Speaker 1: Welcome to Political beat Down.
Speaker 2: I'm Ben Macellas of course, joined by Michael Cohen. Michael Cohen,
let's just get right into it today. The New Hampshire
primaries voters are out there. Nikki Haley's been speaking to
New Hampshire voters about why they should vote for her,
and Donald Trump's been, I don't know, making noises. I
want to get your perspective, Michael Cohen, because you've known
Donald Trump for a very long time. You knew him
for a long time, you probably knew him better than
almost anyone out there. And I want to start this
episode by talking about his cognitive decline and just this
serious cognitive decline we are watching before our eyes, and
we've known about it before, but it's really seems to
me that it is accelerating. Let me just show you
this first clip, Coen. Then I want to get into
all of the clips. But here Donald Trump's trying to
speak about him his military prowess, his international experience, if
you will, his understanding of war and peace, things that
we want to hear about naturally from people who are
running from office. And when Donald Trump talks about our military,
our missile capabilities, here's how he does it?
Speaker 1: Play the clip.
Speaker 3: These are not muscle guys here, the muscle guys up here, right,
and they calmly walk to a seat.
Speaker 4: Bing ding ding ding ding ding.
Speaker 3: They've only got seventeen seconds to figure this whole thing
out right, bomb okay, missile launched, ping pum to most.
Speaker 4: Dinging, booming.
Speaker 2: Boom. I mean it's when we're watching a little petulant
like baby like, how are we normal?
Speaker 1: This shouldn't be normalized, Michael.
Speaker 4: No, it should not be normal. Worse than worse than
the insanity of watching a seventy seven, seventy eight year
old man talking about the military capability of the United States,
which by the way, he shouldn't be talking about under
any circumstance. But to be describing it like a fifth
like a five year old in this sort of manner,
and to be the leader of the Republican Party, one
of the two major parties in American democracy, and probably
the ultimate nominee, is embarrassing to the world. You know,
one thing that I heard somebody talk about, and I
agree with them wholeheartedly, begetting about how much damage that
Donald Trump is going to do to America if and
when God forbid, a billion times he becomes president again.
Think about what's gonna happen to the world. Think about
how somebody like Vladimir Putin is watching this, How somebody
like you know, Kim Jong un is watching this. How
do you take it? Could you imagine Vladimir Putin ever
sitting there and talking about his missile capability with bing
ding ding seventeen seconds? You don't even have time to react.
What the fuck is he talking about? What's he babbling about?
Seventeen seconds? Seventeen seconds for what? The only last time
I heard seventeen seconds in any relationship to Donald Trump
was his sexual, you know, encounter with Stormy Daniels. But
other than that, maybe there was a boom, maybe there wasn't.
Who the hell knows, I don't know. But all I
do know is that seventeen seconds bing ding ding, boom, boom, boom.
It is insanity. And the fact that he could be
doing as well as he's doing in these polls, the
fact that he will most probably be unless something something
spectacular happens. Can you imagine that this guy is going
to be running for the presidency of the United States
of America? What an embarrassment?
Speaker 2: A little bit later in the show, I do want
to share a lot of these clips coming out of
Nicky Halley voters or even former Ron DeSantis voters, people
who consider themselves to be mainstream Republicans or independents who
would occasionally vote for Republicans, people who have voted for
Donald Trump in twenty sixteen and twenty twenty, who are
now out there saying that if it's not Nicky Halley
or it's not DeSantis who's dropped out by now, there's
no chance that they will ever be voting for Donald Trump.
They said never again. They feel completely humiliated. And this
isn't a small portion. I think it's like forty percent
of and this is it from an article from Politico
right here. I think it's like forty to forty five
percent of Nicky Halley voters saying that they will never
vote for Donald Trump. And even if that equates to know,
anywhere from eight to fifteen to twenty percent of the
Republican Party, although I think it's going to be more
than that. I think we're going to see something unprecedented
happen that you and I have been talking about here
as we get closer to November. As a pro democracy
community really kind of coalesces and rallies behind normalcy, our constitution,
preserving and protecting our democracy.
Speaker 4: So yesterday I met up with a friend who moved
from New York then to California. California has moved also
to Florida, and she introduced me to a friend of hers,
also from Florida. Very very intelligent, you know woman. And
one of the things that I was blown away is
how little people actually understand of the Iowa Caucus, the
New Hampshire primaries, and so on. And one of the
things that I just want to explain, and I'm certain
that many people know this, but there's still just too
many people that don't. When it comes to the New
Hampshire primaries. One of the things that Donald is out
there spewing and he has his minion regurgitating the misinformation,
the disinformation, the malinformation is that Democrats do not get
the opportunity to vote in the New Hampshire primary. So
one of the things that he's saying is that if
Nicky Haley does really well, or if hypothetically he should lose,
it's only because the Democrats have stacked the polls and
the Democrats are going to be coming out in force,
to go ahead and to vote for Nicky Haley against him,
to embarrass him, to give her a chance to keep
her in the race, except etc. That's not true. The
only people who could vote in the New Hampshire primaries
Republican New Hampshire primary are Republicans and undeclared. Now, the
undeclared makes up a pretty good number there in New Hampshire,
but under no circumstances can Democrats vote in the Republican
New Hampshire primary.
Speaker 2: Michael Cohen, I want to start sharing some other videos
here of Donald Trump because one of the things he's doing,
in addition to spreading the type of disinformation that you
just talked about, because he's because of this cognitive decline
that we're seeing, he's kind of mixing up and mushing
together conspiracies and is just kind of blabbering incoherent things.
So this is a clip that got a lot of
attention because a Republican addressed it, nikkiy Hale addressed it.
Nicky Halley's mentioned in it, Donald Trump's Nicky Halley, Nicky Haley,
Nicki Haley. I offered Nicky Haley ten thousand troops. It's
only for that reason, though, Michael Cohen, because Nicky Haley
actually confronted this, that it is even a story that
legacy media, mainstream media, whatever you want to call it,
that they now felt comfortable to report on it because
it was packaged through Nicky Haley. But any one of
these clips that we're showing, as you and I've said before,
that should be front page news. When somebody who's leading
the Republican Party talks about our military and our weapons
systems in terms of ding ding boom, switch bush ding
ding boom, and the media and well, wushsh and the
media goes, oh, okay, well, I guess the conservative philosophy.
It's like, dude, shut up. He's out there making baby noises.
He's one step away eating his own poop basically. But anyway,
let me let me for real, it's not even an
exaggeration what we're watching. Let me show you this clip
where he talks about Nicki Haley Nicky Helly, I gave
Nicki Hally ten thousand troops and she couldn't stop the
January sixth insurrection.
Speaker 5: Here play this clip.
Speaker 3: Never reports the crowds, you know, by the way, they
never report the crowd on January sixth.
Speaker 6: You know Nicki Helly, Nicki Haley, Nicki Haley.
Speaker 4: You know they do. You know they.
Speaker 3: Destroyed all of the information, all of the evidence, everything
deleted and destroyed all of it, all of it because
of lots of things, like Nicky Haley is in charge
of security, we offered her ten thousand people.
Speaker 2: Pervert Hoover over there saying that he gave Nicky Hally
ten thousand troops. Michael, You've known Donald Trump for a
long time.
Speaker 1: I've never seen him seen some serious like this.
Speaker 2: You're you're seeing things though, right, And I want to
hear your perspective because you've seen his mental state before.
Speaker 1: There's real issues here.
Speaker 4: All right. So let me be very clear about something.
This is not the Donald Trump that I knew going
back from two thousand and seven through twenty eighteen. This
is a Donald Trump in significant cognitive decline. You know,
we've seen him do some strange stuff. But it's not
just that he's confusing Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi. He's
confusing Biden with Obama. He's confusing just a multitude of
things that in and of itself should be extremely worrying
to the voting population. This is not a man all
of a sudden he's gonna be like, yeah, let's send
one of these missiles the bing ding boom booms off
to North Korea. But he's actually thinking of you know,
Saudi Arabia, He's thinking of Iran. I mean, this is
not somebody who you can trust, because it's not just
that Donald Trump is in this sort of weird place.
What it does is it empowers those that are around
him to believe that Donald is in such cognitive decline
that they will be the ones in charge of government.
And they are not there. First of all, they're not
there because we want them there. They're there because they're
going to sign these loyalty oaths to Donald. They're there
in order to enrich themselves at our expense. This is
really a very scary time in America. I might I'm
telling you, I have never seen Donald in such a
way about him. Is it because he's really going through
some sort of bout of dementia. I don't know. I
haven't you know, I haven't examined him, or am I
in a position to examine him. Is it because all
of this litigation has finally gotten to him. Is it
may maybe the alleged styphilis that we saw growing on
his hands, you know? Is that because you know syphilis
will cause dementia? Who the fuck knows? But why do
we even care? Why is this man in the why
is he the front runner? And why are people lining
up in sub zero temperatures in order to vote for
somebody who acts and behaves in this sort of manner?
This is the I mean, you know, I forget who
it was. Michael Lo Rosa turned around and we were
doing it for my mea Culpa podcast and upcoming recording,
and he said to me something that was very very true.
And it's not that people like Donald Trump. It's not
that they are anti Biden so to speak. They're just
pro Republican and they are looking for a reason why
not to vote for for Joe Biden. You got to
search long and hard to come up with a reason
why you would vote for somebody who is cognitively impaired.
Somebody who is up there at a rally. Mind you,
he doesn't have to think for a second. Everything is
written on a teleprompter. Just shut the fuck up and
read the teleprompter instead. When he goes on these and
he goes on these riffs off of the telepromter, the teleprompter,
this is what you get. You get somebody who has
no idea where he is, he has no idea what
he's talking about. And it's it's almost to the point
that the media, mainstream media, they don't stop covering him
because it's so wacky that it's funny, and we're not
supposed to be This isn't Saturday Night Live, where you're
supposed to be laughing about this. This is really serious stuff.
This is our future democracy, and shame on us, really,
if you think about it. Shame on us for allowing
him to get to the position that he's at, and
the fact that there are so many people who are
still supporting somebody who's going to be walking around in
his underwear right like the way that the Chin Jiganti
was walking around through downtown Manhattan. He is out of
his mind right now.
Speaker 2: I mean going to He's basically doing that right now
in each of these speeches that we see. To your point,
Michael cod, I just think people view things, or people
who have been Republicans their whole life view this as
kind of very tribal right, it's their team. You know,
it's like you've got the got the Yankees, and you've
got the Dodgers, but Boston Red Sox, right, the Boston
Red Sox.
Speaker 1: But it's not that at all.
Speaker 2: As Lindsey Graham said, the one thing Lindsay Graham said
right back on May third, twenty sixteen, I think we
have the post. If we nominate Trump, we will get
destroyed and we will deserve it. And let's face it,
everybody needs to just admit it that the Republican Party
is dead, it is over. It is now maga. You
can't even call them Republican anymore.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 2: People who view themselves as Republican, who feel this tribal
allegiance to the Republican Party, the real Republican in name
only is this maga movement and they just need to
recognize that. And the pro democracy community we hear at
the pro democracy community made up of progressives, liberals, independence,
people who have left the Republican Party, mainstream Republicans, actual conservatives.
We need to also be welcoming to people who are
watching what we're watching, Michael Cohen, who are seeing what
we're seeing and they are just disgusted by it and
they want out. And honestly, I know it's tough for
us because you know, especially people who have stayed with
this Maga Republican thing post January sixth and now are leaving.
I get how difficult it is to be like, wait
a minute, you saw the insurrection and you are still
supporting this guy, and you're still supporting this I understand that,
But the moment right now is.
Speaker 1: Just so super critical.
Speaker 2: That we can resolve some of those disagreements later on,
but right now we have to be welcoming.
Speaker 1: We have to grow our tent.
Speaker 2: And I like that President Biden is focused on expanding
the base while Trump is focused on shrinking the Republican this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, look, let's all be fair about it. You know,
the big attacks on Joe Biden is his age and
that when he's reading the teleprompter he's squinting. He's very passive,
he seems mild, but you know what he is, He's fastidious.
This is a man who has a task ahead of him.
This is a man who has good people around him
that are interested in doing things that benefit you and me,
benefiting America, in fact, benefiting democracy around the world. Very
different than what's going to come in when Donald Trump
demands loyalty oats by all the folks that are going
to be joining the transition team. This is really scary
stuff when you're gonna have folks like the Matt Gateses
of the world. The Ted Cruzer is the the you know,
the Josh Hawley's, the Marjorie toilet Greens, the Lauren Boberts.
These are the folks that are willing to pledge their
fealty to him, not to America, but to him because
they see a pathway to benefiting, benefiting from it at
our expense. But what they don't seem to understand is
that Donald will not let them benefit so long as,
like a mob boss, he doesn't get a taste. So
the whole thing is going to be one giant shit
show of chaos every single day, just every single day.
And how how we're not worrying about this more and more,
and how we're in a situation where again you have
somebody in Look, I'm not saying I'm not saying that
Nikki Haley should be the Republican nominee. I'm not saying
that it should have been you know, DeSantis or any
of the other people that wanted it. I'm just saying
it cannot be Donald because us of the danger that
he poses to democracy.
Speaker 2: I want to share with you this ad that was
just put out by President Biden's campaign. President Biden said,
I don't agree with Nicki Hally on everything, but I
think we agree on this much. She is not Nancy Pelosi.
And here's the ad that President Biden released. Played the
clip last night.
Speaker 3: Trump is in a rally, you know, Nicki Hally, Nicki Haley,
Nicki Haley.
Speaker 7: And he's going on and on mentioning me multiple times
as to why didn't handle January sixth better.
Speaker 3: Nicky Haley isn't charge of security.
Speaker 6: We offered her.
Speaker 3: Ten thousand people. They don't want to talk about that.
Speaker 2: I wasn't in office.
Speaker 4: Then they're saying, you got confused.
Speaker 3: Yeah, voter idd to buy a loaf of bread? You
have you have id to buy a loaf of bread?
Speaker 8: What what is I'm driving over a road where it's
almost all papers, and you know you can see paper,
I know paper, I know cans, but.
Speaker 1: All all the time.
Speaker 3: Now we see whales washing up on shore because of
the wind. Our veterans don't have cell phones, do they.
Speaker 4: He got confused. He got confused and said he was
running against Obama. He never ran against Obama.
Speaker 3: And we did with Obama, we won an election that
everyone said couldn't be won.
Speaker 4: Obama wants to he doesn't want to talk about it.
Speaker 1: Well, you mean President Biden, So.
Speaker 9: Uh, don't put our country at risk like this.
Speaker 2: I'm Joe Biden, and I approve this message. That looked
a little bit like a mite is short right there,
that looks like some of the I really thought that
was a powerful ad, using Nikki Halley to basically narrate
that and show Donald Trump's cognitive lapses. And there, once
again you had Donald Trump, who I've been calling pervert,
Hoover sick.
Speaker 1: I know paper, I know cans.
Speaker 2: I know paper and cans.
Speaker 4: I mean the fact that you and I are actually
have this conversation, the fact that the choice, the best
choice that Republicans have to put up is going to
be somebody who's lost it. I mean, there's no other
way to describe it. I don't want to make fun
of somebody's cognitive decline. I mean that runs in his family.
I don't want to make fun of it, because it's
not funny and you know what else isn't funny? Allowing
somebody in a cognitive decline who doesn't know that the
roads are made of concrete, not paper or aluminum. Guy
who doesn't who believes that the whales are washing up
onto shore because of the wind. I mean, yeah, that
just makes a lot of sense, doesn't it. Or a
guy who believes he ran against Barack Obama when clearly
he did not. This just doesn't make it. This doesn't
make any sense. A guy who thinks that it's that
Nicky Haley is Nancy Pelosi or whoever he was confusing
that this should be the guy who even has a
fifty to fifty shot of becoming the president of the
United States? The fuck are we doing? What are we doing?
Could you imagine how the other you know, uh, countries
of autocrats are praying to God that Trump becomes the president.
Could you imagine what Putin right now is thinking. He's
licking his chops right This guy is like chowing down
on pounds of caviare just enjoying it while sipping champagne,
hoping that they could do something to help Donald in
order to become the president, because guarantee the next day
Ukraine is left into the is. They're just left in
the wind. Russia will be able to take over Ukraine.
Forget about just crimea. I mean, it's really it's so sad.
I mean, there's really all the way to describe it.
It's pathetic.
Speaker 2: And it's said, this is how Donald Trump talks about
China and Russia. And you'll just hear his voice change,
Oh my.
Speaker 4: God, what China is going to do to America. Here's
what possibly imagine.
Speaker 2: Ben, Here's what Donald Trump says about China and Russia.
Speaker 5: Here play this clip.
Speaker 3: Russia or China. And she was sitting there like, what
the hell? She didn't she wasn't she didn't I put
her in the room.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: Look one of the reasons I did because I happen
to love the lieutenant and Henry mcmash.
Speaker 4: I'm so sorry. That's one clip I have not seen already.
But what the hell came before it? What is that
even about?
Speaker 2: He was saying how he put Nikki Halley in the
room with China and Russia. And he says it like
that and that she's weak and he's strong, but he
only hires the best people, and she's bad on foreign policy.
Even and he's great on foreign policy, even though he
hired her to basically, you know, to be the ambassador
to the UN. And Donald Trump thinks that he was
tough on China by running a trade war that ended
up being one of the causes of inflation here by
taxing imports, because I don't think Donald Trump really understands
the way tariffs actually work, and that it is inflationary,
the same way the eight trillion dollars in debt that
he caused us was also significantly inflationary that President Biden
got under control. But here's what Donald Trump had to
say as well, Michael Cohen. He said that he doesn't
care about.
Speaker 1: The support of Nicky Halley voters. He doesn't care about
this support.
Speaker 5: Here. Let me show you this clip. Let's play.
Speaker 2: How do you bring these Nicki Haley voters, some of
who has voted for you in twenty twenty but say
they don't want to now, how do you bring them
back into the.
Speaker 10: Taking all vote for me?
Speaker 3: They got to all votes for me again, everybody.
Speaker 4: And I'm not sure we need too many.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure we need too much many too many?
Speaker 7: And here he is with about anything now is he
bing bing ben ding bing whoosh, whoosh swoshing that if
I ever talked like that, Michael Cohen, you can just
let me be very clear about something.
Speaker 4: If you talked like that when you were six years old,
they would have had you in therapy.
Speaker 5: I totally agree.
Speaker 1: Let me show you.
Speaker 2: This is Marjorie Taylor Green talking about how if you're
not obedient to Donald Trump at this point, if you
don't support the Trump policies, you will be eradicated from
the Republican Party.
Speaker 5: Here, I think we got this clip. Let's play this one.
Speaker 11: This is a referendum on the Republican Party. And that's
something I'll be saying in my speech tonight. This is
a true change for the Republican Party. It says that
not only do we support President Trump, we support his
policy and in a Republican that isn't willing to adapt
these policies, we are completely eradicating from the party.
Speaker 2: We are completely eradicating from the Republican Party. Republicans who
won't adapt their policies to what Michael Cohen ding ning
boom a wooshing. If you don't say that, wow.
Speaker 4: Could you imagine we're all going to like what they
do in North Korea with Kim Jong un. They're all
going to sit there and have to clap their hands
saying that was the best speech I have ever heard
in my entire life. It's better than the other speech
that he gave just the day before. We are so
lucky to have him as our supreme leader. You know,
I don't understand. Are we so anxious to get rid
of democracy? Are we so anxious to become an autocracy?
Forgetting about the fact that you know that two hundred
and fifty years ago we fought for our independence. I mean,
are we so forgetful on how many soldiers are buried,
whether it's at Arlington or any of the other cemeteries,
for people who fought for American democracy, fought for the
ideals that are given or granted to us in the
Constitution our rights. Are we that fast to walk away
from it? I mean, this is exactly what Hitler did,
starting in Germany or Austria and then moving and then
moving west. I mean, this is exactly what he did.
It's this dumb ass conversation. I mean, look, everybody that
Hitler with the stupid fucking haircut and a little mustache
underneath his nostrils. But nevertheless, look at the damage that
he caused. So here we laugh at the same sort
of an idiot with the you know, with the flip
flap flop that goes over there saying stupid shit with
orange makeup on his face. It's one idiot after another.
I mean, is this what we is this what we're
waiting for? Is this what we want? Because I can
assure you, bing bing Ben, it's not what I want Boom,
you know.
Speaker 2: But that's where this mission that we all have in
the pro democracy community to build together. And I'm looking
at all of you beat down brigaders because trust me,
Michael Cohen and I are in this together with you.
We need your help. That's why we're trying to build
something that just hasn't existed before. Right because left to
its own, the legacy media will normalize everything that we
are showing you and sharing with you. So we have
to be like, you know what, we got to change
this march towards authoritarian We got to stop it together.
And one of the ways we can do it, if
it's our own small contribution, is build a media network
that shows these things.
Speaker 1: And by the way, that's all I.
Speaker 2: Really wanted the legacy media to do. I'm not saying
they they don't need to fan boy for President Biden.
I wouldn't want that to happen. I just want them
to freaking show the clips that we're showing you. Not
just when Nicky Haley's name is invoked, because now a
Republican's talking about it, but when Trump's they're saying China, Russia,
king Ding bung Ding, bung ding Ding. Or how about
this clip right here where Donald Trump talks about he
should get absolute immunity because he's kind of like a
rogue cop or you know, you know, he's also kind
of like a like a peedo priest and as a
result of that, they get immunity, which they don't get immunity.
Donald Trump says that he should get absolute immunity like
a peto priest. But again that clip won't be shown
on legacy media. And again all we're doing here, Cohen
is I'm just saying salty.
Speaker 5: Please play the clip.
Speaker 3: Go back to being a country of law and order.
Have to do it, and you will have very seldom,
but you will have the rogue and we call it
the rogue cup, the bad Apple and perhaps you'll have
that also with president, but there's nothing you can do
about that. You're going to have to give the president.
You're going to have to allow a president, any president,
to have immunity so that that president can act and
do what he feels and what his group of advisors
feel is the absolute right thing. Otherwise you're going to
have presidents that are totally impotent.
Speaker 4: And we've had.
Speaker 3: Enough of them already.
Speaker 1: We've had enough of them already.
Speaker 3: So having immunity is so important, and I hope the
Supreme Court has the courage that because otherwise you're just
not going to be in a very strong position very long.
It'll totally change our country in my opinion.
Speaker 1: That's how bad it was.
Speaker 2: And by the way, that's part of his stuff. So
that's in Manchester. Then he goes to Rochester, New Hampshire,
where he talks about there are bad apples in the church.
Do you know about the bad apples? And just like
the bad apples, I want to talk to you about
absolute community. We'll talk about that one in just a bit.
But Cohen, what do you think about that?
Speaker 4: I mean, what could we possibly say to our brigaders
that we haven't said time and time and time again.
It's one of the reasons why Ben and I are
consistently imploring everyone to ensure that you're registered to vote.
This is not a joke. I want to be clear
about something as well. If Joe Biden made the statements
that Donald Trump is making right now, whether it's about
the bad apples, whether it's about the bing bing boom
boom zoom swish seventeen seconds, China Russia, I would be
saying the same thing about Joe Biden that I am
saying about Donald Trump. We do not have a place
in Washington for someone who is cognitively impaired as Donald
Von schitts and panss period, end of story. And that's
what might have touched network. That's what this political beatdown,
that's what my Maya Culpa podcast what we do. We're
trying to put out facts, no more innuendo. My friends,
we are ten months away from an election that our children, grandchildren,
great grandchildren will turn around and say to you, whether
it's today, tomorrow, years from now, what the fuck were
you thinking? Why didn't you do something? You could have
done more? Because when democracy is on the line, you
have to fight for it. We cannot sit back idly
and do nothing. It's why we keep saying, please make
sure that you share this network, you share this program,
you share maya Culpa program with your family, your friends,
your colleagues, whomever, so that we could together build the
community to ensure that somebody who is cognitively impaired does
not end up. Imagine that shit behind the overlaw in
the Oval office, behind the Lincoln desk. Can you imagine
what damage it's going to be? Looking for example, what
has happened as a direct result of the Dobbs decision
with the overturning of Roe versus Weight. You listen to
Donald von Schitz and pants when he talks like he
doesn't even know what he's talking about eighty ninety percent
of the time, well that ten twenty percent of the
time that he's somewhat coherent. That doesn't work if you're
the president of the United States. It may work if
you're living at the country club right and you're you know,
you confuse, you know, the let's say, the third ty
for the sixty or the eightht who gives the shit,
no problem, they'll point you to the right direction. But
when you're the president of the United States, and the
world is in the flux that it's in right now.
No bullshit, I'm no good cannot happen. We cannot continue
to allow him and his sycophantic followers, especially those that
will follow him into the White House, to interfere with
our constitutional rights to do things like the overturning of
Roe versus Weight. We cannot allow this to happen. And
we need to fight like hell, and we need to
fight like hell at the ballot box.
Speaker 2: I just want to show you this tick that Donald
Trump still has, or I should say that pervert Hoover
still has. Here, Donald Trump was with Marjorie Taylor Green
and he saw, what I think, a young girl in
the audience. And let me just show you how he
responds to there being a young girl in the audience
around him.
Speaker 5: Here, play this clip, salty so young.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Did you see what he did there?
Speaker 2: Let me just show it one more time. This is
him saying, oh, she's so young, and then watch what
he does with his hands. Play this clip you young,
I don't know.
Speaker 5: That's not anyway.
Speaker 2: When we come back, I want to show some signs
of hope, which is that there are these mainstream Republicans.
There are independents that we're seeing in New Hampshire who
are saying, no matter what, they will never vote.
Speaker 5: For Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: And these are people who supported him in twenty twenty,
in twenty sixteen because they're seeing these clips, they're seeing
Donald Trump say that he wants to be a dictator.
Speaker 1: He's saying, I want to be a dictator, he says it.
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of these other clips, though I got it before going
to these independent voters and mainstream Republicans who are never
voting for Trump. This is a clip of Donald Trump
saying that we this is from the other night, that
we won World Wars in forts. He says, as though
we fought World Wars on American soil, and the only
fort name that he can remember is named after someone
who wanted to secede from the United States from Virginia.
Speaker 3: Play this clip raised up those great skyscrapers, won two
World Wars. You know, we won World Wars out of forts,
Fort Benning Fort, this sport that many for. They changed
the name. We won wars out of these forts. They
changed the name. They changed the name of the forts.
A lot of people aren't too happy about that. Defeated,
he said, unacceptable. Yeah, no, they change the name of
a lot of our forts. We won two World Wars
out of a lot of these forts, and they changed
the name. It's it's unbelievable defeat.
Speaker 4: I mean, could you imagine this. I want you to
go back and each and every one of you think
for a quick second. You're sitting in history class, sixth grade,
seventh grade, eighth grade, ninth, tenth, whatever it might be.
You're sitting in history class and one of the and
the questions are name three forts, right Fort Dix or
he said, what Fort Benning? Fort this? And for that,
I'm pretty sure that you're gonna get a zero as
an answer to that question. The fact of the matter is,
when it comes to Donald, facts don't matter. What matters
to him is he thinks he's playing to the crowd,
and sadly, in many of these places, as he likes
to say, he is playing to the poorly educated, to
the uneducated, to these magamrons with the fourteenth and the
three brain cells that think everything that Donald says is accurate.
And it's very scary. It's really scary in the fact
that these people have the same power as you and
I in terms of their vote. One vote. You know,
each vote counts exactly the same whether you are a magamorn,
whether you're a billionaire, or whether you're average Joe or
Jane American. And that's the way it's supposed to be.
But how is it possible. I mean, again, Ben, you
and I could talk about this till the cow comes home,
and Donald would truly believe that a cow is actually
coming home. He goes, don't worry, I'm gonna wait up
for it. This is not a joke. It's really not
a joke. When you have someone talking about we fought
world wars out of forts, I really wish that at
some point in time somebody in the audience would say,
Donald Pinya, tell us which forts that we actually fought
out of? Considering you know, neither World War one or
World War two will fought on American soil. In fact,
that the last war that was fought on American soil
was the Civil War? What the hell's he talking about?
Speaker 2: Then, part of his stump speech, after doing whatever the
hell that was that we just showed, he goes to
the audience and he goes, my cognitive's good. I got
good cognitive I'm not cognitively I take cognitive tests.
Speaker 1: I take apptitude tests all the time.
Speaker 2: Here they just want to be I'm at an elephant.
Here's Donald Trump claiming that he's not cognitively impaired.
Speaker 5: Here play this clip.
Speaker 1: The fake news.
Speaker 3: They say, did you ever realize that he gets the
name Barack Obam?
Speaker 4: I'm confused with Biden.
Speaker 3: You know, they're trying to say he's cognitively impaired. And
when I use it, because I figure backus say Obama's
probably running things based on some of the people. I say.
So when I say barackusse Obama is running things, they say, oh,
when I imitate him walking into a wall because he
can't fire, the says they showed me.
Speaker 2: And then I'll show you just one more clip like that.
Here Donald Trump claims that he gets confused on purpose,
and then talks about a cognitive exam he took recently,
like he's always taking cognitive he's like addicted to cognitive exams.
Speaker 5: Apparently, here play this clip.
Speaker 3: But I don't do it because what they do is
if I'm sarcastic or like a lot of times, I'll say,
and President Obama is doing allows you Jeb meeting that
Obama's running the show, they'll say Donald Trump doesn't know
who our president is. No, no, because cognitively, you know,
I don't know if you But a few months ago
I took a cognitive test.
Speaker 1: My doctor gave me.
Speaker 3: I said, give me a cognitive test, just so we
can you know, because you know what the standards were,
and I aceted. I also took one when I was
in but I also took one when I was in
the White House.
Speaker 4: No, I'll let you.
Speaker 1: Know when I go bad.
Speaker 3: I really think I'll be able to tell you because someday.
Speaker 4: We go bad.
Speaker 1: But you know, I've had And.
Speaker 3: They always say, like like Hayley, she talks about, yeah.
Speaker 4: We don't need eighty year old.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't mind being eighty, but I'm seventy seven.
Speaker 1: That's a big difference different.
Speaker 4: But I hap.
Speaker 2: I mean, they're clapping for him like he's Shambu at
Sea World and he just like was able to like.
Speaker 4: Jumps an entertainer. That's the whole thing. They're fucking bored
with their lives. You know, this is like watching one
of these Bravo TV reality shows in person for free, right,
all right, So you had to wait online for a
little bit and you get in there and you watch
the dancing clown perform. So they're laughing at it because
it is fucking funny. If it wasn't that our country's
democracy is on the line, it's fucking hysterical. In fact,
it's so funny that Saturday Night Live doesn't They don't
even have to change anything in the routine. They just
redo it using this guy who's fantastic is Donald. They
don't change anything because you can't do better. You can't
do better than the shit clown show that's going on
right now.
Speaker 2: Did you notice that they just have him actually say
the things that Trump was saying.
Speaker 4: They didn't exaggerate it, they didn't exaggerate it, they didn't
blow it up. They didn't, you know, change it in
any way to make it funnier. It's funny simply because
Donald von Schitz and Pants is talking about it as
if it's true and it's reality, and they're all just
laughing about it and clapping because they don't want the
show to end. It's almost like going to a Broadway
show or to an opera or something and you start
screaming bravo at the end, bravo because you want them
to come out or you know, or you know, at
a concert, you want them to play one more song,
one more song. They don't want this shit show to
stop because it's fucking hilarious.
Speaker 2: And then Cohen, here are the people who were at
that event. I think we've got a photo. By the way,
it's a pretty empty event also, but there's a photo
of these MAGA supporters right there. They put him on
the flag, they wear his face on their shirts. That's
what the Republican Party is in twenty twenty four, and
I think they are a mainstream Republican party. People who
are part of the Republican Party today, mainstream Republicans who
go that's not me like that behavior, uh uh, that's
not the party that I want to.
Speaker 1: Be associated with.
Speaker 2: So let me just show you some of these clips
that we assembled. First one as a voter by the
name of Joseph Muller, who previously voted for Donald Trump.
Speaker 5: Let's play this club.
Speaker 9: And when you talk to Nicky Haley's voters and people
who say that they plan to support her, you hear
a mix of voters that are unlikely allies.
Speaker 10: I consider myself a traditional Republican.
Speaker 9: Twenty six year old Joseph Mueller is planning to vote
for Nicki Haley in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary.
Speaker 2: Policy wise, I'm more in line with Haley, but.
Speaker 9: The law school student and self described moderate conservative says
his support is driven by another Kennedy.
Speaker 3: I'm thrilled to be back in the great state of
New Hampshire right now.
Speaker 2: Nicky Haley is clearly the one that has the best
chance of defeating Trump. An extra top priority, defeating Trumps,
that's my top priority.
Speaker 9: The polling since Donald Trump's historic win in Iowa shows
the former president leading by double digits in New Hampshire,
but facing a tougher challenge from his former UN ambassador.
Speaker 4: I voted for him twice, and I was just humiliated
when I saw that the guy I voted for the
way he handled himself after he lost.
Speaker 2: Humiliated, he says, let me show you this next clip going.
This is a New Hampshire resident who previously voted for
Trump in twenty sixteen, but now says they are firmly
against Donald Trump.
Speaker 5: Let's play this clip.
Speaker 6: Voted for draw Trump the very first election, Yes, in
twenty sixteen and twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: And why not?
Speaker 6: Why not now? Because I feel that I'm not going
to tell you what I really feel, but I think
that he's not a very honest person, and I think
that he did a real disservice to our country on
January sixth.
Speaker 4: And was that when you lost faith in him?
Speaker 6: No, I'd lost faith in a long time before that.
Speaker 2: And here's another guy who gets it country over party.
Speaker 5: Let me show you this clip as well. Play this clip,
salting just.
Speaker 2: Support her.
Speaker 10: I am I voted for him in the last election.
I haven't been pleased with some of his policies, even.
Speaker 4: Just the spending.
Speaker 10: And his treatment of the border. I think we've got
real problems that he's failing to recognize and do something with.
But she's a much better choice than Trump.
Speaker 5: I want to show you one more clip.
Speaker 2: Co And this New Hampshire Republican who previously voted for
Trump says she no longer can after watching him praise
dictators and promised to be one. She says she's seventy
four years old, she's lived in a constitutional democracy throughout
her life, and she's thinking about her grandkids right now
in the world she's going to leave them.
Speaker 5: Let's play this clip.
Speaker 1: If we haven't salty, I.
Speaker 12: Want to uh, twenty four years old. I've lived in
a constitutional democracy all my life. I want to remain
that way, and I want my grandchildren to grow up
in one and the dictatorship.
Speaker 2: And I'm curious over the last two elections.
Speaker 1: Have you voted Trump in the past.
Speaker 2: Was it something where you voted for him, you trusted him,
and you were disappointed.
Speaker 12: Yes, I voted for him in twenty sixteen. I am
a registered Republican, and I regretted that vote almost immediately,
especially on his trip to Europe where he insulted our
allies and praised.
Speaker 1: Putin so Cohen.
Speaker 2: I think it is really important that those stories be
shared and highlighted. We have a whole series here that
we've been doing now for over a year on the
Midas Touch Network where we talk about former Republicans. We
call it our mass Exodus series of mainstream Republicans and
independents who are fleeing this maga mutation of conservativism, which
it's not conservative in the Republican Party. But when I
watch clips like that of President Biden, which he's doing
right now, is putting together a coalition like that that's
fairly unprecedented in kind of American history elections that you
have something like that take place.
Speaker 4: You know, been one of the things that we have
not touched on, and I think that on the next
show we definitely have to touch on it. You know
that Donald's abilities are just being flushed down the toilet
when you have someone like Joe Takapina, or as we
like to call him on the show, Taco Penis ends
up dropping Trump as a client. Why is it that
everyone who is I can't even call Tacapina a good lawyer,
but certainly better than Alena Habba. Look at what he's
being left with. These are the people that are surrounding
Donald Trump. These are the people that are going to
be surrounding Trump if God forbid he ends up becoming
president again. You're talking about the himmlers and the and
the gerrings. These are people who aren't capable of doing
shit on their own, and so they are riding his
coattails to what they perceive to be power and money
and everything else in between, but mostly it's power. That's
what they're all really looking for right now. And to
all of them that are willing to sign that loyalty pledge,
you know, to Donald, you know, Donald over country, Party
over country, I say fuck you to both. All right,
to all of you, you don't this. This grandmother, the
seventy four year old grandmother, hit it right on the
hit the nail right on the head, which said, you know,
I grew up and I lived in a democracy, and
I want to give democracy to my children, my grandchildren
and great grandchildren and so on. That's not where we're
where we're at. And again I see so many people
in the comments. That's why we have to vote blue. Please,
I beg each and every one of you make sure
that you are one hundred percent registered to vote. There
is no I don't care, you know, as Donald would say,
if it's twenty degrees below zero, which of course it
won't be, but whatever it is, we have to ensure
that we get out there and we make our votes
count because democracy America is on the line, you know.
Speaker 2: And you know you see with Donald Trump that being
being woosh, but there's also a nihilism there. There's a
intent to cause harm to our country. We've heard Donald
Trump say that he wants the economy to crash, he
wants the stock market to crash right now because he
thinks that will help him in the election. Fortunately, President
Biden has navigated a lot, a lot of kind of
land mines that Donald Trump has placed from eight trillion
dollars in debt, the inflationary conditions that Donald Trump caused
no way to pay for his tax cuts to billionaires
and deca millionaires and screwover working people. Donald Trump's trade wars,
which were a failure. But President Biden's been able to
steer the economic ship in the right direction. And we're
not even at the point yet and we expect it
soon where the Fed will cut interest rates as well.
But even without that, every day the stock market is
setting record highs. But setting aside that mesrig then.
Speaker 4: Why isn't Biden touting that? Could you imagine if this
was right now Trump in the presidency and it hit
the thirty thousand number, the highest recorded ever? Could you
imagine what Donald would be saying every single second of
every single day.
Speaker 2: Well it's a great point because well, first and foremost,
there has to be a vehicle to get out the message.
President Biden and his team do talk about this every
single day. We talk about it here on the Midas
Touch Network.
Speaker 1: But you do not.
Speaker 2: See stories like the ones where Donald Trump would get
all this credit where the stock market was not nearly
as high as where it is now, where other metrics
were significantly down. So there has to be someone who
shows that message.
Speaker 4: Number One isn't Biden on any given day can talk
behind the Lincoln desk from the Oval Office, he can
go outside to the Rose Garden, he just has the ability.
All he has to do is step outside and then
say we just crushed anything from any previous administration. I'd
like to see Biden saying it, not Kareem Jean Pierre,
not Ben bing Bing Boom, Ben Micellas, not Michael Cohen.
I'd like to see Joe come out there and tout
the fact that the stock market, unlike the guy who
could be his competitor in the twenty twenty four election,
who wants to see your four to oh one k
go down the toilet. Now we're setting records. You know why,
because America is strong, America is great, and America will
remain great so long as this guy remains at mar Lago.
Speaker 2: But also, the stock market isn't the main metric or
even I think they keep right. And so what President Biden, though,
also talks about is wage growth, that unemployment is at
record lows, that we've had a record job growth, that
the GDP is growing faster here than in China, that
it's record GDP growth, That we have the lowest inflation
here than any other G seven nations. So President Biden's
out there talking about it. But then what's the counterpoint
by Republicans right now, their focus is on border, border,
border invasion, invasion, invasion, and what's President Biden trying to do.
He's trying to get the resources to the border. But
the maga Republicans are refusing to do any border deal
because Donald Trump has told them, do not do a
border deal because the issue Donald Trump believes is a
winning issue for Republicans to whine about. So there's actually
bipartisan legislation taking place in the Senate right now, Democrats
and responsible Republicans. But in the House, the maga Republicans
are killing any deal that helps Ukraine and helps the border.
And by the way, you don't have to listen to
me or Michael Cohen about it. Let me show you
Republican Dan Crenshaw who says, this is what these magas
are doing. Announced this is a Republican congress member here.
Speaker 5: Play this clip.
Speaker 1: Salty will leave with this clip to play it full.
Speaker 13: Border policy changes, and for whatever reason people come up with,
they don't want it anymore. That's gonna be a pretty
tough position to stand by it. So there's a there's
so they're saying a couple of things, right, well, we
will never go for it if it's attached Ukraine and
really like we get meaningful border policy if he's great
in and you're not Gonnavote for that. So you want
Russia to win more than you want border policy changes.
Speaker 5: And that's that's tough.
Speaker 2: You defend that.
Speaker 5: Some people say, oh, i'll be noble.
Speaker 13: Biden wants it now because it's helpful to end politically.
Speaker 1: Okay, I want border security.
Speaker 2: That's that's what I That's what I told my constituents
that I would do for me.
Speaker 1: So if we can get that deal, that's.
Speaker 2: That's an brand I wanted to leave on that point
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Speaker 4: Look, there's not much more that I could possibly say
that we haven't already said again and again. You see
for yourself what's going on. You see the danger that
this man the saddest thing, and I will never stop
saying it. President Biden has to get aggressive, plain and simple.
He has to because he is not cognitively impaired. Now
he'll squint his eyes like I said before, when he's reading.
You know, he does have a stuttering issue. Everybody knows
about that, and so he'll sometimes you know, roll two
words into one. But he's certainly not calling Donald Trump, uh,
you know, big being Ben Mike sellis. He's certainly not
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Speaker 1: A two finger salute, A two finger salute.
Speaker 4: Well, I already gave the two fingers salute that went
on to all of those folks at the at the
GOP that are continuing to pledge their loyalty to Donald Trump.
They already got it.
Speaker 1: We can roll it.
Speaker 2: I needed it one more time to close out the show.
I needed a close out right there.
Speaker 1: On that note, thank you everybody for watching.
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