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Speaker 1: Welcome back to The Michael Cohen Show on our continued

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journey to two hundred and fifty thousand subscribers. Remember when

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I said to you that there's always going to be

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something going on, Well, I certainly wasn't wrong, all right.

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That's why now is the time to subscribe, stay with us,

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and share with your friends, because again, there's just going

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to be so much to talk about. And I want

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to talk about the breaking news about Special Counsel Jack Smith.

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He just moved to drop both of the Trump federal cases.

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Now let me begin by reminding you that the first

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one was the January sixth insurrection, and we're going to

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get into that one because there were like a thousand

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witnesses and millions of documents and months and months, no

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year's worth of work that was done on that being dropped.

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There's also, of course, the marl Lago documents case, which

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hands down, was the easiest case to have proven of

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all the four indictments that came out against Trump. So

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let me start by showing you Special Council Jack Smith's

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motion in it, of course, United States of America versus

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Donald Trump, the government's motion to dismiss as a result

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of the election held on November fifth of twenty twenty four.

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The defendant, Donald J. Trump will be inaugurated as president

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on January twentieth, twenty twenty five. It has long been

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the position of the Department of Justice that the United

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States Constitution forbids the federal indictment and subsequent criminal prosecution

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of a sitting president. But the Department and the country

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have never faced the circumstance here, where a federal indictment

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against a private citizen has been returned by a next

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page grand jury and a criminal prosecution is already underway

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when the defendant is elected president. Confronted with this unprecedented situation,

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the Special Council's Office consulted with the Department's Office of

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Legal Counsel, the OLC, whose interpretation of constitutional questions such

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as those raised here is binding on Department prosecutors. So,

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after careful consideration, the Department has determined that ol sees

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prior opinions concerning the Constitution's prohibition on federal indictment and

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prosecution that's the key word, prosecution of a sitting president

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applied to the situation, and that as a result of this,

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prosecution must be dismissed before the defendant is inaugurated. That

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prohibition is next page categorical and does not turn on

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the gravity of the crimes charged, the strength of the

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government's proof, or the merits of the prosecution, which the

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government stands fully behind. Based on the Department's interpretation of

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the Constitution, the government moves for dismissal without prejudice of

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the superseding indictment under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure forty

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eight subperens A. The government has conferred with defense counsel,

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who does not object to this motion. Now, I want

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to be very clear about something. There's the whole part

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there where they're saying that the government was right in

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bringing the prosecution and so on. Here's the problem. Delay, delay, delay,

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in bringing the prosecution. They spent forever before which Merrick

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Garland finally brought Jack Smith on. They spent forever before

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which they finally put forth the recommendation for the indictment,

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And by the time it finally came through, he was

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already expected to be, if not already the Republican nominee

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for the presidency of the United States. Now, which case,

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again I said, is the easiest one. To have proven,

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and that of course is to Morologo Document's case. And

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that doesn't mean that the other people that were involved

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are not still going to be prosecuted. This solely references

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and is related to Donald J. Trump, none of the

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other people. So once again, more people will end up

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going down as a direct result for the benefit of

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and at the direction of Donald J. Trump. Now you

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may be saying to yourself, where have I heard somebody

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talk about this, that these cases are all going to

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be dismissed. Well, you heard it from me. You heard

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it from me here right here on the Michael Cohen Show.

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You also heard it on you also heard on my

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Maya Kolpa podcast. You've heard me talk to Ben about

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it on our Political Beatdown podcast, our live YouTube show.

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And why did I say it? Because facts matter reality.

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We are all living in the world of reality. That's

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where we should be. Too many people are living in

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fantasy land. They think that they're in Orlando Disneyland and

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they're sleeping in Cinderella's castle. No, no, this is exactly

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what happens. You know the old expression right, justice delayed

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is justice denied. That's exactly what happened here. Now you

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do have the Alvin Bray case. There's a criminal conviction,

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but it looks as if though Donald is not going

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to be suffering any consequences or accountability from that because

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of the Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity. Donald will

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be inaugurated on January twentieth. There's no doubt in my

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mind that, since especially now, they have postponed the sentencing

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definitively till at least twenty twenty nine, till after he finishes,

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there's a likely chance, a better than likely chance, there

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will be no accountability. Despite the fact DA brought the

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case twenty two witnesses. I was, of course one of them.

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You're talking about twelve jurors, six alternates, you're talking about

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thirty four counts. Those will ultimately go away and he

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will not have felon's status because in order to become

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a felon, you need to be sentenced. That case right

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now is on a complete and indefinite hold. There is

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also a motion pending before Judge Murshan that states that

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he's going to make a determination in December, early December

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regarding a dismissal of the case altogether. All right, who

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knows what judgement Shan's gonna do. I don't even want

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to try to guess these two cases, Gonzo. I'm talking

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about the Jack Smith cases. We just talked about the

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January sixth and the marral Lago documents case, which leaves

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but one left. Yeah, yeah, the Atlanta, the Georgia case,

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the Fani Willis Georgia District attorney. All right, that case

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on the interference in the election? Well, what do you

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think is happening with that case? I don't know. Fanny

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Willis had a relationship with the prosecutor. That one was

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ultimately delayed. In fact, not only was it delayed, the

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judge actually took it off the calendar. So when I

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had said that as a result of not just the

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Supreme Court determination on presidential immunity, but also the fact

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that he won the election something nobody thought was going

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to happen, well it did. And not only of course,

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did he beat all the odds in terms of that.

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As a direct result, there will be in my estimation,

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no accountability or almost no accountability at all. So for

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now three plus years we have all been sitting and

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listening to the pundits on television talking about the accountability.

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The worst case of them all happened to have been

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the Manhattan District Attorney case again, the one that I

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was a witness in, a key witness in. So all

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the work that was done, all of the sweat and

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the tears, and the money expended by all of us,

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the witnesses, the court, the cities, all of that was fornaught.

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Why because again the delayed, delayed, delay in bringing the

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indictments and bringing the prosecution in an expeditious manner, allowing

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the delays, the judges just slow walking all of this

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shit day in and day out. This is the reality

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that we live in, and it's important that we live

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in the reality, not fantasy land. Based upon which side

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of the isle that you sit, if, of course, you

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are a Trump supporter, this is the greatest news of

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all time. Once again, Donald Trump wins, which just goes

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to show you the whole thing was a fucking witch hunt.

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But if you're on the other side of the isle,

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basically it goes to show you that there are different

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sets of rules, different laws for different people, and that

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that's why our Justice Department needs such a major, major overhaul.

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Suffice it to say, this is the reality This is

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what we as a collective commune unity need to be

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talking about to ensure that if more of this sort

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of stuff happens when he ultimately becomes president of the

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United States, we will have a big enough community so

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that we can make a difference, so that our voices

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can be heard, and that the law is applied equally

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to everyone. And as always, my friends, thanks for listening.

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