1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,879 Speaker 1: So unfortunately for Trump, not old press is really good press. 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:07,440 And this morning a bombshell article, and when I mean 3 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:12,560 a bombshell, I'm talking about nuclear was published by Vanity Fair, 4 00:00:12,919 --> 00:00:17,839 where Chris Whipple interviewed Trump's chief of Staff Susie Wiles 5 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:23,600 eleven times, not once, not twice, eleven times, and her 6 00:00:23,679 --> 00:00:28,960 comments were scathing as she spoke candidly about the failures 7 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:32,320 of the Trump administration and welcome back to the Michael 8 00:00:32,399 --> 00:00:36,240 Cohene Show on our continued journey to a million subscribers. 9 00:00:36,439 --> 00:00:40,240 Thanks to you, we're killing it, crushing it more than 10 00:00:40,399 --> 00:00:44,960 five thousand new subscribers in just the last forty eight hours. 11 00:00:45,079 --> 00:00:48,439 So thank you and be a part of it. Hit, subscribe, watch, comment, 12 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:52,039 and share, because this level of stupidity, it has to 13 00:00:52,039 --> 00:00:54,479 come to an end. So look, I want to get 14 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:58,719 into the weeds and break down what Susie Wiles told reporters, 15 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:02,359 but first we actually have to show you the damage 16 00:01:02,399 --> 00:01:07,120 control that she posted this on x right after the 17 00:01:07,239 --> 00:01:10,879 article was published. This is what she says. The article 18 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:15,319 published early this morning is a disingenuously framed hit piece 19 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:19,239 on me and the finest president, white House staff, and 20 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:25,319 cabinet in history. Significant context was disregarded, and much of 21 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:28,480 what I and others said about the team and the 22 00:01:28,519 --> 00:01:32,719 president was left out of the story. I assume after 23 00:01:32,799 --> 00:01:36,120 reading it that this was done to paint an overwhelmingly 24 00:01:36,359 --> 00:01:40,799 chaotic and negative narrative about the president and our team. 25 00:01:41,239 --> 00:01:44,239 The truth is, the Trump White House has already accomplished 26 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:48,000 more in eleven months than any other president has accomplished 27 00:01:48,159 --> 00:01:51,480 in eight years, and that is due to the unmatched 28 00:01:51,599 --> 00:01:54,959 leadership and vision of President Trump, for whom I have 29 00:01:55,079 --> 00:01:58,599 been honored to work for the better part of a decade. 30 00:01:59,159 --> 00:02:02,280 None of this will stop our relentless pursuit of making 31 00:02:02,319 --> 00:02:06,959 America great again. So let me be crystal clear on something. 32 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:10,960 She knows that what she did was going to get 33 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:14,759 her literally in hot water, and so what do you do. 34 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:17,000 You turn around and you claim it was a lie. 35 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:21,199 It's disingenuous. They didn't put in the context, they didn't 36 00:02:21,199 --> 00:02:24,800 do X, Y and Z. And the only reason that 37 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:28,680 they're doing this, and of course, is to discredit the incredible, 38 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:32,719 incredible things that President Trump has done more than any 39 00:02:32,759 --> 00:02:35,479 other president, not in four years, but in eight years, 40 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:40,840 literally in eleven months. It's all flattery, That's all it is. 41 00:02:40,879 --> 00:02:45,599 It's all performance, all right. Now. More importantly, I want 42 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:50,240 to get into what Susie Wiles actually did say, and 43 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:53,000 I want to read from the New York Times article 44 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:56,840 that breaks down her comments. Let me start with the 45 00:02:56,879 --> 00:03:04,639 first in it, Trump's top eight acknowledges score settling behind prosecutions. 46 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:08,599 In interviews with Vanity Fair, Susie Wiles, the White House 47 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:13,919 Chief of Staff, said Trump has an alcoholics personality, called 48 00:03:14,039 --> 00:03:19,080 JD Vance a conspiracy theorist, and concluded that Pam Bondi 49 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:23,879 completely whiffed the early handling of the Epstein files. In fact, 50 00:03:24,039 --> 00:03:27,759 nothing there is actually inaccurate in it says over the 51 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:32,360 course of eleven interviews. Again, let me repeat that eleven interviews, 52 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:38,199 Miss Wilds offered pungent assessments of the President and his team. 53 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:44,080 Mister Trump has an alcoholics personality. Vice President JD. Vance 54 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:47,759 has been a conspiracy theorist for a decade, and his 55 00:03:47,879 --> 00:03:52,479 conversion from Trump critic to ally was based not on principle, 56 00:03:52,759 --> 00:03:56,520 but was sort of political because he was running for Senate. 57 00:03:57,319 --> 00:04:00,919 Elon Musk is an avowed Kennemine new user and an 58 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:05,319 odd odd duck whose actions were not always rational and 59 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:09,759 left her a guest Russell T. Vaught, the budget director 60 00:04:10,159 --> 00:04:13,840 is a right wing absolute zealoon and Attorney General Pam 61 00:04:13,879 --> 00:04:19,360 Bondi completely whiffed in handling the Epstein files. Finally, the 62 00:04:19,399 --> 00:04:22,600 third one, she attributes her ability to work for Trump 63 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:27,319 to growing up with an alcoholic father, the sportscaster Pat 64 00:04:27,399 --> 00:04:33,000 summrle high functioning alcoholics, or alcoholics in general, their personalities 65 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:36,920 are exaggerated when they drink, she said, And so I'm 66 00:04:36,959 --> 00:04:40,920 a little bit of an expert in big personalities. While 67 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:44,040 mister Trump does not drink, she said, he has an 68 00:04:44,079 --> 00:04:48,720 alcoholics personality and operates with a view that there's nothing 69 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:54,279 he can't do, nothing, zero nothing. In a sign of 70 00:04:54,319 --> 00:04:58,160 how much her job revolves around the president's big personality, 71 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:03,279 stream of consciousness, public comments, she keeps a freestanding video 72 00:05:03,399 --> 00:05:06,720 monitor next to the fireplace in her West Wing office 73 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:10,879 with a live feed of mister Trump's social media posts. 74 00:05:11,199 --> 00:05:15,800 I mean, imagine, as chief of staff, your job is 75 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:19,480 to sit there and monitor your ward, in this case, 76 00:05:19,519 --> 00:05:22,759 the president of the United States twenty four to seven, 77 00:05:23,319 --> 00:05:27,839 every post, every comment, every everything, Because she has no 78 00:05:27,959 --> 00:05:32,920 idea when he's going to say something ridiculous, something vile, 79 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:37,160 something that just lacks empathy, like what we saw just 80 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:41,040 the other day with the Rob Reiner Michelle Rhiner murder. 81 00:05:41,959 --> 00:05:46,439 She also broke down Trump's weaponization of the DOJ. Something, 82 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:50,560 as you see over my shoulder, I say exactly the 83 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:54,439 same thing. How Donald Trump weaponized the United States Department 84 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:57,759 of Justice against his critics. Let me show you what 85 00:05:57,839 --> 00:06:01,360 it says. Susie Wilds, the White House Chief of Staff, 86 00:06:01,519 --> 00:06:05,480 told an interviewer that she forged a loose agreement with 87 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:11,480 mister Trump to stop focusing after three months on punishing antagonists, 88 00:06:11,519 --> 00:06:16,120 an effort that evidently did not succeed. While she insisted 89 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:20,800 that mister Trump is not constantly thinking about retribution, she 90 00:06:20,959 --> 00:06:25,879 said that when there's an opportunity, he will go for it. Further, 91 00:06:26,079 --> 00:06:29,519 it turns around and says, we have a loose agreement 92 00:06:29,759 --> 00:06:33,160 that the score settling will end before the first ninety 93 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:36,759 days are over, she said, Then when that did not 94 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:40,720 happen by August, she told mister Whipple that I don't 95 00:06:40,759 --> 00:06:44,120 think he's on a retribution tour, but said that he 96 00:06:44,279 --> 00:06:47,600 was aiming at people who did bad things in coming 97 00:06:47,639 --> 00:06:51,720 after him. In some cases, it may look like retribution, 98 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,839 she said, And there may be an element of that 99 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:58,399 from time to time. Who would blame him? Not me? 100 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:02,600 Well me say who would blame him? I certainly would, 101 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:06,800 because it shouldn't be about retribution. Now, I'm not talking 102 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:11,360 about the cases against say Tis James, Alvin Bragg, James, 103 00:07:11,399 --> 00:07:14,920 call me Adam Schiff, John Bolton. I'm not going to 104 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,040 even get into the metrics of those cases because I 105 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:21,600 believe that they can all and should all be held accountable. 106 00:07:21,879 --> 00:07:25,959 I absolutely do. But the fact and the timing. Had 107 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,560 he not gone public and said, you know, I think 108 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:32,800 that this person should be looked at. I think this 109 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:36,240 person should be indicted for breaking the law and so on, 110 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:39,879 He's doing exactly what I believe the mistake that Tis 111 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:42,759 James made, which is to announce what they're going to 112 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:46,560 do and try to use it for political purpose, hence 113 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:51,759 the term weaponization of the Department of Justice. She also 114 00:07:51,839 --> 00:07:56,199 mentioned Trump's unprecedented amount of pardons. Let me show you 115 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:59,680 what she said there. In it, she writes, she said 116 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:03,360 she urge mister Trump not to pardon the most violent 117 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:07,800 rioters from January sixth, twenty twenty one, which he did, anyway, 118 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:11,920 be unsuccessfully tried to get him to delay his major 119 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:16,959 tariffs because of a huge disagreement among his advisors, and 120 00:08:17,279 --> 00:08:21,800 she said the administration needed to look harder at deportations 121 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:27,360 to prevent mistakes. But she did not complain about being overruled, 122 00:08:27,519 --> 00:08:30,639 and at various points she said got on board with 123 00:08:30,759 --> 00:08:33,879 the eventual decisions. There have been a couple of times 124 00:08:33,919 --> 00:08:37,279 where I've been outvoted, she said. And if there's a tie, 125 00:08:37,759 --> 00:08:41,679 he wins. Now, let me be clear, she never has 126 00:08:41,879 --> 00:08:46,480 any position other than to give an opinion to which 127 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:50,120 he's already made up his mind. About what she could 128 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:52,759 have done is something that I used to do, which 129 00:08:52,799 --> 00:08:56,039 has tried to I don't know what are down the poison, 130 00:08:57,360 --> 00:08:59,720 but she doesn't really know him as well as the 131 00:08:59,799 --> 00:09:03,519 me wants to portray now. Susie also spoke to the 132 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:07,399 reporter about the handling of the Epstein files. Let me 133 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:11,960 show you what she says there. Interviews published by Vanity Fair, 134 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:15,799 Miss Wilds faulted Miss Bondi, one of her closest friends 135 00:09:15,799 --> 00:09:20,240 in the administration, for her early handling of the Epstein files, 136 00:09:20,279 --> 00:09:23,600 an issue that has been a cause celebrat for mister 137 00:09:23,639 --> 00:09:27,559 Trump's right wing base. I think she completely whiffed on 138 00:09:27,639 --> 00:09:32,159 appreciating that that was the very targeted group that cared 139 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:36,279 about this. Miss Wils said, first she gave them binders 140 00:09:36,279 --> 00:09:39,879 full of nothingness, and then she said that the witness 141 00:09:39,919 --> 00:09:43,320 list or the client list was on her desk. There 142 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:46,240 is no client list, and it's sure as hell wasn't 143 00:09:46,279 --> 00:09:51,200 on her desk. Mister Vance, by contrast, understood the sensitivity 144 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:55,840 because he himself was a conspiracy theorist, she said. She 145 00:09:56,080 --> 00:10:00,000 added that it was Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's eye 146 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:05,120 idea to go interview mister Epstein's convicted associate, Gallaine Maxwell 147 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:08,320 in prison, and that the President did not know that 148 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:11,840 she would be transferred to a minimum security prison camp. 149 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:17,000 The President was ticked, she said. The President was mighty unhappy. 150 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:20,840 I don't know why they moved her, Neither does the president. 151 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:23,600 Let me be crystal clear, I don't buy that bullshit, 152 00:10:23,759 --> 00:10:28,039 not for a second, Because at any point in time, 153 00:10:28,639 --> 00:10:31,399 somebody pulled a stunt like this that pissed him off, 154 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:35,840 that went behind his back. The answer shit can in 155 00:10:35,919 --> 00:10:39,960 less than thirty seconds now. She also mentioned that Trump's 156 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:43,679 tendency to ramble about topics, which he calls the weave 157 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:49,080 that they aren't relatable to the average American. Let me 158 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:52,919 show you what she says there. Miss Wiles confirmed that 159 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:55,919 she wants mister Trump to talk more about the economy 160 00:10:56,240 --> 00:10:59,799 and less about Saudi Arabia. She denied that he would 161 00:10:59,879 --> 00:11:03,600 use the military to influence the midterm elections and ruled 162 00:11:03,639 --> 00:11:07,600 out him running again in twenty twenty eight. His comments 163 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:11,799 about seeking an unconstitutional third term are one hundred percent 164 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:15,960 about driving people crazy. Well, that may be true, but 165 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:19,279 never put it past him. When he says something, No, 166 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:23,919 somewhere inside him he actually means what he's saying. Now, 167 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,679 Like I said at the beginning, Susie Well, She was 168 00:11:26,759 --> 00:11:30,240 quick to post her response on social media. I mean, 169 00:11:30,279 --> 00:11:34,480 I guess Trump clearly didn't like the reference to him 170 00:11:34,519 --> 00:11:41,080 being an alcoholic or the association thereof. Now, more importantly, 171 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:43,480 I do want to end on a clip. This is 172 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:48,440 so insane. That's why I say subscribe, comment, share, share 173 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:52,799 this because this level of stupidity has to stop. Representative 174 00:11:52,919 --> 00:11:58,840 Steve Scalise, who himself was injured, was shot when on 175 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:03,840 air unseen NBC when the Vanity Fair story broke. Now 176 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:07,279 he was read a section of the article and his 177 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:12,240 response it literally shows just how well these maga pundits 178 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:16,000 can stick to their talking points even when they're asked 179 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,559 to discuss an issue or a topic that they haven't 180 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:22,879 been briefed on that they know absolutely nothing about. 181 00:12:23,879 --> 00:12:27,480 Speaker 2: Play the clip, well, I obviously have not read that article. 182 00:12:27,519 --> 00:12:30,320 I'll have to read it. I know Susie. She's the 183 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:33,519 hardest working person up in DC with the hardest working 184 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:36,320 president in American Donald Trump. By the way, he doesn't 185 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:39,840 even drink alcohol. So not sure what that quote is 186 00:12:39,919 --> 00:12:43,200 related to. The full context would be helpful, but President 187 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:46,440 Trump never stops working for American people. I've talked to 188 00:12:46,519 --> 00:12:49,000 him about healthcare, talk to him about a lot of issues, 189 00:12:49,159 --> 00:12:51,320 and he's engaged in all of them. He wants to 190 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:54,320 help lower costs for families. Again, not just in healthcare, 191 00:12:54,519 --> 00:12:58,000 at the grocery store. Look at gasoline prices. We're seeing 192 00:12:58,039 --> 00:13:00,639 a four year low in gas prices at the today. 193 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:04,039 That's more money in people's pockets. We're seeing higher wages. 194 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:06,399 We need to do more, and we're gonna do more. 195 00:13:06,759 --> 00:13:09,120 But those are some good things that President Trump's already 196 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:10,440 delivered on in less than a year. 197 00:13:11,279 --> 00:13:14,159 Speaker 1: Like I said, they stick to the talking points and 198 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:17,679 they never leave. Of course, talk about gasoline. Absolutely, he's right. 199 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:20,559 Lower gas prices right now. Oh yeah, the price on 200 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:23,480 eggs went down, not because of anything they did, but 201 00:13:23,519 --> 00:13:27,600 simply because more chickens were you know, we're born, and 202 00:13:27,639 --> 00:13:30,240 more chickens are now laying eggs, plain and simple, as 203 00:13:30,279 --> 00:13:33,320 opposed to the destruction that had to happen as a 204 00:13:33,399 --> 00:13:36,960 result of the bird flu. So this is the point. 205 00:13:37,279 --> 00:13:41,559 We are in a place right now where we can't 206 00:13:41,759 --> 00:13:44,840 listen to the right at all because they're maga. Talking 207 00:13:44,919 --> 00:13:50,080 points will literally try to overshadow any of the realities. 208 00:13:50,279 --> 00:13:54,960 And that's why it's important. It's important that we stay strong, 209 00:13:55,120 --> 00:14:01,039 we stay united, and most importantly, thanks for listening. Hey everyone, 210 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:03,559 first of all, thanks for watching. I mean, we're going 211 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:08,759 to be posting daily episodes with reactions and talking about politics. 212 00:14:08,919 --> 00:14:12,320 We'll be talking about everything in fact, so please like 213 00:14:12,399 --> 00:14:14,960 and subscribe join us on this journey.