March 25, 2024 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson
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| We got trounced last night in 2023. | ||
| And I think that we have to have accountability in our party. | ||
| For that matter, Ron, if you want to come on stage tonight, you want to look the GOP voters in the eye and tell them you resign, I will turn over my, yield my time to you. | ||
| And frankly, look, the people there cheering for losing in the Republican Party. | ||
| Think about who's moderating this debate. | ||
| This should be Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, and Elon Musk. | ||
| We'd have 10 times the viewership. | ||
| Asking questions that GOP primary voters actually care about and bringing more people into our party. | ||
| Do you think the Democrats, and we've got Kristen Welker here, do you think the Democrats would actually hire Greg Gutfeld to host a Democratic debate? | ||
| They wouldn't do it. | ||
| And so the fact of the matter is, I mean, Kristen, I'm going to use this time because this is actually about you in the media and the corrupt media establishment. | ||
| Ask you the Trump-Russia collusion hoax that you pushed on this network for years. | ||
| Was that real or was that Hillary Clinton made up disinformation? | ||
| Answer the question. | ||
| Go. | ||
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This is how we get our country back. | |
| We need accountability because this media rigged the 2016 election. | ||
| They rigged the 2020 election with a Hunter Biden laptop story. | ||
| And they're going to rig this election. | ||
| Your time is up. | ||
| Let me turn to Governor Christie. | ||
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Why are you... | |
| Ooh, baby. | ||
| What? | ||
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It's... | |
| It would be something that I would love to take credit for and be like, we did this, but we actually did it together. | ||
| You did this, okay? | ||
| So there's two people that deserve credit for that clip, and that's the most viral clip of the entire 2024 cycle so far, without question. | ||
| That doesn't involve Donald Trump, right? | ||
| And it worked. | ||
| Rana was fired because of that clip and then humiliated. | ||
| In front of her own network, and she was seething about it. | ||
| Furious, raging Rana over that clip, because Vivek went straight at the heart of the problem, which was the RNC going to collusion, Russia collusion hoaxers, anti-Trump hoaxers, and giving them a debate instead of Tucker Carlson. | ||
| Hey, yo, when was the last time Tucker Carlson moderated a debate? | ||
| Like, why not have Tucker Carlson moderate a debate? | ||
| Why is NBC hiring Rana McRomney? | ||
| Republicans don't like her. | ||
| Liberals hate her. | ||
| Like, why would you hire this person? | ||
| Who do you think she represents? | ||
| She doesn't represent anyone. | ||
| She represents herself, and that ultimately, ladies and gentlemen, is the problem. | ||
| The real credit for that clip, the real credit for all that, lies with you. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because you tell me that you hate Ron and McRomney, and you hate the RNC and what they're doing, and you feel betrayed by them, and you feel like they're the party, the uniparty and party of the elites, and so we take that. | ||
| into our circles, and Vivek also deserves the credit. | ||
| He's the guy who listened. | ||
| Yo, we talk about this all the time, day and night, on our program. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| So, Vivek is one of the first guys to, like, call us up and listen. | ||
| He and I are about the same age. | ||
| Maybe that helps. | ||
| And then he delivered it on stage. | ||
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Whew! | |
| Baby! | ||
| Man! | ||
| And it worked! | ||
| So, Ronna McRomney gets fired, and she confirmed that on her first hit on NBC. | ||
| Uh, morning show. | ||
| The NBC Sunday morning show. | ||
| She was trotted out there in spite of NBC's, like, being on fire, set ablaze, right? | ||
| While she was walking out, by the way, an NBC subsidiary, MSNBC, banned her for life from appearing on their airways. | ||
| There's like a whole revolt going on inside of NBC News over the hiring of Rana, which is great. | ||
| First time, I'm like, yep, go for it. | ||
| Go for it. | ||
| I agree with you. | ||
| We agree for different reasons, but I agree with you. | ||
| Ronna McRomney should not be hired there. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, Ronna, first thing she does is admit, yep, it was Donald Trump who said, you're gone. | ||
| You're fired. | ||
| Go. | ||
| Let's dive right into this and start with your decision to step down as RNC chair. | ||
| If you can, take me behind the scenes a little bit. | ||
| Were you pushed out of your role? | ||
| Well, there's no question that, as RNC chair, you have to remain neutral. | ||
| And we had a primary process. | ||
| And so we did have debates, right? | ||
| We had debates. | ||
| And there was tension and a little friction that started during that process. | ||
| It was well played out in the media. | ||
| And I knew at that point, when I was doing that role and we were going to have debates, that when the nominee came forward and it was likely to be President Trump, that they would want to switch. | ||
| And that's his right as nominee. | ||
| And so were you pushed out by him? | ||
| He absolutely wanted me to move aside and wanted Michael Watley and Laura Trump to come in. | ||
| So, good. | ||
| Thank you, Donald Trump. | ||
| So, again, like, this is a movement. | ||
| We're all building it together. | ||
| But Ron McCronney getting booed at her own debate by her own donors? | ||
| That's pretty sound proof. | ||
| That you shouldn't be the RNC chairwoman. | ||
| And also, what's all a soundproof that you shouldn't be RNC chairwoman is when you admit you're not a Republican. | ||
| When you admit it was all fake. | ||
| Which is the final point that we wish to make here. | ||
| We don't want to spend the entire show on this. | ||
| But, like, it's totally worth spending a second on this program and recognizing the power that we have. | ||
| And that your instincts are right. | ||
| And your instincts are God-given. | ||
| And they go down into your core, into your DNA. | ||
| And for years... | ||
| I read the comments on this program. | ||
| I'm reading them right now. | ||
| For years, we... | ||
| You can put up some Ronna... | ||
| Pop up some Ronna comments, please. | ||
| Because this audience is correct. | ||
| You have such great gut instincts, okay? | ||
| You have such great instincts. | ||
| Because for years, this audience told me you hated Ronna McRomney. | ||
| And that you despised her, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
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And that you knew she was fake. | |
| And your instincts were proven right, not because we said so, but because Ronna McDaniel admitted it this weekend. | ||
| Ronna McRomney was asked, I'm working on, not McDaniel, McRomney, okay? | ||
| Ronna McRomney was asked live on TV about a policy issue that virtually all Republicans agree upon. | ||
| Which is that there are insane third world political prosecutions going on for non-violent, peaceful protesters during January 6th. | ||
| And that they've never treated anyone from Antifa like this. | ||
| And they've never treated anyone from BLM like this. | ||
| Yet, here we are, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| And that the J6 political prisoners should be set free. | ||
| As I've always said on this program, if you punched a cop, right? | ||
| Or if you were a hooligan, then you'd... | ||
| You can't do that, right? | ||
| You will suffer punishment and consequences and I will not defend you. | ||
| But if you, if the cops open up the door to the Capitol building and you like wander through with a little 25 cent American flag, then there needs to be some giving the joints there, right? | ||
| Ron McRomney, when asked about this issue, said not only should no J6 political prisoners go free, okay, which is like... | ||
| Whoa! | ||
| Like, actually, extreme when it comes to people who've been paying attention on the right. | ||
| You were RNC chair? | ||
| She was asked about this, and she goes, actually... | ||
| I can't do her accent. | ||
| I can't do... | ||
| It's like a Northern Michigan, like, real... | ||
| Like, it's... | ||
| Oh, this is such an obnoxious accent. | ||
| But... | ||
| And I apologize if you're from Northern Michigan. | ||
| Nothing but love for me, but, like, I can't do it. | ||
| She's like, actually, I've never been a Republican. | ||
| Actually, as RNC chair... | ||
| I had to, like, represent everyone, okay, and do a bunch of stuff I didn't like. | ||
| Now I can be myself. | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| That means you're a liberal and you were fake. | ||
| You were faking being a Republican. | ||
| Listen to her say it. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, if you were to ask me a couple weeks ago about Ronna McRomney, I would have said this. | ||
| But now she's just straight up admitting it. | ||
| And so the truth shall set you free. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| Well, let's talk about the election now. | ||
| Donald Trump says one of his first acts, if he is re-elected to a second term, would be, quote, to free those charged and convicted of crimes related to January 6th. | ||
| Do you support that? | ||
| I want to be very clear. | ||
| The violence that happened on January 6th is unacceptable. | ||
| It doesn't represent our country. | ||
| It certainly does not represent my party. | ||
| We should not be attacking the Capitol. | ||
| We should not be having violence. | ||
| I said it that day. | ||
| I put a statement out that day that this is not acceptable. | ||
| If you attacked our Capitol and you have been... | ||
| And you've been convicted, then that should stay. | ||
| So then, but to the question, though, do you disagree with Trump saying he's going to free those who've been charged to be convicted? | ||
| I do not think people who committed violent acts on January 6th should be freed. | ||
| So you disagree with that? | ||
| He's been saying that for months. | ||
| Ronna, why not speak out earlier? | ||
| Why just speak out about that now? | ||
| When you're the RNC chair, you kind of take one for the whole team, right? | ||
| Now I get to be a little bit more myself, right? | ||
| This is what I believe. | ||
| I don't think violence should be in our political discourse, Republican or Democrat. | ||
| And I disagree with that. | ||
| I agree with him on a whole host of other things. | ||
| Let's close the border. | ||
| Let's make sure we have good incomes for people. | ||
| Let's make sure we do a lot of great things. | ||
| But on that point, I don't think we should be freeing people who violently attacked. | ||
| Capitol Hill police officers and attack the Capitol. | ||
| So Ron Romney saying, I lied. | ||
| I've lied. | ||
| The entire time I was just playing a part. | ||
| I don't believe any of this. | ||
| Now I can be myself. | ||
| Now I get to be me, which is a Romney and a family whose entire legacy is grifting. | ||
| Off of the Republican Party, losing races, costing us seats, and using the Republican Party to enrich themselves and to get famous by doing nothing for the base. | ||
| They're vultures, these people. | ||
| Vultures. | ||
| And so, Ronna Romney is doing exactly what everyone in her family has always done. | ||
| All of her uncles, and all of her grandfathers, and all these people. | ||
| They've always done this and it's time for this cancer to be cut out of the Republican Party. | ||
| What's amazing, by the way, is that I'm in agreement with Chuck Todd, who's the host of Meet the Press, the former host of Meet the Press, who was on right after Rana and just went on a scorched earth tirade against the bosses at NBC News and Rana. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| And I don't want to belabor the point here. | ||
| I just want to prove, you know, I want to prove something. | ||
| You were right. | ||
| It's why the show exists. | ||
| It's why we love you so much. | ||
| It's why we do the show and it's why we're, like, building as, like, animals around here. | ||
| It's why we're building as fast as possible because, like, your instincts are correct. | ||
| You were right about Rana the entire time. | ||
| And we read the comments and we, like, felt the energy. | ||
| From the audience. | ||
| And I don't know, maybe we're the only show that does this. | ||
| We like felt the energy and we like brought that energy to power, to the halls of power. | ||
| Speaking truth to power is really important. | ||
| And so like don't think for a second that like your comment doesn't mean anything. | ||
| Or don't think for a second like you tuning in means nothing to us. | ||
| Are you kidding me? | ||
| Like we love, we love, we love you. | ||
| We love this audience and we're here to hustle and grind and we'll listen to you. | ||
| And then sometimes we can have like a really huge outsized positive effect on the country. | ||
| Like getting Ronna fired. | ||
| Because you called her out as a fraud. | ||
| And a fake. | ||
| And now not even the liberal media can like justify her hiring. | ||
| Chuck Todd straight up being like, why the hell did we hire this person? | ||
| Shame on all of our bosses at NBC News for putting you, Kristen Welker, in this position. | ||
| I've never seen anything like it. | ||
| Check this out. | ||
| Let me deal with the elephant in the room. | ||
| I think our bosses owe you an apology for putting you in this situation. | ||
| Because I don't know what to believe. | ||
| She is now a paid contributor by NBC News. | ||
| I have no idea whether any answer she gave to you was because she didn't want to mess up her contract. | ||
| She wants us to believe that she was speaking for the RNC when the RNC was paying for her. | ||
| So she has credibility issues that she still has to deal with. | ||
| Is she speaking for herself or is she speaking on behalf of who's paying her? | ||
| Once at the RNC, she did say that. | ||
| Hey, I'm speaking for the party. | ||
| I get that. | ||
| That's part of the job. | ||
| So what about here? | ||
| I will say this. | ||
| I think your interview did a good job of exposing, I think, many of the contradictions. | ||
| And look, there's a reason why there's a lot of journalists at NBC News uncomfortable with this, because many of our professional dealings with the RNC over the last six years have been met with gaslighting, have been met with character assassination. | ||
| So it is, you know, that's where you begin here. | ||
| And so when NBC made the decision to give her NBC News's credibility, you got to ask yourself, what does she bring NBC News? | ||
| Gentlemen, we interrupt the show to tell you some breaking news right now. | ||
| The breaking news clip. | ||
| Is that too loud? | ||
| Is it too loud? | ||
| Or is it like... | ||
| Okay, is that breaking news clip too loud? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, we break in to tell you some very good news. | ||
| Should we give this a hallelujah? | ||
| I'm not exactly sure. | ||
| But the New York fraud trial bond that was supposed to bankrupt Donald Trump has been lowered. | ||
| By an extraordinary amount. | ||
| It's still $175 million, which is a huge amount of money. | ||
| But there's a partial stay now on the 11th hour. | ||
| Still a disgrace, says Charlie Kirk. | ||
| Let's go ahead and look over at the breaking news here. | ||
| The New York Times. | ||
| Trump can post smaller bond in civil fraud case court rules. | ||
| And doesn't have to have his properties seized from him. | ||
| Former president must post a bond of $175 million within 10 days as he appeals the $454 million judgment against him. | ||
| And the way this system works is Donald Trump is appealing. | ||
| Donald Trump, all signs show that Donald Trump will win this on appeal, that this is insane policy. | ||
| But the appeals process takes a very long time in the American system, sometimes years. | ||
| And there's a lot of details in this case. | ||
| And so Donald Trump's going to have to post something in order to keep it moving and to not have the state of New York, the Marxists in New York, come in and seize his assets. | ||
| And so this is breaking literally seconds ago. | ||
| Donald Trump will now be able to, it's still unjustifiable, will now be able to post a smaller bond, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| This was a very important sort of context setting by Charlie earlier today. | ||
| We're going to cover this on the program because Donald Trump is on trial in New York this morning. | ||
| He's in the courtroom right now. | ||
| Bernie Madoff had a $10 million bond for orchestrating the largest Ponsai scheme in history, defrauding 40,000 investors of billions. | ||
| Sam Bankman fraud, $250 million bond for defrauding thousands of crypto investors out of billions of dollars to finance donations to Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans. | ||
| Donald Trump had nearly double the amount of a bond set for paying all of his loans. | ||
| The bank he defrauded testified in his defense and said that they would love to do business with Trump again. | ||
| There were no victims at all. | ||
| Nobody lost a penny. | ||
| Nobody lost anything. | ||
| Donald Trump built the New York skyline. | ||
| This is the most Soviet-style injustice ever perpetrated in American history, and it's not even close. | ||
| Some really, really good contact. | ||
| But it's some really important breaking news, obviously, for the program to sort of couch in where we're heading here, which is Donald Trump back in court. | ||
| So, ladies and gentlemen, Ronna McRomney. | ||
| Obviously, we dance. | ||
| We're spiking the football here. | ||
| We just want to close that chapter. | ||
| Super embarrassing for her. | ||
| Now she's been banned. | ||
| She's been banned from the MSNBC network. | ||
| I guess you can still go on NBC. | ||
| But again, the final issue is why? | ||
| Why? | ||
| This is the issue that Chuck Todd was talking about before our breaking news segment. | ||
| Why would you even hire this person? | ||
| Who does she represent? | ||
| Does Ronna McRomney represent you? | ||
| Does she represent us? | ||
| Are you hiring her to get insight into how Republicans think? | ||
| Why? | ||
| She doesn't represent us. | ||
| And the people who voted for her to be RNC chair, and there's only 168 people that get to vote for the RNC chair, 168 people. | ||
| Those people should resign in disgrace. | ||
| They should be totally and completely and utterly ashamed of themselves. | ||
| So, ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump is in court right now. | ||
| Eric Trump was on this weekend talking about this. | ||
| Explaining that this is obviously election interference. | ||
| Even though Trump does have the cash for the bond, apparently Trump does have this money. | ||
| Trump also just got a, may get a multi-billion dollar payout for the Truth Social merger. | ||
| So we'll see. | ||
| That went forward. | ||
| So the sun is shining on Donald Trump's shoulders. | ||
| Right when the guy needs a couple hundred million dollars, he gets three billion dollars from his social media company. | ||
| So, well, just in time. | ||
| Apparently, Trump had the cash on hand for the $500 million payment, so he will definitely have the cash on hand for this smaller payment, and hopefully he'll get it all back in an appeals court reversal. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
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As the clock winds down for former President Donald Trump to secure a bond for nearly half a billion dollars, Trump tells Fox he has nearly $500 million in cash and properties driving loads of money, but added, quote, that doesn't mean I'm going to give money to a rogue and incompetent judge, the puppet of a corrupt attorney general, end quote. | |
| Trump's comments come after his legal team told the court earlier this week it's been, quote, "impossible" for Trump to post a $454 million bond while Trump appeals the civil fraud judgment against him. | ||
| Trump has asked the court to waive the bond or reduce it. | ||
| The court hasn't ruled on his request, but the New York Attorney General's office has argued Trump didn't explore every option. | ||
| A former Elections Commission member tells Of course it's going to hurt New York's business prospects. | ||
| Donald Trump on Truth Social talking about how he has the money. | ||
| But, of course, do you understand even, like, how business works? | ||
| Does anybody? | ||
| Of course not. | ||
| Of course not. | ||
| This is what happens when you have a political class of parasites, a parasitic political class. | ||
| These people never built anything, never created a business. | ||
| Running a business is excruciatingly hard. | ||
| Making a profit is excruciatingly hard here in Biden's America. | ||
| So, what gives? | ||
| Well, what's happening here is they have a total and complete misunderstanding of how... | ||
| Real estate business works. | ||
| Real estate business works. | ||
| If you want to get a loan, you can't just sell all your buildings. | ||
| You have to assume the values of the buildings. | ||
| This morning, the New York Times was out with a report about how the state of New York doesn't know which assets to seize of Donald Trump's because they're not sure what the values are because the values are a moving target. | ||
| Donald Trump's The entire trial was about Donald Trump valuing his properties and the disagreements about those values. | ||
| That's just how it works. | ||
| You'll never know the actual value of a property until you sell it. | ||
| And of course, nobody's just sitting around with all the money sitting in a bank account. | ||
| All the money gets reinvested. | ||
| You can go watch It's a Wonderful Life, a movie that was made 100 years ago. | ||
| Go learn about this. | ||
| Like, all the money gets poured and driven. | ||
| And buried into other properties and ventures. | ||
| That's how money works. | ||
| That's how money is liquid. | ||
| Nobody's sitting around with a Scrooge McDuck vault of gold coins. | ||
| So, ladies and gentlemen, this entire trial is obviously specious. | ||
| It's insane Marxist overreach in New York. | ||
| It's going to have a very, very bad consequence for the state of New York. | ||
| There have been some very, very interesting commentary on this. | ||
| The best, though, is from Kevin O 'Leary, Mr. Wonderful of Shark Tank fame, going on CNN and saying, hey, listen, you jackals, do you understand this isn't about Trump? | ||
| This is about America. | ||
| And if you continue to do this to business owners in America, as a business owner in America, then people will flee because no businesses want to invest inside of a communist Marxist hellhole where everything can just be stolen from you. | ||
| Right? | ||
| An amazing moment on CNN with Kevin O 'Leary just absolutely dropping bombs. | ||
| God bless this man. | ||
| I don't think this case is about Trump anymore. | ||
| I think this case is about New York. | ||
| It's about the American brand. | ||
| It's about what we promise the world in terms of fairness and justice and investing capital in the country that's built the largest economy on earth. | ||
| Forfeiture, seizing of assets. | ||
| Is that in our nomenclature in America? | ||
| Is that what we tell people that want to bring their money here and protect property rights? | ||
| Forget about Trump. | ||
| Nothing to do with Trump. | ||
| You think this is good for business in New York? | ||
| You think this is good for business in America? | ||
| To take a law that we use to protect people against buying refrigerators at an overpriced value decades ago and apply it against an individual and then talk about seizing assets like he was in Venezuela? | ||
| Or in Cuba? | ||
| This is a very, very, very bad look for New York. | ||
| And everybody around the world is watching this. | ||
| This may be great for the attorney general, but this is not good for America. | ||
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But in terms of the valuation, can you be clear as to why? | |
| I mean, why would the properties not be sufficient collateral? | ||
| What a great message to send out all around the world. | ||
| Take a claim where there was no monies lost. | ||
| There was no fraud here in the context of actually people losing money. | ||
| Deutsche Bank, who made the loan, was made whole. | ||
| And let's make a penalty of half a billion dollars against a crime, apparently, where no monies were lost. | ||
| Great message for New York. | ||
| Great message for America. | ||
| Bring your capital, because we'll protect your property. | ||
| I think that was a statement that would be much better made sometime in Venezuela. | ||
| I'm not kidding. | ||
| That's a scary, scary message. | ||
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And by the way, there are no such thing as half a billion dollar bonds. | |
| There are no half a billion dollar bonds. | ||
| Never been done before. | ||
| Never. | ||
| This law has never been applied. | ||
| Forget about Trump. | ||
| Nothing to do with Trump. | ||
| Everything to do about America. | ||
| And the New York brand. | ||
| So, ladies and gentlemen, Kevin O 'Leary is a legend. | ||
| I'm like sitting there texting our producers like, we gotta have Kevin O 'Leary on the program. | ||
| This guy is a G. Like, this guy rules. | ||
| Like, what a dude. | ||
| We gotta have this guy on the show. | ||
| Like, he went in there into the lion's den in that witch's kitchen. | ||
| I don't know who those people are. | ||
| Quite literally, we watch a lot of cable TV on this program because we have to for work and we have to see what's actually going on and we have to see the narrative sort of get created in real time and report back to you. | ||
| I don't even know who those two people were. | ||
| So I don't know the names of those hosts. | ||
| But they're like scowling and hissing and saying, these are the rules. | ||
| Yeah, well, what about when the rules are broken? | ||
| What about the rules are wrong? | ||
| There have been, pretty much in every era of American history, there have been rules and laws on the books that aren't correct. | ||
| And the implementation of those laws have been evil and have been used to benefit evil people. | ||
| That's all of American history. | ||
| You think we're just suddenly living in this, like, premier zenith where everything is perfect and where all this is happening in a vacuum? | ||
| This is the world they wish to break your mind. | ||
| Like, libs live inside of a state where their minds are broken. | ||
| And they have suspended reality, right? | ||
| Eric Trump was going ham on this. | ||
| This is very, very good news, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Eric Trump going ham this weekend. | ||
| Saying, obviously, what's actually at play here is they are weaponizing the law against Donald Trump in order to break the bank account so he can't run for president. | ||
| Everything else has failed. | ||
| And so now they're going to go at Trump. | ||
| I mean, I'm telling you, you want Trump for life? | ||
| Keep doing this. | ||
| Donald Trump was losing pretty badly to Joe Biden in the polls in about the year 2022. | ||
| And these bastards can't help themselves. | ||
| They can't help themselves, just like every Marxist in history. | ||
| They're going to overstep. | ||
| They're going to use their power for evil. | ||
| And they can't stand the fact that Donald Trump just... | ||
| That the person that humiliated them still is around and alive and breathing and successful and more powerful than ever. | ||
| If they had not gone this route, I truly believe that Donald Trump would not be up in the polls the way he is right now. | ||
| Donald Trump is up in the polls in a commanding and dominant way. | ||
| And many polls show that if they... | ||
| Actually are able to convict Donald Trump on these things, that Donald Trump will go up even more. | ||
| So I guess, thanks, dumbasses! | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, Eric Trump. | ||
| So the first question, of course, is how are you dealing with this? | ||
| What is your plan to meet this judgment? | ||
| Well, it's so sad. | ||
| First of all, I'm a guy that grew up in New York. | ||
| My father built a skyline of New York. | ||
| And this is an election interference. | ||
| And they go out and they ask you to post a half a billion dollar bond. | ||
| Maria, I want to put that in context. | ||
| I went out to the largest sureties in the world, the largest sureties in the country. | ||
| They said, Eric, the last time we've seen a bond of that size is when we did the big dig in Boston, which was a $25 billion construction project that lasted almost 25 years. | ||
| They're trying to put my father out of business. | ||
| They're trying to take all his resources that he would otherwise put into his own campaign for presidency. | ||
| This is New York State. | ||
| This is what we're seeing. | ||
| Letitia James campaigned on this promise, and now they're making him do something that's not... | ||
| Physically possible. | ||
| Putting up a half a billion dollar bond? | ||
| Bonds that size don't exist in this country. | ||
| A 10 million dollar bond is a large bond. | ||
| A 15 million dollar bond is an enormous bond. | ||
| A half a billion dollar bond? | ||
| And Maria, remember one thing. | ||
| The banks all testified. | ||
| Trump was the greatest borrower we've ever had. | ||
| There was no victim. | ||
| This is a crooked system with a crooked attorney general in a crooked court. | ||
| That literally wants to put my father out of business. | ||
| And you know who they're actually going to hurt? | ||
| They're going to hurt the thousands and thousands of employees that we have in New York State. | ||
| These are janitors. | ||
| These are doormen. | ||
| These are people that work in commercial buildings. | ||
| They're going to hurt those individuals. | ||
| Not the executives. | ||
| They're going to hurt those individuals. | ||
| How about all the contractors that we employ to do build-outs? | ||
| How about everybody else that relies on our family? | ||
| Thousands of people. | ||
| All for their own political vendetta? | ||
| It's insane. | ||
| So, ladies and gentlemen, we have some more breaking news. | ||
| Donald Trump in court right now in New York for a totally different fraud. | ||
| This is the Alvin Bragg. | ||
| George Soros, district attorney. | ||
| Man, that is money well spent. | ||
| George Soros could spend pennies on district attorney's races all around the country and get cases like this. | ||
| The point of the case is to obviously keep Donald Trump off the campaign trail. | ||
| And to liquidate his cash reserves. | ||
| This is lawfare. | ||
| It's Marxist lawfare. | ||
| This is how it's done in Venezuela. | ||
| As Kevin O 'Leary says, Donald Trump in court just a moment ago went into the court in the Southern District of New York. | ||
| The case brought by Alvin Bragg alleges that Trump misused campaign funds to pay hush money to Stormy Daniels. | ||
| The reason why this is so... | ||
| Curious is because the DOJ, who oversees elections, the FBI, who oversees elections, the SEC, who oversees payments like this, the FEC, not SEC, the FEC, Federal Elections Commission, is that acronym broken out. | ||
| These people said Donald Trump did nothing wrong. | ||
| This is their damn jobs. | ||
| They're the ones who actually have oversight here. | ||
| Yet because the payment happened in New York, Alvin Bragg is putting together some type of like duct tape and dental floss and toilet paper argument that Donald Trump is guilty of a campaign finance violation. | ||
| First off, it doesn't fall to district attorneys to run campaign finance. | ||
| This is something that was obviously shopped around. | ||
| No federal agency would bring it because Donald Trump was running for federal office. | ||
| So they went to the district attorney, Alvin Bragg, with another Trump-hating judge in dark blue downtown Manhattan. | ||
| Get the hell out of liberal cities, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Here's Trump entering the courtroom moments ago. | ||
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Mr. Trump, are you closing the airplane? | |
| Are you getting a box? | ||
| Thank you very much, everybody. | ||
| Are you getting a box, okay? | ||
| This is a witch hunt. | ||
| It's a hoax. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| So Donald Trump saying this is a hoax and it is a witch hunt. | ||
| Every time they do this to Donald Trump, his poll numbers go up. | ||
| Trump's poll numbers only go up. | ||
| Again and again and again, they are going to prove that this system of going after your political opponents like this doesn't work in America. | ||
| But maybe Republicans should try it. | ||
| I mean, have Republicans ever considered, like, prosecuting or going after any of the damned criminals and predators on the Democrat side? | ||
| Boy, it'd be sure nice to unseal some of the Epstein documents, more Epstein documents. | ||
| Man, Bill Clinton's literally named the Epstein documents like... | ||
| Dozens of times. | ||
| The little girls on Epstein's island said that they were having dinner with Bill Clinton. | ||
| He was being taken off into all these mysterious little rooms. | ||
| That's their testimony. | ||
| These are the girls who were trafficked by Epstein. | ||
| Placing Bill Clinton on the island. | ||
| Bill Clinton on the manifest. | ||
| Nothing? | ||
| No investigations? | ||
| Nothing? | ||
| Nothing, huh? | ||
| Nothing. | ||
| This is Donald Trump from moments ago at his trial. | ||
| This is a photo from moments ago. | ||
| Looking kind of like the mugshot. | ||
| Kind of like the mugshot look. | ||
| Kind of similar mugshot look. | ||
| Yeah, you see that? | ||
| Same suit and everything. | ||
| Yeah, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Speaking of that mugshot, we have Fanny Willis news. | ||
| Ooh, yes. | ||
| Big Fanny decided that she's going to start talking smack. | ||
| This is big Fannie coming off a humiliating and disgraceful disqualification hearing that actually resulted in a disqualification just of Nathan Wade. | ||
| The judge split baby justice. | ||
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right? | |
| And therefore killed baby justice, sadly. | ||
| But nonetheless, the judge then approved of the Trump team appealing his ruling. | ||
| The judge effectively punted here, right? | ||
| Scott McAfee, these judges are elected. | ||
| So it was Actually, a relatively successful, all things considered on the merits, relatively successful case brought against Fannie Willis. | ||
| Now Fannie Willis is talking smack, baby. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Fannie Willis is saying, yo, the train is coming. | ||
| Isn't that interesting? | ||
| DA Fannie Willis warns Trump the train is coming as she doubles down on claims of her illicit affair with prosecutor who resigned. | ||
| And has not slowed the case and she is not embarrassed by anything. | ||
| Well, again, we know that people like Fannie Willis lack the capacity for introspection and embarrassment. | ||
| Fannie Willis, let me explain to you, you are an embarrassment. | ||
| We can actually prove that on this program. | ||
| You don't know how to put your dresses on correctly. | ||
| Your American flag pins are upside down. | ||
| You're a raving lunatic who like screams at the top of your lungs and like throws papers and gets your team. | ||
| Disqualified from cases. | ||
| It's an embarrassment. | ||
| But again, people like Fannie Willow, they're the specific type of people. | ||
| You hear about them a lot in the Bible. | ||
| Specific type of people that are literally incapable of seeing their own flaws. | ||
| The hubris. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Big Fannie says a big old train is coming for Donald Trump. | ||
| All right, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| The fanny train versus the Trump train on the tracks. | ||
| Jerry, I think that'll be a good meme. | ||
| Let's work on that meme. | ||
| Train versus train. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
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All while that was going on, we were writing responsive briefs. | |
| We were still doing the case in the way that it needed to be done. | ||
| I don't feel like we've been slowed down at all. | ||
| I do think that there are efforts to slow down this train, but the train is coming. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| All right. | ||
| The train is coming. | ||
| Very interesting way to phrase that, considering the fact that Fannie Willis loves double entendres, talking about emasculating black men in court, nearly getting into fistfights with people in the prosecution. | ||
| We look forward to what happens next here. | ||
| We'll be very sad when we have no more Big Fannie news. | ||
| But we plead, obviously. | ||
| With the Republicans in the state of Georgia, why the hell is this happening? | ||
| Republicans have supermajorities in both chambers and the governorship. | ||
| Why are you allowing this to continue? | ||
| This is as damaging, obviously, as what's happening in New York. | ||
| The people who should be embarrassed, obviously, are Fannie Willis, who's facing a myriad of big-time charges and potentially a I mean, Jim Jordan is talking about how he's going to, like, hold her in contempt of Congress and then demand her arrest. | ||
| Jim Jordan said that this weekend because she hasn't responded to Jim Jordan's subpoenas. | ||
| So we'll see. | ||
| We'll see what happens. | ||
| You know my thoughts on the Republicans in Congress. | ||
| Yeah, we'll wait and see. | ||
| Fannie Willis apparently is not embarrassed, though. | ||
| If there's anybody who's acted righteously and justly, it's homewrecker Fannie. | ||
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I don't feel like my reputation needs to be reclaimed. | |
| Let's say it for the record. | ||
| I'm not embarrassed by anything I've done. | ||
| You know, I guess my greatest crime is I had a relationship with a man, but that's not something that I find embarrassing in any way. | ||
| And I know that I have not done anything that's illegal. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| Well, she's lied to the court. | ||
| We've proven that time and time again. | ||
| She's lied demonstrably, obviously, inside of the same court with the same judge that she's going to try and bring this trial with. | ||
| She was with, not with a man, she was with a married man, a guy who had a wife, who was cheating on his wife with you, and then Fanny Willis has the audacity to go scurry to the pulpit of the church and to robe herself in some type of glory. | ||
| Not sure exactly what that is. | ||
| Careful. | ||
| Careful about lightning bolts on the pulpit, Big Fanny. | ||
| Like, be careful. | ||
| Man, there's only so much to that. | ||
| God will not be mocked. | ||
| Be very cautious. | ||
| God will not be mocked. | ||
| Lord, I am a sinner, and I am in need of forgiveness, is what you need to hear in these situations. | ||
| Not, I'm super proud of it and the train's coming. | ||
| At the very least, we'll continue to have Donald Trump jokes about Big Fanny. | ||
| Donald Trump is taking his... | ||
| His sharpest raconteur, his ability to humiliate and his ability to embarrass the people who are coming after him. | ||
| And he's taking that to the campaign trail. | ||
| Donald Trump on Nathan Wade and Fannie Willis and a brand new hand motion. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| I was indicted by Fannie in Georgia. | ||
| How did that work? | ||
| And her lover, Nathan Wade. | ||
| And they hired him for almost a million dollars because of his great, great experience. | ||
| Of course, he didn't have any experience. | ||
| He had experience in something else. | ||
| You know that. | ||
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A lot of experience. | |
| And at that, I'm quite sure he was very good based on the fact that she called him 2,000 times. | ||
| I didn't know the gentleman! | ||
| I didn't know. | ||
| Oh, you have 2,000 phone calls, 3,500 text messages. | ||
| How is it possible in a short... | ||
| I know a lot of people. | ||
| We like a lot of people. | ||
| I happen to have a very good relationship with a woman called Melania. | ||
| But I would venture to say in all the years that I've known her, I might not have called her 2,500 times. | ||
| I know I didn't send 3,500 text messages. | ||
| You can send 3,000 text messages to me, Donald. | ||
| Don't you worry. | ||
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I'll give you my number. | |
| Donald Trump doing what, of course, Donald Trump does best, which is ridiculing his enemies. | ||
| Donald Trump just spoke at the courthouse. | ||
| This is a statement that is much longer than what he said going into the court. | ||
| Again, this is hard to keep them straight here. | ||
| This is for the Alvin Bragg campaign funds case. | ||
| George Soros prosecutor going after Donald Trump for a federal issue inside of a district court. | ||
| How that's possible, I don't know. | ||
| Why a city... | ||
| DA, why that falls under the city DA's purview, I don't know. | ||
| When every federal agency said this is non-prosecutable, Alvin Bragg saying otherwise. | ||
| Donald Trump is talking about this, and let's see if he talks about the bond that has been adjusted to a much lower number. | ||
| Still egregious. | ||
| And hear what the president has to say. | ||
| This literally happened seconds ago. | ||
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Thank you very much. | |
| Chen Chen Gorin has done a terrible disservice to the state of New York. | ||
| What he's done is terrible. | ||
| Businesses are fleeing. | ||
| You see that? | ||
| We just released a statement on truth. | ||
| Businesses are fleeing and crime is flourishing all of the state and... | ||
| What he's done is such a disservice and should never be allowed to happen again. | ||
| New York State is being battered by his decision. | ||
| So I greatly respect the decision of the Appellate Division and I'll post either $175 billion in cash or bonds or security or whatever is necessary very quickly within the 10 days. | ||
| And I thank the appellate division for acting quickly. | ||
| But Judge N. Gorin is a disgrace to this country, and this should not be allowed to happen. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
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Would you accept foreign money in a bit of honor? | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| All right, so ladies and gentlemen, breaking news there. | ||
| Donald Trump saying he will post the bond. | ||
| It'll be either in cash or securities or however it works from a business perspective, and that there will not be seizures of his buildings by the Marxists in New York. | ||
| Now, forgive the gallows humor here, but I kind of wish they did. | ||
| I kind of wish they did. | ||
| I kind of wish Trump just, like, flipped the middle finger to them and said, start seizing my property. | ||
| Go for it. | ||
| Let's show the American people who you really are. | ||
| Go for it. | ||
| Go. | ||
| So, ladies and gentlemen, this is a massive, massive breaking news day for Donald Trump. | ||
| Donald Trump saying he's going to post that bond. | ||
| Obviously, he gets the bond back, right? | ||
| It's just something to hold till appeal, how this works, right? | ||
| So, something to tell the court that you're good for it while you're appealing, right? | ||
| So, you don't cut and run. | ||
| Obviously, Donald Trump couldn't. | ||
| Cut and run anywhere, right? | ||
| He's got 70 Secret Service agents around him everywhere he goes. | ||
| But that also leads to the insanity of the case. | ||
| The entire thing, a total and complete embarrassment, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| So, speaking of embarrassments, Kamala Harris, your vice president, was in Puerto Rico this weekend. | ||
| There was a humiliating moment where Kamala Harris clapped alongside A bunch of people that were chanting how much they hate her. | ||
| Oh, yes. | ||
| This is what happens when you have an IQ of like a room temperature, right? | ||
| Like a hovering around like 70, like a comfortable room, right? | ||
| 70, 68. This is what happens. | ||
| You like you hear music and you clap and Kamala Harris was clapping and she didn't realize what they were saying. | ||
| What the people were saying. | ||
| Was that they hate Kamala Harris and they want her out of Puerto Rico. | ||
| It's incredible. | ||
| Check this out. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| We want you to know, Kamala, what did you come to do? | ||
| We want you to know, Kamala, what is going to happen? | ||
| The song goes on to say that they want Kamala to leave, that she is a ruthless leader, that they want statehood, they want her to fix Haiti, and they want Kamala Harris to actually close the border. | ||
| Like, this is incredible. | ||
| This is incredible. | ||
| And Kamala Harris is like... | ||
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That's the face. | |
| Dude, this is not a poster for Joker 2. This is actually Kamala Harris' real face. | ||
| I can't say human face because I'm not exactly sure. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, lizard people in skin suits and all that. | ||
| But here's Kamala Harris' whatever you could call this. | ||
| This is the moment she realizes that she's clapping along with a song saying, F you Kamala. | ||
| Amazing. | ||
| I mean, truly, truly a wonderful moment. | ||
| There is this one thing I gotta play. | ||
| It's this time when Kamala Harris went walking into a room. | ||
| Do we have this, Danny? | ||
| Where Kamala Harris goes walking into a room and she had a George, a Jeb Bush moment. | ||
| Please clap. | ||
| There was like a please clap Kamala Harris moment. | ||
| Do we have that? | ||
| Oh, it's so very good. | ||
| It's worth it, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Trust me. | ||
| It's worth it. | ||
| Kamala Harris was called a war criminal, also in Puerto Rico. | ||
| San Juan residents held up massive posters with messages saying, like, Kamala Harris is a war criminal. | ||
| Isn't that interesting, ladies and gentlemen? | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Look at that. | ||
| Very accurate image of Kamala Harris. | ||
| There. | ||
| All right, Royce, get that loaded. | ||
| Come on, buddy! | ||
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Buddy! | |
| Rolls-Royce is fast, baby. | ||
| He's fast. | ||
| He's fast just like a Rolls-Royce. | ||
| So, yeah, great day. | ||
| Great day with all of our leaders. | ||
| And the final thing, ladies and gentlemen, Kamala Harris' please clap moment. | ||
| We don't play this clip enough. | ||
| Here you go. | ||
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Stand as she enters the room. | |
| Hello, everybody! | ||
| You can clap. | ||
| It's okay. | ||
| Hi, everyone. | ||
| I'm so happy to see you have a seat. | ||
| We're going to have a conversation, Mayor. | ||
| It's good to be with you. | ||
| Ha ha ha ha That's pretty good, Jerry. | ||
| Why don't we do a face swap? | ||
| Let's do a face swap on that one. | ||
| That's pretty good. | ||
| Meme maker on our team extraordinaire, Jerry, saying this is a very same vibe. | ||
| Very, very same. | ||
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Let's get a side-by-side of that. | |
| Oh, man. | ||
| All right, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| My best cop layers impression. | ||
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Ah! | |
| We have too much fun on this program. | ||
| Somebody who is a barrel of monkeys, somebody who's a lot of fun, a man who does have a human face, and I've never seen him make that Kamala Harris expression before, but I have seen him make many expressive comments about how utterly wicked our judicial system and legal system is right now to President Trump and how insane. | ||
| All of these rulings are a man who can comment on the breaking news. | ||
| The former U.S. attorney for the District of Utah, executive director for Right on Crime, Brett Tolman, joins the program. | ||
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Right on Crime. | |
| you you I'm sorry, Brad. | ||
| I didn't mean to, like, build in that comment. | ||
| I appreciate you joining the show for breaking news. | ||
| I can't help myself. | ||
| We apologize. | ||
| We make a lot of memes on this show. | ||
| Try to have a fun time. | ||
| I know you're not here to talk about beauty products or anything like that, but there is some very ugly things going on to Donald Trump. | ||
| There's this breaking news about the bond, and Donald Trump's saying he's going to pay that and move on, but, like, what a world. | ||
| We went through how, Bernie Madoff defrauded people for billions and didn't get a bond that high. | ||
| How Sam Bankman freed defrauded people for billions and didn't get a bond that high. | ||
| And here's Donald Trump. | ||
| How else are people supposed to make? | ||
| What are people supposed to make of this other than this is Marxist political persecution? | ||
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Yeah, Benny, thanks for having me on. | |
| I'll tell you that one of the most liberal courts in the country is the appellate court in New York. | ||
| So to tell you how bad it is for Letitia James, for this judge, and the ruling and the effort in that case, you have one of the most liberal courts in the land issuing an opinion that agrees with Donald Trump that that bond is outrageous. | ||
| Now, I mean, keep in mind, not a lot of people understand what this means. | ||
| That $450-plus million that the judge ordered needed to be paid. | ||
| A bond would allow you to pay a portion of that, and Donald Trump could not get any company or anyone willing to issue the bond for him to pay. | ||
| So, in a real sense, it's not whether or not Donald Trump could put up that money. | ||
| The reality was that he was being limited. | ||
| He could not put up that whole amount in cash, nor could he use assets to satisfy it. | ||
| But what this ruling does now is it says, okay, we'll lower this to $175, plus we're going to give you more time to do it. | ||
| In addition, we're not going to allow during the appeal Letitia to try to execute on the assets, meaning she can't go after. | ||
| The assets of Donald Trump while he's appealing. | ||
| And then finally, he's allowed to put up assets or the value of his assets in lieu of cash. | ||
| So this is a game changer for Donald Trump. | ||
| This allows him to maintain the cash that he has to try to battle and fight his legal battles. | ||
| But it's a big loss for Letitia James and this judge. | ||
| Yeah, thank you so much for educating us on that because we didn't actually get a chance to read the ruling since it was happening live during the show. | ||
| And Donald Trump just commented on it and he sounded very happy about it. | ||
| And clearly this is why. | ||
| Although I think the damage has been done. | ||
| We've been covering some of the larger real estate and financial sector talking heads from New York. | ||
| None of them MAGA Republicans. | ||
| None of them, I don't think any of them Republicans at all, right? | ||
| Like, I don't think so. | ||
| I think most of them Democrats being like, what the F is happening here? | ||
| You're screwing us. | ||
| No one wants to invest in Venezuela or China. | ||
| You checked in the Chinese stock market? | ||
| Because of this, this is going to kill the state, which is already, by population, the number one state that people have fled from over the past three years. | ||
| New York has lost more people per capita than California even has. | ||
| And so a lot of people are screaming about this. | ||
| Has the damage already been done here, Brett? | ||
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Yeah, there's substantial damage. | |
| And the reason is this, Benny. | ||
| You take a business out there, and that business is going to go to a bank and say, I need a line of credit. | ||
| And I'm going to put up the assets of my business as security. | ||
| That's how I'm going to get this line of credit that's really big. | ||
| It's a large line of credit. | ||
| And I'm going to use that and I'm going to expand my business. | ||
| Now, the banks do more due diligence than Letitia James can or has done in her entire life. | ||
| They dig into every aspect of that business, all of the spreadsheets. | ||
| They use law firms that charge $1,500 to $2,000 an hour. | ||
| To dig into Donald Trump. | ||
| So they do that for an extended period of time and they agree they will loan money to Donald Trump. | ||
| Now, every business does it in the United States. | ||
| Every business does it to some extent or another. | ||
| And individuals do that. | ||
| We say, look, I'll put my home up and I'll get a line of credit. | ||
| And here's my home. | ||
| Appraise it for me. | ||
| Can you imagine if we had county attorneys and U.S. attorneys or any prosecutor that has power, that all of a sudden we say this is acceptable, go after an individual even though the bank worked way harder to secure its risk, even though the bank is not out any payments, and the bank wants to continue to do business with them. | ||
| You do that, you will shut down this country. | ||
| You will shut down business leaders in this country, and then the next step, Our mom and pop shops, and then after that, it's individuals with HELOCs on their home. | ||
| It's so educational to have you on the program. | ||
| Because you've been doing this for so long, you're able to really parse this out and talk about it in ways that we can understand and we don't consider ourselves experts. | ||
| It's really helpful. | ||
| Could we move down to Georgia, where the judge has granted an appeal to Donald Trump there, and can you talk us through what that means now that the judge has granted an appeal of his own decision? | ||
| To sort of split baby justice here and say, well, you're all, you know, Fannie Willis, you've behaved in a manner that is disreputable to the court and looks like there's a conflict of interest, yet you can continue on. | ||
| Don't make no sense to me. | ||
| Apparently there's going to be appeal there. | ||
| Can you handicap that for us? | ||
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Yeah, two important moments there. | |
| The judge issued this ruling and said, I find that there is compromise, meaning this DA, Fannie Willis, she compromised her ethics at a minimum. | ||
| I mean, that's what the ruling said. | ||
| But even though I find that, there's a solution to it, and that's get rid of Wade. | ||
| Now, that was the solution, but something interesting happened, Benny. | ||
| In that opinion, he stated, There's not a lot of law in this area. | ||
| I'm not 100% sure I'm right. | ||
| I mean, I'm paraphrasing. | ||
| But in essence, in his own opinion, he said, I'm not sure. | ||
| You do that and you're begging the appellate court to say, okay, we'll take it and we'll look at it. | ||
| Let the adults back in the room. | ||
| We'll take a look at it. | ||
| And that's what's happened. | ||
| It's embarrassing for the judge, but I think he had to do that and he threw a bone to Fannie Willis, but that's about to come back and haunt him because that appellate division is not wrapped around this case like that. | ||
| They're not emotionally tied to it. | ||
| They haven't issued any rulings. | ||
| They haven't listened to it. | ||
| They're going to take the... | ||
| Cold, hard words on transcripts and they're going to analyze it and they're going to go, well, we don't think this is, you know, a gray area. | ||
| This looks pretty black and white and it looks like there's been lying that's occurred on the stand. | ||
| There's also been compromised ethically. | ||
| There might also be issues with respect to how she spent the money. | ||
| That she gave to her lover. | ||
| Now, all of those, I'm hopeful. | ||
| And we have a better chance with, you know, even a liberal judge may look at this and say, this is beyond the pale. | ||
| Because if it happens here, in this case, to Trump, we have to send a message. | ||
| We don't want it happening in the other cases that may come from this office. | ||
| And, you know, quite frankly, if you're a prosecutor in Fannie Willis' office right now, You're hoping something happens because you do not want this kind of reputation as a DA's office that does what they want and is above the law. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| So you're saying that there is internal consternation. | ||
| We've actually seen that with some whistleblower complaints and people recording Fannie behind the scenes. | ||
| Never a great sign when that's happening. | ||
| This seems to be in peril, yet Fannie Willis is up this weekend saying, the train's going to keep on moving and get ready, Donald Trump. | ||
| Again, can you give us sort of a handicap in your professional opinion? | ||
| What do you think is going to happen here? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| You know, I think that train is going to continue, but at some point it may just be the engine and there's nothing behind her. | ||
| And so far she's losing. | ||
| She's losing a lot of that train and it's falling off. | ||
| And by train, you've got support of the community that's frustrated. | ||
| You have the legal community that is outraged. | ||
| You have new requests, legal requests for information right now. | ||
| The grandma and FOIA requests that are asking for internal documents to find out what was happening. | ||
| It's only going to get worse for her. | ||
| I handicap this, that this appellate court is going to indicate that this office needs to recuse itself. | ||
| And by that, they're going to push the case either to the attorney general or they do have authority also to push it to another county. | ||
| Now, I'm going to tell you, in Georgia, another county is not going to be the same as Fulton County. | ||
| So, it's a great point. | ||
| We'll see, right? | ||
| We'll see what happens. | ||
| But I'm doing my very best to come up with a train metaphor here. | ||
| You know, I love trains. | ||
| I don't think it'd be an engine. | ||
| I think it'd be a really big caboose. | ||
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Caboose? | |
| That's just a big fanny joke. | ||
| And I'm above that, okay? | ||
| I'm above that. | ||
| I'm a professional. | ||
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No power, can't move on its own. | |
| I'm a professional. | ||
| We have a family-friendly program around here. | ||
| Final thing. | ||
| Okay, so here we go. | ||
| Family-friendly program. | ||
| Let's go to the porn star case. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Good job, kids. | ||
| Keep watching. | ||
| So here we go. | ||
| Alvin Bragg, this morning. | ||
| We learned so much having you on, Brad. | ||
| I can't help myself. | ||
| Like, if I were on the phone with you, this is exactly the question I'd want to ask. | ||
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Love being on with you. | |
| Alvin Bragg. | ||
| Alvin Bragg, this morning. | ||
| It makes no sense to me, as somebody reading this case, because the FBI, the DOJ, the FEC, they all didn't prosecute. | ||
| Yet Alvin Bragg, of all people, like, you know, a guy who is, like, clearly not super competent or efficient at his job or good or could barely even get up the flight of stairs. | ||
| This guy is going to, like, bring this case. | ||
| It doesn't make any sense to me because this campaign finance law would seem to be would seem to prevail here. | ||
| Maybe I'm wrong. | ||
| Like, what's going on? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| The case is a puzzle, and I'll tell you one thing you have to remember. | ||
| Not a lot of people talk about this. | ||
| Alvin Bragg declined the case already. | ||
| He already reviewed it and indicated that he didn't see sufficient evidence or the law that could support the case. | ||
| Now, something caused him to flip. | ||
| At some point, we'll uncover that. | ||
| If they continue down this path, Trump and his lawyers are going to get to the bottom of when he used his discretion and did not want to bring the case. | ||
| But fast forward and we have a case going forward. | ||
| You are absolutely correct. | ||
| Campaign finance law does preempt this area if that's what he was charging. | ||
| But he's not. | ||
| What he's really charging is a misrepresentation on his books. | ||
| That's what he's claiming. | ||
| He's claiming that there was a misrepresentation. | ||
| So it's a false statement that is covered in, you know. | ||
| In all this different legal language, what my father would say that is, you know, whipped cream on horse manure is still horse manure. | ||
| And that's what this case is. | ||
| They've wrapped it up to suggest that there's something there. | ||
| And it's not there because what they have is they don't have the evidence. | ||
| don't have somebody saying this was an attempt to shut up a former lover or the porn star. | ||
| They have no evidence of that. | ||
| And then they don't also have the misrepresentation that he's claiming Wow. | ||
| I mean, is there anything that's going to get to trial before 2024, November? | ||
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I think they truly believe two things. | |
| They would use the law to take down Trump in two ways. | ||
| One, to tie him up, no ordinary human being. | ||
| Could survive all of the legal challenges and so they'd tie him up and he would not run and then they would hope to push their best case forward in trial and that best case they believed was Jack Smith's. | ||
| So none of the others did they really care in my opinion whether or not it got to trial they wanted that to be you know just Death by a thousand cuts, right? | ||
| To keep him. | ||
| But they underestimated Donald Trump. | ||
| He's not like you and I. He thrives on all of this stuff. | ||
| There's a wiring problem there. | ||
| For real. | ||
| Yeah, there really is. | ||
| So they expected Jack Smith to be the one that was going to take him down because they got the friendly court. | ||
| They've got a friendly jury pool. | ||
| They've got a case that sounds good and tough and mean. | ||
| And it's not working out the way they want it to so far. | ||
| And the dude's aging in reverse. | ||
| We have the photo of him in court. | ||
| We have the photo of him in court from this morning. | ||
| I'm like, look at this Chad. | ||
| He's such a Chad. | ||
| Yeah, there you go, Royce. | ||
| Thoughts it up. | ||
| Again, Brett, I'm not here to have you comment on beauty or Kamala's face or Trump aging in reverse. | ||
| I know that's not your lane of expertise. | ||
| But the dude's aging in reverse. | ||
| I mean, seriously, this is him from this morning. | ||
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And the most important part, Benny, in my opinion, is... | |
| He's thoughtful. | ||
| He's thinking about things. | ||
| He's engaged. | ||
| And he looks as a man regardless of his age. | ||
| Look, my mother lived until she was mid-80s. | ||
| And up until the day she died, I would have had her in charge of any project because she just mentally was sharp. | ||
| And that's what Trump seems to be. | ||
| You contrast that to the obvious disadvantage. | ||
| Disadvantages Kamala Harris had at birth and the obvious aging and difficulty of Joe Biden now. | ||
| And you just say, oh, gosh, can we have somebody that can articulate a thought and a sentence in the White House? | ||
| That's right. | ||
| And the polling confirms it. | ||
| It's so wonderful when the population of this country sees the very same thing that you and I see and the comment section sees on this program. | ||
| And unite and win, right? | ||
| And so thank you, obviously, Brett, for educating us. | ||
| It is always deeply educational. | ||
| It's helpful for our program. | ||
| Everyone needs to go follow. | ||
| Brett, support his incredible organization, Right on Crime. | ||
| Obviously, we need it now more than ever, Brett! | ||
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We need it now more than ever. | |
| We need prosecutors to get back to that position where they don't care the politics, they just want to enforce the law. | ||
| Yes, yes, that's exactly right. | ||
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Thank you, Benny. | |
| Godspeed, Brett. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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Take care. | |
| you you All right, ladies and gentlemen, we got some big-time breaking news. | ||
| We got a new clip. | ||
| Of Donald Trump. | ||
| So, tell me this is correct. | ||
| Yes, we got a brand new clip of Donald Trump talking about the bond and what he's going to do with it and revealing how he's going to pay that in order to obviously stop these Marxists from, like, seizing his properties. | ||
| Donald Trump in a very good mood, talking to reporters outside of the court. | ||
| This is happening live right now. | ||
| This just happened while Brett was on our program. | ||
| So, ladies and gentlemen, let's let the president speak. | ||
| Let's do something that None of the other networks will do. | ||
| Let's actually go to the president and let him speak as to what is happening right now, what his decision is here. | ||
| Seems like another big win for Trump, at least as a silver lining here to this dark cloud. | ||
| This is a case that could have been brought three and a half years ago. | ||
| And now they're fighting over days because they want to try and do it during the election. | ||
| This is election interference. | ||
| That's all it is. | ||
| Election interference. | ||
| And it's a disgrace. | ||
| We'll obviously be appealing. | ||
| But this is a pure case of voter intimidation and election interference. | ||
| And it shouldn't be allowed to happen. | ||
| This case could have been brought by the DA, but they didn't want to bring it because they said they have no case. | ||
| And then they bring it anyway. | ||
| As you know, D.A. Bragg did not want to bring this case. | ||
| He was forced into it for outside reasons, and it's a disgrace that it can happen. | ||
| But this was a case that had been brought three and a half years ago, and they decided to wait now, just during the election, so that I won't be able to campaign. | ||
| We'll be appealing this. | ||
| On the other decision, it will be my honor to post. | ||
| And we'll post whatever is necessary, whether it be cash or security or bonds. | ||
| This is a decision we appreciate and respect the appellate division very much. | ||
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And we will, I think, do very well in that whole thing. | |
| We have a judge who I believe is a crooked judge and a crooked attorney general. | ||
| Absolutely crooked. | ||
| We did nothing wrong at all, 100%. | ||
| And that was proven, and everybody there said it was proven. | ||
| All you have to do is read the legal scholars, and you see that it was proven. | ||
| But we will continue with that, but we appreciate very much the decision of the appellate division. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
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What's your car over the model? | |
| Cash. | ||
| Is your elected to the party or something? | ||
| So, Donald Trump saying, cash, baby! | ||
| Cash is king. | ||
| He's going to be paying his bond and then using this opportunity to have a global platform. | ||
| You know, listen, in these court cases, he's using the court as a campaign background, backdrop. | ||
| It's wild to see. | ||
| Donald Trump is using the court as a platform to boost what is actually happening to him in America. | ||
| Corporate media can't help but cover it. | ||
| They won't go live to a MAGA rally. | ||
| They did all throughout 2016, and look what that got them. | ||
| So they've tried to learn from that lesson, but they will cover this. | ||
| And so Donald Trump using these opportunities to speak at the court as like miniature campaign rallies to rail against the evil and corruption inside of the system. | ||
| And people feel that, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| There is a lot of evil out there. | ||
| Now is the best time to stay strapped or get clapped. | ||
| Here's our Monday Gunday update for you. | ||
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We'll see you next time. | |
| Ladies and gentlemen, the FBI figures show that crime fell as Americans stocked up on guns. | ||
| In the year 2023, last available data for this, where Americans bought guns, crime went down precipitously. | ||
| Isn't that interesting? | ||
| Isn't it curious, ladies and gentlemen, all this whole squatter issue, that there's a few states where there aren't a bunch of squatters coming into houses. | ||
| Texas is one of them. | ||
| Florida is one of them. | ||
| Hot damn. | ||
| Ooh, give me that clip of the Florida sheriff from Shorts talking about home invasions. | ||
| Yeah, ladies and gentlemen, it is... | ||
| The time for you to protect yourself, and the data now proves it. | ||
| FBI figures reported by NBC News show that crime fell during 2023, a year which there were over one million background checks a month for gun purchases. | ||
| One million a month? | ||
| Good for you, America. | ||
| On July 4th, 2023, the Washington Examiner noted that National Instant Crime Background Check System nix. | ||
| Checked for gun purchases over a million a month for 47 straight months. | ||
| So that's 47 million firearms bought. | ||
| Sometimes I just love my country. | ||
| There's a lot of doomers out there. | ||
| Sometimes you just gotta love living here. | ||
| 47 million guns. | ||
| You know there's only like 300 million Americans? | ||
| So that's one in four Americans? | ||
| One in five Americans? | ||
| Buying out these guns? | ||
| Buying at least a gun? | ||
| Incredible, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Truly remarkable. | ||
| So, according to the FBI, crime plummeted. | ||
| Former CIA analyst Jeff Asher commented on the low crime figures, saying, It suggests that when we get the final data in October, we will have seen likely the largest one-year decline in murder ever recorded. | ||
| There was a similar situation after the gun surge in 2013. | ||
| Breitbart pointed out that private gun sales skyrocketed during 2013. | ||
| With 21 million background checks, and according to the FBI, offenses for the category of violent crimes and property crimes decreased during the first six months of 2014. | ||
| Because everyone knows that if you effed around, then you bout to find out. | ||
| Especially, ladies and gentlemen, in the state of Florida. | ||
| This is the clip I wanted. | ||
| This is the Florida sheriff talking about home invasions. | ||
| It's like a trend right now. | ||
| All these squatters. | ||
| Going around being like, no, you can just, you know, illegal criminal aliens, like being like, yeah, you can just break into people's homes and squat in the homes, and then it becomes your house. | ||
| It's amazing. | ||
| Right? | ||
| It's like a video game. | ||
| Not in red states. | ||
| Maybe in your blue state asshole. | ||
| Dumpster fire. | ||
| Don't want to live there. | ||
| Don't really care. | ||
| Like, and you shouldn't live there either. | ||
| But in red states, this is what happens. | ||
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Person, we don't know what homeowner, which homeowner shot at him. | |
| I guess they think that they did something wrong, which they did not. | ||
| If somebody's breaking in your house, you're more than welcome to shoot them in Santa Rosa County. | ||
| We prefer that you do, actually. | ||
| So, whoever that was, you're not in trouble. | ||
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Come see us. | |
| We have a gun safety class we put on every other Saturday. | ||
| And if you take that, you'll shoot a lot better, and hopefully you'll save the taxpayers money. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, we took a gun safety class, a sniper course with an Army Ranger. | ||
| Who also happens to be one of the executives at our favorite firearm brand, Spike's Tactical, the Spike's Tactical AR-15, the preferred firearm of the Johnson household. | ||
| Spike's Tactical hosted us out on the range, and we made the Communist Manifesto go bye-bye. | ||
| Here's a little clip of that. | ||
| So a homie just came over with a giant Valentine's bear packed full of tannerite. | ||
| We're going to send that Valentine's bear to Valhalla. | ||
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Oh, my God. | |
| Everyone wants to be an American badass, but how can you claim to be an American badass without knowing how to shoot bad guys from really, really far away with a sniper rifle? | ||
| Come on, you can't. | ||
| So we traveled to a gun range to get a lesson from a true American badass sniper, Nick Goff, head of product for Spikes Tactical. | ||
| Nick was deployed 15 times to Iraq, Afghanistan, and other hostile places we're not allowed to talk about. | ||
| Nearly eight years in the Elite 2nd Ranger Battalion, and six of those as an Army Ranger Sniper. | ||
| But today we get a chance to learn how to become an American sniper with one of the best of the best, shooting America's finest steel thanks to Spike's Tactical. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, it was really fun. | ||
| The cure for male loneliness? | ||
| Going to the gun range. | ||
| And putting lead down range. | ||
| That's the cure, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Like, this was... | ||
| It's just... | ||
| It's good for the soul. | ||
| I couldn't encourage it enough. | ||
| One, you're practicing your Second Amendment rights. | ||
| If we don't practice our rights, we lose them. | ||
| Two, it's important to be trained, obviously, on the legal firearms that you own and be a good and responsible legal firearm owner. | ||
| And then three, find me a person that goes and blows up like a teddy bear full of tannerite, and you should see the entire video on. | ||
| You can watch the entire thing. | ||
| It's a 10-minute video about everything that we fired and had a lot of fun doing it. | ||
| Find me somebody who blows up a teddy bear with a sniper rifle and, like, isn't smiling afterwards. | ||
| Find me that person. | ||
| Not possible. | ||
| You, like, you naturally smile. | ||
| I know there's tons of legal, responsible firearm owners in the audience. | ||
| Like, when you, when you, when you're, the barrel of the gun is smoking, right? | ||
| And you're, like, when the barrel of the gun's smoking and you just were, like, on target and you were just on target. | ||
| Like, when you're done, when the cycle, the magazine cycle is done, you're smiling. | ||
| You're just naturally, like, grinning. | ||
| It is a high, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| It's a natural high. | ||
| It's the high that you feel when you practice your rights, your natural rights. | ||
| The rights that were given to you by God. | ||
| Given to you by your creator. | ||
| That is what this country is built upon. | ||
| Private property, you know, private property is one of those rights, right? | ||
| To be able to, like, work for and keep what you work for. | ||
| That's intrinsic. | ||
| That's a natural right. | ||
| And so we must protect them. | ||
| And when you use them, it makes you happy. | ||
| Because God is actually here. | ||
| God, like, designed this world, and its original design was for the joy of mankind and as a paradise. | ||
| And so tap into that. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, you can also tap into that with the verse of the day from 2 Samuel, our verse of the day. | ||
| My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge, my savior, you save me from violence. | ||
| Very, very good message for us here. | ||
| It's important to arm yourselves. | ||
| It's important to protect yourself and defend yourself and be capable of violence. | ||
| Jordan Peterson talks a lot about this. | ||
| To be a man who's capable of violence, but is a peaceful man at base level. | ||
| Nobody's ever scared of a man who's incapable of violence or a weakling, right? | ||
| You must be strong. | ||
| But know this, that there is a strength far beyond anything that we have in our human capacity, and that is God's strength. | ||
| God is our rock and our refuge and our shield and our salvation. | ||
| Make God your stronghold this week. | ||
| We're going to have a hell of a week! | ||
| So hang on tight, right, to that stronghold. | ||
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| I think we did actually put that together. | ||
| Rolls Royce? | ||
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| No, no, no. | ||
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