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Biden Goes Banana Republic, Weaponizes The DOJ To Force Indictments On His Opponent Donald J. Trump · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome. It is a verdict with Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson
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Speaker 1: with you, and this is a bonus episode a verdict, Senator.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate you taking the time you just landed, and
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Speaker 1: this obviously is news that is rocking the country. The
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Speaker 1: Attorney General Merrick Garland, someone that you've called for there,
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Speaker 1: should be investigated and should be impeached for the job
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Speaker 1: that he has done in your new book, he has
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Speaker 1: now come out made an announcement making it clear that
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Speaker 1: he is going to war with Donald Trump and trying
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Speaker 1: to make it where he wouldn't even be able to
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Speaker 1: be the president ever again. He said this earlier based
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Speaker 1: on recent developments, including the former president's announcement that he
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Speaker 1: is a candidate for president in the next election and
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Speaker 1: the sitting president stated intention to be a candidate as well.
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Speaker 1: I have concluded that it is in the public interest
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Speaker 1: to appoint a Special Council. Such an appointment underscores the
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Speaker 1: Apartment's commitment to both independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters.
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Speaker 1: It also allows prosecutors and agents to continue their work
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Speaker 1: expeditiously and to make decisions indisputably guided only by the
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Speaker 1: facts and the law. The Special Council will conduct parts
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Speaker 1: of the first investigation. I just mentioned the investigation into
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Speaker 1: whether any person or entity unlawfully interfered with the transfer
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Speaker 1: of power following the twenty twenty presidential election or with
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Speaker 1: the certification of the Electoral College vote held honor about
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Speaker 1: January sixth, Senator, you tweeted about this earlier, and it's
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Speaker 1: just two days after the President announced that he's going
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Speaker 1: to run for a third time, and this is how
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Speaker 1: they respond to that decision. Your thoughts, Well, we've predicted
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Speaker 1: on Verdict weeks ago that the Department of Justice was
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Speaker 1: going to indicte Donald Trump. Joe Biden wants them to
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Speaker 1: indict Donald Trump, that Merrick Garland wants to indict Donald Trump.
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Speaker 1: This is part and parcel with the whole scale politicization
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Speaker 1: of the Department of Justice and the FBI and law
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Speaker 1: enforcement under first Barack Obama and now even more blatantly
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Speaker 1: under Joe Biden. And appointing a special counsel is window dressing.
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Speaker 1: It is designed for Merrick Garland to say, oh, who me, gosh, No,
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Speaker 1: I have nothing to say about it. It's it's the
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Speaker 1: special counsel that's doing the indictment. Remember when we said
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Speaker 1: this was when DJ leaked the news that they intended
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Speaker 1: to indict Hunter Biden. That was and we've talked at
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Speaker 1: some length about it. I believe they're deliberately focusing on
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Speaker 1: the personal aspects of Hunter Biden, his substance abuse, and
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Speaker 1: tax issues, rather than the official corruption that directly implicates
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden. But the other reason they leaked their intentions
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Speaker 1: about Hunter Biden was to set the stage for this
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Speaker 1: for them going after Donald J. Trump directly and to say, gosh,
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Speaker 1: look how we even handed we are. We're inditing a Biden,
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Speaker 1: We're inditing a Trump. We're just right in the middle
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Speaker 1: of the row. This is politics. It is an abusive power,
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Speaker 1: and it is wrong center. This is and I think
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Speaker 1: one of the points here that should be brought up
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Speaker 1: is this is exactly what you talked about and went
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Speaker 1: into such great detail in your book. And this is
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Speaker 1: the reason why I would tell you, if you haven't
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Speaker 1: bought your book yet, do it. I've read the book
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Speaker 1: and it's like, oh wow, this is how row this
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Speaker 1: administration has gone. Not only have they tried to overthrow
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Speaker 1: the will of the people in the twenty and sixteen elections,
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Speaker 1: they tried to undermine the present. The entire time is here.
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Speaker 1: They knew that they were hiding information that would vindicate
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump from any connection to Russia. They knew that
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Speaker 1: the dossier was paid for by the Democratic National Committee,
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Speaker 1: and they knew that it was paid for by Hillary
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Speaker 1: Clinton's campaign. And they knew that that information, which they
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Speaker 1: had categorized as clearly being as they described it, user created,
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Speaker 1: meaning the people that brought it to them created out
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Speaker 1: of thin air. They waited and set and watched as
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Speaker 1: the President of the United States America was in an
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Speaker 1: impeachment trial over information. They could have walked out and said,
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Speaker 1: none of this is real. And now they're saying, basically,
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Speaker 1: we didn't get your last time. It's almost like double
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Speaker 1: jeopardy from the DOJ. Well, look, that's exactly right. This
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Speaker 1: is precisely what my brand new book talks about. The
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Speaker 1: book is Justice Corrupted, how the Left has weaponized the
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Speaker 1: legal system, and it walks the reader through how Barack
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Speaker 1: Obama turned the Department of Justice, that the IRS, and
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Speaker 1: the FBI into his political enforcement squad. It then walks
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Speaker 1: the reader through how those hard partisans burrowed into senior
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Speaker 1: career positions and waged war on the press of the
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Speaker 1: United States Donald Trump in a way that has never
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Speaker 1: happened in our nation's history. And then it walks the
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Speaker 1: reader through how under Joe Biden it is fully metastasized,
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Speaker 1: where Merrick Garland is the most political Attorney general our
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Speaker 1: country has ever seen. Whether it is the FBI and
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Speaker 1: raiding Marlago, the home of a former president, never happened
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Speaker 1: before in our nation's history. Whether it is the FBI
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Speaker 1: targeting parents who speak up at school boards and treating
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Speaker 1: them as domestic terrorists, whether it is the FBI raiding
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Speaker 1: the homes of pro life activists with machine guns drawn.
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Speaker 1: All of this is an extension of the view that
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Speaker 1: the FBI and the Department of Justice are now partisan
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Speaker 1: weapons to be deployed by the Democrats, and their intention
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Speaker 1: is to indict Donald Trump because they hate him. This
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Speaker 1: is Trump derangement syndrome, but this time with a gun
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Speaker 1: and a badge. Let me ask this, what is the
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Speaker 1: definition of success look like for Democrats and the DJ
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Speaker 1: I'm not even sure it's get anything where he's guilty.
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Speaker 1: Is it just getting an indictment of Donald Trump? Explain
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Speaker 1: the politics of this. We have two years until the
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Speaker 1: presidential elections. What do they need to do and accomplish
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Speaker 1: at the minimum to basically derail a candidate's ability to
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Speaker 1: run a successful campaign for the presidency. And you notice
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Speaker 1: I asked you that question without Donald Trump's name involved,
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Speaker 1: because if they can do it to Donald Trump, they
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Speaker 1: could do it to basically anybody that's on the Republican
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Speaker 1: side that decides to run. If this is a game
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Speaker 1: plan of how to make it where you're the candidate
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Speaker 1: we don't like and we're going to come after you
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Speaker 1: and then we'll make you basically ineligible. Well, and in
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Speaker 1: the book Justice Corrupted, I walk through how they did
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Speaker 1: this to Ted Stevens, who was then the longest serving
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Speaker 1: senator Republican senator from Alaska, and they indicted him right
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Speaker 1: before the election, and it ended up causing him to
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Speaker 1: be defeated. It cost him his seat. And afterwards I
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Speaker 1: walked through all of the prosecutorial misconduct is one of
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Speaker 1: the greatest abuses of power, and that was carried out
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Speaker 1: for political purposes. They want to do the same playbook here,
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Speaker 1: and to indict someone, what it means legally to indict
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Speaker 1: someone is to bring formal charges and so a grand
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Speaker 1: jury votes out an indictment. Now the grand jury doesn't
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Speaker 1: get to hear from the defendant. The grand jury doesn't
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Speaker 1: get to hear the other side of the argument. It's
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Speaker 1: the prosecutor bringing witnesses and putting evidence before the grand jury.
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Speaker 1: There's an old line that a prosecutor can indict a
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Speaker 1: hand sandwich, and there's a lot of truth to that.
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Speaker 1: There's enormous power that a prosecutor has. That It's why
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Speaker 1: it is so dangerous when it is weaponized like this,
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Speaker 1: when it is used as a tool of political retribution.
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Speaker 1: And I believe their intention is to get an indictment
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Speaker 1: I think likely in the district of Columbia, because they
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Speaker 1: know the jury pool is so skewed Democrats that they
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Speaker 1: don't believe Trump can get a fair shake there, which
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Speaker 1: is what they want. And then I think they want
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Speaker 1: to try to prosecute them. They want to try to
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Speaker 1: convict Trump. These guys are zealots and they have behaved
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Speaker 1: as zealots from the very first day they took the
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Speaker 1: oath of office. Do they fast track this then? I mean,
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Speaker 1: is that the goal here, that the holy grail for
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Speaker 1: them is you fast track and indictment, you then get
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Speaker 1: him where you can put this up basically on trial.
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Speaker 1: If you can find him guilty of any of these
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Speaker 1: charges in the District of Columbia, is he then ineligible
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Speaker 1: to be president of the United States of America at
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Speaker 1: that point, I don't think that's going to happen. They
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Speaker 1: may have dreams of legally barring him from running, but
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Speaker 1: that ain't going to happen. I think the chances of
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Speaker 1: that are minuscule. But what their plan is. Listen, we've
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Speaker 1: seen them run this playbook before. They did it when
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Speaker 1: Trump was president with not one but two impeachment trials
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Speaker 1: that were designed just to drag Trump through the mud,
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Speaker 1: to beat up on him day after day after day.
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Speaker 1: And they did that in because they were waging a
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Speaker 1: political campaign. We've seen it the last two years with
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Speaker 1: the January sixth Kangaroo Committee in the House. That was
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Speaker 1: a partisan presentation. It's not a congressional committee. Congressional committee
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Speaker 1: has both sides represented. In this instance, Nancy Pelosi refused
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Speaker 1: to let the Republicans appoint their member. She wanted to
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Speaker 1: not have anyone who would be supportive of Trump on
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Speaker 1: the committee, and so she put together what was essentially
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Speaker 1: a giant campaign commercial. Now the January sixth Committee is
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Speaker 1: going away because Republicans have retaken the House. So apparently
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Speaker 1: Merritt Garland a Department of Justice are stepping forward saying, Okay,
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Speaker 1: we got this, it's our turn now to after the indictment,
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Speaker 1: have a daily drift of leaks which DJ isn't supposed
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Speaker 1: to be leaking, and an effort you know, they the
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Speaker 1: White House, the Department of Justice, the partisans at the FBI,
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Speaker 1: they hate Donald Trump and they just they see red
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Speaker 1: when they see him, and the lengths they are willing
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Speaker 1: to go is wrong. And I gotta tell you then,
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Speaker 1: I hear from FBI agents all the time who are
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Speaker 1: horrified at what is happening to the FBI. I hear
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Speaker 1: from prosecutors at DOJ repeatedly who are horrified as what
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Speaker 1: is happening to DJ. This is not the line prosecutors,
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Speaker 1: this is not the line FBI agents. This is the
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Speaker 1: political brass and the senior career officials where they allowed
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Speaker 1: partisans to burrow in and use it as a political weapon.
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Speaker 1: And mark my words, the reason a special prosecutor was
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Speaker 1: appointed was they intend to indict Donald Trump. That's the
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Speaker 1: takeaway from the news that came out yesterday to last
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Speaker 1: two questions for you left as we do this special
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Speaker 1: at Bonus Pod because of the news of today. Senator,
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Speaker 1: Let's go back to two thousand and sixteen. Merritt Garland
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Speaker 1: was nominated to the Supreme Court by then President Barack
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Speaker 1: Obama in March of twenty sixteen. The Senate never voted
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Speaker 1: on his nomination. How much of this could be the
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Speaker 1: motivation of just pure revenge for Garland because he is
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Speaker 1: angry and upset that he's not on the Supreme Court
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Speaker 1: of the United States of America. Do you think that's
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Speaker 1: playing into some of this where it's just straight up
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Speaker 1: revenge for Donald Trump winning that election and Republicans this
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Speaker 1: is payback for not giving him a vote that he wanted. Yeah, look,
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Speaker 1: it's hard to imagine that that's not a significant factor.
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Speaker 1: Many of the Senate Democrats still seed at the fact
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Speaker 1: that the Senate Republican majority followed the voters wishes and
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Speaker 1: said we've been given a majority. And when there's a
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Speaker 1: vacancy that occurs in a presidential election year, a senator
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Speaker 1: of an opposing party doesn't fill that vacancy, and that
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Speaker 1: goes back many many decades. The voters gave Republicans a
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Speaker 1: majority in twenty fourteen in the Senate, and one of
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Speaker 1: the big things that we campaigned on was stopping radical
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Speaker 1: left wing judges. But Merrick Garlands Democrat senators the White House,
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Speaker 1: they all resent that furiously, and you know, look, it's
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Speaker 1: worth pointing out. So sometimes with a special counsel, you
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Speaker 1: see someone that they're trying to get some credibility for.
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Speaker 1: So you sometimes see a special counsel that is of
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Speaker 1: the opposing political party to say, well, gosh, you know,
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Speaker 1: this is a prominent Republican we're going to use. What
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Speaker 1: is interesting about this fellow. The fellow that Merritt Garland
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Speaker 1: named is a guy named Jack Smith. I don't know him.
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Speaker 1: I'm not familiar with him. So we just have the
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Speaker 1: news that is percolating out in the opening hours. But
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Speaker 1: he's someone who was a career prosecutor for a long time.
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Speaker 1: He was a prosecutor at the Hague prosecuting war crimes.
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Speaker 1: But I can tell you this, the folks at DOJ
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Speaker 1: they know as politics. One hundred percent they know is politics.
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Speaker 1: One of the things that I walked through in the
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Speaker 1: book Justice Corrupted is how with the lowest Learner scandal.
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Speaker 1: You remember, under Barack Obama, the IRS was targeting conservatives,
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Speaker 1: targeting Tea Party activist, targeting pro Israel activists, targeting pro
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Speaker 1: life activists, and when the news broke it was a
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Speaker 1: huge scandal, so much so that Barack Obama gave a
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Speaker 1: news conference from the White House where he said, I
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Speaker 1: am angry, and the American people have a right to
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Speaker 1: be angry. He understood just how bad it was to
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Speaker 1: politicize the IRS and law enforcement. And what ended up
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Speaker 1: happening is the prosecutor they put in charge of this
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Speaker 1: at DOJ was a major Democrat donor who given over
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Speaker 1: six thousand dollars to Barack Obama and to the DNC,
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Speaker 1: And wonder of wonders, that major Democrat donor refused to
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Speaker 1: bring charges and DOJ then Stonewall Congress Blowis Lerner refused
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Speaker 1: to testify, she pleaded the fifth she was held in
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Speaker 1: contempt of Congress, and the Department of Justice refused to
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Speaker 1: prosecutor and it blockaded any effort to holds her accountable.
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Speaker 1: Merrick Garland knows exactly what he is doing and in
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Speaker 1: appointing this prosecutor and the news media which sadly today
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Speaker 1: is thoroughly corrupt. We'll try to pitch him as a nonpartisan.
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Speaker 1: Given every other behavior from this attorney general, I think
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Speaker 1: the chances that this prosecutor does not loathe Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: are essentially zero. Lastly, and we're going to be doing
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Speaker 1: each and every day. But lastly, put this in perspective
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Speaker 1: in a historical contact center of just how radical what
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Speaker 1: we are witnessing now is comparing it to other countries.
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Speaker 1: This is, I truly believe, a sad day for this nation.
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Speaker 1: It was a sad day in a slippery slope when
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Speaker 1: the president's home was rated at Marlago. The fact that
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Speaker 1: a former president's home would be rated, it was a
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Speaker 1: day where I was worried that we would never come
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Speaker 1: back from it. Now watching what's happened, then moving forward,
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Speaker 1: trying to take out the president, put him in handcuffs,
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Speaker 1: convict him, put him in jail. How concerned are you
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Speaker 1: about just in this nation in general, because this is
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Speaker 1: something we've never seen in this country and now the
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Speaker 1: Democrats are actively doing it in a revenge mode. Yeah. Look,
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Speaker 1: that's exactly right. But we have had forty six presidents
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Speaker 1: in our nation's history. No president has ever tried to
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Speaker 1: do this. We've had president switched from one party to
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Speaker 1: the other. And listen, you see in Banana Republic. You
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Speaker 1: see in tinpot dictatorships, when one party takes control of
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Speaker 1: the government, they go after their predecessors. They probably secute them,
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Speaker 1: they lock them up and put them in jail. And
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Speaker 1: that's sadly in places where rule of not law is
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Speaker 1: not respected, that's fairly typical of abusive and tyrannical governments.
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Speaker 1: The United States has never ever, ever done that until now,
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Speaker 1: until Joe Biden and this politicized Department of Justice. They
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Speaker 1: hate Trump so much and they are so self righteous
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Speaker 1: and sure of their own own partisan position. They also know,
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Speaker 1: because the corporate media has been so corrupted that the
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Speaker 1: media will not hold into accounts, that they could abuse
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Speaker 1: the Department of Justice of the FBI and not expect
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Speaker 1: any meaningful scrutiny. That is incredibly dangerous, but it is
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Speaker 1: where we are today. It's incredible. We're gonna have, like
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Speaker 1: I said, another pod and extended, you know, normal length
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Speaker 1: one on Monday for you. That will also be with
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Speaker 1: videos so you can watch it on YouTube Center. Thanks
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Speaker 1: for taking the time tonight. I know you've had a
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Speaker 1: busy schedule to day and I know you want to
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Speaker 1: talk to people, let them know exactly what you thought
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Speaker 1: about this, because this is going to be a very
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