Speaker 1: Welcome to Political Beatdown. I'm been mysellis joined by my
co host Michael Cohen. A busy week indeed in Manhattan.
The Trump criminal trial is now on day six. Opening
statements were completed yesterday. The first witness has been testifying,
that is David Pecker, and he gave some bombshell explosive
testimony early in the day. Each day of the Trump
trial at the Midas Touch Network, when I do the
recaps with Karen Friedman Agnifilo, we create these scorecards just
to recap everything that happens each day. I'm a visual learner,
so we'll go over some of the events that have
transpired thus far in the criminal proceedings of Donald Trump.
There was also a contempt hearing regarding Donald Trump's threats
and intimidation of witnesses, one of which Michael Cohen, as
well as Donald Trump's statements about jurors. Also, they even
had in District Attorney's office stated they would be bringing
another application for a contempt against Donald Trump based on
even more recent statements that he's made. Each and every day,
Donald Trump exits the courtroom and makes some inflammatory statements
and he takes with him these articles that He has
somebody who's on his payroll. Her name is Natalie Harp,
and she prints out these articles for him from right
wing media that he believes are flattering, and he just
goes through these articles with the presses like you see
these articles. You see these articles. I mean, his team's
quite literally making a picture book for him. I want
to talk about that. There's also some news in the
House of Representatives and the Senate pushing through the aid package,
particularly to Ukraine that Maga Republicans had been trying to block.
We'll talk about that. Donald Trump's been whining about having
absolute presidential immunity to order Seal Team six to kill
his political opponents and to kill his enemies. That oral
argument before the Supreme Court is this week, and Donald
Trump just keeps posting, posting, posting, post after post after post.
We'll talk about that and more here on Political Beatdown.
You know, of course, we all know that Michael Cohen
is a witness in the Manhattan District Attorney criminal case.
So we're going to be careful. There are some things,
of course, that Cohen can't talk about, and we're going
to respect those boundaries. My dogs may not respect those boundaries.
But I will respect those boundaries. You never know about
Shaquito right there. But Michael Cohen, I guess first and
foremost before getting into really anything, I just want to know,
how are you feeling right now? How are you doing?
Speaker 2: So? Actually, today I did something that I've been putting
off for a while, something that we've talked about here
with the brigaders. I actually did go to the doctor
for a full physical cardiac workup waiting for of course,
the results would have liked the distolic and the blood
pressure to have been a little lower, especially considering that
I am on this freaking medication, you know, should it
should really have been a little lower. But then again,
as the doctor said to me, if I was under
the stress that you're under, he goes, mine would probably
be twice that. And he's in He's at least ten
years older than I, and he's in the greatest shape
of anybody you know that's over sixty five years of age.
I mean it looks like he's forty. I hate the guy,
you know, In fact, I love him. He's been my
doctor for like twenty five years, major you know, doctor
here in the city. So you know, got to keep
my eyes on that waiting for some of the blood
results and so on to come back. You know, it
is what it is. You know, you want to hear
something funny, Ben, Yeah, I think you'll appreciate this. I
don't really want to watch too much of the news,
you know. Unfortunately what happens is a lot of the
journalists that are either there will be looking for some
sort of a comment from me. Hey, did you hear
what David Pecker just said? He's corroborating the stuff that
you've been saying for six years. Okay, that's fantastic because
then I'll put out a short statement, you know, the truth.
As you know, Buddha always would say, you know, the
truth shall always rise. Or they'll call up and they'll say, hey,
you know Donald at the what is it the gag
order hearing their shit and all over you and Mashan
lost his shit on top Blanche, you know, saying that
you're losing all credibility and so on. That's not a
surprise to me, Todd Blanche who and again I've heard
this from a couple of friends of mine who are
criminal defense attorneys. The guy actually had a pretty good
reputation in the industry, that's pretty much shot to shit.
So unless the guy, unless Trump wins and Trump makes
him attorney general. Boy, did he kind of screw the
pooch on, you know, on this move because he's making
a complete and total asshole out of himself. Then of
course you can't help yourself. As you're flipping through all
of a sudden, it's like there's the photo of you,
whether it's on like Fox A, CNN or MSNBC. So
you watch it for a minute or two, and you
know they're basically talking about my credibility, and you know
how it's gonna be a bloodbath when Blancha Susan Neckley's decide.
This is actually what came out as the gig order today.
They wanted to know how come Michael Cohen can say
whatever he wants about Donald Trump, but Donald Trump can't
say what he wants. And I put out this tweet,
Hey von schitzen pants, there were attacks of me, stink
of desperation. We are all hoping that you take the
stand in your defense. And they actually printed this out
and they supposedly showed it to Murshon, and Marshon kind
of reminded them and again, this is kind of like
what bothers me about media, not what you get here
on the Midas Touch Network. I've said this a thousand
times and I believe that it's worth repeating. There's no
innuendo here. It's factual. Now it may be you know,
my facts which happened to be legitimate, but we talk truth.
So here they keep saying, oh, well, Michael's credibility is
going to be attacked, and you know, and he, you know,
Cohen should keep his mouth shut, and he shouldn't do podcasts,
he shouldn't talk to you know, media, he shouldn't do anything. First,
I'm not doing any media appearances. But the interesting thing,
and I keep trying to say this to everybody, I
want to be real clear about this. Michael Cohen is
not a defendant in this case. I am a non
party subpoenad witness. And if they think that me saying
the truth, which I've been saying the same thing for
six years, or having you know, this sort of event
with our brigaders, well then just don't call me as
a witness. I'm fine with that because I think that,
as I said on the Weekend with Michael Steele and
Alicia Menendez and Simone Sanders. I believe that every single
witness is a key witness. I hate when they call
me the key witness. All the witnesses are key witnesses.
I just happen to be the narrator of the story.
And then supposedly what you know, what Pecker basically did
is he's corroborated statements that I have been making again
for six years, for six years. And you know, right
now it was allegedly a very good day for the prosecutors,
a very bad day for Donald because again the nexus
is closing. Wait till the next witness comes. Let's just
say it's Hope Picks. What's she gonna do. She's gonna
tell the truth. She doesn't want to get a perjury charge,
I assure you. So she's gonna tell the truth. Which
is gonna do what Ben? It's gonna corroborate David's testimony,
the testimony that I've been giving, and then the next
person will do it, next to next and next, until
ultimately when the prosecutors decide it's time for Michael going
to take this stand, and I will, and I will,
I'll take the stand and I'm gonna continue to tell
the same story again and again and again, which happens
to be a truthful story, plain and simple.
Speaker 1: Cohen, do you have any sense when it is that
you're going to be testifying?
Speaker 2: No clue, no clue. It would be nice if they
would kind of, you know, tell you when you know
that you're going to be doing it. But for fear
of reprisal that that information got out by Trump and
his people, they're not telling anybody. In fact, something which
was very strange. They refused to allow Trump's legal team
to even know who was going first until maybe twelve
hours before the start, so that was sometime on Sunday night,
which I thought was interesting for obvious obvious reasons.
Speaker 1: You know, one of the interesting points that you made
in that statement that was posted is is that you know,
Donald Trump is not making an advice of counsel defense.
If he made an advice of council defense to blame
his lawyers, and he had the opportunity to do that,
Trump would have to take the stand and he would
have to testify, and he would have to explain how
he was misled by his lawyers and what they told
him that was unlawful, and how he materially relied on
that Donald Trump opted not to do that. It's unclear
if Donald Trump is going to testify, believe it or not.
My co host Karen Friedman Magniffolo that I do the
show with on Legal AF she thinks that there's a
chance that Trump's going to testify. I don't think that
there's any chance that Donald.
Speaker 2: Trump test If you ever get my statement to the
guys again at the weekend, like ten days or so ago,
when I said, it's about the same chance that I'm
going to wake up tomorrow seven foot two playing center
for the New York Knicks. Donald Trump will never testify
because there's no benefit to him doing that other than
grabbing a perjury charge.
Speaker 1: Well, and what I was talking and when I was
having that debate with Karen Friedman Magnifilo, I reminded her
when he sued you for five hundred million dollars, he
was the plaintiff in this case in a federal courthouse
in the Southern District of Florida. He made all of
these accusations against you, and all you did was say, Okay, well,
then why don't you sit for a deposition and you
could answer questions from my legal counsel about all of
these accusations that you're making, because I, Michael Cohen, have
sat through many congressional hearings. I've given a lot of
testimony in my day to talk about all the things
that happened. If you're suing me Donald Trump for five
hundred million dollars, that, okay, why don't you testify under
penalty of perjury at a deposition. Then Donald Trump's lawyer said, Okay,
he's going to do it, but we have to reschedule it.
And then as the day was approaching, they said, okay,
we need to re schedule it again. And then they
did that again, and then you went into court and
then they told the judge, okay, judge, he's really gonna
sit for a deposition. We promise you this is what's
going to happen. And then he didn't sit, and then
there was going to be a hearing, and then Donald
Trump dismissed the lawsuit that he had filed against you
and raised money off of, you know, attacking you, and
all you're saying, and all you've said, co In is look,
then just take the stand and tell your story. I
think you and I have both said over and over
again with a fair and impartial jury, they'll get to
hear the facts, they'll get to make the decisions. We
have great reverence and respect for our legal system. But
the problem that we see with Trump and his MAGA
crew over and over again is that they use and
abuse the legal system. They attacked the system, they tried
to rip it from its seams, they tried to manipulate it.
And we saw that also in Donald Trump's baseless lawsuit
against you. Then dismissed the case without prejudice, right as
he was going to be deposed, and then they kind
of just they run away. It's just the ultimate weakness, cowardice,
the gas lighting. And then he goes out there and Cohen.
He's got someone at court who comes with a portable printer.
It's her job. Her name is Natalie Harp, and she
prints articles that Donald Trump views as flattering. And then
he sits there with his sharpie and he removes portions
from these articles that's already being printed for him because
they believe it's flattering for him. He removes certain language
and then sometimes they post it on his social media platform.
And we've been covering on the Midas Touch network, like
I think in March it was twenty plus times where
he posted manipulated articles where he removed things that he
didn't like. And just the very fact that he's got
someone following a round with the portable printer like.
Speaker 2: You know, what's truly amazing too. On that is, I've
heard from not even one source or two sources, but
more than five sources, media sources that Trump's team have
been out there trying to push the narrative of all
of these documents that he's walking around. He walks out
into the hallway and he's playing with these documents and
they're pushing it and trying to get media outlets, legit
media outlets to cover the story of all of these articles.
And so they're probably written by Newsmax. Oh An, he
just keeps, you know, going on and on and on.
Speaker 3: He knows this is just it's just terrible. Yeah, what
they're doing. I should be in Florida, asual Georgia, and
I should be doing this and that it's it's so stupid,
you know, Ben, have you ever heard of the old
expression that you know, people used to use in law.
If you can't dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them
with your bullshit. That's exactly what's going on right now,
at least that's the way that I'm seeing it.
Speaker 2: It's so stupid. I so wish to God, right, so
there you go. I saw that somebody sent me that picture.
But I so wish to God that they would ask
the witnesses whether or not you would agree to be
videoed or to go live for this hearing, because you
know in New York they don't allow that. You know,
the cameras in the courtroom. But I don't understand if
I'm willing to have it live. Just blur out the jury,
Just blur them out. They can do that. Make sure
that the cameras do not take a picture of any
of the jurors. I would be fine. I swear I
would turn around right now and I would say absolutely,
And why because I have been trying to get my
story out for sixty years. And thank God from Rashaan
saying to Todd Blanche and to Trump, what are you
talking about. He's not the defendant in this case. We
don't have a gag order on him, right or the witnesses.
Because I fall into the general category of witnesses. The
gag order is on him, and this piece of shit
comes straight out and he starts attacking me. Perj're a
liar that has to do with Medallion's. He doesn't even
know the fucking story, and what he's doing is he's
lying about it too. But I'm just trying to continue
to defend my name, my reputation, my honor. I allowed,
I allowed Donald Trump and his acolytes to disparage me
while I was the guy that was there on the
witness stand. And look the things that I pled to.
I have never fought with the underlying you know, with
the underlying charge. I do believe other things which I'm
certain is going to come out on cross examination, and
I'm so looking forward to it, right, And everybody's saying
to me, you just gotta, you know, keep you cool,
same way that I'm here with our brigaders. I'm going
to tell my story. I'm not going to be bullied.
That I can assure you. I'm going to tell my
story in my general manner. Oh be my myself, you know,
I just out of respect to the court and to
Judge Marshan into the jurors, my language will be stellar
that I can assure you, right, But I intend to
be exactly myself. I'm going to tell my story. And
the beauty about my story is it the foundation and
the elements of my story are all true, and they're
all backed up by documents and corroborating testimony. Ben, how
many times on this program, how many times in our
private conversations have I told you the same thing? The
prosecutors are going to lay out a story via witnesses, testimony,
and documentary evidence that's going to corroborate the entire scenario.
Speaker 1: Here, I want to share this with you. This was
moments ago Republican Senator Mitt Romney was asked about the proceedings,
and you know, it's always interesting when someone removed from it,
someone like a Mitt Romney kind of reflects upon like
what's happening and the way he said it, I haven't
heard many other people say it in this way. So
I just wanted to share this with you. This was
moments ago Republican Senator Mitt Romney, who's also said he's
not supporting Donald Trump, to play this clip.
Speaker 4: I think everybody has made their own assessment of President
Trump's character, and so far as I know, you don't
pay someone one hundred and thirty thousand dollars not to
have sex with you.
Speaker 1: Wow, that was Republican Senator Mitt Romney.
Speaker 2: You know, let me show you this too, and photos
with me and may I gotta tell you remember you
and I actually maybe had had this conversation in the past.
When I turn around, I told you I spent quite
a bit of time with Mitt and his family, you know,
his wife and some of his kids. And I told
you he actually has a very funny sense of humor,
and I think it was on full display right then
and there.
Speaker 1: I'll show you this clip. Also, you saw the chiron
before about President Biden being in Florida. Here was a
speech that President Biden gave in Tampa, and notable that
President Biden is going to Tampa. You know, there are
a lot of people, I know, smart people who were
following the polls, who actually believe that Florida could be
in play right now. But you've got Biden there in Tampa,
and here he is talking about how Donald Trump brags
about taking away women's reproductive rights. And then President Biden
takes a jab at Donald Trump for selling those very
sticky bibles. You know how Donald Trump is selling bibles
for fifty nine dollars and ninety nine cents, and just
take a look. Go what President Biden had the same
moments ago.
Speaker 5: Trump bragged how proud he was, I have to get
rid of Rover Wade over, so he took credit for it.
Speaker 2: He said there.
Speaker 5: Has to be punishment for women exercise in the reproductive freedom.
His words, not mine. He described the job's decision as
a miracle. Mayby's coming from that Bible he's trying to sell.
Speaker 1: WHOA.
Speaker 5: I almost wanted to buy one to see what the
hell's in.
Speaker 3: It, folks.
Speaker 4: No, it was a political deal to get rid of Rover,
a deal, political deal he made with the evangelical base
of the Republican Party to look past his moral if
they look past his moral and character flaws and exchange
for his commitment good point, Justice Spame Court would overturn Row.
Speaker 1: I mean I thought that was you know, I mean,
that's how she that's what you have to do, and that.
Speaker 2: But how about Donald's statements about Joe Biden. You know,
I almost would ask you or the brigators if they
think that we should replay Joe Biden making those exact statements,
because here's something that Trump on a regular Basis says
about Joe Biden that he can't put two sentences together,
that he has complete dementia, that he's you know, incapable
of running the country. Very funny because how many times
have we also said on this program about deflection. That's
what Donald does when he's feeling something is going wrong,
especially like with himself. Did you see that there was
one where he turned around he said that he's the
healthiest that you know, person ever running for office and
so on. Really serious, does anybody actually believe that? I mean,
it's like, why lie about that? Why just why do
you have to be the healthiest ever? Right? How about
just say I'm healthy, I'm doing you know, I'm doing good.
You know I'm working on keeping my weight down, my
cholesterol down, you know, my ticker is in good shape,
my brain is sharp. You could say stuff like that.
But you know, when you make these sort of assertions,
and he's so good at making these assertions, he is
the healthiest person running for office ever, I don't think so.
Right on top of that, when he turns around and
he says that if he was president right now, there
would be no Ukraine Russia conflict, Israel Kamas situation would
never have taken place. Obviously, Little Rocketman wouldn't be shooting
off missiles or doing any tests. Iran wouldn't be trying
to create more nuclear fusion material. YadA, YadA, YadA. Everything
with him is so, it's so, this finality in everything.
If if he was president, right, there would be no
more world hunger, right, the waters would all be clean
and every everything would be would be beautiful. And you know,
America would have the highest literacy rate in the world,
and we would have the you know, the greatest X,
Y and Z, and this conflict in the Middle East
would never have Everything would build, the wall, immigration would
be there, There would be zero fentanel coming to America.
I mean, it's truly fantastical. He lives in his own world,
which is like this really weird sort of red, yellow, blue, green,
orange space that exists between his brain. None of us
could see it right between his ears. None of us
could see what's inside that brain, thank God. But only
he can. And somehow, somehow he has convinced a massive
swath of this country that the shit that he sees
in his own mind is actually real. It's real, and
they repeat it they regurgitate his stupidity over and over
and over again. It's really you got to give the
guy fucking credit for that.
Speaker 1: You know what's so interesting as you have David Pecker
on the stand talking about the efforts that Trump was
doing to manipulate the press in connection with the twenty
sixteen election, that Donald Trump has someone printing out flattering
headlines that right wing media like bah and Newsmax is
doing for Donald Trump right now to also push those
same messages like in real time, you have twenty sixteen
and twenty twenty four happening basically, you know, fused together
at the same time, you know, inside and outside the courtroom.
You know, then you have to your point donald Trump's
projection and confession. Like when Donald Trump calls President Biden
sleepy Joe, sleepy Joe, sleepy Joe, it's just Donald Trump
talking about that there's a photo of you. I didn't
even know that photo of you is going to show up.
It's all projection and confession. I mean, all we've heard
was that Donald Trump's having trouble staying awake in the courtroom.
He was described by Olivia Newsy as kind of being
like like looking like a trout like a fish like
with his mouth and having struggling to stay awake throughout
the person eats and Maggie Haberman reported how Donald Trump's
been like falling asleep during the proceedings, and so it
actually seems that the sleepy person who can't it's like
a weird nickname to make for someone like sleepy shoe.
Like nothing that President Biden has demonstrated is that he's
you know, he's sleepy. I mean, if you want to.
Speaker 3: Say he's got opee shoe sleepy, show has no idea
what he's talking about.
Speaker 1: And meanwhile, Donald Trump's they're sleeping.
Speaker 2: What's that.
Speaker 1: You remember this moment too, when it was an odd
moment for Trump to say this, and he says this
in his speech before. Remember when he gave a speech
and he said that people in Beverly Hills smell very bad.
And you know, based on and this is like a
major part of the speech, saying that you know, these
rich people in Beverly Hills, they're very stinky. You know,
they smell really bad. And you know, one of the
things that Donald Trump always does is he's like he
calls people ugly. He says that they smell horribly. He
calls them sleepy, and you know, I really wasn't sure
what to do with this data point Cohen and I
reported on it and ended up going viral. Like I think
we've covered now on you know, when I do the
stuff with Karen Friedman Magnifilo where we do the recaps together,
I don't even know, we probably have done thirty forty hours,
give or take of coverage. Maybe a little bit of less,
but we've done so many hours of coverage, especially when
you add the hot takes that I do kind of
separately on my own. And then there was just this
one moment where I had heard from people inside the
courtroom about his smell in the courtroom, and I wasn't sure,
like you can as you watch me saying, and I
wasn't sure, and it was you know, some very credible people.
I just wasn't sure. Do I report on it? Do
I not report on it? And there were so many
people saying it that I was just like, Okay, I'm
going to have to report on it. So I talked
about what I heard was happening in the courtroom, and
that moment went viral. It's like ten million people you
know saw that. I think I'm just excel but I
think the reach of that has been you know, fairly,
you know, fairly wide. And I'm just saying, look, that
was a data point that I heard. But it just
goes to show you the ultimate kind of projection and
confession of Donald Trump in everything he does. I mean,
why is he giving a speech when he's running for
office saying that other people are smelly? Like that's like
just a weird thing for a person.
Speaker 2: It just you know, it's childish, That's really what it is.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: I in third grade, we had a kid, you know whatever,
for whatever the reason might have been, he used to
urinate on himself all the time. I don't know what.
He always had to bring in an extra pair of
underwear and you know, a ziplock bag, and you know
it was he was a nice kid. Whatever the problem was,
I have no idea, but there was clearly a problem.
But then, of course there's always mean kids in a class,
right And you know, they all had nicknames for him.
You know, his name is Cyrus, was smelly Cyrus and
so and when I hear Donald Trump speak about speak
about this, I say to myself, really seriously, what grade
are you actually in? This is a guy who wants
to be again president of the United States. The people
in Beverly Hill's is stinky. This one is a horse face.
This one, you know, this one is you know, is
a mutt? Is a rat? Is this and that? I mean,
have you ever sleepy Joe? Low energy? Jeb crooked? Hillary?
Crooked Joe? I mean, you know it's it's you know,
there's a nickname for everyone, right, I tell you something, though,
I've become kind of good at hitting back with those nicknames.
You know, you know that von shitzen Pants really gets
to him. In fact, it's now been the topic of
conversation before before judgment Shah and at least several times.
Now you know where Donald really doesn't like it? And
why doesn't he like it? Clearly there has to be
a problem going on here, right. He doesn't like the
fact that I call him Von shits and Pants. He
doesn't like the fact that it trends and so on.
And to be honest with you, Donald, because I know
some of your people are watching, I don't give a fuck.
I really don't don't. I don't give a fuck. You
want to keep beating up on people keep attacking people
with your third grade nicknames. Well, you know what, sometimes
people hit back, and I know you don't like when
people hit back. I know you don't like it. But
too bad, Too bad, That's not how life works. You
are not the end all be all, and you don't
get to have the last word whenever you want. Right,
there are consequences. There's repercussions for your action, all right,
including a lot of the shit that you had done
to me and other people, including when you turn around
and you had me unconstitutionally remanded back to prison, including
the time that you had your people like build a
bullshit artist bar right, that bloviated scumbag pull my file
when I was supposed to be released under the CAREZAC
and kept me in for another twenty one days of
solitary confinement, thirty six straight days of solitary confinement because
you could Well, you know what, let me tell you something.
Karma is a bitch baby, and it's on its way.
Karma boomerang is on its way back.
Speaker 1: We have a lot more to cover here on political beatdown.
I do want to talk about the passage in the
House of Representatives of the Ukraine Aid Package you had
Mega Mike Johnson get attacked by others in MAGA who
are threatening to oust him right now. I also want
to share with you one of the post President Biden
made recently, reminding people that four years ago to the day,
Donald Trump told Americans to inject themselves with bleach. We've
got a lot to discuss. Stay tuned. We'll be right
back after our first and last quick break of the show.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Political Beatdown. I've been mysells joined by
Michael Cohen. Cohen four years ago to the day is
when Donald Trump held that press conference where he told
Americans to inject bleach into themselves on national television. Now,
one of the things about Donald Trump's malignant narcissism is
that he needs to be the smartest guy in the room,
and he ain't that smart. And so when he's in
a room with scientists, when he's with people like doctor
Fauci or others, donald Trump needs to substitute his gut,
which is always wrong for what the scientists actually say.
So the same moment, and when I saw Donald Trump
giving these press conferences four years ago, it's one of
the reasons why I even started this platform, because every
day the trauma he was inflicting on the country as
we were all locked up because of him and then
he would hold these press conferences and then brag about
how he's getting better ratings than like TV shows. And
it was such an odd thing. But here's what President
Biden posted. He said, don't inject bleach and don't vote
for the guy who told you to inject bleach. And
President Biden was posting on the campaign Twitter account or
x account that said, four years ago today, Trump told
Americans to inject bleach on national television. I want to
play this clip just to remind everybody what happened four
years ago, go to this day. Let's play it and to.
Speaker 6: Test that too.
Speaker 7: Sounds interesting, right, And then I see the disinfectant where
it knocks it out in a minute one minute, And
is there a way we can do something like that
by injection inside or or almost a cleaning, because you
see it gets on the lungs and it does a
tremendous number on the lungs. So it'd be interesting to
check that so that you're gonna have to use medical
doctors with. But it sounds interesting to me.
Speaker 1: There you have it, that was four years ago.
Speaker 2: And man, for God's sakes, think about this, right, it
cleans it out in a minute. He's thinking, he's thinking
about your washing machine. Yeah, you drop a little chlorox
bleach in there, it'll clean out and disinfect your washing
machine in a minute. You put bleach into your lungs,
in a minute, you're gonna be dead. But he didn't
give a shit. He didn't care if you inject yourself
in bleach a fucking climb, because could you imagine inject
bleach into your lungs. Yeah, you don't have to worry
about COVID. You're gonna You're gonna die in about sixty seconds.
I mean, it's as dumb as anything. You know, there's
a difference between being dumb and then just being stupid,
and this goes beyond both. When you're sitting there, you're
telling somebody, yeah, you know, there's a way to someone
get it in and the doctors it's not. First of all,
it's not the doctors that would be doing it. Would
be the scientists. It would be like the doctor Fauci's,
you know, the epidemiologists or doctor Burks. It's not gonna
be a standard, right, what is it gonna be your
your prostidantist or your your your plastic surgeon is going
to turn around they're going to start looking at how
to inject bleach into all I mean to do it
into your lungs. Just from a medical standpoint, so you
know that, actually I used to do a ton of
medical malpractice cases. In fact, instead of being a lawyer,
I actually wanted to be a doctor like my father.
There what's called a thracentisis, which is when you put
a large needle into the lungs to draw out a fluid.
Usually you get that from pneumonia or from pleurisy or
something like a pulmonary embolist causes the plurisy, whatever it
might be. But to inject bleach into the lungs in
order to clean out covid is yeahs, As Harold just said,
it's a total schmuck.
Speaker 1: You know, President Biden was in Virginia with AOC and
Senator Bernie Sanders talking about policies to deal with climate change,
and they were having serious discussions about actual tang policy.
On the other hand, let me remind you what happened
when Donald Trump was in office. And here is what
Donald Trump said at a committee meeting or a hearing
that was dealing with the issues relating to climate Take
a loko what Trump said. Let's play this clip.
Speaker 8: So I think one area of mutual agreement and priority
is vegetation management. But I think we want to work
with you to really recognize the changing climate and what
it means to our forests and actually work together with
that science. That science is going to be key, because
if we if we ignore that science and sort of
put our head in the sand and think it's all
about vegetation management, we're not going to succeed together protecting Californias.
Speaker 1: Okay, it'll start getting cooler. I wish you just watch.
Speaker 2: I wish science agreed with you.
Speaker 7: Oh well, I don't think science knows.
Speaker 1: Actually, I don't think science knows actually, is what he said.
And I just think that you keep to remind me.
Speaker 2: But he does. He knows.
Speaker 1: He knows better than anybody else about every issue. And
all you have to do is have somebody who travels
with him with a printer, with a portable printer to
print out these articles for him that are flattering. So
all he has to do is take his sharpie and
he writes what he thinks the news should be, and
then he goes to the press with it and says,
you look at my Look at my picture book, everybody,
look at the book that I made. Look at all
of these great headlines that I'm getting. It's so much
that I'm having trouble reading all of these great headlines.
And at the same time he's doing that, Cohen, He's
like sending these weird emails to his followers, and he's saying,
tomorrow I could be thrown in jail. I hope this
isn't goodbye. He's sending emails like that. He's also saying
that he wants there to be or he's implying that
he wants there to be protests on his behalf at
the courthouse. I mean, he writes, why are the Palestinian
protesters and even rioters allowed to roam the cities, scream, shout, sit,
block traffic, enter buildings, not get permits, and basically do
whatever they want, including threatening Supreme Court justices right in
front of their home. And yet people who truly love
our country and want to make America great again are
not allowed to peacefully protest and are rudely and systematically
shut down and ushered off to far away holding areas,
essentially denying them their constitutional rights. And then he goes
and tells people go out and peacefully protest, rally behind MAGA,
save our country. The only thing you have to fear
is fear itself. And he's quoting a democrat there, he's
quoting FDR. If you look at the turnout though, there
was one person who showed up on Donald Trump's behalf
as the Good Liars wrote massive turnout for Donald Trump
today in New York that there was one person showing up.
And let me just share this with you, Cohen, because
this is something that is all of this is happening.
Donald Trump's lawyer, Alina Habba just posted this video directed
at our editor in chief Ron Philipkowski here on the
Midas Touch Network. She previously made a video of herself
like cutting celery, which was weird. So our editor in
chief just played the video. It's like, why is she
posting videos like that? And so she just made this video.
This was moments ago, Alena Habba said. This was as
we were recording this. This is what Donald Trump's lawyer,
Alena Habba is doing. She goes breaking for the troll skis,
I can't cut an avocado either, And this is what
she's posting on her social media right now during this
very serious criminal trial, Donald Trump's lawyer posted this let's
play the clip.
Speaker 9: Hey Ice, I've never done a video like this, so
I thought I would try because Jan Filipowski is getting
like a million.
Speaker 10: Views from me chopping cellar. This is me eating avocado
happy passover everybody. Hey Ron yellow troll Ski, Well, I'm
not gonna test either.
Speaker 2: Your life.
Speaker 1: Just very odd behavior from these like very strange behavior.
Speaker 2: Is there anything that anybody really needs to say? Right?
I mean, I'm sure she spent thirty minutes or more
trying to figure out what outfit that she would need.
Maybe she wouldn't got her hair done for it too.
You know, look, she's she's a clown. She's a complete
clown who has like so many people. I was there,
I know, I know she's trying to protect Donald. Nobody
knows about protecting Nobody knows about protecting Donald like I
did for over a decade, and I know exactly what
she's doing. Anybody that turns around and says something negative
about Donald, like Ron Philipowski, she needs to be able
to show Donald or hope that she gets enough people
who are following her in his inner circle that show
it to him without her being the one to say,
Hey Donald, Donald, Donald, look here, look here, Look what
I've done. Look what I did. I went after him.
He's attacking you, so I went after him. You know,
I've seen it a hundred times, more than a hundred times.
She's just she's typical for unfortunately what is now surrounding
Trump when you start to see people like Todd Blanche
throwing away a real reputation, throwing it away for what
but Trump does he really think that down the road
that Donald's going to do something for him, especially if
he loses this case, the same way that now now
Alena Haba is sort of relegated to her kitchen to
start eating avocado to make fun of Ron you know,
who posted a video of her chopping celery or whatever.
You realize how stupid that this is. We're talking about
a man who wants to be president of the United
States of America again when the whole world right now
is upside down. I mean, I don't understand what she's doing.
You know, it makes no it makes no sense to me.
This is as stupid as her Saint Bart's at Nikki
Beach party, you know, putting it out there the last
thing in the world that you want to do when
you're out there representing Donald Trump, a megabillionaire. We all
know how Richie is, right, Alina, right? Who paid you
money from the campaign? If you really even got that
full amount, going out there and spending it and showing
it off to the people who can't afford their own electricity,
their cell phone bills, or they're ranked, you're actually sticking
the middle thing right into your supporter's face. You should,
she should really just have some kouf, which I don't have. Listen,
she just doesn't, you know.
Speaker 1: One of the things too, that was released yesterday was
some of the confidential documents and information in the Mara
Lago case was released based on Judge Eileen Cannon's order,
and some of the stuff is fairly devastating, you know,
to Donald Trump when you go through it. We did
a whole video on it here at the mind of
this Touch network, and you'll have dogs barking in the background,
so just affuse them as they bar.
Speaker 2: I did want to say something while while while the
puppies are all are all barking here. You know, obviously
I am going through a significant amount of you know,
of documents, So if we can just well, at least
I'll say that I was going to talk about the
go fundme if at all possible, since we have like
twenty thousand people that are following us just live right now,
which is fantastic. Yeah, the dogs have an opinion too,
if this stuff, this is no joke. You know, they
have put me really behind the april. So to those
of you who can truly appreciate this, every dollar, not
like Donald win ninety cents of every dollar I get
to use for my own stuff, I don't see the amounts.
I happen to know some what comes in only because
my lawyer tells me goes right to her account. You know,
I have so many hours that I have invested, and
I have more hours in order just to go over
you know, past testimony, just to ensure that this case goes,
you know, goes properly, especially knowing what Trump's lawyers intend
to do, which is just to attack me day in
and day out, day in and day out, and try
to you know, blur the lines of what's relevant what's
not relevant, uh in you know, in this case. So
I do want to be obviously prepared for legitimately what's
the first criminal proceeding against a United States president, former
United States president in the history of our country. You know,
there's there's no room for you know, for error here,
and I just want to make sure that there's no
document that I haven't seen in advance of, you know,
my appearance. So if you can, thank you appreciate everything
that our brigaders have done. And more importantly, I hope
you've had a chance to listen. Tony Schwartz is with
me right now on the Maya Culpa podcast. Might just
Touch Network RSS feed blue icon background. It's I could
not be happier to be a part of the Midas
Touched Network family, you know, with Ben, with Brett, with Jordi.
You know, I Sawtie, we got we got the whole crew.
And to be honest, the one thing that I can
tell you about this network, there's no innuendo here, there's
no bullshit. There's just facts. And I can't think of
any other place that people are running to to get
the facts.
Speaker 1: Cohen, this is what I wanted to share with you.
So one of the people Donald Trump is taking legal
advice from. In addition to Alena Habba, who you saw
there cutting the avocado for whatever reason is a guy
named Tom Fitton. Tom Finton runs the right wing group
Judicial Watch. Tom Fitton is not a lawyer. Tom Fitton
is the one. He's like one of Donald Trump's key
legal advisors again who is not actually, I think a
licensed lawyer. And Tom Fitton just recently made a video
of himself and Fitten wears these really tight shirts and
apparently also hats that don't fit him. And the same
way Elena Hobba is making these videos of herself like
cutting avocado, Donald Trump's like legal advisor who's not a lawyer.
Tom Fitton is making videos of himself now that look
like this. Just watch the insanity here. Play this clip.
Speaker 6: Still, Lennon, it looks like the judge will not let
me go through the graduation.
Speaker 2: Of my son's work, very very hard.
Speaker 6: He's great students' very proud of the fact that he
did so well. And I was looking forward for years
to have a graduation with his mother and father there.
Speaker 2: And it looks like the.
Speaker 6: Judges an't gonna allow beings who escape this scam.
Speaker 2: It's a scam trial.
Speaker 6: If you read all of the legal punished over the
legal scholars today, this now one did I see it said,
this is a case.
Speaker 2: That should be grew up or try. It's a scam.
Speaker 6: It's a political which it continues, he continues.
Speaker 2: Forever, and we're not going to be given a fair job.
It's a very like.
Speaker 1: So wait, wait, wait, so I showed you that. So
I showed you that. That's Donald Trump's main legal advisor
right there. His other main legal advisor, Alena Habba. Let
me just show you Alena Habba's video one more.
Speaker 2: One more. That's that's his one main legal advisor. Here's
the here's the other one.
Speaker 1: Play play the Alina Habba one one more.
Speaker 2: I'm waiting for him to jump on Donald off the
top of a couch.
Speaker 9: I've never done a video like this, so I thought
I would try because one Filipowski is getting like a
million views from me chopping cellary.
Speaker 10: This is me eating avocado. Happy pass over everybody. Hey,
Ron Lilo Trollski, Well, I'm not cocts either.
Speaker 2: Your wife, I mean Cohen.
Speaker 1: I think I gave you a la. Are you gonna
do a two finger salutor? You're not gonna give You're
gonna do a one thing? You're gonna reserve? Are you
gonna reserved finger salutes.
Speaker 2: No, I think our two finger salute has to go
to the defendant. You knows, counsel has to go to Actually,
it has to go to that to all of those
that are sitting at that table from Susan netlist, even
though she really hasn't done anything. So let me just
say Todd Blanche and Donald Trump for just really making
a complete, uh fucking joke out of you know, what's
going on right now and the ongoing constant attacks on
myself and other people for you know, their own shits
and giggles. So it's a cutie. So Todd, see you
very soon. You fuck her and Donald? What can I say?
We'll be sitting across the table from one another very
very soon. The only difference is I'll be the one speaking.
You'll be sitting there with your mouth shut, and you'll
be listening to everything that I say, which, in all fairness,
will probably corroborate or have been corroborated by every other
witness that it comes forward, including a slew of documents,
so you know, bring it on. You know, I'm not
afraid of you. I'm not afraid of I'm not afraid
of Todd Blanche or Susan neck Lee's like again, as
I had said once before, you know, to quote Buddha,
the three things that will always rise, the Sun, the moon,
and the truth. All right, remember that. I'll send you
a little bumper sticker.
Speaker 1: Cohen, you and I will do a quick after show
after this. Spend ten minutes you and I together. I
want to do a bigger live with everybody. We're just
trying to work through the logistics of everything. And as
everybody can imagine the logistics, there's a lot of moving
parts right now going on this week, So a lot
of moving parts. But make sure you're subscribe to patreon
dot com slash Political Beatdown. Coen and I will just
do an after show right now. We're going to figure
out a good time to do that live. We're trying to,
you know, figure that out together, which which we'll figure
out soon.
Speaker 2: When you want to do it, because I obviously I
have no idea when I'm going to get called. Plus,
as I was saying before, there's a ton of documents,
any idea when you want to do it, just so
that I can have some advance uh you know, notice
as well.
Speaker 1: You know I really liked doing it when we did
it after the brother Show. So it's like, you know,
we we all go there is there a preferred time?
Let me look in the comments right now, in the comments.
Speaker 2: Is there a preferred time for you know, for our brigadors,
you know, well ask arbligators. Yeah, we want to be
we want to be accommodating.
Speaker 1: Let me, I'm gonna take a look to see if
they I'm looking at the comments now seeing if there's
any suggested times.
Speaker 2: Let us know.
Speaker 1: I'm reading the comments right now, all right, You and
I will you and I will take a look at
some of the comments and then we'll get back to
everybody on when to uh, when to do it? Cohen,
rest up. We're with you, We support you, and we
are uh and we are grateful for h We're grateful
for your courage. We know it's not easy.
Speaker 2: There's quite a few that is saying nine pm. Can
we do a nine pm Eastern Standard time? That's a
six pm your California time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's take let's take a look at when to
You and I will huddle, let's make it. We'll figure
that out and then you know, we'll we'll we'll do it.
Maybe even tomorrow, we do it at that time.
Speaker 2: Yeah. By the way, I'm good with that. Whatever whatever
works for Aubrigadors, you know, because look, one of the
things that I won't be able to do, as I
explained before, is to talk about any of the specific
fix with the case and so on. I really am
truly trying to do my best not to watch any
of the news. It's very difficult. This is really nothing
on TV, and I've kind of binge watched everything else,
putting all that, you know, aside. If you give us
some ideas, has tomorrow or when.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems that everybody likes that nine pm Eastern,
six pm Pacific, we'll do it tomorrow. Brett is in
a flight right is on a flight right now, so
I don't have that zoom link right now. As soon
as he sends me to zoom link, I'll go to
patreon dot com slash political Beat.
Speaker 2: We just put the Patreon link one more time so
that folks, can you.
Speaker 1: Know, I like that, like that we crowdsourced when we're
doing this. It's tomorrow, definitively at nine pm Eastern, six
pm Pacific. Everybody will have time to get ready for it.
As soon as Brett Lands. He'll send me the link.
We'll post it patreon dot com slash Political Beatdown. You
and I will go a half hour, we'll chat with
all of the Brigaders.
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