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April 22, 2024 - Doug Collins Podcast

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	You want to listen to a podcast?
	By who?
	Georgia GOP Congressman Doug Collins.
	How is it?
	The greatest thing I have ever heard in my whole life.
	I could not believe my ears.
	In this house, wherever the rules are disregarded, chaos and mob rule.
	It has been said today, where is bravery?
	I'll tell you where bravery is found and courage is found.
	It's found in this minority who has lived through the last year of nothing but rules being broken, people being put down, questions not being answered, and this majority say, be damned with anything else.
	We're going to impeach and do whatever we want to do.
	Why?
	Because we won an election.
	I guarantee you, one day you'll be back in the minority and it ain't gonna be that fun.
	Welcome to the Doug Collins Podcast.
	Glad that you were with us.
	Thanks for all the fill-ins last week.
	I appreciate it so much.
	As I was gone, I've been away with Air Force duties and stuff over the last little bit, so I'm glad to have some new voices, new freshness here on the show.
	Glad to appreciate that happening as we go forward.
	We've got a big week this week.
	I'm going to give a couple of things.
	Also, Friday, I'm going to pre-warn you, Friday, we've got Chan Gailey.
	The coach is back.
	Gonna be coming back in hopefully with me, Chip, and the Friday Finest gang, James, and all as we dissect round one of the NFL Draft.
	Can't wait to get that going.
	But a lot's been going on.
	I want to touch base on some stuff this morning, some political stuff.
	I know that a lot of you have been focused on what's going on in Congress or really what's not.
	Maybe not going on in Congress.
	Break that down a little bit.
	Break down a few other things with the Trump trial and things going on.
	We'll be ready to have that right after the break.
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	All right, let's get started.
	Today is Monday.
	I wanted to break down a few things for you.
	Let's just start off with today's opening statements in the Trump hush money trial.
	Even a Democrat broke this down pretty good.
	The other day, Norm Eisen, who I had to deal with in the first impeachment, the sham impeachment that they dealt with.
	Really, this comes down to, you know, is this a gross violation of the tampering with an election or trying to cover up some election from a federal election standpoint?
	Or was this something that, you know, frankly, Was nothing.
	I mean, I think that's sort of the basis of the way you look at this.
	And this is the made-up case.
	This is, I mean, from my legal perspective and others in this, it's just a made-up case.
	This is one in which Alvin Bragg sort of, you know, forced upon the world.
	He's now got to defend it.
	He's going to have a jury that is very sympathetic.
	We've already seen how the jury selection has gone up there, and we have a judge who Seems again, as we've seen, many of these judges in New York seem to be more concerned about their own style on their moment of stage than they are actually in enforcing law.
	This is one, and again, trying to break this down a little bit for you, and we'll start here this morning because it is unprecedented.
	It's the first time a former president It's been on trial in a criminal case, or any case for that matter, as you look forward to this.
	And it goes back to money that was paid to Stormy Daniels to keep quiet.
	And about an alleged affair.
	Now, there's going to be lots of discussion on, was this about the campaign?
	You know, again, the hypocrisy of the Democrats on this is stunning to me.
	Every campaign does its best to keep what would be bad press out of the press.
	It happens in every campaign.
	What has been said here, by the way, let me just temper this.
	I do not believe this was anything close to election malfeasance, misappropriation of funds, anything else.
	This is just not that.
	And again, this is not about the issue of an alleged affair, not alleged affair, whatever you want to call it.
	This is Stormy Daniels, Michael Cohen, and then the famous Avenatti, Michael Avenatti is coming back in this, it looks like as well, who was her attorney.
	This is about A DA who is using the law to go after Donald Trump, because remember, the FEC found no violations in discussing this when it was looked at on the federal level,
	where this is actually the underlying crime of falsifying business records, that it can only be the felony if it is predicated, if you falsify a record predicated under Committing an act of a criminal act.
	Okay, they're saying the criminal act was a violation of the Federal Election Code.
	The Federal Election Commission has already said, no, there was no violation here.
	So frankly, we're just making this crap up.
	Okay, that's just sort of the way this is going.
	Now, there's nuances to this case, and I'm not about to go into every nuance or other that Balvin Bragg or others may say, but that's the heart of the case right there.
	Michael Cohen was the President's Attorney.
	They had this situation going on.
	You're going to see a lot of this over the next few weeks.
	The biggest issue I think that has come up in this trial, and I haven't had a chance to talk about this, but after seeing a little bit of the jury selection last week, was the realization that this is what the Trump campaign has been discussing as far as election interference.
	Because this is a four to six week trial possibly in which Donald Trump has to be there.
	It's not an option for him to unlock the civil cases.
	This is not an option for him to be there or not be there.
	And the judges made it very clear, you know, and again, this is where Let's just be brutally honest here.
	This is normal in a criminal proceeding, okay?
	Now, there are some issues of travel that Donald Trump is able to travel with the private jets and everything else a lot more than you or I could probably in during the midst of a trial.
	So I think, you know, the judge is sort of Overextending himself as far as not letting Donald Trump do, you know, like is thrown into doubt going to Barron's graduation or going to the other places.
	But this is going to take time.
	So during the day, while this trial is going on, Donald Trump is going to be in a courtroom, which means he's going to be in New York, and that makes it more difficult to campaign.
	And this is exactly, I believe, what the Democrats had wanted for.
	This is why these cases took so long.
	Remember, This has been almost four years.
	I mean, this case in particular has been years in the making.
	In fact, Alvin Bragg's former district attorney before him chose not to prosecute this case.
	He only sort of picked it up after some wayward ADAs up there decided that they felt bad because it should have been prosecuted and they were mad because it wasn't.
	Again, all of this going on right now in the midst of everything else in the world.
	So we'll keep a running watch on this as we go forward in the trial.
	But opening arguments start today.
	We'll sort of get a picture, and then we'll also see who the first...
	Again, this judge is just being unbelievably...
	In my opinion, biased in this case and allowing the DA to get away with a lot of things they normally would not be allowed to get away with.
	One was the Trump attorneys asked, who's going to be the first ones called?
	This is normal practice in criminal practice.
	For those of you out there, maybe lawyers who are listening to this or not, you have an understanding between the prosecution and the This is something that gives me a jumping point here.
	I have a lot of people out there who just say, well, I'll be my own attorney.
	I don't need an attorney.
	I can go to court and I can argue myself.
	No, the reason you have attorneys many times is not That you don't think you can do it yourself, not that you can't argue the truth yourself.
	It is to keep the process moving and also not that you miss, so that you wouldn't miss anything that could end up hurting you.
	I see this all the time and I've seen it in court time and time again, where people come up and they have issues against themselves, criminal charges ranging from battery to domestic violence to DUIs and everything else.
	They say, well, I'll just represent myself.
	And then they try to get into a bench trial or they try to get into a trial and they end up basically messing up their own case.
	And this is something that many times you don't think about is the efficiency of the court, how the court is run.
	In this case, this is why the lawyers in these cases, very good lawyers for Donald Trump, has asked, just say, look, give us your playbook, you know, not what your playbook is, we sort of know where you're headed, but who are you going to be calling?
	They asked for that last week.
	The DA said no because they used the intimidation factor of Donald Trump's Twitter presence or social media presence.
	And the judge basically didn't do anything about it.
	So again, these are the things that are building up in this case, building up in this case, building up in this case that are just, I think, making more and more Americans frustrated with a process that doesn't seem to be fair.
	And again, yes, Donald Trump is a different Defendant than we normally see.
	He's a sitting former president.
	He's a very popular former president.
	He's a Republican nominee for president in this cycle in a very close race with Joe Biden.
	And all of this is just equaling out to where people believe that more and more that this is just simply an election year interference tactic to keep him from winning.
	Now, we'll see how it plays out.
	I mean, we've still a long way away from A judgment in this case.
	We're a long way away from appeal in this case.
	If it does go against Donald Trump, and even if it doesn't go against Donald Trump, I can see Alvin Bragg appealing this as well.
	So, a lot left to go here.
	I'll just leave it at that.
	At this point, we'll break down more in depth as we go through the week on the podcast.
	Let's move to One of the big events over the weekend, and that was the House voting on Saturday to pass a series of spending bills that designated $95 billion in foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.
	Three separate bills, they were all immersed together.
	I think it didn't go down very well to people that $60 billion of that went to Ukraine, while $17 billion went to Israel, $9 billion for humanitarian aid, $8 billion to support Taiwan.
	They also passed a bill banning TikTok.
	Now, we haven't had an episode here on the Doug Connors podcast about TikTok.
	I will promise you one coming up if we work on this in the future, but this has become the problematic issue on the Hill.
	TikTok is a little different.
	Huawei, which, again, is sort of interesting.
	When Huawei was basically You know, kept out of the U.S., banned from the U.S., over 5G technology.
	Nobody really understood.
	Nobody really cared.
	TikTok, they do, because you have all these TikTok followers and TikTok performers and influencers and however you want to call it, who only want the likes and only want the influence dollars that they get from TikTok.
	And they're not concerned about what TikTok's company is actually doing with data that is collected Again, we'll get into this at a certain point, but this was also added to this process.
	Now, they passed with bipartisan majorities on both sides.
	However, it is interesting that this was basically could end Speaker Johnson's speakership if Democrats do not come To his aid.
	Why is this important?
	Now, let's break this down.
	Something, and Joe Biden himself has been a part of the problem here with Ukraine.
	And again, there's also a problem when you have the open border situation that we currently have.
	I understand completely the argument of why are we sending, you know, $60 billion to Ukraine, which is about $13 or $14 billion, and that'll be spent on, you know, basically the guns, bullets, things like that, most of which will be bought from the West, us.
	And so is the money from Israel.
	A lot of that is just turned right back around and funneled right back into the defense complex here in the United States for missiles and the missile protections and stuff that they have.
	What they don't understand is why we're able to spend $60 billion on Ukraine's border and not anything on our border.
	This has become the real crux of the left.
	This has become the problem.
	I think if you're honest with yourself, no one wants to see Russia invade a sovereign country, period.
	And the question is, how do we fight back?
	And I agree, Europe ought to play a bigger role here.
	Europe is playing a role in this with refugees, with other things.
	But as far as, you know, if you're sitting there a country over from Ukraine and you see Russia invaded Ukraine, where is the European response here?
	And again, nobody wants to broaden this out.
	This has become the actual, you hear this in Israel and the Israel-Iran issue, which I've determined I'm calling the Iran attack on Israel from a week ago, the O.J. Simpson attack on Israel.
	It was like a slow-moving Bronco riding down the Santa Monica freeway or whatever the freeway it was when O.J. was, they were trying to get O.J. to turn himself in.
	I mean, it was like, here we're launching all these things, but we're letting you know two and a half hours in advance and, you know, ended up shooting down 99% of them.
	The problem has been developing is that Nobody wants to increase the fight, so to speak.
	They don't want to enlarge the battlefield or enlarge the hostilities.
	At the end of the day, the question that I ask many is, are we as a world, and I say world, all of us involved, willing to come to a peaceful solution to the Ukrainian situation, which basically you give Russia whatever they have right now?
	I'm just asking the question.
	Because if that becomes the standard, then where is it not the standard anymore?
	And is it only because of countries who don't have a mutual aid agreement or treaty agreement with the United States or others that we basically say, well, sorry, but if another country invades you, it's not our problem.
	I understand the argument from Americans who say, we don't want our young men and women killed in those.
	As a member of the military, I get it.
	But my question is, in these engagements, are there possibilities and is there the room here that these engagements are making it more difficult for our military in future conflicts?
	You now have Turkey hosting Hamas leadership.
	I mean, you have Yemen and the Houthis.
	You have the Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
	You have Iran now, actually, you know, although very pitifully in just, I mean, just a sad state of affairs in Iran.
	If that's the best the mullahs, you know, these religious zealots over there have to offer in trying to attack Iran and then attack Israel and then Israel responds, I think Iran needs to take a step back and say, maybe we're not ready for prime time.
	Now, granted, they have a lot of equipment, they have a lot of people, and they're a dictatorship in the worst kind of way.
	And they will gladly sacrifice Iranian people for their twisted ideas.
	So you can't not take them at least seriously, but you can also say that Israel and others have done a pretty good job, especially when Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Britain, us all helped in defending Israel from this barrage of missiles and drones.
	In Ukraine, you have sort of the same iteration here and the same issue.
	Nobody wants to confront Vladimir Putin, who is a despot, who is living in backwards-looking thinking of the 80s into a time in which he longingly looks back to Russia as it used to be in the Soviet Union.
	The question comes, is providing the materials for Ukraine to fight their own war, is that the biggest Misuse of tax dollars that we have.
	Now, again, this is all under the highlight.
	I really would wonder if this was a different story to some of these who voted no.
	And I'm just asking, again, if some of you may be very upset with me right now, and that's fine.
	Email me, DougCollinsPodcast.com, hit the email button, tell me all about it.
	But I'm asking honest questions here.
	Are you willing to live in a world in which countries can...
	Overrun other countries based on military might and power, and there be no consequences.
	And we're not getting into whose country's better, whose country's not.
	It's not what I'm saying.
	So I did have one thing, though, and Mike Johnson, who has been on this podcast before, who's been, you know, the...
	And we've talked about many, many issues over time.
	It really did concern me, though, last week, his rationale for then going ahead and going ahead with the monies to the Ukraine, that he was worried about his son, who's going to the US Military Academy, and how this War may look.
	Now, in one way, he's looking forward, and I appreciate that.
	The other way is, and I was on military duty last week, in the last few weeks, and when that statement was made, I talked to several military officers who felt it be a slap in the face.
	Because no matter what goes on, if the President of the United States or Congress decides that we are going to fight in some other country for whatever reason, The job of the men and women who go to our Air Force Academy, our Naval Academy, our Army, West Point, and all these others, their one and only job is to defend America and to fight our wars.
	Period.
	End of statement.
	It's not to go get a nice pilot's license.
	It's not to go, you know, enlarge your education.
	That's all fine and good.
	But at the end of the day, these are the men and women who we ask to fight and win our nation's wars.
	Period.
	And it's hard.
	And sacrifice for what has went on over the years.
	But right now, if you're more concerned about your children not being involved in war, which is a valid argument, I'll just say it rang a little holla for men and women in the Air Force and Army and Navy who are already engaged in conflicts all across the world.
	We need to figure out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.
	And that's why the Biden administration has been so abjectly pitiful at foreign policy.
	And it put our men and women in uniform in bad positions.
	And so, again, as you look at this, I really wonder, as I started to ask the question just a minute ago, if the border was completely secure, would this have been a bigger issue?
	Or would it be as big an issue?
	Maybe it's a better way to put that.
	I don't know.
	Because that's the overriding discussion right now, without dealing with the real issue of Russia and Ukraine or Israel and Gaza, which, by the way, Israel needs to just wipe out Hamas, period.
	I mean, I'm tired of the Hamas sympathizers here in the United States, who are willingly anti-Semitic here in this country, being coddled and protected, and trying to force Joe Biden, which they have done a very good job of, into protecting terrorists.
	Plain and simple.
	You go back to October 7th, that is Hamas.
	That is Hamas.
	And the people of Palestine have voted for them, they've supported them, and they've allowed them to basically butcher their own country, or their own territory, not country, own territory, at the expense of the people living there.
	And then while they let their leaders live in luxury in Qatar.
	Again, can't make this stuff up.
	But I think at some point we're going to have to have a bigger discussion about world events and world priorities.
	And I think that's one of the reasons Donald Trump saw four years of no one doing the stuff that we're seeing right now is because they didn't know what he would do.
	He would respond.
	Joe Biden is under the Obama philosophy of basically American apologism and apologies instead of American exceptionalism.
	And I think those are the big thing.
	And if you don't believe that the Democrats have sort of just went overboard on this Ukraine, I don't think they understand the issue.
	I just think they think it's a political issue between them and the Republicans.
	When the vote was over, they started waving Ukrainian flags on the floor of the United States House.
	That's disgraceful.
	Just plain and simple disgraceful.
	So, the country is settled in a sense of this very murky future that we're looking at.
	In an election year in which you have multiple independent candidates, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., you have Jill Stein, you have others, you have Joe Biden, you have Donald Trump, you have the Trump trials that are going on, the other cases that are still out there.
	Donald Trump's case goes before the Supreme Court this week on presidential immunity.
	You see a lot of things.
	And then you see this vote in which over the last little bit, Republicans especially have become more and more divisive with each other.
	They can't pass anything on their own.
	They can't come up with anything.
	I'm not going to get into my rant today about what they could have done to possibly leverage the power that they do have.
	They chose to use the leverage to fight each other and to call each other names.
	You know, I can't fix what they don't want to fix.
	And if they don't realize that together they're better than they are apart and willing to find compromise that works, then you're going to continue to see this.
	And that's sad to say.
	I hate it for my colleagues because I know many of them and I talk to a lot of them all the time.
	They really, truly want to get stuff done.
	But when you have some who will not compromise, who will not even come to the table, who basically say, I can get everything I want when they have one body of three that actually deal in making something law, And they don't compromise on anything.
	You get what you get.
	And I think that's where we're starting out on this Monday.
	Lots to talk about this week.
	Like I said, though, a lot of good things that I'm excited about.
	Got a big show on Friday with Shan Gailey and the rest of the Friday's Finest crew.
	Be back with you again on Wednesday.
	Right now, go out and have a great Monday.
	We look forward to talking to you soon.

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