Speaker 1: So more news that's taking over twenty four to seven
the cycle hunter Biden's pardon by his father, President Joe Biden.
All right, I mean Biden's pardon of his son. It's
getting a ton and ton of pushback from both sides.
So before I start it again here on the Michael
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is really important. I want to start by showing you
a clip of again Ron to sanctimonious commenting on the pardon.
Ron DeSantis can never be anywhere but between himself, a
microphone and a camera. Play the clip.
Speaker 2: What does he do? He corruptly abuses the pardon power
to give his son blanket immunity and by extension, protect
himself from having any inquiry. I think it's the opposite
with President Trump. They manipulated the law to go after
Donald Trump for political reasons and just.
Speaker 1: Yeah again, oh Ron, listen, let me be very clear
about something. I know Donald for a decade and a half.
I know him so much better than you do. He
doesn't like you, so no matter how much ask kissing
that you try to do, You're not going. You're not
going with the ride. You stay as the governor of Florida.
You keep doing you there, Ron, No matter what you say,
Donald's not even listening to it. I assure you, there's
no amount of brown nosing that you can do that's
going to make you valuable to him. Let me just
be very clear about that. There's something about you that
he finds weird and off putting, and he is not interested. Now,
I want to go on to say another Trump sort
of loyalist, and again I understand what that is all about.
I want to show you what Jesse Waters said about
this topic. Play the clip.
Speaker 3: At least Trump doesn't make promises he knows he's going
to break. You might not agree with what he does.
But when he says he's going to pardon Jen six Ers,
he'll probably do it. Recess his cabinet, He'll probably do it,
fire the FBI director. He's done it once, he'll do
it again.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And by the way, I'm not going to disagree
with Jesse on that one. How many times over the
course of this program and my Maya Culpa podcast have
I turned around and said to you, when Donald Trump
tells you what he intends to do, why are you
ignoring it? And yet despite all of that, seventy six
million people voted for him, A plurality of our citizen
voted for him, and he will on January twentieth, become
the forty seven president of the United States. He will
become president again despite all of the things that he
said that he intends to do immigration, mass deportation to start.
So when Jesse Waters turns around and says that he
will probably do that, the word probably should not even
be there. He will do it, and he will go
after initially the low hanging fruit again topics I've talked
about here on the Michael Cohen Show. So why they're
even using the term probably, I don't know. But there
are promises that Trump made that he did not keep.
And you know the funny thing too, is if Trump
makes those promises and is unable to keep it, the
guys like Jesse Waters around DeSantis, they will come up
with a reason why he could. And those reasons, by
the way, are fair and legitimate. He changed his mind,
is he not entitled? Is he not permitted to change
his mind just because you said something on a Monday
means that on Friday that that's what you have to do.
What if something changed you had a different thought process
for it. Well, you know what, maybe Joe Biden should
be entitled to do the same thing. This is his son,
for God's sakes, a guy who is going to get
dragged through the legal mud, and trust me, I know
what that feels like. But he also is a recovering addict.
He is an addict for life, and he fights every
single day to stay off of drugs and to be
strong for his family. And let's not forget that Joe
Biden has lost children before and he doesn't want this
for his job. And you know what, the president has
immense pardon power and he is permitted to do it.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: Do I think he should have done this earlier? Sure?
Should he have said that I'm going to pardon my
son earlier on? Fuck? Yeah, he should have. In that way,
now you won't have this argument that's going on. Well,
I said I was going to do it, and so
I did it instead. He was so emphatic that he
wasn't gonna do it. Of course they're going to attack.
The funny thing, though, is there's no reason for that
to even happen anymore. Why Because Donald Trump won the election,
the campaigning is over. Jesse has to stop with the campaigning.
Ron DeSantis has to stop with the campaigning. Tommy Tuberville
and the rest of them, they all need to stop
as if this is an ongoing campaign. It is not.
January twentieth, the man will be standing up in front
of the you know, of the American people with his
hand on a Bible, and he will be sworn and
as the president. So what's the issue? All right? Now?
I want to show you what John Stewart played on
his show about this topic. It's amazing the dichotomy between
the who positions played the clip.
Speaker 5: The problem is the rest of the Democrats made Biden's
pledge to not pardon Hunter the foundation of their defense
of America. This grand experiment.
Speaker 6: One political party remains committed to the rule of law
and the other doesn't.
Speaker 5: It's that simple, Hunter, Biden's not above the law.
Speaker 1: No one is above the law. Democrats stand for the
rule of law. We accept the outcome because that's how
the rule of law works.
Speaker 7: Because the justice system that convicted is only surviving son
is the same justice system he's vowed to protect. And
if that doesn't tell you who Joe Biden is, I
don't really know what does.
Speaker 5: I think I know what does? And now look at
the dance Democrats.
Speaker 8: Have to do.
Speaker 5: Be honest, the only reason why they went after a
Hunter the way they did, and I've talked to many
federal prosecutors about.
Speaker 9: This, is because he's the president's son.
Speaker 10: People have to remember, the president had lost two children already.
He does not need to lose another one to more
political which hunts.
Speaker 8: The you know, crawling from Republicans. But we're talking about
you know, Donald Trump is a convicted felon who literally
pardoned his daughter's father in law and just made an
ambassador to France.
Speaker 4: So for anyone that wants to clutch their pearls now
because he decided that he was going to pardon his son,
I would say, take a look in the.
Speaker 9: Mirror, ma'am.
Speaker 5: We will take a look in that mirror. But we
are taking off, so you could just put this shit
on airplane mode and let us get home for the holidays. Yes, yes, yes,
yes to everything that you guys were saying. If you
hadn't made Hunter Biden not receiving a pardon. The Mason
Dixon line of morality between Democrats and Republicans, there's a
big gap between. The law is the only thing that
separates us from the animals. And monkey threw shitting me first.
Speaker 1: I had no choice.
Speaker 5: This is what Biden's decisions done.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's right, it's exactly what the decision. I'm
not saying I disagree with it. If it was my son,
I would do the exact same thing. Again. I would
have liked for them to turn around and to have
said it early on. That way, we wouldn't be on
the defensive. There was no reason, everybody. I said to
my mom and to my dad earlier on, there's no
doubt he has to do it. He has to. He
has no choice but to pardon him. Now, I want
to show you what Rachel Maddow had to say about
this play that clip.
Speaker 6: That's the behavior in January sixth that Trump is praising
and promising to use his pardon power for. So yeah,
tell me all about the scandal of the use of
the pardon power.
Speaker 1: All right, right, and how about Abby Phillips. She brought
up actually a really good point on her show that
Trump also has made many pardons, some of whom were
people that I was with in Otisville who had many
years left. Nobody questioned those play that clip.
Speaker 4: I have to remember?
Speaker 10: Can I just say, we have to remember that Trump's
pardon list from his last administration when he was leaving
office included literal bank robbers, drug dealers, embezzlers, murderers. You
can go to justice dot God and let me see
all the people. Ask to this, Scott, because this is
a fair point. Donald Trump pardoned Paul Manafort, Roger Stone,
George Papadopolis, Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn. Joe Biden's also not
the first person to pardon a family member Hunter Biden,
Charles Kushner. Donald Trump did that one too. Roger Clinton
was pardoned with the president. Clinton's half brother, Emily Todd
Helm Abraham Lincoln's wife's half sister was pardoned. So are
we are we saying we have an with all of
those things?
Speaker 1: How many of the Yeah, Look, it's it's a it's
a fair point. The president has immense pardon power. All Right, Again,
I gotta go right back to what John Stewart was
saying and what Rachel Maddow then further said, if only
he just would have been straightforward and said, yeah, yeah,
I'm going to parton and because he deserves it, he
deserves to be pardoned. Do you think that I would
have been charged with anything but for my relationship to
Donald Trump? And if you think the answer is anything but, no,
you'd be fucking wrong, all right. The only reason that
I was charged with anything was because of my proximity
and because of my relationship to Trump plane and simple
Now I want to end on. I want to end
this segment on a clip of Jasmine Crockett, that's the
representative you saw on the airplane saying the problem with
Democrats is that we bring a butter knife to a
real fight. Play that clip.
Speaker 9: I'm eagert. Can't your take on this? Because look, I mean,
you have actually congratulated President Biden. You seem to be
at least publicly in the minority among Democrats in the House.
Why do you think you are in the minority here?
And is it sincere?
Speaker 4: First of all, it is sincere. And you know, I
can't say why my colleagues are acting the way that
they are. I can say that the American people are
tired of us bringing a butter knife to a real fight,
a real war.
Speaker 1: And I mean it's true Democrats will eat their own
whereas the Republicans, no matter what happens, they stand by
their candidate. They will fight to the end, to the
death on behalf of Trump. And that's why he ended
up winning this election, all right, plain and simple. And
I just want to end it by saying, once again,
I really want you to go ahead and to think.
It's something I talk about in my book Revenge. Do
you really think that anything would have come to me
but for the fact that I was Donald Trump's personal attorney. Seriously,
so I understand what Joe Biden is going through in
terms of making this decision for his son. But I'm
gonna end it once again. Something I've repeated now over
the course of the past a few minutes. He should
have just come out and said, yeah, I'm going to period,
end of story, and I don't care what you say.
It's my prerogative. I'm the president of the United States
and I have that power, plain and simple. There'd be
no fight today. And as always, thanks for listening. Hey everyone,
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