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Jan. 11, 2025 - Bannon's War Room

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Episode 4186: Weakness On The Supreme Court

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donald j trump

06:11

julie kelly

08:52

steve bannon

17:48

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mike lindell

02:20

vaughn hillyard

01:39

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donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		This has been a very terrible experience.
		I think it's been a tremendous setback for New York and the New York court system.
		This was a case that Alvin Bragg did not want to bring.
		He thought it was, from what I read and from what I hear, inappropriately handled before he got there.
		A gentleman from a law firm came in and acted as a district attorney.
		And that gentleman, from what I heard, was a criminal or almost criminal in what he did.
		It was very inappropriate.
		It was somebody involved with my political opponent.
		Part of the records that we're talking about, they're saying, I just noticed where he said I was falsifying business records.
		Well, the falsification of...
		Business records, as they say, it was calling a legal expense in the books where everybody could see them, a legal expense.
		In other words, that legal fees or legal expense were put down as legal expense by accountants.
		They weren't put down by me.
		They were put down by accountants.
		I didn't call them construction, concrete work.
		I didn't call them electrical work.
		I didn't call them a...
		They called a legal fee or a legal expense a legal expense.
		And for this, I got indicted.
		It's incredible, actually.
		Now, if you look, my attorney alluded to it, the top legal scholars and legal pundits in this country, the ones that are quoted all the time on television that are making their views felt and highly respected people, have said, everyone, virtually everyone that I know of, I haven't seen any to the contrary.
		Not one.
		These people are not exactly friends of mine, to put it mildly.
		But they all said this is a case that should have never been brought.
		It's an injustice of justice.
		Very respected.
		Jonathan Turley, Andy McCarthy, Judge David Rifkin, a wonderful man who just passed away, by the way.
		Greg Jarrett, Ellie Honig from CNN, of all places.
		CNN said that.
		Paul Ingrassia, Alan Dershowitz, they all said this is not a case that should be brought.
		Think about it.
		Legal expenses are down as legal expenses, and I get indicted for business records.
		Everybody should be so accurate.
		It's been a political witch hunt.
		It was done to damage my reputation so that I'd lose the election, and obviously that didn't work.
		And the people of our country got to see this firsthand because they watched the case in your courtroom.
		They got to see this firsthand and then they voted and I won and got the largest number of votes by far of any Republican candidate in history.
		And won, as you know, all seven swing states.
		Won conclusively all seven swing states.
		And won the popularity, the popular vote by millions and millions of votes.
		And they've been watching your trial.
		So they understood it.
		I wasn't allowed to use the lawyer-client privilege or the reliance on counsel.
		I had a lawyer that made this deal, and he admitted that.
		And he was also a totally discredited person.
		We weren't allowed to use the information from the Southern District.
		They totally discredited him, but wasn't allowed to be put in.
unidentified		And that was terrible, unbelievable.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		And this is a man who's got no standing.
		He's been disbarred.
		On other matters, unrelated.
		And he was allowed to talk as though he were George Washington.
		But he's not George Washington.
		He shouldn't have been allowed.
		The Southern District did a book of approximately 28 pages where they...
		I've never seen anything like it.
		They excoriated him.
		You wouldn't let it be put into evidence.
		So he was able to testify as a witness.
		And I think it's a disgrace to the system.
		I was under a gag order.
		I'm the first president in history that was under a gag order where I couldn't talk about aspects of the case that are very important.
		I guess I'm still under, so probably I won't do it now.
		I assume I'm still under a gag order.
		But the fact is that I'm totally innocent.
		I did nothing wrong.
		They talk about business records, and the business records were extremely accurately counted.
		I had nothing to do with them.
		That was done by an accountant or a bookkeeper who...
		I think a very credible testimony and was corroborated by everybody that was asked.
		And with all that's happening in our country today, with a city that's burning to the ground, one of our largest, most important cities burning to the ground, with wars that are uncontrollably going on, with all of the problems of inflation and attacks on countries and all of the horrible things that are going on.
		I got indicted over calling a legal expense a legal expense.
		It was called a legal expense.
		I just want to say I think it's an embarrassment to New York, and New York has a lot of problems, but this is a great embarrassment.
		I believe that this and other cases that were brought, as you know, the DOJ is very much involved in this case.
		It's because that's the political opponent they're talking about.
		The DOJ is very involved.
		You have a gentleman sitting right there from the DOJ who was from the DOJ's office.
		He was also involved with the New York State Attorney General's case.
		And he went from there to here.
		He went around and did what he had to do.
		He got them to move on me.
		But in the meantime, I won the election in a massive landslide.
		And the people of this country understand what's going on.
		This has been a weaponization of government.
		They call it lawfare.
		Never happened to any extent like this, but never happened in our country before.
		And I'd just like to explain that I was treated very, very unfairly.
		And I thank you very much.
unidentified		Thank you, Mr. Trump.
		Mr. Trump, you appear before this court today to conclude this criminal proceeding by the imposition of sentence.
		Although I have taken the unusual step of informing you in advance of my inclinations, Before imposing sentence, I believe it is important for you, as well as those observing these proceedings, to understand my reasoning for the sentence I am about to impose.
		The imposition of sentence is one of the most difficult and significant decisions that any criminal court judge is called upon to make.
		Our legislature sets the parameters for an authorized sentence.
		But it is a judge that must decide what constitutes a just conclusion to a verdict of guilty.
		The court is vested with broad discretion in determining what sources or evidence it may consider to arrive at an appropriate sentence.
		In doing so, the court must consider the facts of the case along with any aggravating or mitigating circumstances.
		In my time on the bench, I've been called upon to grapple with this weighty responsibility for countless defendants who have been found guilty after trial for an assortment of offenses, ranging from nonviolent classing felonies to the most heinous of crimes including homicides, sex trafficking, and child sexual abuse.
		The task is always difficult and deserving of careful consideration.
		Whether the sentence be an unconditional discharge or incarceration of 25 years to life.
		However, never before has this court been presented with such a unique and remarkable set of circumstances.
		Indeed, it can be viewed fairly that this has been a truly extraordinary case.
		There was unprecedented media attention, public interest.
		And heightened security involving various agencies.
		And yet, the trial was a bit of a paradox because once the courtroom doors were closed, the trial itself was no more special, unique, or extraordinary than the other 32 criminal trials that took place in this courthouse at the same exact time.
		Jury selection was conducted.
		The same rules of evidence were followed.
		Opening statements were made.
		Witnesses called and cross-examined, evidence presented, summations delivered, the same burden of proof was applied and a jury made up of ordinary citizens delivered a verdict.
		And it was all conducted pursuant to the rules of procedure and guided by the law.
		Of course, part of what made it feel somewhat ordinary was the outstanding work, preparation and professionalism of the clerks, Court officers, court reporters, security personnel, and the entire staff of this building who did their jobs as they would with any other criminal trial.
		So while one can argue that the trial itself was in many respects somewhat ordinary, the same cannot be said about the circumstances surrounding this sentencing.
		And that is because of the office you once occupied and which you will soon occupy again.
		To be sure, it is the legal protections afforded to the office of the President of the United States that are extraordinary, not the occupant of the office.
		The legal protections, especially within the context of a criminal prosecution, afforded to the office of the president have been laid out by our founders, the Constitution, and most recently interpreted by the United States Supreme Court in the matter of Trump versus the United States, and most recently interpreted by the United States Supreme Court in the matter of Trump versus the
		As with every other defendant in your position, it is my obligation to consider any and all aggravating and mitigating factors to inform my decision.
		Thank you.
		Some of those aggravating factors have already been articulated in my Sandoval ruling at the start of this trial and by my recent written decisions on December 16th and January 3rd.
		Thus, they need not be repeated at this time.
		However, the considerable, indeed, extraordinary legal protections afforded by the office of the chief executive is a factor that overrides all others.
		To be clear, the protections afforded the office of the president are not a mitigating factor.
		Right.
		They do not reduce the seriousness of the crime or justify its commission in any way.
		The protections are, however, a legal mandate which, pursuant to the rule of law, this court must respect and follow.
		Despite the extraordinary breadth of those protections, one power they do not provide is the power to erase a jury verdict.
		It is clear from legal president, which until July 1st was scarce, that Donald Trump, the ordinary citizen, Donald Trump, the criminal defendant, would not be entitled to such considerable protections.
		I'm referring to protections that extend well beyond those afforded the average defendant who winds their way...
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Mershon is disgusting, and I'm telling you, Mike Davis, we must have an investigation of the criminal conspiracy here.
		This is a joke.
		Even Mediate, Isaac Storr over there, has an excellent piece about how this garbage case ended with a whimper, not a bang.
		Now, in the next segment, we're going to play some of the heckling.
		Of the usual suspects on MSNBC and CNN, right?
		They can't get enough of this today.
		But this is a non-victory.
		The victory is on November 5th.
		But I needed to play that.
		You heard President Trump's defense of himself.
		This was a nothing trial.
		An absolute total joke.
		I could take time and get Joe Hoff up here and go through the accounting of it was such a joke.
		A total joke.
		But...
		Internalize this.
		Because we're now about to shift into the action phase of this project.
		A project that's many years in the building.
		And I know that you guys did tremendous, tremendous work to have President Trump's back so that he could return and even have the possibility of this political victory.
		Even the possibility of this political victory.
		But the hard work is just about to start now.
		Because now we're going to start taking down the administrative state.
		We're going to start taking down the deep state.
		At the same time where President Trump, you know, negotiates and finishes the beginning of the Third World War to stop it.
		Why he begins the deportation of 15 million illegal alien invaders invited here by people that were running this country, to invade this country, and to destroy the black and Hispanic working class because they weren't compliant enough.
		And to sort out our tremendous financial problems.
		This is game on.
		You see today what they did?
		Because they wanted to have, with President Trump, the phrase convicted felon.
		So now they can use it all the time.
		Convicted felon.
		This case was a travesty.
		This case was a joke.
		But they had to go to the bitter end.
		And I put responsibility on Amy Coney Barrett.
		Let me be brutally frank.
		She had every opportunity to throw this thing in the trash bin like it was.
		And it's revolting to me that the Supreme Court had the back of this kangaroo court in New York City.
		Short break.
		back in the worm in a moment.
		Coney Barrett and Roberts Both a disgrace, sided with the radicals about President Trump.
		Your thoughts, ma'am?
julie kelly ▲ ● ▼		Well, I mean, I share everyone's outrage, especially at Amy Coney Barrett, but I think it's to recall that although she was with the majority in the July immunity ruling, she wrote a separate opinion, and she sort of disagreed with Justice Roberts.
		She's Justice Roberts in the majority.
		That these outer perimeter acts in the presidency should not be immune from prosecution.
		So yes, she voted with the majority, but she still had to throw her two cents in.
		She also, more egregiously, I think, was in the majority with Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor in the Fisher decision, upholding how the DOJ weaponized and abused that post-Enron statute against the president.
		And more than 300 J6ers.
		She's an absolute disgrace, and people are infuriated because they fought so hard for her.
		But also, Chief Justice Roberts issued a report last, I think it was right after the first of year, talking about disinformation being such a threat to the courts, how the courts are above reproach.
		That people criticizing judges are out of line.
		I mean, this was this whole missive talking about really denouncing public criticism of judges.
		This would have been a perfect opportunity for him to send a message to other judges, even though Mershon is not a federal judge.
		Look, we can't have this kind of partisanship because this is what is destroying the credibility of the judiciary right now.
		Instead, he endorses what Mershon is doing.
		Not only trying to officially make President Trump a convicted felon today, also allowing him to rant from the bench, which he presumably will do because that's what he just did in his order that he issued on January 3rd.
		But this matter is still pending before the New York appellate court.
		And Mike could probably speak to this better than I can.
		Usually when there's an appeal pending related to immunity, the proceedings are suspended.
		That's exactly what happened in the Washington J6 case.
		So he's appealing this conviction based on presidential immunity, which, of course, that order came down after he was convicted in May of 2024. This relates to conduct when he was president the first time.
		So there's a very good chance that this conviction will be What a mess the Supreme Court just made, to Mike's point.
		And at a time when the Supreme Court Democrats and the left, of course, are going after the court, and their credibility in the eyes of Democrats is diminishing, this certainly does not help bolster our support of this court, especially the Chief Justice, by that stomp that they pulled last night.
unidentified		We wouldn't have made it to this point, to this sentencing, had the judge not decided in advance to do this, because the Supreme Court's decision yesterday that permitted sentencing to go forward was 5-4, very narrow.
		The justices wrote that among the compelling reasons for letting sentencing go forward was that Trump would walk out of court with no additional encumbrance, that it would be an unconditional discharge.
		That's how this all came together.
		I think today there will be a lot of criticism.
		I think over the sweep of history, this will become a moment where people in a courtroom stood up for the rule of law against Donald Trump, and that will be significant.
		It happened, and it did.
vaughn hillyard ▲ ● ▼		The Supreme Court last night, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Justice John Roberts, they did not intervene and stop today from taking place.
		And I think when we take a step back in American history and look at that decision last night to not intervene, it allowed this process to take place, not just for us to all look back at the actual verdict that this jury made.
		And the sentencing, but also the message it sends to Donald Trump 10 days before he is about to go back into the White House, into future presidents of the United States.
		Over those seven weeks, we all listened to testimony from these witnesses inside of that courtroom that testified that Donald Trump, in the lead-up to the 2016 election, attempted to improperly influence the outcome.
		And he won that election.
		But then we also heard testimony that while he was in the White House, he, with Michael Cohen, went and falsified.
		I think today was a statement that Donald Trump or any political candidate during your run for the presidency and while you were in the White House,
		Official acts may be protected.
		A decision is made, and there are consequences.
		You can still walk away out of a courtroom being a convicted felon.
		I think today's sentencing and seeing this process to its end, he has the opportunity to appeal.
		But I think that this is a statement not just about Donald Trump, but also the presidency for generations to potentially come.
		Talk about the Supreme Court.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		Okay.
		And we have more of the Supreme Court.
		Hold that.
		I may come back to it.
		So there, what you teed up and Mike Davis teed up today, Julie, this morning, was very prescient.
		Because all day, all day, all they've been hammering is this.
		Trump's a convicted felon.
		Trump's a convicted felon.
		Rubbing everybody's nose.
		Amy Coney Barrett, you know, he selected her.
		He put on the Supreme Court.
		Amy Coney Barrett.
		Amy Coney Barrett.
		On and on and on again.
		And I thought Mershon was particularly weak.
		Look, you cover this closely.
		You're the one that's been closer to this.
		You and Darren Beattie and a couple of folks.
		And, of course, Mike Davis.
		I'm not.
		I mean, I follow it as closely as I can, but you guys know every wrinkle.
		I thought Mershon having his big opportunity on the world stage kind of wimped out.
		Am I wrong in that conclusion, ma'am?
julie kelly ▲ ● ▼		I think so.
		I mean, I didn't see him in the courtroom.
		I didn't cover those proceedings like I did the other proceedings, but he certainly sounded like a weak sister.
		What's a legal president?
		Obviously, he meant precedent, so couldn't even get his words right.
		And he misrepresented the case and what's at issue.
		And so did the morons on MSNBC, Vaughn Hilliard.
		So what is going to happen when this conviction gets back to the Supreme Court?
		Not only will Vaughn Hilliard and, you know, the Barbara McQuaids and Andrew Weissman and everyone else.
		Have to eat their words because the Supreme Court will have to give an immunity test to this case, just like they did the January 6 case.
		Except the difference is you're dealing with a conviction, not an indictment like they did in the J6 case.
		So then how will Amy Coney Barrett and Justice Thomas, who are, excuse me, I wish, Justice Roberts, who authored the immunity opinion that laid out all the immunity guidance, how is he going to walk this back when he...
		Concludes that big parts, and this is the key with the immunity ruling, and Mike Davis has probably addressed this.
		This is the key with the immunity ruling.
		Not only can a president, sitting president, not be prosecuted for acts in office that are official acts are on the outer perimeter.
		None of that conduct can be part of any stage of the prosecution, including grand jury.
		Including trial jury.
		So if there's any element that the Supreme Court determined was an official act or outer perimeter, communications with Hope Hicks, communications with other White House employees, the entire conviction is tainted because you can't use immunized conduct in any part of the investigative or prosecutorial stage.
		So it's inevitable that this conviction will be vacated.
		What will Amy Coney Barrett And John Roberts say then.
		What will these talking heads say then?
		Because they can say all they want, including what Juan Mershon tried to do, despicably do in his courtroom today, which is compare Donald Trump to a murderer.
		That, oh, this is just what I see on a daily basis, and he's just an every-guy defendant.
		No, he is not.
		Because as the Supreme Court and other courts and DOJ, OLC guidance has established for a long time.
		Presidents, in some regard, are above the law because they have duties that they are the only individual in the country can execute.
unidentified		So, and the Supreme Court just put their informality on that.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		You can't sit there and say that no one's above the law.
		They were clearly targeted.
		Joe Hoff could come on here and spend 30 minutes and tell you what a joke on accounting issues.
		This thing was ridiculous at every level.
		Before I let you go, I do have a question, though.
		How can...
		Barbara McQuaid, Andrew Weissman, and they've got like three or four other clones of Barbara McQuaid that are on there all the time.
		They have been wrong.
		No, they've been dead wrong on everything.
		This is why MSNBC, and for the owners, the Roberts over there, the reason your numbers have dropped is that, both on polling and on these issues on lawfare, your audience was lied to.
		They bought into the fact of all this.
		And then when none of it came out in their way, they sat there and go, hang on, how did Trump get back?
		He was supposed to be swamped.
		He was supposed to be beaten into democracy.
		All he's going to spend 100 years in jail with felonies.
		None of it worked.
		All of your contributors were not kind of wrong.
		They're 150% wrong.
		How do these people still have jobs?
		That's why people are not coming back.
		The audiences are not building because you've got the same schmendricks over there just regurgitating the same crap.
		Julie Kelly.
julie kelly ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, they do.
		Well, look, their listeners and their viewers want to be brainwashed, right?
		They need to be fed.
		They're like drug addicts.
		They need their fix every day.
		They're anti-Trump fix.
		They wanted to really believe.
		For all these years.
		And I know we talked about this earlier.
		I think we did.
		It was eight years ago today, Steve.
		Here's the irony.
		CNN ran the bogus story on the dossier.
		CNN, January 10th, 2017. Jake Tapper, Evan Perez, I think Bob Woodward or someone else was involved in that.
		Leaking the story of the set-up Jim Clapper-James Comey briefing with President Trump about the dossier and the pee tape.
		CNN ran with that story.
		Eight years ago today.
		And eight years later, this is the best they can do.
unidentified		They threw everything and this is it?
julie kelly ▲ ● ▼		Pathetic.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Now that you bring it up, I was there.
		So we're going to give you an eyewitness account of what actually happened.
		With the Steele dossier.
		This shows you what a classy guy is.
		This is why the FBI needs to be taken down brick by brick.
		Salt the earth around it over there at Constitution Avenue.
		Then we'll figure out where we send them.
		Disgraceful.
		Eight years today.
		Short break.
		Julie Kelly's going to stick with me.
		We're also going to go to Texas.
		There's a firestorm.
		There's a firestorm in L.A. There's a political one in Texas.
		Tuesday is going to be rectified.
		Election, one of the most important political positions in this nation.
unidentified		The Speaker of the House in Texas.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Short break.
unidentified		Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		So succinctly, when we looked up on the Chiron, we're working down in Mar-a-Lago, I looked up on the Chiron and saw that they had expelled 32, I don't know, Soviet diplomats, spies, whatever.
		You know, since I had worked at the Pentagon after I came off sea duty as a special assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations, I said, gosh, that's a lot of people to expel and made some phone calls.
		I said, yeah, that's the most in history, more than the Cuban Missile Crisis.
		More than in the eight when I was there.
		We're very close to, you know, closest to nuclear war he'd ever been before President Trump took down the evil empire.
		And I said, gosh, how did they make that decision?
		Because it said for Russian election interference, I said, hang on for a second.
		What do you mean?
		What are you talking about?
		Remember, I've seen those briefings.
		So we called and they got the run.
		And I said, listen, I just want to see the brief.
		Don't give me a lot of hoo-ha.
		I just want to see the brief.
		Just show us.
		Just show us what...
		Obama signed off, and clearly the president had to make that decision.
		That's a presidential decision.
		I just want to see the presentation that was made to him.
		And the presidential decision came out of it.
		This is why you know they're liars and phonies.
		To this day, that presentation has never been, never the archives done, nobody's got it.
		So what they did is set up afterwards in January, early January, for us to come back.
		I said no.
		This is, I think, even before Christmas.
		I said no, just fly them down here, the CIA brief, all of them.
		Because we get the presidential daily brief at that time.
		Same thing president sees.
		The president-elect gets.
		We haven't seen that anywhere.
		So we go up.
		They've got to have this big dog and pony show.
		They've got the stacked things.
		They've got all their things on, stamps on it, all that.
		Afterwards, I'm doing something for the president-elect at that time.
		It was quite important.
		He needed me to do it.
		So we get together immediately after they leave.
		And Don McGanser and Royce Priebus is there.
		He said, after the meeting, after they gave all the official docs, which didn't add up to anything, didn't add up to anything.
		Clapper did his book later, and even Aaron Burnett sitting there goes, you know, Clapper, I go through the book, and I think on page 142, you see, there was a couple of Facebook pages with $175,000.
		Is that it?
		Is that what you got?
		And he's like, well, you know, it's very important.
		They could really, you know, they had nothing.
		Nothing.
		Here's why you know they had nothing.
		Comey afterwards goes up to the president with a manila envelope and says, Mr. President, I think you need to see this after he made a presentation.
		If it's official and it's real, it's in the frickin' book with the stamp on it.
		Don't come up afterwards and hand some guy some side thing.
		I was out of the room.
		He took it.
		Boom.
		As soon as I heard it, I said, oh my God, they're going to leak.
		Comey's going to go down in that car and call.
		He's going to leak.
		Now, you can't do New York Times or Washington Post or something like this because they've already seen this.
		This dossier was floating around.
		People knew it was phony from the beginning.
		Totally phony.
		I think Hillary Clinton had started to pay for it.
		McCain had been shopping around.
		John McCain, the heroic John McCain, right?
		His staff, right?
	They did.
	So they've been shopping it around.
	Finally, they get it, and I think it's BuzzFeed.
	I think it's Smith over at BuzzFeed.
	They take it because it had been shown to the president-elect, and that's what they could say.
	And then the New York Times puts a front-page story, and the Washington Post puts a front-page story, and the Chicago Tribune puts a front-page story, and the LA Times puts a front-page story, and the Wall Street Journal puts a front-page story, and the Guardian puts a front-page story.
	You know, as reported in BuzzFeed, the little link, as reported in BuzzFeed, as reported in BuzzFeed.
	Folks, I did that for a living.
	Breitbart, we were experts at that.
	Much better than BuzzFeed.
	Okay?
	That was it.
	This is the 8th anniversary.
	They had nothing.
	This is what they have today.
	Nothing.
	They have fought Trump.
	They have come after Trump.
	These people are criminals.
	Julie Kelly, you've done an interesting exercise.
	I just want to show you the way they roll.
	Julie Kelly.
	The daughter, and I haven't gotten on the daughter of Mershon.
	I mean, everybody's got a daughter.
	They're all doing stuff.
	They're running around doing activities.
	But in this regard, in this regard, she has, her business has metastasized.
	Since her father's gotten involved in this, you've actually done, you've got, as I said in Ireland, you've done your sums, right?
	How does it sum up?
	What does the Mershon girl, what's her business look like in the last couple of months?
julie kelly ▲ ● ▼		Oh, well, you can imagine.
		This has been a very lucrative period for the young Lauren Mershon, who sort of came out of nowhere at, I think, 29, 30 years old, established this democratic digital advertising consulting firm.
		And she's made tens of millions of dollars in the last, what, five or six years.
		So after my hit today, when I was reading some of the big receipts that she has gotten, I totaled up.
		I went to the FEC Reports for Authentic Campaigns, which is her firm.
		And I totaled up all the receipts that her firm has raked in since June 1st, 2024, shortly after Donald Trump was found guilty by that New York jury.
		And since that time, Steve, she has received $7.3 million.
		From June 1 to Election Day.
		So five months.
		7.3 million at least.
		And these are from heavy hitters.
		Tammy Baldwin, who was running for re-election Senate in Wisconsin.
		Cory Booker.
		I don't think he was running for re-election.
		Maybe he was.
		I don't know.
		Of course, Adam Schiff has been a longtime client.
		I think he was one of her first clients.
		And the last time I totaled up his disbursements to authentic campaigns, this was before the general election.
		I think he had paid her upwards of $6 to $7 million.
		Gretchen Whitmer, her PAC, Fight Like Hell.
		Dan Goldman is also the representative from New York, also a client.
		Catherine Clark, who is in Democratic leadership, also a client.
		So this has been very lucrative.
		I mean, she's getting, Authentic Campaigns is getting.
		Big six-figure payments for so-called digital advertising or consulting or retainers or whatever it's listed.
		So it might be interesting for Trump administration or FEC to make sure all of Lauren Mershon's T's are crossed and I's are dotted.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		No, no, no, no, no, no.
		The administration, they've got enough to worry about.
		This is going to be a special prosecutor.
		The special prosecutor, I go through all this thing.
		Colangelo, this is just one aspect of how they made money.
		This is revolting.
		It's repulsive.
julie kelly ▲ ● ▼		Talk about racketeering.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		It's racketeering.
julie kelly ▲ ● ▼		It's racketeering.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		We have to do this for the republic.
		We can never have this lawfare again.
		Because you can't count on somebody being like Trump.
		You can't count on somebody with that strength, with that wealth, with that presence.
		You may just have average, you know, you may have some average schmetrics.
		The guy's still president of the United States or the woman's still president of the United States.
		We're defending the Constitution here.
		It has to happen.
		A special counsel has to be designated.
		They have to have full subpoena power and panel a grand jury and then off to the races.
		Let's see how it falls.
		Julie, you've been on top of this.
		And of course, you know, if you cut MSNBC and CNN... It's a day that will live in history.
		It's a historic day.
		This is a historic day.
		This is a historic day.
		One after the other after the other.
		Good news is, baby, 10 days from now, Trump will be deep into the first day of work.
		Their heads are going to be blowing up because, hey, 20th January of 2025, 10 days from now, days of thunder.
		Days of thunder.
		Just stand by.
		MSNBC and CNN. Standby.
		Standby.
		Days of thunder.
		Julie Kelly, where do we go to get you?
julie kelly ▲ ● ▼		Substack declassified with Julie Kelly.
		Also, real clear investigations and spent a lot of time still watching the docket on the Jack Smith report, pushing to get that out before Inauguration Day.
		Julie underscore Kelly, too.
unidentified		Oh.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Unless the Supreme Court steps in, that's coming Sunday night.
		That's coming Sunday night at midnight.
		We'll have Julia.
		We'll track you down.
		I've got to do the Jack Smith thing in the report.
julie kelly ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		I'll be back.
		I think yours truly have a prominent role.
		I'm not saying I'm having a co-starring role with Trump, but I'll have a supporting role, no doubt, in the report.
		P1, I think I am.
		I'm P1. Thank you, ma'am.
		I'm P1. Thank you, ma'am, in the redacted version.
		Yeah, that's another one we got.
		Midnight.
		Remember Midnight, Jack Smith, and they're bound and determined to do that.
		A couple things.
		We're going to have a little bit later.
		Facebook.
		Talk about whiny.
		How humiliating.
		He's on Joe Rogan, whining, Zuckerberg.
		President Trump, please.
		With the staff down there, send the million dollars back.
		We don't want him around the inaugural.
		Don't give him a seat.
		Send the million dollars back.
		Just send it back.
		You're raising, I just saw the other day, you got $170 million raised more money than any inauguration.
		We don't need his million.
		You don't want this guy around.
		He's got a bad vibe.
		He's like, you go to Funk and Wagnall's Dictionary, or Webster's, under, you know, Beta Mail, he's there.
		And I realize he's Kung Fu fighting now, and he's got Dana White on his board.
		He's manning up.
		He's growing up, wants to be a man when he grows up.
		But guess what?
unidentified		It's not.
unidentified		Zuckerberg.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Still, he's got to be investigated at $400 million that stole the 2020 election.
		We'll get into more than that in the second hour.
		We'll talk about it.
		We were permanently banned from Facebook.
		Why?
		Oh, because of all the misinformation on the election, which turned out to be right.
		Correct?
		The American people just had judgment on the illegitimate regime, and they back us.
		Oh, and also, I said Chris Wray and Tony Fauci's head should be on pike.
		Something said in...
		C-suites every day throughout America, a thousand times a day.
		That's permanent ban.
		And today, he says, I was so ill-prepared for this.
		I was so overwhelmed.
		Come on, dude.
		Man up.
		Act like a grown man.
		Somebody's acting like a grown man.
		Brent Money joins us now from Texas.
		There's another firestorm.
		I think it's going to be decided on Tuesday for one of the most powerful positions in politics in the United States, and that would be the Speaker of the House of the great state of Texas, which is the railhead of MAGA.
		Brother, what is going on there?
		You've uncovered some stuff.
		Tell our folks what this fight's really about.
unidentified		Yeah, I think this fight, like a lot of fights in politics, is all about power.
		And so a lot of people expect that since Texas is the biggest red state, the biggest MAGA state...
		That we are also the most conservative state in the nation.
		But that just has not been the case.
		Since about 2009, the Texas State House was narrowly Republican, 76 Republicans, 74 Democrats.
		And the Democrats went and made a deal with some of the most liberal Republicans.
		And appointed one of those Republicans as Speaker of the House, a guy named Joe Strauss.
		And since then, we've gone through several other speakers, Dennis Bonnen, Dade Phelan, and we're about to have a new Speaker of the House.
		But it's followed the same playbook where a majority of the Democrats get with a few Republicans.
		And so just last month, according to the rules of our caucus, the grassroots are tired of this.
		The party is tired of this.
		Democrats selecting which.
		A Republican can be the Speaker of the House and just destroying our conservative agenda.
		And so the caucus got together to elect who we were going to nominate as the Republican to be the Speaker.
		And a guy named Dustin Burroughs and a guy named David Cook.
		David Cook is the reform candidate and Dustin Burroughs as kind of the regime candidate.
		When it was clear that Dustin Burroughs wasn't going to win, he and 26 of his friends got up and walked out of the room, refused to participate in the process, and went straight over literally to the Democrat caucus and started trying to get their votes.
		And so once again, even though we have an 88 to 62 majority in Texas, Republicans over Democrats in the House, we're in a situation where the Democrats are going to have a big influence in who our next Speaker of the Texas House is.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Brent, can you hang on one second?
		I'm going to hold you into the next segment.
		And maybe even the one after that.
		We've got to get this right.
		I mean, President Trump, we won Texas by 14. They spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to change Texas blue.
		Remember that?
		They got Texas purple.
		Texas is MAGA country.
		This audience stood up during the impeachment of General Paxton and had his back.
		Birchgold.
		Philip Patrick is going to be with me tomorrow.
		He's in L.A. Of course, he actually had to evacuate his house.
		They're back.
		He'll be with us tomorrow.
		Birchgold.com.
		End of the dollar empire.
		Modern monetary theory.
		The idea that broke the world.
		As we get closer to this margin call, I need you to read it.
		Check it out today.
		Short break.
		Going back to Texas in a moment.
unidentified		Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. .
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		On the Birch Gold, we're going to walk through tomorrow this situation in the bond market, which is signaling a liquidity crisis.
		I shouldn't say crisis.
		Signaling a liquidity issue.
		At the same time, it's now come out that Janet Yellen left our own Scott Besson, who was one of our big contributors.
		He was here on all the time and now is Secretary of Treasury.
		He will have his confirmation hearing next week.
		We'll do more about that.
		There's going to be a margin call.
		President Trump is walking into the middle of a crisis of capital markets throughout the world.
		It's already turfed out.
		All of these governments have been turfed out for the same thing.
		Immigration and the Ukraine war support that led to major financial problems.
		From Germany to France to the United Kingdom.
		To, I would argue, Joe Biden and his regime.
		To Canada.
		Even a little bit in South Korea.
		Although South Korea's got the CCP's hand in the back of that coup.
		It's a little bit there, too.
		So make sure you go to birchgold.com slash ban an end of the dollar empire.
		Learn about modern monetary theory, the idea that God is here.
		Okay.
		More on that later.
		Brent, talk about money.
		Larry Fink, BlackRock.
		There's a BlackRock connection here, and we're always on watch.
		Yeah, this is very interesting.
unidentified		So a few of us started asking each other, why are these small group of Republicans working so hard to keep their power and control when it's so clearly against the Republican Party and just common sense?
		And one of my friends, Mitch Little, wrote a An editorial on X and pointed out that there are connections between Dennis Bonin, who was the Speaker of the House, Dade Phelan, who is right now the Speaker of the House, Dustin Burroughs, who is running for the Speaker of the House, Cody Harris and maybe others, that are all shareholders and employees of this little bank called Third Coast Bank.
		Third Coast Bank's largest shareholder is BlackRock.
		Their second largest shareholder is Vanguard.
		You're starting to see why there's so much power in what should be an administrative managerial position as Speaker of the House that just helps the people and the members of the House to do their work.
		It's all connected back to these people that are on the board of Third Coast Bank, employees in Third Coast Bank.
		I don't know exactly what the financial implications of all that are, but it's something that definitely needs to be investigated.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Brent, how do people go to get more information about this?
		Our audience has worked up.
		We spend a lot of time working in Texas, and the Texas citizens are so great that they want to know how to get information in a call to action.
		Where do they go?
		What do they do?
		So where do they go?
unidentified		Absolutely.
		First, they need to go to TexasSpeakerRace.com.
		That will show them which...
		Which members are with Dustin Burroughs and this BlackRock group, and which are with David Cook?
		Call the David Cook people and tell them thank you.
		Call the Dustin Burroughs people and ask them, what are they doing?
		Why aren't they with the Republicans?
		And then they can follow me on X at BrentMoney.com or at BrentMoney.
		They can follow.
		There's a lot of reps.
		I retweet a lot of them.
		Like I said, Mitch Little, who was Ken Paxton's attorney during the sham impeachment, is a great follow, and he has laid it out pretty well also.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Okay, brother.
		Appreciate you.
		We'll get everybody over there.
		Mitch Little is a good man.
		We spent a lot of time with Mitch, went down and actually did a campaign event for Mitch.
		I will be, maybe, Mo, you can get it later in the next hour.
		I'll be in Denton, Texas for the, what is it, the Reagan Day, the Lincoln Reagan Dinner that's going to be there on Saturday.
		I think it's the 27th.
		It's the Saturday right after the inauguration.
		I'm going to go down with Glenn Story and the team.
		Love going down to Texas.
		Love being part of this dinner.
		Going to give some remarks and we'll meet everybody, take some selfies, shake some hands, get to know you.
		Couldn't be prouder to kick off post-inauguration down in the great state of Texas.
		Mitchell and these guys are good.
		It's tough to figure out.
		I mean, the business interests down there are out of control.
		Now they're going to go cut deals.
		The Larry Fink guy is going to go cut deals with the Democrats.
		On a state that Trump won by 14% that we overwhelmingly won in defense of Attorney General Paxton.
		Lindell, you're a Minnesota boy, but you're a big Texas fan, are you not, sir?
mike lindell ▲ ● ▼		Absolutely.
		I'm in Texas a lot of the time.
		I'll tell you, down there, a lot of the stuff we're doing with our election platforms, by the way, that's still going on, everybody, is starting in Texas.
		We have so much.
		I work with Ken Paxton all the time.
		I work with Ken Paxton all the time down there.
		We're not giving up.
		We're going to have secure elections whether we want it or not.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		That's why you've got to get rid of these bad guys trying to take over the Texas house for the bad guys.
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steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Thank you, brother.
		Appreciate you.
		See you tomorrow.
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