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So I mentioned in the last 10 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:34,479 on the last topic, the three big stories right that 11 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:38,159 NPR blue over the last five years, right, the Russia hoaks, 12 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:41,079 the COVID lab leak theory, and the Hunter Biden laptop story. 13 00:00:41,119 --> 00:00:44,799 All of those three stories, they were on the wrong 14 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:50,439 side of and promoted misinformation, disinformation and everything else. But 15 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:54,600 there was another story, and it's the greatest political scandal 16 00:00:55,399 --> 00:00:58,960 in American history. I have said this before. It is 17 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:06,680 Joe bid Biden's mental cognitive decline. And now it can 18 00:01:06,719 --> 00:01:10,079 be told right now. Okay, now we're going to get 19 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:12,879 the books and we're going to get the articles that Okay, yeah, 20 00:01:12,879 --> 00:01:15,640 everybody kind of did know this, and I've already covered 21 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:20,760 a couple of these quote revelations, We've got more now. 22 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:25,439 So this is our friend Stacy Matthews at RedState dot 23 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:32,599 com and she found this clip from The Young Turks. 24 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:41,239 That's a leftist progressive YouTube show, right the host Chenk Youger, 25 00:01:43,599 --> 00:01:47,519 and he's interviewing a guy named Michael l Rosa. Michael 26 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:53,519 LaRosa worked for Joe Biden's twenty twenty presidential campaign. He 27 00:01:53,799 --> 00:02:02,079 was Jill Biden, sorry, Doctor Jill Biden's only press secretary, okay, 28 00:02:03,959 --> 00:02:09,479 and then when Biden won, Losa became the first Lady's 29 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:15,080 press secretary, but he didn't last very long. He resigned 30 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:17,719 in the summer of twenty twenty two, so about two 31 00:02:17,759 --> 00:02:25,599 years into the gig, right after Doctor Jill's breakfast taco debacle, 32 00:02:26,439 --> 00:02:33,199 remember that one where she mispronounced the word bodega's and 33 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:37,080 and said something like you, this community is is as 34 00:02:37,199 --> 00:02:41,039 diverse as the breakfast tacos in San Antonio or something 35 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:47,039 like this, Oh my gosh, like breakfast tacos to the 36 00:02:47,159 --> 00:02:50,800 Hispanic organization she was speaking in front of. Anyway, so 37 00:02:50,879 --> 00:02:55,520 that I guess precipitated this guy Lorosa's exit from the post. Okay. 38 00:02:55,840 --> 00:03:00,560 Since then, l Rosa has made some concerning a missions 39 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:03,400 about what he says went on in the Biden White House. 40 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:09,479 For instance, in February, he said, quote the President's team 41 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:18,319 was scared to death of impromptu, unscripted, unrehearsed, unpracticed, unchoreographed anything. 42 00:03:18,879 --> 00:03:24,280 They couldn't compete for the attention economy. I would say, 43 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:27,919 in the attention economy, they couldn't compete. 44 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:28,840 Speaker 2: Quote. 45 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:33,439 Speaker 1: We were always from day one cognizant that age was 46 00:03:33,599 --> 00:03:37,280 an issue. He also admitted at that time in February 47 00:03:38,759 --> 00:03:45,199 that the quote gaslighting people accused Biden's handlers of engaging 48 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:49,199 in regard. He said that Biden's handlers were engaged in 49 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:54,879 gas lighting whenever anybody asked questions about his cognitive health, 50 00:03:54,919 --> 00:03:58,439 and that they all knew, they all knew, and then 51 00:03:58,479 --> 00:04:01,639 they would just lie about it and light us. And 52 00:04:01,879 --> 00:04:04,800 you may recall we had an example of that occur 53 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:08,560 right here on WBT when our news director got an 54 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:13,080 interview with caringe Jeanpierre, and he asked her flat out 55 00:04:13,479 --> 00:04:17,040 does he have dementia? And she got all outraged over 56 00:04:17,079 --> 00:04:21,480 it and proceeded to gaslight Mark Garrison, the news director, 57 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:26,560 and the audience, all of us that heard it. So 58 00:04:26,639 --> 00:04:30,639 now we have this interview with Michael LaRosa on the 59 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:35,079 Young Turks with Chenk Yuger, and here's what Michael Lo 60 00:04:35,199 --> 00:04:36,839 Rosa says. 61 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 2: How do you bully the press? What do you threat? 62 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:42,879 Speaker 3: Well, look, there were a lot of ways. I mean, 63 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:50,279 I thought it was weird that they only did interviews 64 00:04:50,319 --> 00:04:53,519 for quote approval. There was this thing in Biden world 65 00:04:53,519 --> 00:04:56,160 about quote approval. Everything had to be on quote approval. 66 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:59,040 So you talk to your reporter, but like one person 67 00:04:59,079 --> 00:05:02,240 decides what there can use, what quotes they can use. 68 00:05:03,079 --> 00:05:04,879 There was weird things like that. I mean, you saw 69 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:10,560 them get Paul trying to script questions to radio reporters 70 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:14,600 that summer or summer of twenty twenty four. It was 71 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:17,040 very reminiscent to me of being on the campaign in 72 00:05:17,079 --> 00:05:21,240 twenty twenty where these young press staffers in these states 73 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:24,480 like New Hampshire or Iowa or Nevada, they were sort 74 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:32,519 of like dog trained to make the questions conditional for interviews. 75 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:37,959 And I said to them, please never ask the journalists 76 00:05:37,959 --> 00:05:40,639 for the questions ahead of time. You can always ask 77 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:44,839 about the topics, but do not ask them for the questions, right. 78 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:48,879 Speaker 1: That's standard, By the way, that is a standard thing Hey, 79 00:05:48,879 --> 00:05:50,720 what do you want to talk about? And then you'll 80 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:53,639 throw out, oh, I wanted to ask the person about, 81 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:57,879 you know, how the campaign's going just a broad topic, 82 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:01,000 so they have an understanding of what they're going to 83 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,839 be talking about, So you could throw out the topics. 84 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:06,240 You don't give them the questions, nor if anybody ever. 85 00:06:06,319 --> 00:06:08,040 And I've had people ask me that, well, what kind 86 00:06:08,079 --> 00:06:09,920 of questions you want to ask? Like, I'm not going 87 00:06:09,959 --> 00:06:12,040 to tell you all questions I'm asking. I'm not going 88 00:06:12,079 --> 00:06:14,959 to give you a list of the questions. I'm going 89 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,240 to tell you it's going to be about a topic 90 00:06:17,519 --> 00:06:20,920 that's standard. This is so so far what he's directing 91 00:06:20,959 --> 00:06:24,279 these staffers about is completely appropriate. 92 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:24,680 Speaker 2: Or doctor Biden. 93 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,759 Speaker 3: And they said, well, that's what you know the other 94 00:06:27,879 --> 00:06:30,839 side tells us to do for him. I said, that's okay, fine, 95 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,839 that's their problem. You know, my job was to protect him, 96 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:37,759 my boss, and they could handle their we call it 97 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:40,879 the boy's side. The boys team could do their thing 98 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,519 with regard to prepping him for interviews. 99 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:44,439 Speaker 2: But I did not want that. 100 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:47,160 Speaker 3: I knew from being a you know, a former producer 101 00:06:47,199 --> 00:06:50,120 at NBC, having long relationships in the press, it was 102 00:06:50,199 --> 00:06:51,199 just like one oh one. 103 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:55,319 Speaker 2: It was really unethical to be doing that, but these 104 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:56,199 young kids. 105 00:06:55,920 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 3: Are really ought to make at a part of their 106 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:04,720 sort of pre pre screening for interviews. 107 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:11,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, they're pre screening for interviews for the boys team 108 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:17,920 Joe Biden's side, that they would get the questions from 109 00:07:17,959 --> 00:07:25,000 the reporters pre approval on the quotes. And this was 110 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:30,600 in twenty twenty, so this is like twenty nineteen actually, 111 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:33,480 because it was the twenty twenty campaign, right, So this 112 00:07:33,519 --> 00:07:38,480 goes back to twenty nineteen, so they knew before he 113 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:42,279 even won the first time pre COVID. Right. One series 114 00:07:42,319 --> 00:07:44,560 of incidents that comes to mind was what was happened 115 00:07:45,879 --> 00:07:48,920 in the aftermath of the disastrous June twenty twenty four 116 00:07:48,959 --> 00:07:52,920 debate performance against Donald Trump, when it was revealed that 117 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:57,480 leftist radio hosts this is what Lrossa mentioned, agreed in 118 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:02,720 advance to ask certain White House slash Biden campaign approved 119 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:07,000 questions during the quote interviews, which were designed to reassure 120 00:08:07,079 --> 00:08:10,680 voters and make his nightmarish debate appearance look like a 121 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:14,639 one off. Right, this was the cleanup, this was the 122 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:18,199 damage control, and he went out to do these radio 123 00:08:18,279 --> 00:08:25,480 interviews with friendlies, with scripted questions. Glenn Greenwald, independent journalist guy. 124 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:28,879 He said the most significant media scandal of the Biden 125 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:31,279 years was how they did not just hide what the 126 00:08:31,279 --> 00:08:34,960 public knew Biden's severe cognitive decline to the point that 127 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:39,039 he couldn't even remotely govern, but their aggressive attacks on 128 00:08:39,159 --> 00:08:44,639 anybody pointing it out and calling it disinformation, calling them 129 00:08:44,919 --> 00:08:49,559 disinformation agents. Right, you had media doing this and they 130 00:08:49,639 --> 00:08:53,039 knew because if you did any interviews with Biden, you 131 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:56,720 had to submit your questions, you had to get him preapproved, 132 00:08:57,559 --> 00:08:59,799 and then anybody was like, hey, he's got a list 133 00:08:59,799 --> 00:09:02,840 of the questions. Look look at the picture, and they 134 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:06,519 would attack you, they would gaslight. This is why it's 135 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:09,799 the biggest scandal. Who was actually signing all of those 136 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:14,320 executive orders, who was actually governing, who was making foreign 137 00:09:14,399 --> 00:09:20,240 policy decisions. Maybe now it can be told. All right, 138 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:22,080 if you're listening to this show, you know I try 139 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:23,879 to keep up with all sorts of current events, and 140 00:09:23,919 --> 00:09:25,960 I know you do too, And you've probably heard me 141 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:30,200 say get your news from multiple sources. Why well, because 142 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:32,919 it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've 143 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:36,279 been so impressed with Ground News. 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Subscribe through that link and you'll get fifteen 155 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:15,120 percent off any subscription. I use the Vantage plan to 156 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:18,559 get unlimited access to every feature. Your subscription then not 157 00:10:18,639 --> 00:10:21,600 only helps my podcast, but it also supports ground News 158 00:10:21,639 --> 00:10:25,919 as they make the media landscape more transparent. One last 159 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:29,440 part of this clip again, this is from Stacy Matthews 160 00:10:29,519 --> 00:10:31,799 over at RedState dot com. She writes under the numb 161 00:10:31,879 --> 00:10:35,080 diplume of the Sister Toldja that was the name of 162 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:39,240 her original blog, going back probably I guess twenty years 163 00:10:39,279 --> 00:10:41,000 maybe At this point, I mean, she was like one 164 00:10:41,039 --> 00:10:46,120 of the og bloggers. And she pulls this clip that 165 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:53,200 came from the young Turks Progressive YouTube channel, and the 166 00:10:53,279 --> 00:10:59,120 host Chenk Yuger is interviewing Michael LaRosa. Loosa worked for 167 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:02,679 Joe Biden's twenty twenty presidential campaign, but he worked for 168 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:06,200 doctor Jill. He worked as her press secretary, and then 169 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:09,720 when they won, he went to work in the First 170 00:11:09,799 --> 00:11:14,000 Lady's press shop as the press secretary. Okay, And he's 171 00:11:14,039 --> 00:11:18,799 talking about in this interview how they would get the 172 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:22,480 questions from all of the reporters for Joe, and he 173 00:11:22,519 --> 00:11:27,320 always said, don't do that for Jill, but for Joe. 174 00:11:27,399 --> 00:11:31,200 That's how their side operated. All of the staffers would 175 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:35,679 get all of the questions ahead of time from the journalists. 176 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:38,919 And here you're gonna hear the host, Chenk Juger, he's 177 00:11:38,919 --> 00:11:45,039 gonna express disbelief that basically the secret got kept. 178 00:11:46,279 --> 00:11:48,200 Speaker 2: It's amazing to me that no one in the press 179 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:49,080 complained about it. 180 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:53,399 Speaker 3: So well, you know, I kind of always wondered that myself, 181 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:56,159 like why didn't any of these reporters, even in New 182 00:11:56,159 --> 00:12:00,960 Hampshire and some of these small town papers or local news, like, why. 183 00:12:00,799 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 2: Didn't anybody ever say anything? 184 00:12:02,159 --> 00:12:05,080 Speaker 3: I thought it was so weird at the time, But 185 00:12:05,279 --> 00:12:07,440 it was my first president to a campaign, I'm thinking, Okay, 186 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:09,919 maybe these people know better than I do. But no, 187 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:13,320 it was just I learned over the course of the 188 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:18,360 next four years, and I learned a lot last summer. 189 00:12:18,519 --> 00:12:21,279 Just they just how bad their instincts actually are, and 190 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:24,960 how their instincts really didn't serve the president very well 191 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:29,519 because no matter how hostile they were or how punitive 192 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:33,879 they were to the reporters covering Biden his press, his 193 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:35,639 press coverage never improved. 194 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:37,279 Speaker 2: In fact, it only got worse. 195 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:43,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, so they actually did a disservice. This is another Uh, 196 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:46,879 it's another example. Uh, And I talk about you know, 197 00:12:46,919 --> 00:12:52,240 the left has become intellectually flabby because they are never challenged. 198 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:57,320 Resistance to pressure builds strength. And they were trying to 199 00:12:57,679 --> 00:13:03,080 protect Joe because he obviously could not handle unscripted questions. 200 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:06,240 They wanted to limit the gaffs, and they wanted to 201 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:11,960 mask his cognitive decline, and then the whole thing blew up. 202 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:18,279 And also that the coverage wasn't beneficial for him, because 203 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:21,679 even if you're demanding the questions of the media right now, 204 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:24,600 it might work for you, but the people who are 205 00:13:24,639 --> 00:13:27,679 engaged in that behavior, they may not all be cool 206 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:29,600 with that. But they feel like they've got to go 207 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:32,279 along with it in order to get the interview, and 208 00:13:32,399 --> 00:13:35,720 that's what they were prizing. But they didn't like the 209 00:13:35,759 --> 00:13:39,360 fact that you were doing this to them. So you 210 00:13:39,399 --> 00:13:43,000 did a disservice. You made your candidate weaker by trying 211 00:13:43,039 --> 00:13:47,519 to protect them or him from everything. And he also 212 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:51,960 mentioned there that their instincts were just bad. The staffers, 213 00:13:52,039 --> 00:13:57,799 their instincts on this were just bad. Then there's this story. 214 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:02,000 This is from Jonathan Turley. He has a blog Jonathan 215 00:14:02,039 --> 00:14:07,679 Turley dot org dot org, and he's highlighting a quote 216 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:11,240 from Dan Goldman. Remember him. He was one of the 217 00:14:11,279 --> 00:14:14,279 star lawyers in the impeachment of Donald Trump, and then 218 00:14:14,279 --> 00:14:17,720 he parlayed that into a run for Congress as a 219 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:20,759 Democrat from New York and he is now in Congress. 220 00:14:20,799 --> 00:14:23,200 And Dan Goldman is one of those guys that thinks 221 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:26,480 he's way smarter than he actually is, and he's a lawyer, 222 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:31,120 which makes him like a particularly potent sort of stupid. 223 00:14:31,519 --> 00:14:38,240 So Turley, also a constitutional law professor, legal expert guy himself. 224 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:42,399 He says, for many of us who were long active 225 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:47,200 in Democrat politics, it is becoming increasingly difficult to recognize 226 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:50,639 the party as a new generation of foul mouthed I 227 00:14:50,679 --> 00:14:54,480 went over that yesterday, right, with this strategy of using 228 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:59,399 profanity because they think it makes them seem authentic. It's 229 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:02,840 like that now, especially if you're not a cusser, you know, 230 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:05,600 and you don't use them, well, you don't know how 231 00:15:05,639 --> 00:15:08,600 to drop the cuss words at the appropriate time for 232 00:15:08,679 --> 00:15:13,279 the correct emphasis. It doesn't make you look authentic. Actually 233 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:16,159 quite the opposite. But again, it's just this like cheap 234 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:20,159 trick that they're trying to turn or trying well, they're 235 00:15:20,159 --> 00:15:24,279 trying to do this cheap trick because they don't have 236 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:28,759 a strategy other than to curse. More right, that's again 237 00:15:28,799 --> 00:15:32,679 you're intellectually flabby. You have not been served well by 238 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:37,279 your alliance and protection with the media, them not asking 239 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:41,879 you hard probing questions, the why question, Why are you 240 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:44,279 doing that? Why do you believe this? Why is this 241 00:15:44,399 --> 00:15:47,919 the right policy? Let's explore that, you know, idea or 242 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:51,919 this proposal whatever. They don't ask for those types of details. 243 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:57,600 They just accept the slogans, and that makes you flabby. 244 00:15:57,639 --> 00:16:01,279 So he's like, I don't even recognize this, this new 245 00:16:01,279 --> 00:16:05,720 iteration of the party, this new generation of foul mouthed censorship, 246 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:10,639 supporting mob enabling leaders that have taken over. That sense 247 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:15,600 returned this week when Representative Daniel Goldman claimed that the 248 00:16:15,639 --> 00:16:21,080 FBI investigating attacks on Tesla cars and facilities is nothing 249 00:16:21,159 --> 00:16:25,759 but lawfare and political weaponization. That's what this lawyer guy says. 250 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:30,679 Dan Goldman, a lawyer, says that the FBI investigating attacks 251 00:16:31,559 --> 00:16:37,120 on Tesla, its vehicles, it's dealerships, whatever, That that's lawfare. 252 00:16:37,919 --> 00:16:43,200 That this is political weaponization. Using the FBI to investigate 253 00:16:43,279 --> 00:16:47,279 domestic terrorism because it has to do with Tesla, that 254 00:16:47,279 --> 00:16:52,759 that's weaponization. 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Call or text eight two, eight, three, six, 282 00:18:36,559 --> 00:18:39,440 seven seventy sixty eight, or check out all there is 283 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:42,799 to offer at cabins Offashville dot com and make memories 284 00:18:42,839 --> 00:18:47,799 that'll last a lifetime. Jonathan Turley Constitutional law expert Guy 285 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:52,519 Riding at his blog Jonathan Turley dot Org about Daniel Goldman, 286 00:18:52,599 --> 00:18:58,640 Congressman from New York, who said the following quote speaking 287 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:02,799 about the FBI in investigating the attacks on Tesla dealerships 288 00:19:02,799 --> 00:19:07,200 and such, he said, quote, this is the political weaponization 289 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:12,200 of the DOJ. Trump uses his official authority to defend 290 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:16,200 his benefactor Elon Musk. The FBI then creates a task 291 00:19:16,279 --> 00:19:20,160 force to use our law enforcement to crack down on 292 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:25,359 adversaries of Musks. Where are the Republicans so opposed to lawfare? 293 00:19:26,759 --> 00:19:31,039 This is so stupid. It's against the law, dude. It's 294 00:19:31,079 --> 00:19:33,839 against the law to engage in this kind of vandalism 295 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:38,640 and violent behavior. And to whatever extent it's being funded 296 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:45,880 and organized by organizations, then there could be RICO implications racketeering, right, 297 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:50,319 and that is something that the FBI does in fact investigate. 298 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,319 Tarlie goes on to say it is clearly political violence 299 00:19:55,680 --> 00:20:01,240 orchestrated against an American company and American proper owners, including 300 00:20:01,599 --> 00:20:08,000 individual citizens, to push consumers away from buying Musks products. 301 00:20:08,079 --> 00:20:11,000 It sounds a lot, he says, and these attacks sound 302 00:20:11,079 --> 00:20:15,160 a lot like the definition of terrorism. The Justice Department 303 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:21,519 defines domestic terrorism as quote violent criminal acts committed by 304 00:20:21,559 --> 00:20:27,079 individuals and or groups to further ideological goals stemming from 305 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:32,480 domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, 306 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:38,519 or environmental nature. That sounds yeah, that sounds like what 307 00:20:38,519 --> 00:20:42,599 we're seeing. It is political violence. It is designed to 308 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:49,319 intimidate and harm people with opposing political views. It meets 309 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:53,720 the definition very clearly. So the Democrats have long been 310 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:58,000 accused of belittling or dismissing the seriousness of such crimes. 311 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:02,400 He says, there is a sense of license among some 312 00:21:02,559 --> 00:21:06,240 on the left in carrying out attacks on those on 313 00:21:06,279 --> 00:21:09,880 the right. I'm so glad to hear somebody like Jonathan 314 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:15,519 Turley say this. He is a well respected individual in 315 00:21:15,759 --> 00:21:19,759 you know, law and in government and policy debates and such, 316 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:24,240 and he is identifying I've been talking about this. I did, 317 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:28,400 I did, I've done it many many episodes, many topics 318 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:32,680 related to this. This sense that he calls a sense 319 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:36,480 of license that political violence is okay when we do 320 00:21:36,599 --> 00:21:41,920 it on the left. It's the same thing with Biden's 321 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:46,279 cognitive decline, right, Like, I can see this happening, and 322 00:21:46,319 --> 00:21:47,920 if I can see it, I know other people can 323 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:51,200 see it too. And then you get gas lit by 324 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:54,680 people are like, oh, he's fine, he's sharp as attack. Yeah, 325 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:57,720 he's doing jumping Jackson, running circles around the young staffers. 326 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:01,920 We can't even keep up with him, right, the lies. 327 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:06,559 And now you've got this Goldman guy saying that, oh, 328 00:22:06,559 --> 00:22:09,920 this is law fare. This is the weaponization of the 329 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:16,559 DOJ against domestic terrorists, against people blowing up Tesla dealerships. 330 00:22:16,599 --> 00:22:22,480 That's he says. What few today want to admit he's 331 00:22:22,519 --> 00:22:26,680 talking about lefties. What very few people want to admit 332 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:31,599 is that they like it. They like the violence, They 333 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:34,359 like the attacks on their political opponents. They like the 334 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:37,839 freedom that it affords, the ability to hate and harass 335 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:42,440 without a sense of responsibility. It is evident all around us, 336 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:47,119 as people engage in language and conduct that they repudiate 337 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:51,680 in others, we have become a nation of rage addicts, 338 00:22:52,319 --> 00:22:56,559 flailing against anybody or anything that stands in opposition to 339 00:22:56,640 --> 00:23:04,359 our own truths. Yeah, Jonathan Turley dot Org. It's a 340 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:06,359 lengthier piece. I just gave you the highlights there, so 341 00:23:06,519 --> 00:23:09,720 well worth the uh the visit. He it's a it's 342 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:12,279 a great website. He does a lot of great analysis 343 00:23:12,319 --> 00:23:16,960 over there. I mentioned the uh sharp as Attack that 344 00:23:17,079 --> 00:23:19,880 is actually a copyright, a registered trademark I believe of 345 00:23:20,559 --> 00:23:22,880 Ed Morrissey over at hot air dot com. I'm just kidding, 346 00:23:23,279 --> 00:23:24,839 but he puts a little R next to it, the 347 00:23:24,839 --> 00:23:32,759 sharpest attack, Uh, regarding Joe Biden's mental acuity. Right, Well, 348 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:38,000 there's another installment in the now it can be told saga. 349 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:44,319 Over at the Guardian they have a preview of a 350 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:47,960 of a book that's soon to be released by Jonathan 351 00:23:48,039 --> 00:23:52,599 Allen and Amy Parnis. The name of the book is 352 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:58,079 called Fight Inside, the Wildest Battle for the White House, 353 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:03,640 and Allen and Parness detail what happened in the general 354 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:07,640 election last year when Biden was forced to withdraw after 355 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:13,000 the exposure of his cognitive impairment. However, while both the 356 00:24:13,039 --> 00:24:16,200 White House and the protection racket media kept insisting that 357 00:24:16,279 --> 00:24:19,319 Joe Biden was more vital than staffers half his age 358 00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:24,160 and sharp as Attack, Kamala Harris's staff felt it necessary 359 00:24:24,519 --> 00:24:30,759 to draw up plans in case Biden died, and they 360 00:24:30,839 --> 00:24:35,160 drew up these plans in twenty twenty two. And I 361 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:38,680 know what you're thinking, Well, isn't this normal? Right? I mean, 362 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:43,359 he was, you know, eighty years old. You would naturally 363 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:46,799 have some plans if he were to pass away given 364 00:24:46,839 --> 00:24:49,920 his age, right COVID All right, all of it. So 365 00:24:50,279 --> 00:24:51,079 isn't that normal? 366 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:51,839 Speaker 3: Hmmm? 367 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:57,839 Speaker 1: Yes, and not really. Ed Morrisey will explain in a second. 368 00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:02,119 Here's the part of the of the excerpt from their book, 369 00:25:02,759 --> 00:25:05,720 Aids to Harris, the Vice President who assumed the nomination 370 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:09,480 then lost to Trump, that these aids had strategized around 371 00:25:09,559 --> 00:25:12,759 the possibility that Biden might die in office. Such planning 372 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:17,359 was led by Jamal Simmons, Harris's White House communications director. 373 00:25:18,599 --> 00:25:21,920 According to the book, they went as far as the 374 00:25:22,039 --> 00:25:27,680 drawing up of a death pool roster of federal judges 375 00:25:28,319 --> 00:25:33,200 who might swear Harris in. Simmons never told the Vice 376 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:37,480 President about the death pool roster before leaving her camp 377 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:42,559 in January of twenty twenty three, but he advised colleagues 378 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:46,359 that he should still be notified immediately if something happened 379 00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:50,720 to Biden, because he had worked out an entire communication strategy, 380 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:56,279 and he left the spreadsheet with another Harris aid, Okay, 381 00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:58,759 so is this the kind of planning that takes place 382 00:25:58,759 --> 00:26:02,400 in any administration? Maybe, but that kind of planning would 383 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:09,440 normally involve the president, right, Donald Trump probably has already 384 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:13,079 planned for this kind of a contingency, right, or would 385 00:26:13,079 --> 00:26:17,039 have at least probably discussed it with JD. Vance, especially 386 00:26:17,039 --> 00:26:19,519 after he survived two assassination attempts. 387 00:26:19,599 --> 00:26:23,039 Speaker 3: Right ed. 388 00:26:23,079 --> 00:26:28,960 Speaker 1: Morrisy says this effort that these reporters detail in their book, 389 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:35,240 This effort was conducted behind Joe Biden's back, and apparently 390 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:40,680 behind Kamala Harris's back too. If Joe Biden was involved 391 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:43,319 in the planning, it would not have been quarterbacked by 392 00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:47,400 Jamal Simmons, it would not have been operating out of 393 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:51,880 the Vice President's office. So no, this is not business 394 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:56,000 as usual. This took place in secret because everybody knew 395 00:26:56,039 --> 00:26:59,720 that Biden was neither running rings around his staffers nor 396 00:26:59,799 --> 00:27:03,839 was he sharp as attack. That's why he wasn't brought 397 00:27:03,839 --> 00:27:08,200 in Morris, he says. Allen and Parnes in their book 398 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:13,720 also report that top DNC officials knew Biden had run 399 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:17,000 out of gas well before the June twenty seventh debate. 400 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:21,640 In fact, they knew about Biden's cognition issues before the 401 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:26,720 DNC cooked the primary rules to prevent any competitive challenge 402 00:27:27,079 --> 00:27:33,160 to the crumbling incumbent. Quote. A handful of Democratic National 403 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:38,680 Committee officials already had considered contingency plans in hush hush 404 00:27:38,799 --> 00:27:42,680 talks that began in twenty twenty three. These officials at 405 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:49,400 the DNC gained out various Biden withdrawal scenarios. They wanted 406 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,480 to make sure that the party was ready for every 407 00:27:52,559 --> 00:27:59,519 possible circumstance, and yet DNC officials began restructuring the primaries 408 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:03,960 to lockout challengers. Rather than force Biden to compete honestly 409 00:28:04,079 --> 00:28:08,440 for the nomination, the DNC covered up Biden's incapacity instead, 410 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:11,559 and made sure that it stayed covered up for as 411 00:28:11,599 --> 00:28:15,240 long as possible. That's what these guys divulge in their book. 412 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:18,519 Did they know at the time? 413 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:20,839 Speaker 3: Right? 414 00:28:21,279 --> 00:28:23,559 Speaker 1: Limbaugh used to talk about this all the time, that 415 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:26,559 all these reporters, they withhold all of this information for 416 00:28:26,599 --> 00:28:30,359 their own book deals, and they keep it from us, 417 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:35,680 the voters until after the election. This is the worst 418 00:28:35,759 --> 00:28:38,200 example of it, all, right, So Spring is here a 419 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:43,119 time of renewal and celebrations. You've got graduations, weddings, anniversaries, 420 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:45,720 and the special days for mom and dad. Your family's 421 00:28:45,759 --> 00:28:47,720 making memories that are going to last a lifetime. 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And he says, I believe most people 441 00:30:00,559 --> 00:30:03,240 with any political sense know this, but many fear to 442 00:30:03,279 --> 00:30:06,359 say so because Obama was the anointed one who shall 443 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:11,880 not be criticized. Yeah, we're gonna find out, like there 444 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:16,519 was the auto pen person like I've never even heard 445 00:30:16,519 --> 00:30:19,480 of this person, the one that was signing the President's 446 00:30:19,559 --> 00:30:22,680 name to all of these things, like they're this is 447 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,200 this is a story and a scandal that is not 448 00:30:25,359 --> 00:30:29,200 going away because the further away we get, especially at 449 00:30:29,279 --> 00:30:33,799 some point, you know, when Joe Biden passes away, then 450 00:30:33,839 --> 00:30:36,039 I think you're going to hear a lot more stuff 451 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:40,720 come out if it happens anytime soon. And I'm not 452 00:30:40,759 --> 00:30:42,400 saying I wanted to. I'm just saying, like I think 453 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:45,279 like that would create the space, that would create a 454 00:30:45,319 --> 00:30:47,839 safe space, or you know, I don't know, maybe people 455 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:51,880 are too afraid, yeah to cross Obama not sure. I 456 00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,279 don't know. I don't know if he's even in charge 457 00:30:54,279 --> 00:31:03,000 anymore in the party. I I can't tell. So do 458 00:31:03,039 --> 00:31:06,960 you hear about Corey Bush's husband, Corey Bush, the former 459 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:13,480 Democrat congresswoman from Missouri. Her husband apparently built taxpayers out 460 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:17,359 of more than twenty thousand dollars in a COVID loan 461 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:20,799 scheme and then used the money for his personal benefit 462 00:31:20,839 --> 00:31:24,519 and enjoyment. According to the DCUs Attorney's Office, guy's name 463 00:31:24,559 --> 00:31:28,039 is Courtney Merits. He was charged in a federal indictment 464 00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:32,599 with two counts of wire fraud related to allegedly fraudulent 465 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:36,160 applications that he had filed with a Small Business administration 466 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:38,519 in twenty twenty and twenty twenty one that allowed him 467 00:31:38,559 --> 00:31:42,839 to collect and never repay government funds from the pandemic 468 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:51,480 era Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program and the Paycheck Protection Program. 469 00:31:52,359 --> 00:31:57,599 Merits received a loan from the EIDL of eighty five 470 00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:02,559 hundred dollars for his moving business, and then certified that 471 00:32:02,599 --> 00:32:07,599 his company, Vetted Couriers, had six employees and generated thirty 472 00:32:07,599 --> 00:32:10,759 two thousand dollars in gross revenue the previous year. The 473 00:32:10,839 --> 00:32:14,279 day after he got that loan, he filed another application 474 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,720 through the same program for a different business, which he 475 00:32:17,799 --> 00:32:21,599 identified only as Courtney Merits his name, and claimed that 476 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:24,759 he employed ten people and generated fifty three thousand dollars 477 00:32:24,759 --> 00:32:31,799 in revenue. Now, the SBA rejected those applications. The DCUs 478 00:32:31,839 --> 00:32:36,240 attorney's office claims that Merits lied about the number of 479 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:40,759 employees he had and his revenues. Then a year later, 480 00:32:41,119 --> 00:32:43,839 Merits once again seeks taxpayer money in the form of 481 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:48,079 a PPP loan for Courtney Merits. This time he claimed 482 00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:50,920 his business was created in twenty twenty and generated one 483 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:55,799 hundred and twenty eight thousand dollars in gross income. Those 484 00:32:55,799 --> 00:33:01,279 claims were also fortunate fraudulent did not get those loans either. 485 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:05,160 The indictment did not include details of what exactly he 486 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:08,799 blew the cash on for the SBA loans, but he 487 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,799 did get Sorry, he did get the twenty thousand dollars 488 00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:15,440 loan from the PPP, which makes you wonder like you 489 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:17,799 got rejected for the SBA loans, but why did you 490 00:33:17,839 --> 00:33:21,640 get the PPP loan. An attorney for Merits said that 491 00:33:21,759 --> 00:33:24,079 his client intends to plead not guilty. 492 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:24,599 Speaker 3: All right. 493 00:33:24,759 --> 00:33:28,880 Speaker 1: So Corey Bush is this guy's wife. She was a 494 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:34,400 member of the squad member. She lost her last reelection 495 00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:38,960 in twenty twenty four. She is not accused of any wrongdoing, 496 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:44,720 although in twenty twenty three she was hit with an 497 00:33:46,119 --> 00:33:52,519 FEC and Congressional Ethics complaint over money that her campaign 498 00:33:52,559 --> 00:33:57,400 had paid to Merits when he was providing her security. 499 00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:00,599 Remember that even though he didn't have any life to 500 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:06,519 be a security agent. She yeah, oh, and she was 501 00:34:06,559 --> 00:34:08,679 also doing this at a time when she was demanding 502 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:14,000 that we defund the police, right. Yeah, she's a big 503 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,840 advocate for defunding the police. But then paying her husband 504 00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:23,800 with campaign money. She used campaign funds for personal use 505 00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:27,000 when she shelled out sixty thousand dollars to her husband, 506 00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:34,000 but then she married him. I think they were dating before. Yeah, 507 00:34:34,039 --> 00:34:35,719 they were dating, and then she gave him the money 508 00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:37,719 and then he married her. At the same time the 509 00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:40,519 Bush campaign was paying Merits for security, it was also 510 00:34:40,559 --> 00:34:42,679 spending two hundred and twenty five thousand dollars on a 511 00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:46,760 Saint Louis based firm called Peace Security, and another fifty 512 00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:51,840 thousand dollars on another security guard named Nathaniel Davis. I 513 00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:55,079 don't think she married that guy. The Justice Department was 514 00:34:55,079 --> 00:34:58,119 reportedly investigating Bush last year over her use of money 515 00:34:58,159 --> 00:35:00,719 intended for members of Congress and candidate to spend on 516 00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:04,880 private security. Yeah, so she just said, oh, yeah, you 517 00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:10,559 can't be too safe. What else a Democrat US senator 518 00:35:11,559 --> 00:35:14,119 is being accused of voting for millions of dollars in 519 00:35:14,199 --> 00:35:17,280 taxpayer funds to go to a consulting company owned by 520 00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:24,519 his wife. This is Sheldon white House. The Foundation for 521 00:35:24,559 --> 00:35:28,760 Accountability and Civic Truck Trust called on the Senate Ethics 522 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:32,400 Committee to investigate Democrat Senator Sheldon white House of Rhode Island, 523 00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:34,480 the guy who goes to the whites only clubs, you know, 524 00:35:35,679 --> 00:35:38,760 to determine whether he violated Senate Ethics rules on conflicts 525 00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:42,039 of interest. The alleged conflict of interest relates to funding 526 00:35:42,079 --> 00:35:46,679 that benefited the Ocean Conservancy, that is a nonprofit linked 527 00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:52,760 to his wife, Sandra white House. The organization called fact 528 00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:56,840 said that the senator's wife had been paid a total 529 00:35:57,039 --> 00:36:01,880 of two point six y eight six million from the 530 00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:07,039 Ocean Conservancy, either directly or through her consulting firm. The 531 00:36:07,079 --> 00:36:10,679 senator's wife has been the president of the consulting firm, 532 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:16,639 Ocean Wonks LLC, since back in twenty seventeen, and directly 533 00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:21,239 employed at the Ocean Conservancy since two thousand and eight. 534 00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:23,480 So she's like double dipping here. She's got the she's 535 00:36:23,519 --> 00:36:27,400 got the consulting firm, and she's an employee. The complaint 536 00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:31,360 said the Ocean Conservancy paid the senator's wife through the 537 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:36,760 consulting firm. White House is known as a climate policy hawk, 538 00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:40,519 and he supports bills that directly benefited Ocean Conservancy, which 539 00:36:40,559 --> 00:36:44,360 has reportedly received more than fourteen million dollars in federal 540 00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,599 grants since two thousand and eight. The group received the 541 00:36:47,639 --> 00:36:54,039 grants to help fund marine debris cleanup efforts. They deny 542 00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:59,400 any wrongdoing. All right, that'll do it for this episode. 543 00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:01,320 Thank you so much much for listening. 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