Speaker 1: So look, how many times have we heard Trump make
the claim that he is by far the most transparent
president that we have ever had, and that, my friends,
would be great if in fact it was actually true
and accurate. And to him, transparency actually means going on
his support as propaganda shows and saying these crazy controversial
things and literally letting his lackeys these dopes try to
clean up his mess. Now, as I said this morning, Trump,
well he has many messes that are going on, all
at the exact same time. But I do want to
spend a second breaking down Trump's comments on nationalizing and
taking over elections. Just wait till you hear what he said.
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what Trump said on Dan Bongino's podcast about Republicans taking
over elections. Play the clip.
Speaker 2: These people were brought to our country to vote, and
they vote illegally, and the amazing that the Republicans aren't
tougher ounner. The Republicans should say we want to take over.
We should take over the voting, the voting, and at
least many in places, the Republicans are to nationalize the voting.
And then we have states that are so crooked and
the counting votes. We have states that I won that
Joe I didn't win. Now you're going to see something
in Georgia where they were able to get with the
court order the ballots. You're going to see some interesting
things go out. But you know, like the twenty twenty election,
I won that election by so much everybody does it.
They put a woman in jail.
Speaker 1: Come, okay, let me be crystal clear about something. There
are many things that Trump says that are hyperbolic that
he needs to say it because it deals with his
ego more than reality, and this happens to be one
of them. Sixty three different courts turn around and said, no,
the statement that you're making is just not right. How
about just let it go. You're not only the forty
fifth president, but you are now the forty seventh president. Fine,
say the American people were stupid when they elected Joe
By and who cares? Who cares? You cannot go back
in time. This isn't like Peggy Sue got married with
the burrito theory of time. You're not going to go
back and change anything, you know. I kind of write
about this in my sub stack of today. Who counts
the Vote's matters? Now? Obviously people, they really were pissed off.
I mean pissed off is to say the least, with
Trump being able to talk about controlling and manipulating the votes.
Press Secretary Caroline Levitt machine gun lips well. She was
asked what Trump meant by taking over the elections. Play
the clip all.
Speaker 3: Up on that. He said specifically that they should take
over elections in fifteen states. Can you tell us what
he meant by that? What fifteen states he's referring to
in terms of Republicans taking over elections?
Speaker 4: Again, what I was just telling you is that with
the passage of the Save Act, voter idea will be
implemented across all fifty states. The President was referring to
specific states in which we have seen a high degree
of fraud. If you look at states like California, or
if you look at New York City, for example, non
citizens are allowed to vote in elections in places like
California and New York City. That just creates a system,
an electoral system that is absolutely ripe with fraud. And
you cannot deny the fact that, unfortunately, there are millions
of people who have questions about that, As does the President.
He wants to make it right, and the Same Act
is a solution to doing it.
Speaker 3: Can you, Daniel?
Speaker 1: I love how she says you cannot dispute bull shit
them machine gun lips. I dispute it, and in fact,
in my sub stack, who counts the vote's matters? I
turned around and I said, if you've followed me over
the years, you've already heard me say certain lines. I
repeat them over and over, not for effect, but because
experience has burned them into my memory. And one of
those lines is in adage that Trump wants acknowledged and repeated,
borrowing it from Vladimir Putin. It doesn't matter who you
vote for. All that matters is who's counting the votes. Now,
most Americans, when we hear that, we smirk. We associate
it with strongmen and sham democracies with landslide victories. That
is so absurd that they insult basic math. We tell
ourselves that maybe how things work in Moscow, Maybe that's
how they work there in Moscow, but not here, not
in the United States, not in a system that's built
on checks balances and the stubborn independence of fifty states.
Now let me go further and say, Caroline was further
asked what Trump meant about nationalizing elections? Play the clip.
Speaker 4: What does President Trump mean when he says Republicans ought
to naturalize voting?
Speaker 1: What does that look like in practice?
Speaker 4: What the President was referring to is the Save Act,
which is a huge, common sense piece of legislation that
Republicans have supported that President Trump is committed to signing
into law during his term, and he spoke with the
Speaker directly about that yesterday, about the need to get
that bill on the floor for a vote, because it
provides very common sense measures for voting in our country,
such as voter ID. I don't think any rational person
who's being honest with themselves would disagree with the idea
of requiring citizens of this country to present an ID
before casting a ballot in a federal election or frankly,
in any election. And that's something the President wants to
see happens.
Speaker 3: So that's what he was referring to.
Speaker 1: To be clear, that's not what he's referring to in
the terms of nationalizing the election. Putting that further speak
of Mike Johnson, well, he kept the bullshit going. He
can't stop saying that because of male in voting laws,
Republican candidates that were ahead in votes sank to the bottom.
Played the clip.
Speaker 5: In some of the states, like in California for example.
I mean, they hold the elections open for weeks after
election day. That's just one thing that bothers so many people.
We had three House Republican candidates who are head on
election day in the last election cycle, and every time
a neutronch of ballots came in. They just magically whittled
away until their leads were lost. And no series of
ballots that were counted after election day were our candidates
ahead on any of those counts. It just it looks
on its face to be fraudulent. Can I prove that, No,
because it happened so far upstream. But we need more
confidence in the American people in the election system, and
it's essential.
Speaker 1: And their confidence is only when they win, and then
they dispute the truth when they lose. I want to
be clear about something. The press here they were not
satisfied with their answers, so they've got ahead and they
asked Senate Leader Johnson Thoon about Trump's comments. Let me
tell you what he said. Play the clip.
Speaker 6: Do you agree with President Chops saying we should nationalize
the federal elections in the country.
Speaker 3: And also, do you have any concerns about d and
I Gabbers presidents at Fulton County operation.
Speaker 6: I don't know what he was doing in Fulton County.
You'll have to ask her about that. But with respect
to nationalizing elections, I think the President has clarified what
he meant by that and that is that he supports.
Speaker 1: The same act.
Speaker 6: So with respect to whether or not that signifies ensuring
that only citizens of this country vote in our elections,
that's something I think we all agree with.
Speaker 1: But let's hope that that's what he was addressing. Let's
give him the benefit of the doubt, because something that
nobody's explaining to him. Look, these acolytes, these siicophans, these
enablers around him, they are truly the dumbest of the dumb.
You see, under the constant, elections are run by states
and local jurisdictions, not by the executive branch, not by government.
And that decentralization, it's not a flaw on the system.
It is a feature of the system. It prevents any
one party, any one administration, any one personality from exerting
total control over the machinery of democracy. It is inefficient, Yes,
I will grant you that it's inefficient, but you know
what it is, it's resilient. Now, Caroline Levitt, she was
really on a roll today. Give her credit. While speaking
with reporters on the sticks, she said the quiet part
out loud, that Trump supports the Constitution. However, play the clip.
Speaker 4: Preferring but to be clear, he does believe the states
should oversee. The President believes in the United States Constitution. However,
he believes there has obviously been a lot of fraud
and irregularities that have taken place in American elections. And again,
voter idea is a highly popular and common sense policy
that the President wants to pursue, and he wants to
pass legislation to make that happen for all states across
the country.
Speaker 1: See that's not what it's about now, I know, I
was once there. What they believes that when they lose,
they frame the loss as proof of corruption rather than
a reflection of voter sentiment. See the danger here, it's
not fraud, it's erosion of trust. And that's exactly what
she's doing. Reported then goes on and ask Caroline about
Russia's attacks on Ukraine today, literally like right after Trump
said that Putin had agreed with him to halt the
tax because of the cold play the clip.
Speaker 7: President John was talking yesterday about how to president Putin
had agreed to we've gong holt on attacks on Ukraine
because of the cold whether but today we've seen the
russia'slaunch some of the heaviest attacks this month.
Speaker 1: What's your reaction to do?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I spoke with the President about it this morning
and his reaction was unfortunately unsurprised. These are two countries
who have been engaged in a very brutal war for
several years, a war that would have never started if
the president were still in office. It started because of
the weakness and incompetence of the previous president Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we've heard that all before. Now,
what I do want to do is I want to
show you the clip of our president to President Trump
from the Cabinet meeting just last week, where he actually
said to the American people that he spoke with Putin
and Putin was doing him a personal favor and was
not going to be attacking Ukraine again. Because of the cold.
Speaker 8: Play the clip, and because of the cold, extreme cold,
they have the same that we do. I personally ask
President Putin not to fire on Kiev and the cities
and towns for a week during this It's extraordinary. It's
not a cold, it's extraordinary cold, record setting cold over
there too, having the same bass. It's a big it's
a big isle of bad weather, the worst.
Speaker 1: But it was really I do have to say either
Witkough is just ready to burst out laughing or he
is to take a dump. It's one of the two.
Mewhile Caroline, She's also asked what Trump will accept as
ICE reforms? Play that clip.
Speaker 3: What does President Trump want to see happen during this
two week negotiation period for DHS funding? Is he continent
that a deal will be reached? And what specifically is
he willing to accept on some of the ICE and
border patrol reforms that Democrats are asking for.
Speaker 4: Well, President Trump will be the ultimate decider of any
policy changes on anything, especially with respect to immigration enforcement.
What I will tell you is the President is never
going to waiver in enforcing our nation's immigration laws and
protecting the public safety of the American people, and his
ardent support of ICE and Customs and Border Patrol, who,
unfortunately Democrat Party has made a decision to demonize I
heard as Senator.
Speaker 1: Yeah again, nothing but lies and spin. Now again, nothing
is off topic. Nothing is off topic. When Caroline is
asked about a response to bed Bunny's comments at last
night's Grammy Awards and her response about celebrities, it's priceless, priceless,
celebrities are living in gated communities, and that it is
a bit ironic given especially that her husband is a
millionaire real estate developer living in a community.
Speaker 3: Play the clip, the administration is still expecting ICE agents.
Speaker 8: During the Super Bowl, and what are the comments from
President Donald Trump regarding what bad One is said doing
the Grammy Awards Ice out.
Speaker 4: I have not spoken with ICE or the Department of
Homeland Security or Secretary Nome with respect to enforcement at
the super Bowl, So I don't want to speak on
a topic that I don't have knowledge on.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: I would offer you to that, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Well, the statements of bad One is saying ICE.
Speaker 4: Out, Yeah, I mean, look, I think it's very ironic
and frankly sad to see celebrities who live in gated
communities with private security, with millions of dollars to spend
protecting themselves, trying to just demonize law again, law enforcement
public servants who work for the United States government or
she herself.
Speaker 1: And finally, regarding ICE, Caroline is asked about Chuck Schumer's
comments that Mike Johnson is pro secret police. Now police
remember this that during deportations under Biden and Obama the
ICE agents. They weren't hiding their faces behind masks. Play
the clip.
Speaker 8: Why is Johnson pro secret police. It's absurd for the
speaker and others like them to argue that masked ICE
agents should get special treatment.
Speaker 6: Caroline, what's the White House response to that?
Speaker 4: I think it's incredibly irresponsible for elected Democrats to refer
to ICE agents and border patrol agents who have their jobs,
by the way, because of the laws that were enacted
and passed by the United States Congress. These are legitimate
law enforcement organizations that rest within the Department of Homeland
Security that have been enforcing our nation's border and our
nation's immigration laws for years. I didn't hear Chuck Schumer
or Democrat speaking that way of ICE agents under President
Barack Obama, who deported hundreds of thousands of criminal illegal
aliens from our country. That's all President Trump, Secretary Nome
in this entire administration are seeking to do targeted law
enforcement operations of illegal alien criminals who broke our nation's laws,
especially those who have committed heinous acts of violence against
the American people. And it is a mandate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she doesn't talk about those that didn't look much
of what she says is absolute spin, twist and lies.
And as I said before and I'm going to repeat
it again, the real question here it's not what Trump
but this administration intends. It's what the rest of us
are willing to tolerate. And me personally, I'm not willing
to tolerate any of the stuff coming out of Caroline
Levett's mouth. And as always, thanks for listening. Hey everyone,
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