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Speaker 1: Welcome to Political Beatdown. I'm Ben micellis joined by Michael Cohen.

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Hopefully everybody had a RESTful Labor day. Will show the

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contrast between what President Joe Biden was doing on Labor

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Day versus what Donald Trump was doing on Labor Day.

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Hen Donald Trump was attacking workers. I want to hear

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from Michael Cohen, get some updates about the five hundred

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million dollar federal court case that Donald Trump filed against

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Michael Cohen. I know just moments ago you may have

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got an update there about Donald Trump's deposition. I want

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you to break the news here first on, you know,

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let us know what's going on in Political Beatdown. Speaking

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of depositions, I want to go through that New York

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Attorney General deposition transcript of Donald Trump. I think it

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was incredibly incriminating. This is in the civil fraud case

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where trial is set for next month. Let's go through

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some of the most incriminating, ridiculous, absurd statements Donald Trump

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made there. Then we should also talk about a filing

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today from George Santos and the Department of Justice. Seems

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to suggest that George Santos is in plean negotiations with

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the doj we'll talk about that some special counsel Jack Smith,

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updates and more. But Michael Cohen, how are you doing, sir?

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Speaker 2: Alrighty like yourself. I hope all of our brigaders had

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a fantastic couple of days off and they had a

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fantastic labor day. So today, as you may well know,

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my lawyers Donia Perry and Ben Brodsky appeared before the

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Southern District of Miami for a hearing in regard to

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the Trump versus Cohen five hundred million dollar retaliatory for

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the List lawsuit. One of the problems that we've had

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so far, of course, is scheduling. This step is position

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which is supposed to be scheduled for tomorrow, and as

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a result of the Georgia arraignment, it was questionable of

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whether or not tomorrow would be a day because Donald

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of course had the opportunity to go in person and

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to have the indictment read to him and then to

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of course put in his plea of not guilty. Well,

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he elected not to do it that way, as did

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the other eighteen co defendants. They all waive their right

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to the you know, to the reading, and so they

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just did it via paper the same way that Donald did,

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all of whom pled not guilty, And so I truly

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did expect that the court was going to hold Donald

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to tomorrow's deposition, But due to a new lawyer that's

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coming on to assist Alexandro Brito, Brigaders get a load

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of this crap. So they bringing on another lawyer in

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order to help protect Donald in his Fifth Amendment right

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claims that he will probably be invoking during that deposition

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because some of the questions that could be asked of

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him could also incriminate him in other cases that are

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currently pending, and therefore they want this other lawyer there

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to assist them in ensuring that his Fifth Amendment rights

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against self incrimination aren't violated. I mean, this is just

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the craziest thing. The guy brings a five hundred million

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dollar lawsuit. We are pushing every single day not just

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to get this deposition, which of course we're entitled to,

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but also the discovery documents and something that also came

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out of today's hearing Twofold first and foremost October third,

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that deposition, as the judge stated, come hell or high water,

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that court ordered deposition is going forward. So that's going

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to be a great day for us. The second is

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they want to know, based upon the documents that have

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been provided, they want to know the discovery search terms

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and how it was conducted. Because they, let's say they

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sent two hundred documents, more than half of them or

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at least half of them, are duplicative, and so they

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don't really provide the discovery that was requested by my counsel.

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So they now have to put in an affid davit,

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which has to of course be confirmed and attested to

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by Donald Trump as well. That obviously puts us once

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again in a stronger position because it's going to be

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interesting to find out how they went ahead and they

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did the search, because one of the big problems that

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you have when it comes to Trump is getting the

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documents or the discovery information that you're seeking and not

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them cherry pick through the documents before which that they

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turned them over. And that's something that the court was

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very interested, as are we in terms of learning.

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Speaker 1: All right, so let me kind of break this down.

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What there was a hearing earlier today, was the hearing

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by phone or was it in person?

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Speaker 2: Now the hearing was in person before the judge there

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at the Southern District of Miami, and in attendance was

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Alejandro Brito as well as my counsel, Ben Brodsky was

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there in person. Donia Perry was via phone because again

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one of the things we were trying to do is

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to schedule this. Unfortunately, Brito, who again refused to cooperate

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with or be responsive, didn't give Donia any indication that

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anything was going forward, whether it be the deposition or

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so on. And then just to go down for a

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hearing was necessary. So the court was kind enough to

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permit her to do her appearance by phone simply because

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I had been Brodsky there in Florida to handle, you know,

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the the discovery information there in Florida.

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Speaker 1: So going into the hearing, though you didn't know your

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lawyers didn't know that this other lawyer who Trump just

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brought on the team, who entered the appearance, like you

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had no clue that that lawyer was going to show up,

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that they to make the argument that based on Donald

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Trump's desire to potentially invoke his Fifth Amendment right, they

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needed to bring in a new lawyer like that just

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happened at the hearing hasn't been reported anywhere else.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that. Yeah, I don't know that. To

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be accurate, I wasn't aware of it until like right

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before the hearing. But I'm not certain as to when

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everybody else knew about it. I knew that they were

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bringing on someone else this I knew. I didn't know

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if it was for real or not. I think it's

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like Chris Kaise or something like that, who they want

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to bring in and because his daughter is having a

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child right now, that he couldn't make it for tomorrow.

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I do know that he was not in the court

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in the courthouse today, but it was certainly one of

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the comments that was made, you know, to the judge,

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and you know, like everybody else, I wish the daughter,

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you know, nothing but good things. Unfortunately, I also wish

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to have the opportunity to defend myself in a frivolous

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five hundred million dollar lawsuit.

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Speaker 1: So we all know that name Chris Kaise, If that's.

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Speaker 2: Who, I'm not sure. If I'm not sure if that's it,

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I can double check in a second. I truly don't remember,

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because in all fairness, I really didn't care. I mean,

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all I was really looking for is you know, the

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determination on when that we will have this deposition, this

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court ordered deposition. And again the part of the for

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me which I find very comforting, is that in less

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than thirty days, we will be deposing Donald Trump, as

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the judge stated, come hell or high water. As well

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as if this if the documents that they provided, which

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unfortunately I have not seen myself, believe it or not,

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because Trump's council marked everything privileged, and so that's now

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going to create another hearing that has to go in

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terms of the determination which documents will or will not

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be privileged. Trump is going to have to explain why

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he thinks that they should be deemed privileged. The whole

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thing is again very typical Trump playbook, you know, delay, delay, delay.

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He pushing this thing out more and more and more,

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despite the fact as the plaintiff who generally wants to

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push the case forward, not Donald he wants to delay everything.

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And again, like what he originally wanted, he wanted the

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deposition to occur sometime within ninety days post the election.

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Speaker 1: So again just kind of breaking it down because there's

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a lot of data here for the brigaders and for

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anybody you know, to understand, especially those that don't know

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the federal court kind of procedures and proceedings. So Donald

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number of frivolous allegations, and then he fund raises off that.

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You respond by filing a motion to dismiss and conducting discovery.

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You request production of documents, and you request Donald Trump's deposition.

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Donald Trump tries to avoid his deposition. Donald Trump lawyers

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claims it would cause him embarrassment. That's actually in the pleading.

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It would harm Trump's reputation. And in a case that

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Donald Trump brought against you, donald Trump said he didn't

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want to sit for that deposition. Ultimately the court said, no,

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you're sitting for a deposition. So then Donald Trump's responds

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to that as well. I want everything to be designated confidential.

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I want blanket privilege. I want blanket confidentiality. The judge

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then has to respond to that, and the judge says no,

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on a case by case basis, if there are things

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that are truly confidential, you can market it could be

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subject to challenge, but this is a federal court proceeding.

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go and make those designations. Then after all of that

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that takes place, you have a deposition that's scheduled for

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September sixth. Donald Trump before the deposition, turns over documents,

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but it does and seem like it is a fulsome

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and complete document production. And he does exactly what the

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judge says, don't do by basically making everything blanket privilege,

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even though he's harmed your reputation by filing that lawsuit.

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court today and they basically make excuses. And again you

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are understanding, of course if someone's daughter is getting married

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or whatever the circumstance is, but also you're being sued,

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but also you're being sued for five hundred million dollars

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and you deserve your day in court and you deserve discovery.

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we're not ready. This that, every other excuse, this other

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lawyer has to we need another lawyer in to deal

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with Donald Trump invoking the Fifth Amendment against self incrimination.

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And finally the judge after all of that says, come

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hell or high water, I'm I'm paraphrasing this deposition will

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now be taking place in thirty days, and Donald Trump

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file and affidavit that this was a fulsome and complete

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discovery and that you've ran search terms and keywords and

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all of that. Did I accurately kind of summarize you did?

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Speaker 2: The only one thing that I just want to bring

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to everybody's attention, and why I was somewhat disappointed, and

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the fact that it was pushed out as far as

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to October third is because come October second, you may recall,

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that's the beginning of the New York Attorney General's case,

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and that's when the case goes live. This again, is

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something I can see somehow Trump's team trying to take

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advantage of Hey, I'm now being sued, and don't forget

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I'm expected to be called as a witness in that

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case as well. You know this is not the way

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it's supposed to be. I mean, we are already know

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it's October third. Will he be able to then say, hey,

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chose not to be for the Egene Carroll case. But nevertheless,

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you know, October second is the start of the Tiss James,

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New York Attorney General case against Trump and the Trump organization.

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October third is the date for the deposition to take place,

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the court order deposition. So one of the things we

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talked about last week was the crazy calendar that Donald

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is going to have to now contend with for the

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next almost year. And this is a perfect example of

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their delays, pushing everything into a truncated period which makes

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it more and more difficult to effectuate the goal, which

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in this specific case was the deposition. So again I

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was certainly hoping I had my fingers crossed that the

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judge would say, bullshit, you knew well well in advance

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that tomorrow is the day that you were supposed to

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be deposed. I understand, find a different lawyer if this

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lawyer is unable to appear because of a family issue.

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And again, as wonderful as it is, and I wish

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him and his family nothing, but you know, good things

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with the birth of a grandchild that should not affect

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this deposition. It just it just shouldn't because they keep

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pushing it off again again and again, and who knows

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what will happen next. Well, one thing we know is

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that the October third deposition date is one day after

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the start of the New York Attorney General case. So

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again it just goes into the whole issue of what's happening.

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the civil cases, all of the other matters soon the

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e g. Carold case. I mean, these are all smashed

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together into a into a truncated calendar because these trials

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Speaker 1: You know, when I talk to people who still support

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Donald Trump, I try not to raise my voice, and

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they usually will start doing the name calling, and oftentimes

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what I just say to them is okay, So if

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all of those things that you're saying are true, then

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why is it that when they go into a court

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room they don't make those arguments. If Donald Trump wants

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to sue Michael Cohen for five hundred million dollars and

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haul Michael Cohen into a federal court proceeding, and Donald

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don't file a lawsuit destroying someone's life, And then Michael

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Cohen says, okay, Donald, you sued me you've harmed me.

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You've harmed my family yet again by doing this. Now, Donald,

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I want to go through an evidence based system where

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I want to exchange the documents and the facts. And

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you're saying, I'm ready to go. Here's the evidence. And

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Donald Trump is saying, yeah, my lawyers, sisters, cousins, third cousins,

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they're not available. Fifth Amendment, reputation. I'm going to be embarrassed.

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Everything's confidential, no camera is there. So as between Michael Cohen,

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just as just one example, saying here are the facts,

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and Donald Trump running and hiding like a coward in

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a case that he filed. That's supposed to be the

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big tough guy. Really the guy who's running away right now,

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scared shitless because Michael Cohen's asking for his deposition, Are

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you kidding me?

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Speaker 2: Well, I understand why he would be fearful of a

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deposition because you know Donald, as we have seen in

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the previous depositions that are both transcribed and videoed. You

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know his performance, his ability within which to tell the truth,

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and it leaves a lot to be desired if you're

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on you know, if you're Donald Trump or his lawyers.

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So you know, my I can assure you, between Donia

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Perry and Ben Brodsky, we're going to be more than

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fully prepared within which to hold him to account on

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all of the allegations and all of the specific allegations

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that he had made against me in the complaint. And

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he's going to have to explain a lot, including the

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five hundred million dollar number. Hard to imagine that, you know, I,

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or anyone for that matter, could ruin the guy's reputation

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or damage his reputation worse than the damage that he

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caused himself. I mean, you're talking about a guy who

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has now been charged with ninety one different counts. You're

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talking about somebody that was impeached twice. You're talking on

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somebody who has been indicted four times soon possibly five.

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On top of that, somebody who was found guilty of

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sexual assault not you know, not only once, but soon

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again in the additional defamation portion. You know of this

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because he can't keep his mouth shut, a guy who

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has historically lied to the American people when he was

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President of the United States no less than thirty thousand times.

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I mean, I can go on and on and on

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about all of the things that damaged the guy's reputation,

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you know, me calling him out in terms of the

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things that he did, including an unconstitutional remand including things

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that are associated to Bill Barr and to you know,

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the Southern District of New York prosecutors Jeffrey Berman, who

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even states so in his own book, I mean, this

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is really it's it's almost laughable. And if it wasn't

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that it was Donald Trump with a five hundred million

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dollar lawsuit, yeah, it would be laughable.

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Speaker 1: You know, when you go through and read that deposition

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taken back in April by the New York Attorney General's

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Office in connection with the civil fraud case set to

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go to trial next month, you see that five hundred million,

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two billion, ten billion whatever. Donald Trump basically admitted in

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that deposition that he doesn't use appraisals. He says that

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it's just common sense. And like Coca cola, he says,

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he attributes the value that he thinks that makes sense

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to him. And he goes and he said this over

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and over again in the deposition under oath. He goes, well,

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you know, the Saudis will always come in and buy

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it for some ridiculous amount of by.

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Speaker 2: Word, it wasn't it. That's scary shit. I mean, that's

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really scary stuff that the Saudi's are coming. There's also

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a whole thing about Donald allegedly transferring mar A Lago

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to Don Junior. But then I read somewhere else that

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that wasn't true, that it was somehow made up and

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put out there. Who'll put it out there? I have

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no idea, So I'm dying to know whether or not

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it's true or not. If it is, obviously there'd be

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a clawback. But if it's not true, it just goes

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to show you the dangers of misinformation, disinformation and malinformation.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, and I suspec that the Don Junior

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thing either isn't true regardless. Let's recall there's a financial

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monitor who has been appointed in connection with the New

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York Attorney General's civil case, so there's someone overseeing those transactions.

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So a transaction like that cannot just go under the

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radar given the current posture. But we don't even have

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to talk about whatever that thing was on Zilo, because

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all I have to do is look at what Donald

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Trump said in the deposition. What's in the deposition transcript

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that's not me? Ben Midas touched saying Donald Trump says

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he'll run to the Saudies. No, you know, you can

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go watch the full hot take that I did where

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we very specifically go through what took place in the deposition.

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Our editor in chief Ron Philipkowski of Midas Touch dot

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Com did a fantastic overview of the four hundred and

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fifty plus page deposition as well, with page numbers and citation.

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But over and over again, Donald Trump would say that

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he would just make up the valuations that he wanted

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and that worse comes to worse, like Turnberry, the Saudis

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would come in and pay an outrageous amount for it

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and prove that his valuations are correct, that he was

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making up. He also stated that Eric has been the

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one responsible for the statement of financial conditions for the

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past five to six years, and Donald Trump very as

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you've always said, Cohen, he's very simple minded. So his

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lawyers told him the statute of limitations of kind of

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five to six years are what's that issue here? So

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the reason that he very specifically chose the years where

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he says he wasn't involved and Eric was was to

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try to make a statute of limitations claim in the

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summary judgment motion that they filed, which his lawyers then

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point the finger at Eric. He also claims his NFTs

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are worth about eighty two thousand, five hundred each for

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some of the NFTs, claims mar A Lago was worth

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or is worth one point twenty five billion, that Miami

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Durral is worth in the billions, and then he kept

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on talking. He kept on talking about the worthless clause

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over and over again. In the deposition, he goes, I've

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got the worthless clause, and he's referring to I think

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the disclaimer, and he believes that the worthless clause means

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that it is worthless to rely on his statement of

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financial conditions. Quite the contrary, He's an idiot. I think

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somebody was giving him advice that the disclaimer is worthless.

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The underlying clause is worthless because if you're still committing fraud,

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you can't put a clause in your contract that says, yes,

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I defrauded you, but it's your fault if you rely

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on my fraud. And by the way, if you look

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at the actual disclaimer by Maser's, it's actually not a

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strong clause for Donald Trump at all. It's a strong

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clause for Maser's But Maser says, we relied on him

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for everything, so if anything happens, go after him and

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not us. That's what the clause is. So that's what

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the deposition said, Coled, what would you make of that deposition?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so obviously I've seen it. It's a page and

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a half, the very first page and a half of

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each and every one of the statement of financial worth

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that was produced for him. I think there's a lot

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more here than just the disclaimer, and I believe without

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getting into the exact sum substance, because this is going

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to be an extremely hot topic during the New York

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Attorney General's case against the Trump Organization and Donald which

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has much to do with these statements of financial condition.

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There's a lot more to this than Donald Trump's reliance

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on the disclaimer saying that you know, you can't hold

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anything inside these documents, you know to be factually accurate,

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and you need to do your own due diligence. Yeah,

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there is a certain sense to that. However, I don't

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think that they're reading it, and I don't think that

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they're using that disclaimer the way that it was designed

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or the way that the New York Attorney general will

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be presenting her case. I think he's very like you

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like what you just said. I think he's very much mistaken.

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But then again, the biggest problem that he has the

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lawyers that are around him there. They don't want to

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get into conflict with him. It would be like if

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you and I right, you don't want to argue with me,

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and so as a direct result, you just agree with

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whatever it is that I say, regardless of how idiotic,

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moronic and you know, childish, uh the comments are, It

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doesn't matter. They're like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right, Donald. Yeah.

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The disclaimer that exonerates you completely. It's a full and

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complete exoneration. So what does he do, Well, he goes

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to his untrue social platform. Now, he goes to x

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formerly Twitter, in all caps, puts I've been I'm fully exonerated.

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I have a disclaimer, And he makes these obviously self

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serving statements on a regular basis. Of course, he puts

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them in all caps because that connotes the seriousness of

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the issue and his you know, fervent belief in whatever

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it is that he's putting in. It's so stupid. I mean, honestly,

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if he had half a brain, he'd be sitting down

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right now with the Attorney General and figuring out exactly

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how to get himself extricated from this problem for the

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least amount of money. Because knowing what I know, and

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knowing the level of the misstatements and over the number

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of years plus you have penalty and interest that gets accumulated.

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You're talking about substantially more and I'm gonna say it again,

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substantially more than the baseline of two hundred and fifty

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million that Tiss James is seeking. I predict it's going

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to be more than twice that amount by the time

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that they're finished with him.

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Speaker 1: Well, you're not speculating here, because you actually are a witness,

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are you in the case?

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Speaker 2: Yes? But I don't know I don't know their you know,

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I don't know their case. I know the things that

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you know have been asked of me and so on,

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but nobody has said to me, Hey, look, we're looking

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to go for X. I've never had any conversation like that.

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Speaker 1: But you're going to go and you testify.

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Speaker 2: I'm just trying to deduce from questions that I know

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were asked of me in information that they're relying on.

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Speaker 1: And look, you were deposed as well in that action.

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Alina Habbo is the one who took that deposition. You

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are going to be a witness when that case goes

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to trial as well in the next month. And you know,

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one of the things that I wonder as well is

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is the Manhattan District Attorney, clearly Alvin Bragg has access

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to this deposition transcript. We know that Manhattan District Attorney

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Alvin Bragg is continuing to investigate other crimes. He said

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so before publicly committed by Donald Trump. Just the order

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of priority for Alvin Bragg. He brought the falsification of

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business record case first, but that didn't mean he's not

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bringing the other case. But now he's got this deposition.

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Michael Cohen, I mean, and it's a powerful deposition. And

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I know you're a witness, so there may be limitations,

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of course on what you can say, but it is powerful. Hypothetically,

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if a Manhattan District attorney were focused on some of

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the other potential crimes and perhaps as they relate to

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what was what was on Trump's taxes, how the financial

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fraudulent valuations could have impacted that and could potentially be criminal.

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Speaker 2: Huh Yeah. Look, one of the problems. I can't go

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into any more than what has already been publicly disclosed

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by Alvin Bragg's office, the prosecutors if the Manhattan DA

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in this upcoming case, which is now scheduled for March

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of twenty twenty four. I mean, I want people to

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understand that the October case they're looking at potentially like

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an eight week trial, which brings you into December. Then

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you know, I know that there's also some other matters

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that are outstanding and pending. And then you also have

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which will possibly create a conflict. Jack Smith has, you know,

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a matter which is also due sometime in March. There's

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so much again going back to the calendar, but you know,

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one of the things that both the Manhattan DA, the

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New York Attorney General, as well as the various different

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congressional committees, the seven that I had spoken with, as

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well as other agencies. The one thing that I have

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completely you know that I do is any time that

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I provide a statement on something, I have a document

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or they have a document which validates and corroborates my testimony.

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Not only do they have this, which is called documentary evidence,

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in order to corroborate the information that I'm providing, but

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they also have other testimony from individuals that corroborated these

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I don't see the necessity for these eight week trials,

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especially on something that is just so blatantly obvious. But

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then again, you know they're going to start calling a

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multitude of witnesses. They're going to put everyone on the stand,

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myself of course included, and I suspect that it will

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be a nine hour deposition, cross examination by council basically

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calling me everything in the world, you know, trying to

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impeach my credibility again and again. And the impeachment of

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my credibility was only something that you know, Donald and

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the GOP and these sick efants ended up someting to do,

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whether it was behind closed doors in the Gifts, when

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I was testifying before the other committees, or when I

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was live before the House Oversight Committee. It's basically to

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just damage me as much as they possibly can, and

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they're going to try to do that in this upcoming

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New York Attorney General case, hoping that then they could

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use some of that in order to again harm me

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and impeach my credibility when it comes time for the

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Manhattan DA case, because that's another one that's making Donald

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crap in his diapers, and that's you know, that's a

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criminal matter, unlike the you know, Tis James case, which

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is a civil matter.

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Speaker 1: You know, moments ago, as we were talking about the

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civil fraud case brought by New York Attorney General Leticia James,

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New York Attorney General Leticia James filed a motion for

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sanctions against the defendants in their case, Donald Trump and

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his adult kids as well, basically saying that in the

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summary judgment motions that were filed by the defendants, by

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Trump and his kids and everyone else, they basically recycled

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the exact same arguments that were rejected by the court before,

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specifically an argument that the New York Attorney General lacks standing,

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that the statute is unconstitutional, and other kind of related

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things that the judge has already rejected on the law.

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But you know, Trump just continues to you know, it

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doesn't doesn't bother him, just even if it's you know,

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been rejected, Bring it over and over and over again.

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But you know, we are marching ever closer to justice

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and a trial will take place there. He can try

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to run away from all these things and he tries

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to run away from your deposition. You know, in the

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Eging Carol case, he tried to run away to Ireland

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and Scotland, but ultimately justice catches up. And we're seeing

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that over and over again. And the American people, I think,

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are getting it now, and they're getting it now, especially

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where you see the contrast between like on a something

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like Labor Day, like what's Donald Trump doing? What's President

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Biden doing? What are the supporters of Donald Trump doing?

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What are the supporters of President Biden doing? Donald Trump whining, complaining,

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obnoxious hate filled lies, President Biden talking about jobs, lowering

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prescription drug prices. I want to talk about all of that,

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. We're live political beat down Michael Cohen Ben

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my cells one day after Labor Day, and the contrasts

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cannot be anymore clear. I want to show you first

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Donald Trump's message on Labor Day, and then I want

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to compare it to what President Biden was saying on

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Labor Day. Then co and I love your reaction to both. First,

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let me tell you what Donald Trump said on Labor Day.

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Play the clip.

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Speaker 4: You're going to hell and your bosses are leading you

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right down the tubes. You shouldn't pay your fees. They

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get these big fees from all of their workers, and

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it doesn't matter how bad they are, they'll endorse a

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Democrat even though the Democrats selling you down the tubes.

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And I'm telling you you shouldn't pay those dues. You

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should not pay your dues because they're selling you to hell.

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Speaker 1: You're going to be going to hell.

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Speaker 4: You're not gonna have any jobs. All those cars are

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going to be made in China, every one of them.

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Speaker 2: You can forget it.

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Speaker 4: Michigan, you can forget it. South Carolina, you can forget it. Everybody.

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All of those cars are going to be made in China.

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Speaker 1: Michael Collen, what's here?

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Speaker 2: He I see it's it's pathetic. I mean, there's no

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other way to describe him. It is pathetic. Now all

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of a sudden, he's sitting there, don't pay your dues, right,

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Everything's going to be made in China. I mean, it's

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so stupid. If you the fact that he could even

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put that out thinking that this is smart, that this

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is beneficial to him. Again, it's nothing more than sowing

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divisiveness in this country. Think about how many times he

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used the word hell right. I mean, it's the whole

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purpose of Trump's statement is basically to scare the people

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who he's scaring. I don't know. And if there is

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a single member in any union, regardless of what the

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union is, the bricklayers union, the scaffolding union, the auto

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workers' union, the you know, carpenters, anyone who is a

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union member that would even contemplate for a split second

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on voting for Trump needs to have their fucking head examined.

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Think about what this guy just put out there. Think

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about the statement that he's making. He means, he's guesslighting,

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he's blowing that dog whistle all over again. I mean,

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I don't even understand what was the part there is

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no rationale behind the statement other than to put you

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on edge and to make you feel like Joe Biden

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is going to cost you your job. And the reason

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that he's doing it is because somewhere along the line,

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he either read or heard that the Unions are endorsing Democrats,

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that the Unions are going to endorse Donald Trump. So,

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because he is, in his mind the narcissistic sociopath that

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he is, he now needs to get off of his

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chest this anger towards the Union for not endorsing him.

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And what do you do. You turn and you tried

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to create divisiveness within that organization itself pathetic.

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Speaker 1: One it can. So let's that was what Donald Trump

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said in Labor Day. This is what President Joe Biden's

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message was. Let's play this clip.

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Speaker 5: We also passed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. You can't have

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the strongest economy in the world with a second rate infrastructure.

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Can you believe we used to have the best infrastructure

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in the world and then we fell the number thirteen

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in the world. Roads bridges entered the whole deal thirteenth,

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the United States of America thirteenth in the world. But

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guess what, Guess what? The great real estate builder, the

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last guy here. He didn't build a damn thing under

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my predecessor. Infrastructure week became a punchline on my watch,

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Infrastructure has been a decade and it's a headline. Folks,

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we're invested in America, And I wrote bridges ports, you know.

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Speaker 1: Good, contrast cannot be clear, unity, can't.

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Speaker 2: Be can't be great unity. You're talking about growth, you're

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talking about benefiting. Here's the word of the day. Benefiting

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all Americans, not just Republicans if you're Donald Trump, not

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just only Democrats if you're Joe Biden. But Joe Biden

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wanted to benefit all Americans because America, Yes, we have

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been on the decline in terms of infrastructure. I mean,

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how many times have we seen bridges and tunnels and

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roadways collapsing, you know, over time due to climate change

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another word that Trump doesn't ever want to talk about.

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And so Joe Biden wants to bring back infrastructure past

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the Infrastructure Bill, which will help also to reduce the deficit.

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You know, good for him, and I again, I don't

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understand this animist towards Biden, even by some Democrats, based

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upon the age. The guy seems to be doing a

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whole lot. Now. There are things that I would like

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him to do more, there are things I don't agree with,

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But overall, you have to say, whatever it is that

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he's trying to do, he truly believes will help all

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America and it will unify all Americans as opposed to

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the divisive language that just constantly emanates under that gaping

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hole under Trump's nose.

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Speaker 1: You know, maybe it's because of social media, or TikTok culture,

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or the failure of large media to hold Donald Trump accountable,

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a combination of those multiplicity of factors. But to your point,

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this kind of raging, acceptable agism is not acceptable at all.

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It is disgusting. Yes, is President Joe Biden older and

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older gentleman? Yeah, but I want someone who's wise and

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calm and compassionate, who surrounds himself with smart people, and

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who has implemented If any of these policies you look

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back at for the first two years, you would say

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any of these policies was historic in nature and scope.

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And so when people give me the oh, President Biden

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is old and senile, it's like, where are where are

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you getting that?

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Speaker 2: Also, not forget that he's only a few years. And

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when I say a few, I think it's like three

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years older than Donald. Interesting interestingly enough, you know during

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vacations or holidays, you do see Joe Biden on a bicycle, right,

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I'd like to see Trump put his as onto a

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bicycle seat. No, you'll find it in a golf cart.

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So I mean, it really has to tell you. One guy,

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you know, is yeah, let's just say under two fifteen,

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and the other guy is above two fifteen. There's no

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doubt about that one.

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Speaker 1: Let me show you too where I think that stems

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from and why I think our work as the Beatdown

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Brigade is so critical. Here you mentioned how President Biden

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is serving as the president of all Americans. For example,

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Florida may have voted against President Biden. You have Ron

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DeSantis who spreads hate about President Biden over and over again,

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vicious lies, over and over again, this performative fascist outrage

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like we saw in the debate and every day. But

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when a hurricane hit, President Biden's out there wanting to

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help and ready to meet. But Ron DeSantis did not

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show up and blamed logistical concerns as why he couldn't

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be there with President Biden. The reality is is that

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DeSantis simply didn't want to be photographed with President Biden

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because Maga Republican is a mutation of pettiness and anger

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and grievance and hate. So let me show you. This

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is when President Biden was in Florida. What he said

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when he was asked, hey, you know, where's DeSantis? What's

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your message to him? Play this clip.

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Speaker 2: I don't think he's going to be there.

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Speaker 5: We're gonna take care of Florida.

711
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Speaker 6: Are you agree with the apparatus enough?

712
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Speaker 5: Do you?

713
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Speaker 1: And the question was do you agree with him that

714
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the security apparatus isn't strong enough and that's why he's

715
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not there? And President Biden's like, do you believe that? So?

716
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:55,159
What was the headline by the New York Times, Michael Cohen?

717
00:47:55,199 --> 00:47:58,760
Do you think it was the truth, which is DeSantis

718
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:01,400
is petty and not showing up because he believes it's

719
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:07,079
a political liability for him in a radicalized Maga base. No,

720
00:48:07,119 --> 00:48:09,480
that's not what the New York Times ran with. Here's

721
00:48:09,519 --> 00:48:12,400
what the New York Times ran with as their headline,

722
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:17,239
Biden won't meet DeSantis in Florida during tour of hurricane damage.

723
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:20,199
Though President Biden said earlier on Friday that he would

724
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:24,440
see Ron DeSantis on Saturday. The governor's office said there

725
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:28,280
were no plans for a meeting. Now, Michael Cohen, with

726
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:30,960
the facts that we have, how do you write that headline?

727
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:35,639
But on the one hand, you have right wing media

728
00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:41,199
like Fox and Newsmax, New York Post oan just injecting

729
00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:45,440
disinformation into people's veins. Right, that's one group. Then you

730
00:48:45,519 --> 00:48:48,079
have the New York Times and the Post doing this.

731
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Speaker 2: So let me be very clear about something. During a hurricane,

732
00:48:54,480 --> 00:49:00,159
during forest fires, during these wildfires and other natural catastrophe,

733
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:03,559
there is no such thing as Republican. There is no

734
00:49:03,639 --> 00:49:07,480
such thing as Democrat. There is no such thing as independence.

735
00:49:07,519 --> 00:49:10,800
We are all Americans, and our hearts are supposed to

736
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:14,559
go out like what transpired in Hawaii, what was taking

737
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place in California, what's now taking place in parts of Florida.

738
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I don't care if it's a Republican based area. That's

739
00:49:24,079 --> 00:49:27,320
something Trump did all right, when he was saying, well,

740
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:29,280
I don't know, I mean, they didn't really vote for me,

741
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:32,519
so why should I actually go out there? Now? We

742
00:49:32,559 --> 00:49:35,519
are all Americans, and you know, when we are dealing

743
00:49:35,559 --> 00:49:39,400
with these natural catastrophes. We have to be unified. This

744
00:49:39,559 --> 00:49:43,199
is the stupidest thing I have ever seen. And for that,

745
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:46,280
with all due respect, Rond de Santis gets the two

746
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:50,199
fucking middle thingers. The two fingers salute goes to Rond

747
00:49:50,199 --> 00:49:53,800
de Santis for being an asshole and a half for

748
00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:57,639
being an un American dirt bag. You do not inter

749
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:03,800
inject politics when Americans are suffering. That's plain and simple.

750
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:07,079
The same thing that took place during COVID. It wasn't

751
00:50:07,159 --> 00:50:11,280
just Republicans dying, It wasn't just Democrats dying. It wasn't

752
00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:14,440
just independent it was Americans that were dying. And we

753
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:18,320
all need to coalesce around each other when the things

754
00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:21,920
get really and we have the right to disagree on policy.

755
00:50:22,119 --> 00:50:25,280
We have the right to disagree on certain you know,

756
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:31,159
certain bills or issues that are being champion by either party.

757
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:33,639
But one thing that you don't have the right is

758
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to hope that your fellow Americans suffers as a result

759
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of a natural catastrophe. We all need to be there

760
00:50:40,519 --> 00:50:45,239
for one another, regardless to party affiliation. And the fact

761
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that Ron DeSantis did not reach out to the president,

762
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did not turn around and say together we will walk

763
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these areas, these areas that have been decimated, people who

764
00:50:57,360 --> 00:51:02,760
had lost their lives, you know, homes destroyed, roads destroyed.

765
00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:06,440
What are we going to do in order to assure

766
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that we fix this, We ameliorate the damage that was

767
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done in the most expeditious of manner, and together we

768
00:51:15,079 --> 00:51:18,280
can do that. The fact that DeSantis didn't do that,

769
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:21,079
it's not a slap to the Democrats, it's not a

770
00:51:21,119 --> 00:51:25,920
slap to President Biden. It's a slap in the face

771
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of all Floridians, especially to the Floridians that are affected

772
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:34,000
by the disaster. And for that, shame on him, you

773
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:36,760
fucking idiot. You know.

774
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Speaker 1: But in many ways the New York Times covers for

775
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:45,199
Ron descent is now. I don't expect the New York

776
00:51:45,239 --> 00:51:48,840
Times to necessarily say we're giving you the two fingers salute,

777
00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:53,960
but it's very easy. But it's very easy to look

778
00:51:54,079 --> 00:51:59,559
at the objective data that exists and to simply put

779
00:51:59,559 --> 00:52:02,880
in your head headline and the story what went down.

780
00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:06,280
You can say President Biden showed up, was ready to

781
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:11,639
meet Ron de Santis. Ron DeSantis claim there were logistical issues,

782
00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:15,679
which is a suspect claim given the fact that DeSantis

783
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:20,280
has met before with Shore during disasters, with Donald Trump

784
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:22,760
and others, and that that was something that would be

785
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:26,519
easy to address the logistical issues. And you can say

786
00:52:26,519 --> 00:52:29,800
that was questionable excuse by DeSantis if you still want

787
00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:33,400
to be soft on it, but you can accurately just get.

788
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:37,320
Speaker 2: There that Joe Biden can get there the sanctimonious snot

789
00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:39,679
knows whatever else you want to call him. He could

790
00:52:39,679 --> 00:52:43,000
get there too. I don't care. The resources available to

791
00:52:43,039 --> 00:52:45,639
the governor are limitless in order to get him to

792
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:50,599
anywhere where this catastrophe took place. This is nothing shy

793
00:52:51,159 --> 00:52:55,320
of him playing politics off of the backs of Americans

794
00:52:55,440 --> 00:52:56,599
who are suffering.

795
00:52:57,639 --> 00:53:00,599
Speaker 1: But New York Times lets him and watching like so

796
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:03,239
yet Fox News is going to just give.

797
00:53:03,119 --> 00:53:06,559
Speaker 2: You political beatdown. We don't give the books.

798
00:53:07,119 --> 00:53:09,400
Speaker 1: And that's why, and that's why we've created this platform,

799
00:53:09,519 --> 00:53:12,360
you know, and in many ways this platform is now

800
00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:15,800
bigger than those other platforms. And there's a reason why.

801
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:18,960
I just look at that and I'm like, like, what

802
00:53:19,679 --> 00:53:21,760
in the world are you doing. I saw some other

803
00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:25,800
story from a New York Times writer quote tweeting a

804
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:30,679
Washington Post writer doing a whole story on Biden's embellishments

805
00:53:31,079 --> 00:53:33,480
and doing a hit piece on like you're doing a

806
00:53:33,559 --> 00:53:37,480
hit piece on Biden's embellishments, Like you realize there's legitimately

807
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:41,679
a Maga Republican party that wants to overthrow our democracy

808
00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:46,159
and put you in jail, and your energy is directed

809
00:53:46,239 --> 00:53:51,119
at doing a weekend piece on biden embellishments that are

810
00:53:51,199 --> 00:53:54,599
not even verified embellishments. But you're just saying sources have

811
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:57,480
unconfirmed certain like like, what are you talking about? But

812
00:53:58,239 --> 00:54:01,880
let's talk about outright liar though, like Magga Republicans that

813
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:06,800
George Santos is not like a fringe figure in the

814
00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:11,840
Maga Republicans, right, He's fully embraced by the Kevin McCarthy's,

815
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:15,880
by you know, Marjorie Taylor Green. These are leaders of

816
00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:19,079
what the Maga Republican party is now. He's someone who's

817
00:54:19,119 --> 00:54:22,039
of course lied about every single thing in his life,

818
00:54:22,039 --> 00:54:23,920
from where he went to school to where he worked,

819
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:27,159
to his parents being victims of nine to eleven, to

820
00:54:27,280 --> 00:54:30,840
his grandparents being victims of the Holocaust. The most disgusting

821
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:34,119
and deranged lied about his religion. There's and then he

822
00:54:34,239 --> 00:54:38,639
started a fake charity where he stole money from homeless veterans,

823
00:54:38,679 --> 00:54:41,440
saying that he was going to put their money to

824
00:54:41,639 --> 00:54:45,199
help get their dogs saved, and then he stole the

825
00:54:45,199 --> 00:54:47,280
money and let their dogs get killed, like like the

826
00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:50,280
worst human. And he's who he's what it means to

827
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:53,440
be Maga Republican. He runs around, you know, in court

828
00:54:53,519 --> 00:54:56,280
with his pin on, with his AR fifteen pin, you know,

829
00:54:56,400 --> 00:54:59,360
high fiving all of the Magga Republicans. Well, there's some

830
00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:02,519
data today that suggests that what we may be looking

831
00:55:02,599 --> 00:55:06,239
towards is the George Santos saga coming to an end.

832
00:55:06,760 --> 00:55:09,400
And the Department of Justice sent a letter to the

833
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:11,800
federal judge in the Eastern District of New York. There

834
00:55:11,840 --> 00:55:15,079
was a hearing it was scheduled for this week on

835
00:55:15,159 --> 00:55:19,599
September seventh, but the DOJ requested a continuance. Now, the

836
00:55:19,639 --> 00:55:24,559
DOJ is not wanting to do continuance is just because

837
00:55:24,639 --> 00:55:27,599
and so when you read this letter by the DOJ

838
00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:30,960
to the judge, and the judge granted this extension from

839
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:35,559
September seventh to October twenty seven, so a twenty day extension.

840
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:40,239
Here's the basis. Further, the parties have continued to discuss

841
00:55:40,719 --> 00:55:45,039
possible paths forward in this matter. The parties wish to

842
00:55:45,079 --> 00:55:49,880
have additional time to continue those discussions. And so you

843
00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:51,679
know as well as I know Cohen, that means that

844
00:55:51,719 --> 00:55:54,920
they're pretty far along in a plea negotiation. Doesn't mean

845
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:58,199
they're going to enter one, but that's their close and

846
00:55:58,239 --> 00:56:01,760
what they're buying time for is to consummate a deal

847
00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:02,599
before the next year.

848
00:56:03,159 --> 00:56:06,519
Speaker 2: You see, De Santos is an idiot. There's a big

849
00:56:06,559 --> 00:56:12,079
difference between his stupidity and Donald's stupidity. Donald's stupidity is

850
00:56:12,239 --> 00:56:17,280
based upon his narcissism, so he can never acknowledge the

851
00:56:17,280 --> 00:56:20,480
fact that he did wrong. He got caught. That's the

852
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:26,000
that's the definition of a narcissist. He obviously cannot acknowledge

853
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:29,519
that he's ever done anything wrong. De Santos is just

854
00:56:29,679 --> 00:56:34,280
an asshole, and he's an idiot, and he realizes that

855
00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:37,320
he's that is you know that he's cooked. That they

856
00:56:37,360 --> 00:56:41,840
have enough information on multitude of schemes that he was

857
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:44,960
involved with for him to now say to himself, I

858
00:56:45,039 --> 00:56:50,119
don't want to spend forget about any time in prison.

859
00:56:50,119 --> 00:56:52,400
I don't want to spend the next ten to fifteen

860
00:56:52,559 --> 00:56:55,760
years in prison. And so right now they're trying to

861
00:56:55,800 --> 00:57:03,440
negotiate a deal that is the most favorable to De Santos.

862
00:57:03,559 --> 00:57:06,719
You see, Donald would never do something like that again

863
00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:10,719
because he can never ever acknowledge that he did something wrong.

864
00:57:10,880 --> 00:57:14,119
His brain is just not wired for you know, for that.

865
00:57:15,639 --> 00:57:19,920
Speaker 1: I like that you merged De Santos DeSantis with George Santos.

866
00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:22,880
It is kind of a De Santo's Taylor Green.

867
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Speaker 2: Santos.

868
00:57:27,360 --> 00:57:32,480
Speaker 1: But you know, birds, birds of a feather, what what

869
00:57:32,599 --> 00:57:35,480
I think what I think probably happened as well.

870
00:57:35,519 --> 00:57:35,719
Speaker 2: Though.

871
00:57:36,039 --> 00:57:39,800
Speaker 1: The DOJ was very strategic in the charges that they

872
00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:43,360
brought against Santos. First, I think it was around you know,

873
00:57:43,559 --> 00:57:46,440
you know, thirteen counts or so, but they have dozens

874
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:48,440
of other counts that they can bring, and that they

875
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:51,119
didn't charge him. So I'm sure they went to him

876
00:57:51,119 --> 00:57:54,079
and said, we're about to drop a superseding indictment. If

877
00:57:54,119 --> 00:57:56,960
you thought that one was bad, we'll let you plead

878
00:57:57,039 --> 00:57:59,239
to two of these counts, or we're going to file

879
00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:03,360
a superseded indictment. But when you so, that's reading a

880
00:58:03,400 --> 00:58:05,360
lot between the lines there. I think that's what that's

881
00:58:05,400 --> 00:58:06,239
what's been taking place.

882
00:58:06,239 --> 00:58:08,719
Speaker 2: It would be like one of those infomercials Ben where

883
00:58:08,719 --> 00:58:13,480
it's like George, just wait because there's more. And if

884
00:58:13,519 --> 00:58:15,679
you don't do this, we're gonna throw in this, and

885
00:58:15,679 --> 00:58:17,599
then if you don't do that, we're throwing in two

886
00:58:17,719 --> 00:58:20,960
or three more. And he realizes that he's looking at

887
00:58:21,360 --> 00:58:24,719
a long, long haul. Not to mention he doesn't have

888
00:58:24,760 --> 00:58:27,400
the money within which to fight it, because that's that's

889
00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:30,639
what the DJ do. They they believe you dry and

890
00:58:30,679 --> 00:58:31,639
trust me, you know.

891
00:58:31,599 --> 00:58:34,880
Speaker 1: And and and and here I want to show you

892
00:58:34,960 --> 00:58:38,159
the This is what George Santos was saying after he

893
00:58:38,360 --> 00:58:42,679
was arraigned. This is the kind of Maga mutation language

894
00:58:42,719 --> 00:58:46,000
of victimhood, and they're all out to get us, and

895
00:58:46,039 --> 00:58:50,079
it's all a witch hunt. It is directly from the

896
00:58:50,119 --> 00:58:54,280
top with Donald Trump. When I show you what Santo said,

897
00:58:55,039 --> 00:58:58,360
this could just be Donald Trump speaking. But the other

898
00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:02,840
losers as well, in the Magna mutation group, they don't

899
00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:06,800
get the benefits that he gets, and his time of

900
00:59:06,840 --> 00:59:10,800
accountability is among us, upon us right now as well.

901
00:59:10,840 --> 00:59:13,280
But just watch Santos. But this is not unique to

902
00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:17,559
George Santos. This is like any Republicans speaking to get

903
00:59:17,559 --> 00:59:21,599
me Deep State, we here play this clip of Santos.

904
00:59:21,440 --> 00:59:22,679
Speaker 6: Fight to defend myself.

905
00:59:22,840 --> 00:59:25,039
Speaker 1: The reality is is it's.

906
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Speaker 6: A witch hype because it makes no sense that in

907
00:59:28,920 --> 00:59:33,639
four months, four months, five months, I'm indicted, you have

908
00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:39,719
Joe Biden's entire family receiving deposits from nine nine family

909
00:59:39,800 --> 00:59:44,880
members receiving money from foreign from foreign destinations into their

910
00:59:44,920 --> 00:59:48,079
bank accounts. It's been years of exposing a lot of

911
00:59:48,119 --> 00:59:51,639
you here have reported on them, and yet no investigation

912
00:59:51,800 --> 00:59:55,400
is launching to them. I'm gonna fight you well, and.

913
00:59:55,320 --> 00:59:56,559
Speaker 2: I'm just going getting back to that.

914
00:59:56,800 --> 01:00:00,000
Speaker 6: I'm gonna fight my battle, I'm gonna deliver, I'm gonna

915
01:00:00,119 --> 01:00:02,400
fight the Richard. I'm gonna take care of claring my

916
01:00:02,559 --> 01:00:05,079
name and I look forward to doing.

917
01:00:05,559 --> 01:00:08,800
Speaker 1: That's who the Mega Republican Party is. Final words Michael Cohen,

918
01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:09,800
as we kind of around.

919
01:00:09,639 --> 01:00:13,079
Speaker 2: They what's gonna happen. He's gonna end up pleading because

920
01:00:13,119 --> 01:00:16,599
he's guilty. He knows he's guilty. The lines of bullshit

921
01:00:16,719 --> 01:00:20,559
are very easy when you're standing in front of a microphone, right,

922
01:00:20,639 --> 01:00:23,840
and you don't have the full force and effect of

923
01:00:23,880 --> 01:00:27,679
the United States Department of Justice coming down on you

924
01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:31,239
like a ton of bricks, right. It's one thing even

925
01:00:31,280 --> 01:00:33,920
if like for example, in my book Revenge and I

926
01:00:33,960 --> 01:00:37,199
talk about I never committed tax evasion, and I stand

927
01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:40,920
by I never committed any violation regarding a home equity

928
01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:45,239
line of credit. That's bullshit. Even then, you still can fight,

929
01:00:45,519 --> 01:00:47,800
because what they do is they come down on you

930
01:00:48,159 --> 01:00:51,559
so hard and so fast. The only type of people

931
01:00:51,599 --> 01:00:54,840
who can actually fight the government. Number One, you gotta be.

932
01:00:55,199 --> 01:00:57,119
You gotta have a lot of money, and you gotta

933
01:00:57,119 --> 01:00:59,119
have a lot of for example, like in Trump's case,

934
01:00:59,239 --> 01:01:02,119
a lot of student big people that are just throwing

935
01:01:02,239 --> 01:01:05,480
money in order to protect him legally. If you have that,

936
01:01:05,719 --> 01:01:08,559
well you could stay afloat for a while, but it

937
01:01:08,599 --> 01:01:11,400
doesn't help in the long run. And very soon we're

938
01:01:11,440 --> 01:01:15,280
all going to be listening to Kimberly Gargoyle standing there

939
01:01:15,320 --> 01:01:18,440
and saying the best is yet to come, screaming it

940
01:01:18,639 --> 01:01:21,760
as we watch them turn around and take Santos off

941
01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:24,159
to prison, and then we're going to see the same

942
01:01:24,199 --> 01:01:26,079
shit happen to diaper Donald.

943
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Speaker 1: By the way, don't forget that the grand jury in Washington,

944
01:01:31,199 --> 01:01:34,440
DC is still impaneled, the one that indicted Donald Trump,

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and that grand jury said to expire September fifteenth, but

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it could be extended again. And Jack Smith still engaged

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in criminal investigations of Donald Trump for the fundraising schemes,

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potential money laundering, wire fraud, and other crimes, and we'll

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do a whole hot take on that as well. So,

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Michael Cohen, thank you for sharing with us all the

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developments in your civil case, the one that Donald Trump

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brought against you. Frivolous case, but nonetheless five hundred million dollars.

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There's a legal defense fund link that we have here.

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It's right there on the bottom in the description and

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it's right there firewall fund dot com. If you're able

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to contribute to Cohen's legal defense fund. All of that

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money goes to pay his lawyers in the civil case

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brought by Donald Trump against him in Floridi. He's got

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some of the best lawyers as well, when you talked

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about earlier, the great work that they were doing, So

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if you want to contribute there, Also check out Michael

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Cohen's book Revenge wherever books and audiobooks are sold. Incredible,

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incredible book, especially right now, it's more relevant than ever.

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It's kind of a roadmap to all of Donald Trump's moves,

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how Donald Trump weaponized the Department of Justice against his critics.

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So check that out. Wherever books are sold, go to

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store dot Midas Touch dot com as well for the

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best pro democracy gear one hundred percent union made, one

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hundred percent made in the US. And we will soon

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be launching, hopefully by the next episode, our own political

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beatdown Patreon. It's going to be called Michael Cohen's Beatdown Club,

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which is going to be super cool where where we're

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working on that right now. And thanks to everybody who's

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joined the Midas Touch Patreon and got to hear the

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origin stories of some of the hosts here, got to

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hear about Brett's trip to Japan. We do a really

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cool after show at patreon dot com, Slash Midas Touch

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p A t R e O N dot com, Slash

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Mightas Touch.

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Speaker 1: We don't have outside investors here on the Midas Touch network,

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so the way we help grow this platform are through

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fun things like the membership emojis. That's one of the

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ways we grow this and then separately there's the Patreon

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memberships and that's you know, how we fund this as

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a as as a Beatdown Brigade community, Midas Mighty community,

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and we'll be doing the same here for Beatdown where

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Michael Cohen you can share kind of candid moments and

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post videos and we'll do that all the time, and

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I'm looking forward to launching that as well. Everybody check

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chief Ron philip Kowski. We got a great editorial team

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grow this community together. Thank you everybody. We'll see you

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next time on Political Beatdown. Shout out to the Minas

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