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this community is going to be extremely important. Now. Everybody
keeps saying that everyone's afraid of Trump. Everyone's afraid of Trump.
Well not Democrats, at least not last night. They're not
afraid to speak up against him in both lighthearted and
in serious ways. Again, last night was the Washington Press
Club Foundation's annual Congressional Dinner, and people members of Congress,
and so they didn't hold back. For example, Senator Amy
Klobashar decided to make a joke about Greenland and Trump.
Play the clip.
Speaker 2: Speaking of Greenland. There's a question for you that I
want to pose. What is the difference between Greenland and
Donald Trump? Greenland is not for sale? Okay for any
Republican Trump administration person out there. They want to throw
eggs at me as a result of that joke, you
can't because they're too expensive.
Speaker 1: It's not that the jokes were bad it's the delivery.
I mean, I could have certainly done it better, mind you.
Representative Mike Lawler decided to make a joke about Christinom
play this clip.
Speaker 3: Speaking of dogs, How is the food tonight? Did you enjoy?
Speaker 1: Courtesy of Christinome.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Relax, you can laugh. I
love the press almost as much as Matt Gaets allegedly
like sex parties and co Ed's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they really they made this, like into
the Washington Correspondence dinner where they were not holding back.
I'm not really sure what it's going to prove, but
but Mike Lawla also makes a joke about Nancy Mace
play this clip.
Speaker 3: Who knows Blake could be a future Speaker of the House.
It all depends on how Nancy Mason the Freedom Caucus
are feeling on any given day. Nancy Mayce has gone
so far off the deep end lately that she makes
Marjorie Taylor Green look like Susan Collins. Apparently the things
you need to do to be governor of South Carolina.
Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, it's funny if you think about what he's saying.
Forget about the fact that they're supposed to be jokes.
What makes them funny is that it's true. Now, in
a more serious note, I want to show you some
clips of Democrats speaking on the House floor. Now, Representative
Jim McGovern. He goes on and he makes a comment
about drug dealers during the fentanyl Regulation and Classification hearing.
Speaker 4: Play this clip, mister speaker, Republicans want to come down
here and lecture people about fentanyl. Let's talk about fentanol.
President Donald J. Trump, during his very first week in office,
pardon a drug dealer who helped fentanyl pour into our country.
Speaker 1: Well, listen, you know that's the problem when you do
a blanket pardon of over fifteen hundred January sixth defendants.
You don't know, though they should, exactly who it is
that you're partying. In fact, there's one from Indiana I believe, who,
for whatever the reason may be, was speeding and he
gets pulled over and a fight ensues, and a firearm
is pulled, police pulled theirs, and obviously the j six
defendant goes down permanently. You have no idea who all
of these individuals are. It wasn't like a thought out process.
This was a blanket pardon. For all the J six defendants,
because that's what Donald Trump said he was going to
do during the campaign, and he was not going to
disappoint his base. So why should there be somebody who's
not a fentanyl distributor out of that fifteen hundred plus group.
There's probably even worse. My understanding is that there were
some who were there for significant, significant violent crimes. But
then again, what's the point to do the homework. Just
go ahead, blanket pardon anyone that you that you want,
because simply, the Constitution permits the President of the United
States to pardon anyone at any time that they want.
It is an unchecked power by the Constitution. Then Adam
Shift had some impactful things to say. He goes on
and he speaks about how the DOJ now enforces Trump's
will rather than represent the people. Play the clip.
Speaker 5: The firings were executed by his appointed allies and the
Justice Department, and when it was done, his administration made
the endgame clear. The Justice Department no longer represents the
American people. It no longer enforces the law. It enforces
Donald Trump's will. This is not a department that can
be counted on anymore to investigate corruption, but to defend
Donald Trump. A Justice department that doesn't prosecute certain criminals,
it protects them as long as they serve the President's
interests or are the president himself. This is the new
normal in Donald Trump's second term, a government that exists
not a check on his power, but an extension of it.
The message was unmistakable.
Speaker 1: The ranking member for the Senate Judiciary, and he turns
on and he says that this is the new normal. No,
Adam No, and you know better, Donald Trump, through Bill Barr,
or maybe it was Bill Barr without Donald Trump trying
to impress him. I don't know, weaponize the Department of
Justice against his critics in the first term. I wrote
an entire fucking book on it, how Donald Trump webonized
the US Department of Justice against his critics when I
was unconstitutionally remanded. You know, nothing would kind of make
me happier than to turn around and to see Pam
BONDI come after you, mister ranking member. You've already spoken
about this case. You know about the case, so why
talking about how this is a first time every single
person knew exactly who Donald Trump is. Everyone knew what
he intended to do. Everyone turned around and acknowledged Project
twenty twenty five was going to be the manifesto, and
yet they still voted for that ideology. So don't stand
up there, Adam, with your new position and turn around
and say that this is new. This is not new,
all right, You've talked about it. I have been yelling
this from the top of the rooftops, not because I
want to be the guy, right, you know, yelling at
the top of the roof because I want to make
sure that what they did to me never happens to
anyone else. Ever, not another American should go through what
I went through. And for you failing to acknowledge that
this is not new, this is a This is a
regurgitation of an old playbook that he did or was
done in twenty seventeen under his previous administration, That's what
you need to be concentrating on. Schiff also goes on
to speak about why the FBI is afraid of firings
play the clip.
Speaker 5: But why is this firing in the FBI agents such
an important piece of this whole effort by Donald Trump,
Elon Musk and their enablers, Because if they're gonna take
money from the public fisk if they're going to enrich
themselves with their mean coins, if they're going to raid
the Treasury, if they're going to take people's private data,
if they're going to try to illegally shut down agencies.
They don't want a Department God forbid to say no
that violates the law. They don't want an FBI that's
going to examine anything they're doing, so stripping the Department
of its independence, instilling fear in thousands and thousands of
FBI agents, telling them you are just one wrong step
away from being fired. This is the way to ensure
And when they raid the Treasury, there is no one
there to call out what they're doing.
Speaker 1: I don't know. What about you? What about Congress? What
about all the members of the Senate that ended up
confirming a whole slew of the nominees. What about them?
What's your role? What's the role of our members of
Congress to stand up there and to prostolytize so what
so that you could then go back to them to
fill your coffers. This whole system is fucked. And lastly,
the CIA, yes yesterday, sent the White House. You can't
make this shit up. The CIA sends to the White
House a list of all of its new hires in
an unclassified email last name and then first initial that
will expose the identities of these people. Not only does
it expose their identities, but it creates a national security threat.
How biggest China is constantly scouring the Internet for this
information to try to hack into their systems or to
try to get compromising information on them. That's the game.
This is what Schiff has to say about that play
the clip.
Speaker 5: China is winning so much in these last two weeks,
it is getting tired of winning. Just today we learned
that some list, according to public reports, of officers at
the CIA, was sent to the White House in an
unclassified email. Now, I remember time it seems very quaint
when Donald Trump was always talking about Hillary's emails.
Speaker 1: What about this email.
Speaker 5: That potentially exposes the identity of people who are working
at the CIA want to work at the CIA, And
according to public reports, the administration response is, Oh, don't
worry that unclassified email only contained their first name and
the first initial of their last name. Well, I'm sure
that China, with all of its big data analytics, will
have no trouble with that at all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so what are you going to do about it? Right?
I mean it's great you get up there and again
you proselytize for dollars for your campaign. How about turn
around and give us a response. It's not preaching, but
rather one that's results driven. That's the problem. This whole
thing is the problem. It's not just Republicans, it's democrats too,
And as always, thanks for listening. Hey everyone, First of all,
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