Speaker 1: This weekend, there is an extremely chilling story in the
Speaker 1: Washington Post. It is imperative that you read it, comprehend it,
Speaker 1: and share it. There has never been paragraphs like this
Speaker 1: written in a major American newspaper, descriptively after eight long years.
Speaker 1: This is the practice of journalism. There are no qualifications,
Speaker 1: just straight factual reporting about what it is that Donald
Speaker 1: Trump seeks to do. I'm going to read directly from
Speaker 1: the story. Donald Trump and his allies have begun mapping
Speaker 1: out specific plans for using the federal government to punish
Speaker 1: critics and opponents should he win a second term, with
Speaker 1: the former president naming individuals he wants to investigate or prosecute,
Speaker 1: and his associates drafting plans to potentially invoke the Insurrection
Speaker 1: Act on his first day in office to allow him
Speaker 1: to deploy the military against civilian demonstrations. In private, Trump
Speaker 1: has told advisors and friends in recent months that he
Speaker 1: wants the Justice Department to investigate one time officials and
Speaker 1: allies who have become critical of his time in office,
Speaker 1: including his former chief of Staff John Kelly and former
Speaker 1: Attorney General William Barr, as well as his ex attorney
Speaker 1: Ty Cobb and former Joint chiefs of Staff Chairman General
Speaker 1: Mark A.
Speaker 2: Millie.
Speaker 1: According to people who have talked to him, who, like others,
Speaker 1: spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations,
Speaker 1: Trump has also talked of prosecuting officials at the FBI
Speaker 1: and Justice Department. A person familiar with the matter said
Speaker 1: in public Trump is vowed to appoint a special prosecutor
Speaker 1: to go after President Biden and his family. The former
Speaker 1: president has frequently made corruption accusations against them that are
Speaker 1: not supported by available evidence. To facilitate Trump's ability to
Speaker 1: direct Justice Department actions, his associates have been drafting plans
Speaker 1: to dispense with fifty years of policy and practice intended
Speaker 1: to shield criminal prosecutions from political considerations. Critics have called
Speaker 1: such ideas dangerous and unconstitutional. Please understand the urgency of
Speaker 1: this moment. This is a moment of national emergency. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump is defeating President Biden in the swing States where
Speaker 1: the election will be decided. If Donald Trump is elected,
Speaker 1: it will end the American Republic as we know it.
Speaker 2: It will end American democracy.
Speaker 1: The men should be taken literally and seriously, and he
Speaker 1: is saying something directly that he would deploy the United
Speaker 1: States military into America's streets to patrol and occupy our towns,
Speaker 1: our villages, our boroughs, and our cities, to aim weapons
Speaker 1: at American citizens protesting and asserting their First Amendment rights.
Speaker 1: What Donald Trump intends to do is to cite the
Speaker 1: Insurrection Act. He'll use it as a basis to effectively
Speaker 1: establish martial law. Will the military say no to this
Speaker 1: illegal order, what will happen. We will be in a
Speaker 1: profound constitutional crisis. We will be on the edge of
Speaker 1: civil war because some of us will never submit to this,
Speaker 1: because we are Americans. We are a link in a
Speaker 1: chain that extends back to two hundred and fifty years
Speaker 1: when the Minutemen assembled on the greens at Lexington and Concord,
Speaker 1: when the Continental Army crossed the Delaware River. We are Americans,
Speaker 1: and we will never let this experiment be taken from
Speaker 1: us by this vile, despicable man full of malice in
Speaker 1: his heart. For all this moment in American life has
Speaker 1: been coming, he's been building. The situation is worsening. The
Speaker 1: extremism is hotter, it's more dangerous, it's better organized, and
Speaker 1: it has a plan to take political power and to
Speaker 1: reduce the republic to nothing in six short months. We
Speaker 1: know we live in an age of cowardice. Every single
Speaker 1: member of the Republican Party at one time looked at
Speaker 1: Donald Trump when the cameras were off. They said he
Speaker 1: was crazy. When the cameras were on, they got back
Speaker 1: in line. When Liz Cheney sat in the secure room
Speaker 1: after the insurrection and pointed a finger at the television.
Speaker 1: When Donald Trump came on and said we're going to
Speaker 1: hold him accountable, the entire room, Republicans and Democrats, all
Speaker 1: members of Congress stood and cheered together. But the Republican
Speaker 1: inside did and hold the Liz Cheney did. Isn't it
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Speaker 1: com Code Warning today. Overwhelming numbers of Democrats. When the
Speaker 1: cameras are off, they say that Donald Trump is going
Speaker 1: to be elected, that Joe Biden can't beat them. When
Speaker 1: the camera's on, they say something different. Let me ask
Speaker 1: you a question. Do you think that's misinformation? Or is
Speaker 1: misinformation only something that happens on Twitter?
Speaker 2: You see?
Speaker 1: What is it that you should call the conversation that
Speaker 1: takes place between the American media and America's elected officials
Speaker 1: that is secret, hidden, off the record, completely different when
Speaker 1: the camera light is on than when the camera light
Speaker 1: is off. Why is there such a commitment from America's
Speaker 1: power class to bullshit all of you good people about
Speaker 1: the things they know to be true and are obviously
Speaker 1: staring us all in the face.
Speaker 2: Why you know it's true?
Speaker 1: Everybody in America knows there's something deeply wrong.
Speaker 2: There are dark clouds coming.
Speaker 1: The crisis of faith in our democracy has become a cancer.
Speaker 2: Fear is everywhere.
Speaker 1: And when you marry fear and hopelessness with a demagogic
Speaker 1: dictator want to be like Donald Trump? Disaster is at hand.
Speaker 1: There is a question that must be asked, how could
Speaker 1: it be that Donald Trump could conceivably be winning any state?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 1: And the answer is something that has to be put
Speaker 1: on the table. Bidonomics was the biggest political mistake by
Speaker 1: way of branding since eighteen ninety six, when the first
Speaker 1: modern presidential campaign took place, and the result of this
Speaker 1: is a collapse of support with black voters, Hispanic voters,
Speaker 1: young voters. They don't believe the economy is good. In fact,
Speaker 1: they believe it's terrible, and the power class of the
Speaker 1: country has decided the best way to deal with this
Speaker 1: reality is to have an argument with the American people
Speaker 1: telling them they're wrong. Americans are defined people, and they
Speaker 1: don't particularly like being yelled at by their politicians and
Speaker 1: the most powerful people in the country told constantly to
Speaker 1: sit down, shut up, be quiet. No, the American people
Speaker 1: are trying to send a message and it's not being heard.
Speaker 1: And the result of the deafness is Donald Trump is
Speaker 1: poised to take power, and if he does, he will
Speaker 1: hunt his critics, seek to imprison them in mass. There
Speaker 1: will be violence in our streets. And as someone who
Speaker 1: is one of the ones that will be hunted and
Speaker 1: may be imprisoned for asserting my First Amendment rights to
Speaker 1: stand up against this insanity, I say no. This country
Speaker 1: will not go gently into that good night swallowed by
Speaker 1: the ransod Trump organization. This corrupt man must be brought down.
Speaker 1: He must be defeated with toughness, forcefulness, directness. Fighting back
Speaker 1: against his billion dollar propaganda networks is the communications challenge
Speaker 1: of a lifetime. And here's the simple truth. The Biden
Speaker 1: White House isn't up for it, not even close. So
Speaker 1: I'll leave you with this on the screen. Take a
Speaker 1: look at these polls. Linger over them. The election is
Speaker 1: a year away and there is nothing new to learn
Speaker 1: about either of these men. The American people know who
Speaker 1: President Biden is a good man, and they know who
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is a terrible man. The terrible man is
Speaker 1: beating the good man, and that's the most terrible thing.
Speaker 1: In fact, it's a catastrophe, and we have to stop
Speaker 1: it as a people coming together so we can move
Speaker 1: on and we can move forward and past this terrible
Speaker 1: era of American life.