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Nov. 6, 2023 - Ron Paul Liberty Report
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Trump On Trial: Let The Kangaroo Court Continue!

Former President Donald Trump is expected to testify today in the New York civil case revolving around the alleged elevated valuation of his business empire. While the lawfare against Trump increases...so do his poll numbers! Also today: Blinken in Baghdad...he wasn't greeted as a liberator.

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Behind George Soros' Influence 00:14:17
Hello, everybody, and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report.
With us today is Daniel McAdams, our co-host.
Daniel, good to see you.
This new week.
Good morning, Dr. Paul.
It is.
Yeah.
Are we ready?
All set to go.
I guess we have to bail out Trump again.
He's always getting into trouble.
Thank goodness we are his cheerleader.
But when he does things good, we do make we are his cheerleader.
Sometimes he's.
But there are some days I have a struggle.
Well, neither candidate is very libertarian, but there are differences.
There's no doubt about it.
And right now, I guess the thing that fascinates everybody, including me, is the nature of the campaign.
All the old rules and assumptions are gone.
Who would have ever thought that the first thing that Trump ever did, the first time he was on the stage, was condemn John McCain?
That was great.
That was the hero.
I mean, he went after everybody.
And that's a strategy.
That was not just him flipping off.
It's a strategy that he uses.
And it wasn't, I still don't think it's, I mean, it's something that I couldn't participate in.
But it hasn't hurt him that much.
Matter of fact, there's so much misunderstanding and so much frustration from Trump's enemies because they have so much on him.
They have the whole Justice Department, the FBI, and a lot of money behind them, and they're going to do them.
And they have George Soros' organization behind him.
Everybody George Soros put into prison or into office.
That's like prison, you know, gives him trouble.
But right now, you know, what he's being tried today is, I think it's a civil case.
But there's 95 cases against him.
I don't know how he stands up to that.
So he has a different personality.
But I guess the biggest thing that just befuddles everybody is, you know, even the people who say, well, it doesn't seem to hurt him.
He comes over alpha.
But I think most, everybody sort of has a suspicion that maybe he will be over the top.
And the Democrats still believe it.
Because the Democrats, his opposition, will not entertain the thought that anybody could like Donald Trump and support him.
And yet the truth is, the vote out there, if they want to look at democracy, democracy is speaking through some of these polls more than anything else.
And they're saying that we need a tough guy, and he's fulfilling that function.
And yet there he is testifying again.
But the one thing that's going on in the trial is whether he committed a vicious crime by overstating the value of his property.
You know, overstating property, I've dabbled in pro and very a little bit.
And I'll have a piece of property and I'll go to a real estate agent.
I'll say, what's my property worth?
And you know what their answer is consistently in a right answer?
I don't know.
It will be, you'll find out what it's worth when you sell it.
Exactly.
You don't do it.
It's what you can get for it.
And yet now, they want to put him away in jail forever, you know, because he and his son said his property was worth more than others.
But setting a goal like that is a subjective thing.
You can't know it.
Prices are, you know, even in spite of all the regulations, even if you were buying and selling something the government totally controls, you'd have a black market or something.
And you can't control these prices.
So this is a fraud, if there ever was one, but it's still amazing.
And the Democrats haven't recognized the fact that the people are way ahead of them.
And they can smell a lie when they hear it constantly.
And that's what they're hearing, and they're disgusted with it.
So what happened?
All this stuff that we got him backfires on him, which is entertainment for a lot of people.
It is.
But I'm amazed he holds up against it all.
Yeah.
I was, in fact, I was in HEB yesterday getting some stuff with my son, and there was a guy in front of us in line.
He was a huge guy.
He's not a guy that I would want to mess with.
Huge guy.
Tattoos everywhere.
And he had this shirt, Sons of Trump, with a Trump picture on it.
And my son said, you know, it's funny.
You know, here's this guy from New York.
He's a lifelong Democrat.
He's not a conservative.
Yet still, people like this gentleman just love him and adore him.
And I said, you know, he's just, he knows how to talk to people in their own language.
You know, and I think they're hearing the truth.
Not so much that everything he says is truthful, but it's the truth that he believes.
He's not making it up.
He believes this stuff.
So when they try to say, yeah, well, maybe he didn't really commit insurrection, but it was in his mind to commit it.
He commit insurrection.
It goes on and on.
So I think in the midst of all this shenanigans and all the manipulation from his opposition and even his flip-flopping on some of the issues too, I think he believes it.
Matter of fact, I'm at a position, I don't say the election was stolen and this sort of thing, but I say, I don't, if I had to prove, or do I sincerely believe that all the votes were counted?
I don't believe that because I've had an experience all the way back in the 1990s and they stole blind blind when I had one of my first races and they couldn't stand the thought of a Republican winning in Texas.
So no, it happens all the time.
And, you know, LBJ made us all the way to the presidency by a big, bold lie.
So this is this is that, but I think that's where they made the mistake.
He stole the election.
And they don't, the Republicans never answered that.
They just said, well, I don't know.
They use words that doesn't smell.
No, no, we just want you to count the votes.
Absolutely.
Let's put this first clip up.
Now, it's written about everywhere, but I just picked one from the Epoch Times.
Trump to testify in New York Civil Fraud Trial.
This is what you were talking about, Dr. Paul.
He's going to testify today.
And it is this goofy case.
And I haven't spent a lot of time reading about it.
It doesn't seem that important, the details of it other than what you pointed out, which is this whole idea that it's fraud to estimate the value of your property is higher than it is.
Well, you know, if it's used as collateral for loans, then it seems like the loan company should do the due diligence and say, come on, you know, that's not true.
So anyway, but it is to create the image that he's constantly in trouble.
Like you say, 90-some cases against him, 8 million years in prison.
And I think a lot of it has to do with this very simple thing.
And this happened over the weekend, Dr. Paul, if you can put the next one up.
And this is from Zero Heads, but it's a New York Times article.
Democrats rattled after New York Times poll shows Trump beating Biden in majority of swing states.
Five out of six battleground states.
And if you go to the next one, this is the graph from the New York Times, if we can get it a little bit bigger here, because it is quite dramatic.
This, Dr. Paul, was not supposed to happen.
All of this lawfare against him was supposed to have people just despising him, but look at him.
Nevada, he's up 10 points against Biden.
Michigan, he's up five within Michigan.
Georgia, he's up six.
Pennsylvania, up four.
Arizona, up five.
Now, Biden is up by two in Wisconsin, but that's pretty close.
That's margin of error, probably.
So you're talking about a place like Michigan.
And we'll talk about a little bit later some of the Middle East stuff.
But Biden is losing a huge chunk of voters, the Arab Americans and Muslim Americans, which are very heavily represented in Michigan.
They're furious with the way he's handling this Middle East Gaza stuff.
And here you go.
I mean, here you have it in the swing states that Trump is just wiping the floor with him.
Well, the other thing that Trump does that I sort of enjoy, and that is the fact that they want it so that all his enemies, which involves all the media and everything that's going on, they can say anything they want.
They can lie through it too.
But if he says something, they say, well, we have to silence him.
Gag order.
He can't possibly be a candidate.
We have to make sure he can't be on the ballot.
All they know is, you know, even the decent Democrats finally go cringing.
That's why his numbers are changing.
The Democrats are shifting.
Independents are shifting.
But he goes after his enemy, just like I was mocking the fact that first thing he did was attack John McCain.
But he goes after this one judge, Arthur Ingeron, whom Crump called tyrannical and unedge.
I think that's not extreme.
That's just sort of the way he sees it.
And when I look at some of the things that the media or the judicial system is doing, what the FBI has done and how much harm they have done.
You know, I lost a lot of confidence, and some people would realize that something big happened in the 60s when our law enforcement agency started assassinating our political leaders.
And things have not been quite right since.
Yeah, that's for sure.
Well, you know, you talk about them not wanting Trump to be a candidate.
Well, something else was happening when this poll came out.
Something very interesting happened in the Democratic Party.
Dr. Paul put up this next one.
Now, this is David Axelrod.
He is considered the architect behind the Obama victories.
He said, only Joe Biden can make this decision.
If he continues to run, he will be the nominee of the Democratic Party.
What he needs to decide is whether this is wise, whether it's in his best interest or the country's.
That is a very strong, delicately worded, but very specific way of saying, listen, guy, you need to get out.
And if you need someone who's a little less nuanced, we'll go to the next one.
Here's Bill Crystal, who tweeted after this came out.
He said, it's time.
President Biden has served our country well.
I'm confident he'll do so for the next year.
But it's time for him to act for an act of personal sacrifice and public spirit.
It's time to pass the torch to the next generation.
It's time for Biden to announce he won't run in 2024.
These are very dramatic comments from people who are big Biden supporters.
You know, a question I've had, and I mentioned it to you, is who really pulls the strings?
Because the president and the vice president, I don't think anybody in this country believe they really know what's going on or that they have an influence and they command respect on the international stage.
I mean, that doesn't happen.
But somebody's pulling it, and it looks like there's pretty strong evidence that Obama didn't retire.
Yeah.
He really must have a lot of influence.
And That explains it a little bit, but it doesn't satisfy the people who say, yes, but Trump, nobody could be for Trump.
A Democrat being for Trump?
You know, I imagine they might be shocked when he wins.
Well, they are doing everything to get him off ego.
All this whole lawfare thing.
But do this next one because this is related because we talked about this earlier, trying to keep him off the ballot.
If you can do this next one, this is from Roger Stone, who we both like.
He's a very colorful character.
This is from his blog.
He says the organized and unyielding effort to keep Trump off the 2024 ballot, an in-depth analysis of the Chicago trial, a Colorado trial, and I'm not going to read much of it.
But if you go to the next one, he just points out that they are trying in Colorado to tie Trump to January 6th and then declare him unable under the 14th Amendment to appear on the ballot because he's an insurrectionist.
Well, our friend Roger Stone digs a little deeper and go to the next one.
Who's behind this?
Well, this is what he points out.
This and other organized attack on our former president are paid for by George Soros' Web of Charities, along with the Citizens for Ethics crew, which is a 501c3 involved in political witch hunts.
The group even boasted about it on X, formerly Twitter.
They said, we just sued to enforce the 14th Amendment and keep Donald Trump off the ballot in Colorado.
So that's what's happening.
And at the end of the day, that's going to be their nuclear option, I think.
And that'll just give more support for Trump.
You've ever heard of America that they take your enemy and you charge him with silly crimes that they can't prove subjectively.
Oh, but he's an insurrectionist, isn't he?
Was he tried for that?
Oh, we're not.
Oh, we forgot to charge him so we could try him.
I mean, it's really crazy.
But there was one incident that I wasn't too proud of with our government, our party, and Trump.
But nobody said anything, essentially.
His opposition didn't call attention to it, and the Republicans didn't seem to care.
And that was the assassination of Solomone.
And if you talk about diplomacy and all, but it went by.
And that to me is really sad because that's how you take borderline friendships with some countries.
Blinken And The War In Iraq 00:09:30
You might as well destroy it.
Look at how often we do some things and we sort of get along with somebody.
Then we turn around and say, oh, yeah, they did this.
We have to put on sanctions and not let them freeze their asses and all that kind of stuff.
Just looking for trouble.
But we're hamstrung because if we do too much of that, then we don't love America.
But maybe the people who care about justice and the Constitution, maybe there's a love of America there.
They don't have any understanding of.
Yeah.
Well, here's some people that I think don't love America, and probably for good reason.
And this, I think, this image is iconic.
If you can put this next one up.
This is our Secretary of State, Tony Blinken, over the weekend, going in a secret trip to Baghdad.
He was over there already.
He takes a secret, he lands in Baghdad, and here he is in the cover of night with a bulletproof vest on.
And this commentator who posted it, it's been posted everywhere, but he makes a good point.
Trillions of dollars in Iraq, two decades of war, thousands of American lives lost, thousands more injured, and this is how Secretary Blinken has to arrive in Baghdad, home of the largest U.S. embassy in the world.
And you've commented on that embassy.
Here he's going.
Largest embassy.
Remember, we were told they were going to greet us as liberators.
Does that look to you, Dr. Paul, like he's being greeted as a liberator?
It's amazing.
You know, nothing has stopped our protection of our empire.
You know, when you look at what's going on in Syria and Iraq and the various countries over there, what you're just talking about is, yeah, we really didn't have a victory in Iraq.
We don't own Iraq.
We're not even good at maintaining an empire because it's so wrong for us.
But we've been continuing to bomb.
You know, look how much involvement we've had in Ukraine, but Syria, too.
But we own a third of Syria and we have to protect our oil and all this stuff.
That's unfortunately doesn't get much discussion in the debates.
Maybe somebody will try to bring it up, but that's not in the cards, most likely, on what's going on there.
I just think that photo is U.S. foreign policy in one photo.
That's the end.
That's the result.
Exactly.
The neocons, we're going to go liberate everyone.
They're going to love us.
We're going to make the world so great.
And then when everything turns to garbage, as it inevitably does, you've got to sneak in there with a bulletproof vest on because you're hated so much.
And why should we be surprised?
We blew up their country.
You know, killed a million other citizens.
What if you and I sat here and started saying, what was the list of costs that happened under George Bush and Iraq and Afghanistan, all those?
I mean, when we look at the literal cost of the money, how about the cost of military personnel that we lost?
What about the inflation that it has caused because we have to monetize the debt?
On and on.
You could build a big pretty list.
And you can nail it right down to one thing.
Look, that's what the result is.
That's the result.
Three cheers for democracy.
It's going well.
The majority of the people too often go along with this stuff.
But our job is to help wake people up, and I keep looking for the one.
And a few people did wake up over COVID.
And we need a lot more of that.
Yeah, waking up over foreign policy would be good.
But so Blinken went over there.
Now, first he stopped over with Netanyahu because Biden is getting shellacked in the polls over his handling of Israel-Gaza thing.
His own party is furious.
There are breaks in the Democratic Party that we have not seen.
Massive protests, 100,000 people in Washington, D.C. over the weekend protesting.
And a lot of these people, I think, are Democrat voters.
So he goes over to Netanyahu and says, hey, Beebe, I need a favor, man.
I need you just to pause for a while.
My boss is getting creamed over here.
I need a little bit of help.
Put on this next clip because this would be like if a picture tells a thousand stories.
Look at him.
Look at the look on Blinken's face and look at Beebe.
He's like, come on, Beebe.
Can you just pause for a second?
We got that $14 billion coming, man.
It's going to be great.
Can you pause and then go to the next one?
Beebe says, nah.
He says, right after Blinken left, Israel will keep bombarding Gaza with all of its power, Netanyahu says after Blinken calls for a pause.
I mean, can you imagine, Dr. Paul?
You were going there with $14 billion in your pocket, you're going to give a guy, and you ask him for a little favor, and the guy says, take a hike, go pound sand.
You know, where they are now is a total lack of realism.
You know, it's almost like the lack of realism and understanding how our president, our vice president, should give us some assurances that they're dealing with protecting our freedoms.
Everybody's concerned about.
But when you look at that, Netanyahu, he's not very popular over there.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
They say, no, we're not going to get rid of them until we win the war.
That sort of thing.
So they're not realistic.
And I think that's what the enemies of Trump are.
They're not realistic.
They don't, because it's different.
They have somebody standing up to them.
And as awkward as it may seem and be, they're just not used to that.
People, they're too bipartisan, and they work together.
And all the money comes together.
You know, if, oh, you can't vote against money for the military, even if it's going to start World War III.
No, you have to do it.
So that's what they needed.
They need true resistance.
And I think that resistance that Trump provides is a benefit to him.
And that's how he overcomes all the negative things.
But I think it also is a reflection of the American people just don't believe what our government tells us.
And that's healthy.
Yeah.
Well, you can imagine a Blinken.
Anyone else who's a diplomat or whatever, imagine if Kissinger was sitting there for all of his faults.
He would be sitting there saying, oh, yeah?
You're not going to do us any favor.
Guess what?
You're not going to get the money.
Take a hike.
What is your problem?
But so not even, that's not even it.
To add insult to injury, Blinken comes over there hat in hand.
Please, please stop bombing.
Netanyahu, he says, no, forget you.
And what does he do the very next day?
Put on that next clip.
He bombs a convoy of ambulances in Gaza.
Put on this clip.
You can see the bodies under the, don't look too closely.
But this is a tweet by the Doctors Without Borders.
You know, that's the International Humanitarian Group.
And they said, this is Dr. Obaid.
He's a Medicine Saint-Frontier doctor at the Al-Shifa Hospital.
He says, we're standing inside the hospital gate when the ambulance was directly hit in front of us.
There were bloody bodies everywhere.
Many were killed immediately while we rushed others to the operating room for emergency care.
These are doctors who volunteer in war zones to help people.
Their ambulances were bombed.
Put on the next one.
This is the same thread from Doctors Without Borders.
The deadly attack outside the gate of the Al-Shifa hospital impacting an ambulance is horrendous.
This is a lethal attack outside Gaza's main and busiest hospital where our staff work daily to provide life-saving medical care.
He says, we have repeatedly called for an immediate total ceasefire for the protection of health care facilities as well as medics, patients, and people.
This is a new low in an endless stream of unconscionable violence, he continues.
The repeated strikes on hospitals, ambulances, densely populated areas and refugee camps are disgraceful.
How many people have to die before war leaders wake up and call for a ceasefire?
Now, these are humanitarians.
These aren't politicians.
These are doctors in the business of saving lives.
And you can just tell the frustration, the horror in his voice.
Oh, I know.
And unfortunately, the news gets to us, but it's in bits and pieces.
And there's propaganda involved.
And they say they'll pass over and just say, oh, well, they have a right to defend themselves.
call on that national defense, but, you know, they don't talk about, they say, well, just think of what those Palestinians just did.
But why don't they just think of why did they do it?
Why did they think they were defending themselves?
And there's an argument for that, too.
And there's an argument that says that both sides have a lot of responsibility for that.
But it's pretty bad when it gets this far off and they just won't even consider it.
It's saying, you're a monster if you won't stop the killing.
And we will, you know, the number of children, it's almost like, you know, they targeted children or they didn't avoid them anyway.
It wasn't just 100.
It's like 4,000, I think, so far.
Congressional Pay Debate 00:03:48
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, it's.
And their response was, well, we thought there was a Hamaskai in there.
You know, so you kill 100 people.
Professor Norman Feichlesteen was on a show recently where he pointed out the laws of war, and one of them is proportionality.
It has to be justified.
Yeah, you can, like you said with solar money, you can take them out, but if we had dropped a nuclear weapon and blew up the whole city, well, we thought solar money was there, you know.
So anyway, it's a terrible, terrible, terrible situation.
And Biden is not handling it well and not doing well.
Well, I guess we move on.
Yeah, and you know, in the midst of all this, and the politicians aren't doing all that well, they still do things in a stealthy way of they want more money.
Well, you know, these are the, you know, some of the members of Congress, but it's a sneaky way of doing it.
And their complaint is that some of them aren't wealthy enough to take care of themselves with two homes and all that kind of stuff.
And I thought, well, you know, what is it?
Why don't you have a different way of doing this?
And my way of doing it would be to, if there's inflation, they ought to have a reduction in their pay.
Not compensated for it, you know, but what we do is they want to just be part of the game.
So what happened there was, you know, Congress sneaks in and sells 34,000 when the Congress was changing over.
And matter of fact, we're just hearing about it now.
There was a, guess what?
It was bipartisan, though.
So it's okay.
Democracy reigned.
We got up to 51% to be silent on this.
Congress sneaks in, stealth $34,000 pay rate.
Gates AOC.
That's two spectrums, isn't it?
Among more than 200 lawmakers to benefit.
I don't know all the details, and maybe people have explanations, but money was spent and money was given away trying to take care of their needs that government caused.
Covering causes, and this is just more cover-up.
But yes, if they have a problem, they maybe, you know, they absolutely should do it over.
This is why, you guys, as you recall, I used to work hard with some Democrats to make sure that they could not have a pay raise without voting on it.
They purposely did it.
They hid the pay raise in the bills.
And there were others.
And I think we generally won those events because people, when they were forced to vote on it, they were too embarrassed.
They do this kind of stuff.
34,000.
It's not much these days, but it's the principle of it.
Now, I love your proposal.
Wait, hold on, if inflation goes up, you guys get a reduction because you're responsible for it.
You did it.
That's a great one.
Well, I'm going to close out, I think, if you're ready, Dr. Paul.
And just to put that last photo up, last couple of weeks left.
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Believing In Ideas 00:02:01
And hopefully they'll think it's good enough to recommend it for other people.
Because we depend on word of mouth in a major way.
We believe ideas do spread and they can't be stopped.
So even on our frustrating days when not much is happening or we're not getting our message out like we wished we could, it still gets out there.
I still think that in spite of the shortcomings of the internet, the internet is beneficial to us and people are getting more skeptical and there are more people waking up for certain things.
When things get real bad, the people will react.
And even though I don't believe in pure democracy, I do believe in prevailing opinions and prevailing attitudes.
So if the prevailing attitude of a society is that we believe in the Ten Amendments to the Constitution, at least that's what we're going to talk about, you know, it would happen.
But unfortunately, there's a lot of mischief to overcome, and most of it comes and has come from our universities and the control of the media.
And it's very difficult.
But I still do believe that ideas have consequences.
And I, with many others who agree with that, we do our very best to sort things out, not pretending that we know all the answers and how it's going to work.
But I sort of find it fascinating to think, well, if you're against all this welfareism and government takeover, how are the poor going to survive?
Won't they all starve to death?
Well, they're all starving to death now and they're sleeping in San Francisco streets that have become sewers.
And you want to know.
And what we could do is show you a lot of places in the world over the last hundred years or 200 years where when freedom was respected, prosperity was greater and there was more peace.
There's nothing to confront that argument that should silence us because I think the message is so powerful.
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