Jan. 17, 2025 - Judging Freedom - Judge Andrew Napolitano
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| I would say that there might be a side suggestion, meaning that this real estate friend of Trump's who was the envoy would have said, look, when you do this and when Trump becomes president, | |
| he will be willing to discuss the following issues with you. | |
| But the idea that Trump would go out on a ledge and negotiate on behalf of the United States government with specific deals with Israel, knowing that it will never be secret. | |
| Because if it was a deal, you're hearing about it now. | |
| He's broken the Logan Act. | |
| This is literally a violation of the Logan Act. | |
| He can't do it, and he won't do it. | |
| Well, whatever threats Wyckoff or Bitcoff, I forget his name, the billionaire real estate guy who supposedly is the... | |
| One that made the deal happen. | |
| He was acting as if he was speaking for the government. | |
| That's a violation of the Logan Act, too. | |
| If I tell you to sit down and shut up, you sit down and you shut up. | |
| I didn't tell you that I'm going to negotiate this deal and we're going to do this and that. | |
| I just said sit down and shut up. | |
| Presuming he didn't purport to represent what Trump is going to do starting Monday afternoon. | |
| That's right. | |
| All he had to do is say, and what he said is, it's the equivalent of... | |
| You mentioned Sopranos, but, you know, Tony wants this deal to happen. | |
| You're going to make the deal happen, right? | |
| And you've got to sit down and shut up and make the deal happen. | |
| You're starting to sound like you're from Jersey, Scott. | |
| There's a lot of Sopranos, but it's reprehensible even if there is a deal. | |
| Look, this is the foreign policy of the United States of America. | |
| I mean, Donald Trump will be the president, but we're talking about the United States of America. | |
| And generally speaking, we have a system in place to do that. | |
| I think this would have Trump getting ahead of everybody, the Defense Department, the State Department, everybody, in a way that sets the wrong tone. | |
| I hope that the side deal is not true. | |
| Larry and I have... | |
| Discuss zero click till we're blue in the face. | |
| I have researched and written extensively on it. | |
| This would be reprehensible. | |
| It would also be self-destructive because they would use it on the American government. | |
| I might have some zero click in here. | |
| We don't know. | |
| Right, right. | |
| Who knows if we have it. | |
| All right, before we jump to Ukraine, I have to run this clip of our friend and colleague, Max Blumenthal, yesterday with Secretary Blinken at Blinken's. | |
| I have even greater respect, even greater appreciation for you asking the tough questions, for you holding us to account. | |
| Being on the receiving end, sometimes that's not always the most comfortable thing, not always the most enjoyable thing, but it is the most necessary thing. | |
| 300 reporters in Gaza were on the receiving end of your bombs. | |
| Why did you keep the bombs flowing when we had a deal in May? | |
| I'm happy to address questions. | |
| We all knew we had a deal. | |
| Everyone in this room knows we had a deal, Tony, and you kept the bombs flowing. | |
| I'm happy to address questions. | |
| Why did you sacrifice the rules-based order on the mantle of your commitment to Zionism? | |
| Why did you allow my friends to be massacred? | |
| I'm happy to address your questions when we had a deal in May. | |
| You helped destroy our religion, Judaism, by associating it with fascism. | |
| You waved the white flag before Netanyahu. | |
| You waved the white flag before Israeli fascism. | |
| Your father-in-law was an Israel lobbyist. | |
| Your grandfather was an Israel lobbyist. | |
| Are you compromised by Israel? | |
| Why did you allow the Holocaust of our time to happen? | |
| How does it feel to have your legacy be genocide? | |
| How does it feel to have your legacy be genocide? | |
| You too, Matt. | |
| You smirk through the whole thing every day. | |
| You smirk through a genocide. | |
| Thank you. | |
| This is Max Blumenthal picking up where Ray McGovern left off with Trump's belt. | |
| You know, Elliot. | |
| Max was wise enough to manage it in a way that they didn't have to carry him out like they did to Sam Husseini. | |
| But, you know, Blinken, oh, yeah, I'm happy to answer your questions, except if it's questions from Max Blumenthal and Sam Husseini, forget about it. | |
| You know, I think, as Chas Freeman remarked on one of your earlier interviews this week, Judge, Anthony Blinken is going to go down in history. | |
| It's one of the absolute disgraces of any Secretary of State to have occupied that position. | |
| A complete debacle. | |
| And one that has put America in greater danger, created more security threats, and caused the deaths, facilitated the deaths of millions. | |
| Because when you combine the loss of life in places like Gaza and the West Bank and Lebanon, along with what has taken place in Ukraine, you know, Blinken's got blood on his hands. | |
| And that blood will haunt him, I hope, for the rest of his days. | |
| Scotty, will Blinken, will Biden, will Sullivan, any of them ever? | |
| Biden has virtual immunity. | |
| The Supreme Court has said that. | |
| So anything he did in his official capacity, he can't be touched. | |
| Jake Sullivan is a national security advisor. | |
| So his advice will be linked to the president. | |
| He's not somebody who is confirmed by the United States Senate. | |
| Blinken, however. | |
| I think that if the Trump administration wants to, and they should, they should investigate the last eight months of the Biden administration when the coup d'etat took place and the role that Tony Blinken played in removing Biden. | |
| He's a man who I believe has violated his oath. | |
| He's a man who suborned democracy. | |
| He acted as an unelected dictator. | |
| Maverick. Larry, switching gears before we... | |
| Before we conclude, how much longer do you think the Ukraine military can last before they just put down their arms and go home? | |
| I've given up predicting it because, you know, on paper, you know, they shouldn't last past the end of March. | |
| Maybe they'll hang on. | |
| But, you know, Russia is accelerating its move to the West once they take Pokrovsk. | |
| And eliminate that as a stronghold. | |
| They're already well on their way to taking Chasafyar and Turetsk. | |
| They will move to the Dnieper River. | |
| And that will establish a natural dividing line between East and West and Ukraine. | |
| So Trump will have a lot of power to decide this. | |
| Because Trump can end this war real quick. | |
| On first day, second day, he just simply informs Zelensky, hey, you're done. | |
| We're not sending you any more money. | |
| The spigot is turned off. | |
| And then to recall, both U.S. military officers as well as CIA personnel said, you guys are done. | |
| Pull out. | |
| Get back. | |
| That would send a very clear message to the entire Ukrainian leadership, not just Zelensky. | |
| On top of it, the U.S. has quite a bit of leverage with Zelensky, because nothing else, if he wants to have a valid passport or a ticket to come to the United States to try to live out his life in peace, the United States can control that. | |
| He either, Zelensky cooperates, or no visa, no passport. | |
| Got it. | |
| Gentlemen, I have to run. | |
| Thank you very much. | |
| Scotty, thank you for jumping in last minute as you did. | |
| Larry, always a pleasure to end the week with you. | |
| Great conversation. | |
| Great conversation. | |
| I'll see you both next week. | |
| All right. | |
| Thanks so much. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Coming up next week, our usual Monday crew. | |
| Ray will be back. | |
| Larry will be here. | |
| And we'll start at 8 in the morning with Alistair Crook. | |
| Judge Napolitano for Judging Freedom. |
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