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Oct. 3, 2023 - Lionel Nation
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A Breakdown of Trump's First Day in NY Court
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If there's one thing that I hope, I hope I have taught you, if there's one thing, it's read the statute.
Whenever you're talking about something, Maybe something you're sued for, or some line on your credit card, a traffic ticket, whatever.
I want you to learn how to read the statute.
Become familiar with it.
The statute will set you free.
The information...
We'll set you free.
It's the most important thing, and I want you to think this.
I want you to start to research things when you're charged with something.
And the first question that you have to ask, and everybody has to ask, and I mentioned this before, I did a little research.
And the question is, what exactly is President Trump charged with civilly?
What are we looking at?
What specifically is this matter?
What is it?
I have a friend of mine who repeatedly says, ah, it's BS.
As we've been discussing, not the Harry Frankfurt term, but ah, it's BS.
Ah, it's BS.
BS!
BS!
What do you mean, BS?
Okay, why do you keep saying that?
It's just BS.
Alright, fine.
But does Trump have a point?
What is his position?
It doesn't matter!
And you hear this a lot because people love Trump and they just think that whatever he says is terrific and that's all.
They don't have anything specifically to say regarding it.
So question number one is what is he charged with?
What is the burden?
What are we looking at?
How is he doing this?
How does he handle this?
What specifically, what if he never meant to intend or to hurt or harm or screw over anyone?
What if none of it applies?
What if none of this applies?
What if there was no, you cannot prove any intent on his part to defraud anybody?
What if no one has come forth and complained?
Think about this.
You're charged with something and nobody's complained.
Nobody.
You ever heard of that before?
Have you?
Technically speaking, you might involve yourself in some kind of a, let's say, of a toxic nuisance.
Some form of, I don't know, some form of, you know, something that you've done, you've burned something, or you, you know, nobody has to complain.
Now, understand something.
And please, like and share is correct.
Question number one.
They're going against him because he's Donald Trump and they're trying to get him off the ballot and this is all political.
Let's make sure we understand this.
Let's make sure we understand this.
Let's make sure we don't in any way confuse what we are saying with what the truth is.
Let me just make sure we understand this.
Please, let me make sure we understand what's happening.
You got it?
It's to get...
To drive him crazy.
There's a bullseye.
Anybody who can bring me this scalp of Donald Trump?
Is there any doubt in anybody's mind?
Does anybody have any doubt?
Anybody?
Does anybody say, well, that may not be.
It's not necessarily.
It's exactly why.
That's exactly why they're doing it.
Please be not mistaken.
Okay?
Just don't confuse yourself.
That's number one.
Number two, what exactly do they have to prove?
What are we looking at?
How is this going to turn out?
Are they going to shut him down?
They're going to put his company into receivership?
What's the statute?
It's a bitch.
Oh my god.
Let me explain this to you.
We'll talk about other stuff too, but first and foremost, it's horrid.
Horrid!
So two things I want to say.
Number one.
Oh, three or four.
Number one.
Like this video.
Like it.
Subscribe.
Like it.
You're...
I'm getting a lot of comments from people who say, you know, this is different.
You're not the usual.
And I'm not.
I don't want to be usual at all.
I want to tell it the way it is.
And whatever you think is wrong, this is not about Trump, pro-Trump, even though I like, I want to see him destroy this Democratic Party.
If Bobby Kennedy can do it, let him do it.
If DeSantis can do it, fine.
I don't care.
Trump's the guy to do it.
That's number one.
Number two.
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Okay, let's get down to business.
What are we talking about here?
First of all, there's something called 6312.
63 peren 12. It's from New York's executive law.
It is not necessary for the government or for the state to prove to establish losses occurred, that people were shortchanged, or that the defendant had any intent to deceive.
The consistent and systematic presentation of evidence of overstated financial documents alone According to some people, satisfies the legal definition of fraud outlined in this special statute that Jacob Javits, Jack Javits, helped the state to pass.
Additionally, the incorporation of ambiguous and, as they say, unenforceable disclaimers cannot serve as a means to protect Fraudulent actions.
Particularly, as said, when the facts in question are uniquely known to the defendants.
Even when the recipients are well-versed in financial matters.
So if Trump says, now listen, don't pay attention to this.
Get this appraisal yourself.
I'm just saying, this is a bitch.
This goes to show you, not, not, not, not.
Not just that Trump didn't have to intend or that he's dealing with people who are well-versed and they know what's going on.
It doesn't matter!
Section 6312 of the New York Executive Laws does not require the government to prove financial loss.
Presenting consistently exaggerated financial statements is enough to meet the legal definition of fraud under the statute.
Including vague disclaimers and such statements does not protect against fraud, especially when the defendants possess exclusive knowledge of the relevant facts.
So that's what we've got right now.
This is a very, very, very, very, very, very, very scary situation.
This is scary.
This is a bitch of a statute.
This is a bitch!
Then you always have to read the statute.
I don't know what the defense is.
I don't know.
I would have to research this, but the other day when this came up, I was explaining to somebody, it didn't seem to make any sense, I said, I'm not that familiar with the case then, but I gotta tell you something.
I'm not sure if This necessarily means that there has to be an intent to defraud, and that's a huge, huge, huge problem.
Okay?
Big, big, big problem.
Now, let me ask you this question, and I want you to do me a favor.
I'm going to try my best to ask you this question, and I don't want you to answer as you usually do.
And I'm sorry, please, please, please do not, do not, how do we say this?
Don't take this the wrong way.
This is out.
I've got a sound or something.
Okay.
Here is my point.
Do you ever do you think that the arguments that have been presented to a lot of people heretofore are in any way There for any other reason than to hurt Trump.
The answer is no.
No.
It is there, the case is there to hurt Trump.
Do you understand that?
The case is there to hurt Trump.
Do you understand this?
You got it?
Hang on a minute.
Let me try this again to you.
And forgive me for being so obtuse here because there's all this stuff.
I want to make sure I get the good stuff for you here because this is serious, serious stuff here.
If I can prove to you, if I can prove to you, let's say I've got affidavits that shows that Letitia James, the state attorney general, is doing this merely to punish the president Politically.
If I can show this, does that in any way serve as a valid defense to anything?
Yes or no?
If I can show that the motivation behind this case was not for the protection of the people of New York, but just to get Trump.
Do you think that's a valid defense?
Does that mean anything?
Do I get the chance to go to the courts and say, throw this out, judge, because we have reason to believe, and we can show that the reason for this, the motivation behind this, was in order to hurt President Trump, that there was no need for this, nobody complained, and that the motivation, the animus behind this was not in any way to protect anybody but to hurt President Trump.
It means absolutely nothing.
Nothing.
Do you hear what I'm saying?
Nothing.
It means nothing.
And that should bother you to no end.
Because what it means is, what they're telling you is that, you mean to tell me the motivation behind this?
Motivation means nothing.
It means absolutely zip.
Zippity-doo-dah.
And there's something wrong with it.
The prosecutor has so much power.
Prosecutors who decide not to charge something or to charge too much, as long as there's probable cause, as long as you're not being paid.
Leticia James, Tish James, announced before when she was running, she announced, she says, I'm going to go after Trump.
I'm going to get him.
It's legal.
If she had said it about Al Capone or Charles Manson, not that they're in any way, he would say, well, that's okay.
Well, to some people, they think Donald Trump is whatever.
So let me tell you something right now.
I'm going to go back a little bit.
Have you ever heard about the famous electron split case?
By the way, keep in mind, Trump's got 91 charges.
44 federal, 47. Charges over four indictments.
Ninety-one total charges.
Wow.
Anyway, have you ever heard this?
If you have a wall and you have slits, right, and you send light beams, you know, photons, and they go through this, you should see a pattern behind You know, where these slits in the wall are to show photons here, photons here, photons here, to correspond to the slits.
Well, that's not what you saw.
They showed scattered patterns.
How in the hell do these things scatter?
Is it a particle?
Is it a wave?
If you know what I'm talking about, you know what I'm talking about.
It blew people away.
It's like, wait a minute.
Our photons, what is it?
This is quantum mechanics.
Wait a minute, what do you mean quantum mechanics?
It means it could be both.
It can be both?
It depends.
It depends?
What are you talking about?
We can't even tell you where an electron is.
We can tell you the probability.
Okay.
Do you know what's interesting?
That same rule, that same idiocy, that same strangeness applies to Trump.
See, the rules don't apply to anybody but Trump.
The rules don't apply.
If you went in and you basically told, he's yelling at that judge, he's telling that judge, yo, son of a...
This is...
For anybody else, I would say, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, but not Trump.
Not Trump.
Not Trump.
Isn't that something?
Isn't that blowing you away?
There's something about this weird...
I don't know what the word is, but this thing he does, it's the strangest thing I've ever seen in my life.
The rules don't apply to him.
It's like he's in his own quantum mechanics world.
Nothing.
He screams, did you see this judge?
Trump's sitting there just glaring at him.
And the pictures make him look to be oafish.
Let me ask you something.
Yes or no?
Yes or no?
Quick, quick vote.
Quick, quick vote.
Cameras in the courtroom, yes or no?
One for yes, two for no.
Cameras in the courtroom, yes or no?
Come on.
Anybody?
And by the way, there is a statute of limitations argument, which would say I've tried to do this before.
This is one of those arguments.
Anybody?
This Daily Mail says, Trump makes wild claim that 80% of fraud claims can be thrown out because the statute of limitations has expired.
President gives thumbs up in court as judge slams prosecutors for a waste of time for having accountants testify.
By the way, just be very careful whenever the judge scolds the prosecutor.
Let's say, he has to do that.
He has to do that to make sure he doesn't look like he's completely in bed with them.
So, cameras in the courtroom, yes or no?
Yes or no?
Cameras in the courtroom, yes or no?
In fact, I'm going to do something right now.
As you decide, I'm going to add something right here.
I'm going to do a poll.
I like these little polls.
Under the community.
Do you ever go to my community section?
It's very good.
I'm going to put a call.
Should cameras be allowed in courtrooms?
That's it, right?
Should cameras be allowed in courtrooms?
I'll have polls.
And the text poll is going to be a yes or a no.
Okay?
Now, let me ask somebody.
Why do you think cameras should be allowed in courtrooms?
Why do you think?
Why will cameras be, why should they be?
Let me just ask a question.
Why should they be?
Anybody?
Anybody?
Why should they be?
Tell me.
Why should they be?
There should be cameras in all courtrooms, including federal courts.
Why?
Why?
What do cameras do?
Tell me.
Tell me.
Transparency.
Okay.
Give me another one.
Transparency.
Yes, unless you have something to hide from the general public.
More honesty?
Really?
You think you're going to get more honesty if you have cameras in the corner?
What happens when you put a camera in there?
So we can see and hear the truth.
Half the stuff you're not going to hear.
You're not going to hear bench conferences.
You're not going to hear in-camera hearings.
What about juvenile cases?
What about sexual battery cases?
What about equity cases, divorce, juvenile, termination of parental rights, dependency actions, things like that, drug abuse court, cases involving involuntary commitment, mental health courts.
Any problem with that?
Anybody?
Come on.
Anybody?
Come on, come on, come on, come on.
Any problem with that?
How about your divorce?
You want your divorce?
You want your divorce?
Anybody?
By the way, some cases don't have juries.
A lot of cases don't have bench trials.
There are some cases there are equity courts.
You know, juvenile, divorce.
A lot of times there's no jury.
You know, you make an application with the court.
Only high crime courts with our lizard class.
Okay.
Come on.
You're just saying little things.
I like that.
You're just giving little things.
People's court.
Yes, no.
Tell me.
Give me a reason why.
You want truth.
You think that by putting a camera there, you're going to hear the truth?
What does the truth mean?
Does it mean the unadulterated truth?
You think people are going to camp up for the cameras?
You damn right they're going to do it.
I used to, for the longest time, say cameras in courtrooms.
Absolutely.
I thought cameras in the courtrooms were the best thing in the world.
The old Brandeis line that Sunshine is the best disinfectant.
P.S. Caca del Toro.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
Nuts.
No way.
I'm changing a breakdown of Trump's in your court.
Okay?
Okay, we're going to change this.
Very good.
I used to think all the time.
Made so much sense.
Oh, this makes so much sense.
This makes so much sense because you see what's happening is that this way there's going to be truth.
And when there's cameras, you're not going to be able to have any fooling around.
Yeah, right.
Uh-huh.
Yeah, yeah.
And it'll be wonderful because yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Here we go.
Ali Tabuger.
I'm sorry.
You know what?
That could very well be a name.
Ali says, Ali Tabuger says, by the way, thank you very much, Ali.
Cameras would demystify the court system.
By the same token, they would cheapen the legal process by turning it into theater.
Thank you.
First of all, demystify?
What does that demystify mean?
By the way, you're onto something.
And let me tell you what else you did, which is very good.
You know what you did?
You know what you did?
You handled two different things.
Yes, no.
Yes, but.
Yes, but.
Yes, no.
I love that.
Yes, but.
There's no such thing.
There's no mannequin.
There's no right or wrong.
Yes.
Demystify what?
Demystify these things are open.
Go down to the courtroom.
You want to go see it?
Go look at it.
Go look for it.
Go look for it.
Go down.
Go ahead.
Walk into a court.
I think it's some of the best.
I know we used to have people all the time.
We had groupies.
People who were there every day.
And I would ask them, what do you think?
The best observers were clerks, bailiffs, court officers.
Bailiffs, by the way, bus drivers with guns.
One of my favorite jokes.
Ask them, what do you think?
I wrote one time I had a...
It was so funny how years ago I was defending a woman in charge with an attempted first degree murder.
Got her acquitted.
And my grandmother was in town.
My grandmother.
And she came to the courthouse.
And she got along with...
There's my grandma.
She was so sweet.
And she's talking to the defendant.
How did she do?
We won, Grandma.
That's so great.
Woman was charred.
I don't want to go into the specifics of it.
But anyway, attempted a first degree murder because he did not die.
Malarkey says, Gay's father motion to vacate the chair.
Okay.
Does that...
I don't like Gay's...
I don't like it.
I think it's smarmy.
I don't think it's a good idea.
Doesn't help.
Doesn't help the cause.
Doesn't help the cause.
I know you like it.
He's creepy, smarmy, slimy.
Unctuous.
Pinguid.
I don't care.
But let's go back to this.
But thank you.
Thank you very much for that.
Appreciate it.
Now, here we go.
When you're in a courtroom, and I've seen this before, sometimes you're walking in the hallway, and you pop in, and all of a sudden the person's doing it.
Sometimes the judge is like this.
Clerk's sitting there like this.
Bailiff's not talking.
And all of a sudden, somebody walks in and sits down, and the questioner will pick up speed, like, oh, I'm being watched, and he'll change his demeanor.
So, one argument against this is that people, anytime you watch, it's like Heisenberg, in essence, whenever you watch, people change their demeanor.
They change the way they look.
They change their demeanor.
Okay, fine.
Great.
Great.
Okay.
Now, here's the thing which is important.
Isn't that just a product of just human nature?
The Sixth Amendment guarantees a speeding to public trial.
What's a public trial?
Cameras.
I say no.
No cameras.
No.
No.
Why?
Because I don't want that judge representing you.
Let's say I'm representing you for something.
And it's a case where I want to get some good...
The public doesn't know about this.
Let's keep it here so that the judge can make a decision.
The judge who has to run for re-election.
I don't want the judge to get real tough because the subject matter is such that nobody likes you because you're a dirtbag.
We don't get a chance because the judge has to make a big stink about everything because, oh boy, you know.
Now that there's cameras here, I've got to be, you know.
I've got to be tough.
No!
No!
First time I ever saw a camera in a courtroom, it was in college.
It was a Ted Bundy trial.
Judge Cowart.
Loved it.
Loved it.
Some of the best stuff ever.
Some of the best stuff ever.
And the thing about the thing that you'll find for the most part about cases like this, they're so boring.
God, they're so boring.
They're so boring.
It's so boring.
I see it all the times.
All the time.
Get to ask somebody a question.
State your name for the record.
Officer Yablitski.
Officer, were you employed?
The Onondaga Police Department.
Officer, were you employed on this date?
Yes.
On this particular time, were you on patrol on August 14th at 8 o 'clock?
Yes.
Did you have the occasion to stop an individual later and found out to be someone?
Yes.
What happened?
Boom.
I just cut through about 50 things.
They got right down.
Let's get right in a minute.
I pulled him over.
Why'd you pull him over?
Let's say it's a DUI case.
Because he was weaving.
He hit the curb three times.
What happened to him?
I activated my overhead beacons.
I light it from the vehicle.
Ask him for his...
They always say the same thing.
Ask him for his license.
Get a strong order of alcohol about his person.
Come for the license.
Use a car for support.
Based upon my observation of this, I cut...
I feel sobriety test.
You fail.
I place him under arrest for DUI.
Boom.
That's it.
End of discussion.
Officer, did you see the person in court today?
Yes, there he is.
That's a defendant.
Did all this occur in Onondaga County?
Yes.
Thank you very much.
You're a witness.
End of...
I just made the prima facie case.
That's it.
I got the elements in.
Who, what, when, where, why.
Always jurisdiction.
Did this happen in Passaia County?
Yeah, because if it didn't, I've got no jurisdiction.
You know how many times I've won a case because they never said where this happened?
Never said.
At one time, it was nothing big.
It was like a hit and run or something.
I don't know what it was.
But they kept saying Florida Avenue.
It was on Florida Avenue.
It was on Florida Avenue.
I just waited.
I just waited.
No questions.
My client looked at me like, no questions?
No questions.
I'm going to get through with this.
Please, rest your case.
Rest it.
Rest.
The state rest, yes.
Boom.
Your Honor, at this time...
We always say it this time.
Your Honor, at this time...
What about just saying?
What do you have to announce now?
Of course it's at this time.
Your Honor, a week from now, I would like to say something.
Your Honor, two years ago, I would like to...
No, it's at this time.
Don't say it like weather or not.
We got the or not.
It's included in weather.
You don't need to say that.
Your Honor, at this time, I'd like to...
Make a motion for a judgment of acquittal.
J-O-A.
Why?
Because they did not establish venue.
It is imperative that this prosecutor establish jurisdiction.
They said Florida Avenue.
There's a Florida Avenue in New York.
There's a Florida Avenue in Washington, D.C. There's a Florida Avenue in Polk County.
There's a Florida Avenue.
There's Florida Avenues everywhere.
What are we talking about?
You're right.
Dismissed.
See you later.
Acquittal.
A judgment of acquittal.
It's called a directed verdict.
It's a judgment of acquittal.
What about this one?
So I pulled him over.
You're dead?
Yeah.
And I asked him.
I asked him.
Were you drinking?
I asked him.
Did you kill that girl?
He said.
Did you kill him?
Did you kill him?
He said it.
This is what we do.
We get these.
Sit quiet.
Sit tight.
Pray to God the guy rests.
Pray he rests because they never identified the defendant!
They do it like this!
There's 50 people sitting over there.
Who's he talking about?
The one next to him?
I don't know what he's talking about.
Yeah, I told him.
Here's one for you.
This is my favorite.
This is my favorite.
When somebody dies, murder.
You have this thing to say, Joe Yablitski, murdered, dead.
You are charged with killing Joe Yablitski.
State your name for the record.
Mrs. Yablitski.
What is your relationship to the deceased?
I'm his mother.
Ooh, gotta get careful with this.
I'm showing you what's been marked as state's exhibit number one for identification.
Please, I'm sorry.
What is this?
Who is this?
Yep, that's my son.
He's dead.
That's him.
He's dead.
He's dead.
And doctor, the person that you inspected, the person that you looked at, is it this guy?
Yeah.
So the guy that we're talking about who's dead is the one in the indictment, right?
Good.
That's it.
Pretty simple, isn't it?
You don't want to charge you, you killed somebody.
You want to prove that guy, Joe Yablitski.
Sometimes it's tough, dental records.
One time they missed it.
They almost ran into jail on a murder.
And then you can always get away with that by asking the judge to reopen the case.
Dear God, please let me do this.
Because no judge wants to be a part of letting some murderer walk.
Now what I just told you is the most exciting stuff in the world, but you'll never know this.
I don't want cameras there.
I don't want cameras there.
Sorry.
I don't want cameras there.
I don't want this court TV stuff.
I don't want that.
Mm-mm.
I don't want Nancy Grace second-guessing me and Vinnie Politan.
They're good people.
I used to work with them at Court TV, but no way.
Mm-mm.
And I changed my mind on that one.
Oh, my God, I changed my mind.
Changed my mind like I can't believe.
Now, what's Trump's defense?
I don't know.
I don't even understand that.
I don't even understand.
I don't know what is...
What's his defense?
And this one particular judge pretty much said that he granted some judgment.
He basically said, look, the fact that these were introduced, we're just going to do damages.
Like they did with Alex Jones.
Oh, you defaulted.
We're just going to go for damages.
And thank God Joe Takapina is not about it.
Have you seen that Habita Habita?
What's her name?
Habita Hamana?
What is her name?
Habiba Hamana?
Habita Hamana?
Habina Haba?
What is her lawyer's name?
Habina Hama?
Hang on a minute.
Hama Hama?
I don't know what her name is.
You know what I'm talking about.
Trump lawyer.
Her name is...
Oh!
Alina Haba.
I don't know anything about her.
I don't know if she's...
I don't know.
Let me ask you something about...
I'll tell you about lawyers.
People who are really good at this.
If you get an Abby Lowell to help, you want him to help.
You want somebody who's really connected to help.
For example, Bob Menendez to help Hunter Biden.
You want somebody really connected.
Because that guy you can kind of cut off at the past.
Somebody who you have access to.
They'll listen to you.
There's nothing better when you're so respected, they listen to you.
By the way, sometimes they've been the most incredible stories in the world.
I've got to tell you something.
Read the statute, read the statute, read the statute, read the statute.
Years ago, there was a guy in Tampa, Florida, named Pat Whitaker.
Pat Whitaker was this famous, famous...
I think a lot of the stories were rather apocryphal, but it was very, very good.
And Pat Whitaker had this famous case.
Where he represented a guy who was charged with fishing.
Fishing without a license.
And I think it was a mullet.
Was it a mullet?
I think it was a mullet.
In any event.
So he goes up front and he makes a motion to dismiss.
And he alleges that a mullet is a bird.
A mullet.
Don't get me.
I don't remember precisely what it was.
Forgive me.
My ichthyology is not the best.
But apparently this has a gullet versus a gizzard versus a fish.
I don't know.
But technically speaking, it's a fish.
I mean, it's a bird.
This fish.
And it was great.
It was great.
And the judge said, okay, sounds good to me.
That's pretty good.
You'd be surprised sometimes you read these really stupid laws.
Read the statute.
One time when I was brand new, just started, brand new, left the prosecutor's office, and all my friends were trying to throw me a case, you know, just to help me out because I didn't have any, you know.
We were street lawyers.
We were like mashing it.
Like Matlock, Bobby Lee Cook.
We're not firms.
We're out there slogging it out, which is fun.
Anyway.
This guy called me.
He said, listen, he said, my daughter, she's got some emotional problem.
She was at a party.
We have a thing in Tampa called Gasparilla.
Every year they dress up like pirates and act like damn fools.
Anyway, she threw this bottle and it broke and they charged her or something.
And she just disposed of it.
I'll give you a grand or whatever.
Just take care of this case and pay the fee and blah, blah, blah.
So I read the stature.
So what is she charged with?
And the case was...
It was a city code.
I don't know about city code.
So I had to go to the law library.
Look up the city code.
I'm looking at it.
And it says, throwing broken glass.
I'll never forget that.
And I'm reading it.
It's against the law to throw broken glass.
I said, who wrote this?
I said, the glass wasn't broken until after she threw it.
I'm reading.
I must be.
You can't shepherdize it in the old days.
There's no research.
Nobody ever did anything.
It was the damnedest thing anybody's ever seen.
So, I went before this judge and said, set it for trial.
And they looked at me like, what?
Set it for trial?
Please no contest.
Withhold.
No point.
I mean, no point.
Withhold court costs only.
Forget it.
It's done.
Set up for trial.
Did you hear what I said?
Enter a plea in NOLO.
No probation.
No paper.
Court costs.
Nothing.
I'll waive the court.
Just get this off my docket.
So I said, approach the bench, please.
I said, Connor, it's crazy.
Read the statute.
She goes, throwing broken glass.
So she turns to the prosecutor.
Did you know about this?
The prosecutor said, I don't know about city code.
Court judge says, do I hear an oral motion to dismiss?
Prosecutor says, yeah, go ahead.
I said, I'd like to move and dismiss?
Great.
Prosecutor likes that because the judge dismissed it, not the prosecutor.
The prosecutor's record is, I didn't lose a case, the judge dismissed it.
I don't lose.
Anyway, loved it.
Loved it.
I love stuff like that.
That's why it's important for people to look at what it is, what's the...
What's the case?
What does it say?
What does this mean?
I told you, in the state of New Jersey, they got this stupid law.
If you have any...
In the state of New Jersey, in the statutes, you can't hang anything from your rearview mirror, including a handicapped parking thing, which is what they give you.
To hang from your rearview mirror.
Do you not read your own statute?
The law says anything that obscures, I think I've talked to this, anything that obscures the license tag, anything, if it says New Jersey, New York, California, if any, you know those rims, those frames that come when you go to a car dealership, you have this frame?
If any portion of that obscures anything, even though you can clearly see that California, No good.
They give you a ticket.
That's how they pull you over.
Take those rims off.
Take that frame off.
Take it off.
Stupid things like that.
But that's what it says.
That's what it says.
That's the law.
And with Trump, I'm thinking, what's the defense?
What do you do?
What are we doing here?
So frankly, I would say, Mr. President, you didn't hear it from me with raise holy hell.
Just raise, just hope you guys, somebody does something stupid.
I can't tell you to do this.
I can't tell you to break the law.
I'm not telling you to be obstructive for some purpose.
I'm not telling you to cause a problem, but what I'm telling you is that it might behoove you to just say, well, the judge hates me.
Why?
Because, you know, he hates me.
It's clearly, well, you keep calling him names.
Well, that's beside the point.
I mean, so I...
What do you tell Trump?
How do you tell Trump to knock it off?
How do you do that?
I don't know.
That's the way he is.
Let me tell you something.
All the other cases, they're watching and they're saying, this guy's deadly.
This guy looks good.
This guy shows up in court and says, he looks damn good.
He looks like he's really damn good.
The way he holds the way he glares like this.
See, there's this thing.
People are looking at this and they're saying, this is just nonsense.
This is just absolute nonsense.
You see, that's the thing which is the most important.
That's the most important thing.
The fact is you want the world to say, leave this man alone.
He's got to fly in.
Go to this trial for what?
You're telling me he didn't?
He didn't defraud anybody.
Nobody's complaining.
You're doing this on your own.
None of the banks, nobody said, hey, he said Mar-a-Lago was worth $300.
You're doing this on your own?
Come on.
That's exactly what's happening, friends.
That's exactly what's happening.
I hate when they pick on people.
I hate when they pick on people.
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Let us, let us, if you pray, pray for President Trump.
If not, pray for him anyway.
He needs help.
He needs our help.
He needs our focus.
Do you understand this?
He needs our focus.
And I'm telling you, I feel so terrific.
You're going to see one of the biggest flaps Ever in Gavin Newsom.
He is going to be the most uninspiring.
And the fact that he's got the hair and the this will make him look like a bigger empty suit than you can imagine.
Especially when he's made to answer the calls of ineptitude on the part of his treatment of his own state!
His own state!
What are you talking about?
And Bobby Kennedy goes in for the kill just like Kimball writes in that great piece I read, it's wonderful.
I've been saying this for the longest time.
Bobby Kennedy is going to pull votes away from Democrats.
So this is good.
Remember this.
I want you to think about this, okay?
Think about this very, very carefully, alright?
I want you to close your eyes and think about this.
I want you to think that you say, ladies and gentlemen, On election night, or whatever it is, maybe, who knows, it might be, maybe it's even done in the House.
I have no idea.
But they say to you that it is now official.
The winner, the President of the United States in the 2024 election is again Donald Trump.
Think about that.
Think about that.
What if he's charged?
What if he's on trial?
What if he's convicted?
What if he's wearing an ankle bracelet?
What if?
Whatever.
And Trump says, I don't care.
I won.
I beat you in the house, maybe that, whatever.
Just think about this.
For the first time, he doesn't win.
They will go.
Look at me.
Can you imagine what they're going to do?
They're going to go crazy.
They're going to go crazy.
And he's going to use it.
Look at my ankle bicep.
Look!
These are state charges.
Can Donald Trump pardon himself for federal offenses?
I think he can.
The Office of Legal Counsel doesn't say so.
So what?
Listen to me.
Don't lose faith.
This is going to be one of the most exciting times we have ever seen in our life.
We're going to have so much fun.
Do you hear what I'm saying?
Don't lose faith.
Thank you.
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It's an old joke.
All right, dear friends, that's that.
Now listen.
You have a great and a glorious day.
Oh, oh, by the way, Malarkey, thank you.
And Ali Tabuger, thank you so much for your kindness, your perspicacity, your beneficence, your philanthropy, your kindness, your heart, your soul, your beneficence.
Thank you.
Thank you for that.
All right, dear friends, we will see you tomorrow.
Same bad time, same bad time.
Actually, 8 a.m. per usual.
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Don't ever change me, that sincerely.
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