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because the stupidity it's not ending. I mean, just this afternoon,
Trump participated in the invest America round table where they
spoke about his new Trump Account investment for children.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: After their discussion, Trump took questions from reporters, it's got
to do that. Unsurprisingly, the conversation it focused heavily on
Los Angeles, and I want to start with a clip
from this morning where Peter Doucy asked Trump outside the
White House if Tom Holman should arrest Davin Newsom. Trump,
of course, said he would do it if Tom said so.
Play the clip.
Speaker 3: Gavin new from He's daring Tom Holman become an erector.
Speaker 1: Should he do it?
Speaker 2: I would Tom?
Speaker 3: I think it's playing.
Speaker 1: He's done a terrible job. Look I like Gavenus and
he's a nice guy, but he's mostly incoonfidence.
Speaker 2: Everybody knows all you have to do is look at
the little railroad he's building. It's about a hundred times
over budget. We're putting a flag ball over there under budget.
Speaker 1: I always do under always do under budget. I mean,
you would think that he's talking about a Trump facility
or Trump property. He likes Gavin Newsom, but they should
arrest him for what meanwill After the business roundtable, Doucy
again prompted Trump to discuss if Gavin Newsom wants to
actually be arrested. Play that clip.
Speaker 3: It seems like Gavin Newsom likes the attention that he's
getting right now. Seems like he does. He If you
look at recent history, somebody who was running for president,
you who got arrested and had a mugshot, you could
make the argument that politically that wound up helping you.
Are you worried at all at this moment? Talking about
him getting arrested could be helpful to his political prospects
because a lot of people think he wants to be
sitting right where you are.
Speaker 4: Well, in my case, it was a witch hunt and
everybody knew it, and I was able to explain that
during the process. Otherwise I wouldn't be sitting here right now.
And it was a total witch hunt. Has proven to
be a witch hunt. And you see what's happened in
his case. It really is very obvious. You look at
what's happened between the fires between I could name ten
things right now. We talk about the trains, we talk
about all of the costs in California, you talk about
all of the people that are flowing and destroying life
for everyone else. So no, I don't think it's going
to help him. I think it's actually very bad for him.
Speaker 1: And right, yeah, first of all, let me let me
stop you right there, as a guy who was the
key witness in both of the cases here in New York,
the Manhattan District Attorney and the New York Attorney General case,
he lost both of them. He was found guilty on
thirty four counts by a jury of twelve, a jury
of his peers. I don't know what history he's talking about,
but at the end of the day, none of it
is accurate. Now, another reporter goes on and asks Trump
what crime Newsom committed. You see, we know that he
committed a crime. Again, it went to the grand jury,
they came back with an indictment. He was indicted. When
to trial, he lost. What crime did Davin Newsom commit
that he should be charged? Play the clip?
Speaker 4: A crime has he committed? I think his primarily primary
crime is running for governor because he's done such a
bad job. What he's done to that state is like
what Biden did to this country.
Speaker 1: What a great answer. Well, did you actually think of
that yourself? Or did Steve Miller come up with that
genius response? What crime did he commit becoming governor of
the state of California? Truly just a brilliant answer by
a brilliant man. Now, a clip from twenty twenty has
been circulating of Trump talking about deploying National Guard in
certain states. Let me show you. Let me show it
to you. Play the clip.
Speaker 5: I promised four years ago at the Democrat at the
Republican Convention. I'm going to restore law and order, and
I have accepting Democrat run cities.
Speaker 2: Look, we have laws. We have to go by the laws.
We can't move in the National Guard.
Speaker 5: I can call insurrection, but there's no reason to ever
do that. Even in a Portland case. We can't call
in the National Guard unless we're requested by a governor.
Speaker 1: Oh really, really, let's play that one more time. Just
so that you see exactly the point trying to make.
Speaker 5: I promised four years ago at the Democrat at the
Republican Convention, I'm going to restore law and order, and
I have accepting Democrat run cities. Look, we have laws.
We have to go by the laws. We can't move
in the National Guard. I can call insurrection, but there's
no reason to ever do that. Even in a Portland case,
we can't call in the National Guard unless we're requested
by a governor.
Speaker 1: You know, it's exactly what my sub stack post for
tomorrow is going to be about. When I saw that clip,
I'm saying to myself, what happens when he starts doing this,
for example in red States where he's controlling the governor
and then they just run him up there? And this,
to me, LA is the litmus test of what more
is yet to come. A reporter of course at the
Business round Table brought up that video, play that clip.
Speaker 6: When you were talking about unrest in American cities, you said, quote,
we have to go by the laws. We can't call
in the National Guard unless were requested by a governor.
What change now? Why is this situation different to not
consult with governor knew some about.
Speaker 4: Well, the biggest change from that statement is we have
an incompetent governor. So I talked about governors, but I
didn't talk about he's an incompetent governor. Look at the
job he's doing in California. He's destroying one of our
great states. And if I didn't get involved, if we
didn't bring the guard in, and we would bring more
in if we needed it, because we have to make
sure there's going to be law and order. You had
a disaster happening, and they now admit it was a disaster.
I watched the chief yesterday, was a good man, by
the way, and he said, well, we're lucky we did
this because they were overwhelmed. You saw what was happening,
So we did the right thing. Everybody agrees to that.
Speaker 1: Lie, lie, and more lies.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: It's one of the reasons why I say, please share this,
share this program with your family, your friends, because the
lies coming from the right, they're just extraordinary. Now. On
that clip, Trump also claimed that the LAPD was thanking
him for bringing in the National Guard problem. Yesterday, the
LAPD said that the FEDS created the hazardous conditions play.
Speaker 7: The clip LAPD was not given advance notice that the
federal operation federal operations would occur in that area. As
a result, we were not prepositioned to respond immediately to
unrest related to those actions. Once the call for assistance
came in, LAPD responded within thirty eight minutes. And that
sounds like a long time, but I'll tell you why
that is. The response was impacted by traffic, crowd density
in the area with unrest occurring, hazardous conditions caused by
tear gas that was previously deployed by federal agents at the.
Speaker 1: Doesn't sound to me like he's thanking you their boss.
I'm not sure what you talked about, right, I mean,
what world are you living in when a comment like
that from the chief of LAPD is telling you you
caused a hazardous condition?
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Earlier this afternoon, Gavin Newsom posted on x that he
is going to suit Trump and actually that they were
preparing immediate filing in it. He turns around and he says,
now we are suing Donald Trump. This is a manufactured crisis.
He is creating fear and terror to take over a
state militia and violate the US Constitution. The illegal order
he signed could allow him to send the military into
any state he wishes. Every governor red or blue should
reject this outrageous overreach. There's a lot of hyperbole out there.
This isn't that. This is an unmistakable step towards authoritarianism
that threatens the foundation of our republic. We cannot let
it stand now. A reporter then goes on and asks
Trump about the lawsuit, played the clip, and.
Speaker 3: Around the time that we were walking in here, the
governor and the state attorney general said that they're going
to sue you for sending the National Guard. And they're
saying there's no invasion, there's no rebellion. The president is
trying to manufacture chaos and crisis on the ground for
his own political ends. Federalizing the California National Guard is
an abuse of the president's authority under law.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, it's interesting. You watched the same clips
as I did. Cars burning all over the place, people
riding and by the way we stopped it, we were
able to make it much better, but it still looked
pretty bad. And in watching clips last night, people were saying,
this is really a big problem. And until we went in,
if we didn't do the job, that place would be
burning down, just like the houses burned down.
Speaker 2: They were in big.
Speaker 4: Trouble last night, Peter, you know it, and the night
before and the night before that, And I feel we
had no choice.
Speaker 2: I don't want to see. I don't want to see happened? What?
What happened so many times in this country.
Speaker 4: I watched Minneapolis burn, I watched look at what happened.
Speaker 1: Okay, he's talking about a natural disaster. We're talking about
the wildfires versus what's going on here now. Of course,
other topics were discussed at the round table. Reporter asked
Trump if he plans to talk to Elon play that
clip plan tis something which one on Elon Musk. Do
you plan to speak to him on the phone anytime soon?
Speaker 4: I haven't really thought about it. Actually, I would imagine
he wants to speak to me. I would think so
if I were him, i'd want to speak to me.
But and maybe he was already called. He'd have to
ask him, ask him whether or not he's already called.
But uh, i'd have no problem with it. Well, I
don't want to say that, but you know, but I
would imagine he'd want to talk to me, mister Benett.
Speaker 1: Yeah again, exhausting. And lastly, Trump rambles about his upcoming
military parade. Play the clip, but.
Speaker 2: It was time to celebrate, and that's what we're doing.
Speaker 4: So it's it's on June fourteenth, and it's going to
be a parade the likes of which I don't know
if we've ever had a parade like that.
Speaker 2: It's going to be incredible.
Speaker 4: We have Arab even though it's the Army, We have
a lot of those Army airplanes flying over the top,
and we have tanks all over the place.
Speaker 2: So we have.
Speaker 4: Thousands and thousands of soldiers going to bravely march down
the streets.
Speaker 2: It's going to be a beautiful day, I think.
Speaker 1: And look, let me be very clear, as I talk
about in my sub stack of today la Mayhem, here's
the part that I really need people to hear. I've
seen him pull the exact same stunt before. For God's sakes,
I helped write the script once upon a time. You
think the deployment of National Guard troops is about keeping
people safe, come on, please stop. Trump's idea of safety
is a lock door between him and accountability. This is
my community, This right here is about fear. Optics full stop.
And that's what's gonna happen, and that's what we're gonna see.
This is just the beginning and that's my prediction, and
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