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Art. Today, an indictment was unsealed charging Donald J. Trump with conspiring
to defraud the United States, conspiring to disenfranchise voters, and conspiring and attempting
to obstruct an official proceeding. The indictment was issued by a grandeury of citizens
here in the District of Columbia, and it sets forth the crimes charged in
detail. That's the voice of Special Counsel Jack Smith announcing yesterday that President former
President Donald J. Trump has now been indicted for the third time. This
is unprecedented in that he is Donald Trump, the first president former president to
be indicted for any crimes whatsoever. But this is his third indictment, the
second on the federal level. He has one indictment in the state of New
York with District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who level charges against him on the state
level, and he's also facing a third a fourth rather potential indictment in the
state of Georgia Fulton County around the Atlanta, Georgia area under the direction of
Fannie Willis. Donald Trump has gone down into history as the most impeached and
the most indicted president in the history of this empire. Welcome, ladies,
gentlemen, and gender nonconforming individuals to another episode of The Benjamin Dixon Show.
Today is Wednesday, August second, two and twenty three. It is a
very momentous time in American history, this particular indictment, I am. I'm
particularly grateful four because of the ongoing efforts by the same people who surrounded Donald
Trump to try to convince him that there was election fraud and that he actually
won. The same people who were behind January sixth, Those are the same
people who are today trying to implement their slow coup. So it bodes well
for America to see that the empire itself, the system, the bureaucracy,
the machine, right, the mechanism that is the American Empire, is willing
to hold itself accountable by holding the top position in this empire accountable. And
it feels a little, you know, it feels a little extreme that out
of all of the things that Donald Trump is guilty for, the only thing
that this country really held him accountable for trying to destroy the country, right,
it seemed like, you know, this was an extreme case that the
government could not ignore. They simply could not ignore the very active measures that
Donald Trump took to overturn the election, to overthrow and circumvent our democracy,
to disenfranchise voters. I mean, he was going after the entirety of our
democracy, and so he had to be held accountable. Listened to more from
Special Council Jack Smith. The attack on our nation's capital on January sixth,
twenty one was an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy described in the
indictment, It was fueled by lies, lies by the defendant targeted at obstructing
a bedrock function of the US government, the nation's process of collecting, counting,
and certifying the results of the presidential election. I mean, again,
this is what Donald Trump was going after he worked himself into a frenzy leading
up to the last election, He and his supporters, he constantly said that
there's no way they could lose, and he said that over and over and
over again. He would not admit. He would never say that he would
concede. Would he never said that he would participate in a peaceful transfer of
power, because he hyped himself up into believing that the only way that he
could possibly lose was through some type of election fraud. He convinced himself of
it, he convinced millions of Americans of it, and those Americans went out
and committed acts of insurrection on January sixth. And so it's fitting that Donald
Trump is facing some of the same exact charges that other participants in January six
were charged with. I mean, if anybody goes to jail for January six
it should certainly be Donald Trump. Now, I don't actually believe that he's
going to spend a day in jail, because I mean, we're already in
historic times. You know, we already have passed several Rubicans, and I
don't think that the nine Ed States government actually wants to see one of their
former presidents locked up in one of our imperial prisons. I just don't think
that's going to happen. But the truth is that he, at a minimum
needed to be charged with the same exact crimes that all of the other people
who participated on January sixth were charged with because he inspired it. He is
the one that hyped them up into a frenzy, and the terrifying notion is
that they are still hyping themselves up into a frenzy to this day. In
response to this, of course, people are talking about civil war. They
always throw civil war around. Listen to more from Jack Smith about the events
that happened that day. Since the attack on our capitol, the Department of
Justice has remained committed to ensuring accountability for those criminally responsible for what happened that
day. This case is brought consistent with that commitment, and our investigation of
other individuals continues. And to be honest with you, this is almost a
no win situation for the federal government as an entity. And I speak of
the federal government not based on which administration is in power. I'm speaking of
the federal government that exists whether or not there's a Republican power or a Democrat
in power. This particular situation is almost untenable to have to charge a former
president. But they were pushed. The government was pushed into a corner where
the crimes of Donald Trump were so egregious that they had no choice but to
charge them. You understand, like, if they ignored what Donald Trump did,
two things would have happened. One, it would have set a president
for a future president to do similarly without expecting any accountability. But two,
it most certainly would exacerbate the push towards the destruction of our democracy right now.
Right if they didn't do anything, if they aren't investigating anyone else,
if like if they just let January six happen with zero accountability, then we
most certainly would face another attempt. There's just no question. I mean,
hey, they're trying to do it again anyway. They're digging in. Conservatives
are digging in, trying to trying to overthrow this democracy the long way.
So the threat has not passed. But this fiasco, this spectacle that was
January six, had to go answered. It could not go unanswered by this
empire. And this is the only reason we see charges being brought because had
the federal government not brought charges, it would have left It would have set
a precedent that would have left the federal government completely open with no expectation for
there to be any prosecutions in the future, because why they didn't. They
would not have prosecuted January six ers, they wouldn't have to. They would
not have prosecuted the former president, right, So they absolutely had no choice
in this. And when we come back from this break, we would discuss
more. I could have clips from Attorney General Mary Garland, he was in
a bad spot on this. And of course the Republicans, they are up
in arms Fox News, Margie Taylor Green, they're all losing their minds.
Will discuss all of this more after this break we'll be back. But look,
I'm in nine with the stars. I'm a sink with the earth,
Tinto's deep flower child from the turf. I never switch sides, like even
when I die. I'm a ride for the squad letter ties in the hearst.
I've been on a five kind of hard to describe. I'm in between
them good and it's fine, but I'm tired of the ground. Then I
come alive in the night to realize I'm in a minute with a time of
my life. I'm never so bag that I writed Queen. Welcome back to
the Benjamin Dixon Show. Visit us online at the Benjamin Dixon Show dot com.
Welcome back. I want to play a clip of Attorney General Merrick Garland,
who had some comments to to say, and I want you to listen
to how he describes um this investigation. The meticulous nature of this investigation,
But I also want you to listen through the lens of this fact. America
did not want to indict Donald Trump for all of the reasons I outlined in
the A part of this episode. The United States government has never held a
former president accountable. But Donald Trump's crimes were so egregious. I mean,
they were a direct threat to democracy, such that if the government ignored it,
it would have been detrimental to the empire, to democracy itself. There's
no way America could have not indict at Donald Trump. But that puts the
opposition party Merritt Garland, who represents the Biden administration. It puts them in
an extremely untenable situation because no matter what they do, this investigation was going
to be viewed as political by the opposition. So here is Merritt Garland.
So immediately after the January sixth attack on our democracy, probably the careermen and
women of the Justice Department engaged in what has become the largest investigation in our
history. In November last I appointed Jack Smith, a special counsel to take
on the ongoing investigation in order to underline the Department's commitment to accountability and independence.
Mister Smith and his team of experience, principal career agents and prosecutors have
followed the facts and the law wherever Bay lead. Any questions about this matter
will have to be answered by the filings made to the corner. And despite
his best efforts, even with that pressor yesterday, this will still be cast
as a political hit job. That I mean, that's literally what conservatives are
running with right now. They made it impossible to hold the former president accountable
based on his actions alone. Right when you can politicize anything and everything,
you really do undermine our ability to function in this country and what Republicans are.
A matter of fact, there's a clip from Fox News that I think
really kind of solidifies it, even crystallizes it even more, the fact that
the Republican Party they're nothing more than obstructionists. And in this very specific and
very important issue, the Republican Party, Conservatives, Fox News, all of
them, they they're making it impossible to do this without pushing the envelope towards
political violence. You know, calls for civil war over this have been you
know, spreading all across the internet lies about the indictment. There's two parts
to the indictment. There's the charges that are levied, the actual crimes,
and then there is a bit of commentary on the lying, the penchant for
lying that Donald Trump has. There's even some there in terms of him not
being willing Donald Trump as president not being willing to listen to counsel around him.
There's even information that is coming out about one of the few people on
his team that was telling him the truth who was regularly and vociferously ignored.
Right, Jason Miller was one of the few people on his team that actually
was telling him the truth that there was no fraud, but he was ignored.
That's because the president of the United States refused to listen to sound counsel.
Now, because that commentary is in the indictment, that has given Fox
News what they need to lie about this, because Conservatives refuse to allow this
process to happen, even with independent counsel. It doesn't matter that Jack Smith
is independent, is an independent council. The Republican Party was always going to
label this as a political witch hunt Jack Smith. The whole framework of a
special counsel is the independent nature that they are separate from the Department of Justice.
Once they are created. Yes, they are created by the Jack Smith
was hired by the Department of Justice, but they have autonomy to operate and
follow the facts no matter where they lead. And in this case, the
facts show that Donald Trump needed to be indicted. But that has not stopped
the Conservatives from doing the exact same thing they've been doing since January sixth,
and that is undermining our democracy on behalf of Donald Trump. I want you
to listen to this clip from Fox News where the facts about the case we're
just outright lied. I mean they just outright lied and pointed the finger towards
the commentary. Now you should read the First of all, let me say
this, If you have the time, go and read the indictment. You'll
see what I'm saying in terms of how it is divided up between the actual
case against Donald Trump and then some supporting commentary if you would, about the
fact that Donald Trump lied, about the fact that he will not listen to
counsel. Listen to this clip and listen to what Fox News chooses to focus
on, not the substance, not the actual crimes that are outlined and detailed
in the indictment. But this tell you I am really quite astonished by much
of this indictment so far. It regurgitates a lot of the allegations against Trump,
and there is room for criticism in terms of the claims being made about
stolen elections, but it's criminalizing all of that. You know. It states
in the indictment the president spent months spreading false rumors and allegations of election irregularities.
Really is that a criminal issue? I mean, is that the basis
of this conspiracy? It seems to me rather loose at the joints. Listen,
look out, I mean, did you catch it what they're presenting to
their audience, to make their audience. The Fox News listeners believe that this
indictment is wholly frivolous. It's by focusing on the parts of the indictment that
discuss the lies. Now. That was Jonathan I believe his last name is
Turley. He was on Fox News. He's focusing on the lies. Now.
He is contending that lies should not be criminal criminalized. There should not
be an indictment brought against the president because of lies. Here's the thing.
The indictment isn't criminalizing or indicting him because of his lies. The lies were
a precursor to the violence of January six. It's the reason so many people
bough into it. That's the way he mobilized. So it wasn't the lies
that were criminal, it was the fact that they had criminal activity that took
place as a result of the lies. Therefore, it's necessary for Jack Smith
to outline the nature and the scope of those lies. But that has become
the very basis that the Republican Party and Fox News is is using to gas
like America into further violence, by the way, into further destabilizing of our
democracy. Right. They're using the fact that Jack Smith outlined a set of
consistent and persistent lies by Donald Trump as the foundation for the criminal activity that
took place on January six for which he is being indicted. Fox News is
using that to say, oh, look, they're trying to they're trying to
criminalize his lies. And sure, sure we can have critique about his lying,
but should we criminalize it? Listen to it one more time to tell
you, I am really quite astonished by much of this indictment so far.
It regurgitates a lot of the allegations against Trump, and there is room for
criticism in terms of the claims being made about stolen elections. But it's criminalizing
all of that, you know. It states in the indictment the president spent
months spreading false rumors and allegations of election irregularities. Really is that a criminal
issue? I mean, is that the basis of this conspiracy? No,
it's not. It is rather the basis for your talking point. Right,
this is the gaslighting. This is such a masterful example of how we can
be gas lit as a nation right into the destruction of democracy. Because now
this has become one of the talking points that's the most important one to me,
because it is a level of gaslighting that is so insidious, but it
is it's perfectly tuned to get into the minds of Fox News viewers. And
now, instead of reading the indictment for themselves for themselves and then looking at
the actual nature of the crimes, right, the four counts that are in
the indictment that are outlined clearly, instead of doing that, they are now
going to go with a talking point given to them by Fox News that,
oh, they're trying to indict him for lying about the election. No they're
not. And when that doesn't work, of course, when when all us
fails. You can't gaslight some you know, people see through your bs.
Then you just go right to the thing that they want to talk about anyway.
They don't want to talk about anything else but Hunter Biden. Isn't it
curious that the timing always happens to be hours, literally hours after there's bad
news about Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, then they throw an indictment. Number
four is coming. It, it's gonna come. It's gonna come the next
time we have Hunter Biden news. That's what it's gonna come out of Georgia.
Yes, because they need you to believe that there is such a massive
conspiracy against Donald Trump, or rather, let me correct that that there's such
a massive conspiracy to protect Hunter Biden that the Department of Justice would concoct these
these charges against Donald Trump and then subsequently time the release of the indictment to
just do nothing more than distract from the news cycle about Hunter Biden. You
know, this is the level that you have to go to when your entire
worldview and your framework, your policies, they're they're full of crap right there.
They lack substance, they lack any veracity, and the only thing they
have left. It's lies, lies and propaganda, gaslighting, and they're so
good at it and their followers wanted. So It's it's not as though Fox
News or any other media outlet that's lying this morning about the indictments. It's
not as though they're going to be held accountable. In fact, if Fox
News doesn't for these lies, then Fox News viewers are just going to turn
into Newsmax. Hope we'll be right back. Welcome back to The Benjamin Dixon
Show. Visit us online at the Benjamin Dixon Show dot com. Yep,
welcome back, Welcome back. Rhonda Santis, who fancies himself to be the
next president of the United States, had this to say about the indictment that
he hasn't read yet. He said, quote on Twitter, he said,
as president, I will end the weaponization of government, replace the FBI director,
and ensure a single standard of justice for all Americans. While I've seen
reports, I have not read the indictment. I do, though, believe
we need to enact reform so that Americans have the right to remove cases from
Washington, d C. To their home districts. Wow, really, guy,
Washington, d C. Is a swamp and it is unfair to have
to stand trial before a jury. That is reflective of the swamp mentality.
One of the reasons our country is in decline as a politicization of the rule
of law. No more excuses. I will end the weaponization of the federal
government. You see where this is going, right. One of the number
one goals of the modern Republican Party is to destroy the Department of Justice,
to completely undo and redo the FBI. I'm sure they're going after the ATF
as well, because they have seen the FBI be used to hold them accountable.
And what do they call it when you hold them accountable? They call
it the weaponization of the government, the weaponization of the DOJ, the weaponization
of the FBI. And so Rhonda Santist is weighing in this is one of
the few places where he can get a high five from Donald Trump supporters who
hate his guts. But so long as he's standing up and supporting Donald Trump,
saying all the talking points that conservatives want to hear. We're going to
destroy the FBI, We're gonna stop the weaponization of the government against Donald Trump.
All that means is that they are intending of using the very next opportunity
that they are in power to completely restructure the federal government, the Department of
Justice to never question right wing conservatives. That's what they mean. They believe
that this system that did everything it could to not indict Donald Trump, they
believe that it's weaponized against Donald Trump. And so what does that give them
the ability to do well? I always reference critical mass, which is just
a working definition that I've come up with for this show. What they intend
to do is convince enough people to elect them into power so that they can
go in there and actually destroy the DOJ, to reconstitute it, to restructure
it with a different mandate. And what do you think that mandate is going
to look like? Do you think the new mandate that Rhonda Santist is going
to bring to the FBI is going to be one where there's equal justice for
all? Or will he continue this persecution complex that is at the bedrock.
It is the bedrock of the modern conservative movement. They want to continue to
be the most powerful people in this country. But anytime they are loosely held
accountable, they want to cry victimization. They want to feign oppression, as
if the FBI is not a tool for white supremacy. I mean, let's
just cut to the core of this. The FBI historically hasn't done nothing but
serve white male Christian power from its beginnings. But now that one of their
white male Christian friends has become so criminal that the empire can ignore it,
now all of a sudden, they want to destroy the FBI. So looking
forward, going from this date, it is worrisome about what's going to happen
in our future. But I always have hope, and that's one thing I
just want to mention. It's important that we put a full faith in hope
in God and not anything that we see in the headlines, and not anything
that we see happening in the news. Our real hope needs to be in
God. And Jesus Christ is my savior, and I know he's yours as
well. And God has plans much bigger than this. Oh, oh,
God definitely has plans. Jesus Christ is also my savior. I spoke with
him this morning, and Marjorie, you're going to hell. I'm joking.
I did speak with him this morning, but God didn't tell me that Marjorie
was going to hell. He's telling me that they have brought hell with them
if I can just you know, just be ridiculous. Here she was ridiculous
in her clips, so let me be ridiculous. You know, she's praying
to God. Now. It's so funny, how you know, Well one
Marjorie Taylor Green is probably under investigation herself. So when they get in this
much trouble, they try to default back to, Oh, I trust you
God, let's pray. Let's put our trust in our Lord and Savior,
Jesus Christ, and listen, every day, I don't care what these I
have to give this disclaimer because I'm mocking them, but I'm mocking them as
a Christian, I pray every day. I've got to put my trust in
God just to deal with a lot of the stuff that I've got to deal
with. And you put your trust in whatever you put your trust in.
But it's just hilarious that when they are confronted with being held accountable for their
own actions, all of a sudden, they go back to Jesus, like,
sweet baby Jesus, you know, eight pounds twelve ounces, Jesus,
could you please get me out of this. No, you should never have
gotten yourself in this in the first place. Marjorie Taylor Green Donald Trump,
if he was a good, god fearing Christian that he pretends to be,
then perhaps he would not have allowed his ego to forward all of them lies
that were necessary to convince thousands of Americans to come to Washington, d C.
On January six and try to overthrow the government. Right so they can
miss me with all these appeals to Oh Jesus, please help us, They're
gonna be a lot of preachers on Sunday white evangelicals preaching on Sunday about you
know, God's got a plan and God is not pleased. No, you
know, Okay, no, God is not pleased with America. But not
for the reasons you think. You know what, what did my guy Jeremiah
Rights say. There's a whole long list of reasons for God to be displeased
with America. God damn America. But it's not the reasons that they are
crying about. There. They are crying about being held account They cannot,
for the life of them, believe that the American government would actually hold a
rich white conservative man accountable for anything, Because if they would hold a rich
white conservative man accountable for something, then certainly they'll hold someone like Marjorie Taylor
Green accountable, and she knows that that's why she's praying to God, God,
please sweet baby Jesus, seven pounds twelve ounces, wrapped up in the
swaddling clothes. I guess maybe you haven't seen Telegdaga nights, but I digress.
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