Speaker 1: Good morning, pef Sen. Welcome to WIKA F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker, Folks.
Speaker 1: At the end of last week, as we were headed
Speaker 1: into the weekend, a disturbing report came out and it
Speaker 1: was that Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan District Attorney, received a
Speaker 1: threatening letter with white powder. This is according to NBC News.
Speaker 1: The substance, which investigators later determined was non hazardous, was
Speaker 1: found in a letter addressed to DA Alvin Bragg. And
Speaker 1: this is what it said, Alvin, I am going to
Speaker 1: kill you in all caps, followed by a bunch of
Speaker 1: exclamation points. The markings on the envelope indicate that it
Speaker 1: was mailed from Orlando, Florida, and they're following up. The
Speaker 1: FBI and other law enforcement are following up on this case.
Speaker 1: This should not be normal. And what I'm finding is
Speaker 1: that each new act of political violence is normalizing our
Speaker 1: reaction to what should not be considered normal and a functioning,
Speaker 1: fucking democracy. It's similarly that we have all become none
Speaker 1: to mass shootings that you know, don't kill at least
Speaker 1: ten to twenty people at a time. We're just like, oh,
Speaker 1: just another day in America. This is how fascism and
Speaker 1: authoritarianism happens. What was that quote from the late Madeleine Albright,
Speaker 1: which was, if you pluck a chicken one feather at
Speaker 1: a time, nobody notices. But if you pluck a whole
Speaker 1: chicken at once, of course people notice. Fascism is like
Speaker 1: plucking a chicken one feather at a time. You take
Speaker 1: away one norm right, which is our integrity and belief
Speaker 1: in our institutions, one feather right. The former Trump administration,
Speaker 1: the entirety of the Republican Party, has turned our political norms,
Speaker 1: in the integrity that we had in our electoral politics,
Speaker 1: on its head. For three years now, Donald Trump has
Speaker 1: been talking about a prior right to the actual election
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty, about how the election was going to
Speaker 1: be fraudulent if he didn't win, and it was going
Speaker 1: to be stolen. All of these things. He had planted
Speaker 1: that seed before anyone had actually cast a ballot. For
Speaker 1: three years, it has been the reigning commentary from Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: his supporters, and on Fox News. So much so right
Speaker 1: that Fox News is facing a one point six billion
Speaker 1: dollar lawsuit from Dominion, the company that provided the voting
Speaker 1: machines that they said were somehow run through Venezuela or
Speaker 1: had bamboo in them or whatever bullshit that they just
Speaker 1: pulled out of thin air to make up and slander
Speaker 1: right this company. I think about, you know, I think
Speaker 1: about Sha Moss, I think about her mother. I think
Speaker 1: about the way that people are no longer going to
Speaker 1: want to be involved in elections as volunteers. Those people
Speaker 1: that you see when you go to vote, that are
Speaker 1: sitting down at the tables, that are handing out your pen,
Speaker 1: that are telling you how to scan your document, they're volunteers.
Speaker 1: And other election officials are like low paid, low level
Speaker 1: county officials. No one is going to want to do
Speaker 1: this job. No one is going to want to volunteer.
Speaker 1: Why because we can't. We cannot promise that they will
Speaker 1: be safe. Does that sound like a democracy to you,
Speaker 1: because it sure's how it doesn't to me. When I
Speaker 1: think about the fact that before this threatening letter was
Speaker 1: sent to Alvin Bragg, you had members of the Republican
Speaker 1: Party sitting senators like Rand Paul who said that Alvin
Speaker 1: Bragg should be arrested. You had Jim Jordan, like I
Speaker 1: told you last week, and others that were a letter
Speaker 1: saying that you need to come in to sit down
Speaker 1: with us to talk about your investigation. Why also that
Speaker 1: they can circle the wagons around a criminal. Republicans are
Speaker 1: the ones that are destroying our democracy. Republicans are the
Speaker 1: ones that are making it dangerous for us to exist
Speaker 1: inside of a democracy or just a safe environment to
Speaker 1: begin with. I mean, folks, think about these things for
Speaker 1: a minute. We can't get an assault rifles band because
Speaker 1: Republicans don't want that to happen. Right They're in the
Speaker 1: bag for the NRA. So kills are going to continue
Speaker 1: to get slaughtered, and maybe, like Alabama, people will create
Speaker 1: some bullshit safe room for children to go into rather
Speaker 1: than doing the actual safe thing, which would be to
Speaker 1: take assault rifles and weapons of mass destruction off the streets. Instead,
Speaker 1: we have a whole host of red state governors from
Speaker 1: Tennessee to Texas to everywhere that's saying, hey, you don't
Speaker 1: need any training, you don't need any background checks, you
Speaker 1: don't need to do anything. You don't even need to
Speaker 1: fucking read or write or have twenty twenty vision. Frankly,
Speaker 1: in any of these fucking states, you can walk in
Speaker 1: and much in the way that you can go into
Speaker 1: any seven eleven and get a slurpee. You can walk
Speaker 1: into any of these red states and walk out within
Speaker 1: a R fifteen a bunch of bullets, no questions asked,
Speaker 1: and that seems normal to them. That's your God given right.
Speaker 1: No training, no direction, no background check, no nothing. Here's
Speaker 1: a weapon that can murder twenty people without you ever
Speaker 1: having to take your finger off the trigger. These very
Speaker 1: same states take away the autonomy of women and people
Speaker 1: with uterus is to be able to decide when, if,
Speaker 1: and how they want to have a child. So we
Speaker 1: allow people with no training right to pick up an
Speaker 1: assault rifle, but a woman in the same state can't
Speaker 1: pick up birth control, can't get an abortion, needs to
Speaker 1: undergo all of these loopholes in bullshit in order to
Speaker 1: have a say in our own life's path. But these
Speaker 1: people are able to pick up assault rifles and change
Speaker 1: the trajectory of whose ever life that they want to
Speaker 1: take away at that moment. So Republicans are making us unsafe.
Speaker 1: They're the ones that have been upholding right, the big
Speaker 1: lie make unsafe for volunteers and workers. They're the ones
Speaker 1: that have been referring to their political opponents as their enemies,
Speaker 1: enemies of the state, enemies of the people, using dehumanizing
Speaker 1: language like Marjorie Taylor Green has animals, right, yeah, Donald
Speaker 1: Trump referring to Alvin Bragg saying that he's working with
Speaker 1: anarchists and the devil. All of this is language to
Speaker 1: distance people from one another, to make you fear the
Speaker 1: other again, making us less safe. I just folks, you know,
Speaker 1: I know it is a Monday, and I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to start off the week on a down note. But
Speaker 1: I got to tell you that where we are right now,
Speaker 1: it's fucking wild. It really is. And you know, you
Speaker 1: think about and I know from the comfort of my home,
Speaker 1: I talk about the ways in which they're so much,
Speaker 1: so much fucking information on Donald Trump's criminality. And if
Speaker 1: people had had the fucking integrity and I don't know,
Speaker 1: due diligence to go after Donald Trump in a real way,
Speaker 1: say ten twenty years ago, we wouldn't be here. But
Speaker 1: like the code with white powerful ciss rich men, I
Speaker 1: scratch your back, you scratch mine. You continue to defraud
Speaker 1: the people and the public and your businesses and your
Speaker 1: universities out will just look the other way because you
Speaker 1: provide a certain type of access, you provide a certain
Speaker 1: type of glitz and glam, right, and your big time
Speaker 1: celebrity and your armed with however, many countless lawyers, and
Speaker 1: so they let it slide, and here we are with
Speaker 1: a backsliding democracy because of it. Every day I worry
Speaker 1: about where we're going. And you know, I got to
Speaker 1: tell you that I want to believe that there are
Speaker 1: more good people than there are bad. I want to
Speaker 1: believe that we will always end up on the side
Speaker 1: of the good of the just. But this isn't a
Speaker 1: comic book. It's not a Disney movie, right, This is
Speaker 1: real fucking life. Real people are losing their lives, Real
Speaker 1: people are having their lives threatened. Right, So we can't
Speaker 1: pretend that we're just all sitting back and like watching
Speaker 1: a movie that we can't control. And I'm just wondering,
Speaker 1: you know, as you're seeing as the Department of Justice
Speaker 1: is watching what's happening to Alvin Bragg, and as Fannie
Speaker 1: willis in Georgia's watching what's happening to Alvin Bragg? Are
Speaker 1: they going to bring their cases? Alvin Bragg hasn't even
Speaker 1: indicted yet, He's still doing fucking interviews. Right, So you know,
Speaker 1: the latest again that happened at the end of last
Speaker 1: week was that Evan Corkran, one of Trump's attorneys, testified
Speaker 1: for three plus hours in front of the grand jury
Speaker 1: after crime fraud ruling in the classified documents. So let
Speaker 1: me tell you what is said. According to NBC News,
Speaker 1: Evan Corkran testified Friday under court order and the crime
Speaker 1: fraud exception before the federal grand jury investigating former Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's handling of sensitive government documents. Corkran had been ordered
Speaker 1: to appear and answer questions about his interactions with the
Speaker 1: former president under the crime fraud exception, meaning he could
Speaker 1: not assert attorney client privilege to avoid testifying about their discussions. Now, folks,
Speaker 1: this is a big deal because if you know, if
Speaker 1: you've been following these pieces of drama that just engulfed
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and anyone that he is around. I mean
Speaker 1: when he said I'm only surrounded by the best people,
Speaker 1: I only surround myself by the best people, I'm like,
Speaker 1: that is shore projection as fuck, because you know, you
Speaker 1: don't if they touch in you, you know, they fucking dirty, right,
Speaker 1: like birds of a fucking feather. So why this is
Speaker 1: a big deal is because this is how Donald Trump
Speaker 1: has been able to skate the law in so many ways.
Speaker 1: He claims attorney client privilege when he was president, and
Speaker 1: ever since he's claimed executive privilege. You know, Donald Trump
Speaker 1: has just through his life as what a white sis,
Speaker 1: hetero privileged man, right, The rules don't fucking apply, and
Speaker 1: society has followed suit up until now. So this is
Speaker 1: where we are with Corkran. US District Judge Beryl Howell
Speaker 1: had signed off on the request by Special counsel Jack
Speaker 1: Smith to force Corkran to testify after finding he presented
Speaker 1: sufficient evidence to establish that Trump committed a crime through
Speaker 1: his attorneys. So here's the thing again, these decisions aren't
Speaker 1: just being made willie nilly. In order to get to
Speaker 1: compel Corkran to testify, to get a judge to compel
Speaker 1: him to testify, Jack Smith had to prove that Donald
Speaker 1: Trump us Evan Corkran, his attorney to commit a crime.
Speaker 1: So he has again evidence receipts that say, hey, judge,
Speaker 1: this is why we need to be exempt from Evan
Speaker 1: Corkran being able to use attorney client privilege as an
Speaker 1: excuse to not tell the truth, because here's evidence that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump committed a fucking crime. So again, Trump's legal team,
Speaker 1: according to NBC News, appealed the ruling, but it was denied,
Speaker 1: leading to his appearance before the panel in a sealed
Speaker 1: proceeding on Friday. All filings in this case are sealed.
Speaker 1: So again, this is not the Manhattan case. This is
Speaker 1: the federal case, and this is particularly the federal case
Speaker 1: that is investigating the January six documents that Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: S Now, why is this different from the documents that
Speaker 1: were found in Biden's home and the documents that were
Speaker 1: also found with Mike Pence. Because neither one of those
Speaker 1: people hid them, lied about them, right. They welcomed with
Speaker 1: open arms folks to come in and say, hey, I
Speaker 1: don't know what I got, but please take it all.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, on the other hand, had his attorneys lie
Speaker 1: on his behalf and say that all the documents had
Speaker 1: been gathered up and delivered back to the government, and
Speaker 1: lo and behold, we all know that that was false.
Speaker 1: It's so fucking frustrating because you know that if it
Speaker 1: were you, if it were me, if it would if
Speaker 1: it was anybody, any normal human being, any normal American,
Speaker 1: you would have been in jail. They throw people in
Speaker 1: jail for less So why does the bar have to
Speaker 1: be so fucking high. You can't at one hand tell
Speaker 1: people that no one is above the law and then
Speaker 1: not apply the law equally across the board. But that's
Speaker 1: what we do in America. You got one law for crack,
Speaker 1: got one law for powder cocaine. The law for powder
Speaker 1: cocaine right, caught with that sentencing is lesser. Why because
Speaker 1: those that were always caught with powder cocaine were the white,
Speaker 1: wealthy business people, right. Crack cocaine dropped off in the hoods,
Speaker 1: right and in the ghettos where black and brown people lived.
Speaker 1: Our justice, our justice system has never been equal. And
Speaker 1: it just drives me fucking crazy when you have that
Speaker 1: sloth of a man, Merrick Garland come out with his
Speaker 1: pressors that say and no one is above the law lies.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump has been skating above the law for seventy
Speaker 1: seine years. That's why he rolls the way he does
Speaker 1: and acts the way he does, because any time that
Speaker 1: his fingers have been caught in the cookie jar, somehow
Speaker 1: he skates away clean as a whistle. So you know
Speaker 1: what we know, right, just with these recent indications and
Speaker 1: all of his you know, broakeass twitter sharing on his
Speaker 1: stupid site truth Social is that he is doing his
Speaker 1: damnedest to rile up his supporters not only to continue
Speaker 1: with his grift and stealing their money and claiming claiming,
Speaker 1: you know, grievance and grief, but he's riling them up
Speaker 1: to go after his enemies. And that's what they're doing.
Speaker 1: They're fucking responding. And so instead of the media doing
Speaker 1: what the media continues to do, which is not connect
Speaker 1: the dots right, Donald Trump says on Tuesday, I'm going
Speaker 1: to jail. He raised his close to two million dollars,
Speaker 1: if not more. At this point, he says that Alvin
Speaker 1: Bragg is working with the devil, and then Alvin Bragg
Speaker 1: gets a death threat. This is a fucking pattern of behavior.
Speaker 1: So let's stop pretending that we don't know if that
Speaker 1: person was charged up by Donald Trump. Like, stop, you
Speaker 1: sound fucking stupid. It's true. I mean, it's truly outrageous.
Speaker 1: And you know, while again the media continues to paint
Speaker 1: Ronda Santis as if this man is going to somehow
Speaker 1: be a better version than Donald Trump. And I'm like
Speaker 1: I saw somebody say the other day on MSNBC, ron
Speaker 1: De Santis is actually a lot more cruel believe it
Speaker 1: or not, right, because he has delivered in his cruelty.
Speaker 1: He has delivered in his racism, he has delivered in
Speaker 1: his transphobia and homophobia. He has delivered in his misogyny
Speaker 1: by turning Florida into a Christo fascist state. And again
Speaker 1: I asked, where are the fucking investigations into Ronda Santis?
Speaker 1: Where are the lawsuits from the Department of Justice's Civil
Speaker 1: Rights Division. Governor should not be able to do whatever
Speaker 1: the fuck that they want when it is denying people equity,
Speaker 1: access and their ability to pursue happiness. Right, So this
Speaker 1: whole idea that Rohn de Santis is somehow the better Trump. No,
Speaker 1: he's just the more articulate, policy savvy Donald Trump with
Speaker 1: crueler policies that he wants to nationalize. And you have
Speaker 1: folks right now that we're working for Donald Trump that
Speaker 1: are now making their money moves to go to Ronda
Speaker 1: Santis's pack, right, And why are they doing that? The
Speaker 1: man hasn't announced yet, but they sure as hell are
Speaker 1: getting themselves ready. Aaron Peirene, who was Trump's twenty twenty spokesperson,
Speaker 1: has now joined Rond Santis twenty twenty four super pac
Speaker 1: as a communications director, and this comes just days after
Speaker 1: GOP operative Jeff Row joined the same pack as an advisor.
Speaker 1: This is what CBS News has been reporting. These people
Speaker 1: are gearing up and they work for Trump and they're
Speaker 1: gonna work for Desantists. Why because they're all share the
Speaker 1: same values to make America a miserable spinhole of a
Speaker 1: place where progress and hope and dreams go to die,
Speaker 1: but where white supremacy reigns supreme. None of this can stand.
Speaker 1: We cannot allow it. We cannot allow ourselves to become complacent.
Speaker 1: We cannot allow ourselves to get to a place where
Speaker 1: this is all normal. Political violence is not the norm
Speaker 1: in America. There have been blips, absolutely, but what is
Speaker 1: happening in the age of Trumpism is becoming a monthly
Speaker 1: occurrence that will start to become weekly, that'll start to
Speaker 1: become daily. It is not okay and it should never
Speaker 1: feel like the new normal. That is it for me today,
Speaker 1: Dear friends on woke f as always, Power to the
Speaker 1: people and to all the people. Power, get woke and
Speaker 1: stay woke as fuck.