Speaker 1: Michael Cohen testifies in the civil fraud trial against Donald Trump.
We will ask Michael Cohen how he's doing and what
went down Donald Trump's lawyer, Jenna Ellis, former lawyer has
pled guilty guilty guilty in the Georgia criminal Rico case.
We have the video the moment it went down, Jenna
Ellis's crocodile tears and all caught on camera. Then we
go to Mark Meadows, who entered into an immunity deal
with federal prosecutors and special counsel Jack Smith. This according
to a new ABC report. Also, Donald Trump gave a
speech in New Hampshire and during the speech he was
shocked that the word US, if you look at it,
it sounds like the word US, and it gets weird
and more dangerous than that, folks. And also more magga
Republican chaos in the House of Representatives, as I think
Donald Trump took a break while you were testifying, Michael
Cohen to put out a message undermining the speaker designate
Tom Emmer, calling Emmer a rhino and just completely crashing
any hope that Emmer had of becoming Speaker of the House.
This and more here on political Beatdown I'm and myzellas
joined by Michael Cohen, and so just first and foremost,
Michael Cohen, I don't want to get into what went down.
We'll we'll get there. What I first want to ask you,
what I care about most, what the brigaders care most about,
is your health, your well being. How are you doing?
You know, we all saw Donald Trump show up and
again attack you, harass you. He was making all of
these statements about you. We also heard your far more
level headed statement than his. So just how are you doing?
Speaker 2: Let's start there. I'm a little tired today. You could imagine.
The day didn't start at the very beginning. It started
about eleven or so, and when two four thirty, I
do have to say that Judge and Goron is an
absolutely fantastic judge. You know, as a result of the
medical condition that I have with my leg, at one
point I started to experience, you know, some pretty uncomfortable
pain in the femeral vein on my left leg, and
I just leaned over to Judge and Gorn and I said,
your honor, can we take like a five minute break
so I can stand up? I'm having some pain? He
goes absolutely, and he called the five minute break, which
was incredibly, incredibly generous because you know, court time is
obviously very relevant, and it's also very you know, it's
it's you only have a certain amount of time within
which to finish the day and to get in as
much information. He was very generous and allowed me that opportunity.
You know. Other than that, you know, the one of
the things that Judge and Goron said as the day
was coming to an end is that he does not
expect me to be speaking about this case, about my testimony,
about the trial, even to my own lawyers and so on.
And I respect the judge and as much as you
know that I'd like to share everything firsthand with the brigaders. Unfortunately,
at this point in time, what you see online, you know,
I would recommend if you're interested to see how the
case is going. Plenty of media that was there. I mean,
it was a massive, massive media gaggle today and so
you know, I would just tell you to look online
to see, you know, how things went today. But as
Judge and Goroon stated, you know, he doesn't expect the
parties or myself as a non party witness, to be
discussing the case. And I think it's only fair to
respect those wishes, and so again, so many other people
are talking about it. I promise you one thing, though,
as soon as I am released from the stand, the
first thing that I want to do, Ben is I
want to set up with our brigadors on Patreon and
I want to do a one on one live where
people can ask me their questions. Everybody appears to be
fascinated with this case, and rightfully so, and we can
have an open and frank discussion about the various different
topics of this case.
Speaker 1: Well, I look forward to that as well, And if
anybody wants to join its patreon dot com slash Political Beatdown,
so the moment you are released from your obligations testifying,
you will share first with patreon dot com slash Political Beatdown,
and we don't have outside investors here on the Midas
Touch networker on Political Beatdown.
Speaker 2: And then of course, of course afterwards you and I
will be able to talk about it in conjunction with
other you know, pressing news of the day, because there's
a lot of news of the day. I can tell
you that.
Speaker 1: Well, let me see what I certainly respect, of course,
what Judge and Goren is saying, obviously, Donald Trump is
someone who doesn't respect what Judge in Goran says. Donald
Trump is already someone who has violated Judge in Goran's
gag order, and so we hear on the Midas Touch network.
Of course respect that, but I do have some questions
that may not be within the province of what Judge
and Goran said. And again, Michael Cohen, if you can't
answer it, we all certainly respect that. But setting aside
your testimony will push that aside. Are you able to
share with us what it was like just arriving in
court knowing that Donald Trump was going to be there,
you having not been in a room with him for
close to five years now, and obviously all of the
history there that's not specifically within the province of the testimony.
Is that something you can share?
Speaker 2: You know, again, I'd rather say this for when I
feel that there's nothing that I'm saying that could be
contradictory to Judge in Goroon's directive. As we were leaving,
I really just don't even want to talk about me personally.
I want to talk about the case because again that
is the directive, and you know what I do really
appreciate about the brigaders and about this community. If you
look to start seeing the comments, people like, respect the judge.
Respect the judge. That's that's right. Respect the judge. That
was his directive. And I think it's only right that
I continue to live up to that.
Speaker 1: Well, here's what I'll do. Let me show this clip.
This is from our good friend Glenn Kirshner, who was
there in court today. This was his read on what
went down. Let's play this clip. And I know you
probably can't react to it, but this is someone who
was in court, a former federal prosecutor. Let's play this clip.
Speaker 3: That Muller didn't seem to do with Michael Cohen and
SD and Y in the case in which SD and
WHY determines that Donald Trump is co con spirit or
individual one and the hush money case doesn't do.
Speaker 2: Why do you think that is?
Speaker 4: I don't know why that is, Nicole. I don't know
why it took as long as it did in New York.
You know the brazenness of some of what Michael Cohen
has been saying during his direct examination, things like Donald
Trump just threw out a number. I'm going to say,
I'm worth five billion and instructing Michael Cohen and the
chief financial officer, Alan Weiselberg to just reverse engineer the numbers,
just cook the books and have it add up to
five billion. That is so brazen and so nefarious. And
if you're doing it only because you're chasing, you know,
tabloid headlines, that's one thing. But Michael Cohen made it
pretty clear in both his congressional testimony and I'm sure
in his trial testimony that no, this was to secure
bank loans, it was to you know, secure insurance for
his properties. And it was fraud, massive, systemic, years long fraud.
And you know, in one sense, the call this is
an opportunity for Donald Trump to confront his accuser right
through his lawyers. You get to confront and cross examination
the witnesses who are testifying against you. But in another sense,
this really feels like a moment where Michael Cohen gets
to confront his tormentor because you know, Michael Cohen paid
off playmates, important stars for Donald Trump at his direction
and for his benefit. And who goes to prison Michael Cohen.
I have always maintained that is a deep injustice, not
that Michael Cohen went to prison for his crimes, but
that Donald Trump has not suffered one moment of accountability
for his crimes. Maybe you know that is coming because
this this feels like a preview of Michael Cohen's testimony
for Alvin Bragg in the criminal prosecution being brought for
the sort of massive, you know, fraudulent business records case
that Alvin Bragg has brought. But I would think ultimately
this must be a somewhat satisfying moment for Michael Cohen.
Speaker 1: I think a powerful summation right there by our friend
Glenn Kirshner. I want to just show the contrast between
what Donald Trump said when he arrived at court and
Michael Cohen, what you said when what you arrived at court. First,
let's show the clip of Donald Trump arriving where he
attacks Michael Cohen. Let's play this clipt where this game.
Speaker 2: He did nothing.
Speaker 1: And Donald Trump attacking Michael Cohen, attacking the judge walking
into the courtroom. Let's contrast that to here is Michael
Cohen when he entered the courtroom today.
Speaker 2: Play the clip.
Speaker 5: Sorry, let me just turn around and say that this
is not about Donald Trump versus Michael Cohen or Michael
Cohen versus Donald Trump. This is about accountability, plain and simple,
and we leave it up to Judge and gore On
in order to make all the determinations on that. So
I thank you all for coming.
Speaker 1: So, Michael Cohen, tomorrow you are testifying again. Do we
know what time you're testifying? When you're is it a
normal day at court?
Speaker 2: It's a normal day. It's the same as everybody else.
Court starts at ten am.
Speaker 1: And for all of again, all of our brigaders, some
joining late. By the way, this is the number one
show on YouTube right now in the entire world. So
for those just joining, everybody wanting to make sure you're
doing well, Michael Cohen, your health is doing well, that
you are in good spirits. I know Judge and Goron
has basically stated that you really can't talk about what
went down in court today, but can you let all
of the brigaders and everybody watching, both in the United
States and across the world who want to make sure
that you are doing okay. Everybody knows the courage it
takes to be there testifying the way you are again,
how how are you doing, Michael Cole right now?
Speaker 2: You know I'm feeling okay. As I stated before, you know,
I was experiencing some pain in the femeral vein in
judging Gooron graciously allowed me to stand up. I took
a few minutes, I went into the back area, I walked,
I you know, started to massage you know, my leg
and just get the leg moving. Came back just a
few minutes later and resumed my testimony. And again I
couldn't be more appreciative for uh, the you know, the
empathy that the judge has for me, and this you
know condition. As soon as this my my appearances are finished. Obviously,
as I have stated, and I told you this, Ben,
I'm going to go in for that procedure you know
whereby they removed the femeral vein, and that should you know,
relieve me of all of the pain and the pressure
that I have you know in that area. And I'm
actually looking forward to it because it really does hurt.
Speaker 1: I couldn't help but reflect on the irony as Alena
Habba is cross examining you, attacking you for you.
Speaker 2: Know again you know, it's for me. I really want
to keep this as close to the chest as possible. Again,
out of absolute respect for the judge, and his directive.
I don't even want to talk about Alena. I don't
even want to talk about TRUMPO. You know, what you
showed is clearly clips that have been shown on television
that they're running around the internet. I mean, I'm trending
right now. Yay, Michael, right, I mean I'm trending on it.
I want to just do what the judge has directed did,
and that's not to really discuss the case. And the
beautiful thing about you know, being with the brigaders right
now is there's so much else that we can talk about.
I mean, you saw today Jenna Ellis, and you know
a lot of people they're a little hard because she's
a or was a Trump supporter who's legitimately thrown under
the bus. Or Mark Meadows, who you may recall during
my House Oversight Committee testimony. I warned him that look
at what happened to me, and what happened to me
will happen to you if you stay on this path
here we are. And I even warned Rudy Kaludy about
the same thing, and he's look at what he's now
going through. You know the expression everything Donald touches dies
and you know I'm certainly part of that unfortunate group
of people. But where we are right now is, like
I said on television the other day, you get there's
more flipping going on in this Georgia case than in
the United States Olympic trial team, you know, the gymnastics
trial team. This is insane. I mean, each and every
one of them are going to corroborate the other's stories
because they are going to come clean, tell the truth.
And I do feel sorry for Jenna. And it was
funny because I was having this conversation with a friend
of mine who is no fan of Donald's. I want
to be clear about that, and you know, when I
was saying, I actually feel bad for Jenna because I
know what she's going through. I know the pressure that
the prosecutors can put on you in order to, you know,
in order to force you to plead, in order to
force you to tell the truth. And you can see,
I mean, there's gonna be some serious testimony that's going
to be coming out. And that's my obviously, that's my opinion,
and I think it's the opinion of basically every pundit
that I've seen so far on television.
Speaker 1: And that was the irony. I was reflecting on with
everything going on today throughout the country New York, Georgia, Washington, DC.
And for those who don't remember Jenna Ellis, she was
kind of the sidekick with Rudy Giuliani when they went
on their tour to spread the big lie. And there's
of course this video that was out there where they
were holding these like fake hearings to spread their election denialism,
where Rudy Giuliani actually farts on Jenna Ellis. Let me
show you this clip right here. The answer, the answer
that I gave you is they didn't bother to interview
a single witness, just like you.
Speaker 2: They don't want to know the truth. Well you probably
know the truth.
Speaker 1: So with the hair dye dripping down his face as
that was going down, I think she actually contracted COVID
within twenty four to forty eight hours thereafter. You know,
you can't make this stuff up. And we got to
reflect on how kind of just chaotic, dysfunctional, weird and
sometimes gross this mac Republican thing is that's going on.
But that was Jenna Ellis back then, spreading the lie
over and over again. She was since then she was
censured by the Colorado State Bar for her lies, where
she admitted to a series of lies in connection with
the twenty twenty election, and then she lied about the
lies and said that she didn't admit to the censure
even though she did admit to the center. But today
she pled guilty in Georgia. I want to show everybody
what went down in that guilty plea with the crocodile tears,
and I want to remind everybody of what Michael Cohen
said that he will tell everybody on our Patreon first,
in a exclusion of zoom chat, what went down, as
soon as he's able to give the full story. So
here's what you gotta do. We don't have outside investors
here at the Midas Touch networker on Political Beatdown, So
if you want to support this independent journalism, there is
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Go to patreon dot com slash Political Beatdown, make sure
you become a member there. When we come back, we
got to talk about Jenna Ellis, we got to talk
about Mark Meadows, we got to talk about what Trump
said in New Hampshire, and that's all linked to the
MAGA chaos in the House of Representatives. Let's take a
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we were talking about Jenna Ellis's guilty plea in the
Georgia Ricoka. She pled guilty to a felony for her
involvement and spreading election disinformation and lies and trying to
overthrow the election in Georgia as part of the conspiracy
that she engaged. And I want to show you the
moment where she pled guilty, where she was reading this
letter and she tries to look like crocodile tears as
she tries to play the victim and say, look, I
was just swept into this. Donald Trump had all of
these other powerful lawyers and I trusted them. Kind of
throwing Rudy Giuliani and others under the bus here that
could not be missed when you look at this clip.
Let's take a look at Jenna Ellis reading from the
script with those crocodile tears.
Speaker 2: Play the clip.
Speaker 6: Thank you, honor, for the opportunity to address the court
as an attorney who is also a Christian. I take
my response as a lawyer very seriously and I endeavored
to be a person of sound, moral and ethical character
in all of my dealings in the wake of the
twenty twenty presidential election. I believed that challenging the results
on behalf of President Trump should be pursued in a
just and legal way. I endeavored to represent my client
to the best of my ability. I relied on others,
including lawyers with many more years of experience than I,
to provide me with true and reliable information, especially since
my role involved a speaking to the media and to
legislators in various states. What I did not do, but
should have done, your honor, was to make sure that
the facts the other lawyers alleged to be true were
in fact true. In the frenetic pace of attempting to
raise challenges to the election in several states, including Georgia,
I failed to do my due diligence. I believe in
and I value election integrity. If I knew then what
I know now, I would have declined to represent Donald
Trump in these post election challenges. I look back on
this whole experience with deep remorse for those failures of
the mind, Your Honor, I have taken responsibility already before
the Colorado bar who censured me, and I now take
responsibility before this court and apologize to the people.
Speaker 1: Well that's what accountability sort of sort of looks like.
What's your reaction, Michael Cohen.
Speaker 2: Look like I said, you know, I've been there, and
I understand what she's saying about getting swept up into
the culture of Donald J. Trump. I refer to it
regularly as the dumpster the dumpster cult of Donald and
it's true. It exists. And all you need to do
is to look at the seventy million Americans that support him,
or take the exact number, whatever that number might be,
of the true, true, maga sycophantic followers that no matter
what he does, no matter what he says, they're behind him.
They truly believe in their heart of hearts, they believe
because Donald said so that he is the president of
the United States and that the election was stolen from him.
So I understand getting swept up, especially, you know, as
a young attorney who's there with some incredibly powerful people
and basically at the forefront of American politics you are
representing at the time he was still president of the
United States, and you start to believe the bullshit. And
that's Unfortunately, you know what happened to Jenna. One of
the things I do have to say is, as I
listened to my wife, we were watching the television and
they were talking about Mark Meadows now getting an immunity deal.
It's really something. You know, everybody seems to be getting
these probation and immunity deals and so on. Would have
been nice had somebody even spoken to me about anything. Mine,
as you all know, was come a Friday, you're gonna
plead guilty on Monday forty eight hours or they were
filing an eighty page indictment that was going to include
my wife. And so I mean, this whole scenario now again,
I don't know what they're going to or what they
have offered to the prosecutors. We'll all find that out
very soon, but it better be something substantial, not like
what they did with Alan Weisselberg, where the guy got
one hundred days in rikers for what ultimately turned out
to be years and years of financial fraud. So I
in one hundred days, I mean, I want everyone to remember,
I received thirty six months of sentence and then followed
by an additional thirty six months of supervised release. I mean,
in all and all, you're talking about a six year
sentence for another guy getting his pecker pulled by a
porn star. I mean that's the part where my wife
turned around and she said, holy shit. I mean, this
is just too much. When are they going to start
prosecuting people other than the January sixth insurrectionists who are
receiving sentences of like twenty years. I mean, you know,
let's let's hold some of the big people responsible. Let's
hold the Rudy Caludes responsible, Let's hold Mark Meadows responsible.
That fucker was sitting in the room with Donald, right
and you know when this was all going down. So yeah,
I would like to see accountability greater than you know,
an acknowledgment that I did wrong and you know, an
admonition from you know, from the Bar Association. I would
like to see some equal justice, just because these people
are poor and they're stupid. And I'm referring to the
January sixth insurrections, the one that of're receiving ten, fifteen,
twenty year sentences. Okay, I granted that they deserve they
deserve sentences, but really, come on, twenty years, and then
guys like Donald or guys like Mark Meadows or you
know others, Rudy Giuliani, what about what about them? What
about equal hand of justice? You all know how I
feel about that. It's something I write about extensively in
my book Revenge. And you know, a lot of the
stuff that I talked about both the House Oversight Committee
in the books, a lot of it has come true.
My predictions have definitely come true.
Speaker 1: Here's the report that ABC broke moments ago before we
went live. Ex Chief of Staff Mark Meadows granted immunity
tells Special counsel Jack Smith he warned Trump about twenty
twenty claim.
Speaker 2: According to sources.
Speaker 1: We did a full hot take on this on the
Midas Touch Network, and I also recently spoke to former
Republican congress Member Denver Riggleman and congress Member Riggleman or
former congress Member Riggleman, who was the technical advisor to
the January sixth committee, referred to Mark Meadows electronic devices
as the Rosetta stone for the January sixth conspiracy. And
one of the interesting things he noted. And we're going
to post the interview I did with him in the
next twenty four hours or so is that this has
major implications on other members of Congress as well. Mark
Meadows withheld lots of documents on privileged grounds. He turned
over a first tranch of electronically stored information to the
January sixth Committee before bringing a federal lawsuit against the
January sixth Committee, then ran out the clock until the
MAGA Republicans took control of the House of Representatives and
disbanded the January sixth Committee. But there were all of
these bogus privileged claims that were made by Meadows, executive
privilege toorney client privilege, things that Special Council jack Smith
has already defeated. So attendant to this immunity deal, think
about all of the emails and text messages that Special
Council jack Smith has that the January sixth Committee never received,
including but not limited to, the text messages and emails
from other members of Congress and former Congress Member Riggleman
described Meadows as someone who would do anything for self
preservation and throw anyone under the bus to protect himself.
That's at least how Riggleman knew Meadows. So we will
be doing a whole hot take on that. Also, Donald
Trump in New Hampshire. Cohen, I don't know if you
saw this.
Speaker 2: I want to.
Speaker 1: Highlight three clips specifically, you know, and again this is
not trying to troll Donald Trump. It's simply trying to
highlight things. This is the leader of the modern day
Republican Party who is out there speaking in front of
audiences when, at least in my opinion, there's something serious
going on here that's deeper and needs to be discussed.
And we know when it comes to their attacks on
Biden or anybody, it's usually all projection and confession. So
here during the speech in New Hampshire yesterday, Donald Trump
is reflecting on the fact that he just realized that
the word us and us sound alike, and he wants
to be applauded for that, and he says I should
be applauded for that, right, and also because I'm handsome
here play this clip.
Speaker 7: This is our business, is why you're doing that? He said, mccron,
nice guy. You know, look, he's for friends.
Speaker 1: I'm for us, for us.
Speaker 7: You know how you spell us?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 7: Do you spell us?
Speaker 2: Us?
Speaker 7: I just picked that up.
Speaker 2: Has anyone ever thought of that being?
Speaker 7: I just picked that up? A couple of days I'm
reading and I said US, And I said, you know,
do you think about it? US equals US, isn't it?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 7: If we say something genius, they'll never say. You know,
we get twenty five thirty forty fifty eighty one hundred
thousand people to speeches. They'd never said Trump's a great speaker,
never said I've never heard it. I said to my people,
do you think they'll ever acknowledge I must be doing okay, except.
Speaker 2: I'm a very handsome person. So I guess a lot
of you want to they want to.
Speaker 7: Sit and look at me because I'm saying, like a
beauty patcheant.
Speaker 2: No, it's amazing man woman child camera TV. Yay me.
I mean that's how stupid that that speech was talking
about his looks about US US Okay, I mean it's
kind of like, come on, you know, did you also
notice the way that he goes from twenty thousand, thirty thousand,
fifty thousand, eighty thousand. You know people, First of all,
eighty thousand is a massive, massive stadium. It's like, you know,
a college stadium. I don't recall even when he was,
you know, running in twenty sixteen, filling up in eighty thousand.
What he's doing now is he's filling up like gymnasiums,
where they just pack everybody into half the gymnasium, you know,
and then they take pictures from overhead to make it
seem much larger, you know, than it is. But who
gives a shit why? It's honestly, it's why I turn
around and I constantly say in every single episode, please
make sure. If if that isn't enough to get you
to ensure that you're properly registered as a Democrat in
order to vote in the twenty twenty four general election,
I don't know what will Could you imagine this idiot
again in the White House? Can you imagine what he
will do to our democracy? The fact that we could
even have a conversation about about how dangerous he is.
Cassidy Hutchinson tonight, I think she was on MSNBC with
Ari Melburn was talking about how Donald Trump is. And
I've been saying this much longer than Cassidy, that Donald
Trump is the greatest danger to American democracy in the
last one hundred years or more. All Right, So if
that in and of itself is not enough to ensure
that each and every one of you goes out, validates
that they are properly registered with the Board of Elections,
helps out other family members, neighbors, co workers, et cetera,
so that they too could be registered to vote, and
then make sure that they get to the ballot box,
or they get to they get a mail in ballot,
whatever it takes. We need a massive, massive blue wave.
We need to ensure that this isn't even a close
call like the last one was. It was much closer
than people think. This one needs to be an absolute
blowout because only by blowing them out will people like
Marjorie Toilet Green or you know, or you know, Josh
Holey's on Matt Gates's. Only then will they realize that
they've been praying to a to a false god, right
and that you know, they've been worshiping this golden calf,
and it's just it's not real, all right, And that's
how we will ultimately get rid of what's called trump Ism,
you know.
Speaker 1: And this is where leadership is so important. You know,
people are very busy. Times are always tough and complicated,
and we look to leaders to provide guidance. We look
to validators, right and leaders in the House of Representatives
are supposed to, although they are not when it definitely
comes to the Maga Republicans supposed to at the bare
minimum stand for our democracy and some modicm of competence
and keep our government going.
Speaker 2: Yet time and time.
Speaker 1: Again what we see is people like Tom Emmer, right,
who becomes the Speaker designate, is his first interest just
to be honest with the American people. No, it is
so humiliating. He has to decorate his office with photos
of Donald Trump, and then he reposts a video where
Donald Trump doesn't just outright criticize him, and where Donald
Trump's as well. I guess Emmer's my biggest now, and
we'll do whatever I want him to do. And Emmer
like reposts that and says thank you, mister President. You
know all of these Magga Republicans, they demean and degrade themselves,
they selflagellate themselves for this Maga Republican movement hoisted on
the cult of Donald Trump. And he repeatedly, whether you
watch it with Kevin McCarthy or now with Tom Emmer,
what does he do? He then just mocks the crap
out of them. And what happened with Tom Emmer today
where he got the most votes to become the speaker
design well, while the testimony was taking place in New York,
Donald Trump, either during a break or at some point
in time, put out a message saying that Tom Emmer
is a rhino and that he doesn't support Emmer.
Speaker 2: And that was it.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump put a post on his social media platform. Everybody,
that means you can't be in the leadership position. How
embarrassing and you aliating. And here is Donald Trump gloating
about it. After that, Tom Emmer's chance of becoming Speaker
of the House is gone simply because Donald Trump made
a post on social media calling Emmer a rhino. Play
this clip, Tom Emmer, it looks.
Speaker 4: Like he's finished.
Speaker 2: Looks like the finished stud.
Speaker 4: Not a supporter.
Speaker 7: It's a rhinout and looks like he's finished.
Speaker 2: We'll see you never know.
Speaker 1: I'll let you know. Not a supporter, a rhino. When
you put all of this connective tissue together, from where
we were in New York to Washington, d C. To
Georgia and to what you just saw in the halls
of the House of Representatives, you see where and why
this chaos is taking place, and what we say here
over and over again on Political Beatdown. Our main thesis
here is that rather than just Democrats, Republicans, liberal progressive conservatives,
Americans are craving intelligence, compassion, and unapologetically pro democracy leaders.
Americans want their political leaders to be talking about issues
that matter to the American people. American people want adults
in the halls of Congress and watching these magga Republicans
being unable to even elect their own Speaker of the
House intact themselves implode before our eyes. And then Michael
Cohen have the audacity to maga splaining to us on
the deficit. Y'all, Maga Republicans are the ones who added
eight trillion dollars to the deficit. Other than for billionaires
and deca millionaires, you, Maga Republicans, raise the taxes for
the rest of us. We don't need to be maga
splaying to at all. We know what you are up to.
I want to remind everybody Patreon die slash Political Beatdown.
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you are subscribed right now, Michael Cohen, I know it
was a very busy day for you. Would be an understatement,
so we're gonna let you go right now. But I
want to give you the final word to our brigaders.
Speaker 2: So two things. The first is, if you go to
my Twitter account at Michael Cohen two one two, you'll
see at the very top is pinned that's you can
send the letter to the Biden administration regarding the pardon.
I'm literally ninety five percent finished with the application. I
intend on traveling to DC in order to hand deliver
it to the various different agencies so that there'll be
multiple copies there. And then what I intend to do
as well is to put up for our Political Beatdown
Brigade some of the letters. I have six letters from
very significant people like two Congress Members John Dean, I
have Nick Ackerman Asher and Gotplin Norm eisen I mean
I have some very significant people here, you know, Ambassador
Norm eisen All basically stating the fact that if I'm
not worthy of a pardon technically, who is, especially based
on the information that has come out. That's the first.
The second is thank you all for you know, the
well wishes and so on. Yeah, my blood pressure is elevated,
and I'm gonna try to you know, calm down because
I have a very big day ahead of me tomorrow
where you know, I get picked up very early in
the morning. And I do want to say this. You know,
I was somewhat disappointed initially that the Attorney General's Office
was not concerned about my safety, especially going and coming
from the hearings today. Let me say I take that back.
They set up for me two officers that came and
picked me up. They had about thirty officers walked me
up the stairs of sixty Center Street. They stayed with
me as I went through the megatronters and then was
given admission to the you know, the courthouse. They had
an elevator waiting for me and my lawyers along with them.
They then escorted me to a green room. We were
basically locked into that room so nobody could get in.
On top of that, the officers were posted outside that room.
They then you know, did the same thing as they
were returning me, you know, to my home. They are
all absolutely fantastic. There's nothing but love for the court officers.
The new York City Police Department, all law enforcement. They
were beyond spectacular in ensuring my safety to it and
from you know, the courthouse. So for that, I really
want to thank them from the bottom of my heart.
And if any of our brigadors happened to come across
a police officer, just thank them for their service because
they are absolutely one hundred incredible And so thank you
to our brigadors. And as far as who gets the
two fingers salute, in fact, it's the entire GOP gets
the two fingers salute today. Right, You're fucking up our country,
do they not understand? And that very soon, very soon,
we're going to be in a situation again with the
debt ceiling. We have other issues that need to be
discussed and handled immediately, from Ukraine to Israel. There's so
much that needs to be done. We need our members
of Congress to be there working for us. And you know,
here's a little head scratcher for them. It's your fucking job.
That's what you were elected for, you know what, that's
what you're getting paid for. So do your job. Stop
the horseshit? Can you really, can you really tell me
that there's not one person amongst the GOP who could
be speaker that could obtain the two hundred and seventeen
necessary votes without now blaming it on the fact that
Democrats aren't voting for the Republican in order to keep them,
that the Democrats didn't side with Mark Meadow to keep
him as Speaker, seriously, and they say it with the
straightest face. So stupid, It is so fucking stupid that
it's scary. It's scary that they can lay that bullshit
onto the American people the way that they do. So
again to them, come on, care more about America than
you do about yourself and your reelection and you know
what will be?
Speaker 1: Okay yep, And you said Mark Meadows, but you're referring
to Kevin McCarthy.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Kevin McCarthy.
Speaker 1: Potato potato potato, if you will.
Speaker 2: Assholes, They look the same to me.
Speaker 1: And I want to thank again all of the Brigaders
for watching this, and I want to just let everybody
know how grateful we are for you and Michael Cohen,
how grateful this community is your courage well, and thank you,
Thank you Michael Cohen for all that you do.
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