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So I want to go through yesterday and my omda, we have some things
to talk about here today. Of course, Trump was arraigned yesterday in Florida,
in Miami, thirty seven counts, pleads through his attorney not guilty.
Of course, that comes as no surprise. But then he jumps on his
plane, flies up to New Jersey, take some motorcade. I mean I
was watching I think I was actually watching Fox. I don't watch I know
some of you are off Fox. I just had I just had Oz Turner
on the TV. Whatever. We pulled up, and it was kind of
like watching Well. It just reminded me of the you know, the helicopter
flying over the motorcade, had flashbacks to OJ back in the whenever ninety three
or whatever. That was different, of course, scenario, but it just
looked like that as they were racing to the toward Trump would give a speech.
And Trump spoke last night a little bit later than was scheduled, but
of course that's always the case with Trump. He's a master of this,
by the way, true master. And you know, as as I finished
watching, I got a couple of pages of notes. Here we as you
know, we're not scripted. You know, I've had people. I know,
some people have to do what the producers or the network or whatever tell
them to do. We don't have to do that. Here. This is
we talk about what it is that we want to to share with you,
the things that we think are important, the things that truly struck me.
As I was preparing, preparing for this very program, and as I got
to the end of the program, I looked at at my wife and I
said, look, I said, I hope people realize. I hope people
realize how historic what we are watching is. There is in so many ways.
I mean, yes, we have the obvious, which is America has
never had a sitting or I guess a former president indicted before. Now that's
happened twice and potentially another indictment indictment coming as well. It's all at war
against this president, former President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
But it's not just that. I mean, what we are witnessing is
unrivaled in modern American history, and arguably even well outside of that. The
idea that the former Republican nominee, the former president of the United States,
and the nominee who lost the twenty twenty election, the idea that he would
maintain this level of enthusiasm and support and connection in the wake of his defeat
in twenty twenty, this is unmatched. I mean, I know, we
had Grover Cleveland, who was the twenty second and the twenty fourth president.
Now I know, if we've got a Bernie Sanders left us tuned in here
today, those aren't two different people, right, I'm kidding. I'm just
playing with You're welcome to this program. We're conservative, not bitter. I'm
just having a little fun. But there he had a term that was broken
up, if you will, by the twenty third president of the United States,
who was who Benjamin Harrison. So his terms were split into two separate
so he's the twenty second and technically the twenty fourth president. And so I
mean there had to be you know, some consistent support or at least the
ability to re re engage with those with those supporters in the time between the
you know, when when Cleveland won and then one again after Harrison won the
election in between. So I mean in that respect, I guess there has
been signs or things in history that have shown that certain candidates can achieve certain
certain things like this, but this the energy is unmatched, the energy,
the passion. I mean the theater, and I mean that in a good
way. You know, you often hear me criticize the radical left as being
dramacrats, and I think that they are. But there's a time for good
political theater. It's just that they're dramacrats because it's always and only political theater.
There is nothing real about anything, and they're so called ideas. There're
nothing more than a set of feelings that they are prepared to use every aspect
of government to force upon you to where you don't have the right to say,
I don't accept that idea. I don't believe that what you're telling me
is good. It isn't something I want to support. They don't operate They
the radical Left, don't operate like that. And the way that they do
it is to constantly and only only operate as dramacrats. But there's a time
for good political theater. I referenced in yesterday's show that Tuesday, wait a
minute, Monday, Monday or Tuesday was the thirty sixth anniversary of Ronald Reagan's
speech in front of the Berlin Wall where he told Gorbutchoff to tear down this
wall. He was told by all of the advisors not to say that that
was too inflammatory. What he had do, and you're gonna erupt and create
World War three did not happen. In fact, what he told mister Gorbutchoff
to do by tearing down that wall was something that actually and quite literally happened
just a few years later, when that wall did in fact come crumbling down,
leading to the freedom of people who were imprisoned in their own homes,
in their own world on that side, the wrong side of the wall.
And Reagan did what I would consider some good political theater. But it was
to make a point, to make a point about something that was real and
true and good. It wasn't something that was designed to deceive and manipulate and
mislead and mischaracterize, as is usually, if not always, the intent of
the radical left. So political theater is good, and we saw a little
bit. You always have a degree of that. Sometimes he turns it up
a lot with Donald Trump. And so as he was ending that speech,
and at the end of the speech, he said some good things. Basically,
I'm paraphrasing. I don't have soundbites pulled today, but I've got,
like I said, I've got a couple of pages of notes that I handwrote
during that speech that he gave last night. But he ended the speech by
saying something again, I'm paraphrasing. They want to take away my freedom,
Trump says, because I won't let them take away yours. That's what he
said. I'll say it again, and he said another there was another similar
statement made. But they the government, they the deep state, They the
radical left, they the swamp, they anyone who's represented by as Trump called
him, deranged, deranged Jack Smith, who is the prosecutor in this particular
case. And Trump's out there going after him hard, really, really really
hard, to the point, you know, it's it's interesting when you think
about the way that court cases are typically typically handled. Trump goes right for
the juggular, the metaphorical juggular of this particular prosecutor, Jack Smith, who
he called a deranged lunatic, and of course he gave him a nickname,
deranged Jack Smith. He attacked his atrocious record, and he said Jack Smith
specializes in political hit jobs. But again, at the end of that speech,
they want to take away my freedom, Trump says, because I won't
let them take away yours. And he ended my saying I'm standing in the
way of them coming after you, some variation of that. So he was
in full campaign mode. He was in full It was a thing of beauty.
And it's not just that these charges are historic. We've got a potential
constitutional crisis brewing in the background or maybe even the foreground here with everything that's
going on. You've got someone who is the uh well, the presumptive front
runner in the Republican prob Well, he is the front runner. We just
haven't really started, we're just we have early polling. But he's the former
president, the front running nominee of the party that's not in power, and
suddenly the party in power is going after that nominee. I mean that on
its on its face, should concern every single American. Now, it doesn't
mean that there's not theoretically something justifiable that would prevent I'm talking hypothetically here.
I'm not talking specifically about Trump, but hypothetically, hypothetically, we should be
able or the justice should be able to when truly justified, it should be
able to pursue whoever it needs to pursue. The problem is there's all sorts
of questions as to whether or not that is, in fact, what is
happening here. In fact, if you ask people, if I asked you
in this audience, the vast majority I saw Republicans in general, seventy six
percent according to a recent poll, said that this prosecution of Trump, these
charges are politically motivated. Period. I saw twelve percent said that they were
justified, and I saw another twelve percent said they were both justified and also
politically motivated. They could be both. I mean that is a logical conclusion
that someone that someone can draw. But that means that seventy so eighty eight
percent of people survey these were Republicans. I don't know if they were likely
voters or likely primary voters, but eighty eight percent thought that these charges were
politically motivated and that that played into where we are today, and that should
not happen. You talk about undermining the confidence in a government, you talk
about undermining our democracy or whatever it is that people want to say, we
have a constitutional republic. You know that we go through that from time to
time here. But the bottom line is the bottom line is this is well,
number one, we're in political war. It's still a cold war,
a cold civil war of sorts, but we're engaged at that right now.
That's what's going on. Eighty eight percent of Republicans think that this decision to
go after Trump is politically motivated. That is terrible. That is banana republic
kind of stuff that should not be the case. Now, twelve percent of
those of the eighty eight percent say that it's also justifiable. It's just that
they are happy they're happy to be pursuing something against Trump that just again happens
to be justifiable. So this is again as the stage, this is this
is um just again. Do you think about Trump's day yesterday, Trump's standing
before a judge, something that's historic, potentially constitutional crisis causing, jumps on
a plane, goes back home and gives this speech and knocks it, in
my estimation, out of the park. I said earlier that the it is
historic what we're witnessing as far as what this particular government is doing, whether
or not you think is justifiable or not just it is. It's never happened,
it's it is historic what we're witnessing here. But I think it's also
historic. And I don't know if many people will pause at this point in
time and appreciate what we are witnessing. But what we are witnessing Trump do,
and the way that he is addressing this, and I'm going to go
through this in the program, I think is nothing short of brilliant. Now
you can disagree, you can disagree with his arguments, you can say he
still needs to be prosecuted, But the way that the guy communicates, the
way that he explains directly to the American people, to anyone who's paying attention,
which by the way, is a ton of people. This guy,
President Trump. I don't mean that disrespectfully, but President Trump has an uncanny
ability, an uncanny ability to ride the wave, ride the wave. Once
he gets attention right, he can use whatever attention he has been given to
get his message out. And I think he did a very very good job
of doing of doing that last night. I think I think it was I
think it was superb what we witnessed last night. He spoke for I don't
know, around thirty minutes or so, but it was I thought it was
incredibly well done. I think he got right to it. He made some
key points that in very clear, concise ways that cuts through the clutter for
the average person in this country who may have tuned in. And he made
some very very interesting and I think very relevant points. And so now the
battle begins, I mean it is, and we're playing for keeps right this
this is everything's on the line here, Everything is on the line, and
Trump is not going anywhere. And however bad we think it is right now,
which I'm not again, you know my thoughts on this, this Trump
is going to use this and actually, well, he's going to use this
to be able to get his message out, which he would contend is the
truth about this entire what he would call witch hunt, which appears to me
to be a very legitimate explanation as to what is what's transpiring and happening.
Anyway, lots to say about this. There's other stuff in the stack of
stuff as well. You can check that out at the website taught upshow dot
com. Just go to the stack of stuff. But I'm gonna take the
time out here, my friends. You're listening to conservative not bitter talk.
Will pick this up on the other side of the break, my friends,
back in just a minute. Falling back, my friends, So let's again
talk about this Trump speech last night, which was given after his arraignment in
Miami. This speech was given in New Jersey, and I thought he did
a great job of framing the issue. And so what he first did what
Look, my intention here today is to is to share in simple direct layman's
terms and terminology, what Trump was setting out to do and what his argument
is. Now some of you aren't going to some are not gonna want to
hear it. Some have already made the up their mind that he's guilty.
I just think that it's important to know what his argument is, to listen,
to listen to what he's saying. You can still say it's it's whoy,
that's that's fine. But I think a lot of people who are saying
that it should cause him to go to prison for by the way he said,
he said the prison term for if he's convicted of all thirty seven counts
stands at something like four hundred years approximately. That's what he said. That's
what he said last night. I have not added it up or looked into
that, but that's what Trump said last night. So what's he doing.
He starts off, He starts off by saying, here's what actually happened,
and he explains in pretty common language what happened when he leaves the wine house,
and it actually it sounds similar to some of the things that we have
said on here as well. And so you know, I think for a
lot of people, it's hard to comprehend how many moving parts there is,
and a job like president of the United States, I think it's hard to
comprehend how busy and just how much of a whirlwind an average day is unless
you're Biden hiding in his basement. So I think that the average person would
have a hard time, not that we're not busy or anything, but just
the whirlwind and the the constant, well, constantly having to review and decide
certain actions to take and so forth, how certain problems are going to be
dealt with, constantly, non stop, having to effectively deal with that,
dealing with, you know, with different people who are briefing you, people
who are trying to advise you, and so forth. You know, the
idea that you ever truly get all the information about any of these things unless
it's a very very critical sort of decision. There's a lot of stuff going
on, right, and so over the course of four years or eight years,
you accumulate this is your residence, right. You live in the White
House, you work out of the White House, and you have all sorts
of meetings and everything else. And so whenever it's time for you to go,
whether that's at the end of four years or eight years or whatever,
you pack your stuff up, and by you, it's not you, that's
the first thing. It's not you going through and packing things up like an
average person might do when he or she moves to a new house. This
is we're talking boxes and all sorts of you know, all sorts of things
that have to be sifted through. And so Trump says, look, I've
got all of these boxes, a lot of these boxes containing personal items,
personal effects, clothing, memorabilia, and so forth. Hadn't gone through all
those boxes yet. I'm an effect, he said. I'm a busy I've
had a busy life, is what he said last night. And then he
added, and they're trying to make it busier with all these allegations and indictments
and everything else. And so you know, this is this is reality.
And he points out, he points out that this happened with previous presidents.
He mentions Clinton, he mentions Bush, he mentions Obama, and he mentions
even though it's our current president. He mentions some of the classified documents that
Biden had, and by the way, Trump would add, Biden wasn't the
one who could declassify. Biden was vice president of the United States. It's
a different it's a different level of well of not of clearance necessarily, but
of power pertaining to those to those documents. And so Biden even has some
things that go back to his time as senator, which leaves many people scratching
their heads. How in the world that would even remotely be possible if we
were actually interested in interpreting and fulfilling or I guess interpreting it and applying I
should say the law consistently inappropriately. But Trump says, look, we were
we had these things, you know, we some of the things that we
grabbed, and most of this stuff was what we thought were was personal.
The National Archives comes along and they have some questions about some things, and
he says, we were openly we were openly negotiating or working with them.
Now, some people don't like that term, but it's not the wrong term.
I know some people some people will kick and scream by by saying that,
what do you mean you can't negotiate with the National Archives. Well,
the idea that all of these documents and all of these things that they were
trying to get and sift through it. They're not always black and white.
Sometimes they are not suggested seeing that there's no example of that. But the
idea is they've gathered all these things, they've put them into boxes, they
moved out with them, they took them to mar Lago. This is Trump
explaining I thought, in a very very just very simple to understand way,
we move them into Marra Lago hadn't gone through them. We're negotiating with the
National Archives because you know, they're questioning whether or not some of these things
that we took are personal and I've got a case to say that they are,
and they're may be making the case that they're not. And that happens
everywhere. By the way, he also points out, I've gotta take a
break, But he pointed out last night, and I think I mentioned this
if I didn't mention this on the show. You know, sometimes I have
conversations off the show, off of Showtime, and I'm wondering if I may
have said it in those in those private settings. But the Clinton's actually stole
furniture out of the White House. They took furniture out of the White House.
Nothing happened. Now you'll say, oh, it's furniture, Todd,
it's not national security documents. Again, what part of me says, what
do they think Trump was doing. I've seen people who said, well,
Trump sold plans of an attack against I don't know Iran or some such thing
and sold him to the Saudis. Or gave them to the Saudis in exchange
for his son in law to get a big, a big deal with the
Saudis. He's the same people, by the way, who see no concern
or conflict of interest or any evidence whatsoever of wrongdoing, corruption and the like
from Hunter Biden and what was happening with Ukraine, Russia and every other every
other nefarious actor on the world stage, or every other country even for that
matter, on the world stage. Biden, Joe Biden being the big guy,
all this stuff, no interest there. But of course Trump, they're
prepared to go out go after with every tool in their in their arsenal.
So Trump's painting the picture. He's pointing out that this is being inconsistently applied.
And he does that even better than even better than what I've said so
far, because I just have to get time out, got to get to
the other side of the break, and we'll continue this. My friends.
You're listening to conservative not better talk. I am your host, Todd huff
Back in a minute, come back, my friends, So again talking about
this Trump speech last night after his arraignment, and he was basically explaining what
happened. So we have his personal effects or memorabilia, clothing, things like
that. Inbox has moved out of the White House. They get down tomorrow
Lago. There are some documents and folders, some papers, what have you
that the government, the National Archives is saying, well, that's actually something
that we should maintain control of. That's really not a personal effect. And
Trump says, here we are negotiating, working with them, talking about this,
trying to get it figured out. Everything seems hunky dory, apple pie.
Suddenly FBI shows up with guns and cameras and the three ring circus.
That was the Mara Iago raid. And of course this was the plan.
This was the plan all along. I mean, this is look. I
know that some people think that we've gotten here through legitimate course of action by
the government and so forth, and others think, and I would put myself
in this group. Others think that this is a continuation of what has been
happening to Trump, even back to the days when he was just running as
a candidate prior to the twenty sixteen election. And of course Trump goes through
all of it. I've gone through it, you know, wire tapping him,
spying on his campaign, impeachment, while Russian collusion, delusion, impeachment
one impeachment to make believe January six, storyline and narrative that says Trump is
trying to overthrow the government. And then of course where we are today with
this and of what's happened in New York as well with with Alvin Bragg and
those those charges. So this is I would maintain the plan. This is
what they this is what they want. It's a it's kind of a hill
area of sorts. It's it's it's I think, an act of desperation.
But who's to say that one of these things isn't going to to stick and
get Trump. We have to be prepared for that that reality. But the
idea that this is going to drive Trump out of the race, I just
I cannot conceive of that whatsoever. And so Trump's out here saying, hey,
we were trying to work communicate with them. Suddenly they decided to basically
kick in the door and go through our stuff and instead of working with us,
just simply make this blow this whole thing out of proportion. This happens
in every administration. That's where he was talking about the Clinton's stealing literally stealing
furniture out furniture out of the White House. Then you had people who were
well Bill Clinton, taking audio recordings. I mean, the idea that this
just happened with Trump is not accurate. Now, you could certainly make the
case or try to that this is different. But Trump's Trump's penning the picture
of what what he you know, what he says happened and how he views
it. And he also says, this is the only time it's been used.
And he actually made a comment. I jotted it down. He said,
somethink where is it? Oh, I'm the only one who actually followed
the law, he says. You go through you look at what happened with
Bush, you look at what happened with Clinton, you look at what happened
with Obama, and Obama's got documents stashed away in a warehouse in Chicago and
so forth. I'm the only one, Trump says, who actually follows the
law here. And they've come after me and why. And at the end
of the speech, he says, I tell you why because they want to
take away my freedom because I won't let them take away yours. And so
that's kind of the theme of the speech. That's kind of dare I say
the theme of the campaign that we are now embarking upon. And I just
think, again, I look at these Republicans that have entered the race,
with the exception of De Santis, and you know that I think De Santis
should have should have waited, And I don't. I don't think this was
the time for him to enter the presidential race. But be that as it
may be, That as it may he's in the race now, so I
don't, but I don't put him in the same class as the other individuals
as far as everyone else is betting, is going all in that this is
going to take down Trump. That's why there's a Tim Scott. And I
don't mean that personally against against Tim Scott. He does. There's a lot
of things that to admire about Tim Scott. That's why Nicki Haley's in the
race. Same thing. She's done some good things. There's things I don't
like about what she's done, but she's done some good things. She said.
I thought she did a wonderful job in the un Pence. Same thing
with Pence. I wouldn't put vvak Ramaswami in there. I actually think if
you listen to what this guy is saying, I like this guy. In
fact, I saw yesterday and I have it. I believe, I believe
it's it's in the stack of stuff. He actually came out and said,
look, I think every Republican nominee should come out and say whether or not
they want to or they would pardon Trump should he be convicted, and should
they be elected president. So I think they should make that declaration, and
I also think that they should tell us why so that's happening out there.
Of course, that's an interesting dilemma or just thinking about how that that whole
thing is framed. It's you know, going after Trump without directly going after
Trump by pointing out he could be indicted, but then also trying to capitalize
on the people who are Trump supporters, who think that the leftists in the
deep state and the media and everyone else is going after Trump regardless of where
the evidence leads in all that, regardless of what logic dictates, and things
of that sort, and he's actually trying to capitalize on that. But I
like the idea. I do like the idea. But that's what Trump did
last night. Again, I think it was very very well done. I
think they are going to come they the media, They the Democrat Party,
the radical left. They are going to come to regret the day he's here
in twenty twenty four instead of in the White House in twenty twenty. I
really believe that. I think that they don't have any idea what they're in
for here and giving him a four year hiatus, so to speak, to
sit there and stew over this and plan and get things ready. I think
they may really come to regret that that outcome, and that might be where
we're where we're headed. In fact, you see Frank Lance suddenly realizes that
Trump really has a chance of winning the general election. It's funny to watch,
my friends, this is he absolutely does He absolutely has a chance.
I mean, we've got a lot of politics between now and then, and
a lot of things that can happen, but the votes are there for Trump
to win this thing, not just the primary, but the general election as
well. So and I do think last last thing, I think that this
this campaign, or maybe maybe even take a step back from the campaign,
but what we're witnessing is historic on many levels. And I think as we
look back at this time through the lens of history, we are going to
I think recognize just how amazing, whether you again like him or hate him,
but how amazing Trump has been at navigating these impossible circumstances and how he
continues to connect with the people in this country who are prepared to vote for
him again and again and again. That, my friends, is quite remarkable,
the way he connects with his bass. It's absolutely fantastic, the way
that he does it. And they don't have an answer for it. They
don't. So timeouts in order sit tight, my friends, back in a
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a minute. All right, my friends, not a lot of time.
But if last night, and it is by the way, last night is
an indication of how this, how Trump is going to play this, how
he's going to use it to his benefit. I mean this, this is
going to be again the most intense, the most um well, just it's
gonna make twenty sixteen twenty twenty looked like metaphorical cakewalks. I mean, it
is unbelievable what we're going to be witnessing here. So I'm happy to help
walk you through it. Stay calm, my friends, because there's lots of
campaigning left to do. But last night was great. I've got to go. SDG