1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:05,599 Speaker 1: What's going on. 2 00:00:05,759 --> 00:00:08,119 Speaker 2: Thank you so much for listening to this podcast. It 3 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:10,080 is heard live every day from noon to three on 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:13,839 WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you want exclusive content 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:17,160 like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, my daily 6 00:00:17,199 --> 00:00:19,480 show prep with all the links, become a patron, go 7 00:00:19,559 --> 00:00:23,399 to dpetecleanershow dot com. Make sure you hit the subscribe button. 8 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:26,359 Get every episode for free, write to your smartphone or tablet, 9 00:00:26,359 --> 00:00:30,120 and again, thank you so much for your support. We 10 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:34,359 welcome back to the program. Stacy Matthews, writer over at 11 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:37,759 RedState dot com. She writes under the numb diplume of 12 00:00:38,079 --> 00:00:41,399 sister told you. Welcome Stacy. How are you today, Hey. 13 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:43,240 Speaker 3: Pete, good to be on. There's so much to talk 14 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:43,640 about it. 15 00:00:43,799 --> 00:00:48,520 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I've been looking at your page, your author 16 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:52,679 page or whatever it's called on the red state dot 17 00:00:52,679 --> 00:00:56,000 com site, and it seems like you've had some material. 18 00:00:56,039 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 4: It's been a target rich environment. 19 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 2: I see you've also got one that just posted up 20 00:01:00,079 --> 00:01:05,640 today regarding uh an old story UH that is related 21 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:08,560 to the new developments that people are talking about from 22 00:01:08,599 --> 00:01:12,879 this book Original Sin and the you know, Biden's cognitive decline. 23 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:15,400 But I guess like when you heard all of this, 24 00:01:15,799 --> 00:01:19,680 your mind went to cocaine, right, so like. 25 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 4: What what so? 26 00:01:21,359 --> 00:01:24,680 Speaker 2: And I thought I had not even considered this, so uh, 27 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:30,280 but you're you're now what rethinking? Some earlier tales of 28 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:31,439 cocaine in the White House? 29 00:01:32,239 --> 00:01:35,760 Speaker 3: Well, we reported at the site. My colleague Banchi actually 30 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:38,400 wrote the first story about it. There's so much coming 31 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:40,879 out from the new book from Jake Papper and Alex 32 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:45,680 Thompson's original Sin that came out officially on Tuesday, and 33 00:01:45,719 --> 00:01:50,640 one of the things that they reported was that Hunter Biden, 34 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:52,879 in the last two years of Joe Biden's presidency was 35 00:01:52,879 --> 00:01:57,640 pulling a lot more strings than we previously knew. Of course, 36 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:00,000 we knew ahead of time that he had even been 37 00:02:00,079 --> 00:02:05,719 and allegedly accompanying him into classified meetings, but it's actually, 38 00:02:05,799 --> 00:02:09,240 according to Jake Tapper, he was almost like the chief 39 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:13,120 of staff for Biden in the last two years. And 40 00:02:13,199 --> 00:02:17,520 the whole revelation of that information, it's got people kind 41 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:22,039 of revisiting the twenty twenty three Summer twenty twenty three 42 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,319 cocaine incident where cocaine was found at the White House 43 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:29,479 and we were told it was in various places. They 44 00:02:30,159 --> 00:02:31,800 told us it was in one place and would tell 45 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:34,960 us it was another place. And the Secret Service investigation 46 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:38,400 from that said that they never could determine who actually 47 00:02:38,439 --> 00:02:40,280 brought it in because there were so many people that 48 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:42,960 came and went from the White House. Well, with this 49 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:48,000 revelation about Hunter Biden and pulling strings and actually kind 50 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,960 of being more in power than we knew at the 51 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:53,719 Biden White House the last two years Biden was in office, 52 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:57,199 this really kind of makes you revisit that and think, well, 53 00:02:57,759 --> 00:03:00,719 I think we really know this time, you know who 54 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:02,719 it was who actually brought the cocaine in. I mean, 55 00:03:02,719 --> 00:03:05,240 it's funny on one hand, but it's not funny on 56 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:08,560 the other hand because it just goes to show that 57 00:03:08,599 --> 00:03:11,800 there's been so many more cover ups in the White 58 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:14,800 House that the media under reported or did not report 59 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:17,560 at all. And at the time we all talked about 60 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:19,479 it and speculated that it was Hunter Biden. But I 61 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:21,599 think this is kind of the cherry on top for 62 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:24,719 that story. I think it almost pretty much confirmed that 63 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:26,960 Hunter Biden was the one who brought the cocaine into 64 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:28,840 the White House at this point. 65 00:03:28,599 --> 00:03:30,800 Speaker 2: Because it would not have been able if I remember correctly, 66 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:33,960 you know, some member of a tour group or something like, 67 00:03:34,039 --> 00:03:36,800 they go through the screening and security checkpoints and all 68 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:41,360 of that, but family members do not. And that would 69 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:45,599 have given Hunter Biden access to enter and leave at 70 00:03:45,599 --> 00:03:49,159 his own will without any pat downs or security checks 71 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:52,199 or anything. And it was in an area that is 72 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:56,000 like not available to just the general public to go 73 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:57,439 into and. 74 00:03:57,479 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 3: Right, and the reason it needed to be covered up, 75 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:03,560 I mean oviously was embarrassing. But number two even more 76 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:06,240 importantly for Hunter Biden, who was trying to escape a 77 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:09,520 lot of things at that time. According to Stephen Miller, 78 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:12,400 who is an editor of The Spectator, he did every 79 00:04:12,439 --> 00:04:15,319 single person knows who the cocaine belonged to, but journalists 80 00:04:15,599 --> 00:04:18,439 actually doing journalism would have discovered that conditions of Hunter 81 00:04:18,439 --> 00:04:21,600 Biden's plea deal meant he stayed sober and clean, and 82 00:04:21,639 --> 00:04:24,560 if he violated that, then Joe Biden's only surviving son 83 00:04:24,879 --> 00:04:26,000 will be going to prison. 84 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:26,759 Speaker 1: Right. 85 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:30,079 Speaker 3: Yeah, So that's why it was covered up. You know, 86 00:04:30,079 --> 00:04:32,079 there's so much, there's so many layers to the cover 87 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:36,160 that we're now learning. It's just astonishing and it's such 88 00:04:36,199 --> 00:04:41,399 a huge scandal and it deserves a major, major investigation 89 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:44,240 that they shouldn't go away until the people who knew 90 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:46,480 about these things and kept them from the public. And 91 00:04:46,519 --> 00:04:51,120 these are people at the highest levels of government, cabinet secretaries, 92 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:53,800 possibly even Kamala Harris. They need to be held to account, 93 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:56,560 if nowhere else than in the court of public opinion, 94 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:58,399 because a lot of these people, well some of these 95 00:04:58,399 --> 00:05:00,360 people are going to be probably speaking all in the 96 00:05:00,399 --> 00:05:03,079 next few years, like Harris and a few others. They 97 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:05,279 need to be exposed and called out for what they did. 98 00:05:05,879 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 2: There was another tidbit in here that I have not 99 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:10,879 seen reported, so I guess it was this information about 100 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:15,399 bo Biden. Was this information in the book original Sin 101 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:19,800 about his the cover up of his medical condition that 102 00:05:19,879 --> 00:05:21,879 was in the book too, Yes. 103 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 3: This was kind of interesting, Pete. I wasn't aware of this. 104 00:05:25,079 --> 00:05:29,319 I just assumed around the time that his diagnosis was made, 105 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:32,519 which was bo Biden's diagnosis was made, which was I 106 00:05:32,519 --> 00:05:35,120 believe in the summer of twenty thirteen. I just assumed 107 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:37,040 that it had been made public knowledge at that point. 108 00:05:37,399 --> 00:05:40,160 But it happened, and as the book revealed, the Biden 109 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:43,199 family actually had a discussion, a private discussion, as to 110 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:46,040 how many details they would share in public. Now At 111 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:48,920 the time Joe Biden was the vice president and his 112 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:52,920 son both was the Attorney general of Delaware, and about 113 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:55,040 a year after his diagnosis, he announced he was going 114 00:05:55,079 --> 00:05:58,199 to be running for governor. For the two years after 115 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:02,560 his diagnosis to his unfortunate passing in May twenty fifteen, 116 00:06:03,199 --> 00:06:06,560 the family covered it up. Even when they would when 117 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:10,279 bo Biden would travel to go get treatments at facilities 118 00:06:10,319 --> 00:06:14,079 in other states, I guess experimental treatments and whatnot, he 119 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:17,240 would actually register under an alias so the media wouldn't 120 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:19,680 be able to find out that it was him. So 121 00:06:19,759 --> 00:06:23,399 there was this extensive cover up of that health issue 122 00:06:23,879 --> 00:06:25,879 that they didn't want anybody to know about. And the 123 00:06:25,959 --> 00:06:28,560 vice president was involved in coordinating the cover up, but 124 00:06:28,639 --> 00:06:32,319 then vice president who was just our president for four years. 125 00:06:32,759 --> 00:06:35,199 So there's there's just a cover up history with the 126 00:06:35,199 --> 00:06:38,879 bidens that scans back well over decade, and it just 127 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:42,560 so many things are just kind of told just some 128 00:06:42,759 --> 00:06:45,560 stuff going on now, you know, just all this stuff 129 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:47,600 going on, it just makes you think what else did 130 00:06:47,639 --> 00:06:48,279 they cover up? 131 00:06:48,959 --> 00:06:53,199 Speaker 2: So, I mean, just think about the how bonkers that is. 132 00:06:53,759 --> 00:06:58,839 You've got the sitting ag diagnosed with glioblastoma, that's brain 133 00:06:58,959 --> 00:07:01,959 cancer that is, I mean, that's terminal. Even if you 134 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:04,560 go in and get surgery done and they can get 135 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:10,000 it all out, chances are it comes back, and it 136 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:13,959 is it can be very aggressive. My father in law 137 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:17,519 passed away from glioblastoma. We saw firsthand what that does 138 00:07:17,519 --> 00:07:23,399 to somebody. And after a diagnosis of that a year later, 139 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:28,879 you decide you're going to run for office, like what 140 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:30,920 for another for governor. 141 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 3: And they were also at the time, Peteon you may 142 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:36,720 have seen this in the piece. There there were also doctors. 143 00:07:36,759 --> 00:07:38,959 I don't know if they were paid by the Biden family. 144 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:42,000 I assume as they were. There were also doctors at 145 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:47,560 the time who were issuing public reports stating that Bo 146 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:51,439 Biden had a clean bill of help. These are people 147 00:07:51,519 --> 00:07:57,120 that physicians, licensed physicians who went through you know, this 148 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:00,040 rigmarole of saying, you know, but Bo Biden is the 149 00:08:00,079 --> 00:08:02,720 picture of health when he wasn't, when he had just 150 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:05,800 had a tumor the size of a golf ball removed 151 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:10,160 from his brains. So if you think about that story 152 00:08:10,199 --> 00:08:14,000 and you kind of contrast it with the Biden cancer 153 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:16,800 diagnosis that we you know, just heard about last week 154 00:08:17,079 --> 00:08:20,000 and make you wonder if they had a position back then. 155 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:23,120 Who was willing to cover up bout Biden's condition? What 156 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:25,959 about the physician who we're trading bikes for the last 157 00:08:25,959 --> 00:08:27,959 four years while he was in the White House? What 158 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:28,920 are they covering up? 159 00:08:29,199 --> 00:08:31,639 Speaker 4: I said, this is serious, Yeah, I said this. 160 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:37,559 Speaker 2: I guess Monday that I don't trust the Bidens too 161 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:40,720 on anything, let alone health issues. 162 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:42,120 Speaker 4: I don't trust them. 163 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:44,240 Speaker 2: So when they come out with that statement, I mean, 164 00:08:44,279 --> 00:08:47,159 I can be you know, I can wish them well. 165 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:50,440 I could say it's you know, that's that's that's sad news. 166 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:54,519 I'm sorry to hear that, but I don't I don't 167 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:59,519 believe anything else about it because I don't know well 168 00:08:59,559 --> 00:09:01,960 I know, and not to trust Joe Biden and his 169 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:04,600 and his family on on this health stuff like that's 170 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:07,559 it makes me wonder about the timing, right, Like did 171 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:11,039 they do this in order to bigfoot the Jake Tapper book? 172 00:09:11,399 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 4: Right? 173 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,320 Speaker 2: And you have to you have to ask these questions 174 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:19,240 because the material of the book is precisely in the 175 00:09:19,279 --> 00:09:23,480 same category as the cancer diagnosis. And why all of 176 00:09:23,519 --> 00:09:26,519 this matters is that if the president was not cognitively 177 00:09:26,639 --> 00:09:30,080 functioning enough to be president, who the hell was running 178 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:32,799 the government who was signing the orders. 179 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:35,279 Speaker 3: And the point you made as earlier on your on 180 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:40,000 your Twitter feed is even beyond that. Does this put 181 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:43,559 put into question the legality of things that Biden signed, 182 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:48,240 like uh, you are allegedly signed like executive orders, pardons, 183 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:51,039 you know, the autopen You know Trump has been making 184 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:53,639 a big deal out of that in recent days. So 185 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:57,440 this this just raises so many questions. And you know, 186 00:09:58,039 --> 00:10:01,799 I don't know the announcement of Biden's cancer diagnosis was timed. 187 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:05,080 It probably was knowing their history of wanting to cover 188 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:08,519 things up. And again, I wish him well too. As 189 00:10:08,519 --> 00:10:11,000 someone who is a caregiver to a mother who was 190 00:10:11,039 --> 00:10:14,240 diagnosed in twenty twenty two at the age of seventy 191 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:17,879 nine with stage three B colon cancer, I'm very sympathetic 192 00:10:17,919 --> 00:10:21,960 to this issue. But I'm also sympathetic to mean what 193 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:25,960 this whole story of cover ups, whether we're talking about 194 00:10:26,159 --> 00:10:29,840 a cancer cover up, a cognitive decline cover up, what 195 00:10:29,879 --> 00:10:33,600 had you. I'm very concerned about what happened in the 196 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:37,519 Biden administration. It pisces me off that we were lied to, 197 00:10:37,879 --> 00:10:43,440 not just by Biden officials probably up and including his wife, 198 00:10:43,519 --> 00:10:47,360 oh definitely, but also the media who are now you know, 199 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:50,519 Jake Tapper and now Thompson are taking victory laps over 200 00:10:50,639 --> 00:10:53,000 this book when Jake Tapper was one of the people 201 00:10:53,039 --> 00:10:56,799 who was most involved in the media side of the 202 00:10:56,840 --> 00:10:59,759 cover up even and he's even somewhat acknowledging that now 203 00:10:59,799 --> 00:11:02,559 even that he's not using the word cover ups. So again, 204 00:11:02,679 --> 00:11:04,720 like I said before, there's so many layers to this. 205 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:07,879 And while I'm sympathetic to what the Bidens are going 206 00:11:07,879 --> 00:11:12,039 through now with the diagnosis, I am also very concerned 207 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:16,159 as to what this all means. What happened. We need 208 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:20,000 to have answers and and and releasing a statement about 209 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:25,080 a cancer diagnosis should not stop a quest for more 210 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:27,879 information and more sunlight on this issue. 211 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:30,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, accountability, I said it earlier in the show today. 212 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:32,840 This is a reckoning and there are a lot of 213 00:11:32,879 --> 00:11:35,679 Democrats in media that don't want this to occur. But 214 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:39,080 like I'm not, I'm not going to stop. And I 215 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:41,840 hope more. I hope more people like Tapper write more books. 216 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:45,000 Whatever information they can get out, I'm fine with because 217 00:11:45,039 --> 00:11:47,360 the more information that gets out, the worse and worse 218 00:11:47,399 --> 00:11:49,559 it looks, and we get more and more names, we 219 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:52,639 get confirmation of the stuff that we saw, we knew, 220 00:11:52,759 --> 00:11:56,200 we believed, we hypothesized, we get confirmation that we were correct. 221 00:11:56,559 --> 00:11:59,360 And that's how a reckoning has to start. 222 00:11:59,759 --> 00:12:01,799 Speaker 3: So yeah, and Pete, I don't know if you if 223 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:04,200 you saw this story over ESA, but there's actually some 224 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:08,120 journal in fighting going on about Tapper and Thompson coming 225 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:10,360 out with this book, because there's journalists out there who 226 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:12,519 are saying, Hey, we don't need to talk about Joe 227 00:12:12,519 --> 00:12:14,080 Biden right now. We need to be talking about Trump 228 00:12:14,159 --> 00:12:16,399 and what he's doing and whatnot, even though there might 229 00:12:16,399 --> 00:12:18,879 have been some issues during the Biden presidency. Well, my 230 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:21,120 thought bubble is on that if you actually wrote about 231 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:23,600 this stuff during the Biden presidency, maybe we wouldn't be 232 00:12:23,639 --> 00:12:24,399 talking about. 233 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:27,480 Speaker 2: Them, right, Yeah, exactly, Just do your job. 234 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:29,519 Speaker 3: And you know, maybe we wouldn't be in this situation. 235 00:12:29,639 --> 00:12:31,159 But that's another story for another day. 236 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:34,039 Speaker 2: No, you're exactly right, Stacy Matthews. She writes under the 237 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:37,720 diploma of Sister told You over at RedState dot com. 238 00:12:37,759 --> 00:12:39,879 You can read all of her, ladies, and she's prolific writer. 239 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:41,919 She's putting out what do you do, like five sixteen 240 00:12:42,039 --> 00:12:42,799 posts a day. 241 00:12:42,879 --> 00:12:45,360 Speaker 5: What I don't even know it's a lot not quite 242 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:46,159 that much too close. 243 00:12:46,279 --> 00:12:48,879 Speaker 2: Yeah, so read her work at RedState dot com. Stacy 244 00:12:48,919 --> 00:12:50,639 always a pleasure. Thanks so much for making. 245 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:52,120 Speaker 3: Time for State take care. 246 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:54,039 Speaker 4: You too at Stacy Matthews. 247 00:12:54,159 --> 00:12:56,840 Speaker 2: Here's a great idea. 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Call or 266 00:13:58,399 --> 00:14:02,480 text eight two eight three seventy sixty eight or check 267 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:05,039 out all there is to offer at Cabins Offashville dot 268 00:14:05,039 --> 00:14:08,360 com and make memories that'll last a lifetime. I'm just 269 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:09,840 doing the math here. I'm not gonna have time to 270 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:12,080 get to all my soundbites. I still have, like, I 271 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:15,679 don't know, sixteen minutes worth of sound bites, and I'm 272 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:17,559 not going I'm gonna run out of time, So I'm 273 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:22,960 gonna move some till tomorrow. But here's a story that 274 00:14:23,039 --> 00:14:26,039 just came down from Ed Morrissey at hot air dot com. 275 00:14:26,679 --> 00:14:30,559 The Washington d C. Establishment sure seems determined to distance 276 00:14:30,639 --> 00:14:34,120 itself from the obvious media and political cover up of 277 00:14:34,159 --> 00:14:38,399 the past four years. No one exemplifies that DC establishment 278 00:14:38,919 --> 00:14:43,279 as Sally Quinn does. Do you know who Sally Quinn is? 279 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:49,000 Not the medicine woman. No, not only is Quinn the 280 00:14:49,279 --> 00:14:54,480 douyen of DC society, she has also has a columnist 281 00:14:54,559 --> 00:14:57,639 gig at the Washington Post, has had that for decades. 282 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:03,559 She was married to the legendary Washington Post editor Ben 283 00:15:03,679 --> 00:15:07,240 Bradley for thirty six years until his death in twenty fourteen, 284 00:15:08,279 --> 00:15:11,799 and has long been a formidable figure in the nation's capital, 285 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:16,399 both politically and socially. So when Sally Quinn throws somebody 286 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:22,440 under robus, it means something, especially when that's someone has 287 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:27,639 been around DC for as long as Quinn has. Quinn 288 00:15:27,759 --> 00:15:32,120 tells the journalist Tara Pelmery in a new and linked 289 00:15:32,159 --> 00:15:36,480 the interview that the Bidens acted in an unpatriotic manner 290 00:15:36,759 --> 00:15:40,960 in attempting to extend their grasp on power, and Quinn 291 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:44,720 knows who to blame. She pulls no punches in a 292 00:15:44,759 --> 00:15:48,720 wide ranging interview, calling Biden unpatriotic and accusing the former 293 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:53,120 First Lady Jill Biden, sorry, doctor Jill Biden, of being 294 00:15:53,159 --> 00:15:58,039 the enabler quote. I blame Jill Biden for this. Jill 295 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:01,519 Biden is his wife. She clearly was in favor of 296 00:16:01,559 --> 00:16:04,200 his running, and I just think it was a terrible 297 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:05,480 disservice to the country. 298 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:06,240 Speaker 4: Right. 299 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:09,679 Speaker 2: So you got the the media apparatus and the Democrat 300 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:15,159 Party establishment and the leadership there. Everybody is now focusing 301 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:19,320 on the Bidens and blaming them that he's the reason 302 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:24,519 Trump won because he but se'ch thing like that. That 303 00:16:24,559 --> 00:16:31,919 removes any any of the help, any of the covering up, right, 304 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:37,840 and it relieves them of all accountability, because well, when 305 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:39,600 he said he was running again, I mean, we just 306 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,559 we just had to fall in line. We had no 307 00:16:42,639 --> 00:16:47,159 other choice, right, what was I supposed to do? I 308 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:51,039 may have, you know, seen Joe Biden acting off and 309 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:54,759 making all of these mistakes and these gaps and the 310 00:16:54,879 --> 00:16:59,000 cognitive decline and the glitching and all of this. But 311 00:16:59,039 --> 00:17:01,279 what was I supposed to do? We had to beat 312 00:17:01,279 --> 00:17:03,720 Donald Trump, so I had to help cover it up. 313 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:05,200 That's their argument. 314 00:17:06,519 --> 00:17:10,599 Speaker 4: No quarter. I give no quarter to these folks. 315 00:17:11,079 --> 00:17:13,119 Speaker 2: She goes on to say, I felt sorry for Joe 316 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:16,519 Biden because I didn't think she was protecting him. She 317 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:19,759 wasn't protecting him from himself. And after that hideous debate, 318 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:22,079 right after the debate, they were in the spin room 319 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:24,720 and she got his hand up and there you know. 320 00:17:24,799 --> 00:17:26,519 Speaker 4: Victory, victory. We won. 321 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:28,519 Speaker 2: It was great, it was great. And then the next 322 00:17:28,599 --> 00:17:31,359 day he's off in North Carolina making a victory speech, 323 00:17:31,519 --> 00:17:34,039 and I thought, what were they watching? I thought it 324 00:17:34,079 --> 00:17:38,119 was just elder abuse, really what they were putting him through. 325 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:41,960 I think this is interesting that she says that that 326 00:17:42,079 --> 00:17:46,160 Biden that Jill did not protect Joe, because in Tapper 327 00:17:46,279 --> 00:17:51,799 and Thompson's book, they described Jill as the protector and 328 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:58,279 loyalty and forcer. That's how they described her. Protect her. 329 00:17:59,759 --> 00:18:02,279 Speaker 4: Of what of whom? 330 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:08,519 Speaker 2: You don't do that to somebody you love, putting him 331 00:18:08,519 --> 00:18:10,480 out there, keeping him out there. At some point you 332 00:18:10,519 --> 00:18:14,839 take the car keys from your grandfather. All right. If 333 00:18:14,839 --> 00:18:16,599 you're listening to this show, you know I try to 334 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:18,440 keep up with all sorts of current events, and I 335 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:20,680 know you do too. And you've probably heard me say 336 00:18:20,799 --> 00:18:24,880 get your news from multiple sources. Why Well, because it's 337 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:27,559 how you detect media bias, which is why I've been 338 00:18:27,599 --> 00:18:31,160 so impressed with ground News. It's an app and it's 339 00:18:31,279 --> 00:18:34,079 a website, and it combines news from around the world 340 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:37,599 in one place, so you can compare coverage and verify information. 341 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:41,079 You can check it out at check dot ground, dot 342 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:44,359 news slash Pete. I put the link in the podcast 343 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:47,400 description too. I started using ground News a few months 344 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:50,000 ago and more recently, chose to work with them as 345 00:18:50,039 --> 00:18:53,240 an affiliate because it lets me see clearly how stories 346 00:18:53,279 --> 00:18:56,519 get covered and by whom. The blind spot feature shows 347 00:18:56,519 --> 00:18:59,440 you which stories get ignored by the left and the right. 348 00:18:59,519 --> 00:19:04,880 See you check Dot Ground dot News slash Pete. Subscribe 349 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:07,839 through that link and you'll get fifteen percent off any subscription. 350 00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:10,839 I use the Vantage plan to get unlimited access to 351 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:14,359 every feature. Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, 352 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:16,759 but it also supports Ground News as they make the 353 00:19:16,839 --> 00:19:21,440 media landscape more transparent. All right, So a couple more 354 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:23,519 audio clips that I can get to. Let me get 355 00:19:23,519 --> 00:19:27,119 to them. This is Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on 356 00:19:27,319 --> 00:19:31,400 The Megan Kelly Show yesterday. You can catch it on YouTube, 357 00:19:32,559 --> 00:19:35,440 and Tapper said that a lot of people claimed that 358 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:39,200 they were being kept away from Biden by what Thompson 359 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:42,000 describes as the Pollitt Bureau. 360 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:44,880 Speaker 6: That's the Nancy Pelosi, as we write about in the book, 361 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:48,200 has a private and secret meeting with Biden after the 362 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:50,039 debate where she's urging him to look at the polling 363 00:19:50,039 --> 00:19:52,680 information and I don't know when the last time she 364 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:55,559 had had a one on one with him was because 365 00:19:55,599 --> 00:20:00,000 she suggests that after she stepped down as Democratic leader 366 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:02,160 after the midterms of twenty twenty two. 367 00:20:03,039 --> 00:20:04,160 Speaker 1: She barely saw him. 368 00:20:04,759 --> 00:20:09,559 Speaker 6: And this is a theme throughout twenty twenty three, especially 369 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:11,839 the last half of twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four, 370 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:14,400 how many people didn't have access to him, how many 371 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:16,200 people didn't see him. 372 00:20:16,039 --> 00:20:18,599 Speaker 7: And that and this was by design. You write in 373 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:21,319 the book that Alex I'll bring you in because there 374 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:23,599 was a so called what you write about as a 375 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:27,160 pollit bureau surrounding him. It was four people plus Biden 376 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:29,880 to make five. Can you tell us who those people were? 377 00:20:30,319 --> 00:20:32,599 And is the theory then that those are the four 378 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:36,680 people who did know and worked as this as sort 379 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:39,680 of cabal to keep everybody else at arm's length so 380 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:42,920 that they wouldn't also have full knowledge of his deterioration. 381 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:47,200 Speaker 8: Okay, so the people that we're naming would to be 382 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:50,799 Mike Donald, Steve Chetty, mc donald's top political advisor, Steve 383 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:55,480 shechetti's top legislative advisor, Ron Klain when he was chief 384 00:20:55,480 --> 00:21:01,759 of staff. Bruce Reid is basically longtime policy adviser. Those 385 00:21:01,839 --> 00:21:03,920 are sort of the four. They were known as a 386 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:07,559 pulp borow, gray hairs pooh bahs, and they were with 387 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:10,119 him the most of anybody. Now if you were to 388 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:11,720 ask them, and I still think even if you put 389 00:21:11,759 --> 00:21:15,160 them on truth serum today, they would say he was fine. 390 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:19,039 You know, I think I don't know if they're lying 391 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:23,359 or lying to themselves or it doesn't matter. Then there's 392 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:25,759 this other sort of group that aren't the polit burrel 393 00:21:25,799 --> 00:21:28,160 but are just as powerful. And they were the ones 394 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:33,160 that kept the schedule, affected personnel, and really built the bubble. 395 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:35,839 And that would be any Timessini, who was deputy chief 396 00:21:35,839 --> 00:21:40,359 of Staff and previously Oval Office operations. And then Anthony Bernall, 397 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:44,599 who was the top aid slash enforcer for First Lady 398 00:21:44,759 --> 00:21:48,319 Jill Biden and had incredible influence to the point that 399 00:21:48,559 --> 00:21:51,720 even people in the Biden White House would refer to 400 00:21:51,799 --> 00:21:55,359 her as one of the most powerful First Ladies in history. 401 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:59,200 Speaker 7: You write about this Bernal a lot, and you suggest, Jake, 402 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:01,839 it was very to find anybody with a nice word 403 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:04,799 to say about this guy who was Jill Biden's top person. 404 00:22:05,599 --> 00:22:08,039 Speaker 1: Yeah, and he acknowledged that he had a tough reputation. 405 00:22:08,319 --> 00:22:10,359 Speaker 6: He was the chief of staff for Jill Biden and 406 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:13,880 perhaps the most powerful First Lady chief of staff in 407 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:18,279 the history of this country. He is somebody that enforced 408 00:22:18,319 --> 00:22:20,440 what Jill Biden wanted. And at the end of the day, 409 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:23,200 one of the things that was interesting when we wrote 410 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:26,000 this book and researched this book was trying to figure 411 00:22:26,039 --> 00:22:28,240 out why was there no discussion of whether or not 412 00:22:28,319 --> 00:22:30,880 he should run for reelection. Why was it just a 413 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,000 foregone conclusion that he was going to run for reelection, 414 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:35,880 especially after he had made this kind of vague promise 415 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:38,359 that he would be a one term president. And it 416 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:41,480 came down to two people, one of whom spoke for Biden, 417 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:43,880 that's Mike Donalan, and the other one spoke for First 418 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:47,480 Lady Jill Biden, and that's Anthony Bernal, And basically they 419 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:52,920 communicated to the rest of the staff. Bernal would say, 420 00:22:53,039 --> 00:22:54,960 you run for two terms, you serve for two terms, 421 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:59,599 you don't do one. And Mike Donaldan would say, you know, 422 00:22:59,599 --> 00:23:00,640 Biden's made the decision. 423 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:02,759 Speaker 1: He's running. That's it. There's no discussion. 424 00:23:03,079 --> 00:23:05,160 Speaker 6: And when people would try to raise it, although nobody 425 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:07,720 directly with Joe Biden, but when people would try to 426 00:23:07,799 --> 00:23:10,440 raise you know, Anita Dunn said something, I'm like, are 427 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:12,519 we sure this is a good idea. A different Polster 428 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:15,559 was like, shouldn't we figure out if like this is 429 00:23:15,559 --> 00:23:17,400 even a good idea. This is the politics of it all. 430 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:19,279 This is not whether or not he should or should 431 00:23:19,279 --> 00:23:22,160 not have been president. This is about whether or not 432 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:24,400 he could get reelected, which is a different level. Here, 433 00:23:25,279 --> 00:23:28,119 they would say, the decision has been made. The decision 434 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:31,359 has been made. And so there was a small group 435 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:35,400 of people running the train. And I think that it's 436 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:37,440 not a star chamber so much because they weren't like, 437 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:40,319 it wasn't like five of them in a room making 438 00:23:40,319 --> 00:23:43,759 these decisions, but definitely were Shatty and Donald and definitely Bernal, 439 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:47,759 and then different individuals hopping in and out, whether Genna 440 00:23:47,799 --> 00:23:50,160 Melly Dillon who was a deputy chief of staff and 441 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:53,640 then ran the campaign, whether Anita Donn, whether Ron Klain 442 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:56,960 or Jeff Science, the chiefs of staff all played different roles. 443 00:23:57,119 --> 00:24:00,400 Speaker 2: Okay, So Mike donalllan you heard there. I mentioned earlier 444 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:04,279 that when they were on the campaign bus tour in 445 00:24:04,319 --> 00:24:08,680 twenty nineteen, Biden forgot this guy's name multiple times, even 446 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:12,079 though the guy had worked for Biden for like thirty years. 447 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:16,480 But think of the timeframe here, right, because all of 448 00:24:16,519 --> 00:24:20,759 This goes to an idea that animates Biden world, which 449 00:24:20,799 --> 00:24:25,640 is only Joe could beat Trump, that he's got this 450 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:29,839 you know, phoenix rising from the ashes, kind of lore 451 00:24:30,319 --> 00:24:34,759 of himself in his mind, and the others around him 452 00:24:35,039 --> 00:24:37,559 either believe it or they allow him to believe it, 453 00:24:38,519 --> 00:24:40,319 so they are all like, he's the only one that 454 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:43,119 could win. He's the only one that could beat Trum 455 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:43,720 because he did. 456 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:44,359 Speaker 4: Right. 457 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:47,279 Speaker 2: But at some point, if you've got like in twenty nineteen, 458 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:51,119 if he's showing signs of cognitive decline on the campaign trail, 459 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:52,599 then what. 460 00:24:55,079 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 4: COVID? Right, he wins the primary. 461 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:04,480 Speaker 2: Everyone else falls away. He's now the nominee. COVID hits 462 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:08,160 and he goes into the basement. Best thing to ever happen. 463 00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:12,559 Right for his campaign, Trump is out there every day. 464 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:17,559 People are associating him with COVID, and you know, the 465 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:23,960 closures and the economy and everything. Then he wins, and 466 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:28,799 then what happens. All of the charges start getting filed 467 00:25:28,799 --> 00:25:33,000 against Donald Trump. Right, you start getting all of these 468 00:25:33,039 --> 00:25:37,200 criminal charges getting filed against Trump, which then empowers Trump. 469 00:25:38,759 --> 00:25:40,720 People are now like, I wasn't going to vote him before, 470 00:25:40,759 --> 00:25:44,559 but oh now I will, you know, and part of 471 00:25:44,559 --> 00:25:50,680 me has to wonder, did you file the charges? Did 472 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:53,799 you do all of that and go after Trump to 473 00:25:53,839 --> 00:25:55,599 try to throw him in jail so he could not 474 00:25:55,759 --> 00:25:58,960 run again? Did you do that in order to keep 475 00:25:59,039 --> 00:26:03,200 him out? And early on did you do that because 476 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:05,559 you thought Joe was going to be gone, that he 477 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:07,680 was only going to be a one termer, so you 478 00:26:07,799 --> 00:26:10,079 needed to make sure Trump was out of the picture. 479 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:11,880 Speaker 4: And then what did you do? 480 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:16,440 Speaker 2: You end up empowering Trump by filing the charges, and 481 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:21,440 then that feeds biden world's mentality of only Joe can 482 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:25,880 beat Trump, and so you kept him in. What a 483 00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:31,400 colossal backfire? The charges were right? If that's the way 484 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:37,119 this thing played out, What a colossal backfire? Your charge 485 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:40,319 is not only made Trump more popular, but it also 486 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:44,960 convinced Biden to stay if he wasn't already thinking to 487 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:50,559 do so. Hoisted on their own petard? All right, So 488 00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:54,000 spring is here a time of renewal and celebrations. You 489 00:26:54,079 --> 00:26:57,880 got graduations, weddings, anniversaries in the special days for mom 490 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:00,039 and dad. Your family's making memories that are going to 491 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:02,759 last a lifetime. 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He's been 507 00:27:55,759 --> 00:27:57,920 waiting patiently, but I want to get this last SoundBite 508 00:27:57,960 --> 00:27:59,480 in before the end of the show. 509 00:27:59,519 --> 00:28:00,799 Speaker 4: So this is on. 510 00:28:01,279 --> 00:28:03,880 Speaker 2: This is Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on Megan Kelly 511 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,920 Show talking about Biden forgetting his staffers' names. 512 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:10,640 Speaker 7: Just this week, Jake Sullivan, the national security advisor was 513 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:12,880 out saying, geez, what I saw that debate shocked me. 514 00:28:13,279 --> 00:28:16,000 But you have reporting in this book that Jake Sullivan 515 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:18,960 was well aware that Joe Biden was having some serious 516 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:20,880 memory problems going back years. 517 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:27,759 Speaker 6: In December twenty twenty two, the day that her name 518 00:28:27,799 --> 00:28:29,920 is escaping me, which is right now what we're talking to, 519 00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:30,599 Britney Grinder. 520 00:28:30,759 --> 00:28:32,759 Speaker 1: The name. I'm sorry, I'm not a big w NBA fan. 521 00:28:33,079 --> 00:28:34,039 The time that. 522 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:38,400 Speaker 6: Brittney Grinder is going out that gets out of Russian control, 523 00:28:39,039 --> 00:28:43,640 Russian you know, she was a prisoner in Russia. Biden 524 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:48,559 is outside the Oval office with and Jake Sullivan, his 525 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:52,799 National security advisor, and Kate Benningfield, his communications director, are 526 00:28:52,839 --> 00:28:54,039 there and he can't. 527 00:28:53,799 --> 00:28:56,119 Speaker 1: Come up with their names. This is December twenty twenty two. 528 00:28:56,559 --> 00:29:00,400 Speaker 6: He calls Jake Steve Steve, and then he called Kate 529 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:03,799 Benningfield Press, and then he beckons them to come with him. 530 00:29:04,359 --> 00:29:05,200 Speaker 1: So I don't know. 531 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:08,160 Speaker 6: I saw in that same interview that Jake said he did, 532 00:29:08,279 --> 00:29:12,200 Jake Sullivan said he didn't remember that. I can't attest 533 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,160 to what people remember what they don't. I just know 534 00:29:14,279 --> 00:29:15,119 that that happened. 535 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:18,160 Speaker 7: That happened, and you also report, Alex that there was 536 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:21,079 interference run by I think this same Paul at Bureau, 537 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:25,799 this cabal against the White House residence staffers so that 538 00:29:25,839 --> 00:29:30,480 they would not witness what the inner circle was witnessing 539 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:33,160 with his deterioration. Can you fill that out a bit. 540 00:29:34,599 --> 00:29:34,799 Speaker 1: Yeah. 541 00:29:34,839 --> 00:29:38,240 Speaker 8: The residence staff were really stunned with how especially the 542 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:41,720 first Lady's Office took over really through Bernal and a Tomassini. 543 00:29:42,079 --> 00:29:46,599 Both of them also unusual had resident staff that passes, 544 00:29:46,599 --> 00:29:49,079 which is not normal for aids in the White House 545 00:29:49,079 --> 00:29:51,839 to be able to go like to and from they would, 546 00:29:52,079 --> 00:29:55,160 you just had certain powers, to the point that a 547 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,720 lot of the resident staff, you know, they felt they 548 00:29:57,759 --> 00:29:59,920 were being kept at bay, that they were not trust 549 00:30:00,319 --> 00:30:03,480 and that they often were they're just twiddling their thumbs. 550 00:30:03,519 --> 00:30:05,680 They would have to go, They often went home early, 551 00:30:06,119 --> 00:30:08,720 they didn't have a lot to do, and there was 552 00:30:08,799 --> 00:30:11,519 a feeling among some in the resident staff that this 553 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:14,480 was about hiding his deterioration. 554 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:16,440 Speaker 1: And we quote one resident. 555 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:20,160 Speaker 8: Staff, you know, official that said he would just sometimes 556 00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:22,200 look at you, and I'm paraphrasing, he would just sometimes 557 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,960 look at you like he didn't even know you, even 558 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:26,319 though I was seeing him every day. 559 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:31,480 Speaker 2: They also fired the White House elevator operator in the residence, 560 00:30:32,359 --> 00:30:34,519 the guy who would be you know, manning the elevator 561 00:30:34,559 --> 00:30:37,079 every day, and they told him we don't need your 562 00:30:37,119 --> 00:30:43,599 services in the residence side. And that is believed to 563 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:47,400 have been an effort to keep somebody out of Biden's orbit, 564 00:30:47,839 --> 00:30:51,640 right where he would see every see Biden every day, 565 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:53,640 multiple times a day. Get him out of the picture. 566 00:30:54,599 --> 00:30:56,559 All right, let me go over and talk to Eric. Hello, Eric, 567 00:30:56,599 --> 00:30:57,319 welcome to the show. 568 00:30:58,079 --> 00:31:01,000 Speaker 5: Hey see, I appreciate taking my car. This is a 569 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:06,599 little alternative history here, But the Democrats since twenty fifteen 570 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:10,319 have been trying, had tried everything possible to keep Donald 571 00:31:10,359 --> 00:31:13,480 Trump from being president, from the dossier to Russia gay 572 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:17,039 to multiple impeachments. The only thing that really beat Trump 573 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:20,799 was probably COVID, and even recently you had the law 574 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:24,599 fair But to me, in thinking about all this, the 575 00:31:24,599 --> 00:31:28,680 best chance that the Democrats ever had to prevent Donald 576 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,079 Trump from entering the White House would have been in 577 00:31:31,119 --> 00:31:35,319 twenty sixteen, had Jim Comey in the Justice Department indicted 578 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:39,200 Hillary Clinton ended her campaign, and who would have come in. 579 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,519 Joe Biden was much more like and probably much more 580 00:31:42,599 --> 00:31:47,200 capable at that time, and I think he would have 581 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:51,440 won and he could have beaten Trump bet and probably 582 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,759 may will have prevented Trump from ever being president. But 583 00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:58,319 I think the lack of courage that they exhibited in 584 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:04,880 failing to follow through with her obvious crimes probably caused 585 00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:05,880 Trump to be president. 586 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:07,279 Speaker 4: No, that's interesting theory. 587 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:12,599 Speaker 2: It reminds me of the uhu was it Charlie Wilson's War, 588 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:17,920 where you've got uh Well, hang on a second, I 589 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:18,400 can hear the rate. 590 00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:19,039 Speaker 4: I'm gonna put you on. 591 00:32:19,079 --> 00:32:22,279 Speaker 2: Hold Eric, you've got I'm drawn a blank on the 592 00:32:22,279 --> 00:32:24,359 guy's name, but you got Tom Hanks and the other fella, 593 00:32:24,359 --> 00:32:27,160 I forget his name. But he's telling him this old 594 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:31,000 tale from like Afghanistan, where the uh you know, the 595 00:32:31,079 --> 00:32:34,119 village elder keeps saying we'll see, Like the little boy 596 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:37,599 gets injured and everybody says, oh, that's terrible, and the 597 00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:40,599 elder says, we'll see. And then there's a war, and 598 00:32:40,599 --> 00:32:44,359 then the kid is not drafted because he is maimed, 599 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,680 and so they're like, oh, isn't it good that you 600 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:48,359 don't have to go to war? And the guy says, oh, 601 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:51,960 we'll see, and so and through the progression of the story. 602 00:32:52,519 --> 00:32:55,319 Things that people think are good right now turn out 603 00:32:55,359 --> 00:32:58,400 not to be so right. And to Eric's theory, there 604 00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:04,839 not prosecuting Hillary Clinton, right. They thought that was a 605 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:07,279 good thing at the time. It turned out not to be. 606 00:33:07,359 --> 00:33:13,799 So we'll see, we'll see. B Lincoln was involved, Sullivan 607 00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:18,759 was involved. Pryne On Pierre barely mentioned in the book. 608 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:25,640 I'm guessing she was one of the sources. I all right, 609 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:28,000 that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much 610 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,079 for listening. I could not do the show without your 611 00:33:30,119 --> 00:33:32,880 support and the support of the businesses that advertise on 612 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:35,720 the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too 613 00:33:35,759 --> 00:33:37,440 and tell them you heard it here. You can also 614 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,039 become a patron at my Patreon page or go to 615 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,920 thepetecallanershow dot com. 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