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BIDEN IS DONE, Democrats Threaten To PULL Donations In REVOLT, Obama & Maher Want OPEN CONVENTION

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tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Become a member at Timcast dot com by clicking join us to support the work we're doing and to get access to the uncensored Timcast IRL call in show Monday through Thursday at 10 p.m.
		You don't want to miss it.
		Now, let's get into the news.
		The downward spiral for Joe Biden continues.
		Donors are turning on him.
		Obama reportedly wants an open convention at the DNC, meaning anyone could nominate whoever they want.
		Despite the fact that Joe Biden won the primaries.
		You now have Bill Maher calling for an open primary.
		The biggest one, of course, is these donors saying they are going to pull the plug unless Joe Biden drops out, and I don't blame them.
		But me, ladies and gentlemen, you know I am the staunchest of Joe Biden supporters.
		He is firm, strong, capable, and he is sharp as ever.
		That's why I Support Joe Biden as the nominee for the Democratic Party.
		And I will call on all of you, dear viewers, to please lend your voices to defend the honor and dignity of Joe Biden.
		I don't want to see him drop out.
		I want Democrats to reap what they have sown.
		And when they said it was cheap fakes, When we were criticizing the Democratic establishment for trying to run Joe Biden, they said we were sharing cheap fakes.
		That's what they called him!
		This is a week before the debate, and now the debate happens, and they're spittin' and yellin' and screamin' saying they want to get rid of Joe Biden.
unidentified		Uh-huh.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Okay, look, fine, whatever.
		I don't care what they do.
		I think the most important thing that we can do, especially going into, well, coming out of 2020, whatever you think of it, the most important thing is going to be organizing.
		Knocking on doors, calling people, getting active.
		You know, I recommend Reaching out to, I don't know, a local, you know, I don't necessarily want to say Republican, because there's a lot of bad Republicans.
		You want to find the good, America-first, populist types.
		You want to reach out, maybe you reach out to Scott Pressler in some way.
		I don't know how to reach out to Scott Pressler.
		But I'm saying that's the kind of stuff you want to be doing.
		And I'm sure there are local offices that are working on voter registration.
		New voters lean Donald Trump.
		Trump is imperfect.
		I am not going to sit here, nor will I ever, on my show, and come on and say, Trump is the best, he's the god-emperor, whatever, none of that stuff.
		Now, Trump done a lot of bad things, but I tell you this, in my life, I view him as a net positive.
		And I've been thinking a lot about this lately, you know, because it wasn't until the end of 2020 I said I'd vote for Donald Trump.
		And it was, you know, you cannot come out criticizing all of these things done by Democrats and praising all of the good things done by Trump and then not support another term of it.
		How is Trump's foreign policy?
		The most important thing, in my opinion.
		I don't know.
		C plus?
		C minus?
		But it's a passing grade.
		It may even be a D minus.
		Whatever you want to think of it.
		It's the first time in my life a president has sought to pull our troops back.
		Attain peace?
		I mean, I can't say much more than the obvious.
		Negotiating peace with North Korea?
		The Abraham Accords?
		I mean, I think these things are tremendous.
		Donald Trump also had bad advisors and hired bad people.
		But the reality is, the economy was good.
		It was.
		I'm not going to blame Trump or Biden for COVID.
		And everybody wants to.
		It's the stupidest thing ever.
		They're like, well, Donald Trump did the lockdowns.
		Well, no, that was governors.
		You can blame the governors.
		You can blame, quote, that guy killed 15 murdered people.
		But the issue with COVID is, You can pick and choose.
		And everyone's going to do it.
		So it's a moot point to me.
		You know, a lot of people are saying Fauci.
		The Biden people say Trump.
		And I'm just like, let's push that one aside.
		Pre-COVID, the economy was great.
		Under Joe Biden, the economy is trash.
		Sure.
		Joe Biden had a COVID period.
		Donald Trump had a COVID period.
		I don't care about that.
		What I care about is that inflation skyrocketed under Joe Biden.
		That he's defying the Supreme Court.
		He is acting like a dictator.
		He's at a rally saying the Supreme Court says, I cannot forgive loans.
		I did it anyway.
		Is that the country you want to live in?
		What did Donald Trump do?
		That's the wildest thing.
		When I see these people say, Trump's a dictator.
		He's going to be a dictator.
		You can't vote for him.
		I'm like, what did he do?
	Heaven help me.
	He didn't even stop the riots.
	Joe Biden openly defies Supreme Court.
	Joe Biden's DOJ is trying to put his political rival in prison.
	Well, here we go, ladies and gentlemen.
	Joe Biden's in trouble.
	The Daily Mail says key Democrat donors threaten to pull plug if Biden doesn't resign as furious party insiders reveal worst fears about ailing president have now been confirmed.
	Quote, how stupid do they think we are?
	You know, if you're a Democrat donor and you're trying to figure out a way you can flush money down the toilet, I got a suggestion.
	Donate to Biden's campaign.
	Flush that money right down the toilet.
	Growing Democratic uproar over President Joe Biden's shockingly feeble debate performance
	on Thursday night appears to be turning into a full-blown party revolt.
	For Biden's own good and for the good of the country, he should step aside immediately,
	major Democratic donor and former hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson told Daily Mail.
	The fact that it has now been three days and Biden has done nothing to reassure us confirms
	my worst fears.
	Tilson has given the party more than $300,000 in recent years.
	Days after the president struggled to hold his train of thought and tailed off mid-answer into incomprehensible gibberish during the CNN debate, left-wing benefactors are still up in arms.
	On Saturday, Biden appeared at a New York fundraiser in a glitzy Long Island beach town and, according to one attendee, read a simple 15-minute speech of a teleprompter before leaving without taking any questions.
	Doing that for the next five months is not going to be enough, the fundraiser guest said, stressing that Biden's understandably anxious supporters deserve reassurance that he is capable of defeating Donald Trump in November.
	But later on Saturday night, Democratic National Committee Chairman Jamie Harrison and Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez only further stoked concerns on a conference call with wavering DNC members.
	You ready for this one?
	This one's good.
	The call was akin to a rah-rah speech, said John Verdejo, a party member from North Carolina, and the call organizers failed to address the elephant in the room, namely Biden's inability to speak clearly.
	Other DNC members went even further than Verdeo in their criticisms.
	Some said they felt gaslighted by campaign officials on the call, who seemed to deny that there was anything to be concerned about.
	The official Team Biden line appears to be nothing to see here.
	On every metric that matters, data shows the debate did nothing to change the American people's perception.
	Jen O'Malley Dillon, chair of the Biden-Harris 2024 campaign, insisted in a memo released this weekend.
	I love it!
	The question then is, do they think we are stupid?
	Yes!
	Because you are stupid!
	I got a question for you.
	If you didn't eat breakfast yesterday, how would you have felt?
	I also love that Jack Posobiec and I were talking about this.
	Scheherazade was an IQ test.
	Stories within stories.
	That meme about, if you didn't eat breakfast yesterday, how would you have felt?
	It's a meme where people with low IQs can't understand conditional hypotheticals, but within the meme is also the statement, lower IQ people can't understand recursion.
	And so the test there is, you ask someone, write me a story with two characters, each of them having at least one line of dialogue.
	The next question is, after they do that, write me a story about two characters each having at least one line of dialogue where one character tells the other character's story that includes two characters that each have at least one line of dialogue.
	You see where we're going with this.
	And people of low IQ reportedly cannot handle recursion.
	Stories within stories.
	That's the joke.
	Scheherazade was an IQ test.
	Ha!
	Oh, ladies and gentlemen, I love this so much.
	I give you 538.
unidentified		538.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Ain't no Trump support and aggregator, I tell you this.
		But let's play a game.
		Let's count all of the polls post-debate, and let's see how many Trump won.
		Cue the music!
		I wish I had music to cue.
		Okay, so we've got, uh, I'm not gonna include Patriot polling because it starts June 27th and the debate happened at night, so I don't think that's fair.
		So you've got, um, Morning Consult, Trump.
		You've got Survey USA, Trump.
		Morning Consult, Trump.
		Date of Progress, Trump.
		So, uh, another Date of Progress for Trump.
		Another one for Trump.
		Trump.
unidentified		Trump.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That's ten!
		Trump.
		Trump.
		Twelve.
		Uh, looks like 12 polls benefiting Trump.
		Okay, to be fair, half of those are coming just from Data for Progress, so.
		And they're all different.
		They're Trump against a bunch of other people.
		So let's just do this.
		Post-debate polls.
		Trump v. Biden only.
		Not where just Trump is winning.
		Data for Progress has Trump up one.
		We then have SurveyUSA.
		We have... What else do we have?
		We have Morning Consult.
		And I'm not going to use... Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
		And we've got Morning Consult with Biden.
		Oh, that's interesting.
		Biden was up by one according to Morning Consult.
		So let's say about four according to FiveThirtyEight.
		Now let's take a look at the real clear average.
		Oh no, this is the wrong one.
		I don't want betting odds.
		We do want the betting odds.
		Biden's actually improved.
		But, you know, that's fine.
		People are going to bet.
		There's value bets to be made.
		You know what I mean?
		You don't want to lose out on that.
		Alright, let's take a look at the aggregate polling from... Oh my!
		Holy crap!
		Trump is up 2.3!
		Holy whoa!
		I did not expect that, I'm going to be honest.
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tim pool ▲ ● ▼		We're gonna take a look at the latest polls post debate and see where Donald Trump is
		at.
		And so it starts a data for progress with Trump.
		We know that one survey USA Trump.
		Oh, I'm sorry.
		They're all Trump.
		This is amazing.
		Real clear politics.
		Aggregate polling.
		Post-debate.
		Only shows Trump up.
		3 points, 2 points, 1 point, 4 point.
		They think you are stupid, Democrats.
		I saw this interview.
		This was amazing.
		Sources close to Biden report marked incidents of cognitive decline Nope, nope.
		Well, you get the gist of it through the headline anyway, but I'm not going to deal with Fox's stupid website.
		in the last year and a half when the president has appeared somewhat as he did in that horror
		show that we witnessed.
		CNN's Carl Bernstein reported.
		This one's absolutely fascinating.
		Oh, Fox doesn't want me to read this one.
		Can we read this one, Fox?
		Let's see if they'll let us read it.
unidentified		Nope.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Nope.
		Well, you get the gist of it through the headline anyway, but I'm not going to deal with Fox's
		stupid website.
		Well, there you have it, my friends.
		We've all enabled the situation.
		Democrats turn on Biden's inner sanctum post-debate.
		The senior team's management of Biden has grown more strictly controlled as his term has gone on.
		And they're blaming Jill.
		Telegraph.
		Jill Biden takes flack for urging Joe to carry on.
unidentified		Why?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Because Jill's the one running the show.
		Everyone thinks it's Obama.
		No, I think it actually, I think it was Joe.
		And I think it was largely Jill.
		Now I think it's mostly Jill.
		I think Jill Biden is telling him what to do and is effectively the de facto president.
		The reason she doesn't want him to bow out is because she loses power.
		What was it?
		Fox News played that clip of her saying, si se podway or whatever.
		Man, she really is cringe.
		change.
		Lots of people are blaming his wife for not telling him to step aside.
		I'd like to just... I want to paint a picture for you.
		Joe Biden.
		He's at home.
		And he's walking into the kitchen with his hands.
		You see the thing he does where his hands are like twisted, like in a weird gripped, and he's doing the Cornholio thing where they're out in front of him and he's just walking like a zombie.
		And he's just pitter-patting around, confused, doesn't know what's going on.
		He's looking for the Doritos.
		And Jill walks in, she grabs his hand and says, Come here, Joe.
		Come on.
		And she sits him down and says, Do you want cocoa?
		Okay, I heard there was ice cream.
		Yeah, okay, we'll get you ice cream.
		He ain't there.
		Everybody knows he ain't there.
		And then Jill Biden gets a phone call.
		Is he ready for the debate?
		She picks him up.
		She walks him outside and Joe goes, ice cream.
		She's like, that's right, Joe.
		I'm exaggerating a little bit, obviously, but I'm painting this picture.
		Jill Biden is the one walking him to and from.
		Jill Biden is the one who is setting him up for these things.
		Jill Biden is abusing a demented old man.
		And I'm not.
		Hold on.
		That's not an insult.
		I'm not saying demented to it.
		I'm saying he's a man suffering from dementia.
		He is demented.
		And she's putting him in front of a TV.
		She's putting him in these positions.
		And it's insane.
		Absolutely insane.
		The donors are skipping the events.
		And I say, so be it.
		So be it.
		I've got some other stuff.
		We got this, uh, Tucker Carlson tweet.
		Tucker Carlson says, Biden is done.
		Bet on it.
		Too many prominent Democrats have suggested he's brain damaged.
		It's funny because we've been saying that forever, but sure.
		They can't walk it back.
		They have to remove him, and they will.
		The only question is when.
		If they're smart, they'll do it immediately.
		If Kamala's going to be the nominee, she might as well be the president first.
		That leaves the question of Trump and his sentencing on July 11th.
		Biden's collapse makes this a much more perilous moment than it was.
		At this point, Trump is not just the Republican candidate, but effectively the presumptive president.
		If you're going to put him in jail, it had better be for a serious crime that everyone agrees he committed.
		Actually.
	I added the actually, sorry.
	People might think I'm actually quoting.
	Otherwise, you risk destroying the system completely and forever.
	We're in legitimate danger.
	Democrats need to pull back.
	Actually.
	It's funny because Tucker does say actually quite a bit.
	You know, I am kind of shocked because I predicted this back in November.
	And I remember when I did the—recorded the segment on it, and, you know, we were trying to figure—I was trying to figure out the title, and I was like—I mean, the gist of the whole video was me saying, like, there's no way Biden can be the nominee, but I don't want to say that I know.
	I don't want to make—and I said, no, Biden is not going to be the nominee.
	That's my bet.
	And as time went on, I think in, like, March, I was like, well, now I guess it's too late.
	I guess they're really going to run this guy.
	It's just crazy to me.
	But maybe I spoke too soon.
	Maybe I was right the whole time.
	I don't know.
	It's not like I'm the only one who thought this was the case.
	Many people thought it would not be Joe Biden.
	I mean, Joe Rogan's been saying for what, like two years now?
	That Joe Biden's brain is fried.
	It's Jell-O flopping around in the old meat wagon of Biden.
	Just flopping Jell-O.
	There's no brain left.
	So I don't know how they run this guy.
	But Obama, it's been reported, wants an open convention.
	Bill Maher is urging an open convention.
	He's floating Gavin Newsom.
	We've babied Joe Biden enough.
	So here's the story.
	Oh, once again, Fox News, yeah.
	They always do that.
	Maher said Biden appeared vigorless at the debate and suggested it's time for him to step aside.
	Well, let's do this.
	What is an open convention and how would it work?
	U.S.
	News.
	Mere minutes into the first presidential debate of the 2024 election, Democrats are worried.
	Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	We all, we all know.
	Here we go.
	That clinches it.
	I'm voting for Jake Tapper.
unidentified		Haha.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Geez, these cartoons are awful.
		All right, so how did an open convention work?
		The performance sparked questions about what options Democrats have for the path forward.
		Biden, to be sure, has shown no indication of stepping aside.
		He told supporters in Atlanta, let's keep going shortly after the debate.
		But Biden's performance prompted some Democratic strategists to float the idea of an open convention.
		These days, conventions act as a ceremony for the person who won the most delegates during the primaries.
		But in the past, conventions were where the nominee was actually decided.
		However, Biden won the vast majority of the 4,000 delegates in the primaries.
		Those people are pledged, but not necessarily required, to back Biden at the Democratic National Convention.
		The current rules state that delegates elected to the National Convention pledged to a presidential candidate shall in good conscience reflect the sentiments of those who elected them.
		So if Biden were to drop out, or if someone in the Democratic Party moved to try to replace him, it would involve an open, contested competition for the nomination at the convention with delegates voting for their choice of nominee.
		If Biden did drop out of the race, his support would likely fall behind Harris, but other options could include Gavin Newsom, J.B.
		Pritzker, Governor Michigan's Gretchen Whitmer.
		An open convention comes a lot of risks.
		It could divide the Democratic Party and reduce it to chaos with no unifying force to rally around.
		Additionally, unless Biden drops out, it's hard to imagine enough delegates would be willing or interested in throwing their support behind another nominee.
		And ultimately, it appears unlikely that Biden will drop out of the election with less than two months to go until the convention.
		I'm not so sure.
		I'm not so sure.
		I want you to imagine this.
		These delegates In these precincts.
		They're going to go to the people who live there and they're going to say, should I vote for Biden at the convention?
		And the constituents are going to say no.
		They're going to say back Gavin Newsom.
		I think I think there's a strong possibility we see maybe not an open convention, but a contested one open convention, meaning they say, OK, everybody, we're we're going to open up the field to other people and they know Joe Biden stepping down.
		I think we might actually see Joe Biden at the convention and people start voting for other people.
		It was fascinating.
		I was there on the ground at the convention in 2016 when the Democrats stole it from Bernie Sanders.
		That's amazing.
		The Democrat voters wanted Bernie Sanders.
		Hillary Clinton said, nope, she's taking it.
		I don't know what's going to happen at this convention.
		I mean, so many different things.
		But part of me definitely feels like this is at least somewhat planned.
		You had that New York Times article that was pre-written before the debate.
		We've all known.
		Do you think, do you really think, that Democrats at the highest level are unaware of what's going on?
		The Democrat voter may be ignorant and willing to believe whatever stupid garbled nonsense comes out of these pundits' mouths.
		Cheap fakes!
		The people running the show have a plan.
		I'm not saying they're the smartest people in the world.
		I don't know.
		But I kind of feel like, yeah, they probably have thought something through.
		They use third grade reading level language to try and connect with the lowest common denominator voters.
		It works for them.
		So what is their plan?
		Perhaps the plan always was to have Biden be the candidate and swap him out at the last minute.
		With someone like Gavin Newsom.
		But I'm not so sure Gavin Newsom can even pull it off.
		Let's take a look at 538.
		And we've got all of this polling data.
		Not a single one of these alternates can beat Trump.
		Cory Booker loses, Klobuchar loses, Shapiro loses, Buttigieg loses, Pritzker loses, Newsom loses, Whitmer loses, Harris loses.
		They all lose to Trump.
		So what can they do?
		Honestly?
		Democrats are between a rock and a hard place, but it's a place of their own making.
		For now, I think the consensus is Biden doesn't want to drop out, but he has no choice.
		The Democratic Party is in chaos and in revolt.
		I hope they enjoy it.
		I'll leave it there.
		Next segment's coming up at 1 p.m.
		on this channel.
	Thanks for hanging out, and I'll see you all then.
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tim pool ▲ ● ▼		In a major victory for Donald Trump so far, Manhattan prosecutors are agreeing to delay Trump's sentencing in the Hush Money case because Donald Trump's legal team has filed an argument that sentencing must be delayed, conviction overturned, citing presidential immunity.
		The judge has not yet decided whether or not sentencing will be delayed.
		This is just DA Alvin Bragg saying Trump's right.
		You may be asking, why would they agree to this?
		Why is this happening?
		It's not all bad for Democrats.
		You see, they're in a panicked state over what it means to put Trump in jail.
		And the sentencing for Donald Trump is in just about a week and a half.
		This will come just before the RNC.
		Conversations have been happening since he's been convicted as to how they will handle this because Trump raised a record amount of cash when they convicted him in the first place.
		If they put him in jail before the RNC, this could be pandemonium.
		Speculation was that Democrats would find a way to make sure Trump does not go to jail before the RNC.
		This gives them that out, but ultimately could lead to Donald Trump challenging the conviction to the Supreme Court, where I believe it will be completely overturned.
		In fact, it is likely, in my opinion, that Judge Mershawn does not We'll not actually heed the Supreme Court ruling.
		We'll argue the conviction stands, but an appellate court will probably, at the lower level, overturn this.
		Now, I don't know if New York would then appeal it and take it to the Supreme Court, but the general idea here is that Donald Trump, as president, is immune, has absolute immunity pertaining to constitutional duties.
		He has presumed immunity pertaining to official acts.
		Presumptive immunity, they call it.
		No immunity for unofficial acts.
		You may be wondering, but what?
		He paid off Stormy Daniels.
		That was the accusation.
		How would he be immune here?
		Simple.
		The prosecutors used official acts that he had engaged in as evidence of his crime, and the Supreme Court explicitly stated, you cannot do that in their ruling.
		Thus, This case needs to be, at the very least, retried.
		The conviction must be overturned.
		The case must be retried.
		Now, to be completely honest, there's no real case here.
		So this is fascinating.
		But I can simplify it for you.
		And, you know, I hate to be the bearer of bad news.
		This is, my friends, political instability.
		The charges against Trump in the first place were fake.
		The statute they used for Donald Trump, for this crime, it's a misdemeanor.
		And the statute of limitations expired.
		How then did they get Trump?
		Well, most of you know.
		Some of you may not, but most of you know.
		They argued that altering business records to conceal another crime is a felony and they can't charge him.
		Now, we don't actually know what the furtherance of another crime was.
		They never specified that.
		And you have two very serious constitutional issues at hand.
		One, now it's presidential immunity, which I think is clear-cut.
		The second, pertaining to this case, has a lot to do with, well, to be completely honest, you're breaking down The system at hand is one state sentencing the front-runner for the presidency on a crime that doesn't exist, and the constitutional issue is they did not unanimously decide a crime was committed when they determined that a crime was committed.
		The furtherance of a secondary crime would require a jury to convict Donald Trump of having committed a crime.
		The courts do not have the constitutional authority to determine a crime was committed Secondary to this other crime.
		When they said Trump committed some other crime, and it may have been election interference, it may have been other business records being manipulated, you cannot, as a court, as the government, say someone committed a crime in any context without due process.
		And that didn't happen here.
		That's the first constitutional challenge.
		Now we have the immunity challenge.
		Let's read the story from the New York Times.
		They report Manhattan prosecutors on Tuesday agreed with Donald J. Trump's request to postpone his criminal sentencing so that the judge overseeing the case could weigh whether a recent U.S.
		Supreme Court ruling might imperil his conviction.
		New court filings show.
		It is up to the judge to determine whether to postpone the sentencing, though with both sides in agreement, a delay seemed likely.
		The judge, Juan M. Marchand, could rule as soon as Tuesday.
		I think the judge is going to say, yes, we delay, but I don't think the judge will overturn the conviction.
		A delay would represent a surprising setback for the case, which led to the first conviction of an American president.
		The sentencing was likely to be the only moment of criminal accountability for the twice impeached and four-time indicted former president, whose other cases are mired in delay.
		Mr. Trump, who was convicted of falsifying business records related to his cover-up of a sex scandal during his 2016 presidential campaign, Now, I was of the mind that probation or house arrest seemed likely, but Brandon Strzok of the walk-away campaign made a good point on Tim Castile.
		at the Republican National Convention. He faces up to four years in prison, though
		he could receive as little as a few weeks in jail or probation. Now, I was of
		the of the mind that probation or house arrest seemed likely, but Brandon Strzok
	of the walkaway campaign made a good point on Tim Castarelli.
	He said, why? Why would they stop there?
	They've gone to the highest degree imaginable every step of the way.
	Why stop now?
	He's actually right.
	They won't.
	Here we go.
	On Monday, the planned sentencing hit a snag when the Supreme Court granted Mr. Trump broad immunity from prosecution for official actions taken as president.
	The landmark ruling, which was decided 6-3 along partisan lines, dealt a major blow to Mr. Trump's federal criminal case in Washington, where he is accused of plotting to overturn his 2020 election laws.
	Now, I want to check this right here, because that's a media framing.
	Let me give you the facts.
	You decide what it means.
	I'm not saying support Trump, I'll say give you the facts.
	Donald Trump communicated with Mike Pence, the Vice President, as to whether Mike Pence should count Electoral College votes from states that were currently in dispute.
	By all means, if you think Trump was trying to overturn his election loss, you can believe that.
	The reason I'm breaking it down that way is that the view of the right is that Donald Trump was trying to uphold the Constitution, though it would have benefited him.
	The Constitution states that the state legislatures have final say in their elections.
	And in several states, the state legislatures were disputing the electoral vote count in those states.
	The governors set the counts anyway.
	Mike Pence had to count the electoral vote.
	Trump said, you don't have to count the ones that come from states that are in dispute.
	This would have led to a contingent election where the House delegations would have selected the president.
	Thus, they would have chosen Donald Trump, likely because there are more Republican House delegations.
	We don't know for sure.
	By all means, if you believe Trump was trying to overthrow his loss, overturn his loss, sure.
	That's one way to phrase it.
	I just want to make sure you know the facts.
	They're going to say, although the Manhattan case does not center on Mr. Trump's presidency or official acts, but rather on his personal activity during the campaign, His lawyers argued on Monday that prosecutors had built their case partly on evidence from his time in the White House.
	And under the Supreme Court's new ruling, prosecutors not only cannot charge a president for any official acts, but also cannot cite evidence involving official acts to bolster other accusations.
	In a letter to Justice Mershawn, Mr. Trump's lawyers contended that the conviction should be set aside.
	They also asked the judge to postpone the sentencing while he considered their request.
	In response to the letter from Mr. Trump's lawyers, the District Attorney's Office wrote that prosecutors did not oppose Mr. Trump's request to delay the sentencing.
	Although we believe defendant's arguments to be without merit, we do not oppose his request for leave to file and his putative request to adjourn sentencing pending determination of this motion, wrote Joshua Steinglass, one of the assistant DA district attorneys who tried the case against the former president.
	Mr. Trump's lawyers proposed filing their court papers on July 10th, and the district attorney's office said it would respond two weeks later.
	D.A.
	Alvin Bragg was the first to bring criminal charges against Trump last March.
	Three other indictments followed in three other jurisdictions, Washington, Florida, and Georgia, in the summer, but Mr. Bragg's case is likely to be the only one to make it to trial before Election Day.
	In May, a jury of 12 New Yorkers convicted Trump, blah blah blah, we all know this, and moving forward, they say the D.A.' 's case framed the hush money payment as a part of a broader conspiracy.
	Now, let's start over.
	I'm gonna make sure I give you the details, okay?
	Falsifying business records is a misdemeanor.
	This misdemeanor was beyond its statute of limitations.
	They argued it was upgraded to a felony because the falsification of business records was in furtherance of another crime.
	What that crime is, we don't know.
	The state has asserted a crime was committed without evidence or due process in violation of the Constitution.
	And that's where we are.
	Now, of course, the immunity question is bringing up a lot of issues around whether or not Donald Trump can be convicted on any of these other cases.
	Take, for instance, in Georgia.
	They say that Donald Trump was interfering in the election.
	However, as president, he actually does have an official duty to uphold the law.
	They're likely going to have to throw that case out.
	The documents case will be interesting.
	I'm sure that much of the evidence presented in the documents case Will come from Trump's time as president and official acts thus.
	That will likely be.
	That will likely end as well.
	I don't know how they can move forward with any of these charges against Trump.
	Not the Supreme Court has said.
	You can't you can't use official duties as evidence.
	Thank you and have a nice day.
	But of course, that won't stop the media.
	We got this story from the Washington Post.
	When have they ever been in limits?
	ruling poses risk for democracy, experts say.
	The court's decision raised fears that a future president will be able to act with impunity
	because official acts of the president have been deemed off-limits from prosecution.
	When have they ever been in limits?
	When have we ever criminally charged a president before?
	We haven't.
	So the question didn't need to be asked.
	But no one has criminally charged Barack Obama for killing Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki, a 16-year-old American citizen.
	Why not?
	Honest question.
	Why isn't Merrick Garland going to jail?
	He defied a congressional subpoena.
	Why did the DOJ refuse to prosecute Merrick Garland?
	Because he runs the show.
	Because he's above the law.
	Plain and simple.
	Merrick Garland is above the law.
	Otherwise, he should be in jail for contempt of Congress.
	Just like Steve Bannon is right now, and Peter Navarro.
	But of course, Merrick Garland's above the law.
	So is Joe Biden, who also committed crimes of classified documents.
	Same as Trump.
	And they won't prosecute him.
	Now to be fair, if you want to build the case against Joe Biden, and you have to cite evidence from his time as the Vice President, That's interesting.
	I don't know what the ruling is on vice presidential immunity, but it may be similar, and I think it would be fair if it was.
	In which case, I'm fine if Biden and Trump, of neither of them, are criminally charged or indicted, or if these cases move forward, pertaining to classified documents.
	I don't care.
	No one's been charged before, and the president has plenary declassification powers.
	He is the nexus of classification.
	It is his determination.
	So, there you go.
	Joe Biden was vice president, so he didn't have those powers.
	But I got no problem to say right now, okay, we can drop that one.
	It's not really a big issue as far as I'm concerned.
	But of course, the left is going to whinge and scream over immunity and claim it's the end of democracy.
	Behind the curtain.
unidentified		Trump's imperial presidency in waiting.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Come on, man.
		Laughable.
		Former President Trump, if re-elected, plans to immediately test the boundaries of presidential and governing power, knowing the restraints of Congress and the courts are dramatically looser than during his first term.
		His advisors tell us.
		It's not just the Supreme Court ruling on Monday that presidents enjoy legal immunity for official acts.
		Trump would come to office with a cabinet and staff pre-vetted for loyalty and a fully compliant Republican coalition in Congress devoid of critics in positions of real power.
		There's another big story happening right now that I wanted to cover but with this big breaking news.
		Democrat governors have convened a secret meeting.
		It's not really secret, but a private meeting where the assumption is we know they're talking about Biden.
		The fear among Democrats is Joe Biden is going to destroy the party down ballot.
		My friends, hear me.
		We must do everything in our power to protect Joe Biden, to defend the honor and integrity of the Biden family.
		You know, Joe Biden, he's sharp.
		He's this version of Joe Biden is the sharpest and wittiest I've ever seen.
		Ever.
		So he should be the nominee and he won the primary.
		Yeah, they're trying to get Joe Biden out because he can't win.
		With Joe Biden on the ballot, Democrats down ballot suffer.
		And that could mean Republicans sweep the Senate, the House, and take the presidency, as well as governorships in states where those elections are happening.
		They can't have that, can they?
		No, no.
		So don't worry.
		The media will claim Trump's a dictator.
		Trump promises an unabashedly imperial presidency.
		Does he really?
		I mean, what is this even linked to?
		Trump loyalists.
		One that would turn the DOJ against critics.
		Deport millions of people in the U.S.
		illegally.
		I'm sorry.
		I love that one.
		Let me rephrase this for you.
		One that would turn the DOJ against his critics, that is extreme hyperbole.
		What Trump supporters and Trump have stated is they would criminally charge criminals in the proper procedural way, deport millions of people in the U.S.
		illegally, so uphold the law, slap 10% tariffs on thousands of products, and fire perhaps tens of thousands of government staff deemed insufficiently loyal.
		No.
		We want people fired for being bloat in the government that are weighing us down and causing us problems.
		I don't care if they like or don't like Trump.
		If you work at the EPA or whatever and you're a Trump voter and Trump fires you, buh-bye!
		Sucks for you, sorry you're losing your job, but we need to get rid of these bureaucratic bloat jobs.
		Sorry, that's just the reality.
		He'd stretch the powers of his presidency in ways not seen in our lifetime.
		He says this consistently and clearly, so it's not conjecture.
		It literally is conjecture.
		You are falsely framing Trump's actual plans.
		You might like this or loathe this, but it's coming fast and furious if he's elected.
		Thanks to Monday's Supreme Court ruling, Trump could pursue his plans without fear of punishment or restraint.
		Now, I'm critical in this regard.
		I believe that it is incumbent upon the President to take the utmost care and dial it up to 11.
		Trump would quickly set up vast camps and deport millions of people in the U.S. illegally.
		He could invoke the Insurrection Act and use troops to lock down the southern border.
		Indeed.
		Now, I'm critical in this regard.
		I believe that it is incumbent upon the president to take the utmost care and dial it up to
		11.
		I refuse and I reject troops loading up illegal immigrants onto trains or trucks.
		This must be done procedurally and at a granular level.
		Trump told me in an interview, local police would do it.
		I respect that and I expect that.
		But I will not support and I will speak out against the use of troops in the direct raiding and arresting of illegal immigrants.
		It will not bode well for this country.
		It will devastate local communities and it could be a shock to the system that we don't want to see.
		What we want to see is millions of people who have come here illegally, peacefully, and procedurally deported.
	A couple of officers in polo shirts and khakis walk up to a house.
	Sir, right this way.
	We're gonna send you home.
	Now I understand.
	There are certain circumstances where there are many criminals who are in this country illegally.
	And where apt, requisite force will be required.
	But I reject mass camps and the use of troops and trucks to do these things.
	Trump supporters will regret it.
	It won't work out properly, and it's a bad idea.
	In Washington, Trump would move to fire potentially tens of thousands of civil servants using a controversial interpretation of the law and procedure.
	He'd replace many of them with pre-vetted loyalists.
	Many.
	Yes, Trump's going to fire tens of thousands of people and then bring in a couple hundred.
	Don't care.
	He should do it.
	He'd centralize power over the DOJ, historically an independent check on the presidential power.
	He plans to nominate a trusted loyalist for Attorney General, and has threatened to target and even imprison critics.
	He could demand federal cases against him cease immediately.
	Can I just point out, Axios, that Merrick Garland, who was appointed by Biden, won't prosecute Biden for the crimes Biden committed, pertaining to classified documents, that we know, we know is a fact.
	So don't come to me and say he's going to choose a loyalist.
	Literally, what president wouldn't choose someone loyal to him?
	It's stupid.
	Many of the J6 convicts could be pardoned, a promise Trump has made at campaign rallies, where he hails them as patriots, not criminals.
	Investigations of the Bidens would begin.
	Agreed.
	Trump says he'd slap a 10% tariff on most imported goods, igniting a possible trade war and risking short-term inflation.
	He argues it would give him leverage to create better trade terms to benefit consumers.
	Once again, good.
	Agreed.
	Now, as for the J6ers, Trump says he'll pardon all of them.
	Good.
	He should.
	He should pardon them.
	Look, man, I think anybody who smashes out windows and fights cops should get criminally charged.
	Yep.
	20 years, though?
	Oh, come on.
	I mean, it's been three years, three and a half years.
	I think that's more than enough than time served.
	Now you can let them all out.
	They've done their time.
	Come on.
	It wasn't that crazy.
	As for tariffs, let me tell you, my friends, we're building a skateboard company, the Boonies.
	We've got many boards currently in production.
	Take some time.
	And we're also working with another company on made-to-order production and distribution.
	So boards are always made fresh just for you.
	Now, here's the issue.
	They could make them in America, or they could make them in China.
	And I said, how dare you, good sir, offer me a Chinese-made option.
	We want our skateboards made here in the good old US of A, with good old North American rock maple.
	And they were like, yeah, okay, cool.
	And I was like, oh, okay, right.
	It's more expensive, though.
	The boards will be more expensive, so be it.
	It's what we have to do.
	My question to all of you when it comes to these tariffs.
	You want a cheap, you want a cheap, cheap product?
	You wanna save a little bit of money?
	No, I get it.
	You need to save money, right?
	But no.
	No, no, no.
	Listen.
	It's an addiction.
	The more we have our manufacturing done in China, the weaker our economy is.
	I know that if we make our skateboards here in the good ol' US of A, they're gonna cost more money.
	Our profits will be lower.
	Good.
	You will probably have to spend a couple bucks more than you would on the Chinese made board.
	I think we can get the Chinese boards for like $45 out the door, and I think the American-made ones are going to be like $60 out the door.
	And that is not increasing our profit margin.
	We're actually cutting back a little bit.
	So be it.
	I do have to go over the prices.
	Just know that when you're buying that board, the money is going to an American worker who's got American kids and an American wife, and they're having an American home and buying American cheeseburgers.
	And that's it.
	Supporting the American economy.
	That's what it's all about.
	When we shift in this direction, that will lead to the economy improving and everyone living better if we can do these things at home.
	It is an addiction that we spend all this money on China.
	Conversation would intensify about when Justices Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito would retire.
	I say if Trump gets re-elected, we are going to need Clarence Thomas and Alito to retire immediately!
	Oh, I know, I know.
	People are pounding on their tables screaming because Clarence Thomas is based AF and everyone loves him.
	I know.
	But we're not going to play the same stupid game that Democrats played with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, right?
	Clarence Thomas may be based AF, and Alito as well.
	The two most based of the Supreme Court Justices.
	And that's why it's imperative that at their age they choose successors.
	I firmly think so.
	Oh yeah!
	That's Hillary Clinton's fault!
	drawn up. President Biden said last month, the next president is likely to have two new
	Supreme Court nominees, and I'm here for it. If Trump were to win and the two oldest justices
	retired, five of the nine justices would have been handpicked by Trump. Oh, yeah, that's
	Hillary Clinton's fault. Ruth Bader Ginsburg could have retired under Obama, but she didn't
	want to do it. Democrats privately predict Republican majorities in the House and Senate
	if Biden loses.
	And that's why they're in panic.
	So, blah blah blah.
	They're going to spit and yowl.
	They're going to scream and complain.
	Biden's trying to put Trump in prison.
	Okay?
	That's his DOJ.
	I don't want to hear it, and I don't care.
	What I want is a secure border for this country.
	A future for this country.
	A functioning economy.
	And no war.
	Trump's far from perfect, but it's the best we're going to get.
	I'll take it.
	Next segment's coming up at 4pm on this channel.
	Thanks for hanging out, and we'll see you all then.
	In secret, Democrat governors are having private phone calls about Joe Biden's failures and how he is putting them all at risk.
	A series of tweets came out from Jake Tapper describing these phone calls and the fear.
	You see, the issue is if Joe Biden is on the ballot, Democrats will suffer down ballot.
	This means congressional races in what should be Democrat areas could turn red, throwing the entire electoral map into chaos.
	Oh, boy.
	You see, The Guardian reported this just the other day.
	Democratic governors reportedly wading in wings after dire Biden debate.
	Biden campaign launches counter-offensive amid fears that frail appearance at debate could mean defeat in November.
	Now here's where it gets juicy.
	This story is particularly interesting, but this tweet thread from Jake Tapper is even more fascinating.
	He posted this earlier today.
	Breaking.
	Democratic governors held a call yesterday afternoon.
	Just governors.
	No staff.
	No one from the campaign or White House.
	Organized by Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota for the DGA.
	I believe that's Democrat Governors Association.
	I'm assuming, though.
	On the call, Democrat governors expressed concern about what's going on with the President.
	They know if they come forward publicly with concern, that likely will cause Biden to dig in more.
	They were all surprised.
	None of them had heard from him.
	Exclamation point.
	I love that, Jake Tapper.
	There was discussion on the call about wanting to have a call with the campaign or White House.
	Some discussion about having VP Harris address them.
	There was strong sentiment that they needed to hear directly from President Biden.
	They are trying to set up a meeting at the White House or via Zoom for those who can't come.
	Nothing's in the books yet.
	The White House knows of the request.
	Democrat governors are not coming in with any specific message, but they feel they need to hear from President Biden.
	Jake Tapper says, more to come.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Look at this one.
	Whitmer disavows draft Gretch movement and delivers a warning to Biden.
	I have here the 2024 presidential election interactive map.
	And with the collapse we are seeing for Joe Biden, this map has become meaningless overnight.
	Every projection, every poll, meaningless.
	Because the American people are being lied to.
	Kareem Jean-Pierre and MSNBC and CNN said, cheap fakes!
	They're taking these videos.
	They are cheap fakes, they call them.
	They take a video of Joe Biden, edit it away, and then lie about it.
	Turns out, they weren't lies.
	It was true.
	And after that debate performance, the American people got a cold splash of water in the face as to what's really going on behind the scenes.
	More importantly, the media's been lying to them.
	And I wonder how many have realized what that truly means.
	But this means that the current electoral map projections are meaningless.
	Look at this.
	Arizona?
	Let's just go and assume that all of the contested states are just red states.
	Let's say that's 3-12 Trump.
	If the states that are toss-ups now lean Trump because of Biden's failure and his apparent, very obvious, cognitive decline.
	This is what we're looking at.
	3-12 Trump.
	Better yet, let's pull up the House 2024 Interactive Map and take a look at this.
	Now, I'm not going to sit here and try and convince you that strong Democrat seats, of which there are 168, would ever flip red.
	But you know what's fascinating?
	In New Jersey, this is what's really... In New Jersey, in general, Donald Trump is actually starting to do better.
	Now, you zoom in over on New Jersey, you ain't really seeing anything If I can get the map to actually move, there we go.
	New Jersey's got some red.
	You got NJ4, you got NJ2, and you've got, uh, wait, is that?
	Oh, that's all just NJ2.
	Oh, it's split right there.
	I don't think we're gonna see New Jersey's first.
	Or third.
	Uh, and then what do we have over here?
	Six.
	Those are deep, deep, uh, deep, deep blue.
	And then you have these deep red.
	I can't tell you exactly what, but look at some of these areas.
	How about this?
	Pennsylvania 17.
	That's a weak Democrat area.
	More importantly, you look at these 25 toss-up districts.
	And what do you get?
	Let's operate under the assumption that all 25 toss-ups go Republican because of Joe Biden's failure.
	We are talking about a massive 234 seat majority.
	With the majority being held by 33 seats.
	But that is tremendous, if that were to happen.
	Let's see if we can change all the, uh... Well, I don't actually want to go in and change all the toss-ups red, but, you know, let's just... We'll click away.
	We got the 270 to win map, and we're going to turn all of these toss-ups red.
	Light red.
	Because they would just lean Trump now.
	I don't know if that's actually what's going to happen.
	But considering what we saw with Joe Biden, considering the panic that we are seeing among all of the Democrats, I think it is fair to say it is likely that these districts are leaning red now.
	All right, I'm missing, I think, one.
	One tiny district that I can't find.
	Which one's the remaining toss-up?
	Is there a way to search for it?
	I guess not.
	231 Republican seats.
	I got my math wrong?
	Oh, okay.
	No, no, no.
	Yeah, what was it?
	There we go.
	There it is.
	Oh, there's another one!
	These little districts, man, they're very, very small and densely populated, I gotta tell you.
	Let's see if we can find that one.
	I'm curious, though, you guys can comment what you think.
	Do you think that these toss-ups are now leaning red?
	I think the whole map is in jeopardy for Democrats, and I think they would be wise to realize what this means.
	I think it's possible that we actually see some of these lighter blue turn red, Unsurprisingly, I would say.
	Too many?
	Oh, there we go.
	Okay.
	Yeah, wow!
	For real?
	Where was that?
	That one tiny county?
	This is California's 47th.
	And it's a toss-up right now.
	It's a wealthy California area.
	233.
	I was off by one.
	Why did I say 230?
	What number did I get wrong?
	I said 234.
	So, 233.
	A 32-seat majority, assuming all the toss-ups go Republican.
	What if some of these lighter blue ones flip as well?
	Because we have seen things like that in the past.
	I'll put it this way.
	We don't know exactly what the impact of Biden's failure is going to be.
	Democrat governors are concerned they are going to lose down-ballot across the board.
	So, let's do this.
	Let's pull up the governors, actually.
	2024 Governor Interactive Map.
	We're really looking at North Carolina.
	The rest of the states are all—North Carolina and New Hampshire.
	New Hampshire is now a toss-up.
	Look, man, I don't know that what we saw is enough to turn toss-up states red.
	I think it's fair, and we may see this reflected in polling in the coming weeks.
	A lot of people haven't yet seen what's going on, but this could result in 28 Republican states to 22 Democrat states.
	Now, 19 Republican states have no elections, 20 Democrat states have no elections, so that's really what you're going to get.
	Let's take a look at the Senate interactive map.
	We have no toss-ups.
	None.
	This one's gonna be pretty clear-cut.
	Right now, the expectation is 52 Republican Senate seats.
	Texas and Florida are actually considered slightly at risk for Republicans, not deep red.
	What about Arizona and Nevada?
	What if Biden's failure actually pushes Carrie Lake over the edge?
	Right now, it's leaning blue.
	We will see.
	We will see.
	It would be fantastic to get 53 seats, but I doubt we'd do better than that.
	The Guardian reported this. The Biden campaign has launched a counteroffensive,
	including furious networking among senior Democrats to counteract fears that the 81-year-old
	president's frail appearance in last week's debate had made defeat at the hands of Trump
	in November's election inevitable. But while several governors seen as the next generation
	of Democrats' leadership have publicly avowed loyalty to Biden, they are keenly watching for
	slippage in Biden's already fragile poll standings and a loss of support among donors in the next two
	weeks.
	The temperature is high, one Democratic governor told Politico, referring to the state of mind among the party state leaders.
	A lot of anxiety, a lot of folks at the edge of their seats.
	Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, and a key Biden surrogate, defended the president immediately after Thursday's disastrous debate performance, saying he would never turn my back on him.
	End of quote.
	But he was widely seen to have expressed ambiguity by saying he was ready to step up.
	The Maryland governor, Wes Moore, another candidate touted as a potential substitute,
	has publicly said he will not seek the Democratic nomination and that he does not foresee Biden
	leaving the race. Other governors whose names have been floated are Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania
	and J.B. Pritzker of Illinois. But while no elected Democrat at a national level has yet
	echoed calls among many other figures, including top liberal media outlets, for Biden to step down,
	the public displays of support run counter to what Democrats acknowledge is happening
	behind the scenes. I got one for you, Democrats. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
	She should run!
	Because, you know, if it's not going to be Biden, I'd prefer it be someone who can't win.
	It seems like Joe Biden doesn't want to step down, but I think we're going to have an open convention.
	I think the fact that Jake Tapper is reporting these secret phone calls among Democrat governors is indicative of an open convention.
	And I think every Trump supporter should be demanding that Joe Biden be the nominee.
	Ladies and gentlemen, it is MAGA Month, so I hope you are having an excellent start to your week.
	The 4th of July is coming up Thursday, and we are going to have a blast.
	Fireworks, hot dogs, cheeseburgers, the American way.
	I'm going to leave it there.
	Next segment's coming up at 6pm on this channel.
	Thanks for hanging out, and I'll see you all then.
	This story is absolutely brutal.
	Walgreens is shutting down over 2,000 U.S.
	stores due to inflation.
	And this is not going to help inflation.
	Of course, it's going to make everything worse.
	But I'm willing to bet it's not just inflation.
	I'm willing to bet many of these stores are suffering from mass shoplifting crises.
	That they can't accommodate.
	They can't deal with.
	And you get these liberal personalities desperate to defend Biden, but at a certain point, no one believes they actually think this stuff.
	In what world are you going to the grocery store and buying eggs and milk and bread and being like, everything's fine?
	I tell you this story, my friends.
	I tell you this story.
	A couple years ago, we used to buy these salami packs from the local Weiss supermarket.
	Everyone calls it Weiss, but I'm pretty sure it's Weiss.
	Whatever.
	And they had these really amazing salami packs.
	And they were like seven bucks.
	And then, I think like a year later, I think it was last year, we, because we buy like ten of them, and we put them in the fridge so people can eat and snack.
	Among other things, we get Pringles, and I try not to eat the garbage, but you know.
	$12 a pack.
	We were ringing them up, and I was just like, whoa, why is this $200?
	And it's like, these are $12 each.
	And I was like, they're almost double in price!
	Yep.
	Man, I remember going to this local barbecue stand, a food truck, and they had a sign saying they're no longer carrying brisket because the cost of beef had gone up so high, they didn't think anyone would want to buy brisket from them because it would cost too much.
	They were like, the amount we'd have to sell it for, probably no one would want to spend the money on, so we don't want to make the investment because we would lose our money.
	Now we're dealing with this.
	The post-millennial.
	Walgreens will be closing over 2,000 stores in the U.S.
	after it has been hit by inflation and customers cutting down on spending habits.
	The pharmacy and convenience store chain is looking to turn around its business.
	Walgreen's CEO Tim Wentworth said during a Thursday earnings call,
	the current pharmacy model is not sustainable. Only around 75 percent of the company's stores
	account for 100 percent of the company's adjusted operating income. In turn, a quarter of its 8,600
	stores will be facing closures over the next few years or so. It would result in about 2,150 stores
	closing their doors, per CBS News.
	Changes are imminent, Wentworth said, of the oncoming closures.
	However, there's not one exact number.
	The CEO added that Walgreens will be shutting down stores that are underperforming but that some locations could be shifted up in their profits as well.
	With high prices and inflation, consumers have been increasingly selective and price sensitive on their selections.
	About a month ago, Walgreens cut the prices on 1,300 products to keep up with price drops as the economy showed signs of slowing down along with other retailers.
	The company does not expect to have mass layoffs and believes the employees of those locations shutting down can go to others.
	You don't need to have the number of stores we have today.
	He added, the company's footprint will remain the same, but with fewer locations in place.
	I will stress, down the street from us, there's a Walgreens and a CVS across the street from each other.
	And at a certain point, it's like, I don't know that you can sustain that.
	Because anything I can get at Walgreens, I can get at CVS.
	I don't know what the point of having them, they're literally right next to each other.
	So, you know, whatever.
	Since Biden took office, price of goods on the Consumer Price Index are up around 20%.
	The White House, which coined the term Bidenomics, has used the term less and less in recent months, according to USA Today.
	And the economy has been one of the top issues for most Americans ahead of the election in November.
	Take a look at this.
	This image right here explains it all.
	Changes in household net worth since the start of the presidency.
	Nominal value.
	Under Trump, household net worth was skyrocketing.
	That's amazing.
unidentified		Wow.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		The best years of our lives, people said.
		The best numbers of our lives.
		Adjusted for inflation.
		Under Joe Biden, your household net worth has collapsed.
		And it puts tremendous stress on everything.
		On everything.
		And we're feeling it.
		We're feeling it.
		Man, under Trump, this is really crazy, under Donald Trump, it was a windfall for the TimCast Media Group.
		We were hiring.
		We were expanding.
		We were doing really, really well.
		At the beginning of Biden's term, we also were doing pretty well.
		Actually.
		Yeah, we were.
		We were.
		And you can see it right there.
		Hey, no disrespect and no lie.
		The beginning of Biden's term, that increase was there.
		And inflation's been hitting.
		And now, in more recent months, we're stable.
		Staying afloat.
		You'll notice more sponsorship deals.
		We're trying to pick up the slack and adjust.
		We're making ends meet.
		I wonder if that's how many of you feel with this blue line right here just slightly above zero.
		You're making ends meet.
		There's that brief period where y'all were hurting.
		Now you're making ends meet.
		Take a look at this.
		They try to attack Donald Trump.
		Here's the Dow Jones.
		The pandemic hit.
		The Dow Jones tanks.
		Hold on there a minute.
		It tanks just around where it was right before Trump got inaugurated.
		And then it rapidly recovered.
		If you invested in the Dow Jones, in various stocks associated with the Dow Jones, or ETFs or whatever, not advice, not telling you what to do, I'm just saying.
		If you had bought at the bottom, holy crap, you're talking about a 70% increase under Donald Trump.
		A lot of people got rich.
		A lot of people got rich.
		That's just an aside, I'm not saying it's good or bad.
		This is from May 17th.
		Trump v. Biden.
		How the Dow's performance compares.
		I don't rightly care about the Dow, to be completely honest.
		I'm concerned about how people are buying food.
		Let me tell you something, my friends.
		Let me tell you something.
		I get these people, and they say things in the chat, and they say in the comments, Oh, Tim doesn't understand what's really going on, and he's isolated from all this.
		I can actually see it better than a lot of people can.
		Because what we're dealing with is, The bulk of ad revenue that we make on YouTube, and anywhere actually, small businesses.
		That's right.
		Small diner.
		Advertising their budget on YouTube.
		Let's say you live in Dubuque, Iowa.
		How about that?
		We love Dubuque.
		And you got a small restaurant.
		So you say, we're going to put $500 into ads on YouTube to advertise to the people who live here at this restaurant.
		It works.
		It really, really does.
		It's amazing.
		You'll notice people start coming in more.
	Well, as prices go up, stores start closing.
	That diner says, look, we do not have the money for the marketing.
	We're going to have to figure something else out because we are struggling to stay afloat in this storm.
	We've got to weather the storm and we've got to cut spending.
	All of a sudden, ad rates collapse.
	When I see in my ad rates, because you've got to understand this is diversified sponsorship.
	It used to be, or so I'll give you this, we do a shout out for like MyPillow on TimCast.io.
	We're going to be working with Mike Lindell in the future.
	We're big fans of MyPillow.
	And they say straight up to us, like, hey, can we do something?
	I say, for sure.
	And so they're a part of our event at the RNC, and that's the sponsorship, basically.
	Mike Lindell will be speaking.
	He'll be joining us on the show for our live show.
	It'll be a lot of fun.
	Mike Lindell's fantastic.
	And that's like a direct sponsorship, right?
	That's how it used to be.
	You had a big network.
	Companies would come to you.
	Ad buyers would be like, hey, I got a list of companies that want to sponsor this program.
	And a lot of these programs were directly sponsored by one principal sponsor.
	Today, it's decentralized.
	All of these small businesses are contributing a couple hundred bucks here and there because when you watch in Iowa, when you watch in Omaha, you get ads for Omaha.
	You get ads for Iowa.
	Now, of course, you may get ads for Coca-Cola because Coke wants to run the ads everywhere.
	But a lot of these small businesses, probably the bulk of the ad spending comes from small businesses in local areas.
	When I see a 20% drop off in ad rates, that's nationwide.
	That means the small businesses are suffering tremendously to have to cut prices like that.
	And then they post these things, these liberal pundits are like, the economy's actually doing way better under Joe Biden.
	The Republicans are lying.
	Walgreens is shutting down 2,000 stores.
	We are in a recession.
	Okay, maybe not literally, but I'll put it this way.
	It's painfully obvious that businesses are receding.
	We are not seeing stories of mass expansion.
	We're seeing stories of stores closing down over and over again, citing crime and citing inflation.
	So maybe it's not a literal recession.
	Because the argument is, no, no, no, recession is when the growth is at a certain percentage below and it's like, dude, you ask the average American, do you feel like we're in a recession or not?
	They're probably going to say, it's worse than that.
	Under Joe Biden, household wealth is on the decline due to inflation.
	Here's what they'll do.
	Understand the games they play.
	Let's say you made $10 this year.
	Let's say next year you make $20.
unidentified		Wow!
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Economy grew!
		You made double what you made!
		And everything costs double as well.
		So nothing changed.
		There's no growth.
		It's stagnation.
		The problem we're facing now is stagflation.
		Prices are going up, but people aren't earning more.
		It's only going to get worse.
		I have no guarantees, and I have little hope, little hope, honestly, that Donald Trump turns us around.
		I mean it.
		I do believe, however, regardless of what you think about Trump, it is clear he's the only option.
		Unless you want $5 gas.
		Oh, don't get me wrong.
		They'll say, no, no.
		Prices are going down.
		Joe Biden's blaming companies.
unidentified		You know, these companies are price gouging.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Because they have to.
		Because it's his fault.
		I can break down for you every way.
		I mean, shutting down Keystone spiked gas prices.
		The Saudis dumped the petrodollar deal.
		Where are you, Biden?
		You're the foreign policy guy.
		You're the president.
		This is your department.
		The petrodollar deal getting dumped?
		It's going to get wild.
		The economy is going to get worse.
		And that's why I say I have little hope.
		I don't know that Donald Trump can turn that around, but who else are you going to pick?
		This is the metric for the election.
		Democrats don't seem to have a single hand on the wheel.
		And so be it.
		It's not so much that I want Trump to win.
		But that we have no choice.
		We need him to win.
		I'll leave it there.
		Next segment's coming up at 8 p.m.
		over at youtube.com slash TimCastIRL.

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