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Obviously, the you know, the show trial, the weaponization of our Justice Department.
You know, even fake news CNN hosts, Farid Zakaria, and I'll play it later in the program, says, yeah, this ridiculous bookkeeping error trial is unfair to Donald Trump.
I mean, when you have people on the hard left that are even they have to admit this is insanity, that this is crazy.
When you have Bill Maher seeing through the stormy, you know, Daniels testimony of last week, you know, dread dredging up an interview that uh Daniels apparently gave to him in 2018, raising questions about the credibility of her testimony on the witness stand, you know, and then concluding, yeah, she's a bad witness.
He's that to say the least.
And then he played the clip of the interview in which Daniels was was emphatic that her alleged July 2006 issue with Donald Trump was was consensual, not to be construed as part of the Me Too movement.
You say it's not part of the Me Too movement.
Yeah, it's it's not a Me Too case, she said.
I will I wasn't assaulted, I wasn't attacked or raped or coerced or blackmailed.
They tried they tried to shove me into a Me Too box to further their own agenda.
And first of all, I didn't want to be a part of that, uh, because it didn't, it's not the truth, and I'm not the victim in that regard.
But in, you know, that's not what she's saying now, as he's saying.
And then you've got a guy that is, you know, convicted liar, Michael Cone up there, and you would think that this guy has all the credibility in the world.
And and when Fareed Zachary says, I doubt the New York indictment would have been brought against the defendant whose name was not Donald Trump, he's dead on accurate.
And it wouldn't have been brought against anybody.
And Bragg didn't want to bring it himself.
And then, of course, you have two these two high profile resignations.
The guy before him, Cyrus fans didn't want to bring it after they had investigated it forever.
The you know, the idea that the statute of limitations had passed is is pretty unbelievable in and of itself.
The fact that it's a misdemeanor is pretty unbelievable in and of itself.
The fact that they're somehow they they have yet to even define what the law of the crime is in this particular case is pretty spectacular.
The Epic Times has a story out today that I don't think many pen people have paid attention to.
You know, remember the third highest ranking Justice Department official, Joe Biden's weaponized Justice Department, is now prosecuting the case.
Why would he leave a uh highly prestigious job like that?
We now know that his wife's a donor.
We know he was involved in in money raising for the DNC.
And it's so obviously it's political for this person's part, but it perfectly works out great for Biden.
And then what happens over the weekend?
Donald Trump shocks the world, and eighty thousand plus people show up in New Jersey.
Why?
Because I think people are seeing the injustice here, and this is what Democrats have not calculated.
They they have overreached.
They have gone too far.
Everything for them.
Oh, okay, Russia-Russia collusion.
Total, complete, utter BS.
A quid pro quo.
Oh, okay.
Well, what about Joe Biden's recent quid pro quo?
Joe Biden, and we'll get into this later when we talk to Congressman Corey Mills, uh, who himself filed articles of impeachment against Biden on Friday over his over his comments of withholding offensive weapons and aid to Israel.
Well, this is Biden.
He said President Trump withheld congressionally appropriated aid to Ukraine unless they granted him a political favor.
It's the definition of a quid pro quo.
This is no joke.
Trump continues to put his own personal political interests ahead of the national interest.
He must be impeached.
Oh, well, what what it is what is Joe Biden doing right now?
He's taking congressionally appropriated monies and he's demanding that Israel use it in the way and only the way that he approves of their not getting it.
Well, that sounds like a quid pro quo.
Never mind the previous quid pro quo.
You know, but anyway, Alvin Bragg's prosecutors, listen to this.
I'm reading from the Epic Times today, apparel legal from Manhattan Attorney General Bragg's office testified on Friday during some of Trump's quote hush money trial.
By the way, an NDA is not illegal.
A non disclosure agreement is not illegal.
There is no crime.
NDAs, believe it or not, if you don't live in the corporate world or environment or places like New York or California, they are actually quite common and quite legal.
And quote Cone has to say that Trump specifically knew and approved of the characterization of payments as legal expenses.
And he further has to establish that Trump intended that this be done to conceal the payments for the purposes of election violations or fraud.
Well, the only problem is that the timing doesn't exactly work out in their particular favor.
The election was over when these monies were actually paid.
And moreover, many people believe such a characterization for payments related to a non-disclosure agreement is accurate.
Hillary Clinton's campaign claimed in the same election that hiding the funding for the dirty Russian bought and paid for Christopher Steele dossier is a legal expense.
Remember, she took money, she funneled it to a law firm, Perkins Cooy.
They hired an op research firm, Fusion GPS, that then hired, in fact Michael uh Christopher Steele, and what was the net result of that?
Well, the net result was she wrote it down as a legal expense.
The same exact case for crying out loud.
I mean, it we're we're so we're so numb to all of this at this point.
Between starting with the Russia lie and the peddling of lies and conspiracy theories on fake news CNN and conspiracy theory channel MSDNC, we we become numb.
Stormy, stormy, stormy.
You know, it's impeach, impeach Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine.
And it's like it never stops.
Well, let's go after Trump for this.
Let's go after well, if we can't get him here, we'll get him in D.C. If we can't get him in D.C., we'll get him in Fulton County, Georgia.
We can't get him in Fulton County, Georgia, we'll get him down in Florida in a documents case where we're learning more about coordination.
I mean, it's insane.
Anyway, back to the Epic Times, the paralegal testifying that some of the phone call records between Cone and Stormy Daniels were deleted.
Deleted.
I thought we, you know, we just had the court filing in the documents case down in Florida where they had that, whoops, uh, yeah, sorry.
Uh, it looks like the evidence that we had is not in the same order as we told the court it was in, and and it seems to be very different.
And in other words, it looks like it might have been tampered with.
In this particular case, phone records, calls between Cone and Stormy Daniels deleted.
Well, what about the integrity of the evidence in this particular case?
Anyway, in a bid to challenge some of the evidence being put forward in Trump's case.
The uh attorney asked the paralegal about roughly three pages worth of records that the attorney claimed Bragg's office had deleted.
And then they this person confirmed the deletions and acknowledged phone call records between 2018 between Cone and Stormy Daniels' lawyer, had in fact been deleted, along with some of the records of conversations between Daniels' manager and then National Inquirer Editor Dylan Howard about her claim that she had an affair with Trump.
I mean, the Trump attorney alleging that the deletions are significant.
They are significant.
Just like you can't, you know, you can't actually change the order of what happens in a case here.
But what have I been saying?
I've been saying something very consistently that in spite of everything that they throw at this man, he defies all conventional political gravity.
I mean, w way do you hear?
I'm gonna I'm gonna get to the polls from the New York Times Siena poll out today.
It is devastating for Joe Biden.
And by the way, I'm not the only one saying it.
You got people like Farid Zakarius saying trend lines are not going in Biden's favor.
You got smart people like James Carville saying, yeah, Trump is now more ahead than ever.
Everything we're throwing at him is not working.
A lot of things you could say about actually James Carvel, believe it or not, is a fun guy to hang out with, but I digress.
I mean, even if if you've been a critic of this, the judge in this case, look at the judge, a Biden donor judge for crying out loud.
And the connections that the daughter who's politically active that financially that that with some of the top Democrats could actually be fundraising off the result of this case.
I mean, by the very definition of law, that is a cause for recusal.
But yet it never happened here.
You know, the idea, this never should have been brought by anybody.
It was a misdemeanor.
It's statute of limitations had passed.
And here is the worst part of this is that they don't nobody can tell you.
There's not a single attorney that can actually tell you what crime Donald Trump even allegedly committed.
Jonathan Turley made a good point in his column.
That the calculus of Alvin Bragg and the third highest ranking ranking Biden Justice Department lawyer that's that's prosecuting this.
They're counting on the jury convicting Trump regardless of the evidence.
Because there is no evidence.
They don't even know what the crime is for crying out loud because they're barely discussing it.
And that's probably why Bragg likely fears that the judge, not the jury, is going to decide the case.
You know, it's um which could happen.
After the government closes its its evidence this week, the defense is going to move for a direct verdict by the judge on the basis that the evidence is insufficient to sustain a conviction.
And by the way, I would agree with that assessment, and so does Jonathan Turley.
The election was was over when those quote, you know, when all the so-called expenses were actually paid to Michael Cohn for crying out loud.
And then you have the double standard with Hillary Clinton once again.
This is a failure of our justice system on a spectacular level.
You might as well take the constitution of this great country and shred it.
Because it's meaningless if the law is going to be applied this way, and this is this is what lawfare is.
This is not equal justice under the law.
It's not equal application of our laws.
Uh witch hunt doesn't even begin to capture the spectacular nature of the Democrats' efforts to destroy this man at any cost.
But it does seem to be backfiring, doesn't it?
Not going particularly well.
You know, estimates of over 80,000 Trump supporters in his rally in Wildwood, New Jersey over the weekend.
I mean, pretty deep blue state.
Heaven McCarthy said potentially winnable.
I've mentioned that in weeks gone by.
And the White House, you think does anyone think that anybody like Joe Biden could ever get a crowd or even have the ability to speak to a crowd?
I don't think so.
Jersey's not exactly a place that people think Republicans can compete, but over the years they they've been able to compete.
I would argue that when Glenn Youncan won Virginia had anybody paid attention to New Jersey, Governor Murphy could have been beaten.
There's a much closer margin.
Nobody saw it.
But anyway, so you bring in, you know, Michael Cohn as your star witness.
I can't wait to the defense.
I wonder how much time he spent being prepped by these people, if at all.
I mean, let's find out there.
But the prosecution of risking the entire trial on a convicted liar.
Okay, that's kind of rolling the dice, and a guy that's all over TikTok, you know, trying to get gifts from people, trashing Trump and having uh, you know, t-shirts on that show Donald Trump behind bars.
Okay, well, he's not exactly the guy that he came off with, you know, with the softball questioning that he's getting from prosecutors.
I mean, it is beyond weird.
This this the selfie camera soliloquies as the uh I guess was it the Washington Post that even pointed out.
I mean, uh, you know, the stream of consciousness political debates were call-in guests, you know, the the well, you can give me gifts, by the way.
Oh, okay.
Meaning pay me, give me money.
That's the way you make money, trashing Trump, a guy just obsessed with him.
Now, how is this gonna help the country?
It's not.
But this is what this is all they've got, and it's probably the only case they're gonna have before election day in 175 days, but election day starts earlier.
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I won't do it here, but um I I'm just gonna go in deep into the Siena and the New York Times poll, because it's devastating.
What do I always say about Trump?
And and Linda, I don't think I can say it any better than I say it.
If you think if you think of something, let me know.
But I I think in this case, they have so overreached, they've done the impossible.
They've turned Donald Trump into a victim.
And I'll I'll add to that, he defies all conventional political gravity.
If I were to tell anybody, you know, that somebody uh running for office in in the day or a day or two before a debate, you have uh an access Hollywood style tape come out and the guy goes on to win the election.
Would you have would you have bet that way, bet for that?
Probably not.
Or that if somebody gets arrested and charged again and again and again and then gets arrested and a mugshot and the fingerprints, and would would that end up backfiring?
You know, this is probably for Trump, whether he's found guilty or not here.
The best case because it just exposes the degree to which the the corruption of the Biden Department of Justice and the coordination with all these varying groups of people that just want to destroy Donald Trump and in their blind hatred of him, they have created a sympathetic figure.
It's not gonna work out the way they want.
They're helping him.
And I'll explain all about that when I go over the poll numbers as we continue.
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All right, let me get to the Siena polls because this is getting very, very interesting.
Um, in just so many different ways here, because you have Donald Trump now leading, and again, this I mean, I I find it interesting.
Joe Biden's people, well, the polls aren't accurate.
Well, all the polls, even fake news CNN, when fake news CNN and New York Times Siena comes out so dramatically against you, you're you're in you're in trouble.
You're in big trouble.
I mean, you've got look in Arizona.
You don't think immigration's having an impact out there?
Oh, it is.
Well, they were hoping the 1864 abortion ruling by the court.
Well, that's been fixed.
Okay, so that's not gonna be an issue.
Anyway, Trump is up uh by seven, forty-nine forty-two.
Uh, and you know, if you look at Georgia, he's up by ten.
I mean, that's a 4939.
I mean, then you look, for example, uh, he's up in Nevada.
He's up in Michigan 4942.
He's up in Nevada uh 5038, is up by 12.
Are you kidding me?
And that's pretty pretty unbelievable.
Anyway, it's um it's it's just an amazing time.
He's up by three in Pennsylvania, which is incredible.
The only the only swing state that he's down to, and that would be Wisconsin, that's 4745, but he's now leading in five battleground states.
That means if the election were held today, Donald Trump would be re-elected the 47th president of the United States.
Well, not re-elected technically.
And it's interesting to watch, you know, as you get into the demographics behind all of this, and you know, Axios had a piece out.
Working class voters could sink Democrats.
Now, I've been making this argument for years, and it is true.
Is this radicalized new Green Deal?
I want your gas stove.
You're gonna put an electric car in your driveway and garage, whether you like it or not, open borders to the point where they don't care about enforcing our law, you know, even taking in 10 million plus unvetted Joe Biden illegal immigrants from our top geopolitical foes, tens and tens of thousands from China, Russia, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Egypt, Afghanistan.
This is madness.
Defund, dismantle, no bail laws, reimagined the police.
How's that working out for Americans?
How's your educational system?
You know, dealing with, you know, all these kids now inundating educational, you know, communities all around the country or school districts all around the country.
You know, what you see is this has become a party of radical, coastal, new green deal socialist, climate alarmist, religious cultist left.
That's why, you know, traditional Democrats like James Carvel.
I mean, it'd be out of a lot more hair, he'd be pulling it all out.
That's why David Axelrod has been so harsh in his comments about Joe Biden.
That's why you hear from the likes of Van Jones.
That's why somebody like Maureen Dowd will write a column like, really, Joe, you're not going to pay attention to your own granddaughter?
I mean, these are impactful voices in the Democratic Party, and they're getting, you know, louder, and they're beginning to see that this is happening.
You know, the decades-long exodus of white working class voters from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party now has Hispanic Americans.
If you look at these polls and the demographic breakdown of these polls, it is very, very crucial.
I mean, there was another poll, the Philadelphia Inquirer, not exactly a right-wing bastion, pointing out that Biden is struggling in Pennsylvania, even with his vase uh base, and voters preferred Donald Trump on the major issues of the day.
Now, let's assume a guilty verdict here.
In this case in New York, this ridiculous case in New York, where we don't even know what the crime is by a you know, obvious politicized, weaponized Department of Justice, a weaponized DA that ran on a platform to get Trump, the Trump organization, the Trump family, and Joe Biden's third highest ranking official, the DOJ, you know, leaving that prestigious job to do all of this.
They haven't even quite identified the crime.
A judge that is a Biden donor.
I mean, it's insane.
Anyway, but the inquirer goes on to say out of Pennsylvania and in Philly that after months of return visits to Pennsylvania and millions of dollars poured into political advertisements.
Biden isn't gaining ground in the in the critical swing state.
This is what Axelrod was saying last week.
Stop lying to people about Bidenomics.
Stop it.
It's not working.
You've been trying it for month after month after month.
And you look at some of the strategies they're putting out there.
Oh, we have a new memo from the DCCC.
This is how Democrats are going to win on the immigration issue.
You can't win on the immigration issue.
Because there's tape of Joe Biden and Mayorcus and the borders are telling the America for three years, oh no, the borders closed, the borders secure.
Just, you know, outright lying to people.
Anyway, the poll shows that Donald Trump is surging over Biden by what, ten points in Georgia, twelve points in Nevada.
The poll shows Trump expanding his lead to seven points in in both Michigan and Arizona, three points in Pennsylvania.
That's the only battleground state where he trailed the only battleground state he trails, as I said, is Wisconsin.
The New York Times blames Trump's expanding lead on African American, Hispanic, and young voters who are deserting Biden and droves.
I'll read directly.
Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden are essentially tied among eighteen to twenty-nine year olds and Hispanic voters, even though each group gave Biden more than 60% of their vote in 2020.
Why?
Because they're miserable.
The Biden economy's not helping them.
What drives elections?
Peace and prosperity.
I say it all the time.
Okay.
Are you better off than you were four years ago?
The one thing they can't run on.
They'll demagogue abortion, democracy in peril, January 6th.
They'll say the usual Republicans are racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, transphobic, and they want dirty air and dirty water.
Okay, we've heard it all before.
Nobody's buying what they're selling.
Oh, the economy's great.
That's how out of touch Joe was last week.
Trump wins by more than 20%, wins more than 20 plus percent.
This is poll after poll.
Last poll had him at 28%, but in this poll, more than 20% of African Americans, a tally that would be the highest level of African American support for any Republican presidential candidate since the enactment of the Civil Rights Act that Lyndon Johnson,
by the way, needed Republican support for because uh people like, oh, let's see, Joe Biden's mentor and friend and the guy that uh stood with him to stop the school busing and the integration of schools because he didn't want public schools being racial jungles.
Robert KKK Byrd filibustered.
Yeah, that's civil rights act.
But it suggests that Donald Trump's strength among young and non-white voters has uh has upended the electoral map.
I mean, now I'm not taking anything for granted.
A lot can happen in 175 days, or actually earlier because of early voting, which I'm urging conservatives and Republicans to overcome whatever resistance and reluctance they have to it.
No, it's not the system I want.
There's another piece out that came out.
Where did I see this earlier today?
I don't even remember.
I guess it came from a lot of the polling stuff.
Axios actually had their analysis, the Washington Post, too.
But anyway, it's the decades-long exodus is real, and it's impacting the states that are going to matter.
And then you really do have to ask yourself a question after seeing what happened in Jersey this weekend.
Is are are states are the people in New Jersey, New York, are you fed up enough yet?
Have you been promised, you know.
I mean, what do you love about what they what Murphy's doing?
What do you love about what Joe Biden has done?
You know, Trump lasting.
I mean, oh my gosh.
Did you Linda, did you see some of this when they started chanting BSBS?
That's totally New York or New Jersey.
It might be people around the country that that may not get it.
But that's kind of the way we we grew up and learned how to roll you and Philly.
Oh, man.
I think it's everywhere now.
I think people are fed up.
I mean, they had a they had Biden coming out of somewhere, probably another ice cream poller where he made a really tough decision with some of his lackeys kind of, you know, sheltering him around so nobody can see that he can't put one foot in front of the other.
And it was just absurd just watching him, and he he's coming out, he's putting the thumbs up, he's waving, you know, like Miss America.
And I'm like, buddy, they're screaming FJB.
They're they're not saying hi.
Well, they're also screaming uh let's go Brandon, which is the same way of doing it.
Uh but anyway, the here's an interesting observation.
I I don't follow this.
You know, for the for example, I think uh Puck News, uh somebody there put it out there.
I like to always give attribution that 10.5 million TikTok users in PA, your state, 3.4 million in Nevada, 2.4 million Arizona, 5.4 in Georgia, 3.7 in Michigan.
If just one percent of these users are uh fed more pro-Trump anti-Biden content by creators who are miffed over the ban, it could have serious impact on the election.
But, you know, we'll see what happens.
But I mean, when you have that many people in New Jersey show up in a deep, quote, deep blue state.
Now you might look at the, you know, I don't know, the Christie Todd Whitmans or the Chris Christie's of the world, and you might say, well, Donald Trump's more conservative.
I don't know.
I think things are bad enough that all bets are off at this point.
A lot of people saw Lawrence Taylor, and what he said is I just I grew up a Democrat.
I've always been a Democrat until I met the man right here.
And he'll not have to worry about anybody in my family that's ever going to vote Democrat again.
And anyway, it was swamped.
And then people start chanting.
Let's go, Brandon B. S. B. S. Except they're actually saying it.
I mean, they were funny, you know, funny issues too.
I mean, he was talking about he used a reference about Hannibal Lecter.
And look, anybody that is has watched the movie knows all about Hannibal Lecter.
And, you know, that he talks about the last scene in the silence of the lambs.
And what is that actor's name?
He's in Goodfellas.
I forget his name off the top of my head.
And he's actually cooking the brain of somebody.
Well, first, it's his brain that's being cooked by what's the what's the British actor's name that played Hannibal Lecter?
He's so good in that movie.
Yeah, oh, Hopkins, yeah.
Yeah.
But anyway, but he's talking about all these people we're letting.
What do we know about these people that we're letting into the we know nothing about them?
Now, you want to know about the party of coastal elites.
Biden is topping tapping into Obama, George Clooney, Julie Roberts, and the Clintons for mega fundraisers.
Okay, that's all you need to do to understand about them.
By the way, Pelosi rebuked to her face during an Oxford debate after condemning Americans clouded by guns, gays, and gods.
Didn't I once come up before?
Yeah, I think so.
That was uh Barack Obama.
You know, bitter Americans clinging to their god, guns, Bibles, religion.
Yeah.
By the way, Mark Penn, I mean, he's a smart guy.
I've known Mark Penn for years.
I've had him on TV and radio for years.
Smart guy.
He used to be Clinton's polster.
He's not a dope.
And he has an article out.
Biden is doing it all wrong.
And Biden's not going to change either.
You know, he appears to be behind in all swing states.
Yeah.
Because he's doing it all wrong.
And, you know, Jensaki, by the way, coming under fire.
I mean, by the way, they after they excoriated Christy Gnome for getting, you know, the issue of having met or not met Kim Jong-un wrong in her book.
Remember when the 13 brave Americans were killed at Kabul International Airport?
Remember that disaster of a withdrawal where he abandoned Americans.
He said he wouldn't, where he abandoned our allies, he said he wouldn't.
And then he, you know, he's a Dover air base, awaiting the bodies of our heroes, and he keeps looking at his freaking watch, and she just got it wrong in the book.
Oh, she just gets to make a correction.
Not a problem.
Not a problem.
No big deal.
Anyway, so it's definitely getting interesting on so many different levels.
And I'll tell you, the abandonment of Israel to appeal to this radical base.
I don't, it is not going over well.
It's just not.
And guess who's popularity is going through the roof?
BB Netanyahu's.
Michael Moore is out there, you know, condemning Biden and their handling of the Israel.
They they want complete abandonment.
You know, and this Lindsay Graham was like, oh, well, what about Ronald Reagan?
First of all, they got that whole story completely wrong and omitted major facts associated with it.
And number two, this wasn't after the worst attack in Israel's history.
Excuse me.
You have to have some historical perspective.
And he just absolutely eviscerated somebody on one of the morning shows on Sunday.
Nobody watches those shows.
I don't know why people actually go on them that are Republicans.
Wasted their time.
All right, we have a lot of ground to cover.
Also, we've got to get the latest on this trial today.
We'll recap everything on Hannity tonight at 9 on the Fox News channel.
I mean, we we are living in insane times.
We really are.
We'll get perspective from our friend New Kingrich.
That's coming up.
Also, Corey Mills, Congressman Florida, filed articles of impeachment on Joe Biden's quid pro quo as it relates to congressionally appropriated money for Israel.