Speaker 1: I'm Ben Mycellas and this is Political Beatdown. I am
joined by my co host Michael Cohen on this truly
historic edition of Political Beatdown. Donald Trump is currently facing
his arraignment in a Miami Federal courthouse as we speak.
Before we went live, we can confirm that Donald Trump
was arrested and booked and fingerprinted. It is official that
Donald Trump has now been arrested more times than he
has won an election. That is an official Midas Touched
Network fact check. Right there, some of the images are
coming in. This is Donald Trump walking into the arraignment.
There is Walt Nowta right behind him in the photograph
that we are seeing, his code defendant. We are learning
that leading up to this arraignment, Donald Trump and his
co defendant Walt now have been spending lots and lots
of time together. Donald Trump keeping Walton out to very
very close to him. Michael Cohen, you recently gave Walton
now To advice in an interview that you gave and
we're seeing images right there of Donald Trump believing Dorale
the Doral Resort in Miami, and you told him, you said,
if you're Walton, no outa run. And clearly Donald Trump
knows that that would be the smart decision for Walton
Outa who could be facing the rest of his life
in prison. So Trump is holding him very, very very close.
As we have more updates on what is going on
in the federal courthouse, we will provide that live commentary.
But of course the man of the hour right now
is you, Michael Cohen, because you know more about Donald
Trump and about this type of stuff than anybody. So
how are you doing right now?
Speaker 2: You know, it's I've gotten that question probably today from
at least one hundred different journalists that called friends and
just people asking you know, how do you feel to
be honest with you? As I said once before, it's
very bittersweet. It certainly holds accountability to all. So therefore
they're really the notion that it's that we don't live
in a two system country, a judicial country. At least
we're working our way back to some form of normalcy.
It's certainly not good for the country when a former
president gets hit with thirty seven counts again, making Donald
the very first president in the history of our country
to be indicted under federal charges. I want to just
remind our brigaders that the counts that Donald was indicted
under in New York under the District Attorney of New York,
Alvin Bragg. Though those were state charges. So Donald now
holds the book, the Guinness Book, will say of records
here for being the only president ever to be indicted
forgetting about on a state charge, forgetting about on a
federal charge, but on both state and federal charges from
different scenarios. And there's more to come. Remember, Fannie Willis
has not just stepped away because of today's arraignment, today's indictment.
She's just finalizing her indictment there in Fulton County, Georgia
for election interference. And look, this is just something that
is not going to stop. And it's not going to
stop because because Donald and his acolytes are just a
group of lawless individuals. But you know, Ben, I got
to tell you one of the things Lena Habba came out.
So let me just go back for a quick second. Yes,
I told Walter Nada to run, to run like he's
never run before. And being a former military guy, I said,
I know you know how to run, run as fast
as you can and get away. I said that last
night on my MSNBC appearance with Chris Hayes tonight. I'm
actually at five pm I'm heading over to CNN where
I'm going to be part of that panel in order
to discuss what's going on. But one of the interesting
things is Alena Haba came out and she started talking
about a whole multitude of things. What I heard thereafter
from commentators is that what Trump will do is he
will now start to attack the credentials and the credibility
of Jack Smith. And I know how Donald is going
to do that because I had been living under that rock,
that shadow of doubt that Donald Trump has cast regarding
credibility as oh, you're a convicted liar, you know you're
a felon. Yes, it's true. I did plead guilty in
to my brigaders, those that know it's worth repeating. I
pled guilty to lying to Congress. But remember what I
lied about the number of times that I spoke to
Donald about the failed Trump Tower Moscow real estate project.
They wanted me to say three, So I complied, very
much like what Waltannada is currently doing, when the true
answer was not three. The true answer was ten. And
for that I was required to plead guilty to one
thousand and one violation of lying to Congress, lying to
you know, to a government agency that certainly will not
interfere with my credibility. But here with Jack Smith, whose
reputation is impeccable, the fact that they are playing by
the Trump playbook will provide them no benefit at all.
In fact, it will hurt them because sixty eight percent
of all Americans, that's Republicans, Democrats, and independents alike, all
believe that Donald Trump should be held accountable for his
mishandling of top secret documents. Now that doesn't talk about
the sixty percent of Republicans that still will vote for him,
which I find senine, But sixty eight percent of Americans
believe that Donald should be held accountable for the mishandling
of these documents.
Speaker 1: Here's what we know right now. The parties are entering
into the federal courtroom where the arraignment will take place
before the duty Magistrate, Judge. Special counsel Jack Smith of
course is there. Donald Trump is there. Waltine Naute, his
co defendant, is there. We are live right now, so
those watching on YouTube can see the Miami Federal Courthouse
on the screen as we get more updates what is
going on in the arraignment. We will keep you posted
throughout this live coverage. But moments ago, before the parties
entered into the courtroom, Alina Haba, who you reference, gave
a very bizarre press conference where she seemed very flustered, confused,
very nervous. She got all of her kind of talking
points jumbled. She really didn't. She was very tongue tied,
did not know even what to say. I want to
show you this clip of what happened when she was
giving this press conference just moments ago.
Speaker 3: Play the clip of the longstanding American principles that have
set this country apart for so long. In recent years
have seen the rise of politically motivated prosecutors who don't
care for impartiality, who don't care for due process or
equal protection of laws. They have been quietly but aggressively
cultivating a two tiered system of justice where selective treatment
is the norm. From the Russia hoax to the attorney
generals to the corrupt das in Georgia and New York
and now this. The people in charge of this country
do not love America.
Speaker 4: They hate Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: What we are.
Speaker 4: Witnessing today is the blatant and unapologetic weaponization of the
criminal justice system. The Biden appointed special counsel has sought
fit to bring thirty seven federal charges against President Trump,
the leading front runner, less than a year and a
half before an election. Countless other individuals, Hillary Critton, Joe
Biden himself retained possession of classified documents. You have not
been prosecuted, and none of them came into possession of
those documents while they were president.
Speaker 1: It is really embarrassing. I get your reaction. I mean that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So Ben, look first, so there's so many things
that she has said there that are wrong. There is
nobody other than Donald Trump who has figured out how
to weaponize the United States Department of Justice against his critics.
This book, all right, I have had out now long
before this investigation even started. That I wrote about how
Donald Trump went ahead weaponized the Department of Justice using
a willing and complicit attorney general. In order to weaponize
the Department of Justice, you need a willing and complicit
attorney general. Merrick Garland is not that person. So let
me start by saying where Alena Habba is making a terrible,
terrible mistake. First and foremost, it is not Joe Biden
who appointed Jack Smith as the special counsel. It is
Merrick Garland who did it. And Jack Smith is a
political all right, It just happens to be factual. He
is a political So she once again has no idea.
First of all, it's not Clinton, it's Hillary Clinton. But
putting all that aside, our everybody gets a little saliva
in the mouth and they screw up here and there.
But Hobba needs to understand it is not Joe Biden
who retained the services of Jack Smith, it was Americ Olin.
And then on top of that, she talks about how
Don how this investigation was started in order to stop
the Republican front runner from running. That's also completely inaccurate.
First and foremost, the investigation into this mishandling of these
top secret documents took place started Remember this brigaders eighteen
months ago, long before Donald even announced his candidacy. They
were asking for the documents back. In fact, the raid
took place before Trump announced his presidency. He only announced
the presidency thereafter because he believes that it's probably the
only way for him to get it get out of
jail free card. Without thinking that Alvin Bragg at the
time was going to be bringing a case against Donald,
you know, which would also result in incarceration. So it's
absolutely inaccurate everything that she's saying. And when we talk
about the weaponization, all right, the two tier system. All
you need to do is to read my book Revenge,
and you will see how far Donald Trump went, you know,
down the down the line to the absolute lowest, lowest
interval at the at the Bureau Prisons, Department of Corrections.
This guy Adam Pacoula and Enid Phoebus the two lowest,
then followed by Patrick McFarlane, who's just a residential re
entry guy over at Manhattan Correctional. What they did in
terms of an unconstitutional reman of a US citizen back
to prison because of that person's refusal to waive their
First Amendment constitutional right, this is nothing shot of Trump deflection.
Something that I've been thinking about since day one, Ben,
since we started political beatdown. This is all about deflection.
Donald knows that this is what he would do, and
so instead he now puts it on everyone elseuding including
usage of the term weaponization of the Department of Justice
by the Biden administration against him. All right, it is
exactly what he and his administration did onto me, to others,
and certainly would do if they retook power.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the scene outside of the Miami Federal
Courthouse where the arraignment is just about to begin, and
where Donald Trump just moments ago was formally arrested. Moments
ago as well the mayor, Republican Mayor Francis Suarez of
Miami entered the federal courthouse, and you have the Donald
Trump's supporters out there who are not Republicans, right the
Republican Party has morphed into this maga Republican party.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: Pull up some photos, Salty, if we can of just
the types of people who are out there supporting Donald Trump.
Right now, you have these two white ladies who are
wearing blacks for Trump twenty twenty shirts right there with
their Trump bag upside down. Pull up the next photo, Salty.
You've got, I guess an individual with a pig's head
on a stick, wearing an American flag kind of dress outfit.
That's the type of people. So when Mayor Suarez entered
the courthouse, and mind you, he's a Trump supporters.
Speaker 2: Been just to let you know, seeing and he's actually
right now reporting that Donald has played not guilty to
the charges. And I do believe that they waived the
reading of the indictment. And so, you know what's interesting
to Ben. You know what's really interesting is my understanding
is tonight at the Durral I believe that he's having
a fundraiser, which to me is comical. It's comical in
the fact that he's going to fundraise off of an
arrangement and indictment and being the very first president charged
with a felony.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we could officially confirm, Michael Cohen, as you
just said that Trump has pled not guilty to the
classified document charges. He has waived the reading of the indictment.
And all that means is that by law, the magistrate
judge would be required if the criminal defendant wanted to
have the entire indictment read, with each and every count read.
Waiving the indictment just means you go in there, you
plead not guilty as to each and every one of
those counts, thirty seven counts against Donald Trump for wilful retention,
obstruction of justice, conspiracy, the charges under the Espionage Act,
making false statements, and others. So that just took place,
and before the arraignment took place, I want to show
you what happened when the Republican mayor of Miami, who's
a Trump supporter, entered the courthouse and he was attacked
and berated by the Trump supporters who called him a
swamp monster. Here play this clip.
Speaker 5: A deep state.
Speaker 2: We got a deep state slap monster. We gotta swamp monster, folks.
We got a big swap monster slaps getting rounded up.
Bad time's coming, baby. The SWAP's getting taken down, and
you'll get taken down.
Speaker 1: And for all of the Republicans who are complicit and
aiding and embedding what Donald Trump has done effectively to
try to destroy our democracy, that's ultimately what you get.
You mentioned the fundraiser at the Dorrel. We actually have
the official invitation right here, we'll pull it up.
Speaker 2: And they had time during the period that the guy
doesn't even have a lawyer to represent him, a local lawyer.
They're busy working up you know something that, of course
I'm sure Donald had to look over and approve an
event in order to honor him. Could you imagine, could
you imagine that people are going to pay in order
to honor the guy after being the first president in
America's history to be federally indicted. I mean, to me,
I'm just trying to figure out what's wrong with these people,
and I want to talk about one other thing as well.
Since we were show in the photos, you know, it
almost makes it look like there's a large crowd out there.
From what I understand from friends who are there right now,
journalists that are there right now, there's less than a
thousand supporters of Trump there. That's certainly not the crowd
that he would expect. In fact, the local baseball team
of the local football team crushes those numbers in terms
of turnout. I mean, it is a piss poor turnout. Now,
I'm thankful for that, and I'm thankful for the amazing
work done by the Miami Dade Police Department, Secret Service
and all law enforcement that participated in ensuring you know,
the movement of Donald from the durral or wherever the
hell he's going to becoming a going to the courthouse
so that he could stand for this arraignment and so on.
Good for them, and I hope to god nobody gets hurt,
you know, not supporters, not you know, you know, not protractors,
not certainly not law enforcement. Let everything just come and
go peacefully, which is what we want. But what we
really want is we want to see Donald Trump held accountable.
But then you started showing photos of like those two
elder women wearing you know, blacks for Trump and so on.
You know, there's so many of this idiot running around
there yelling at people saying, my grandfather, you know, fought
for this country and died for this country. His grandfather, right,
this guy, I think it looks like he's in his
late sixties himself. Yeah, many people have fought and died
for this country, right. But the funny thing is, unlike
Captain bone Spur, Yeah, they fought for this country. They
didn't get their daddy to go to a pediatrist to
get a deer, you know, a deferment. You know, they
didn't do that. So if you really want to be
angry at somebody, be angry Captain bone Spur. I mean
these people, and we should really do some sort of
a shirt on it. They are nothing but Trump trash,
That's all that they are. These Trump trash people. They
just they don't have any respect for law, They have
no respect for owl laws, no respect for the Constitution,
no respect for process. They are racist to the core.
They all look exactly the same, like they just came
out of some nineteen seventies you know, porn movie of
some sort. They all, all the guys support the porn stashes.
They all support like this. You know these you know,
these just these crazy sort of looks on them. I mean,
it's all exactly the same with the mullets. I mean,
they're all wearing sort of the same type of clothes.
It's truly amazing how he's managed to capture this group
of people based on his lies.
Speaker 1: But that's who the modern day Republican Party is, right
Marjorie Tayler Green and Lauren Bobert and Jim Jordan, you know,
you go on, those are all of who their leadership is.
By the way, I was looking at that invite for
one hundred thousand dollars, they have a candlelight dinner with
Donald Trump. That's one of the things that pay one
hundred thousand dollars to celebrate his arraignment today. You get
a candlelight dinner with him. I mean, how pathetic can
you possibly be.
Speaker 2: I think what we need to do is we need
to go to our merch store, and I think we
have to come back with the Donald Trump orange prison jumpsuit.
I mean, I think, you know, no, not I know
that's the shirt, but I know we have the orange
jumpsuit with it says Trump on at number forty five.
We need to come back with that for a while
because that would be great. In fact, if I could
find mine, I will actually maybe show up to CNN
wearing it tonight. I mean, it is truly incredible one
hundred thousand dollars to dine with Donald after what's going
on here, after the mishant of classified information. I mean,
is it's remarkable. That's all I can say. It's the
goal by these folks is truly remarkable.
Speaker 1: I want to play you the moment when CNN learned
that Donald Trump had been formally arrested and booked. We
have that historic moment right here. Let's play the clip.
Speaker 2: Collins and Miami, thanks so much. Let's go to the
other side of the courthouse where we find Paul Reid,
who has the new information. PAULA, that's right.
Speaker 6: We are learning from inside the court that the booking
process is now complete, and that was going to look
more or less like it would for any other defendant.
Former President of his attorneys had some paperwork to fill out.
Is expected that he would be fingerprinted, but they weren't
going to do a mug shot or anything like that.
But in a short time he will go before a
magistrate judge and they will read the charges that have
been filed against him. He's expected to please not guilty,
and at his defense table will be Todd Blanche and
Chris Kist He's the former Florida's solicitor general. The former
president has not been able to put together his permanent
legal team after the departures of the past few weeks
of all of the defense attorneys who have represented him
in this case. But again, this is just the first
step in what is expected to be a very long
and certainly historic case. Now some people have asked me
why is it so hard for Trump to find lawyers?
But there are a lot of reasons for that. One
is there concerns about him paying his bills. There's also concerns,
we're told about reputational damage alienating other clients. He's also
a notoriously difficult person to represent, with a lot of
the political folks around him. Meddling in legal affairs as
part of why some of his legal team has already
left from this case. But I am told down here
in Florida, a lot of the best defense attorneys, they
have their own practice, and representing Trump is a full
time job. But I am told it is very likely
that he will eventually find a lawyer, but it's gonna
take time. The other big thing I'm watching for in
this courtroom is who is going to be at the
prosecution table. The Special Counsel's office would not tell us
on the record for security reasons, who will be representing
the Special Counsel's office. But if Jack Smith is in
the courtroom today, that would be the first time that
Trump would come face to face with a man who
filed the first ever criminal charges against a former president
of the United States.
Speaker 2: All right, Paul Read, thank you so much, Anderson, Thank
thanks so much. John Noan, this just seems and.
Speaker 1: Michael Cohen, I want to get your reaction to that,
and specifically Donald Trump struggling to find a lawyer. You
heard the various reasons given why he can't find a lawyer. Now,
probably no one knows the answer to this question. Let's
face it, better than you. Let's get your take.
Speaker 2: Sure, I want to get.
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Speaker 1: We are alive here on Political beat Down Donald Trump
currently in the Federal courthouse in Miami. Special counsel Jack Smith,
from what we heard is indeed present. Here are some
of the updates that we have from inside the courtroom.
Judge Jonathan Goodman, the magistrate judge, referred to Donald Trump
as quote former President Trump. Trump sat with his arms
folded and no expression on his face throughout the preceding
this coming from Scott McFarlane of CBS. Where we last
left off, Michael Cohen, I was asking you about Trump's
inability to find a local lawyer. He had this Christopher
kiss guy already on a retainer, paid him three million
dollars from he didn't pay him. The Political Act Action
grifting group paid Christopher Kist three million dollars. But Donald
Trump never really liked this Christopher Caise guy was trying
to find some other lawyer to represent him. Struck out.
What's your thoughts?
Speaker 2: Okay, First of all, you have to understand that Donald's
history does not lend to law firms, especially not law
firms that are referred to as white shoe firms coming
to represent him, because they have all been screwed by
him over over the course of his let's just say,
you know, four or five decades of business. That makes
it difficult in and of itself. Couple that with the
fact that Donald is a very difficult client. He's not
a client that likes to listen to his lawyers to
take their advice, which is why he has the issue
with Chris Kist. And there's another lawyer I forget who's
supposedly there with him at the same time. But you
know the two lawyers that have recently left. I mean,
there's this always, this ongoing chaos that exists that existed
within the world of Trump, that exists right now in
the world of former President Trump. And leading that craziness
is Boris Epstein, a lawyer by you know, by education,
who has never practiced. He has no idea what he's
talking about, and he seems to be now Trump's go
to guy in order to find people to represent him,
in order to come up with legal strategy. The guy
has no idea what he's doing. We're not talking about
a personal injury action. We're not talking like with Aleen Haba,
who listen. She is a good spokesperson. But this is
an attorney that does business transaction, specifically in the area
of parking garages. I mean, this is not the person
who's supposed to get up there. Now. She's entitled to
say whatever she wants in defense of Donald. Don't get
me wrong, everyone except for of course me, when Donald
was president, has the right to free speech. I one
hundred percent acknowledge that she should say whatever she wants.
Of course, it would be nice if what she would
say is factually accurate.
Speaker 1: But I just want to briefly, and I just want
to briefly interrupt you, just to give the breaking news
as we learn from what went on in the courthouse
that I want to hear your continued thoughts on Alina
Haba and Donald Trump's inability to have a lawyer. So,
the federal prosecutors have stated that they did not believe
Donald Trump is a flight risk, and Donald Trump has
been allowed to leave his arraignment without conditions. This is
being reported by Reuters and CNN. Trump had his arms
folded and periodically spoke to his attorney, the one who
is there, Todd Blanche, the New York Street lawyer. While
in the courtroom he pled not guilty as expected. Blanche
was the attorney who addressed the judge. But get this,
this is big with the magistrate judge ordered said that
Donald Trump could have no contact with any witnesses in
the case, including Walt Nouta, who currently works for him.
Let me repeat that that Donald Trump can have no
contact with any witnesses in the case, including Waltonnaute who
currently works for him. Mind you, there are a lot
of witnesses who he surrounds himself with each and every day,
who are aware of his theft of these classified records
and his obstruction of justice. He can only have contact
though through council. So Donald Trump can't have any direct
communications with any witness. Trump's lawyer can communicate with a
lawyer of the witness Walt Naute and by the way,
any other witness in the matter. And this is significant.
Let's remember that just last night, what did Trump do?
He had dinner with Walt Nauta and all of the
attorneys got together in a room. Nauta was present, Trump
was present. They went to a dinner at I think
it's BLT in Miami. And so again that is big.
And by the way, people may be saying, why didn't
Special Counsel Jack Smith or anybody request any additional flight restrictions.
Why would they say that he's not a flight risk? Well,
also knowing that there are these conditions now about not
talking to witnesses, perhaps just them realizing that Trump is
probably going to step into it on his own and
then they'll bring it up in the future. Cohen, what's
your reaction to that breaking news?
Speaker 2: I have, of course first, so I'm also very curious
Ben whether or not, and I believe they probably did. Uh,
they probably took his passport. They surrendered the passports, which
you know is as sistem in terms of ensuring that
he's not a flight risk, you know, not not that
any country that he would be going to, you know,
would keep him. And if, in fact, if they would,
I think the United States government should send them a check,
a thank you check. But you know, going just back
to you know, to this, it's it makes perfect sense.
It's standard operating procedure. Judge Goodman is doing exactly what
he's supposed to be doing right now, and he's just
ensuring that, you know, Donald based upon who he is
and his capabilities, does not end up corrupting or creating
more difficulty for this case as it goes uh back
to Judge a Leen Cannon, Uh, you know, after, you know,
after today, But just to finish what I was, you
know what I was saying this entire matter and the
fact that he could be hosting this function thereafter, it's
really it's incredible, and it just goes to show you
the narcissism and the sociopathy that's associated to this individual.
I also just want to tell you I believe that BLT,
the restaurant that they ate at last night, is actually
inside the Dral. It's the restaurant inside the Dorral. I'm
pretty sure that they did not leave the property, yep.
Speaker 1: And I want to also go back to the fact
that we mentioned earlier about the invitation that was immediately
sent out to have this celebration with Donald Trump. As
many of our viewers are pointing out, this event will
actually be taking place at bed Minster but in New Jersey.
But based on what we've just learned with some of
the restrictions that are placed, the fact that Trump and no,
I'm just sorry.
Speaker 2: Actually the question that you left off on was about
the fact that they can't get lawyers or competent lawyers.
You know, anybody can get a lawyer, it's getting a
competent lawyer. You're talking about being charged with espionage. And
I want our brigaders to remember that we're not talking
espionage like in the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg espionage case.
You know, this is mishandling of documents. This is being
in possession and refusing to return documents that deal with
national security. And we already know based upon reports that
there were these documents. We also know, and I've been
saying this since day number one, since the day of
the raid, the FBI needs to go and investigate every
single location that dear old Donald was at since the
day that he left the White House, because knowing what
Donald does, he will leave documents all over the place,
whether they're photo copies or whether they're just boxes. He
will put them in multiple different places, as he did
even at mar Rolardo. You know, there's no reason for
him to have had it. The question becomes, and it
really needs to be considered, the unholy relationship that exists
between Kushner and Mohammad bin Salman, the King of the
Deputy Crown of Saudi Arabia. I mean, it needs to
be really looked at why they gave him the two
plus billion dollars to run. You know what's going on here.
There's going to be so much information that's going to
come as a result of this. And I promise you this,
Brigaders Donald has no interest whatsoever in being incarcerated, whether
it's going to be in a facility or even in
a significant home confinement setting. He will turn on anyone
in everyone that he can in order to save his
own fat ass and rest assured that include Jared, Jared
more than anyone, because it is eating him up alive
that Jared is now swimming in money. They're building a
sixty million dollar home. In fact, Jared is now substantially
wealthier than Donald, and all of that acquired, at least
in Donald's mind, as a result of working for him
as a senior advisor to the president. So he is
furious that Jared is so financially comfortable right now on
his own outside of the Cushner Company, outside of Jared's
family business. So this is driving him up a wall.
And I promise you he will turn on Jared. He
will turn on Ivanka, on Don on you know, on
Kimberly Gargoyle, on Eric, on Lara, he will turn on
anyone in order to protect himself. And rest assured, We're
going to see a lot more information coming out of
this indictment, coming out of this you know, investmentstigation, a
whole lot more.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about everything we know that's happened today. At
this arraignment in the federal courthouse in Miami, the Southern
District of Florida, Magistrate Judge Jonathan Goodman was presiding over it.
That's the job of a magistrate judge to preside over
an arraignment. But this was just him serving as the
duty magistrate, so it's a temporary assignment for him. It's
likely going to go to Judge Reinhardt or another magistrate. Judge.
Judge Jonathan Goodman referred to Trump as former President Trump.
Trump sat there with his arms folded and no expression
on his face the entire time. Donald Trump waived the
reading of the indictment, and then he entered a plea
of not guilty. Federal prosecutors said they do not believe
Donald Trump to be a flight risk, and the former
president has been allowed to leave the arraignment without conditions.
According to several sources, Trump had his arms folded the
whole time and periodically spoke to his attorney, Todd Blanche,
while in the courtroom he pled not guilty. As mentioned,
Blanche was the attorney who addressed the judge. The judge
said that former President Trump could have no contact with
any witnesses in the case, including his co defendant Walton Nauta,
who currently works for him. The witnesses can have contact
via their attorneys. However, Donald Trump did not need to
surrender his passport. There are no limits on international travel,
there are no limits on firearms. But the one restriction
that we're aware of right now is that the judge
said Trump can have no contact with witnesses, which includes
his aid Walt Nauta. And by the way, at this
event that's supposed to take place later at ben Minster
in New Jersey, you would expect there to be a
lot of witnesses there. At mar A Lago. You would
expect there to be lots of witnesses. We have reported
about dozens and dozens of people, including Secret Service, including
all of his staff at mar A Lago, who have
gone before the Grand jury as Special Counsel Jack Smith
presented evidence. So Donald Trump can have no direct contact
with any of those individuals. And that likely also includes
Evan Corkran, his once lawyer, who is a witness. It
probably includes Christina Bob. I wonder, and I'm thinking out
loud here though, if it also includes Alena Haba, because
Alena Habba is a witness as well. She went before
the Grand jury, she was in Trump's office. So I
think we're going to have to flesh out the extent
of that new contact.
Speaker 2: God, what do we know about fingerprinting? I understand that
he was fingerprinted. Do we know whether or not a
mugshot was taken?
Speaker 1: They allowed from all the reporting we've heard about, they
allowed another photo to be used in lieu of a
mug shot, but that's what they used as the official mugshot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was one of them. You think
it was one of the photos from his NFTs where
he's like Captain America, or he's like a superhero or
a cowboy. Wouldn't that be a great mugshot?
Speaker 1: That that certainly certainly would be.
Speaker 2: But we can call a mugshot. Could you imagine what
that diaper must be filled with? Right now? Let me
tell you, you know, when you have your arms crossed,
just so you know, I mean, anybody will tell you
in psychology, when you see somebody sitting like this, it's twofold.
One it's defiance and two it's almost trying to project superiority,
like if you are a judge sitting and presiding over someone.
But what he didn't, what he had to realize is
that his share is obviously below that of the you know,
of the judge who is elevated and you know, quite
some distance away. It's it would be it's too bad
that they didn't have this televised. It should have been televised.
It's of national import and you know what, it would
be important for Americans to see on both sides in
that way, the Trump tards or the Trump trash that
they would see that nobody mistreated their furor whereas those
that do not support Donald Trump would feel that justice
and accountability is being served because our Department of Justice,
thanks to Donald, thanks to Bill Barr, thanks to individuals
like Jared and Ivanka and Mark Meadows and the Jim
Jordans and the Josh Haldys and the Marjorie Toilet Greens
and the lor Boberts and the whole group of them,
the Ted Cruzes, all of them have been complicit in
destroying our faith in the Department of Justice. Rest assured,
I am one of them, because I know what it
feels like to have the Department of Justice at the
hands of the former president coming down on you and slamming,
you know, slamming you into the wall with nonsense and bullshit.
That's again why I keep talking about how Donald is
deflecting right now. Oh, it's the weaponized Biden Department of
Justice coming against me. Who do you think wrote Alina
Habba's statement? I mean she may have written it. He
certainly looked at it. He certainly made, you know, his
edits to it in order to continue with the you know,
but the message that he wants to portray, and that
is that he is always the victim. Remember that, folks,
He is always the victim in every single situation. You know, Well,
the thing that I want people to also remember is
that there has not been a single moment in time.
Forget about the fact that I know going back to
two thousand and seven. I'm talking about from the time
that he decided to run for the presidency in twenty
fifteen to today, all right, and we're talking about eight years
now that Donald Trump has apologized for any action that
he has made since day number one, whether it was
the disrespecting of Mexicans, whether it was the proclaiming that
there are good people on both sides when you're talking
about white supremacists walking down Charlottesville screaming Jews will not
replace us, all the way through to his attacks on women,
attacks on migrants, attacks on Islam, attacks on you know, Muslims,
attacks on even certain evangel his attacks on the individuals
that are holding the January sixth insurrectionist accountable, to the
Hillary Clinton's, to the Joe Biden's, to the Michael Cohens.
He doesn't know what it means to apologize, and he
will never apologize, regardless of what this judge or any
judge holds against him.
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unindicted presidents. I think we have a photograph there, every
single one other than Donald Trump. Photograph there of all
the unindicted presidents. While we didn't have any video or
photos inside the courthouse, be theeral court proceedings don't allow that.
It's so anachronistic and backwards. That's a rule across the
federal courts. It's so bizarre when you see the cameras
and photographs that's usually in state court proceedings. The media
actually petitioned to be in in the courtroom for these proceedings,
and that was denied very late last night. But we
do have these photographs of Donald Trump entering the courthouse.
We could see this photograph of him right there. That's
wal Now to write behind him who the magistrate judge
has ordered that Donald Trump can have no more direct
communications and no more direct contact with I think we
also have this video as well of Donald Trump leaving Doral,
the Doral resort in Miami, headed to federal court. And
I think we also have a footage of Special Counsel
Jack Smith. This is Donald Trump leaving Miami Doral. And
then we have photos of Jack Smith, who was present
at the hearing today. Jack Smith at the airport. There's
Jack Smith right there arriving at Miami Airport and you
can see him headed out of the airport and he
was at the proceedings today. We have a lot more
to discuss. We're going to go over again everything that
went down today. I want to get your reaction to
this all, Michael Cohen. I mean to hear this from
you right now before you give it to anyone else
in the media. I know you're going to be speaking
to see it in a little bit later and maybe
doing some other interviews, but you're telling the brigaders first
right here, So I want to get your thoughts of
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Speaker 1: We are back live here on political beat Down for
a very special edition where we are covering the arraignment
of Donald Trump in the Miami Federal Courthouse. Thank you everybody.
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miightas touch dot com. Something a bit unusual happen though,
during that break Michael Cohen, which is Donald Trump's former
lawyer Tim Park, they went on MSNBC and started giving
an interview and seemed to be talking about things that
were going down in the grand jury. I want to
show this clip and just get your reaction to it
here if we have it, Salty, play the clip.
Speaker 7: And I make sure that people understood what you were saying,
because my understanding of the grand jury rules is that
unless you, as the were a witness, you wouldn't be
in the grand jury. I thought that was against the law,
actually that you could be outside the grand jury room,
so where you were counting what you experienced as a
witness or is it in some other context.
Speaker 8: No, It's been well reported that the original subpoena that
was to the office of Donald J. Trump. They wanted
a custodian of records to appear. None was available because
the organization didn't have a kustodian of records. And we
made the tactical decision that I would go into the
grand jury because they specifically wanted to talk about the searches,
the subsequent searches that my team undertook at the other
Trump properties, and so I went into the grand jury
so that I could speak to them directly about that.
Uh So, That's that's what happened, And it was something
the prosecutors did not want me to come into the
grand jury. They fought it, and ultimately, you know, they
they had to bring me in. And during that period
that I was in the grand jury, they did commit
these multiple errors. Actually gave me contruct You for.
Speaker 7: Just a second, we have a pla.
Speaker 2: You warned him, Cohen, You warned him.
Speaker 1: How glad are you right now to not just the
story or anything?
Speaker 2: You wanted to say the same thing. It's as I
said to Walton Nada Run. I said the same thing
to Parlortry. Run You made the mistake. You got in
bed with the devil. Now it's time to run before
your ass ends up in trouble. You know, so far
we've seen Donald Trump teflon don escape accountability, but that's
not happening anymore. Accountability is coming. As it relates to
the New York Attorney General case, accountability is coming right
in the District Attorney of New York's case, Accountability is
certainly coming regarding this new federal indictment Jack Smith for
the mishandling of the classified information. There's going to be more.
Whether it's January sixth, whether it's going to be Fannie
willis the Fulton County DA case, It's coming. Accountability is here.
We just showed it that he is the only president
in US history not once but twice a federal as
well as a state indictment. This is no joke. I
have told Parliament, but I've told everybody you need to
run because Donald doesn't care who he throws under the bus,
and he will use every every trick in the book
in order to exculpate himself from the recis responsibility from
the liability that comes with the action, and he will
place it on somebody else. And he doesn't give a
ratsass what happens to you, you know, I see you Cohen.
Speaker 1: The contrast could not be more stark, right, I see
Cohen in the v neck, in good shape, looking good,
joking around with me. But also we're focused on very
serious subject matter. But I see someone who the truths
that you're free. I see you holding power, you know,
holding these powerful evil forces accountable. And then I see
someone like Parlatory there with the lights on because he has.
Speaker 2: Not suffered the consequences yet I did. I was taken
away from my family for thirteen months. I spend fifty
one days in solitary confinement. And I'm not talking about
the solitary confinement that you see on movies a television
where you're out in the yard. For now, I'm talking
about no time out. I've done fifty one days inside
ICEL twenty four to seven. All Right, it's miserable as
in existence I have. You know, I can't even begin
to talk about the financial, you know, damage that this
has caused to me and to my family. Right however,
I have made a commitment that I will continue to
speak truth to power because it's so much bigger than
just me. It's something I talk about even in my
book Revenge, and I ask everybody to please buy Revenge,
read the book, or listen to it on audio, which
you can it's available on audible. It is so important
because it lays out the most corrupt prosecution against a
United States citizen in the history of our country. It
is exactly what you see going on right now in Russia.
It's what you see going on in Saudi Arabia. It's
what you see going on in you know, North Korea.
It's what you see going on in these you know,
in these dictatorial countries where you know, the way to
shut somebody up is you just basically lock them up.
And then it talks about It's like when I watch
Bill Barr on television talking about how he told Donald
Trump this that, this is this, Donald is now toast.
Fuck you, Bill. You know what, since it's a political
beatdown day, someone's got to get the two middle things.
It's not Donald today or his dirty diaper, it's you,
Bill Barr. Fuck you. You have every reason in the
world to right now you want to be invited back
to polite society. You show that face of yours and
you come clean on everything that you did at the
direction of the benefit of an in concert with Donald Trump.
You take your lumps like I have taken mine, all right,
and that way you would then have the right to
step up and to speak truth to to make sure
that somebody like Donald Trump never gets anywhere near the
White House, let alone the Oval Office ever again, because
our democracy is too important. It's not just important for
us as Americans, it's important for the entire world, because
when you have a weak America, you have a weak world.
And that's exactly what we're experiencing right now, despite the
fact that Biden is trying to do everything in his capabilities,
you know, coming off of what Donald Trump had done,
the fighting with our allies for the benefit of our adversaries.
This is the problem and this is what needs to
be corrected. And it's more than just one person meaning myself,
can handle. It needs a lot of people. It needs
the Brigade, It needs you, Ben, it needs the entire
Midas Touch family, it needs all the Maya Culpa supporters,
it needs everybody, and we all need to join together
to ensure that this bullshit that we see on the
right side of our screen, the live views of this
Trump trash walking around with Trump twenty twenty four flags.
You know, we're not talking about a man who should
ever hold public office. We gave him a shot. He
was given a shot to show himself. Sadly, he showed
his true colors. He became the worst version of himself imaginable.
And we thought that that couldn't get any worse. Well, look,
there's another guy with the mullet, you know, I mean,
this is the Trump trash that's sitting there, you know,
talking their nonsense, their smack, ignoring things like ro versus weight,
Ignoring things like the LGBTQ plus community, ignoring transgender wanting
to ban books, Southern White Christian Coalition rights, you know,
white privilege, all of this bullshit. You know, you see
this guy right there in the in the written shirt.
He was attacked this morning by actually by a guy
who was yelling at him, claiming that his grandfather that's
what I was telling you about. He was attacked. The
police came and they broke the whole thing up, and
he said, I have my First Amendment right the same
way that they do. But they said, no, you don't know,
you don't and they start screaming, my grandfather died for
this country. So he turned around. He goes, I was
in the military. I mean, guy with the writings on
the shirt Trump sucks. He was in the military, according
to him. So you know, the guys are sitting there,
it doesn't make a difference. Well, my grandpa died. They
are so myoptic in their thought process. They are so
entrenched into this cult of Donald Trump. They have drunken
that kool aid that is making them stupider than shit.
And it's so sad. It's sad for our country, it's
sad for the world. And you know what, whatever we
could continue to do, it's why I fight. It's why
I keep asking please don't forget about to go fund me.
Interestingly enough, tomorrow there's a hearing on in regard to
that case. I apologize. Nope, that's next Wednesday. Tomorrow, I
have the case of me versus Trump for legal fees
on moneys that still owe to lawyers and others. You know,
that case goes on for pre trial conference tomorrow. That
case goes to trial July twenty fourth, So stay tuned
on that one for updates which I will provide to you.
But it is goes back to the whole thing when
I said, Trump doesn't pay his bills. I know that,
you know that, the brigaders know that. In fact, even
the Trump trash knows that. And despite the fact that
they keep giving him piles and piles of money that
he's permitted to use at his own discretion, ninety percent
of he's not even using him to pay legal fees
for lawyers that are competent in a convict an a
felony that could end up, you know, costing him the
balance of his life in some form of incarceration. That
makes him a fucking moron.
Speaker 1: I want to show the clip. As we watch, it
appears from the screen that at this point Trump will
be exiting the courthouse. So we'll be following that right now.
A lot a lot going on that we are reporting,
of course, here a lot of new and breaking news.
Donald Trump waived the reading of his indictment pled not guilty.
One of the restrictions is he's not allowed to have
any further direct communication with any of the witnesses who
are involved in the case, including his co defendant Walton Nauta. However,
his passport wasn't taken. There is no other travel restrictions
that have been placed on him, the one restriction being
no communications with other witnesses like Walton Outa. I want
to show Cohen what you said on MSNBC very recently.
This was your message to Walton out where you said
to him you better run here.
Speaker 2: Play this clip.
Speaker 9: Well, that brings us the final thing I'll ask you
as is Walt Nada, who is who is indicted along
with him, and who is alleged to have participated in
conspiracy by being the person who moved the boxes at
Donald Trump's direction and lied about it to federal agents,
and that lie is recorded.
Speaker 5: In the indictment.
Speaker 9: I find myself having some sympathy for the man, but
I'm curious to someone who also has been in a
somewhat similar position, how you feel about it reading the
facts about mister Nada.
Speaker 2: Okay, so Walt will get thrown under the bus. There
is no doubt about this one. And if there's anything
that I can do, I would look straight into the
camera and say, Walt, I know you're watching. Run run
as fast as you can, my friend, right, And as
a former military guy, I know you know how to
run quickly. Run as quickly as you can, because Donald
Trump will throw you under the bus faster than you
could possibly imagine. And he won't throw you into the
bus simply just to save himself. He'll just throw you
under the bus simply because he can and because he
thinks it will provide him with some form of a benefit.
Speaker 1: And then, of course we saw Donald Trump enter the
courthouse with Walton. Now to there we see the cars
exiting the federal courthouse. We believe that to be Donald
Trump leaving the courthouse where he just pled not guilty.
He was just recently arrested. He didn't have to have
a mugshot taken. Instead, another photograph was used in its place.
He was fingerprinted when he was placed under arrest. He's
now been arrested more times than he won in offense.
Speaker 2: Cohen Ben, I'll tell you the thing that infuriates me
to no end. It's the equivalency argument that Trump trash,
that Trump is trash, and all of those around him
these acts, the lights continue to spew and regurgitate this
message of ignorance and stupidity. Well, what about Joe Biden.
He had, you know, top secret documents, according to Trump,
eleven hundred and eighty boxes. And then he had some
that were by his corvette. He had some at a library.
They talk about Hillary Clinton and her emails. These are
not equivalents. I mean, they completely failed to understand exactly
what the charges are. It almost it's almost comical that
most of them either refused to read the they refused
to read the indictment, the charging document that was incredibly
prepared by Jack Smith. I mean, it lays it out
that you don't have to be an attorney to understand.
Any layperson who reads it fully understand that there is
no equivalency to what they are trying to claim, and
that is that what Donald did was done by Biden,
it was done by Obama, it was done by Clinton,
it was done by Bill Clinton. It was done by
every president since the day of George Washington, according to
Donald J. Trump. And that goes to show you the
fact that he's not just a liar, but he's willfully ignorant,
because that is absolutely untrue. What they are saying is
they had made request. Do you want to really you know,
none of this today was really necessary, none of it.
In fact, this would not be taking place but for
Donald's refusal to return his obstinence and the fact that
his defiance ended up causing today. He has only one
person to blame for today, and he has to look
in the mirror at himself and say, Donald, you are
a fucking fool. All he needed to do was to
turn over the information that they knew that he had,
that they have been requesting now for eighteen months. They
gave this ass clown every fucking opportunity to return it
and not have consequences. He would have escaped these consequences.
In fact, we also don't know whether or not this
information has been photo copied, whether or not it's been
it's been digitized. We don't know any of this. You know,
he could have turned this all over, still retaining the
documents on some thumb drive or a computer that only
he hadn't access to. There's a many things that this
sneak could have done. But instead, no, baby Donald faiant
douchebag decided that he was going to turn around somemb
his you know some in the eyes of the you know,
of the government and refuse to return what they ultimately
knew that he had. And there's still, as I say,
there's still insiders that are turning on Donald every day,
and I still believe it's Javanka, you know, Jared and Ivanka,
there's no doubt considering they seem to have escaped so
much of this and they are knee deep into it.
But putting all that aside, he could have avoided today
simply by returning information that did not belong to him,
plain and simple. The fact that he didn't, he deserves
exactly what he's getting right now.
Speaker 1: When you actually look through the indictment as well, and
you see the photographs, and just so everyone knows what
we're watching on screen, there seems to be a lot
of these Trump supporters who are trying to greet or
see their cult leader or leaving will be following what's
going on there. When you actually go through the indictment
and you look at these photographs, and you see where
these boxes were being kept, right, They're being kept in
a room with a scanner and a copy machine.
Speaker 2: Is that really what it is? You know? I try
to blow it up on my computer, and it's very difficult,
you know, to tell, you know, whether it is a
copier or not. I don't I don't know. I truly
don't know, you know, I've literally I tried to blow
it up, and I blew it up so big that
it pixelated itself out. I couldn't even tell what it is.
But rest is short. You know, they will ultimately reveal
what that thing is. We will ultimately find it out.
You know. It's just the problem again, you know, goes on,
not just the fact that I have all these lawsuits
that I'm trying to deal with at the same point
in time, I remain adamant that I am trying to
get any of the four hundred and eighty thousand documents
that were part of my Foyer request that has now
been two years in the trying to get the court
turnarounds at every twenty third of the month I'm supposed to. Well,
what it says exactly is that government is supposed to
process at minimum five hundred documents per month. We are
now on going on month ten. The end of this month,
on the twenty fifth, it'll be ten months. I should
have received at least some documents up to what really
should be five thousand pages. I have received nothing, because
every single or any one of those documents will end
up showing the complicity of a group of individuals in
multiple different areas working at the direction of in coordination
with them for the benefit of Donald J. Trump to
do what to weaponize, to end up throwing me back
into prison in order to protect his own ass. All right,
that's the problem here. I still can't get that. We
have the lawsuit pending on that as well. It's still
going on, not a document. And this, my friends, is
why nobody's trusting our government right now. All right. They
are slow, they are ineffective. And while I applaud everything
that's going on, you know, and the expeditiousness in this
specific case, it would have been nice to have seen
long ago the January sixth insurrection, all all these individuals, Donald,
you know, Eric Lara, Ted Cruz, Josh Holey, Marjorie Taylor,
all of them, they all should have been held accountable
for their participation in it. And as each day goes
on further and further, it's going to be more and
more difficult because it will end up impeding right into
the dead center of the campaign for the presidency if
Donald ends up staying in you.
Speaker 1: Know, a very very small crowd right outside of the courtroom,
and you mentioned I mean you're probably talking in the
low hundreds probably people, yeah, you know, probably even maybe
five hundred because there's maybe five hundred people plus a
bunch of media.
Speaker 2: So I called a little rally downtown in Manhattan in
front of City Hall, or doing a walk in the
park together, we would get the same number of people.
I mean, this is I mean, this is minuscule compared
to the local high school football team.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, And let me tell you some of what
we're learning about what went down in the arraignment in
the federal courthouse. So Jack Smith was there. Special counsel
Jack Smith was reported as watching intently from the court room.
According to court observers, they don't believe that Jack Smith
and Donald Trump ever made eye contact. Donald Trump waive
the reading of the indictment and just pled not guilty
after he was arrested and fingerprinted. He pled not guilty
to retention of national defense information and obstruction. It's being
reported by court observers, Hugo Lowell being one of them.
He's done some incredible reporting. And I know he's been
on the Maya Culpa podcast before as well, So shout
out to Hugo who's been first rate. He said, Trump
looked frustrated throughout his arraignment. He folded his arms and
refolded his arms throughout with a constant frown on his face.
Todd Blanche, his lead counsel, who appeared with Chris Kiss,
objected to the bond condition. Donald Trump did not need
to surrender his passport. There is no limit on international travel,
there is no limit on firearms. But the federal judge
said that Donald Trump can have no contact with witnesses.
And the witnesses include his co defendant Walt Nwta. But
we know about the dozens of other people who have
went before the grand jury, and people very close to
Donald Trump. I mean we saw before Christina Bob for example,
one of Donald Trump's lawyers, was talking outside of the courthouse.
I mean she is a witness. Of course, she's the
custodian of records who signed the false attestation under penalty
of perjury stating that all of the documents were returned
when the Department of Justice arrived at mar A Lago
to respond to the subpoena that was a false attestation.
So she's a witness, right. Donald Trump's other lawyer, Evan Corcoran,
is a witness. Alina Habba presumably would be a witness.
A lot of the staff at mar A Lago are witnesses.
So lots and lots of people in Donald Trump's orbit
are witnesses. So it'll be interesting to see how that
can is applied. And he'll certainly have ramifications on this
ridiculous event that Donald Trump wanted to hold, this celebration
that he was trying to hold, ridiculous that he prepared
this event at bed Minster in New Jersey. I wanted
to point this out Cohen to you as well, because
I'm not sure if you saw this clip. I don't
think Special Counsel Jack Smith put everything in the indictment.
I think he put things that were sufficient to kind
of absolutely prove the case, but then set some traps
as well and kind of let some surprises likely or
going to happen over the next kind of coming weeks
and months and obviously as it gets prepared, as the
case gets prepared for trial. But did you see this
clip though it's from about a year ago with Kid Rock,
who was giving an interview, I think it's with Hannity
and Kid Rock talks about how Donald Trump was showing him.
I think it was with Tucker, sorry, not Hannah, secret
information showing him secret information as well. Here, I want
to Play this clip, and then I want to comment
on it. Play this clip, Yeah, tweet that out.
Speaker 2: I can't add anything better than that.
Speaker 5: But then it comes out it's very it's reworded and
more political and like, you know, a little politically.
Speaker 2: Correct, and I'm like just being pretty. You know, we're
looking at maps, and I'm like, you know, I'm like,
am I supposed to be? Like? You know?
Speaker 1: I make dirty records sometimes, but I do it here.
Speaker 2: You don't think you'd have a hand. What do you
think we should do about North Korea? I'm like, what,
I don't think I'm qualified the answer.
Speaker 1: There's really nothing funny enough.
Speaker 2: You're not if you are not offended? Offended at Tucker
Carlson laughing because Trump showed kid Rock top secret information?
Why because Kid Rock was a celebrity on the Apprentice?
I mean, at some point in time, what the fuck?
I mean? Is there anything else that somebody needs to
say other than that? What the fuck I mean? Kid
Rock is now a witness, And I do hope that
Jack Smith sees this and turns around and wants to
know exactly what he saw. I mean, look, there are
file folders that were marked secret, top secret, classified that
are missing documents altogether. So those documents need to be identified,
what they were, where they are right, and what is
the implication to our national security? I mean, there really
comes a point where enough becomes enough. That is not
funny that this narcissistic sopath, former President Mandarin Mussolini of ours,
decides that he's going to show this to he's bragging
to Kid Rock. Really, I mean, what is this moron thinking?
And yet I go right back to the whole issue
about voting voting blue. We have to ensure that it's
not just that Donald Trump never comes close to Washington
or the White House or the over Office. Ever, again,
there are other individuals members of Congress who should no
longer be members of Congress. They are not interested in
doing things that benefit the American people, the United States
of America. They don't stand for the Constitution. They are
absolutely I'm not interested in their thoughts and prayers or
their hand emojis, you know, after a massive incident takes place.
Every time Donald Trump shows classified information to one of
our adies, he is putting American lives at risk. And
I went through nine to eleven. All right, I want
to be very clear. I know unfortunately too many people
who perished. We don't ever want anything like that on
our soil. Ever. Again, we don't want any Americans live lost,
right except for old age. I mean, this is nonsense
that he is taking classified information and showing it around
like it's you know, a Babe Ruth card, right, or
a baseball. I mean, this is just absolutely abhorrent behavior
by this moron. I mean, there's no other way to
put it. Just a absolute moron who doesn't care about
anyone or anything other than himself. And whatever the reason
that he had to show it to kid Rock, only
he could tell you, and it wouldn't make sense. Even
if he did tell you. And if he did tell you,
whatever he told you, I promise you it's not the truth.
It would be another blatant, fucking lie being spewed by
the former president.
Speaker 1: Want to round out our coverage today by just giving
some final observations and an updates here. So Trump's co
defendant and valet, Walt Nouta, was not arraigned today because
he did not have a local council admitted in the
Southern District of Florida. So Waltnuta will be arraigned on
June at twenty seventh at nine to forty five am,
though he doesn't have to appear himself so long as
he has retained a counsel and his lawyer will have
to show up. Donald Trump was, of course arraigned, arrested, fingerprinted,
Donald Trump pled not guilty. It's believe that Donald Trump
is taking a quick stop at a bakery after getting arrested.
Some of the news that we're getting in as well
from court observers is that Jack Smith looked at Donald
Trump throughout much of the arraignment, and Jack Smith stared
at Donald Trump, looked at him, tried to make ic
contact with him. But Trump did not once look at
Special Counsel Jack Smith. He turned his head, looked the
other way, put his head down, kind of slumped and
slouched when confronted with accountability. And we've always said this before,
Donald Trump is truly a coward at the end of
the day, and all he knows is force, all he
knows is power, and when you finally bring accountability to him,
he folds all the time like the coward that he is.
Yet you have people like Marco Rubio and other MAGA
Republican senators who let's just face it. Let's just call
it what it is. They hate America and they hate
our democracy, period full stop. And this is what Marco
Rubio said. The next Republican president will be under tremendous
pressure to bring charges and indict Joe Biden, his family
and his crackhead son whoever. That is what Mark Rubio,
What a freaking Marco Rubio. Shame, What a trader that
he is. Donald Trump has left court. He's expected to
travel to ben Minster later in the day, and as
Trump's motorcade departed the courthouse, security staff were seen tackling
a man in the street who appeared to be a protester.
One of the things that Jensaki, former White House Press
secretary now MSNBC host, mentioned is that when she interviewed
I think it was ROBERTA. Kaplan about the Donald Trump case,
one of the anecdotes. One of the things that she
mentioned was that Donald Trump refused to look her in
the eyes as well, and that over and over again,
that's Donald Try He's afraid to confront somebody who's actually
holding him accountable. And so there you have it, folks.
Michael Cohen, I'll give you the final word and I'll
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that gear right now. And here's here's the other reporting
that we're getting too from all the reporters who were
in the court. Special counsel Jacksmith closely watched Trump intently
looked at him as Trump exited slowly. At the end,
he watched Trump glance at reporters sitting in the back.
Jack Smith never broke his stare at Donald Trump, and
Trump refused to look at Jacksmith and instead put his
head and kind of walked away in shame, like the
trader coward that he is, as some are saying, Alpha
Jack Smith, Beta Donald let's do cod what's your what's
your final reaction?
Speaker 2: All I can say is it's a good day for democracy.
It's a good day for accountability. Everybody is presumed innocent
right until you know, until the jury comes back with
a guilty plea.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: You know, let's not all jump ahead of ourselves. There's
no doubt in my mind that Jack Smith, that the
DJ that they they they dotted their eyes and cross
their t's on this one. I ask everybody once again,
revenge read it so that you understand where you know
my truth to power is coming from. On top of that,
don't forget we have to hold Donald accountable for that
five hundred million dollar lawsuit. We have already asked for
him to be deposed, you know, waiting for the judge
to make a determination on that cases to the discovery plan.
I have a lot going on. I will continue to,
you know, bring it to you my brigade first and foremost.
And I am now gonna go run, put on a
suit and head on over to CNN. So watch me
there at five o'clock.
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