Ezra Levant outside NYC’s Trump trial courthouse calls it a "politically sham" prosecution, comparing it to Canada’s weaponized courts against truckers, restaurant owners like Adam Skelly, and churches—cases requiring crowdfunding due to $100K+ legal fees. He warns the U.S. risks "banana republicification," undermining rule of law, while interviewing anti-communist Chinese refugees and a Brooklyn native now in a Northern California chicken farm commune. At Geneva’s WHO treaty talks, Canada’s Teresa Tam pushes DEI, gender equality, and Ukraine/Gaza support over public health, signaling globalist overreach. Levant fears sovereignty erosion and future lockdowns, urging resistance via NoPandemicTreaty.com amid $2,500+ travel costs. [Automatically generated summary]
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All right, here's today's podcast.
Tonight, Trump on trial.
I'm in New York City to watch the media and the hecklers as Donald Trump's prosecution continues.
It's May 31st, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
Oh, hi there.
I'm in New York City.
I'm actually on route to Geneva, where Rebel News will be covering the World Health Organization treaty.
The cheapest way to get there was through New York, but also while we're here, why don't we do a show about the prosecution in this building over there?
There's so many courts in lower Manhattan.
Donald Trump used to frequent these courts as a litigant.
There's fewer professions that are more litigious than being a property developer in Manhattan.
Donald Trump is back in these courts as a defendant.
He's being prosecuted in baldly political sham trials that win or lose, they damage him politically, or so the theory goes.
Because the last poll I saw shows Trump leading by a significant amount in all the battleground states.
Over the course of the next half hour, we'll show you a little bit of the press that's gathered here and also grassroots New Yorkers of every stripe, wacky, sober, Republican, Democrat, just a little taste in New York City.
But I want to say one more thing: the prosecution of Donald Trump is the banana republicification, if I can make up a word, of the U.S. judicial system, which is terrifying and terrible.
It's almost to the point where, in certain jurisdictions, blue states, where you have a heavily Democrat jury, for example, a Republican might not be able to get any justice.
Now, that's a terrible thing when people lose respect for the justice system.
And in this case, I think that's at the hands of prosecutors and judges who have decided it is morally more important to stop Trump than to follow the law.
I used to think that this is a particularly American phenomenon.
And luckily, we don't have that in Canada yet.
I mean, Pierre Polyev hasn't been prosecuted by Justin Trudeau.
Even Maxime Bernier, he was prosecuted for a COVID ticket by the province of Manitoba.
But if I'm not mistaken, it was withdrawn.
I could be wrong on my memory on that, but it, and that was an abusive ticket, no doubt about it.
But it was in no way comparable to the total lawfare warfare here in New York.
But then I thought, hang on, that's not quite right.
Because although Pierre Polyev or Maxime Bernier or Danielle Smith or Jason Kenney or any other conservative leaders themselves have not been put through the grinder, perhaps it's because they're all rather mild compared to the real political actors in Canada over the last five years, namely freedom-oriented individual citizens, the truckers in particular, and those who came out to support the truckers.
Because what is the trial of Tamara Leach other than lawfare, the weaponization of the courts for inciting mischief?
She was jailed for 49 days, and her trial itself is close to a year.
Were it not for our crowdfunding efforts, there's no way she could afford the significant six-figure legal fees.
Same thing with Arthur Pavlovsky.
Same thing for the Coutz defendants.
Same thing for the 3,000 ordinary people that the Democracy Fund has crowdfunded their legals for.
So here in America, their law fair targets the spectacular.
Donald Trump, former president, billionaire, TV celebrity, household name.
But in Canada, lawfare targets the little people, people who dare to keep their restaurant open during the lockdowns, like Adam Skelly and his smoked meat restaurant in Toronto, or Without Papers Pizza in Calgary, or restaurants across the country, churches across the country.
In Canada, we have politicized law fare too.
We just pick on the little guy.
Anyways, that's my preamble.
Let's see what we have to see here in New York.
So what do you think?
This is quite a spectacle.
There's got to be 100 reporters over there.
Yes, I'm excited to see them.
I know them all.
Really?
I saw Judge Janine there, I think.
That's who I'm going to see.
She's here.
And how about yourself?
I'm just following my wife.
Well, that's good advice.
That's always good advice.
So what do you think about the trial?
I think it's a total sham.
I think it never should have been brought.
This is a state attorney, and he's charging a federal crime.
He has no business.
This is out of his wheelhouse.
He has no right to bring this case at all.
Now, let me ask you this.
If he's convicted, will that do more damage to Trump's reputation or the court's reputation?
Definitely the courts.
It's already ruined.
I mean, they're laughing at us everywhere in the world.
They're saying, what's going on?
This isn't America.
This isn't what we respect and know.
This is ridiculous.
It's a circus.
So why are you here wearing so much Trump merchandise?
I'm here to show support.
I wear this to show my love to this country.
And Trump loved this country.
That's why we wear this Trump gear to support him.
And I see you're here with some friends.
Are you guys sisters or are you just friends?
We were strangers before, but the love of this country, the support to Trump, brought us to Kaiser.
Can I ask where you're from originally?
Originally from China.
All of us from China because we run from communists.
But we see this country is going down to communists.
That's why we stand up, we take action.
Okay?
When you say communist, you know what communists is?
Communists is a dictatorship.
First of all, they said Martin Luther King was a communist.
All right?
So, so you know, you communist is dictatorship.
This country is not communist.
What is that?
Well, when he becomes president, that's what he's talking about.
Sham trial makes it look like a communist political persecution.
That's why.
Immigrants come to this country because it's a free democracy right, came here legally okay, legally.
We encourage illegal immigration right, legal immigration.
But a country without border, not a country okay, so why do you go back to your country then?
Why you come here?
I came here legally.
I pursue a degree.
I, I have a formal job, you know right yeah I, i'm a decent American citizen.
I love this country.
Why would you turn against this country and say communist?
No, this country is going to communist.
That's what we are worried.
We worry it's going to be communist.
How did you know that?
Well you, you got it.
You got a script.
It's a sham trial.
This sham trial, this political persecution.
Oh, it's a witch hunt right, witch hunt.
Of course, if it walks like a duck and it sounds like a duck and it cracks like a duck, it gotta be Donald Trump, Joe Biden, what are you saying so?
What are you saying so?
You're saying he's, he's innocent or everything.
I i'm I, I have, I have work to do okay sorry, but wait wait, wait.
Let's talk about january 6th.
January 6th.
January 6th, he's for protest.
January election 2020, and it's 2024.
Why are we still talking about that?
Why he can't concede, why you can't say he lost, why he lost.
He lost because he lost was stolen.
Okay, that was in your six states.
Six states, six states stopped counting all of a sudden.
Biden curves.
This is such a joke.
They already caught to it.
They caught to it.
They in the indicator, the mailing ballots, they have a lot in all them.
They said, mr president, you lost, you lost, mr president.
So what do you say about that?
Mr president, we lost.
Even his daughter said, go to another side, that that you belong to another side.
Mr president, you lost.
Oh, can you find um 11?
What he said in Atlanta, Georgia.
Now, find um 11 000.
Ah, that's what he said.
All right, i'm talking about his words.
See, you lost, you lost, you lost.
Joe Biden is the president of the United States Of America.
You lost, no harm, no harm.
Screaming does not mean you are right okay well, you're very passionate, and so is he, because I love this country.
Oh hi, as you Levan here.
As you know, I was in New York.
That's where I was flying overnight to Geneva.
As you can see, I haven't even had a chance to change yet, sort of exhausted from the night flight.
But just as I was taking off, I heard the news that Donald Trump was convicted on all counts absolutely staggering.
I think that great damage has been done to the United States, their reputation for law and order and rule of law and checks and balances.
Conviction Fallout00:03:06
This looks like a Banana Republic move.
I am afraid they are going to sentence Trump to prison.
They really are going full.
Vladimir Putin I hate to say it.
If this were being done by Vladimir Putin, we would criticize them.
It's happening in America.
Anyways, I just wanted to give you that update because when I was filming in New York and finished up there, the verdict had not yet come down.
All right back to the report.
But hey, I just want to let you know I am in Geneva now.
We're covering the World Pandemic Treaty and if you want to see my journalism from this mission, go to No Pandemictreaty.com.
All right back to the Trump story.
Who wants to get class, who want to get back, who want to south, but he's a good man.
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We need engine, motto, resource man and woman to live.
Not AI for a future generation.
We need a physical body to conceal our lives.
Are you from here originally?
I'm born in, I was, well, I'm a Brooklyn native.
I get bragging rights because I was born in Brooklyn.
Before it was cool.
Way before it was cool.
It's always been cool.
It was always cool.
I take it back.
Yeah, it was always cool.
Born in, I'm a Brooklyn native, but I lived in Queens and then moved from Queens, New York to a chicken farm in Northern California.
Were you a hippie?
My parents were.
The chicken farm, I mean, there's some very serious chicken farmers out there, but it sounds like it was a political project for you.
I was a kid.
I didn't have a choice.
It was a political project for my parents where they went to live in this sort of semi-utopian chicken farming community in a town that's now well-known called Petaluma, about which a book was written called Comrades and Chicken Farmers.
Oh my gosh.
You were a socialist chicken farming community.
Well, you know, you could.
You could find it on Amazon.
You could go to Israel and start a kibbutz.
No, I don't think so.
Is this a Talus or a Kafiya?
It's neither.
This is a New York unique logo scarf that I bought a long time ago.
I'm going to go out on a limb.
Brooklyn native, Jewish, went to a hippie chicken farm commune in Northern California.
Back here at the Trump Rally.
I'm just going to go out on a limb.
I don't want to stereotype you, but I'm going to guess you're not a Trump supporter.
No, I'm not.
I nailed it.
Good guess.
Good guess.
Let me ask.
By the way, I'm also a graduate of UC Berkeley during the anti-war and free speech movement days.
Let me pick up on that.
I have a resume.
You know, your credentials.
Facts vs. Opinions00:03:20
Let me pick up on that.
I myself am a member of the tribe, and I come from a less hippie background, but we have something in common.
Our love for freedom of speech.
So I want to ask you this.
Are you worried about cancel culture, about prosecuting people more and more for having incorrect views, about people losing their jobs over it, about wokeism silencing dissent?
I have concerns.
I'm not sure I would say it exactly that way.
What troubles me is that what's been happening is that people are no longer talking to each other.
They're locked in.
They're polarized.
And one person has their set of facts and opinions.
Another person has their set of facts and opinions.
And there's no middle ground.
I'm a very strong believer in the middle ground.
Do you engage with people on the other side of the fence?
I try.
I try to engage with these people here.
And this woman just said, or I tried to engage with this guy who's carrying the don't tread on me sounds.
That guy's a little bit edgy.
You know, whatever.
You know, he doesn't seem that edgy, but he basically said, your mind is made up.
You're not willing to think about what I'm saying.
I said, I'd like to know what you think.
He said, no, you're not listening to me.
Let me put something to you, and I'd love your reaction.
And we can have that back and forth across the aisle.
I have a thesis that the more Donald Trump is prosecuted in what a lot of people think are politicized lawfare where the courts are weaponized, where disagreements are turned into criminal disputes, the more people see Trump as a victim.
And if you look at the latest polls, he's actually going up.
And I put it to you that it looks like he's being treated by a banana republic.
That's how it looks as a foreigner to me.
What do you say to that?
I think, unfortunately, there could be a backlash.
And that to some people, it does look like it's a banana republic and he's being unfairly prosecuted.
I don't think he's being unfairly prosecuted.
Have any Democrats like Hillary Clinton been prosecuted in the same manner?
Well, there was certainly attempts to prosecute Hillary Clinton.
I can't say that there was enough evidence to prosecute her, but there were certainly attempts to, including when Robert Mueller spoke out just before the election and made statements that seemed to incriminate her.
So she's not been prosecuted.
There's an attempt to prosecute Biden's son right now.
A lot of evidence there, too.
Right, exactly.
And, you know, I happen to be a lawyer, but, you know, so I don't know enough about the facts of those cases.
I just haven't followed them.
There was an attempt to, you know, there was an impeachment of Bill Clinton.
So both sides have engaged in this kind of warfare when they've had the opportunity to do it.
They're both equally, you know, culpable of engaging in that kind of activity.
What's interesting to me is despite all these prosecutions, Trump is ahead in the polls.
How do you explain that?
I think people see it for what it is.
People don't like unfairness.
Pandemic Treaty Warfare00:08:30
You know, we see what's going on.
People are not stupid.
Last question.
And by the way, thanks for stopping to talk with me.
I mean, we're from Canada, by the way, and we look to America.
We're from Toronto.
We look to America as leaders in democracy and freedom.
I think a lot of the world does.
Are you worried that by the president's chief opponent being put on trial in such a persistent manner, smacks of lawfare?
Do you think this undermines America's standing in the world as a leader for freedom and democracy and rule of law?
Yes, I think the damage has already been done.
I think that's happening right now.
And I'm hoping that we elect President Trump and we get some honest people in the DOJ.
And, you know, these are all prosecutors who are appointed by a very, very liberal billionaire, George Soros.
We're in a very, very liberal part of the world.
Manhattan, without checking, I'd guess it went 85% Democrat in the last election.
Is the needle moving at all or is everyone set in their views on Trump and Biden?
Needle's moving, baby.
going to turn New York red.
Well, that's our show for today.
In a few hours, I have to go to JFK Airport to fly to Geneva, Switzerland.
That's where the World Health Organization is meeting to try to consecrate a global pandemic treaty.
Now, it looks like they're having trouble with the final text, but these folks never stop.
We've seen that with these UN global warming conferences.
The World Health Organization, remember, is part of the UN.
We'll be there on the ground in Geneva.
We're going to fly overnight, economy class.
We're staying in Geneva for two full days.
We're going to try and find out what's going on with the delegates.
And I don't know if you know this, but they're trying to get a kind of convoy going in Europe to convene in Geneva.
And they're going to have speeches in opposition.
We'll be there to cover that too.
So I'm going to say goodbye now until next time when we'll be in Geneva, Switzerland.
For Ebel News, I'm Ezra Levant.
Keep fighting for freedom.
Ezra Levant here.
I just landed in Geneva, Switzerland.
Behind me, the United Nations office here, we're actually surrounded by NGO type offices up there, the International Red Cross.
And of course, the most luxurious building around is this restaurant where all the ambassadors, politicians, lobbyists, and other hangers-on spend your money having a delicious five-star lunch.
The reason I'm here is not because Switzerland itself is interesting.
Sometimes we travel places to see what's going on in Ireland, in France, but we're here in Geneva because this is where Canadian law is being written.
Let me explain.
I don't know if you know this, but the World Health Organization is part of the United Nations.
That's where Dr. Tedros basically ordered the world to lock down.
The risk of returning to lockdown remains very real if countries do not manage the transition.
And Canada's chief public health officer, Teresa Tam, was part of the World Health Organization committees that threw the world into lockdown.
Well, Teresa Tam is back.
She is here.
And she is here with people from around the world, none of them elected, to pass a pandemic treaty.
You heard that right.
The one we all went through with COVID-19 was a test drive.
Some things they got wrong, they think, some things they got right.
They want to codify this in a treaty so that the next one, and oh, they say there will be a next one, they can snap into attention with a global response that's drafted here at the UN, not back home in Ottawa.
I believe the time is right for an international treaty or other legally binding instrument to provide the framework for a more coherent and coordinated response to future epidemics and pandemics.
You may have seen headlines the other day that the countries of the world could not agree on the text of the treaty.
And you may have thought, oh, good, we dodged a bullet.
Who are you kidding?
They're continuing to work on it right now.
And just like the UN global warming, for instance, meets year after year, they will chip away at our national sovereignty and keep pushing their agenda year after year.
They are not done.
In fact, they would love to meet again in a year, everyone flying to Geneva, everyone dining at the five-star restaurant.
The number one point I want to say to you is if you thought Teresa Tam and Justin Trudeau were bad in COVID-19, imagine how much worse they'll be with a pandemic treaty behind them, with a law that is drafted here in Geneva, not in Canada's parliament, not debated in Canada's parliament, not with consultations for Canadian voters, but foreign interests, including large pharmaceutical interests,
who bankroll the World Health Organization.
That's why we're here.
I see people coming from other countries.
I see ambassadors and staff from every country in the world.
This is globalism at its worst.
And if you think I'm kidding or exaggerating, let me share with you a clip from Teresa Tam herself.
In fact, I want to play this entire two-minute speech of hers because I want you to understand what her agenda is.
Yes, it's set to have a global law for lockdowns, but listen to her talk about DEI, diversity, equity, inclusion.
Listen to her talk about 2SLQLGBT, whatever.
Listen to her talk about Ukraine and Gaza.
There is nothing that she doesn't see this pandemic treaty doing hooked up here, not at home.
Take a look at Teresa Tam.
Together, we must improve health promotion efforts to reduce disease burden and foster mental and physical health and well-being.
An integrated approach to essential service delivery requires the inclusion of nutrition, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and routine vaccination.
This also means strengthening both external and domestic financing for health, which is why Canada is invested in the Lusaka agenda.
We must also step up our efforts to address systemic and historical discrimination against Indigenous peoples within our health systems.
Gender equality is foundational to a peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable future for all.
Let us continue to fight racism, sexual and gender-based violence, and discrimination against marginalized groups, including 2S LGBTQI plus people, women, and girls.
And let us renew our support for those on the front lines of care.
We have a collective responsibility to ensure the protection of our health care workers and condemn the unacceptable attack on them and on health facilities.
The many conflicts in the world, including Gaza and Ukraine, serve as stark reminders of the fragile nature of accessing critical health services.
Canada urges all member states to support WHO's critical health emergencies work.
A strong WHO must also be inclusive, reflecting the entire global community.
This means supporting Taiwan's meaningful participation as an observer at the World Health Assembly.
This week, we will collectively decide on next steps on both the pandemic agreement and on the IHR amendment and negotiations.
Canada remains committed to continuing to work together to prevent and minimize the devastating consequences of future global health emergencies and pandemics and to further advancing health equity for all.
A meaningful pandemic agreement is consensus-based and one that member states can sign, ratify, and implement.
Thank you very much.
Arriving in Geneva00:02:16
I'm here in Geneva today and tomorrow.
I just got off the plane.
I haven't even had a chance to check in at our hotel yet and have a shower.
I'm a little disheveled.
Forgive me for that.
We flew here and we are not just going to report on the treaty, which is difficult because of course we're not allowed access to where the delegates are, but we understand that there is a global coalition fighting back, including some Canadian doctors and some other famous dissidents that you would know their names from COVID-19, for example, Dr. Malone.
So we are going to meet with the resistance.
In fact, tonight we're going to head just across the border in France, where they're trying to get together a trucker-style convoy to converge here in Geneva.
Now, I don't know what's going to happen.
I don't know if it's going to be a big turnout or just a few people.
I don't know if people have stopped caring because the crisis has passed.
I think that's what they're counting on here.
These folks at the UN behind me are counting on everyone going back to life as normal, forgetting the crisis while they beaver away to make plans for the next crisis when their reaction will be 10 times tougher.
I want to keep you posted on this.
We've set up a special website, nopandemictreaty.com, nopandemictreaty.com.
That's where we're going to compile our videos on this subject and invite you to sign our petition against the pandemic treaty.
I don't believe in a pandemic treaty, but I especially don't believe in one that is written in a foreign country without our democratic assent.
Finally, I did fly here overnight along with our head of video, Efrain Flores Monsanto.
And if you can help the two of us cover our economy class airfare and hotel, I'd be grateful to you.
Geneva is a pretty far journey.
There's no direct flights from Canada, so we had to sort of hop, skip, and jump our way here.
We're staying economy class, but between the two of us, the flights and the hotel will add up to more than $2,500.
If you can help me cover the cost of that at nopandemictreaty.com, I'd be grateful.
I'll give you as many updates as I can.
We're going to try and jam in as many interviews and as much coverage as we can in two days, and we'll be back in Canada to ring the alarm bells.