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July 2, 2021 - Triggered - Donald Trump Jr
07:02
This Is Political Persecution At Its Finest
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Donald Trump Jr. is the executive VP of the Trump Organization.
He joins me now for a prime time exclusive.
All right, Don, the New York Times couldn't even find a similar situation to this where anybody who was involved in anything like this was criminally charged.
And you know the New York Times looked very hard.
So, I don't know, what is your reaction to what happened today?
Listen, Jesse, this is the political persecution of a political enemy.
This is what Vladimir Putin does.
Just ask Novotny. He's been sitting in a cell.
They're not sure why, but guess what?
If no one's going to challenge him and no one's going to call it out, that's what's going to happen, and that's what's happened in New York.
They've spent more than two years, but they've been looking approximately five years, because this is what, like...
The equivalent of Russia, Russia, Russia.
Like, this is the twelfth iteration, right?
That failed. Mahler failed.
Ukraine failed. Don Jr.
Treason failed. Don Jr.
Perjury failed. They're going to keep going.
This is what they promised.
They joined. The DA's office joined, Jesse, with the Attorney General's office because she herself campaigned on, I'm going to take down Trump.
We're going to do this before seeing anything.
After five years, Three million documents, countless witnesses and hours of grand jury testimony outside forensic auditors.
This is what they come up with.
They're going to charge a guy who's 75 years old on crimes of avoiding paying taxes on a fringe benefit.
Like, you know, people in corporate America get a corporate car.
Jesse, I'm sure you've paid taxes every time you've taken a car to or from work.
Right? It happens sometimes.
This is not what they promised the American public, but they have to do something.
Notice how they brought it Thursday late afternoon going into Fourth of July weekend?
Because it's nonsense.
But this is what they do to their enemies.
No different than Putin.
No different than the mullahs.
They can do it. They can tie you up.
They can try to destroy a man's life, his reputation.
That's all this has been.
And this is what they've got after all of that time.
Now, imagine the millions they spent.
Had they done that actually trying to stop real Well, criminals in New York, like the tens of thousands that looted in New York last year.
Hundreds of them were released without even a slap on the wrist just last week.
Penn Stations, like a war zone.
The city's going to hell, and this is where they're focusing, because, you know, it's easy to go after your political enemies in deep blue states and cities like New York City.
So just to put it into context for the American people, in 2008, the prosecutors didn't charge any of the bankers that caused the biggest financial collapse in about 100 years.
Not one banker was charged anything, all right?
Now they're trying to lock up an executive for not properly writing off a company car.
So they're alleging... $100,000 a year in perks over 15 years.
This is a $2 billion company, the Trump Organization.
So we're talking about pennies on the dollar, okay?
Pennies on the dollar. It goes further than that, Jesse.
It goes further than that.
This is all they can find after promising what?
Illegal loans from Moscow?
Illegal tax shelters?
They promised us the world.
So if this is all they can find a Mercedes that wasn't properly filed in a tax return, this is usually dealt with, from my understanding, maybe a fine, maybe you just refile the tax.
Never have they ever charged anybody criminally like this before.
Correct. The New York Times could not find a single case in the history of the IRS 230 years.
Not one case prosecuted criminally for fringe benefits.
Not one. But they make sure to say it's definitely not political.
It has nothing to do with political.
They didn't charge the bankers that took down the global economy.
They haven't done this prior in 230 years.
But, Jesse, it's definitely not political, right?
Let's take the numbers even further, right?
They're saying $1.7 million over 15 years.
But it's not $1.7 million.
That's income. The taxable portion of that to New York State is 8%.
That's $136,000 over 16 years.
That's 10 grand a year.
Half of that, because my father's a good guy, he paid for this guy's grandchildren's education.
Our tax experts say that's not even taxable.
You can pay for someone's education that way.
So you cut it down. It comes out to less than ten grand a year.
It's about closer to five grand a year if you take out the education, and that's what they got.
But again, is this what they promised the American people?
This isn't. This is a farce.
It's a disgrace that they spent millions of dollars and years Instead of prosecuting actual murderous thugs on the streets of New York, they go after their political enemies.
And if we're going to pretend for one second this is anything other than a witch hunt that they can get away with, because where do you go, Jesse?
To another leftist judge in New York who's going to say, you know what, I don't care, go after your political enemies.
This is going on in America right now.
This is Banana Republic stuff.
And if our press was even a little bit intellectually honest, they'd be calling it that.
Because this is not the storyline that they've been sold and told by the AG and the DA over the last few years.
This is nonsense, and it has to be called out as such.
And if they were honest, they'd be looking at those wires from Moscow to the Biden family, from Beijing to the Biden family, holding 10 for the big guy.
No interest in that at all.
It does look like political warfare by prosecutors.
No, they don't care. They really don't care.
They could care less.
I'll give you the last word.
Let me just ask you a quick question.
Are you worried at all about this Weisselberg guy?
Are you worried? Because you know what they're trying to do.
They're trying to put the screws to him.
So you know how it goes. Are you worried?
That's the point, Jesse. You know, everyone's talking about, well, they want to get him to flip.
There has to be something to flip on, Jesse.
The reality is this. You know, prior to politics, no one questioned whether my dad built That's what it is.
We've seen more stuff about Hunter Biden that they haven't even looked at, that we know is real, that we know is accurate, that they won't even investigate.
That is a thousand times worse than anything that they're doing so far.
And they've been spending five years, millions of dollars, and countless hours, and reviewing millions and millions of documents.
This is what they come up with.
Give me a break. It's a disgrace.
They drop it on a Thursday night going into Fourth of July weekend because they know it's a disgrace.
They know that the people that they're playing to, you know, the rich liberal New Yorkers, they're in the car Probably their corporate car going out to their homes in the Hamptons right now so they don't see it and realize how much of an embarrassment it is.
It's a disgrace and it needs to be called out.
It's a joke. Thanks for calling it out, Don Jr.
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