1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:04,600 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening. For earlier access to these episodes, access 2 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:08,119 Speaker 1: to Ask Me Anything, sessions, and extended breakdowns of historical 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 1: and current events, please consider joining our Warning Premium community 4 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 1: by clicking the link in the description to this episode. 5 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:26,079 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, the forty sixth President of the United States, 6 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 1: has become the first president in American history to be 7 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 1: criminally charged by the federal government. The indictment, which has 8 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:39,240 Speaker 1: seven counts and is not yet public, includes charges under 9 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:45,280 Speaker 1: the Espionage Act. Donald Trump took improperly thousands and thousands 10 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:48,919 Speaker 1: of classified documents from the White House that were not his. 11 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:53,199 Speaker 1: They belonged to the people of the United States, to 12 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 1: the government of the United States. They included some of 13 00:00:56,680 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 1: the nation's most closely guarded secrets, and they went found 14 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:03,959 Speaker 1: up in maur A Lago. For what purpose, we don't know. 15 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:08,640 Speaker 1: But nobody should mistake what is happening as anything other 16 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 1: than historic, profoundly important, and deeply relevant to the future 17 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 1: of the country. We are testing a proposition here, and 18 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: the proposition is this, No person in the United States 19 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 1: is above the law. We have no dictator in this country. 20 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 1: We have no king. We have a president who temporarily 21 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 1: is given great powers to preserve, protect, and defend the 22 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:43,760 Speaker 1: constitution of the United States. He is not above the law. 23 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 1: He was given the greatest privilege that any American citizen 24 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 1: could ever be given, and he lied to the American 25 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 1: people more than thirty five thousand times. But those aren't crimes. 26 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 1: Those are signs of immorality. Those are signs of mental illness, 27 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:07,160 Speaker 1: its sickness, but not crimes. What Donald Trump has been 28 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 1: indicted on includes a failure to protect the nation's most 29 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 1: grievous secrets. These are serious charges, not frivolous. But it's 30 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:22,359 Speaker 1: also important to remember at this moment, as the Internet 31 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 1: is filled with violent threats from Maggia extremists, as politicians 32 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:32,639 Speaker 1: like Josh Holly rush forward to attack the American criminal 33 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:36,520 Speaker 1: justice system to indict it as corrupt in defense of 34 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 1: the most corrupt man who ever held office in America, 35 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 1: it's worth mentioning that Donald Trump is innocent, exactly like 36 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: he said he was. He declared I am an innocent man, 37 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 1: and under the American system of jurisprudence, he in fact 38 00:02:55,680 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 1: is he is innocent. He is presumed innocent until proven guilty, 39 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:08,679 Speaker 1: and this is fundamental to the American concept of justice. 40 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 1: Nobody should have shot in freud. Here there should be 41 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:16,920 Speaker 1: no happiness, There should be no delight about a political 42 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:22,359 Speaker 1: enemy falling. This is a dangerous hour for the United States. 43 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:27,639 Speaker 1: We are in the hours of consequence from the dismal 44 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:36,400 Speaker 1: Trump presidency, from the years of indecency, cruelty, vanity, narcissism, meanness. 45 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 1: This is the accountability stage. The fundamental question at hand 46 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 1: is can Donald Trump do whatever it is he pleases, 47 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 1: whatever he wants, absent any consequence. That proposition is about 48 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:58,320 Speaker 1: to be tested. But we should also understand that Donald Trump, 49 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 1: despite everything, is at this moment the front runner for 50 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 1: the Republican nomination for the presidency of the United States. 51 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 1: The Democratic administration of Joe Biden, the man who defeated 52 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:17,640 Speaker 1: Donald Trump in the presidential election, the man who Donald 53 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:22,600 Speaker 1: Trump has constantly smeared, attacked his family, The man who 54 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 1: Donald Trump claims, in fact did not beat him, but 55 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:30,599 Speaker 1: in fact took the presidency illegitimately through an act of fraud, 56 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 1: is now prosecuting through his administration. Donald Trump the Republican 57 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 1: front runner. It is an enormous historical event for a 58 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:48,120 Speaker 1: member of the political opposition, which Trump is against the 59 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 1: party in power to be prosecuted. It's an extraordinary event 60 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:58,440 Speaker 1: and one we shouldn't take lightly. Mike Pence was entirely 61 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:02,719 Speaker 1: correct w thinking with Dana Bash when he talked about 62 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 1: this being an act that usually takes place in a 63 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:11,280 Speaker 1: banana republic. Maybe that's appropriate because what Donald Trump did 64 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 1: his best to do was to turn America into a 65 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:19,359 Speaker 1: banana republic over the last four or five years. The 66 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 1: fundamental question at hand for the American people is what 67 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 1: was Donald Trump's intention with those classified documents. Federal Prosecutor 68 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:32,800 Speaker 1: Jack Smith has made a determination that his intention was 69 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:38,920 Speaker 1: a criminal act, and now soon we'll see and then 70 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 1: a jury of his peers will make a judgment against 71 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 1: Donald Trump as the evidence is presented. Should this go 72 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:51,719 Speaker 1: to trial, the American people can do better than Donald Trump. 73 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:55,039 Speaker 1: This man should never hold a position of power in 74 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:59,640 Speaker 1: the country. Again, the problem inside the Republican Party is 75 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 1: not a lack of recognition over this obvious fact. It 76 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 1: is the fact that, though it is obvious, they remain fearful, afraid, 77 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 1: and intimidated of Donald Trump. It's why weak men like 78 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 1: Ron DeSantis do everything to defend Donald Trump, not because 79 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:24,599 Speaker 1: it's right, not because they're trying to make an argument 80 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:30,359 Speaker 1: about America's jurisprudential system know because they are afraid. They 81 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:35,159 Speaker 1: are intimidated, and so in the days ahead, we will 82 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:39,720 Speaker 1: see the intimations towards political violence. We will see calls 83 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:43,119 Speaker 1: for political violence on the Internet and from the chat 84 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 1: rooms in the extremest corners of the Internet, where the 85 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:52,480 Speaker 1: MAGA movement resides. We will see the threats. The judge 86 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 1: will be threatened, juries will be threatened, prosecutors will be threatened. 87 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:03,159 Speaker 1: Anybody who stands opposed Donald Trump is threatened. When Donald 88 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 1: Trump came down those escalators at Trump Tower, it was 89 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:11,560 Speaker 1: a decisive moment in the history of America. It was 90 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 1: one of our worst moments. As Donald Trump descended, spewing 91 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 1: racist bile about how every Mexican is a rapist and 92 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 1: a murderer. If he wanted to be accurate, what he 93 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,280 Speaker 1: should have said is Mexican Americans make up the highest 94 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 1: percentage by nationality of Medal of Honor recipients. He spewed 95 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 1: his racism. He told the American people that Barack Obama 96 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 1: was an impostor born in Kenya, non American patriot from Hawaii. 97 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 1: At every opportunity he divided, and he lied. He lied 98 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:52,960 Speaker 1: over and over and over again. He lost an election. 99 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:56,640 Speaker 1: And when that election was lost, there was not one 100 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:01,440 Speaker 1: person around him who had the integrity or the patriotism 101 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:04,560 Speaker 1: to look him in the eye and say, God, damn it, 102 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:07,880 Speaker 1: mister President, you lost the election. I don't know what 103 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:13,400 Speaker 1: to tell you. Instead, they allowed his lies to flourish 104 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:18,080 Speaker 1: and to grow. They allowed the insanity to spread. And 105 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:22,920 Speaker 1: here's where it ended up. Even the man that Donald 106 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 1: Trump tried to have hung on that day will not 107 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:34,280 Speaker 1: denounce him. It is the most appalling spectacle of American weakness, placidity, 108 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:38,680 Speaker 1: and impotence that has ever been seen in the history 109 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 1: of the Republic. Why are so many Republican politicians afraid 110 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:47,960 Speaker 1: of this man? Even now in this hour, when he 111 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:54,120 Speaker 1: stands indicted under the Espionage Act, they defend him mindlessly. 112 00:08:55,960 --> 00:09:00,600 Speaker 1: Why has the Republican Party and its politicians submitted so 113 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:05,320 Speaker 1: fully and completely to a cult of personality built around 114 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:11,839 Speaker 1: the ransidity of a convicted sexual abuser, someone who demeans 115 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:17,800 Speaker 1: and defames his enemies, acts and tries to burn down 116 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:24,079 Speaker 1: the greatest institutions ever conceived by the mind of man 117 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:29,199 Speaker 1: that sustain American democracy approaching its two hundred and fiftieth year. 118 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:35,160 Speaker 1: Why are America's elected politicians permitting this man to harm 119 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:43,559 Speaker 1: the country? And the answer is simple, ambition, breed, and cowardice. 120 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 1: And now it has come to pass that Donald Trump 121 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:52,319 Speaker 1: is an accused criminal, accused by the government of violating 122 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:58,440 Speaker 1: the Espionage Act. But this isn't any normal contractor. This 123 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:00,840 Speaker 1: is a former president of the U the United States, 124 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 1: the commander in chief, and he is also the front 125 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:08,800 Speaker 1: runner to be the Republican nominee to be president again. 126 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:13,440 Speaker 1: Of course, should he take power again, American democracy will 127 00:10:13,559 --> 00:10:17,080 Speaker 1: end shortly before its two hundred and fiftieth year, and 128 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:20,760 Speaker 1: it will prove what the skeptics of republics have always 129 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 1: said from the beginning of the American experiment, that no 130 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 1: republic has endured, and it will be the case that 131 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 1: this one won't either, should Donald Trump return to power. 132 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 1: There is a fundamental proposition at hand, and it is this, 133 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:42,320 Speaker 1: we have no king, we have no dictator. And the 134 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:45,160 Speaker 1: way that it is supposed to work is no person 135 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:50,520 Speaker 1: in America is above the law, including Donald Trump. What 136 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 1: we have seen in the reaction to Donald Trump's indictment, 137 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:59,080 Speaker 1: which is not yet public, which nobody has read is repulsive. 138 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:06,280 Speaker 1: Republicans are rushing to defend not his rights, not saying 139 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 1: that he is innocent until proven guilty, which he certainly is. 140 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:15,959 Speaker 1: They are rushing to defend the indefensible out of fear. 141 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 1: They are advancing a dangerous notion that Donald Trump is 142 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:27,040 Speaker 1: above the law. He's not. What is it that Donald 143 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:32,680 Speaker 1: Trump did with some of America's most sensitive secrets. Let's 144 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:36,440 Speaker 1: put it on the table. Did he sell them? His 145 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:41,760 Speaker 1: son in law and his daughter received two billion dollars 146 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 1: from the Saudi Investment Fund, the very same fund that 147 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:49,240 Speaker 1: was just used by the murdering Crown Prince to take 148 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:54,400 Speaker 1: over professional golf in the United States. Jared Kushner received 149 00:11:54,720 --> 00:12:01,959 Speaker 1: two billion dollars billion. Does any anybody really think he 150 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:06,839 Speaker 1: didn't get anything for it? Is it possible that there 151 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 1: are Americans so naive? We're about to find out. These 152 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:17,960 Speaker 1: crimes that Donald Trump are accused of are some of 153 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:22,240 Speaker 1: the most serious and momentous that have ever been charged 154 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:32,000 Speaker 1: in American history. We stand in momentous hours. American democracy 155 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:36,080 Speaker 1: will be tested in the days and weeks ahead. It 156 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:38,880 Speaker 1: will be tested by the threats of violence in Mayhem 157 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:43,640 Speaker 1: that originate from the MAGA extremists. It will be tested 158 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:48,800 Speaker 1: by the violence that bubbles up from the Internet. We 159 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:55,400 Speaker 1: are testing a fundamental proposition that was laid out by 160 00:12:55,400 --> 00:13:00,760 Speaker 1: a generation of geniuses long ago. Can of the people, 161 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:06,640 Speaker 1: by the people, for the people endure? Can it survive 162 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:14,200 Speaker 1: against the ego, the avarice, and the narcissism of a 163 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:18,280 Speaker 1: man like Donald Trump. We're about to find out.