Speaker 1: Welcome to Political Beatdown. I'm Ben my Cellas, joined by
Speaker 1: Michael Cohen. What a historic episode this will be. This
Speaker 1: is our last episode before the Manhattan District Attorney criminal
Speaker 1: trial against Donald Trump commences. Donald Trump made ten separate
Speaker 1: attempts at trying to get an adjournment three this week,
Speaker 1: including two extraordinary articles seventy eight emergency appeals to the
Speaker 1: Appellate Division, First Department. Trump was rejected each and every time.
Speaker 1: The last time he was rejected was yesterday afternoon. So
Speaker 1: all signs are pointing to the first criminal trial against
Speaker 1: Donald Trump commencing on Monday. Michael Cohen, your reaction to
Speaker 1: this all.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, Monday is a very big day. Salty
Speaker 2: throw it up there, so people understand that the day
Speaker 2: is expected to be mostly stormy with a chance of incarceration.
Speaker 2: This same will probably follow from Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and
Speaker 2: then Friday. Let me be clear though, right without trying
Speaker 2: to be funny or conical, which is my general nature,
Speaker 2: Monday is the beginning of what deer. That's where they're
Speaker 2: going to try to impanel a jury that will ultimately
Speaker 2: sit twelve jurors. Two alternates for the you know, for
Speaker 2: the life of this of this trial. I'll tell you
Speaker 2: a prediction that I do have ben which is Todd
Speaker 2: Blanche and Susan Necklace are going to do everything that
Speaker 2: they can to drag the void dea process as long
Speaker 2: as they can, and each and every time that Judge
Speaker 2: Murshan tries to speed it up and to move it along,
Speaker 2: because you know, in New York, especially in state court,
Speaker 2: the judges play a very active role in the voisda process.
Speaker 2: You know, there's already a list of questions that they're
Speaker 2: going to provide. We talked about that on the last show,
Speaker 2: where one of the questions is have you ever listened
Speaker 2: to Michael Cohen's May Kulpa podcast? Have you ever listened
Speaker 2: to his political Beatdown podcast? Have you read either of
Speaker 2: his books? Or do you follow him on social media?
Speaker 2: You know, we'll see what happens there. But they're going
Speaker 2: to use that as an attempt to once again file
Speaker 2: more motions to delay this case, claiming that they are
Speaker 2: impeding in Trump's ability to have a fair trial based
Speaker 2: upon the Vaidias selection. They're gonna look to have Judge
Speaker 2: Murshan recused. They're gonna look to have the venue changed
Speaker 2: like these past ten I don't even know what's the
Speaker 2: right way to call these motions. Ben frivolous, you know.
Speaker 1: Cohen, absolutely frivolous. Because let me say this, if any
Speaker 1: other litigant brought these types of things in any other context,
Speaker 1: they would be seriously sanctioned, and they would be labeled
Speaker 1: a vexatious litigant and be prohibited from making these filings.
Speaker 1: That's my understanding. If anyone else was doing this, I'm
Speaker 1: sorry for interrupting.
Speaker 2: Well you're not. That's the word I was looking for.
Speaker 2: You know, they would be a vexatious litigant and they
Speaker 2: would be sanctioned. He's obviously, as we talk about regularly,
Speaker 2: because this case is so unusual that this is a
Speaker 2: case of first impression. This is the first time that
Speaker 2: a former president of the United States is being tried
Speaker 2: in a court of law in a criminal case with
Speaker 2: what is it, thirty four charges, thirty four counts. It's unprecedented,
Speaker 2: and it's starting in just a couple of days.
Speaker 1: Big news. Indeed, let me just share with everybody just
Speaker 1: so you see what these denials like look like that
Speaker 1: are issued. We can pull up the one from yesterday
Speaker 1: that says Article seventy eight proceeding in the nature of
Speaker 1: a prohibition. After hearing argument from Council for all parties,
Speaker 1: the Court denies movements application to stay all of the
Speaker 1: proceedings pending resolution of the Article seventy eight proceeding in
Speaker 1: the nature of prohibition. And here were the reasons that
Speaker 1: Trump cited yesterday. The unconstitutional effects of Justice Mersham's rulings
Speaker 1: are causing ongoing, irreparable constitutional harms to Donald Trump and
Speaker 1: the voting public. And if not stopped, we'll prevent petitioner
Speaker 1: from receiving a fair trial. I mean, you don't get
Speaker 1: much more frivolous than that. Then we had the prior
Speaker 1: denial defendant's application for a stay of trial pursuant to
Speaker 1: CPLA Section two thirty point three to zero, pending the
Speaker 1: determination of Defendant's motion for change of venue is denied.
Speaker 1: Then we had another one, the application for an interim
Speaker 1: stay of the proceedings pending resolution of the Article seventy
Speaker 1: eight proceeding is denied without prejudice to any determination by
Speaker 1: the full Bench regarding Trump's attempt at recusal. So venue recusal.
Speaker 1: Justice Mershon's other orders that Donald Trump just generally and
Speaker 1: vaguely says are unconstitutional. But Donald Trump right now is
Speaker 1: on his social media platform making videos of himself cursing
Speaker 1: in these videos. He's making selfie videos of himself just
Speaker 1: saying this is this is but bs, this is bullshit,
Speaker 1: this is bullshit, and then posting them on his social
Speaker 1: media platform. Let me show you this video that he
Speaker 1: just made and posted.
Speaker 3: So they weaponize government and they take me to court
Speaker 3: on bullshit.
Speaker 2: So we are going to win. We're going to win big.
Speaker 3: We're going to go through these horrible Biden trials and
Speaker 3: at the end of the day, November fifth, everyone's coming
Speaker 3: out to vote for Trump, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: You know. And as you watch that, here's the thing
Speaker 1: that I want to make clear. Trump is presumed innocent.
Speaker 1: That is our system. I can have my opinions based
Speaker 1: on all of the evidence that I've seen that Trump
Speaker 1: will be found guilty and in a fact based way
Speaker 1: that we do here, we will or I will explain
Speaker 1: why Trump's behavior though, to rip to shreds our judicial
Speaker 1: system is something so anathema to our system of justice,
Speaker 1: to law and order, to our democracy, to normalcy. You know,
Speaker 1: if Donald Trump were to make a video and say, look,
Speaker 1: as everybody knows, I'm on trial, I'm going to fight
Speaker 1: for whatever myself and I'm hopeful that there will be
Speaker 1: a verdict in my I wouldn't be critical of it.
Speaker 1: I mean, everyone has the right to do that and
Speaker 1: to speak out. But when you have him like that
Speaker 1: saying it's bullshit, this is bullshit, you know, it's like,
Speaker 1: grow up, I mean, just grow up and stopped acting
Speaker 1: like that. Also, we've got some additional leaked footage Michael
Speaker 1: Cohen of Donald Trump's speech he recently gave at Marco
Speaker 1: the same time, he is or has been threatening witnesses
Speaker 1: like you and Stormy Daniels. He's been posting a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff about Stormy Daniels recently. Here's what he's saying
Speaker 1: to people at mar A Lago privately. And so when
Speaker 1: people are saying, oh, Cohen, the threats against you, are
Speaker 1: you fearful? What do you think? Donald Trump is out there.
Speaker 1: He's the leader of the Republican Party. He was once
Speaker 1: the President of the United States, disgracing that office where
Speaker 1: he had all the power. He has said that he
Speaker 1: believes he should have absolute immunity to order Seal Team
Speaker 1: six to kill his political enemies, and at mar A Lago.
Speaker 1: In this new leaked footage that we got from speaks
Speaker 1: very fondly of al Capone's ability to murder people and
Speaker 1: get away with it. Let's play this clip.
Speaker 4: And before I became well known as somebody that was
Speaker 4: indicted more than Alphonse Capone, the legendary Alphonse Capone. You
Speaker 4: know al Capone. If he took somebody to dinner and
Speaker 4: he didn't like him, he'd kill them. If somebody looked
Speaker 4: at him the wrong way, he would kill them. He
Speaker 4: once had a date, very lovely young lady, and the
Speaker 4: man next to him tried to pick her up. Guess
Speaker 4: what happened to him. It wasn't good. Scarf Fast that
Speaker 4: it was not good to go after Alphonse Capone's go friend.
Speaker 4: I'll teach that to these guys, so you don't want
Speaker 4: to do that. But it was not a good situation.
Speaker 4: He got indicted less than I did. Alphonse. I got
Speaker 4: indicted four times. He only got indicted two times. Now,
Speaker 4: the good news is our Poe numbers went through the roof.
Speaker 4: The bad news is I have to deal with these maniacs.
Speaker 2: Their maniac colin look wonderful political speech it just goes
Speaker 2: to show you how fantastic his knowledge of history, his
Speaker 2: intent to be legitimate as a candidate or as a president.
Speaker 2: He's already telegraphing what he's going to do, you know,
Speaker 2: these ongoing continuous tax when he's speaking before the crowd
Speaker 2: of idiots at Marilardo, who gives a fuck? Not me,
Speaker 2: I truly don't care at all. But when he starts
Speaker 2: posting on his truth social where he's able to get
Speaker 2: his to blow his dog whistle to his MAGA supporters,
Speaker 2: these are the ones that you need to be careful for.
Speaker 2: These are the ones that are armed to the teeth.
Speaker 2: These are the ones that don't believe, you know, in
Speaker 2: gun laws. They're the one that have all the ar
Speaker 2: fifteens and tens of thousands of rounds, and they are
Speaker 2: the ones that are somewhat let's just say, unhinged in
Speaker 2: order to do the bidding of their furre. It's the
Speaker 2: same sort of group that got suckered into going to
Speaker 2: the capital, many of whom already spent time in prison
Speaker 2: or jails, had their lives turned upside down. They're the
Speaker 2: ones that he's blowing the dog whistle to. In fact,
Speaker 2: salty if you have this one, to me was the
Speaker 2: Kappa of all kappas. Michael Alvinadi, as we talked about
Speaker 2: the last show, is asked to come on, or actually
Speaker 2: he asked MSNBC and they complied and they gave him
Speaker 2: this massive, massive platform. You're talking about a guy who
Speaker 2: robbed a bunch of his clients, including Stormy Daniels, including araplegic.
Speaker 2: There's a guy who tried to extort Nike. There's a
Speaker 2: guy who went ahead and paid off this guy, Jonathan Frye,
Speaker 2: an IRS agent in San Francisco, to pull my information
Speaker 2: off the Finsen system, that's the financial crimes network. This
Speaker 2: is not a good guy. And he goes on and
Speaker 2: he starts, he becomes the Talmudchachem, Right, this is the
Speaker 2: genius of all geniuses that being asked to opine on
Speaker 2: the upcoming Alvin Bragg case. Could we go back to
Speaker 2: it for one sex salty because this, to me was great.
Speaker 2: Avenati comes out then in a statement through of course,
Speaker 2: a buddy of his on the outside, the same friend
Speaker 2: that was trying to get him on all the shows,
Speaker 2: on all the stations. It's just MSNBC. Ari Melbur was
Speaker 2: the only idiot that really did it, and he writes,
Speaker 2: we can't be hypocrites when it comes to the First Amendment. Really,
Speaker 2: how about my fuck and First Amendment constitutional rights being
Speaker 2: violated by el Chiedo. It is outrageous that Cohen and
Speaker 2: Daniels can do countless TV interviews, post on social and
Speaker 2: make money on bogus documentaries or by talking shit about Trump.
Speaker 2: But he's gared and threatened with jail if he responds.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine that Avenatti is now trying to champion
Speaker 2: Donald's cause? And what does Donald do? Salty show it? Right?
Speaker 2: What is don? What does Donald do? He puts that
Speaker 2: up thank you to Michael Avenatti?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: Could you imagine that he is thanking Michael Avenatti? What
Speaker 2: do you think is really going on here? Ben? I'll
Speaker 2: give you my I'll give you my my take on it.
Speaker 2: Avinatti knows he has another nine years left on his sentence,
Speaker 2: and somewhere along the line, I guess he think that
Speaker 2: if he's successful in helping to either delay this case
Speaker 2: or to witness obstruction of justice or witness tampering, or
Speaker 2: to get into the head of a juror a prospective juror,
Speaker 2: and Donald ends up getting off as a direct result
Speaker 2: that maybe, just maybe Donald will consider pardon him if
Speaker 2: God forbid a million times he wins the election. First
Speaker 2: of all, Avenati's an idiot because Donald will not pardon
Speaker 2: him for anything in the world. He blames him for
Speaker 2: a lot of this. He's got a disdain for him.
Speaker 2: He'll use him as much as he can, but he
Speaker 2: will never do a damn thing for him, that I
Speaker 2: can assure you of. But the fact that Avenadi was
Speaker 2: given this opportunity, given this platform on Ari's show, Seriously,
Speaker 2: he made a fool of himself. He got a s
Speaker 2: smacked on social media for doing this. Go explain because
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 1: No, it was inexplicable. And you know Ari Melber, who's
Speaker 1: done some good interviews before. It always just kind of
Speaker 1: shocks me when legacy media appears to think that that's
Speaker 1: how you get ratings and it isn't. I mean, what
Speaker 1: we've shown here at the Midas Touch Network is you
Speaker 1: get ratings by just telling people the truth and showing
Speaker 1: people the facts, and then showing people the documents and
Speaker 1: treating the audience like the intelligent people that they are,
Speaker 1: and always representing democracy through that framework and not through
Speaker 1: what's going to be so shocking that gets the most
Speaker 1: ratings for us? He mightas touched network on political beatdown
Speaker 1: on all of our shows. We have principles and we
Speaker 1: have values, and if politicians, candidates and guests meet those values,
Speaker 1: even if we disagree with them on a lot of
Speaker 1: other issues, they're invited on our network. And if they don't,
Speaker 1: we're not going to allow them to spew propaganda for
Speaker 1: the belief that they may help our ratings. I want
Speaker 1: to have civil, intelligent, fact based conversations here, and I
Speaker 1: respect and we respect our audience so much that we
Speaker 1: also understand that when you gaslight people the way MSNBC
Speaker 1: does sometimes and the way CNN does, and the way
Speaker 1: the New York Times does with the headlines like the
Speaker 1: recent New York Times headlines saying both presidential candidates are
Speaker 1: not the best messengers on the issue of women's reproductive rights.
Speaker 1: That was actually a headline on New York Times. I
Speaker 1: mean Donald Trump actually the person who took away women's
Speaker 1: reproductive rights and brags of it, and President Biden making
Speaker 1: a major part of his platform protecting women's reproductive rights,
Speaker 1: and the New York Times headline was both sides. Both
Speaker 1: people are not good messengers. That gas lighting also causes
Speaker 1: a great deal of trauma to people. You know, we're
Speaker 1: all living in this thing together where there's a want
Speaker 1: to be authoritarian who's trying to overthrow our democracy. You know,
Speaker 1: we don't have the luxury of being in our ivory
Speaker 1: tower like some writers and media companies. We that Trump
Speaker 1: and what and Maga and everything they're talking about with
Speaker 1: Project twenty twenty five, that if they get into power,
Speaker 1: that they're going to kill us, that our family members
Speaker 1: can die, that people that we love for us, this
Speaker 1: is life or death. And so when a legacy media
Speaker 1: treats this whole thing like a game or treats us
Speaker 1: all like we're stupid, causes such a degree of trauma.
Speaker 1: And that's why when it comes to the coverage here
Speaker 1: of this criminal case, we're gonna have only the top
Speaker 1: experts and people who know like people you like you,
Speaker 1: My Michael Cohen.
Speaker 2: You know, was here. Yeah. The problem here is that
Speaker 2: Ari should be ashamed of himself. He should be embarrassed.
Speaker 2: In fact, he should spend the next the next episode,
Speaker 2: at least the first ten minutes apologizing to the American people,
Speaker 2: to his viewers, to his loyal viewers, the viewers of MSNBC,
Speaker 2: for making a complete and total asshole out of himself
Speaker 2: in terms of putting somebody like a Michael Avnatti on
Speaker 2: the stand. This isn't the Michael Avinatti of three years ago,
Speaker 2: the narcissist who thought he was going to run for
Speaker 2: the presidency, who was on every single show gaslighting everything,
Speaker 2: making stuff up because that's what the American people were
Speaker 2: soaking in. It was like making America into a Kardashian country.
Speaker 2: It was like a Bravo episode of Housewives. All right,
Speaker 2: that's what they were doing, and they fell for it.
Speaker 2: And then what happened We learned the truth. We learned
Speaker 2: that the guy took money. He stole money from a quadriplegic,
Speaker 2: he stole money from Stormy. He turned around and he
Speaker 2: tried to extort Nike. Right, but he turns on and
Speaker 2: he goes, well, you know that he's been that he
Speaker 2: has been unfairly treated. Could you imagine this maniac staying
Speaker 2: shit like this? Really?
Speaker 1: And here's the thing though, too, it's also kind of
Speaker 1: taking accountability, acknowledging you know that that you were wrong,
Speaker 1: and I mean, to your point Cohen. It is all.
Speaker 1: It feels also kind of very opportunity. It feels so
Speaker 1: very opportunistic and sure it's surpris sleep by the way.
Speaker 2: For the station, their goal is to Their goal was
Speaker 2: to bring them on. They put a little picture of
Speaker 2: him in the chiron coming up eight o'clock that right,
Speaker 2: and they kept promoting it and promoting it. They did
Speaker 2: it because they're smashing ratings, right, They're actually doing very
Speaker 2: well in there, and they wanted to do something that
Speaker 2: was even bigger. Instead of being thankful for the ratings
Speaker 2: that they have, it also helps them to boost their
Speaker 2: income regarding advertisers, right, That's why. That's why they did it.
Speaker 2: It makes no sense to me at all. I thought
Speaker 2: it was a huge mistake. Many people even at MSNBC
Speaker 2: who I spoke to or believed that it was opportunistic
Speaker 2: and that it was a massive mistake. And he's taking
Speaker 2: meaning Ari and his show are taking a massive, massive
Speaker 2: beating as a direct result of it. And you know
Speaker 2: what I say, This called the count ability, and that's
Speaker 2: what it is. It's accountability.
Speaker 1: Let me show you here from more of the leaked
Speaker 1: footage from Moro Lago. Here we have Donald Trump glitching,
Speaker 1: claiming he's being prosecuted by someone named Letitia Jones. Let's
Speaker 1: play this clip.
Speaker 4: They put him into the State of New York and
Speaker 4: then ultimately into the DIA's office to run the case.
Speaker 4: This is being run by Biden. They put a man
Speaker 4: in to the state Letitia.
Speaker 2: Jones peekaboo, I call her.
Speaker 1: Peekaboo.
Speaker 4: They put a man into that one to uh Letitia.
Speaker 4: They put a man into that one to run it.
Speaker 4: And then he went into the die's office.
Speaker 1: What's he even saying there?
Speaker 2: I have no idea. First of all, Leticia James is
Speaker 2: a female. I mean, because don't forget his cognitive test
Speaker 2: man woman child camera TV. He clearly doesn't know the
Speaker 2: difference between a man and a woman. Tis James is
Speaker 2: a female, all right, Alvin Bragg, I don't know who
Speaker 2: or what he's talking about. But can I say this
Speaker 2: to you, Ben, The part of that of that video
Speaker 2: that I find the most troubling is not how stupid
Speaker 2: Donald sounds, or how rambling and nonsensical a point he's
Speaker 2: trying to make that he just doesn't I predict.
Speaker 1: See if I can mind meld with you right now.
Speaker 1: The people who are there laughing at him saying the
Speaker 1: racist about New York attorney.
Speaker 2: Yes, I don't understand what they're thinking, all right. I
Speaker 2: don't understand. First of I don't know who it is
Speaker 2: that's doing it. I wish that I did. But I
Speaker 2: feel sorry for them, I really do. I don't know
Speaker 2: what makes them tick or why they think something like
Speaker 2: that is funny, or they just laughing at how stupid
Speaker 2: Donald sounds. I don't. I don't think so, right, because
Speaker 2: it's kind of like at a point after uh, I
Speaker 2: call her peekaboo, peekaboo James, Yeah, peekable, and they're laughing.
Speaker 2: Why is that even funny? What? What's funny about it?
Speaker 2: You're being you're being criminally charged? Is it thirty four
Speaker 2: or thirty seven counts? Thirty four thirty four thirty four
Speaker 2: counts starting on Monday. This is not like Tiss James's
Speaker 2: civil fraud trial that she got slapped with a five
Speaker 2: hundred million dollar decision. This is criminal. This is where
Speaker 2: they turn around, like with Alan Weiselberg right after sentencing.
Speaker 2: Please take the orange man, stick him in an orange jumpsuit,
Speaker 2: all right, and if he wants to appeal, this is
Speaker 2: something Marshan can certainly do. He could remand him to
Speaker 2: jail pending the appeal. That's certainly within his right. So
Speaker 2: why he's doing the things that he's doing, why he's
Speaker 2: saying the things that he's saying. The only the only
Speaker 2: thing that I could surmise from this sort of ridiculous
Speaker 2: scenario is that Trump has lost his mind. That he's
Speaker 2: fucking petrified, beyond petrified, and he's just an idiot. I
Speaker 2: really don't have another way to describe it. I'm not
Speaker 2: happy about the whole situation. I'm really not, but accountability
Speaker 2: must be had.
Speaker 1: I'll give you another data point right here. In one
Speaker 1: of those selfie videos that Donald Trump was making of
Speaker 1: himself and posting throughout today. Here he says that radical
Speaker 1: left Windmills and all sorts want to destroy the country
Speaker 1: or play this clip. Oh well, they don't have it
Speaker 1: when they when they get it, please load that. At
Speaker 1: the same time, though, let me show you this though,
Speaker 1: and hopefully we've got this, so we know that Trump's
Speaker 1: installed Lara Trump as the head of the RNC, the
Speaker 1: types of interviews that she's doings, as my team finds,
Speaker 1: as our team finds the windmill video clip. You know,
Speaker 1: this guy Alex Stein, who is who got famous for
Speaker 1: sexually harassing AOC and saying all these things about her.
Speaker 1: So he's like a very big popular right wing podcaster.
Speaker 1: So amongst the MAGA base, they love this guy. So
Speaker 1: Lara Trump recently went on his show, and while he's
Speaker 1: interviewing Lara Trump, he takes this baby doll and he
Speaker 1: starts he says that under Biden, you can't hit baby
Speaker 1: dolls anymore, and that he really wants to be hitting
Speaker 1: baby dolls. So he starts slamming the baby doll, and
Speaker 1: then he takes the baby doll and he kicked and
Speaker 1: then he and then he goes and takes the baby
Speaker 1: doll again, and he starts burning the baby doll's head.
Speaker 1: He takes a lighter to the head of the baby doll.
Speaker 1: I think we've got this photo as well. It's in
Speaker 1: the same photostat guys there, it is right there and
Speaker 1: starts burning and Lara Trump's sitting there and laughing at
Speaker 1: all of this. And you know, as we find that
Speaker 1: windmill clip, you know, and him saying these things. Cohen,
Speaker 1: it's so dangerous the want to be authoritarianism. But also
Speaker 1: as you just look at this stuff and Lara Trump
Speaker 1: on this show, like, what is I'm thinking to myself,
Speaker 1: what is going this is? You know, I want to
Speaker 1: channel President Biden when he goes this is the United
Speaker 1: States of America. This is like a weapon of mass embarrassment.
Speaker 1: I'm so I'm just I'm embarrassed.
Speaker 2: That this is what It's worse than embarrassment. Then I'm confused.
Speaker 2: I'm actually confused about what point was he trying to make?
Speaker 2: You know, what what what is What is the nature
Speaker 2: of the point that he's trying to make in lighting
Speaker 2: a doll, a baby doll on fire? What's the point
Speaker 2: that Lara is trying to make, you know, laughing about it?
Speaker 2: This is not normal behavior, you know, It's almost like laughing,
Speaker 2: you know, when you have an older person and you're like, well,
Speaker 2: you know what, they've they've had their they've had their
Speaker 2: their time here, you know, and being that they're not Republicans,
Speaker 2: we should do X y Z. This whole thing is
Speaker 2: it's not even like crazy reality television. It's so much
Speaker 2: worse than that. I am absolutely concerned. I'm mortified, I'm confused,
Speaker 2: I'm free, doubt, a nauseated and go on and on
Speaker 2: and on with with just the bewilderment that I experienced
Speaker 2: when I was watching this for the very first time.
Speaker 2: I try I'm still at this moment trying to figure
Speaker 2: out what's the point. What's the point? Yeah?
Speaker 1: There there. He just randomly starts saying that, you know,
Speaker 1: one of his producers just had a baby for the show.
Speaker 1: So the producer takes the baby like a real baby,
Speaker 1: and then Lara Trump you'll see here pull up the
Speaker 1: photo of Lara So Lara Trump's actually holding the real baby.
Speaker 1: That's the producer who's dressed like the clown in the
Speaker 1: American flag jumpsuit. And then another producer hands the main host,
Speaker 1: Alex Steine, the baby doll, and then Alex Stein starts
Speaker 1: taking the baby doll and smashing it on the floor
Speaker 1: over and over again, and then starts kicking the baby
Speaker 1: doll and then punts the baby doll, then takes the
Speaker 1: baby doll. Lara Trump's here the whole time watching it.
Speaker 1: She's laughing at this. She thinks it's funny. And then
Speaker 1: Alex Stein's like, under Biden, you can't hit baby dolls.
Speaker 1: I want to hit baby dolls. I'm a baby doll hitter.
Speaker 1: And then he takes the baby doll, punts it, brings
Speaker 1: it back, and then lights the baby doll's head, you know,
Speaker 1: on fire on the show, and Lara Trump is like
Speaker 1: laughing at this. And I think about things like this.
Speaker 1: I think about the fact that Donald Trump and MAGA
Speaker 1: has changed the national anthem, like the fact that, you know,
Speaker 1: we talked about the media gas lighting before, Like the
Speaker 1: fact that, look, I represented Colin Kaepernick right in twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen and twenty seventeen, when all of the media was
Speaker 1: trying to say, oh, it's such a disrespectful thing to
Speaker 1: the national anthem. When Colin took a knee to peacefully
Speaker 1: protest police brutality, he stayed to himself. He didn't put
Speaker 1: in people's faces. And for that, Colin was basically banned
Speaker 1: from the NFL and can never get a job, and
Speaker 1: all of the right wing media attempt him. And then
Speaker 1: right now the magas the Republicans did a new national anthem.
Speaker 1: They took our national anthem. They now call it I'm
Speaker 1: making this the j sixth anthem. They play the j
Speaker 1: sixth anthem instead of the national anthem, which is sung
Speaker 1: by the most dangerous rioters. From January sixth, and then
Speaker 1: Donald Trump praises them, calls them hostages, and says that
Speaker 1: he's going to free them and that they're patriots. Twenty
Speaker 1: seven of the twenty nine of them that are in
Speaker 1: the DC jail either assaulted or attempted to assault police officers.
Speaker 1: These are people who threw explosives at police officers, people
Speaker 1: who beat officer Sick Nick, who then later died after
Speaker 1: his injuries. They did a new national anthem. Lara Trump,
Speaker 1: the head of the RNC, is going on shows where
Speaker 1: they're burning baby dolls heads like what is going on here?
Speaker 1: And that's to me where we talk to independence, we
Speaker 1: talk to mainstream Republicans and we say, folks, we can
Speaker 1: agree to disagree on certain issues, but fundamentally, when it
Speaker 1: comes to democracy and normalcy, we need to band together.
Speaker 1: Right now, Coin, I want to get your reaction to that,
Speaker 1: but I want to remind everyone that we're doing something
Speaker 1: really special and really historic tonight. So at nine thirty
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Speaker 1: I'm bringing Brett and Jordian as well, and we're all
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Speaker 1: Trump starts talking about the windmills. And so for those
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Speaker 1: you know, Donald Trump praising Alphonse Capoe and people like
Speaker 1: laughing at that. We showed the video of Donald Trump
Speaker 1: making more racist statements about New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Speaker 1: We then showed you that Lara Trump, the chair of
Speaker 1: the RNC, went on a right wing podcast where they
Speaker 1: were laughing about burning a baby doll and kicking the
Speaker 1: baby and punting the baby and slamming the baby's head
Speaker 1: against the ground. And then Donald Trump is saying this
Speaker 1: about windmills. Let's play this clip.
Speaker 2: That group is radical left.
Speaker 3: They want windmills, they want all sorts of things that
Speaker 3: are going to destroy our country and we're not going
Speaker 3: to allow it.
Speaker 1: What's going on?
Speaker 2: What is this again? I don't know the problem is
Speaker 2: that he's rambling. When he rambles, then there's no there's
Speaker 2: no way to understand actually what he's talking about. You know.
Speaker 2: The one thing he doesn't ramble about is the gas lighting,
Speaker 2: the blowing of the dog whistle to his MAGA supporters.
Speaker 2: In terms of coming after people like myself, like Stormy,
Speaker 2: like the DA, like the Attorney general, like the judges,
Speaker 2: like the judge's daughter, like the law clerk. I mean this.
Speaker 2: He knows what he's doing. And so many of you
Speaker 2: are so kind, so kind in terms of your comments.
Speaker 2: You know, yes, keep your chin up, stand tall, stand strong,
Speaker 2: and so on. Let me be very clear about something,
Speaker 2: all right, And I've said this now for quite some time.
Speaker 2: My hope is that Judge Murshan does more to gag
Speaker 2: Donald from what he's doing right now. He's using Avenati
Speaker 2: to do it, he's using others to do it. He
Speaker 2: knows exactly what's going on, and he's doing it because
Speaker 2: it gins up this sort of energy. Right. Can you
Speaker 2: imagine this here? I did nothing wrong in the horse
Speaker 2: face case. I see she showed up in New York
Speaker 2: today trying to drum up some publicity for herself. Yeah,
Speaker 2: says the guy who thinks he's missed a publicity. I
Speaker 2: haven't seen her spoke into her since I took a
Speaker 2: picture with her on a golf course in full golf
Speaker 2: gear including a hat close to eighteen years ago. Did
Speaker 2: you imagine including a hat? She knows nothing about me, well,
Speaker 2: so much to that other than her con man lawyer Avanadi.
Speaker 2: This is a guy who he's now praising and convicted
Speaker 2: liar and fell in jailbird Michael Cohen may have schemed
Speaker 2: up this is what caused aon or oan, I should say,
Speaker 2: to start writing up that stupid story about me and
Speaker 2: Stormy scheming this up. And it was really me who
Speaker 2: had the affair with Stormy Daniels. But Donald, being the
Speaker 2: good guy that he is, gave me one hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty thousand dollars to pay her to keep her silence
Speaker 2: because he didn't want it to affect my wife and
Speaker 2: my life. He's so good. Let me tell you this
Speaker 2: is not easy, and I know most of you understand this,
Speaker 2: but I'm not sure you understand exactly how difficult that
Speaker 2: this is on the witnesses. I am not the defendant
Speaker 2: in this case, all right. I am a non party
Speaker 2: subpoenad witness to this case, and I think it's incumbent
Speaker 2: upon the DA and the prosecutors and the system to
Speaker 2: hold him or anyone accountable that attempts to interfere in
Speaker 2: a criminal trial in a proceeding, its obstruction of justice.
Speaker 2: It's witness tampering. The amount of hate that comes your
Speaker 2: way is more than any of you could possibly imagine.
Speaker 2: On top of that, the simple pressure of being a
Speaker 2: key witness in an unprecedented case against a former president
Speaker 2: of the United States, in the first criminal trial against
Speaker 2: a former president in America's history, and the amount of
Speaker 2: phone calls that I get from media, from television, across
Speaker 2: the board. It is staggering and overwhelming. As I'm just
Speaker 2: trying to rebuild my own life, so you can imagine,
Speaker 2: it's like it's like exam week, right, and you have
Speaker 2: exam week every single day for months. It's like it's
Speaker 2: just overwhelming to the point where you can't eat, so
Speaker 2: and so many of you turn around and say, you know,
Speaker 2: get some sleep, keep yourself strong, and so on. Sleep.
Speaker 2: You think that I'm not even dreaming about this shit
Speaker 2: in my sleep and eating it's I have. I've lost
Speaker 2: my entire appetite I mean, you know, not to not
Speaker 2: to uh, you know, to divulge too much. I've lost
Speaker 2: over twenty three pounds since i started Political beat Down
Speaker 2: with you, Ben. It is it's im. I'm not hungry
Speaker 2: when I eat, I just I feel nauseous because there's
Speaker 2: not a minute that goes by that I'm not getting
Speaker 2: some sort of a phone call from somebody wanting to
Speaker 2: ask me a question. In fact, even when we go
Speaker 2: out for dinners with friends, they're so interested in this case,
Speaker 2: as is everybody else. It's why Political Beatdown is the
Speaker 2: number one It's the number one show Ben between you
Speaker 2: and I on YouTube during the hour in the world
Speaker 2: world because people want to hear, they want to know
Speaker 2: its stress is right, and it's so hard to get
Speaker 2: out for dinner with friends. All they want to talk
Speaker 2: about is this orange crusted shitted and it's like it's overwhelming.
Speaker 2: I'm like, can I just eat one meal in peace
Speaker 2: that I don't have to be thinking about the mandarin Mussolini.
Speaker 1: Well, that's why tonight on patreon dot com slash Political
Speaker 1: beat Down, We're not really gonna talk that much about
Speaker 1: I don't want to. I want it to be more
Speaker 1: like a fun as much as we can have fun
Speaker 1: thirty minutes where we could talk about I don't know.
Speaker 1: I want people to ask questions. The way I'm going
Speaker 1: to try to structure it is ask questions about like
Speaker 1: your hobbies, movies coming out. I could talk about my
Speaker 1: wedding coming up. I'm not sure that's why they're gonna
Speaker 1: we'll talk about We'll talk We'll talk about things like that.
Speaker 1: You know, one of the things when you study though
Speaker 1: Trump's pathology the way you and I do, and also
Speaker 1: you know from our various backgrounds and experiences, you know
Speaker 1: where you know I've worked with SPACs before. You know,
Speaker 1: I've worked with companies trying to go public via this
Speaker 1: spack route. I've worked with companies that raise money, you know,
Speaker 1: in my prior life as a lawyer before being run
Speaker 1: in this network. You know exactly.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: So you and I knew two years ago when this
Speaker 1: Trump media thing was announced and this SPAC was announced
Speaker 1: that this was a mean stock and very problematic. And
Speaker 1: knowing Trump's pathology too, he doesn't stop until he literally
Speaker 1: goes bankrupt or is convicted or found liable, and then
Speaker 1: he whinds about it and what made this one particularly
Speaker 1: dangerous and mischievous. Though, also is that you and I
Speaker 1: knew how much this was going to harm the regular
Speaker 1: retail investor who doesn't know a lot about stocks and
Speaker 1: puts their life savings into Trump media because it's being
Speaker 1: hyped and kind of pumped up in a way, also
Speaker 1: being pumped up by legacy media that doesn't understand the
Speaker 1: way the stock market works. And go back to videos
Speaker 1: two years ago, you and I were predicting almost to
Speaker 1: the dollar amounts the types of drops that are going
Speaker 1: to happen right now. And so today the stock dropped
Speaker 1: to about thirty two dollars. I mean it's it's continues
Speaker 1: to go down by significant amounts every day. It dropped
Speaker 1: another five percent today. There was another report today about
Speaker 1: you know how like everybody's suing everybody. The co founders
Speaker 1: are suing Trump say he's trying to take their eight
Speaker 1: point seven percent. Trump's suing the co founders. The person
Speaker 1: who started the spack is suing Donald Trump. One of
Speaker 1: the new headlines today is a Trump media director is
Speaker 1: being accused of quote hacking files in attempted corporate coup
Speaker 1: DETA lawsuit alleges investment firms led by the former CEO
Speaker 1: of the Trump spack that merged with Ronald Trump's media
Speaker 1: company alleged that their files were hacked and stolen by
Speaker 1: a current member of the media company's board of directors.
Speaker 1: And it goes on to talk about how in this lawsuit,
Speaker 1: the firm that started the spack is accusing a board
Speaker 1: member named Eric Swider of plotting a coup in early
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three to replace Patrick Orlando as the CEO
Speaker 1: of the Trump Spack. Earlier this week, we got this
Speaker 1: headline from the Financial Times, the Trump Media's independent auditor,
Speaker 1: BF borgers this guy from Colorado who has this office
Speaker 1: in Colorado that I think you said looked like a
Speaker 1: rest stop. It turns out that this auditor and I
Speaker 1: was so surprised that like this. I was like, this
Speaker 1: is not one of the Big four. This is supposed
Speaker 1: to be a company of some size, Like, how do
Speaker 1: you have this guy as your auditor? But we're learning
Speaker 1: that this orditor got a one hundred percent deficiency rating
Speaker 1: by the PCAOB which is the regulator that the audits
Speaker 1: auditor that audits the auditors in public spaces, and found
Speaker 1: that twenty one of the twenty one files were deficient.
Speaker 1: Then you just take a look at the finances of
Speaker 1: this entity of Trump Media losing fifty eight million dollars
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three making only four point one million
Speaker 1: dollars in revenue. So you know, remove all of the
Speaker 1: politics and political parties and New York Attorney General Letitia James,
Speaker 1: this and special counsel Jack Smith like like this was
Speaker 1: this was a new entity that Trump created in Cohen.
Speaker 1: It follows the Trump playbook two at lawsuits, accusations of coups, incompetence,
Speaker 1: ethical collapses, and worse. We're seeing it all unfold and
Speaker 1: we are.
Speaker 2: Now also seeing more than fifty percent of the value, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, as we've talked about on this show,
Speaker 2: Gators is over inflated by a multiple that I can't
Speaker 2: even think of. They've lost more than fifty percent of
Speaker 2: that value in just two weeks. I mean, that's just
Speaker 2: another phenomenal scenario. Not to mention that this guy Borger,
Speaker 2: I think he got his CPA degree from Trump University.
Speaker 2: So what do you expect one hundred percent deficient? I mean,
Speaker 2: think about that before you go ahead and you invest
Speaker 2: your money in a company that the guy who is
Speaker 2: doing the auditing on your company is considered one hundred
Speaker 2: percent deficient by the agency that's supposed to rate individual
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's fantastic. The story in and of
Speaker 2: itself is fantastic that somebody with this, with these credentials
Speaker 2: or lack thereof, is in charge of an eight billion
Speaker 2: dollar you know, pumpin' trump you know type of stock.
Speaker 2: I'm blown away by it, just like you could you
Speaker 2: imagine at one point in time that this stock was
Speaker 2: over one hundred dollars. It was like one one seventy
Speaker 2: eight or one forty eight, something like that, and then
Speaker 2: on the opening of the bell, it was like eighty
Speaker 2: something dollars, and now it's thirty two forty one, down
Speaker 2: over fifty over fifty some odd percent since going public.
Speaker 2: I mean, that is what's called a spectacular death spiral.
Speaker 1: Well, and I forgot to mention also in giving the
Speaker 1: rundown of everything that's happened with this stock, that the
Speaker 1: Schwarzman brothers, who are initial directors in the Trump spack
Speaker 1: have pled guilty to criminal inside trading and can face
Speaker 1: up to twenty years for making more than twenty or
Speaker 1: thirty million dollars from trading on inside information when the
Speaker 1: spack was first announced, and they're guilty plea took place
Speaker 1: in the past few weeks. I also want to show
Speaker 1: you what Donald Trump's been doing lately. After he issued
Speaker 1: his statement on women's reproductive rights and after he took
Speaker 1: them away, he issued the statement saying that all of
Speaker 1: those state bands should remain in place. And here Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: in this interview in Atlanta, Georgia, says that he was
Speaker 1: okay with throwing doctors in prison if there are state
Speaker 1: laws that prevent doctors from providing women with reproductive care. Here,
Speaker 1: let's play this clip of that Trump wants to throw
Speaker 1: doctors in prison. Let's play the clip.
Speaker 4: Christin you answered some questions about abortion, but do you
Speaker 4: think a doctor should be punished who will perform abortions?
Speaker 5: I'd let that be to the states. You know, everything
Speaker 5: we're doing now with states and states rights, and what
Speaker 5: we wanted to do is get it back to the states,
Speaker 5: because for fifty three years it's been a fight, and
Speaker 5: now the states handling it, and some have handled it
Speaker 5: very well, and the others will end up handling it
Speaker 5: very well.
Speaker 3: And those are the things that states are going to
Speaker 3: make a determination about.
Speaker 1: Horrific, horrific stuff right there. And then while he's getting
Speaker 1: on the tarmac in Atlanta, he says that any Jewish
Speaker 1: American who doesn't support him hates their religion. Let's play
Speaker 1: this clip, and.
Speaker 5: Any Jewish person that votes for a Democrat or votes
Speaker 5: of viden to have their head.
Speaker 1: Examine what you want to comment on that?
Speaker 2: Coe, Look, what is there to comment on? First of all,
Speaker 2: before you turn around and you question somebody else's, you know,
Speaker 2: religious convictions, and you know, he has to have religious
Speaker 2: conviction of his own, and creating the trumpy Bible does
Speaker 2: not make him a good Christian. I can tell you
Speaker 2: that in the twelve years that we were together the
Speaker 2: Trump Organization, I cannot remember, not once that Donald Trump
Speaker 2: went to church, not once. You know, it's he does
Speaker 2: not have religious convictions. And for him to make a
Speaker 2: statement like that, it's not just stupid, it's insulting. And
Speaker 2: yet there are so many Jewish billionaires that are supporting him.
Speaker 2: I don't understand what they're doing. I don't understand what
Speaker 2: they're thinking. They make me nauseous, to be honest with you,
Speaker 2: kissing this guy's ass for what so that they could
Speaker 2: end up buying another airplane that they need another one
Speaker 2: hundred thousand square foot home in another sort of desolate area.
Speaker 2: I mean, it is insulting, and I don't understand why
Speaker 2: they're doing it. I don't understand why they're willing to
Speaker 2: trade America's democracy for a Trump autocracy thinking that there's
Speaker 2: some way in the world that they will be able
Speaker 2: to benefit from it. And that's really sick, especially when
Speaker 2: America has given them so much. They're great, great great
Speaker 2: great great grandchildren will never ever have to work a
Speaker 2: single day in their lives, that's how much money some
Speaker 2: of these fuckers have, and yet they're willing to put
Speaker 2: our democracy in jeopardy for the almighty dollar. Shame on them,
Speaker 2: because look, I'm all for capitalism, I'm all for making money.
Speaker 2: I'm all for doing the best that you can do,
Speaker 2: I really am, but not at the expense of America's democracy,
Speaker 2: and especially not putting it in the hands of somebody
Speaker 2: like Trump and his acolytes that are following him. No way.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I don't love covering Poles, but because the media wants
Speaker 1: to put out all these false narratives on polling, it's
Speaker 1: worth pushing back on that. That mostly all all of
Speaker 1: the national averages right now have President Biden in the lead,
Speaker 1: some by smaller margins than others, but there seems to
Speaker 1: be a big shift that has been taking place and
Speaker 1: a lot of momentum going to President Biden. Also, a
Speaker 1: recent Pew Research poll that shows a lot of the
Speaker 1: and they're known for being the gold standard and demographic trends,
Speaker 1: actually shows that young voters and black voters and Hispanic
Speaker 1: voters are still supportive of the Democratic Party in President
Speaker 1: Biden at around if not more, the same percentages from
Speaker 1: twenty twenty to twenty sixteen, despite all of those prior
Speaker 1: bad polls trying to suggest the opposite. And you know what, ultimately,
Speaker 1: for me, what I think we're seeing too is mainstream Republicans, independents, liberals, progressives,
Speaker 1: people who don't even know what they are politically, but
Speaker 1: know that Donald Trump discuss them just kind of joining together.
Speaker 2: And if I can just add to that the one
Speaker 2: quick second here, did you also see the IPSOS Reuter's poll.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think that's a better understanding of exactly
Speaker 2: what's going on here. You see, as a result of
Speaker 2: this case, this upcoming trial, one that Donald wasn't even
Speaker 2: really thinking about, because the idiots that are around him
Speaker 2: are telling him how inconsequential it is. And you know
Speaker 2: why they said it to him. I don't know the answer.
Speaker 2: He's got such bad advice around him. The IPSOS Reuter's
Speaker 2: poll has Biden beating Trump in the general election thirty
Speaker 2: eight to forty one percent, whereas before before, and I'm
Speaker 2: talking about just a couple of months ago January, they
Speaker 2: had Trump ahead forty three to thirty seven. So you're
Speaker 2: talking about like a nine point swing. And I think
Speaker 2: it's extremely important here. I'll show it to you in
Speaker 2: case we don't have it. The importance of this is
Speaker 2: to show you that the wacky shit that Trump and
Speaker 2: his people are doing it is being noticed by the
Speaker 2: American people. And as more and more months go and
Speaker 2: we get closer to the November election date, and you
Speaker 2: see Donald unhinged more and more saying these wacky, stupid things,
Speaker 2: taking credit for things like the overturning of Roe V. Wade,
Speaker 2: talking about the nonsense that he's talking about, attacking Jews
Speaker 2: who want to vote for a Democrat. None of this
Speaker 2: is going to benefit him. Talking about how Blacks appreciate
Speaker 2: and like him because he's been indicted again. Insulting, racist,
Speaker 2: the fact that blacks, especially black males, like him because
Speaker 2: he's in the sneaker business, racist, insulting. I mean, these
Speaker 2: are the stupid things that this guy is saying. He's
Speaker 2: so nervous, he doesn't know what to do or what
Speaker 2: to say. He thinks he's reading the womb. But it's
Speaker 2: not happening anymore. He's lost that, he's lost this edge.
Speaker 2: And as long as Biden and his team continue to
Speaker 2: do what they're doing, be reasonable, talk about things that
Speaker 2: need to be done. This one, this Arizona Supreme Court,
Speaker 2: they're going back to eighteen sixty four, that's before the
Speaker 2: Civil War, that they're going to bring women's rights back
Speaker 2: to eighteen sixty four. And this ass clown is sitting
Speaker 2: there talking about, right, how Biden did this that it's
Speaker 2: amazing to me. I just don't understand. It's about states' rights.
Speaker 2: I mean, he has no idea what he's talking about. Yeah,
Speaker 2: bye bye Trump. He has lost it and America is
Speaker 2: now seeing it firsthand. So you know what, while I'm
Speaker 2: at it and I'm on this little tirade, two fingers
Speaker 2: salute to you again. Donald. All right, back at you
Speaker 2: for two weeks and for two episodes in a row,
Speaker 2: Can I fuck you? It's enough? For ready? All right,
Speaker 2: it's absolutely enough. I want to just say one last
Speaker 2: thing and I'm going to ask you to close down
Speaker 2: the show. When you talk about these polls and why
Speaker 2: Biden is now increasing Trump is decreasing. A lot of
Speaker 2: the credit has to go to like Midas Touch Network,
Speaker 2: to go to you, to Brett, to Jordi, to all
Speaker 2: of the personalities that you have on the various Midas
Speaker 2: Touch Network programs like Maya Kulpa, like Political Beatdown, like
Speaker 2: Legal af the you know, the Uh, the Midas Brough,
Speaker 2: the Mizell Brothers and so on. It really is important
Speaker 2: because between all of our various podcasts and programs. As
Speaker 2: an example, Maya Kulpa turned over three hundred million downloads
Speaker 2: since starting. Thank you for that all, right, over three
Speaker 2: hundred million downloads. People are beginning to listen. They're beginning
Speaker 2: to understand that we are providing them with truth. We're
Speaker 2: providing them with facts, no innuendo, there's no spin. You
Speaker 2: take it the way you want to take it. We're
Speaker 2: not here like vot does Oraan or Newsmax to guide you.
Speaker 2: We're basically providing you with information. Yeah, much of it
Speaker 2: has to do with our interpretation of it. But the
Speaker 2: facts are the facts. We don't skew them. We give
Speaker 2: it to you. Look, I'm not telling you that Biden
Speaker 2: is up by ten points, that there's no chance for
Speaker 2: Trump to pull a Hail Mary, none of that. I'm
Speaker 2: giving you the facts that he is now beating Trump
Speaker 2: in the general election by the IPSOS Reuters poll by
Speaker 2: four points, which is an eleven point swing since January.
Speaker 2: That's not my opinion. That is fact, and that's all
Speaker 2: that this network. That's all that maya kulpa political beatdown,
Speaker 2: that's all that we end up wanting to do. And
Speaker 2: a lot of this really needs to go again to
Speaker 2: the to the Midas Touch Network, to other you know,
Speaker 2: organizations that are doing the same thing, the same good
Speaker 2: work that we're doing, you know.
Speaker 1: And look, when you give the credit to the Midas
Speaker 1: Touch Network, well I'm appreciative, but both you and I
Speaker 1: also know that this network is community driven. It's the
Speaker 1: beatdown Brigaders, it's the Midas m it's the legal afforts,
Speaker 1: it's all of us uniting. And we may be on
Speaker 1: different sides of the traditional political spectrum right, progressive, liberal
Speaker 1: versus conservative, mainstream, republican, independent, whatever. We've been able to
Speaker 1: join together out of this value set for the love
Speaker 1: of our democracy, for decency, for normalcy. When I embarked
Speaker 1: on this journey of politics, I don't really felt I
Speaker 1: didn't really feel all that political. So at first I thought, well,
Speaker 1: I must have to choose a team, I have to
Speaker 1: choose a tribe, and then I have to dislike the
Speaker 1: other tribe just because. But what I learned over time
Speaker 1: is that what was most important about this all were
Speaker 1: the principles, was the value set. Was talking about freedom,
Speaker 1: was talking about pro democracy, was leading with empathy and
Speaker 1: understanding and love and trying to be caring and having
Speaker 1: flaws and being vulnerable and having this experience with everybody,
Speaker 1: and then understanding the threat posed by MAGA and how
Speaker 1: it's not normal what's happening there, and how it's so
Speaker 1: dangerous to our country, and then leading with the values
Speaker 1: as a community. And then if the politicians or the
Speaker 1: politics want to align and meet those fundamental values and principles,
Speaker 1: that's great. But that to me is how this community
Speaker 1: has been so empowered because we've led with those traits
Speaker 1: and I don't think that's really been done before in
Speaker 1: a way that this community has been able to bring
Speaker 1: that together, and Michael Cohen, you're a major part of that.
Speaker 1: So I want to thank you for that, and of
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