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May 30, 2024 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson
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Trump Trial VERDICT Live! Jury Ready To Declare Donald Trump NOT GUILTY | Biden Regime in PANIC 🚨
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Main
alina habba
admin 06:30
benny johnson
03:18:54
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brett tolman
05:36
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christina bobb
07:38
donald j trump
admin 08:35
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jack brewer
18:17
jonathan turley
05:37
kari lake
18:11
kash patel
admin 06:34
lara trump
fox 08:41
mike benz
34:01
mike davis
12:23
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monica crowley
16:49
nancy mace
rep/r 10:34
stephen miller
admin 16:45
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tom fitton
11:55
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troy e nehls
rep/r 05:26
Appearances
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andy mccarthy
03:44
anna paulina luna
rep/r 00:59
brooke singman
fox 00:57
byron donalds
rep/r 01:46
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donald trump-jr
00:47
eric trump
00:32
harry enten
cnn 01:32
jd vance
admin 01:08
jesse watters
fox 01:19
john roberts
fox 00:55
judge jeanine pirro
fox 02:03
karoline leavitt
admin 00:51
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kerri urbahn
fox 00:46
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lydia hu
fox 01:50
mike johnson
rep/r 00:58
rachel maddow
msnow 00:44
shannon bream
fox 04:08
ted cruz
sen/r 01:49
tucker carlson
dailycaller 01:33
vivek ramaswamy
r 00:58
Clips
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andrew weissmann
00:19
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carley shimkus
fox 00:04
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eric bolling
00:06
joe biden
d 00:03
matt gaetz
oann 00:04
peter doocy
fox 00:03
sandra smith
fox 00:13
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todd piro
fox 00:03

Speaker Time Text
Jury Deliberates Trump Case 00:15:07
todd piro
The criminal trial will resume deliberations in just a few hours.
carley shimkus
Brooke Singman is here with what we're expecting when court is back in session.
unidentified
Hi, Brooke.
Hey, guys.
brooke singman
Yeah, those 12 jurors will return to court at 930 this morning, and they'll continue deliberating for a second day after leaving the courthouse yesterday with no verdict.
So while deliberating, the jury submitted two notes to Judge Mershon.
They asked for five things, including David Pecker and Michael Cohen's testimonies about a meeting they had with Donald Trump back in 2015.
During that meeting, prosecutors alleged they discussed a conspiracy to get Trump elected by killing negative stories about him.
Jurors also asked the judge to read the jury instructions back to them again.
Former President Trump is required to stay inside the courthouse while the jury deliberates.
He spoke with reporters in the courthouse hallway during day one.
unidentified
Watch.
donald j trump
Confusion is nobody knows what the crime is because there's no crime.
Nobody knows what the crime is.
The D.A. didn't name the crime.
They don't know what the crime is.
unidentified
That's what the problem is.
donald j trump
It's a disgrace.
This thing ought to be ended immediately.
unidentified
and save his reputation.
brooke singman
The former president also urged the New York Court of Appeals to expedite their review of his gag order, which bars him from talking about anyone involved in the case, including witnesses.
Meanwhile, Texas Senator Ted Cruz says this is all political.
ted cruz
The Constitution does not apply in New York, which means if we get a conviction, it will be reversed on appeal.
But the judge doesn't care.
The prosecutor doesn't care.
This is all about the press conference, the national address that Joe Biden has scheduled to give from the White House, where he gloats, we've now convicted Donald Trump.
This is all about November.
brooke singman
Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records, and he has pleaded not guilty.
unidentified
Guys.
Brooke, good setup.
Hey, loving man.
Oops.
What is that now?
The 12 hands in a row?
Nobody's that lucky.
Whatever do you mean?
Maybe poker's just not your game.
I know.
Let's have a spelling contest.
How about if I just wring your stomach down?
Are you taking his part?
I'm the one who got cheated!
benny johnson
Okay, that's a good one, R. Let's go rock and roll.
It's Western Day, high noon, for Donald Trump in New York City.
Verdict Day today, and things are not looking great for Joe Biden and the Democrats who are prosecuting and persecuting Donald Trump for literally zero crimes, for no crimes.
And they're breaking the Constitution by doing it.
We have all of the receipts on this show, baby.
I hope you are ready to buckle up because we are going to rock and roll today all the way through.
The verdict deliberations are happening right now.
The jury is in the court right now deliberating.
They could come back at any time.
And so we are locked and loaded and ready.
The jury, by the way, has sent their third note to the judge to try and figure out what the hell's going on.
And many who we trust.
Who are very, very smart on these kind of topics are saying it's going to be a hung jury.
They're not going to come to a guilty verdict on Donald Trump.
It's going to be a hung jury and it's going to cause absolute chaos and panic and meltdowns for the left.
unidentified
It's going to be glorious.
benny johnson
Hopefully it happens live on this show.
We will be joined live on this show today.
unidentified
Are you ready?
benny johnson
By Representative Nancy Mace.
By Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch.
By Representative Troy Nels.
By Carrie Lake.
By Mike Davis.
By Jack Brewer.
By Monica Crowley.
Laura Trump.
Representative Tim Burchette.
And Stephen Miller.
Along with Mike Benz.
We intend on going all the way through today to a not guilty verdict.
Which is what you would get with a hung jury.
To a not guilty verdict.
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unidentified
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unidentified
Okay, baby.
benny johnson
Let's lock and load.
The Donald Trump trial is officially over.
And the judge is doing everything that he possibly can to unconstitutionally rig and or upset the jury pool, confuse them into not knowing what's going on, into not having proper orders and instructions.
And this seems to be the newest plot by the Democrats who have manufactured and have effectively paid this guy off.
This is what his daughter is, okay?
This judge's daughter is a conduit for Democrats to fork money.
There's no reason for some 20-year-old dingbat.
A fundraiser?
I know how politics works.
Like, little 20-year-olds don't get this kind of stuff.
They plotted this.
They chose this guy's daughter for a reason.
And they have been forking money into her bank accounts.
Adam Schiff, Cory Booker, all the rest of them.
They forked money into her accounts in order to get this judge on their side.
And now they're hopefully getting what they paid for.
unidentified
Hopefully for them.
benny johnson
But it's not happening the way they thought it would happen.
So we are now in jury deliberation day two.
All day yesterday, the jury, by this time yesterday, had gone in to deliberate whether Trump's guilty or not.
And there's something remarkable that happened when they were sent in.
The judge gave them a menu, a menu of what crimes Donald Trump could potentially be guilty of.
Never seen anything like it.
It's totally and wholly unconstitutional.
It is remarkable.
This is the Sarah Bedford tweet here.
Let's go ahead and put this up.
This is the by unlawful means.
So in America, there is very firm Supreme Court rulings that declare that a jury must, a jury must come to a unanimous verdict.
So this is really important.
This is called Ramos versus Louisiana in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Spells out these principles clearly and concisely.
Clearly and concisely.
That the jury must have unanimity in guilt.
Otherwise, you're violating the principles of unanimity, and you're violating the principles of a jury trial in the first place.
You can't just have one guy think you're guilty, and then you're guilty.
Yet, this, as we covered yesterday, but it was happening live, these jury instructions were happening live, so it was hard to really sink our teeth into it.
unidentified
This...
benny johnson
Is there a way, their last ditch effort to try and rig the trial against Trump?
And I'll explain to you exactly why and what their end result is going to be.
This is what their end result is effectively to try and lock Donald Trump into his skyscraper in New York under house arrest and to stop him from campaigning.
To effectively prevent him with a gag order, like lock him up in a tower with a gag order and stop him from campaigning.
This is the end result.
You don't live in a free country.
You live in a deeply Deeply corrupt evil system that is fascistic by nature.
We're going to change that when you take back this place.
But ladies and gentlemen, these are the jury instructions, okay?
unidentified
So here we go.
benny johnson
By unlawful means!
So this is the first time we've been able to see the jury instructions printed out.
The jury can't see them printed out, by the way.
An important thing to note.
The jury is not allowed to read these instructions.
The judge refuses to print out the jury instructions.
That's why the jury has gone back three times.
To the judge to ask for clarification and to get him to read off the instructions again.
Members of the corporate media even are saying that this is insanity.
But let's go ahead and read.
This is a purely and wholly unconstitutional order.
You want to talk about overturning this on appeal?
I want to talk about criminal prosecution for this judge.
unidentified
Let's go.
benny johnson
These are his instructions to the jury.
Although you must conclude unanimously that the defendant conspired to promote or prevent an election of a person's public office by unlawful means, you need not be unanimous on what those unlawful means were.
This is directly from the judge.
We did not have this yesterday.
We talked about it, but now we've been able to sink our teeth into it.
In determining whether the defendant conspired to promote or prevent the election of any person's or public office by unlawful means, you may consider the following.
Violations of the Federal Elections Campaign Act, otherwise known as the FECA.
Falsification of business records or violations of tax laws.
So this is the judge saying, you're not allowed, you don't have to, you don't have to find Donald Trump guilty of one of these things.
You can just decide between a menu of them and then I'll find Donald Trump guilty for you.
Like, recognize this moment that we're living in.
Not only are they defying, Supreme Court precedent.
And let's go ahead and pull up that Supreme Court decision because I want everyone to know about it.
Ramos versus Louisiana.
Let's go ahead and grab that decision because it's really, really important.
Not only are you defying the Supreme Court orders here, but what you're doing is you're creating the greatest possible number of variables to prosecute Donald Trump.
Donald Trump isn't charged with any of these things.
This is what I can't wrap my head around.
With all of the guests that we have today, we're so excited to, like, get, like, we're going to be live for hours.
We're going to bring you all the breaking news.
This is going to be your headquarters for all the breaking news out of this trial today.
I really look forward to asking some of the legal scholars that we have about this, particularly Mike Davis.
But we have multiple legal scholars joining the show today.
Tom Fitton as well from Judicial Watch.
So here's Ramos versus Louisiana on unanimity.
The Supreme Court does not mince words.
You must have a unanimous jury verdict for guilt.
A single juror can make it a hung jury.
And then with a hung jury, as this ruling enumerates, with a hung jury, then the accused is immediately set free and allowed to go and can never be charged again based on double jeopardy principles.
And Donald Trump is allowed to go without so much as a slap on the wrist with a hung jury.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is what we should be hoping for.
What's incredible about this order is that Donald Trump isn't charged with any of these things.
I just can't wrap my head around this.
So the FBC, the Federal Elections Commission, decided not to charge Donald Trump with this.
This was all brought up in 2017-2018.
The DOJ decided not to charge Donald Trump with these things.
Violation of tax laws?
Well, then where's the IRS?
unidentified
The IRS here?
benny johnson
Donald Trump, and let's put up the jury instructions one more time here.
Donald Trump was not charged with these crimes.
The judge is legitimately making up crimes based on your priors.
Or what you can just allude, like, shadows and ghosts and mirrors.
What you think about Donald Trump, given the available evidence.
It's a really important thing to make sure that we, like, drill down on.
That that's how rigged this trial is.
So, ladies and gentlemen, to the live updates from the trial.
Let's rock and roll.
I really wanted to cover that.
Really wanted to cover that.
Uh, this, this morning and just get right, right into like what Donald Trump is facing because many are, you know, many are one of our favorite commentators, Jonathan Turley is comparing this to a trapped animal inside of a, like a rigged hunt, right?
Where like the animal has no way out.
So you're going to like, there's like ranges in Texas where like, you can go, you can go hunt a bison, but the bison's caged.
So it can only go so far.
And you're going to find it, and then you're going to be able to get it.
And this is what the judge has done now, trapping Trump and trapping the jury, who again has gone back and rang the judge three times to say, we don't really understand what the hell you've given us here as jury instructions.
In fact, before we get to Trump's comments today, I want to show you a corporate media, ABC News reporter, who outside of the courthouse is like, Nobody really understands why the judge won't just give the jury instructions to the jurors.
None of this makes any sense.
We've never seen anything like this before.
Outside of wantonly attempting to rig this trial, we don't understand what's happening.
unidentified
Check this out.
These are the instructions that the jury has to follow in Donald Trump's hush money trial before they can reach a verdict.
53 pages.
This is complicated.
This is lengthy stuff.
It took the judge over an hour to read it.
But guess what?
The jury doesn't get this in the room during deliberations.
They have to write questions.
They can write notes.
But they don't get these instructions.
In New York, both parties have to agree and the judge has to agree.
And in this case, it didn't happen.
Creating Juror Confusion 00:09:58
unidentified
They don't have this in the room right now.
benny johnson
So, these are corporate media reporters being like, We don't even know.
Like, this doesn't make any sense.
53 pages?
An hour to get through these jury instructions?
The jury doesn't even get the instructions?
unidentified
Yeah.
benny johnson
The point is to create confusion, to be able to browbeat the jurors, and to be able to exhaust them into one of the menu of options that the judge has given for the prosecution, persecution of Donald Trump.
With the intended and stated goal of locking Donald Trump in Trump Tower.
Because in the state of New York, as soon as a jury comes to guilty on any charge and the judge has said, you could just decide he's guilty on one of these three charges.
All I need is every juror to decide he's guilty on one of the charges.
You realize the game they're playing now?
So they never said the crime for Donald Trump.
They never, they're not charging with these, but the judge is saying Trump's guilty of these.
And all you have to do is like, every juror needs to just pick one of the three options.
And then I'll combine them all to say Trump's guilty.
It's wholly unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court should step in and stop this now.
Judge Mershon should be locked up in Guantanamo Bay.
This is so egregious.
We look forward to talking to Laura Trump about this again on the show.
We have multiple members of Congress.
It's going to be a wild show.
Ladies and gentlemen, before we're able...
To fill the entire day and bring you all the breaking news from this trial, we want to let the president speak.
Donald Trump is gagged.
Donald Trump is gagged, and the judge could well, if they come back with a guilty verdict, continue the gag on Donald Trump, stop him from speaking during the campaign for presidency, stop him from debating Joe Biden, right, or countering Joe Biden in a debate that's happening in less than 30 days.
And then the judge could lock him in Trump Tower.
He could say, okay, I'm not going to put you in prison, but I'm going to put you under home arrest.
You're going to be under home arrest for the entire rest of the campaign.
This could well be what the judge decides, and this may well be the play.
This is why the judge's daughter is filthy rich and gets hundreds of millions of dollars because this entire operation was hatched a couple years ago in order to bring these charges with this specific judge.
None of it's random.
And to lock up Donald Trump when he runs for president again.
This is what you're seeing playing out.
Now, before we get to Donald Trump quickly today, I spent the entire evening praying.
You should pray too.
If you are a believer, you should pray.
God is a God of miracles.
And he's also a God of truth.
And there has been no truth in this trial.
He brought known liars and literal demons up on the stand to testify against Donald Trump.
You should pray for a single juror.
All there needs to be is one juror.
Typically it's one crime, but it needs to be one juror to say he's not guilty of any of these crimes.
Then you have a hung jury.
Then it's over.
unidentified
Then it's finished.
benny johnson
And by American law, Donald Trump walks free at that instant.
And the state has no more power.
So that's what you should be praying for.
Ladies and gentlemen, here is Donald Trump this morning at the courthouse.
As ever, we will only play.
We will allow the president's full commentary and allow the president to speak.
Talking about, I just wanted to like build in the details here because the more we research them, the more insane it actually gets.
When they call it a rigged trial, it is by definition a rigged trial.
So here, ladies and gentlemen, is the president, Donald Trump, speaking this morning.
unidentified
Thank you very much.
donald j trump
Here we go again.
unidentified
Five weeks.
I've been here again.
donald j trump
I'd like to answer all of your questions.
They're very easy questions to answer, but I'm gagged, so I can't talk as much as I would like to about this ridiculous case that's hurting our country so badly.
Some of the reviews from yesterday are the...
By the way, everyone's against this case.
I haven't seen one legal scholar or expert in the law saying that this case should have been filed.
It should not have been filed.
Or at a minimum, it should have been filed seven years ago.
It's seven years old.
Everybody turned it down, including federal elections turned it down.
Southern District turned it down.
Bragg turned it down.
Then he rejuvenated it when I was running for office.
unidentified
It's a terrible thing.
donald j trump
At the request of Biden, the editors of the National Review saying, quit Trump.
Bragg has failed to prove his charges.
unidentified
Totally failed.
Greg Jarrett.
donald j trump
Who exactly was defrauded?
Voters who had already voted.
Well, they already voted because all of the stuff came in after the election.
So how were they defrauded?
And then you say, what about Hillary with the dossier?
What about all of these other things that go?
unidentified
And this is nothing.
donald j trump
This is nothing.
But what about all of the corruption, the voter fraud?
That you've seen over the last year on behalf of the Democrats and nobody talks about it?
This is ridiculous what they're talking about.
unidentified
This is called running for office.
donald j trump
Greg Jarrett, the government which received full payment on all taxable income.
The government, by the way, received full payment.
The taxes were paid in full.
In fact, they make comments on that.
Even if the taxes were paid in full, the Federal Elections Commission...
That concluded the money paid did not constitute a campaign contribution under the law.
And remember, this judge wouldn't allow us.
Look, he's a very conflicted judge.
unidentified
Everybody knows that.
donald j trump
You don't want to talk about what the conflict was.
I'm not allowed to talk about it because of a gang order that he put on me.
So one subject he really doesn't want to talk about.
There was no fraud.
There was no conspiracy.
unidentified
It's that simple.
donald j trump
Moreover, without a primary crime, there can be no secondary crime.
It's a classic lawfare, weaponizing statutes, because the law has been...
unidentified
Okay, right?
donald j trump
Because no law has been broken.
That was Greg Jarrett.
Ellie Honig, legal analyst for CNN.
The crime here is not easy to explain or to understand.
It's just not understandable.
In other words, there is no crime.
unidentified
This is CNN.
donald j trump
Catherine Christian from MS. NBC, I call it MSDNC, legal analyst.
It's difficult because it's a very nuanced argument.
It's never been prosecuted before.
This is an argument that has never been prosecuted before.
And hopefully it'll never be prosecuted again.
unidentified
Andy McCarthy.
donald j trump
This is anything but standard.
It's the antithesis of standard, actually.
The idea that they do not have to agree on what the other crime is.
We spent six weeks wondering.
What is the other crime?
unidentified
What is the other crime?
donald j trump
And at the end, the thud we all get is this.
There's three or four of them, and you could pick one from the other, and they don't have to agree on anything.
And what he's saying is it's so corrupt.
Nobody's ever heard of a thing like this.
It's called pick 'em.
It's like the lottery.
unidentified
Pick 'em.
You pick 'em.
donald j trump
And you don't have to be, even though in a criminal case you have to be unanimous, you don't have to be.
Just give a couple of votes because the judge, unfortunately, is corrupt.
Judge Jeanine Pirro, no one has heard of this.
It's like there's a menu column A, B, or C. You don't have to agree on it.
This is a kangaroo court.
This is unheard of.
unidentified
I've never seen anything like it.
donald j trump
I've done this for 32 years.
I'm not a federal prosecutor or a state prosecutor, so I know what I'm talking about.
I'm not a federal judge.
I'm a county judge, just like Mercia.
This is New York law, and this is my wheelhouse.
He is 100% wrong.
unidentified
He's wrong.
donald j trump
That's what Jeanine Pirro, very good woman, very smart woman.
unidentified
Jonathan Turley.
donald j trump
This is becoming a three-card Monty game on where is the crime?
Smart guy.
Where is the crime?
Mike Davis, the U.S. would sanction a country for doing this.
unidentified
I think that's good.
donald j trump
I think that's good.
Steve Hilton, it seems that every single day these proceedings go on, the judge and the prosecutor just go out of their way to prove Trump's point.
And I guess they are proving my point when you think.
That's why I write some of these things that are very sad.
Mark Levin, this Stalinist-like case, it's a Stalinist-like case.
It has prevented President Trump from running for office.
It has prevented him from campaigning.
He's unable to campaign because he's been in a courthouse for five weeks.
And yet we just had a ball came out, NPR.
Trump's 54, Biden's 42. And that's with independence.
unidentified
That's the best we've ever had.
donald j trump
They said this is the single best ball that Trump has ever had with independence.
Trump's largest lead.
Among independent voters, NPR, Barris College, 44-28, and Junior is way down, way, way down.
But it's 44. Junior is extremely liberal, by the way, extremely radical left.
unidentified
I think you know that.
donald j trump
But he seems to be hurting Biden probably a little bit.
unidentified
So that's it.
donald j trump
It's a disgrace.
The millions and millions of dollars that are spent daily on this case.
The System Is Rigged 00:05:17
donald j trump
Outside, it looks like it's Fort Knox.
Like they're guarding this.
I've never seen so many policemen.
Now, with Columbia University, you can plant a tent right in front of the main door, no problem.
NYU, just put your tent up.
unidentified
Don't worry about it.
Over here.
donald j trump
But I just want to say that this is a very sad day for America.
The whole world is watching.
And it's a very sad day for New York.
I've gone through two of these trials already.
It's the same kind of a judge.
unidentified
It's all worked.
It's all rigged.
donald j trump
The whole thing, the whole system is rigged.
Judge N. Gorin was overturned five times in my case.
And he's going to be overturned again.
And we were treated very, very badly.
And the outside world is watching.
And the outside world is just not going to bring their business to New York.
And that's going to cost the city trillions and the state trillions and trillions of dollars.
unidentified
Businesses are leaving.
donald j trump
And people are fleeing.
You can see the quotes yourself.
unidentified
And thank you all very much.
We'll comment later on in the evening.
But we'll be here.
It looks like a long time.
Thank you.
benny johnson
So we'll be here.
It looks like a long time, Donald Trump says as he rips through headlines, saying that nobody's ever seen anything like this before.
Yet we have.
It's amazing.
Donald Trump doesn't have enough time, obviously, to get into it.
But we have seen this exact thing.
unidentified
Play out before.
benny johnson
Hillary Clinton, when she was running for president in 2016, paid for a lie, something called the PP dossier.
It was a rat's nest of lies about Donald Trump, her opponent in that race.
She laundered that to the press to rig an election.
To open up an investigation into Donald Trump, which was the intended result that resulted in the three-year-long Russiagate hoax, Robert Mueller, you might recall, that they found nothing.
And Hillary Clinton then, on her Federal Elections Commission form, where you have to itemize campaign expenditures like this, called this legal services.
Now...
Take all of that on his face.
I know we're getting a little far into it, and it might be a little boring to you, but I can show you articles here.
ALX, let's go ahead and grab an article on this.
This is not the right article, Klein.
I can show you articles of Hillary Clinton having to pay massive campaign fees and violation fees to the FEC for...
Doing exactly what they have Donald Trump on trial for right now.
Hillary Clinton had to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars and the DNC had to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for incorrectly itemizing the PP dossier.
For doing precisely what they're trying to put Trump in prison for doing right now.
We don't talk about it enough.
They're going after Donald Trump.
For campaign finance violations, for attempting to influence an election by covering up a story and then incorrectly itemizing that in your expenditures.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is by definition what Hillary Clinton did with a far worse piece of odious pack of rats lies that they paid for about Donald Trump.
Through Christopher Steele, literally paying for Russian disinformation to smear Trump and spread that all about the media.
This is what Clinton did.
She hasn't caught a case for this and never will, presumably.
And the evil of it all, it makes your skin crawl.
The evil of it all makes your skin crawl.
How can we live?
How can the country continue at this pace?
Like, when the system is so Stalinist and so rigged against a nationalist movement that wants to put this country first by the literal demons here on your screen that are doing the exact same thing and never catch a case for it, and far worse.
The crimes of the Clintons, this is a misdemeanor.
The crimes of the Clintons, if you really want to see the beginnings of them, Then go ahead and read the Jeffrey Epstein documents.
Go see what they did in Haiti.
But here's just a good, this is a good appetizer for what the Clintons are guilty of.
Will they ever catch a case?
Will the Bidens ever catch a case?
Well, in a just country, yes.
But just a reminder of what they're doing to Donald Trump.
Same thing with the documents.
There was no FBI raid on Joe Biden's house.
There was no guns drawn.
Embarrassing Courtroom Photos 00:15:25
benny johnson
Embarrassing photographs.
unidentified
Rigged.
benny johnson
Crime scenes.
unidentified
That were released.
benny johnson
They're not charging Joe Biden.
They're not charging Joe Biden.
They said Joe Biden's too mentally unfit to be president.
So we're not going to charge him.
If they didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards at all.
And so here we are, ladies and gentlemen.
Is this bothering Donald Trump?
Does Donald Trump look worried to you?
Here, ladies and gentlemen, from yesterday is our first video ever of Donald Trump.
Inside of the courthouse.
There are no cameras allowed in the courthouse.
There are no photos allowed in the courthouse.
But Don Jr. decided in the sort of waiting pen that they locked Donald Trump in like an animal to post a really hysterical video from yesterday that's heartwarming and says a lot about the Trump family.
And we thought you'd enjoy it as well.
unidentified
Here we go.
I'm here with your favorite president.
We're cranking out a couple of mean tweets at the courthouse.
Why don't you read that last one?
Because I think it's pretty accurate.
Well, I think I'm going to put it out instead of reading it.
But I know my son's doing very well on social media.
I'm proud of him.
Stay tuned.
It'll be a doozy.
benny johnson
So this was Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr. together with, as we were able to investigate, a box of Milk Duds, some Lay's potato chips.
And Trump writing mean tweets behind the scenes at the court.
Donald Trump laughing and in good spirits and complimenting his son and saying his son's great at social media.
A beautiful sort of insight into the Trumps.
They're laughing.
They're smiling.
I don't know how they do it.
I don't know how they do it.
The point of all this, of course, is to humiliate and break a man.
And Donald Trump seems to be...
Now, what was the mean tweet that Donald Trump was sending?
Well, here's the post on Truth Social.
He was talking about Shannon Bream, Shannon Bream being a naive reporter and not being willing to admit that it is, in fact, Joe Biden who is running all of these attacks against Trump.
Alina Habba, friend of the show, was on Fox News yesterday.
And told Shannon Bream, who's the on-air legal personality, you know, this is like, these are Biden trials.
This is Joe Biden trying to lock up and cage his political opponent who's beating him in every single poll.
And Shannon Bream, to her great shame, we know Shannon Bream, she's great.
I mean, I lived in D.C. for 15 years.
We would run into Shannon Bream.
She's a very nice person.
But to her great shame, she did what every corporate media person does.
And I know this because I've worked for corporate media before and I've had shows on cable TV.
They engage in the hive mind boilerplate responses where they are not allowed to just see the evidence in front of their faces.
And they're not allowed to just, like, come to the conclusion.
You're not allowed to notice.
Certain things, if you work in corporate media.
And this clip is a perfect example of that.
unidentified
Here we go.
benny johnson
Lena Habba with Shannon Bream yesterday.
alina habba
This is exactly a Biden show because he's got to distract the American people.
shannon bream
Listen, but the Biden administration is not responsible for this trial.
alina habba
How can you say the Biden administration is not responsible for this trial?
shannon bream
It's a state trial.
It's Alvin Bragg.
Whether you think there's a political motive for him, it's not connected to the DOJ.
I mean, the Fed's passed on these election charges.
alina habba
Shannon, you should look at how many logs they have of state officials, Letitia James, Fannie Willis, visiting the White House and then tell me that...
This is not a Biden trial.
I don't care.
shannon bream
Feds passed on this case is the point I'm making.
unidentified
You're right.
alina habba
The feds passed on this case.
Also, D.A. Cy Vance passed on this case.
unidentified
Years ago, and then it came back.
alina habba
And Brad passed on this case.
unidentified
You know when it came back?
alina habba
When he decided to run for office.
So tell me how that's not an indication that Joe Biden, who just sent his campaign down here with Robert De Niro yesterday, isn't a part of this.
Frankly, any question that we had of that was squashed yesterday.
And if you have even more concerns about whether he's involved in this, look at the fact that he is publicizing, literally publicizing for tonight to have a speech if a verdict comes out.
That's a sad state of affairs.
Meanwhile, our country is falling apart.
unidentified
He's got bigger fish to fry.
benny johnson
So, ladies and gentlemen, this was what Donald Trump was posting the mean tweet about.
This is what Donald Trump watched on Fox News, presumably Fox News is on, inside of the polling pen that they have Donald Trump in.
And Donald Trump...
Loved his attorney, Alina Habba, pushing back on that line of questioning.
But it also begs the question, like, how can you not see this?
How are you so blind?
It is broken, hive mind, corporate media pablum that breaks people.
And when you do interviews, you have a producer in your ear.
That's screaming at you.
Oh, you can't say it's a Biden trial.
unidentified
Can't say it's a Biden trial.
No evidence, no evidence, right?
benny johnson
No evidence of a Biden trial.
Even though there is nothing but evidence laid before you.
This is why it's so important to not base your media companies out of Manhattan.
This is why Tucker Carlson was fired from Fox, along with Dan Bongino, along with Steve Hilton.
All the America First people were fired from Fox.
Ask yourself why.
You can't base your media company where the...
Pool of talent you have to pull from is the most Democrat district in America in downtown Manhattan.
Same with the jury pool here.
So while Shannon Bream, who's a very nice person, is doing that interview, a producer who most likely is intending on voting for Joe Biden, voted for Joe Biden in 2020, and is voting for Joe Biden in 2024, is in her ear saying, Joe Biden's not a fraud of this trial.
There's no evidence of that, right?
Can't just connect the dots.
Meanwhile, obviously, when Hillary Clinton produces and does far worse, produces a PP dossier saying that Donald Trump is a Russian agent, then all there is is connecting the dots.
Well, I mean, the document said it.
The dossier said Donald Trump's a Russian agent.
So, I mean, it must be.
It just stands to reason, right?
Donald Trump once said something nice about it.
Vladimir Putin.
He once had a vodka brand, Trump vodka.
So he must be a Russian nation.
The world can't continue like this.
It's why corporate media is failing.
It's why channels like ours are ascending.
And it's why we would never base our company inside the most Democrat district, our free speech America first company, inside the most Democrat district in America.
You've got to be smarter.
unidentified
I hope.
benny johnson
Fox News closes up shop in New York and moves to Nashville or something.
This is what they should do.
You should get out of these areas because the talent and the staffing, they're not going to be on your side.
You're going to have embarrassing moments like that.
However, there are some Trump supporters that are outside of the court.
You see Donald Trump smiling and happy in these videos.
Perhaps it's because Donald Trump sees these people when he leaves the courthouse every single day.
Here are some interviews with the Trump, MAGA, America First patriots out front of the courthouse, standing strong.
unidentified
I love this man.
He is innocent of all charges.
This is a judicial lynching.
He did nothing wrong.
He will be found innocent.
But even if he isn't, and he's railroaded by the Democratic Marxist Party, I will vote for him regardless of the outcome.
I'm with him 100%.
Tell me, what brings you out today?
I see the Trump hat.
Because I love Trump, and I love what he did for me and my people, black people.
He really helped us out.
What they doing right now, this is like really ridiculous.
Court cases and everything that they doing towards him is like trying to get him to be, they trying to just stop him from the momentum from winning the election, but it ain't happening, man.
We with Trump.
Black people, we really with Trump, though.
Like, that's just what it is.
A big part of the Biden campaign is he's advocating that he's for black America.
What do you say to that?
Biden ain't for no black America.
I lost everything since Biden been in.
I had a whole limousine business.
I had a whole car business selling cars, buying and selling cars.
That all went down the drain when Biden got in.
.
I don't get a free hotel like the immigrants get.
You know, so that is what it is.
I sleep in the car homeless.
Are you from New York City?
Yeah.
What do you say to politicians who think that there's no place for Trump in New York?
He had a rally recently in the Bronx.
We got to get them out of there.
We got to get them out of there.
And I ain't trying to say nothing too drastic or nothing, but it's time for them to get up out of here.
We got to start getting them out of here.
They don't do nothing for us.
AOC don't do nothing for us.
Well, I'm praying and hoping for a not guilty verdict.
I'm praying if he goes to jail, that will just increase his popularity.
It increases popularity and increases poll numbers because we are all behind him and we believe he's being railroaded and being, you know, judicially lynched, as I said.
This is a political persecution and I'm outraged.
They should be going after the real criminals in this city, the ones who are raping women, raping kids, committing murders, selling drugs.
Why are these people running around loose when Donald Trump is on trial?
I'm just so angry right now, I can't even express myself.
But whether he goes to jail or not...
I'm pulling the lever for Donald Trump.
Days for Trump.
I love the man.
Do you have any feeling about the outcome of this trial today?
The what?
Do you have any feeling about the outcome of this trial today?
I think more or less they're going to let him go.
I think that's what's going to happen eventually, yeah.
Do you think it'll help or hurt him politically?
I don't really think it would make much of a difference.
Okay.
Because, what they say, Michael Cohen, you know, I don't know.
It's like too much stuff.
It's like so much stuff.
benny johnson
If they put him in jail, do you hear that guy?
The guy beforehand?
The guy beforehand?
If they put him in jail, then it'll make me pull the lever for Donald Trump even more.
Do you believe that?
Shout yourself out in the comment section.
Shout yourself out in the comment section.
We got a comment section rolling all day in front of us.
We are here for the chat.
Let me know.
If they put Donald Trump in prison...
Does it make you want to vote for him more?
In fact, ALX, let's pin a poll on the chat.
Chat is rip-roaring right now.
If they lock Donald Trump in jail, which is a possibility, they're doing everything they can to get it there.
Was that going to make you want to vote for him more or less?
I think you know my answer.
I think I know your answer.
But vote in our poll and let me know in the chat.
Jonathan Turley!
The Manhattan canned hunt.
The Trump jury is out, but the case is in the bag.
The canned hunt, ladies and gentlemen.
This is what one of our favorite political legal pundits and experts has to say about this.
What is a canned hunt?
The instructions of the case raised concerns that the deliberations could become a legal version of a canned hunt where the prey is trapped in a cage, fenced in areas.
To be dispatched.
Elements of the instructions are disturbing in reducing what is required to convict the former president, as we discussed.
Today, the jury began its deliberations in the trial of former President Donald Trump.
Before the jurors left, however, Judge Juan Mershon framed the deliberations in a way that seemed to be less like jury deliberations than a canned hunt.
For many of us, the Trump trial has seemed otherworldly, vaguely familiar proceedings where the common elements of the trial seem to be flipped.
Even before the jury instructions, the trial was controversial for both liberal and conservative commentators.
At the start, closing arguments, most honest observers were still wondering what the prosecutor's allegations of a crime were.
They didn't even understand what the crime was.
Then came the closing arguments around the country.
It is standard for the government to go first with closing arguments to allow the defense to respond.
The government was then given the privilege of a rebuttal after the defense rests.
In New York, the defense must go first, giving the government free reign over its closing with no risk of contradiction from the defense.
With the exception of objections, any abusive or improper arguments are left to the judges to address.
In the case of Juan Mershon, the protection was all but absent as the prosecution engaged in a flagrant violation from offering testimony, uh, unestablished facts to directly contradicting prior instructions.
In one of the most egregious moments, prosecutor Joshua Steinglass told the jury that it is an established fact that former Trump counsel, Michael Cohen committed a federal election law violation on the direct orders of Donald Trump.
Mershon repeatedly said that Cohen's earlier plea could not be used to imply guilt of Trump.
Mershon overruled an objection and Steinglass proceeded.
So that tells you this.
And this is, by the way, reporting from inside of the court.
Jonathan Turley's been there every single day.
Mershon did nothing, as Steinglass told the jury, that Hope Hicks cried in court because she knew that she had destroyed Trump's defense.
Hicks never explained why she cried.
Mershon did nothing, as Steinglass falsely told the jury that the media and the political campaigns do not want Trump to kill or plant stories.
This ignored, for example, that Clinton campaign did precisely and repeatedly the same thing throughout the election.
unidentified
I can't get over this.
benny johnson
I'm so angry about it.
The idea that campaigns don't want bad stories to come out and don't normally practice in killing stories?
That this is some type of, like, crime?
This is not a crime.
There's a First Amendment and there's freedom of the press.
There's also freedom to not publish.
And, like, the founders, like, half the founders owned their own publications.
You're criminalizing free press here.
Show me a powerful person on Earth that hasn't tried to prevent a bad story from coming out.
They're criminalizing Trump for this?
This shows you how thin it's all gotten, ladies and gentlemen.
But then you have to consider the deliberations and the orders to the jury.
The instructions went for the kill and turned the jury deliberations into a canned hunt, says Turley.
First, the judge ruled that the jury does not have to agree on what actually occurred in the case.
Mershon ruled that the government has vaguely referenced three possible crimes, unlawful means to influence an election.
Federal Issue Dismissed 00:15:26
benny johnson
A federal violation, falsification, business records, and tax violation, as we showed you.
The jurors were then told that they could split on what occurred, four jurors accepting each of the three possibilities at 4-4 split.
The court would then consider that a unanimous verdict so long as they agree.
Strangely, this is unconstitutional.
unidentified
Isn't that amazing?
benny johnson
Second, the judge said that he would instruct the jury on the law, but then omitted the key elements and established that there was no federal campaign violation.
Indeed, a blocked legal expert, Ben Smith, former chair of the Federal Election Commission, was going to testify that this could not have been a federal election violation.
Moreover, even if Trump's legal settlement money could be viewed as a federal campaign contribution, it could not have been part of a conspiracy to influence the election.
A contribution could have occurred after the election.
Because that's exactly what happened.
Third, not only does the jury disagree on what occurred, but one of the three crimes is so circular that it is to produce vertigo in the jury room.
The prosecution zapped a dead misdemeanor back to life by claiming it violates violations under New York's election law.
The argument is that the crime committed to further another crime in an unlawful means to influence the election.
However, the other crime can be falsification of business records.
So the jury, or some jurors at least, could find that some documents were falsified and unlawful falsifying documents.
Is this getting confusing to you?
Yeah, that's exactly right.
Vertigo is exactly the right term for this.
Finally, Mershon is allowing conviction based on general intent to defraud any person or entity, a dangerously vague concept in its novel criminal case.
Mershon is largely stuck to the standard jury instructions, but the case is anything but standard.
With ambiguous claims of influencing an election or general intent, the definition can be an invitation for total and complete bias.
Given the instructions and the errors in this trial, it would seem as if acquittal is almost beyond the realm of possibility that leaves either a hung jury or a conviction.
However, framing this case as a failure to protect the rights of the defendant and undermine perceived legitimacy of the proceedings, it...
And any possible verdict, Trump is in a tight cage.
Mershon just left it for the jury to deliver the coup de grace.
We will see.
He remains hopeful that the jurors will find a hung jury.
But there are jurors here that will say, and he has said this repeatedly today, Jonathan Turley, that he expects a hung jury here.
And that's not great signs when they're going back to the judge again and again and again.
So, ladies and gentlemen, we shall see an absolutely wild breakdown and an important moment, obviously, to recognize something.
That the entire system that we view as the American Republic stands to fall if you can simply prosecute your political opponent for non-crimes.
If you can put...
You're a political opponent in jail for nothing.
Then we no longer have a republic.
We're in something like very, very dark and very different from what you were told that this country was when you were being raised.
So what do we have in this country?
It's probably best to talk to a member of Congress about this.
the great congresswoman from South Carolina, Nancy Mace, joins the program now.
you you Congresswoman, I really appreciate you coming on the program today.
Given the fact that we still don't know what crime Donald Trump is committing here and that the Biden campaign is doing campaign rallies outside of the courthouse, at what point do you sort of throw your hands up and say, we just don't live in a republic anymore.
We live in something weirdly Stalinist and really dystopian.
nancy mace
Well, what you're seeing truly is an abuse of power, because whether, you know, whether it was a legitimate crime to prosecute or not, the feds decided not to.
Alvin Bragg doesn't have the jurisdiction to even have this trial going on right now.
And I believe that Joe Biden will do everything in his power through every tool that he has to ensure and guarantee and weight the scale so that Donald Trump can never be elected president.
And you have the left here.
You know, they're talking about, you know, Donald Trump is an affront to democracy, is a threat to democracy.
unidentified
Guess what?
nancy mace
When, not if, but when Donald Trump wins, it is the epitome of democracy, because that'll mean that voters'voices were heard and that there is justice in the system.
Because right now we're all working very hard to make America great again, which was what we should be doing.
We also want to make the American justice system impartial again.
And while we're seeing this every day in the trial of Donald Trump, I have a very independent district, very purple district.
But what I'm hearing from independent people, they feel like it's the American people being prosecuted, the American people being abused, their rights being abused.
And this thing has massively backfired on Joe Biden.
And we want to keep it that way because we need to bring independent voters back into the fold.
We want them to make America great again with all of us.
benny johnson
Yeah, that's such a great point.
And I know your district well, and your victory in your district was a shock.
And I think you've done a spectacular job representing what was a very blue, quite a blue, like a blue and or independent district.
And so, you know, kudos to you.
But also, you would really understand how this is being perceived outside of, let's say, like somebody who's willing to wear a MAGA hat, right?
unidentified
Right.
benny johnson
So what do you constituencies say when they...
When they see, like, Donald Trump, who was never charged with a single crime in his entire life, suddenly facing 700 years in prison.
unidentified
They see the injustice.
nancy mace
And that's what's bringing them back into the Republican fold.
I had two town halls yesterday and a couple of press conferences.
I'm on the campaign trail right now.
And I had a voter come up to me who's independent, who left the party.
He's like, give me a reason.
Give me a reason to vote for Donald Trump.
And you explain all of the injustices that Biden is doing, the judges, the activists, activist judges, and the prosecutors who are political consultants for the DNC, how they're doing this and exposing the threat to the democracy is actually on the left.
And the independent voters, they don't care about the mean tweets anymore.
They just want to have good wages.
They want to have good jobs.
They want to prosper.
They want freedom.
And what they're seeing is that Life was better under Donald Trump.
And they don't want four more years of Joe Biden.
They have now had the opportunity to have two back-to-back presidencies.
And it's clearer than it's ever been before.
We were better off.
We were more prosperous.
We were more free.
There were not these endless wars going on all around the world.
Everybody was better.
Black, white, brown, male, female.
Everyone was better.
And that's what they're seeing today.
And then it's the injustice.
They're seeing, wait a minute, the left has told me for years Donald Trump was a threat to democracy, and yet Joe Biden's having Donald Trump thrown off the ballot, having him prosecuted by a state that doesn't have federal jurisdiction, and watching all the tampering going on.
I mean, Hunter Biden has a case coming up next week, and what was Joe Biden doing last weekend?
Meeting with Hallie, right?
Trying to tamper with the case and witnesses and all those things.
I mean, they're seeing this.
unidentified
They're like, wait a minute.
nancy mace
This could be me.
unidentified
Yes.
benny johnson
And you actually faced Hunter Biden.
Something I'm not sure that you and I have gotten an opportunity to talk about.
You were speaking to Hunter Biden in Congress.
What was that experience like?
unidentified
Well, he showed up to Congress.
During the hearing, yes.
nancy mace
Yeah, for that hearing.
But he showed up with a Netflix camera crew.
unidentified
And I went off.
nancy mace
I mean, I don't like to do that.
But occasionally, someone has earned it.
Hunter Biden earned my wrath and my ire that day.
And he shows up with his camera crew.
This is all one big joke.
No, this is the institution of Congress.
When you don't show up to testify, when we subpoena you.
You should be held in contempt and you should be hauled off to jail for that.
But instead, he made a mockery out of the system, which is what Joe Biden is doing.
It's the Biden family brand.
That is what they do.
They want to make a mockery out of the Constitution, out of Donald Trump and all the values that we stand for, all because they have a little TDS and they don't like some mean tweets, which is insane.
But people are slowly coming to their senses.
And I had a friend call a couple of weeks ago and they voted for Trump in 2016.
They didn't vote for president in 2020.
And they called and they said, we cannot have four more years of Joe Biden.
I'm back on the Trump train.
And by the way, a couple of my Democrat friends are going to join me.
They're not going to put it on social media, but we're all going to vote for Donald Trump in November.
And those are the people, Benny, that we have to go after and make sure they feel back at home in the Republican Party.
And they know all of the greatness that Donald Trump brings to the White House and the rest of the nation and the world.
benny johnson
Yeah, I just got chills.
ALX, my producer, can we get that tweet from yesterday where we show the Biden campaign rally versus Trump in Harlem?
So Joe Biden held the campaign.
You talk about...
Black, white Americans.
You're in a very diverse district.
Joe Biden is now desperately trying to appeal to black voters because they've totally abandoned him.
And he held a rally, if you can call it that, a rally yesterday where kids in Philadelphia were required to attend and it was completely and totally empty.
Yet Donald Trump's in Harlem and the overflow crowd is much bigger.
Then Joe Biden's entire rally yesterday reaching out and appealing to black voters.
Perhaps you could tell me how this erosion happened for Joe Biden.
And does he have a chance of winning back this demographic as as you regularly just pop it up?
unidentified
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
Joe Biden is quickly.
benny johnson
You can see here the difference.
unidentified
Yeah.
Oh, my gosh.
That's I haven't seen this yet.
nancy mace
That's that is amazing.
benny johnson
That is so good.
unidentified
Yeah.
benny johnson
So this is here's the this is the this is the blacks for Biden.
nancy mace
Well, Joe Biden is losing black voters at about the same rate Donald Trump is gaining them.
And so when you see this kind of movement happening, people are waking up and they are, look at what Donald Trump did from the pardons to prison reform.
I mean, when he was president in December of 2018, he did a massive prison reform bill, which helped a lot of people and helped black Americans, helped women, all these folks.
unidentified
And he's done it.
nancy mace
He puts his money where his mouth is.
And people are saying, look, Joe Biden, he's a lifelong racist.
He didn't want his kids raised in a racial.
Jungle, according to his words, and you ain't black if you don't vote Democrat, right?
And so I think black voters, I would imagine, are starting to wake up and say, what has the Democrat Party done?
They've made promises for decades, but what have they actually done?
And they're learning, they're looking at Donald Trump, a man who loves freedom, who loves the Constitution, and realizing that kind of freedom and liberty makes the educational system better, gives people higher wages, better jobs, better education.
All of it was better under Donald Trump.
And you're seeing that reflected in these rallies in New York.
benny johnson
Congresswoman, you brought up that this is a federal issue.
Going back to the Trump trial, you brought up this is a federal issue.
unidentified
You obviously...
benny johnson
You have authority as Article 1. You're the first article of the Constitution in Congress, your branch.
And so when you head back to Congress, according to this morning's Cook Political Report, Republicans are favored to keep the House and to win back the Senate, and Donald Trump is favored to be president.
Many in this audience and the chat right now are begging.
For congressional oversight over a system like this.
This would obviously, if you're saying this is a federal issue, I obviously agree with you.
What does that oversight look like from you?
You are obviously willing to confront Hunter Biden.
What would you do to this judge and this trial and this investigation?
How would you provide some type of resolution?
Because everybody is seeing how evil and corrupt and crooked this is.
nancy mace
Well, first, when it's all over and said and done, it is behind us and Donald Trump is president.
We'll have a huge opportunity to go back and look at every single step of the way of what was happening, what injustices were done, what abuses of power were done.
And then from that standpoint, when you have hearings, there has to be some sort of legislative component, policy or bill or change to the system to make it to have more justice, to ensure that the abuses don't exist.
And we've got to call these people.
And heads have to roll.
People have to get fired.
We have to do something in this country.
I'm sick and tired of having a hearing, making us feel good.
We're on the right side of history.
No, that is no longer good enough.
We have to actually take action and make sure this never happens ever again.
And that's going to take finding Republicans that are going to have a backbone and have to make some tough calls, make some tough decisions, and maybe even some tough votes and hear these stories because The left doesn't want to hear this.
They have Trump derangement syndrome.
It's a mental health issue with a lot of these people.
And they just can't contemplate the reality.
And we have to bring the reality with facts, not fiction, and throw it back, but actually do something.
I don't want to see us hold hearings and investigate and then nothing come of it.
Like Benghazi, right?
Somebody should have been fired or some people should have been fired.
But we've got to actually...
unidentified
Do something about it.
nancy mace
And that's what my biggest frustration is right now with Congress is we all talk a good game, but what are we actually, what are we going to do about it?
benny johnson
Yeah, that's right.
I guess this leads to a question, which is enumerated by Donald Trump this morning in his comments, also by Jonathan Turley in his writings, that Hillary Clinton did this, but far worse.
So let's just focusing in on this crime.
She misallocated and misappropriated on her campaign finance forms the Russian dossier as a legal expense and then used it to smear Donald Trump in the media and planted that story.
And this is exactly what they're saying Donald Trump did.
Yet Hillary Clinton gets off by just paying a couple bucks to the FEC and it goes away forever.
Would you be open to looking more into some of the open criminalities of the protected class on the other side?
I think that's what generally would right the ship, is to learn that...
There's going to be a consequence for these styles of behavior?
unidentified
Yeah, 100%.
nancy mace
But it's not just the campaign finance discrepancies, right?
I mean, she did worse with classified information, having it on the server in her bathroom, using bleach bit and a hammer to destroy devices, right?
I mean, purposely obfuscating information from an investigation so it couldn't be found.
I mean, she's done far worse than any accusation anyone's ever accused Donald Trump of doing anything.
And every accusation really is a projection here with the left.
All of it should be on the table.
What's the standard?
Hold everybody to the standard.
I've taken some tough votes, Benny.
I mean, I've gotten in trouble from here and there from time to time.
I get primary for it.
But I try to have the same standard no matter Republican or Democrat.
And we have to be better than the left when we do get back in charge.
We have to put our money where our mouth is.
We have to do what we say we're going to do regarding the border, which we didn't do a few weeks ago with the foreign aid bill, with inflation and spending, with all of these things.
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nancy mace
But also, we've got to make sure that whatever the rules are, what the Constitution says, It is applied equally to everybody, and that fixes the problem, but that takes people with courage.
unidentified
Yeah.
I mean, let's see.
benny johnson
It seems to potentially be the single most rarest element in your profession, Congresswoman Courage.
Donald Trump is posting videos of him laughing behind the scenes and seems utterly unfazed.
Seems like he's aging in reverse.
unidentified
You're very close with the president.
benny johnson
I assume that you speak with him regularly.
He's endorsed you.
Can you give us sort of a game plan, like heading into the next five months?
It's only five months.
That's insane.
Five months from now, Donald Trump will debate Joe Biden.
Donald Trump debased Joe Biden in 25 days.
unidentified
I know.
I cannot wait.
nancy mace
I mean, I don't care what time of night the debate ends.
I'm making my kids stay up to watch.
unidentified
I cannot.
nancy mace
We're going to have full bowls of popcorn, soda, whatever they want, M&Ms.
We're watching that thing.
I cannot wait for that debate.
unidentified
Cannot wait.
benny johnson
So considering what you know about the campaign and working with the president, what's sort of the path forward to victory?
unidentified
Well, two things.
nancy mace
Before I answer that question, I want to say one thing.
A couple weeks ago, I learned that Kevin McCarthy was spending $6 million against me.
We did the math on this thing.
In the middle of Donald Trump's trial, you know, over the days that he's been seeking, he has sought to ask.
unidentified
How am I doing?
How are we doing?
nancy mace
What kind of support and help do you need right now?
And he retweeted or re-socialed his endorsement like two weeks ago because we had reached out and said, hey, this is happening.
And in the midst of everything, every challenge he has right now, he's not thinking about himself.
He's thinking about people that can keep the majority in the House, people that can flip the Senate.
He's thinking about what can we do to make our country great again.
He's not thinking about himself.
He's thinking about...
Us, as Americans, our nation, our country, he's very, very selfless.
And that's just like a behind-the-scenes thing.
unidentified
I was like, how...
nancy mace
Thoughtful is that.
Despite everything that they're throwing at him, he wants to make sure that I'm doing okay and that I am going to win.
And that is the mark of a man that I haven't seen in my lifetime, right?
That he cares so much about his people and our country, that he wanted to check in with us and make sure we had everything that we needed to be successful, number one.
And then number two, the next five months, we've got...
unidentified
We've got conservatives.
nancy mace
We've got traditional Republicans.
We have to go after the middle.
We have to go after the centrist.
We have to go after some of the libertarians.
We need to get people back into the fold to make sure that they vote and they vote for Donald Trump.
And that is the work that we're going to have to do on women, on African-Americans, black and brown Americans, making sure that it's not just a win in November.
This needs to be a mandate.
This needs to be...
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nancy mace
Overwhelming so that Congress, the Senate.
The House, that we have a mandate to go put our money where our mouth is and do what we say we're going to do.
I'm done being just squishy and let's just be soft.
No, we need to actually deport illegals who are here.
We actually need to cut spending so we can stem the tide of inflation.
You know, we need to address women's issues, right?
And he is the man absolutely to do it.
But we got to get those center folks.
We got to get them into the fold.
We want them to vote.
unidentified
We want them to vote for us.
benny johnson
Congresswoman, we are huge fans of yours on this program.
The audience is a huge fan of yours.
For those of you who are not aware of how fearless the Congresswoman is, we have just a little bit of a throwback here.
Just one more minute of your time.
Here's the clip of Congresswoman Mace confronting Hunter Biden to his face.
Everybody else on the committee sits silently as Hunter Biden goes walking in, making a mockery of Congress.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, this is the moment.
And keep in mind that Hunter Biden goes to trial in two weeks in Delaware for gun crimes, which is going to be a remarkable moment.
We hope you'll join us again.
Here we go, ladies and gentlemen.
This is the moment.
unidentified
Chairman Comer.
nancy mace
First of all, my first question is, who bribed Hunter Biden to be here today?
That's my first question.
Second question, you are the epitome of white privilege, coming into the Oversight Committee, spitting in our face, ignoring a congressional subpoena to be deposed.
unidentified
What are you afraid of?
nancy mace
You have no balls to come up here and...
unidentified
Mr. Chairman, point of inquiry.
Mr. Chairman, if the gentlelady wants to hear from Hunter Biden, we can hear from him right now, Mr. Chairman.
Let's take a vote and hear from Hunter Biden.
What are you afraid of?
Are women allowed to speak in here or no?
Are women allowed to speak in here or no?
Could you keep interrupting me?
I'll interrupt the chairman.
I don't know that he's a lady.
nancy mace
I think that Hunter Biden should be arrested right here, right now, and go straight to jail.
Our nation is founded on the rule of law and the premise that the law applies equally to everyone, no matter what your last...
unidentified
Point of order, Mr. Chairman.
benny johnson
Ladies and gentlemen, the great Congresswoman Mace from South Carolina...
Thank you for fighting.
We just love that clip.
Everybody needs to go follow.
177,000 Americans can't be wrong.
And if you're in South Carolina, support Congresswoman Mace.
unidentified
Thank you so much.
NancyMace.org.
Thank you, Benny.
Thank you.
Thank you.
benny johnson
you you you Ladies and gentlemen, really important stuff on the actual gears and mechanisms.
I know this is not...
Generally, our show to go and read deep legal theory or jury instructions is not typically what we spend time on doing.
But this is wild.
It is a rigged hunt against Donald Trump.
You have to read these instructions to fully understand it.
In just a moment, we're going to have the great Tom Fitton on our program, who's getting set right now, comment on it.
But here's just a reminder from Jesse Waters last night of what?
How rigged this trial truly is.
It defies, it defies the Constitution, and it defies common sense.
unidentified
Here we are.
jesse watters
Trump was going to call a witness to say this wasn't against the law.
A judge wouldn't let him.
So listen to what the judge told the jury.
The jury gets to pick what crime Trump's guilty of.
The 12 jurors don't even have to agree on which three charges he's guilty of.
unidentified
It can just be one.
jesse watters
Or any one, two, three charge combination.
And the judge considers that a unanimous verdict.
Convicted.
It's like a crime buffet.
Twelve jurors can go to the buffet.
Each eat different things.
One juror just gets a salad.
The other jurors get meat and potatoes.
Other jurors get salad, meat, and potatoes.
All they have to do is agree on that their meal was delicious.
Even though they didn't even taste everyone else's food.
Fill your plate with misdemeanors, whatever you want, and we'll call it a felony.
This is the first time we've ever seen a case like this in the history of the American legal system and three non-unanimous misdemeanors make a former president and convicted felon.
Now, it's not like they found Trump with gold bars in his closet like Gold Bar Bob.
It's not like Trump filmed his crime spree like Hunter.
If I don't understand it and our lawyers don't understand it, How do you think the jury feels?
benny johnson
Ladies and gentlemen, Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch joins the program live now.
I know that there is some real heavy reporting on fast food prices going up.
But this dollar menu Trump crime situation is beautiful.
Beyond my capacity to understand it, Tom, please help me figure out how they can select the McChicken and the McDouble and then six nuggets and Trump's guilty.
How does this menu of guilt work?
What the hell is going on?
unidentified
I don't know.
tom fitton
As Jesse's pointed out and virtually every lawyer who's looked at it, of course, I'm looking at it.
As head of Judicial Watch, I'm not a lawyer, but I've seen enough of this to know what doesn't make sense.
And I took the time to read the jury instructions.
They're available on the court's website.
And it's a rigged set of instructions.
It's designed to get the jury to the result of a guilty verdict.
Now, the only good news from reading those jury instructions...
Is that because they're making up the law as they go along and there's no good faith basis to accuse them of any of the crimes listed, certainly there was no evidence behind it, and the logic doesn't fit in the sense that, you know, which crime is at issue when and how does it fit in with the underlying issue of messing with documents, none of which has been shown, let alone proven.
It's so confusing.
I could imagine a juror or two or three saying, I'm not doing this.
unidentified
This doesn't make any sense.
tom fitton
And I'm not signing on to this.
So, you know, that's the kind of the slim read I think Trump was probably hoping for, that it's so obviously convoluted and confusing that there's going to be a juror who says, well, you know, if I don't understand it, and they're supposed to make it so I do understand it.
Maybe there's something wrong here, and I'm not going to sign on to this rush to judgment by Judge Merchant, who demonstrates his anti-Trump bias in the way these instructions have been written and conveyed to the jury.
benny johnson
And throughout the trial, I just think the recap of the trial has just been...
Alarming, letting the government go last, not allowing any objections, letting the government have the final say.
Everything has been flipped, and the clear-eyed optimist, assuming that the American justice system is innocent until proven guilty, this seems to be the exact opposite.
tom fitton
No, and in my view, the fact that the jury is even considering these charges is like an indictment of the justice system and Judge Merchant's process.
Because in the ordinary course, after six weeks of a prosecution about nothing, a judge should have looked at the paucity of evidence and said, oh, well, there's nothing here to justify any guilty verdict, so I'm going to direct a verdict and tell the jury or direct the verdict, however one does that under New York law, to acquit President Trump.
But instead, He's not directing a verdict for acquittal, he's written the jury instructions in a way to almost ensure a conviction.
As I've been noting, it's the worst miscarriage of justice I've ever seen in American history, certainly in terms of a political prosecution like this.
And as far as I'm concerned, Robert De Niro...
I mean, everyone was kind of laughing and joking about his ridiculous performance.
And, you know, that's politics, right?
But if it were just politics, I'd be like, oh, yeah, it's just politics.
unidentified
Who cares?
tom fitton
But it's that approach that's informing Judge Merchant and Alvin Bragg.
Throw out all this garbage about President Trump.
Trump is an innocent man.
Not only is he innocent, he didn't do anything wrong in terms of misconduct.
As alleged here, it's not even like, oh, well, that's distasteful, but it's legal.
No, he had a non-disclosure agreement with folks who might say bad things about him.
Nothing unusual about that.
And he paid his lawyer for legal expenses.
benny johnson
This is the thing that...
This is the bee in my bonnet and the thorn in my paw that I can't get my head around because I've done 15 years in the corporate press.
And the idea that Donald Trump's guilty of trying to kill a bad story about him.
What the hell is wrong?
What universe do you live in?
What powerful person...
Back to the times of Noah.
What powerful person doesn't want to stop...
No, I mean,
tom fitton
I go back to the beginning of the Clinton campaigns for his presidency where James Carville and George Stephanopoulos were out there suppressing so-called bimbo eruptions, smearing the women who were raising questions about what Bill Clinton was up to in terms of affairs and assault and such.
And then more recently, you had those 51 intel advisors, intelligence officials, deep staters, signing on to that fake letter about Hunter's laptop, trying to suppress that story, coordinated.
By the Trump campaign and Trump allies, excuse me, the Biden campaign.
Was that a reportable expenditure under the Federal Elections Commission?
If Trump is convicted, all bets are off in terms of prosecutions for all politicians who try to manipulate the media and don't report it on their FEC forms.
All sorts of local prosecutors can now begin.
But, of course, you know that's not going to be the case, right, Benny?
I mean, we say, well, if this happens, just think of what's going to happen to Democrats and Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden and Barack Obama.
Nothing's going to happen to them if the past is any prologue.
And so this is why I think Trump should commit.
And I would be public about it, you know, because I'm judicial watcher.
I say, you know, just tell people what you plan to do.
He should, if he wins the presidency or the next honest president.
I directly hire special counsel to investigate this abuse of him, this collusion, this conspiracy, to violate his civil rights and the civil rights of countless of other Americans under the color of law.
benny johnson
Yeah, so to that point, just talking about collusion, the true collusion here, this daughter of Judge Mershon, you don't have to be particularly high IQ.
I went to community college, but I'm alive and I notice things.
I'm a noticer.
And I'm noticing that she's making hundreds of millions of dollars from Democrats.
And that's not normally how political fundraising works.
Some 20-year-old who has no history in doing that doesn't suddenly get the biggest plum contracts for political fundraising from Democrats, particularly Democrats like Adam Schiff who are investigating Donald Trump.
And this seems like something that has been really orchestrated and kind of a mosaic that's been stitched together.
To get to this judge and to incentivize this judge to do everything possible, knowing that this would be one of the cases they'd need to bring against Trump, along with this judge also has Steve Bannon and Navarro and everybody.
Every big case that's brought in New York somehow goes to this judge.
This seems like they bought the guy off.
That's just what I'm noticing.
This seems like they buy their person.
tom fitton
I just think he's a Democratic activist.
He's a politician.
In judicial robes, he's made donations to the Biden campaign, extreme left campaign organizations that are anti-Trump and pro-Democrat.
And of course, there's nothing wrong with the Biden campaign getting donations from anyone but judges.
And he violated the rules, and he's been dinged by the Judicial Commission.
It's been confirmed in the last week or so.
It's leaked out.
Of course, he hasn't released the letter.
He's the only one who can disclose it.
Saying that dismissed the complaint against him with a caution, meaning there was a finding, based on my understanding of the rules, that he did what he was accused of doing, but they just gave him a slap on the wrist.
He won't even release that letter.
So we have a confirmation he wasn't punished.
And frankly, the way the rules work in New York is if you break the rules, even with a letter of caution, You know, next time around, that cannon will be used against you.
So he broke the rules again, I think, repeatedly in the trial, most notably in his eruption and his breakdown over Mr. Costello's testimony.
Screaming, clear the courtroom, throwing the media out, acting in a way that's not in accordance with the judicial cannons, where judges, you know, Benny, you can start yelling and screaming.
I can start yelling and screaming.
But if I'm a judge on the bench, I'd be breaking the rules because decorum is required of judges.
And you can be forceful and you can enforce the rules, but to lose it is an ethical lapse by him.
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tom fitton
And this is on top of his demonstrated bias against Trump as evidenced by these donations and all these awful rulings, which are more legal questions.
benny johnson
So the man's bias is well documented.
His family using this trial to make a lot of money is well documented.
But what we're seeing now in these jury instructions is what seems to us, once again, just people with a pulse, right?
Observing things and noticing things seems blatantly unconstitutional.
Here, knowing that judicial watch is argued before the Supreme Court and you filed with the Supreme Court, you know the Supreme Court better than any, potentially, you know, any person in Washington.
Maybe you can sound off on this.
Here's the ruling that everybody's talking about this morning, Louisiana versus Ramos.
And in this ruling, they talk about unanimity in juries and what happens when there's a hung jury and what the...
What the stakes actually are, and nobody, this has been established law from the Supreme Court, yet Mershon seems to be defying the Supreme Court by saying there doesn't need to be unanimity.
You can just choose, you can choose the McChicken, McDouble, or the Chicken Nuggets, and I'll just mash them all together, right?
And everybody gets diabetes.
tom fitton
Yeah, I mean, the dispute is, do they need to have a unanimous conclusion about what law allegedly he was trying to violate in messing with the records?
Avoiding the issue of whether he messed with the records is there's no evidence he did so.
There's, you know, that's where you're kind of in this undiscovered territory and not something that our public and our legal system is used to that it effectively leads to.
And if it does lead to this, then it's unconscionable.
One juror can decide that he violated a rule, a law.
The other 11 jurors can think he violated another rule.
In the ordinary course, that disagreement that would lead to a hung jury.
So one juror, in effect, can convict Trump.
And that's not the way our system is supposed to work.
You don't have separate legal decisions or jury verdicts on separate crimes.
And not only is not a majority required, you don't even need more than one juror, in effect.
benny johnson
I know we're tight on time, but can you please just unpack that?
So you don't need more than one juror.
Typically, the way that this has always been framed and the way that, you know, the iconography of the courtroom is there's one holdout, right?
There's one guy that says that this person's not guilty.
And there's entire Hollywood movies, right, about the 12 Angry Men.
But you're saying that this is in reverse for the Trump trial.
tom fitton
Yeah, I mean, typically, you know, they're pretending, the left is pretending, well, this is just like a burglary.
unidentified
You know, you're just...
tom fitton
You just have to be caught going into a house illegally for other legal purposes, and you don't need to say what those legal purposes are.
But this isn't the same law.
The law is contingent on a disclosure and, frankly, a full explanation as to what law he was trying to violate through this alleged manipulation of records.
And the court has said there doesn't have to be a unanimous decision on what that law is.
And he went through the 444 analysis.
You have four jurors believe this was the law he was trying to violate.
This is the law, and this is the law.
unidentified
Well, it doesn't have to be 444.
tom fitton
It could be 1 versus 11, or 2 versus 10. So it doesn't make any sense.
And one of the laws is...
And this is what really struck me reading the jury instructions, is that there's a law that they can find him violating, which is messing with business records.
So they're being asked to find whether he messed with business records in order to violate a law to mess with business records.
That's Alice in Wonderland.
And frankly, I'm charitably describing the absurdity of the process there.
benny johnson
So, on appeal, just really quickly here, on appeal, what's going to happen here?
tom fitton
Well, the question is how quick it's going to go.
I mean, if he's convicted, look, Benny, I don't know what's going to happen if he's convicted.
I mean, if you're a defendant, the last thing you want to hear from your lawyer is, oh, don't worry if you're found guilty, we'll appeal.
What happens to you in the meantime?
unidentified
Is he going to be...
tom fitton
Is he taken into custody?
Is he going to be jailed?
benny johnson
I don't know.
Yeah, house arrest with a gag to prevent him from campaigning, right?
tom fitton
You know, and Merchant's taken over our presidential campaign.
He's already gagged the campaign.
He's gagged Trump, the candidate.
And he's effectively running our presidential election by...
Suppressing the ability of the number one candidate, former president, to go out there.
And he did it through illicit means, meaning allowing charges that he knew should never have been allowed to go forward, and further trying to rig the trial in the various ways that have been explained by you and so many others.
What's interesting about this, Benny, and you kind of watch the liberal media more than I'm able to, is how few in the left media are defending this process.
The silence is deafening.
I mean, you get your nutjobs out there that hate Trump and will say anything that don't care if he's drawn and quartered.
But most of the normal liberal media is kind of aghast at this process.
And maybe the federal courts will intervene to try to undo this quickly so our campaigns can proceed.
But my concern is that the campaign's already been compromised.
I mean, he's been held hostage politically for six weeks.
We've been held hostage, too.
America has.
And the question is, is that compromise of our campaign system, is it going to impact the final outcome in the election in the way that will undermine confidence in the outcome?
benny johnson
It's such a great point.
It's such a dangerous moment.
You'd have to just assume that we don't live in a republic anymore, right?
And we live inside of a power struggle with a fascistic entity that just will not relinquish power, and they just don't care.
The place can burn over the ashes, will rule over the ashes.
That's a true definition of evil.
Tom Fitton at Judicial Watch is somebody who actually does fight.
He's a bulldog.
Don't get into a fight with him.
You know, as you can see here, he'll knock you out.
But Tom Fitton is somebody who actually does legitimately try and keep this country free and safe by working through the judicial systems at Judicial Watch.
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Head over to X. Give him a follow.
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unidentified
Thanks, Benny.
benny johnson
Thanks, Tom.
unidentified
Thanks, Tom.
benny johnson
you you So, ladies and gentlemen, we move through this wild moment in American history with extreme trepidation and a bit of anger at what's happened.
Also, something that continues to sort of boggle the mind here is that None of it's working, right?
I mean, they may be able to lock up Donald Trump, but people have won elections from prison before.
Donald Trump's campaign spokesperson, Caroline Leavitt, making this point.
Yesterday, Donald Trump said he'd be happy to run from prison.
Remember, you should only ever vote for somebody that's willing to die for his political beliefs.
That's a proud tradition in this nation.
Caroline Leavitt talking about the backfire.
karoline leavitt
Be careful what you wish for, Jesse.
This is a classic example of that.
I'm not sure when the Democrats are going to realize, do not underestimate Donald Trump.
He will fight through everything.
He fought through two hoax impeachments.
He fought through the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.
He fought through endless investigations into his family, into his business, into himself as president.
Now as a candidate, they've confined him to this courtroom for six weeks, and he's stronger than ever.
I was with the guy all day today.
He's in great spirits.
unidentified
Why?
karoline leavitt
Because he knows he ultimately has the truth on his side and he's going to be vindicated.
And the Democrats know that, too.
They don't have a case.
They don't have a crime.
They concocted this entire trial to put it on in the media capital of the world here in New York in an attempt to weed.
Yeah, it isn't working.
benny johnson
But what would work is if they put Donald Trump under house arrest in New York.
And that seems to be what the goal would be, unless they get a hung jury today.
Once again, the jury deliberating right now, if anything changes, we'll cut right over.
But the jury deliberating right now, if Donald Trump's under House arrest, how would he even debate Joe Biden in Atlanta, right?
Is Joe Biden going to have to come to Trump Tower?
If Donald Trump has a gag order that continues, then how would Donald Trump be able to run for president?
We've never seen anything like this.
Joining us from the great state of Texas, Congressman Troy Nels to comment.
unidentified
Thank you.
benny johnson
you you Congressman, we are and were deeply hoping for you to be wearing your Donald Trump hugging the American flag tie.
We do have photos of you wearing that incredible tie to put up, but this is a moment where We really do fear for what the future of this country is.
This trial seems unbelievably rigged in a way that would potentially require something to be done about this broken system.
Can you comment on what could potentially happen here to Donald Trump if found guilty?
troy e nehls
Well, Benny, thank you for having me.
And yes, I do wear Trump ties.
It's the only tie I wear until November 5th.
But I put something out yesterday and I said, you know, we have a compromised, a convicted judge.
He is dangerous.
This is a dangerous game.
I think that the left is playing.
I think this is reaching the highest levels in our government all the way to Joe Biden.
This is concocted between him, Alvin Bragg, and everyone else against Donald Trump.
Because they know the American people support Donald Trump.
The polls show it, that Donald Trump is going to be the 47th president, and they're going to do everything they can to try to damage and keep Donald Trump off the campaign trail.
I said it last week up there in New York.
It's election interference at its core.
They are so scared of this guy.
They are scared of Donald Trump.
And they're going to do everything they can to keep him off the campaign trail.
It's not going to work, Benny.
This is backfiring with that knucklehead De Niro up there yesterday.
That didn't work out too good either, did it?
benny johnson
You stood.
You stood in probably the exact same place that Robert De Niro stood.
You wore this tie.
We were big fans of it.
We were big fans of your commentary.
And I guess I'd like to ask, this does seem to be backfiring.
I mean, when the Biden campaign...
It has to do campaign rallies outside of the courthouse.
And when Joe Biden's planning on giving a speech from the White House, from the Oval Office about this, these seem like desperation ploys.
This seems like a desperation attempt as the jury still remains out in this verdict.
unidentified
Yeah, it is.
troy e nehls
And they are desperate.
They've been going after Donald Trump now for years.
They've gone after him for years.
They looked at Russia, Russia, Russia, his impeachment.
Donald Trump, understand America, Donald Trump runs on motor oil.
He's a machine.
Donald Trump is a machine.
I've never met a man, seen a man, be able to handle the stress that this far left has placed upon Donald Trump with all these different indictments, sham impeachments, all of it.
He just keeps bouncing back.
He has Teflon.
He has Teflon.
Everything bounces off Donald Trump.
And I agree with Laura Trump earlier.
She was on Fox News and said, you know, this guy, nothing phases him.
Nothing phases Donald Trump.
He loves this country.
He loves the American people.
And he's doing this for you and I, Benny.
He's doing it for you and I. He's doing it for our children, our grandchildren, and the future of this country.
He could just go home and live his billionaire life.
He doesn't choose to do so.
He does it because he loves this country, and that's why America loves him, and he's going to be the 47th president.
unidentified
He is.
benny johnson
So you've been saying that on this program for years, sir, and now every single poll seems to confirm that you're right.
This backfire, it's pretty historic.
The more they do this to Donald Trump, the more popular he gets.
Are you seeing that in your district?
Are you seeing that on the trail?
unidentified
He is.
troy e nehls
I'm in the district office today, and I've been speaking to people.
I was at an event last night.
I'm going to speak to a couple hundred tonight, senior citizens in the Del Webb community.
And what I've been hearing is what they're doing is wrong.
And they believe what I believe and what you believe.
This is working against, this is backfiring on the Democrats to bring up that.
Robert De Niro?
Who cares what the hell Robert De Niro says, right?
I just think it's backfiring.
I think they are very desperate right now.
They don't like the polls.
They don't like the polling they're seeing in the swing states.
They know they're not going to keep the Senate.
They're going to lose the Senate.
We're going to continue to keep the House if we behave.
unidentified
If we behave.
troy e nehls
And Donald Trump, we're going to have all three branches.
And then we're going to have to go up there.
And my humble opinion, we're going to have to clean house.
We're going to have to clean house and straighten this country out.
And the American people know there's one guy that can do it.
There's one guy.
It's Donald Trump.
benny johnson
Would you be in favor of a special counsel investigation into the collusion and coordination between the Biden White House and these trials?
unidentified
Absolutely.
troy e nehls
Once we get back into the White House, there needs to be a lot of special counsels.
There needs to be a lot of investigations going on with the DOJ, the FBI.
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troy e nehls
The J6ers is another one, and what they've done to the J6ers.
We need to investigate the select committee.
Just because the select committee is gone, Benny Thompson is no longer there.
We need to investigate the select committee and look at what they've done with potential destruction of evidence and everything else.
The judges need to be investigated.
Letitia James, phony Fannie Willis, Jack Smith, all of them.
They all need to be under investigation because what we've seen being done to Donald Trump, it's never happened before.
Never happened before.
And I think this is, again, a very dangerous game they're playing.
And it's not good for America.
It's not good.
I would caution the judge to be, you know, you've got to be careful what you do here and what you say.
If they convict him and they go to a sentencing hearing, I would be very, very careful.
benny johnson
Yeah, okay.
So then what does that look like for congressional oversight, sir, considering the fact that the Cook Political Report does say that Republicans will keep Congress for the first time ever this morning?
Along with take the Senate and deliver the White House for Donald Trump.
So it seems like the wind is at your back.
The odds are in your favor.
And many in this audience would say, well, you know, what are you going to do about it?
unidentified
Right?
troy e nehls
Well, yeah.
And what you've seen and I don't think we've done very well.
I'm just being honest with you.
I'm a Freedom Caucus guy.
And I love the fact that the American people gave us the gavel back and we've had the speakership now.
But look at how we've behaved.
You know, we got rid of a speaker and now we got a speaker that's, you know, everything we seem to do is done through with Democrat support.
So we can't accomplish anything on our own and everything is watered down because we need Democrats to support us.
And so I think we're in a little bit of trouble.
If the American people give us the gavel back or keep the gavel, I think we ought to behave.
We ought to behave and we ought to pass strong legislation.
In support of the president.
So if Donald Trump says we need to move in this direction as it relates to border security, inflation, energy, we need to follow suit and take that lead.
That's what we need to do.
benny johnson
And the path forward for Donald Trump, five months to the general election, 25 days to a CNN debate.
Will you be there, Congressman?
You seem to be at Trump's side pretty regularly.
troy e nehls
Yeah, I think June 24th, I think, is a good thing.
That's a calculated risk, I believe, that Joe Biden's playing.
Somebody told him, Joe, you're behind in all the polls in the swing states.
We're going to give you a little shot of adrenaline, and hopefully you can stay awake and speak coherently.
But you're going to have to debate Donald Trump.
But I believe June 24th is Election Day.
I think Donald Trump is going to clobber him.
I think Donald Trump is going to be able to talk about his record.
When he first ran, he didn't really have a record.
We can't look at the 2020 election because it was just everything was COVID.
But Donald Trump is going to talk about his four years of accomplishments.
And if he stays on subject and talk about inflation, interest rates, security, border, no wars, everything was great across the globe.
If he does that, the American people are going to listen.
And they're going to say, we need to bring back Donald J. Trump because everything was great.
And look at where we are today.
So I think Election Day is June 24th, quite honestly.
unidentified
Wow.
benny johnson
This is a pretty big endorsement of a CNN debate.
It'll be three against one.
Well, seemingly, it seems like Donald Trump had 12 against one in the courthouse today.
It doesn't seem to have broken the man.
Yeah, I don't know how it's possible, but he seems to grab this energy, and it just gives him more energy.
It's a remarkable thing.
Congressman, thank you so very much for joining the program.
unidentified
I've got one guy.
troy e nehls
Listen, I've got to introduce somebody real quick, okay?
I'm going to introduce somebody to you.
unidentified
Come on in here.
benny johnson
Oh, hey, how you doing?
unidentified
I'm good.
How are you?
benny johnson
Nice to meet you.
unidentified
What's your name?
My name's Tori.
What do you want to tell Benny?
troy e nehls
Look up on that screen now.
unidentified
You're great.
Your viewers are great.
And we love you so much.
And I have only one thing to say.
Trump 2024, baby!
Oh, that's beautiful!
Benny, she's great!
troy e nehls
She got the opportunity to kiss the president on the cheek up there in Bedminster a couple months ago.
unidentified
She loves him.
troy e nehls
She's the greatest young Republican ever.
unidentified
She's great.
benny johnson
Tori, really quickly, what was it like meeting Trump?
unidentified
What did he say to you?
He was just really nice, and he complimented my nails.
He was just a nice guy.
benny johnson
Yeah, and did you get a chance to talk with him?
He said you have nice nails?
unidentified
That's amazing.
Yes.
What color were they?
I don't know.
I think they were Bayes or something.
Okay.
Benny, you're great.
We love you.
benny johnson
Not to get too far into it, but no young person has a nice experience when they're in the same room as Joe Biden.
troy e nehls
Why keep her away from Joe Biden?
unidentified
Hey, listen.
Thank you, Benny.
No, really.
troy e nehls
God bless you for what you do, Benny.
unidentified
I'm serious.
troy e nehls
You're reaching people.
This is what it's going to take.
The dishonest media know they're the greatest threat to our country, but it's individuals like you and your listeners that are out talking to people and spreading truth.
And so we got to pray for our country.
Pray today for Donald Trump.
And let's just hope there's one clear-minded individual in that jury that will see this sham trial and this compromised judge for what it truly is.
It's a kangaroo court.
unidentified
That's exactly right.
benny johnson
Say a prayer.
Say a prayer.
Ladies and gentlemen, for fathers, for people with children, for the future of this country, and for the congressmen fighting aside Donald Trump.
Godspeed, Tory, and Congressman Troy Nels.
Thank you.
unidentified
Thank you.
blessings.
benny johnson
you you All right, ladies and gentlemen, we are rocking and rolling.
What is the update out of the court?
The jury is back into deliberation mode.
Inside of the court, we tell you the truth.
We are going to be live.
We are going to be live for whatever happens in this courtroom.
Many handicappers in the legal profession are saying that a hung jury is a big-time possibility here.
The longer this trial goes on, the more questions they have for the judge, the more they ring the judge.
And the more they say, what the hell are you talking about here?
unidentified
Like, what are these rules?
What is this stuff?
benny johnson
The more that happens, the greater the possibility, ladies and gentlemen, that there is just going to be one juror, and that is what it's going to take.
One juror to just say, no, Donald Trump's not guilty on any of these things.
You can't even elucidate a crime.
You haven't even told us what crime he's committed.
The crime he committed was trying to kill a bad news story?
Like, every person on Earth?
Who's ever run for politics or has ever been famous?
Ladies and gentlemen, it is an absolutely rigged trial.
And this is what's at stake.
What's actually on trial here is the American system.
What's actually on trial here is the future for your family, your children.
And the true verdict will be on November 5th of 2024.
Now joining us in just a moment is going to be the great Carrie Lake, who's running to help flip the Senate red.
Carrie Lake joining the program momentarily.
Ladies and gentlemen, last night, Eric Trump, who has stood so strongly beside his father, and who is not a deeply, not a man who's prone to, he's a very, like, sound, very confident, very in control man.
Eric Trump showed last night some emotion on Fox News.
Eric Trump saying, It's like to watch your father go through all of this, but there's a happy ending here.
unidentified
Watch.
eric trump
You know, Sean, sometimes I'm angry.
Sometimes I'm numb to it.
I mean, I watch my father go in there every single day and fight for his life, literally fight for his life against bogus charges.
I've said it on the show.
unidentified
I've said it on others.
eric trump
No one believes that $130,000 from eight years ago for a perfectly legal NDA booked a legal expense to a personal longtime lawyer booked as a legal expense.
is a crime where a former president and the frontrunner for a Republican Party is charged with 34 felony counts.
No one believes it.
benny johnson
Donald Trump had never been charged with a crime in his life.
In his life.
Donald Trump is 77 years old.
I think I'm counting correctly there.
And now suddenly, after announcing that he's running for president again, and after winning in every poll, Donald Trump is...
Facing 700 years in prison and 91 felony.
Do you think you live in a free country?
Somebody who's been fighting for freedom and has been doing so in a way that is very mama bear is the great fighter out of the hot deserts of Arizona.
Carrie Lake joins the program now.
unidentified
Great introduction.
kari lake
I love it, Benny.
unidentified
Yeah.
benny johnson
You are somebody who has a family.
You're somebody who speaks with a lot of family, a lot of parents.
And it could potentially destroy the country, this ruling against the president.
You're somebody who's decided to run for office and you've done so in such like a...
A brave way, and you've stood against some pretty corrupt systems yourself.
And it seems like what's happening to Donald Trump is trying to prevent people from ever wanting to run for office again.
To say, like, if you don't comply, then we'll destroy you, and we don't even need a crime.
And that seems like what's really happening in New York.
unidentified
Maybe I'm wrong.
kari lake
Well, I can say from my own experience what I've learned...
Call me naive.
I studied history growing up.
My dad was a history teacher.
And I thought that we had a right to step forward and run for office as citizens.
We need more citizen politicians.
And I can tell you from my experience, when I stepped into the arena...
Maybe I was naive in thinking that.
I learned very quickly that, no, indeed, you can't.
If you are not a pre-approved candidate by the swamp, they will do everything to try to bring you down.
And thankfully for President Trump, I'd seen what happened to him, the eight-year smear campaign they've led to try to do a character assassination on one of the greatest men in our history, one of the greatest fighters in our history.
Had I not known what they had done to President Trump, I probably would have given up.
But then I realized very early on, they're doing the same thing to me that they've done to President Trump because they are so afraid of outsiders who are not controlled by the system, who they don't control the vote and the policy of that person.
That person is working for we the people.
And so we've watched this as President Trump has been attacked relentlessly.
You just showed that clip of the amazing Eric Trump, one of the...
One of the awesome children that President Trump has raised.
And the whole family's been dragged through the mud for eight years because they're trying to stop him.
They're so afraid he's going to get in there and bring down this corrupt system.
And thankfully, he is going to get in there and do exactly that.
And we're watching these really evil people on the last throes of their control and power.
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kari lake
I think they're losing their power and we're watching them go down right now.
Quite glorious to watch this in a way, to watch people like Robert De Niro have a crying fit outside the courtroom.
I mean, this is just nothing that they're doing, Benny, is working.
They can roll out all the Robert De Niros they want.
The people aren't buying what they're selling anymore.
benny johnson
I'm so happy that you were able to join the program today because I wanted to speak about a certain element that they are trying to manipulate and weaponize against Donald Trump in this prosecution, which is he killed a bad story about him.
Now, you have a long and history career in media and in press, and that is what you did for the better part of the last 30 years?
Yeah.
And this is how the people of Arizona know you and love you.
Is it normal for celebrities or politicians or powerful people or literally anybody to just simply try and prevent a bad news story from coming out about them?
Because in the trial, the government and the state of New York attempted to tell the jury that this isn't normal and that they'd never seen anything like this.
unidentified
Ever before in their lives.
kari lake
Well, I didn't work for tabloid news, but you know, in the grand scheme of things, I'm looking at all of the mainstream media, and maybe it is all tabloid, because frankly, it's a bunch of propaganda.
I will tell you this, I mean, we will get wind that a reporter is working on a story, maybe on our campaign, and we find out it's a lie, it's bogus, it's not truthful, and we call that reporter and we call him out.
Now, what would you say that we're killing a story?
No, we're trying to get things factual and make sure that they're on the up and up.
But I mean, you know, it's interesting, Benny, in just the last couple of hours, the jury asked to have some of that testimony repeated to them from that publisher.
And I don't know the exact wording of it, but that publisher basically said, look, President Trump at the time, Donald Trump said he didn't want to do that because it always gets out.
That kind of stuff never stays quiet.
It always gets out if you do that.
But I will I will say in tabloid news, I'm assuming that's quite common.
That's real common, I'm sure, in tabloid news.
benny johnson
So what's also quite common is, again, as you alluded to, outsiders get the machine.
Attempts to destroy outsiders with an immune reaction.
And they've come after you.
You're running for Senate.
To God's ears, Carrie Lake for Senate.
We need you.
We must take back the Senate.
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benny johnson
Now the Cook Political Report is saying that Republicans will take back the Senate.
But you've faced a dirty, filthy race.
kari lake
It has been dirty, but you know, I ran for governor.
We ran an incredible race, started an amazing movement here in Arizona.
That movement is still going strong.
I'm inspired by President Trump's tenacity, his unwillingness to flinch, his unwillingness to show any weakness and give in to these really...
On American people who are trying to drag him down.
And so he's inspired me.
We're running and we're running a great race right now.
We're running against somebody who I call him a Joe Biden mini-me.
Can you imagine?
I mean, Joe Biden, the worst president in the history of our country.
Now imagine him being 40 years younger.
And having, you know, 40 more years in the tank, I just can't even fathom it.
But that's what I'm running against, a guy who has been aligned with Joe Biden 100% of the time.
And he's 40 years younger than Joe Biden.
He's against the border wall, called the dumb and stupid.
He's pro-sanctuary city.
He wants to give everybody invading our country citizenship and asylum and voting rights.
I mean, can you imagine 12 million people right now pouring into our country, all of them getting voting rights?
That's the only way, frankly, this destructive Democrat regime can win, is if they coax these people who are pouring across our border to vote for them.
And so we're in a battle out here.
We've got to get the Senate for President Trump.
We're going to see President Trump return to the White House.
It's going to be the greatest thing for the United States of America.
He needs to have the majority in the Senate, however, because as you know, And imagine for a second,
I don't mean to get people down or give you like a horror show here, but...
Imagine Chuck Schumer and the Democrats control the Senate.
First of all, none of those appointments will get through.
They will try to impeach President Trump within three to six months and drag our country through hell.
So this is incredibly important.
There's no path to victory.
Without Arizona, we are at ground zero for so many of the big issues of the day.
Obviously, the border crisis is huge, the economy.
Very few places in America have been affected as much as Phoenix, Arizona, which is right there where my opponent, Ruben Gallego, is the sitting congressman.
He has the fastest-growing homeless population in his district.
That's his vision for the entire state of Arizona, get people destitute, in despair.
On drugs and feeling that there's no hope.
And so we need to get him out of Congress, retire him from Washington, D.C., and bring about some true American patriots into Washington, D.C. President Trump, myself, and many others are running right now.
And I'm excited.
I'm excited for what lies ahead for America once we get through this really ugly chapter of watching the deep state throw this hissy fit as they go down.
benny johnson
Yeah, so they did throw a hissy fit.
And one of the most shocking legal filings I've ever seen in my life, outside of maybe this Trump trial, is a legal filing from the Biden DOJ against the state of Arizona.
I think we can grab and pull it up.
It's pretty easily searchable.
Saying, no, you're not allowed to ask people if they're American citizens to vote.
And they just say it.
unidentified
They just say it.
benny johnson
And they sued the state of Arizona and they won because Arizona put a citizenship question on whether you can vote in an election.
Now, they rigged an election against you.
There's absolutely no doubt in my mind.
And they broke the machines.
And they ensured and did everything possible to ensure that you wouldn't be declared the winner at 7 p.m. on election night in Arizona.
I was physically there.
I was supposed to talk.
I was emceeing your election night party.
And you get sort of that knot in your gut and you're like, I just can't.
You know, it just reminds you of 2020 again.
And my question to you is this.
What's to prevent them from doing that again in the state of Arizona?
kari lake
Isn't it interesting that the government is fighting because they want to have people here illegally vote?
I mean, everything's just being, people's eyes are opening up right now to how corrupt the government is.
You're looking at this.
We're fighting.
We've got several lawsuits that are in the works.
We have to go through the courts.
Unfortunately, that's our only means of being able to fight this.
And while we're not always taking a victory every time, we are exposing what they are doing.
You know, our court case, when they...
Rigged Election Day and sabotaged, frankly, Election Day, taking the sacred vote and trampling it of the citizens of Arizona.
Everyone knows it's a fraud.
I mean, everyone knows that even the people who are sitting in these offices, they all know what happened on the election in 22 here in Arizona was fraudulent and wrong.
And so we're continuing to fight it and we're exposing it.
You know, sometimes the court of public opinion is more powerful than in the corrupt courts.
Look at what's happening to President Trump.
Nobody could look at what's happening in New York City and say that Judge Mershon is fair.
Is ethical.
Nobody could do that.
If you are honest with yourself, nobody can say that.
We've had that same problem here in the courts in Arizona.
People who aren't ethical, people who aren't courageous to do the right thing, but we're exposing what they did.
When we showed that video of them rolling out the machines...
Without the media present, without observers present, tearing off the security tape on all of the electronic machines, pulling out the memory card, reinserting a new memory card, and then rolling those machines out on election day, where 60% of the polling locations failed, the machines didn't work.
That's unacceptable.
And we've shown the people how that happened.
We're giving them fewer ways to cheat, basically, because once you reveal and show people how they cheated, Very quickly, they have to come up with new ways.
And I'm not saying they won't come up with new ways, but guess what they're going to have to go up against?
Massive, huge voter turnout, unlike anything we've ever seen before.
We are going to see people who haven't voted in their entire lives show up to vote.
And as President Trump says, we'll make it too big to rig and we will swamp them.
benny johnson
Too big to rig is my favorite campaign slogan so far this year.
Without question, my favorite campaign slogan.
unidentified
Too big to rig.
kari lake
Build the wall, drill, baby, drill.
President Trump knows how to brand policy and make it very simple.
And that's one of his great talents.
benny johnson
So as somebody who had your cowardly opponent, Katie Hobbs, refused to debate you.
And I think I know exactly why, because it seems like they have the system wired against you anyway, so why risk it?
Now Joe Biden is out banging the drums, demanding a debate.
And in 25 days, we're going to get a debate with Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
What would be your advice?
kari lake
My advice to President Trump, my advice to Joe Biden is, ooh, I don't know, probably don't do it because he's not going to do very well.
But I don't think President Trump needs any advice.
He's going to go in there.
His instincts are so good.
I think he's got, not only is he a high IQ, but he's got high social IQ.
And we've seen it in his past debates.
All those other candidates would go in and test out the podium and check out what the lay of the land was.
And he just showed up and instinctively knew.
How to deal with the people.
And we watched as he knocked down and defeated, I think it was, what, 18 different opponents, and then he took care of Hillary Clinton as well.
So I think he's going to be great.
You know, Biden has destroyed our country.
President Trump left it in pretty good shape.
He left it in great shape other than COVID, but we know there's a lot of shenanigans behind COVID as well that he could probably call out Biden on.
So I think he's going to be great.
I'm looking forward to debating my opponent, Ruben Gallego.
I wonder if he'll have the courage.
I've already challenged him to one debate, and within 10 minutes he said no.
This is the Democrat playbook, Benny.
They roll out candidates who are...
They control.
They aren't good.
They have no policy.
They hide in the basement.
They cower.
And then they have little things they try in the election to get them elected.
But I think this go-around, they're going to have a harder time.
They can't do the 3 a.m. vote drop.
They can't do the sabotage of Election Day.
More people are going to show up, vote early, vote on Election Day than we've ever seen in our country.
And this is the reason they're trying to use lawfare now.
To go after President Trump in four different jurisdictions.
They're trying to lock him up for life.
They're coming after me with lawfare.
I've got a bunch of, you know, a dozen Soros-Obama linked attorneys that are coming after me for telling people.
How this election was rigged.
And they're going to come after every one of us.
If the people don't stand up right now, I'm encouraged, by the way, when I see these celebrities finally and others who are saying, yeah, I'm voting for President Trump.
We're starting to see the tipping point where it's coming back around and it's going to go fast and people are going to start being emboldened to say I'm voting for Trump.
I'm voting for Lake.
I'm voting for America first.
We want to take our country back.
And as soon as that happens and businesses start saying, heck yeah, we're America first.
And if we lose a couple of customers over it, we're okay with that.
The sooner we get to that point, the sooner they realize there's no way they can rig this thing.
It will truly be too big to rig.
So I encourage everyone to go out, wear your MAGA hat.
Go out, be proud to be America first, and be proud to stand up for the president that we have and President Trump who's willing to fight for we the people.
We're so lucky to be here at this moment in history, Benny.
We're so lucky to have a fighter like President Trump.
But to imagine that...
Are you thinking I'm going to let you get a word in, by the way, Benny?
benny johnson
I mean, I just love listening to you talk.
kari lake
Because I'm from Iowa.
benny johnson
30 years as the sound voice of Arizona.
On TV news, you can just sit back and you're like, she's telling the truth.
unidentified
I'm telling the truth.
kari lake
Well, let me just say one thing about this case.
It should send a shiver down the spine of everybody in New York and frankly, everybody across the country, especially in these corrupt cities and municipalities and counties.
Now, I don't say just states because there's red states with big blue cities in them that are corrupt.
Everybody who owns a business, whether it be a small business, a large business, or who is CEO or CFO of a corporation, this case should send a shiver down your spine.
We're talking about a bookkeeping dispute.
One line of a bookkeeping dispute that could send a man to prison for life.
A bookkeeping dispute that comes with a lifetime sentence.
This is a time for everyone to stand up and say enough is enough.
And when they realize that the people are not with them in such huge numbers, this is when we finally get to take our country back.
benny johnson
Yeah, such an important moment to recognize that this is what America is all about.
The founding of Arizona, the cowboy spirit, the like, F you, you won't tell me what to do.
unidentified
Right.
benny johnson
You're going to tell me who to vote for?
You're going to say you can't vote for this guy because we put him in jail?
I am going to crawl over broken flaming glass to vote for this guy, and I will punch the button until my fingers bleed.
Like, to vote for this man because you told me not to.
And I think that's being revitalized right now in America.
It's really exciting.
unidentified
Yeah, it is.
We're starting to see.
kari lake
It's a tipping point right now, as I said.
But, you know, shame on.
I'm going to be a little bit of a mom right now.
Shame on a lot of people, though.
And not you, Benny.
And I've always been very outspoken for President Trump, who in that first term, when he was doing so much for our country.
People didn't have the boldness and courage to step out and speak out before him.
I remember he'd invite people to the White House, a company to the White House, and a company would show up and immediately the trolls on Twitter, and we all know that they were probably paid trolls, would go after that company and try to cancel people.
And that's when I wish we would have stood up and said, cancel me, I don't care.
I'm supporting this man because he's putting our country first.
But it's taken a while.
We've built up, and the straw that broke the camel's back is different for everybody.
For some people, it was watching that kind of censorship and control.
They didn't like it, and they spoke out.
For others, it was COVID when they had to force masks on our children and took them out of schools and forced shots in our needles in our arms and all of that.
For some people, they're just now waking up when they go to Taco Bell and they find out it's $100 to buy a meal for your family.
That could be the straw that breaks the camel's back.
But one thing is certain.
They want us so talking about these ridiculous cases.
It's a witch hunt.
unidentified
Everyone knows it.
kari lake
Because they don't want us talking about the invasion on our border.
They don't want us talking about the millions of people pouring across, taking housing from citizens here who need it.
They're boosting up the price of rent.
They don't want us talking about the fact that hardworking Arizonans, Americans, and taxpayers are footing the bill for these people's housing, giving them job permits so they can drive our wages down, food, clothing, shelter, health care.
We are paying for that.
And they don't want us talking about the economy that Joe Biden has sent straight into the toilet.
And they don't want us talking about the wars that are starting up.
And they don't want us talking about what's happening to our children with this brainwashing that's going on and absolute mutilation of their perfect bodies.
That's what they don't want us talking about.
And that's why they're trying to distract us.
And we have to keep a laser beam focus going the next six months.
Because if we think it's going to end with this distraction, it's going to be a circus out there.
They're going to throw everything against the wall, fake polls.
There was a poll that went out this morning that they're trying to say that Biden's going to beat Trump.
These are PSYOPs.
Somebody called them a PSYOP.
I said that's a perfect name for it.
It's an operation to try to change the narrative and make people think that we're not in the driver's seat.
We the people are in the driver's seat right now.
We the people are winning.
This is not a 50-50, 51-49.
The massive numbers of people for America First, for President Trump, for candidates like myself, we are more in the 60%, 70%.
Everywhere I go, I go to Democrat neighborhoods.
They're for President Trump.
They're for me.
They're for law and order.
They're for safety, security, and affordability.
benny johnson
Ladies and gentlemen, you should be for Carrie Lake.
We must have a Republican Senate.
We must be able to execute and win as America First.
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benny johnson
I don't want to lose as America First.
I want to win as America First.
So if you're in Arizona, support Carrie Lake.
Vote for her for Senate.
2 million people.
Can't be wrong.
Go follow her on X. And Carrie, where can people find your campaign website?
kari lake
Just CarrieLake.com.
K-A-R-I-L-A-K-E.com.
Benny, I lay out where I stand on everything.
I want you to know the media has given me 100% negative coverage.
The mainstream media has.
And it's because they're afraid of me.
They know that this fed-up mom from Arizona...
Is working for we the people.
They've tried to bribe me.
They've tried to blackmail me.
They don't like people that go to Washington, D.C. that they can't control with bribery and blackmail.
And they can't control me.
The people of Arizona will own my vote.
Not the lobbyists in D.C. I lay out my policy.
It's not extreme.
It's not far right, as they like to say.
It's common sense.
And they have to...
Put those names and descriptors on it to try to scare people.
I want a secure border.
I want a border wall.
The people of Arizona want that.
We're going to repatriate all of the people who come in during the Biden invasion.
We will repatriate them back to their homeland in order to save our homeland.
I want to make sure housing is affordable again for young people so that they can get out and start.
If they work hard, they can have access to the American dream.
I want a world-class education for our children that we have control of, that we get to choose.
And that means our tax dollars follow our children, I want energy independence so that whenever we go to fill up our gas tank, it's affordable.
We can hit the road and not worry about them not being able to afford groceries that night for dinner.
And we can cool our homes or heat our homes and not go into the poorhouse doing that.
Real basic stuff.
It's all there at CarrieLake.com.
And make a donation if you can afford it.
I only ask that if you can afford it.
I know we're living in the Biden economy and it's a struggle for a lot of people.
This is an important race.
This is incredibly important even if you're outside of Arizona.
Like I said, we are going to be the backup for America First policies to get through.
If we don't have the Senate.
This could be very bad.
Ruben Gallego said he will get rid of the filibuster.
He will vote immediately to push abortion up until nine months.
He said this, by the way, many times in interviews.
He'll get rid of the filibuster to stack the Supreme Court.
He'll get rid of the filibuster to make Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. states, which would give us four more forever liberal senators, and our country will be gone.
We must defeat Ruben Gallego, a man who marches and defund the police rallies and is the most radical Democrat to run in this cycle and probably in any cycle in our lifetime.
benny johnson
Ladies and gentlemen, the great Carrie Lake.
Godspeed.
Support her.
Here's her campaign website.
The mama bear from the hot winds of the Arizona deserts coming through.
unidentified
America first.
Godspeed, Carrie.
kari lake
God bless you, Benny.
unidentified
Thank you.
Thank you.
benny johnson
you you All right, ladies and gentlemen, rocking and rolling today.
We await any news from the jury on a verdict.
We have laid out, as best we can, the remarkable amount of unconstitutional criminality that is occurring in the court.
It is something that you shouldn't even call a court, I think, anymore.
Flamethrower Descriptors 00:02:15
benny johnson
You can call it like a clown car, tire fire, dumpster fire.
Doing our best to come up with some type of pejorative that really elucidates what's going on in Manhattan.
And if there's one person that could probably come up with a better descriptor for what's going on in New York's court right now with Donald Trump in the icebox, well, it would be the Iceman himself, Mike Davis, who joins the program now.
unidentified
Mike Davis, who joins the program now.
benny johnson
Mike, hello, and how are you?
You're not the Iceman.
You're the flamethrower.
Sorry.
That was very racist of me.
So, you have a very, very good morning for your project.
You got shouted out by the president this morning.
unidentified
We have that short...
donald j trump
Mike Davis, the U.S. would sanction a country for doing this.
unidentified
I think that's good.
donald j trump
I think that's...
benny johnson
I think that's very good.
It was very good, Mike.
mike davis
Yeah, I love it.
President Trump knows that he is getting railroaded in New York by this corrupt Manhattan judge, Juan Marchand, whose adult daughter, Lauren Marchand, is raising millions off of this case, requiring his recusal.
President Trump cannot mention Lauren Marchand's name, or Judge Juan Marchand has threatened to throw him in prison.
Trump's campaign can't mention her name.
Trump's campaign can't even post.
A news story from even the New York Times mentioning Lauren Michonne's name or President Trump goes to prison.
President Trump also can't mention Matthew Colangelo's name.
Matthew Colangelo is this former senior Obama and Biden political appointee, political hack, DNC political hack, who got deployed from the number three office in the Biden Justice Department to Soros-funded Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's office to resurrect.
Justice Gorsuch's Conundrum 00:15:22
mike davis
This zombie case against Trump from seven years ago for the non-crime of calling a legal expense a legal expense.
They did not even explain to the jury, this Judge Mershon, Colangelo, and Brack have not explained to the jury, let alone the defendant, what the legal allegations are.
How the hell can a criminal defendant defend himself if he doesn't even know what the legal allegations are during his trial?
And then this judge, this corrupt...
This judge who illegally donated to Biden, which got him reprimanded by the New York court system several months ago, we just learned, and whose daughter is raising millions, requiring his recusal.
This judge instructed the jury they don't even have to unanimously agree what the crime is.
They can just make up whatever crime they want.
I mean, this is insane.
This is what happens in third world Marxist hellholes like North Korea and Zimbabwe and now in Manhattan.
benny johnson
So that, I want to jump into that question alone, because it seems to defy Louisiana versus Ramos in the Supreme Court.
We have the ruling here.
We don't pretend to be, well...
I went to Kirkwood Community College in Iowa and the University of Iowa.
I don't pretend to be some type of scholar for the Supreme Court.
Yet, even I have a functional brainstem and a pulse and can read this ruling where the Supreme Court says very clearly and concisely, you must have unanimity in juries to convict.
Otherwise, it's a hung jury and the accused walks free that second.
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, Mike, for just ruling.
You're somebody who has a great history with the Supreme Court.
Can you talk me through how this isn't unconstitutional?
mike davis
Well, Ben, as you know, I also went to the University of Iowa and I clerked for Justice Gorsuch on the Supreme Court of the United States.
And that's the same Justice Gorsuch who wrote Ramos v.
Louisiana in 2020.
And that case is very clear.
The case says that...
In order to convict a criminal defendant, you have to have a unanimous jury on all the essential elements.
And that applies not only to federal cases, it applies to state cases.
Because before, you had states like Louisiana that did not require unanimous jury verdicts in order to convict a criminal defendant.
And my boss, my former boss, Justice Gorsuch...
It wasn't your typical liberal and conservative lineup.
The Chief Justice, Justice Alito, and Justice Kagan dissented on that case.
You had Gorsuch teaming up with Kavanaugh and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and so does Sunday Mayor, and I think Justice Kennedy was on that as well.
So it wasn't your typical lineup, but it shows that Justice Gorsuch has understood for the decades that I've known him.
I would just warn these people, remember...
That President Trump is very likely going to win election on November 5th, 2024.
And his Justice Department is going to be back.
The Trump 47 Justice Department is going to be up and running on January 20th, 2025.
Do these Biden Democrats inside and outside of government, like Andrew Weissman, for example, do they really want a politicized?
And weaponized justice system?
Because guess what?
I can think of a lot of different ways that the Trump 47 Justice Department can hold President Biden and these Democrat prosecutors and judges and witnesses and operatives accountable in D.C., in New York, in Atlanta, what they're doing down in the Southern District of Florida.
So let's keep playing this game.
I think it's going to be great.
This lawfare is going to put President Trump Back in the White House, and I can't wait for his Justice Department to roll up its sleeves.
benny johnson
Yeah, so, I mean, again, that's amazing.
I didn't actually know that you...
We've been talking about Louisiana v.
Ramos all morning, so I had no idea that you were there when that was decided.
Your old boss.
mike davis
That was after I clerked, but my old boss, former boss, Neil Gorsuch, wrote the opinion after I clerked.
benny johnson
And can you explain to me then how it's...
How it's legal for the judge to say that none of you have to decide on unanimity of the guilty?
mike davis
You can't explain that.
This is going to be very good evidence.
Senator J.D. Vance from Ohio just sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department on Judge Mershon and Alvin Bragg and Matthew Colangelo and these Biden Democrat goons in New York who are violating...
With President Trump's constitutional rights, with their illegal unconstitutional gag orders, with their violation of his equal protection, with the violation of his due process rights.
And you can just add this to the evidence, what they're doing with this jury instruction.
Judge Juan Mershon is participating in a criminal conspiracy under 18 U.S.C.
241 and 242.
Very serious federal civil rights.
And Judge Juan Bershon is participating in this criminal conspiracy against President Trump.
There will be accountability come January 20th, 2025.
There is going to be...
I'm going to advocate very strongly from the outside as Trump's vice role, because I can't get confirmed as AG, that the acting attorney general opened a criminal probe on this blatant...
Criminal conspiracy against President Trump.
His top aides like Peter Navarro, who's in prison right now.
Steve Bannon, who's heading to prison.
His attorneys like John Eastman and Jeff Clark, his supporters on January 6th.
This is an obvious criminal conspiracy driven by Joe Biden himself.
Through his deputy White House counsel, Jonathan Hsu, who worked with Gary Stern, the General Counsel of the National Archives, and Jay Bratt at the Justice Department to orchestrate the Mar-a-Lago raid, which led to Jack Smith's two indictments against Trump for January 6th and the Mar-a-Lago for presidential records under the Presidential Records Act that Trump is allowed to have with Nathan Wade,
Fannie Willis' Big, dumb, unqualified boyfriend billing his time to Fulton County taxpayers for his two meetings with the Biden White House, including the Biden White House Counsel, 16 hours, $250 an hour to collude with the Biden White House before Big Fannie brought her big, dumb indictment.
Down in Georgia, you have Matthew Colangelo deploying from the Biden Justice Department to Bragg's office to bring this bogus case in New York.
This is a criminal.
Conspiracy against President Trump and so many others.
There will be severe legal, political, and financial consequences to that.
And to the three people who remain at Media Matters, mark my word on this.
benny johnson
They're crying into their soy lattes right now, breaking off their fake fingernails trying to write this up as quickly as possible.
unidentified
Oh no!
benny johnson
Mike Davis promises accountability, promises to do to us.
A scintilla of what we're doing to them, which is the more you look into the Hillary Clinton Russian dossier, the more you realize like, wait a second, why the hell isn't this lady rotting in prison?
Because this is everything they're trying to charge Trump with.
mike davis
Yeah, that's the whole reason for this lawfare and election interference, Ben, is because they know that Trump declassified those damning crossfire hurricane Russian collusion records the day before he left office.
The CIA, the FBI ran to Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, and said, you're going to violate the Criminal Privacy Act.
You're going to put sources and methods in danger.
Mark Meadows said, okay, do your Privacy Act review.
Get out these crossfire hurricane records.
unidentified
Guess what?
mike davis
They didn't get them out.
Instead, Biden sent a raid against Trump to go get back those crossfire hurricane records.
unidentified
This is all going to come out.
mike davis
There's going to be accountability.
This is the biggest scandal.
And Joe Biden, you know, you better figure out what prison you want to go to, buddy, because it's coming.
benny johnson
Is there like a visiting angel prison?
I don't know.
Is there kind of like a hospice, but also a prison?
I'm not sure.
But it does seem like that's what Joe might need.
If he's even able to understand what's going on, which we don't think he is.
We know that this is all run by his DOJ, Mike.
Yet, what many handicappers are saying is that Juan Mershon may well, if they are able to trap Trump with all these rules and confuse the jury into a guilty verdict here, that he could put Trump on house arrest in New York.
And that he could continue to gag Trump and say, I'm taking the high road by not putting you in jail.
What do you think would happen if the unthinkable happens here and they come back with a guilty verdict?
They effectively just prevent Trump from campaigning.
mike davis
I dare Judge Juan Mershon to do that, because guess what?
Right now, President Trump...
Is winning by two points.
If this bogus, corrupt, partisan rigged trial results in a criminal conviction in New York, Trump's going to win by like four points.
If this corrupt Judge Mershon, whose daughter is raising millions of dollars off of this criminal trial over which her father's presiding, requiring his recusal under New York statute, and that's not just me, a former...
Federal Clinton judge went on Caitlin Collins' show on CNN on April 5th and said he had to recuse.
If he tries to put Trump under house arrest or prevent him from campaigning for president, Trump's going to win by like six points.
It's going to be an utter blowout election.
They're going to turn Trump into Nelson Mandela.
And remember, Judge Mershon, preserve your documents.
You are participating in a federal criminal conspiracy against...
President Trump's constitutional rights with your illegal unconstitutional gag order by ignoring Ramos versus Louisiana on the fact that this jury has to be unanimous on all essential elements.
You are part of a criminal conspiracy, Juan Mershon, and there must be accountability.
And J.D. Vance's criminal referral lays out this very, very well.
benny johnson
So really quickly here, Mike, since you're obviously...
Much more, have much greater and deeper expertise than us on these issues.
Do you have a handicap here?
Do you believe that they'll come back with a hung jury?
mike davis
I actually think this process is so part of Partisan, corrupt and rigged that they're going to come back and find Trump guilty.
Maybe not of all these charges, but guess what?
Even if it's a hung jury, guess what happens?
They immediately retry Trump.
They keep Trump in this dingy courtroom, unconstitutionally gagged, instead of on the campaign trail for the next three months.
I almost wish they would just find him guilty so Trump can get this damn thing eventually reversed on appeal.
Maybe he should just file a habeas petition directly.
If the New York court system ignores him, file a habeas petition with the Supreme Court of the United States if they try to confine him or if they try to restrict his ability to campaign for the White House.
But I will say this, the American people are not going to accept this illegitimate.
You're already seeing it in the polling.
You're seeing that during this trial, President Trump's polling has gone up, particularly among black men.
Right now, Black Americans make up 13% of the population.
They vote 95% Democrat.
People always say Republicans are never going to win the Black vote.
unidentified
We don't need to.
mike davis
If you change that number from 95% to 85%, that puts Democrats in dangerous territory.
If that number goes down to 80%, Democrats can't win and they know it.
unidentified
Wow.
benny johnson
You take a population that has been raised assuming that the judicial system is rigged against them and you prove it by locking up the guy whose best friends are a bunch of rappers and giving them a mugshot.
It's such a great plan, Mike.
It's such a smart, it's such a great idea.
mike davis
Yeah, because these Biden Democrats actually believe their own BS and they actually are this Trump deranged and they can't see clearly and their judgment is so clouded and they're so smug and arrogant and out of touch with real Americans in real America.
benny johnson
Just as a final closing note here, because I know we're out of time, a lot of people are pretty angry at this judge right now.
And many are saying, well, he's protected by the system.
Nothing will ever happen to him.
If there were a federal investigation under the statutes that you enumerated here, how do you disrobe a judge?
What could happen to this judge?
mike davis
You put this judge in prison where he belongs.
He has clearly violated President Trump's civil rights.
He's corrupted.
He should have recused from this case his daughter's...
Making money.
She's raising millions.
She gets a percentage of that.
He knows that.
When Trump raised this recusal issue, he retaliated against President Trump by expanding this unconstitutional gag order where he's threatened to throw Trump in jail if he mentions Lauren Marchand's name or his campaign mentions Lauren Marchand's name.
That is a federal civil rights violation in itself, and there are so many others.
Judge Juan Marchand deserves to go to prison after January 20th, 2025.
benny johnson
What's wild, Mike, is I'd normally say, we've known each other for a long time, I'd normally say the media wouldn't be on your side here, but I've seen a shocking number of people refuse to defend this process in the corporate press.
From places like MSNBC and CNN, you brought up a number of CNN interviews.
It actually almost feels like you would have, in a second Trump term, you'd have tacit support for something like this.
mike davis
I would say this, Ben, this is what's good about the Democrats.
They play for keeps when Colangelo and Bragg And Judge Juan Mershon do not deliver and Lauren Mershon do not deliver.
Happen Requested Corroboration 00:10:31
mike davis
The Democrats will throw them to the wolves like they did with John Edwards, like they've done with so many people who do not deliver for Democrats.
They play for keeps.
unidentified
They eat their own.
All right.
benny johnson
Well, ladies and gentlemen, keep eating!
Eating up your consumption of Mike Davis' social media, which is right here up on screen.
200,000 Americans.
Can't be wrong.
Go ahead and follow Mike on X. The Article 3 Project, Mike.
Shout yourself out.
unidentified
Article3project.org.
mike davis
We don't have a man crush on Judge 1 where Sean, like Andrew Weissman does.
We want to put his ass in prison.
unidentified
Article3project.org.
benny johnson
You can have your man crushes in jail, okay?
unidentified
That's right.
mike davis
Andrew and Juan Mershon can be cellmates and have man crushes on each other.
unidentified
Thank you, Mike.
mike davis
That will get Media Matters' attention for us.
unidentified
See you, Mike.
Yep.
Thanks, Ben.
All right.
Later, Mike.
benny johnson
We have that clip loading up.
We have the clip loading up.
We'll get to that in a second.
What he's referring to, what Mike Davis is referring to there, and we're tight on time, so couldn't play it for Mike, but is this clip, Andrew Weissman saying he has a man crush on the judge in the Trump trial.
unidentified
It's gross.
benny johnson
It's weird.
And here it is.
andrew weissmann
As you've noted, with respect to Judge Marchand, I mean, I am like now, you know, I have like a man crush on him.
He is such a great judge that it's hard to see that the jurors wouldn't have the same impression.
And he's just, you just keep on thinking, if you looked in a dictionary for like judicial temperament, that's what you get.
benny johnson
This is the guy who was on the Mueller investigation, who many argue ran the Mueller investigation because when Robert Mueller got a chance to talk, he sounded just like Joe Biden.
The guy clearly had dementia.
So he ran this guy that ran Russiagate.
So, ladies and gentlemen, it's all happening all over again.
They're doing everything they can to prevent Donald Trump from being president.
They did this in 2016.
Now, today, you're starting to see that Access Hollywood tape come back up.
They're going to pull every single stop.
I just, there's something that is happening.
There's a force that's occurring right now that wasn't, that we didn't have in 2016, which is the black hole of Joe Biden and the optimism that Donald Trump brings to the kind of, I think, polls show, by and large, like, polls show unanimously, demonstrably, that people just don't care about this stuff.
That people are on the side of the Trumps, the Trump family, and that they can see themselves in these shoes.
We're all parts of this rigged system.
And anybody who's ever had to deal with the IRS knows that.
You're all part of a rigged system.
People are sick of it.
Don Jr. making that exact point last night, talking about his father and talking about what's happening, what's going to happen next.
eric bolling
Well, to be a lie, Michael Cohen literally got caught admitting to lying during this trial.
donald trump-jr
You can lie about everything, Eric, but on this one you should believe him.
I mean, it's asinine, but people understand that it's a show trial.
It's a show trial to try to help the Democrats.
It's the epitome of election interference.
They're trying to do whatever they can.
To help Joe Biden, to hamstring Trump, anything.
When elections are won, you know, in the margins, these little tiny basis points, they're trying to allow it that the Democrats can have any sort of upper hand.
That's clear in the venue, not just here, but in all of the other cases.
They choose the venue.
They choose the prosecutors.
It just never ends.
It's not a coincidence that this very judge also gets the Steve Bannon case, also got the other cases for conservatives.
It's like this is the guy whose daughter is fundraising and making millions off of it.
Who's going to take and look at all of these things?
unidentified
It's happening right here in New York.
benny johnson
Yeah, so there is going to be a massive, massive backlash against all of this.
You've seen it already.
You saw it last week with Donald Trump's Harlem rally.
But what will happen in the judicial system, somebody who's argued before the Supreme Court, somebody who's been quite a champion on legal issues, Ted Cruz sounding off last night saying Donald Trump's going to obviously win this thing, will obviously win this thing on appeal, but there needs to be major consequences, sort of echoing what Mike just said.
ted cruz
We now know to a virtual certainty.
That no conviction will be upheld on appeal.
That the judge today committed, I think, clear reversible error.
These jury instructions were nonsense.
Now here's the bad news.
The bad news is this has been a kangaroo court from the beginning.
This is a wildly partisan prosecutor who hates Donald Trump, who came with a political objective of going after Donald Trump.
And we now know from these jury instructions that this judge is every bit the partisan that the prosecutor is.
And he knows this is reversible error.
As you noted, Ramos v.
Louisiana clearly held in 2020 that every element of the crime must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, must be unanimous by the jury, and yet this judge says it doesn't matter, not in New York.
The Constitution does not apply in New York, which means if we get a conviction, it will be reversed on appeal.
But the judge doesn't care.
The prosecutor doesn't care.
Nobody cares because this is not about law.
This is not about criminal justice.
This is about politics.
This is all about the press conference, the national address that Joe Biden has scheduled to give from the White House where he gloats, we've now convicted Donald Trump.
This is all about November.
We are watching election interference.
This is the most blatant case of election interference that we've ever seen in our country's history.
benny johnson
Ted Cruz is somebody who is a friend of the show and who really understands these things.
And my question to him would be, what are we going to do about it?
When Republicans take the Senate, what's going to happen?
Where are Republican leaders?
Do they even exist?
Are Republicans even alive right now?
Where's Mitch McConnell?
Where's Mike Johnson?
Exactly.
Every one of them goes scurrying to a microphone every single time that there is a new billion dollars to give to Ukraine.
Or $100 billion.
But nobody seems to, no Republican has seemed to have called a press conference outside of the court.
Republican leaders are not standing united right now.
Like, if a tree falls in the woods, make any sound, does the Republican Party even exist?
So you can just lock up your political enemies now on non-crimes?
I am not a doomer.
And we do not blackpill on this program.
We do our very best to actually...
Try and have a little fun with the news cycle and try and find the silver linings.
And so we bring you a couple of pieces of good news here.
Good news number one.
Jonathan Turley is our favorite and most trusted legal scholar and advisor on these things.
He says this is really, really good news for Donald Trump.
That the jury is taking so much time here and are asking so many questions.
Jonathan Turley from inside of the courthouse.
We haven't heard from him because he's been in the courthouse during these deliberations.
And as an update, there are deliberations currently, right now, ongoing.
unidentified
We'll break.
benny johnson
As soon as there is news about what's happening next in the jury, we'll break.
But right now, the jury's still deliberating.
So here we're going on 48 hours now of total deliberation.
Jonathan Turley saying that's a really good sign for Donald Trump.
jonathan turley
I'm surprised that some other networks have said, look, this is really great news that they sent this out.
I got to tell you, as a criminal defense attorney, I would not view this as...
Clearly good news for the prosecution.
The only reason why a jury would send out a request to hear the instructions again is if there's a disagreement about what the instructions are.
That indicates that there may be a conflict with jurors in that room about what their standard is, how they're supposed to look at the evidence.
There's various reasons why these particular parts of the testimony would be demanded by the jury.
This is a rather intriguing one.
The judge told the jury that if Cohen lied to any material fact, the jury could disregard all of his testimony.
Now, he noted that that means that you have to look for corroboration of Cohen, because he is someone who obviously is not just a serial perjurer, but he's an accomplice.
So they happen to have requested the Trump meeting, which the government cited as corroboration for...
So it may have been that they started logically and say, first of all, can we consider anything that Michael Cohen has said?
benny johnson
So how can you say that this is a good thing?
It's not a good thing for the prosecution.
It is a good thing for Trump.
Mike Davis is saying, just get it over with.
unidentified
Just get it over with.
benny johnson
Just find the guy guilty, and then we'll crush you after we win.
Donald Trump is taking a winning attitude.
By releasing political ads in the middle of this trial.
So once again, Donald Trump is legally required to stay at the courthouse while the jury's in deliberation.
So he's sitting there in the icebacks, as they call it, with his milk duds and his Lay's potato chips, what was in the video yesterday from Don Jr., approving ads be released.
Here is fresh off the presses, released just minutes ago, and are excellent.
Executive producers were able to get it clipped and cleared.
The brand new Trump ad on this trial.
Pretty powerful.
unidentified
Let's watch.
We're reaching the top.
We're reaching the top.
Vindicating The Dream 00:03:57
unidentified
We know what it takes to be reaching the top.
Lower the lights down.
Hand over my crown.
Hand over my heart.
I do this for my town.
I do this for my crowd.
So turn me up real loud.
My town.
None of you can't fucking tell me to stop.
Turning the track up.
I'll never go back down.
Hand over my heart.
I thought it was for my town.
I thought it was for my crowd.
So turn me up real loud.
My time.
My time.
benny johnson
Nothing you can't, nothing you can't tell me to stop Nothing you can't tell me to stop Oh, that ad is pure fire.
Donald Trump walking in like a fighting champion, somebody who has been in the arena and who has an incredible background playing in front of stadiums, massive crowds and audiences, is the great Jack Brewer, who joins us now.
you you you Jack, that was the energy, man.
unidentified
Did you watch that ad?
Did you watch that?
benny johnson
We can put it back up.
jack brewer
I want to put my helmet on and I'm 45 years old, brother.
Man, I'm ready to play a game, Benny.
I got to be honest with you, man.
You said it straight fire, man.
benny johnson
That's like an intro.
You played in the NFL for a decade?
Decades?
That's like an intro that you'd get for a sports team.
unidentified
No doubt.
jack brewer
It's something that you dreamed to be able to walk out.
unidentified
I mean, look at him.
jack brewer
It's like he's walking out of a tunnel.
But, you know, at the end of the day, not just is he taking, you know, the physical abuse and pressure, but just like spiritually, it's got a way on him, man.
I mean, and every time you see him, I mean, just look in his eyes.
He's such a fighter, man.
To go in and out of that courtroom each and every day and stand up for the American people, knowing you have everything to lose.
And he's willing to put it all on the line for us, man.
And it's just so cool.
It makes you proud.
For me, after going through years and years of just...
Hate and people not talking to you, family not talking to you, friends not talking to you anymore behind Donald Trump.
I mean, for me, this is vindicating, man.
It's like I do it all over again.
A hundred times I stand for him because you see what kind of man he is.
You see what he's made of.
And he really is a man of the people, man.
benny johnson
So, Jack, you know this, obviously, based on your dealings with President Trump.
Could you please, for some of the audience that may not be familiar, can you please illuminate for us how you and Donald Trump have worked together?
unidentified
Yeah, man.
jack brewer
I got a chance to meet President Trump, man, probably seven, eight years ago.
I met him at his New Jersey golf course.
I was with a host of different people, but he just made me feel so good the first time I met him.
And, you know, he started to ask me about the work I was doing in the community.
I told him about the situations in Baltimore with, you know, I'm reading the math proficiency levels and, you know, the place just looked like a third world country when you walk through and, you know, all these young minority kids living in these.
And you could just tell he cared, man.
And he kept asking me questions.
And then shortly after that, he goes out and starts making comments about Baltimore and these other cities.
And, you know, all of a sudden, you know, we passed.
Opportunity zones and all of these things that were put in place.
Jails And The Rigged System 00:07:02
jack brewer
It was really because he cared.
He wanted to go into the hardest hit places in America.
And he believes that everybody can live the American dream.
And the American dream to him, I mean, he is America.
I mean, look at what he's built.
Look at what he stands for.
Look how much respect he gets from other Americans that put their lives on the line every day.
And so when you start to see what really...
Motivates and moves this, man.
It's hard not to back him, man, if you're really a fan of America.
benny johnson
Yeah, you've talked about third-world countries in Baltimore.
I agree with you.
I have a sister who actually lives in Baltimore, and it looks like after a war zone.
It looks like a war zone, actually.
It looks like the front lines of World War II, Ukraine, Dresden, whatever.
It's like the whole place is an empty shell.
But now in New York, there's this third-world trial that's happening against Trump.
Nobody's been able...
It's our job to, like, explain what the crimes are, right?
And if they caught Trump in a case, okay, we're going to talk about it.
There's no case here.
There's no crimes here.
And everything seems wildly rigged against him the way that you would do it in the Soviet Union or Stalinist or a third world, right?
So, you know, your thoughts on a rigged judicial system that is once again trying to put an innocent man in jail.
jack brewer
Unfortunately, I've seen this before, right?
I've seen it in Malawi.
I've seen it in Haiti.
I mean, these are countries that are some of the poorest places on earth.
You know, I watched a former president in Malawi who was like my mom, be persecuted, and they try to throw her in jail for doing absolutely nothing.
And this is exactly what I'm watching happen here in the United States of America.
And to see, you know, President Trump walk into the court and, you know, I follow this case and, you know, what started, you know, seven years ago as something that would be classified as a misdemeanor.
And then they moved everything around and they tried to rename it to make it into a felony offense.
And then once they got into the felony, they get in the court and they can't apply the things that would actually go.
Into a felony conviction.
And so they try to start pulling these other misdemeanor facts in, and they're kind of jumbled up this entire process, just completely abandoning the criminal justice system and actually what the law says.
I mean, it is so sad, but what it's doing right now is putting on display for the American people.
What happens when you have these liberal judges?
And you have these liberal elected officials that are in power.
This happens to men and women across America all the time.
President Trump is just showing us what they can do to you.
I go into prisons and jails all the time with guys that are locked up.
I got guys that are locked up for life and they haven't killed anybody.
I got guys that got double and triple life sentences for selling drugs.
And so now you're watching the president of the United States that they hate so much.
And Benny, I've said it before.
That's why I called him the first black president in the Oval Office.
I called him the first black president because they persecuted him worse than they've done anyone in the United States of America.
I mean, think about the amount of money and time and energy and just years on this man's life.
That they cost him over all this persecution.
We don't even hear about Russia, Russia, Russia.
unidentified
We don't even hear...
jack brewer
All those were persecutions at the end of the day.
All of those were...
They were trying to have criminal charges on this man to lock him up.
They've done whatever they can to do that.
And I think for the American people to see our justice system be capable of this, it truly is a resemblance of a banana republic.
benny johnson
Yeah, it sucks because...
Somebody from my background is going to be like, no, actually, our judicial system is great.
And, you know, F the police?
No, not that, right?
Like, I can't be down with that.
And then you look at this and you're like, wait a second.
There's an entire population in this country who has been totally railroaded.
By rigged justice systems.
Justice systems that were run by people like Joe Biden, Kamala Harris.
Kamala Harris is locking up hundreds of thousands.
Joe Biden's doing the 94th crime bill, locking up hundreds of thousands of black men for doing a scintilla of what his son did on camera.
I mean, he filmed it all, right?
It's one thing if he did it, but he put it all on tape, which I don't understand for the life of me.
And then Kamala Harris, who used black men as forced labor and held them beyond their sentences in California.
She withheld evidence to get people off murderer's row, as you were just talking about.
Conleyers did all those things.
unidentified
She did.
benny johnson
She did all those things.
She ruined hundreds, maybe not hundreds of thousands, but tens of thousands of people's lives for marijuana charges.
And they're the ones wondering why they're losing black support.
unidentified
It's crazy.
jack brewer
And you think about it, Benny.
So you have the Democratic Party.
Kamala Harris and all these powers.
Think about the millions of dollars that have been put behind this machine, right?
And you have them going in and literally causing the largest epidemic in our country right now, which is fatherlessness.
We got almost 24 million fatherless kids in the United States of America.
And so when you look at that and you look about how many of those...
We're locked up in prisons and jails because of policies like Kamala Harris's drug policies when she was the attorney general in the state of Florida.
unidentified
You look at Joe Biden.
jack brewer
You look up California, excuse me.
You look up Joe Biden and you see that he wrote, literally was the author of the 94 crime bill.
You're talking about a crime bill that led to hundreds of thousands.
Of arrest of black men across the United States of America.
And then now, what are you going to say?
I'm sorry about it.
30 years later, when these guys are now grandfathers that have not been in their kids' lives, have not been in their grandkids' lives, and many have led to their own sons going to prison as well.
And so, you know, you talk about the ripple effect.
I mean, it's terrible.
And now that you're seeing what they're doing to conservatives across the board, whether you're getting shadow banned, whether you're getting silenced, whether you're getting canceled, it's terrible.
Now, today in America, unfortunately to say, conservative is the new black.
They put black people through shackles and chains and destroyed your lives, wouldn't hire you for work.
You know what I mean?
unidentified
And now...
jack brewer
Conservatives are treated the same way.
And so I think the American people, particularly Black Americans and brown Americans, are starting to see that, like, hold on, wait a minute.
Why They Cheer For Trump 00:15:28
jack brewer
They're treating this man the same way they treated my uncle, or the same way they treated one of my homeboys that I grew up with.
You see this time and time again, man, and it's not right.
And I think, you know, I was so proud to see President Trump go into the Bronx, and every time he steps out of his hotel in New York, people are in the streets cheering for him, and they're all shapes, sizes, and colors, and no one can deny that.
benny johnson
Yeah, well, I say, preach, man.
unidentified
I mean, that's...
Fire.
benny johnson
Clip it right now.
unidentified
That's the end.
benny johnson
Clip it right now.
Get it up on social media.
Beautiful thing you just said there, which is the rally in Harlem.
I think we have some footage.
I think we have some B-roll of what that looked like.
Donald Trump taking the stage.
And these people aren't going to stop voting for Trump if they put him in prison.
unidentified
Right?
benny johnson
Like, I guess that's my question to you.
Like, if they go all the way and we don't know what the jury's going to do, God willing, they acquit Trump.
unidentified
Right?
benny johnson
And they just say, we're not going to put an innocent man in jail.
But if they do put him in jail, is that going to make people vote for him more or less?
unidentified
No doubt.
jack brewer
I just had a conversation with my wife.
I said, if they lock up Donald Trump, I might stop working and just do nothing but campaign.
unidentified
I mean, we are fighting.
jack brewer
We are literally fighting for it.
I mean, look at that picture.
That is like you're looking at the United Nations mixed with, I mean, there's every race of people were out there rallying.
Cheering for President Trump.
And I think that folks are understanding now what our government's capable of.
And so now it's become a personal fight.
Most people, they vote according to their pocketbooks, what's better policy for their families, and maybe a social issue or two that's important to them.
Now people are fighting for their future of the country that they have given everything to.
Everything, too.
People have their entire networks here.
Their families have fought some for generations to get here.
And so now we realize what our government is capable of, and I think people are willing to make that fight.
I know minorities, particularly the ones that I've talked to.
I'm going to tell you, there was a time I didn't even want to go into certain neighborhoods because I didn't want to get shot at if they see I'm the black Republican supporting Trump.
Now, all of a sudden, everywhere I go, everybody's like, hey, how you doing?
unidentified
How you doing?
They want to talk to me about Trump.
jack brewer
They got questions.
Hey, hey, how's President Trump?
unidentified
Tell me about this.
Tell me about that.
jack brewer
I'm like, yo, I was trying to tell you about this six, seven years ago.
unidentified
You didn't want to hear it.
jack brewer
Now, all of a sudden, everybody wants to get on the bandwagon, which I like.
I have no arguments about that.
But people are definitely waking up, man.
And you see it across the board.
You see it in sports.
You see it in entertainment.
I mean, think about it.
unidentified
Entertainers.
jack brewer
Entire careers would have been over in some areas if they supported Trump during the last election.
And now, all of a sudden, people are coming out left and right in support of the greatest president of our lifetime.
unidentified
Yeah.
benny johnson
I mean, people are coming out left and right.
You can see it here.
This is the side-by-side of two events within seven days of each other.
One is Donald Trump in the Bronx.
And this is Joe Biden yesterday.
Blacks for Biden.
This is the Blacks for Biden event yesterday in Philadelphia, where it doesn't look like even a tenth of the gymnasium is filled.
We did some research here.
This was apparently at a college where the kids were forced to attend for credit, the Biden event.
And it's pretty tough.
I don't know if we have any of this.
Do we got any of the clips loaded?
I'd like to get you to maybe...
Maybe you could respond to this.
If you're appealing to Black voters, would this be the line that you'd use?
joe biden
On Memorial Day, I proudly stood with a Black man.
benny johnson
I stood with a Black man.
unidentified
So weird, man.
jack brewer
I mean, for a Black person to see that.
What shocks me is that Blacks on the left still lie to themselves and force themselves to digest that.
Like, you don't have to eat it.
You can say no.
You don't have to take that in.
And so to see that, you just know how awkward those people in those stands are.
I mean, you've seen them now.
They have made it a legitimate priority now to start reaching out to black voters.
The vice president, right?
Sometimes she's black.
Sometimes she's not.
Whatever day it is, she'll tell you if she's black or not.
Well, she's been on a rampage.
To appeal to black votes.
They're using HBCUs.
They're using everything that they can because they see the shift and they are terrified.
They realize that if we get 25% of the black vote in the United States of America in November, this thing's a landslide.
And so they're going to continue to have these weird moments because there's nothing they can do to stop Joe Biden from being weird on camera.
There's nothing that they can do.
It is what it is.
God bless him.
unidentified
I pray for him.
jack brewer
I hope I'm nothing but the best.
He's made so many comments that you hear.
Byron Donald did a great job the other day on CNN.
They're trying to attack him for supporting Donald Trump and saying, shouldn't President Trump have to answer for his history?
Look at what Joe Biden has done.
You're talking about a guy that Voted for segregation.
He voted for busting kids, not allowing black kids to go to school with white kids.
He voted for it.
I mean, the guy has, you know, being friends with a Klan member.
Listen, if a Klan member has changed his heart, given his life to Jesus and repented, I love him and embrace him.
But Joe Biden was...
Hanging out with straight racist people.
If that had been Donald Trump with that type of history, can you imagine the persecution?
They would have ads left and right about Donald Trump, but they can't do it.
unidentified
You know why?
jack brewer
Because Jesse Jackson loved him, right?
Al Sharpton loved him, right?
You got pictures of him with Muhammad Ali and Rosa Parks getting all kind of community awards.
The man helped build New York City.
He's done so much for the inner city and black community that they can't deny it.
They can't go pull up all of Donald Trump's history because it'll work against them.
And so now they have to create this facade and this false reality over and over again in order to strike the emotions of the Democratic voter.
They play on the emotions of black people.
They know they do it.
And once a black person sees the light, that's why they come out so strong against them.
And that's what's happening today.
benny johnson
You bring up a really profound point.
Oh, my God.
unidentified
Right?
benny johnson
She decides to talk differently.
Have a listen.
unidentified
Testifying!
Can I get a witness?
Oh my God.
benny johnson
Oh, can I get a witness?
jack brewer
It's unbelievable, man.
It's unbelievable.
And you know, listen, I'm a Southern boy.
unidentified
I'm from Texas.
jack brewer
So my speech may not always be, you know, according to what the dictionary says it should be in the English language.
I have slang is what they call it, right?
When you sit at my kitchen table, I'm the same Jack all the time.
But you can tell she's just trying to appeal to people.
And folks see it.
unidentified
Folks know it.
jack brewer
And that's what's so sad about it.
It's its manipulation.
I'm a Bible guy, man.
The Bible says manipulation is witchcraft.
That's deceit.
And so you can see the deceit.
Otherwise, if it wasn't deceitful, it would be natural.
You wouldn't have to turn it on and off.
You wouldn't even have to target black people.
Black voters, if you're Kamala Harris and you're really a Black woman standing up for Black issues that went to HBCUs and had all of this background.
If you had all of that, you wouldn't have to make an effort to do it.
It would be effortless.
And that's the issue I think that so many African Americans have with particularly this administration.
I mean, I think they try to find as many folks, as many tokens as they can put next to them to say they checked this box and they're standing up for Black people.
We see that their policies are literally destroying all Americans, but particularly Black Americans, starting with their immigration policies.
benny johnson
This is something that you didn't see in the Bronx with Donald Trump because Donald Trump never once used an affected accent.
He never once tried to talk down to people.
unidentified
He just spoke.
benny johnson
In fact, he gave one of the more inspirational speeches I've ever heard him give.
He decided to start talking about leadership and give almost like a leadership training.
And it was a wonderful thing to see.
jack brewer
So you mean he didn't start using slang to try to appeal to black voters?
unidentified
Can I get a witness?
Yeah.
What's up, homeboy?
Did you hear him say that?
jack brewer
Could you imagine if Trump walked out to the stage and was like, what's up, homies?
benny johnson
He did bring up those two rappers.
He did bring up the two rappers and said he wants to get a grill.
jack brewer
And those rappers were great, as a matter of fact.
I mean, think about it.
You would not have seen that four years ago.
You would not have seen two rappers in New York willing to go up in black, stand up for President Trump.
unidentified
Right?
The week before.
jack brewer
You wouldn't have seen Otis Anderson and Lawrence Tater, two of the greatest NFL players ever, stand up in a crowd of 100,000 people for President Trump.
Man, this thing is real.
People are realizing what they're fighting for, and they're realizing that we all got a dog in this fight.
And the dog in this fight for us is President Donald J. Trump.
benny johnson
So you brought up, obviously, the two NFL legends.
You played yourself in the NFL, the rappers, and so on.
But zooming out a little bit, And looking forward to the next five months, every poll indicates that Donald Trump's going to win by what could be a historic margin and would totally remake the electoral map.
Do you see obviously that coming to fruition?
I mean, you know, there's a lot of shenanigans that can happen between now and then.
Do you think the cake's been baked?
And, you know, what happens next?
jack brewer
I don't, you know, because I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I am a realist.
And I know that I'm still seeing court cases where they're still finding ballots and no photos of ballots, no history of ballots.
And so I don't know what they're capable of and how big this runs.
I do know that the Democratic Party right now is led by a lot of politicians who are career politicians that talk about dictators, but yet they're the ones in office for their entire lives.
They're the ones that have gotten themselves rich, literally rich and wealthy from being a politician.
None of them have personal businesses.
None of them have family businesses.
But yet they're wealthy.
And so that's really scary when you start thinking about how deep that corruption runs.
And that's really the reason why they fight so hard to stay in power is because they don't want to be exposed.
And so that really scares me.
I think that's what we have to keep front and center is we got to know who we are taking on right now and what powers are they coming from.
And so that's an issue.
And so I just hope that all Americans, particularly conservatives, I'm not even going to say conservatives, right?
Because I'll tell you, Benny, I'm not even a registered Republican.
I'm a registered independent.
benny johnson
We say America first around here.
We say America first around here.
unidentified
I am MAGA, baby.
I can tell you that right now.
America first, that's right.
100%.
jack brewer
And so I think that...
Looks a lot different today than it ever has.
And I just hope that we can keep enough momentum that we can overcome any of these things we can't control.
The cheating, the deception, the pollsters and how they count votes.
unidentified
I don't know enough about all that.
jack brewer
I'm not an expert on that.
But I do know that the wave of people and the momentum that President Trump has right now.
If this was a football game.
And we were playing, going into the fourth quarter, we'd be up by three touchdowns right now.
And so all we have to do is not turn the ball over and we will win this football game.
And so we can't put it in the hands of the refs.
We have to keep it, keep the ball protected.
I think if we do that, as the America First movement, I think nothing can stop us.
benny johnson
I think you're exactly right, Jack.
You're always so inspirational.
When you come on the program, you always give such good advice.
I would like to close with something I've never asked any guest ever, which is in this clip here, Donald Trump says he wants a diamond grill.
Would you advise that for the president?
jack brewer
No, actually, I would advise against that because no one...
President Trump and how, you know, meticulously clean he is.
It's hard to clean those diamonds in your grill.
And so you may have some food from two or three meals before that you may miss sometimes.
And so I'll tell him, like I tell all the kids that I coach and my own kids, keep the goals and grills out your mouth.
All the extra, you know, keep the hair trimmed, cut short so you can wash it.
It's about cleanliness, man.
benny johnson
Hopefully a cleansing revival happening in this nation on a spiritual level, a political level.
It's a heightened spiritual energy out there, Jack.
It's inspiring.
unidentified
I don't know.
benny johnson
You've got to be numb to not feel it.
You've got to have no pulse to not feel it.
There's a heightened spiritual energy out there.
And I think that's a really good thing.
There's a lot of people waking up.
unidentified
Thank you, Jack.
jack brewer
Benny, listen.
And I'll end with this.
And this is a serious note.
If you're a believer and you read the Bible, You will see directly democratic policies align with Sodom and Gomorrah.
And I think people are seeing that.
No one wants that destruction and evilness on them.
And that's what's happening right now.
If you look at the policies these people are pushing, they're straight out of Romans 12. And that is exactly what the Word of God teaches us against.
Policies Over Personality 00:02:19
jack brewer
And so I think that's what a lot of people are seeing.
It's not about President Trump.
It really is about the policies.
It really is about the future of America.
President Trump will not be alive to see the impact that he's having today.
He knows that and realizes that and is willing to pay a sacrifice for that.
My question to the American people, are you willing to pay that same price and give that same sacrifice for the future of this nation and the spiritual well-being of generations to come?
unidentified
Yeah.
benny johnson
I'm glad you brought up Sodom and Gomorrah because actually all the angel of God asked for was like, show me one good man.
We can be that one good man.
We can be the person who has our hearts set after God.
We can be that person.
You can be that person watching.
You can be that person.
That's all God required to save Sodom.
And in modern America, it's Sodom and Gomorrah.
You need to be a good person.
You need to show me one godly man or woman.
And we can be that.
It's amazing.
We can save our country together.
unidentified
That's right.
That's what God requires.
Yeah.
Yeah.
benny johnson
God bless you, Jack.
Everybody needs to go follow Jack.
He's followed Commissioner Jack Brewer.
Jack Brewer, B-S-I.
80,000 Americans can't be wrong.
And Jack, we look forward to you serving in the next Trump administration.
jack brewer
So do I, man.
So do I. Anything for this country, anything for, you know, the generations to come, man.
Benny, you keep doing what you're doing.
I pray for you, man, and ask God to protect you.
Protect this show, man.
Cast any hurt, harm, or danger from around you.
And let your voice just continue to just empower people, man.
And bring the energy that you bring each and every time I watch you, man.
So just know that your brother right here is praying for you here in Florida, man.
So just keep doing what you're doing.
benny johnson