Speaker 1: Welcome to political beatdown. You've got Michael Cohen and you've
got me Ben my cell Us. Let's just get right
into it, Michael Cohen, since there was breaking news just
moments before we went live where the Manhattan District Attorney
file they notice regarding of about thirty one thousand documents
that were just turned over by the United States Attorney's
Office that could potentially be relevant in the criminal case
against Donald Trump, which is currently set for trial on
March twenty fifth, twenty twenty four. I saw there was
video footage of you, I think, showing up to the
Manhattan District Attorney's office that was shown by some other
networks that they said was as part of kind of
the preparation. So everybody thought this trial was definitely going
to happen on March twenty fifth, twenty twenty four. Here
in the notice, the Manhattan District Attorney says that in
light of the fact that there was these thirty one
thousand payes of documents that were just turned over, even
the Manhattan DA would be agreeable to a thirty day
adjournment of the trial date currently scheduled for March twenty fifth,
that would bring it to the end of April, Trump
is requesting a ninety day adjournment. To be clear, the
Manhattan District Attorney said that their office requested these very
same documents from the Department of Justice over a year ago,
and the DOJ did not respond to that. Then Donald
Trump requested it in January of this past year, January eighteen,
twenty twenty four, to be exact. And literally, you know,
just very recently this thirty one thousand pages were produced,
and then there's another batch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, seventy three thousand in total, something seventy.
Speaker 1: Three thousand already I think, plus this thirty one thousand
plus the DOJ says it's going to produce a bat
next week. And now this could potentially impact the trial
day that you're a witness in that trial. Obviously, Cohen,
there are limitations we all respect on about what you
can and can say. But obviously I can't ignore this
breaking news with you know, with or without you on
this show. So I'm just going to bring it up
any reaction that you can provide.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in fact, I was I've been contacted by virtually
every single journalist from television to print. I was asked
by my counsel not to make any comments regarding this.
Obviously the document speaks for itself. The District Attorney of
New York's office have been asking for I believe in
total it's seventy three thousand, not more than that they
received thirty one thousand. There's another batch coming of another
forty That's the way I read the document, And of
the documents have nothing to do with this case at all,
and so the only thing I do know is that
all the parties are supposedly conferring with the judge sometime
this evening in order to make the determination whether it's
going to be up to thirty days. So the judge
can turn around and say, there's not that many documents.
You can go through it in two weeks or one week,
or three weeks or a month.
Speaker 3: Well, all we.
Speaker 2: Will all know more tomorrow. You know, there's so much
breaking news in so many different areas. It's really difficult.
And one of the things Ben that you and I
have promised our brigaders is unlike in other locations, other
news outlets, we don't we don't pedal in innuendo, we
pedal in you know, we don't peddle at all. You know,
we provide facts. You know, we provide you know, information
based upon legitimate reporting. We don't know enough here other
than the fact that they are entitled to these documents. Hell,
I've been asking for the same fucking documents now for
over three years, actually for more than that. You know,
we're supposed to have gotten them. Also, you know, going
back into twenty twenty, I think it was Ted lu
Hakeem Jeffries asked for documents. So did Congressman Raskin and
Congressman Steve Cohen and Senator Dick Durbin. They all asked
for investigations and so on. Look, it's this whole thing, unfortunately,
is going to create a delay. But you know what,
everyone's entitled. Everyone is entitled, including von Shitz and Pants.
Everyone is entitled to a defense, you know, and we
should want that because if we didn't want it, and
hypothetically they didn't get the thirty day extension, you know
what would end up happening. They would file it on
appeal and they would probably win. So you know what,
big deal thirty days? Who cares, Ben Ben you might
is off by the way, pal Yep.
Speaker 1: No, thank you there. Yeah, think even if it was
Donald Trump, as a criminal defendant, you were a title
to this discovery. And Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg even
recognized that and said, look, this wasn't because of our
delay at all. This yeah, to the contrary, we demanded
this stuff over a year ago. But no, I think
that Donald Trump's entitled to at least look at these records.
I don't think a ninety day delay makes sense here
at all. I think that probably somewhere between thirty and
forty five days is ultimately where it will land. We
should also remember that there is a oral argument before
this Supreme Court on I believe it's April twenty fifth
in the Washington d c. Criminal case against Trump, so
that thirty days puts you into that week of April.
So I could see it going perhaps a week or
another week, you know, after that, because of that oral argument.
But this case is going to go. It's a matter
of when it's going to happen, not if it's going
to happen. And I'm with you, I'd rather deal with
this issue now than have to deal with potential reversible
error if during the trial, all of a sudden these
documents started to be produced that would create real that
would create real issues. So you and I are on
the same page.
Speaker 2: One of the things. Also, Yes, Donald and his counsel,
they're excellent and delayed, delayed, delayed. However, so many of
our brigators, they're getting upset, freaking out for what reason?
For what reason? This case one hundred percent will take
place before the November election. It will also take place
before the cutoff date that you know, main Justice can
turn around and say, or the DA can turn and say,
it would be interfering in a presidential election, which none
of us should want. None of us should want that,
and it's not gonna happen. So if there's a thirty
day or a fourteen day or a forty five day extent,
it doesn't make a difference. This case is going forward,
plain and simple.
Speaker 3: You know it is. It is what it is. Everything
delays in everything.
Speaker 2: I mean, for God's sakes, you know, you're moving into
your house and you know your couch gets delayed because
of you know, some shipping issue or you know, a
massive hurricane in somewhere in the route. Okay, you're gonna
get your couch. You're gonna they're gonna get these documents.
They can be able to go through the documents. You know,
I don't personally, Again, I have no idea what these
documents are. I've been asking for the same documents from
Foyer and from the Southern District of New York for
god knows how long. Look that USAO office. They have
their issues and down the road. I truly believe that
that office needs to be reviewed. They know they like
to play that they're the Sovereign District of New York.
There is no such thing as a sovereign district. You're
part of the Justice Department, and they should have turned
that shit over to the DA a long time ago.
My personal opinion.
Speaker 1: Well, it's being turned over now have the opportunity to
review all of those documents. You noted that you believe
there will be some sort of meeting with Judge Murshan tonight,
which I think is some piece of new data to
determine what's going to happen with this trial date, and
then we will as soon as we know here, we
will report to all of our Beatdown brigaders right away.
And because of that update, you and I were going
to do a live zoom chat with our brigaders today
in order to kind of respect the process about what's
currently happening and in light of that breaking news, and
so we can appropriately respond to the questions because you
and I don't want to give any type of hypotheticals.
We know we're going to be asked questions about that.
We really want to respect the process and everything that's
happening there. And then on Tuesday we will do our
Patreon live when we have clarity about the specific dates
and deadlines and times. And obviously Michael Cohen's getting inundated
right now with a ton of requests. This will impact
his schedule as well, So we just want to be
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Speaker 2: Pay We're having it on Tuesday, my friends, so you know,
get ready and it's going to It's not even only
this specific hush money case or you know, the business
record fraud case or the campaign finance violation case, whatever
it is that you want to call this case. There's
so much going on right now, whether it's with the
Fani willis with the Georgia case the Supreme Court, and
what we want to do is we really want to
be able to sit with our Patreon subscribers, and we
want to be able to answer your questions because it
gives you the opportunity one on one to engage with
both Ben and myself. And our goal again is only
to provide facts. Right now, if we went and we
did it, I would be saying the same exact thing.
I just don't have enough requisite knowledge or information within
which to give you a legitimate answer. And that's not
what we're about. Like I said, what you get from
Political Beatdown, what you get on the Midas Touch Network,
what you get over at Maya Kulpa and the Legal
AF and the Micellas Brothers, you don't get innuendo. You
get fact. And that's important because when we're sitting in,
we're battling with Magas right when we're sitting when we're
sitting in, we're battling with these far right wing lunatics.
It's so important that you are armed with correct, factual information,
not the made of bullshit that they like to do.
Speaker 3: So don't sweat this.
Speaker 2: And as the document says, up to thirty days listen,
there could be and again this is pure hypothetical. I
don't know, which is why we're pushing it off till tuesday.
But tuesday we're going to know.
Speaker 3: In a lot of cases what's going on.
Speaker 2: What if hypothetically, out of all of the documents, the
only documents that are relevant maybe amount to two hundred
or even five hundred that we don't know how many
of these documents are even relevant to the case. So
that being said, he could turn around and say, well,
five hundred documents, you're getting five days, or maybe it's
a thousand. He says he's gonna get ten days, whatever
it might be. That's for Judge Murshan. And look, one
thing that everybody needs to understand. Mershan doesn't play games.
He's doing the right thing for this case. He's doing
the right thing for the rule of law. And everything
that he's doing I actually happen to agree with I
really do. I agree with it. And it doesn't matter.
Thirty days, forty days, five days, ten days, doesn't make
a difference. I almost feel like Mike Corleone, right, and
you know that he's dealing with a polonia. Right, I'm Monday,
on day, Tuesday, Thursday, Wednesday. Look at me, I'm a
drive and it's the same thing doesn't matter five days,
ten days, twenty days, thirty days, who cares, you know?
Speaker 1: And Donald Trump's whole entire stick with everything is never
actually confirms though the charges against him. It's always delayed, delayed, delayed, delayed, delay.
But what you've shown before, Michael Cohen, when Donald Trump
tried to do that in the case where he sued
you for a three hundred or five hundred million dollars
whatever the amount was, you said, okay, I'm going to
take your depth. Trump Trump every one of those things
from his sociopathic playbook. You stuck with it. And then
what would happened when Donald Trump was finally confronted where
he had to show up for his deposition, he ran
away like the coward that he is, and he dismissed
the case. You look at, Egen Carrol, Donald Trump tried
to do everything possible not to have to post the bond,
not to have to go and get a surety bond.
He used every sociopathic tactic in the playbook. He said,
Egen Carol, doesn't want me to even have to get
the bond, and Judge, you know that I have all
the money. Come on, Judge, can I please have your help, Judge.
It's also ironic that he cites Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan
as well. Did you notice this Cohen and his claim
about his advice of council defense or his semi adviceive
council defense that he wants to but he.
Speaker 2: Cites Judge Caplin. Yeah, the whole thing was really weird.
First of all, it's it's not a legitimate advice of
council argument. It's some sort of a hybrid with something
I've actually never even seen before, or to be honest
with you, fully understand, it just doesn't make any sense
if you go on the notion of adviceive counsel, you
got to put your ass on the stand and you're
going to have to swear to testimony. That is the
basis for the advice of counsel. But he's not taking
this stand. Are you hitting this this fucking lunatic, this moron,
the one who didn't know the difference between eg And
and Marlon Maples. Every time that you have seen Donald
Trump giving testimony right recorded testimony, either you saw him
doing the hand shuffle talking about something that's completely unrelated
to the question. Screwing the whole thing up like he
did with Egene Carroll and Marlon Maples or taking the fifth.
He's not gonna get on the stand in a criminal trial.
Can you imagine what you're talking about. The guy doesn't
know the truth from a lie because everything that comes
out of his mouth is bullshit. He doesn't even remember
the lie that he told five minutes ago, which is
why it is so hard working for him. It's nearly
impossible trying to get on television and to stay on
Donald's message.
Speaker 3: It's impossible.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So the case that he cited for his like
semi advice of council defense involved a very limited issue
about data retention that federal Judge Lewis Kaplan allowed Sam
Bankman Freed to testify about. But guess what, Sam Bankman
Freed number one was sentenced to like over one hundred
years in prison. So first off, is that the case
you want you want to rely on, is that the
case you want to site. And also Sam Bankman Freed
took the stand and had to actually testify to those facts.
So the case is totally not on point here for
those reasons. But yes, Donald, please give a citation to
a case where the criminal defendant was sentenced to over
one hundred years.
Speaker 2: You know, we're all hoping that he starts to cite
the Rosenberg case. To those of you who don't remember
the Rosenberg case, they were both tried for treason and
executed Cohen.
Speaker 1: Right here you have Donald Trump posting the following. He goes,
the Hurr report was revealed today, a disaster for Biden,
a two tiered standard of justice. Artificial intelligence was used
by them against me in their videos of me. Can't
do that, Joe. You see, like, what's Donald Trump even
talking about there in these posts? So he's now blaming
everything on AI and you and I several months ago
had said that that was the direction he was going
to go in with the development of AI. The way
Trump and MAGA try to latch onto anything, They're going
to claim AI is the cause of all of this.
So he's also posted this a few weeks back. These
are photos of this is what Donald Trump is spending
time doing. He goes, the fake news used artificial intelligence
AI to create the picture on the top left. These
are despicable people, but everyone knows that the other pictures
are me hitting golf balls today. To show the difference
sadly in our country, fake news is all you get.
And then a few weeks before that, he posted the
perverts and losers at the fould and once disbanded Lincoln
Project and others are using artificial intelligence in their fake
television commercials in order to make me look as bad
and pathetic as crooked Joe Biden. Not an easy thing
to do. And if you're wondering, like, well, what is
he even talking about when he's saying that they're using AI, Well,
during that hearing of Robert Herr, the Democrats played a
compilation of recent speeches that Donald Trump gave to show
Trump being in cognitive decline. So Trump is saying that
that is AI and so salty. I think we have
this clip of the Democrats showing the Trump the Trump
gaff reel. Let's play this if we got it.
Speaker 3: Heard in your report, though? Is that correct? The word
photographic that does not appear in my report.
Speaker 2: I now want to show you and play a video
of what is absolutely not photographic.
Speaker 4: In the failing New York Times by anonymous brilliant nymous cutlass.
We're a nation that just recently heard the Saudi Arabian
Russia will I hope they now go and take a
look at the oranges or the oranges of the.
Speaker 3: Investigator.
Speaker 4: And I watch our police and our firemen down on
seven to eleven, down the World Trade Center. And we
did with Obama, we won an election that everyone said.
Speaker 3: Couldn't be one.
Speaker 4: This is the very definition of totalit rriagism. And let
me begin by wishing you a beautiful willog. Look can
you remember this?
Speaker 3: Do you remember?
Speaker 4: God bless the United The windmills are driving them crazy,
They're driving, they're driving the general whales.
Speaker 1: I think a little battie and.
Speaker 4: I went to Monto, Rica and I met with the
present of the effort.
Speaker 1: And you saw Jim Jordan there shut the video down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, of course, Look everybody, everybody can see
that he's in a state of decline. He's definitely in
a state of not only cognitive decline, but.
Speaker 2: The the stress that he is currently under. Remember the
guy is, you know, seventy eight years old. He's only
like two and a half years younger than Joe Biden.
Here's the distinction.
Speaker 3: One. Joe Biden's actually a healthy guy.
Speaker 2: He's a guy that is known to get on a
bicycle and go for a bike ride, to do something
to keep going. Okay, Donald gets into a golf card.
He hits a couple of golf balls.
Speaker 3: Here and there.
Speaker 2: By the way, he does hit a long ball. It's
an ugly swing, but he does hit a long ball.
Donald has right now. I want people to think about
this for ongoing criminal cases. He got kicked in the
nutsack with the two Aging Carol cases. He got just
the shit kicked out of him by the New York
Attorney General with a five hundred million dollar verdict. That's
a lot of pressure for any one person to be under.
Not only is he being decimated financially and rightfully, so
don't get me wrong, I'm not defending the guy. Not
only is he being financially decimated, and you know he
cares more about money than he does his own kids.
Now on the line is not just these criminal cases,
but his freedom. So it's not just financial it's the
distinction between freedom and incarceration. So this is a real
This is a real issue here for him, his mind
is in one hundred different places. On top of that,
he's cognitively impaired. He looks like shit and by the way,
the first picture of him that's an old photo pre ozempic.
All right, there's no doubt in my mind that Donald
Trump has ozempic face. You know, when everything starts to
fall and so on. He was told he's gotta lose weight.
The guy was morbidly obese, so that big gut in
the top left salted. You can show it again. That
ain't ai Now it reminds me there you go. I
wish we could zoom in on that thing. I think
he's carrying twins. But the other ones that were taken
today or relatively within days post ozempic, post him starting,
and you could see it's like I mean, his suits
are extremely extremely large. You could you could see what
I'm talking about. But that's okay, that's okay, good for him.
Fucking half the fucking country's on ozepic or some cemeglatide.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's there on this is.
Speaker 2: The country's on so much of it that people who
have diabetes can't get the medication because people are using
it for weight loss. Okay, probably you know what they
call that. They call that a rich man's problem. All right,
let the let the manufacturers produce more. Not my concern.
Let me tell you what My concern is My concern
is the fact that it took this long to finally
get the guy to the door step. We were literally
two weeks away from the door step of holding him accountable,
which he knew. And they are doing everything, and they
will continue to do everything. They will continue to do
everything to delay this because Donald Trump's only only possibility
of staying out of trouble and not having a conviction
is legitimately delaying this to the point that they cannot
have the trial because it's too close to the election,
and that's improper.
Speaker 1: But Cohen, you are confident that this Manhattan District Attorney case, though,
goes before the November election. You're confident in.
Speaker 3: That, very confident.
Speaker 2: There is no doubt in my mind, even hypothetically, something
that we've talked about numerous times on this show, Ben
many conversations off you know, offline. You all may recall
several years ago, three years to be almost exact, I
brought a I made a Foyer request for documents pertaining
to my entire case, and government responded back stating that
there are no documents that are relevant to my Foyer request.
Speaker 3: I've talked about of the times already turns out.
Speaker 2: Somehow I had four or five documents in my possession
that should have been responded, that were actually responsive to
the Foyer request, and so I turned it over to
an attorney by the name of Mark Zaid. This is
what he does. You see also, what's his name, Moss,
who works in the office as well. You see him
on television quite a bit. This is what they do
for a living. They're great at it. They know this
stuff better than anybody. And they filed an action on
behalf of the Madison project with my permission, my privacy waiver.
All of a sudden, like thirty sixty ninety days later,
whatever it was, we get a response.
Speaker 3: Uh oh, sorry, my me bad. We went ahead. We
made a booboo. You're right.
Speaker 2: There are documents that are responsive to your Foyer request.
In fact, four hundred and eighty six thousand documents. So
they went from zero to four hundred and eighty six
thousand documents. You could read the entire thing in my
book Revenge. It is off the chart, ridiculous. This is
the problem. Those Foyer documents. Those documents belong to the
American people, not to government. They belong to us, and
Foyer fucking sucks. You can't get shit out of them.
And even after you take them to court, they don't care.
They continue to fight you. Oh, we don't have enough
step it's not relevant.
Speaker 3: It's this.
Speaker 2: We have to redact it. The twenty seven different federal
agencies that have to look at the document to make
sure that it doesn't give away method in process. Fuck you.
Fuck you know what? Two fingers salute, fuck you Foyer?
Speaker 3: All right, how about that? Fuck you? All right, there
we go. We got that out early today.
Speaker 2: All right, bullshit, Because had I had those Foyer documents,
I would know every single one of these cocksuckers from
the top Donald Trump to Bill Barr, all the way
down to the lowest level scumbags like Adam Paculo, Enid
Phoebus or Patrick McFarlane. I would know exactly what they
did because all those documents are sitting there as part
of that four hundred and eighty six thousand, all right,
plain and simple. And that's the problem. That's the problem.
Government needs to They need to shape up their shit,
all right. Regardless of whether you're Republican, Democrat or independent.
People have to remember government works for us, We don't
work for them.
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are in the descriptions below. And here's the thing though,
where which I want to really acknowledge. You know, yes,
it's it's probably easier for me than even you Cone
because you're a key witness in this case. But for
me to say, look, you know, thirty days, forty five days,
this trial is going to happen, you know, being a
lawyer for about fourteen years and having that frame of
mind about cases getting delayed and things like that happen,
I shouldn't Nor what I don't want to do is
I don't want to this is these are not normal times,
and so I want to be very sensitive all so
though to the fact that Donald Trump and this MAGA
movement every single day causes such grievoush trauma to our
country with everything that they do. I mean, whether it's
taking away women's reproductive rights, whether it's just the bullying
and the attacks on our democracy, you name it. It's
like watching Kim Jong un or Vladimir Putin, because it
really is take over an American political party and then
watching a media landscape that just normalizes this and you're
watching it and you're like, what, so the Republican Party,
therefore Vladimir Putin and they want Ukraine to be destroyed
and they want they love Kim Jong un now, and
they have Marjorie Taylor Green's and Lauren Boberts, and they
don't listen to facts, and they gaslight us, and they
rely on Russian spies and spies from China to overthrow
President Biden and to launch impeachment inquiries, and they just
lie to us every single day, and then the media
just both sides it like there's a lot, a lot
of trauma going on now based on the repeated lies
and attacks and threats to our democracy. And that's why
it's so important that we continue to build this pro
democracy movement. And when you hear things like this, a
thirty day delay, a forty five delay, justice delayed is
justice denied. So I just want to be very cognizant
of that. But code I want to share and show
you this as well, because this is what's been happening
at Mara A Lago this week, and speaking about this
kind of Kim Jong und style everything that's taking place
right now, this is mari A Lago. So Donald Trump
basically like hired this singer to come to mar A
Lago and she makes the song and these are the
lyrics of the song, his power over us grows strong. Yet,
and though Democrats turn from you, they glance behind. The
President of the United States is in their mind creating
a maga version of the Phantom of the Opera at
mar A Lago. And that's what's taking place right now.
Just watch, like what in the cult is this play?
The clip and this.
Speaker 3: Stroll And dim.
Speaker 6: U states, okay, you honestly you can't make that ship
up right, I mean, let me tell you what he
actually saw.
Speaker 2: They're salty. Maybe you can help me on this. In
that video, there's a moment where Donald Trump turns to
the right his body actually, I apologize, to the left.
Right there, you're going to start to see. Yeah, you
know what, maybe he needs to raise the dosage of
that cemegla type because it ain't that far off from
you know, when you're bending over in order to hit
the ball and that thing is popping out. He didn't
lose as much weight as we all thought that he did.
I mean, you know, he makes fun of people like
Chris Christy and so on. Look at that waistline on
this guy. I mean talk about as JORDI would say, yikes, right.
Speaker 1: Do we have that one more time. I mean, just coin,
I want you to as you watch it, what are
you seeing happening here?
Speaker 3: What am I seeing?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I want you to give me the play. Give
me the play.
Speaker 2: And he's enjoying. He's staring at her legs, and he's
enjoying the fact that she's singing about him. I mean,
talk about obnoxious. First of all, we have to go
back to the very simple fact that when Donald Trump
refers tomorrow a lago, what does he refer to it
as his home? It is not his home. It is
a social club that he happens to be living at.
Get a load of this one for free. The idiot
members are all basically funding this guy's living expenses, right,
I mean it's look, if you wanted to, no problem,
pay your fair share. But everybody's paying this guy's living expenses,
so that it is a very impressive property. When Marjorie
Merriweather Post had that property built, I don't know if
people know this? Can I then you mind if I
spend one minute and tell an interesting story about that property.
Speaker 1: No, we're gonna move on to the next, of course, code.
Speaker 2: When Marjorie Weather Post, When when Marjorie Merriweather Post passed away.
She actually attempted to donate mar A Lago to the
United States government. It was under it was under the
Jimmy Carter administration when the country was in a massive,
massive recession. Right remember, I mean interest rates were like
thirteen percent and saw in the country was in real
serious trouble. But she wanted to donate that property, and
it was supposed to be referred to as the Winter
White House. All right, what ends up happening is Jimmy Carter,
I mean, for a genius, which he was, this wasn't
the smartest Jimmy Carter move of all times. The cost
to operate that property between real estate tax and so
on was one million dollars a year. You imagine the shit.
And Jimmy Carter turned around and said, how can I
commit the American people to one million dollars a year
in order to take this property? And that's how Donald
Trump ended up getting the property because it went into
a trust sale and then he managed to somehow secure
it for like six point eight million dollars. Could you
imagine that? All right?
Speaker 3: That should have been the Winter White House. Now as soon.
Speaker 2: As Donald got his hands on it, The first thing
he did is he sold off all of the furnishings,
which were from all over the world. Made money, YadA, YadA, YadA.
He also had an insurance claim where they claimed that
there was a hurricane that blew some of the rock
tile off of the roof, which is very expensive.
Speaker 3: That was like a twelve manut.
Speaker 2: He made money on the insurance in terms of the
whole bit, so that property cost him nothing. But he
didn't want to live there. So instead what he did
is he turned it into a club. And the zoning
on that is now not residential like it was before.
It is commercial. It is no longer a residential property.
It is not let me say it again, my friends,
it is not his home, it's his property. It is
a social club that people pay three hundred thousand dollars
bond in order to be there. And nobody has ever
gotten a bond money back. That I can assure you,
whether they're alive or dead, no one has ever seen
that three hundred grand ever. Again, all I can say
is that that is right, then and there the example
of who Donald Trump is. You know, it's all about
the show, It's all about the appearance, with no substance
behind it.
Speaker 1: You know, and you watch what's going on there on
a daily basis, and you know, you see the lady
singing to him and talking about your power groves and
is stronger every I'm watching this and I'm like, what
am I? This is America? What in the world? And
I'm watching Donald Trump look at her and it's uh
and it's very very strange. And you know, then you
have this like this is what also is going on there?
If we got this like this mermaid they're doing mermaid
parties there right now? Do we have a clip of
this mermaid party in a in a bit Salty is
gonna pull this up? It's some Cohen. It's some very
strange stuff. And then they have the hearing at Trump Doral,
not the hearing of they host an event at Trump Doral.
And you've got this profit Amanda Grace, who's the Who's
the Maga prophet? You've got a mermaid party and then
you've got this profit Amanda Grace, Like this is who's
what it means to be in the Republican Party today.
And when they talk about their big issues, this is
what's happening at the Trump deral property and this was
a few months back. But but salty. If we have
this one, this is this is Matt.
Speaker 2: Why are we going any further than the fact that
they're all fake shit, just like the fake bags that
they were selling at mar A Lago a few days
ago for the puppy drive that Laura Trump and Eric
Trump were putting on.
Speaker 3: A charity event.
Speaker 2: They're hocking fake irmez Begs, fake Louis Boutan, fake Chanel,
fake Fendi, fake everything. Like if Mara a Lago is
fucking Canal Street, it is. It's pathetic. Even fake puppies.
Speaker 1: Play it salty.
Speaker 7: There's wickedness attempting to completely cover this nation in perversion
and seductive, seducing spirits. I have never seen more images
of more mermaids and water people in my life. That's
a division in the Kingdom of Darkness. And they're highly
technologically advanced. And we have to understand what we're dealing with,
and we have to understand the rules of engagement in
spiritual warfare. And we are meant for hand to hand combat,
and we are meant to bring our cries before the
throne of God, to bring judgment on the rulers of
darkness of this world and of this nation because the
rulers have set up a throne in this nation. They've
set it up. Darkness has completely covered and eclipsed the
White House of this nation.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's happening at an event in Trump Doral where
Trump's kids speak, all the leaders of the Republican parties speak.
That's normal Republican. That's like what it means to be
a Republican today.
Speaker 3: Why is Caitlin Jenner up there?
Speaker 1: I don't know what that look. I don't know why
they're doing that right there, but I want to show people.
When I watch that, I'm thinking, what in the like, hello, media,
this is not normal. It shouldn't just be the Midas
touched network that is that's calling that out. I do
want to go back to the world of normalcy, though,
And I want to show you some flips from the
vice president of the Teamsters, who had a lot of
positive things to say about President Biden. I want to
share that with you. I want to show you some
President Biden speeches who he's actually talking about things like
protecting Social Security well, where Donald Trump's talking about taking
it away, President Biden's talking about healthcare. President Biden's talking
about veterans. President Biden's talking about protecting women's reproductive rights
where Maga Republicans are even blocking bills that protect contraception
right now, and they're blocking bills that protect the right
to IVF. We have a lot more to talk about.
Speaker 3: Call.
Speaker 1: We got to take our last quick break of the show.
We'll be right back.
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Speaker 1: Well, I wanted to call that commercial break one because
I want to thank our pro democracy sponsors, but we
were getting some important breaking news and this is some
seesaw days right here. So Judge Eileen Cannon just issued
an order denying without prejudice, Donald Trump's motion to dismiss
There was the hearing that was held earlier in the
day motion to dismiss counts one through thirty two based
on unconstitutional vagueness. That order just came in moments ago.
I wanted to be able to get that. We have
the full order as well that's just coming in right now,
pulling it up literally as we speak. It says, order
deny without prejudice defended Donald Trump's motion to dismiss Counts
one through thirty two base on unconstitutional vagueness. This case
or this cause comes before the Court upon Donald Trump's
motion denied without prejudice. Defending Trump seeks dismissal if Counts
one through thirty two of the superseding indictment on the
ground that the statutory phrases unauthorized possession relating to the
National defense and entitled to receive appearing in at USC
Section seven ninety three, are unconstitutionally vague as applied under
the facts presented, in violation of due process and the
rule of lenity. Although the motion raises various arguments warranting
serious consideration, the Court ultimately determines, following lengthy oral argument,
that resolution of the overall question presented depends too greatly
on contested instructional questions about still fluctuating definitions of statutory
terms phrases as charged, along with at least some disputed
factual issues as raised in the motion. For that reason,
rather than prematurely decide now whether application of eighteen USC.
Section seven ninety three E in these circumstances yields unsalvageable
vagueness despite the asserted judicial glosses. I really have no
clue shees even talking about her cod The Court elects
to deny the motion without prejudice, to be raised as
appropriate in connection with jury instruction, briefing, and or other
appropriate motions. Accordingly, it is hereby ordered and a judge
that defending Trump's motion to dismiss Counts one through thirty
two based on unconstitutional vagueness is denied without prejudice. So
you know, you always have to read Judge Cannon's orders
because the headline there could have just simply been She's
denying Donald Trump's motion to dismiss on unconstitutional vagueness. But
Cohen Trump's argument was so absolutely frivolous, And when you
actually read her full order there, she seems to give
merit to what he's saying that, Oh, you raise some
good points, so maybe I'll instruct the jury on some
of these issues. When it's like, what are you talking about?
The Espionage Act eighteen USC. Section seven ninety three eight
has been around for a very long time. You're saying
the Espionage Act is unconstitutionally vague, and so she's denying
Trump's motion, but she's basically saying, I think you like
she gives him a runner up award. I think you
made really good points. Let me try to help you
out in the future. I'm gonna deny it without prejudice now,
but you raise some really important points, but I'll deal
with that in the future. So I actually think that
it's probably not a good order because she seems to
be indicating that she's going to bend what she already did,
that she'll bend over backwards for him in all these
other areas. That's how I read it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not really sure.
Speaker 2: You know, I'd really have to go through it again
and try to digest it because it's very wordy and
a lot of the words just they're gratuitously thrown in there.
And you're right, it's like she's giving him the gay
Lord Fokker, you know, participation award. It just doesn't make
any It didn't make much sense to me as I
was trying to skim through it. Being that again, Brigaders,
it just came out like literally sixty seconds ago. So
while we were doing the commercial, the air brake, that's
when it dropped. I really have to kind of dissect more.
I'm really trying to figure out more why it's without prejudice?
What is you know, what are they giving him? Then
you're right every time that there's a decision by Aileen Cannon,
you have to read between the lines, right, Yeah, read
between the lines, I think Cannon, Just so you know,
I'm not sure why it had to be without prejudice.
I wasn't sure why she was giving him the gay
Lord Fokker reward. I don't know whether she was referring
to the Espionage Act as far as him, or whether
or not the fact that they raised it. It's a
I don't know what she's saying. Again, it's really very jumbled.
Whoever written it's it's not it's not concise. Let me
put it to you that way.
Speaker 1: Well, and to me, if she's giving any credence to
the unconstitutional vagueness of the Espionage Act, I mean, just
think about that. So she's basically saying that anyone who's
been charged under the Espionage Act could have raised this
issue to federal judges, that it's unconstitutionally vague. The statute
that Congress.
Speaker 2: She's saying that the statue it was vague. Or was
she saying that the that the prosecutors a bverment in
the in the UH in the action was vague and
it wasn't specific, or or what have you? Very much
liked the motions in leimonae that they've been filing all
over the place.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a combo of both. What she's saying is
that it's uh, the language in the statute is unconstitutionally vague.
Is this is what Trump was arguing as applied under
the facts presented here, so as as the statute is
written to Trump's theft of national defense information. Trump saying
it's vague as applied to the facts, And she's saying,
I'm denying that without prejudice. You could be raising good
points that the jury may want to hear, but I'm
gonna deny it without prejudice. Right now, let's talk though
about what we were said we were going to talk
about before taking the commercial break, which is I want
to show you this VP of the teamsters who came
out and you know, I think said some important things
that you know, I'm glad the CNN had him on,
but they have him on and they don't talk about
it anymore, and then they want to push these other narratives.
So here's a Teamster VP right here saying that he
feels pretty certain that the Teamsters will be endorsing President Biden.
Let's play this first quick, Well.
Speaker 8: Based on what you heard in the meeting today, will
Biden get the Teamsters endorsement?
Speaker 9: I feel pretty certain he will based on the tone
and tenure of of everybody in the room. And you know,
I wasn't president for the last interview with the former president,
but everyone sort of made a big difference between, you know,
a candidate of grievance and a candidate of action and
doing things for the labor movement and working men and
women across the country.
Speaker 1: So candidate of grievance and a candidate of action. And
here the VP of the Teamsters talks about how Trump
is like that old story regarding the snake, that the
president of.
Speaker 8: Your union has met with Trump more than once. We've
got images of them together at mar A Lagos. So
he has taken the time to do that. I know
you have chosen not to do that, as you just
mentioned yourself. Is that what your rank and file want
that they wanted to make sure that that he did
meet with Trump as well. Do you think that was important.
Speaker 9: I think they argued that that was the reason they
did it. I would just say that, you know the
old story about a snake nursing it to health and
then it bites you. You know, you know it was
a snake when you handled it. So Donald Trump is
what it is. He's been anti union for decades, and
I think we're wasting our time. So I maybe you know,
I'm probably the one, obviously, the one that didn't attend
that takes a very different opinion of dealing with people
that aren't going to help you.
Speaker 1: And I want to share this one thing with you,
Cohen two, which is if you remember, one of the
ways Midas Touch even first started was when me and
my brothers and Brett's ingenius editing, we were just making
videos just to try to describe what we saw in
twenty twenty. You know, Midas Touch started almost four years
ago to this day. I think we officially started March
of twenty twenty four. I'll get the precise date, but
we put forward this video because Trump would go out
and tell the story about the snake, and he would
use it in a xenophobic way about immigrants coming in.
So we took Trump's video where he talked about the snakes,
the snake story that he would tell, and then we
put in the clips of what was happening at that time.
So when I saw the VP of the Teamsters talk
about that, I want to show you this and then
I want to give you the final word. But let's
play this was what put Midas touch on the map.
When we were just doing this, we didn't know what
we were even were, But play this clip of the
snake who has heard.
Speaker 3: The poem called the snake. My father gave me a
small loan of a million dollars.
Speaker 9: Well documented and severe financial downturn in the past year.
Speaker 3: You know about sexual predators and things like that. I mean,
all right, it's.
Speaker 1: More than anger.
Speaker 4: It's hatred by bringing drugs, b bringing crime, their rapists
down the path along the leg a tender hearted woman
saw a poor hair frozen sneak.
Speaker 3: You'll absolutely love Trump Steak.
Speaker 8: More than one hundred and fifty former students allege Trump
University was a fraud persistently illegal conduct at the president's charity.
Speaker 3: Take You no tender woman.
Speaker 4: Take me in, for heaven's sake, take me in, no
tender woman, side the vicious.
Speaker 1: Would you denounce what happened in twenty sixteen?
Speaker 4: President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial.
Speaker 1: Today he withheld the money, He withheld the meeting, used
it to course Ukraine to do these political investigations.
Speaker 3: The American embassy and Baghdad under siege.
Speaker 2: He stroked his pretty skin again and held him tie.
Speaker 4: The Chinese government awarded of Uncle Trump's grand seven new trademarks.
Speaker 1: The pack of griffis this campaign manages got two condos
of ferrari are yacht and they're all just fleshing the campaign.
Speaker 4: That snake gave her a vicious bite, the coronavirus.
Speaker 3: This is their new hopes in the US, now leading
the world in depth.
Speaker 8: No, I don't take the responsibility at all, and this
is a great success story.
Speaker 4: I have saved you, cried the woman, and you've bidden me.
Speaker 7: Heavens, why you know your bite is poisonous And now
I'm going.
Speaker 4: To die if we want to terminate health care, and
then I see the disinfectors.
Speaker 3: Shut up, silly woman. Set the reptile with a grin
you knew.
Speaker 2: Damn well, I was this snake before you.
Speaker 3: Took me in.
Speaker 1: That's how that's how we started.
Speaker 3: Really, you can't make this ship up.
Speaker 2: I mean, let's just let's just turn around and acknowledge
that Donald Trump is the snake in this story, plain
and simple. I mean, there's no other way to describe it.
He's a grifter to the nth degree. He doesn't give
a shit about anyone or anything other than himself. It
is a perfect analogy for Donald Trump and the sick
of fans that around him. You take him in and
he bites you, and everything that Trump touches dies.
Speaker 1: And that leaves us with his final act, this final
campaign is truly for the heart and soul of our nation.
You never have such a contrast. On the one hand,
you've got Biden, pro democracy, respectful, empathetic, loving, fact based, diligent,
surrounds himself with the team of the top people who
work with him, actually dealing with the problems, supporting our allies.
And then you've got Trump, who personifies everything that's bad
with our country, with the world, from just the meanness,
the mocking of people with disabilities, mocking our veterans, mocking
our country, attacking our allies, supporting our enemies, behaving like
a buffoon. Up there, You've got Donald Trump just constantly,
constantly attacking our democracy, calling himself Trump this, Trump, Trump
says this, Trump says that it's ever everything you know,
thinking back in the day when Sasha Barikohen created the
movie The Dictator, when the South Park guys would mock
him John mun when you looked at all of the
horror that existed in those authoritarian countries, and that whether
you were a Republican or a Democrat or an independent,
we would always be united, at least in some basic
core principles. There would at least be a floor. And
now the floor's been destroyed by Maga. The depths of
depravity have been unleashed in our country, and it is
so critical. Don't care if you're a Republican, if you
view yourself as conservative, if you're an independent, if you're
a progressive, if you are a liberal, if you love
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We've got a lot of news coming and we want
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Spread the word. Cohen, thanks for everything that you do.
Speaker 2: You do as well, Thank you, Ben, and thanks to
our brigadors for everything. Thank you to those who actually
went on that go fund me that Adam Parkmenko you
know created It's every time I go down to the DA,
I have to bring counsel with me. This is getting
out of control. Personally, I wanted it to go forward
on March twenty fifth so that I can ultimately do
my you know, do my you know, my service there
and then call it quit and then get this, you know,
get my life you know, back moving on track and
not be subject to you know, to meetings and to review.
Speaker 1: I selfishly wanted you my web.
Speaker 2: I selfishly, I selfishly wanted it to. But accountability that's
more important. I'm willing to sacrifice thirty days for accountability
me too.
Speaker 1: See you later, Brigaders, thank you so much. Shout out
to the Midas Mighty.