Speaker 1: Welcome to Political Beatdown. I'm Ben micellas joined by Michael Cohen.
We have a lot to discuss. Obviously, at the top
of the show, the breaking news about Susie Wiles, Donald
Trump's chief of staff, gave this interview, actually eleven interviews,
separate interviews with Vanity Fair, and Vanity Fair got this
incredible access to her and others in the Trump cabinet.
They wrote this two part story. At least two parts
have been released thus far. And in the story, Susie
Wiles says that if you go back to that first one,
she talks about how Donald Trump has the personality of
an alcoholic. She says, he's all over the Epstein files.
She basically refers to Jay d Vance as a phony.
She says Bondie really screwed up, regarding the Epstein files
as well. Additionally, the way she describes the Epstein file,
she's like Donald Trump and Epstein. Yes, they're all over
the files. But they were young, she goes, He goes,
they were like young. She goes, this may sound possible,
but they were young playboys roaming around town together, and
that's just what young playboys do. That's what she said,
and she goes, yeah, of course he's all over it.
She also said that Bill Clinton is not you know,
has nothing to do with the island. And she said
she's seen the files that Clinton has nothing to do
with it. Let me show you how the White House
is handling it. Caroline Levitt moments ago gave a press conference.
Let's show you this and then Cohen, because you know these,
you know how it operates there. I want you to
give us the kind of insight in what's going down
to the White House. But let's play what Levitt said,
Let's play machine gun lips.
Speaker 2: Was working hand in glove with Vanity Fair. And yet
here's Susie Wiles's reaction to the series of articles.
Speaker 3: Quote.
Speaker 2: The article published early this morning is a disingenuously framed
hit piece on me and the finest president, white House staff,
and cabinet in history. Significant context was disregarded, and much
of what I and others said about the team and
the president was left out of the story. I assume
after reading it that this was done to pay an
overwhelmingly chaotic and negative narrative about the president and our team.
She goes on after that, you can read the full
thing on x but what happened, what went wrong?
Speaker 4: Well, look, I would just echo my boss, Susie Wiles,
who is the best chief of staff in our nation's history,
working for the greatest president in our nation's history, and
that this was unfortunately another attempt at fake news by
a reporter who was acting disingenuously and.
Speaker 5: Really did take the chief's words out of context. But
I think most importantly, the bias of omission was ever
present throughout this story. The reporter omitted all of the
positive things that Susie and our team said about the
President and the inner workings of the White House. And
as Susie said today, it's deeply unfortunate that happened, but
it won't distract us from making America great again.
Speaker 6: Yeah, is there anybody that's with us right now that's
not sort of laughing at the level of stupidity emanating
from that gaping anus.
Speaker 7: Under machine gun lips his nose. Let me be crystal
clear about something. First of all, Trump is furious, Okay,
he's furious because one she compared him to like a
raging alcoholic. She referred to Elon Musk as like a
ketamine addict or something like that. She referred to something
negative about everybody on the inside. But here's the reason
why Trump is so angry about it, because it's all true.
And in order for him to turn around and to say,
you know, this is a hit piece, that this is stupid,
this is a lie, it would be like me turning
around and saying Ben that I'm seven foot two. You
would say, no, you're not, and I would say, yes,
i am. I would stand up next to you, You'd say, Okay,
maybe you're a few inches tall than me, but you're
not seven foot two, and then I say, yes, well,
it's stupid and it's not something that you can't argue. Well,
in this specific case, he knows exactly what was said
happens to be accurate. And yes, as Teresa just said,
because she took the words right out of my mouth,
the truth hurts. Let's not be shocked, not for a moment,
if in fact they're already trying to figure out who
will be Susie Wiles's replacement, because this is exactly the
same level of stupidity and ignorance, all right, and no
and nonsense that took place during the first administration when
Jared Kushner brought in Woodward in order to interview Trump,
and he did it like five six times. The fact
that you don't like what a journalist is writing about you, well,
then don't do the interview, right, I mean, that's just
the way that it goes. It's one thing. If this
journalist had not interviewed anybody, had not sat with Susie
Wiles for eleven different occasions in order to get this information,
and Rest assured, Rest assured that these records, that these
are all recorded, and as soon as Trump is going
to turn around and threaten Vanity Fair, who he doesn't
like anyway, he will turn around and regret that because
again he's asking her right now, and if he hasn't,
let me put it into his mind Susie was with
the interviews recorded by the journalist, and when she says yes,
then Rest assured there's gonna be no lawsuit and they
will allow it to dissipate until such time as the
next sort of article comes out referring to.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump as an alcoholic or having the personality of
an alcoholic rather based on Trump's background, that's one of
the kind of worst things in his mind, right that
you can call him given his views about you know,
or at least his purported views about al you know
about like for you to compare him to basically like
a drunk talk to us about that Cohen because of
the family and.
Speaker 7: Look, and again, I was by Trump's side for almost
a decade and a half. I've seen him hold a
glass of red wine. I've seen him hold a glass
of champagne. You know, while he would put it up
to his lips, he never drank it. It was just
sort of the look so that people didn't think it odd.
Would then put it down on a table and then
very nonchalantly mosey away from it. He's not an alcoholic.
He doesn't drink. He lost his brother Fred to alcoholism.
He actually despises those people who behave like that, who
are alcoholics. He has no patience, he has no empathy
for them, very much like what we've seen in other scenarios.
So the fact that you can call him something that
he truly despises, that's a.
Speaker 1: Problem, you know. And she said, you know, his personality
is that you know likely also referring to hitting rock bottom,
engaging in erratic behavior that has severe consequences that don't
seem to be thought through. I mean you know, but
it makes it worse in many ways that no, this
is this I don't know if it makes it worse,
but that this is actually who who he is, right,
And you know, we covered it a lot yesterday, but
you know, I always like to hear your perspective on
these on these issues, and let the public hear your
perspective on these issues. But like you know, this brutal
murder of Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle, the suspect
being their son suffered from drug addiction, and incredibly tragic,
the most tragic situation, really fathomable. And within hours of
that happening, Donald Trump first does a social media post
attacking Reiner, and then Donald Trump gives a press conference
where he says horrific things.
Speaker 7: And I think we have you know, Ben, I got
to tell you when I saw it, and I'm dying
to get your take. And in fact, if I could,
other than this idiot Lie McGrath that's trying to troll
us here, what I would really like to do is
ask some people in your mind what we call out
fucking idiots. All right, So here's the thing I would
love for each and every one of you to be
able to share. What were you thinking when you actually
saw whether it was for the first time or second time,
or wherever you saw it, that post by President Trump
regarding Rob Reiner. This one a very sad thing happened
last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling
but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has
passed away together with his wife Michelle, reportedly due to
the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding and
incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as Trump
derangement syndrome, sometimes referred to as TDS. I mean, I'm
dying to know, Ben, when you saw this, what was
the first thing you thought?
Speaker 1: It's an unfortunate thought because the answer is always the same,
like this is AI, This isn't real, Like this can't
be what it is? This is this real? Was my
first thought. But then it quickly realized, Yes, this is who,
this is who we and I'm and I still get
upset that sometimes my initial reaction to it is to
be skeptical, you know that how could a human being
post this? But that was my initial reaction, Cohen, was
I thought that you know, there from time to time
people share with me those things that look like they're
Trump posts, but they're like a different, somewhat different font,
and you're like, Okay, you don't need to be sharing
that one because the stuff that he says is even
worse than some of the fake stuff that's put out there.
But that's you know, but that's what I thought. And
then my next thought is kind of just, you know,
I view this not from a political ends, and as
you know, I didn't get involved in this to be like,
oh like, let's go Donkey team, let's go democraty, Like
that's not like really what excites me. You know, ultimately
my values align more with one party than the other.
But I lead with values versus rooting for specific parties.
But I'm transparent that my values and principles align more
closely with one political party. But my but my view
about this stuff is just I just don't understand or
I do understand actually, just the way that people can
read this and that a portion of the population still.
Speaker 7: So ben I I did not I had not heard
that Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle had passed, and
so when I saw it, I was like, oh man,
you know, people are fucked up write this AI these
these fake posts and so on, there are posts about
me that I committed suicide and and so and it was.
It was terrible. It was actually one of my children
that saw it when alerted me to it. So the
first my first reaction was I googled Rob Reiner and
fucking a. It turned around and it said that right
now outside of his home there in which area he's
by where about a block away from where OJ was
in Brentwood, in Brentwood, that the police are there right
now on scene for a double homicide. And I was like,
oh my god. Right, So then I went ahead and
I looked at the New York Times, Wall Street Journal,
Washington Post, and miss NBC or NBC, ABC, CNN and
lo and behold, all of a sudden, I start finding
articles that have Trump's post attached to it. And then
I felt physically ill. I was saying to myself, you
cannot have really put this. I was almost like, if
I was talking to him through the air, you really
did not do this. You really could not have thought
or anybody around you could not have thought that this
would be a good idea to put out while two
people lay deceased on the floors in their home from
a homicide, that this is the right thing to do.
First of all, you're wrong. He was not killed by
some deranged individual that he got all wild, you know,
riled up.
Speaker 1: The though Cohen is that Trump didn't say a deranged individual,
did it. Trump almost insinuated that this was the natural
consequence exactly of criticizing Trump.
Speaker 7: That was the point I was going to make right that,
you know, this Trump derangement syndrome is not necessarily against
the perpetrator, but against but it lies in the hands
of the victim as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And you know, there are so many moments
though in a day that make you, you know, you know,
question basic humanity. I'll just give you another example. I'll
give you two examples just in the past twenty four
hours with the school shooting that took place at Brown University.
And by the way, Brown University was one of those
schools that made the deal with Donald Trump for him
to basically influence their curriculum. And then Donald Trump attacks
Brown University and he says that, you know, even though
Donald Trump was one of the first people spreading the
lies and disinformation frankly, after Brown University put out a
statement that the suspect was not in custody. Donald Trump
put out a statement that he was briefed and said
the suspect is in custody. And then Donald Trump's FBI
handed over to Providence the wrong guy. They said, we've
got the suspect based on our FBI stuff, and they
gave the wrong guy, and that guy's information made it
to the public. That guy's life has basically been ruined
as well, because all of his info is out there.
I mean, obviously people know he didn't do it now
and the real killer, the shooter, the terrorist, is out there.
And Donald Trump, when he was asked about it at
a press conference, says, you know, I don't really know
much about it. That's not an FBI thing. That's not US.
That's the school. They'll deal with it. That's yours response
as the president of the United States.
Speaker 7: Right. Funny because normally what he does is he automatically
contacts the National Guard, right and sends them out there.
I mean, he's certainly doing that because people were protesting
in front of a building, which of course that has
nothing to do with them either. So here, all of
a sudden, it's now up to the school to figure
it out. Yet you have Kesh Patel or others advising
him incorrectly, which when the President of the United States
says something, whether you like him or not, words matter.
Speaker 1: And that's the thing that with him though words a deal,
they don't matter. They're a tool for Trump to keep
power and to deceite like that's a sad state for
this country. And we talk later in the show about
what's going on in Europe and how they're viewing the
United States, how the main security intelligence agencies am I
six in the UK, in France and others. How the
German Chancellor Friedrich Mertz is treating the United States now
openly treating the US as a hostile enemy force that's
allied with Putin. That's where we are right now as
we reach the end of this year.
Speaker 7: And Europe has walked away. Europe has not only walked
away from US in terms of sharing of intelligence, which
puts each and every one of us in harm's way.
You know, there's only so much information that can be
gathered from our Nssay, we work in concert with our allies,
which is why NATO, which is why keeping our allies
allies is so important. Do you really think for a
second anybody that Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, you know, Erdowan,
or any of these, you know, any of these monarchy dictatorships,
our our adversaries are actually gonna share with us legitimate
intel in order to make the world better. Instead, we've
now literally shipped on our allies. We've embraced our adversaries.
Europe is saying this is out of control. We're walking away.
We're going to be the ones that work with with
Zelenski and Ukraine to assure that Russian threat no longer
progresses and continues. And then and then on top of that,
to make matters look worse, to make us look even
more pathetic if we could as a country. They decide
that they're going to have Zolenski in Berlin and they're
going to engage in Europe is going to engage with
Zelenski about providing armaments and financing and assistance anyway that
they possibly can, and trump this administration not wanting to
look like they are no longer involved in these I
don't even want to call it these peace conversations, right,
these sort of I don't know, Ben, what would you
call it these hoaxes, these these shrods.
Speaker 1: Right, it's definitely sure, Yeah, I mean it is. It
is performance theater that is being referred to as peace
discussions when the end game is the United States is
working with Russia to get Ukraine to surrender.
Speaker 7: But my point is, so, now what does Trump do?
He ships off Witkoff and Kushner to immediately run to
Berlin so that we could now be a part of
these discussions. So in that way, if hypothetically something comes
out of it, which of course you know that it can't,
especially if you listen to like Lavrov and y and
all of if you listen to all of them, you
know that's not possible. But if in fact that it is,
why is it that Trump sent Witkoff and Kushner over
there to Berlin? So of course he can take credit
for it. It's yet another win for him. It's now
the ninth war that he has stopped, including one that
he says will be the basis for World War three.
Speaker 1: It's an important point though, as you say that could
be the basis of World War three. But yes, you
had Yushikov, Yuri Yushakov saying he's one of the top
foreign ministers in Russia. The only deal they'll accept is
surrender of Ukraine. We want all of eastern Ukraine, and
Ukraine can join the EU and can't join NATO. That's
what Yushakov says. You have Dmitriev Kirol Dmitriev saying the
same thing. You have the Russia ambassador to the UK
saying the same thing. You have Putin saying the same thing.
You have Lavrov saying the same thing. So Russia's made
their point. They're saying it publicly. You know, I do
these videos in the morning where I translate what they're saying,
and I said, just here, just listen to what they're saying.
Speaker 7: So do you speak Russian?
Speaker 1: I don't, but no, but we translated. I do not
speak Russian. I do, and then I do, like you're
fluent in Russian. Not fluent, but like you could have
a pretty good conversation with them in Russian. I don't
know that. Yeah, so you have that. But now what
you're seeing happen is in Europe. These European leaders are
now using apocalyptic language of World War III as well,
because for them, obviously nothing else is working with Trump.
So what they're making it clear, and it's the reality,
not just a negotiating framework that they are saying in
their countries. We've had the Leader of six, first female
leader by the way, in the UK the c we
did a video on her this morning. That's what they
call the Leader of I six. You have these intelligence
agencies and leaders in other European countries and they're all
said saying, prepare your sons and daughters for a world war.
This is what they're saying in Europe. Prepare them for
a world war because one's going to start very soon.
And that message is being sent also back and it's
ratcheted up in the past week also. And why because
Donald Trump has given Ukraine the Russian ultimatum of you
need to give all of don Bas Ukraine to Putin,
basically carve out most of eastern Ukraine that Russia has
not been able to take over and give it to
Putin and that's it, and then and then we have
a deal.
Speaker 7: Well the more to that deal, right, all the all
the rare earth mineral rights they want, obviously, the oil
that's there in the dombas h All they want, they
want it all, they want everything. That twenty point plan
is not a peace plan. It is a surrendered declaration.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so you have that taking place right now,
you know as as well you have Europe ratcheting it up.
But the we we got here in a circuitous way.
One of the things I was, I was I wanted
to go hit on, is like, we want serious people
in serious jobs, right, and we knew that someone like
Cash Battel and Pete Hegseith, we're just not serious human beings,
not qualified human beings. They didn't have the moral character
to hold these positions, setting aside your politics or your views.
And now we're seeing it play out. Like I'll just
show you Cash Battel, it's been using the private jet
paid for by taxpayers, travel around with his young girlfriend
and while and our friends and while.
Speaker 7: Using our FBI our secrets are using a like uber drivers,
Uber driver, I mean, talk about this.
Speaker 1: Cash is so funny. Cash. Oh my god, he's got
the empty just think of and and that and Cash
like yeah, you know, yeah, this is what we did.
Yeah outa there, you know, just stupid. But this is
what Cash, This is what Cash was doing yesterday when
there's all of these issues that the FBI is dealing with.
This is what Cash was doing. Let's play we are
so excited to be joined by Cash and his beautiful
girlfriend Alexis. So I just clairefor you're not Jewish, I'm
not You're not from Israel? No, So how did we
get to Are you a Massada agent? You know, that's
a great question.
Speaker 7: Where's her ring?
Speaker 1: Just to clarify, how often has he traveled to see
you since January twentieth?
Speaker 4: Is there been one moment where you're like, you.
Speaker 1: Can't make this up? You know there was I've seen
a lot of even like former right wing peoples, former
people who supported Trump out there even saying, now, how
did we get into this timeline?
Speaker 7: Like what what?
Speaker 1: What the hell is that? Like seriously, what the hell
is that? I mean every aspect of it. You have
Stephen Miller's wife, as Stephen Miller has this operation with
ice and border Patrol torturing people, rounding people up. You
have his wife hosting a podcast with the FBI director
and the FBI director's young girlfriend who's traveling around on
the taxpayer dime, and they're like mocking it. So that's that.
Then you have Hegsith. Let's talk about what heg Sith said.
This morning, let's play that clip of Hexyth.
Speaker 8: Also going to tomorrow allow the hask and sask to
see the unedited video of the September second alongside with
Admiral Bradley, who has done a fantastic job, has made.
Speaker 7: All the right calls, and we're glad he'll be there
to do it.
Speaker 8: But in keeping with long standing Department of War policy,
Department of Defense policy, of course, we're not going to
release a top secret, full.
Speaker 1: Unedited video of that to the general public.
Speaker 8: Haskin Saskin appropriate committees will see it, but not the general.
Speaker 1: Just think about it.
Speaker 7: Here's so this is the greatest we're gonna show you
the American public. We're gonna show you our incredible laser
guided drones and missiles blowing up a twenty foot aluminum
vessel with twin outboard. But we're not going to show
you thereafter because that becomes top secret. Can you tell me, Ben,
how would and when I saw Hegseeth make this comment,
all I kept saying is why didn't anybody ask him?
Can you tell us why is it? Why is it
under now seal as being top secret or classified? What? What?
What's the basis for it? So the first strike, well,
that's okay, that everybody.
Speaker 1: Can see that's not classified. The first strike is.
Speaker 7: But the double dip that that second strike classifying classified.
I'm just waiting for somebody to explain to me because
sometimes when I listen to these guys, I feel very
stupid because I can't figure out what is it that
I'm missing.
Speaker 1: Or which is rhetorical. You are feeling these stupidity radiating
from them and the corruption radiating from them. And again,
when I try to frame this network around values, principles, truth, objectivity,
I look at that and just say, that's undefensible, indefensible,
right what Pete Hegseith is saying there? Not only did
Donald Trump previously say that he would release the second strike,
but he said it publicly. Then Trump changed his position,
and so whatever heg Sith says. And then, by the way,
yesterday heg Sith released another video of eight more people
murdered by US, and I say us, because it's being
done in the name of the United States. He showed
that video not classified. Apparently not that not classified, and
then now he's saying, we're not showing you this. So
just everything with this regime from Trump's medical records and MRI,
to the Epstein files, to this, to this video of
the double tap killing. Everything is a cover up, and
the American people are sick and tired of it. American
people are sick and tired. If the economy we're doing well,
the Americans would be sick and tired of these antics. Okay,
but the economy is not doing well. When we get back,
what we need to talk about is what we saw
this morning. Unemployment ticked up to four point six percent.
We've basically had zero job growth since April, zero job
growth since April. The only sectors that are propping up
jobs at this point health care and education, the two
areas under attack from the Trump regime, are the only
areas that are creating jobs. But if you look at
professional financial, information and transportation, manufacturing, wholesale mining and logging,
of course, government jobs all seeing sharp declines. Manufacturing jobs
decline negative over this period of time, negative. And that's
Trump's whole pitch too. Versus former President Biden. There was
a manufacture objectively, there just was a manufacturing boom taking place,
and there were sixteen million jobs that were created under
former President Biden. Those are just fact. We'll talk about
this and more when we come back from our first break.
But you know, Trump and the regime try to sell
us that this is the Golden Age, this is great
and everybody's thriving, everyone's doing amazing, and we know that's
not the case. And I'll just show this before we
go to break. And this is JD. Vance in Allentown
being asked, is this an A plus plus plus economy?
And let's just show you what JD. Van said. Let's
play the club. Go.
Speaker 3: President Trump plust week gave his economy a grade of
a plus plus plus plus. What grade would you give
the economy today?
Speaker 1: A plus plus plus? Yeah, we'll take our first. We'll
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Speaker 1: Welcome to Political beat Down. Let's play that clip that
we showed right before the break one more time of JD.
Van saying a plus plus plus plus about the economy.
Let's play it go.
Speaker 3: President Trump plast week gave his economy a grade of
a plus plus plus plus. What grade would you give
the economy today?
Speaker 1: A plus plus plus No cochen, he missed one plus.
He didn't miss one plus, So that's actually means f
that's the laws of my mathematics. It's like a seventeen
hundred percent decrease. So coin, let's talk about this. Though
he's in Allentown, okay, he's in an area that is
actually hurting, should be notable. It wasn't a big crowd,
but he got people to show up, probably forced to
be there at this point, and they were applauding him.
Speaker 7: While we know that how big How big was the
audience if you don't want me.
Speaker 1: Oh, it was not I mean from what I don't
want to mistate the number, but it was close in
the hundreds, not the thousands. You know, it looked like
it was under two hundred.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean see that's the whole thing. You can
find two hundred fucked up people anywhere, right, I mean
just imagine, you know, they go into Allentown and somebody
wants to be there for whatever the reason may be.
I don't get it, and they're willing to go ahead,
which is the scary part that each and every one
of us. It's why I constantly say that this network
and the various people that contribute to it, it's why
we ask you all the time to help continue to
grow this community, because when you have communities Allentown, Pennsylvania
right where they are hurting. They've been hurting for a
while now, but now they're really hurting based upon you know,
that fake word, that hopes word, that democratic hopes word, affordability.
And they're still out there applauding a couch fucker seriously,
a guy who I mean seriously, who follows a guy
who took his I don't know, his love chair, his
armchair right to prom I mean, let's get serious for
a second. They're cheering on what ice, on the inhumanity
of rounding people up, separating children, taking there. You know,
I'm applauding all of the callous nonsense, including the fact
that many of them are losing their benefits like snaps
or healthcare and so on. But this is who you're
going to You're going to turn around and now attack
Somalia simply because what you don't like ilhan Ohmark Great,
I don't like either, But what does that have to
do with Somalia. You're going to turn around and now
tell people who may be your neighbors that they're not
welcome here in this country, despite the fact that they've
been living here for thirty forty fifty years. How about
you're going to turn around and disrespect your military as
they do every single day. No, no, But yet there's
still a group of idiots that are willing to go
there like a bunch of fucking seals and bounce their
hands back and forth, hooton, holler, and so on. The
question that you have to ask yourself is why would
they do this? And the fact that we know that
they are there is the reason why I ask every
single one of you help Midas Touch Network, help me,
help all of us to grow this community. With almost
six million subscribers, imagine if each and every one of
the subscribers brought just one person. You realize that it
dwarfs papers like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal.
It literally makes the voice magnified to the extent that
when you have idiots like this in Allentown, you know
how fast it would be for us to mobilize account
to strike against everything that's happening. Because these midterms, as
great as we are doing right now, and rest assure,
basically every single special election so far held has actually
gone to the Democrats. So while we have the momentum,
this is not the time for us to take a
step back. It's not. Now's the time for us to
literally floor it right, push the pedal to the metal,
and let's just keep moving with the same vigor and
enthusiasm and and anger that we at least the anger
I have.
Speaker 1: This will make you angry. Then JD. Vance in that
same Allentown speech, this is what he had to say
about affordability. He goes, I hear the Democrats talk about
this as if they're gonna fix this on day one.
No one can fix these issues on day one. Here's
what Jdban says. Let's see, you know, I hear these guys.
Speaker 7: I hear these Democrats talk about this as if you were.
Speaker 8: Going to fix these problems in a single day.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of probably the third day in the
Oval Office where eggs had.
Speaker 7: Gotten so expensive under the Biden administration.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, Cohen. First off, it's not day one
right now.
Speaker 7: It's also they have yeah, points Ben, they literally have
hid it's eggs and gasoline. By the way, they're not wrong.
That's all. You got gasoline prices one hundred percent. Everybody
here will acknowledge that gasoline prices are lower weather, it's
ten cents twenty thirty cents than they were a year ago.
It's just it's just factually accurate. But the eggs had
nothing to do with JD Vance, nothing to do with Trump,
nothing to do with this administration. During the Biden administration,
there was air flew and they had to literally destroy
seventeen plus million egg laying chickens. Okay, now you have
to rebuild replenish that lost amount, which is what's happening,
meaning more eggs, more to the market. Right, the demand
stays the same, price goes down. That's just an economic principle.
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, first of all, accurate. Okay, although the Trump
regime says they brought gas below two dollars a gallon,
and while it's lower right now, it's not at like
historical lows. And the fact that gas prices are down
is certainly not slight slightly down, not like wow, slightly down,
which we can acknowledge, but it's not below two dollars
and that's not offsetting the massive rise in electricity prices
and energy prices at home. So okay, on the one hand,
you've had gas prices drop seven cents a gallon, which
is the every cent matter, So I don't want to
be like, uh, whatever that matters. It adds up. Go
look at your electricity bill at home, because that's increased massively,
and that's going to continue to increase massively. Why because
of the data centers that are being built, the AI,
the crypto is draining the energy and the corporate greed
of these electricity companies that are charging more money. All
of that together, so we're in an environment right now
where inflation overall is significantly higher. But I want to
spring it back to a more simplistic level though than
getting in the weeds, because when you get in the
weeds sometimes it's important to and we're very detailed oriented here,
but sometimes you pull back and go, wait a minute.
So JD. Vans is saying right, essentially, it would be
total fraud for anybody to say that they would start
lowering prices on day one. That was his point in Allentown. Okay,
what did Donald Trump run his campaign on. He ran
his campaign on day one, Day one, I will bring
down the prices. Now. Former Vice President Kamala Harris said, well, actually,
if we give a twenty five thousand dollars, tap boot,
you lost me. You lost, You lost a lot of
the She's laying out a plan that would work, that
would make housing more affordable by targeting people who cannot
otherwise afford homes to get homes. But by the time
you've explained that, it was easier to just say what
Donald Trump just said. Here play this clip.
Speaker 2: So when I went, I will immediately bring prices down
starting on day one, we will end Kamala's war on
American energy, and we will drill, baby, drill.
Speaker 7: We're gonna drill.
Speaker 1: Okay, now, real baby drill.
Speaker 7: That's the answer to everything.
Speaker 1: Just drill, baby, you know. But but that's where you
say it a lot on these shows, this network and
other independent media in general, though we didn't have the
size and scope of platforms that we have now to
get out the truth. And we're going to be using
it responsibly, and frankly, I think in a rather a
political fashion because I mostly talk about facts more than
anything you know on the show. Occasionally I'll give you
an opinion, but by and large it's grounded in facts.
But when you see that and you say, here's the
promise that he made now that segment, that what you
saw right there, Cohen, what he said, that's what made
it onto every local broadcast leading up to the election. Yep,
they didn't cover when he'd be out there going boing
boing boing boing boying, or when he would be doing
blowjobs to the microphones, and when he would be out
there saying man deportation, or when he would be talking
about Golfer's penises, and when he would be zell you know,
he's got a big penis everybody, and I'd be I'd
be covering, and I'd be like, why is he talking
about Arnold Palmer's penis like in his speech, and like,
no one thinks that that's like an odd thing for
them to cover. You know, when he would talk about
the mass deportations, when he would talk about when he
would use language that looked like the type of language
that Hitler used, and you'd say, that's kind of similar.
I mean the language right there, this is some dangerous stuff.
When he would use the Project twenty twenty five talking points,
what would the media do Two things. One, they would
show the clip when I win, I will immediately bring
down the prices on day one. Oh, that's the stop.
And then they would say, on the other hand, you know,
former President Biden is getting hammered in the economy today.
That would be the package that all local media would blast.
And I would say, I don't know, how did he
not cover the other stuff right there? And then when
it came to the Project twenty twenty five stuff, what
would they show Donald Trump denies any knowledge of Project
twenty twenty five. Then you would do a story on
like Midas Touch would do a story on it, and
others would say, look, Project twenty twenty five, this is
their plan. What would they do? You would get a
fact check, you know, and those fact checkers that people
rely on for a lot of stuff too, the Snopes
of the World or snoops or whatever it's called, you know,
and the network fact checkers, what would they say. They
would say, Midas Touch is lying. And by the way,
then that stuff like makes it to your Wikipedia page,
like like you're not telling accurate stuff. And it's like
Midas Touch has been fact We were saying the accurate things.
We were given the warning and now you're out there
saying that we're liars. You know, they ran I remember,
you know, and Snopes has done a few fact checks
or Snoops has done a few fact checks on us.
There was one where we were like, Marjorie Taylor Green
was not applauding when Zelensky was giving the speech because
she doesn't support Ukraine, and we would get a fact
check on it and they would say, she actually touched
her palms and it resembled an applause. But like, first off,
that's not a clap. That's not the way a clap works. Second,
our point wasn't the clap, it is when you're a walrus,
by the way, our point, our point was that the
Maga Republicans are going to throw Ukraine under the bus.
There was one we did where we said, basically, Rubio
is supportive of these insurrectionists. But then they would say, well,
Rubio actually said that he does not support what happened
on January sixth, but look at his behavior about what
he did before, and how we cheered on the buses
that were trying to like derail Biden's Biden's bus tour, like,
look at their behavior, look at what their acts are.
So the broader point is is that we now have
to be louder. We now more people watch this network
than ever before. We have to be responsible in our
coverage but enough of like saying, here's what they said.
Trump said, He's a liar, He's a fraud. That's just
who he is. Callen two fingers salute. Do you want
to give it to?
Speaker 7: You know, it's it's a tough one because so many
people deserve it. Obviously Pete Hegseth for the ongoing continuous lying,
for these attacks on these vessels, the fact that they're
guest lighting American Obviously Shady Vans for his ongoing continuous
lies during these I don't even know why you would
call him a rally considering what the hell are they
rallying about. You know, Trump's not running and Jade Vance
has zero chance without him for anything, including dog Catcher.
Then of course you have machine gun lips Levet, you know,
with her daily lies and the obnoxious behavior that they take.
And you have Hassett, who sits up there like smiling Bob,
you know, the rectile dysfunction commercial guy with the small
like yeah, yeah, people are really suffering. They're not going
to be able to eat in a couple of days,
but you know it's we're doing great thanks to our
incredible president. And then you have Bessin who sits there,
you know, and honestly everything that this group that they
think about bestn't and and others you know who are
part of his community, he's still he still is knee
deep with them in the lies. And so I mean,
I can go on with each and everyone. So you
know what, I think the only fair thing to do
is there's not one who's a bigger piece of shit
today than the other. It is the organized dismantling of
our norms. The fact that we can even have people
that are surrounding Trump, including the President, who would put
out something as vile as that email, right and then
talk about it, and all these fucking assholes that are
on Fox that and on and whatever that keep promoting
this sort of behavior that if it was your kid,
you would, I mean, this kid would be locked up
inside his room for a year until he learned how
to behave and show some manners. So to all of them,
to all of these people that are participating in the
dismantling of the norms, fuck you all. We've all had enough.
And by the way, be forewarned right now from Michael
and Ben, be fucking forewarned that twenty twenty six is
coming with a major fucking vengeance. And when we do,
and when we all step up, and when we end
up changing the house and God willing to send it
as well, well, that's when they're gonna understand the fucking
term accountability and rest assured that term is no democratic hoax.
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