1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,519 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,239 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,640 go to dpeakclendershow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,679 smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:34,039 your support. President Donald Trump is expected to make an announcement. 10 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:39,359 It was scheduled for noon. I was about five minutes 11 00:00:39,399 --> 00:00:45,439 ago and announcement has not yet been made as far 12 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:50,159 as I know. I am monitoring the c span which 13 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:56,520 still has it as scheduled to do and I click 14 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:59,240 on the live feed and it says the program has ended. 15 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:02,920 So I'm not really clear as to what exactly. If 16 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:07,239 I click play there and now it loads an ad Okay, 17 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:10,599 so I'm not really sure what's going on, if he's 18 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:15,079 running late or what. But anyway, when the when the 19 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:17,359 President makes the announcement, I'll try to bring it to 20 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:19,319 you live. I have no idea what it's about. I 21 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:22,599 haven't seen anybody with the intel on what it is about. 22 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:27,560 If I had to guess, I would guess has to 23 00:01:27,599 --> 00:01:35,239 do with the rating of John Bolton's home and his office. 24 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:41,959 John Bolton is the former national security advisor to Donald Trump. 25 00:01:44,159 --> 00:01:48,319 His home was raided in Bethesda, Maryland this morning about 26 00:01:48,359 --> 00:01:59,000 seven am. The New York Posts Caitlin Dornboss Dornbow's dorn Buss. Anyway, 27 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:02,840 she initially broke the story, saying federal agents went to 28 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:06,959 Bolton's house in Bethesda, Maryland at seven am in an 29 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:13,520 investigation ordered by FBI Director Cash Pattel. Per Fox News, 30 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:17,159 agency officials were later spotted at his Washington, d C 31 00:02:17,439 --> 00:02:21,919 office removing boxes. Bolton was seen in the lobby there. 32 00:02:23,319 --> 00:02:27,479 Sources who spoke with The Post and other outlets say 33 00:02:27,479 --> 00:02:32,199 the searches are related to John Bolton's alleged possession of 34 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:39,159 classified documents. Yes, now some of you may not be 35 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:42,800 old enough to remember this, but there was a it 36 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:46,120 was a it was like a panic, a social contagion 37 00:02:46,199 --> 00:02:51,039 that swept through Washington, d C. For about I don't know, 38 00:02:51,199 --> 00:02:55,400 like four or five days, where it seemed like everybody 39 00:02:55,919 --> 00:03:01,639 was turning back in all of the classified documents that 40 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:09,080 they had inadvertently swiped. And this contagion occurred after the 41 00:03:09,199 --> 00:03:15,360 raid of Mara A Lago, Donald Trump's home down in Florida. Remember, 42 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:19,280 they sent in some people on I think it was 43 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:22,840 a magistrate's warrant or something like that, and they raided 44 00:03:22,879 --> 00:03:25,680 his house and they, you know, they flipped it over, 45 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:29,759 They turned stuff over, They went through Malania's lingerie and stuff, 46 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,719 and they they took a bunch of stuff out and 47 00:03:33,759 --> 00:03:37,560 they were gonna prosecute Donald Trump, who at that time, 48 00:03:37,639 --> 00:03:41,680 if I recall correctly, had not decided to run or 49 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:44,240 had not announced he was running for president at that point. 50 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:47,800 But they took a bunch of stuff out of the 51 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:50,080 out of mar A Lago. Remember, they took a bunch 52 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:53,039 of pictures of stuff and posted them on Twitter. And 53 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:56,240 people were like, well, why are you showing us classified 54 00:03:56,319 --> 00:04:00,439 stuff on social media? But whatever, it doesn't matter. It's different, 55 00:04:00,599 --> 00:04:04,120 you know, when it's Donald Trump. And so then that prompted. 56 00:04:04,879 --> 00:04:10,840 Remember there was a documents found in the far more 57 00:04:10,919 --> 00:04:18,680 secure detached garage at Joe Biden's, one of Joe Biden's homes. 58 00:04:19,639 --> 00:04:23,639 It was like, you know, stuffed in a box next 59 00:04:23,639 --> 00:04:28,480 to his classic Is it a corvette I think it was, 60 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:30,920 or maybe a Mustang I forget, but this classic car 61 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:34,759 he had and which also you know, we know that 62 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:37,439 Hunter Biden had access to that vehicle because he took 63 00:04:37,879 --> 00:04:42,439 pictures with like a bikini clad cousin in it. And anyway, 64 00:04:43,199 --> 00:04:45,079 and then all of a sudden we got like remember 65 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:47,519 like Mike Pence came out and he said, oh I 66 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:49,439 had some I turned him back in and like some 67 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:52,199 other like people, all of a sudden it was like, oh, 68 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:54,879 all of these people had classified documents, and it became 69 00:04:54,959 --> 00:04:59,360 sort of this meme joke online. You know, people were 70 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:03,879 reporting them safe from having to you know, return classified documents, 71 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:08,560 reporting themselves safe on Facebook. And so yeah, again this 72 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:10,360 was a very very long time ago. A lot of 73 00:05:10,399 --> 00:05:12,480 people probably don't remember when all of this happened. But 74 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:15,199 I would have thought that would have been the time 75 00:05:15,319 --> 00:05:19,160 if John Bolton had classified information that he had taken. 76 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:21,160 I think that would have been a good time to 77 00:05:21,199 --> 00:05:24,000 return it because everybody was doing it, you know, like 78 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:26,480 you could just kind of hide inside the pack, you know, 79 00:05:27,759 --> 00:05:32,519 if in fact he does have classified material or had 80 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,680 I guess until this morning, if he in fact had 81 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:43,000 classified information. The investigation came after President Donald Trump fought 82 00:05:43,079 --> 00:05:51,160 to quash the publication of Bolton's book. Oh well, wait 83 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:54,680 a minute, and so that would indicate that the investigation 84 00:05:54,800 --> 00:06:03,040 began some time ago. Yeah, apparently, according to a senior 85 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:07,720 US official who told the New York Post reporter Dornboss, 86 00:06:07,759 --> 00:06:12,279 the raid is related to a probe that was first 87 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:20,120 launched years ago. But it didn't go anywhere, which is weird. 88 00:06:21,879 --> 00:06:24,439 Maybe they didn't have enough evidence or something, or maybe 89 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:28,040 it was shut down by the Biden administration for some 90 00:06:28,199 --> 00:06:31,680 other reason, as the senior US official said to The 91 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:34,680 New York Post that it was shut down for quote, 92 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:42,639 political reasons. What would those political reasons be, Well, John 93 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:48,720 Bolton writes a book, there are concerns about classified information 94 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:52,199 that may have been referenced in the book or something, 95 00:06:52,519 --> 00:06:56,800 and they launch a probe and then it is shut 96 00:06:56,879 --> 00:07:01,959 down by the Biden administration. The investigation, by the way, 97 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:06,000 began in twenty twenty, which was the same year Trump's 98 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:10,480 first Justice Department launched a criminal inquiry into Bolton's alleged 99 00:07:10,519 --> 00:07:13,680 disclosure of national secrets in the book. The book was 100 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:20,439 called The Room Where It Happened, and the investigation came 101 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:24,600 after Trump tried to quash the publication of the book 102 00:07:24,639 --> 00:07:27,560 over its inclusion of national secrets, saying Bolton broke a 103 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:30,759 non disclosure agreement signed as a condition of his employment. 104 00:07:31,199 --> 00:07:34,199 Bolton has reportedly not been arrested or charged with any 105 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:40,639 crimes as of the article's publication. So hmm, what would 106 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:45,480 be the political reasons for shutting down John Bolton's investigation? 107 00:07:48,879 --> 00:07:51,319 Could it be I'm just spitballing here. I don't know. 108 00:07:51,439 --> 00:07:54,879 I have not been contacted nor have I received any 109 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:58,879 information from deep sources in the White House. I don't 110 00:07:58,879 --> 00:08:03,680 have any so I cannot hear from them. So I 111 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:06,000 don't know, but I'm just spitballing. Maybe it had something 112 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:08,439 to do with the fact that Bolton was out there 113 00:08:08,519 --> 00:08:14,160 savaging Donald Trump after Trump fired him. Maybe maybe John 114 00:08:14,199 --> 00:08:18,240 Bolton was seen as an ally, or, to use a 115 00:08:18,319 --> 00:08:21,920 term that the Left is more comfortable using, an asset, yes, 116 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:29,560 an asset for the Biden administration and its weaponized intelligence agencies. 117 00:08:30,399 --> 00:08:32,679 That you could have John Bolton going out there with 118 00:08:32,799 --> 00:08:37,879 the gravitas that is afforded to him as a Trump 119 00:08:37,879 --> 00:08:43,720 appointee of longtime Republican aide and staffer and ambassador and 120 00:08:43,799 --> 00:08:46,879 like all of these high ranking positions and such, and 121 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:51,360 here he is going out there and attacking Trump doing 122 00:08:51,399 --> 00:08:56,879 all of the interviews on MSNBC now known as miss Now. 123 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:03,960 So maybe he was seen as this is a benefit 124 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:06,440 to have them out there. So we'll do you a 125 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:10,200 solid and shut down the investigation and you can keep 126 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:14,720 going out there doing your interviews attacking Donald Trump. Again. 127 00:09:14,919 --> 00:09:18,519 I don't know that to be the case, but I 128 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:22,080 can make some guesses. All right, if you're listening to 129 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:23,639 this show, you know I try to keep up with 130 00:09:23,639 --> 00:09:25,759 all sorts of current events, and I know you do too, 131 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:28,440 And you've probably heard me say get your news from 132 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:33,120 multiple sources. 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I don't know there he could be anyway. 153 00:10:41,799 --> 00:10:45,720 Appearing on ms NBC in August of twenty twenty two 154 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:50,000 to discuss the matter, Bolton expressed his belief that Trump 155 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:55,320 didn't care about the classification system or appreciate the sensitivity 156 00:10:55,559 --> 00:11:00,519 of the information. He was talking about the Mara Lago 157 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:08,039 raid in summer of twenty twenty two. He said he 158 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:10,519 had no problem with the raid. And I've seen people 159 00:11:10,639 --> 00:11:14,080 it's it's so funny, like the people that defended the 160 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:16,759 raid or said, oh, it's not a raid, don't call 161 00:11:16,799 --> 00:11:21,600 it a raid. Right, They were all in defense of 162 00:11:22,159 --> 00:11:24,919 the raid on Mara Lago in twenty twenty two, and 163 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:29,360 those same people are now, you know, hitting the fainting 164 00:11:29,519 --> 00:11:39,360 couches over this raid on John Bolton's home. And we 165 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:43,840 find out that there was an investigation into Bolton after 166 00:11:43,879 --> 00:11:49,080 he published his book in twenty twenty, going after Donald Trump, 167 00:11:50,279 --> 00:11:55,159 and there were there was belief obviously that Bolton had 168 00:11:55,240 --> 00:12:00,960 in his possession and had used classified information to help 169 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:05,240 write his book, and they launched a probe, and then 170 00:12:05,279 --> 00:12:08,960 that got shut down when Joe Biden took office in 171 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:14,639 twenty twenty one, right after the twenty twenty election, and 172 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:18,679 at the time Biden is in office, now the book 173 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:22,559 has been out, the probe has been shut down, either 174 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:25,799 right before or right after the raid on mar A Lago, 175 00:12:26,879 --> 00:12:32,519 and you got Bolton out there propping up this belief 176 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:36,799 that for the first time ever in a you might 177 00:12:36,879 --> 00:12:40,879 consider it to be a shattering of the norms that 178 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:48,200 a current administration has raided the home of the prior 179 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:56,120 administration a political opponent. And people like me were saying, guys, 180 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:59,919 this is not a great precedent to be setting, particularly 181 00:13:00,039 --> 00:13:04,440 when it comes to this issue, because I know people 182 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:06,360 were saying, he took all the documents, he took all 183 00:13:06,399 --> 00:13:10,200 this stuff, but they couldn't tell us what the documents were, 184 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:14,559 and the leaks about what the documents were were coming 185 00:13:14,559 --> 00:13:19,240 from an intel agency or intelligence community that was riddled 186 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:22,799 with never Trumpers and anti trumpers and people suffering from 187 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:25,720 Trump de arrangement syndrome, the same people that told us 188 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:28,480 Trump was a Russian asset. So I couldn't believe this 189 00:13:28,519 --> 00:13:33,799 stuff that's getting leaked through their normal media laundering cutouts. 190 00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:38,559 So what are we now to make of all of this? 191 00:13:38,679 --> 00:13:42,320 And Jack Smith launches his prosecution, all of that got 192 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:48,960 shut down too, And here you have Bolton running around 193 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:52,279 making the case all of this is legitimate. Yes, we 194 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:55,120 shattered a norm, but Donald Trump broke the norm first 195 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:59,039 because he's Donald Trump, and he would take stuff. He 196 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:03,000 liked cool things things, said Bolton. He saw things, so 197 00:14:03,039 --> 00:14:05,159 he wanted to take them, and he was pretty much 198 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:08,039 able to take them, and not just on classified information matters, 199 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:10,399 on all kinds of things that crossed his desk. Some 200 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:12,759 days he liked to eat a lot of French fries. 201 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:16,360 Some days he took classified documents. He wanted them. Why 202 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:21,120 did he want them? Because he could get them. I 203 00:14:21,279 --> 00:14:24,720 suspect that John Bolton may have had some sort of 204 00:14:24,759 --> 00:14:28,360 an arrangement with the Biden administration. Whether or not it's 205 00:14:28,399 --> 00:14:32,440 stated explicitly or not, it doesn't matter to me. I 206 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:36,600 think there's an understanding that Bolton is doing some of 207 00:14:36,639 --> 00:14:41,360 the work that we like to see done going after Trump, 208 00:14:41,799 --> 00:14:45,840 bolstering our case, reinforcing the narrative, you know, trading in 209 00:14:45,919 --> 00:14:51,320 his credibility, in his political and cachet, in service to 210 00:14:51,559 --> 00:14:55,320 our narrative that Donald Trump needs to be thrown in prison, 211 00:14:57,159 --> 00:14:59,759 because that's what the Democrats were doing after Trump lost, 212 00:14:59,799 --> 00:15:03,080 after for j six, Donald Trump needs to go to jail. 213 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:06,360 That's why they launched the raid. That's why they launched 214 00:15:06,399 --> 00:15:09,840 the case in New York. Well, the multiple cases in 215 00:15:09,879 --> 00:15:13,240 New York, right Egen Carrol trial. We get all of 216 00:15:13,279 --> 00:15:17,080 these things going after Trump, another impeachment, all of these 217 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:19,200 other things. All of this stuff was all designed to 218 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:23,399 destroy Donald Trump after he was out of office, to 219 00:15:23,519 --> 00:15:27,159 prevent him from ever running again. And the Left just 220 00:15:27,279 --> 00:15:32,039 kept whipping their mobs up year after year after year, 221 00:15:32,159 --> 00:15:39,799 culminating finally in multiple attempted assassinations of Trump. And for 222 00:15:39,919 --> 00:15:43,039 all of that work that they did, for all of 223 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:49,240 the frenzy that they created, it ended up getting Donald 224 00:15:49,279 --> 00:15:54,399 Trump elected again. I've been very clear. In the twenty 225 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:57,000 twenty four election, I voted for Trump for the first time. 226 00:15:57,080 --> 00:15:59,000 I did not vote for him the previous two. I 227 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:01,039 did not vote for the Demoocrats either, but I did 228 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:05,000 not vote for and I never voted for a major 229 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:08,600 party candidate, a Republican or a Democrat for president ever 230 00:16:08,679 --> 00:16:11,720 in my life. The first one I've ever voted for 231 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:14,440 was Donald Trump, and it wasn't a vote for him. 232 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:17,240 It was my use of a protest vote, which I 233 00:16:17,279 --> 00:16:21,919 always used my presidential vote for. It's a protest against 234 00:16:21,919 --> 00:16:24,720 the party's nominees. That's the way I always did it before. 235 00:16:24,759 --> 00:16:27,919 I wanted people that were actually better candidates. I wanted 236 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:32,679 people that were more fiscally restraining. I wanted people to 237 00:16:32,799 --> 00:16:35,600 reign in the executive branch, and I never got any 238 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:38,320 of that. But I recognized it's my vote, I'm going 239 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:40,519 to choose to use it as a protest for that race. 240 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:43,840 And when Trump ran in twenty twenty four, and after 241 00:16:43,879 --> 00:16:48,399 seeing what the media had done to him, the lies 242 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:53,480 they promulgated, and then the cover up of Joe Biden's 243 00:16:53,879 --> 00:16:58,519 sinility is cognitive decline, I used my vote for Trump 244 00:16:58,639 --> 00:17:02,720 as a protest vote again. Against the media, and now 245 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:06,039 I'm going to say I used it also against the 246 00:17:06,079 --> 00:17:09,519 intelligence agencies. That's all I can do. I was my 247 00:17:09,599 --> 00:17:13,200 one vote, but that's why I voted for and I 248 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:15,799 suspect there are a lot of Americans that did that too, 249 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:19,880 after seeing what they put Trump through. In a post 250 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:23,400 on Twitter, FBI director Cash Patel said no one is 251 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:28,000 above the law. Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Deputy 252 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:32,079 Director Dan Bongino they also went to Twitter. Bondi said 253 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:36,720 America's safety isn't negotiable. Justice will be pursued always. Bongino 254 00:17:36,759 --> 00:17:40,559 said public corruption will not be tolerated. Bolton served during 255 00:17:40,599 --> 00:17:44,279 two Republican administrations, first as ambassador to the UN during 256 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:48,640 George W. Bush's term. Later, he was the National Security 257 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:51,480 advisor to Trump for about a year and a half. 258 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:55,960 They did not part ways amicably. Many do not with Trump, 259 00:17:56,160 --> 00:18:02,720 particularly in that first term. In twenty nineteen, claimed he 260 00:18:02,799 --> 00:18:06,279 fired Bolton, but Bolton claimed he offered to resign after 261 00:18:06,319 --> 00:18:11,880 a disagreement. Earlier this year, several days into the second 262 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:16,160 Trump administration, the president canceled John Bolton's Secret Service detail, 263 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:19,440 despite the fact that Bolton was the target target of 264 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:21,920 an alleged murder for higher scheme by a member of 265 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:27,519 Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. That's from NBC News. Here's 266 00:18:27,559 --> 00:18:30,160 a great idea. 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Call or 285 00:19:31,519 --> 00:19:34,839 text eight two eight three six seven seventy sixty eight 286 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:37,279 or check out all there is to offer at Cabins 287 00:19:37,319 --> 00:19:40,839 Offashville dot com and make memories that'll last a lifetime. 288 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:46,920 From the WBT text line, Joseph wants to know whether 289 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:51,759 I think the FEDS rifled through Bolton's underwear drawer. I 290 00:19:51,799 --> 00:19:54,880 don't know. Apparently they're still there. They've been there for 291 00:19:54,960 --> 00:20:04,240 like five hours now, so not really sure. Kirk says 292 00:20:04,279 --> 00:20:07,279 there may be something there with respect to Bolton, but 293 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:14,119 it smacks of retribution. Yeah, it does that. I don't 294 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:17,680 know it very well. Could be politically motivated, although Trump 295 00:20:18,279 --> 00:20:21,640 said he was doing something this morning and somebody asked 296 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:23,480 him about it, and he said he wasn't aware of 297 00:20:23,519 --> 00:20:27,680 it happening. He doesn't know anything about it. Maybe that's 298 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:29,680 what the announcement that now has been pushed back to 299 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:33,200 twelve thirty because they're still going through the house. Maybe 300 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:35,480 they pushed it back for that. It was supposed to 301 00:20:35,519 --> 00:20:39,480 be a twelve o'clock announcement. It then got pushed to 302 00:20:39,519 --> 00:20:43,599 twelve thirty and we're still waiting to hear what the 303 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:48,039 announcement is. And it might be completely unrelated right to 304 00:20:48,319 --> 00:20:53,319 the Bolton rate. But yeah, Kirk, I agree. I mean 305 00:20:53,319 --> 00:20:57,799 it could very well be some sort of you know, 306 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:04,000 political retribution. Sure, I think though, let me hear. I 307 00:21:04,039 --> 00:21:14,400 just saw did to do do. Yeah, everybody just ought 308 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,759 to calm down, whether you're pro Trump or anti Trump, 309 00:21:18,039 --> 00:21:21,920 and let the process work its way through. I think 310 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:25,640 that's some that that is some sage advice, some good advice, 311 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:31,079 and uh, I think we should all respect uh, John 312 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:34,359 Bolton's wishes because that's a quote from John Bolton after 313 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:39,119 the raid of mar Lago. So yeah, again with all 314 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:44,160 things Donald Trump, what do I advise, Let's just wait 315 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:47,119 a minute, Let's see what this is about. Let's see 316 00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:51,279 if there's more information. If Trump did not know anything 317 00:21:51,319 --> 00:21:54,359 about it, then it very well could be that they 318 00:21:54,799 --> 00:21:59,480 reopened the probe into John Bolton that was suspended or 319 00:21:59,519 --> 00:22:03,160 that was shut down under the Biden administration when Bolton 320 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:08,119 was running around savaging Donald Trump, and the investigation was 321 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:12,279 apparently reportedly again due to this is based off of 322 00:22:12,319 --> 00:22:16,519 an anonymous US official who told it to either The 323 00:22:16,559 --> 00:22:19,920 New York Post or Fox News that the probe was 324 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:24,920 about John Bolton taking classified information to use for his 325 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:29,200 book where he savaged Donald Trump. The book came out 326 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:32,920 in twenty twenty. But you'll recall all of the classified information, 327 00:22:33,039 --> 00:22:36,559 all that stuff that Donald Trump took and then got 328 00:22:36,559 --> 00:22:42,799 his house rated like that happened after Bolton's book. So 329 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,119 maybe this is related to it. Maybe it's not. I 330 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:52,480 have no idea, so I'm willing to wait and see. 331 00:22:52,839 --> 00:22:55,119 Jeff says at the opening of the show, when you 332 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:58,359 revealed that the story was about classified documents, I thought 333 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:00,799 for sure there would be the horror movie music. But 334 00:23:00,839 --> 00:23:03,759 a last No, you haven't been using that much lately. 335 00:23:03,799 --> 00:23:06,640 Has it gone away? No? I have. I have not 336 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:12,200 canceled the I have not canceled that. I actually have 337 00:23:12,319 --> 00:23:16,480 two of the you call horror music. But it's actually 338 00:23:16,799 --> 00:23:20,319 I have it labeled as done, done done, and then 339 00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:22,240 I have and that's this one here. I will play 340 00:23:22,279 --> 00:23:29,000 it done done done right. So that's the first one. 341 00:23:29,079 --> 00:23:31,559 And then the second clip I have is done done, 342 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:44,799 done done, and that's this one right. So it all 343 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:48,240 depends on my mood, but no, I did not. I 344 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:51,559 did not play the the soundbites there because I've got 345 00:23:51,599 --> 00:23:54,039 c SPAN pulled up here on the laptop as well, 346 00:23:54,079 --> 00:23:58,680 and I didn't want that audio to just start playing 347 00:24:00,039 --> 00:24:03,400 because Trump is supposed to make an announcement. We were 348 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,160 waiting on that at noon, so I have my laptop muted. 349 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:11,119 You'll notice I have not also played any rim shots either, 350 00:24:11,599 --> 00:24:14,559 so my laptop is in quiet mode. That's anyway peak 351 00:24:14,599 --> 00:24:17,079 behind the curtain there and I'm looking at c SPAN. 352 00:24:17,799 --> 00:24:21,079 The announcement has now been pushed to twelve forty five, 353 00:24:21,799 --> 00:24:26,839 so I don't know what's going on, but that's where 354 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:30,920 we stand. But remember, the mar A Lago raid was 355 00:24:31,079 --> 00:24:37,400 just one in a litany of weaponized law fair against 356 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:42,240 Donald Trump. Because when you believe that a person is 357 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:48,839 literally hitler with a spray tand then all things become justified. Right. 358 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:53,880 They impeached him again, They impeached him twice. Right. They 359 00:24:55,599 --> 00:25:02,799 crippled his first term with the Russia collusion oaks. They 360 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:09,000 then you know, prosecuted him under for the classified documents. 361 00:25:09,039 --> 00:25:11,279 They went after him on that, filed charges against him 362 00:25:11,319 --> 00:25:13,480 on that, trying to trying to put him in jail 363 00:25:13,519 --> 00:25:16,160 for the rest of his life, right, That's what that 364 00:25:16,279 --> 00:25:19,119 was about. To ensure that he could never run again, 365 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:22,839 to make sure that he would never get into the 366 00:25:22,839 --> 00:25:25,599 White House. They did all of these things to try 367 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:29,640 to make it impossible for him to get back into 368 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:35,839 the White House or to live freely. They tried to 369 00:25:35,839 --> 00:25:39,440 take him out in all of these different ways. You 370 00:25:39,519 --> 00:25:43,960 had the defamation case that was brought against him by 371 00:25:44,559 --> 00:25:49,279 e Jen Carroll who alleged that he that he raped 372 00:25:49,319 --> 00:25:53,519 her in the dressing room of a popular and busy 373 00:25:54,000 --> 00:26:00,920 department store. You had the case brought up in New 374 00:26:01,039 --> 00:26:09,440 York by Tish James Letitia James that just got thrown out. 375 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:12,799 The settlement just got thrown The dollar figure, the penalty 376 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:17,400 just got tossed by the New York Supreme Court, which 377 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:19,519 is not the Supreme Court of the State of New York, 378 00:26:19,559 --> 00:26:22,079 which is stupid. It's the Court of Appeals, that's the 379 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:24,920 highest court in New York State, which is likely where 380 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:30,039 the rest of this is going to go. That was 381 00:26:30,079 --> 00:26:33,440 to bankrupt the company, bankrupt the put the you know, 382 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:36,640 it was a death penalty basically for the Trump organization. 383 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:42,920 Bankrupt him, bankrupt the company. They tried to destroy him 384 00:26:43,559 --> 00:26:46,279 and his business and his family and put him in 385 00:26:46,319 --> 00:26:49,920 jail for the rest of his natural life. And Americans 386 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:53,880 saw that, and when people like me who had never 387 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:58,440 voted for Trump were saying, guys, this has Banana Republic 388 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:01,119 type of stuff. You're destroyed the norms. This is now 389 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,240 going to become the normal thing. And you're like, oh, no, 390 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:07,240 it won't. And here we are. 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More fun, more memories, more ROI 410 00:28:06,279 --> 00:28:09,319 check it out now at incentive tripkit dot com or 411 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:12,160 call Eric at eight eight eight five three three seventy 412 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:15,759 six thirty seven Extension two O seven for the details. 413 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:22,079 I am shocked, shocked at the I am shocked at 414 00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:28,640 the ramifications of my own decisions. Hmm Banchi at Red 415 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:31,240 State said, prior to the mar A Lago raid, it 416 00:28:31,319 --> 00:28:34,440 was understood that no political figures or appointees ever got 417 00:28:34,519 --> 00:28:39,200 raided or charged over classified documents. Retention, Democrats changed that 418 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:44,920 norm and now the rules still apply, right, I mean, 419 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:49,720 those are the rules we warned you. Here's Sean Davis 420 00:28:49,759 --> 00:28:52,799 from the Federalist. We told you exactly what would happen 421 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:57,559 if Biden used federal law enforcement to destroy and imprison 422 00:28:57,599 --> 00:29:01,000 his political enemies. We told you that once you crossed 423 00:29:01,039 --> 00:29:04,519 that rubicon, there was no going back. We told you 424 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,680 how it would go down, that the toothpaste could never 425 00:29:07,759 --> 00:29:10,599 be put back in the tube, and you laughed and 426 00:29:10,759 --> 00:29:16,880 laughed because you thought you'd be in charge forever. Yeah, 427 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:23,880 the consequences of your own actions. I mentioned the case 428 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:31,599 against Trump for the improper accounting right that it was 429 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:36,480 tried by Letitia James, who should be disbarred. She explicitly 430 00:29:36,599 --> 00:29:43,839 ran a campaign for Attorney general or district attorney. Yeah, yeah, 431 00:29:43,839 --> 00:29:46,519 I think she was DA or is the DA, No, 432 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:50,319 that's Alvin Bragg. She was a G and she ran 433 00:29:50,359 --> 00:29:54,720 a campaign explicitly saying she was going to target a 434 00:29:54,759 --> 00:29:59,440 private citizen, Donald Trump. She said, vote for me. I 435 00:29:59,519 --> 00:30:07,599 will find something to charge him with, and she did. 436 00:30:07,119 --> 00:30:11,920 They used this law that had never been used before 437 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,319 in the way that it was being used, and they 438 00:30:14,319 --> 00:30:19,319 brought the case, and you know, in a New York trial, 439 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,279 they won with a judge that they needed to have 440 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:28,359 there in order to rig the outcome and then slap 441 00:30:28,599 --> 00:30:32,160 Trump with a massive fine to put his company out 442 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:38,519 of business. And now that got tossed by a Democrat 443 00:30:38,839 --> 00:30:43,119 panel of judges in New York State. Ed Morrissey at 444 00:30:43,119 --> 00:30:45,720 hot air dot com he says, is this a total 445 00:30:45,799 --> 00:30:49,079 vindication for Donald Trump? Not exactly, at least not yet, 446 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,680 but any day that a court puts five hundred and 447 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:56,440 twenty seven million dollars back into your pocket and keeps 448 00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:00,680 your business license in place, that's a very good day, indeed, right. 449 00:31:02,039 --> 00:31:07,680 The court declined to reverse the verdict, but called Judge 450 00:31:07,799 --> 00:31:13,240 Arthur Engern's judgment a violation of the Eighth Amendment, which 451 00:31:13,279 --> 00:31:17,559 is cruel and unusual punishment. The appellate Court reversed the 452 00:31:17,799 --> 00:31:22,640 entire monetary penalty and kept the business restrictions on hold. 453 00:31:23,519 --> 00:31:27,640 Ngeron imposed other punishments, such as banning Trump and his 454 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:31,039 two eldest sons from serving in corporate leadership for a 455 00:31:31,039 --> 00:31:34,880 couple of years. Those provisions have been on pause during 456 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:37,759 Trump's appeal, and he was able to hold off collection 457 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:40,279 of the money by posting a one hundred and seventy 458 00:31:40,319 --> 00:31:44,160 five million dollar bond. The court declined to reverse the 459 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:47,559 verdict itself, and while that is disappointing for Trump, I'm 460 00:31:47,599 --> 00:31:51,640 sure the panel essentially kicked that can over to the 461 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:57,480 State Supreme Court make them deal with it. Jonathan Turley 462 00:31:58,319 --> 00:32:01,559 points out here that Judge Arthur and Goern could not 463 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:06,960 get a single judge to preserve a single dollar of 464 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:12,359 the fine that he hit Trump with the court found 465 00:32:12,599 --> 00:32:17,119 little legal or factual basis for the fine. The purported 466 00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,680 witnesses not only did not lose a dime, because remember 467 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:24,480 this was about the inflation of Mara a lago or deflation. 468 00:32:25,839 --> 00:32:27,279 He said it was worth this amount of money, but 469 00:32:27,279 --> 00:32:29,240 then he went to get a loan from Deutsche Bank 470 00:32:29,319 --> 00:32:31,079 and said it was only worth a little bit of 471 00:32:31,079 --> 00:32:35,960 money or whatever, and there was no victim. The bank 472 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,640 said it did all of its own due diligence. They 473 00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:41,880 knew what they were entering into. They loaned Trump the money, 474 00:32:42,559 --> 00:32:45,920 they got fully paid back, and they said they were 475 00:32:46,119 --> 00:32:48,200 happy with the deal and they would like to do 476 00:32:48,279 --> 00:32:54,400 more deals with him. They did not sue him. The 477 00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:58,160 witnesses did not only not lose any money, They testified 478 00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:00,720 they actually made money on the loan loans, and they 479 00:33:00,759 --> 00:33:04,440 wanted new loans with Trump. Democrat New York Attorney General 480 00:33:04,519 --> 00:33:08,440 Letitia James had injected lawfare directly into the veins of 481 00:33:08,519 --> 00:33:12,519 New Yorkers, pledging in her campaign to beg Trump without 482 00:33:12,599 --> 00:33:18,119 bothering to name any crime or violation. James could not 483 00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:21,559 have succeeded if she did not have Judge Angeron willing 484 00:33:21,599 --> 00:33:24,880 to ignore reality and cook the books on the fines. 485 00:33:25,279 --> 00:33:29,039 She needed a partner in her lawfare. She needed angeron. 486 00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:38,519 Judge David Friedman detailed how the underlying law had never 487 00:33:38,559 --> 00:33:40,319 been used in the way it was being used in 488 00:33:40,359 --> 00:33:44,640 this case to attack successful private commercial transactions negotiated at 489 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:49,359 arm's length between highly sophisticated parties fully capable of monitoring 490 00:33:49,359 --> 00:33:52,720 and defending their own interests. He accused Judge and Garon 491 00:33:53,039 --> 00:33:56,240 of participating in an effort clearly directed by James as 492 00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:59,319 ending with the derailment of Trump's political career and the 493 00:33:59,359 --> 00:34:04,519 destruction of his real estate business. The case isn't over. 494 00:34:06,359 --> 00:34:08,639 Both sides will appeal it to the state supreme court 495 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:10,760 called the Court of Appeals in New York State. If 496 00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:13,280 Trump doesn't have the entire case tossed at that point, 497 00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:15,719 he'll likely take it to the US Supreme Court, and 498 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:19,360 the abuses of Angern and tiss James will not sit 499 00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:22,920 well at that level. But in the meantime, Trump gets 500 00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:26,920 his money back and James and Engern have egg dripping 501 00:34:27,039 --> 00:34:32,159 off their faces. All right, that'll do it for this episode. 502 00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:34,320 Thank you so much for listening. I could not do 503 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:36,519 the show without your support and the support of the 504 00:34:36,519 --> 00:34:39,559 businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, 505 00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:41,800 please support them too and tell them you heard it here. 506 00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,480 You can also become a patron at my Patreon page 507 00:34:44,599 --> 00:34:48,159 or go to thepetecallanershow dot com. Again, thank you so 508 00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:55,280 much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.