean, if you even compare the top, most viewed television broadcasts and you just look at the interviews, the views on X from the Tucker-Trump interview just eclipse that by 20 million miles.
So I think it was definitely that.
And it's just a bad look, too, when you saw, for example, the RNC.
They're getting a lot of backlash right now because basically the base feels betrayed by them.
And you even saw the base pressure wanted to step down or put someone else in their spot.
And here you have Donald John Trump, who's leading by basically 50 points at this point in the polls.
And he's a leading candidate, and they don't...
They're so bitter that he would not go to their debate that they went as far as to ban surrogates from stepping into the spin room.
I think that tells you a lot about sort of what the apparatus of the RNC looks like.
It's very petty.
And I think that's what the base is sort of pushing back against.
And even their support for Trump is almost like a manifestation of that anger that they feel towards the establishment.
benny johnson
So, the strongest moment last night.
I would argue, was Tucker Carlson saying, "Yo, they're gonna kill ya!" Right?
They're doing everything they can to stop you, and you're not stopping.
And they're gonna kill ya.
This was the moment, and Donald Trump said, "Well, it's all bullshit." Watch.
tucker carlson
The protest didn't work.
You got elected anyway.
Impeachment didn't work twice, obviously.
Indictment is not working.
Your poll numbers go up.
When they raided Mar-a-Lago in August of last year, your numbers went up.
They can indict you 20 times, and you're not going to lose the Republican primary because of that.
donald j trump
Well, it makes it look even more ridiculous.
I mean, the four indictments, and maybe there'll be more.
I don't know.
These people are crazy.
tucker carlson
But they're counterproductive, so if you chart it out, it's an escalation, is what I'm saying.
So what's next?
Trying to put you in prison for the rest of your life, that's not working, so don't they have to kill you now?
donald j trump
I think the people of our country...
Don't get enough credit for how smart they are.
And I'm not sure I would have said this 10 years ago, but they get it, you know?
tucker carlson
They really get it.
donald j trump
When somebody gets indicted, your poll numbers go down.
When somebody gets indicted, you announce, "Ladies and gentlemen, I'll be leaving to spend time with my family and to fight for the rest of my life on this stuff." But you're out of politics.
I got indicted four times.
All trivia, nonsense, bullshit.
It's all bullshit.
It's horrible when you look and you look at what they're doing.
benny johnson
So, David, do you think that Donald Trump will turn this into his new profile picture?
unidentified
Oh my gosh.
When ALX said that he should on Twitter, I lost it because I just imagined that moment of him doing it and it would just break the internet.
The thing is...
Everybody's been on the edge of their seats waiting for Donald Trump to come back on Twitter, which is now X, right?
The platform's changed so much since the last time he was on it.
It has a whole new name now and a new owner, and it's totally, totally different.
And the game has changed on X. And Elon has already said Trump is totally welcome back on X. We're just waiting for him.
And of course, you know, we all know that he's kind of tied up in some contracts on the back end with Truth Social or whatever.
But I think that there still is some wiggle room that, you know, even though he can't post, he could change his profile picture.
And he totally should, because it would just absolutely, it would shake X and it would kind of give the...
The movement, a bit of boost in momentum that we need from him right now.
Because even though he has been so active on true social, there is still that disconnect.
And of course, everybody's screenshotting his true social posts and then posting them on X. But it's still not the same as having Donald Trump on X. I mean, he is arguably the greatest X user of all time.
Even Elon just replied to ALX's Twitter tweet or, I guess, post last night.
Saying he's more than welcome back on the platform.
He has arguably some of the most iconic, legendary, and historical posts on the platform of all time.
So he needs to change his photo.
He needs to change his profile picture to the mugshot.
He's got to do it.
He's got to do it.
benny johnson
Got to do it.
Got to do it.
I think I'm going to go do it.
alex lorusso
We should all just do it.
We're all Trump.
benny johnson
I think I've got to go do it.
Our boy Shaney was out in the field.
Can't sign off without giving a shout out to Shaney.
He was out in the field.
He was asking a question.
Does Donald Trump getting arrested make you want to vote for him even more?
unidentified
Do you support Trump being indicted?
Absolutely not.
Why?
It's a witch hunt.
There's nothing on this man.
I'm going to fully support Donald Trump for 2024, 100%.
I support the mugshot.
Why?
Because that mugshot is going to be worth about a billion dollars.
What do you rate the shirt on a scale of 1 to 10?
I'd say that's probably a 9. I don't like rigors.
alex lorusso
It won't play out.
unidentified
Trump's going to win in 2024, and we're going to look all the better.
benny johnson
Yeah, baby.
All right, boys.
All right, boys.
What's your sign-off?
We've had a great live tonight.
We've got nothing else coming in right now.
And we'll be live tomorrow morning.
What do you want to say to the sweet people?
danny de urbina
Man, what is surreal?
Just taking that all in, Trump walking towards the camera after getting processed, his plane taking off, and now for the fourth time being indicted.
It's a surreal experience.
I think as Americans, we sort of have to regroup and think about what our values are as a nation.
And part of that is not having the law weaponized against your political opponents.
And so I think in 2024, that's going to be a really huge opportunity for us to make that very clear.
I see the comments going off with the Strawberry Army.
unidentified
So Strawberry Army, stay strong.
ALX?
alex lorusso
Yep.
I agree fully with Danny.
It's just so surreal even seeing the processing with all the charges, his name, height, weight, address, everything.
And then even more surreal with Mugshot.
You know, my final message, I guess, would be I really hope tonight he changes his profile picture, makes his first post on X, and it would completely break the internet and probably even top the views that he got with Tucker last night.
And I think it will be the most shared post in history.
unidentified
I could not agree more.
benny johnson
He should use this mugshot as his official presidential photo.
David, what's up, man?
unidentified
I just got to say, this is a historic night where we have witnessed the evolution of one of the most historical figures of our time, the Orange Man, into the Strawberry Man.
It's like a Pokemon evolution.
And this is his new form.
And just from one strawberry to another, I got to say, I'm here for it.
And this was great.
benny johnson
We're going to do one final put up of the...
Of the strawberry.
Let me do one final toss-up of our strawberry.
Here we go.
There you go.
There we go, baby.
Thank you for giving us this.
Thank you, Fulton County.
Thank you, Fulton County.
Strawberries in the comment section.
Throw them up.
Strawberries up in the comment section.
And we have something special for all of you.
We just want to say thank you.
Obviously, it is because of you.
That we are able to do this work because you watch and because you're part of the Benny Brigade and because you support us, we're able to do research into Fannie Willis' background and we're able to prove these people are frauds and we're able to get these images and we're able to get this news information up and out as quickly as possible.
Babies, strawberries up in that comments section.
We care deeply about this country and we want to see it saved.
And that is why we do this.
And that is why we'll continue to do this.
I think we're just getting started here.
And we want to end on a very optimistic note.
A very optimistic note.
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We'll see!
We may make a special edition.
We'll see, ladies and gentlemen, for all of our Strawberry King fans.
Ladies and gentlemen, again, we do this show because we hate communism.
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And with that, our special treat for you, one of our favorite animations of Donald Trump ever, an inspirational moment in American history.
Please enjoy.
donald j trump
If I give you one message to hold in your hearts today, it's this.
Treat the word impossible as nothing more than motivation.
Relish the opportunity to be an outsider because it's the outsiders who change the world and who make a real and lasting difference.
The more that a broken system tells you that you're wrong, the more certain you should be.
unidentified
That you must keep pushing ahead.
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