Will They Take Trump Down...Or Just Make Him Stronger?
As former President Donald Trump faces an arraignment on some 34 criminal charges, Politico reports that some Democrats are getting nervous that they've seen this movie before. Will the Manhattan DA's move against Trump be a colossal backfire? Also today: 'Don't say 'Nord Stream!' And finally, Speaker McCarthy pivots toward irritating the Chinese.
As former President Donald Trump faces an arraignment on some 34 criminal charges, Politico reports that some Democrats are getting nervous that they've seen this movie before. Will the Manhattan DA's move against Trump be a colossal backfire? Also today: 'Don't say 'Nord Stream!' And finally, Speaker McCarthy pivots toward irritating the Chinese.
As former President Donald Trump faces an arraignment on some 34 criminal charges, Politico reports that some Democrats are getting nervous that they've seen this movie before. Will the Manhattan DA's move against Trump be a colossal backfire? Also today: 'Don't say 'Nord Stream!' And finally, Speaker McCarthy pivots toward irritating the Chinese.
Hello, everybody, and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report.
With us today, Daniel McAdams, our co-host.
Daniel, good to see you today.
Good morning, Dr. Paul.
How are you?
Doing well, doing well.
And we're going to be talking of politics.
I understand there's sort of some political activity up in New York.
Trump's holding a rally.
Yeah, basically, yeah.
You know, the one thing about that case, I've been wondering whether that brag might be a plant for Trump, because he shows up.
Good fun, honest money.
And honest money took a leap upward and demanded a little bit more respect today by jumping up over $2,000.
That was a big hurdle.
It's been bouncing around there for a long time.
It was up $40, so that's significant.
And somebody said, what happened today?
What did it?
Well, you know, there was a statement by J.P. Morgan CEO, Jamie Diamond, and they said that was it.
But that may be the match that lights it.
But it's up because the real reason is those are, I see the difference between excuses and reason.
The excuse is that Jimmy Dynamo said, you know, this is a serious crisis.
But the reason is we have too much debt and we print too much money and we've inflated the currency and it's the market shouting out loud, you're not going to get away with it much longer.
And this is a, I think in the markets, this is going to be a big deal.
But who knows?
It's one of the most important things the government controls is the price of gold because I think if let's say it fails this time and gold goes up $400 tomorrow, it's not going to do that.
But it could.
And if it did, that would be the final blow of it.
But the stability, I think this is one of the prices that they're most interested in rigging because I think it's symbolic of the true health of the dollar.
They talk about the dollar and all these things, but they don't usually worry about the price of gold.
But they can't change history.
Anyway, I'll bet in the next few days, we will continue to hear a lot about gold.
But before we do that, we have to talk about the most important stuff around.
And the most disgusting part in time, there's a few things there that can cheer us on because no matter how bad the judicial system is, it doesn't always soak in and everybody joins in with the wickedness of the judicial system.
It may wake some people up and say, hey, there's something wrong with what's going on.
And I'm sort of in that category when you look at this thing and how they've been able to file these charges against Trump and on and on.
And I think it's a sign that the judicial system really doesn't exist.
And it fits my scenario that the technical coup has already happened.
We don't have a republic.
We don't have a judicial system.
And the deep state runs things.
And people are starting to sort it out.
And I think COVID has helped wake up some people to this.
And I think this is a big deal today as far as for long-term sentiments, you know, and just what happens.
You know, let's say, like this afternoon, there's some violence.
But the big thing is, my first reaction would be It's a sabotage.
It's set up.
It was done by the enemy.
And we found out that January 6th was essentially motivated and pushed to a large degree.
I mean, yes, there were demonstrators, but the announcements and what the FBI did was really the cause of it becoming.
But then again, it was the judicial system.
Trump was involved.
It was all his fault.
So this is what's happening.
So I think today's an important day for our country.
And who knows what will happen?
Yeah, it'll be interesting.
Apparently, it's going to happen around 1 o'clock our time, so 2 p.m. New York time.
Put up that first clip because this is from, this is Politico's take on it, and that's a pretty good take.
It's history in the making.
Public and press await Trump's arraignment in New York.
And it really looks like a three-ring circus, Dr. Paul, between the media, the general public, lawyers, politicos.
He's the first current or former president to ever be indicted.
So it is a first.
But then again, he's the first president to be impeached twice as well.
So I think the big question is, as you sort of alluded to earlier, this latest attempt to take Trump down, will it hurt him or will it make him stronger?
I think that's a big question that's not answered.
I predict it's going to make him stronger, but I don't know when.
Maybe not this afternoon or next week or even in the election.
Who knows?
But I think when we're seeking out truth, I mean, I think, you know, when it comes to the judicial system, and certainly what's not perfect on the Republican side, but the other side, the prosecutors, are so outrageous.
I mean, that setting this record, and I think the election, I just thought that, you know, this idea that it was an insurrection, ready to take over the country, that sort of thing, was a bunch of nonsense.
And yet I saw it.
Why did they just say, all we're asking for is to count the votes.
You're supposed to let us count the votes.
But no, what about how they hid the information on January 6th?
That has to be so viciously bad.
So it has to be very obvious.
But the judges, you know, are sort of engulfed in the coup.
They participate in it.
They're buddies with everybody.
They've gone all to the same universities.
And they're not quite interested in putting high priority seeking the truth.
And that, to me, is where the big problem is that people think that's a wasted time.
And they literally get to the point that really bad people in Washington were annoyed by and ridiculed people who say this is, well, aren't you going to pay attention?
I think that we should pay attention to, you know, declaring war if you want to have a war.
And remember the reaction I got from that?
This is it.
This is him.
They didn't want to hear any of it.
So seeking truth is not high in their order.
And this is why this is important.
And this, I think what we're witnessing today is politics at its worst.
Yeah, it is.
And we know we've talked about Jonathan Turley's take on it.
And Jonathan Turley is no partisan.
He's no supporter of President Trump.
But he said, this is just bad behavior by the judicial branch of government.
They take a supposed payout of hush money to this woman and they turn it into a federal, because the statute of limitations runs out on what it really was, which is a misdemeanor if he even did it.
And they turn it into a felony case to try to get him disqualified or at least harmed.
And There are plenty of pieces of evidence of how biased, not necessarily just Bragg the DA, but the assistant DAs around him at the time where they were first trying to prosecute this thing, and it just didn't take off.
And, you know, one of the assistant DAs, she actually came out and wrote a book about what a monster Trump is and how much she hates him.
You know, so the idea that this is some sort of blind justice.
But I think the real question that you and I have been asking for so long is why so much hysteria about Trump.
You know, you've had a lot of problems.
He was not the maverick that he was claimed to be when it came down to it.
Yeah, he didn't start any new wars, and that was great.
But he did a lot of bombing.
He hired a lot of really dumb people.
He hurt the economy.
He locked us down for COVID.
He wasted a bunch of money getting a shot that's pretty worthless.
So at the end of the day, the balance sheet is not like this much in his favor.
It's kind of like, so why are they so freaked out about Donald Trump?
David Stalkman made a summary of the economic positions that were very explicit.
And I didn't have much disagreement with what David was writing.
Yeah, he's good.
You know, maybe what has happened and why they ended up all turning against him, the more they investigate him and the more they looked at it and the truth was coming out, it was 34 felonies he created with this misdemeanor.
So that is one thing.
But it's the whole idea.
They are terrified of Trump.
And we just pointed out that Trump has his problems and he has his economic positions and foreign policy position.
We have to pick it up from a libertarian viewpoint.
But he has done this.
But I think they're scared to death of him.
And in some ways, I think it's related to how the country, Republicans and Democrats, finally turned against Kennedy.
At least the deep state turned against Kennedy because his instincts were that he was not for the war, but he was still engulfed in it.
He was in the middle of what was dumped on him by the Eisenhower administration, both in Cuba and Vietnam.
They were two hot spots.
And he, you know, and then they decided he has to go.
This is on Trump.
They're just, I think it's more terrified that they're more terrified than anything else that he's going to blurt out the truth and actually tell them what's really happening.
And that's enough to galvanize.
And then there's the power struggles.
One thing is it hasn't boiled down to, you know, it's a debate, a detailed debate to bring out the importance of our Constitution and how we should solve our problems by looking at the law of the land.
That doesn't enter the discussion at all.
Yeah.
Well, I think, you know, they think this is going to be a slam dunk, but I think that even, and we can actually put up this next clip because I think, Dr. Paul, and this is from Politico, we both read this this morning.
Even some Democrats who are a little bit more self-reflective are saying that this may not be the slam dunk they're hoping for.
And here's the headline of the story.
We've seen this story before.
Dems grow anxious of a Trump 16 redux.
And let's put this next one on because this is a quote from Representative Roe Conna.
He says, last time people were rooting for Donald Trump, he ended up as president of the United States.
We've seen this story before.
And when he says people, he's referring to Democrats because they were thinking, and this is the article, it's all about Democrats.
Some of them really wanted Trump to be the nominee because they viewed him as so outrageous, so over the top, that it would be an easy slam dunk for Hillary.
Well, they all got a big wake-up call, and I think this article really well captures a little bit of nervousness now with all the persecution of Trump.
You know, it's possible that this is an opportunity, that things are going to change, and Trump's going to pull this off because the Democrats were over the top and people wake up.
And of course, we just mentioned that Trump was not perfect on non-intervention overseas or non-intervention here at home.
So I think my goal would be, if there's any little thing I could do here or there to emphasize, let's say Trump does pull it off, but it would be nice if we could get the McGregors, Colonel McGrunger, and other people like that, and maybe put David Stockman back in there to help on economic policy.
Yeah, that would be great.
And putting the pressure on him, because at that time, then something could, you know, that would be the best scenario.
Then things could be changed in the direction of all the policy.
We wouldn't have to.
We might even have, we might even really audit the Fed.
I think Trump gave us some lip service to that one time.
Maybe he'd go along with us on this now.
But I think it would be better for us to wait and see.
Maybe he'll pull it off and the Democrats won't know what happened.
But then our goal is not to demonstrate, but just to quietly and politely suggest, why don't you get this guy in your administration?
He knows what their policy is all about.
Because you can't demagogue economic policy because it's all welfare and warfare and that kind of stuff.
It doesn't work.
It has to be philosophic and it has to be defending it by reason and positions that make sense.
Yeah, and we're never going to get what we want in a president.
This is not going to happen because we had a couple chances and the people chose wrong.
But it reminds me of our friend, the late, great Bob Wenzel, and his whole philosophy was, does this particular action move us toward liberty or away from liberty?
And that's how he always viewed everything that's not perfect, but if it moves us a little bit this way, then that would be better.
And I would say, overall, if it's a Trump-Biden lineup, probably Trump would do things that would lead us more toward liberty than Biden would.
The only other candidate I can see out there, and I'm certainly not an expert, but there's people testing the water like RFK Jr., who would definitely move us toward liberty on the Democrat side, where he decided to throw his hat in the ring, especially when it comes to civil liberties.
Yeah, civil liberties and the foreign policy, too.
So that would be very beneficial.
And I don't foresee that coming, but who knows?
It's a shame that we have to deal with this because I think the Republic is in deep trouble.
And they're not dealing with the real issue.
Does anybody care about a higher law, something that was influential in our Constitution, something that's been around for thousands of years, and just knowing, seeking the truth.
Now it's the rejection and hiding the truth.
And I'm sure a lot of people agree with the process that happens, that truth becomes treasonous in an empire of lies.
Empire of Lies00:02:01
The emperors have to lie.
And just like I was saying about the, you know, the Federal Reserve, they have to lie through their teeth to say, oh, everything is all right.
2008 was bad.
It's nothing like 2008.
Trust us.
I was saying, wait and see.
We don't know yet.
Well, I wanted to do a couple of quick quotes from this article before we move on because just to show what we're talking about, about the nervousness.
And actually, go ahead, pass this one to the next one.
We'll skip this one for now.
And he says, so this is Democrat strategist Mike Langebaugh.
And he says, I'd say in a general election, Trump may be the weakest of the major GOP contenders.
And he likely will take on more water over time as several other legal cases play out.
So he's going with the old 2016 line that Trump is a weak, weak candidate.
Let's do the next one because this is Joe Chiazzo, Democratic strategist and Clinton campaign alum.
He agreed.
It's tough to tell where the people will be by fall of 2024, but getting indicted has never served a candidate well, he said.
So that old thinking is still there.
But here's Rick Wilson from the Lincoln Project, and these guys are virulently anti-Trump.
They are over the top, and they're kind of weird, but that's different.
So Rick Wilson, the anti-Trump strategist who co-founded the Lincoln Project, listed all the ways 2024 is shaping up to be like 2016.
The media covering Trump wall-to-wall despite promises not to.
Trump's GOP opponents planning scripted zingers about him that don't land.
We remember that.
And Democrats feeling suspiciously confident that Trump will sink himself.
Well, we just saw two quotes saying that exact same thing.
So here's Rick, and he's saying, quote, a lot of Democrats in 2016 were like, oh, yeah, Hillary will wipe the floor with Trump.
And I warned them at the time, don't you bite that apple?
I feel like we're in a very, very twisted time loop where God is punishing us for our sins.
He knows about that better than many people, but it's interesting.
Why Talk Nord Doubts Spread00:03:16
He's thinking way back to the apple, isn't he?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But you know, as you describe that and show the different opinions, it's really, and this is probably true overall throughout history, who's telling the truth?
Because there are always two sides.
There's not the perfect liar and the perfect truth teller.
There's a mixture.
But in a way, there is a sorting out.
And my experience in politics was it seemed like you could reach young people, young people, you know, teenagers and college kids, even college kids, even when they're being exposed to the other side, that they would be open to hearing a different story.
But right now, I think there's a lot of confusion on, well, wouldn't they be confused on economic policy?
What about the patriotism of supporting the troops overseas?
You know, well, are you just going to leave those people in Afghanistan and let them try to get out on their own or what?
But I think it's still an intellectual battle.
Reason is important.
Persuading people in a moral tone about why you should have a rule of law and the Constitution is worth looking at.
They're not about to say, you know, it's like the old days.
We'll look at it.
Article 1 second, oh, it's not there.
We can't do it.
We're not allowed to do it.
Well, boy, wouldn't that hamstring them?
Well, that's old-fashioned thinking.
Yes.
Anachronistic.
That was the word our friend used about it.
But obviously, this is the biggest story of the day, and we're going to keep following it and talking about it as well.
Most of America.
There are a couple of other things we have on our radar screen today.
In the next one, if you can put it up, this was something that came out that was fascinating because it tells you that the narrative is starting to shift a little bit.
And this is from ZeroHedge.
Anti-war.com had a write-up as well.
Don't talk about Nord Stream.
The Washington Post report further demolishes the official narrative.
So the Washington Post, of all places, had a piece about how the Europeans are feeling a little bit nervous about the so-called official cover story that Seymour Hirsch claims the CIA put out there to get some heat off of Biden for blowing up the pipelines.
They're starting to second guess this.
And if we can put the next one on, this is from the Washington Post article about this.
If you can put that on, don't talk about Nord Stream.
For all the intrigue around who bombed the pipeline, some Western officials are not so eager to find out.
At gatherings of European and NATO policymakers, officials have settled into a rhythm, said one senior European diplomat.
Don't talk about Nordstream.
And leaders see little benefit from digging too deeply and finding an uncomfortable answer, the diplomat said, echoing sentiments of several peers in other countries who said they'd rather not have to deal with the possibility that Ukraine or allies were involved.
Why Truth Prevails00:05:45
Isn't it a shame that what we're searching for when we're looking for good journalism, we can come up, you know, and there's probably more than we've met, but we come up with six or eight or ten that identify themselves as seeking out the truth from, you know, on a freedom philosophy and a constitutional philosophy.
But you get people like Jonathan Turley.
How about Seymour Hirsch?
His reputation, and there were a few, and some of them passed away not too long ago that were very, very good.
So they're not out there and they're not numerous.
But to get Seymour Hirsch once again vindicated would be another thing that would go a long way because he doesn't back down no matter what he gets hit with.
And they have a hard time.
Truth is hard to, they can do it, but so far they haven't canceled him in the sense that he's not allowed to speak out.
You know, right now they're talking about not allowing Trump to speak out.
You know, that is the height of anything.
Yeah, we're going to take care of him.
He can't speak out.
And some people, when they do that under those circumstances, end up going to jail for speaking out.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, you make a good point, actually, when you say that, because they haven't been able to cancel Seymour Hirsch.
And one of the reasons they haven't, which is a little bit of good news, I tend to be more pessimistic than you, but because of things like Substack.
Now, he doesn't care.
He has a million subscribers to Substack.
So there are places now like Rumble, Substack, and others that are being able to go around this.
So that is a bit of good news about that.
But I read an article, and I'm forgetting now where it's from.
I'm sure someone else knows and has read it.
But it was one of these, well, I've known Cy Hirsch for decades, and he was one of the greatest journalists of all time, broke so many great stories, but I'm sad to say he's getting old and he's lost his edge.
It was one of these kinds of tones.
I mean, this guy is in his mid-80s, and he's running circles around 25-year-old, 30-year-old journalists.
So come on.
That's of all things.
Well, I think when the truth is spoken, when it's there, people know it.
There's something, and some of the body, you don't have to go to court to prove it.
Right now, the courts seem to be dispelling truth, make sure that they can put it out their own way.
And then you have to go and sort or a government agent explaining Nordstream.
But, you know, I think there's a healthy attitude, skepticism.
And when you think about how the Kennedy Commission, you know, had everybody in the palm of their hands for a good many years.
And finally, 80% of the people, well, we don't believe that stuff.
A lot of people now don't remember it or think it's important, but they do change their minds because I think there's something about truth.
I couldn't keep doing this if I thought it was easy to cancel truth forever.
No, it's a battle that goes on.
And just because they have an upper hand, because they're more willing to be ruthless, use money and power and all kinds of intimidations and people losing jobs, it is pretty tough.
But even with all of that, I think the truth will win out in the end.
Yeah, let's hope.
That's why we get up every morning.
Well, I want to finish this topic out with just a couple of things.
And first, this is the boat that the CIA claims was that fearsome warship that went and blew up the Nord Stream pipelines with a couple people on board.
So we'll see.
No wonder the narrative is starting to leak a little bit, probably like that boat.
Let's do one more quote from the Hedge article.
And this is about the nervousness going on, the incentives not to talk, as well as self-willed ignorance.
This is from the WAPO Peace.
Since no country has yet ruled out from having carried on the attack, officials say they are loath to share suspicions that could accidentally trigger a friendly government that might have had a hand in bombing Nord Stream.
In the absence of concrete clues, an awkward silence has prevailed.
And this is in diplomatic circles.
Quote, it's like a corpse at a family gathering, the European diplomat said, reaching for a grim analogy.
Everyone can see there's a body lying there, but everyone pretends things are normal.
It's better not to know.
You know, it's hard to predict exactly what they'll do now if you wanted to say, oh, we think it's this case, this charge against us is so bizarre that no judge could refuse to dismiss this thing.
And nobody would challenge it because essentially it's been dismissed by many of the judges already when it was brought up as a misdemeanor.
And so that could happen.
Let's say they do this and present the case and this is dismissed.
Can you imagine the hysteria of the people say, ah, truth, what?
What are we going to do?
And we have to silence Trump.
And they'll go, well, we impeached him once.
We can impeach him again.
And then they'll say, yeah, but this is only the beginning.
They picked the weakest cases against him.
And so we're going to keep doing this until we get him.
But just don't let it get to the people because they're liable to vote for this guy.
So, well, we don't know what's going to happen, but we'll wait and see and do our best to follow it.
Keep Doing This Until We Get Him00:02:34
And I keep you up to date on this.
And I think that, you know, staying up to date right now on financial affairs is important too.
But I don't think the thing going on with Trump has affected the markets.
I think that's more, you know, the economic policy.
Yes, the judicial system is collapsing, but so is the monetary system collapsing.
And that's a big deal.
You know, the whole thing about debt and all this malinvestment, and it's a worldwide event, and the loss of the reserve currency of the world.
Those are big deals, and they're going to happen.
It may eventually affect directly.
But I don't think that's what's going to be in the debate today.
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