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Stormy Stormy Stormy - May 7th, Hour 1

Stormy Daniels testimony was a whole lot of nothing in today's case against President Trump.  It's clear that the testimony is so irrelevant that it's just obvious that this is all a political attack... against Democracy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Uh I I mean, this is like the worst kangaroo court you could ever imagine unfolding in Alvin Bragg's, you know, uh district at the DA New York.
But of course, they did bring in the third highest ranking official from Joe Biden's Justice Department to fill the void of the incompetent brag and run this case.
I'm sure this guy wanted to leave that prestigious position, uh, considering we now discovered that in fact he is a very hardcore partisan Democrat and even paid for consulting in years past.
You know, at the heart of this case, none of what we heard today from Stormy Daniels in this case is relevant.
None of it.
None of it is material to this case.
None of it.
You know, and you look you go back to the beginning.
You have a judge that donated to Biden.
You have a judge whose family is being accused of of likely benefiting from the outcome of this trial based on work that his daughter is involved in.
Uh you have a gag order for Donald Trump, but not for uh Michael Cohn on TikTok asking for gifts, and he's as he's free to talk about the case, the the lead witness of the prosecution, supposedly.
You know, uh, you know, all of the stuff that they are talking about here, the payments were not illegal.
This came out in yesterday's testimony.
Is not is Michael Cohn a lawyer?
Yes, or he was at the time.
Is uh Michael Cohn is this a legal is this is this a a legal document?
Yes.
The payments, whatever they were, 130,000 were not illegal.
Nondisclosure contracts in exchange for silence are not unlawful.
Killing any negative story violates no statute.
And more to the point, it is not a crime for Donald Trump to know about a non-crime.
It is just the whole thing has been senseless.
But of course, this is what Bragg's strategy is to throw out words like conspiracy to do this and that Donald Trump is not charged with it.
He's charged with none of that.
And the according first of all, the New York statute that would have been applicable in this case is only a misdemeanor.
No lawyer can even explain what the other charges are about.
Why?
Because they don't know what the other charge really is about.
They just keep throwing out names and and the judge keeps allowing it again and again and again.
And you know, the Biden Dodor judge, there was an opportun chance earlier today.
Uh the defense team, Trump's lawyers made a motion for a mistrial in what really is a bookkeeping error case.
But the judge is denied the former president's attorney's request for a mistrial over the gratuitously salacious testimony of the prosecution as a threshold matter.
I agree that there were some things that probably would have been left unsaid, the judge said.
Having said that, I don't believe we're at a point where a mistrial is warranted.
Uh, and then tries to go after the defense attorneys who did object, and uh each time they objected, the judge sides with the prosecution.
What's the point at that point?
And Trump's attorney Todd Blanch arguing that the court said guardrails and Daniel's testimony went way over them.
A lot of testimony that this witness talked about today is way different than the story that she was peddling in 2016.
She wrote a book detailing great detail about her relationship with Donald Trump, and that becomes problematic as well because Daniel testified there was no power imbalance, or there was a power imbalance during her encounter, considering how wealthy and influential he was.
Uh he was bigger in blocking the way, but I was not threatened verbally or physically.
How is this relevant or material in this case?
Now, when we get to cross-examination, which probably will be fairly soon, uh, then I'm sure that the defense is going to bring up the January 30th, 2018 official statement of of Stormy Daniels, To whom it may concern.
Over the past few weeks, I have been asked countless times to comment on reports of an alleged sexual relationship that I had with Donald Trump many, many, many years ago.
And the fact of the matter is that each party to this alleged affair denied its existence in 2006, 2011, 2016, 2017, and now again in 2018.
I'm not denying this affair because I was paid, quote, hush money, as has been reported in overseas own tabloids.
I am denying this affair because it never happened.
I'll have no further comment on this matter.
And then, of course, writes a book contradicting herself.
Okay, well, how's how is this working out for people?
It's not.
You know, this now has gone full tilt here.
And, you know, listening to the Biden's uh number three at the Justice Department, you know, leading this case and walking Stormy through all the salacious details is immaterial.
It is meaningless in a bookkeeping error trial.
You know, I can't wait for the day that the Trump Justice Department has has prosecutors called Tara Reed to the witness stand and maybe let her describe all the ugly details about the day that she claims that Joe Biden tried to rape her in a deserted hallway near his Senate office.
Oh, that's right.
We forgot about her.
Uh here's but anyway, the latest attempt of Biden's presidential campaign to revive their chances to hang on to power and keep Donald Trump in a courtroom.
Stormy Daniels is the highest profile witness in this case, but you're talking about something that is not illegal.
And Daniel said yes when asked if the sexual encounter was brief and testified it's just stuff that is is totally completely immaterial.
But you have a judge that clearly is abusively biased and and wants a certain outcome in this case, and that will have great influence on the jury in this case.
I mean, so I don't blame them for trying to get the mistrial, and I'm not shocked that the judge denied the mistrial.
I didn't expect them to do that.
Now I can give you a whole list of things that New York should be prosecuting.
I can go over and over again.
You know, 2019, New York ended the use of money uh of bail in New York in jail for most cases involving misdemeanors and fell low-level felonies.
That law took effect in 2020.
And crimes listed in the New York Post.
Yeah, for example, ten career criminals racked up nearly 500 arrests since New York bail reform began.
Assault, felonious assault, grand larceny, petty larceny, gun possession, attempted drug sale, commercial retail burglary theft, shoplifting, car theft, migrants who beat up illegal immigrants that beat up police officers in Times Square released without bail.
Greg didn't even seek bail for a sixteen-year-old caught on video viciously attacking a police officer.
But he's trying to a guy that takes sixty percent of felony charges and reduces them to misdemeanors, and the only one that he upgrades from a misdemeanor whose statute of limitations had passed to a felony under questionable legal uh theories that even the Justice Department didn't think would be viable.
Well, i he's gotten away with all of it.
He's gotten the judge of his choice.
Three days earlier, by the way, than the case of this 16-year-old on video attacking a police officer.
The same kid was arrested, released without bail for allegedly beating and robbing a stranger.
You know, crimes Bragg doesn't even want to charge now.
Marijuana possession, turnstile jumping, trespassing, resisting arrest, interfering with an arrest, prostitution, none of it.
You won't get those salacious details.
You're not going to get the third highest ranking Justice Department official there either.
You know, despite all the breathless coverage in the media mob, they can't get enough of Stormy, Stormy, Stormy.
Here we go again.
There's not a single thing that came up in her testimony today that is relevant in any way to the prosecution against Donald Trump.
If you had a fair judge, the judge would have stopped it immediately.
But that's not the case.
This is why I told you from the beginning.
He can't get a fair trial in New York or D.C. or in Fulton County, Georgia.
Not gonna happen.
She added zero substance to this case.
Well, okay, she gets to humiliate uh Donald Trump in in their minds and bloody him up that way.
Okay, and I can oh, she the testimony is so superfluous and so irrelevant.
I I I wouldn't even waste my time on this radio show going over it, and we've taken copious notes by the people that are in the courtroom that are sending me, you know, moment by moment, you know, play by play of what's what's going on in there.
And of course, the gag orders in place.
You know, now we have a former president having to say that he's willing to go to jail if it means our constitution is more important than jail.
It's not even close.
I'll do that sacrifice any day.
And this judge seems like he's itching in spite of his proclamation yesterday to send Donald Trump away.
That's what he would like to do.
You have the ex-top Biden DOJ official leaves that prestigious position to go work on a case in New York.
You don't see a conflict of interest there.
A judge that donates to Biden, you don't see a conflict there, a family member that that might very well benefit financially.
You don't see a conflict there.
Statute of limitations passed over, and nobody seems to give a rip.
They're not even informing the defense of what witnesses they're calling on what day.
You know, the fact that everybody else, they don't have gag orders.
They can say whatever they want and beg for gifts on social media, that's okay.
It's pretty unbelievable what we're witnessing here.
You know, it's and of course, you know, you've got the crazy media mob out there going insane.
Anyway, this prosecution sends Trump fundraising numbers through the roof.
I guess there's an upside because ever since the Biden DOJ launched their first show trial, fundraising numbers have been insane.
They hauled in over 76 million last month, a number that has former President Joe B that is closing the gap now with Joe Biden.
There'll be no there'll be no lack of funds trying to make Joe out to be alive and energetic and not the weak, frail cognitive mess that he really is.
But I mean, now you have a former president that a judge wants to put in jail, and you have the mayor of New York being asked about, well, is Rikers prepared to take Donald Trump in if in fact that comes to pass.
This this is a kangaroo court.
This isn't equal justice under the law.
This is everything we've been talking about with the weaponization of our justice system, a dual justice system.
We don't have equal justice under the law.
We don't have equal application of our laws, which means we don't have a constitutional republic anymore because that is the foundation for all of our laws.
But this is now where we find ourselves.
And then, of course, other cases are falling apart.
Fonnie Willis refuses to appear before the Georgia Senate investigative committee.
Now they're threatening a subpoena, and she says she won't comply.
That case is falling apart.
Then we told you yesterday, the special counsel admitting that federal prosecutors tampered with evidence in his criminal case, alleging former President Donald Trump mishandled classified documents.
We have a big update in that case because the trial documents judge, and this in this case, Eileen Cannon, has now suspended a deadline in former president's document case after the special counsel and his team had to admit that they failed to preserve critical evidence in the case after prosecutors disclosed some classified records may not be in the original order in which they were found.
That means that was tampered with.
Okay, this that case should be thrown out.
The case in Fulton County should be thrown out.
The case in DC should be thrown out.
The president does have limited immunity and will find out in an unrelated case whether or not uh the application of our laws regarding January 6th were relevant or not.
But now this marks another delay in the prosecution down in Florida, which means that this is unlikely to come to trial.
I'm telling you what they want.
They now have put all of their hopes in this one Biden donating judge because what they want to be able to say for as long as possible is that convicted felon Donald Trump, convicted felon Donald Trump.
They want that more than anything.
And if they had their way, and it doesn't look like they will have their way for the next hundred and eighty-one days.
They'd have Donald Trump in a courtroom somewhere and the campaigning field wide open for their candidate of choice, which happens to be Joe Biden.
And by the way, a poll shows most voters say Trump has been denied the right to a fair trial in this case.
People are seeing it.
New Suffolk, USA Today poll.
Yeah, people see through this.
You put Trump in jail, you're probably going to re-elect him.
And Jim Jordan now is investigating the special counsel, Jack Smith, after acknowledging that the evidence in this classified documents case was altered or manipulated.
Whoopsie Daisy, because that's what they admitted to.
A stunning admission.
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How could you consider yourself intellectually honest and look at this case and not just roll your eyes and saying this is not constitutionally sound.
This is the weaponization of our Department of Justice.
This is what happens when it's politicized.
This is what happens when you have people that will use the legal system to destroy their political opponents.
You know, imagine any any any admission by a special counsel against the Democrats, that key evidence in a case of a prominent Democrat, in this case, Donald Trump's classified documents criminal case was altered or manipulated by their team.
The government acknowledges that this is inconsistent with what government counsel previously understood and represented to the court.
They didn't even tell the court the truth.
I mean, it's essentially an admission of evidence tampering, and it could be beyond problematic.
It's it's it's a admission and it's stunning on multiple levels.
No wonder Jim Jordan's investigating this.
And no wonder that, yeah, I don't think Trump can get a fair trial in any venue at this point.
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Now, what have I said about Donald Trump?
He defies all conventional political gravity.
And what does that mean?
You know, any other candidate access Hollywood, go back to 2016.
It would have destroyed any other politician.
Would have wiped them out.
Goes up, debates Hillary Clinton issue comes up immediately.
Locker room talk.
Oh, yeah, I know.
I shouldn't have said it was stupid.
That ended that issue.
And he goes on to be president.
There's never been one man that has been targeted by the by the institutionalist, the deep state, if you will, both Republican and Democrat, the swamp, the sewer that is Washington, D.C., and Donald Trump.
Three long years, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia.
Complete and total BS.
And yet that didn't stop the mob, the media from peddling their conspiracy theories and lies.
It didn't stop, you know, investigators from doing it.
Impeachment one, impeachment two, stormy, stormy, stormy.
Here we go again.
And it it's not working.
Donald Trump now has spent weeks in a courtroom.
What is today?
Day 14.
And that means he can't be out on the campaign trail while he is now basically seeding all of that ground.
It's wide open turf for Joe Biden, who now has to shorten his speeches.
It's going to be uh quality over quantity.
Uh are we really believing that, or is it the fact that they have no faith that their candidate is capable of doing long speeches and going through the real rigors of a of a presidential campaign.
And now, if you're not up to that job, you're not up to the job of being president, which we already know he's not up to.
And that in and of itself is a big problem.
And then, of course, well, it doesn't look good when he's walking to Marine One or walking back from Marine One alone.
So now we'll surround him and hide him from the cameras so he doesn't look so old.
And rather than let him trip and fall again going up the big boy stairs on Air Force One, well, we'll just put him on the little boy stairs and we'll have a Secret Service agent behind him, you know, to keep him upright, if God forbid his slipless new sneakers uh don't do their job well enough, and he stumbles and he falls.
But I'll tell you the most telling thing.
You know, here Trump is in a courtroom, and the poll numbers keep coming in.
And right now, for example, the latest tip poll released yesterday found that Joe Biden is suffering a 28% decline in support among African Americans, black Americans.
It found that both Biden and Trump were virtually tied in a head-to-head matchup and with third party candidates, and found that Trump made significant gains in what they surveyed, what the survey showed is traditional Democratic constituencies.
Look, both the Republican and Democratic Party are coalition parties, and that both have a base of their party.
And in other words, the base historically for Democrats have been African Americans, Hispanic Americans, uh, and working class Americans, suburban women, and it's not anymore.
It's not working anymore.
Washington Post uh poll shows that fewer black Americans are certain that they want to vote in this year's election than in 2020.
And 62% of African Americans said they are absolutely certain that they'll vote.
That's a 12-point decrease from 2020.
However, young African Americans had the sharpest drop in voter interest this year.
Only 41%, you know, between the ages of 18 and 39 said they were certain to vote.
Only 39% of black women between the ages of 18 to 39 are certain to vote.
And many now are turning to j to Donald Trump over Joe Biden.
Why?
Oh, maybe because of the disaster at the border and tens of thousands of illegal, unvetted Joe Biden immigrants taking American jobs, costing towns and cities, you know, billions and billions of dollars, and of course,
creating the greatest national security risk in our history by allowing in tens and tens of thousands of illegal immigrants unvetted from China, Russia, Iran, Syria, Egypt, and Afghanistan, among other countries, among our top geopolitical foes.
Trump, by the way, surged to a dead heat with with Biden in the ABC poll, and they now tied 45-45 among suburban women, again, who typically historically have not been that persuadable, according to the poll among suburban men.
Donald Trump has a solid eight-point lead there.
I mean, pretty amazing.
If you get deeper into the ABC poll, you find that voters trust Donald Trump by an eight-point margin when it comes to law and order and crime and safety.
He's up 17 points on immigration.
He's up seven points on America's standing in the world.
He's up 14 points on inflation in the economy.
Well, it's the economy, stupid.
Well, it's also, you know, look at the state of the world.
It's falling apart before our eyes.
Look at this weaponized justice system.
By the way, House Judiciary Republicans are going to hold the vote whether or not to hold the attorney general Merrick Garland in contempt over the Biden her recording.
And they've actually just come out and told the truth.
Yeah, we think it might be might hurt Joe Biden's chances at re-election.
I'm like, that's not a reason to withhold pertinent information from uh from a House investigative committee.
That's called checks and balances.
That's called doing their job.
But House Republicans, if they have to hold Merrick Garland in contempt, they need to do it so that he has to provide audio of Biden's interview with the special counsel, which the special counsel described as an unmitigated disaster.
And Joe not even being able to remember if he was was I still vice president in 2009, among many other things.
And now they've opened that probe into the in vet the FBI investigation and and what looks like tainted materials and tampered with the materials and evidence in the case down in Florida, the documents case.
Pretty unbelievable.
The double standard couldn't be more clear.
If you're Hillary Clinton, don't worry, you can have 33,000 deleted emails and uh devices destroyed, and uh, you know, you could have top secret classified information a lot more than they found with Trump, and of course, no reasonable prosecutor would prosecute.
You're gonna have Joe Biden, four separate locations, eight locations in total when you count different places and different residences.
He had all his top secret classified information.
Uh no raid there, no raid on Hillary.
It's it's pretty unbelievable.
By the way, if you care, Bernie Sanders has announced his re-election bid.
You have one squad member that was caught at a fundraiser hosted by an Islamic leader who praised the Hamas attack on Israel, if you can believe that.
Uh Representative Bowman, he's the guy that I believe pulled the fire alarm.
New York's 16th Congressional District attends a May 1 fundraiser at the private residence in Fairfax, Virginia, and didn't seem to mind that Nahad Awad, a highly controversial figure that serves on the as national executive director and co-founder of the Council of Islamic relations care.
Anyway, faced sharp scrutiny last year, expressing his pleasure with the Hamas attack, resulting in the deaths of twelve hundred Israelis, including women and babies, and claiming Israel does not have a right to self-defense.
Oh, that's a great place for a congressperson to be, don't you think?
Yeah, it certainly is.
This is pretty unbelievable.
We'll get to this later in the program.
Kathy Holkel in New York, the governor, had to apologize for claiming that, well, black kids, they they don't know anything about computers.
Matter of fact, I'll play it right now.
Listen.
Young black kids growing up in the Bronx who don't even know what the word computer is.
They don't know.
They don't know these things.
And I want the world open up to all of them.
Because when you have their diverse voices innovating solutions through technology, then you're really addressing society's broader challenges.
She didn't misspeak.
She doubled down on it.
And young black kids growing in the up in the Bronx that don't even know what the word computer is.
Could you be any more insulting and then claiming, oh, I think I misspoke.
That's what it is.
I misspoke.
Doesn't sound like you were misspeaking to me.
It sounds like you said exactly what you intended to say.
Maxim Waters claiming that Trump connected organizations have training camps up in the hills preparing to attack if he loses.
What the hell is she even talking about?
You know, up in the hills to attack black people if Biden wins.
I want to know about these right wing organizations that Trump is connected with, training up in the hills somewhere, targeting, you know, what communities they're going to attack, and says Trump is spelling out specifically what they're going to do and how he's going to get revenge and how he's going to attack his enemies.
All of these things.
When he talks about race, we know that I'm going to I'm going to tell you again today.
Donald Trump is a pure racist.
I'm worried the attack is going to be on people of color.
Isn't she the one that said get in their faces and don't let them, you know, they're not wanted anywhere, any place, anytime.
Okay, we'll take lectures from her.
You know, and then things get even, you know, far worse because if you look at Joe Biden's policy, he's given in to and surrendered on the war on terrorism, and yet he's supposed to deliver a major speech at the Holocaust remembrance ceremony?
Oh, okay.
How about you just support Israel's right to win their war on radical Islamic terrorists that attack them on October the seventh?
And Biden now, they're admitting that they're withholding the arms that was funded by Congress because the because Israel's preparing their incursion in Rafah as they as they try to bring a close and win their war against the terrorist group Hamas.
And in the end, telling Israel how to fight their war and and withholding monies that were appropriated by Congress is another lawless move by Joe Biden.
Don't worry, his attorney general will have his back.
Warning Netanyahu against a major Rafah offenses, offensive.
Well, how about you tell Israel after the worst attack in their history what would have been the equivalent of 40,000 dead Americans in a day, 8,000 taken prisoner and kidnapped and taken out of their country?
Why don't you just support their right to win their war?
By the way, AOC was torched after praising the U.S. hold on Israeli military aid.
I mean, it's pretty unbelievable.
This is Joe Biden's mess, and I'll tell you what it's all about.
It's all about votes.
What is Joe Biden's America is about?
If I have to support the radicals and not talk about these kids on college campuses chanting death to America, death to Israel, and Tefada uh from the river to the sea.
I'm I'm not going to risk those votes.
I mean, the border, we have nothing but an unmitigated catastrophe.
Law and order and crime are out of control in small towns and big cities all across this country.
Why?
Because of their policies of defund, dismantle, no bail laws, open borders, aiding and abetting illegal immigration with unvetted, you know, 10 million plus.
We've got to update our numbers from our top geopolitical foes, and then forcing the American taxpayers to fund all of this.
You know, Joe Biden's America.
No, no bail laws, defund, dismantle.
Okay, how's that working out in cities littered with needles and people urinating and defecating on streets and violence and sex trafficking and drugs, you know, coming into this country with ease we've never seen before.
Why?
Because your president has been aiding and abetting in the law breaking.
Pretty unbelievable.
You know, then we got these kids all over college campuses, the very people Joe wants to vote for him, which is why his criticism has been so muted.
Anti Israel protesters vandalizing the World War One Museum memorial.
You know, they burned American flag after clock cops block a group from reaching the Met Gala in New York City last night.
College campus disaster continues.
UCLA Chancellor announces an investigations into the attack on the anti-Israel encampment.
Oh, we've got to protect those students that have taken over our campus.
Let the inmates run the asylum.
Columbia Law School students sent a message email to Jewish classmates, and it literally says that Jewish students will neither be safe nor free until everyone is safe, and Palestine is free.
Columbia has since now canceled their commencement ceremony.
In DC, the mayor there, uh, of course, uh Bowser, Muriel Bowser, has rebuffed a plea from GW University and their president to help with potentially dangerous pro-Palestinian encampments on that campus.
Michael Moore declaring you have to take over buildings during campus protests.
Oh, it's okay when he calls for insurrection.
I get it.
Where's Liz Cheney when you need her lectures on insurrection?
Pretty unbelievable times.
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