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June 13, 2023 - The Ben Shapiro Show
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Well, today is one of the most crucial days in the history of American politics when the former president of the United States and current Republican frontrunner shows up at a federal courthouse in Miami to turn himself in for arraignment.
That is the reading of the charges.
And here's the thing.
While Donald Trump is about to enter the criminal bar on the federal docket, Joe Biden continues to be subjected to very little scrutiny by members of federal law enforcement.
And this discrepancy is very clear to pretty much everyone at this point.
Because when we look at our political class, generally speaking, I think most Americans, they look at the political class, they see a lot of people who seem to be corrupt, people who seem to violate the rules, skirt the rules, but only certain types of people seem to get fully investigated and then prosecuted.
The discrepancy between Hillary Clinton's behavior and her exoneration at the hands of the FBI and Donald Trump's behavior and his criminal indictment at the hands of the DOJ.
That discrepancy is very clear to everybody, but it's also clear to everybody that the current occupant of the White House, his entire family has been making millions of dollars off of his name for years while he was vice president of the United States, going around and picking up bags of cash.
And now we have this information that has been very little covered by the legacy media.
This information from a whistleblower in what's called the 1023 form, suggesting that Joe Biden was fully aware of Hunter Biden working with Burisma in order to essentially facilitate bribery while he was president and vice president of the United States.
The goal apparently was for Burisma to Open business arrangements in the United States using Hunter's relationship with Joe to pave the way and also to get Joe Biden to exert pressure on a Ukrainian prosecutor to go away because that Ukrainian prosecutor was looking into Burisma.
These questions have been very open for a very long time, but this whistleblower document, which the FBI was refusing to turn over to Congress, has now been looked at by members of Congress and some of the information that's being spilled out there by Pretty serious people, right?
Not fringe members of the Republican caucus, but people like Senator Chuck Grassley.
Long time Republican senator from Iowa.
Pretty shocking.
So yesterday, Senator Grassley, he pointed out that it is fascinating how law enforcement, federal law enforcement has been laser focused on Donald Trump, but there's been almost no laser focus on the Biden family.
Based on the facts known to the Congress and the public, it's clear that the Justice Department, the FBI haven't nearly had the same laser focus on the Biden family.
So he's obviously right about that, and everybody knows that he is right about that.
So Grassley went on to actually describe some of the information in this so-called 1023 whistleblower document.
Some of that information includes the fact that apparently the person who's making the allegation says that there are taped recordings, like audio recordings, between not Hunter Biden and Ukrainian oligarchs working with Burisma, but Joe Biden and Ukrainian oligarchs working for Burisma.
Now, that doesn't mean that bribery was facilitated on the phone call, but it does raise some pretty serious questions as to why Joe was getting on the phone with the people that Hunter was picking up cash from.
I mean, that obviously creates a pretty significant appearance of impropriety, given the fact that Hunter was completely not in the government at the time.
A lot of people have been comparing, for example, Jared Kushner and Donald Trump to Hunter Biden and Joe Biden because Jared Kushner now runs a very well-funded hedge fund that has a bunch of Saudi money in it.
The difference is that Jared Kushner was actually working for the American government and facilitating peace policy in the Middle East when he was working for Donald Trump.
Hunter was basically freelancing out in Ukraine, snorting coke off the floor while picking up giant checks from Burisma with no expertise in either natural gas or Ukraine while facilitating phone calls between his pops And these Ukrainian oligarchs, and apparently some of those phone calls are now on tape.
Here's Grassley alleging just that.
That the foreign national who allegedly bribed Joe and Hunter Biden allegedly has audio recordings of his conversation with them.
17 such recordings.
According to the 1023, The Foreign National possesses 15 audio recordings of phone calls between him and Hunter Biden.
According to the 1023, the Foreign National possesses two audio recordings of phone calls between him and then-Vice President Joe Biden.
So the real question here is whether the FBI has actually done any of the research on this sort of stuff, because the FBI was more than happy to launch an entire investigation based on garbage information about George Papadopoulos mouthing off in bars.
Based on the Steele dossier, which is a compendium of nonsense.
They launched a full-scale four-year investigation into Donald Trump and supposed Russian collusion.
But meanwhile, they have a whistleblower who's alleging actual taped phone calls between the Vice President of the United States, now the President of the United States, and corrupt Ukrainian oligarchs who are paying his son.
And we have no information as to whether the FBI is actually even bothering to investigate any of this.
Meanwhile, James Comer, the Republican congressperson who is on the House Oversight Committee, he's been saying that the Biden family pretty obviously is shuttling around money here.
They have 20 shell companies.
You're hot on the trails.
This trail gets hotter and hotter and the bribery scandal grows and the evidence points to it.
Does this not constitute an impeachable offense for President Biden?
If we can trace bribery, it sure does.
But look what we've already found, Larry.
The Biden family has at least 20 shell companies that were created for the sole purpose to launder money to at least nine Biden family members.
When you create a bunch of shell companies for the sole purpose of laundering money, that's called racketeering.
And the money laundering, those aren't my words, those are the words of at least six Big publicly traded banks that filed bank violations against the Biden family.
They said it sure appears that they're money laundering.
Now, the lack of investigation into the Biden family is going to be the political pushback that you're going to get from the Trump camp, and that you should get from the Trump camp, which is, again, Donald Trump, when it comes to this indictment on mishandling of classified information, on charges of obstruction of justice, and all of the rest, what he has to prove in a criminal court, which we'll get to in a little while, in order to preserve a defense, in order to actually succeed in his defense, that's a different thing from what he has to do in the public eye in order to push forward electorally.
And the push forward electorally is actually fairly easy here.
And that is, they're out to get me.
They've been out to get me since day one.
If they actually cared about this sort of stuff, they would have gone after Hillary, and they would currently be going after Joe Biden.
And by the way, Representative Comer also has now issued a subpoena for former Hunter Biden business partner Devon Archer for deposition this week.
We have not heard back from Archer's attorney.
And of course, it is Devon Archer who is helping facilitate a lot of the deals that Hunter Biden was making abroad.
Basically, he was the handler for Hunter Biden because Devon Archer was not nearly as much of a crack addict, apparently, as Hunter, and so he was kind of squaring him around to pick up these bags of cash while using the big guy's name.
That would be Joe Biden's name.
Okay, in just one second, We'll get to the other myriad absurdities plaguing the Biden administration as Donald Trump prepares to head to a Miami courthouse for his arraignment first.
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Speaking of myriad absurdities in the White House, again, the White House has a very simple reelect effort here.
That is, keep the focus on Trump.
If the focus ever goes back to Joe Biden, he's in serious trouble.
This is the rule of elections, and this is something both Republicans and Democrats should keep in mind.
I think Democrats understand this, which is why they want Trump top of the headlines.
The more people are discussing Donald Trump, the less they are discussing Joe Biden being very bad at his job, the less they are discussing Joe Biden's corruption.
It's all a giant misdirect.
And the thing about Trump is that Trump really likes talking about Trump, so he's happy to talk about Trump all day long.
But the problem is that was his actual electoral strategy in 2020, and it didn't work out particularly well.
So do you want to talk about Biden or do you want to talk about Trump?
We should be talking about Biden since he's the actual president of the United States, not a former president who is currently running for president of the United States.
But all the talk is about Trump because the media loves that storyline.
And Joe Biden is really boring.
But while Joe Biden is being boring, his policy is not boring at all.
See, the thing about the Biden administration is that he puts you to sleep because he is a doddering old fool.
And feels unthreatening because he is a doddering old fool.
But his agenda is actually extraordinarily threatening.
It's like the core values of the United States.
I'm not even talking here about the sillinesses of Karine Jean-Pierre, who apparently violated the Hatch Act because she kept talking about mega-MAGA Republicans in the run-up to the 2022 midterms, according to the Office of Special Counsel.
According to NBC News, that Office of Special Counsel has now determined that she violated the Hatch Act.
Now, they decided to close the matter without further action.
Of course, of course, because this is the way that it works.
If you are a Democrat and you violate the Hatch Act, nothing happens to you.
The Hatch Act, in and of itself, is a ridiculous piece of legislation.
But, you know, there are little things like that, but then there are much bigger things.
Okay, so, you may be wondering, who are the kinds of people who are standing behind the Biden administration?
Well, as it turns out, one of those people is not George Soros, but his son, Alexander Soros.
So, remember, supposedly he's anti-semitic to talk about how George Soros is a nefarious force in American politics, which he is.
He defunds the police prosecutors all over the United States, he funds wildly anti-Israel clauses all over planet Earth, and then hides behind his Jewish ethnicity in order to shield himself from criticism, which is quite disgusting.
As an Orthodox Jew, let me just say right here, right now, it is not antisemitic to call out George Soros and his garbage spending is bad for the country and bad for the world.
His political bona fides are very bad.
Well, now he is handing over his fund, his money, to his 37-year-old son, Alexander Soros, a self-described central left thinker who grew up self-conscious of the family's wealth and wasn't thought to be a potential successor.
He said that he is broadening his father's liberal aims, according to the Wall Street Journal.
He's gotten more political compared to George.
He recently met with Biden administration officials, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
He also met with Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is in increasingly fascistic fashion, going after political opposition and rigging the system over there, as well as Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is definitely, definitely not Fidel Castro's son.
The Soros Nonprofit Open Society Foundation, known as OSF, directs $1.5 billion a year to groups such as those backing human rights around the world and helping build democracy.
Well, that is a euphemism in the United States at the very, very least.
Alex said he was concerned about the prospect of Donald Trump's return to the White House, suggesting a significant financial role for the Soros organization in the 2024 presidential race.
Remember, it's anti-Semitic to mention George Soros and Alex Soros spending hundreds of millions of dollars to try to defeat Republicans, but they're allowed to do it.
As much as I would love to get money out of politics, as long as the other side is doing it, we have to do it too.
He said, well, he doesn't want to get money out of politics, then he'd be irrelevant.
No one would ever heard of Alex Soros if it weren't for money in politics.
He'd just be another 37-year-old dweeb living off dad's money.
In contrast with some on the left, Alex believes that speech on college campuses and elsewhere has become too restricted, but he does meet apparently on the regular.
With the White House.
He's visited the White House multiple times.
He was not expected to be the person who took over the family firm that was supposed to be his older brother, Jonathan.
But, um, you know, apparently he was politically aligned with daddy.
And so he gets control of the money.
According to the New York Post, VP Harris has been huddling with Alex Soros.
Harris greeted Open Society Foundation's Chair Alexandra Soros shortly after flying back to Washington from Philadelphia just last week, where she held an event with the Service Employees International Union.
At that point, Alexandra Soros treated great to catch up with Madam Vice President Kamala Harris.
The Vice President did not acknowledge the sit-down on her public schedule.
But he's made a dozen other visits to the White House, according to official visitor logs, including to attend a swanky state dinner for French President Emmanuel Macron late last year.
He also contributed almost $750,000 to the Biden Victory Fund in 2020, and he's put another $11 million in the pockets of left-wing PACs since 2010.
His father, George, donated $125 million to Democratic groups and candidates in the 2022 cycle through his Democracy PAC.
So these are the people who the Republicans are going to have to go up against.
The George Soros-funded far-left crowd who thinks that the height of human bravery is a man gallivanting around dressed up as a woman with surgeries to prove it, jiggling his bare breasts on the White House lawn in the name of sexual fluidity and individual freedom.
That's what the Republicans have to go up against.
So naturally, the Democrats would prefer that you put your focus on Donald Trump, which is why all the focus in the media today will be on the former president of the United States showing up in corrugated that in just one second.
First, Congress once again allowed itself this year to be pushed into appeasing the Biden administration.
They raised the debt ceiling again.
Now, again, you can argue as to whether the debt ceiling should have gone up should not should not have unless they handle the actual underlying entitlement issues in the United States.
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Okay, so meanwhile, and the biggest news of the day in the media will not be Joe Biden or his agenda or anything else.
It'll be Donald Trump heading to court.
So according to Politico, at about 3 p.m.
today, Trump is going to be heading to a federal courthouse in Miami on Tuesday.
Before departing for Florida, the former president spent Monday morning at his clubhouse in New Jersey where he spoke with aides and met with a congressional ally.
Trump and his team of advisors and attorneys plan to spend Monday night at his golf resort in Miami, that's at Doral apparently, preparing for his court appearance and trying to bolster his legal team.
It is unclear at this point, by the way, who exactly his lawyers are because he just switched over a bunch of his legal team.
Politico playbook actually has a pretty good rundown on what Trump's defense could theoretically look like.
They say, this would be Ryan Lizza, Rachel Bade, and Eugene Daniels reporting.
They say that it's unclear who exactly is going to be representing Trump at this point.
Trump has been scrambling to identify a seasoned Florida trial lawyer willing to take the case.
Trump attorneys Todd Blanche and Chris Kyes, who are leading that search, are likely to appear today in court.
So what exactly will the defense look like?
They talked to a guy named Timothy Parlatori, who left the Trump team last month.
And parlatory made a sort of compelling case as to exactly how Trump could defend himself.
He said there are a few things that Trump is going to do.
One, he's going to pursue aggressive discovery.
So whenever you have an indictment like this that spilled into public view, you now need full discovery from the prosecution, right?
You need every document that they've looked at is now the defense is entitled to it.
So the defense has to look at all of that stuff and see exactly what the alternative explanations for Trump's behavior could be.
They're also going to look at the possibility of prosecutorial misconduct.
You remember just a few days ago, Donald Trump went on Truth Social, and he alleged that the Justice Department's counterintelligence chief, Jay Brat, had pressured Trump's co-defendant, Walt Nowda.
That is the aide that Trump was directing to move boxes around, allegedly.
Trump alleges that Jay Brat pressured Walt Nowda during an interview by mentioning that Nowda's attorney, Stanley Woodward, was applying for a presidentially nominated D.C.
Superior Court judgeship.
So what they're going to try and say is that it's witness tampering, that basically Nowda was in the room with his attorney, that the DOJ said to his attorney, listen, you're up for a D.C.
Court judgeship.
You know, you need your guy to talk here, which of course would be illegal.
You're not allowed to pressure a client by pressuring the attorney with the threat of essentially excommunication from a judicial seat.
They're also going to attack the search warrant.
Parliamentary said he'd go after the legitimacy of that search warrant.
The Trump team will finally have access to the unredacted version of the search warrant, which, again, we're gonna have to see what the grounds were for the search warrant in the first place.
Remember, what the search turned up were a lot of the confidential documents that Trump had already testified, his lawyers had already testified, that he didn't have.
But you have to have good grounds for the search warrant.
It can't just be we feel like writing up a search warrant.
We've seen that happen before.
We saw a FISA warrant that was taken out against Carter Page on the basis of absolutely nothing.
It was essentially illegal.
So it would not be a shock if the grounds for the search warrant were bad.
Also, the defense is going to try to exclude notes that were taken by Trump's lawyer, Evan Corcoran.
So a lot of the indictment is rooted in the allegations of Evan Corcoran, who's Trump's lawyer.
That was stuff like Trump saying, what would happen if the documents just disappeared?
What would happen if we destroyed the document?
Now, Trump can make the case even then that that is attorney-client privilege.
So basically, the government made the case that Corcoran had to turn over those notes because here's the deal.
You're not allowed to conspire with your lawyer to commit a crime.
Attorney-client privilege applies to virtually everything.
You can tell your lawyer that you have committed a crime in preparing your defense, but you can't say to your lawyer, I'm about to commit a murder tomorrow.
Can you help me preemptively with how I should handle this?
That is now you attempting to facilitate a crime with your lawyer, and attorney-client privilege does not cover that.
And so if you're planning a crime with the lawyer or asking the lawyer to help you plan a crime, attorney-client privilege does not cover that because there is a criminal exception to the law.
It's called the crime-fraud exception.
So the prosecution is arguing that essentially Trump has been asking, can I get rid of the documents?
What happens if they're just destroyed?
That that violates the crime-fraud exception.
Presumably Trump's lawyers will try to argue That's not right.
Quote, So making the case that, you know, when you ask your lawyer, like, is it legal for me to do X or is it legal for me to do Y or what would the consequences be if I did X or Y?
That's not the same thing as planning the actual crime.
it shouldn't have been the evidence for a charge,"
said Parlatory, it's insane.
So making the case that, you know, when you ask your lawyer, like,
is it legal for me to do X or is it legal for me to do Y?
Or what would the consequences be if I did X or Y?
That's not the same thing as planning the actual crime.
That seems like a pretty good defense, actually.
Parlatory also alleges a pattern of misconduct he says he witnessed inside the grand jury,
where prosecutors repeatedly asked about privileged attorney-client communications,
then argued to jurors that invoking the privilege was evidence of guilt.
That, of course, would justify a motion that the entire grand jury process was flawed, because you're not allowed to use failure to testify against yourself or failure to break privilege as guilt.
If I grill you and you say, listen, that's privileged.
I don't have to talk about that.
That's not evidence that criminal activity has taken place.
Now, that really is not a question for the jury.
All of these are going to be questions for the judge.
So it'll be fascinating to see which of these motions actually succeed, right?
why this entire investigation is irreparably tainted by government misconduct,
the case should be dismissed, or at a minimum, the prosecutor should be disqualified.
Now, that really is not a question for the jury.
All of these are going to be questions for the judge.
So it'll be fascinating to see which of these motions actually succeed, right?
These are motions to exclude.
That does not change what the jury is going to hear.
So that's what Trump's defense, presumably, is going to be.
That, at least, is his actual legal defense.
His political defense, as I've said, is going to be, listen, there's an obvious double standard here.
And that political defense is obviously true.
This is why Trump's poll numbers have not collapsed in the wake of all of this.
We'll get to more on this in just a second.
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The reason that Trump's poll numbers have not collapsed, aside from the fact that a lot of Republicans are very loyal to him on a personal level because they believe that he pulled out a miracle in beating Hillary Clinton.
The other reason is because virtually all Republicans agree, even if you think that Trump never should have done what he did here.
Even if you look at the conduct, you know, like, this looks like criminal conduct to me.
Even if you think all of that, you can still think, as I do, that this is a full-on double standard.
And you can see it in the end-ending hypocrisy of Democrats who have obviously committed crimes.
Actually, going around on MSNBC and CNN, the galling nature of these people going around claiming that Donald Trump needs to be indicted for a crime while they themselves have committed pretty obvious crimes is pretty insane.
So, for example, John Brennan, who is the former director of the CIA.
If you go all the way back to 2014, he openly lied to Congress.
I mean, openly lied to Congress.
And everybody knew that he lied to Congress at the time.
And yet here he was yesterday talking about how Trump was a threat to national security.
And now he's been charged under the Espionage Act.
Is Donald Trump a national security threat right now?
And if he is, I think I know what you're going to say.
Why isn't that, you know, noun, a verb and a threat, everything that all of his opponents for the White House are saying today?
He is definitely a threat.
Major dangers are national security.
He has been, I think, for many years and will continue to be, which is why I just find it so, so Disheartening, and it makes me angry when I hear people like Lindsey Graham make excuses and apologies for Donald Trump.
I mean, that's amazing.
Because John Brennan is a person who literally lied to the Senate.
You'll recall, all the way back in 2014, that he suggested that the CIA had not improperly spied on US Senate staffers.
And that was a lie.
It was not true.
As it turns out, Brennan was actually forced to apologize privately to the Intelligence Committee chairs.
Now, if he had not been a member of the Democratic administration at the time, he certainly would have been brought up on some sort of contempt charges by the Senate of the United States.
They didn't do it, presumably because he was a Democrat and part of the administration, which is, again, the rule.
This is the double standard.
If you're John Brennan, you get away with everything, and you're on MSNBC talking about the importance of rule of law.
Here was John Brennan in 2014 lying.
This is at the Council on Foreign Relations.
As far as the allegations of CIA hacking into Senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth.
I mean, we wouldn't do that.
I mean, that's just beyond the scope of reason in terms of what we would do.
Okay, so he is a, as The Guardian said back in 2014, And yet John Brennan is walking around free as a bird and talking about the importance of the rule of law.
Now this sort of stuff is incredibly galling.
entire first term in the White House, Brendan Bilt oversaw, executed, and excused America's
robotic assassination program.
Intelligence documents leaked to McClatchy confirmed that Brendan was lying about all
of that for literally years on end.
And yet John Brennan is walking around free as a bird and talking about the importance
of the rule of law.
Now this sort of stuff is incredibly galling.
It's not just him.
Right?
Andrew McCabe.
He's a former member of the FBI.
You'll recall that Andrew McCabe actually was fired from the FBI for violation of leaking.
He joined the FBI in 1996.
And then, in 2021, he had to settle with the DOJ a wrongful termination suit that he filed in 2019.
He was fired in March of 2018, 26 hours before his scheduled retirement, because McCabe, as it turns out, leaked information to the Wall Street Journal about an investigation into the Clinton Foundation, and then misled agents who questioned about it on four occasions, three of which were under oath.
That was according to Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
So basically, in order to show that James Comey's FBI was on the up and up, he was leaking information without authorization to the press.
He then claimed, of course, that Comey had allowed him to leak that information.
Then in 2020, the Justice Department, shocker, announced that they were not going to prosecute McCabe.
So this is a person who leaked information to the press, which is one of the allegations against Trump, is that Trump was saying classified information leaking to the press.
McCabe leaked an investigation to the press.
He ended up being fired for it before he could retire.
He ended up embroiled in a lawsuit.
And then here he was defending Hillary Clinton on national television yesterday.
Let's talk about the Hillary Clinton case because that was a serious breach of protocol and she was criticized by the FBI director at the time for being, I think he used the word reckless, I might be wrong, but what is the difference?
There's huge differences here Jake and unlike what you've heard from uh... congressman mccarthy and biggs our system is not
based on you know we don't play by organized crime rules it's not you take out one of
my guys i take out one of your guys it's all equal
every one of these cases is analyzed based on the evidence evidence that
you've been able to uncover during the course of the investigation
in the clinton case top-secret documents thirty-seven secret dot are not
documents content that was that was judged to be at that level
and ten at the confidential level Important to note that none of that was actual documents bearing headers and footers and classified stamps and portion markings and all the sorts of things you expect to see.
Okay, so he's now defending Hillary Clinton.
So Hillary Clinton, who absolutely criminally was hiding information and obstructing it, and had it, by the way, not stored on like hard copies in a bathroom like Donald Trump, actually had it stored on a server that James Comey admitted in his failure to indict.
He admitted that Hillary was likely exposed to hack by foreign sources.
So it's very likely that information ended up in the hands of nefarious foreign sources.
Andy McCabe, who himself leaked information To the press and was fired for it.
He's now on national TV talking about the evils of Donald Trump.
This is the sort of stuff that, politically speaking, is good for Trump, at least in a primary.
Now, in a general election, I don't think it's going to help him very much because, again, everybody knows about all this stuff going in.
All this is baked into the cake already.
People think of Trump what they think of Trump.
However, you want to know why Republicans are rushing to Trump's defense.
It's because of the double standard.
It's not even because of the behavior.
It's because of the double standard.
That double standard is so obvious.
And it's also driven by the fact that the media are obviously just salivating over this.
The media have been wanting Trump in jail since day one.
Anna Navarro, over at The View, again, politics for dumb people.
She says she hasn't had this much fun reading anything, she's talking about the indictment here, since Fifty Shades of Grey.
So first of all, that shows you something about her sexual and literary taste, and it also shows you something about her IQ.
This man is so unfit, and any Republican candidate who is not jumping at this opportunity to say, hey, he is unfit for office, I'm the future, they're not running seriously.
Well, look, a few things.
Number one, I haven't had this much fun reading anything since I read Fifty Shades of... Right?
Wasn't it... I mean... This was the best reading you can imagine.
Mmm.
That's... That's delightful.
Well, you wonder why Republicans respond the way they do?
This is the reason.
Well, turnabout will be fair play.
If the idea here is that Hillary does not get prosecuted, McCabe does not get prosecuted, John Brennan does not get prosecuted.
None of these people get prosecuted.
But Donald Trump does get prosecuted.
Eventually, the worm is going to turn.
We have now broken the glass.
Donald Trump showing up in court today means the glass has been broken.
So prepare for political opposition to be prosecuted from here for the rest of American history.
This is where we now have gone.
This is really dangerous stuff.
Even if you believe the allegations against Trump, it is very, very dangerous to prosecute him under these circumstances for the future of the United States, because once you have a double standard, that double standard will not stand.
There will be a single standard, and if the single standard is you prosecute your political opposition, That would be the standard.
We'll get to more on this in a moment.
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Okay, meanwhile, if turnabout is fair play and the way that American politics from here on in is going to work, then what this means is that the Biden family better prepare that the minute they're out of power, whether that is in January of 2025 or whether that is in January of 2029, There will be prosecutions coming for them.
It's just going to happen.
Donald Trump basically vowed as much yesterday.
You're worried about the weaponization of the Justice Department under Donald Trump?
It didn't happen.
Remember that Donald Trump did not prosecute Hillary Clinton even after taking office under the assumption that you don't go after your chief political opposition, right?
It's just not a thing that you typically do.
Joe Biden has had no problem having Merrick Garland do it.
Now again, I think this is about Merrick Garland and Joe Biden.
A lot of people are on Jack Smith, the special counsel in this case.
If you're Jack Smith and your literal job is to just look at the facts on the ground in Donald Trump's classified documents case and you just look at that fact pattern, it's very hard to see how Jack Smith could have said, it doesn't look like a crime to me, we're done.
That's not Jack Smith's call.
Jack Smith recommends the charges.
Then it's up to Merrick Garland and Joe Biden to take into consideration the actual political ramifications for the country should they decide to go forward with the prosecution of Donald Trump.
So, blaming it on Jack Smith is wrong.
Smith is doing his job.
It is Merrick Garland, the AG, and Joe Biden who are not doing their jobs in protecting the country from the ramifications of weaponizing law enforcement only for one side.
Again, the basic rule of authoritarianism is, for my friends, anything.
For my enemies, the law.
And that's essentially what we have right now.
Donald Trump, predictably enough, went on TruthSocially and said,
Now that the seal is broken, in addition to closing the border and removing all of the
criminal elements that have illegally invaded our country, making America energy independent
and even dominant again, and immediately ending the war between Russia and Ukraine,
I will appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history
of the United States, Joe Biden, the entire Biden crime family, and all others involved with the
destruction of our elections, borders, and country itself.
So the Democrats have now manifested the form of their destroyer.
Remember, they said back in 2015, this is what Trump was going to do.
Trump would be elected.
He would immediately appoint to head the DOJ a lackey who's going to go after all of his political opponents and jail them.
And then they proceeded to elect Joe Biden.
And guess what?
Everybody under the sun is now attacking and attempting to prosecute and put in jail Donald Trump.
And so Trump, predictably enough, is like, OK, fine, you want to do it?
I'll do it, too.
And this will be the game from here on out.
When the Justice Department gets reduced to pure politics, you got a problem.
Now, I hear people screaming, all right, well, but you just said that Trump may have committed criminal activity here.
The allegations against him are very strong.
That's true.
The only way that you actually restore the credibility of the justice system is to have Republicans prosecute Republicans and Democrats prosecute Democrats.
Because the minute that this now crosses the aisle, we've become so politically polarized and partisan that if the basic line here is that Republicans are just supposed to accept that Republicans who are guilty of crimes get indicted, and Democrats who are guilty of crimes get slots on CNN and MSNBC, That is not a workable solution for anyone.
In order to reestablish credibility when credibility has been lost, when an institution has lost its credibility, everybody has to do something painful.
Everybody has to do something.
Everybody has to make a sacrifice.
The sacrifice in this particular case would be Joe Biden looking at this and saying, listen, I think that he probably committed the crime, but guess what?
I'm not going to prosecute him because we believe that Hillary Clinton should have been prosecuted.
Or at the very least, you could... I mean, this would have been an easy call, by the way.
The DOJ could have said, at the same time they were doing this, politically speaking, Merrick Garland could have said, we're also bringing charges against Hunter.
Right?
That would have shielded.
Because Hunter is clearly guilty of a bevy of crimes up to and including violation of gun law.
So, that could have happened.
They didn't do that either.
Again, the double standard is what's going to destroy the credibility of the institution.
The only way to restore the credibility of the institution is even-handed application of justice against your own side, not when it looks politically valuable to go after your chief political opposition.
And that's why this thing is going to remain incredibly polarized.
Kevin McCarthy, the Speaker of the House.
He actually made this point with regard to Andrew McCabe.
We mentioned McCabe before.
McCabe was an assistant director over at the FBI, and he was spilling classified information, apparently, to the Wall Street Journal.
Nothing ever happened of it.
He got fired, and then he settled the lawsuit with the DOJ.
No prosecution.
Here was McCarthy going after CNN, because CNN has now hired McCabe as a commentator on this case.
The former president is accused of misleading law enforcement, of a conspiracy of obstructing justice.
That's a different set of facts.
Are you prepared to defend him as the former president?
And what other actions will the House take in the House Judiciary Committee in terms of funding?
Are you prepared to defend your network, CNN?
I'm answering your question.
You can ask me any question you want, but I'm entitled to answer the question, okay?
You can't put words in my mouth, even though your network can hire Andrew McCabe, who was fired from the FBI for leaking classified documents.
Did you remove him from your network?
No, you continue to put him on to give judgment against President Trump.
Again, he's right about that.
That media double standard, the fact that if you commit a crime and you are a, if you're James Comey and you're horrible at your job, and you're the person who basically destroyed all faith in the justice system in the United States, you get just treated as national hero by the left.
Meanwhile, Republican candidates are trying to figure out exactly how to handle the Donald Trump situation.
Most of the Republican candidates seem to be coming down on the same side of this, which is it is a double standard.
And also, these are serious allegations, which, by the way, is true.
All of that happens to be true.
Tim Scott, the senator from South Carolina, he says this is a serious case with serious allegations.
What we see today across this nation under Joe Biden's leadership is both un-American and unacceptable.
You can't protect Democrats while targeting and hunting Republicans.
This case is a serious case with serious allegations.
But in America, you're still innocent until proven guilty.
Senator Scott obviously read about that.
Nikki Haley taking a very similar line.
Another candidate for the presidency.
...about how they should look at this.
Two things can be true at the same time.
One, the DOJ and FBI have lost all credibility with the American people, and getting rid of just senior management isn't going to be enough to fix this.
This is going to take a complete overhaul, and we have to do that.
Two, the second thing can also be true.
If this indictment is true, if what it says is actually The case.
President Trump was incredibly reckless with our national security.
More than that, I'm a military spouse.
My husband's about to deploy this weekend.
This puts all of our military men and women in danger if you are going to talk about what our military is capable of or how we would go about invading or doing something with one of our enemies.
And if that's the case, it's reckless, it's frustrating, and it causes problems.
All of that is true.
Okay, all that's true.
Trump's behavior in this case was reckless.
Not just reckless with regard to America's national security, but as I said yesterday, you know you're in the crosshairs.
What are you doing?
What are you doing?
But that does not change the fact that the double standard is in fact a massive double standard.
Okay, time for some things that I like and some things that I hate today.
JP Morgan is now having to shell out $290 million to Jeffrey Epstein's victims, according to CNN.
Apparently, they're doing this to settle a class action lawsuit from Epstein's sexual abuse of victims.
According to David Boies, who's one of the victims' attorneys, a big Democratic attorney also, the victims had accused the bank of enabling sex trafficking by the deceased financier when he was a client.
A joint statement from the nation's largest bank and attorneys for the victims said, quote, they have informed the court they've reached an agreement in principle to settle the putative class action lawsuit related to Jeffrey Epstein's crimes.
Now, to be fair, JPMorgan Chase is worth like trillions of dollars.
So, a $290 million settlement sounds like a lot of money to regular folk, but it actually is not all that much money.
It's not clear exactly how many people are going to benefit.
the settlement, JPMorgan Chase will not admit liability in the case, but upon the settlement's
approval, the bank will put out a statement regretting its association with Epstein.
It's not clear exactly how many people are going to benefit.
Apparently, there are more than 100 women who are expected to seek compensation. So what
exactly did JPMorgan do?
Well, they also have litigation pending between JPMorgan and the US Virgin Islands.
Essentially, the allegation is that JPMorgan Chase was informed over and over and over again that Jeffrey Epstein was using its bank accounts in order to facilitate His sex crimes.
That's the basic allegation, is that there are a bunch of red flags and they just failed to recognize the red flags.
The lawsuit claimed that JPMorgan ignored, according to the New York Times, repeated warnings that Epstein had been trafficking teenage girls and young women for sex even after he registered as a sex offender and pled guilty in a 2008 Florida case to soliciting prostitution from a teenage girl.
The complaint said that the bank overlooked red flags in Epstein's activity because it valued him as a wealthy client who had access to dozens of even wealthier people, so basically the idea was that he was a go-between for future JPMorgan clients since they started looking the other way at major transfers of funds coming out of Epstein's bank account that were being used to facilitate sex trafficking.
Court documents and deposition testimony reviewed by the New York Times revealed that bank employees had filed numerous suspicious activity reports about Epstein's repeated large-cast withdrawals.
The legal documents revealed that after designating Epstein a high-risk client in 2006, the bank kept him on as a customer despite all of those media reports.
And they continue to provide banking services to him all the way up until 2013.
So, what did they know and when did they know it?
Totally unclear.
All of this, the secrets in the Epstein case still have not dropped.
What's the full list of people who are visiting Epstein Island?
How did that dude make all of his money?
Who's facilitating all this?
We know that he was blackmailing people, right?
I mean, that's pretty clear at this point, that he had tapes of everybody, that he was essentially bringing people there, blackmailing them, and then using the money in order to treat famous people to trips to his island where he would then blackmail them.
That was his game.
But the question is, who was bankrolling all this stuff and who else had access to that intelligence?
Because this story has not even remotely been told yet when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein.
I'm glad that JP Morgan is settling the case, but the digging needs to continue.
Okay, time for some things that I hate.
Well, when you talk about corporate America going woke, I mean, we're just doing the memes now.
So, as I mentioned yesterday on the show, there is a very famous meme.
The meme is when Republicans run the country and it shows a bomb with an American flag on it dropping over another country.
And when Democrats run a country and it's a bomb with a transgender flag on it dropping over a country.
Well, Lockheed Martin Which produces the bombs?
They're apparently all in.
So Lockheed Martin showed up at a Pride parade over the weekend.
This would be, it looks like in Washington, D.C.
And here is Lockheed Martin, a defense contractor, marching for pride, guys.
Yep, producing, you know, heat-seeking missiles on behalf of the LGBTQIA community.
Wow.
Corporate America, all the way down to manufacturer of our jet engines, has been hijacked by this entire pathetic ideological movement.
It is insane.
Fully, fully crazy.
Mark Cuban, for his part, he is saying that he is woke.
So according to Breitbart, Cuban was speaking with business and political leaders at Michigan's Mackinac Island.
He said, call me woke.
You don't need to call it DEI.
You can call it whatever you want.
I call it good business.
It means taking the people you're selling to and making sure your workforce looks like them, making sure you can reflect their values, being able to connect to that.
That's what works for me.
And he says, your constituents wake up in the morning.
They don't think about Bud Light.
They don't think about Target.
They don't think about any of that stuff.
They think about how it's going to live their lives or what's going to get them satisfaction.
Now, that is not true at all, and Cuban is going to take it in the teeth if he continues with this.
According to the Wall Street Journal, companies' mentions of green and social initiatives during earnings calls have fallen off sharply in recent quarters, reversing a more boastful approach taken over the past few years amid intensifying pressure from some investors and conservative activists.
DocuSign, for example, where Chief Financial Officer Cynthia Gaylor in March 2022 said the company achieved carbon neutral status during that year.
Well, now, at the time, she said the company was continuing its efforts to reach net zero, but company executives have not mentioned sustainability initiatives, carbon neutral status, or net zero emissions on earning calls since.
Why?
Because it actually is not an investor interest to do any of these things.
It turns out that a lot of brands are running headlong away from ESG, DEI, sustainability.
Executives at U.S.
listed companies mentioned environmental, social, and governance, DEI, or sustainability on 575 earnings calls from April 1st to June 5th.
That is down 31% from the same period last year.
That's the largest such year-over-year decline and the fifth consecutive quarter of year-over-year drops following a pickup in these discussions.
So, Mark Cuban can talk all he wants about getting rich by going woke, but I fail to see any of the evidence of this.
By the way, while we're talking about some things that we hate, I have to say, this is an amazing headline.
So, there's a piece from the Washington Post called, quote, Target Stores See More Bomb Threats Over Pride Merchandise.
Now, you read that headline, and you would think, who exactly is, who exactly is threatening with the bombs?
Who's making these threats?
You would think that it's a bunch of wild-eyed right-wingers who are making these threats.
Well, that's actually not what is happening.
That's actually not what is happening.
According to the piece, quote, police in Lafayette, Louisiana,
searched two stores there and reviewed security footage after bomb threats were sent to multiple news organizations.
The unknown sender said Target, quote, betrayed the LGBTQ plus community
and our pathetic cowers who bowed to the wishes of far right extremists who want to exterminate us.
And so bomb threats were made in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Utah from people claiming to be angry
about the removal of the merchandise.
So if you just read that headline, you would think that it's all Matt Walsh's fans who are threatening to bomb Target.
People who listen to this show threatening to bomb Target.
Wrong!
Who is it?
It's all the people who are pissed off about the removal of trans bathing suits from Target.
They bury that down in paragraph 20.
So again, the headline was, Target Stores See More Bomb Threats Over Pride Merchandise.
Now, that is the most dishonest headline ever.
It should be, Target Stores See More Bomb Threats Over the Removal of Pride Merchandise.
Because the people threatening are the people mad about the removal of the Pride Merchandise.
But the media have to play this as though it's evil right-wingers, even when it is not, in fact, evil right-wingers.
Okay, final thing that I hate for today.
So, Megan Fox, who is a legit nut.
I mean, she's a crazy person, by all available evidence.
So, Robbie Starbuck, who is a great follow over on Twitter, he recently accused Megan Fox of forcing her three sons to wear girls' clothing against their wishes.
And he tweeted out a picture of the actress with her boys, Noah 10, Body 9, and Journey 6.
Starbucks used to live in the same community.
And he said he saw two of her sons have a full-on breakdown, saying they were forced by their mom to wear girls' clothes as their nanny tried to console them.
He said it's pure child abuse.
Pray for them.
Well, yesterday, Fox posted a screenshot of that viral post.
She said, I really don't want to give you this attention because you're clearly a clout chaser, but let me teach you something.
Irregardless, First of all, there is no such word.
The word is regardless.
Irregardless of how desperate you may become at any given time to acquire wealth, power, success, or fame, never use children as leverage or social currency, says the lady dressing her boys as girls, for the...
For the joys of being known as a virtuous mom.
Especially under malevolent and erroneous pretense.
Exploiting my child's gender identity to gain attention in your political campaign has put you on the wrong side of the universe.
I have been burned at the stake by insecure, narcissistic, impotent little men like you many times.
And yet I'm still here.
You effed with the wrong witch.
Well, you sound totally not crazy.
You sound like a person who should be trusted with children.
You effed with the wrong witch.
Also, um, you should probably not dress your three boys as girls.
And when I say probably, I mean you definitely should not.
That's an actual act of child abuse.
You should not do that.
See, this is how Upside Down... We're living in the Upside Down.
The Upside Down is where it is considered an act of child abuse to tell your boy that he is a boy.
But it is an act of amazing parenting to forcibly dress your male child in female clothing.
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