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Feb. 19, 2024 - Louder with Crowder
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Putin's Biggest Rival Alexei Navalny Dies in Gulag! Was He Russia's Trump?!
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It's on a car dealership.
But the algorithm, you know, propels her a lot through my feed because she says really stupid things.
So she went to Salon and she was giving an interview and she discussed how she needs reparations.
And it's not about Joy Reid.
It's about this mindset.
And it's about people who misuse the term literally.
Where she says that either her, I'm not quite clear, or the interviewer literally physically built this country.
And to find out that literally Barack Obama's two terms as president are your reparations.
Not literally.
And Juneteenth, which you already celebrated anyway, is your reparations.
No they didn't.
And yet, you built this country.
You literally physically built this country.
And yet, the attitude toward you from a lot of your peers and your fellow citizens is just shut up.
And be grateful.
They're right.
And it's infuriating.
Whoa, she looks good for 164.
Literally good.
I didn't see you on the beams of the scaffolding of Empire State Building with a lunchbox.
Yeah, with no ropes.
Safety harnesses.
And this is the problem.
You base it on a lie, and then you create policy, like affirmative action.
So her parents, immigrants from Congo and Ghana, Um, or, uh, she got into Harvard, according to her.
She was admitted into Harvard, I should say.
Due to affirmative action, she said, this was not the recruiters saying, we're going to take an unqualified person and put them in Harvard.
Rather, they were saying, we're going to take a very qualified person who we would never know existed and put them in Harvard.
OK, a couple of things here.
First off, how would they not know that you existed if you applied and you had really high SAT scores, which you said?
How would they not know about you if you applied to Harvard?
And of course, they desperately want black ladies like you at Harvard.
It's good for the brochure.
It absolutely is.
And by the way, look at the SAT scores, the average SAT scores in Harvard.
Asians, they have to get 767.
White people, 745.
Black people, 704.
white people 745 black people 704 those are the average SAT scores for people being accepted to
That's an over 60 point spread between Asian Americans and Black Americans getting into Harvard.
They've got too many Asian people.
And by the way, you said that her parents were, uh, they immigrated.
That means that they weren't descended from slaves.
Right.
Unless they were enslaved in Africa, which is more likely because they're still doing that to this day.
Or could be slave owners in Africa.
Slave owners, that's fair as well.
But it's like, you of all people would not be able to claim reparations even if we were doling it out.
And you switched your degree to film.
So, again, that's pretty expensive.
I say this as someone who studied film in college.
Also, you know, maybe you got some reparations in the form of maintaining a show when the ratings SUCK!
Most popular show on MSNBC.
And they only have nine.
Really?
No, I'm just kidding.
Your demo numbers, meaning the 18-49, are 105,000.
Oh wow.
Total.
That's bad.
There are more people watching live right now if you spread it across YouTube Rumble and Mug Club.
Jen Psaki's show averages 24,000 more viewers.
Now that's not a compliment to Jen Psaki, that's an insult to you.
Just to be clear.
Okay, what's the number?
What's the number, Joy Reid?
What's the number for reparations?
Is this still working?
You watching right now, if you are a black viewer, is this still working?
Because I'm never actually hearing an accurate number.
Should you never have to work?
Okay, affirmative action, you're getting spots that you don't deserve.
People like, I don't know her SAT scores, I would love to see them.
I don't know, we actually don't have Barack Obama's college transcripts, right?
Getting into Columbia, no idea how.
Okay, so you're getting into school, you can have a lower SAT, you can have less extracurriculars.
All right, you benefit disproportionately, meaning the black community benefit disproportionately from social safety nets that were created to cater to black voters.
What's the number?
At what point?
Yeah, it's not reparations.
The fact that there was a black president elected in a largely white country, that's the evidence that they're probably not a racist country.
And the people who didn't vote for Barack Obama didn't not vote for him because he was black.
They didn't vote for him because he sucks!
Like your show!
That I thought was cancelled in the first place.
Can somebody tell me what happened there?
Did they just rename it and move it?
Probably.
She got a new weave.
Like, yeah, put it on at morning drive.
Who cares?
What tells the difference?
We did a whole segment on her being cancelled.
Come on!
Yeah, I know.
How did she have another show?
How did she have another minute?
Hey, speaking of cancelled, we have Thomas Finnegan trying to call in about Watchtower.
Oh, the new announcement?
Yeah.
Okay, well put them on, I guess Alright Finnegan, what do you have for us?
They're telling me you have some info on the new Watchtower Agreement sponsorship.
What do you got?
Something about Watchtower.
New sponsor.
Yeah, I've been looking into it.
It's pretty interesting.
Take this little tidbit.
They have 24 million in circulation every year.
Are you sure that's accurate?
Yeah, they've been distributing since 1879.
That's 144 years.
There's no way that's even remotely true.
That can't be accurate, Thomas Finnegan.
Well, it's all right here, actually.
I'll be sending you one.
Some pretty interesting readings.
That looks like a religious pamphlet of some sort.
If you give me a second, I'd like to point you to... No, Tim, cut it.
Cut it.
I'm sorry, Josh, and thank you for your service.
I don't know what we were thinking, sending him out with a major announcement.
Oh, no worries.
I'm actually well-versed in Watchtower myself.
Really?
Yeah, check this thing out, man.
Nice!
Look at this thing, all American-made.
How did you sneak a rifle in here?
Oh, I came in early.
I came in early.
You gotta check this thing out, man.
It's all American parts.
It meets all military.
Here, I'll show you.
Is that engraved?
Yeah, it's engraved.
Oh, it is?
Yeah, bring it over here.
It's still uneasy about the fact that, you know, rifle in studio, but oh!
There you go.
Look at that.
It's got the Ladder with Crowder logo on there.
Yeah, and I also got this for you if you have some time.
Is that the same pamphlet?
Yeah, no.
No, let's not do that.
Get out of here, dude.
That's not the right thing.
But we are proud to announce, you know, we don't have many sponsors on the show.
You know, when we did the Mr. Guns and Gear at the Range Watchtower, they're going to be a new sponsor to the show.
A major partnership that we're excited about.
Just in case you don't know, a lot of people ask us, we have all these chats, hey, about AR-15s.
They're actually doing this stuff in the United States.
A lot of people don't know, a lot of firearms out there, like these European conglomerates from countries that do not honor or have any Second Amendment at all, they own and profit from like Colt, Browning, Winchester, I think FN licenses via like Olin chemicals.
So a lot of these companies, they sort of mislead the American public.
You think those are like completely American brands that are owned by American companies and the profits and the jobs and everything stay in America and that's not the case?
No, the profits go back to like Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, Australia, some of them.
And that's actually just kind of like a, uh, they sent those to us and that one's obviously for you, sir.
But we're going to have the etching on there for Mug Club members.
And we're working on getting that launched probably here in the next week or two.
Oh, the Mug Club AR?
Yeah.
So basically they have a Mug Club AR and we're going back and forth between LWC and the actual Mug logo on there.
Oh, cool.
So seeing which one we want to go to.
Well, go to Watchtowerfirearms.com and you can check them out.
An American company that, and by the way, they're just as good, they're better than anything out there, too.
Yeah.
So, I had another one that was one of the brands that people were like, you gotta get this one!
I don't want to crap on them because I don't want to be sued, but it wasn't very good.
It wasn't very good.
Also, I don't know how many people get into heaven according to Jehovah's Witnesses, but it's incorrect.
I think it's 144,000.
Hey man, that's my only copy!
Yeah, well, you know what?
I'll tell you what, you can pick it up in heaven if you're one of the 144,000.
So, alright.
And you can also mug club $89 annually if you guys want to join.
Okay, let's go to Navalny here.
Ooh, this lady on CNN looks miserable.
That's three miserable, miserable women right there.
Talking about another miserable woman.
Sarah Harris hoping to have a bigger role in the re-election effort.
You will if he wins.
He's going to die in office.
Not a threat.
I'm just saying it's likely, actuarially speaking.
He's going to die in office and you'll become president.
It's the only way you ever will.
Yeah.
She has a little girl's face on a WNBA body.
Are you talking about the one on the left?
No, in the middle.
In the middle?
She's got like a big body.
She looks like she's getting tired.
She seems like a decent lady, but like this is getting to her.
She's like, ugh, I gotta go to CNN to work today.
Signing a contract.
And the lady on the right just looks like her constant inner monologue is, no!
And the lady on the left is lost.
Hey, that's aggressively funny.
Now!
Navalny, comment below what your interpretation of these events, as of right now, before we get into this, what your interpretation is.
So the American left and the right, I guess you'd say, conservative liberals, they're trying to use the death of this guy, Navalny, to push a narrative.
And neither one is right.
So, some people on the right are trying to claim that Navalny was a Western plant.
Now, here's the truth.
Navalny, not at all a liberal, just to be clear.
No.
The left is trying to claim that Navalny's persecution is what Donald Trump wants to do here in America.
And the truth is that President Trump is far more like Navalny than he is Vladimir Putin.
Absolutely.
If you're talking about political prosecution.
And both sides are ignoring some key facts here.
So, let's hopefully break this down, distill it in a way that you can kind of understand.
So, this guy is obviously a critic of Putin.
Right?
Russia's main opposition leader died.
Yeah.
And where did he die?
A Siberian penal colony.
Yes.
Before we go to... Is that what I think it is?
The clip... Sort of.
In a matter of speaking.
Yeah.
You complain about your life.
And everyone kind of compares, you know, their sort of, their horror stories.
Siberian penal colony probably takes the cake.
Probably top of the list.
I mean, I would rather have bowel cancer, which you'll probably get in a Siberian penal colony as well.
So this guy, opposition leader, died in a Siberian penal colony.
Let's just, so you don't take it from us.
Alexei Navalny, Russia's leading opposition figure, has died at age 47 while serving a sentence of more than 30 years on multiple charges.
Trumped up charges.
The anti-corruption activist was one of the Kremlin's most vocal critics.
Despite being barred from challenging President Vladimir Putin at the ballot box, he galvanized Russia's political opposition.
Navalny's death comes after Putin announced that he planned to run for reelection in 2024, a move that could keep him in power until at least 2030.
I don't know.
I'm not going to run.
Do you want me to run?
Alright!
What a surprising announcement.
Do I get a bigger table?
Okay!
After his opponent dies of natural causes.
Yes, of course.
Well, you know, his mortality rate is quite high in Siberian penal colonies.
So he exposed, Navalny exposed, you know, some Kremlin officials' corruption.
Now, just to be clear too, 400 people, they've already been arrested at memorials for Navalny.
Yeah, go figure.
This does seem, obviously, like it's politically motivated.
And look, I think there's real value.
For example, we were talking about Tucker, and we tried to cover the interview with Putin, which I think was, look, I think was pretty valuable.
I think was important to do.
I support, of course.
Then he also did the grocery store run in Russia, which was missing some context.
I don't know why this is controversial to say, and this is not fence-sitting.
I'm a conservative, to be clear.
I absolutely think there's value in saying, yeah, of course Russia is corrupt.
However, there's a lot of corruption here in the United States.
To which you turn a blind eye.
There's value to that.
Yes.
There absolutely is value to that.
And there is value to say, hey, you know what, hold on a second.
When you're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars being pledged to Ukraine, that's also a money laundering capital of the world, and it's corrupt, and it's basically an installed government.
That's absolutely true.
Yeah, now hundreds of billions of dollars.
You said a hundred millions?
Sorry.
Guys, admonish me.
It's just, in my head, I forget.
Millions, billions.
I mean, you know.
It's like Austin Powers.
And we talked about this, you know, it was the same night that Joseph Biden did his little press conference, left, came back, was clearly out of his mind.
And you saw an interview with Putin.
Look, objectively, Vladimir Putin looks more powerful when you look at those two, I guess, sort of public spectacles, because he was articulate, even if some of it was propaganda, he had an understanding of Russian history.
And it doesn't make Former Vice President Biden looked very good.
He spoke for two hours without confusing Mexico and Egypt.
It's a low bar.
Not once.
I don't get why that's controversial.
First off, let me give you an example.
Hitler bad.
Okay?
Hitler, we all agree, Hitler is terrible.
All the time.
Of course.
Except for his final act.
I can... Sorry, he was mad until he shot himself and he was like, all right, fine.
But in the fullness of time, I can say objectively, comment below, is this a controversial statement?
Adolf Hitler at one point in time was not only perceived to be, but was a more powerful man
than someone who would be morally superior in Chamberlain.
Right?
Right?
We're talking about Neville Chamberlain.
It required a Churchill, a powerful man to come in and stop someone like a Hitler.
That doesn't mean that Hitler wasn't powerful, and Chamberlain obviously would have had the moral high ground, but he was a weak man.
Or he's an incapable man.
Same thing saying Putin, obviously, is more articulate, more lucid than Joseph Biden.
That shouldn't be controversial.
Now, that being said, of course, this is a man who jails political dissidents.
And, yeah, of course we would wager that Navalny was, you know, foul play suspected.
You know why?
Because, I don't know, we'll talk about it in a second, they tried multiple times before.
They were just unsuccessful in killing him.
Yeah, because Russians are drunks.
Well.
Yeah, they can't get anything done over there.
Their plans fall through.
I'll kill him!
Don't worry about it!
After we go out drinking.
Yes.
And after I take a dip in my indoor-outdoor pool.
So this is nothing new.
People defending Putin as though, well, American Democrats are corrupt.
Absolutely.
But the idea that Vladimir Putin would not cross the line of killing a dissident... Come on, guys.
He's always made sure that he ends up victorious.
You see it all the time.
In hockey, where he scored a record seven goals.
If you remember this.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He's singing.
The Savior's mission, by the Lord's hard work done.
Yeah, they just let him score.
Yeah.
Or Vladimir Putin.
Some question his international victories in judo.
21 straight years.
And no one can be a champion in that many sports.
In hockey, in judo, and then there was a stretch with the bowling.
Oh, come on.
Yeah, more than a perfect game.
The first 3-0-1 in history.
Yes, I know.
Good job, Putin.
Well, they carry the 1.
Go to me.
There's no 1 to carry.
I have a man who follows me all day.
He simply carries 1.
It's my favorite number.
To remind me that I am that number.
He's a vampire.
The reason, though, that people are suspicious, and I understand it, is because Democrats, before the body was even cold, immediately used the death to push for what?
What?
What?
And this is wrong.
Ukraine funding.
This tragedy reminds us of the stakes of this moment.
We have to provide the funding so Ukraine can keep defending itself against Putin's vicious onslaughts and war crimes.
Whatever.
It's like he's learning about it as he's reading.
Yeah, I know.
What did he do?
Oh, that son of a bitch.
What in holy hell?
Nivaldi's dead.
You guys know that?
Who's Nivaldi?
Oh, I saw him last week.
I can't believe it.
Amy's Diner.
It's a great server!
You can't always look at some of the international incidents here through the American lens of left-right.
To be clear, I'm a conservative, not a fence-sitter.
But let's look at some of the claims versus the truth.
So here's a claim that you get from the right, my right, your left, that Navalny, I've been seeing this going around, that he was actually just a Western puppet.
So here's the truth.
Whether you like Putin, Navalny, or not, Navalny was a Russian nationalist through and through.
He refused to meet the United States ambassador to avoid getting too close to the United States.
He supported the annexing of Crimea.
He attended Russian nationalist marches.
He advocated for deporting migrants, saying immigrants from Central Asia bring in, well, immigrants from Central Asia bring in drugs to Russia.
Because technically Russia is Asiatic, but I'm making clear.
Everything in our way should be carefully but decisively removed through deportation.
He also advocated Russian gun ownership in this kind of odd, but it's Russia, anti-Islam video.
They still use Windows Movie Maker.
They still use Windows Movie Maker.
They do.
Almost seven.
You gotta give them a little bit of a break.
Ew.
Ew.
By the way, just awful trigger control.
Awful trigger control.
By the way, if you're being attacked, gotta support the guy.
Yeah.
It wasn't just like some random dude.
It was, you know, the guy was running in and growling of sorts.
Yeah, like the cockroach from Men in Black.
There you go.
I'd shoot it.
It's reasonable.
Yeah.
Looked like the Phantom of the Opera to me.
It did a little bit.
He broke in, yeah.
I just need love!
Die!
I've never actually seen The Phantom of the Opera.
Like, I don't really fully know the story.
He lives in the opera.
I think it's an opera noterback.
Noterback?
Noterback?
Noterback!
The Humpback Whale of Notre Dame?
What?
Who are we?
All Joseph Biden right now?
We can't play the same character.
Gerald with a noterback.
Yes.
It was a gay time.
There was a good-looking gypsy.
Had a gay old time, you're right.
That gypsy?
Can we say gypsy?
Yeah, the cartoon gypsy.
She was fine.
One of the better cartoons Disney's made.
They're all good cartoons.
Jasmine's the best.
So let's look at some of the claims from the left because, you know, all these claims may not necessarily be true.
Here's some of the claims.
And this is why I want to get to the judgment against Donald Trump, the BS judgment.
That is, it should terrify you, but they say that Donald Trump wants to persecute his opponents just like Vladimir Putin.
Oh lord.
This is what Eric Swalwell, professional banger of Chinese spies... Hey, why is this guy not in jail?
What's our equivalent to a Siberian penal colony?
He was banging Chinese spies and he's still in office!
Hmm.
Maybe he got some important information out of her.
Yes!
No.
A good recipe for- He doesn't have- No.
Chinese spy banger!
Professional.
I'm surprised you wasted your time on Swalwell.
He tweeted this over the weekend.
He said, Let Navalny's death be a warning to America.
If returned to power, Donald Trump will jail his opponents.
This isn't a forecast.
He has already told us this.
There will be no evidence or due process and certainly no opposition from Republicans in Congress.
A couple of things before I get to the truth.
Do you mean like, lock her up, Hillary Clinton, and then he did nothing?
Ah, there you go.
Even though she actually did commit crimes by her own admission?
Do you mean like Barack Obama, who was spying on the Donald Trump campaign?
You say that he has told us... No, he's told us that there will be justice for corrupt members of the swamp.
That's what I would like him to do.
He's like, we don't have to assume.
He's already said he'll do it.
It's like, show me one person.
One person that he has locked up as a political opponent.
Is that the same Hillary Clinton that won an election after her opponent died?
Good point.
Allegedly.
Didn't jail her, huh?
Did nothing.
Nothing happened to Hillary Clinton.
And here's the truth.
The former Vice President Biden regime is, as far as I can remember in my lifetime, they have jailed more political opponents than any administration that I can think of.
Yeah, they've gone after people in ways that we've never seen before.
And it's right in line with, you know, it started with former President Barack Obama using the IRS to target political opponents, conservatives, the Tea Party back then.
And now you have, and I believe that Donald Trump issued more pardons than any president in modern history, if I'm not mistaken, but certainly more than Joe Biden if you look at it on a month-per-month basis.
Or annual basis.
It's astonishing the difference.
Yeah.
Between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
Joe Biden's under like 50.
Right.
And Trump was like a few thousand.
I don't know if it was 50,000, but it was high.
A few thousand.
Oh, I thought you said 50,000.
I was like, whoa, come on, hyperbole.
So let's look at Joe Biden.
Has he jailed politically?
Remember Enrique Tarrio?
Proud Boys guy?
Sentenced to 22 years for January 6th.
Ah, it's because of that old terrorism charge.
Except he was in a Baltimore hotel.
Now granted, he wasn't banging Chinese spies in said hotel.
Owen Schreier?
It'd be a lot cooler if he did.
In that movie line, comment below.
Owen Schreyer, he was on the show, sentenced to two months for January 6th.
He didn't enter the Capitol at all, let alone engage in any type of violence or destruction.
Owen Schreyer, nothing.
He didn't encourage violence.
Also, you have to look at how it applied.
What happened with Ray Epps?
He got a plea deal.
I've heard he's not actually going to do serious time, let alone in a prison.
For doing absolutely nothing.
You have Peter Navarro, this was part of I believe the Donald Trump transition team, four months for defying a congressional subpoena.
That's the first person to be sentenced to jail for that crime in 50 years.
Now keep in mind that Eric Holder was completely let off the hook for the exact same thing in the Fast and Furious scandal, which resulted in deaths.
Of Americans.
Yeah.
And he was in office, not holding office, but he was in his position in the government at the time and still defied Congress and Congress basically said, ah, we're just going to hold you in contempt.
Right.
Then you have the total number of January 6th protesters.
It's 1,296 charged, 797 sentenced, and the median sentence for what was largely trespassing, that was the most common charge, 165 days.
Yeah.
165 days serving in jail or prison.
If you took a walking tour.
Yeah, exactly.
Of the people's house.
I say that every time.
It's the people's house.
You own it.
Alright, come on in.
Alright, let's be peaceful.
Then you do 165 days in jail.
Yeah.
When is Donald Trump No, he hasn't done that.
Let's not forget all the people that they tacked on the terrorism charge.
Right.
To try to make this out to be the worst incident that we've ever experienced.
Again, you know, this worst attack on democracy in our history.
And the people, the number that we didn't include there, the people who committed suicide.
Yep.
Rather than go to jail for what they thought would be 10, 20 years.
Thought their life was over because of this.
Is that really what we saw on January 6th?
Right.
People committing suicide because of trumped up charges?
Especially in some cases where they pled guilty thinking it was going to be this charge, then the government changed it and said, hey they're actually tacking on this charge, and they kill themselves at 22 years old Because of this.
You know why?
Because you say, if these people can send me to prison, they can definitely do anything while I'm in prison.
They can ensure that I'm unprotected, that I'm vulnerable, and have as unpleasant of a time as possible.
Almost like a Siberian penal colony.
Almost.
They lose their job and everything else.
Yep.
Lose their reputation.
Yeah.
Sorry to interrupt you.
Oh, not to mention those four police officers that were involved in that that killed themselves within three days.
Uh, so they can't talk?
Remember they were all listed as deaths on January 6th?
At first they said seven deaths!
Oh, seven?
They said seven, then they went to five.
They said five deaths.
There was one death, and it wasn't an officer.
It wasn't an officer, and then there were four officers that died later because they killed themselves.
Killed themselves.
Unbelievable.
Yeah, supposedly.
I've never seen that in any riot, any, anything like that.
Right.
I mean, for crying out loud, there's been like mass, like the Las Vegas shooting.
No, not one officer killed himself after that.
Well, this is like the example we talked about this a long time ago.
We would Google, okay, um, You would Google right-wing, or you would Google, for example, fascism, and it would say, fascism is an inherently right-wing ideology, if you ran a Google search.
I don't know if it's still the same right now.
And then if you ran a search for communism, or socialism, it would not say that it was inherently a left-wing ideology.
They say, this is like Donald Trump.
Why?
Because Donald Trump, we've already labeled bad, fascist, right-wing.
Therefore, you can draw the comparison that Donald Trump wants to jail political dissidents.
Hold on a second.
That's just because you're switching definitions here.
He hasn't done it.
Joe Biden has done it.
And the message is very clear.
We'll get to these charges from this civil case with Donald Trump this weekend in Mar-a-Lago.
The message has been clear.
We're going to crucify Donald Trump.
And we are going to F you up if you have worked with or for him.
And then that extends to if you support him at all.
That's the message.
It has been very, very clear.
So let's look at another truth here.
The Biden administration, the DOJ, they actually want to do to Trump what Putin did to Navalny.
It's a very clear comparison and I don't know why so many people out there are missing this.
So Navalny was, he was basically jailed, incarcerated, I mean I use the term jail, it doesn't seem severe enough for a Siberian penal colony.
A bunch of trumped up charges.
Fraud, embezzlement, extremism related charges.
Then he violated parole because he went to Germany for some medical treatment after he was poisoned.
By Russian agents?
Yes.
They're getting him for going to get treatment after their nerve agent failed to kill him and left him in a desperate need of treatment that they wouldn't give him in Russia?
Right.
To be fair, I don't know if they had it.
They have a lot of poison, they don't have a lot of anti-poison.
Ah, that's true.
They're not known for their anti-poison as an export.
Yeah, they don't think they'll need the other side of it.
Now, compare that to Donald Trump.
He's being prosecuted for what?
The Mar-a-Lago documents.
BS.
And the only reason that Joe Biden is not being charged for something similar is because he's unfit to charge.
Unfit for the position?
Yeah, like, we can't charge him.
He has no idea.
He's a well-meaning old man who doesn't know where his slippers are.
But he could be president.
But he could be president, yeah.
Yeah, he can launch nukes, but he can't be trusted with his slippers or making it to the bathroom on time.
Yeah, what are the other charges?
The Fulton County election interference, the New York hush money case, you know, and then you have this loan fraud.
That's not a fraud at all.
Yeah, it's just like how they got to Al Capone on tax evasion.
I know.
To be fair, I'm not saying Al Capone didn't deserve to be caught.
What I'm saying is that they caught him on tax evasion.
It'll just make something up.
In Donald Trump's case, I don't know that you could go through anyone's background with a fine-tooth comb.
And not find something worse than a bank being happy that you paid the loan back with interest.
And note, in Eugene Carroll's case where they change the law and extend this period of time so essentially she can file it, and she filed it, and he's looking at over a hundred million dollars it looks like there, or very close to it I think, combined with the judgments.
Right.
It's insane.
And Donald Trump actually posted this on Truth Social, so he made this point, I'm glad that he made it this morning, where he said that him and Navalny have a lot in common.
So this is from his Truth Social, which I'm...
This is the biggest hilarious- It may be able to go public, and he may make four billion
dollars.
Donald Trump.
So, Friday they're like, nailed him!
And now, actually, he might make another smooth four bill.
Like, shit!
It's a lot better than sneakers.
He's gonna do both.
So he- Truth Social, I have to call.
You gotta do it.
You gotta be able to get your Trump voice ready to roll.
He said, okay, alright.
He said, the sudden death of Alexi Navalny has made me more and more aware of what is happening in our country.
It is a slow, steady progression with crooked all caps, radical left politicians, prosecutors, and judges.
Judges leading us down a path to destruction.
Some would say primrose.
I wouldn't say that, but that's what they say.
Open borders, rigged elections, and grossly unfair courtroom decisions are, this is a lot of all caps, I'm just telling you, DESTROYING AMERICA!
We are a nation in decline, a failing nation, but MAGA 2024!
Well you gotta tell the president that it's failing so he can make it better, oh my gosh.
It's failing now, but it doesn't always have to be.
What's got two thumbs and will make this a not-failing nation?
This guy.
Thank you very much.
So that is the comparison.
It really is Trump and Navalny.
Navalny would not come over here and be really anybody's friend.
He's a Russian nationalist.
He does some things that we don't like.
He didn't distance himself enough from extremists, Nazis and stuff like that, and fascists.
I get it.
I understand all of that.
But what he did is exposed corruption in his country, and he fought to try and change it,
and they tried to kill him for it.
They trumped up charges, which Putin has done time and time and time again.
By the way, this is the same country that if you're successful will just seize your assets and your business and say, hey, that's a really great thing you just built for me, Gazprom, and I'm going to give it to some of my cronies over here.
And by the way, you're lucky if I let you leave the country.
Right.
And they've done that over and over and over and over again and then they try to kill this guy.
Look at this guy and look at Donald Trump.
The only thing they haven't done in the comparison yet is try to poison Donald Trump.
Everything else they've done, they've tried to get him on charges all over the place that are absolutely ridiculous.
We're looking at all of these cases going, I can't believe they're doing that.
They're changing the rules here.
They don't ever even prosecute this for anybody.
Why are they going after Trump?
Okay, this is a good example.
Navalny exposed corruption in his own country.
Yeah.
Okay?
Punished for it, obviously.
In this country, you are punished for it.
January 6th, you expose some problems.
Corruption, let's say in the American election system, you're punished for it.
We expose corruption, for example, with the Nashville Mayor, the Nashville Manifesto, the undercover unit here.
Guess what?
They say, oh, we're going to get the FBI.
We are going to prosecute.
And they do the exact same thing.
It's the same playbook.
And I use this as an example because this also happened with Chippewa Falls and it happened with the Nashville Manifesto.
They came out and said, this is not true.
This is not the manifesto.
It's not authentic.
Then they say, okay, it's authentic, but they shouldn't have done this.
They're wrong.
I say, you know what, actually, okay, they had the right to do this, but we're going to find out who the source is and punish them.
And they're not able to do that because they're incompetent.
That's what happens here.
It largely happens exclusively toward people of one side of the political aisle.
Find me the equivalent of January 6thers for Donald Trump.
Comment below.
And hit the like button if you don't...
We don't think it exists.
If you acknowledge that it doesn't exist.
So, Navalny, yeah, way more liberal than Putin, but he was nothing like an American liberal.
We have to be clear about that.
Right and left here means something a little bit different.
Putin persecuted him out of fear, of course, that, well, he may not just win another landslide election.
Election.
And the same thing is happening right here in this country.
Democrats are attempting to do this right now to President Donald Trump.
In the midst of him running for office, that's the entire point of trying to get these cases going quickly.
Right.
The defendant has a right to a speedy trial.
The government does not have a right to a speedy trial, and yet Jack Smith and everybody else is saying, now, now, now, now, now, we have to do this now.
Right.
Before this guy gets in office.
Yeah.
It's election interference right in front of our eyes.
Well, let's go right to this ruling right now on Donald Trump, this double standard.
So, Friday, New York judge ruled that President Donald Trump would have to pay $355 million for manipulating his net worth.
A New York judge just ruled in the civil fraud case that Trump is liable of falsifying business records, conspiracy, and issuing false financial statements, among other claims.
Now, Trump and the Trump Organization is now expected to repay more than $354 million.
New York Attorney General Letitia James had accused the former president and his organization of overstating his net worth in order to win favorable terms on loans.
Okay, first off, she looks like Halle Berry in the Flintstones, which, by the way, we're talking about good cartoons.
When I was a kid, Halle Berry in Flintstones?
Yes.
That worked.
Yeah.
John Goodman, not so much.
No, not so much.
Actually, it did work.
It just wasn't working for me, if you know what I mean.
Maybe after a couple of grape juices.
Yeah, it wasn't making me shrink.
Let me break down for you the crime, and I want to focus on the Mar-a-Lago evaluation there from this judge.
So according to the judge, here's the ruling, Trump is liable for overseeing the net worth to dupe lenders into obtaining loans, and he's barred from serving as an officer of any New York corporation for three years, and they have to appoint someone to monitor and oversee the businesses.
The court will appoint someone.
So what they are basically saying is Donald Trump committed a crime.
When he gave the bank his opinion on the value of his properties.
He did exactly what anyone would do.
And I'm going to bring up the Mar-a-Lago information just so you can see this.
This is what you have done.
You pay property taxes.
Right now we're talking about taxes.
Do you try and reduce your property taxes?
Yes.
How do you do that?
By trying to reduce the perceived value of your property.
That's what you probably do.
That's what everybody does.
Now when you try and sell that house, Will you try and increase the value of the property?
So will you try and pay the lowest amount of taxes on your property, try and basically put, not put your best foot forward, what's the opposite, put your worst foot back?
And then, when you're trying to sell it, put your best foot forward.
That's what everybody does in real estate, with your property.
That's what Donald Trump did.
I committed this crime three months ago.
H&R Block is a veritable mob.
Exactly.
You know the great thing about that?
On both sides of that, there is something, there's kind of a guardrail.
There's something that pushes back.
When you go to the property tax guys and you say, hey, I don't think my house is worth this much, they say, okay, prove it.
And then they have a hearing and you get to prove whether that is worth it or not.
When you go to sell your house, you say, hey, I've done all these upgrades on my house.
Somebody comes in and says, oh, okay, well, yeah, no, you have, or nope, this house down the street has the same thing, so I'm going to pay you less.
In this case, in the loan, the bank takes no one's word for it.
They don't need to lend money to Donald Trump's organization.
Well, that's why I use Mar-a-Lago as an example.
I think he valued Mar-a-Lago at like 75 million dollars.
18.
No, he valued it.
Himself.
I thought it was higher than that.
Was it 75?
I don't know what he valued, but the judge, here's the thing, the judge, just to be clear, the judge in this case ruled that Mar-a-Lago was worth 18 million dollars.
Yeah, they're posting comps now, so... Yeah, now the comps, you can look... She's an appraiser?
Exactly.
He.
This judge.
Oh, this judge.
I thought you were talking about the New York judge who also committed the same crime.
Yes, exactly.
It's hard to... That's right, you remember that?
I remember, that's right, Josh.
So think about this for a second.
And they'll say, oh, there was an easement so it couldn't be sold as a single-family unit.
It was also a profit-generating property.
Let's bring up the comps here.
Let me know when you have them.
The comps of other homes right there, in that area of Palm Beach, this is what right now?
That's one for, I think, $53 million.
Hold on, this is a sale.
This isn't just a listing.
This is what somebody actually was willing to pay.
How many acres?
It's five bedrooms, 7,000 square feet, Oceanfront and beach.
Where's the acreage here?
Because that's a big... Because Mar-a-Lago, I believe, is... It's 62,000 square feet, Mar-a-Lago.
That's it?
Yes.
62,000.
I believe that it's 30-something acres.
It's either 15 acres or 35 acres, Mar-a-Lago.
That's big.
Yeah, absolutely.
And it's 17 acres.
It's 17 acres, and it's a profit-generating property.
Yeah.
Two coastlines.
Yeah.
Double beachfront property.
It is double beachfront.
Bring up another comp.
Do you have another comp?
Or is that Mar-a-Lago?
Okay.
Zoom in a little bit.
$116 million for 8 bedrooms, 12 baths, 24,000 square feet.
Still not even at Mar-a-Lago.
What happens if he sells?
I'm sorry, I'll ask later.
Oz later.
What they're trying to say is, yeah, but hold on a second.
There's an easement that exists, and I don't want to get too nerdy on this, but he can't sell it to a single unit home.
It can also be sold and broken up, for example, into a subdivision.
In other words, the bank, let me be really clear, this is the reason this is terrifying.
They want to send the message to you.
If you have the wrong political point of view that they will persecute, they will prosecute you.
Donald Trump took out a loan for a property that the bank, of course, they're going to do their due diligence.
And they were probably thrilled because they said, this is actually a profit-generating property, which means we're more than likely to get the money paid back.
And it was with interest.
The bank agreed.
Donald Trump agreed.
A price was set.
There was no victim.
Only people who profited.
And everyone was happy.
And the judge steps in and says, no, no, no.
It's worth $18 million.
You inflated your assets.
So to be clear, he wasn't getting a loan.
This isn't the loan on that property.
He was using that property to say, hey, I have all these assets.
Of course, I'm qualified for this loan.
You guys should give it to me.
And it's so strange that in this particular case, That you don't have to have a victim under the law that she was using to charge Donald Trump, that he broke, saying you don't have to actually have a victim.
Well, that seems to be the whole point, right?
Right.
If Donald Trump did something wrong, the banks would probably be the people, the aggrieved party, coming in and saying, hey, we were duped, we were duped!
Right.
Only he paid them back, so they're just asking to do more business with him.
And we have looked, and please, honestly, and all the references are available at letterwithcreditor.com, we might put the link in the sidebar.
Please let me know if there is a case similar to this where these charges have been brought, where the person is not the actual aggrieved party.
Like the bank.
Like there's no victim.
In other words, if someone says, you didn't pay us back, that's usually the person who brings suit.
Right, yeah.
And you over-inflated your assets, which is why we gave you the loan.
You could never pay us back.
You lied.
Fraud.
Never pay us back.
Underwater fraud.
We weren't able to find any, at least in the state of New York.
I found one.
Okay.
I was in a homeowner's association.
One of my neighbors noticed that I had a couple of weeds and a couple of wrong flowers, told on me.
Really?
That's not, I don't think.
And you were jailed?
$340 million.
And life in a Siberian penal colony.
Yeah, yeah.
They killed my dog.
It's a very clear message.
The loan terms agreed upon, everyone is happy, except the judge, who knows nothing about real estate.
I said, no, no, that's fraud.
That's not worth that.
That's that it's, it's not the only issue at play here, but it's one that you can laser in on and see, okay, bullshit.
It's not even obvious one.
And one of the value is not objective.
Like you can't just look at it and go, yes, it's worth that because it changes over time.
It matters what's on the property.
It matters how much it can generate.
The easement thing that you brought up is an important factor in that as well, but it's apparently it matters who owns the property too.
Right.
It's not.
What were you saying about the easement thing?
No, no, I thought it was a good point.
They're acting like it's easy to set a value on these properties, and it's not.
That's why there's a negotiation.
Me telling the bank, and then the bank telling me I'm full of crap, and then I go, okay, somewhere in the middle.
So, let me bring up another Donald Trump truth social, which, by the way, may make him another four billion dollars, which, please... You gonna do the voice?
This all fit the fake narrative of the corrupted, many times overturned, quote-unquote, judge.
And the radical left, Soros-backed slob of an Attorney General, whose primary goal is, in close coordination with the White House, and like all of the other litigation against me, an attack on crooked Joe Biden's political opponent, me!
I like that he fell to the end to say that.
It is strictly third world, Russia, China, at its worst.
And by the way, you know who disagrees with Donald Trump's assessment of China?
Nikki Haley.
I told them that if they would do this, that South Carolina would wrap their arms around them and take care of them.
I now officially work for you.
There is nothing that you can need that we won't make sure that we deliver.
Sorry, right clip.
So here's how you know this is selective political prosecution.
Can anyone take a guess?
The governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, said so.
Oh no.
She said, don't worry, I know... Hey, hold on a second!
Hold on, wait!
Business owners, all is well!
People who have been fleeing New York in droves, don't worry, you will not be arrested or charged.
We're fined for doing exactly what Donald Trump did because of course I know that all of you do it.
It's just for him.
She came out and actually said that.
Yeah.
You think that he's sensationalizing it?
He's not.
Let me read you.
She said, I think that this is really an extraordinary, unusual circumstance that the law-abiding and rule-following New Yorkers, who are business people, have nothing to worry about because they are very different than Donald Trump.
Think about that.
They.
There's the slip.
They are very different from Donald Trump.
Their business practices are different.
The way they value their assets is different.
The way they try and, you know, reduce liabilities and increase profits is different.
She said they are different, meaning most of you New Yorkers, you'll probably vote for me.
So you're fine.
It's insane.
It's one of the real estate development capitals of the world, and this happens all the time in real estate.
Of course it does.
All of the time.
And this is one of those things, I'm sorry, the virtue signaling that you'll see the never-Trumpers like, well, if you don't like it, don't commit fraud.
Yeah, let me go through your taxes for the last 25 years.
Don't go through mine, please.
You want to go through Congress?
The Senate's tax, you want to go through their taxes for crying out loud?
You don't try and reduce your tax burden, you absolutely should!
Any trick that's available to you, please do!
Legal!
Break it off at Uncle Sam at this point!
I'm just going to send it to Ukraine anyway!
But here's the thing, New Yorkers, not only New Yorkers, Trump supporters, people on the wrong side of the political aisle, if you are in one of these states, you do have something to worry about.
That's why she's saying you don't.
Because you do.
Even Kevin O'Leary, who I don't like.
No.
He stated Donald Trump did exactly what everyone in real estate does.
Well, this case really isn't just about Donald Trump.
This is an assault on the 11th sector of the S&P 500, which is real estate.
Forget that it's Trump.
This is not about Trump anymore.
If you're a developer and you see this happen in the state of New York, why would you take the risk Kevin O'Leary is 100% right.
and have a judge arbitrarily decide that you are in some form of breach of
fraud. No damage has occurred at all and this is the same process that occurs
everywhere. I'm a piece of shit. Yeah, everything you need to know about the
judge and Kevin O'Leary is 100% right. This opens it up to this arbitrary,
that's the scary word here, because you can just go after somebody for being on
the other side of the political spectrum than you and saying you know what I just
I don't really have any way to do it.
Oh, by the way, you guys over here, you're toeing the line.
You're doing, you know, whatever kickback means to them, meaning, you know, supporting my camp.
We'll just let you guys go along.
That's how you create a society like Russia and China.
I think this is treason.
I mean, these are these people, these judges, they are trying to interfere in an election at this point.
It's worse than January 6th.
Yes.
A couple years ago.
They're trying to disqualify someone who they believe, according to CNN, we ran that clip, they believe that if Donald Trump is allowed to run, he will be the elected president.
And if I'm a New Yorker too, gross.
Right.
It's your own people.
Think about this.
I think it's treason.
You can comment below.
I think it has reached the level of treason.
Trying to interfere with a free and fair election with trumped up bullshit charges that only apply to one person running for president.
Ever.
I think it's treason.
And just to be clear, of course, Navalny executed.
When people talk about- oh, sorry, we have no idea.
It was- I'm not kidding.
Sudden death syndrome.
Sudden death syndrome, I know.
That sounds so fishy.
They had a meeting like, okay, so do we go and we have this is five votes for spontaneous combustion?
Five?
FOR ADULT SIDS!
I AM TIME BREAKER!
ADULT SIDS!
AHHH!
Just kidding, this is Russia, we don't have elections.
Here's a bar of soup and sock.
The other one was a long table falling on him and they'd only get one vote.
That doesn't happen often.
Well that was another ploy by Big Table.
That's true.
But when people talk about, like, revolution, okay, because we go, yeah, certainly if someone's killed, that's different.
When someone tries to take your livelihood We're so far removed from this because even if you go back to tribal warfare here, you know, before the white man came.
I don't know if you know this, it wasn't this peaceful horseback culture.
What?
Yeah, I know, they didn't have, they hadn't domesticated horses, they didn't even use the wheel, and they would scout women and children.
But the point is this.
I thought it was just the colors of the wind and all that stuff.
Yeah, weeping willows and shit.
Yeah.
So what happens is you look back and you go, oh, they only fought over someone being killed.
Because they wouldn't have a chip in their brain.
If you go to, Native Americans here, if you go to wars fought, for example, across Europe or the Mongols, take any empire, where someone would come in and just say, hey, no, we're actually going to rule over you as a government, but we are going to take everything you have and any ability you have to provide for your family going forward.
Of course them's fighting words, and that's what they're doing here.
People think that revolutions have only been fought over the physical danger, imminent physical danger over their personhood.
But it's not just their lives, it's their livelihood that is your life.
Wars were fought over land to provide for your family.
Land so that you could create a home for your family.
When you try and take three hundred something million dollars, when you try and prevent someone's ability to make a living, when you try and prevent them to run any businesses, also keep in mind, how many tax dollars has New York and the state of Florida collected from Donald Trump?
They were happy when that was the case.
Can I ask you a question I might understand fully, and maybe somebody else isn't watching, but why does New York get that money?
Why does the state of New York get that money?
Because his business is based in New York and for the longest time he lived in New York.
Oh, okay.
That's his primary residence.
Okay, that was the biggest thing that was confusing me.
I was like, if this is a thing in Florida and it's a thing with the banks, why does this New York state get $355 million out of nowhere?
Yeah, they're saying all the crimes happen here.
By the way, I just need to correct us.
It's not $350 million.
They're then charging him an interest of about $100 million.
Yeah, it's $500 million.
It's almost $500 million.
What's the point?
What are we doing here?
I don't understand it at this point.
I get when somebody breaks the law, and I understand that there's latitude on bringing charges for certain things, right?
And you want the prosecutors to have discretion.
I got it.
But in this case, it's so obvious.
All of these charges came now.
All of them came now.
And they all seem thin at best, and in most cases, seem completely bogus.
Are you trying to destroy the American system that we love?
I understand it's flawed, but you can fix it.
But are you trying to make it to where people go?
It doesn't matter anymore.
Now I can't even trust the courts.
I knew I couldn't trust the CDC.
I knew I couldn't trust the health establishment or anybody in media or anybody in big tech or really anybody in Congress and now anybody in the White House.
I can't even trust the courts at this point because even the one that I'm supposed to trust, the Supreme Court above all other courts, you guys just say if it doesn't give you the verdict that you want that you'll just put more people on there that will give you the verdict that you want.
What am I supposed to believe in at this point?
What is left?
I don't understand where to go from here.
You're trying to kill this nation.
Ghosts?
Yeah.
That's a good point.
I didn't think about that.
Comment below if you believe in ghosts.
I don't believe in ghosts.
Yes!
I don't believe in ghosts.
Ghost guns!
I don't believe in ghosts either.
Yeah, ghost guns are pretty scary.
Those are pretty scary.
Now, to be fair, everyone has double standards.
I understand that people try and say you're a hypocrite.
Everyone is a hypocrite.
We're hypocrites here in this office.
just like last week.
Happy Birthday to you.
Happy Birthday to you.
Happy Birthday dear Billy.
Happy Birthday to you.
Happy Birthday.
I gotta get with...
Coincidentally, it's my birthday today too.
Fancy that.
Oh, shut up!
Get out of here, Sam!
You eat poop, Sam!
What?
No, I don't.
Sam.
F*** you.
to you.
Disgusting.
Sam.
Fuck you.
You're the worst, Sam.
God, I forgot about that.
By the way, on President's Day, we work.
So, I work on my birthday.
I'm not going to work on... Did they merge Lincoln and Washington?
Yeah, there's two.
It's like, not all presidents.
Come on now.
What are we doing here?
Do you guys get your day off on President's Day?
Nope.
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Really?
Or was it Navalny's widow right now as we leave?
She said, I am not afraid.
So she's a stupid person.
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