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and only Michael Cohen.

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Cohen, we've got a lot to

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discuss. Why don't we start

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in New York? We can work

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our way over to what just

0:47

happened in Fulton County, Georgia, but

0:49

let's go to the Big Apple.

0:51

Some major developments there. Donald Trump

0:53

posting rather filing a notice of

0:55

appeal, not posting a

0:57

bond in the New York Attorney General

1:00

civil fraud case. And so

1:02

we heard Alina Habba saying that Donald

1:04

Trump was going to be able to

1:06

post this bond, which is now in

1:08

excess of $464 million

1:11

when you add pre-judgment and

1:13

post-judgment interest. Trump filed

1:15

the notice of appeal, but no supersedious

1:18

bond, which means the interest of approximately

1:20

$111,000 each day continues to accumulate. And

1:22

within 30 days from the date judgment

1:24

was entered, you're

1:32

going to have New York Attorney

1:34

General Letitia James be able to

1:36

enforce that judgment. Seize Trump property,

1:38

seize Trump assets. Cohen, you called

1:40

it that at least as of

1:42

now, he doesn't have the money

1:45

to post that bond because otherwise

1:47

you post the supersedious bond with the

1:49

notice of appeal, you don't let interest

1:51

accrue. Yeah, see what happened is,

1:54

there I was sitting in Florida and all

1:56

of a sudden I'm getting a whole slew

1:58

of phone calls. from various different

2:01

members of the press. Not

2:03

the political beat down, Midas Touch Network folks,

2:05

right? The ones who actually read this shit

2:08

before you go and you make a statement.

2:10

And they were like, well,

2:12

we understand that Donald Trump just hosted

2:15

the, what do you call it? The appeal. So what,

2:18

you know, do you have a comment?

2:20

So I'm like, well, you know, there's

2:22

a difference between filing your notice of

2:24

appeal, which he has the right

2:27

to do, but unless you

2:29

post it with a bond, the interest doesn't

2:31

stop accruing. I was under the impression was

2:33

87,500 a day. I'm

2:37

not really sure where the additional 30,000, you

2:40

know, is coming from Ben, but either

2:42

way, it's a ton of money each

2:44

and every day. And Donald did not,

2:46

let me be clear about that. He

2:49

did not post a bond in

2:51

order to file the actual appeal.

2:53

All he did is file his

2:56

notice of appeal. Very important distinction.

3:00

Yeah. And so he could technically file

3:03

the appeal. So first there's the notice. It's

3:05

not actually the appeal documents. So

3:07

one page document. So Trump one page document

3:09

says I'm going to appeal. Usually

3:14

with the notice in almost all

3:17

circumstances, you also post the supercedious

3:19

bond, the same

3:21

way Donald Trump did in the first time E.

3:24

Jean Carroll case with the $5 million verdict

3:27

back in May of 2023, because

3:29

the appeal itself when that

3:32

gets filed could essentially become

3:34

moot if the judgment

3:36

is already enforced. So if you're

3:39

going to file a notice of

3:41

appeal, of course you're going to

3:43

want to correspondingly file the supercedious

3:45

bond to stop the enforcement of

3:47

judgment because appeals take a pretty

3:49

long time, years sometimes. So by

3:52

the time you go through two

3:54

years, let's just say Trump ends

3:56

up winning on appeal or there's

3:58

a reduction. late the

4:00

judgment has already been enforced on.

4:03

That's why there's a mechanism to

4:05

stay enforcement of the judgment if

4:07

you post the supersedious bond that's

4:09

ultimately equal to the judgment and

4:11

Trump did not do that and

4:14

almost all times it's done concurrently

4:16

just like he did in the

4:18

E.G. and Carroll. So the only

4:20

like there's no reason that

4:22

you would just do that like just

4:25

because there's no strategic

4:27

advantage. In fact every aspect of

4:29

it is the worst thing you

4:31

could possibly do because

4:34

the interest continues to accrue so

4:36

the only reason that that happens

4:38

logically is if you can't post

4:40

the bond and Alina Haber said

4:42

that when the notice of appeal

4:45

was going to be filed they

4:47

would post the supersedious bond. They

4:49

did not so now the clock

4:51

is ticking. By the way

4:53

there's a great website trumpdebtcounter.com

4:55

with all Midas Touch links

4:58

in there as well that's

5:00

tracking every second that debt

5:02

accumulate and this could hit 500, 600 million

5:06

dollars when all is said

5:08

and done but this is a very

5:10

big deal. It's not being talked

5:12

about a lot but there's gonna come

5:14

a moment right where New

5:16

York Attorney General Leticia James is

5:19

going to enforce this judgment and what

5:21

do you think Cohen is Donald Trump

5:23

trying to set this show down so

5:26

when she seizes his properties he winds

5:28

and plays the victim? Why

5:31

would that be any different than every

5:33

other instance that we

5:35

have seen so far since he's

5:37

lost in 2020.

5:40

He is always the victim.

5:42

He's the victim of not

5:45

just you know obviously

5:47

this in his

5:50

opinion corrupt Biden administration

5:52

or the Democratic Party

5:54

or you know corrupt

5:57

prosecutors in four different

5:59

locations. he's always the victim.

6:03

Plain and simple. So, of

6:05

course, he's going to complain that

6:07

Tish James is going

6:09

after him in order to

6:12

create some sort of election

6:14

interference. Obviously, Alvin Bregg

6:16

is doing the same as his Jack

6:18

Smith in two separate occasions. Then, of

6:20

course, something we're gonna have to talk

6:22

about during this episode then,

6:26

Fonny Willis and the Fulton

6:29

County, Georgia case. Everybody is

6:31

coming after Donald because

6:33

Donald is always the victim. He

6:36

is the innocent person who is

6:38

leading the Republican Party,

6:40

that he's beating Joe Biden

6:42

by double digits and so

6:44

on and so forth. Of

6:47

course, that's all. He knows he's going

6:49

to lose. So, what does

6:51

he do? You play the victim

6:54

and you complain. We

6:57

welcome all of our viewers

6:59

who are watching the live

7:01

stream of those hearings in

7:04

Fulton County Superior Court. It

7:06

was day three of this

7:08

attempt by Michael Roman, Donald

7:10

Trump's codefendant along with Trump

7:12

and other codefendants to try

7:14

to disqualify Fulton County District

7:17

Attorney, Fonny Willis. Today, we

7:19

saw hours of testimony from

7:21

somebody by the name of

7:23

Terrence Bradley, who was the

7:26

law partner of Nathan Wade,

7:29

who it is alleged had

7:31

this romantic relationship. And

7:34

Fulton County District Attorney, Fonny Willis,

7:36

and Nathan Wade say that relationship

7:38

started in 2022. Trump's

7:42

lawyers are arguing that it started in 2019.

7:46

I don't know why this hearing became

7:48

about when was the first time that

7:50

Fonny Willis and Nathan Wade had sex

7:52

that has nothing to do with

7:55

the underlying issue about

7:57

whether or not there is a conflict

7:59

of issue. interest, but today's witness

8:01

was Terrence Bradley, who was the

8:03

law partner with Nathan

8:05

Wade and Terrence Bradley said it

8:08

would all be speculation on his

8:10

part when the relationship began. He

8:13

had no personal knowledge of when

8:15

the relationship began. He said

8:18

there was one conversation that he

8:20

had with Nathan Wade where Nathan

8:22

Wade confirmed the existence of the

8:25

relationship, but Terrence Bradley did not

8:27

know when that conversation took place and cannot

8:29

say it was 2019, 2020, or 2021 or

8:31

before Nathan Wade got a contract to be

8:38

a special counsel with the Fulton County's

8:40

office. So Cohen, I don't

8:42

know why the hearing just doesn't

8:44

end there. If you don't have

8:46

personal knowledge, if it's all speculation,

8:48

I was very disappointed that Judge

8:50

McAfee then just allowed this thing,

8:52

but this is what he's been

8:54

doing for three, four more hours,

8:57

getting into things where there's no

8:59

foundation and you had this Michael

9:01

Roman, one of the co-defendants, his

9:03

lawyer, Ashley Merchant was asking these

9:05

horribly worded questions to Terrence Bradley

9:07

like, so when I spoke to

9:09

you, why did you tell me this?

9:11

Why did you say that? Yeah, listen,

9:13

you got to set a predicate before

9:16

you ask questions like that. You know, you

9:18

have to make a foundation for where the

9:20

questions are coming from. She, of course, did

9:23

not. And I'll tell you, the guy that

9:26

came after her, Sasau, or

9:28

something to that I

9:30

forget his name, Sasau, he

9:34

was equally shitty in

9:36

terms of the questions that he

9:38

was asking. Look, I think

9:40

this entire hearing could have been over in

9:42

30, 40 minutes and I

9:45

would leave it up to the judge to make a

9:47

determination. Personally, I don't

9:49

think that the judge is going

9:51

to rule that either of them

9:54

should be disqualified as

9:56

being, yes, Seydow, or yes, said cow is

9:58

more like it. I'm not

10:00

so sure that he's going

10:02

to rule that, you know,

10:06

either of them have to be

10:08

recused from it. However, now

10:11

I'll throw my personal opinion in and I

10:13

generally try not to do that. I

10:17

think both of them should go. For

10:20

the sake of the case,

10:22

this is not about Fonnie

10:24

Willis. This certainly is not

10:26

about, you know, Nathan Wade.

10:28

This is about Donald Trump

10:31

being held accountable along with

10:33

a whole bunch of other

10:35

people in attempting to overturn

10:37

a free and fair election,

10:39

plain and simple. And it

10:43

should not be about Terrence

10:46

Bradley. It should not be about

10:48

Nathan Wade. It should not be

10:51

about Fonnie Willis. Let Fonnie Willis

10:53

turn it over. Let her recuse

10:55

herself and turn it over to

10:57

whoever the assistant district attorney is.

11:00

There are plenty of prosecutors that

11:02

can get up to speed relatively

11:04

quickly on this case, right? And

11:07

then just move forward, move

11:09

forward because the longer this

11:11

bullshit goes on, the less

11:13

likely that this case is

11:16

going to be tried somewhere

11:18

prior to a date

11:20

that many would turn

11:22

around and say does constitute

11:24

election interference. And I think

11:27

McAfee is, you know, should

11:30

rule immediately. I thought he should have ruled

11:32

from the bench in terms of what he,

11:34

you know, what he feels instead

11:37

of, you know, going to

11:39

write an opinion on it. Who knows how long

11:41

that's going to take? Because every single day that

11:43

goes on is

11:45

another day that gives Donald Trump

11:48

a leg up in

11:50

terms of not having this case go

11:54

to trial before, you know, the

11:56

November election. And I'm more

11:58

concerned about, I'm more concerned about America than

12:01

I am about each and every one of

12:03

them, you know, getting their own personal accolades.

12:06

Well, certainly me too. Judge Scott

12:08

McAfee said a hearing for March

12:11

1st, which will be here

12:13

live on the Midas Touch

12:15

Network, where there will be

12:17

kind of closing arguments between

12:19

the co-defendants and the prosecution.

12:21

The issue with recusal or

12:23

self-recusal gets a little more

12:25

complicated because Fawny Willis is

12:27

the district attorney. A

12:30

recusal could potentially have the

12:32

effect of an office-wide recusal.

12:34

Her power emanates from the

12:37

people. So it's maybe

12:39

not as easy as

12:41

just substituting another district

12:43

attorney in her place

12:45

without disqualifying the entire

12:47

office. You know, and

12:49

ultimately my view about

12:51

it is that potentially

12:53

there's some HR issue

12:55

here of consenting adults

12:58

who work together in

13:00

a prosecutorial capacity having

13:02

a relationship. Potentially

13:04

an HR issue. On

13:06

the other hand, with Donald Trump, you have

13:08

an adjudicated rapist. So let's

13:10

be very clear. In Rudy Giuliani,

13:13

you have somebody, you know, who's

13:15

out there, you know, talking about,

13:17

you know, Borat's 14 year old

13:19

fake daughter, you know, in the

13:21

movie. So let's talk about the

13:23

type of people that we're dealing

13:26

with that have real issues, not

13:28

to consenting adults, highly qualified professionals

13:30

and probing into their life. I

13:32

think Judge Scott McAfee, frankly, who

13:34

I had respected has done a

13:36

horrible job gatekeeping. I think if

13:39

you did not have a powerful

13:41

black female district attorney, these types

13:43

of issues would never be probed

13:45

the way they are being here.

13:48

It does create a distraction.

13:51

So we should acknowledge that.

13:53

But that's my view of

13:55

that. And everybody's entitled to

13:57

their own view on it. And

14:00

I'm not saying that I think Fannie

14:02

Willis should or should

14:04

not. I'm saying for the sake

14:07

of the case, in order

14:09

to move this case forward, in

14:11

order for Donald Trump to be

14:13

held accountable for what we

14:15

all know he's done, for what

14:18

we've heard in terms of recordings

14:20

and actions and corroborating testimonies and

14:23

documents, we need him to

14:25

be held accountable before November. And

14:28

what this has done is it

14:30

muddied the water to the point

14:32

that he is now able to

14:34

use it, which we knew he

14:36

was going to. So when people,

14:38

you know, including some of our

14:40

brigade, they say, no, I don't

14:42

agree with you, Michael, you know,

14:44

that that's okay. You don't have

14:46

to agree with me on everything

14:48

that I say. I'm just of

14:50

the mindset that this is not

14:52

a Fannie Willis case. He deserves

14:54

the accolades for bringing this case.

14:56

But ultimately, what is the goal

14:59

for him to be tried

15:02

and for a decision

15:04

to be had on

15:06

his accountability for what

15:08

was done there in

15:10

Georgia in order to overturn a

15:12

free and fair election. And while

15:14

I appreciate everything that Fannie, and

15:17

I agree that they should have

15:19

the right to have whatever relationship

15:21

that they had, it is bad.

15:24

It looks bad, whether it is or it's

15:26

not, you know, doesn't make a difference. It

15:29

looks bad. And it gave

15:31

Trump an opportunity to figure out

15:33

how to delay this case, when what

15:35

we all want is we want these

15:38

cases to move forward so that the

15:40

American people know exactly who it is

15:42

that they're voting for come November. When

15:46

you just analyze what this is even about. I

15:49

mean, the fact that you

15:51

have a group of defendants

15:53

basically saying the conflict of

15:55

interest is that we don't

15:57

have the best prosecutors going.

16:00

after us, we want more experienced

16:02

prosecutors who can go after us.

16:04

I mean, when you actually analyze

16:06

what it is they're trying to

16:09

say, why would a

16:11

relationship between two consenting adults

16:13

have any aspect on an

16:15

underlying prosecution? And it doesn't. It

16:18

doesn't. The whole point is it

16:20

looks bad. It just

16:22

looks bad. That's the whole

16:24

point. And here's my thought,

16:27

though, if Judge Scott McAfee set

16:29

a trial date, though, which he

16:31

has not done, you don't

16:33

get these games. I

16:35

mean, take a look, for example,

16:37

of Justice Juan Marchelin and the

16:40

Manhattan District Attorney criminal case. He

16:42

set a trial date. He was

16:44

firm about the trial date. Donald

16:46

Trump, they tried the same types

16:48

of theatrics there, Cohen. They're doing

16:50

the same thing here in their

16:52

motions that they just filed. They're

16:54

attacking you in the recent motion.

16:57

They're attacking Stormy Daniels. They're attacking

16:59

all of these people, all of

17:01

these things. They're trying to create

17:03

artificial issues in the Manhattan District Attorney

17:06

case that's set for trial March 25th.

17:09

But to me, you have an

17:11

experienced judge in Justice Juan Marchelin

17:13

who understands that that's the tactics

17:15

of desperate people. And you don't

17:17

have to just buy into all

17:19

the delay tactics when they try

17:21

to derail these proceedings. And my

17:24

only point is, why give him

17:26

an opportunity to create that delay

17:28

tactic? Imagine if hypothetically there was

17:30

never this relationship. And I'm with

17:32

so many of our brigade-ers

17:35

in the comments, I don't give a

17:37

shit who sleeps with who. I

17:40

really don't. As Ben said, they're

17:43

two consenting adults. What

17:46

this did, and again, being that

17:48

it was kept

17:50

on the down low, it's just not

17:52

the right thing. It's

17:54

not appropriate under the circumstances. And all

17:57

it did is it gave Trump an

17:59

opportunity to... Create a delay

18:01

tactic plain and simple. That's

18:03

it Let's talk

18:05

about Manhattan district attorney Criminal

18:08

case you're you're a witness in that

18:10

case. So I know there's certain things

18:12

you can can't share

18:14

But we appreciate those boundaries

18:16

But as much as you can

18:18

would be great here Donald Trump

18:21

filed a motion in lemonade to

18:23

exclude You as

18:25

a witness, so I just want to kind

18:28

of get this right here So Donald Trump

18:30

had previously filed a 500

18:32

million dollar or whatever it is

18:34

lawsuit against you in Florida you

18:37

were a defendant you asked for

18:39

Donald Trump's deposition He'd refused to

18:41

show up and then dismiss the

18:43

case and then here you

18:45

really don't have a choice They probably would

18:48

prefer not to have to testify then to

18:50

have to testify in a criminal case I'm

18:52

yeah, you're being subpoenaed if I was not subpoenaed

18:55

I would not have walked in and I would

18:57

not have been a I would not have been

18:59

a witness So you're being

19:01

subpoenaed to show up and Donald Trump

19:03

has filed a motion to exclude Your

19:06

testimony and to have you, you

19:09

know, not even show up and

19:11

not even testify That's what he's

19:13

been I was I was

19:15

in Florida I had gone for the

19:18

weekend a friend of mine's daughter had

19:20

just gotten married in Florida

19:22

in South Beach Miami Beach

19:24

area and I'm

19:26

sitting With my

19:28

in-laws having lunch my wife my in-laws were

19:31

sitting were having lunch and all of a

19:33

sudden I get a phone call from a

19:35

major Reporter

19:37

with a major major newspaper and

19:39

he turns around and he's estimate

19:42

Michael. You're not gonna believe this shit I said,

19:44

oh god now what so he goes Trump's

19:48

cracker Jack legal team Susan

19:51

naturally's and Todd

19:53

Blanche they just filed

19:55

a motion in lemonade

19:58

to prevent not just you From

20:00

testifying but I also understand to

20:03

prevent I think either Stormy

20:05

Daniels and also Karen

20:07

McDougall Also, the playboy for all

20:10

of us from being able to

20:12

testify on behalf of the prosecution

20:15

At this upcoming March 25th trial and

20:17

I of course started to laugh and

20:19

I put out a response You

20:22

know that this is obviously And

20:26

just you know desperate actions Create

20:29

stupid actions and that's exactly

20:31

what you know Todd

20:33

Blanche is and what they

20:35

are doing. I mean think about it

20:38

What was the basis for this motion?

20:41

eliminate that they're going to

20:45

pull me as a as

20:48

a witness in this upcoming

20:51

case and the answer is

20:53

that Michael Cohen is

20:55

a liar that Michael

20:57

Cohen lied in the

21:00

judge in Goron case and therefore

21:02

there is no basis for us

21:04

to believe that any of the

21:06

testimony that he's going to give

21:09

at this upcoming trial will

21:12

be accurate and reflective

21:14

of truth Well,

21:17

here's the only problem in terms

21:20

of why Todd Blanche and putting

21:22

out this motion eliminate Is this

21:24

stupid is the document? I mean,

21:27

he's literally as stupid as this

21:29

worthless document All he needs

21:31

to do is go to judge in Goron's decision

21:34

the 92 page decision and look

21:37

on page 43 and one

21:40

of the things that it says when they're

21:43

talking about and it's like a two and

21:45

a half pages on me as a witness

21:47

here judging Goron

21:50

finishes the entire paragraph about

21:52

me Michael Cohen told

21:54

the truth, but interestingly enough,

21:56

you know who he said did not tell

21:59

the truth Donald.

22:02

I mean, that's when he turned around and

22:04

he said that Donald Trump did not

22:06

tell the truth. In fact, the

22:08

way he states it, overall,

22:11

Donald Trump rarely responded to

22:13

the questions asked. And

22:16

he frequently interjected long,

22:19

irrelevant speeches on issues far

22:22

beyond the scope of the

22:24

trial. His refusal

22:26

to answer the questions directly,

22:28

or in some cases at

22:30

all, severely compromised

22:32

his credibility. I think Judge Ingraham

22:34

was being incredibly generous and not

22:37

calling him what I would call

22:39

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22:41

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22:43

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22:46

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22:48

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22:50

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22:53

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22:55

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22:57

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23:00

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23:02

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23:04

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23:07

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23:09

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23:11

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27:56

Evidence Does Donald Trump Want To

27:58

Exclude From Trial? Well,

28:03

you can't ruin the game, you got to

28:05

his way in all fairness, if he had

28:07

his way, you would be

28:09

allowed to ask him only questions that

28:11

he wants. How great are you? Right.

28:14

And just let him talk about that,

28:17

you know, on and on and on,

28:19

which is technically no different than any

28:21

of his rally speeches, which if you've

28:23

been or heard one, you've been

28:26

to unheard them all. They are

28:28

all identical, except his last one,

28:30

which was that CPAC was

28:32

nothing shy of a

28:35

clan meeting. The fact that

28:37

at CPAC, a whole

28:39

slew of neo-Nazis showed

28:43

up, starting to salute

28:45

him, you know, with

28:47

the Heil Schittler, you know, I

28:49

mean, this is really insane. Look,

28:53

one of the things I also just want to

28:55

say to our brigaders is when

28:58

Ben and I do this show,

29:00

and we bring to you the

29:03

news, and most of the time,

29:05

we don't even really interject opinion,

29:08

because not

29:10

everybody's going to agree with everything

29:12

that I say, they're not going

29:14

to agree with the opinion that

29:16

maybe everything Ben says, Ben and

29:18

I don't agree on everything. Remember,

29:21

I say this all the time,

29:23

the very famous quote by New

29:26

York former mayor Ed Koch, that

29:28

if you agree with me six out of

29:30

12 times, you should vote for me. If

29:33

you agree with me 12 out of

29:35

12 times, you should see a psychiatrist.

29:37

The point that I bring up here is my

29:42

opinion regarding Fannie Wills, it's

29:44

irrelevant. It's just basically

29:46

my opinion. And

29:49

I'm more concerned about

29:51

seeing justice happen than

29:54

seeing justice happen for any one

29:56

person. If I did not need

29:59

to be included. In this

30:01

upcoming Alvin brag trial, I would

30:03

prefer that this is

30:06

not about me I know maggots

30:08

these fucking idiots with the three

30:10

teeth and the four brain cells

30:12

All they want to do is

30:15

they want to make this. Oh, this

30:17

is a Michael Cohen versus Donald Trump

30:19

Donald Trump versus Michael Cohen war a

30:21

David and Goliath sort of 21st

30:24

century, you know rematch it is

30:26

not all right. I'm not

30:29

the judge I'm not the

30:31

jury. I'm not the prosecutor. I am

30:33

a subpoenaed witness Plain

30:35

and simple and all I want to see

30:38

is Accountability.

30:40

I want to ensure that our democracy

30:43

continues from generation to generation and the

30:45

fact that I believe what I believe

30:48

in regard to and I happen to

30:50

have I Give funny

30:53

Willis all the time. I saw on

30:55

this show as well television all the

30:57

credit in the world nevertheless

31:01

Like I said Donald will do what Donald

31:03

will do and the less opportunity that we

31:05

give him to do that I think the

31:07

better it will be to get this case

31:09

moving forward Well said I do

31:12

want to try to roll out my game though with

31:15

the with the with the music

31:17

that I had of you Know what does

31:19

Donald Trump want to exclude from trial? Dun-dun-dun

31:22

so first and

31:24

foremost he wants to exclude Stormy

31:27

Daniel what you he wants to then

31:30

exclude Stormy Daniels and him calling her

31:32

horse face. Let's play this clip He

31:34

does not want this coming

31:36

into trial. Let's play this clip To

31:41

bring charges against me for Now

31:44

ancient no affair story of

31:46

stormy horse face Daniels no

31:49

attraction No

31:51

affair I go no affair Where

31:55

there is no crime anyway Donald

31:58

Trump wants to exclude from

32:00

trial his own lawyer Rudy

32:02

Giuliani going on Fox

32:04

and saying this. That's right. Having

32:07

something to do with paying some

32:09

Stormy Daniels woman, 130,000,

32:12

I mean which is going to turn out to

32:14

be perfectly legal. That

32:17

money was not campaign money. Sorry, I'm

32:19

giving you a fact now that you don't

32:21

know. It's not campaign money. No

32:25

campaign finance violation. So

32:28

they funneled it through the law firm. Funneled

32:31

through the law firm and the president repaid it. Oh,

32:34

I didn't know he did. Yeah, there's no

32:36

campaign finance law. Zero. So

32:39

the president like every Sean. So

32:42

would this decision was made by

32:44

everybody. Everybody was nervous about this from the

32:46

very beginning. I wasn't. I knew how

32:48

much money Donald Trump put into that campaign. I said 130,000.

32:50

He can do a couple of checks for 130,000.

32:55

When I heard Cohen's retainer of 35,000

32:57

when he was doing no work for

32:59

the president. I said, that's

33:01

how he's repaying. That's how he's

33:03

repaying it with a little

33:05

profit and a little margin for paying

33:08

taxes for Michael. But you do know

33:10

the president didn't know about this. I

33:14

believe that's what I know about the specifics of it.

33:17

As far as I know, but he did know

33:19

about the general arrangers and Michael would take care

33:21

of things like this. Like I take care of

33:23

things like this for my client. He

33:26

will. Do

33:32

you remember that? Of course I remember

33:34

it. That's stupid moron. Rudy. That's the

33:37

part where Rudy broke the privilege. You

33:40

know, with Sean Hannity, even

33:42

shows that I didn't know

33:44

that. I mean, of course,

33:46

I mean, you got it. Of

33:48

course, Trump wants that to be excluded.

33:52

Emotion eliminate on

33:54

Rudy. By the way, I would love

33:56

if they put Rudy up onto the

33:58

stand and talk about the

34:00

how much was it it was like Two

34:04

hundred and fifty thousand dollars a

34:06

day that Rudy said that Donald

34:08

was paying him as his personal

34:10

lawyer And I think it was

34:12

supposed to be like fourteen plus

34:14

million dollars that Trump owes to

34:16

Rudy you want to hear? Interesting

34:18

fact, you know Rudy as a

34:20

result of the attacks the defamation

34:22

attacks on Ruby

34:24

Freeman and shy moss You

34:28

know now that he has the

34:30

judgment against him filed bankruptcy the

34:33

biggest asset That

34:35

Rudy has in that

34:38

bankruptcy proceeding is the outstanding

34:41

Legal fees that Donald Trump owes

34:43

to him. It's just imagine that

34:47

I'm liking this game. What does Donald Trump

34:49

want to exclude and we've got some game

34:51

show music. Hopefully we have it license Play

34:55

it What

34:58

does Donald Trump want to exclude Well,

35:02

he wants to exclude Michael Cohen the

35:04

access Hollywood tape where he admits to

35:06

sexually assaulting women Let's play this clip

35:08

of Donald Trump seeing that at

35:11

a deposition in the E. Jean Carroll case play the

35:13

clip And you say it again.

35:15

This has become very famous in

35:18

this video. I just start

35:20

kissing them It's like a magnet just

35:22

kiss. I don't even wait and

35:24

when you're a star they let you do it You

35:27

can do anything grab them by the pussy.

35:29

You could do anything Well

35:31

historically that's true with stars True

35:34

with stars that they can grab women by the

35:37

pussy. Well, that's what it's if you look over

35:39

the last million years I guess that's been largely

35:42

true not always but largely true

35:45

unfortunately, unfortunately You

35:48

consider yourself to be a star. I Think

35:53

you can say that yeah and And

35:56

finally, what does Donald Trump want to

35:58

exclude? Let's play the music music as

36:00

I read it. We

36:02

got the music. Pull up

36:05

the post by Donald Trump about

36:07

Stormy Daniels. Let's pull it up right here.

36:10

I did nothing wrong in the horse face case.

36:13

I see she showed up in New York today

36:15

trying to drum up some publicity for herself. I

36:17

haven't seen her spoken to her since I took

36:19

a picture with her in a golf course in

36:21

full golf gear, including a hat close to 18

36:23

years ago. She knows

36:25

nothing about me other than her con man

36:27

lawyer, not been naughty and convicted liar and

36:29

felon. Gail Berg, Michael Cohen may

36:32

have schemed up, never had an affair

36:34

with her. Just another false acquisition by

36:36

a sleaze bag, witch hunt.

36:39

This has been what does Donald Trump

36:42

want to exclude? How

36:44

funny acquisition. He

36:47

means accusation, the fucking moron.

36:49

I mean, just a total moron. But on

36:52

top of that, I

36:54

schemed up in

36:56

order to do what? To damage

36:59

a guy who I

37:02

worked for, who I was involved

37:05

in the creation of the

37:09

2016 campaign that at some point

37:11

in time, that this

37:13

was all drummed up by

37:16

storming myself and Avenatti. Seriously.

37:18

I mean, and acquisitions. I mean,

37:20

again, the guy is so unhinged.

37:23

He doesn't know. He doesn't know

37:25

what he's talking about. And the

37:27

fact that we're not all just

37:29

laughing at him. I mean, when

37:32

I say all of us, I'm talking

37:34

about the maggot morons as well. The

37:36

ones that are trying to troll our

37:38

brigade ers, which is why I keep

37:40

saying to our brigade ers, we need,

37:42

we need to have 20 million

37:46

brigade ers. All of

37:48

us saying the same thing when

37:50

we marched to Washington, and we

37:52

basically show our support for the

37:54

democratic party so that we can

37:56

get rid of, we can

37:58

get rid of this Maga ideology. I'm

38:00

not saying get rid of the Republican Party,

38:02

right? I mean, you do need to have

38:04

at least two parties to have a contest. But

38:08

what I am saying is we

38:11

must eradicate this MAGA ideology, this

38:13

fascism from our body politic once

38:15

and for all. And

38:18

the only way that we do that is

38:20

by having this blue tidal wave that Ben

38:22

and I are constantly talking about. You

38:25

know, as I always

38:27

say, MAGA is not

38:29

conservative. MAGA really isn't

38:31

Republican. I mean, MAGA's

38:33

taken over the Republican Party.

38:36

The Republican Party's basically dead.

38:38

There's a lot of mainstream

38:40

Republicans, actual conservatives, not

38:42

the MAGA mutation, who follow the

38:44

Midas Touch Network. Lots

38:47

of independents follow the Midas Touch

38:49

Network, as well as progressives and liberals,

38:51

because this is team pro-normalsy, team

38:53

democracy. And we look at clips like

38:56

this. I'll show you this one from

38:58

the other night of Don Jr.

39:00

And then I'm going to show you

39:02

some of those clips of Donald Trump

39:04

at CPAC, and then he spoke at the conservative

39:07

Black Federation event in South Carolina, which I'm

39:09

going to show you some clips of as

39:11

well. And this is

39:13

some revolting, revolting stuff. First, let me

39:16

show you this clip of Don Jr.

39:18

on one of these right, on his

39:20

own right-wing podcast here. Play this clip.

39:44

Wow. And first

39:46

of all, I like the guy

39:50

with Don in

39:52

there. I mean, talk about strange-looking

39:55

dudes. But you

39:57

had, you had... a

40:00

black guy come over to you and say,

40:03

hey, you're my hero. I

40:07

mean, I don't even know where

40:09

to start. If you look at

40:11

any of the Trump rallies, the

40:14

one thing that is pretty apparent

40:19

is that there is a

40:21

limited number of minorities,

40:23

everybody in that rally, for

40:26

the most part, it's like 99% of

40:29

that rally are white.

40:32

And what they

40:34

do is they strategically put a

40:37

handful of minorities, like camera left,

40:39

camera right, so it doesn't look

40:41

like the fucking Klan meeting that

40:44

it actually is. Rest assured that

40:47

at CPAC, you didn't have a

40:50

group of black people that were

40:52

there coming over to Don Jr.

40:54

saying, you're my hero. What you

40:57

probably had was the neo-Nazi skinhead

40:59

group coming over and saying to

41:02

Don Jr., hey, you're my hero.

41:04

And it's really sad because I

41:06

know Don Jr. And

41:09

why he's doing what he's doing to

41:11

this day was a question that was

41:13

asked of me over the course of

41:15

this past weekend. Is Don really the

41:17

way that he purports himself to be?

41:19

And the answer is no. In fact, how

41:21

many times even on this show have I

41:23

turned around and I told you things, or

41:25

that I wrote about in my first book,

41:27

This Loyal, Donald Trump Jr.

41:30

wants to be nothing like

41:32

his father, or at

41:34

least so he said. He despised the

41:36

way that he grew up. He despised

41:38

the fact that he did not have

41:40

a father, a normal father, that would

41:42

go throw a baseball with him or

41:44

a football or a frisbee or something,

41:46

just take him to a ballgame. He

41:48

would take him to like a construction

41:50

site and tell him to go pick

41:52

up nails that weren't bent. And for

41:54

every box, he'd give him a dollar.

41:56

That's the relationship that Orr, he would

41:58

go with his... father to collect

42:01

rent at one of the

42:03

Mitchell Lamas or other buildings that they, you

42:05

know, that they own. That was what his

42:08

life was like. He wanted a father to

42:10

take him to a ball game. He wanted

42:12

a father to spend time with them. Donald

42:14

was not the father that he tries to

42:17

portray himself to any of the three kids.

42:19

They all went away to boarding school. All

42:21

right. Yeah, Ivanka ended up

42:23

coming back because of her alleged modeling

42:26

career, but that was more Ivana than

42:28

it was than it was Donald.

42:30

This whole thing is a big

42:32

fucking ruse. Why Don Jr. is

42:34

doing what he's doing. I have

42:36

no idea. It's shameful. There's the

42:39

only way to describe it. He,

42:41

the shit that he used to

42:43

talk about his father, this, if

42:46

it would, and to listen to him

42:48

talking the way he's talking about now.

42:50

Come on. This

42:52

is just, this is just, it's

42:55

crazy talk and it's contrary

42:58

to the things that Don Jr. Used to

43:00

say, you know, to me in the office.

43:03

Let me show you this one clip

43:05

from CPAC. Then when we come back,

43:07

we'll show more, but this is Donald

43:09

Trump calling the J six insurrectionist hostages.

43:11

One of the things he does at

43:13

these events is he plays a distorted

43:16

national anthem, a fabricated national anthem,

43:18

which is a song that he

43:20

made with the insurrectionists and it's

43:22

called like the spirit of J

43:25

six. And that's where the maggots,

43:27

they pledge allegiance to the spirit of

43:29

the J six insurrectionist. Trump calls him

43:31

hostages, and then he starts to praise

43:33

them. That's a major part of the speech

43:35

that Donald Trump gives. Let's just play

43:37

one clip of that right now. You

43:44

heard the J six hostages, didn't you?

43:46

You heard that. And I

43:49

will tell you, there's never been in the history

43:51

of our country, a group of people treated the

43:53

way they've been treated. There's never been anything like

43:55

it. When he says

43:57

you heard the J six hostages, that's

44:00

the Manipulated national anthem that the

44:02

J6 Insurrectionist sing with Donald

44:04

Trump that he makes people pledge allegiance to

44:06

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44:08

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44:11

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those ad reads, may I

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just say. It's actually really good. You know,

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I went on their site, I checked it

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out. I happened to have mine for many,

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many years. You know, I've told the story

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in our Patreon account where at the age

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of 39, I was very close to

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losing my life. And

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so right after that, while

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I was recovering, I can

47:48

tell you, you know, I did my wills and

47:50

trust, but I looked at

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this website. You know, one of the things I

47:54

won't do is I won't endorse a product if

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I don't stand behind it. And I saw the

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product and I saw the... quality of the

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work. I couldn't believe it. I paid obviously

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much, much more. The $269

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or $290 that they're charging.

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Good product. Yeah, I'll

48:11

tell you what a bad product is. Donald

48:13

Trump's speech at CPAC. I showed you another

48:16

bad product. This is $5.25 ugly sneakers that

48:20

he's charging $399 for. I'll

48:22

tell you what another bad product is. The Trump

48:25

breaks. That seems like

48:27

a bad product. I'll tell you what another bad

48:29

product is. But we have good products. University degree.

48:31

Trump University. So

48:34

the speech starts off with Donald

48:37

Trump singing the J6th anthem, not

48:39

the national anthem, and praising the

48:41

J6th insurrectionist as hostages. And then

48:43

he spends the majority of the

48:46

speech, and I'm not kind of

48:48

making this up. I'm not just

48:50

inflating it like Trump inflates his

48:52

assets. The majority of his speech

48:54

is him talking about rambling

48:57

and how he's not cognitively

48:59

impaired. He spends like 25%

49:02

of the speech just talking about

49:04

that, how he doesn't interjects and

49:06

interposes on purpose. Let me just

49:08

show you this one right here

49:10

where it's Trump saying, nobody can

49:12

ramble like this. Here, play

49:14

this clip. They'll say, he

49:17

rambled. Nobody can ramble like this.

49:22

If they did, they'd be, they

49:24

wouldn't even try. You know what? They go step

49:26

by step, and they would never get off that

49:28

sucker. They go step by step.

49:31

But what happened? And

49:33

then Cohen, he continues. Before

49:35

we move on, can you tell me what the fuck he just said?

49:37

You know, he's got this, he's got

49:40

this, he's got this. I mean, what

49:42

the fuck is wrong with him? I

49:44

don't understand the context of what he was

49:46

even talking about. Well, perhaps

49:48

this sheds some additional light here.

49:51

He says, they'll say

49:53

he rambled. They'll say

49:55

he's cognitively impaired, but it's

49:57

the opposite. It's total genius. And watch.

50:00

when he talks like that, COVID, because that's how

50:02

he says it. He goes, they'll say it, but

50:04

it was total genius. When I watch this, I'm

50:06

like, this is the exact type of person my

50:08

dad told me to avoid if I ever saw

50:10

at a bar. Here, play this clip. See,

50:17

they'll say he rambled,

50:20

he's cognitively impaired.

50:25

No, it's really the

50:27

opposite. It's total genius. You know that.

50:30

It is. It's total genius. Genius.

50:35

What else can you say? Have you

50:37

ever heard Donald Trump criticize himself

50:39

on anything? Has he ever

50:41

turned around and said that he made a

50:43

mistake? Has he ever

50:46

turned around and apologized? Forgetting

50:48

about holding the Bible upside

50:50

down with two Corinthians, has

50:52

he ever apologized for anything?

50:54

Has he ever acknowledged making

50:57

a mistake? The answer is

50:59

no, because narcissistic sociopaths will

51:01

never, ever acknowledge that they've

51:03

made a mistake. He is

51:05

incapable of making a mistake.

51:07

Why? Because he thinks he's

51:10

from divine intervention.

51:12

I mean, it's truly incredible.

51:16

I mean, there's no other way to

51:18

describe Donald Trump other

51:20

than just batshit crazy. I

51:24

think we have this one. This is from the Black

51:27

Conservative Federation event. As you

51:29

said, when you actually looked at

51:31

the crowd, let's just say it didn't

51:34

necessarily reflect the title of

51:36

what the event purported to

51:38

be. Here with Donald

51:40

Trump, again, just so you see that this is

51:42

what he talks about in all of his speeches.

51:44

It's not just like, oh, maybe that's just the

51:46

CPAC speech. Here, he's speaking at

51:49

this other group's event and he says

51:51

how, look, I'm just being sarcastic. I

51:53

interchange the names and interpose the names

51:55

on purpose here. We've got that clip.

51:57

Let's play that with me. sarcastic

52:00

I interchange names all the time

52:03

every time I interchange the name and I

52:05

do it in sarcasm every time I interchange

52:07

a name they say Donald Trump didn't know this one

52:09

from that one I know exactly what the hell I'm don't

52:12

forget I'm up here now rapping to

52:14

you guys for 45 minutes without any

52:16

notes yeah

52:19

first of all he's not rapping

52:21

he's reading with a teleprompter I

52:23

always got his bullet points and

52:25

what he's referring to is when

52:27

he screws up Nancy Pelosi's name

52:29

with Nikki Haley's name or something

52:31

like that yeah again he can't

52:34

acknowledge he made a mistake and

52:36

so it's on his mind

52:38

that he made it everybody knows

52:40

that he made a mistake so

52:43

he's gonna bullshit us he's gonna

52:45

bullshit us and tell us he

52:47

knew he's interchanging interposing names with

52:49

one another because it's sarcasm and

52:52

so the fuck is sarcasm when

52:54

you're talking about Nancy

52:56

Pelosi and you're referring to Nancy

52:59

Pelosi as Nikki Haley

53:01

or then you're bringing in Hillary

53:03

Clinton or you're talking about Joe

53:05

Biden but you're using

53:07

Barack Obama's name no that's

53:09

not interposing it's not sarcasm

53:12

you fucking moron that's not

53:14

sarcasm that's stupidity all

53:17

right and everybody makes a mistake in the name

53:19

how many times you want another speaking about me

53:21

Joe how are you guys yeah my name is

53:23

Mitch oh hey I forgot

53:25

I forgot all right sorry about that

53:27

Mitch you know it is

53:30

what it is you make a mistake

53:32

move on but not him he has

53:34

to convince you that he is incapable

53:36

of error in fact it's

53:38

not him who made the mistake it's

53:41

you you made the

53:43

mistake because you thought that he made

53:45

the mistake so therefore

53:47

you're wrong he's right

53:50

all the time you know look as

53:52

we come towards our our words coming

53:55

very close I see a lot of

53:57

people like who's getting the two-fingered salute

53:59

today I gotta tell you.

54:04

It's gonna be a good one for you, Ben. It's gonna be

54:06

a good one for the Brigaders. Two-finger

54:09

salute goes to the

54:11

maggot trolls that are

54:13

right now jumping in here trying

54:15

to convince us that Trump is

54:18

going to be the winner in

54:20

2024, that Donald is right, everybody

54:23

else is wrong, that we're all

54:25

a bunch of assholes that wear

54:27

a bunch of woke, liberal, left,

54:30

you know, whatever. To

54:32

you, idiots. And there's no

54:34

other way to describe you. Understand

54:37

that Trump is a loser. He's

54:40

a con man. He's a fraud.

54:42

He's a dirtbag, right? This is

54:44

a guy who takes pride in

54:47

the overturning of Roe versus Wade

54:49

thinking that, you know, this is

54:51

something that's good for America, a

54:53

guy, again, who wants to have

54:56

America return to

54:58

its previous days

55:01

where, you know, it's

55:03

a white, nationalistic

55:07

country, which, of course, it never was, that

55:10

there's everything that he can do in 20...

55:13

To you trolls who

55:15

don't understand the damage

55:17

that your stupidity is

55:19

causing this country the

55:22

future of this country,

55:24

your own children, grandchildren,

55:26

great-grandchildren, they will fucking hate

55:29

you to the day that

55:31

you die when

55:34

you're sitting there and you are

55:36

supporting somebody who doesn't believe in

55:39

a woman's right to choose her

55:41

own reproductive decisions. That there's right

55:44

now on the table same-sex

55:47

marriage or interracial marriage or

55:49

your right to your First

55:51

Amendment freedoms, which are being

55:53

completely impaired as a direct

55:55

result of the overturning of

55:57

doves that resulted in... in

56:00

the basically squashing of

56:02

the Bivens decision. To

56:04

you, fucking fools, you

56:07

stupid people, morons who

56:10

are giving Donald a alleged

56:12

billionaire flying around on a

56:15

757 billboard. Fuck

56:19

you, fuck you for what you're

56:21

doing to this country, for what you're

56:23

doing to your own family because you're

56:26

too stupid to see past your hatred

56:29

or whether it's being racist,

56:31

sexist, whether it's being a

56:33

misogynist, a xenophobe, a

56:36

homophobe, an anti-Semite, whatever

56:38

your fucking problems are,

56:41

take it to your own grave.

56:43

But America's democracy, in order

56:45

for this world to continue

56:47

and to be safe, we

56:50

must continue to be the shining

56:52

beacon on the hill, a democracy

56:55

that we've been for 246 years,

56:57

and those of you that don't

57:00

see this, you maggot morons, you

57:02

trolling idiots, you texting bunch of

57:04

tough guys, fuck you. Well,

57:08

as President Biden says, don't compare me to

57:10

the almighty, compare me to the alternative, he

57:12

was on the Late Late Show with Seth

57:14

Meyers. Let me just show you the contrast,

57:16

though. I think it is important to see

57:19

that. We've spoke a lot about Trump. Let

57:21

me just show you this clip from last

57:23

night on Seth Meyers' The Late Late Show.

57:25

Play this clip of President Biden. Gotta

57:27

take a look at the other guy, he's about as old as

57:30

I am, but he can't remember his wife's name. Yeah. And

57:32

number one. Number

57:36

two. It's

57:38

about how old your ideas are. Look, I

57:40

mean, this is a guy who wants to

57:43

take us back. He wants to take us back in Roe

57:45

v. Wade. He wants to take us back on a whole

57:47

range of issues that are 50, 60

57:49

years they've been solid American positions. Here's

57:53

President Biden on a meeting he held

57:55

today with the leaders from the Senate

57:57

and the House of Representatives talking about.

58:00

the consequences of inaction every day

58:02

in Ukraine. Here, play this clip.

58:04

We've got to figure

58:07

out how we're going to keep funding

58:09

the government, which is an important problem, an important

58:11

solution we need to find, and I think we

58:13

can do that. And

58:16

Ukraine, I think the need is urgent. I

58:18

hope we can speak to that a little

58:21

bit. And I think the consequences of

58:23

inaction every day in Ukraine are dire.

58:26

I've been speaking to some of our

58:28

G7 partners, and you just got

58:31

back to Chugga. They're

58:33

very concerned. And also

58:36

we need to, in

58:38

terms of supplemental, we need to

58:40

deal with the Israeli portion. But

58:43

that also contains giving a portion, having

58:45

to do with humanitarian assistance and

58:48

the Palestinian air. And

58:52

we have to replenish the air defenses for

58:54

Israel, and we have to work

58:56

on making sure they don't face the threat from the

58:59

information center,

59:03

from what's going on in

59:05

the Middle East, not just from the

59:07

mosque, but from Iran. And

59:10

then, Cohen, you mentioned- No,

59:12

Ben, if you listen to

59:14

him speak, he's not

59:16

reading off a teleprompter. He's

59:19

speaking his heart. The man

59:21

is truly an

59:23

empathetic person, but he

59:25

understands the world.

59:28

He understands the world's stage.

59:30

That was pretty coherent to me. Unlike

59:33

the bumbling buffoon, the

59:36

orange-crusted Mandarin Mussolini, that's reading off a

59:38

fucking teleprompter and has to go off

59:40

it in order to try to convince

59:42

you, and then says the stupidest things

59:44

in the world that don't make any

59:46

sense at all. So really,

59:48

who's the one that's cognitively impaired? You

59:51

mentioned earlier how Don Jr. just wanted his

59:53

dad to maybe throw the baseball around every

59:56

now and then. Take a look

59:58

at this photo of Joe Biden. and

1:00:00

with his kids. They had a super

1:00:02

bold tradition where they would toss the

1:00:04

football around every day

1:00:06

at their home in Delaware. Salty

1:00:09

and Jeremy, I just posted it on our chat

1:00:11

if you're able to pull

1:00:13

this photo up that I just sent you

1:00:15

because I think it's important to see. But

1:00:17

it's also important, Michael Cohen, that we don't

1:00:19

just talk about these narratives. We

1:00:22

don't just push these narratives that

1:00:24

the media circulates. I just want to show

1:00:27

the data at the end of the

1:00:29

day. And people can see for themselves. You can

1:00:31

take a look at what

1:00:33

Donald Trump's saying. You can take a look

1:00:35

at what President Biden is saying. You can

1:00:37

take a look at their words

1:00:39

and their actions and which one's presidential,

1:00:42

which one's not presidential. And if we

1:00:44

have this as we close out and

1:00:46

we tell people to go to our

1:00:48

Patreon, Salty and Jeremy, if you've got

1:00:50

that photo that I sent in the chat, there

1:00:52

it is right there. That's

1:00:54

what Don Jr. always wanted right

1:00:57

there. And this is the person who President

1:01:02

Biden always was before he was President

1:01:04

Biden. He was someone who spent his

1:01:06

time with his kids and raised a

1:01:08

family and persevered through tragedy. And you

1:01:11

see it all there. Everybody

1:01:13

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1:01:15

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1:01:42

more questions for you, Cohen, about

1:01:45

maybe some things with some of

1:01:47

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1:01:50

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1:01:52

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