Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. This past weekend, Donald Trump
Speaker 1: finally hit the campaign trap. So I headed down to
Speaker 1: South Carolina for what was originally permitted as a buga
Speaker 1: rally but later downgraded to it intimate event.
Speaker 2: What is this event? It's a Trump rally. It is
Speaker 2: a rally, I'd say it was. It's not a rally.
Speaker 3: It's somewhat of a rally, but it's not a big rally.
Speaker 2: Now I thought it was a rally. It's not a rally.
Speaker 2: It's a bunch of people standing in line. It's an event.
Speaker 2: It's a list.
Speaker 3: It's invited list only.
Speaker 2: This is a private event that VIPs have been invited to.
Speaker 1: Yes, only, heavily vetted VIPs were invited. Like this guy,
Speaker 1: so Brero Trump, JMI no long South Caroline Sombrero Trump.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's not a rally, it's a leadership form formed
Speaker 4: the leadership teams.
Speaker 2: I see a guy like this.
Speaker 1: I think this guy has got two dates circled out
Speaker 1: his calendar, Zigo Demo and January sixth. This kid off
Speaker 1: was packed with classic style and classic takes. Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is president right now.
Speaker 2: He's currently the president.
Speaker 5: He is still president. There's a lot of things that
Speaker 5: this Biden person does not have, like the president your
Speaker 5: seal and things like that that are pretty obvious.
Speaker 1: Biden doesn't have the presidential seal. When he speaks, there's
Speaker 1: a presidential seal in front of him.
Speaker 5: It's not real.
Speaker 2: What is he doing as president? He is in charge
Speaker 2: of the military. Great, the military is in charge of
Speaker 2: this whole thing.
Speaker 5: The military would put in charge in twenty eighteen, when
Speaker 5: President Trump signed an executive order.
Speaker 1: The American military arms that are going to Ukraine.
Speaker 2: We have Donald Trump to think for that. No, that's.
Speaker 1: Two there's two militaries.
Speaker 2: There's the good and the bad.
Speaker 1: So there's two militaries. Donald Trump's in charge of the
Speaker 1: good one. Yes, Biden's in charge of the bad military.
Speaker 2: That's exactly right.
Speaker 1: Fortunately, there were sub supporters who still believe in election
Speaker 1: cycle is actually necessary and we're serious about planning for
Speaker 1: a log campaign.
Speaker 2: He's just been doing a lot of preparations, a lot
Speaker 2: of tests in the waters and do you know just
Speaker 2: what's normal talking to advisors? Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1: Nick Twente's Kanye West like the minds that are going
Speaker 1: to shape the point of view of.
Speaker 2: This whole campaign.
Speaker 1: The original Trump brand is still strong tween that guy,
Speaker 1: mister w the looting starts, that's when the shooting starts, exactly.
Speaker 1: But a new election cycle could be a different toe.
Speaker 2: What are you.
Speaker 1: Seeing that is different about Trump and his tone with
Speaker 1: this kind of an event.
Speaker 2: I think it's more elevated. He's at a more kind of
Speaker 2: a mature level. Howeverybody's got all their advisors.
Speaker 1: It's almost like he's finally listening to his a little
Speaker 1: bit as far as.
Speaker 2: Tone the comments down. Are you noticing even the MAGA
Speaker 2: community being.
Speaker 1: A great serious and respectable If you watch the conservative rhetoric,
Speaker 1: it looks like you still love America. Conservative rhetoric still
Speaker 1: respects positions of power in this country.
Speaker 2: Our police, our military, our executive branch. Exactly what's your hat?
Speaker 5: Sec?
Speaker 1: I don't remember?
Speaker 2: I could shit a better president.
Speaker 1: This campaign is already attacking Biden's approach to the war
Speaker 1: in Ukraine, while Lattie Trump's brilliant yet still theoretical approach
Speaker 1: Putin would have never ever gotten in and even now
Speaker 1: I could solve that in twenty four hours. Trump says
Speaker 1: he could pick up the phone and this thing in
Speaker 1: twenty four hours.
Speaker 2: What actually would he say? Knock it off. He'd kind
Speaker 2: of be that that kind of tone to him.
Speaker 1: You think, totally knock it off. Might cower Vladimir.
Speaker 4: Putin because he knows Trump stands up and says, hey,
Speaker 4: I'm going to do this, I'm going to do it.
Speaker 2: Do you wish Biden would threaten nuclear war?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: No, no strong stance of hey stop doing this, okay, or.
Speaker 1: Got you gotta have a You got to have a
Speaker 1: rattle behind that.
Speaker 2: Saber, right, which is.
Speaker 1: Troops. But you don't want to do troops because then
Speaker 1: you have all that war, right.
Speaker 2: So what would it be?
Speaker 1: Threat of it, threat of troops? Correct? So you want
Speaker 1: Trump to get into office and must to put troops
Speaker 1: into that war.
Speaker 4: No, I wanted to stop it verbally because you don't
Speaker 4: want military into it because then it escalates.
Speaker 1: If he said verbally, you have to have some sort
Speaker 1: of backup, correct. So you want Trump to have that backup,
Speaker 1: which would be not troops. No, he has the troops,
Speaker 1: so you would support troops being sent in. You don't
Speaker 1: want to send troops in.
Speaker 2: It seems like a complicated situation. It is very complicated.
Speaker 1: Fortunately for some of these noun rally goers, it doesn't
Speaker 1: have to be that complicated.
Speaker 5: I haven't seen any any news reports about, you know,
Speaker 5: this terrible war in Ukraine.
Speaker 2: Where do you get your news on Newsmax? And they
Speaker 2: haven't covered it at all.
Speaker 1: I think that there's no war to cover.
Speaker 2: I think the whole thing is fabricated. And I think
Speaker 2: that Zelenski, who's the president of Ukraine, I believe that
Speaker 2: this is all extortion money.
Speaker 1: I spent a little time at Hungary and I met
Speaker 1: people who were coming from Ukraine to try to find
Speaker 1: safe haven. They're actual refugees fleeing what they said was
Speaker 1: a war zone. Were they I just think they might
Speaker 1: be actors.
Speaker 2: As far as I know, I believe that they might
Speaker 2: be actors.
Speaker 1: All of those people I met at Hungary, those are refugees.
Speaker 2: I believe that the the government is paying them to
Speaker 2: do that. That's a lot of actors.
Speaker 1: If that's a sad gig, that's going to cost you billions.
Speaker 1: And if this is the Trump campaign's first round of invites,
Speaker 1: America is in for a sweet, sweet ride. Last week,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump declared his arrest was imminent and called for
Speaker 1: a protest to take our Nation back outside the Manhattan
Speaker 1: District Attorney's office. So yesterday, I ventured all the way
Speaker 1: downtown and joined the media circus to observe this crowd
Speaker 1: of MAGA protesters who were definitely around here somewhere. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is the truth. Social here it says Tuesday protest,
Speaker 1: take our nation back? Is this the protest for Trump
Speaker 1: or the Trump protest or the supporting Are we taking
Speaker 1: our nation back?
Speaker 2: Is that today?
Speaker 1: I thought it was today, so I did have the
Speaker 1: day right. And then I found a proud and totally
Speaker 1: concealed Trump supporter. Why are you here because.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna support Trump?
Speaker 1: Because they want the Dina. So Trump went on his
Speaker 1: own social media and he called out people, his supporters
Speaker 1: to come out here and support him. And right now,
Speaker 1: that's just you.
Speaker 2: I'm here. I'm here, he he.
Speaker 1: As a crowd.
Speaker 2: I don't need you come on something.
Speaker 1: No, I'm not, okay, I'm.
Speaker 2: Here to actually see what's going on.
Speaker 1: Everyone was talking about it, so I came here to
Speaker 1: check it out.
Speaker 2: You wanted to see it with your own eyes.
Speaker 1: It's right, because I don't believe what I'm hearing on
Speaker 1: the news.
Speaker 2: Meet So what have you seen so far? Absolutely was nothing?
Speaker 1: No, correct, This was an unusual magarell the numbers were low,
Speaker 1: and it was in my own city. However, the arguments
Speaker 1: over some basic facts were refreshingly familiar. Do you think
Speaker 1: it's fair for Trump to be indicted if that does
Speaker 1: happen this week? Listen? I don't know all the specific facts, but.
Speaker 2: What I do now is he's I'm my president.
Speaker 1: Right now, I think he's not president. You think he's
Speaker 1: serving the role as your president currently.
Speaker 2: Well, he's in my heart, he's he's my president.
Speaker 1: I just have to be clear sometimes for sure. Sure,
Speaker 1: you think Joe Biden is president?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: No, I think that man is escape.
Speaker 1: I just know that's a legendy he's there because that
Speaker 1: man doesn't.
Speaker 2: Make any sense.
Speaker 1: But technically he is there.
Speaker 2: He is serving the role of president. Maybe. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I haven't been down.
Speaker 2: I've been watching the DC. I've not seen him walk
Speaker 2: in the White House. You don't think he actually spends
Speaker 2: time to the White House.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Well, there are videos of him in.
Speaker 1: The White House. He's can we just I just want
Speaker 1: to get beyond this fact.
Speaker 2: He is the president of the United States. Donald Trump
Speaker 2: was the president the United States.
Speaker 1: In fact, that's what some said, just right, never white here.
Speaker 3: Today, Joe Biden is going after him because I don't
Speaker 3: even know why he going after him, cause they're going
Speaker 3: to push him out to do and probably bring them
Speaker 3: Michelle Michael Obama.
Speaker 1: Okay, but Michael Obama, that's the rest.
Speaker 2: Okay, they maybe why do you call her? Michael bo's
Speaker 2: me that?
Speaker 3: What did Joan Rivers say?
Speaker 2: What did Joan Rivers?
Speaker 1: That's correct?
Speaker 3: If anybody remember what she said?
Speaker 1: Do you get most of your news from Joan Rivers?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: No, I don't get none of my news from doing
Speaker 3: I'm just telling you what she said about Michael Obama.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Regardless of their sources. The MAGA crowd, which the police
Speaker 1: estimated to be between three and six people, believe these
Speaker 1: chargers were unworthy of a former president. I don't feel
Speaker 1: Trump should be in trouble.
Speaker 3: That's unconstitutional. I feel said president, this is.
Speaker 1: A political attack. Yes, they're not charging somebody else for
Speaker 1: this crime. Everything is political, right.
Speaker 2: They did charge somebody else with this exact crime.
Speaker 1: So was he he charged? Well, Michael Cohen was charged,
Speaker 1: played guilty, served time in jail. Disloyalcy if thelocy is nothing.
Speaker 1: This is about a man who cheated on his wife
Speaker 1: with a porn star while his wife was at a
Speaker 1: with their newborn son. But loyalty is a big issue
Speaker 1: for you. Listen, we may right, so we all know
Speaker 1: Trump doesn't understand how the law works. Turns out he
Speaker 1: doesn't know when it works either. But for Magas supporters
Speaker 1: feeling fomo about missing the Donald showdown with Justice, I'm
Speaker 1: confident you'll get another chance.
Speaker 2: How are you going to be here today? I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe a couple more hours, walk around and have.
Speaker 4: Something to eat.
Speaker 1: If Trump has indicted in Georgia, next you go in there,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe I will. It's like a big
Speaker 1: old indictment tour, right, I'll see if Georgia and maybe
Speaker 1: we'll sweak by DC. Tuesday's arrangement of former President Donald
Speaker 1: Trump in New York was a first for the nation
Speaker 1: and brought out the passionate, the sensibly dressed, and the
Speaker 1: kind of men who really disappoint their mothers.
Speaker 5: BO.
Speaker 1: While I had fun getting into the scrum, I was
Speaker 1: surprised to find there were people who wanted to have
Speaker 1: meaningful conversations about the justice system.
Speaker 2: I don't believe we're what we're what you're seeing is justice.
Speaker 1: You don't believe in the grand jury process. I don't
Speaker 1: believe if this was a civilian it would. I mean,
Speaker 1: he is a civilian, he's a person, but New York address,
Speaker 1: so he shouldn't go through the grand jury process. I
Speaker 1: believe it should be dismissed because because I uh, I'm
Speaker 1: going by general gut feeling.
Speaker 4: The way I see it is, you know, if the
Speaker 4: government is stuffing over their bounds and doing.
Speaker 5: What they're doing here and dugging Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: This happens all the time. What stuff paid off a
Speaker 1: hoard star and then fudging business records.
Speaker 2: And I mean, come on, it's his own money for
Speaker 2: one thing.
Speaker 1: And out of all the cases up against Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: this is probably the weakest one and probably the weakest.
Speaker 1: There's no evidence to bringing about this prosecution, so we
Speaker 1: don't know that until there's a grand jury.
Speaker 2: Who can then see that evidence?
Speaker 3: You know, listen, I think that everyone should get a
Speaker 3: fair trial.
Speaker 1: So he would afford a grand jury looking at all
Speaker 1: of the evidence so that they decide to indict Donald Trump, Well,
Speaker 1: then we will let that happen. Sure, certainly if there's evidence,
Speaker 1: you know, every piece of evidence should be heard.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, that's what happened here.
Speaker 1: There's an excitement in the air. It feels almost like
Speaker 1: the American version of a royal event. At the King
Speaker 1: called to Bourne, star paid and then lied about it
Speaker 1: the best This record like an American coronation. And then
Speaker 1: the Donald arrived. The former leader of the Free world
Speaker 1: was now possibly in the same room as a group
Speaker 1: of recently busted subway master maners. I think he's got me.
Speaker 2: You think he organztrated all of this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because his FLEs like DeSantis was sort of was risy.
Speaker 1: Now he's taking all the air out of the room.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: Trump at twenty sixteen he had all the media, Fox News,
Speaker 4: CNN was carbed.
Speaker 1: Now they don't cover.
Speaker 2: But now they have to get it arrested. The smartest
Speaker 2: thing they could do.
Speaker 1: He's like one of the smartest guys. Said, I know
Speaker 1: that you're talking about the man who's getting a fingerbruted
Speaker 1: inside that building right now.
Speaker 4: I think they fingerprint on my right. They have they
Speaker 4: have his DNA.
Speaker 1: That guy's left his DNA in a lot of different places.
Speaker 2: This is at the seven times.
Speaker 1: Could Trump run his electric campaign from prison? You can
Speaker 1: do anything Trump, Yeah, that does wave you in any way,
Speaker 1: even if they give him thirty four Feladies, you know
Speaker 1: it's just like Trump is. He's untouchables except the person
Speaker 1: who's literally touching his fingerprints right back. Have you donated
Speaker 1: to the Trump campaign.
Speaker 2: Since he was I haven't thought about it up until now,
Speaker 2: but I guess I can tell you.
Speaker 1: Trump has fundraised like over five million dollars for this,
Speaker 1: So in some ways, it's almost like he's getting paid.
Speaker 2: To have sex. Is he a sex work?
Speaker 1: I mean it's cool, there's no judgment.
Speaker 2: Look, I think you guys are great.
Speaker 1: I love sensus a humor, But in many ways you
Speaker 1: should appreciate this is not funny because they're going after
Speaker 1: Trump today, they'll go.
Speaker 2: After me tomorrow, and then they'll go after you.
Speaker 1: Did you pay off a spoort star? And then live
Speaker 1: how don't you do your truner? Oh? I'm sorry, that's
Speaker 1: gotta be frightening. I guess he could comes for us
Speaker 1: and we've been involved in hutch money payments and then
Speaker 1: lying on our business records and then I mean using
Speaker 1: that when it comes to the campaign as well. Like,
Speaker 1: I guess that could happen anybody. Perhaps we don't need
Speaker 1: justice to be blast just friendly. I went downtown to
Speaker 1: watch Trump's historic arrest and the surrounding media circus. But
Speaker 1: I was curious how hometown boy Donald Trump would be
Speaker 1: greeted by regular New York Donald Trump Like Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: What more is there to say?
Speaker 5: Trump?
Speaker 3: The Donald Trump up?
Speaker 2: Now the mother another world.
Speaker 1: Real guy Hard Maga Fook. But also appearing were some
Speaker 1: of the most respected and articulate members of the Republican
Speaker 1: Party Marjr. Trump will be fistrained.
Speaker 2: By the gust.
Speaker 1: Yes, the rising stars of the GOP came out in force.
Speaker 1: If anybody can get Donald Trump off today, it's America's
Speaker 1: lead depends Attorney George Santos, who at the Harvard and
Speaker 1: are you Are you finally breaking legitimacy to the Are
Speaker 1: you finally bringing legitimacy to the process?
Speaker 2: You guys? Can you, George?
Speaker 1: Can you talk to us about your volleyball test? Talk
Speaker 1: to me about your luck? Which lack of reasons have
Speaker 1: you gotten that you are bringing to this? I showed
Speaker 1: up as first president of the United States, so you
Speaker 1: want that you can actually handle the doors? Go George, George,
Speaker 1: talk to me about your George. After productive conversation like that,
Speaker 1: I feel good about our nation's future.
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