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June 18, 2024 - Doug Collins Podcast
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This Just Doesn't Sit Right
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Welcome back to the podcast.
I'm glad to have you here on this Monday.
A lot of things to talk about.
I don't know about you, but also it's all getting ready to be the days of summer.
For those of us down here in the South, we're already experiencing the days of summer.
Dog days are a bit early here in Georgia, not just the University of Georgia dog days, which are coming up in less than about 75 days now for kickoff of the national champion Georgia Bulldogs coming up.
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So we've got a lot coming up this week, but I wanted to start off here after the break.
We're going to talk...
Some things that just really don't sit well.
Have you ever had that day that just doesn't sit well?
Probably the title of this podcast today is that just don't sit well.
And I think this is where we're seeing in the American politics right now that these standards and double standards that seem to exist.
So right after the break, we're going to come back.
We're going to talk about these and other things here on the Doug Collins podcast.
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One of the things, as I was saying before we went to break, there are things that just don't sit right.
And when you get things that are made up, when you have things that are going on in our judicial system, when you have things in our political system that just doesn't sit right, it begins to question everything.
And I want to go back a little bit further here before I actually dig into a couple of the examples that I have for today.
And this is a concern that I've had for a long time.
And you've heard me say it on this podcast many, many times that we've divorced politics in reality.
And what I mean by that, again, for those who may have just picked up the podcast or you haven't been listening, divorcing politics in reality means that what you do in the real world, the everyday world, you don't apply to politics.
And the unfortunate part is it used to be Mainly that was groups or advocacy groups, both sides of the aisle, left and right, who would want X for a policy.
Now, again, if you're an advocacy group and that's what you want, let's say...
You name it, from abortion to environmentalism, wherever you want to go.
You set a standard.
That's the way you raise money.
That's the way you go out and say, look, this is what we're going to fight for.
We're not going to fight for anything less.
I mean, we've seen this in movies.
We've seen it in everything for years.
As you go backwards, this is the only thing that we're going to accept.
In the advocacy world, setting a standard is the way that you sort of gain attention.
It's the standard that says, okay, I'm trying to change thought.
I'm trying to change people's reactions.
I'm trying to change people's understanding of a situation.
And that might be out of the mainstream at this moment.
But if I do this, I can move, hopefully, opinion back into a position where I can get more of what I want.
One of the best lines in a movie, and it started before, back in the 90s, called The American President.
If you ever watch the movie, it's almost like a West Wing preview of the TV show, West Wing, because so many people was in it.
As you look at this, Martin Sheen, Michael Douglas is the president.
I mean, it's got Benning.
Again, very liberal movie.
If you watch it, very categorizing of conservatives as being ignorant and others.
And I get that to the point, but that's just Hollywood.
But there was a line in there in which Annette Benning, who played the president's girlfriend.
Remember, this is a Clinton era, as we have to deal with.
Um, she was talking to a member of Congress at the time and, uh, the member of Congress made the statement to her as a lobbyist said, look, you know, everybody wants to talk about your issues and environmental issues, but when they get to the voting box, nobody cares about those issues.
And that's why, uh, You have a job.
And Annette Benning came back and said, no, the reason I have, I'll tell them what to have an opinion on and that's why I have a job in a rough, right away.
So you, what I'm laying the groundwork here is, is you do Move audiences by taking a stand and then moving forward.
Where you lose in this argument is if that's the only thing you will take.
You'll become more and more marginalized in this setup.
If you say, we're only going to take X, we don't take anything less.
And again, in a moral issue there, sometimes those are going to be your act for those who are against the death penalty.
I mean, it's hard to accept.
Anything less than that.
But if they're practical in what they're looking at, they're saying, okay, if I can reduce the capital punishment rate from 20 a year to 10 a year because we're getting better forensics, we're getting better whatever you got, then that's an improvement.
But if you only say, well, we're only going to accept it and be okay with it if it's zero, then you're not going to make a lot of progress because there's enough people on the other side right now that will not come to that conclusion that says that capital punishment should be done away with.
I bring all of this up to say these things don't sit well.
And when I mean that, it is the arcane positions that you have and you take one area, such as politics, divorce, and politics, reality.
And then you have the other position here, is that what is better for or good for me is Maybe not good for you.
And this is where we get into the story that has been developing over the last little bit on Merrick Garland, who, for the listeners here, and especially my conservative listeners who have no love lost for Mitch McConnell, and I can understand that.
Mitch McConnell did one thing that I think historians will need to give him immense credit for, and that was to, frankly, just to keep Merrick Garland off the Supreme Court.
I mean, he has been an absolute abject disaster as an attorney general.
And for any Democrat out there who whines about any Republicans and saying they're politicizing the office and says nothing about Merrick Garland, who is just absolutely decimated, in my opinion, the Department of Justice with his politicization of the department, is just, you know, they've shown themselves not to be true players.
They've shown themselves not to be intellectually honest with what's going on here.
The latest of this has come in the situation dealing with the transcript of Joe Biden and Robert Herr issue over the documents, which they ended up...
Let's just remind everybody here, it's amazing, the mainstream media doesn't want to deal with this.
Robert Herr's main reason for not bringing charges against Joe Biden was, he said, based on the interview, he said, I can't bring these charges because he would just come off as a sympathetic old man who can't remember things, basically incompetent to stand trial.
Now, I want you to deeply understand what was just stated in that report, which we discussed in depth a while back, but I want to bring it back up because the transcript, once it was released, showed the answers, showed the spin that the White House tried to put upon it, was just frankly Wrong.
Even Democrats who spent lots of time when her was on the Hill categorizing what he said was political and shouldn't have been said, have the problem of the words spoken by Joe Biden and the confusion and the rambling, the issues that showed that this prosecutor said, I can't bring this because I have what is in essence an incompetent witness.
Democrats may not like that, but that's the truth.
Now, what is warning from Capitol Hill and fully within the rights of the Judiciary Committee in the House to ask for is the audio transcript of this.
Now, the White House has said that it claims executive privilege over the audio.
Absolutely clueless where this comes from, okay?
If it was executive privilege on these audio, then it should have been executive privilege over the transcript.
And this is not happening.
In fact, it's out in the open now.
The transcript has been publicly available for a while.
And again, the House asked for the audio of this transcript.
Now, what the audio brings that the written word doesn't is the emotion and the timing and the pacing of those answers.
Okay, it's one thing for Democrats to sit there and say that this transcript and your comments, Robert Hurst's comments about him being incompetent and not being eligible to basically be a witness in which he can get a conviction on.
It's another, just like it is reading a book and seeing the movie.
The pacing, the action.
I mean, how many of us have ever read a book and then saw the movie and said, well, those don't match?
Or you say, well, that's even better.
Or it illustrates it even further.
Reading an article on 9-11 and then seeing the video of the planes crashing into the towers is two totally different things.
They may describe the exact same event, but one is visual, one is visceral, the other one is written, which is more sterile.
This has become the issue, and now really it has become nothing more than a political tool.
Merrick Garland It has decided that he's not going to release the transcript video of audio of this event.
The White House, as I said, has claimed executive privilege in which there's no way that this could be executive privilege.
The transcript's already out.
Merrick Garland is now be politicized and has become almost the personal attorney for Joe Biden in this case and should have never been.
His Department of Justice has made absolutely ludicrous statements such as You know, besides, you know, Garland has said that he's running interference with this and basically said, you know, this is more embarrassing is what the implication is going forward.
You know, he's arguing that a transcript, that we didn't view the transcript as privilege.
But how do we view the audio tape in the same way?
This would be just a crazy argument.
Jonathan Turley and many others have also talked about this.
And one of the interesting issues is that the Democrats and others are saying that they could use this for fake videos, using the president's voice.
Again, it's been pointed out many times, this can already be done.
They already have the president's voice.
They already have the transcript.
They could do this anytime they wanted to.
This has, again, come down To the DOJ... Not wanting to do something that would embarrass the White House.
That's the bottom line.
And Democrats were always discussing that Attorney General shouldn't be the President's attorney under Donald Trump.
They was always on Jeff Sessions, Attorney General Barr, Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker, all of this.
You know, the discussions, you know, was always blaming them that they were hiding from the President.
And if you look at it, frankly, they were being transparent far more than anything that you've seen out of Merrick Garland.
The highlight of this stupidity actually came to focus last week when the Justice Department issued a letter that said they're not going to prosecute Merrick Garland for contempt that the House voted on last week and found him in contempt of Congress.
In fact, the Department of Justice under Obama wouldn't go after Eric Holder during his time when he was found in contempt for lying to Congress.
Again, it's amazing to me how the different standards, this is that part I say that it doesn't sit well.
When you don't have a Department of Justice as an honest player.
It's even worse with this Department of Justice, you know, going forward, that they're not prosecuting a contempt of Congress, although they prosecuted two cases of contempt of Congress from the, what we'd also say is an infactual J6 committee or That has done a almost disastrous job of maintaining records, the lack of transparency, just to present a political narrative against Donald Trump.
And they've taken two of those folks who claimed executive privilege and taken them to contempt, found them in contempt, and one's already in jail, Navarro, Peter Navarro, the other one is Steve Bannon, both going, is to be in jail by July 1st.
Again, has had no problems doing that.
But yet, in this case, they're not going to prosecute.
And actually, in the letter, they said, it's longstanding position and uniform practice of the Department of Justice to decline to prosecute officials denying subpoenas because of the president's claim of executive privilege.
Excuse me?
Are you the most tone-deaf human beings on Earth?
Now, granted, there's been a process and some of the executive privilege was denied to Navarro and others, but it was being claimed.
This has never been tested.
Okay?
You're not even letting the process go forward here.
Let the White House sue on this.
If they truly believe this is privilege, then let them sue.
Department of Justice, go ahead with your contempt action.
Let this process play out.
But you don't want to because it's political.
And when it is political, People will sit back and say, this doesn't sit well because they're seeing the absolute sham of a trial in New York.
We've talked about the judge just completely in bed with the prosecution.
The prosecution brought a case that should have never been brought.
And also, for all these newsletters in Washington, D.C., let me just bear in.
There is a case that can be made.
The U.S. Supreme Court can take on a state case, especially if there's federal grounds, too.
And there's due process violations.
There's other violations that are seemingly jumping out of this New York case.
Could it take a while, if possibly, if the Supreme Court would even hear it?
Yes.
But it is, you know, for all these people who keep mocking, these reporters who keep mocking The idea that the Supreme Court could actually do something in the case are just being political as they always are in favor of the Democrats.
Because, I mean, go back to just very high-profile cases.
Bush v.
Gore in Florida came from a Florida case that went to the Supreme Court.
It can be done.
It's done all the time.
All right?
Especially when federal Constitutional violations have occurred.
So as we look at this, when it just doesn't sit well, there's a reason it doesn't sit well.
And also from a perspective of why is this going on in a time in which we have lower and lower standards in our Department of Justice, our executive branch, our legislative branch, and our judicial branch.
The only thing that the Democrats, and if you notice this, what they do is they begin to attack.
Democrats have done this ever since they gained control in 18. When they came in in 19, as I was a member, I was ranking member of judiciary.
All Jerry Nadler wanted to do was go after Donald Trump.
That's all they wanted to do.
Go after Donald Trump, go after Donald Trump, go after Donald Trump.
They did nothing else.
Even when the White House reached out to do bipartisan things, they wouldn't do it.
Pelosi continued to push this banner.
Now under Durbin and the Senate Judiciary Committee, Dick Durbin is only going after the Supreme Court and dealing with ethics issues and calling out any very little thing.
It's amazing how they only seem to call out conservative justices for trips or other things, like Clarence Thomas, but nothing on book tours and others for other justices, liberal justices on the court.
Again, it just doesn't sit well.
So folks, I'm bringing this out for you because maybe you didn't, you know, if you've heard it, you just sort of passed it off.
But this is why you're seeing right now and why I believe the Joe Biden campaign is struggling so mightily.
People are seeing things that just don't sit well.
They may not like Donald Trump.
They may not like conservatives.
But just as they see the double standard and people who are not politically motivated, maybe like most of the listeners of this podcast, probably are in the top 10% of political IQ in the country.
There are a lot of people out there who only follow this casually, and they're beginning to see, hey, this just doesn't sit well.
And so I wanted you to think about this a little bit.
And again, this one is just a ludicrous case of why they would not prosecute this or bring it forward.
And then it's real easy to fix this.
Just turn over the audio tape.
No legal scholar at this point come out and say, there's a reason to keep this under executive privilege.
They're just not.
The transcript is out.
The audio just simply clarifies what Robert Hur's opinion was based on, and that was an actual in-person interview with the sitting president, and he determined he was too incompetent to stand trial.
That's the bottom line.
The Democrats don't want to talk about it.
And when they don't prosecute it, but yet they put people in jail for basically the very same thing.
Remember, now, some of you will say, well, their claims of executive privilege wasn't held up.
Well, explain to me how this one's held up.
It's not held up.
You proceeded with the case anyway, even though they claimed executive privilege, which hadn't been adjudicated yet.
And now you're not bringing it against Merrick Garland, who's not been adjudicated, and saying that this executive privilege was banned.
That's what just doesn't sit well.
And when people look at it and they think it doesn't sit well, that's when we get the situation like we have in America right now, where nobody trusts anything.
So going into this election here on this Monday, there's you something to think about.
If it doesn't sit well, ask a few more questions.
If it doesn't sit well, ask why it doesn't sit well.
No matter what your political leanings are, ask the questions.
Why does this not sit well?
We do this for both parties.
Politics and reality.
We've got to get to a point where politics and reality doesn't offend the senses anymore.
And that we get stuff done for this country.
And we don't hide behind the politicization of the Department of Justice and others who refuse to actually look at themselves, but are more than happy to apply a double standard to everybody else.
And with that, that's the Doug Collins podcast for today.
We'll see you again on Wednesday.
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