Speaker 1: Welcome to political beatdown. I'm Ben my cellas, joined by
Michael Cohen. Michael Cohen some breaking news. A little bit
earlier in the day, Donald Trump's lawyers filed in the
Manhattan District Attorney criminal case a letter trying to basically
indefinitely adjourn the sentencing of Donald Trump after being found
guilty on thirty four separate felony count. Sentencing is currently
scheduled for September eighteen. Donald Trump's lawyers, Todd Blanche and
Emil Bove sent this letter to Justice Mrshon after Justice
Mrshon had previously said basically, come heller high water, we're
having this September eighteenth sentencing. He said, do not try
to delay this thing anymore. So Donald Trump took an
order by Justice Mrshon saying, do not.
Speaker 2: Try to delay this anymore. Don't file file anything. We
are going forward with sentencing to mean file a request
to adjourn or stop or indefinitely stay the sentencing. Also
notable in this letter bree filed by Donald Trump was
a request to prohibit the Manhattan District Attorney's office from
even filing their sentencing memoranda and their request Obviously you
were the key witness in this case, Michael Cohen at
the top of the show. Let's get your reaction to
that breaking news.
Speaker 3: So I think the interesting sentence in this is the
very first paragraph. In fact, Jeremy, if you could, if
you could just post this, the very first one, if
you could blow that up, just the first paragraph in
and of itself, is spectacular in terms of the read
what it is. It is such as we would like
to say my grandparents, my parents would say, it's such chutzpah.
Write what he's saying here, that you do not have
the right within which to file your sentencing memorandum, that
you do not have the right to go forward based
upon the Supreme Court's recent decision of presidential immunity. And
I can't see that. It's way too small even with
my glasses on. But that's what he's saying here. And
you know what I'll tell you, I know Donald Trump
better than anyone, and I know exactly we can get
rid of that. I know exactly what it is that's
going on right now in Donald's mind. Donald is shitting
in his von Shitz and pants. No bullshit, you know, Ben,
If hypothetically you have something coming down the road in
sixty ninety days. You're still sweating it in that sixty
ninety days, especially if it's something as significant as sentence
in a criminal matter on thirty four criminal counts where
you could technically be doing prison time, jail time for
whatever period, three years, four years, whatever the total amount
could possibly be. Now, remember, I mean, if you put
all the counts together, it's like seventy years. But because
they all stem from the same series of transactions, I
think the max here is like four years something like that.
But imagine you're seventy nine, gonna be eighty years old,
and you're staring down the barrel of a four year
potential sentence. Now, von schitzen Pants has not engendered any
good will with Judge Murshan, something that all criminal lawyers
will tell you. Don't do this, don't do that, don't
egg the guy on or or the woman judge, whoever
the judge may be. Just don't the judge on, you know,
just comply with whatever the judge's requirements and demands are. Well,
not Donald, That's not how Donnie works. If you tell
this petulant child not to do something, he automatically has
to do it. So this is the part that I
thought was extremely interesting. So look at the paragraphs saying,
notwithstanding the Court's ruling on the disputed recusal issue, it's hard.
It's hard for me to read. Hey, can we blow
that up just one tiny bit more. It's a little
bit difficult. Again, my eyesight is kind of shot here.
My point being, you know, let's just get rid of it. Ben,
if you want, I'll have it.
Speaker 2: Notwithstanding the courts, Yeah, pull it up, Jeremy. I again,
notwithstanding the Court's ruling on the disputed recusal issue, the
requested adjournment would prospectively mitigate the asserted conflicts and appearances
of impropriety, which are also the subject of an ongoing
congressional inquiry. In yesterday's ruling, this Court did not address
the significance of the twenty nineteen conversation with Your Honor's
daughter criticizing President Trump's use of Twitter, with the new
fact being the existing tweets from President Trump at the
time of that conversation are squarely at issue in the
pending presidential immunity motion. Moreover, since the most recent recusal motion,
as Kamala Harris did previously, Tim Walls wrongly referred to
this case in a public speech as the Democrat Party's
nominee for vice president.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, My.
Speaker 3: Point being, he's throwing the kitchen sync at anything that
he possibly can. You know how many of these medium
morons turn around, Oh, Michael Cohan's not going to be
a credible witness. This is going to be a hung jury.
Trump is going to come out swinging, claiming that all
of a sudden he was right, they were wrong. Blah
blah blah. After nine short hours of deliberation, the jurors
came back with thirty four counts of guilt. So Trump, again,
somebody who has never faced accountability in his entire life,
is now seeing we are team minus thirty five days
in counting. And when I brought up the whole point about, hey, Ben,
if let's say you're a normal person and you're sixty
ninety days out on a scenario that could potentially cost
you your freedom, you are every single day the anxiety,
the angst, the you know, the thought that you will
be going to prison or jail in thirty sixty ninety
days is overwhelming. Trump doesn't see it that way. For him,
ninety days is like an eternity because he knows what
he plans on doing. He's going to plan on throwing
the kitchen sink at something and hope that something sticks well.
Mashan on three separate occasions right now, Because they've already
made three motions for the judge to recuse himself, even
after a trial was had twelve independent jurors came back
with a guilty verdict on thirty fourth counts. He now
wants to what he wants to have the judge recused himself.
Throws in the daughter again. Nothing this guy has done
has engendered any sort of respect or acknowledgment of responsibility
for any of the actions that he's done. In fact,
all that he has done is throw fuel on the fire.
And September eighteenth, he knows is going to be a
very ugly day for him. One more thing, why is
this extremely important? So important? Because right now brigaders who
has all the momentum going on, including at the rally
that's going on now where Joe Biden is with Kamala Harris,
all the momentum is on the Harris Walls side, all
of it, And what's coming up next week on Monday
through Thursday, Democratic National Convention where all the airtime is
going to be dedicated to the various different people that
are going to be on the stage. And again, I
know Trump so well. I know what he's thinking. How
do I go ahead and how do I do something
fucked up so that I could steal the thunder away
from the DNC. Because remember when the RNC had it there,
despite the fact you had Ambarros and Kid Rock and
hul Colgan and you know, Lara Trump and Don Junior
and then Kai speaking. I mean, come on, right, it's
still controlled the airwaves. The DNC with people like Barack
Obama coming to speak and a series of the Democratic
Members of Congress that are going to be speaking, and
then Kamala Harris and so on, this is going to
own the airwaves. This is driving Trump crazy. That's going
to take us till about the twenty third, twenty fourth
of August. Now on top of that, you have more
things going on, including the early September fourth debate between
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. This is going to be spectacular.
Who's going to ride again the momentum wave Kamala Harris?
Then what happens boom September eighteenth sentence, This is literally
forty five to fifty days worth of hell that Donald
is going to be going through. And so what does
he do? He has the sloped Todd Blanche, the stupidest
lawyer of all time, despite being told knock this shit
off by Judge mur Sean, goes ahead and does it again,
does it anyway? And all of these press conferences at
Marilardo and all of these little rallies and auditoriums that
I don't know. I send you a photo Ben and
Jeremy just before earlier today, thirty of the auditorium, not stadiums,
auditoriums like high school gymnasiums, are vacant right there. It's
his crowd size is dwindling, and so is the interest
in watching Donald Trump's bullshit each and every time. It's
the same old story.
Speaker 2: Think about this. Michael Coheny spoke in Ashville, North Carolina,
yesterday in an auditorium that only holds about twenty four
hundred people, less than twenty five hundred people, twenty four
hundred and thirty one people to be exact. You know,
he hasn't paid his bills from other auditoriums as well,
so he's like banned from even being at certain locations,
you know. So he's been holding these press conferences at
mar A Lago, he's doing one right now at Bedminster,
And we've made the editorial decision. At the Midas Touch Network,
we have a general policy we do not show Donald
Trump events live, period, full stop. I don't care we're
not doing it. They all need to be contextualized and
they need to be fact checked. So after he's done,
I will watch it and I will do my take
on it where I provide fact checks in between what
he says. If you want to go watch the full thing,
you can watch the full thing. But unlike CNN and
MSNBC that play the Trump pressers but they don't cover
Vice President Kamala Harris's rallies when she's giving these incredible
speeches before packed crowds, we make different editorial choices here
at the Midas Touch Network. You mentioned momentum, Michael Cohen,
and as we talk about momentum, we talk about just
what the facts are. Donald Trump used to always post
this betting market, this right wing leading betting market called
poly market, And when you go to Donald Trump's truth
social posts, he would post this over and over again.
They now have Vice President Kamala Harris up by ten
percentage points in that betting market. But then you go
to credible polls like the Emerson poll that was released today,
vice President Kamala Harris is up for against Donald Trump. There.
You look at the Equis poll that came out yesterday,
it shows Vice President Kamala Harris is now leading by
plus nineteen with the Latino community. That's up from plus
five that President Biden had. You look at the Quinnipiac
Pennsylvania poll that was out yesterday, Vice President Kamal Harris
is a forty eight percent to forty five percent there.
But you know, moving beyond the polls and just talking
about data and facts, you know, there was a historic
announcement today that historic drug price negotiation to cut costs
for elderly Americans by one point five billion dollars and
for Medicare by six billion dollars by twenty twenty six
were completed. There's a whole chart here of all of
these drugs that the Biden Harris administration is now able
to negotiate as a collective bargaining unit for those who
have Medicare, reducing significantly these prescription drug prices. Every single
Republican voted against reducing prescription drug prices. So when we
hear Governor Wall say, these people are not just dangerous,
these are some weird ideas. Who sits around at a
bar or with their friends and goes, you know what
we need to do. Higher prescription drug prices, eliminate IVF,
stop people from being able to purchase contraception. That's where
Governor Wall says, mind your own damn business. What are
you doing? So rather than play Donald Trump's press conference live,
We're going to talk about facts Michael Cohen like this,
jobless claims are at their lowest levels right now since
July sixth. We're going to talk about data like this,
Michael Cohen. Sales at US retailers unexpectedly surged in July,
the Commerce Apartment said Thursday, rising by a solid one
percent from the prior month, up from June's downwardly revised
point two percent decline. This trounced economist expectations of a
point three percent gain. So while Donald Trump and his
corporate media, aiders and a betters want to shit talk
the United States of America, We're going to focus on
the data here today. On political beatdown.
Speaker 3: What say you? You know, I'm glad you brought you know,
I'm glad you just brought that up about Donald Trump
and shit talking the United States of America every single
time there's a camera around, and I would I would say,
if I was Kamala Harris, hopefully during the debate, maybe
you could tell me since America is so bad in
your opinion. I mean, every time this idiot opens his mouth,
he's shit talking the United States of America. Where stupid.
You know, our economy is in the toilet. You know,
there's crime. Everyone's a rapist, a drug addict, and murderer.
You know, even though there's some good people. You know,
every time he opens his mouth, he's shit talking America.
So I would just like to ask you, Donald, what
country would you like to go live in that you
think is better than the United States of America. You know,
it's a great question to ask him, because there's no
answer that he could give that would be acceptable. He
can't say, well, I would never want to leave the
United States of America. That's my you know, that's my
country of origin, it's my country of birth. I love America.
Blah blah blah, blah blah. Hold on, you love America.
I guess you love America the same way you loved Ivana,
the same way you loved Marlowe shit talking them all
the time, or you know, or the same way that
you talk about uh, you know various different reporters who
aren't you know, sucking up to you. This is what
he does. He shit talks the United States of America.
Our economy is the strongest in the world by two
and a half times, by two and a half times.
So you know, you've got to say to yourself, our
unemployment is that an all time low? Ben just showed
you the you know the proof on that are you know,
are are just we're surgeon in everything that we're doing.
Will would you what's better? What's better? Right? And how
do you think that you could actually make it better
than what, for example, the Biden Harris administration is doing
right now? You know, one of one or two of
my drugs that I take was on that list. By
the way, I promise each and every brigader, because many
of you probably say the same thing when you were
seeing that clip. You know, what about the medication that
I'm on, Well, it's not on there. Today. I promise
you in short order, all medications will be on there.
It's not just going to be a select few. They're
starting with a select few, but they are going to
absolutely increase it every single day until all prescription drugs
are capped at a certain price, the same way as
if it was socialized medicine, the same way. Like you know,
you could buy something in Canada for one fiftieth of
what we pay for here in the United States. It's unfair.
It's unfair. They price gouge the citizens of the United
States of America so that they could return greater you know,
greater profit and per share to their shareholders. It's wrong.
Speaker 2: You know, we have to be clear eyed. Also, who
is blocking common sense gun reform? Is it a both sides?
As you know, the Republicans are blocking that. Who is
blocking the codification the codification of Roe v. Wade. Is
it both sides? No, it's the Republicans who are doing that.
Who is blocking the codification to protect contraception, to protect
IVF It's the Republicans who's blocking a by partisan border bill.
It's the Republicans who is burning books right now and
saying that bump stocks should go everywhere. It's why would
Vice President Kamala Harrison, Governor Wallace say is that their ideas,
these Republican ideas are dangerous, they're weird. They talk about
we need to abolish the Department of Education. And why
do they say that? Because Donald Trump says he loves
the uneducated. Because when people get educated, they can realize
that Donald Trump is using.
Speaker 4: He's stealing our flag, he's stealing the symbols of patriotism,
he's stealing the constitution based around we the people, not
a king.
Speaker 2: And he's doing what he has always done. He cons people.
He's a con artist, and the Republican Party has embraced it.
Speaker 3: Let me jump.
Speaker 2: They're the Party of Cohn and now the Party of Don.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So it's funny that you say that it's been
on my mind and I forgot to bring it up
when I when I was doing my little rant at
the very beginning here, you know, and a couple of
the brigaders are also asking sort of like, you know,
how cheap is Donald Trump that he's holding all of
these press conferences now over at whether it's tomorrow lago,
whether it's over at Trump National and Dedminster, or you know,
I think he had one the other day at Briarcliffe
Manor in Westchester. And so there is a reason, my friends,
all right, this is going to knock you right off
your fucking chair. The reason is is because he charges
a fee, the location charges the campaign a fee in
order to do the events there at what do you
call it? Mar a lago at Bedminster, at Briarcliff, at
Trump Tower. And I keep trying to say this, and
I tried to pass this along to the Harris campaign.
Every single time Trump does a campaign rally at Trump
Tower in the atrium area, it's illegal. That's in his
golf course, But every time he does it in Trump Tower,
it's illegal. And the reason it's illegal he doesn't have
a permit to do it there. He does not own
the public space inside Trump Tower. He owns the office
space he owns well, he doesn't own it, but he
manages the residential because it's condo. It's owned by all
the various different owners of the feet simple absolute owners.
But all the public space, the atrium where the food
court is and so on, that's all owned by the
people of New York. It is a public space, it
says so on the outside of the door open to
the public. It is public space. But he charges the
campaign for the use of that space. So he's stealing
money from the City of New York too, from the taxpayers.
It is out of fucking control. Is charged. He charges,
for example, Secret Service. They have an office at Trump
Tower so that they can use it in order to
staff their people, a place for everybody to meet. He
charges Secret Service. We got to look this up. It
is out of control. The millions of dollars that this
grift are in chief has taken from the American people.
He has made it into a professional business. And nobody
grifts better than Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: Well and again, that's why they want to stop abolish
the Department of Education. That's why they want to burn books.
If you look at what authoritarians do, they try to
go after the intellectuals. They attack education, and they want
to keep people dependent on the authoritarians so that people
will accept bread crumbs. And when they get their breadcrumbs,
when Donald Trump takes the paper towels and throws them
at people, they go, oh, thank you for the paper towels, Donald,
When people deserve so much better. And what our nation
was founded on was the exact opposite of what Donald
Trump's trying to do with it. Let's talk more about data,
because you know, at every one of these rallies, I
call him traveling fascist circus events. Donald Trump says that
he stopped buying venezuel and oil because it's dirty with
too much tar in it. He says that Biden then
started buying it again because he supposedly stopped domestic drilling again.
As our editor in chief at the Mitas Touchedowork, Ron
phillip Kowski, said, all Trump does is lie, but the
cult doesn't know any better. To them, he's the messiah.
So here's the data, as Steve Rattner presents it. Trump
talks a lot about Biden buying venezuelan oil. It's still
the graphic before the Jermy. Trump talks a lot about
Biden buying venezuela and oil, but maybe he's just remembering
his own days in the White House. Trump's monthly imports
of venezuel and oil were six times higher than Biden's.
That's just the facts. That's just the data. Also, President
Biden already achieved Trump's goal for the U to be
the world's biggest oil producer, bringing thousands of jobs to
oil producing states. That's happening right now. And President Biden
still also very focused on climate change, which Donald Trump
claims doesn't exist. Here's the data we have. In just
the past twenty four hours, US crewed oil production has
officially hit a record thirteen point four million barrels per day.
Daily oil production has increased by twenty two percent over
the last four years. The US is now the world's
largest oil producer end distributor. In America for the first
time in history, is energy independent as a result of
the Biden Harris policies. You want to look at the
stock market as well, It's basically up fifty percent since
Donald Trump stopped disgracing the office. You want to talk
about wage, you want to talk about low unemployment. You
want to go through any metric job creation, sixteen million
jobs created. Whereas Donald Trump, other than Herbert Hoover, Donald
Trump is pervert. Hoover is the only president to actually
lose jobs. All I want to have, Michael Cohen, is
an educated conversation where we can live in the world
of facts and if ultimately what you decide is that
after laying out the true facts and the true data,
you don't like that because you want an authoritarian. You
want somebody who does this with our American flag and
sends emails out with the American flag with their freaking
name plastered on it.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 2: Pull that up, Jeremy. These are the emails that Donald
Trump is sending around.
Speaker 3: Ben.
Speaker 2: I know what, I'll be wearing a Trump gold USA
flag pin made right here in America. It's our flag
with the Trump name on. If this is what you want,
If you want a cult leader who lies to you
and treats you like shit, and that's what you want,
then just say that's what you want. Say you can't
make decisions for yourself. Say life is too complicated for me,
so I need a dictator who controls with me and
my family. Do then just freaking step up. Tell me
that you're a loser, tell me that you hate democracy,
tell me you want you at authoritarian. I'll at least
respect your freaking argument. Don't gaslight me with false facts though, or,
as Kelly an Conway says, alternative facts.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Look, it's why on so many of these shows
I start talking about this network might have touched network.
It's why I talk about political beatdown with all of you,
our brigaders. It's why I talk about my may Occult
the podcasts and I'll ask each of you to please
subscribe to it or now my new YouTube channel, right
the Michael Cohen Show on YouTube. Why because it's enough
of this bullshit. If you turn around, you're watching CNN,
all of a sudden, they're bringing on Stephen Chung, this
lying sack of shit that is taking the nonsense that
Donald Trump is spewing, and they're continuing to regurgitate it
over and over and over again. And while you turn around,
you're like, oh, fuck, it's fun. It's fucking vomit, right,
And so now, no, they want to tell you that
it is a filame mignon, not on top of concrete,
but on top of a silver platter. And that's what
they're trying to feed us. Bullshit it And then why
are these media outlets doing that? Why are they promoting
the lies, the thirty five thousand plus lies that Donald
Trump told just while he was in office, and now
now the constant attacks on Kamala Harris, on on on
Tim Walls, on Joe Biden, who they still don't stop
attacking day in and day out. Why because this is
who they are. And the worst, the worst part, the
part that I find so fucking offensive. Pardon my French, Well,
don't pardon it, because it's not French. What pisces me
off beyond anything is the fact that corporate media, they
know exactly what they're doing. They're playing to an audience,
and it's all about profitability, so again that they can
increase dividends to their shareholders. They don't give a shit
about the truth. They're not going to do what Ben
and I do, where we sit down before a show
and we talk about, hey, let's take a look at this,
like the oil production. Let's take a look at this,
and let's go through with the brigaders what the truth is.
Let's actually do some let's do some homework onto it.
We could ensure that when we give you a fact,
you could take that shit to the bank, because it
is a fact. When I turn around and I talk
about what's going on in Donald Trump's mind, it's very
different than when you listen to some of these undits
that are brought on to some of these different shows.
Why because they don't even fucking know him. They've never
sat with him for more than a minute. And the
closest they ever got to him was when he was
president in the briefing room. I sat shoulder to shoulder
with this maniac for a decade and a half. I'm
telling you I know what he's thinking because there's nothing
new here that's going on. And so it's why I
keep turning around and saying, share this, Share this episode
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the truth. So why are you wasting your time listening
to the horseshit being? Well, I think that, and so
what do you mean you think there's no thinking here.
It's either fact or it's innuendo. It's one or the other.
There's none of this bullshit that my opinion is more
relevant than yours, that my opinion means that it's correct
versus incorrect. No, when what Ben and I do is
we go through the facts and that's how we report it. No.
Speaker 2: I was watching for maybe eight seconds CNN. I just
wanted to turn it, turn it on, and there was
like eight people on this panel, maybe even more, and
it was like a like a hot potato of like
people just giving well I feel I'm right, okay, what
you feel? Just can you tell me what the facts are?
I mean, just take a look at this, Michael Cohen.
Here's this photo right now of this is Maga Republican
the world right here right you have JD. Vans and
Representative Mike Waltz right there, you know, doing some Look,
we're pointing to a mountain dew. Everybody, look at us
versus Why don't we zoom in on what that Wall
Street Journal says, Inflation hits lowest level since twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3: Look at these guys.
Speaker 2: Look at these guys pointing to the mountain dew one
more time to have the point to the mountain dew.
Speaker 3: Enhance it.
Speaker 2: Let's see what's going on. Inflation hits lowest level since
twenty twenty one. But I'll tell you you probably turn
that next page of the Wall Street Journal, where you
certainly go to the opinion pieces and they're going to
try to normalize that behavior by JD. Vans and Donald Trump.
But I want to talk about it. I want to
call it out. I want to remind everybody Michael Cohen's
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Speaker 3: One of the things that I'm definitely going to do
is while I am in Chicago at the DNC, I'm
going to do a Patreon. It's not going to be
a question and answer in the general format that Ben
and I do, but rather I want you to be
there with me in Chicago at the DNC Live as
I'm sitting there, whether I'm going to be with Jamie
Raskin or I'll be there with George Conway and a
whole slew of other individuals. So yeah, we're gonna have
a great time. And I want our Patreon subscribers, I
want you guys to be there with me, because this
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going on there, and you know, one of the problems though,
is you know, you always want to reach out, you
always want to be compassionate some of their views, not
some of them their views, and what they're trying to
do is cause others just so much pain and so
much angst and anxiety that it's like, you know, it
makes some of those outreach efforts difficult. But look, I
just got a message, you know, earlier today from someone
who voted for Trump twice. And what this person told
me was they go look, they said, I was looking
for facts about the Trump criminal trial and I could
tell the corporate media and Fox were lying. So this
person said, I started watching some of your legal hot
takes and that's what got me into the Midas Touch network.
And then I started seeing WHOA that they're actually facts here.
And then the person said, so then I tried some
of your political content, and I said, actually, I'm seeing
the facts that I'm seeing the data versus just people
saying I feel this way, I feel that way. And
this two time Trump voter says, I'm done voting for Trump.
He said, I'm ashamed that I voted for Trump. And
I'm hearing stories like that all the time. And this
is people who are changing their minds in the last
year and six months. So I still do hold out
hope for that project. So corporate media, you know, you've
got you know, right wing fascist propaganda media like Fox.
You've got corporate media scene an MSNBC. They're covering this
Trump presser. Now we're not. And one of the reasons
we're not is, you know, you have Trump basically saying
right here that there's gonna be an economic crash like
there's never been before. This is the exact quote from Trump.
Speaker 3: He goes, it's gonna be a crash like never before.
It's gonna be it's gonna be big. He's be huge,
He's huge.
Speaker 2: You guys, We're going to have a crash like a
nineteen twenty nine crash. And this is as you look
at the chiron below. The stock market is at record levels.
It's past forty thousand points. It's up more than forty
seven to forty eight percent since when he was done
disgracing the office. It's up five hundred and fifty four
points today.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: But one of the real issues here, which we've never
had to deal with, I think ever in American history,
is where you actually have the leader of the other
political party intentionally trying to crash our economy, trying to
cause chaos and pain affirmatively, because he believes that pain, chaos, anxiety, hurt,
depression are winning issues for him, thriving when we the
people are miserable, and so just the facts are. Donald
Trump killed the bipartisan border bill. Donald Trump killed the
bipartisan border deal. It was negotiated by a Republican from Oklahoma,
James Langford, and it would have resolved a lot of
issues at the border. President Biden tried to follow the
law and deal with this through legislation and not through
executive orders. Trump killed a bipartisan border deal whose lead
negotiator was the Republican from Oklahoma, and then tries to
run on chaos. When there was a bad day in
the stock market, one bad day about two weeks ago.
Donald Trump's post all caps, it's crashing. It's crashing, just
like I told you, it's crashing.
Speaker 3: Narcissistic sociopathy. He actually believed that he can affect the
stock market. I believe by posting in all caps that
not only was that day let's call it a Monday,
when it was down like nine hundred points, but because
he says that the stock market is creshing, Tuesday and
Wednesday and Thursday will also be exactly the same. That's
what he wants. He wants this country to burn because
he lost an election in twenty twenty, He.
Speaker 2: And the entire Republican Party want negative things to happen.
Do you remember even you know, it's it's a little
it's two years ago or so. Remember when they were
trying to create a run on the banks and they
were trying to make all of that panic two years
ago and try to tell Americans that they weren't going
to be able to get their money, you know, and
that this is you know, in excess to they were
trying to cause a serious issue. When Donald Trump invites
Victor orbon Or Benjamin Nett and Yahoo tomorrow lago, Donald
Trump is trying to actively interfere with America's foreign policy
to help putin to harm our allies, to cause issues.
By the way, you know, we don't often talk about
foreign policy, perhaps as much as we even should here,
although I like to try to cover all of the
big developments. I mean, you have Ukraine right now leading
an offensive in Russia in the Kursk region, and you
have President Zelensky announcing moments ago that Ukraine is taking
over territory in Russia right now because finally, after MAGA,
Mike Johnson and the Republicans refuse to allow weapons to
be sent to Ukraine, and cause, I mean, there's so
much blood on the hands of Magamke Johnson. I truly
hope that Magamke Johnson is haunted in his sleep by
the tens of thousands of people who died because of
Maga Mike Johnson and these traitorous Republicans. But now that
the weapons have gotten to where they need to go,
after Russia unlawfully invaded a land that doesn't belong to them,
which Donald Trump says, Oh, Putin's so brilliant, so genius.
Ukraine going on the offensive there. But Trump trying to
interfere with our foreign policy. Trump trying to interfere with
the lowering of interest rates, He threatened.
Speaker 3: Let me, can I ask you a quick question here,
because you bring up Magam Mike Johnson. We shouldn't jump
off of Maga Mike so quickly, right, because he's such
a religious man. He's such a devout Christian, right, I mean,
that's how he portrays himself each and every each and
every time, somewhere along the line, right with all of
the things that he has done, one day he will
be standing before the pearly gates of heaven. How Come
he's not thinking about that right now here today, and
he's ignoring all of the things. There's no if anybody
has done any reading at all on the New Testament
right forgetting even about the Old Testament. But if you've
read anything about the New Testament, all of the actions
of Mega Mike Johnson are contradictory to what Jesus would do.
I mean, that's really the line that you're supposed to
I remember when I was in Noticeville and I was
in FCI Federal Correctional Institution, Notice well, I spent quite
a bit of time with a bunch of friends of
mine and also this one deacon, his name was Deacon Davis,
a fabulous, fabulous guy. It was just, you know, he
was married guy and he's got kids, and we talk
about family. He'd sit with us while we were watching
television in the news, talking about all this other stuff.
Not a big Trump supporter, I can tell you that.
But one one of the things that he used to
say is, you know, I don't understand because here, like,
for example, when Trump was holding the Bible upside down
over by the church there in DC, he turned around
and he would say on a regular basis, he would
say things like what would Jesus do? Well, it's not that,
that's for sure. So the funny thing is how they
all tried to play so devout and they're so pious,
all of them. Right, It's one thing to talk the talk,
it's another to walk the walk. And none of these
guys walk the walk at all. It's all bullshit propaganda
in order to make them appealable to this group of magamrons.
And you guys know who I'm talking about, right, the
fucking morons with fourteeth and three brain cells married to
somebody with three teeth and or fourteenth and three brain cells.
I mean, it is truly abominable. Their behavior is abominable
and absolutely every every single thing that they are doing
is anti it's it's it's just the opposite of again,
what Jesus would do.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, And here's the two you know, the
people you say with you know, the four teeth or
whatever it's. They should be having dental care and coverage.
They should get the health care that they need and deserve.
They should get sick leaves, they should get time off,
They should get wages that allow them to purchase a
nice home and to enjoy their life and to raise
a family with wages, with dignity. You know, they shouldn't
have to worry that if they get sick that they
could die right away because they can't get health care.
Speaker 3: You should go or go bankrupt.
Speaker 2: They should have great education. They should feel like if
they served in the military, that they're going to be
taken care of if they were exposed to burn pits.
And if America is leading green jobs, I think I
saw three hundred and thirty thousand new jobs were just
created that were like green jobs that were you know,
in areas where factories were shut down, factories are being revitalized.
We should want to build these factories that are using
wind and solar and not go with all windows Joel
Jael jouelemen being stupid about it, like we should find
ways that you and your family can get really good
paying jobs and get to work. But the thing that
these Republicans, the commonality that they have is that these leaders,
one of them, is that they're all phonies. You mentioned
Maga Mic. Maga MIC's you know, religious, the same way
that Donald Trump's been faithful to his wives. Right, It's
all a stick the whole. These people are genuinely they
have issues, whether you want to say it's weird, whether
you want to say they're hiding things about them selfs
and their identities and who they really are, whether it's
who they really are sexually, who they really are behind
the scenes, whatever it is. They're compensating for things and
they project these false personas of who they are. I mean, look,
take a look at JD. Vans. This is from today.
He doesn't even know where he's speaking. He's speaking at
a VFW post, you know, which is a Veterans of
Foreign Wars post, and he's trying to relate to them,
and he's like, I'm at a VF What I'm at
VFW post. The whole thing is all of its phony.
Here play this clip.
Speaker 3: As it's great to be here, It's great.
Speaker 5: To be part of VF post VFA VFW Post ninety two.
I've actually got the card right here in my pocket.
I'm officially a member, so this is not the last
time you're get to see me.
Speaker 2: I'm one of you.
Speaker 6: I'm part of the VF the I have the card,
I've got the car, I've got the VF VFAWFG.
Speaker 2: We all and we all know that the average new
car costs uh, fifty thousand dollars a year. That's everyone's
paying fifty thousand every dollar every year for a new car.
Here play this clip.
Speaker 5: Thanks ta Kamala Harris suspending policies, the average new car
costs nearly fifty thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 2: Oh, one hundred million dollars a Year's.
Speaker 3: Sorry, I'm sorry. It's somebody buying a new car every
single year. Right, what I mean? It's fifty It costs
fifty thousand dollars a year. Can we play that again?
This asshole doesn't even realize what he's saying. What is right?
How many of fifty thousand dollars a year? J Can
you play that again? It's again? This is the problem
when these fuckers lie. When they lie, it's almost like
it's they're not thinking. It's just to say something that
is negative towards Kamala Harris, bombastic, et cetera. Because I
don't get it. What's fifty thousand dollars a year?
Speaker 5: Thanks to Kamala Harris suspending policies, the average new car
costs nearly fifty thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 2: I think if you're leasing a Lamborghini it is fifty
thousand dollars a year to lease a Ferrari or a Lamborghini.
Speaker 3: But let me show you this one. Thank you, thank
you for correcting me on that. You are you are right,
you are you know.
Speaker 2: And then we have to figure out too, what does
it cost to buy or to rent Jeffrey Epstein's plane
out of Epstein's estate auction Like most average Americans, Donald
Trump and Jdvans are flying around in Epstein's plane from
place to place. But anyway, here's JD. Van's here on
Laura Ingraham and they're trying to make him like Fox
is doing everything that they can in that Trump Press
con friends from earlier today. Just now, they took away
the stock ticker also, by the way, to show that
the stock markets up during it. They had the stock
they had the ticker up, and then they removed it
now so that people can't see that the market's up.
As Donald Trump is shit talking the United States of America.
I mean, just think about that. They're working against we,
the people. I mean, it's it's it's really that simple.
I know politics can be, I know politics can be.
People try to overcomplicate it. No, they are trying to
hurt we the people. They the billionaires, the Foxes, the Murdochs,
the Trumps. They want us to be in pain. They
want to hurt us. It's that simple. And they want
to divide us. And they want to talk about bathrooms
and culture wars and all of these things when those
who are in glass houses should not be throwing those stones.
You want to you want to talk about girls and
boys bathrooms or boys and girls bathrooms. You know you
saw this photo of Jdvans to today, like a new
photo of Jdvans and his various identities now surface. This
one is Jdvans from high school. He's in a bathroom
with three girls from his high school. There at the
urinal there's Jdvans right there, and well, you know, and
you could be like, oh, well that's a school prank
and they're just having fun. And the bottom line is, though,
mind your own damn business.
Speaker 3: Can I say something, I was a pretty funny kid
in high school. In junior high school, we used to
pull pranks all the time. I could be honest. I
don't think you'll find I actually let me be let
me rephrase that. I know for a fact you're not
going to find me in a bathroom, not with one,
not with two, not with three, not with twenty females
standing at a urinal. First of all, I just don't
understand if it's a prank, is it funny? I don't.
I truly don't get it. Yes, yes, it is weird,
It just doesn't. This kid was a fucking weirdo when
he was young, and he grew up into a bigger
fucking weirdo. And now, thanks to von schitzen Pants, we
now have Lady Vance as a potential vice presidential nominee.
I mean, what are we doing here?
Speaker 2: And by the way, if he wants to be Lady Vance,
Lady Dance, go be Lady Vance. Enjoy your life. But
please stop telling others how they need to live their lives.
Stop dividing us with culture wars. Stop mocking an Algerian boxer.
I mean, last week we had to hear Maga talking
about an Algerian boxer and whether the Algerian boxer has
a jina, And I'm like, why are you talking about this?
Speaker 3: Do we know that she's she's suing all of them? Good? Good?
What do we get all of them? What are we
even talk about? People?
Speaker 2: Are saying, is that real? Yes, that's that's real. That
photo here, you could pull it up. That was JD
Vance during high school. And this was a period of
time where JD Vance believed he was gay, and JD
Vance has wrote about it. His grandma told him right
about this time, jd You're not allowed to be gay.
So shortly after this photo was taken, JD Vance then
says he's not gay, and he becomes anti gay. So
then he has an anti gay period and that which
he still is to this day. But then he becomes
the fake hillbilly from Appalachia. He's not from Appalachia, but
he goes he acts like he's an Appalachia hillbilly who
hates Donald Trump. So his whole persona was make money
as the Appalachia anti Trump Ivory Tower Conservative and then
he's now full maga. That is who he is. And
as I say, mind your own damp business. Here's the
interview of Jdvans from Laura Ingraham last night where JD
Van says that it is not normal for women who
care about their reproductive rights. He goes, normal women aren't
thinking about their reproductive rights. They're focused on other issues.
Speaker 3: Watch this nator.
Speaker 7: One of my dear friends tonight said to me, well,
all these suburban women, all these suburban women, all they
care about is abortion, and they don't understand that decision
is with the states. Now, it's not banned nationally. Even
if people something wanted to be banned nationally, it's with
the states. What do you say to suburban women out
there who are marinating in this propaganda?
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, I don't buy that, Laura.
Speaker 5: I think most suburban women care about the normal things
that most Americans care about.
Speaker 2: The normal things he says, and most suburb women.
Speaker 3: Is he wearing lipstick in that, and he wears.
Speaker 2: It as the eyeliner and the lips that he does
the whole thing. And then there was audio. I'm not
going to play the audio because it just drives me
absolutely nuts. But in twenty twenty, Jadvance is on audio
agreeing with a podcast host who says having grandmothers help
raise children is the whole purpose of the post menopausal female,
That the sole role of postmenopausal women needs to be
helping raise their grandchildren. And jd Vance is laughing about that,
and you know, so he's childless, cat ladies, he's giving
his views on postmenopausal females. Just stay the hell away
from our families. Stay away from our families, stay away
from our flag. Stop trying to terminate our constitution. It
should be as simple as that nipple. Give me the
final word. You take the two fingers.
Speaker 3: Loute two finger salute goes right back to the fucking
jerk off himself that we've just been talking about, shady
lady Vance. All right, As Ben said, mind your own
fucking business, all right, worry about yourself, worry about your wife,
worry about your children. Don't worry about my children. Don't
worry about what other people are doing. Don't worry about
whether they are. They're not concerned about reproductive rights and
their ability within which to carry a child to term.
Don't worry about a woman's men pauzal you know time
and what she should do. Postmenopauses this whole thing. It
goes beyond Weird's right, he's sitting there hanging out with
my fellow diet mountain dew. Everything about these guys are
It's not just weird, it's that shit crazy. And you
know what, we've all had enough. I mean, Donald in
and of himself is a is a shit candidate, plain
and simple, all right, he is a shit candidate. Now
take that ship and couple it with a bigger pile
of ship. Smash the two ships together, and all you
have is now two handfuls of ship. And as I
turn around and say, just shady lady dance, fuck you,
all right, fuck you and fuck you. Stay out of
everybody's business. Go deal with your own nonsense, because my friend,
you got a lot of fucking mental problems. Go to
better help everybody.
Speaker 2: Thank you for watching Political Beatday.
Speaker 3: What what? Really? What?
Speaker 2: The part about it, though, you know that really saddens
me is that JD. Vans could have lived the life
that he wants to.
Speaker 3: Live and every American way, law school, and but.
Speaker 2: But but whatever, you know, whoever he is, the fact
that he now spends his time trying to take away
people's rights, the fact that he spends his time attacking
marginalized communities, and that the Republican Party has built a
whole persona of saying, oh, it's woke that your supportive
and helping marginalized communities, and you're standing up for your
fellow Americans and your fellow citizens of the world who
just want to live their lives, and they want to
be happy, they want to love, they want to be loved,
they want to smile. And I go back to what
Governor Wallace said. What's unforgivable about what JD. Vance and
Trump and this whole mag of movement do and try
to do every day, is they try to take away
our joy. They try to take away our love. They
try to take away our humanity and our connections and
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