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May 27, 2024 - Rudy Giuliani
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America's Mayor Live (E416): The History of Memorial Day—Honoring America's Fallen Heroes
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This is Rudy Giuliani with America's Mayor Live today on Memorial Day.
We hope that all of you are remembering Memorial Day and appropriately dealing with it.
Appropriately means, of course, to have fun and to enjoy yourself and to be with your family and If you do barbecuing, fabulous.
If you do picnics, great.
If you play softball, whatever it is that you do.
But then to put some time aside to remember the purpose of the day.
And maybe we start to help ourselves remember the purpose of the day with probably one of the most uplifting songs of the last 40 or 50 years about the greatness of this country that has been under serious attack for too long now.
Let's listen to it.
If tomorrow all the things were gone I'd work for all my life
And I had to start again With just my children and my wife I'd thank my lucky stars To be living here today
Cause the flag still stands for freedom and they can't take that away.
And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.
And I won't forget the man who died, who gave that right to me.
And I gladly stand up next to you, and defend her still today.
Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land.
God bless the USA!
From the lakes of Minnesota, to the hills of Tennessee, across the plains of Texas, From sea to shining sea From Detroit down to Houston And New York to L.A.
Well, there's pride in every American heart, and it's time we stand and say...
...that we are the greatest nation on earth with the greatest achievement of any nation
on earth, which we spent too little time on.
And part of what we're going to have to fix if we want America back, because Biden has
taken it away from us, is to readjust our education so that our children grow up to
be proud, loving American citizens that feel goosebumps when the national anthem is played
and...
I feel a little tingle when the Star Spangled Banner and the Pledge of Allegiance and the Constitution are all talked about and recited.
That was the purpose of public schools in the first place in the 1850s.
America was all private schools.
We went to a public school system because we were getting immigrants to teach them to be American citizens.
Now we teach them to hate America.
Terrible thing that happened.
But don't think it happened by accident.
It happened as part of the Marx plan to destroy this country.
And we are determined this year, above all years, to change it.
Today is Memorial Day, and what is Memorial Day?
Sometimes confused with Veterans Day, it is the day that we remember the people who died in service of America.
Who died to give us freedom, to protect that freedom, To expand that freedom and to share that freedom with others.
Hard to know exactly where it began.
I mean, there is like most things historical and in the past and where everyone wants a little share of the credit.
There is a little bit of doubt about where it started or what exactly started.
The earliest celebration that I see listed here was in Ballsburg, Pennsylvania in October of 1864.
Three women who had just heard about the deaths of their doctor, who was a great leader of the community, Dr. Reuben Hunter, decided that they were going to go to his grave and decorate his grave, the grave of the other fallen from the Civil War.
And if you look now, you'll see the statue in Bolsberg that exists of those three women.
They are, I believe, from... The woman standing up to the left is The daughter of Dr. Reuben Hunter, Emma Hunter, and then Elizabeth Meyer, whose son Amos died in the Battle of Gettysburg, which, by the way, was only a hundred miles away from Ballsburg.
And Sophie Keller decided to meet with them and to join them and to help decorate the additional graves.
The three of them together began that celebration and They continued it for some time, but then it basically became a celebration after the war of the victory of Gettysburg, and it didn't really stay exactly as a decoration day ceremony.
The second one The second one on record that really is remembered now but wasn't remembered then was in Charleston, South Carolina.
And this was in, I believe, in May.
I think it was May 1st.
Yes, it was May 1st, 1865.
The first was October 1864.
This is May 1st, 1865.
In between, there were celebrations in southern cities and some northern cities where people put decorations on graves, but without this very elaborate ceremony, but did it.
And one of the interesting thing is in some southern cities and some northern cities, They decorated the graves of the opposing army.
Remember, they were all Americans, and there was a certain confusion about this war, but that wasn't true in all cities.
Some southern cities and some northern cities ignored the The dead of the other side, and it depended on the sentiment of that particular city.
But the next one of significance, size, reported in the newspapers and then somewhat ignored for a long, long time,
was the celebration in Charleston, South Carolina.
And a group of Union troops toward the end of the war had been killed.
They had been all... Actually, they were in a prison camp, and they died.
And they died of a disease, and it was 257 of them.
And they put them in a mass grave at the racetrack.
And in April of 1865, black workmen got together and disinterred the remains of these soldiers.
And they reburied them at a small cemetery right nearby.
And they put up a little sign, a makeshift sign saying, martyrs of the racetrack.
And in order to give that a little more beauty and significance, a procession began of black and
whites, but led by 300, I believe, black children and, excuse me, 3,000 black school children,
but then about 10,000 people.
And they paraded along the racetrack and then over to the cemetery.
And let me show you that.
The cemetery, it doesn't look like much, but this is years later.
And those are the gravestones that the workmen put up when the bodies were moved from more of a mass grave to To that site, which was called Martyrs of the Racetrack.
Now this, of course, was a matter of some dispute, and part of the issue here is this was a ceremony led by, or to a large extent, led by black people.
And was it ignored, and was it given the significance that it deserved?
But just to give it the historical credence that it deserves, let me read to you an article An article in the New York Tribune on May 1st, or right after May 1st.
This is from the Tribune way back in 1865.
The procession was led by 3,000 black schoolchildren carrying armloads of roses and singing the Union marching song, John Brown's Body.
Which we're going to play in a moment, because you're going to find it very interesting when you hear it.
Several hundred black women followed with baskets of flowers, wreaths, and crosses.
Then came black men marching in cadence, followed by contingents of Union infantrymen.
Within the cemetery enclosure, a black children's choir sang, We'll Rally Around the Flag, The Star-Spangled Banner, and Spirituals before a series of black ministers read from the Bible.
After all this pomp and circumstance, and this is a commentary by the writer today, this decoration day continued on much as Memorial Day does.
Picnics, speeches, and the enjoyment of a beautiful spring day.
Now, three years later, let's listen to John Brown's body.
I think you're gonna find this song and even the lyrics of the first first a melody
You'll be very familiar and the lyrics very historically interesting
John Brown's body lies a mould and in the grave John Brown's body lies a mould and in the grave
John Brown's body lies a mould and in the grave, but his soul goes
marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah.
Glory, glory, hallelujah.
But his soul goes marching on.
The stars above in heaven are looking kindly down The stars above in heaven are looking kindly down
The stars above in heaven are looking kindly down On the grave of old John Brown
Glory, glory, hallelujah Glory, glory, hallelujah
Glory, glory, hallelujah His soul goes marching on
you Well, I guess you recognize that, of course, as the Battle Hymn of the Republic, which that was also the melody for the Battle Hymn of the Republic, but used for the John Brown
Song which gives it more of a sound of the feeling of a country and Western song doesn't it?
that was sung on the day that the memorial was held for the 257 bodies that were reburied
and given appropriate ceremonies. The celebration that got the most attention, however,
and then eventually became the one that was selected as the quintessential and main one,
took place in a little town called Waterloo, New York, in the Finger Lakes.
I I guess the biggest city might be Syracuse, but very far from that, actually.
A beautiful, beautiful area of the Finger Lakes regions of New York between Seneca Lake And Cayuga Lake.
And it was a massive, massive celebration, which is why it got attention.
The whole city was decorated.
The whole city paraded.
They advertised it.
And the village was decorated with flags at half-mast.
It was draped with evergreens and morning black.
It was organized by a pharmacist, Henry Wells, and a Civil War general named John Murray.
And veteran civic societies, soldiers, all marched for an entire day, and it spread to several other days, I believe.
Now, they had 58 men, this little wardrobe did, who died in the Civil War.
And a local history organization has published biographies of them.
And they were all honored during that first memorial service.
And they continue to be honored today.
And it was, the original proclamation reads, let us raise them above the dear old flag they save from dishonor.
Let us in this solemn presence renew our pledges to aid and assist those who may have left among us as sacred charges upon the nation's gratitude, the soldiers and sailors, widow and orphan.
Notice they mentioned the families as well.
Because the sacrifice for the families are as great, if not greater in some ways, than those brave men and women who die for our country.
Waterloo was eventually selected by the commander of the Union Army, General John A. Logan, as the quintessential celebration.
He set up the national holiday.
at the 30th of May.
It was later switched to the first Monday in May, and it was Lyndon Johnson who then officially named Waterloo as the first actual Memorial Day celebration, originally Decoration Day, then Memorial Day, to take on all of our wars.
Remember, the difference is this honors those who died and their families.
Veterans Day on the 11th will honor those who served, and it is good that it's separated and each get their due credit.
The President of the United States, of course, goes to Arlington every year
at this time to lay a wreath, and we'll show that to you.
The wreath is now being placed by the President.
The President's Wreath is now being laid by the President.
The President's Wreath is now being laid by the President.
Is, of course, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, where that ceremony is held.
So, I hope you do spend a little time praying for them, remembering them, and remembering the greatness of this country that it has so many that have died to give us the freedom that we have that is being taken away from us, and where many are laying down like sheep going to the slaughter.
I mean, it began with the driving God out of America, Then taking children away from parents and making children, as Karl Marx would say, the property of the state.
When the state can decide to mutilate your children without your permission, we've made the full movement to Marxism, haven't we?
And there are places in this country where that is the law.
Places that are fighting it.
Just like we had with slavery.
We had places that embraced it and places that hated it.
And I'd like you to remember when you think and reflect on the Civil War, that about 300,000 white men died to free black people.
That should be remembered in all of the mix of good and bad.
And it is a significant achievement that should be honored.
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Not necessarily is he going to win New York or isn't he going to win New York.
I would still rate that as a long shot.
I would have rated it as impossible two years ago.
Last year as a way out possibility.
About six months as a not as way out possibility and now as a possibility.
But not one that I would want to bet the farm on.
I do think its significance, however, is it shows the strength that he has, underlying strength that he has with the American people.
That is a tremendous amount of strength with Hispanics and blacks and minorities to bring out that kind of crowd with that kind of attitude.
And maybe you haven't seen, but living in New York, you know, I've seen the interviews that are done and it's hard to produce nasty interviews about Trump when the press tries to do it in the minority community.
And in fact, a number have been shocked that they can't get people to do it and have put on, like, Cara Castronova, who's partially responsible for that, did a piece back around last Christmas and went up to East Harlem and couldn't find anybody that would say anything bad.
And she tried.
What that means is the chances in a place like Pennsylvania, a place like New Jersey, where things are a lot closer, And that Hispanic vote's gonna switch by 20, 25 points, and the black vote, one way or the other, is gonna move by 20 or 25 points.
Even stay home.
It means an election too big to rig, maybe, huh?
So, tell us about the rally, Rob.
You were there.
Just give me a sense of what it...
We know it was about 10,000 people, and we know that the speech was really an excellent one and very well received, but give us a sense of the flavor of it.
Yeah, it was a very interesting event, I think.
I had a chance to interview a lot of young people that were standing out in the front, and they tend to really take it personally about what their own families are going through, One, commenting about how it's very upsetting.
I imagine it's probably coming from the mother, because these kids were young.
They were 16, 17 years old.
Commenting about how the migrants are being treated better than his mother.
They're making more money.
Was this a... They mentioned money a lot, you know.
Can you identify the person as a Hispanic or a black or a white or... This was a young African-American.
Young African-American, okay.
Yup.
And it was...
Yeah, they were very...
A lot, most of the interviews, they talked about money.
A lot of them seem to be concerned about money.
Oh, we were talking, and then I was saying, and then they're poisoning you too with the food, you know, with the foods.
I told, I advised the kids, don't eat at McDonald's.
And the one kid says, you can't even eat at McDonald's anymore.
We used to cost them five bucks to go in and cost them $20 now to go in and get a Coke and a hamburger.
And I said, and he took me by surprise.
I was like, yeah, well, there's also that part too.
Yeah.
So when you say money, you're talking about, even though they may not express it that way, they're talking about inflation.
Absolutely.
They're talking about what Biden says doesn't exist.
That's where they're... Except he never goes anyplace.
Obviously somebody buys his ice cream for him if it's up about 20%.
Yeah, that's where a lot of their concerns seem to lie, and that I noticed in the interviewing.
And also, I know I was a little bombastic with my interview that night live.
Oh, you said it was a million?
Yeah, when I said it was a million people.
But you know what?
I was on a one-wheeled unicycle, as you know, and I was flying all over that neighborhood.
And I'll tell you, even the people outside of the rally in the stores when I went in to get a Coke were talking about it.
So I think there really was an aggregated number that's a lot higher.
I mean, look, even if you say 10,000 or some people say 20,000, that's a restricted area.
You can only get a certain number of people there.
You can only get 3,500 into the rally itself.
Oh, sure.
I know that area well, and it's self-defined.
Then there are several other self-defined areas.
But then there are a lot of trees around, and you're not going to go hanging out in the trees, or maybe you are.
So it's a restricted space.
If you got 10,000 to 15,000 in there, you had the place pretty much filled up.
And when you saw the helicopter shots, you could see it was all filled up.
Yes, I was taking shots up at the helicopter.
This was planned for two days.
Two days of planning.
And then one reporter for CNN was shocked.
Anderson Cooper almost had a heart attack when she said it was a very good event.
I'm sure she got fired.
I don't remember.
An important thing is going to probably be gone in a second.
But she was like, and they were all from the Bronx.
I think they expected that he was going to ship people in.
There was a lot of talk about that, and I can tell you that's bull.
Those people... Those were New Yorkers, right?
Not only New Yorkers, they were local.
They were living right there, those people.
Yeah, this was their event.
This was their event.
They sort of asked for it way back in at Christmastime with Cara.
They were telling her they wanted him to come to the South Bronx.
Yeah, I met Cara there.
I mean, she did a lot of interviews also.
Well, I mean, in a way, she could have done an I Told Yourself, you know.
Totally, yeah.
Because she was on Newsmax quite a bit.
And the people with those interviews.
And some, a lot of the people, some of them, quite a few of them, they were like, I mean, English was definitely a second language to them.
You know, you know, they were from that area.
Yeah.
But they were very smart though.
They were smart and they knew what was going on.
They weren't like Governor Hochul says, they don't, they don't have computers.
They don't know about computers.
Unbelievable.
Sheep.
Cell phones.
Crucified for saying that.
People in Harlem don't know.
They're too dumb to know about computers and cell phones.
Can you imagine if Trump or somebody, you know, on our side would have said that?
How about, how about she referred to the people supporting him?
Who were there as clowns.
You were a clown.
You were a clown.
Oh yeah.
A deplorable.
A Hillary Clinton moment.
We've been deplorables for a while.
I even have a shirt that says deplorable.
Yeah.
That was the name of my son's baseball team at the White House.
The deplorables.
Yeah.
Uh, but I mean, I've been a deplorable and proud of it for quite some time.
MAGA, I'm really proud of.
Make America Great Again.
Yeah.
What am I going to be?
Make America Shitty Again?
You know, I know.
It's like logical.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, and I think, you know, Dodo Head keeps saying it.
It's terrible!
Make MC, MAGA, MAGO, MAGO, MAGO, MAGA, MAGA Bad, MAGA Bad Bad.
Yeah, it goes to show you where he stands.
You know what it means.
Right.
And if they showed him, they wouldn't register.
Mr. President, you really shouldn't say that, because it's make America great again.
Oh, I won't say it.
America's bad!
Yeah.
Doesn't know a good thing from a bad thing.
Yeah, well.
Yeah.
He's going to be gone soon, God willing.
Right, so that's my chime in on that.
So, Governor Patterson described it as a brilliant political move.
He's of course a Democrat and quite worried that there's a big movement going on in the minority community.
We can measure the movement in the Hispanic community.
But the movement in the black community is different but as significant because if you put together what Trump has gained and what Biden has lost It's as significant a percentage of people, about 30%, maybe even more, but it's more Biden losing than Trump gaining.
So Biden, so Trump goes from 8% to 23%, which is a big gain, but Biden goes down by 30%.
I mean, so what's going to happen is going to be a combination of some are going to vote for Trump.
Maybe some will vote for Kennedy.
It doesn't seem like that, but maybe they will.
And then, a lot are going to stay home.
Every single one of those votes are votes that he's counting on to win.
And every one of those votes are votes that Democrats counted on to win because they're losing a lot of other groups.
Among young people, 18 to 28, is it?
Or 30?
Trump is ahead by 8 to 10 points.
A little behind with women and way ahead with men.
So there aren't too many groups to go here.
White men haven't voted for a Democrat in 2,000 years.
Maybe once for Obama.
But other than that, you can go back to Ford.
The American presidents may have lost, but they had the white male vote.
White females now by only 2% prefer Biden.
Used to be 25.
So, things are moving, and the minority vote is moving very, very quickly.
Very quickly.
But more important than that, Rich Lowry points out in The Post that the internals of the poll are very damaging for Biden, and support what I'm saying, that there's an underlying significance to this rally, that it isn't so much New York, it's what's happening in the rest of America, this being just one example of it.
Hispanics now, in some polls, prefer Trump by 6%.
In others, he's behind by about three.
And if you look at the average, he's about even on Hispanics.
He doesn't need to be even to win.
He needs just to be close.
But more importantly, Hispanics agree with the white middle class on just about every issue.
In some cases, they're stronger.
So 69% of Americans all together believe America's on the wrong track.
That's Republicans, Democrats, Independents, Blacks, Whites, 69%.
72% of Hispanics believe it's on the wrong track.
So Hispanics more strongly believe than the rest of America that it's on the wrong track.
That's really bad.
Really bad.
And whereas 30% say that inflation and the economy is the top issue, Apropos of what Rob was saying, 42% of Hispanics say it's the top issue.
So they are more affected by inflation than white people.
That's a big difference, 30% to 42%.
So it's going to be very, very hard to turn this around into a race-baiting election.
Because the one thing that can overcome the bullshit of race-baiting is not having enough money to buy food.
And no one who to blame it on.
And maybe, just maybe, you can crack through the enslavement that the Democrats have imposed on black people for quite some time in American ghettos where they're getting killed now at record numbers based on the contribution of Soros and the work of progressive democratic legislatures.
The inability of Biden to do anything, and then the aggressive ability of Biden to allow 12 million people in here who have created record drug deaths.
All of that disproportionately affecting black America.
I mean, if it weren't for Biden, a lot of black people would be alive today that aren't.
A lot of Ukrainians would be alive today that aren't either.
I can see it's just getting worse, not better, because there's nothing he's doing to change any of that.
Even what he's doing at the border is a shell game.
He's now bringing, he's actually now bringing them in quietly, directly.
And he still asked the Chinese only four questions.
How can you possibly ask the Chinese four questions?
Just the other day, A Chinese American police officer was arrested for spying for the Chinese.
What the hell do you think they're coming here for?
To start new Chinese restaurants?
In New York, there's no room for them.
I mean, you'd have to take over the pizza restaurants, but they are trying to get rid of pizza restaurants because they want to ban the wood-burning stoves, just like they want to ban everything else.
Pretty soon, they're going to ban eating so that there's less carbon dioxide emitted because there are less people.
You think I'm kidding, right?
This is exactly what some of the Scandinavian countries have been protesting.
They're trying to limit the amount of food that people can have.
Let's face it, we heard Bill Maher say it about how he doesn't mind if abortion is murder.
We've got too many people anyway.
Uh, a lot of the, and he's changed on a lot of things, but apparently he still brings along that progressive, uh, prejudice that there are too many people and not a bad idea if we borrow from their good friends and valued, uh, uh, valued heroes, the red Chinese, and maybe we'll start killing off the girl babies because they reproduce.
Watch out.
Some of the things you thought were crazy 10 years ago, Well, we're gonna come back, and when we come back tomorrow, we're going to have the summations
In a case that will be put in the law books and compared to cases in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany and might be considered more unfair in terms of exclusion of evidence or trying someone and making believe it's a crime.
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Memorial Day, huh?
So tomorrow, tomorrow is the summations in the, uh, maybe the most unfair trial I can't say in American history.
They've had some pretty terrible trials in American history, but certainly in our generation, uh, I mean, you can't get more unfair than try somebody for a non-crime.
He's tried for a, um, uh, making a false statement That turns out, based on the proof to be a true statement, in order to commit another felony.
But he's not told what that felony is.
His lawyers believe it's one of three.
I don't know.
But that is so fundamental.
A violation of constitutional rights of due process.
It's so much a matter of common sense.
Unfair!
I mean, if you were having a kangaroo court, you'd have to tell the guy what you're lynching him for, if you want to give him a chance to defend.
You're putting a court together, you're a bunch of crazy whatever, but you want to give the guy a chance to say his piece.
He says, well, what am I being hung for?
A crime.
What crime?
A crime.
Just explain how you didn't commit a crime.
Or show us that there's reasonable doubt you committed a crime.
Well, what crime?
Our crime, that's where we are.
I know you don't believe me, just read it!
Which is why Angaran is, not Angaran, Murshan, is such a, I don't know how to describe him.
He is the poster boy for crooked New York judge, 150 years of them.
And I've had to live through it as a lawyer.
The New York Supreme Court I'm talking about, I'm talking about the New York Supreme Court, particularly in the four boroughs.
That our democratic dictatorships, where the boss picks the guy and Murshan's not even been elected.
I mean, he's got to be a real stumble bump.
I mean, they just move him around.
Put him in this court, put him in that.
They won't even put him up for election.
Angaran!
Just think of the quality of the people they elect.
Angaran.
He was elected.
Three times!
No opponents.
So when I tell you it's like a Soviet court, I'm not exaggerating.
They're selected like Soviet judges are selected.
I don't know.
They may do a better job of putting up token opposition.
They may do a better job of actually telling you what charge exists.
Now, how about this?
This whole thing starts because the entry by his accountant that it was a legal expense is false.
Because it was a hush money payment.
There's nothing illegal about it.
Actually, what it was, was a settlement of a case.
As one of their witnesses said, it was consideration.
Consideration is a legal term in contract law, and it means the thing that's given in exchange for the promise.
There has to be consideration to have a contract.
That's why they always say you have to give your lawyer one dollar.
to be your lawyer because for a valid contract under English law, you had to give something in order to bind a promise.
And that something was called consideration.
So when he said consideration, what he's saying is it's a contract of which there are thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands.
That's not the crime.
The crime is that the accountant, not Trump, entered it incorrectly as a legal expense.
Except the accountant was describing $455,000 worth of expenses, of which this was only $135,000.
And if he had put down consideration or payment to prostitute or whatever, it would have been an unfair and false statement.
It would not have described the other four things that were involved.
So he gave it exactly the right description.
It was a generic legal payment.
You wanted to know more about it, you had to go into more detail.
Not able to be provided on a line this big.
How are we making a big case out of this?
I mean, we got people in New York, Brad.
You're turning down half the cases and you're losing half the cases.
People are getting whacked around that you put out on the street.
Somebody, some guy burned two people.
And after he burned the first one, you couldn't catch him.
And how many people do you put out there, and the next day they bang somebody in the head, bang somebody in the head, bang somebody in the head, and then they kill somebody?
How many of those, Bragg?
You bum.
How many of them?
And you're trying a guy for a true statement?
How come you can't get up and explain it?
You can't talk?
You had to go get Biden's guy to come from Washington to talk for you?
What is this, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy?
And by the way, Colangelo is not that good.
He had my job, so I'm entitled to... He's just a half... Yeah, they're gonna bring a big trial lawyer in.
That guy, if he didn't have a jury, that's unfortunately probably impossible to deal with because they're all a bunch of Trump deranged syndrome people.
They made so many mistakes!
Every witness that these idiots put on the stand turned out to be defense witnesses.
Trump's lawyers so outlawed them, they should turn in their law degrees.
Including Colangelo, who's a disgrace of an Associate Attorney General.
I hope they don't put his picture up anywhere near where my picture is.
They probably took my picture down.
I hope they do.
I wouldn't want it in that bum's Justice Department.
Garland?
I consider Garland to be the most crooked Attorney General we ever had.
And the most evil.
So the summations will take place tomorrow.
So let me tell you what's going to happen.
It's a little different.
I practice mostly, although I did try some cases in state court, I practice mostly in federal court.
That's what's in my head here.
But in state court, it's a little different.
Unless it's changed, Trump's lawyer will get up first and give the summation for Trump.
It'll probably be, as it should be, premised a great deal on reasonable doubt.
He could try something that really great trial lawyers occasionally try, which is to say, look, we don't have to do reasonable doubt, we're innocent.
Particularly since he's got the statement going his way.
But it's safer In case there are some, and if this were a regular jury in Iowa or something, without massive political prejudice, I'd recommend that.
But this is a jury where, maybe realistically, you can only hope for a hung jury.
So I think I'd hang it up a lot on reasonable doubt.
Because a fair person, an honest person, couldn't possibly find him guilty.
You find him guilty, there's something wrong with him.
You can't, there's no way you can show that that statement is false beyond a reasonable doubt.
It's true beyond a reasonable doubt.
And then, I mean, the jury has got to be perplexed by the idiocy of not being told what felony it is.
And finally, now here they don't know this, so this is almost inexcusable on the part of the crooked judge.
The felony they most relying on, they had Cohen testify, is a crime.
Cohen said that it was a campaign contribution and that's a crime.
They had a witness ready to testify that it's not a crime, based on the Federal Election Commission.
Michon would not allow the guy to testify.
Now, it's one thing if you didn't allow Cohen to testify to that, because generally in a trial, you do not call expert witnesses on the law.
The judge is supposed to be that.
But this judge varied the rules to allow the government to have a witness testify on the law, which should be reversible error, by the way, if we get a non-Democrat dictated court of appeals, which is hard.
uh... but might happen particularly hard given the changes that were made uh... in the court of appeals where they you know they threw off judges they didn't like and put on judges they like so they could they could do gerrymandering it is a very crooked democratic state it's almost uh... beyond believable uh... but the court of appeals tends to be a little better and also has to worry about looking like a laughing stock To the courts of appeals all over the country and Supreme Courts.
So, we'll see.
If this were any other case, at any other time, in any other place, I would do something I never do, even with my own cases.
I would guarantee you an acquittal.
This is a conviction or a hung jury.
It's a shame that I have to say that.
It's one of the reasons why I'm embarrassed to be in a New Yorker.
I'm embarrassed the city that I did so much for.
I'm embarrassed that its citizens have allowed us to become something like a communist dictatorship.
Because the Democratic Party is crooked from top to bottom.
and their judges politically do what Keith Wright, the Democratic boss in New York,
wants or the other four or the three. I was saying that all of this kind of ties together to when
you look at what's being done, those things that you wake up in the morning and you say to yourself,
how could this happen in America?
And it seems like, I would just tell you to get yourself an annotated A book of Karl Marx, and everything that happens, it's like the Bible, I'll take it back to Karl Marx.
So in New Jersey, up until this Sunday, for 155 straight years, a group, a Methodist group, known as the Grave...
The Ocean Grove Association used to have a little ceremony for a few hours in the morning on the beach, praising God because of the rising sun, and they were given a charter back 155 years ago to be able to use the beach exclusively for that purpose for a few hours.
Well, nobody really minded.
Except a group of committed Marxist atheists who went to court.
They didn't go to court.
They got the Department of Environmental Protection to change it.
Now, who the hell is the Department of Environmental Protection?
This is like Soviet Union.
That's a bunch of... that's a commissar.
The Commissar of Environmental Protection said that religion can't be practiced, even though the charter says so.
At least go to a damn atheist court and have them do it.
Let the communists on the court, like we have a couple of in New York, who let the criminals go free.
Let them decide.
But it's decided not by the governor, not by the mayor, not by the city council, not by an elected official, not even by a court.
It's decided by some bureaucrat.
Who has to do with environmental protection?
It's better for climate change?
There'd be no religious ceremony?
Boy, God has really gotten nowhere in this country, huh?
Now, this is why it troubles me.
It troubles me because it is another sign of thousands that we're becoming a communist country and Marxist country.
Marx makes it clear that the way you take over a country is you get rid of God.
Then you separate the children from the parents and you make them property of the state as early as possible.
Hitler and Stalin aim for two years old.
We now have pre-K education going down to three.
I wonder why they spent so much money on pre-K education.
It doesn't do a damn thing.
Yes, it does.
It teaches them to be a little Marxist.
And to not listen to their parents.
So, hey, you feel like a girl?
Don't tell Mommy and Daddy.
Okay, well, I guess we're gonna have to chop a few things up.
Just don't tell Mommy and Daddy.
You belong to us, and we know better.
We're smarter than Mommy and Daddy.
Yeah, they probably went to Harvard.
So we're gonna take a short break, and then we're gonna take up the topic of why the young people in America hate us so much.
We'll be right back.
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This is Rudy Giuliani back with you.
I know I made a kind of a disturbing comment about the young people, but this is based again on a poll of Gen Zers that say that 40% of Gen Zers consider the American founders to be villains.
Now that's education.
I mean, that's that's Marxist education and completely false.
I mean, these people were as good men and women as you could be in that period of time.
They weren't Jesus.
Nobody's Jesus.
But they were better than most, and in some cases, brilliant minds.
As John Kennedy once said, when he put together his cabinet that was considered the best and the brightest, of course, he was a Democrat, so he got a little extra.
He would never say that about Trump or Reagan or whatever.
He said, you know, this is the smartest assemblage in this cabinet room since Thomas Jefferson sat here all along.
And he wasn't wrong.
It was a mind of astounding proportions and a heart that was gigantic, including for black people.
A lot of the things that are written that were the, created the seed for much earlier emancipation than a cover written by Jefferson and the contradictions.
If you have the, if you didn't go to Harvard or one of those Ivy league schools or one of those schools that don't teach you how to read and write, but just how to examine, You know, whether you're a man or a woman, you'd be able to read Jefferson and see how much he labored and suffered over this.
And how he deliberately put things in the... All men are created equal!
The man is the smartest man in America, he knows what he just said!
He knows the problem that he created, particularly when he writes... You know, when people catch up to this, I fear for the generation that has to deal with it.
Because he wanted them to deal with it.
Hillary Clinton!
Back in the news!
She says women cost her the election!
You know, someday Hillary's gonna wake up and realize she's just not a very pleasant person.
And you don't make a good candidate when you're not a pleasant person.
If it weren't for the Democratic, uh, uh, uh, stranglehold on some of the votes in the cities, and maybe they're cheating, she'd be, she'd be, would have been lucky to get five votes.
Her husband was a hell of a politician.
She was just the opposite.
I bet it drives her nuts because as I can tell from their biographies, she always considered herself smarter than him.
Well, he was a great politician and she was one of the worst.
I mean, she threw away a short presidency, just threw it away.
Israel is doing to Biden exactly what Putin did, exactly what Hamas and Iran did, when he told them, don't.
Don't go into Ukraine.
Boom.
Don't continue with hitting Israel.
Boom.
Don't continue in Gaza.
Boom.
So they knocked out a garrison of Hamas leaders yesterday with the claim that they killed children.
Who I'm sure were put there, if they were, if they actually, I mean, we have now found out that half of what they've been telling us in terms of casualties are false.
So when they tell you about, we haven't seen the children.
What we have seen are pictures of them killing children.
And we've seen pictures of them using children as barriers, and we've now recently seen pictures of them raping women.
Well, they killed Yassin Rabia, who was the chief of staff in Judea and Samaria, and his senior official, Khalid Nagar.
So there's another group of high-level Hamas people taken away.
This is what they have to do because the group is intent on eliminating the state of Israel and refuses to change that.
How can you have a ceasefire?
Oh, let's have a ceasefire, but we're going to continue to try to eliminate you.
Only, only in Biden's communist world could this occur.
Only in the crazy world that you all created by voting for him.
Or maybe you didn't vote for him.
Wouldn't that be nice if the election was really stolen?
Because then the American people would be relieved of the burden of being that stupid as to have voted for a man who ran from a basement.
Now we can't even get out of the basement.
Isn't it ridiculous he gets on Air Force One on baby?
Why don't they just bring him up in a hoist or something?
Representative Jared Moskowitz made the point yesterday on Fox News that he's in favor of
putting the sanctions back on the ICC.
That's the International Court of Justice.
That found that Netanyahu and his Secretary, Minister of Defense, should be put in jail for carrying on the war, but nobody from Hamas.
So he said, we should stop our funding.
And then he was reminded that Trump did, and he said he agreed with Trump.
That's one of the first Democrats to kind of break, isn't it?
That's a pretty big break, saying that Trump was right and Biden was wrong.
Of course, you could say it about almost everything, right?
The economy.
He gave him a world at peace.
We now have a world at war.
The mayor of New York is trying to figure out how he can give prisoners to the immigration service.
But there's a law in New York passed by his predecessor, who was a communist, de Blasio, that prohibits New York City from turning illegal migrants, illegal aliens, over to immigration.
And he wants it changed.
Did it ever occur to him it's unconstitutional, he doesn't have to follow it?
Am I the only person in the city with brains?
The mayor can say, you're just a little city council.
You don't have a right to violate the Constitution of the United States.
Also, you're putting me in a position where I could be accused of a crime.
Just because you passed a law that says I shouldn't turn people over.
To the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
That's an obstruction of justice.
The federal government didn't change the law.
Biden may have written out all kinds of executive orders, but it's like marijuana.
Every one of those people that has legal marijuana shops could be busted by the federal government for violating federal law.
So I don't know, I mean, Randy Mastro is now his corporation counsel.
He was mine.
When he was my corporation counsel, that's the advice he would give.
Let's see if he's got the you-know-what to do that with Adams, or if Adams would listen to him.
I thought, Randy's taken that job, well, I'll tell you what I think sometime.
And just to show you how unbelievably damaging Adams has been A migrant killed another migrant at the Harlem Shelter yesterday.
These are the nice people that he invited here.
You know, he made New York the most attractive sanctuary city in the country, which is the reason we have so many people.
You say, well Abbott sent them here.
Abbott sent them here, but many, many more got here because of Biden.
Like four or five to one.
And of course Abbott would send them here.
Why wouldn't he?
He's not a sanctuary city.
We are.
And the biggest one.
And if people were given a choice, they'd want to come here because they got more goodies here.
You've got more health care.
You've got COVID money at one time.
You've got nicer accommodations than our own welfare recipients got, as Rob pointed out before.
True for veterans, too.
You did much better than veterans.
You still are.
And they're still complaining that they're not treated well enough.
Some of them have moved from one place to another.
He's spending $37 million to build a hotel for them.
Of course, a lot of these are inflated so he can give contracts to his friends.
Let's see what happens with that.
Rudy, the prosecutor, has an idea, which is another reason why he's wondering why the hell Randy Mastro went to work for him.
But ambition is ambition.
Well, we're going to finish pretty much on time tonight because it is a holiday and we want you to enjoy the remainder of it.
We really hope you're following the hockey playoffs.
I'm a Ranger fan and really enjoyed yesterday's game in overtime.
It's a strange, strange game because Florida beat them in every way possible except the score.
It was like they had four times more attempts on goal and the Rangers won in overtime.
But that happens to be the way the Rangers play.
They're 4-0 in overtime games in the playoffs.
So it'll be interesting to see what happens tomorrow because, well, in a way, the Rangers are pretty beat up, but they have a hell of a spirit.
And they've got the other team is tougher, but they're faster.
So we'll see.
Let's see what happens.
What made you become a Rangers fan over the Highlanders?
The Warno Highlanders.
Who?
The who?
When I grew up, the Warno Highlanders.
It was Roger Bear and John Retell.
Was there just the Rangers in New York?
Yeah, the Islanders are new.
I mean, the Islanders are new, like, after even the Mets.
Okay, so one of the more recent New York Rangers.
And they were put on Long Island, you know, that's why they're called the Islanders, from the very beginning.
Like the original Nets were on Long Island, then moved to Brooklyn.
I don't know.
Where are they now?
I don't even know where they are now.
Are they still in Brooklyn?
They're moving back.
They still call them the Brooklyn Nets.
That's like we call the New York Giants and the New York Jets.
And they're really from New Jersey, which is kind of embarrassing.
But Buffalo is the only New York team.
They are the only New York football team.
And apparently going to be the source of great wealth for Hochul.
Concessions.
I mean, I guess, you know, the one hope is that once she gets some money, maybe she'll leave.
Because she doesn't seem to be interested in the job, and she thinks we're all clowns.
Well, she thinks half of us are clowns.
I feel very, very insulted being called a clown by her.
That is the pot calling the kettle black.
How can you be that arrogant when you're that stupid?
The problem with a lot of very bright people is, and it hurts them, is they're very arrogant.
But don't stay bright. I mean, she's a big dope.
Those poor people, poor kids at home don't know anything about computers.
But they're so stupid.
I mean, they must be so stupid.
I mean, isn't that a racist attitude?
And is it?
Which they obviously were.
Because she's stupid.
She's that stupid, huh?
Stupid, yes.
Don't you listen to her?
Oh yeah.
Well, that's because you're used to Kamala Harris and Biden.
And compared to them, she's a genius.
Russia is a big country.
Ukraine is a small country.
Next to Russia.
Well, God bless you all on Memorial Day.
Tonight we add to our prayers for Israel and the United States special prayers for the people who gave their lives that we can be free.
And let's pray that we can reacquire their spirit of love, of undaunting, unconditional love of America.
It doesn't mean we're not seeking to make a more perfect union, but it does mean we realize the good overwhelms the bad in this country by a lot.
God bless America.
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the glory of the coming of the Lord.
He is traveling out of vintage, where the graves of raptors roar.
In a crucifixion night, we love his terrible swift sword.
He is coming, marching on.
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Glory, glory, hallelujah!
♪♪ I will see him in the watch-lights,
I will see him in the watch-lights, Alleluia, his truth is marching on.
All the hearts with serpent eyes, Even-feared he, even lost are fleeing,
He knows and knows, I can read his righteous sentence,
Even-feared the crowd denies, His truth is marching on.
Glory, glory, alleluia!
His truth is marching on.
♪♪ In the beauty of the livings,
Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom
With a glory in his bosom that transfigured human beings.
That transfigures human being, In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born across the sea.
As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free.
While God is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.
Amen, amen!
...bear the principle of common sense and rational discussion to the issues of our day.
America was created at a time of great turmoil, tremendous disagreements, anger, hatred.
There was a book written in 1776 that guided much of the discipline of thinking that brought to us the discovery of our freedoms, of our God-given freedoms.
It was Thomas Paine's Common Sense, written in 1776, one of the first American bestsellers, in which Thomas Paine explained, by rational principles, the reason why these small colonies felt the necessity to separate from the Kingdom of Great Britain and the King of England.
He explained their inherent desire for liberty, for freedom, freedom of religion, freedom
of speech, the ability to select the people who govern them.
And he explained it in ways that were understandable to all the people, not just the elite.
Because the desire for freedom is universal.
The desire for freedom adheres in the human mind and it is part of the human soul.
This is exactly the time we should consult our history.
Look at what we've done in the past.
And see if we can't use it to help us now.
We understand that our founders created the greatest country in the history of the world.
The greatest democracy, the freest country.
A country that has taken more people out of poverty than any country ever.
All of us are so fortunate to be Americans.
But a great deal of the reason for America's constant ability to self-improve is because we're able to reason.
We're able to talk.
We're able to analyze.
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