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You can watch on 49 00:01:56.400 --> 00:02:15.479 YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts. 50 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:22.520 Welcome to Pod Save America. 51 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:24.520 I'm John Favrum, I'm John Love It Tommy Detur. 52 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:26.280 On today's show, We're going to break down the new 53 00:02:26.319 --> 00:02:29.240 gold standard New York Times poll that shows Democrats opening 54 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:32.520 an eleven point lead in the midterms. Let's have that 55 00:02:32.560 --> 00:02:36.039 election today. Huh please hurry up. We'll also talk about 56 00:02:36.039 --> 00:02:38.680 how Trump's revenge tour came for a Louisiana seditor Bill 57 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:42.199 Cassidy and is coming for Congressman Thomas Massey and Tuesday's 58 00:02:42.240 --> 00:02:45.400 Kentucky primary. 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That is a record low 103 00:04:51.399 --> 00:04:54.319 for him and for both terms in all New York 104 00:04:54.319 --> 00:04:59.639 Times Siena polls and midterm voters also favored Democrats by 105 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:05.000 eleven points fifty to thirty nine percent over Republicans. President's 106 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:08.120 biggest liability in the poll remains his handling of the 107 00:05:08.120 --> 00:05:11.680 cost of living, which his political strategists keep hoping he'll 108 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:14.680 pretend to care about his evidenced by Monday's White House 109 00:05:14.680 --> 00:05:19.360 event on his discount drug website, trump RX. Let's see 110 00:05:19.399 --> 00:05:19.800 how it went. 111 00:05:20.279 --> 00:05:23.399 I think, outside of maybe a cure itself, it's the 112 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:26.519 biggest thing to happen to healthcare and everything having to 113 00:05:26.759 --> 00:05:30.439 do with medical and any in any way, shape or form. 114 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:31.839 There's never been anything like this. 115 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:35.199 Really sold it. Huh what did that really sold it? 116 00:05:35.399 --> 00:05:37.759 Trump RX is the biggest thing in meda medical. 117 00:05:37.519 --> 00:05:40.079 The biggest thing in medical, biggest thing in medical. You 118 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:41.360 can tell because there's a doctor here. 119 00:05:42.759 --> 00:05:44.120 You could tell you didn't like the event because he 120 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:46.319 cut it really short, because it kind of looked like 121 00:05:46.759 --> 00:05:48.639 it looked like Ted X Toledo or something. It was 122 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:50.399 just like Joe Gebbi in front of a giant screen. 123 00:05:50.959 --> 00:05:54.160 The whole thing was embarrassing. Mark Cuban was there. Trump OURX. 124 00:05:54.639 --> 00:05:56.920 By the way, it's not a platform for buying medications. 125 00:05:57.040 --> 00:05:59.720 Do you know that it's just it's a facilitator. You 126 00:05:59.720 --> 00:06:01.879 go to the website, it directs you to the other 127 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:05.000 websites to buy the drugs, and sometimes it gives you coupons, 128 00:06:05.240 --> 00:06:08.439 just redirects you. Yeah, basically, and then and then Amazon 129 00:06:08.639 --> 00:06:11.720 and cubans thing what's what's his thing called cost plus 130 00:06:11.800 --> 00:06:14.279 drug cost plus drugs. You know, they work with the 131 00:06:14.279 --> 00:06:16.920 federal government to have some discounts on some extra drugs. 132 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:19.040 But also if you have insurance doesn't help you, meaning 133 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:20.920 it's cheaper to buy the drugs if you have insurance 134 00:06:20.959 --> 00:06:22.920 because the insurance covers the drugs. So really it's for 135 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:25.879 people who don't have insurance sometimes get some discounts on 136 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:29.120 some drugs. So it's not a bad thing. But it's 137 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:31.199 not a it's not weird, it's not it's certainly not 138 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:36.000 the biggest thing since medical No. What stood on to 139 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:37.439 you guys in the New York Times poll. 140 00:06:38.040 --> 00:06:40.279 So whenever we're talking about a poll that looks good 141 00:06:40.279 --> 00:06:41.800 for Democrats, you got to go down and find the 142 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:45.079 part where it's terrible for Democrats. And there's a this 143 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:47.040 was a new one. I think they said, are you 144 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:51.120 satisfied or dissatisfied? With the Democratic Party. And I'm used 145 00:06:51.160 --> 00:06:53.560 to seeing that voters maybe really unhappy with Republicans and 146 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:56.199 planning to vote for Democrats, but then are ultimately not 147 00:06:56.399 --> 00:06:59.480 super satisfied with Democrats either. I was surprised to see that, uh, 148 00:06:59.720 --> 00:07:02.800 seven percent of people say they are dissatisfied with the 149 00:07:02.839 --> 00:07:07.560 Democratic Party and only five percent are very satisfied, which 150 00:07:07.600 --> 00:07:09.560 is a third of the number of people that are 151 00:07:09.639 --> 00:07:13.319 very satisfied with Trump. And I get being look, Republicans 152 00:07:13.319 --> 00:07:16.199 are in power. This is representing people that hate Democrats. 153 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:18.480 It's represented by people that wish Democrats would fight more. 154 00:07:18.600 --> 00:07:20.800 It's represented by Democrats. Everyboney who has a criticism of 155 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:23.240 the Democrats represented in that number. But the fact that. 156 00:07:23.160 --> 00:07:25.079 Where would you be in that when someone asks you 157 00:07:25.120 --> 00:07:27.439 I would I would be somewhat. 158 00:07:27.560 --> 00:07:30.680 I'm unsatisfied, baby, I'm unsatisfied. 159 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:32.519 And then but then when they gave me the generic 160 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:35.399 ballot thing, I'd be a percent right there. 161 00:07:35.439 --> 00:07:38.480 But just the fact that, like right now, if this whole, big, 162 00:07:38.519 --> 00:07:41.079 beautiful country of ours, there's only five percent of people 163 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:43.279 that just love the Democratic Party. Like we talk a 164 00:07:43.319 --> 00:07:45.439 lot about the base, it's like we don't really have 165 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:47.560 you know, Trump has a base. 166 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:48.959 That is, who are those people? 167 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:51.959 Right? Who are those five percent? I love everything they're doing. 168 00:07:52.959 --> 00:07:54.319 Can't wait to see them on tour. 169 00:07:54.360 --> 00:07:57.079 Like some of some of the staffers. Maybe I don't 170 00:07:57.120 --> 00:08:00.279 know relatives, a couple of folks on Blue Sky h. 171 00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:03.800 I don't know. So anyway, that was that's what stood 172 00:08:03.800 --> 00:08:04.040 out to you. 173 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:07.160 That's it up to me. And then there was there 174 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:09.040 was a number on AI that I thought was just 175 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:12.759 interesting that only sixteen percent of people think AI is 176 00:08:12.879 --> 00:08:15.439 more good than bad. The vast majority are either undecided 177 00:08:15.519 --> 00:08:16.680 or think it's more bad than good. 178 00:08:17.560 --> 00:08:19.040 So it comes in a weekend where there's all these 179 00:08:19.079 --> 00:08:22.000 commencement addresses where students are booing the mere mention of 180 00:08:22.040 --> 00:08:24.360 AI to speak, which I love. You can tell there's 181 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:26.800 a some of my foot there. Yes there is, Yes, 182 00:08:26.839 --> 00:08:29.800 there is, Tommy. Would you think I liked that? I didn't. 183 00:08:29.839 --> 00:08:32.440 I liked that. I noticed that sixty four percent in 184 00:08:32.480 --> 00:08:34.519 the Times pool said they think that going to war 185 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:37.159 with Rom was the wrong decision, including seventy three percent 186 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:40.519 of Independence. That is pretty clear cut. And it's not 187 00:08:40.559 --> 00:08:43.000 going to get better as this thing kind of drags 188 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:44.600 out and the straight up home moves remains closed and 189 00:08:44.600 --> 00:08:47.559 the price of gas goes up seventy six percent. Rate 190 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:50.639 economic conditions today is only fair or poor. 191 00:08:51.320 --> 00:08:52.360 That is quite bad. 192 00:08:52.480 --> 00:08:54.559 And then you know the glass half full thing of 193 00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:57.519 the Democratic Party was fifty percent say they will vote Democrat, 194 00:08:57.600 --> 00:09:00.000 thirty nine percent say they will vote Republican in the middle. 195 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:03.240 So it's one of the better numbers of that nature. 196 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:04.240 I think we've seen in a while. 197 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:07.759 We've been saying Trump bad for so long now that 198 00:09:08.679 --> 00:09:10.960 when there's a poll this bad, it's sort of hard. 199 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:13.720 It's almost like there's a there's a crying wolf thing, yeah, yeah, 200 00:09:14.519 --> 00:09:16.519 or like, you know, not Trump's I mean, Trump's always 201 00:09:16.559 --> 00:09:18.600 been bad, but like this is it for Trump things 202 00:09:18.639 --> 00:09:21.320 that the walls are closing in. But Nate Cone points 203 00:09:21.360 --> 00:09:23.840 out in his ride up of the poll, no president's 204 00:09:23.840 --> 00:09:26.120 approval rating has been under thirty eight percent for more 205 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:29.320 than a few days in the last seventeen years, according 206 00:09:29.360 --> 00:09:32.000 to our average. Now we get Donald Trump, and then 207 00:09:32.039 --> 00:09:34.600 he realized seventeen years is George W. Bush, which just 208 00:09:34.600 --> 00:09:37.519 makes us really old. But that is the last president 209 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:41.120 to be this unpopular for this long, Like it is 210 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:45.559 the fact that this is this is worse than January sixth, 211 00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:46.519 Now for him. 212 00:09:46.559 --> 00:09:49.879 The economic indicator is just so bad. I mean, seventy 213 00:09:49.879 --> 00:09:52.519 six percent say they're concerned about their personal finance. Since 214 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:55.440 the CBS bowl, sixty seven percent say they're stressed, Like 215 00:09:55.519 --> 00:09:57.240 both of those have been ticked up at the last year. 216 00:09:57.440 --> 00:09:59.960 Only twenty nine percent in the CBS the recent CBS 217 00:10:00.039 --> 00:10:02.559 pulse of the economy is good. Seventy seven percent say 218 00:10:02.600 --> 00:10:04.360 their income is not keeping up with inflation, so like 219 00:10:04.399 --> 00:10:06.000 gas prices are just killing everybody. 220 00:10:06.080 --> 00:10:09.480 Yeah to me, you look at it too. What's hidden 221 00:10:09.960 --> 00:10:12.759 is just how many people have just they're done, right, 222 00:10:12.840 --> 00:10:15.440 You could look at this poll and it's basically almost half, 223 00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:17.840 not quite half the country. They don't approve on Iran, 224 00:10:17.879 --> 00:10:19.759 they don't approve on the economy, they don't approven cost 225 00:10:19.799 --> 00:10:22.399 of living, they don't prove on immigration. They are done. 226 00:10:22.559 --> 00:10:24.840 And the number of people who now say Trump has 227 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:28.960 personally made their economic circumstances worse forty four percent, which 228 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:31.200 has gone up by like eight points. It's the last time, 229 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:33.200 so it's gone up from out of the third of 230 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:34.799 the country, it's rising up to nearly half are no 231 00:10:34.840 --> 00:10:37.039 longer saying just I don't just disapprove, like I'm feeling 232 00:10:37.080 --> 00:10:39.600 personally that he's not doing what he said he was 233 00:10:39.639 --> 00:10:43.639 going to do. So that to me was stood out. 234 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:45.840 One other things that said out just about what's happening 235 00:10:45.840 --> 00:10:48.200 with Iran that you know, we have a lot of 236 00:10:48.679 --> 00:10:53.600 internet debates about, you know, the anti Semitism and anti 237 00:10:53.679 --> 00:10:57.039 Zionism and the Democrat's position on Israel. Meanwhile, opposition to 238 00:10:57.039 --> 00:10:59.639 economic military sport to Israel has gone from thirty eight 239 00:10:59.639 --> 00:11:03.039 percent to fifty seven percent over the last two and 240 00:11:03.080 --> 00:11:04.759 a half to three year. Support has gone from fifty 241 00:11:04.799 --> 00:11:06.960 four percent to thirty seven percent. 242 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:08.799 And so a lot of numbers Trump's approval and so 243 00:11:08.840 --> 00:11:11.440 a lot of hand or support for Israel, financial aid, 244 00:11:11.480 --> 00:11:13.600 support for Israel is the is just about as popular 245 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:14.879 as Donald Trump in this country. 246 00:11:14.960 --> 00:11:19.039 And so this is not an argument that's being lost 247 00:11:19.080 --> 00:11:20.879 on the margins. And it's not an argument that's being 248 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:23.679 lost based on who gets platformed and who doesn't. There's 249 00:11:23.720 --> 00:11:26.559 a huge shift that has happened. I think you can 250 00:11:27.639 --> 00:11:29.320 lay that at the feet of Benjamin and Yaho and 251 00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:32.440 Joe Biden and Donald Trump. But the sooner people make 252 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:36.799 this less about the specific individuals they dislike, often with 253 00:11:36.840 --> 00:11:39.759 good reason, and more about the deeper shift that is happening. 254 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:42.440 I think the sooner people can actually reckon with what 255 00:11:42.600 --> 00:11:47.399 is a real and lasting damage that has happened to America's. 256 00:11:47.039 --> 00:11:48.919 Relationship with ISRUMK Yeah, I mean actually has write a 257 00:11:48.919 --> 00:11:53.080 story this morning about So there's the horrific anti semitism 258 00:11:53.080 --> 00:11:57.279 being directed towards members of Congress and voicemails and threats 259 00:11:57.320 --> 00:12:01.039 and all that, and it's it's horrible, And I would 260 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:03.039 just say that like it, I do think it's important 261 00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:08.440 to separate like like virulent anti semitism from people who 262 00:12:08.480 --> 00:12:12.120 are pro Israel and making the case for supporting Israel, 263 00:12:12.240 --> 00:12:13.840 like we I think we talked about this last week. 264 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:17.360 But like Josh Gotnheimer's op ed about anti semitism, and 265 00:12:17.399 --> 00:12:19.399 my party has a problem too, Like it starts with 266 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:22.600 talking about actual anti semitism and then halfway through it 267 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:26.320 suddenly veers into Oh and also Democrats are voting against funding, 268 00:12:27.039 --> 00:12:28.399 you know, military aid to. 269 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:30.320 Israel, which is a major position. 270 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:31.480 That's that should not be in the same op ed 271 00:12:31.679 --> 00:12:34.120 well and says that he wants to wean off military 272 00:12:34.159 --> 00:12:34.919 support for Israel. 273 00:12:34.960 --> 00:12:37.559 So yeah, right, I wish I would say. The only 274 00:12:37.559 --> 00:12:39.159 other thing that stood out to me is on the 275 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:43.120 generic ballot. There's real movement just within the Times poll right, 276 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:45.600 because every poll is it's a single pole snapshot in time. 277 00:12:45.639 --> 00:12:48.720 But you take a poll over time and it was 278 00:12:48.840 --> 00:12:51.919 D plus two to D plus five for the beginning 279 00:12:51.960 --> 00:12:55.919 part of Trump's term second term in the time Siana polls, 280 00:12:55.960 --> 00:12:59.159 and now it's D plus eleven, Like it's a big shift. 281 00:12:59.399 --> 00:13:02.120 And then when they take it to only almost certain 282 00:13:02.200 --> 00:13:05.720 or very likely voters, it's D plus fourteen. So even 283 00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:08.440 that D plus eleven is like, may not be what 284 00:13:08.480 --> 00:13:12.600 we ultimately see because you know, the most motivated voters 285 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:14.600 end up turning out in a midterm more so than 286 00:13:14.600 --> 00:13:17.840 in a general election. So that's it's pretty big, and 287 00:13:17.919 --> 00:13:21.720 it's late. May you know, not a ton of time left? 288 00:13:21.759 --> 00:13:22.720 Knock on? Would yeah? 289 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:24.000 Well, I mean, look Trump still it was time to 290 00:13:24.039 --> 00:13:24.840 become a different person. 291 00:13:27.120 --> 00:13:28.600 The bigger news from the White House on Monday was 292 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:31.639 the announcement that President Trump's Justice Department is settling Donald 293 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:35.519 Trump's lawsuit against the IRS for one point seven seven 294 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:39.720 six billion dollars. Get it, get it, get it. That 295 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:42.840 is money that will be taken directly from taxpayers and 296 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:46.120 funneled into a slush fund that apparently exists to pay 297 00:13:46.159 --> 00:13:50.759 Trump supporters who were investigated or indicted or convicted during 298 00:13:50.799 --> 00:13:53.000 the Biden administration, or I guess none of those things, 299 00:13:53.039 --> 00:13:56.519 because there's really no guardrails whatsoever. It seems like they 300 00:13:56.519 --> 00:13:59.879 did this so Trump wouldn't be attacked for directly pocketing taxpayer. 301 00:14:00.759 --> 00:14:03.000 But I'm not sure this move is as clever as 302 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:03.960 they think. What about you, guys? 303 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:06.440 This is particularly like this is a Trump's second term 304 00:14:06.559 --> 00:14:09.279 is a political smash and grab job where he and 305 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:11.840 his family and the people around him and people do 306 00:14:11.879 --> 00:14:14.679 his bidding, just take what they want, get rewarded. They 307 00:14:14.679 --> 00:14:18.759 take it from taxpayers, They trade on polymarket, they front 308 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:21.240 run the stock market. And I think the fact that 309 00:14:21.279 --> 00:14:23.440 Trump is doing this before the mid terms just shows 310 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:25.679 that he doesn't give a shit about politics anymore. It's 311 00:14:25.679 --> 00:14:28.080 all about money, and it's all about building monuments to 312 00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:31.240 himself and great shating, you know which, enriching himself. And 313 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:33.320 they made an end run around the judge in this case, 314 00:14:33.320 --> 00:14:35.720 and they just cut a deal with another political appointee 315 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:38.840 that he had named to create the slush fund. And 316 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:41.399 do you think they thought it was cute saying it 317 00:14:41.440 --> 00:14:44.559 was one point seven seven six? Doesn't that just make 318 00:14:44.600 --> 00:14:47.360 the whole thing feel like made up and arbitrary more 319 00:14:47.399 --> 00:14:48.039 than anything else. 320 00:14:48.120 --> 00:14:50.919 They think it's like, oh, we've got patriotism in America's 321 00:14:50.919 --> 00:14:52.519 two fifty is coming up, and so if we call 322 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:55.039 it a patriotic fund for patriots, then no one will 323 00:14:55.279 --> 00:14:56.279 no one will get mad at it. 324 00:14:56.279 --> 00:14:59.399 Shouldn't a fund to pay out restitution to people harmed 325 00:14:59.519 --> 00:15:02.159 be based on like metrics. 326 00:15:01.879 --> 00:15:06.320 And not the number coming from someone with how many 327 00:15:06.360 --> 00:15:08.679 how much earnings did you lose when you were at 328 00:15:08.679 --> 00:15:10.000 the Capitol on January sixth? 329 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:14.759 When you're right, you know, I will say Congress passed 330 00:15:14.759 --> 00:15:17.200 a law to give the Department of Justice basically on 331 00:15:17.320 --> 00:15:21.120 unlimited fund for restitution for anyone who sues the federal government. 332 00:15:21.159 --> 00:15:23.000 And so that's how they ended up doing this. So 333 00:15:23.039 --> 00:15:25.799 it's like it is a one of those technically legal 334 00:15:26.039 --> 00:15:29.200 but extremely corrupt things that we have because of a 335 00:15:29.240 --> 00:15:31.159 stupid law that was passed that no one. No one 336 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:33.960 thought to themselves, maybe they'll be an administration that just 337 00:15:34.159 --> 00:15:36.960 has the fund being unlimited because the president will sue himself, 338 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:37.559 will sue. 339 00:15:37.559 --> 00:15:40.320 It's unversed in fairness to people that wrote that law. 340 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:42.519 You would also assume that if it were to be 341 00:15:42.840 --> 00:15:46.000 so completely and obviously embrazenly abused by a president who's 342 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:48.840 basically just going into the treasury and stuffing his pockets 343 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:50.440 and leaving that there might be a Congress that would 344 00:15:50.440 --> 00:15:53.240 care about that, which we we don't have. Just like 345 00:15:53.240 --> 00:15:56.960 to Tommy's point, the judge was like, Hey, before this 346 00:15:57.039 --> 00:16:01.519 lawsuit by Trump against his own imaministration, which is unprecedented, 347 00:16:01.799 --> 00:16:05.639 that's being administered by his personal attorney, former personal attorney 348 00:16:05.679 --> 00:16:08.159 at the Department of Justice, I want you to come 349 00:16:08.200 --> 00:16:10.600 in and explain to me how you're actually parties in opposition, 350 00:16:10.679 --> 00:16:12.080 how you're not on the same side of this thing. 351 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:14.759 And they're like, this is like in the deadline's May twentieth, 352 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:19.399 that's when now it's May eighteenth. 353 00:16:16.720 --> 00:16:16.799 And. 354 00:16:18.360 --> 00:16:21.759 Basically proving the point that the judge was worried about. Uh, 355 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:24.840 they have decided to reach a reach a deal beforehand. 356 00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:28.360 Now the Justice Department, Uh, if it was actually advocating 357 00:16:28.360 --> 00:16:30.240 on behalf of taxpayers, the American people, which is what 358 00:16:30.279 --> 00:16:32.240 it's supposed to do, it would fight this thing to 359 00:16:32.279 --> 00:16:35.399 the bidder end, or at the very least settle for 360 00:16:35.559 --> 00:16:38.919 zero dollars, which has happened in not exactly similar but 361 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:41.240 cases that are akin to this in the past. But 362 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:43.399 instead of doing this, yeah, doing this. 363 00:16:43.399 --> 00:16:46.519 Exattle the same case, his taxpayer info was leaked and 364 00:16:46.519 --> 00:16:49.559 he settled for zero zero a public apology from the IRS. 365 00:16:49.519 --> 00:16:51.759 Because he didn't pay and you know that is a 366 00:16:51.840 --> 00:16:53.200 that is something that could have come of this, but 367 00:16:53.200 --> 00:16:55.039 it said no. They are proving that they are in 368 00:16:55.120 --> 00:16:58.240 cahoots here by doing this kind of a settlement we have. 369 00:16:58.559 --> 00:17:01.480 They're using a ridiculous justification based on something they happen 370 00:17:01.480 --> 00:17:04.319 in the Obama administration, which even conservative legal scholars have 371 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:09.880 have have batted down because that had actual specific people 372 00:17:09.880 --> 00:17:12.920 who were harmed by an actual specific policy, un like this. 373 00:17:13.480 --> 00:17:17.039 My pitch is James Comy, Tiss, James Lamonica mcg ivor 374 00:17:17.160 --> 00:17:20.480 Lisa Cook, Jerome Powell. They should all be submitting when 375 00:17:20.519 --> 00:17:22.880 this thing comes out, they should put their names in 376 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:24.440 to get money from this fund and if they do 377 00:17:24.480 --> 00:17:26.839 not receive affair hearing, they should sue the federal government. 378 00:17:27.079 --> 00:17:29.839 Like there are people that are being politically prosecuted by 379 00:17:30.119 --> 00:17:32.880 the government. As far as we know publicly, nobody on 380 00:17:32.920 --> 00:17:36.279 that list would not be kind of at least potentially 381 00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:41.319 it included in the people hurt that could receive from 382 00:17:41.319 --> 00:17:42.880 this seventeen hundred and seventy six. 383 00:17:43.160 --> 00:17:45.400 My pitch is, no one gets it. Give us the 384 00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:46.880 fucking money back, that's our money. 385 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:48.480 Oh yeah, I do. 386 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:50.599 To beic clear, I don't think James Comy should get 387 00:17:50.599 --> 00:17:52.079 money from the thorough government, but I think we should 388 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:53.279 take this put this thing through its pace. 389 00:17:53.400 --> 00:17:54.720 This is fuck it. Yeah, well they're not going to 390 00:17:54.799 --> 00:17:57.119 I mean, Trump appoints the board, it's five people, he 391 00:17:57.160 --> 00:17:59.039 gets to hire and fire the board. It's just gonna 392 00:17:59.039 --> 00:18:01.880 be five crony audition out money like this is. This 393 00:18:01.880 --> 00:18:04.400 thing doesn't even have to be like oh and here 394 00:18:04.519 --> 00:18:07.000 was my case and it was tried incorrectly. Like someone 395 00:18:07.160 --> 00:18:09.079 just can go to fucking whoever Todd Blanche puts on 396 00:18:09.079 --> 00:18:10.839 the commission and be like, hey, I want ten thousand 397 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:13.880 dollars because I donated to the president and I'm mad 398 00:18:13.960 --> 00:18:16.359 that Joe Biden sent the FBI after me. Do you 399 00:18:16.359 --> 00:18:17.960 have proof of that? No, but I just know they 400 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:18.599 were watching me. 401 00:18:18.960 --> 00:18:23.519