Welcome back. Everyone's a new episode of You're Wrong with Molly henning Way and
David Harsani. Just as a reminder, if you'd like to email the show,
please do so at radio at the Federalist dot com. We love to
hear from you, do we not, Molly, we do. I'm glad
to hear you say that. We had our annual Federalist retreat last week.
It was great. We get together once a year because everyone's remote. We
have people as far away as Alaska, like very few people live or work
in the DC area for the Federalists. That's actually one of the things that
makes us so awesome because we are not beholden to the idiocy of the Beltway
or New York City. I mean, we had people myself included in the
Beltway York City, but it's not like a majority of the staff or anything
close to it. But that also means we don't always know each other that
well, and so we get together once a year and it was so much
fun. And one of the conversations we had there, I was talking about
how much I love, love love our readers, our listeners. Federalist readers
and listeners are just like some of my very favorite people. And I was
going on about how nice and wonderful they are and you were you saying that,
David, or were you saying something else? Was I saying that they
were nice and wonderful? Probably not? Probably not, But I would say
they're more wonderful than most people like it. Okay, you have to be
curmudgeonly and a misanthrope. But it is interesting that I like this retreat because
I think most people think I'm crankier than I am probably digitally, would you
agree with that? And when they meet me, I hope that they see
that I'm not that you know, that much of a crank, though I
don't know if that's true. And there were many There were many reasons why
I loved the retreat, but I have to be honest that like, just
as much as I love talking to you each week, spending time with you
in person is like a highlight for me. So thanks for that. But
also you injured me. You injured me at the retreat, which I think
we should. We should go over this first of all, so I would
I would say that I'm, as you know from the retreat, I'm very
competitive when it comes to sports. So we played basketball. We had played
wiffle ball. They have like where we were a wiffleble field, like a
whole whiffle ball field, and we played dodgeball. Now I hurt myself playing
with full ball, tripping over a small mound of dirt playing wiffle ball.
And when I told my wife that I had hurt myself on a mound of
dirt playing wiffle ball, it did not come out as manly as I had
hoped that it would come out, you know, telling her about that.
Then we played basketball, and we have some real athletes, right, can
we could pause on the on the wiffle ball, which I did not play,
I was I was in an aggressive game of cornhole and axe throwing while
you were doing that. But also I don't I don't want to. You
know, some of our staff are with child, and one of the people
with child was like base running between first and second and collided with someone else,
and I was like, my heart can't take this. Like she was
fine, but I just, you know, I was like worried, you
know, that something would happen with the baby. It was a pretty intense
and my point was an intense wiffleball game Joshua T. Monnington editor, h
that man's a base runner. Yeah, yeah, it was. It was
a more aggressive and physically demanding than I had thought Wiffle of All would be.
But yeah, we did that, and then we played basketball and we
have but I did Yeah, hold on, I when I was playing corn
hole, I did it with a drink in one hand while throwing the you
know the things. I feel like, that's how you have to do corn
hole. Last time last year I was I didn't realize how serious everyone was
going to be about the athletic stuff. This year. I brought athletic clothing
with me and sneakers like compete. Okay, so you did the basketball game.
That was intense, all right? Yeah. Yeah. Everyone treats me
because I think I'm the oldest person there. Probably everyone treats me like an
invalid. Like if I hit a basket, they're like, oh, that's
great job, buddy, you know, become a ninety. But you know,
I was pretty athletic when I was younger. And then then came the
dodgeball game, which was a lot of fun, right yeah, And I
have no athletic prowess at all. I was playing ping pong with Madeline Osbourne,
who's great, She's just wonderful. And then you maintained that I threw
a ball at you. Well, I didn't want to play dodgeball because I
I am not athletic. I have no strength. I was recently telling Nate
Cavanaugh, also who we work with. I was like, you know,
I've always been kind of weak, but I am really weak, you know,
just like things are getting worse. But anyway, I also have like
bad ankles and everything like that. So I was like, I'm not going
to play dodgeball, and Madeline bullied me into doing dodgeball. So I joined
the team and like within about fifteen seconds, I'd turned my ankle because you
threw like you just helted me from your team, and then I tried to
avoid. I tried to dodge the ball, did not do a good job,
turned my ankle, and I was like playing injured for the rest of
the dodgeball game. Okay, I just want to say I'm not calling you
a liar. I don't think you're a liar. I think I don't think
you would do that, but I think you're mistaken here. I one hundred
percent would not be throwing the ball at you. Now, maybe I was
throwing it at someone else. Oh yeah, if you were behind them or
something. So do you know that one round of dodgeball where I was the
last person standing. I was trying to assess how that happened. And I
think it's because I'm like, actually so slow that it confounded other people.
They would be throwing the ball trying to like anticipate where I would be,
but I was just not getting there, and so I was just surviving,
like round after round. Let me float another theory by you. Nobody wanted
to hit me, You're the boss. No one wanted to throw a ball
you. I think that was probably you. Like when we were picking teams
and Jeremy picked me early, I was like, oh boy, Brown knows
her, Like we all know what I should be the last picked. It's
okay. Can I is the funniest thing that happened on the trip? Can
I quickly tell you? Is that there's a little there's like a fishing area
and you know, so I'm I like to fish some fishing. Nothing's happening
hours, nothing, no bites, nothing, And I'm like, there are
no fish in here, supposedly stocked. So the guy who worked there,
takes me into this little area. He throws pellets in the water, and
a million fish come to the top, like and just they't jumping out of
the water, like I could have grabbed one with my hand. It made
me feel like such an idiot. But I thought I was a good fisherman,
but apparently not. But anyway, it was I didn't catch anything either,
Yes, okay, I don't think any of us did. But it's
so it's I think it's always nice. It's always nice to see. We
had some new staff and it was great to meet them, and yeah,
we've been nicely growing and the and it was so it was like particularly special
to meet some of the new people for the first time. And also I
was reading this Politico article this week about how journalism has lost its swagger,
and it had all these different reasons. It was all about how corporate media
had lost its swagger, how you used to actually read kind of interesting things
in corporate media and now there's nothing interesting. And you know, obviously this
is because of like the left's takeover. So there's no humor and there's no
and you just have to be so careful and obey the orthodoxius of the age
but I was thinking about our staff, and we are just I mean,
we have some people that are just nothing but swagger and it's fun and they're
aggressive and they are they'll just like do anything to tell the truth about what's
really going on, and it's it's just so much fun to work here.
And it's just the conversations will go from like the Reformation to like good Times
in nineteen seventy sitcom and like, you know, a minute flat. So
it's just the conversations are a lot of fun. I think it hopefully some
of that is reflected. I know that's a lot of that's reflected and how
you know, the things we cover and how we write and why the Federalists
existed and why you know, why it was formed and why it exists now.
And I think that meeting the people is really gotten. My juice is
flowing again to do more, you know what I mean. So it was
a great it was a great weekend. So I feel like I just talked
to you though, So now we need to talk about what's happened in the
last few days. So what do you want to talk about? Well,
I was thinking we should talk about Donald Truent, just that since twenty fifteen.
But I think we need to talk about all the law fair, the
lawfair schedule, let's call it that. So I think, what is it
four or five cases this week? Alvin Bragg and the New York case had
as their witness. The prosecution had Stormy Daniels. It was not called her
Davis. Stormy Daniels, orne star and alleged lover of Donald Trump. Now
I find this case the most probably the most ridiculous, because I cannot detect
any illegality in anything. So it always makes me wonder, like, why
are we here. I have a slight hope that maybe the jury will and
it's not going to happen, but maybe the jury will find Donald Trump innocent
because it is so ridiculous. But I wanted to just mention that the having
Stormy Daniels there to go over in great detail all this, you know,
the alleged you know, goings on behind the closed doors with Donald Trump,
was just meant to embarrass him. It had no it did not seem to
me like it had any relevance to the case, no relevance to the illegality
that supposedly went on, And it just really drove home the point to me
that this is just all a show trial. I don't even know what to
say about it. Like, obviously it's a show trial. The case is
about a bookkeeping it's a bookkeeping trial. And the claim is that like Donald
Trump personally, you know, filed an expense in the wrong column and therefore
has broken New York law and so she would go to jail. It's such
an absurd thing, like when you say it out loud, Like, Also,
all of the witnesses thus far have kind of been like, yeah,
Donald Trump isn't really like the He's not the one actually entering things in the
books. And there's also the issue that had he done things differently, he
almost certainly would have broken the law. So it's like a complete Stalinist kind
of approach. But the predicate of the whole case is that he is not
allowed to have to seek to sign an NDA non disclosure agreement with someone to
help protect him his reputation during an election, which is the most insane thing
I've ever heard of my life. If two people voluntarily engage in a contract
like this, it is completely legal. There is no underlying crime whatsoever.
Yeah, and it was investigated by federal authorities and they determined there was nothing
to charge, and they didn't charge. And so Alvin Bragg is in the
New York City Prosecutor's office, and his predecessor was that Cyril Cyrus Vance guy
who did successfully. He got all of these attorneys who were Democrat attorneys to
sort of agree to work. They were highly paid, highly high powered Democrat
attorneys who just made a decision to go work for the New York City prosecutor
to try to go after Donald Trump because Donald Trump hadn't shared his tax records,
and they took that all the the Supreme Court. It was a very
coordinated Democrat thing. So then Alvin Bragg comes in. They were hoping that
when they got access to his tax records that it would show some illegality,
and as is like routinely amazing with this man Donald Trump, they found no.
They just found nothing illegal. So they spent all these years trying to
get his tax records and it all came to nothing. So then they came
up with this other idea to get a quick and easy conviction on the claim
that, yeah, a non disclosure agreement could not be for any reason except
to influence the election. But he's not even being charged with that. They're
saying that when he did his paperwork, which he didn't actually do the next
year, so not before the election, he misfiled it somehow, which he
didn't do also, And so it's like one of the more absurd things we've
seen. But we should remember that the bigger picture is that there was this
again highly coordinated Democrat effort to remove Donald Trump from the ballot. And what
they were hoping for was that one of the law fare cases Democrats are engaged
in would result in a conviction and then that would be the predicate for removing
him from the ballot. So they got all these cases going. But then
that you know, Twelfth Amendment thing did go to the ballot, or did
go to the Supreme Court, and Supreme Court ruled nine zero that they should
not be trying to remove Trump from the ballot, and yet the cases are
ongoing for other reasons, to hurt him financially, to hurt him with his
reputation, to keep him off the campaign trail. It is massive election interference
on the part of Joe Biden and everyone else in the Democrat Party. And
I just want to remind people that in what was it like twenty nineteen,
we did a whole impeachment, a whole impeachment on the claim that Donald Trump
having a phone call about Joe Biden's corruption in Ukraine was election interference. Yeah,
now we have Joe Biden and the entire Democrat Party not just doing like
gross election interference stuff like making you and me pay for other people's debt on
student loans. You know, clear clear violation of rules on whether taxpayer funds
should be used to help the Democrat Party stay in power. But also this
coordinated effort that's everywhere including New York, to you know, to interfere about
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slightly off topic just speaking of impeachment. Recently, Congress passed in AIDS package
to Ukraine and Israel with very specific things that you're supposed to send to Israel,
and Joe Biden has held back that money. Though Congress passed the bill
to punish Israel to buy some votes in Michigan. That is actually what Donald
Trump supposedly did, but in action like he is doing this for political reasons.
It's a Congress passed the law, he lobbied for the law, and
now he's holding it back because some people in Michigan and on Columbia University campus
and elsewhere don't like it. I mean, that seems to me to be
an impeachable offense as well, if you really want to hold people to the
same standards. So the Alvin bradcase continues, I also want to point out
another major problem with the case for those people who care about rule of law
and having a republic that exists. The judge, who's a Democrat Operative and
his daughter is like also a Democrat Operative, has been placing the accused under
a gag order, which is just like completely unprecedented. The number of things
that the left is willing to do because of their hatred of one man and
his supporters is like always amazing to me. So they put the sort of
like the victim of the government prosecution under a gag order, but not the
people who are prosecuting. It is just completely unheard of. In trials.
You might see a gag order on everybody, or even maybe on the prosecution,
but never on the defense and on the defense alone. And he also
said that Brad Smith, federalist author Brad Smith, who was the former chairman
of the Federal Election Commission. And keep in mind, the entire allegation from
Bragg is that by paying a non disclosure agreement, he violated, you know,
election laws because of how he classified it or something. And the judge
said that Brad Smith would not really be allowed to testify about anything relevant to
the case. The same corrupt judge allowed this porn star to give a minute
by minute detailed explanation right of what supposedly happened in this extramarital affair. But
then there's a gag order on Donald Trump, which all goes out to the
media, goes out across the world, it goes to voters, but Donald
Trump is not allowed to stand outside of that courtroom later and say none of
that was true, right right? I mean, is it is just so
stalinist, crazy nakedly I think it's going to backfire. I still believe that.
I don't know, but I believe, based on Donald Trump's own rhetoric
and publicly available information, that he is not the world's best husband. Okay,
Like I remember sometimes what he would say on Howard Stern, and there
are just you know, there are problems there. But I actually, like
one of my things is I don't I don't actually think this particular person is
telling the truth. I don't know. I think I think the blackmail attempt
happened like at at you know, I do think they tried to blackmail him,
and I think that he paid a non disclosure, But I don't actually
think there's I don't know. There was something very lacking incredibility about her outlandish
claims that were very different from what they were you know, a few years
ago. I mean, whether they're true or not, nothing he did was
illegal. That's a personal matter. So it has nothing to do with this
case. I mean, it has something to do with this case, but
the specifics hearing I don't even want to repeat it. You know, it's
kind of weird and funny in a way, but I'm not going to talk
about it here. But like, there's just no reason to allow that and
to put a gag order on the president who know about it, right But
a woman who owes Donald Trump like millions of dollars right now for lying about
this affair was able to testify quote unquote testify about it even though she hasn't
paid what she owes Trump. Are we allowed to say that a pornographic actress
does not have credibility by the way, I mean, that is not a
career choice that has. It's not as bad as being a politician, but
pretty close anyway. So there's that case. I think that case is a
joke. I think any open minded human being knows it's a joke. One
last thing I want to say, that particular issue is when the two hundred
indictments dropped or whatever two hundred charges dropped in his indictment last year, which
was itself a joke. There was not even a one real charge and he
turned it into like dozens of charges. Everyone admitted that the case was like
a complete and utter joke. But as other cases have fallen, apart MSNBC,
NBC, CNN that are all in on their hatred of Trump. They
are like rewriting their own history to act like they never said, like this
is the stupidest case that has ever come down the pike in American history.
They're all like, and here's what happened yesterday, and here's why Donald Trump
is really in trouble. The walls are closing in. And you know,
I agree, like this jury was picked precisely so they would secure a quick
and easy conviction. I'm not like one hundred percent sure they'll do it,
but I'm in the nineties. And if they don't do it, that's the
bravest group of New Yorkers I've ever ever heard of. But the revisionist history
is really something to behold. I just I have imagined what happens if they
don't do it. How disastrous that is for this whole law affair project.
I mean, that would just be a bomb anyway. And I don't hold
out hope. I mean I hold out slight hope, but I don't think
that's going to happen. Now let's move over to the whole Georgia case.
So now it seems like a judge is granted the fan. This is the
Fanny Willis case. Just like a little quick before we step down to Georgia,
let's remember that there already were the two other cases in New York.
There was Letitia James successful prosecution of Donald Trump for repaying alone with interest in
a way that made everybody happy, which is apparently a crime in New York
now. And then there was the you can accuse someone of sexual assault based
on no corroborating information, including no memories or details or specifics or any kind
of story that makes sense in the e Gene Carroll thing. And I can't
even remember, Like the numbers are so insane what the fines have been associated
with each of those successful prosecutions. But it's like a clear attempt to bankrupt
Donald Trump and his family and his business. Again dangerous, you know,
Venezuelan style justice that whould have no place in America. Surprisingly, it's worse
than you just explained that that case. I think it wasn't even that he
was accused of anything. It's that he was never found guilty of any kind
of sexual assault. But yet he lost a defamation case where he mocked the
person who made those charges who never proved them in a court of law at
all. I mean, that is insane. Think about that. It's like
you accuse me of something. I mock that accusation because you have no evidence
and it's never been proven, and then you win what is it, like
whatever, some absurd amount of money, bazillion dollars. Yeah, because because
I have defamed you by mocking the thing that was never proven. I mean
it is a complete attack on free speech. It's insane. And just because
listen, you know, just because the guy's rich doesn't mean it's okay,
or just because he's a politician doesn't mean it's okay. To's simply ignore the
liaw and you know that case was both All three of those cases are preposterous,
But then most of these cases are so. Fanny Willis is the other
case in Georgia. Now that's what's the charge there election. It's a Rico
conspiracy case that has rung up pretty much the entire Republican leadership in Georgia and
Donald Trump and some of his people. And it's all based on a fraudulent
situation. First of all, so it's based on a phone call that was
illegally recorded and so that alone should mean that nothing should have happened as a
result of it. But the phone call was illegally recorded by a crazy lady
in Secretary of State's office who immediately leaked it to the Washington Post. She
illegally recorded it in Florida, and I do think people in Florida should look
into prosecuting that. Florida requires two party consent phone calls that are being taped.
You're not allowed to surreptitiously record people. She claims that she illegally recorded
and leaked it immediately to corporate media as part of a law enforcement operation.
She said that's how she's going to defend herself if she is charged with the
crime that she committed. So, but the phone call was about a lawsuit
in Georgia that that was about how they had administered their election, and the
lawsuit pointed to many tens of thousands of problematic votes in different categories. And
so one of the categories which we have reported on at the Federalist, We've
done great work on this. I Mark Davis, Margot Cleveland have all done
great work on this. Was showing that in the state of Georgia, if
you move from one county to another. You were supposed to register to vote
in the new county if you've lived there for thirty days or more, and
not go back your old county to vote. And there were like more than
the margin of victory for Biden people who illegally voted this way, and you
could say, like, oh, but that doesn't really matter that they're illegally
voting, because they still are people who lived in the state of Georgia,
except that people who did follow the law are disenfranchised when you let people who
have broken the law vote, if that makes sense. And there were other
categories as well, you know, questionable addresses, signature verification, all sorts
of things. And Donald Trump was like, you don't need to agree with
me on all one hundred and fifty thousand votes that we've identified as problematic,
but could you just agree on like eleven thousand, three hundred and two or
whatever was like one more than the margin of victory, because then we'll have
action to kind of like proceed with our case because the Georgia courts were not
hearing the case in a timely fashion. So that has always been falsely reported
by propaganda, press and other global people as him saying to find, like
discover or invent votes that didn't actually that weren't actually cast. It's a complete
misreading of the call. But Fannie Willis says in a new book, a
hagiography about her, that when she heard about this phone call, she prayed
that it took that one of the people who was recorded was in Fulton County,
because if they were, then she could launch like a hole Rico investigation,
and she does that, and it's all based on this idea. So
these Georgians understood that they had a very good legal case, like extremely good
case, and in fact, it was later found to be vindicated that at
least one of the categories that they identified was in fact a group of illegal
voters. But if they were successful in their case, they needed to preserve
the option of electors for the Republican nominee, and so they set up a
system of being alternate electors in the case that their case was found to have
value. So this is something Democrats have done before. It's just to make
sure you're following the law, because you know, at the same time your
court challenge is going through, the electoral college process is going through. So
they are there. There's like a court transcription of them saying basically like,
we're not saying we're the real electors. We're just saying we're the alternate electors
in the case that our court case is found to have value. And Fannie
Willis has charged them with like presenting themselves as something they weren't and engaged in
a you know, like assault on democracy. And then that's exactly what's happening
also in Arizona, also with you know, some corrupt people in that state
as well. So in that case though of Fannie Willis, Fanny or Fannie
Willis obviously acted corruptly in a political manner to begin with, but also in
a personal manner as well. Her special prosecutor was a guy named Nathan Wade
who she had had a long term affair, and so on the judge is
he corrupt to this judge because he'd let Fannie will just stay on the case
even after learning about all this, But now, A yeah, I mean,
I just I feel like he gave everything that was needed for this appeal
to go forward. He did issue a very tepid, you know, like
allowing her to continue so long as her lover her yet so as long as
her lover left office. Yeah, but he also kind of said in even
that decision, he was like, and other people might want to look into
this. I mean she could face disbarment even over this, So that will
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or wherever you get your podcast. Well, the Georgia Court of Appeals
took up the case that you know Donald Trump's lawyers move forward with removing her
from the case. And if you remove her from the case, first of
all, delays a trial passed. The election, which is almost surely going
to happen But moreover, who knows what a normal da or how they would
act. They might pull the whole case altogether. Right, There's no reason
for any of these people to be prosecuted in any way. It's just straight
up Democrat law fair against Republican opponents to take them off the playing field.
Yeah, right, So you probably know more about this than I do.
But so the other case I wanted to talk about was the Clasy documents case.
So there too, If I'm getting this correctly, the case is going
to be delayed. The judge there seems to be a straight up decent judge,
correct, And she's decent under unbelievable pressure from the media and other Democrats,
like she has just been treating Do you remember the Washington Post a few
months ago? They wrote a piece They were like, this woman is acting
like Donald Trump has a right to a defense, and I was liken't isn't
that just called being a normal judge? I mean, they were livid that
she was treating his legal team's arguments as if they might potentially be valid,
not even like ruling on them, but just sort of being like, Okay,
well, if this is how you're going to do it, you know,
that that might you know, that might win the day or whatever.
She was not she was not weighing in, but she's also not been playing
some of the rush games that that other Democrat prosecutions have been able to accomplish
by having some crazy left wing judges. So when jack Smith says, like,
we have to rush this through. We cannot be public and transparent about
what we're doing or about what we found. You're just gonna have to take
our word at it. And she's always like, no, I think we
should. You know, she tried to set up that special Master, which
I think the eleventh Circuit overturned, which they shouldn't have done, because there
are all sorts of like really complicated issues. One of the things that came
out because she has been being very deliberate about the evidence that they're presenting,
is that jack Smith's team had manipulated evidence and they admitted that. And so
that's like just one of the do you remember when they came out with those
like documents, the staged photos of like all the classified documents at mar A
Lago, and it turned out that the Jacksmith team had not handled that evidence
with the kind of care that they should have given it was a classified document
case. Well, they moved, they moved, they moved things around to
make to make certain files more prominent than others, for instance, represented what
was in the piles. Yes, correct? And do I have this correct?
That this Secret Service or someone I'm not sure which agency actually took some
of the files themselves and moved it gave it to Donald Trump maybe without even
their knowledge. Is that? Do I have that wrong? I don't know
which agency it was, but yeah. One of the things that was interesting
that's come out as this, as the preliminary hearings have proceeded, is that
some of the documents that Trump was accused of improperly having had been sent to
him I think by GSA, because they were like, we can't have these,
like they need to go to you, and then he was, you
know, charged with having them after the federal government had sent them to him.
It's a mess of a thing. So that's postponed indefinitely, so that
will not happen. Before the election. I saw an MSNBC lawyer literally I
think a law professor somewhere say that it is true that defendants are allowed to
have a speedy trial. You know, that's right. Granted to them.
But it is also true that we the people deserve to have speedy trials as
well, so we can see the evidence and blah blah blah, like,
no, you don't. Donald Trump is a right to a defense. If
people have manipulated the evidence, which seems to be the case, then he
deserves to have a hearing on that and see what's going on. But obviously
this was all calibrated to coincide with the election, and now at least two
of these cases, the Fani Willis case and the Document's case, are not
going to happen before the election. The other we don't totally know that.
I mean, we don't know likely unlikely if we know that won't. And
then there's the immunity. Supreme Court's dealing with the immunity question in another case,
right, So that case I do think will proceed. Once the Supreme
Court issues their decision on immunity. I had actually kind of assumed that they
would decide that President Trump doesn't have immunity for the for the charged acts,
But after listening to oral argument, I do think maybe they will have a
much more complicated ruling and require a lower court to actually assess whether they charged
bledged crimes are things for which he has immunity or not, and that will
probably have the effect of delaying things, but it might not. And I
just want to say they'll issue their decision presumably in June, which is when
their term ends, and then that will give the very left wing judge Tanya
chuckk In time, like she might need four to six weeks to get her
trial going, assuming they don't say they that there's more action that needs to
be taken before she starts. And so we could be having Donald Trump on
trial for basically the government is charging that his speech is illegal, which is
crazy. But that could be happening in September October over ahead of the election.
So again, you want your election interference. I mean, the whole
thing is election interference, top to bottom, but it's almost so massive and
so over the top that it's like it's like taking on the eye of Soroon.
I have to say, the immunity, the Supreme Court immunity challenge or
the Trump case, is far more interesting than the actual criminal case for me.
I mean, knowing where and what a president is allowed to do or
what constitutes official acts, even though none of this is in the Constitution.
I think it goes back to Nixon or something like that. It's incredibly interesting.
I thought it would be a slam dunk for the you know, the
anti Trump two, but it is. It's actually kind of heartened that literally,
like everybody on the court seemed to be taking it much more seriously than
you know, not just the MSNBC pundits, but everybody. They were much
more aware that how they rule on this will affect everything from here on out.
Yeah. Now, the whole idea of of just blanket immunity for politicians
makes me very nervous, So I don't know how to deal with it.
But I'm just saying it seems to me like this is the sort of thing
they're going to have to kick back in some sense to another court. So
it will probably take a bit, you know, a while to get this
moving. There have been imprudent actions from people in both parties in recent years
and indeed throughout our history, but the imprudence of being willing to blow through
every norm we have in order to deal with the hatred that Democrats have for
the Orange guy, it's just shocking, Like a lot of what's been handled
on the presidential immunity front has been handled through like a hidden law or you
know, even having a quasi independent DOJ was something that kind of helped everybody,
kind of helped the president, kind of helped the country. And when
it comes right down to it, actually there's no constitutional justification for it being
independent. And and when you get these clarified, it's going to be clarified
in a way that you know, I don't know, there's just like,
sometimes good things happen when there's a little bit of ambiguity, and this hatred,
this movement of hatred is just causing a lot of norms, norms and
rules to fall away. I agree. I think a hidden laws and norms
are important, especially in creating stability from one administration to the next, from
one decade to the next whatever. But the problem is when one side starts
blowing up norms in this way, then the other side's going to do the
same thing. So maybe it isn't a bad thing that we settle this,
but it is. It is weird. Like someone pointed out to me,
I think it might have been a coworker. I forget who is that.
You know, if Donald Trump what he supposedly did on this phone call was
a personal matter, not something let's just say, not something that is part
of his I forgot what wording they use, but part of what a president
does. But then blowing, you know, just firing a bunch of nuclear
weapons, is I meaning you can be prosecuted for doing something unconstitutional or starting
a war, but not for you know, but you can't you can't be,
but you can be for a phone call. So this whole case is
incredibly interesting just to know the limits of what presidents can do. The funny
last thing on this for me is that I think the immunity case, I
feel like I would like to limit immunity if possible. But also I think
the underlying case that Trump is being charged with is preposterous. It's a completely
free speech issue that is protected. He doesn't need immunity. His immunity is
under the First Amendment clearly in this case. So hopefully he you know,
hopefully nothing happens there. So anyway, I'm just saying, the whole law
affair schedule's falling apart. I mean, you have three or four cases where
they're probably not going to work out for them, and I don't know what
the brag case, what kind of punishment that comes with. But anyone who
pays attention that case can see that it's nonsense. I think this helps Donald
Trump in the end, but in a political way, I don't know.
It's going to help him in a it's going to help his bank account.
It's a help, yeah. I mean that's so I feel like people have
a little bit of cope on it when they're like, this is actually helping
him. It's like he's off the campaign trail and he is handling that really
well. Like his campaign stops in New York are just brilliant. They're going
very very well. But that doesn't mean it's okay that Joe Biden and his
cronies are keeping their main political opponent off the campaign trail, off the fundraising
trail finding him, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars. Like it's
insane, absolutely insane what he's having to go through. And it is a
dystopic nightmare being engaged in by Democrats and all of their regime allies. It's
just it's like it is so horrible and so unthinkable. For me, it
was really unthinkable that we would ever let our institutions be corrupted or abused,
or the court's abused in this way. I don't know that it kills him
to be off the campaign triw not because I think Trump off the campaign trails
a great idea, because I think he actually is a good retail politician.
When he has those big events, I think they actually matter and help him.
But I do think having Joe Biden constantly speaking is a great thing for
Republicans. He is, obviously, you know, struggling unpopular. The things
he's doing aren't popular, So the more focuses on him, the better it
is for Donald Trump. In my view. It's still very early, to
be honest, it'll matter. We'll see what happens in July and August.
But I don't know. I think it's falling apart, and it's very hard
to like figure out how to launch a lawsuit to coincide with a particular date.
It doesn't really work like that. If Donald Trump has good lawyers,
they're going to be able to mess with that if they want, you know,
even even in this sort of corruption. You know, it's just very
difficult, and I think that's proving to be a mistake for them. But
we'll see so Molly. Because I was at our retreat, just a lot
of fun. I did not watch a lot of and then I had something
to do some other traveling. I have not had a lot of culture on
my plate this week. You you gave someone some albums at the retreat,
I did. I gave you guys, You and Mark Hemingway. I've actually
only listened to the Yazoo, so I don't I'm not one hundred percent of
what the other two were. Oh, but thank you, you welcome.
So I gave you Neil Young. Everyone knows this is Nowhere, which you
apparently are not that crazy about Neil Young. My husband super loves Neil Yet
I gave you an album Yazoo, which was called yeas Here when we were
young and people liked a lot. But that's the British version of the album,
so it's Yazoo on it, so you know, well, just you
know it's actually the Japanese version. Oh is it okay? Japanese? I
looked at up, so, well, you're welcome. And then it was
funny because I had the albums. I didn't want to carry him, and
Mark was standing there and I wanted to handed to him and I could see
he was like, I don't really want them now I have nowhere to put
them. But then he saw what album I had on top, which was
Modest Mouse's second album, Double Album, and he's like, I was so
excited about this. It gave me great. I felt like, this is
what Santa Claus feels like every Christmas. It was. He was very excited.
He said he had been looking for this album and he loved this album,
and so I was happy to wow. Before we were even dating,
but after I think market already decided he wanted to date me. I got
him a Modest Mouse poster and I think it like really sealed the deal on
him liking me. He loved Now I can date him too. It's a
key to his heart. Yeah, so that was fun. I just had,
you know, for various reasons. I needed, you know, I
wanted to give you guys those albums. Thank you very much. Great.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you guys have given me many albums in the
past. Just serv Yeah, we did. I did watch a couple movies
when I got home last weekend, and the first one was Minority Report with
Tom Cruise, based on the Philip K. Dick short story and I had
seen it when it came out. What was that like twenty years ago?
I have no idea when it came out like that, but it was fun
to rewatch and watch it with the kids. It was you know, there's
definitely some you know, it's just gives you a lot to think about this
future. The future, by the way, is like next year, I
think. You know. So we watched Blade Runner and that was like a
few years ago, and the world looks nothing like that, thank god.
Yeah, and Washington d C has figured out a way to prevent crime by
identifying pre crime, which is like they arrest people before they commit the murders,
but then something goes wrong, corrupt government official, blah blah. Oh,
we sort of had that technology. They just do that with Republicans.
They know Republicans will commit crimes, they just know it in their heart.
And then I also watched this like very nicely but kind of b movie,
not horror, but like kind of horror. I don't know how to explain
it. It's a movie called Identity and it has John Cusack in it,
and it kind of reminded me. In fact, they referenced this in the
movie Agatha Christie's and then there were none. You know, like it's a
bunch of people who all end up at a motel and they don't think they
have anything in common, but they actually do. And it's on the night.
It's like on a very stormy night. And it also relates to a
mass murderer whose execution is being appealed and his therapists and stuff like that.
But even though I think I knew exactly what was going to happen by the
end, or not exactly, but like mostly what was going to happen,
I still enjoyed it. And it was also it had this great quality of
being not too long, like it was like an hour and thirty minutes,
and I just really like that in the movie now. But yeah, it
had a great cast, so so qualify. Yeah, I vaguely remember that
movie. I don't. I don't remember if I saw it. I will.
I wanted to mention two things. One is that sometimes I come home
and you know, I'm tired and I want something light, so I'll go
and look for a sitcom. And I started watching the sitcom called The Middle.
Have you ever heard of this? No, not at all. So
it stars the the Father. It's a family it's kind of like Malcolm in
the Middle. I would say it's closest show I can think of. But
it stars Patricia Heaton, who was in Yeah, you know that Ray Ramono
show and stuff. It's fantastic. It's so funny. It was so unexpectedly
funny. It really it takes place in like Indiana, and it really gets
I think, you know, parenting, like it gets it right. It's
almost a little also like Roseanne. It's got a little bit of like they
were working class family. Really good. I recommend it. It's on Peacock.
I'm just saying. Roseanne was on gut Field a couple of weeks ago
and she had some line on there about how like, did you know Joe
Biden got eighty one million votes? She was like, it's almost unbelievable,
and it was just like so deadpan and great, and I was like,
I love it anyway. She I used to love that show, and she
she looks great, you know, and all that. And it was I
see this meme where they show Madonna and they show her and then they're like
in nineteen eighty if you were live in nineteen eighty five and someone told you
like this is how I was going to turn out Roseanne, was going to
turn out of Madonna. You would never believed it. Yeah. One last
thing I have is that I was pretty shocked by this that Steve Albini died
today. He was sixty one years old. He was a very innovative producer.
He produced Nirvana and stuff like that. He was in a bank,
Big Black and Shellac. Just an amazing musician and producer. And he produced
PJ. Harvey's Rid of Me album, which was just like very he kind
of in the early nineties. He was one of these producers who like stripped
away all that like echo and shimmery kind of thing, you know, and
just made it, you know, made raw music, and you know,
it was a really big He was a really smart guy. Wouldn't say I
agreed with him on all the political stuff he said, but his interviews were
always interesting. So I was really sad to see that. Rest in peace.
Damn. Anyway, That's all I have. Do you have anything else
that's great? A love PJ Harvey? Yeah, I'm gonna listen to rid
of Me now. Yeah, everyone should love we have our music. Maybe
I'll do you azoo though, But she does all the shimmery stuff going,
but that's okay anyway. We'll come up with some new music for next week.
Until then, be lovers of freedom and anxious for the