Speaker 1: Welcome to Political beat Down. I've been my cellas of course,
joined by Michael Cohen. Where do we even begin? Should
we begin with the fact that in some of the
last seven national polls, Donald Trump is getting his ass kicked.
You have it right there, civics led your fau the
economist you goov which take a look at the economist
you gov. By the way, Donald Trump was previously up
plus three, and that's shifted now to Vice President Kamala
Harris up to Now. I'm not one who dwells on
poles all that much, but what I do care about, Cohen,
are trends. And when you see a trend heading in
a direction, not one poll, not cherry picked, but all
of them, and all of them in the battleground states,
and then massive movements within the same type of poll firm.
I just had Simon Rosenberg, who was one of the
kind of foremost people pushing back on the bogus red
wave narrative in the twenty twenty two midterms, and he said,
you know this, Poland's wrong, that Poland's wrong. Focus on
the trends, focus on what's really happening, you know, on
the ground, and don't cherry pick this poll or that pole.
It's it's definitely, Michael Cohen. We're seeing an important trend here. Also,
Donald Trump that National Association a Black journalist event than
at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. I mean, gave the worst interview, worst
speech I've ever seen, not just in politics, but in
my whole life, including elementary school presentations, middle school presentations,
high school presentations. It was the worst. And while it
is getting a lot of attention for how bad it was,
it deserves way more attention for how bad it was. Michael,
how are you doing today, sir?
Speaker 2: You know I'm hanging in there, my brother, and I'm
thankful for all the brigaders that are with us. As always,
the way I saw it when I watched this interview,
the first thing that came to my mind, and I'm
sure that it came to yours and all of our
brigader's minds, including the trolls that we have on the
MAGA trolls, is why is Donald doing this right? Who
is it that told him that they think that this
is going to end up working out favorably for him?
I have no idea. It's got to be Don Junior again. Well,
maybe Peter tile, the same two yo yos that stuck
him with Shady Vance. I'm sitting there, I'm saying to myself,
as I was listening to the very opening of this bend,
if you would have taken Donald out of it and
told me that this was David Duke who was making
this statements, I would turn around and I would say, yeah,
it makes perfect sense. It was so on par with
racist tropes, with white supremacy, with clansmen ideology. The whole
thing was just filled with these sort of tropes. And
I'm saying to myself, Donald, what the fuck did you expect?
What did you expect they were going to ask you?
What's your favorite burger? How many do you eat at
mar A Lago a week? Right? Well, you know what's
your favorite golf course that you own? What did you
think they were going to ask you? You thought this
was another Sean Hannity interview. The answer, I was so
blown away, Ben, join me for a second, Ben, because
I need to see your reactions as I go this.
So I managed to get a hold of the trans
script for the NAJB, and I only printed out the
first few pages of it because I knew that you
and I were going to have to actually talk about it.
So in the opening, the interviewer turns around and says,
as journalists, we have opportunities like these voth to inform
our reporting, but also to help voters understand the choices
that they face in a consequential and historic election year.
NABJ has partnered with PolitiFact to fact check this conversation
in real time. You can access the feed on social
media using hashtag NABJ fact check and the hashtag is
NABJ fact check. Okay, so we have a lot to
go to and we do not want to waste any time,
So let's bring out the former president of the United States,
the republic nominee for president, former President Donald Trump. Snap
snap snaps. Okay, mister President, we so appreciate you giving
us an hour of your time. I want to start
by addressing the elephant in the room, sir, fair, fair comment, right,
address the elephant in the room. You can't turn around
and ask him a softball question. A lot of people
did not think it was appropriate for you to be
here today. You have pushed false claims about some of
your rivals, from Nikki Hanley to former President Barack Obama.
Staying that they were not born in the United States,
which is not true. You have told four congresswomen of
color who were American citizens to go back to where
they came from. You have used words like animal and
rabid to describe black district attorneys. You've attacked black journalists,
calling them a loser, saying the questions that they ask
are quote stupid and racist. You've had dinner with a
white supremacist at your marro Lago resort. So my questions, sir,
now that you are asking black supporters to vote for you,
why should black voters trust you after you've used language
like that and so? Ben, the best Donald Trump could
do in responding, Well, first of all, I don't think
I've ever been asked the question so in such a
horrible manner. The first question. You don't even say, hello,
how are you? Are you with ABC? Because I think
they are fake news network, a terrible network. And I
think it's disgraceful that I came here in good spirit. Ben,
I need to ask you, as I just as I
just continue for a second, what the hell is he
talking about again? Did he turn around and think that
they were going to give him a Sean Hannity softball
question about you know, how are you doing, how are
you holding up? You know, how was your ear? You
know what did they think that he was going to
ask any thoughts on that?
Speaker 1: Well, look, in a normal political environment where corporate media
does their job, Donald Trump is disqualified right there, He's
out the moment. He said, I have never been asked
a question in such a horrible manner. You don't even
say hello and hi to me, your ABC, your fake news.
That should be it. I mean, there was once a time,
Michael Cohen where people would spell potato wrong and that
would be the end of their career. Howard Dean shouted
in a weird tone, and that was the end of
his run for the presidency. I mean, when you see this,
this is not normal behavior at all. And I think
Donald Trump went in there like the malignant, narcissist sociopath
that he is, and I think that he thought that
it was not going to be Rachel Scott asking the
first question, but it was going to be Harris Faulkner
from Fox who was on the panel, because she was
giving him softballs, and Rachel Scott got the first question.
I think because of the controversy of inviting him, and
then it went off the rails from there. But it
went off the rails because Trump is off the rails.
The questions were fair. Trump is off the rails, which
is why there were some people who were saying, should
you invite him to that in the first place? And
my response is if you handle it the way Rachel
Scott does and did. I thought she did an exceptional
job in asking the right question so people could see
Donald Trump like that. But if you approached it like
Harris Faulkner and gave the softball interview, then that is
meaningless and it just serves as propaganda.
Speaker 2: I mean, he goes on. And the reason why I
think it's important that we not allow the comments that
were made by Trump. I don't want to interpret them
in my words. I can go on and I can
basically rattle off a couple of them, but it's not
in his words. It's not in his language. And this
is what I believe that the Harris campaign that Democrats
need to do. We need to use Donald Trump's words.
So while I am repeating them, I'm repeating them for effect.
We cannot ever allow somebody like this near the White
House ever again. Not even on a tour, not even
on a tour the racist Trumps. Imagine what a second
term would mean. It would mean included increased divisiveness in
racism and hatred. And so he goes to say, and
this is the greatest I think this was. This made
me laugh my ass offt I love the black population
of this country. I've done so much for the black
population of this country, including employment, including opportunity zones. With
Senator Tom Scott, I'm sorry, with Senator Tim Scott of
South Carolina, right of course, employing the name of one
black follower of his. That's that's there on the stump,
which is one of the greatest programs ever for black
workers and black entrepreneurs. I've done so much. And you
know when I say this, historically black colleges and universities
were out of money. I mean, the reason I'm bringing
this up again, he is all over the spectrum. If
the spectrum is zero to ten, he went from a
one to a nine in the split second. That's not
what they're asking him. They're not asking him with it.
What's the reason. But let me just go on. They
were stone cold broke and I saved them, and I
gave them long term financing. Where and how? I mean,
I'm not aware of this, and I kind of read
everything and nobody else was doing it. What it's like.
I think it's a very rude introduction. I don't know
exactly what you would do something like that, why you
would ask a legitimate question. Do you see what? Yes?
Trump is an idiot. But it goes on and let
me go a step further. He doesn't even know when
to shut up. He doesn't know when he already stuck
his foot up his ass instead. Right, he's got he's
got to really bring it up this so his pinky
toad tickles his tonsils. I mean, he goes on, He
goes I was invited here, and I was told my opponent,
whether it was Biden or Kamala, Really you don't know
who your opponent is now. I was told my opponent
was going to be here. It turned out my opponent
isn't here. You invited me on the false pretense, which
means what, which means what? What are you trying to say?
I mean, he goes on to say that this is
the best part so far, just so we understand, I
have too much respect for you to be late they
couldn't get their equipment working or something was wrong. I
think it's a very nasty question. I have answered the question.
I have been the best president for the black population
since Abraham Lincoln. That's my answer. That's my answer for
you to start off a question and answer period, especially
when you're thirty five minutes late because you couldn't get
your equipment to work in such a horrible manner. I
think it's a disgrace. I really do. I mean, I
just thought this response to the first question out of
the gate is so telling in terms of it goes
beyond beyond narcissistic, pathologic, being a pathological liar. It goes
way beyond that. It is a complete detachment from reality. No, Donald,
you are not the greatest president for the black community
since Abraham Lincoln. You are not all right. In fact,
neither is Joe Biden. But if you are here, Joe
Biden is here, let me be very clear about that.
And the fact the fact that you keep throwing that
out over and over and over and over again. What
is the what are you trying to do? I'm going
to give you all the answers, my brigaders. What he's
trying to do is to repeat the lie again and
again and again as often as possible, and have his
sycophantic acolytes out there doing the same to rewrite history,
because his belief system is something he's been very very
successful at doing. The more you repeat the lie, the
more the lie is repeated, the more the lie becomes
the truth. Okay, let me be very clear about that.
And that's what this is all about. He again, whoever
told him that he should go to this thing and
answer questions? This is the way what Rachel Scott did
is the way that Joe Biden should have done it.
And as great as Rachel Scott was, and I give
her an eight out of a ten, I give her
an eight, maybe even an eight and a half, Kamala
Harris will be a ten. He will be a perfect
ten on this because she will go balls to the
wall if in fact, Donald has the guts, which I
don't think he will come September to sit down for
that debate.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's already canceled that September debate, and Vice President
Kamala Harris says, look, Donald, you want to make all
of these comments, Okay, say it to my face. It
was interesting. Sean Hannity and others on Fox tried to
use the National Association of Black Journalist event to say,
you see, that's why Donald Trump needs to cancel the
debates or any further debates with Vice President Kamala Harrison.
It's like he's already won you toilaterally canceled it. But
Trump is scared of her. Michael Cohen like, we shouldn't
mince our words. Donald Trump wakes up, goes to sleep,
and is terrified of her. And now he spends the
entire day posting images of her with the Indian side
of her family and then saying she's not black. And
that's what he's going with over and over again. And
he goes, thank you, Kamala for the nice picture you
sent me from many years ago. Your warmth, friendship and
love of your Indian heritage are very much appreciated. It's
a very creepy message, and it's the message of an abuser.
Also though it's more than just racist, which it's like,
how could he be more than just racist?
Speaker 3: It's racist, but that's what rape say, Like that's like
a weird abuser stalker.
Speaker 1: You know, thank you for these lovely photos. It's it's
really creepy stuff.
Speaker 2: Also, yeah, I mean I wanted just to chime in
for a second on that photo and then just say
again if that doesn't tell you all you need to know.
And the fact that can we go back for a
quick second to the poll, to that slide that you
put up seven new national polls. You got Harris up
by four in the Civics, you have her up by
three in Ledger fau by two econ Yugov, which is
two Redfield Wilton two Angus read two Morning Console. One
reason I bring this up, can somebody please explain to
me why it's within the margin of error for where
we're at. Trump is an idiot. Let's just all acknowledge that.
How many times have you heard me say he's racist,
he's sexist, he's misogynistic, he's xenophobic, he's homophobic, he's islamophobic,
and he's an anti semite to boot. And now that
you turn around and you heard it from the horse's mouth,
you heard it right from the AS's mouth himself. You
can't say this is Michael Cohen now saying something and
then putting words into Donald's mouth. This is once again
Donald on television during this NABJ conference, turning around and
saying things that are again, bash it crazy, And I'm
just trying to figure out, Ben, how is it that
we're still within the margin of error for this election.
How is it not that Kamala is not up by
twenty points, that this election is already over before it started.
And I understand that Harris is winning. Don't get me wrong,
I am a believer. I've called the last four elections
correctly and almost almost one hundred percent, almost one hundred
percent for the state. So I feel very confident that
Kamala has got this. But my question is, how is
this even within the margin of error for these polls
when you have somebody who says the things that Donald
Trump says, and they are so revolting, they should be
revolting to every single American, all right, not just if
you're black, not just if you're a woman, not just
if you're a black woman, but it should be every
single person of every race, creed, color, gender, whatever, because
what he says is so un American. And to go
ahead and to have him in a race to be
president of the United States again says something about us.
It says something very badly about us.
Speaker 1: It does, and we'd probably need an episode that would
last two to three hours where we can look at
the historical origins of the memo post Nixon that Rogerrel's
created to have a right wing propaganda network to permit lawlessness.
Roger al saw the direction that the nation was headed
and needed a propaganda network to lie to the people,
to basically brainwash people to avoid what happened to Nixon.
When you had the Fourth Estate actually do its job
and on a bipartisan way, we could agree to objective reality.
So that started Michael Cohen in the nineteen seventies. So
where Fox is today in twenty twenty four, where it
was in the nineteen nineties was part of a generational plan.
The same thing with the Federalist Society. And I think
that people who believe that our democracy would last forever,
and we believe that Roe v. Wade was the law
of the land, I think we took for granted the
fact that these freedoms would always be here. Meanwhile, you
had a propaganda network building. You had the Federalist Society
growing and picking out the JD. Vansays of the world
and people like that and elevating them ultimately up to
the Supreme Court, so that you could ultimately have incongruous
outcomes where if you actually go through the issues, Michael Cohen,
seventy percent of America, seventy five percent of America agree
on issues of gun control and climate and women's reproductive
rights and wages and agency stuff and healthcare. I could
go on and on throughout the list how veterans should
be treated. Yet you see polls that are very evenly divided.
And what's to account for that is I think the
phenomenon that I just described, which was generational. What we
want to build here with political beat down, with the
Midas Mighty, with the Midas Touch network is Look, we
have a job to do each and every day when
we wake up rapid response. We got to put on
a show every day. But we have to be planning
also generationally to make sure that our freedoms are protected
here in the United States. So, speaking of Roger l
let me show you this. Let's go back to the
nineteen nineties an interview with Roger L's and Donald Trump. Okay,
Roger L's and Donald Trump. And in this interview with
Roger L's, Donald Trump contrasts his casinos with ones on
Indian reservations, and Trump says his casino is great for
the country, but Indian gaming will cause the greatest single
crime wave in the history of the country. It's the
same exact language, it's the same template, and Fox pushed
that over and over again. Here, let's play this clip.
Let me show you.
Speaker 4: Atlantic City's way up from last year, way up from
the year before. It's having the best year it's ever had.
And I don't say it's great for the country, but
you know, more and more you're seeing this. I will
say this, I think the greatest crime wave in this
country is going to be caused by the Indian gaming.
I think it's totally out of control. I don't think
it's properly supervised. The politicians are doing a tremendous service too.
Speaker 5: What's going on.
Speaker 4: I mean, the great great crime wave, the al capone
crime wave of this time, of this generation, is going
to be cause, in my opinion, by what's happening on
the Indian reservations with respect to what I consider to
be unsupervised gaming.
Speaker 1: It's the same exact thing, but occasionally.
Speaker 2: People, Yeah, let me just explain to what he's talking about.
There because it needs to be put into context. At
that time, his casinos were failing and he could talk
about Atlantic City was doing great, and soon he was not.
And we know this because he had filed a Chapter
eleven reorganization three or four times. What he's referring to
is the fact that the Indian gaming do not pay
taxes and so all the profit that they make is profit,
whereas in his casinos and profit that's made he pays
taxes on. Plus he has the unions that he has
to deal with. So he saw it as a disadvantage
to the system and he wanted them to shut down.
This is what he wanted. He wanted them to shut
down the Indian gaming reservations like the ones in Connecticut
and so on, because he found he felt that he
was not able to compete or that they were getting
a leg up over standardized gaming, despite the fact that
people like Steve Winn or MGM, or you know, guys
like Tilman Fertita with a golden nugget, they were all
killing it at the time. Donald Trump is just a
bad operator when it came to casinos, plain and simple.
I mean, just think about how many casinos do you
know that go under and the answer is very very few.
Speaker 1: Well, at that time you had Kirk coryan MGM. He
was crushing it at that time, and Donald Trump was
losing all that money. Here was another moment, this moment
of this committee hearing that Donald Trump attended in nineteen
ninety three, though so reminded me of the type of
language that he's always been using. But specifically we see
it more and more right now against Vice President Kamala Harris.
Let me show you this one right here, because when
I watch some of this stuff in the past, you
really see that it's prologue for what we see right
now here. Let's play this clip.
Speaker 6: Is this you discussing Indian blood. We're going to judge
people by whether they have Indian blood, whether they qualified
to run a gaming casino or not.
Speaker 7: That probably is me absolutely, because I'll tell you what
if you look, if you look at some of the
reservations that you've approved, you so your great wisdom have approved,
I will tell you right now, they don't look like
Indians to me, and they don't look like to Indians. Now,
maybe we stay politically correct or not politically correct, they
don't look like Indians to me.
Speaker 6: And they don't look like Indians to Indians, And.
Speaker 7: A lot of people are laughing at it, and you're
telling how tough it is, how rough it is to
get approved when you go up to Connecticut and you look.
Speaker 6: Now, they don't look like Indians to me, sir, Thank god.
That's not the test of whether or not people have
rights in this country or not. Whether or not they
pass your look test depends whether yeah, it depends whether
or not you're approving it to No.
Speaker 1: No, it's not a question whether I'm improving it. That's
not a question what I'm improving.
Speaker 6: Its trump you know, you know, in the history of
this country where we've heard this discussion before, they don't
look Jewish to me. They don't look Indian to me,
they don't look Italian to me.
Speaker 3: And that was a test for whether people could go
into business or not go into business, whether they could
get a bank loan.
Speaker 6: You're too black, you're not black enough.
Speaker 1: So now compare that Micao code.
Speaker 2: By the way, that's the point of what he was
doing at the NA at the NABJ. All right, Kamala
Harris is not black enough for him, all right, which
is why he's trying to run on this concept that
she's not black at all, but rather Indian. There's nothing
that Donald Trump is saying today that ben You and
I can't find a clip on something that Donald has
said and done before. It's why he knows absolutely nothing
nothing about DEI. And when it was brought up again
by Rachel Scott, the first thing says, define it, define it.
He doesn't even know. He doesn't even know what it
stands for. He doesn't understand what it's all about. And
it's not that he can't understand it, it's because he
doesn't give a shit to understand it, because it doesn't
benefit him at all.
Speaker 1: It's exactly why, though I wanted to show that clip
from nineteen ninety three, and then this clip from July
thirty first, twenty twenty four, the one that you just referenced.
You're Jeremy Cole.
Speaker 8: Follow up, sir, and then we'll move on to other
questions here. Some of your own supporters, including Republicans on
Capitol Hill, have labeled Vice President Kamala Harris, who is
the first black and Asian American woman to serve as
vice president be on a major party ticket, as a
DEI hire.
Speaker 6: Is that acceptable language to you?
Speaker 8: And will you tell those Republicans and those supporters to
stop it?
Speaker 6: How do you how do you define DEEI? Go ahead?
How do you define diversity? Equity inclusion? Okay, yeah, go ahead?
Is that what your definition? Give me? That is that?
That is? Give me a definition? Then would you give
me a definition? Yeah? Yeah, give me a definition, Sara.
Speaker 8: I'm asking you a question.
Speaker 6: You have to find it, define the define it from
me if you I just defined it, sir.
Speaker 8: Do you believe that Vice President Kamala Harris is only
on the ticket because she is a black woman?
Speaker 6: Well, I can say no. I think it's maybe a
little bit different.
Speaker 4: So an owner, a long time intorec not directly very much,
and she was always of Indian heritage, and she was
only promoting Indian heritage. I didn't know she was black
until a number of years ago when she happened to
turn black. And now she wants to be known as black.
So I don't know is she Indian or is she black?
Speaker 8: She is always I.
Speaker 4: Respect either one, but she obviously doesn't because she was
Indian all the way. And then all of a sudden
she made a turn and she went she became a black.
Speaker 6: I think somebody should look into that too.
Speaker 4: When you ask a continue in a very hostile, nasty tone.
Speaker 1: It's a direct, hostile, nasty tone, he says. And then
he does that weird thing too where he like talks
like a baby.
Speaker 6: She said she was black.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's a There's so many aspects even
within the racist answer that deserve extra attention as well
of this pathology right here anyway, I want to talk
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Speaker 2: Sure, am I wrong? What's better than bake?
Speaker 6: Then?
Speaker 2: He salad? Yeah, bacon and shrimp. I mean seriously, it's
like my it's like, my favorite thing is salad, bacon
and shrimp in it. When I go to chopped, I mean,
I'm like, oh yeah, I can I have some of
that shrimp and put in a lot of bacon in there.
You know, by the way, I didn't realize that bacon
is actually good for you. No, it's not.
Speaker 1: I don't really get Just so you know, con really
gets into the ad reads. Oh yeah, you know, I
sometimes Cohen.
Speaker 2: The sheets are very good to wash. Von Schitz and
Pants actually told me that.
Speaker 1: Let me show you what Let me show you what else.
Donald Trump has been posting. You know, he's selling new sneakers.
So he previously sold those ugly gold fake red bottoms,
fake gold. Then he sold the Assassination Edition sneakers, like
actually sold assassination attempt sneakers. Now he's selling as well,
Bitcoin sneakers. There they are and he's promoting that the
Trump it says crypto president on him. They're incredibly ugly,
and he says, go have fun, go to get Trump
sneakers dot com before they are gone. I mean, how
bizarre can you It's not bizarre.
Speaker 2: It's not bizarre. It's not bizarre. Donald Trump is for sale.
You've heard me say this a thousand times. He sold pardons,
he sold nuclear secrets, he sold everything. In fact, if
he could, he would have taken half the paintings and
half the furniture out of the White House and sold
that too. He doesn't care about any of this stuff.
It's all about the mighty dollar. I mean, he's got
his you know, some of his biggest supporters. He's got
the Vinkeelbas brothers that are there. That's where this bitcoin
sneaker is now coming from. Listen, if you go back
in time, you will hear Donald talk about how all
of this crypto is a scam. It's a complete and
total scam. It's predicated on nothing, it's based on the air.
It's being manufactured and manipulary just a couple of people
who will ultimately dump it. These are the things that
Donald used to say. But but all of a sudden,
all of a sudden, he needs the money, right, and
so in comes the billionaire class. And by the way,
I don't blame them for what they're doing. But what
I am doing is I am warning each and every
one of our followers, and then I ask you and
everybody else to pass this message along. Donald Trump is
for sale and America will be for sale as well.
So when people say, oh, well, you know, I have
to vote for Donald because I'm you know, pro Israel,
Israel will be for sale, as is Ukraine. When Putin
comes forward and provides Donald with some financial benefit for him,
he will turn around and he will cease helping you
Ukraine with anything, financial munitions, etc. All right, and he
will allow Russia to walk straight through, and now all
of a sudden, once they finish with that, they're on
the way to Poland, which of course is part of NAFTA.
He doesn't care, he's not gonna care about that. He's
gonna I'm sorry NATO. He's gonna turn around and he's
just gonna say, you know what, we're out. We're out
of NATO, which is something he talked about before. And
I don't know why people just don't see the writing
on the wall, which brings me right back to where
we've already gone twice, which is the clip showing the
different polls. I don't get it. I just don't understand
how it's still within the margin of error. We know
the damage he's going to do, and yet we close
our eyes thinking that by closing our eyes, by doing
that like you do with a child, and you go
peek a boo, that all he can't see, nobody can see.
And so on. Why are we going down to Donald's
to Donald's umbuh, you know, mentality? Why why are we
degrading ourselves? We need to stand up. We need to
fight like hell. And when I say fight like kell,
I'm talking about at the ballot box. We need to
make sure every single American who is capable of voting
is registered to vote and votes Democrat votes Blue, straight
up and down the entire ticket, plain and simple, because
that's the only way that we're going to stop this
bullshit once and for all.
Speaker 1: You know, one of the points that you made earlier
in the week, I was saying, well, why is Donald Trump,
you know, doing that? You're like because Bend, he doesn't
have any policy to talk about, so all he wants
to talk about are things like whether it was the
bullet versus the shrapnel or a piece of glass that
hit his ear and Butler Pennsylvania because for him he
can say bullet, bullet, bullet versus what's your healthcare plan? Donald?
What are you really going to do to protect Social Security?
What's your plan regarding Medicare? What's your infrastructure plan that
you promised you were going to roll out but fail
to remember when you said you were going to have
a plan that was better than Obamacare, better than the
Affordable Care Act and then did nothing.
Speaker 2: And you said the same about immigration, what's your immigration plan?
Speaker 1: How did his plan was to destroy You know, you
have to think about it, right destroy the bipartisan bill
that would have done more to help the situation on
the border than ever before. Donald Trump ordered Maga Mike
to kill a bipartisan border deal whose lead negotiator was
the very conservative Senator Republican from Oklahoma, James Langford, and
Trump said, nope, Langford, and you may have devoted your
whole life to this President. Biden led these bipartisan negotiations.
Biden's a great negotiator. Actually, I mean, look at him
bring the hostages back, which Trump did not do when
Trump was.
Speaker 2: And with somebody who he calls, you know, his close friends,
his you know, his ally, my pal who I'm writing
love letters to. Right what Donald.
Speaker 1: Trump previously said, right here, Michael Cohen, he says.
Speaker 2: Can We'll do that for me, but not for anyone else? Well,
guess what once again, Donald wrong?
Speaker 6: Wrong?
Speaker 2: And I mean it's look, I can go. I want
to say it now for the fourth time because I think, Ben,
it's important that we just keep hammering the same thing home.
How Why why are the polls even as close as
they are? Why are we still within the margin of error?
Do you not see that every single thing that this
man utters at of his mouth is either inaccurate or
just plain straight up bullshit.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll give you an example. Like let's take today
for example, right President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris bring
these hostages home. Vice President Kamala Harris surging in the polls.
When she gives speeches, she's talking about issues. She's talking
about protecting women's reproductive rights. She's talking about things like
the border. She's saying, I, if you were to elect me,
I'm going to make sure we push forward the bipartisan
border bill that Donald Trump was you know, killed, And
these are important issues to me. Now, what's the right
wing talking about all day today? Talking about in the
Olympics an Algerian boxer who beat the Italian boxer and
they're saying that the out that in Algeria that this
boxer was a was a trans boxer who beat the
Italian female boxer, and that's somehow the United States government
should be involved in the Internet boxing Olympics commission to
determine what the what the boxing rules are. And the
people in Algeria, by the way, in Algeria, they like
we're saying Algeria is like supposed to be what like
a woke like, what are they even arguing without with Algeria?
Speaker 2: I have no idea.
Speaker 1: But here's the but here's the here's my point though.
My point is is that they will seize an issue
like that, they will talk about it the whole day,
and then they'll show the image of the Italian female
boxer losing, and then they'll try to insinuate to to
the American population that somehow this should be the role
of the presidency to get involved in a boxing match
and how boxers are sotified.
Speaker 8: It.
Speaker 1: It doesn't make any sense. But then you think about
what they also talk about. What do they talk about
all the time? The bathrooms? You know, this person goes
to the bathroom, and so they bring up these issues
because that Frankly, you know, I was teaching a class
in law school as a professor, and there was all
this effort to block a trans athlete from playing a sport,
and I think it was in West Virginia, went all
the way to the top court of West Virginia. Then
I asked my class, I said, how many trans athletes
do you think we're in West Virginia that this case
actually impacted where you had one hundred and fifty of
the like the top like lawyers on all different sides
of like political spectrums, probably hundreds of millions of dollars
in legal fies. Cohen, what would your guest be this
whole case that worked its way up. How many athletes
were they actually talking about where this was an issue?
Speaker 6: Was one one?
Speaker 1: They were talking about one person? And you know, it's
a long way of answering your question. But what this
right wing propaganda echo chamber wants to do is use
hate and bullying and all of these things to distract
people from the kitchen table type issues that actually impact
their family because they don't have policies and points.
Speaker 2: So one of the funniest things is when I saw
the Republicans and I saw you know, the Trump acolytes
out there attacking you know, President Biden regarding this topic,
it brought me right back to an issue that I
dealt with for him many years ago. Also, as I
was on the board, it was me, it was Trump
and Alan Weiselberg represented the board for the Miss Universe
pageant and there was a transgender contestant it would I
think her name was her lessons like Ala Kova, and
they didn't want her competing because she was transgender. Well,
Glory already jumped in and I had lunch with her
and another gentleman that worked for her, And while she
was on her way to California to do a press conference,
you know, attacking Donald Trump because they didn't want to
do it, what we ultimately ended up doing while she
was in the air is just deciding that we were
going to follow Get a load of this bend ready.
We were going to follow the Olympic rules regarding transgender participation,
which is, if it's that's what it says on your
birth certificate, whether it's revised or not, that's your gender identity.
And so we let her compete. She was competing for Canada.
She never made it into the finals in order to
go to the Miss Universe pageant. It was a local
Canadian you know, petition. But we followed the Olympic rule.
Now all of a sudden, we're not following the Olympic rule.
There's a new rule to follow. So when it benefits him,
that's the rule we follow. When it doesn't benefit him,
when we expand it in order to make it no rule.
I mean, I again, it's so typical Donald, For God's sakes,
my friends. We need to educate. We need to educate Maga.
We need to educate those that, for whatever the reason
might be, are still undecided. We have what ninety four
days left before the election. There is no time to stop.
We need to continuously keep educating them on the dangers
of this man and the danger that he poses to
America's Democratic Republic, plain and simple.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's posting purportedly Vice President Kamala Harris's birth certificate
right now, that's he's back to doing that. And you
know her, her dad's side of the family is Jamaican,
her mom's side is Indian. We did a little ven
diagram right there. That's Kamala the ven diagram for Donald
Trump right there is Trump is fraudster and rapist equals
Donald Trump in the ven diagram right there. Just a
helpful graphic. And this whole idea that Donald Trump's now
pushing that Vice President Kamala Harris is is not black.
I mean it again, it is that this is what
he's reposting. Not only does Kamala harris own bird certificate
prove that she's lying about being black, but I mean again,
how is this the leader of a major political Party
in the United States of America. Then he has your buddy,
Elena Habba. I'm joking, of course, she spoke at the Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania event. She's one of the keynote speakers. Now and
here let me show you what Elena Habba said yesterday.
Here played this club.
Speaker 5: I am a strong woman, a mom, a lawyer, and
an American And unlike you, Kamala, I know who my
roots are. I know where I come from, and I
don't play around with the Constitution.
Speaker 1: It's like watching the Idiocracy movie. It's like watching I
know what makes it?
Speaker 2: Then what makes it even worse?
Speaker 1: Not sure did we lose Cohen there? For a second.
Coen was going to say what makes it even worse? There?
But as I was saying it to me, is like
watching Idiocracy. And I've seen some of the actors from
Idiocracy who were recently interviewed saying, like when they watched
Hulk Hogan on stage at the Republican National Convention and
Hulk Hogan was ripping off his shirt. I mean, the
main speaker before Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention
was Hulk Hogan, a former WWE wrestler who gets up
on stage and he rips off his shirt and he goes,
I'm the Hulkster, and the Hulkster's telling you that if
you don't vote for Donald Trump, the Hulkster is gonna
beat you down or something like that.
Speaker 3: I'm watching this and I'm like, what is happening to
our what's going on here? I'm just saying, this is
not normal, and there are people's freedoms and rights that
are on the line, and this is what we are seeing.
This is what's dominating the coverage of the Republican National Convention.
And look, Michael Cohen read the transcript from part of
that interview at the National Association of Black Journalists.
Speaker 1: But let me read you this. This is from Donald
Trump's June ninth, twenty twenty four speech. And we'll wait
for Cohen to come back, but I'll read this to
you just to hear the types of things that Donald
Trump says. And I think when you see it in
a transcript form, it kind of brings it home in
a different way. Trump's giving a speech to the audience
in Las Vegas and he goes, so, I said, let
me ask you a question, and he said, nobody ever
asked this question and it must be because of Mit.
My relationship to Mit. Very smart, he goes. I say,
what would happen if the boat sank from its weight
and you're in the boat and you have this tremendously
powerful battery and the batteries now underwater, and there's a
shark that's approximately ten yards over there by the way.
A lot of shark attacks, lady.
Speaker 3: Did you notice that a lot of shark I watched
some guys justifying it today.
Speaker 1: Well, they weren't really that angry.
Speaker 3: They bit off the young lady's leg because of the
fact that they were not hungry, but they misunderstood what
who she was.
Speaker 1: These people are cray, he said, there's no problem with sharks,
they just didn't really understand a young woman swimming now
really got decimated and other people to a lot of
shark attacks. So I said, so there's a shark ten
years away from the boat, ten yards away from the
boat ten yards or here? Do I get electrocuted? The
boat is sinking, water goes over the battery, the boat
is sinking. Do I stay on top of the boat
and get electrocuted? Or do I jump over by the
shark and not get electrocuted? Because I will tell you
he know the answer. He said, you know, nobody's ever
asked me that question. I said, I think it's a
good question. I think there's a lot of election current
coming through that water. But you know what I do,
if there was a shark or you get electrocuted, I'll
take electrocution every single time. I'm not going near the
shar This is the type of things that he's saying
at his traveling fascist circus events that he calls rallies,
and for far too long, the corporate media has normalized this,
and fortunately the Midas Mighty community, we've reclaimed our agency,
We've reclaimed our power, and we've reclaimed what gets front
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Speaker 3: I mean, Cohen's having potentially some connections issues, so I
will give the two finger salute on his behalf.
Speaker 1: The two finger salute goes to Donald Trump and Shadey Vans,
especially Donald Trump for what he did in the National
Association of Black Journalists. His behavior there was abhorrent, it
was disqualifying, and for that, Donald Trump, I give you
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