WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:03.680 I had more time to digest the debate from Tuesday night, 2 00:00:03.759 --> 00:00:08.759 the debate, the ABC News debate, and I got a 3 00:00:08.759 --> 00:00:15.199 couple of thoughts, a couple of sort of I don't Basically, 4 00:00:15.199 --> 00:00:17.239 one of the things I did was I listened through 5 00:00:17.399 --> 00:00:18.800 all of the stuff about abortion. 6 00:00:18.920 --> 00:00:20.839 I listened through all of that very carefully. 7 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:25.440 Basically, for those who don't know, this is my I 8 00:00:25.440 --> 00:00:27.480 think this is the stuff that I have to do 9 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:30.160 to make my show interesting. 10 00:00:32.600 --> 00:00:34.240 I hate debates. 11 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:40.719 I hate political debates, and I really hate State of 12 00:00:40.719 --> 00:00:43.640 the Union addresses. And I think a lot of talk 13 00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:46.679 radio gets dominated by those two things. And I've sort 14 00:00:46.679 --> 00:00:53.520 of made it my personal mission to be different by 15 00:00:54.280 --> 00:00:56.759 not just obsessively listening to and talking about those things. 16 00:00:56.799 --> 00:00:59.439 So I was on vacation when the debate happened. I 17 00:00:59.439 --> 00:01:01.359 didn't watch it live. Didn't want to watch it live 18 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:05.959 since then though, for Right to Life, and we'll do 19 00:01:06.079 --> 00:01:08.280 we'll break this down tomorrow morning on Right to Life 20 00:01:08.359 --> 00:01:10.079 Radio Right to Life Radio at nine am here on 21 00:01:10.120 --> 00:01:15.200 Power Talk, where my Right to Life Radio producer Colton 22 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:19.680 he stitched together. We did this thing where I was 23 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:24.359 live reacting to the whole section of the debate that 24 00:01:24.519 --> 00:01:29.319 talked about abortion, and so I was live reacting. I 25 00:01:29.359 --> 00:01:32.359 hadn't heard any of it before, and I was reacting 26 00:01:32.359 --> 00:01:37.400 in real time. And I came away with this, and 27 00:01:37.920 --> 00:01:41.239 in reading some of the reactions to the debate in 28 00:01:41.359 --> 00:01:46.680 other quarters, it seems like Trump's performance in the abortion 29 00:01:46.879 --> 00:01:52.159 section was similar to his performance throughout the rest of 30 00:01:52.200 --> 00:01:59.079 the debate, which is that Trump didn't do didn't do 31 00:01:59.120 --> 00:02:03.319 a very good job. Now I could tell that the 32 00:02:03.359 --> 00:02:08.560 moderators of the debate were terrible. I think the problem is, though, 33 00:02:08.639 --> 00:02:15.000 that this is what was happening. Trump is so imprecise 34 00:02:16.599 --> 00:02:20.759 when he talks, and frankly, that's part of his genius. 35 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:27.639 It's part of why he's attractive. That he isn't highly polished, 36 00:02:28.039 --> 00:02:34.680 that he isn't consultant driven, that he isn't just an 37 00:02:34.680 --> 00:02:38.120 empty suit repeating lines that his consultants tell him. He 38 00:02:38.199 --> 00:02:42.599 actually has a personality, He actually wants to do things 39 00:02:42.680 --> 00:02:49.159 his way. He has an actual existence in a way 40 00:02:49.199 --> 00:02:51.639 that Kamala Harris does not. Kamala Harris is an empty suit. 41 00:02:51.919 --> 00:02:52.479 She is a. 42 00:02:54.240 --> 00:02:58.400 Stand in an avatar for the Democrat Party in general, 43 00:02:58.520 --> 00:02:59.759 the same way Joe Biden was. 44 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:00.360 She is. 45 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:03.840 She clearly had her talking points she stuck with them. 46 00:03:03.960 --> 00:03:06.000 She stuck the landing for the most part. She didn't 47 00:03:06.039 --> 00:03:12.599 do anything spectacular, but she seemed focused said the things 48 00:03:12.599 --> 00:03:13.759 she was supposed to say. 49 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:16.000 Whereas Trump is. 50 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:18.560 I'm not saying Trump was winging it, but a little 51 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:22.719 bit was winging it. He has certain themes he likes 52 00:03:22.759 --> 00:03:30.000 to go back to, but he also isn't super fluid 53 00:03:30.039 --> 00:03:32.840 with them. He doesn't have this stuff boom boom boom 54 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:34.240 boom ready to go on the top of his head. 55 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:38.520 And he has certain kind of personal obsessions that aren't 56 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:43.639 really true and that maybe not even true, but just 57 00:03:43.719 --> 00:03:47.560 aren't really effective. So, like listening to the abortion section, 58 00:03:49.560 --> 00:03:54.879 Trump has certain things he says that are true but imprecise, 59 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:58.280 and so the media moderators were able to say that 60 00:03:58.319 --> 00:04:03.919 he was lying. Trump was talking about how Kamala Harris 61 00:04:03.960 --> 00:04:10.400 and Democrats support abortion policies for allowing abortion of children 62 00:04:10.439 --> 00:04:13.360 after they are born, basically allowing children to be and 63 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:17.040 Trump used the word executed after they are born. The 64 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:21.519 media moderators jumped in for Harris to say, there's no 65 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:27.079 state where that's legal. Now, the problem is that Trump 66 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:34.360 is imprecise. Trump says they're allowing them to execute babies 67 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:40.560 after they are born execute, which implies active killing. What 68 00:04:40.680 --> 00:04:42.600 is actually happening. 69 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:44.079 Is that. 70 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:49.480 Governors like Tim Walls in Minnesota have passed legislation to 71 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:54.839 eliminate any kind of protection for children who are born 72 00:04:54.879 --> 00:05:01.480 alive after surviving an abortion, basically to say that children 73 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:04.519 who are born alive following an abortion have to receive 74 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:09.360 the same kind of care as a child who is 75 00:05:09.439 --> 00:05:15.360 wanted would receive that basically, children who survive an abortion attempt, 76 00:05:15.399 --> 00:05:17.720 and there's a decent number of those per year. It's 77 00:05:17.759 --> 00:05:20.319 not I don't think it's even one hundred, but it's 78 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:26.519 in the tens every year, that those children should be 79 00:05:26.519 --> 00:05:28.519 given the same kind of resuscitative treatment you would give 80 00:05:28.519 --> 00:05:33.800 a wanted child. Democrats have stripped away language of that 81 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:37.279 sort from state law after state law after state law, 82 00:05:38.759 --> 00:05:42.600 including in Tim Walls's Minnesota. Not just in the abortion context, 83 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:45.480 though this also tends to happen in the context of 84 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:48.680 nick us, where a child is born with some kind 85 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:53.480 of disability and the docs and or the parents just decide, well, 86 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:56.240 we don't want to resuscitate this baby, even though it 87 00:05:56.360 --> 00:06:00.279 might be not a life debilitating, not a life life 88 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:05.319 threatening disability. It might be something like spina biffida, and 89 00:06:05.399 --> 00:06:08.120 knowing some families who have children with spinea bifadae, I mean, 90 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:12.120 I just find that revolting where basically they will just 91 00:06:12.439 --> 00:06:15.240 leave the baby to die rather than take care of 92 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:23.959 the baby. That's what Trump is meaning when he says 93 00:06:24.279 --> 00:06:26.639 they'll execute the baby after they're born. And then he 94 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:29.920 brings up the quote from Governor Ralph Northam. Ralph Northam 95 00:06:29.959 --> 00:06:33.000 around twenty eighteen, who was both a doctor and the 96 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:35.279 governor of Virginia, said, you know, after a baby is born, 97 00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:37.839 maybe if the baby survives an abortion attempt, you know, 98 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:42.199 the parents and the doctor would have a conversation and 99 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:47.560 then would decide what to do. Basically Governor Northam saying, well, 100 00:06:47.600 --> 00:06:49.199 we would decide if they don't want the baby, we 101 00:06:49.319 --> 00:06:51.959 just wouldn't take care of the baby. And that quote 102 00:06:51.959 --> 00:06:56.720 from Governor Northam a quote he said a week before 103 00:06:56.759 --> 00:07:00.800 revealing that for his medical school yearbook he either dressed 104 00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:03.959 up as a clansman or in blackface, we weren't sure which. 105 00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:11.240 Northam basically revealed this ethic on the part of the 106 00:07:11.240 --> 00:07:15.319 pro choice of pro choice people within medicine of just 107 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:20.680 saying we're just gonna let a child die rather than 108 00:07:20.720 --> 00:07:29.480 provide resuscitative care when the child isn't wanted. And that's 109 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:31.920 the thing. Trump's trying to say that, but he can't. 110 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:35.839 He lacks the precision, he lacks the knowledge, he lacks 111 00:07:35.959 --> 00:07:44.839 the debate chops to actually communicate that effectively, and he 112 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:49.839 wanders off into stuff that unless you know about the issue, 113 00:07:49.879 --> 00:07:51.879 like I do, you have no idea what the heck 114 00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:54.560 he's talking about. When he starts talking about the governor 115 00:07:54.600 --> 00:07:57.040 of Virginia said we would set the baby aside. I 116 00:07:57.120 --> 00:08:00.120 know what that story is. I know the context of 117 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:04.399 that story, but I'm a pro life activist. That's literally 118 00:08:04.439 --> 00:08:07.319 my job. I knew about that story in twenty eighteen 119 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:09.360 when it was happening. I know about that story today. 120 00:08:10.079 --> 00:08:12.800 Most Americans have no idea what Trump's talking about. When 121 00:08:12.839 --> 00:08:15.639 they hear Trump saying they'll execute the baby after they're born. 122 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:18.639 The governor of Virginia said so, and then the ABC 123 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:22.360 newsperson comes in, there's no state where that's legal. Vice 124 00:08:22.399 --> 00:08:24.439 President Harris by bah bah bah bah. What do you 125 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:30.199 have to say to that. There's this lack of precision 126 00:08:32.320 --> 00:08:39.559 and this ability to sort of meander off into these 127 00:08:39.720 --> 00:08:44.240 things that he likes to say, but that just don't work. 128 00:08:44.480 --> 00:08:50.399 That just don't land. Talking about the whole Haitian immigrants 129 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:55.679 eating cats and dogs thing was a distraction. It's a 130 00:08:55.720 --> 00:09:02.799 thing that revs upright wingers on Twitter, but is kind 131 00:09:02.799 --> 00:09:07.039 of seems bizarre to the average listener and turns into 132 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:10.360 this bizarre debate on whether or not Haitian immigrants in 133 00:09:10.440 --> 00:09:15.720 Ohio are or are not eating cats and dogs, which 134 00:09:15.759 --> 00:09:20.879 is a distraction from the main points about immigration. How 135 00:09:20.919 --> 00:09:24.799 the Biden administration allowed immigration in this incredibly reckless, extreme 136 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:26.919 way with no vetting and millions of people coming into 137 00:09:26.919 --> 00:09:27.639 the country. 138 00:09:27.320 --> 00:09:29.240 Who we have no idea of their security threats or not. 139 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:37.279 And it seems like it was the same way on 140 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:40.600 issue after issue after issue, and where Trump was getting 141 00:09:40.639 --> 00:09:43.960 distracted by things that he cares about that nobody gives 142 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:44.639 a darn about. 143 00:09:44.759 --> 00:09:46.360 Did you win the twenty twenty election or not. 144 00:09:47.279 --> 00:09:50.679 Nine percent of America, ninety percent whatever, are not ish 145 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:53.080 interested in relitigating. 146 00:09:52.440 --> 00:09:57.399 The twenty twenty election. They're just not. You might be 147 00:09:57.480 --> 00:09:59.639 hung up on it. Trump is clearly still hung up 148 00:09:59.679 --> 00:09:59.919 on it. 149 00:10:00.440 --> 00:10:03.720 Most Americans, especially the swing voters he needs to get, 150 00:10:04.320 --> 00:10:06.360 don't want to hear about the twenty twenty election anymore. 151 00:10:10.639 --> 00:10:12.639 They don't want to hear about the twenty twenty election anymore. 152 00:10:12.679 --> 00:10:15.600 They don't want to hear some pickyun little debate about 153 00:10:15.679 --> 00:10:19.480 whether or not the sizes of Trump's crowds at his 154 00:10:19.600 --> 00:10:22.000 rallies that he got all defensive about. 155 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:25.159 Nobody gives a darn. It's irrelevant. 156 00:10:27.000 --> 00:10:29.639 Trump would have done a better job if the whole 157 00:10:29.639 --> 00:10:33.120 debate instead of answering a single question or responding to anything, 158 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:34.559 Kamala Harris said. 159 00:10:34.440 --> 00:10:39.120 Just had a list, Just had a list. 160 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:43.519 Ground beef at the end of my you know, ground 161 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:48.200 beef at the end of my administration was on average 162 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:52.279 throughout America two dollars and thirty nine cents a pound. Today, 163 00:10:52.320 --> 00:10:54.440 the average cost of ground beef is four dollars a pound. 164 00:10:56.080 --> 00:10:58.399 A gallon of gas was da da da per gallon. 165 00:10:58.799 --> 00:11:01.720 Today it's da dada. The average cost of a home 166 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:04.320 when I left office was da da da one hundred 167 00:11:04.320 --> 00:11:06.879 thousand dollars. Today it's da da da da da. The 168 00:11:06.879 --> 00:11:08.679 average cost of this was da da da da da. 169 00:11:08.679 --> 00:11:09.480 Today it's da da. 170 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:10.639 Da da da. 171 00:11:10.759 --> 00:11:14.639 Then average number of border crossings on the day that 172 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:16.799 I left office was dad da da da per month. 173 00:11:17.000 --> 00:11:22.919 Today it's aboutda da da da per month. There were 174 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:26.279 no wars going. You know, the United States was tangentially 175 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:28.240 involved in no wars when I left office. Today it 176 00:11:28.279 --> 00:11:33.240 is tangentially involved into on and on and on and on. 177 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:40.639 He could just hit on those things, and he he 178 00:11:40.799 --> 00:11:46.639 just gets distracted from these things. And that's always been 179 00:11:46.840 --> 00:11:49.639 the tale of Trump, I guess, is him getting distracted, 180 00:11:50.399 --> 00:11:53.279 allowing himself to be distracted, allowing himself to draw the 181 00:11:53.320 --> 00:11:57.559 conversation into something else instead of doing a stump speech 182 00:11:57.639 --> 00:12:01.159 where he just sticks to his message. He had libs, 183 00:12:02.559 --> 00:12:07.440 He gets bored, he says stuff that interests himself rather 184 00:12:07.480 --> 00:12:12.200 than staying on message. Whereas Kamala Harris, Like there were 185 00:12:12.240 --> 00:12:15.240 some Republicans who were mocking Harris because she gave the 186 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:19.960 exact same stump speech five or six times. She didn't deviate, Like, 187 00:12:20.279 --> 00:12:24.279 she didn't deviate at all for five six straight stump speeches. 188 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:29.440 Oh what a robot. Yeah, that's called campaigning. That's why 189 00:12:29.480 --> 00:12:30.600 it's called a stump speech. 190 00:12:30.639 --> 00:12:33.240 You have ones, you have ah stump speech, maybe two 191 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:36.840 stump speeches, and you hit him and you hit them, 192 00:12:36.840 --> 00:12:38.039 and you hit him and you hit him and you 193 00:12:38.080 --> 00:12:42.559 don't go off message. Why because when you go off message, 194 00:12:42.600 --> 00:12:52.679 it has the opportunity to screw you up. And I 195 00:12:52.720 --> 00:12:56.159 guess I'm just afraid that we're headed for a twenty 196 00:12:56.240 --> 00:13:00.919 twenty repeat where the media is gonna do so much 197 00:13:00.960 --> 00:13:06.679 work for Harris, it'll be really close. If there are 198 00:13:06.720 --> 00:13:11.720 shenanigans to happen, then shenanigans will happen, and we're just 199 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:16.799 gonna lose narrowly again because Trump won't deviate from how 200 00:13:16.840 --> 00:13:20.200 he does what he does. And I think that the 201 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:25.519 point is, I don't know that he has the capacity 202 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:31.639 or the desire for issues that don't really interest him 203 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:39.159 but which are important still, because I have seen him 204 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:42.519 go into real specificity for certain things that really interest him, 205 00:13:42.559 --> 00:13:45.600 stuff about trade, stuff about certain kinds of economic questions, 206 00:13:45.919 --> 00:13:51.320 like there are things where he can really be engaging 207 00:13:51.919 --> 00:13:55.360 and really get into it. But for stuff that he 208 00:13:55.399 --> 00:13:57.799 clearly doesn't care as much about, like the abortion issue, 209 00:13:57.879 --> 00:14:03.679 he's very imprecise, and it allows the media to blast him. 210 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:11.440 It makes him look bad and sound bad. So I 211 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:15.639 don't know, I'm I feel like we're heading towards another 212 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:23.240 twenty twenty and again, my constant, my constant proviso for 213 00:14:23.600 --> 00:14:27.399 my constant sort of caveat rather for all of this 214 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:31.200 is he's one one more presidential election than I have. 215 00:14:31.240 --> 00:14:34.480 He's also lost a presidential election, though, and we saw 216 00:14:34.600 --> 00:14:35.559 how he lost it. 217 00:14:37.399 --> 00:14:38.360 He didn't lose it. 218 00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:42.120 Well, who is occupying sixteen hundred Pennsylvania Avenue right now? 219 00:14:42.200 --> 00:14:47.720 Okay, yeah, he lost it, Get over it. If he's 220 00:14:47.759 --> 00:14:48.720 gonna win, he's gonna. 221 00:14:48.559 --> 00:14:51.320 Win, like clearly, like Democrats really didn't want him to 222 00:14:51.320 --> 00:14:52.200 win in twenty sixteen. 223 00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:56.159 Okay, Like all right, anyway, So. 224 00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:02.360 I just feel like were headed towards another twenty twenty 225 00:15:04.559 --> 00:15:08.200 the longer we go on and and it it. I 226 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:13.360 feel really frustrated at how the Democrats were able to 227 00:15:13.360 --> 00:15:16.399 get an early debate with Biden in time for them 228 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:18.600 to remove him. I feel like that was deliberate on 229 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:22.279 their part, that they that Biden's handlers agreed to it, 230 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:25.120 because they were like, we got to see if Biden 231 00:15:25.159 --> 00:15:27.559 can hold up, and if you can't, then we got 232 00:15:27.600 --> 00:15:28.679 to do something to switch them out. 233 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:29.840 So they throw them to the wolves. 234 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:34.519 They'd throw him out for a live debate, and Biden 235 00:15:34.600 --> 00:15:36.879 bombs allows them to switch out for Harris. 236 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:40.039 And I think there when we return. 237 00:15:40.120 --> 00:15:43.120 I want to talk about whether they're they, Whether Trump 238 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:46.360 should agree to another debate, and the double haters. That 239 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:50.919 is next on the John Girardi Show. Should Trump agree 240 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:54.039 to another debate? Yeah, he should. And and this is 241 00:15:54.080 --> 00:16:02.399 this weird kind of Trump pride thing playing in. Trump 242 00:16:02.840 --> 00:16:09.000 clearly did not win the debate. He clearly didn't Winning 243 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:13.679 or losing a debate is a reflection of how people reacted. 244 00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:17.600 And the reaction, for the most part is that from 245 00:16:17.679 --> 00:16:20.559 a lot of people on the right and everyone on 246 00:16:20.600 --> 00:16:24.919 the left, is that Trump didn't do very well. I 247 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:27.600 really just don't think he did that well. Now was 248 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:29.360 it a crushing Harris win? 249 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:30.120 I don't know. 250 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:34.000 Will anyone remember it on November fifth? I don't know, 251 00:16:34.600 --> 00:16:40.600 maybe not. And I guess I'm sort of two minds 252 00:16:40.639 --> 00:16:46.480 whether Trump should agree to another debate. Harris wants another 253 00:16:46.519 --> 00:16:49.919 debate and Trump doesn't. Now, my initial thought was Trump 254 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:53.399 is crazy. He didn't do very well. He needs to 255 00:16:53.399 --> 00:16:56.960 do another debate and do better so that he can 256 00:16:57.039 --> 00:16:57.519 kind of get. 257 00:16:57.440 --> 00:16:58.159 Another leg up. 258 00:17:01.360 --> 00:17:04.759 And my thought was that Harris should, you know, back 259 00:17:04.759 --> 00:17:08.160 out while she has the chance, take her victory and walk. 260 00:17:08.920 --> 00:17:10.839 I sort of thought, you know, Harris should do the 261 00:17:10.839 --> 00:17:13.640 thing like George Costanza did, where there was a Seinfeld 262 00:17:13.680 --> 00:17:16.400 episode where George Costanza realized he had, like, if he 263 00:17:16.519 --> 00:17:21.279 had one good funny thing to say during a meeting, 264 00:17:21.359 --> 00:17:23.839 he should just immediately leave the meeting, leave the meeting 265 00:17:23.839 --> 00:17:27.960 on a high note. So I sort of thought that's 266 00:17:27.960 --> 00:17:29.720 what Harris should do, but that instead we have the 267 00:17:29.759 --> 00:17:32.119 opposite reaction, because I think what Harris and the Democrat 268 00:17:32.200 --> 00:17:37.279 team have realized is the following Trump's not Trump's going 269 00:17:37.319 --> 00:17:39.480 to be about that level of prepared. 270 00:17:40.599 --> 00:17:41.160 For a debate. 271 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:44.480 And Trump was able to win the debate against Biden 272 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:48.200 because Biden was just completely senile and everyone could see it. It 273 00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:51.319 wasn't because Trump was some devastatingly great debater. I think 274 00:17:51.319 --> 00:17:53.960 Trump was kind of locked in and focused and did 275 00:17:53.960 --> 00:17:56.960 a decent job during the CNN debate. And I think 276 00:17:56.960 --> 00:18:01.079 the CNN moderators were much more fair than the ABC moderators. 277 00:18:01.400 --> 00:18:07.559 But you know, it's Biden lost that debate far more 278 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:09.480 than Trump won it. It was it wasn't like Trump 279 00:18:09.559 --> 00:18:13.839 was giving some masterclass. I think the Harris people realize 280 00:18:13.960 --> 00:18:17.319 if they can just keep getting performances like that, Harris 281 00:18:17.400 --> 00:18:21.200 is going to win. Because Harris is basically taking no risks. 282 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:25.599 She's just staying on message. She's not getting tripped up, 283 00:18:25.640 --> 00:18:28.839 she's not getting confused, she's just answering. She's just giving 284 00:18:28.920 --> 00:18:32.680 her scripted answers. She's not going to get challenged on anything. 285 00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:35.519 She says, she's just going to give her scripted answers, 286 00:18:36.920 --> 00:18:40.400 and that actually more debates might help her and hurt Trump. 287 00:18:43.400 --> 00:18:49.000 So I guess my initial reaction was Trump is crazy. 288 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:50.759 Why doesn't he want a debate again? He needs to 289 00:18:50.799 --> 00:18:54.079 debate again so that he can do better this time. 290 00:18:56.680 --> 00:19:01.920 But I don't Now I'm wondering if that's not the case. 291 00:19:02.799 --> 00:19:07.240 I think probably Trump and his team privately understand that 292 00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:13.359 Trump didn't do very well, and they probably understand, hey, 293 00:19:13.359 --> 00:19:15.319 if he goes out and does that again, it's not 294 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:17.599 going to be good. So they're gonna say, all right, well, 295 00:19:17.640 --> 00:19:20.279 we're just gonna stop. And we're two months out from 296 00:19:20.279 --> 00:19:21.680 the elect well a little less than two months out 297 00:19:21.720 --> 00:19:24.759 from the election, maybe seven weeks. Passage of time will 298 00:19:24.799 --> 00:19:28.279 allow people to forget much of how that debate performance went, 299 00:19:28.839 --> 00:19:31.359 and we'll just you know, Trump seems to do better 300 00:19:31.640 --> 00:19:34.640 in the in between stages where we're having rallies having rallies, 301 00:19:34.640 --> 00:19:37.799 having rallies, and we're building, building, building, So maybe that's 302 00:19:37.839 --> 00:19:38.440 what we got to do. 303 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:45.920 We'll just focus on that. And I guess here's my fear. 304 00:19:46.839 --> 00:19:50.480 When it was Biden versus Trump, the thing that people 305 00:19:50.480 --> 00:19:55.000 were talking about were the double haters. Basically, this contingent 306 00:19:55.160 --> 00:19:59.119 of voters who didn't like either choice, really disliked both choices. 307 00:20:00.839 --> 00:20:03.160 I think a lot of the distaste was, why are 308 00:20:03.200 --> 00:20:05.480 we voting between a seventy eight year old and an 309 00:20:05.519 --> 00:20:09.680 eighty two year old? Is there anybody in America younger 310 00:20:09.720 --> 00:20:11.400 that we could vote for here? Is this really the 311 00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:14.599 two best people we could have? There was distaste, dissatisfaction 312 00:20:14.680 --> 00:20:17.240 with both, and especially after the Biden debate performance, there 313 00:20:17.240 --> 00:20:19.000 are a bunch of Democrats who were like, forget this, 314 00:20:19.000 --> 00:20:21.480 this is ridiculous. We're not voting for an eighty one 315 00:20:21.519 --> 00:20:29.279 year old man who's senile. And I just think that 316 00:20:29.599 --> 00:20:33.160 Harris coming back in and getting the kind of media 317 00:20:33.240 --> 00:20:36.400 facelift that she's gotten, where you know, two months ago 318 00:20:36.440 --> 00:20:38.880 she was a stumbling, bumbling idiot vice president who was 319 00:20:38.880 --> 00:20:43.359 a radical leftist, to now she's getting this new appearance 320 00:20:43.400 --> 00:20:45.359 as well. You know, she didn't really believe all that 321 00:20:45.400 --> 00:20:47.359 stuff she talked about in twenty twenty when she ran, 322 00:20:47.480 --> 00:20:52.440 she was just a modern Democrat. I think unfortunately, well, 323 00:20:52.559 --> 00:20:54.559 it's clear that there were a bunch of Democrats who 324 00:20:54.599 --> 00:20:57.279 were like, forget this Biden thing. They've all come back home, 325 00:20:59.160 --> 00:21:01.759 and I think there's a crowd of the double haters 326 00:21:01.759 --> 00:21:04.599 where like, Okay, finally someone who isn't Trump or Biden, 327 00:21:07.279 --> 00:21:10.640 ignoring the fact that she's the horrible liberals, that she's 328 00:21:10.680 --> 00:21:13.680 got all these crazy, whacked out beliefs. She's terrible on 329 00:21:13.720 --> 00:21:17.000 Paul's terrible on this, terrible on that, and the idea 330 00:21:17.119 --> 00:21:20.279 that the way the media has been able to push 331 00:21:20.720 --> 00:21:27.599 walk this fine line of basically Biden's not gonna subzero 332 00:21:27.640 --> 00:21:29.880 her campaign because she keeps saying nice things about Biden. 333 00:21:30.480 --> 00:21:33.680 But basically the media has been able to try to 334 00:21:33.720 --> 00:21:38.000 present her as not the establishment candidate, like, oh, well, 335 00:21:38.519 --> 00:21:41.880 you can't blame her for anything Biden does. She's one 336 00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:44.119 of the great vice presidents ever. But you know, she's 337 00:21:44.160 --> 00:21:47.400 not responsible for any of Biden's faults. She's a new 338 00:21:47.440 --> 00:21:52.039 fresh face. We can't go back. We can't go back, 339 00:21:52.200 --> 00:21:54.799 is what she keeps saying about Trump. It's like, well, 340 00:21:54.960 --> 00:21:58.119 you know, you're the If we have problems, now they're 341 00:21:58.160 --> 00:22:05.240 your problems. You're in charge now. So I guess that's 342 00:22:05.279 --> 00:22:08.039 my fear is that we had that crowd of the 343 00:22:08.079 --> 00:22:10.720 double haters, and I think in a Biden versus Trump scenario, 344 00:22:10.799 --> 00:22:14.279 they would have gravitated towards Trump. And now I'm not 345 00:22:14.319 --> 00:22:18.119 so sure. I think now in a Biden versus Harris setting, 346 00:22:19.119 --> 00:22:20.599 they might gravitate to Harris. 347 00:22:21.039 --> 00:22:22.480 All right, when we return, I want. 348 00:22:22.279 --> 00:22:25.400 To do a kind of review of Lawfair, the cases 349 00:22:25.440 --> 00:22:27.640 against Donald Trump, where they kind of stand and how 350 00:22:27.680 --> 00:22:29.440 that was all just a massive thud. 351 00:22:30.440 --> 00:22:31.960 Next on the John Girardi. 352 00:22:31.640 --> 00:22:35.799 Show, the Democrats that sort of set up the twenty 353 00:22:35.839 --> 00:22:40.799 twenty four campaign around Lawfair when they thought it was 354 00:22:40.880 --> 00:22:44.039 Joe Biden. What they they're sort of their plan was, 355 00:22:44.079 --> 00:22:48.119 all right, we're going to coordinate this. We'll have the 356 00:22:48.200 --> 00:22:52.839 DOJ file charges against Donald Trump. Basically will will indict 357 00:22:52.960 --> 00:22:56.759 Donald Trump during the Republican primary process. That'll take Republicans 358 00:22:56.759 --> 00:22:58.160 off so much that they'll all want to vote for 359 00:22:58.160 --> 00:23:00.319 Trump because we want Trump as the candidate. We think 360 00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:02.759 that Trump is the most beatable candidate. We think that 361 00:23:02.839 --> 00:23:06.599 he has a certain ceiling that he can't get over. 362 00:23:06.680 --> 00:23:08.599 He's never going to get more than about forty six 363 00:23:08.720 --> 00:23:14.000 or forty seven percent of the vote. So we will 364 00:23:14.519 --> 00:23:20.440 indict Trump during the Republican primary process. 365 00:23:21.599 --> 00:23:23.200 Starting in kind of. 366 00:23:24.640 --> 00:23:30.160 Winter of twenty twenty two, and then all during sort 367 00:23:30.160 --> 00:23:33.720 of starting in twenty twenty three, and then his various 368 00:23:33.799 --> 00:23:37.319 trials and stuff will hopefully start to get to trials. 369 00:23:37.160 --> 00:23:38.160 In twenty twenty four. 370 00:23:38.240 --> 00:23:41.519 Maybe we can get some convictions, maybe we can, you know, 371 00:23:41.720 --> 00:23:43.759 and and we'll have all these trials going on against 372 00:23:43.799 --> 00:23:46.640 Donald Trump, and legal action after legal action after legal 373 00:23:46.640 --> 00:23:49.200 action after legal action will take place, and there will 374 00:23:49.240 --> 00:23:52.359 be this constant stream of negative news about Donald Trump 375 00:23:52.880 --> 00:23:55.480 throughout the course of twenty twenty four, leading to his 376 00:23:55.559 --> 00:23:59.680 numbers tanking and Joe Biden winning. The campaign that was 377 00:23:59.720 --> 00:24:04.279 the place plan did not really go according to plan, however, 378 00:24:04.920 --> 00:24:11.920 So let's review the four cases, the the four indictments 379 00:24:12.680 --> 00:24:20.200 that were made against Trump. Georgia Fanny Willis, the Fulton 380 00:24:20.240 --> 00:24:23.400 County District Attorney, charged Trump with a series of crimes 381 00:24:23.440 --> 00:24:28.599 centered around a Rico charge, which never made any sense. 382 00:24:29.200 --> 00:24:33.400 Rico is the kind of body of criminal law that 383 00:24:33.599 --> 00:24:37.359 was designed to take down organized crime, designed to take 384 00:24:37.640 --> 00:24:41.079 down the mob and the idea is you have a 385 00:24:41.160 --> 00:24:46.359 kind of continuing criminal enterprise that is an ongoing thing, 386 00:24:46.400 --> 00:24:49.000 and you can charge people for You can charge leadership 387 00:24:49.039 --> 00:24:51.319 for all of the crimes of the enterprise. It was 388 00:24:51.319 --> 00:24:54.880 a sort of novel, sort of federal statute. Actually, one 389 00:24:54.880 --> 00:25:00.160 of my professors at Notre Dame Law School, Robert Blake, 390 00:25:01.079 --> 00:25:05.519 was sort of the chief architect of RICO, so I 391 00:25:05.559 --> 00:25:07.240 got to learn a little bit about it from him. 392 00:25:08.079 --> 00:25:12.880 So charging Trump with RICO made no sense because the 393 00:25:12.960 --> 00:25:17.000 conspiracy to steal the election in Georgia, to swap out 394 00:25:17.359 --> 00:25:22.200 Georgia's electors for Joe Biden in favor of new electors 395 00:25:22.200 --> 00:25:25.759 for Donald Trump, it wasn't an ongoing conspiracy. After the 396 00:25:25.759 --> 00:25:29.039 election was done, the conspiracy sort of ended. So RICO 397 00:25:29.200 --> 00:25:33.240 was never a great tool for doing this, and the 398 00:25:33.279 --> 00:25:37.559 whole thing fell apart. The whole thing is just hanging 399 00:25:37.599 --> 00:25:40.759 on by a thread right now. Why Well, because Fanny 400 00:25:40.799 --> 00:25:43.039 Willis put her boyfriend in charge of it, some guy 401 00:25:43.119 --> 00:25:45.519