April 15, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
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| It does feel like this trial will, in some ways, maybe be the trial of the 21st century. | ||
| It's the only one that's going to probably go to trial for Trump before the election. | ||
| How much of a spectacle do you think it will be? | ||
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I think it'll be a big spectacle, just the fact that it's Donald Trump. | |
| Yeah. | ||
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Now the first two weeks, two and a half weeks, are going to be boring because it's jury selection. | |
| So no witness is going to be called. | ||
| Well, I'm saying it's boring, but of course Donald Trump is going to take every opportunity he can and every break and after the case is over for the day, walk out and talk. | ||
| But it's basically going to be like watching paint dry in that it's jury selection. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Which is, I think, trial lawyers will tell you is the most important thing. | ||
| It is the most important thing. | ||
| You win at jury selection. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So it's very important, but it's not exciting. | ||
| It's not going to be Stormy Daniels or Michael Cohen on the stage. | ||
| Well, it's not exciting to most, but I'm in a hurry. | ||
| This is exciting to me. | ||
| Because I do believe voir dire and jury selection is the most important thing. | ||
| Most important part. | ||
| Because for Trump, I anticipate he's going to try to do things like have his lawyers exclude anybody black. | ||
| Right? | ||
| He's going to try to get them to include people who love MAGA, people who watch The Apprentice. | ||
| Like, what are the kind of questions you think that his lawyers will try to ask to try to get him an ideal jury? | ||
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Well, they won't because then, remember, the prosecutor and the defense can strike people and don't have to give reason. | |
| They have ten each. | ||
| It's called peremptory challenges. | ||
| Right. | ||
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So, and you can also challenge people for cause. | |
| So clearly someone who's like, I'm a MAGA, you know, you can exclude them from that. | ||
| Donald Trump is inside that Manhattan courthouse right now as the first criminal trial with a former president is about to begin. | ||
| Jury selection specifically is about to begin today and Donald Trump is in there now. | ||
| He's been posting angrily since before six o'clock this morning on his truth social website. | ||
| About how unfair this is and how this is election interference interference into his election and how the gag order that he caused for himself should be lifted. | ||
| I want to read from the New York Times just sort of analysis of this which is kind of stark. | ||
| With jury selection starting right now, Mr. Trump ...will become the first former U.S. | ||
| president to stand trial on criminal charges. | ||
| Win or lose, he will be the first presidential candidate whose political fate, before being decided by millions of voters, will be shaped by 12 people. | ||
| In a jury box. | ||
| And that's how important this jury selection is. | ||
| Of course, there will be a lot of issues made by both sides, probably, in picking these jurors. | ||
| There are specific boundaries and specific questions that they have to answer. | ||
| And we're told up to 6,000 people. | ||
| There are other cases also needing juries in this courthouse, but there are 6,000 potential jurors ready to go to be assessed. | ||
| Obviously, this is a major moment in history. | ||
| This has never happened before, and I'd love to hear more about that. | ||
| But also, given recent history, I mean, recent history with President Trump and post-President Trump and January 6th and the way he's treating the people who are in jail right now for the insurrection at the Capitol, the way he's whitewashing what happened and getting other Republicans to do so. | ||
| Can you also talk about how Trump could and is already using this to foment ambiguity and anger in this country? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| In one of his first public speeches, Abraham Lincoln said that if the American Republic were ever to fall, it would not fall to a foreign foe. | ||
| It would fall to a tyrant who rose among us. | ||
| And I think that's essentially where we are. | ||
| You're exactly right. | ||
| What's unfolding in Manhattan today is part of a larger story about Donald Trump, his behavior, His view of whether or not American democracy exists for the good of the country or for the good of Donald Trump. | ||
| And I know that's not what the jury's deciding, but there are lots of juries here, right? | ||
| There's a national jury, there's the jury in the courtroom. | ||
| And ultimately, you have this trial, you have the Supreme Court preparing to hear arguments on Trump's really wild claim that presidents are totally immune from anything, as if we are creating this sort of superhero who has immunity for all things, which is totally contrary to the rule of law. | ||
| And as you say, an attempt to basically run a coup d'etat four years ago, three and a half years ago, to overturn an election that was adjudicated again and again, often by judges appointed by Republicans. | ||
| So, in the broadest sense, what's on trial is fact, is truth, and Then the second thing that's on trial, which is vital, is half the country has essentially decided that whatever Donald Trump does is fine because of X, Y, or Z. | ||
| Whatever that reason is, right? | ||
| There is a strong base, then there are his enablers who think that they're going to have lower taxes and more conservative judges, and it doesn't matter that he's trying to rip up the Constitution. | ||
| That's a decision that a lot of folks have made. | ||
| The question is going to be, as we head into this presidential election, is will a sufficient number of those people stand by Donald Trump come what may? | ||
| Including a felony conviction, including possibly convictions, certainly trials, about overturning an election that he just didn't like. | ||
| That's on trial. | ||
| So truth and democracy are on trial this year. | ||
| And I have no pleasure in saying this. | ||
| I'm not being hyperbolic. | ||
| This isn't like history nerd sweepstakes. | ||
| It's not that. | ||
| This is the fact of the matter. | ||
| And American democracy in many ways is being tested here. | ||
| The soul of America. | ||
| Nothing like this has ever happened before. | ||
| There's never been anything like it. | ||
| Every legal scholar said this case is nonsense. | ||
| It should never have been brought. | ||
| It doesn't deserve anything like this. | ||
| There is no case. | ||
| And they've said it. | ||
| People that don't necessarily follow or like Donald Trump So this is an outrage that this case was brought. | ||
| This is political persecution. | ||
| This is a persecution like never before. | ||
| Nobody's ever seen anything like it. | ||
| And again, it's a case that should have never been brought. | ||
| It's an assault on America. | ||
| And that's why I'm very proud to be here. | ||
| This is an assault on our country. | ||
| And it's a country that's failing. | ||
| It's a country that's run by an incompetent man who's very much involved in this case. | ||
| This is really an attack on a political opponent. | ||
| That's all it is. | ||
| So I'm very honored to be here. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies. | ||
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Because we're going medieval on these people. | |
| I got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people. | ||
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The people have had a belly full of it. | |
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
| I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
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It's going to happen. | |
| And where do people like that go to share the big line? | ||
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MAGA Media. | |
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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War Room, here's your host Stephen K. Babb. | |
| It's Monday the 15th of April in the year of our Lord 2024. | ||
| It is the, thank you Denver, it is the 159th anniversary of the assassination of President Lincoln. | ||
| It is tax day. | ||
| The Israeli War Cabinet meets even as we speak to discuss and debate their response to the attack by the Persians over the weekend. | ||
| The FBI has opened a criminal investigation, as we told you they would, into the vessel that hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge. | ||
| More on that later also. | ||
| Scotty Scheffler wins the Masters and says his victory The assassination of President Lincoln 159 years ago and the political assassination of President Trump starts today. | ||
| devout, very devout Christian. The assassination of President Lincoln 159 years ago and the political assassination of President Trump starts today. We've crossed the Rubicon. The lawfare apparatus now has President Trump actually in a courtroom. | ||
| We have World War coverage, Andrew Giuliani, Mike Davis, David Zier, the whole Real America Voice team, and of course, Laura Loomer. | ||
| She's already been in the face of CNN. | ||
| Let's play a short clip and we'll bring Laura Loomer live from lower Manhattan. | ||
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The other day you had a retired U.S. | |
| federal judge on your show, and you were asking her about the motion that was filed by President Trump and his legal team about whether or not Judge Marchand should recuse himself, right, over his daughter's conflicts of interest. | ||
| What do you think about that? | ||
| I saw that the judge actually said that the motion was pretty strong, but you didn't really have much to say. | ||
| We had her on the show, didn't we? | ||
| Yeah, but you didn't really have much to say when she said it was strong. | ||
| Do you think that Judge Marchand should recuse himself? | ||
| Alright, well as you can see, that's Caitlin Collins from CNN. | ||
| She's one of the biggest Trump haters out there, and she doesn't want to answer the question. | ||
| Laura Loomer, you're live from lower Manhattan. | ||
| Why won't Caitlin Collins answer? | ||
| She runs her mouth all the time on CNN. | ||
| Why won't she ask a couple of very straightforward questions from you, ma'am? | ||
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Look, Steve, no one wants to get lumered, right? | |
| As President Trump said at Mar-a-Lago last week. | ||
| And it's true. | ||
| Look, Caitlin Collins and all these fake news media frauds, they love running their mouth. | ||
| They want to say, oh, we got to get Trump. | ||
| Trump is bad. | ||
| Trump's guilty. | ||
| They say all of these nasty, terrible things about President Trump. | ||
| But then when you catch up to them, like I did with Caitlin Collins from CNN this morning, probably one of the biggest Trump-hating mouthpieces for the left-wing media, she has nothing to say. | ||
| When I said my name, you see the smile on her face quickly dissipated and then she ran away. | ||
| But look, she had the former U.S. | ||
| federal judge for the Southern District of New York. | ||
| I reposted the video on my Twitter for people that want to watch it this morning. | ||
| I believe the judge's name was Shira Scheindler. | ||
| And she even said, you know, Caitlyn Collins went into this interview thinking that she was going to ask this judge, probably thinking she was a Democrat, to say, oh, well, what do you think? | ||
| Do you think that the motion for recusal of Judge Mershawn is strong? | ||
| And when the judge On CNN said it was strong. | ||
| Caitlin, of course, had what we like to call RBF. | ||
| You can look it up. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But she wasn't too happy. | ||
| And that's the problem here. | ||
| Look, we're out here today and there's probably more media than there are protesters. | ||
| And why do I point that out? | ||
| It's not a testament to a lack of support. | ||
| There's plenty of people here to support President Trump today. | ||
| But it goes to show you that the media thrives on chaos. | ||
| The media thrives on dividing our country. | ||
| The media thrives on their get-Trump, anti-Trump narrative. | ||
| And from this edge right here, all the way down the block, okay, all the way down the block to the end corner of the courthouse, our media tent's set up. | ||
| I mean, there's got to probably be at least, I would say, 500 members of the media here. | ||
| And that's no exaggeration. | ||
| Laura, but how much conservative, how much MAGA media is there? | ||
| What is the coverage and support of President Trump from people that are on our side of the football? | ||
| I've noticed a real lack. | ||
| I mean, you've been on it, Mike. | ||
| David's been on it. | ||
| Both of you have worked with us. | ||
| But I've noticed a real lack of focus on this trial in particular. | ||
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Well, Real America's Voice is here. | |
| I saw Right Side Broadcasting is here. | ||
| I believe Newsmax is here as well. | ||
| There's a lot of independent journalists. | ||
| There's also a lot of really great citizen journalists who have large YouTube followings, Rumble followings, and social media followings who are here. | ||
| You can see, I mean look, just we'll pan the camera, we have Savannah Hernandez here as well. | ||
| So there are members of the media here, independent journalists that understand that this is an abomination, this is a bastardization of our justice system. | ||
| We've got the Trump train rolling up right now too. | ||
| Donald Trump did nothing wrong. | ||
| So we got a lot of people here. | ||
| People here. | ||
| Donald Trump did nothing wrong. | ||
| So look at all these people here, Steve, with their cell phones out. | ||
| And I believe that it was, uh, I believe that it was Andrew Breitbart who said that all you need is this. | ||
| You just need your phone. | ||
| And we're creating a sea of media, a sea of media holding the media accountable. | ||
| And we are out here as activists, as independent journalists, and we are here to tell the media that we stand with President Trump. | ||
| We are against this weaponized justice that is tearing our country apart. | ||
| This banana republic, two-tiered justice system, Steve. | ||
| Laura, hang on, we're going to come right back to you. | ||
| We'll take a short commercial break. | ||
| As Andrew Breitbart predicted, it is the citizen journalists that have been the backbone, the backbone of this movement. | ||
| They have President Trump's back. | ||
| Lower Manhattan today, a kangaroo court starts. | ||
| We've crossed the Rubicon. | ||
| Lawfare is no longer something theoretical. | ||
| It's not just for pundits to debate on cable television. | ||
| It's very real. | ||
| It's very real in the lower Manhattan courtroom. | ||
| We have Laura Loomer. | ||
| We have Andrew Giuliani. | ||
| Mike Davis is going to lay it all out for us for wall-to-wall coverage on the trial of the century, the 21st century, the trial of Donald J. Trump. | ||
| Lawfare comes to America. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| We're going to return to lower Manhattan in the War Room. | ||
| Real America's voice in a moment. | ||
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We will fight till they're all gone. | |
| We rejoice when there's no more. | ||
| Let's take down the CC. | ||
| Here's your host Stephen K. Babb. | ||
| Okay, welcome back. | ||
| With all the turbulence in the world, including what's happened in the Middle East, we're going to get to all that here a little later in the show. | ||
| Now's the time, more than ever, Birchgold. | ||
| You heard Philip Patrick on the show over the weekend. | ||
| We did coup d'etat. | ||
| The takeout of John F. Kennedy, the takeout of Richard Nixon, and the proposed working on it takeout of Donald Trump. | ||
| In a time of turbulence, you need a hedge for your financial future. | ||
| Gold has been that hedge for 8,000 years of man's recorded history. | ||
| Birchgold.com slash Bannon. | ||
| Go talk to Philip Patrick and the team at Birchgold. | ||
| Do not delay. | ||
| Do that today. | ||
| We're gonna go to lower Manhattan, Andrew Giuliani. | ||
| Andrew, you know the court system, you know Manhattan, you know how rigged the Democrats have this, have the greatest city in the world. | ||
| Set the table for me. | ||
| What are we seeing today in this kangaroo court that is after, to try to defeat President, they can't beat him at the polls, they can only either steal it or use lawfare. | ||
| Talk to me what's going on in this courtroom today. | ||
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Yeah, Steve, you've laid it out so well. | |
| This is the political persecution of the lead candidate for president. | ||
| A very sad day in the history of our country on the anniversary of Lincoln's death. | ||
| This is the first time we're going to see a former president and lead candidate standing trial here at a criminal trial. | ||
| And to me, the next few weeks with this jury selection process is going to be so key And so important, because the truth is you just need a couple of unbiased members in there that are going to look at the facts of this case. | ||
| If you get that, and they look at the facts of this case, they'll realize this case never should have even been brought. | ||
| And Donald J. Trump should be acquitted. | ||
| Think about this, Steve. | ||
| This is one way I like to lay this out. | ||
| Joe Biden has been going after Donald Trump. | ||
| He's been going after Christian conservatives. | ||
| He's been going after parents whose daughters have been raped by biological males that have the gall to stand up at school board meetings. | ||
| That Justice Department did not actually think they had a strong enough taste to bring that. | ||
| The former DA, Cy Vance, Did not think that this was a strong enough case. | ||
| It took a George Soros underwrited district attorney. | ||
| Of course, you know the Biden administration is working under the table with them in order to bring this case. | ||
| We know Michael Cohen is the star witness. | ||
| Somebody who has been convicted of lying to Congress. | ||
| A convicted felon. | ||
| This is a complete sham here, Steve. | ||
| You just need a couple unbiased members in that jury box and they're going to see right through it. | ||
| Andrew, you say Cohen. | ||
| Cohen's the key witness about the bookkeeping part of this. | ||
| But don't you think what they're trying to do, at least in my mind, is to get the porn star up there, the Playboy Bunny up there, you know, bring up the Billy Bush weekend guys, and to try to smear President Trump in front of the college-educated suburban women to try to drive his numbers down? | ||
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Yeah, I think that's probably right. | |
| I think that definitely has a big factor in it, and I think that's obviously the political side of all of this. | ||
| But that's why I think, honestly, if they look at the facts of this case, they can't even point to an underlying felony. | ||
| So if you get beyond kind of the Circus characters that are involved here, the Stormy Daniels, the Michael Coens, the Alvin Bragg, the district attorney himself, is a circus character. | ||
| Somebody that should have been moved on the third day that he actually was in office because he immediately violated his oath of office, writing to his assistant district attorneys that he was no longer going to prosecute violent crime. | ||
| You have a real circus act out here. | ||
| So that definitely is part of it. | ||
| And the political side of this cannot be actually underestimated. | ||
| But I just look at this again here, Steve, and I just say, hey, look, anybody, whether or not a juror likes Trump, dislikes Trump, if they're unbiased looking at this case, I mean, the facts are so weak that they'd have to acquit him right there. | ||
| That's why this jury selection process, it's going to take time. | ||
| They have to get it right. | ||
| You have to have at least a couple of people that are unbiased in that jury selection process that can look beyond. | ||
| The thing that concerns me, Steve, too, we're standing in lower Manhattan. | ||
| 81% of Manhattan voted for Alvin Bragg. | ||
| 77% of Manhattan voted for Joe Biden. | ||
| It's not quite as bad as the District of Columbia where you're talking 95%, but still, you're talking only one in every four, one in every five that actually have voted for the Donald Trumps of the world there. | ||
| I'm just hopeful you have some unbiased people in there that look and say, you know what? | ||
| This is a political prosecution. | ||
| The facts are so weak. | ||
| It should have never been brought. | ||
| Let's drill down on that for a second. | ||
| Your father was the legendary greatest mayor in the history of the city. | ||
| You ran and were very competitive in almost being the governor of the state. | ||
| What's your sense of the politics of all this? | ||
| I mean, they brought this in lower Manhattan. | ||
| for a reason. | ||
| It's so overwhelmingly anti-MAGA. | ||
| It's so overwhelmingly, particularly how they're going to try to rig everything about this. | ||
| Well, what can be done about it? | ||
| How come this thing wasn't dismissed or how come they didn't grant it another, another venue to move it somewhere else in New York state? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I would immediately, if I were Trump's team, as for habeas corpus on this, I think this should be federal, and I think you end up getting it right up there to the Southern District. | ||
| The Southern District would not have even taken this case. | ||
| It actually might end up then going to the Court of Appeals and actually into D.C. | ||
| at this point, which, you know, that may be why they're not actually looking to do that. | ||
| But in terms of the politics of this, Steve, I mean, you can't look any further than the judge, Mershawn, and Laura Loomer, who was just on with you, is going to be back on with you here in a moment. | ||
| She's laid it out so well in terms of the judge's daughter profiting from Kamala Harris, from Adam Schiff, having the actual picture of Donald Trump behind bars on her social media as the lead thing you see right there, the wife who's been a big Democratic advocate. | ||
| Marchand actually is a product of the Democratic Party and party politics, so if you look beyond the politics of this case, Then frankly, you're missing the entire point of this whole thing and the entire point of why this case was actually brought to Donald Trump in the first case. | ||
| You laid it out in your opening segment, they're actually having him here so that way they could tie him up, that way he can't be in the Pennsylvania's, the Wisconsin, the Michigan's, the Georgia's where he needs to be and they're trying to drain his bank account because they know the most important thing for a candidate less than seven months before an election, it's time And it's money so you can do engagement and outreach to your voters. | ||
| That's what they're trying to do to Donald Trump here. | ||
| They're trying to take that away. | ||
| And I think more and more Americans are seeing through it. | ||
| I just hope that those 12 in that jury box that they select are unbiased enough to see through it as well. | ||
| Okay, before I lose you, I want to go one more time about this jury selection. | ||
| It could take a week or two. | ||
| Walk me through how vital this is. | ||
| Could be arguably 80% of the case, getting some unbiased jury members. | ||
| How can that happen? | ||
| How can Trump get unbiased, open-minded people? | ||
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I think, honestly, I really, in this case, would look and say, I think it's very fair for the defense and the prosecutors to know the political registration of these voters. | |
| I think it's only fair to have a breakdown where maybe you have four Democrats, four Independents, four Republicans. | ||
| Do I expect that to happen in Manhattan with a Judge Marchand? | ||
| Sadly, Steve, I don't. | ||
| But that is the pathway to actually having A fair trial for Donald Trump. | ||
| Somebody that's so ubiquitous that everybody who walks into that jury box is gonna have a formed opinion already about Donald Trump. | ||
| His name recognition is 99.9%. | ||
| And if they don't, then they probably shouldn't be even in the jury room because they, you know, probably just don't really know what's going on in general. | ||
| It's very difficult, I think, for the defense to actually go through this and actually kind of wait it out and see, hey, is this somebody that can actually make an unbiased opinion without the prosecution then striking that juror? | ||
| That's why it's going to take a while. | ||
| That's why it'll be a process. | ||
| But Trump's attorneys need to get this right. | ||
| Might be, you said, 80% of the trial. | ||
| I think you're absolutely right. | ||
| It's the overwhelming majority in terms of importance of this trial. | ||
| You have to get the jury selection process right. | ||
| Andrew, how do people keep up with you on social media, particularly during these next couple weeks, as we're going to have you back on, obviously, but how do people keep up with you on social media and your websites? | ||
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Yeah, go to at Andrew H. Giuliani on everything. | |
| And I'll be down here basically every day. | ||
| And, you know, we're going to be standing by President Trump like you, Steve. | ||
| Not just somebody that had the opportunity to work for him. | ||
| You're one of the key architects to why he became the 45th president of the United States. | ||
| But he's been a dear friend and a mentor for a long time. | ||
| So this is personal. | ||
| And it's sad to see our country today going after a former and future president the way that Joe Biden, his opponent, is. | ||
| Well, Andrew, hang around, because as this thing goes on, particularly jurisdiction, anything that comes out, we want to come right back to you. | ||
| Andrew Giuliani and Laura Manhattan. | ||
| Let's go to Laura Loomer. | ||
| We've got a couple minutes before break. | ||
| Laura, I know we've got some people down there we want to interview, but I just want to go with you for a minute until we go to break. | ||
| You've done more probably than anybody talking about the politics of this case. | ||
| What has your research shown you, ma'am? | ||
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Well, I've exposed Judge Mershon. | |
| Of course, Judge Mershon is the judge overseeing this case. | ||
| His daughter, Lauren Mershon, happens to work for a company called Authentic Campaigns. | ||
| It's a Democrat political consulting firm. | ||
| She doesn't just work there, she's the president of this company. | ||
| And this is an organization, this is a full-scale firm, I guess you could call it. | ||
| They do digital fundraising, they do email fundraising, all types of communications. | ||
| And they work with some of the most high-profile Democrats in our country, all of whom are calling for Donald Trump to be indicted and jailed, including Adam Schiff, who has paid her company over $13.5 million. | ||
| The Biden-Harris campaign is still also a current client as well. | ||
| They work with a lot of Trump-hating Democrats, and I understand right now the trial just began about 20 minutes ago, and Judge Mershawn opened up the trial by addressing President Trump and his legal team's motion requesting recusal, saying that it was based off of speculation. | ||
| It's based off a lot more than just speculation, Steve, okay? | ||
| We have the photographic evidence that I uncovered that shows that Lauren Mershawn, the daughter, her ex-account, which was photographed at her own company conference as well for Authentic Campaigns, was a picture of Donald Trump behind jail bars with the same exact handle. | ||
| And now they're trying to say that it's not her account. | ||
| Laura Mershawn, the wife of Judge Mershawn, works with Letitia James, who campaigned on getting Donald Trump. | ||
| And then Michael Cohen's lawyer, Andrew Loeffer, was on Twitter last night taunting me, asking me what the conflict is when he has held fundraisers for Kamala Harris and he is also photographed with Tish James three months before her investigations into Donald Trump began, talking about how they were going to get Trump. | ||
| So this is all coordinated, okay? | ||
| This is all coordinated and people here are outraged. | ||
| Laura, hang on for one second. | ||
| We're going to come right back to you. | ||
| We're going to have a short commercial break. | ||
| We're going to go to a short commercial break. | ||
| Laura Loomer, Mike Davis, Andrew Giuliani, Real America's Voice, David Zier, everybody down in lower Manhattan. | ||
| The trial of the century starts today. | ||
| Jury selection. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| Back in the warm in just a moment. | ||
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Monday, Monday morning, what sounds good? | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance. | ||
| Okay, obviously the world continues to turn. | ||
| Tesla just announced a layoff, I think, of up to 10% of their workforce. | ||
| I think it would be 15,000 jobs or something. | ||
| We'll get to all the details of that as the phony electric vehicle market collapses. | ||
| They're saying, oh, it's this competition with China. | ||
| Yeah, it is competition with China. | ||
| By the way, Elon Musk, who we told you they were going to screw you. | ||
| Of which they are. | ||
| But it's also because the electric vehicle, the entire concept of it, is based on phony premises and bizarre economics. | ||
| Let's go to Lower Manhattan. | ||
| We have Mike Davis suited up. | ||
| By the way, Andrew Giuliani, we're going to try to get him on every day about this. | ||
| We've got David Zier. | ||
| We're going to go back to Laura Loomer. | ||
| We've got our own Mike Davis. | ||
| Mike, set the stage for us here. | ||
| We played a cold open, and I don't know if you could have seen it, but I just want the audience to understand. | ||
| We've crossed the Rubicon. | ||
| The establishment Uniparty left and its media running dogs, it's their greatest day. | ||
| I mean, they are just lathered up that Trump is the worst, Trump is the end of democracy, and now they've got him in a totally rigged courtroom in lower Manhattan where they think they're going to finish him off. | ||
| Mike Davis, your perspective. | ||
| Nothing screams democracy like trying to bankrupt, imprison for life, and even disqualify your political opponent. | ||
| That's what we do in third world Marxist hellholes like Zimbabwe, and now New York, D.C., and Atlanta. | ||
| Remember what this case is all about, Steve. | ||
| You have President Trump allegedly Paying off a nuisance claim in 2016 and putting it on the books in 2017. | ||
| This case is at best a time-barred bookkeeping misdemeanor. | ||
| It's not even that, but that's at best, that's what this case is all about. | ||
| You had the prior Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance declined to bring these bogus felony charges under a bogus legal theory. | ||
| You had the Manhattan U.S. | ||
| Attorney decline to bring these bogus felony charges. | ||
| You had the Federal Election Commission decline. | ||
| You had Alvin Bragg himself decline until Matthew Colangelo, a senior political appointee in the Biden Justice Department in the number three office, a longtime Democrat operative for Obama and Tom Perez and Biden, got deployed to Alvin Bragg's office, the Soros Fund at Manhattan D.A., to resurrect the zombie case against President Trump. | ||
| And somehow these time-barred bookkeeping misdemeanors at best got converted into 34 felony charges. | ||
| And then we're doing jury selection for the next two weeks or so in a jury poll that voted 85 percent against. | ||
| against President Trump. | ||
| You have a Democrat judge, Juan Marchand, who donated to President Biden's campaign against President Trump in 2020. | ||
| And another Democrat cause, his adult daughter, Lauren Marchand, is a leading Democrat consultant and fundraiser. | ||
| She's raised close to $100 million Off of her father's criminal prosecution, this unprecedented criminal prosecution against a former president who happens to be the leading presidential candidate. | ||
| She has a financial stake in this criminal prosecution requiring Judge Juan Marchand's recusal under New York law. | ||
| And what is Judge Juan Marchand's response when President Trump raised this evidence? | ||
| He puts an unconstitutional illegal gag order I just want to go back. | ||
| We're going to go to Lara in just a minute. | ||
| Back to her. | ||
| They're both right outside the courtroom. | ||
| Mike is right outside the courtroom. | ||
| Lara's over there in the park where some of the demonstrations are loomering people. | ||
| We're going to go back to her in a second. | ||
| But Mike, I just want to make sure people understand. | ||
| Uh, Cy Vance and the Manhattan DA's office are as virulently anti-Trump as you could possibly get. | ||
| The guy that was their assistant they put specifically on this, Cy Vance did, is a Trump hater from the beginning and wants to see Trump in prison. | ||
| Both of those guys and the staff Even with Alvin Bragg at first said, there's nothing here. | ||
| We can't do it. | ||
| It's only after Matthew Colangelo. | ||
| I mean, this is hardwired as you've exposed. | ||
| This is hardwired from Garland's DOJ that seconded Matthew Colangelo there to get good order and discipline and make sure this thing could even be brought. | ||
| With all the jujitsu they had to do from basically a commercial bookkeeping issue to now, I don't know, 20 felonies that I just read this morning could have a max of 20 years in a state prison, right? | ||
| Over at Rikers or Sing Sing or someplace like this. | ||
| Just give me a moment on that, how people that hated Trump And hate him to a blood-boiling degree, said, we can't do this. | ||
| It's too big a farce. | ||
| We will be laughed out of a court, sir. | ||
| Well, I would be laughed out of a normal court, but you're in front of this biased Democrat Manhattan judge, Juan Merchant, who donated to Biden and another anti-Trump cause. | ||
| His daughter is profiting off this criminal prosecution. | ||
| And this Matthew Colangelo, let's talk about Matthew. | ||
| Colangelo's background because President Trump can't because Judge Juan Marchand gagged Trump illegally unconstitutionally. | ||
| So we're going to talk about this. | ||
| You have Lauren Marchand, the adult daughter, raising nearly $100 million off this criminal prosecution. | ||
| She gets a percentage of that because she runs the consulting company. | ||
| She's the fundraiser. | ||
| It could be a big percent, maybe 10%. | ||
| That's the going rate on political fundraising. | ||
| And then you have Matthew Colangelo. | ||
| Let's talk about Matthew Colangelo's background. | ||
| He is a political appointee. | ||
| He worked for the Obama Justice Department for Tom Perez when Tom Perez ran the Civil Rights Division, and then Tom Perez went on to be Obama's Labor Secretary. | ||
| Matthew Colangelo followed him there, and then when Tom Perez went to be Obama's DNC chairman, Matthew Colangelo went into the Obama White House as a senior labor relations political appointee. | ||
| Then Matthew Colangelo worked for the Democrat District Attorney. | ||
| They made up some BS DEI job for him. | ||
| And then he joined the Biden Justice Department on the parachute team. | ||
| He was the number two. | ||
| To the number three, he was the acting number three before Vanita Gupta, a hardcore leftist, got confirmed. | ||
| And then Matthew Colangelo was Vanita Gupta's henchman, the number two. | ||
| To the number three, a very important job in the Justice Department that oversees all the civil litigating divisions, civil rights, civil tax, antitrust, a whole litany of them, Office of Justice Programs. | ||
| And then Matthew Colangelo got deployed to Alvin Bragg's office. | ||
| The Soros-funded Manhattan DA to resurrect the zombie case for allegations from, what, seven years ago? | ||
| Time-barred allegations from seven years ago. | ||
| And here's a question you should ask. | ||
| If President Trump were somehow interfering in the 2016 election through these payments, a payment of a nuisance claim, how come they charged him for what happened in 2017? | ||
| How the hell Can you interfere in the 2016 election in 2017? | ||
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| Mike, hang right there. | ||
| We're going to come back to you. | ||
| Let's go to Laura Loomer. | ||
| Laura, I know we've got some people to interview, but I want to just still address you for a second, because you've been on this. | ||
| Did you say, I want the audience to understand something, because you bring the receipts. | ||
| As Adam Schiff, you mentioned $14 million. | ||
| Walk me through the $14 million. | ||
| And here's the reason. | ||
| President Trump's had an unconstitutional gag order. | ||
| So quite frankly, the Laura Loomers, the Mike Davises, the War Rooms, the Real America's Voice, we have to be his voice. | ||
| We have to amplify this. | ||
| We have no earthy idea. | ||
| When President Trump comes to the sticks in the afternoon at 40 Wall Street, I think he's going to do a summary of the day. | ||
| We have no earthy idea if media is going to pick that up. | ||
| And only citizen journalists and independent media will do it. | ||
| So hit the audience again. | ||
| You're saying that the daughter, 14 million dollars from Adam Schiff's operation? | ||
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Yes, because as I said before, her company, Authentic Campaigns, they do digital fundraising. | |
| And so Adam Schiff, because of his Get Trump narrative, is one of the top fundraisers in the Democrat Party. | ||
| And of course, you know, there's a conflict there that exists between himself and Michael Cohen as well, who is the star witness today by Alvin Bragg. | ||
| And so because of all the money and all the services that Authentic Campaigns has provided to Adam Schiff, I guess that's their cut. | ||
| I don't know what the cut breaks down to, but In any type of campaign, a fundraiser generally gets 15 to 20 percent of the funds raised. | ||
| And so, there's probably other things as well, like the website management. | ||
| According to the Authentic Campaigns website, they redesigned and completely managed all of his political ads, his fundraising, and the appearance of his website. | ||
| So it's probably how much they charge. | ||
| That's a lot of money. | ||
| Laura, who do we have down in lower Manhattan with you? | ||
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Right now, I'm joined by Paul Ingrassia, who is an attorney. | |
| He is often shared by President Trump, his substacks, and he's currently also the communications director for NCLU. | ||
| Thank you, Laura. | ||
| I mean, it's quite a spectacle down here today. | ||
| There's a lot of Trump supporters, not so much liberals or Antifa or anything. | ||
| We see a lot of cast of characters down here, but many Trump supporters, Trump flags, and it's a good sight to see. | ||
| Why did you decide to show up? | ||
| I know that the president is very fond of you. | ||
| He often shares your legal analysis, sub-stack articles. | ||
| Well, we're here with the New York Young Republican Club, and I just wanted to show my support for President Trump. | ||
| We know that this is a witch hunt, a sham. | ||
| I mean, this case has been kicked around from far-left district attorney to district attorney for seven years now. | ||
| No one wanted to take it up. | ||
| Even Brad himself didn't want to take up the case. | ||
| Improprieties run amok throughout this case. | ||
| You know, with his daughter, I was just on the website last night. | ||
| Their clients, of course, are Adam Schiff, who pushed the phony Steele dossier story. | ||
| Kathy Hochul as well, the governor of New York and the Brennan Justice System Center that is trying to advocate for all of the bail reform as well. | ||
| When you have the Biden-Harris campaign as one of your main clients and she's the president of this organization, I mean, how is that not a conflict of interest? | ||
| Not only is she the president of Authentic Campaigns, but she was also one of the directors of Rapid Response and Creative Direction for Kamala Harris's presidential campaign when Kamala Harris was running for president. | ||
| Laura, ask Paul. | ||
| Marshawn just ruled that he's not going to recuse himself given all the evidence. | ||
| Ask Paul's opinion about that. | ||
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Yeah, Paul, what do you think about the fact that Judge Marshawn isn't recusing himself and began the trial today by just openly addressing the motion to recusal, saying that it was based off speculation? | |
| I mean, it's egregious. | ||
| It's a lawfare of the most, you know, of the highest example. | ||
| And, you know, the fact of the matter is, you know, it's one thing that he's not recusing himself from this trial. | ||
| But the fact that President Trump can't even talk about it, that he's been imposed this gag order on him, And he's had his free speech rights, his First Amendment rights, stripped away from him. | ||
| It's beyond absurd. | ||
| It's egregious what they're doing to him here. | ||
| As a lawyer, though, yourself, do you think that there's more than just speculation based off the evidence that's been presented making the case for why Judge Mershawn should recuse himself? | ||
| What do you think about him saying it's just speculation? | ||
| I think it's certainly more than speculation, and because of that, that's why we're no longer allowed to talk about it. | ||
| That's why President Trump isn't allowed to truth about it, and that's why this gag order is so expansive. | ||
| It's one thing to impose a gag order on you, but to basically limit his ability to talk about this case at all is... | ||
| Unprecedented. | ||
| And it's such an abuse of the judicial system, the weaponized justice system, as we like to say in New York State, and this is like the heart of that weaponized justice system. | ||
| That's really what this election cycle is all about. | ||
| Do we get to preserve our due process rights, our First Amendment rights, or do we lose everything that our founding fathers And that's why we're out here, Steve, because if President Trump is going to be gagged and he's not going to be able to speak for himself, we have to be his voice. | ||
| We have to be his bullhorn. | ||
| And I brought my bullhorn here today. | ||
| We were on the bullhorn earlier. | ||
| And it's egregious. | ||
| It's egregious that the most powerful man in the world, the president of the United States, is being silenced in what is supposed to be the freest country in the world. | ||
| We are watching our country devolve into a communist A communist hellhole, okay? | ||
| It's an absolute communist hellhole, and that's what it's going to be. | ||
| Our country's over if Trump doesn't win. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Lara, just hang here for one second. | ||
| You're in lower Manhattan, so is Mike Davis. | ||
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a short break. | |
| It's too stressful. | ||
| So yeah, if I were called on, yeah, I would. | ||
| As a Manhattan resident, do you remember the first time you heard the name Donald Trump or do you have any strong impression from when he was running for office or in office? | ||
| So I grew up in Queens. | ||
| So did I. And so I lived here from 1974 to 1992. | ||
| And at that time, Donald Trump was considered like, I don't know if a good guy, but like a decent guy. | ||
| I don't think he's... | ||
| Any worse than Biden, to be honest. | ||
| He's from Queens, from like Jamaica Estates. | ||
| Just out of curiosity, what part of Queens were you from? | ||
| Jamaica, Hollis. | ||
| Andrew Cuomo's from there. | ||
| Sorry, sorry. | ||
| I'm not anti-Trump, but I'm very anti-Cuomo. | ||
| Do you think Donald Trump could get a fair trial in Manhattan? | ||
| I mean, I would hope that anyone could get a fair trial anywhere in this country, right? | ||
| Like, that's how it should be. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And, you know, it's unfortunate that you even have to ask that question. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| To be honest. | ||
| If you got a jury summons and they said, could you be an impartial juror? | ||
| Against him or for him? | ||
| Well, impartial means you would only judge it based on the evidence in the courtroom. | ||
| Well, then I got no problem with that. | ||
| I mean, I don't mind serving on the jury for that. | ||
| Why not? | ||
| How hard or easy do you think it would be to sort of put on the impartial hat and not have the politics hat on? | ||
| Well, I have a mind of my own. | ||
| I wait for the evidence to be proved, to be submitted, and then take it from there. | ||
| As a Manhattan resident, I'm wondering if you could tell me what's your strongest impression of Donald Trump, either from his days as a developer, or from the campaign trail, or when he was in the Oval Office? | ||
| As a president, I like him as a president. | ||
| As a businessman, I like him as a businessman. | ||
| He has his own personality. | ||
| I mean, he has a mind of his own. | ||
| And, you know, me as a New Yorker, I can't judge him for who he is. | ||
| Basically, I can only judge him by the way he carries himself, especially in the White House. | ||
| I mean, I like the way he handles himself in the White House. | ||
| I like him. | ||
| I agree with everything that he has said, because what he said is true. | ||
| It has to be true. | ||
| It can't be false. | ||
| Because if it's false, then he can be brung up on charges. | ||
| You know, I like Donald Trump, I really do. | ||
| You know, that was the Washington Post trying to get, trying to talk to people in Manhattan. | ||
| Mike Davis, as you know, an impartial jury here, I think is 80% of this fight, given what they're going to try. | ||
| This is not about bookkeeping. | ||
| You made a great case. | ||
| It's not about some commercial bookkeeping entries. | ||
| This is about Stormy Daniels, Miss December, some playboy playmate, Billy Bush, to smear Trump, to try to sway a jury. | ||
| How tough do you think it's going to be to get a impartial jury here, sir? | ||
| It's going to be very, very hard because you have a jury pool here in Manhattan that voted 85% against Donald Trump, and then you have this biased Democrat Manhattan judge, Juan Merchant, who donated to Biden in 2020 in another anti-Trump cause, whose adult daughter is making money off of this criminal prosecution as a Democrat fundraiser. | ||
| He's required to recuse under New York law. | ||
| He refuses. | ||
| And then if you read the juror questionnaire that this judge submitted, it asks a lot of questions. | ||
| It's going to eliminate, you know, maybe the 10 people in Manhattan who actually support Trump are going to get eliminated through this juror questionnaire that's stacked against Trump. | ||
| It asks these potential jurors if they follow Trump on social media and if they support Trump and his causes, but they don't ask these potential jurors if they support Biden and his causes. | ||
| So this whole process is stacked against President Trump. | ||
| You have a former Clinton federal judge who has come out on CNN, on Caitlyn Collins' show on CNN back on April 5th and said that this Democrat Manhattan judge should recuse from Juan Marchand should recuse because his adult daughter Lauren has a financial stake in this criminal trial over which he's presiding. | ||
| It is very clear Under New York law, this is a corrupt prosecution by Soros-funded Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, by a former Biden senior political appointee in the Justice Department, Matthew Colangelo. | ||
| This stinks to high heaven here in Manhattan. | ||
| Real quickly, you're going to come back and join us in the second hour, as is Laura, this whole issue of the gag order. | ||
| I mean, the reason we're there in such a show of force is to amplify the truth of what's going on, because President Trump can't, supposedly, will go to jail if he even talks about this, sir. | ||
| Yeah, this is outrageous that these Democrat prosecutors and these Democrat judges and these Democrat hellholes like New York, D.C., and Atlanta are putting a gag order on a criminal defendant. | ||
| It is the criminal defendants, not the government, who has the constitutional rights here. | ||
| And the gag orders in criminal cases are supposed to protect the criminal defendant, to make sure the criminal defendant gets a fair public and speedy trial under the 6th and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution. | ||
| These Democrats, prosecutors and judges have turned the Constitution on its head from a shield to protect us from the government into a sword the government is using to come after us by gagging a criminal defendant. | ||
| That's what you do in third world Marxist hellholes. | ||
| And the reason they're gagging President Trump is because he raised the obvious bias of the Biden Justice Department official Matthew Colangelo coming to resurrect the zombie case. | ||
| President Trump raised the evidence of this judge, Juan Marchand, this Democrat Manhattan judge, his adult daughter, Lauren, financially profiting off of her father's unprecedented criminal prosecution of Trump. | ||
| How did he respond? | ||
| He expanded the gag order. | ||
| This is unconstitutional. | ||
| It's illegal what they're doing. | ||
| And I would say this to these Democrat prosecutors and Democrat judges. | ||
| There is no way in hell you're gonna gag us at the Article 3 project. | ||
| You're gonna have to put us in jail to shut us up. | ||
| Where do people go to get to Article 3, sir? | ||
| Article 3 project dot org. | ||
| Article number 3 project dot org. | ||
| Mike, you hang on, we're going to get back to you in the second hour. | ||
| David Zier is going to join us, Laura Loomer, wall-to-wall coverage. | ||
| We're also going to talk about what's going on in Baltimore now. | ||
| FBI is aboard the vessel, a criminal investigation. | ||
| As Laura, Logan, and ourselves said, something very fishy in Baltimore, besides the crabs, right? | ||
| Okay, a short commercial break, 90 seconds. | ||
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