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Truth About James and Schiff - August 8th, Hour 1
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We got a lot we're going to get to in the course of the program today.
We're going to have some cultural issues.
The difference between the Sydney Sweeney ad and the Beyonce ad.
It is not uncommon for advertising agencies for companies to pick young, attractive people, men and women, to do their ads.
It's a very common practice, as a matter of fact.
We'll get to all of that today.
New Yorkers are latching on to a new breast milk flavored ice cream in Brooklyn.
That is your city, Linda.
That is the city you defend.
I'm not sure what that's all about, and I'm not sure I even want to know what that's all about.
I really don't.
That is a bizarre.
That's like the bizarre story of the day.
Um, but we got a lot of news we're going to get to uh in the course of things.
Number one, uh, just so you know, Pam Bondi did appoint a special counsel, a special prosecutor to handle both Letitia James and Adam Schiff.
Now, the fact that Democrats weaponized the DOJ and the FBI.
If you remember back in Trump's first term, he was very clear in stating that he purposely was telling people to leave a former first lady, his opponent in the 2016 presidential race, not knowing everything she was involved in and manufacturing this phony Russia Russia Russia hoax to not go after her, even though probably he could have it probably was warranted, to be very honest.
And I know why he did it.
He was trying to be gracious in retrospect, maybe a bad idea, but then uh I I think now you can't you you just can't be you can't be selective.
And everything the law has to be applied equally to everybody.
What they did to Donald Trump is very different because they went after Donald Trump on false issues, issues they knew were false, and this is where the media is complicit in so many different ways because they went along with the lies.
They went along with the conspiracy theories.
They went along with all the phony narratives.
They didn't want to tell the truth that the Russia hoax was fake.
They didn't care about FISA abuse.
They didn't care about the dirty Russian disinformation dossier.
They didn't care about false valuations of Mar-a-Lago.
They didn't care about the double standard rating Mar-a-Lago, but not going after the four locations, Joe Biden and top secret classified information, or Hillary Clinton's uh servers that had top secret classified information.
Uh then, of course, you have the the manufactured 34 felony cases based on a novel, meaning a new, untested, not even legal, not constitutional theory that that took an old issue, which was a non-disclosure agreement that was legal, paid for as a legal expense, uh, statute of limitations had passed, and and turned what was a misdemeanor into 34 felony counts.
Nobody, nobody on the left cared.
So in Trump's case, they manufactured it.
In the case of, you know, the people we're talking about, the evidence uh you do see a prima facie case as it relates to Adam Schiff claiming in paperwork, not once, but numerous times, that a Maryland home that he had was his main residence, while simultaneously out in California for tax benefits and loan benefits, doing the same exact thing.
I can promise you, if I did such a thing, they would come after me with a vengeance.
Now, the only difference with me and Adam Schiff got his preemptive pardon.
Why do I now believe that he knew that this issue was percolating out there?
Why do I believe he likely went to somebody in the Biden administration because we don't even know if Joe was with it or not with it in the final days of his administration?
And tell them he really needs and wants a preemptive pardon, and he got added to the list of all the people that got it.
Anyway, we now know Pam Bondy, the attorney general has Authorized the special prosecutor to investigate allegations of mortgage fraud in the case of the congenital liar Adam Schiff and New York Attorney General Letitia James, and there will be grand juries in Maryland and in Virginia, respectively, that will investigate claims involving Schiff, involving Letitia James.
Bondi named Ed Martin to serve as the special prosecutor.
And early today, Bondi issued subpoenas and paneled the grand jury as part of the criminal investigation into multiple allegations against the state of New York, according to a source familiar with the matter, who requested anonymity.
Breitbart reporting this week Schiff was under federal investigation for allegedly falsely falsifying mortgage documents to secure favorable home loans following a criminal referral from the Federal Housing Finance Agency to the DOJ.
The FBI in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Albany in New York opened non-criminal investigations into James, and it's going to be pretty interesting to watch this.
Then remember when Letitia James was running to become attorney general in 2018, she made no secret of her plan to go after Donald Trump.
It was the centerpiece of her campaign.
I won't play it now.
We played it many, many times.
Where do you think Alan Derschwitz's uh book title, Get Trump Came from?
And she had no evidence of any crimes, no basis to launch an investigation.
It was a pretty disgraceful abuse of power.
No nobody running for the position of attorney general should run on a platform of going after one man, one family, one business, but that's exactly what she did.
It's exactly what Alvin Bragg did.
And she knew she could count on New York State's overwhelming Democratic judicial establishment to go along with these legal attacks against Donald Trump, and it worked.
And James got Letitia James won a 454 million dollar civil judgment against Trump, claiming that he had inflated the value of his properties.
What?
To get favorable interest rates on loans.
And by the way, there wasn't one lender that complained.
There wasn't one lender that wasn't paid back.
Everyone got their money back.
In other words, you know, this is somebody, you know, show me the man on I'll show you the crime.
It was no victim at all in this case.
It was ridiculous.
Now it looks like the shoes on the other foot in this particular case, and it looks like Letitia James is about to get held accountable for what is to me atrocious legal misconduct.
So the DOJ convening now a grand jury to investigate Letitia James, marking what is an escalation in the president's fight with this New York attorney general.
Now I'm going to tell you something.
They're going to learn something in this because I watched the years from 20 to 2024, and I'm friends with I'm friends with most of the members of Donald Trump's family.
I've known Eric Trump, Laura Trump.
I've known Don Jr.
I've I know Melania Trump.
I know Baron Trump.
I know the entire family.
Who am I forgetting here?
I'm forgetting one.
I forgot.
But anyway, the investigation is being run out of Albany, focused on possible deprivation of rights allegations, two well-placed sources familiar with the probe.
The investigation is in the early stages, and Fox News Digital has learned that James's office received subpoenas for documents this week, including for information related to her civil fraud lawsuit against Trump.
And she brought that civil case against him for quote possible business fraud and had an instrumental role in challenging his current administration's executive actions in court.
The spokesperson for James suggested the action by the DOJ was a weaponization of its prosecutorial power.
I mean, I almost laughed when I read it.
Now she began investigating the Trump uh organization right after she took office, eventually securing that judgment against the then former president and some of his his company's executives.
Now, what I expect Pam Bondi to do is not what they did to Donald Trump and the people around Donald Trump.
I expect her to follow the law, the rule of law, use proper prosecutorial discretion when when needed.
Um, but if these allegations are true, then they've got big problems.
Uh we told you earlier in the week about banks in a in the country, including two of them.
One is uh JP Morgan Chase, and the other was Bank of America.
They they were debanking Donald Trump.
It's actually it's an actual, it's an actual process.
They did it at the request of the regulatory arms of the Biden administration, and they basically threatened both companies by saying that, well, you know, from a regulatory standpoint, you might be putting your company at in a category known as reputational risk.
And uh anyway, the president decided that using an excuse like reputational risk can no longer be a reason that banks reject a customer.
In the case of JP Morgan and uh Donald Trump apparently had done business with them for nearly 40 years, and the amount of money that he had in bank accounts and and different investments with him was over a hundred it was hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars.
And then after he had to get rid of that money and take it out of that bank within 21 days, he went to the Bank of America.
They wouldn't take him either because they got the same notification.
And in a way, I really can't blame these banks because they're basically being told by the federal government yeah, if you take this guy's money, we're gonna ruin your business and we're gonna create hundreds of millions of dollars in legal fees for you.
Anyway, so President Trump ordered regulators and banks to stop shuttering accounts for politically biased reasons.
It's known as debanking, and it's something that Trump and his family experience personally.
Now, I can give you a sneak peek.
I know Eric Trump is writing a book about all that they did to this one family and how they weaponized everything imaginable.
Uh later in the program, we are going to have Byron Donald's on.
We have crime statistics out that show that Washington, D.C. is more dangerous than many third world capitals.
You have data from the Heritage Foundation that found 2023 DC at a homicide rate of forty point nine homicides per 100,000 residents, ranked the fourth worst in the nation, only behind New Orleans and St. Louis and Detroit.
But by comparison, you know, you have places like Mexico City.
There were only eight, not 40, 8 per 100,000.
Bogota, Colombia, 14 per 100,000.
Ecuador, a rate of 45 per 100,000.
I mean, if you look at you know, Wikipedia, San Juan, Puerto Rico is safer than Washington, D.C. was by a long shot, and all these other countries.
We'll give you a list of it as the program unfolds today.
Um, a 28-year-old man was caught on video attacking two pro-life activists outside of Planned Parenthood Clinic in Baltimore, just sentenced this week to a year of home detention and three years probation.
The Baltimore circuit judge rebuffed prosecutors call for a 10-year sentence against this guy, Patrick Bryce is his name, 28, found guilty, two counts, second degree assault, reckless endangerment in relation to a May 20 uh 23 incident, according to the Baltimore banner.
This was not a minor altercation between two parties with differing views on abortion.
It was a vicious targeted assault on two senior citizens whose only offense was they were praying for expectant mothers and offering life-affirming alternatives to abortion to people.
That's called freedom of speech.
I thought liberals celebrated that.
One of the victims was knocked unconscious, the other suffered broken facial bones and a lifelong impairment.
And this is what's happened to the country.
Well, you're leaving one part out.
The victims were elderly.
They're not like he's he's a young guy.
It's ridiculous.
He walks up.
I mean, the guy's face is like a watermelon.
How bad he beat him.
I mean, look at what's happening.
Look at the acts of violence.
Look what the mob in Cincinnati.
And look at how nothing happens.
Nothing ever happens.
This is the most frustrating part of all of this to me.
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Yeah, there is a ceasefire, but ask anyone in Israel if they feel safe or they feel peace, and you're going to get a very, very different answer.
One of the most disturbing things, I'm kind of digressing here a little bit, is how some people don't have enough common sense and moral clarity to really understand what has happened and what Israel has lived under.
Now maybe it's because I've known Prime Minister Netanyahu for over thirty years.
Maybe it's because I've been to Israel multiple times.
Maybe it's because I've been there during conflict.
Maybe it's because I hung out with IDF soldiers.
Maybe it's because I've been to border towns like Starrot, where they had taken in 10,000 missiles in the 10 years prior to my arrival.
Maybe it's because I went to a kibbutz, which is like a community, a neighborhood, and I was there one day and I went back the next day, and overnight it was hit with one of these rockets fired from Gaza in Starot, which is, you know, you can see Gaza with your naked eye, and you can see it clearly.
It's not that far away.
Maybe, maybe it's because I actually went to the police station and saw how the level of sophistication and the lethality of the rockets would increase every year because they they chronologically had them in the back of the police station, and they got, you know, four times the size of what they were just a few years prior to me being there.
And, you know, seeing the shrapnel, these rockets are designed to inflict as much death and damage as possible.
Maybe it's because I actually went to an underground bunker playground because it only takes twelve to thirteen seconds for a missile fired out of Gaza to land in that town, and kids can't play outside, can't get vitamin D, they can't live normal lives.
Uh, I remember asking people, you know, why do you stay here?
And they looked at me like I had five heads on, and they said, Because this is our home.
And I respect it.
I'm not sure if I would make the same decision.
If I had to raise my kids and they had to play in an underground bunker playground, I'm not sure I'd want to live that life.
It's terrible.
And, you know, I'm watching, you know, some of the commentary out there, it is it is pretty dispicable and disgusting.
And it's a lot of it is based on ignorance.
And I don't care if it's the squad, I don't care if it's people proclaiming that they are conservatives.
You know, the the fact that the Trump doctrine is so misunderstood just drives me off a wall.
Because some people have taken no forever wars to mean that we never use the the full might and force of our military to prevent problems uh before they occur.
Donald Trump proved this in his first term.
But there are people that seem to be leaning into what I would call Buchananism, white nationalism, you know, and and within that area is a very strong anti-Israel virulent, there's virulent anti-Semitism out there.
We already know that.
We see it on college campuses, we know it's in the halls of Congress, we see it worldwide.
I mean, to listen to Emmanuel Macron is now going to recognize Hamas.
Hamas's charter calls for the destruction of Israel, and everybody wants to blame Israel for what's going on and what's happening, and everybody seems to have forgotten what happened October 7th, 2023.
Because if you extrapolate out, if you compare Israel's population to America's population, on October 7th, they lost the equivalent of what would be 40,000 dead Americans in a day.
I'm not sure how many people actually have seen the video of what happened that day.
I wish I actually begged and pleaded with the Israeli government and the IDF to let me air the video tape that they shared with me where I saw what actually happened that day and you saw parents being ripped away from their children children ripped away from their their parents kids being murdered and they lost the equivalent of what would be 40,000
americans in a single day and that's why i say to idiots like george clooney and and his wife that want want prime minister netanyahu you know brought up into this this international you know crime committee icc whatever it's called uh the level of ignorance what part of murder kidnapping torture rape beheadings don't these people understand and people say well well israel is
demolishing the
Gaza and there's a humanitarian disaster you not know that I'm talking about billions of dollars a lot of it U.S. tax dollars have been given to the Palestinian people the Palestinian people voted in Hamas instead of using that money to build out infrastructure hospitals schools no they built out the most sophisticated network of terror tunnels
that anybody has ever seen.
And I've been in those tunnels.
Again, there's a lot of ignorance from a lot of people that want a lot of clicks, and they don't know what the hell they're talking about.
But instead of building the hospitals, instead of building the schools, this is what they do.
And they buy rockets from Iran, or they get them delivered from Iran, and they fire them into Israeli cities and densely populated areas, you know, but for the Iron Dome, which I've always said is a Band-Aid.
The Iron Dome is not going to it eventually it's not unless it unless the technology gets more sophisticated these bond these ballistic missiles are getting bigger and more deadly and more lethal but the fact that Israel what would you expect the American government to do if this happened to us what would you expect your president to do what would you expect Congress to do I mean it's an easy answer.
You know the idea that we're threatened by the number one state sponsor of terror death to Israel death to America and specific threats that they want to build ballistic missiles that can hit the continental U.S. And we have an opportunity to take out their nuclear sites while their air defense system is down and so many people objected to that and and somehow think that that went against the Trump doctrine well Donald Trump took out the entire ISIS caliphate that was built under Obama and
Biden in record time never got credit for it.
And Obama took out Solomon on that tarmac after they were tracking him for two weeks because he was the he was the the leader the architect of all that terrorism of Iran the fact that he took out Baghdadian associates the fact that Donald Trump you know similarly dropped the mother of all bombs on Afghanistan.
Yeah.
And in every case, there was no forever war.
I agree with the president.
I agree with the Trump doctrine.
The Trump doctrine, however, is not isolationism.
And that doesn't mean that America won't come to the aid of our allies.
And in this case, Israel, when it's a righteous fight against radical Islamists that are dedicated to a caliphate of convert or die.
They state what their desire and their goal is.
It's not something you have to figure out.
they're very transparent about it.
It gets very frustrating to me what are you asking me Linda in my ear?
I mean this is a wonderful read for IFCJ but we just want to tell folks where to go to find out more.
Well the people of Israel you have tens and tens of thousands of people whose you know their homes have been you know blown to smithereens they're displaced they need bare necessities and they need food and water and medicines and clothing and shelter and the IFCJ is is filling that void.
They're also helping to build out new bomb shelters as we learned with the most recent attack by Iran, they didn't have enough of them.
Anyway, if you want to help the people of Israel as they fight for their survival, please help the IFCJ, our partners, just go to IFCJ.org.
It's it's it's a bigger issue to me, though.
And uh it's getting frustrating.
And right now, Prime Minister Netanyahu said yesterday, people are like shocked.
You know, that he is announced that he will forge ahead in a plan to take over Gaza to wipe out Hamas, and then he says they will hand the area, all of Gaza, they will remove Hamas,
the terror organization, enable the population to be free and to pass all of Gaza on to a civilian government, and that Arab nations will also take control of it, which by the way, the latter distinction would likely mean a country subscribing to the Abraham Accords,
which you know formalize diplomatic relations between Israel, the U.S., the Arab Emirates, Bahrain, uh Morocco, Sudan, and some other countries.
I'd like to see everybody, you know, j they've got to recognize their right to exist and they gotta recognize the right to defend themselves.
All right, 800, 941 Sean.
So Stanginator is making a rare appearance.
Stanginator is not often in the New York office.
Why are you there today?
I'm just here to hang out with you, Sean.
I miss you.
You just self look crap.
Um well, you say you want to hang out with me.
I'm in Florida, so I'm not in New York.
So I showed you.
Yes, I'll be down there soon.
As Rush was uh broadcasting from the Southern command today.
You people.
Yeah, exactly.
Uh how long have you worked for me now?
You worked for me since 1992.
Yeah, so this would be year 33.
I'm curious because we were talking yesterday.
You used to be the biggest Howard Stern fan.
Boy.
Let me play a clip of Howard.
Oh, oh, huge.
And let me play Howard Stern.
Because Barstools is reporting that he got fired, that he's done.
Oh, wow.
They're reporting he's out.
Yeah.
Here, but when you alienate your audience like this, let me play it for you, then, and you insult the very people that that gave him a life that he never dreamed of.
And I don't regrudge him his success.
He was very talented, very witty, cutting edge.
He did his thing.
Everybody I knew growing up would listen to him.
They'd listen to Imus, uh, even though they both hated each other.
But this, you know, this new woke, politically correct, you know, left wing Trump hating audience hating Howard Stern.
It's like invasion of the body snatchers.
I don't even I don't even recognize this guy anymore.
Let's play some of what he said.
I don't hate the guy.
I hate the people who vote for him.
I think they're stupid.
I I do.
I'll be honest with you.
I have no respect for you.
If woke means I can't get behind Trump, which is what I think it means, or that I support people who want to be transgender, or I'm for the vaccine.
Dude, call me woke as you want.
Why are you eating for breakfast raisin bran?
I read.
Um, I feel that's not for someone who's healthy.
Why raisin brand?
It's a lot of sugar.
Well, no, so I don't eat raisin bran every morning.
But if you asked me what was my favorite cereal, I would put it right up there with, okay, and then this is gonna be obnoxious and special K. Special K. Well, it's really great.
Plus, my mother used to make these special K cookies.
I can't take it.
You know, the pro take on it, because you were you were probably the biggest fan of Stern that I know, and I had a lot of friends of mine that we grew up listening to them, but you were like over the boon.
I was.
I love when when I when I lived in LA, I listened to him on KLSX.
I listened to him when he was on when I moved to New York.
But I think the problem with Howard is the woke stuff is bad.
But when you when you've spent twenty or twenty-five or thirty years cultivating this and making millions and millions of dollars cultivating This ultimate bad boy image, and then on a dime, you you throw all that aside and become kind of the ultimate lapdog because that's kind of what he is now.
He's just toting every everything exactly what academia is saying, what government's saying.
Um, it leaves your fan base feeling betrayed.
And it leaves the fan base feeling like, well, who who's the real Howard?
Were you lying to me then or are you lying to me now?
And I think that's the biggest problem with Howard.
And it all started when he did that TV show, The America's Got Talent.
That's when that show went really, really downhill.
I don't know.
The old Howard would have loved Donald Trump as president.
Well, they must have Howard would want the iconoclass that kicks ass, speaks his mind, no filter, no holds barred.
I mean, he would have loved the old Howard would have loved it.
Howard ran for governor of New York as a Republican.
He he really wasn't running.
He once once they said he had to release his financial statement, he was out of that race faster than you can count.
And then Stanger for oh, what you left me for a period of time to work for our old friend Tom Likas.
Yes.
Tom Likas was well, he still is.
I think he still does a podcast.
He was talented.
Yeah, I actually thought Tom was a lot better than Howard Stern in a lot of ways.
Six minutes happening.
Thank you for tuning into the Tom Liker Show.
Yeah.
I don't know.
And he would do Sandman by Metallica as his opening music.
Yeah, one in 500 palm.
Yeah.
This is not a show hosted by a right-wing Waco.
No.
I am your host.
You know, show 1-800.
We all calm.
You and I and Lycus hanging out together in Aspen.
That one.
We always got along.
He didn't care.
We were actually on Phil Donnayu once together.
It was me, Lycas.
He described himself back then when he was on KFI years ago as a pissed-off liberal.
And it used to be more political.
Then he got into this whole I mean, I'm going to call it what it is.
Kind of misogynistic Tom, right?
And a like his 101.
Yeah.
And had a girl.
How to spend the least amount of money to hook up with a girl.
Right.
I mean, he had this whole, you know, class that he taught on air.
It was crazy.
Yeah.
But it was entertaining, but it was crazy.
Yeah, it was it was it was funny.
But I always liked him.
Yeah.
But yeah, he I'm not even sure he was really like that.
That he that he was liberal or that he was I I just think he knew he was doing it for shock value.
Or am I wrong?
No, I think he's just the he he created this ultimate bad boy radio guy thing, and part of it was hey, you know, hey, teaching young men how to how to hook up with girls and what to say to them and stuff like that.
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