WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.720 --> 00:00:05.559 You're listening to KFI AM six forty the Bill Handles show on demand on the 2 00:00:05.599 --> 00:00:13.359 iHeartRadio f KFI AM six forty bill Handle Here it is a Tuesday morning, 3 00:00:13.919 --> 00:00:18.359 July sixteenth. In the last few days, ah Man, as Neil pointed 4 00:00:18.399 --> 00:00:24.320 out, what a news cycle this is Saturday night, the assassination of Donald 5 00:00:24.600 --> 00:00:30.920 Trump, the parent assassination or the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, and thank 6 00:00:30.920 --> 00:00:35.240 goodness he was missed. That poor firefighter, unfortunately was hit with one of 7 00:00:35.280 --> 00:00:40.079 the bullets that the shooter unloaded from the top of the building. And we're 8 00:00:40.079 --> 00:00:42.799 going to talk a lot about that later on too. Yesterday I talked about 9 00:00:42.920 --> 00:00:47.399 how the Secret Service is in deep trouble on this one. And I have 10 00:00:47.439 --> 00:00:51.560 a podcast coming about the history of presidential assassinations, and I put that together 11 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:57.079 and that'll be out. I think that'll be out on Thursday tomorrow or today 12 00:00:57.640 --> 00:01:00.439 one of my we just I changed the podcast around because I came in and 13 00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:03.120 recorded a couple of new ones because of the assassination. Out of the seven 14 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:11.519 how many were Republicans out of the seven attempts and some successful, yeah, 15 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:15.120 six six were Republicans. Yeah. The only one that wasn't was JFK. 16 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:19.799 Yeah, you know, I never thought of that. So I never thought 17 00:01:19.799 --> 00:01:23.359 of that. And if you look at JFK, if you look at his 18 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:26.840 record, was more like a Republican. He was a pretty conservative Democrat, 19 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:34.040 a very moderate Democrat as a matter of fact, just the civil rights aspect 20 00:01:34.079 --> 00:01:37.599 of this, he's known as civil rights president. He is not. It's 21 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:42.079 his brother RFK, who was the civil rights leader and fanatic and follower. 22 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:49.799 Okay, now as we digress, all right, new vice presidential nominee. 23 00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:57.280 Well, they chosen one by Donald Trump, he calls twenty minutes before announcing 24 00:01:57.560 --> 00:02:02.799 on True Social his social media platform. Quote. After lengthy deliberation and thought 25 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:07.920 and considered, considering the tremendous talents of many others, I decided the person 26 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:10.919 best suited to assume the position of vice president, and I states the Senator 27 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:15.080 J. D. Vance of the Great State of Ohio. Now. JD. 28 00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:20.199 Vance is one of the most interesting guys. He's only forty. He 29 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:24.120 may be the youngest senator right now in this enate, extraordinarily young. I 30 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:29.039 think if he wins the election, he'll be forty two. Just turned forty 31 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:36.280 two. And now we're talking about going from the oldest presidential candidates now into 32 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:43.319 the ticket one of the youngest. He is just a very interesting guy, 33 00:02:43.439 --> 00:02:49.520 I mean all over the place. He was one of the most critical of 34 00:02:49.560 --> 00:02:53.400 the critics of Donald Trump. He's always been a Republican. He's a populist 35 00:02:53.400 --> 00:02:58.159 more than he is a Republican. And he ripped into Trump in the Republican 36 00:02:58.199 --> 00:03:04.319 Party. I mean, I mean just viciously, and of course changes tune 37 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:08.960 and has joined the orbit of Donald Trump. And his selection is proof of 38 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:15.479 Trump's remaking of the party. Now he's one of the most prominent boosters and 39 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:22.159 is now air apparent to the Republican Party because the vice presidential candidate is in 40 00:03:22.759 --> 00:03:25.000 basically the air apparent. Now we have air apparents, it's not a question 41 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:29.360 of the quality of the person anymore. Look at Kamala Harris, right, 42 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:32.360 she is going to run if Joe Biden walks out the door because of his 43 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:38.000 age, stumbles out the door, crawls out the door. She is who 44 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:45.759 thinks that Kamala Harris has the aptitude, has the intelligence, has the gravitas 45 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:49.199 to be president of the United States. And that's the only person that's being 46 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:55.080 considered as replacing Joe Biden, and so's it's just a weird thing. So 47 00:03:55.199 --> 00:03:59.199 JD. Fans now is the air apparent. I mean, Donald Trump is 48 00:03:59.199 --> 00:04:01.599 out the door, whether he wins or loses. If he wins, he's 49 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:09.560 done, because there's two terms. If he loses, then he's done anyway, 50 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:12.159 although maybe not. He may be running the party till the day he 51 00:04:12.240 --> 00:04:15.120 dies. He may be the kingmaker of all kingmakers in the history of the 52 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:19.319 Republican Party, in the history of national politics for that matter. And so 53 00:04:19.439 --> 00:04:25.279 now you've got JD. Vance. Now he's from the Midwest. He's from 54 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:30.199 Ohio, which is a fairly safe Republican state, and in many cases he 55 00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:33.879 is the real deal when you talk about coming from populous roots. I mean. 56 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:38.800 One of the things about former President Trump, and he talks about the 57 00:04:38.839 --> 00:04:43.199 working man. He talks about the evils of big business. I mean, 58 00:04:43.240 --> 00:04:46.399 if you can imagine that he has convinced the working man that he is more 59 00:04:46.439 --> 00:04:51.560 on his side than Joe Biden, the most pro union president in the history 60 00:04:51.600 --> 00:05:00.519 of this country. And somehow Trump and the Republicans are able to turn around 61 00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:05.399 completely. I don't get that. I don't For example, what was last 62 00:05:05.480 --> 00:05:13.240 night three point four million working people have been are now not working and they've 63 00:05:13.279 --> 00:05:15.839 lost their jobs because of illegal aliens coming over the border. Do you know 64 00:05:15.879 --> 00:05:21.160 how many jobs were actually created? Four point three million actually working new jobs 65 00:05:21.160 --> 00:05:28.519 were created. But reality is not part of this. For JD. Vance, 66 00:05:28.639 --> 00:05:31.040 it was part of it. And look where he came from. Okay, 67 00:05:31.959 --> 00:05:38.399 his grandparents were middle class, his parents not basically no dad. His 68 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:43.000 family life was chaotic because mother slipped into addiction and as cycle through partners. 69 00:05:43.439 --> 00:05:47.680 So Vance graduates high school, enlists the Marines, serves in Iraq, comes 70 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:51.680 home. After that, attends Ohio State University, then Yale Law School, 71 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:59.120 and then goes into big business venture capital. And at the same time he's 72 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:04.680 writing his book, The Hillbilly Elogy, which was a huge, huge and 73 00:06:04.879 --> 00:06:10.040 is a huge success. And he talks about a world of despair and decay, 74 00:06:10.079 --> 00:06:13.160 but not romantically at all. I mean he does to talk about here 75 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:17.120 I am, I came from nothing. He talks about just how horrible it 76 00:06:17.240 --> 00:06:20.439 is to be there, and people it's in many cases their own fault. 77 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:26.279 They have to bring it up by their bootstraps. And so when you talk 78 00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:30.519 about someone who when he when he connects to people on a populist level. 79 00:06:30.560 --> 00:06:35.759 He's real. I mean, he's also crazy. He blamed Joe Biden specifically 80 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:43.879 for the assassination attempt. Send it out right, This is Joe Biden's fault, 81 00:06:44.399 --> 00:06:50.600 huh. I mean, come on, guys, And he is much 82 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:57.639 more of a populace and much harder to pin down than is Donald Trump, 83 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:02.120 who talks about populism and conecting to the working man. Came from a very 84 00:07:02.199 --> 00:07:08.920 wealthy, wealthy family, has always been wealthy, lives like a king. 85 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:14.680 Yet he is the working man's the hero of the working man and the hero 86 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:18.480 of big business. How do you do both? How can you have both 87 00:07:18.519 --> 00:07:24.360 the working man, the middle of the lower classes and big business think that 88 00:07:24.759 --> 00:07:30.160 you're their guy. I can't think of anybody else who is able to pull 89 00:07:30.199 --> 00:07:36.480 that off in the history of politics. Okay, now, let's talk about 90 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:41.399 the election coming up, because obviously the RNC is about the nomination of the 91 00:07:41.439 --> 00:07:45.319 presidential nominee, and of course it is Trump. He has already won the 92 00:07:45.399 --> 00:07:49.879 votes. Now it's a question of just telling them and being anointed. Now 93 00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:57.560 keep in mind that the Republicans, of course, when Trump lost, already 94 00:07:57.680 --> 00:08:03.600 had argued and started arguing to court dozens of times to overturn the election and 95 00:08:03.639 --> 00:08:11.480 to hold the election of twenty twenty invalid and lost at every point because we're 96 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:16.680 unable to prove any allegation of the election being fraudulent, and there was a 97 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:24.160 little haphazard. You had different organizations, you have different people, state organization's, 98 00:08:24.199 --> 00:08:28.639 federal, public, National Committee, etc. Now it is conservative, 99 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:39.320 and it is conservative, and it is absolutely planned. It has become coordinated 100 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:43.399 and it's professional and is already attacking the election. It is a given that 101 00:08:43.480 --> 00:08:50.120 the election is going to be rigged if Donald Trump loses, and they're saying 102 00:08:50.159 --> 00:08:54.600 that right now. We know it is a rigged election, and now we 103 00:08:54.720 --> 00:09:01.039 have to fight the rigging of the election. Lawsuit after lawsuit is being filed 104 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:07.240 state legislature, state laws are being passed that allows elected officials read Republicans, 105 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:13.919 to not only can test the election, but in fact recount on their own 106 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:22.600 terms the votes and stop the certification, refuse to certify, and literally halt 107 00:09:22.600 --> 00:09:28.480 the election cold. If Biden wins. By the way, if President Trump, 108 00:09:28.559 --> 00:09:31.679 former President Trump wins, every one of those lawsuits will be dismissed. 109 00:09:31.840 --> 00:09:39.519 That's a guarantee. So it is a two pronged approach that the Republicans those 110 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:41.919 who want to overturn the election in the event Biden wins, and the approach 111 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:48.960 is happening right now. Lawsuits are already being filed restricting voting ahead of election 112 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:56.039 day, right early voting, because Democrats do better on those days, the 113 00:09:56.120 --> 00:10:01.399 Republicans do better day of election. Also short circuiting the process of ratifying the 114 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:07.320 winner afterwards if Trump loses. And this involves, you know, let's say, 115 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:13.159 a legally dubious attempt to completely undo decades have settled law on how results 116 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:20.919 are officially certified in the weeks before the new president takes office. They want 117 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:24.159 to change that around completely. Not that president isn't overturned all the time. 118 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:30.600 You know, the Democrats and liberals and those that are pro abortion are arguing, 119 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:33.440 look at fifty years of precedent that Roe v. Wade has been overturned. 120 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:39.000 How horrible a horrible Roe v. Wade overturned precedent. You know, 121 00:10:39.080 --> 00:10:50.279 the court overturns precedents. Brown versus Board of Education completely overturned precedent eighteen ninety 122 00:10:50.279 --> 00:10:56.480 six plus versus Ferguson, it was okay to discriminate against black people the Supreme 123 00:10:56.519 --> 00:11:00.360 Court held that it held to the President that black people, well, we're 124 00:11:00.360 --> 00:11:03.639 effectively inferior. Actually it was separated, be equal. They were the same, 125 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:05.080 but as long as you treated them the same, quote, you could 126 00:11:05.080 --> 00:11:09.000 segregate them. That was precedents and it was upheld by the Supreme Court. 127 00:11:09.320 --> 00:11:13.519 So this argument of precedent must control, I mean, come on, guys, 128 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:20.480 really, that's what we do is undue precedent. So that one I 129 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:26.039 don't buy. But at the heart of this entire strategy is the drive to 130 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:33.919 convince voters that the election is about to be stolen. We're four months out 131 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:37.399 and they're stealing the election as we look at it. As we see it, 132 00:11:37.480 --> 00:11:41.360 you can see the Biden organization and the Democrats stealing the election. There 133 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:48.000 it is right there, they're committee fraud. Rudy Giuliani pointing to those two 134 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:52.799 Georgia election workers. There they are there, they are stealing the election. 135 00:11:52.279 --> 00:11:56.679 May he mix that up, by the way, and that's carried across the 136 00:11:56.679 --> 00:12:00.519 country. He gets sued one hundred and something million dollars defamation suit to declare 137 00:12:00.519 --> 00:12:03.159 bankruptcy, which, by the way, the court didn't let him declare bankruptcy 138 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:05.720 because he committed fraud on the court on that one. And you now have 139 00:12:07.000 --> 00:12:11.279 the two election workers who are about to grab Giuliani's two houses, maybe not 140 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:13.600 the dumpster he's going to move into that, they're going to let him stay 141 00:12:13.639 --> 00:12:20.159 in. And this is what is going to happen. So you will see 142 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:26.960 the election of Trump loses as completely fraudulent, will be attacked and jurisdiction after 143 00:12:28.080 --> 00:12:37.679 jurisdiction after jurisdiction in a much more professional organized way than the attack happened in 144 00:12:37.799 --> 00:12:41.360 twenty twenty. And they're going to lose. They know they're going to lose, 145 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:46.480 but anything to delay, to delay certification to convince the American voters that 146 00:12:46.519 --> 00:12:52.759 a Trump loss is an unconstitutional vote, that the only constitution, the only 147 00:12:52.840 --> 00:13:00.200 way we uphold the constitution in this country is to elect Donald Trump. To 148 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:07.120 not elect Ronald Trump is the rigging of an election. Is the destruction of 149 00:13:07.240 --> 00:13:13.080 Democracy's kind of interesting how the Democrats are viewing what's happening and the Trump campaign 150 00:13:13.159 --> 00:13:16.679 is the destruction of democracy, which I have to agree with based on what 151 00:13:16.759 --> 00:13:26.120 the Trump organization is proclaiming and espousing. The Trump people are describing his loss 152 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:33.960 as a constitutional attack. His very loss is against the constitution and democracy. 153 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:39.480 That is how crazy we have become huge news, huge news cycle. Of 154 00:13:39.480 --> 00:13:46.759 course, the assassination attempt on Saturday, and I want to do that if 155 00:13:46.799 --> 00:13:54.080 we can about that video that one of the one guy who starred in Swamp 156 00:13:54.080 --> 00:14:00.399 People or was one of the stars of Deliverance took the video of that one 157 00:14:00.679 --> 00:14:07.200 shot video shot of the shooter on the roof. You can see him lying 158 00:14:07.279 --> 00:14:09.720 prone in his head and the weapon in his hands. That's it. That's 159 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:13.720 the only one that exists. And what ended up happening, what they did, 160 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:18.559 and he was interviewed, and I want to compare that to the video 161 00:14:18.639 --> 00:14:22.519 taken by Abraham Zepp Ruter in nineteen sixty three of the Kennedy assassination, and 162 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:26.519 it's a very different world. And I think we got to do that because 163 00:14:26.519 --> 00:14:28.720 that's a really interesting story. I'm throwing this at Ann Over here, who's 164 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:35.759 sitting next to me. Okay, let us go into what happened in the 165 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:41.279 classified documents case. As Donald Trump is probably the luckiest person I've ever met. 166 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:46.600 Well, yeah, I have met him, actually I am seeing. 167 00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:50.840 I was a moderator of a speech that Donald Trump was at and I was 168 00:14:50.919 --> 00:14:54.879 up there interviewing him for a while. Twenty thousand people at the forum or 169 00:14:54.919 --> 00:14:58.960 eighteen thousand people, and I was asked to do the interview, and there 170 00:14:58.960 --> 00:15:03.320 I am on stage with him and asking him questions. That's a great story 171 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:07.840 too, I should share. Do you remember I was with you. We 172 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:11.039 were walking to the door. He had a security guy who put his hand 173 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:15.919 on me as you walked in. He said only him. I said, 174 00:15:16.039 --> 00:15:20.240 are you going to leave Trump alone? And he said no, and I 175 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:24.960 said, I'm not going to leave Bill alone. And then he gave me 176 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:28.320 his business card, says and he thought I was your security so they didn't 177 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:30.360 give me his business card, and said, hey, if you ever want 178 00:15:30.360 --> 00:15:33.559 to go golfing, and he started geting. I'm like, I'm not leaving 179 00:15:33.639 --> 00:15:35.759 him alone. You're not leaving your guy alone. I'm not leaving my guy. 180 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:37.240 And by the way, the autographs that Trump was signing that day, 181 00:15:37.320 --> 00:15:41.240 they had baseballs for some reason that he was signing. I don't know why. 182 00:15:41.399 --> 00:15:46.600 I think that tied into the sponsorship. Yeah, something like that. 183 00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:50.559 And I remember the first question I asked him, which I do with wealthy 184 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:54.759 people, is I said, you're one of the wealthiest men in America. 185 00:15:56.039 --> 00:15:58.879 And he said, yes, I am, you're a successful businessman. He 186 00:15:58.919 --> 00:16:00.360 goes, yes, I am, Bill. How much money do you have 187 00:16:00.360 --> 00:16:04.279 in your pocket right now? How much money do you actually have in your 188 00:16:04.320 --> 00:16:07.240 pocket? And he goes, I don't know. I go put you know, 189 00:16:07.399 --> 00:16:11.080 let's let's see how much money you have, and he reaches into his 190 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:15.399 pocket. He goes a couple hundred dollars, and I went, you're one 191 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:18.960 of the wealthiest guys out there. That's the way I started. I remember 192 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:21.799 that. But what does he need money for? That's true? Well, 193 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:25.360 that's true. How much do you have on you right now? All right? 194 00:16:25.759 --> 00:16:27.159 A couple of hundred dollars? I think I always carry. You usually 195 00:16:27.159 --> 00:16:30.120 carry about three, yeah, two, three hundred dollars I always carry. 196 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:33.360 And I'll tell you why. It's not that I'm spending it because I use 197 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:37.639 credit cards, but my philosophy of spending money. Let me tell you right 198 00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:45.240 now, carry the one now, two ten in twenty one, two three 199 00:16:45.399 --> 00:16:49.360 four six, two hundred and twenty six dollars. And here's the reason of 200 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:52.600 twenty two dollars on me, right, I know, but here's the reason 201 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:55.600 I always have a couple of there for months, I'm telling you here is 202 00:16:55.759 --> 00:17:00.000 the reason why I carry a couple one hundred dollars. And this has been 203 00:17:00.039 --> 00:17:03.880 going on for many, many years. If I am ever held up by 204 00:17:03.920 --> 00:17:07.640 some drug addict who takes a gun to my head and says, gives me 205 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:11.839 all give me all your money, I want him to be happy. I 206 00:17:11.880 --> 00:17:15.680 do not want to whip out sixty cents and have him so pissed off that 207 00:17:15.759 --> 00:17:19.880 I get shot in the head I wanted. I want him to walk away 208 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:25.000 a happy camper. By the way, I'm serious, this is not shtick. 209 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:29.640 That's the reason I carry a couple hundred dollars in my pocket. I'm 210 00:17:29.680 --> 00:17:33.480 going to roll you today, two hundred today, two hundred and twenty six. 211 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:36.079 I'm just gonna follow you. Put a mask on. I'm going to 212 00:17:36.200 --> 00:17:41.559 roll you for that money. But you'll be happy once a week. But 213 00:17:41.680 --> 00:17:45.599 you're going to be Why don't you just carry drugs on you? At that 214 00:17:45.640 --> 00:17:48.680 point, you know you're right, I should go here. But what kind 215 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:51.519 of drugs? What if it's a coke addict? Then heroin and you know, 216 00:17:51.599 --> 00:17:55.839 so hundred bucks. This is the new stuff out there. You're gonna 217 00:17:55.880 --> 00:18:00.200 love the hide. Did we actually do an entire segment on this, yep, 218 00:18:02.160 --> 00:18:07.680 I think, so all right, let's do this coming all right now. 219 00:18:07.240 --> 00:18:11.039 As I've said, former President Trump is one of the luckiest people out 220 00:18:11.039 --> 00:18:15.000 there as far as the assassination is attempt. Thank goodness, he was lucky. 221 00:18:17.319 --> 00:18:22.039 And you could see last night when he appeared at the convention, which 222 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:23.960 by the way, presidents or candidates never do until the last day. But 223 00:18:25.079 --> 00:18:30.960 what the hell, and the way it was orchestrated, absolutely brilliant with the 224 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:36.400 songs and him coming down the hallway and entering the convention hall. I mean, 225 00:18:36.480 --> 00:18:38.839 just nobody does this better than Donald Trump. I'll tell you that right 226 00:18:38.880 --> 00:18:44.039 now. So last night was win. And by the way, if you 227 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:49.480 notice he actually teared up. I mean this guy literally averted death by just 228 00:18:49.720 --> 00:18:55.599 half an inch on Saturday night. When you come that close to death, 229 00:18:55.680 --> 00:19:00.519 I mean he said over and over to people in his orbit, who then 230 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:04.279 reported he said, I could have been dead two days ago. That affects 231 00:19:04.319 --> 00:19:08.680 you. And then of course the adelation he received last night, he teared 232 00:19:08.759 --> 00:19:14.200 up, which I think anybody would. Okay, let's talk about his legal 233 00:19:14.359 --> 00:19:18.559 wins. And boy, here's the massive win, and that is the classified 234 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:23.799 documents case. He took the classified documents from the White House and moved them 235 00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:29.559 tomorrow logo and there were search onms because he just wouldn't return them. He 236 00:19:29.680 --> 00:19:33.160 just said, no, thank you, I'm keeping them, and negotiations went 237 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:37.279 on. Finally the place was rated by the FBI when he wasn't there, 238 00:19:37.880 --> 00:19:41.519 and it was all these documents, and he was charged with forty counts of 239 00:19:41.559 --> 00:19:45.839 keeping these documents, some of them so secret by the way that many senior 240 00:19:45.960 --> 00:19:51.200 national security officials were kept in the dark about them. That's the level of 241 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:56.400 classification that he had in boxes, these documents, sitting in storage rooms and 242 00:19:56.880 --> 00:20:02.839 just in bathrooms all over the place. So he has been charged and his 243 00:20:03.319 --> 00:20:08.319 lawyers have been attempting to at least delay all aspects of the trial. And 244 00:20:08.400 --> 00:20:12.079 this is a federal trial, federal judge, and it was a Trump appointee 245 00:20:12.480 --> 00:20:22.119 in Miami that oversaw this case and she was on his side from day one, 246 00:20:22.759 --> 00:20:26.160 so it looked like this case was going to go forward. They delayed 247 00:20:26.359 --> 00:20:32.640 enough so where the Trump people delayed enough so it wasn't going to go forward 248 00:20:33.920 --> 00:20:37.200 before the election. They made sure that it was going to go after the 249 00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:41.640 election, you know, to if it turns out that Trump wins I mean, 250 00:20:41.680 --> 00:20:45.359 the case is dismissed instantly if it turns out that he lost and was 251 00:20:45.400 --> 00:20:49.640 appealing it. He is now a convicted felon which he already is in New 252 00:20:49.720 --> 00:20:52.200 York and State court, and then he would be in federal court, and 253 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:56.920 he has the ability to pardon himself. We think, I don't even know. 254 00:20:56.960 --> 00:21:00.200 I just did a top I just did a podcast which I think is 255 00:21:00.240 --> 00:21:04.039 going to be released in the next week or two on the pardon of the 256 00:21:04.079 --> 00:21:07.960 president in the event that he becomes on the former president, in the event 257 00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:11.319 that he wins the election. Okay, so let me spend a minute talking 258 00:21:11.359 --> 00:21:18.119 about this case. All right, This was the strongest case that is against 259 00:21:18.160 --> 00:21:22.279 Donald Trump. Even his lawyers said, this is the one they're sweating bullets, 260 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:26.799 so to speak about. And they came in with this long shot argument 261 00:21:27.559 --> 00:21:33.279 that everybody even they thought, it's a hail Mary. But we're gonna throw 262 00:21:33.400 --> 00:21:37.680 everything we can. This is what defense lawyers do. They throw everything on 263 00:21:37.720 --> 00:21:44.200 the wall and hope that something sticks. Well, this one's stuck. And 264 00:21:44.359 --> 00:21:48.799 here is the argument. Here is the legal argument, and it has to 265 00:21:48.799 --> 00:21:56.480 do with Special Counsel Jack Smith. And the argument is that since Jack Smith 266 00:21:56.799 --> 00:22:04.480 is an independent prosecutor council is not overseen by the Justice Department or the Attorney 267 00:22:04.519 --> 00:22:10.440 General. I mean it is this case is so special that we're going to 268 00:22:10.559 --> 00:22:15.640 have a special council having Richard Nixon in Watergate. And so here is what 269 00:22:15.680 --> 00:22:22.480 Trump's lawyer said, because there is no oversight, because Merrick Garland appointed Jack 270 00:22:22.519 --> 00:22:32.079 Smith as an independent special counsel. Therefore Jack Smith is considered a senior member 271 00:22:32.200 --> 00:22:37.519 of the administration, and senior members of the administration must be confirmed by the 272 00:22:37.559 --> 00:22:42.920 Senate. All cabinet appointees and undersecretaries have to be confirmed by the Senate. 273 00:22:44.680 --> 00:22:48.640 And the argument was, as special counsel, because there's no oversight, he 274 00:22:48.839 --> 00:22:56.000 is and should be considered a senior member. And he wasn't confirmed by Congress. 275 00:22:56.839 --> 00:23:00.319 And he was paid his office was paid by the federal government. And 276 00:23:00.440 --> 00:23:07.240 only Congress can authorize the payment of special prosecutors. So if there's going to 277 00:23:07.240 --> 00:23:15.279 be a special prosecutor, Congress has to confirm and Congress have to authorize payment. 278 00:23:15.720 --> 00:23:22.599 And guess what, it didn't happen. Therefore, Jack Smith's very job 279 00:23:23.200 --> 00:23:32.079 is illegal. Cannon didn't even go to the merits of the case, didn't 280 00:23:32.119 --> 00:23:37.680 even argue whether the documents were illegally taken, were illegally stored, and that 281 00:23:37.759 --> 00:23:41.920 Trump, as a former president, had the right to take those documents. 282 00:23:42.640 --> 00:23:51.119 He's a private citizen, and he took highly classified documents from secure areas of 283 00:23:51.160 --> 00:23:55.400 the White House and moved them to his house and fought like crazy to keep 284 00:23:55.480 --> 00:23:56.960 them. I mean a year. He fought like crazy. And that's what 285 00:23:57.000 --> 00:24:00.960 the obstruction charges are about, by the way, or two kinds of charges 286 00:24:00.079 --> 00:24:07.160 him just taking him and number two him obstructing the return of them. And 287 00:24:07.279 --> 00:24:11.400 the judge said, didn't even get to that point. The judge said that 288 00:24:11.880 --> 00:24:19.440 the entire prosecution Jack Smith, special Crop prosecutor not confirmed by the Senate, 289 00:24:19.799 --> 00:24:26.000 is illegal. The whole thing falls apart. Justice Department is going to be 290 00:24:26.079 --> 00:24:27.400 is good. Of course, going to appeal, and I think it's gonna 291 00:24:27.400 --> 00:24:33.480 win because similar cases. That argument was dismissed handily, I mean dismissed, 292 00:24:33.559 --> 00:24:40.640 like come on, really, Cannon loves Trump, and of course this puts 293 00:24:40.640 --> 00:24:45.240 everything over and over. Now if he doesn't become president and pardon himself, 294 00:24:45.480 --> 00:24:49.400 and that's another topic, that's a wonderful topic. Does he have the ability 295 00:24:49.440 --> 00:24:52.640 to pardon himself? And I think this Supreme Court would give him the ability 296 00:24:52.680 --> 00:24:57.200 to say, I pardon myself, and that's going to be on a podcast. 297 00:24:57.880 --> 00:25:03.079 But short of that, I think it's going to be overturned on appeal. 298 00:25:03.119 --> 00:25:07.960 And I think this case is going to move forward unless until the president 299 00:25:08.200 --> 00:25:14.799 next President Trump pardons himself. KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio 300 00:25:14.839 --> 00:25:18.240 app. You've been listening to the Bill Handle Show. Catch my Show Monday 301 00:25:18.279 --> 00:25:23.079 through Friday six am to nine am, and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.