WEBVTT - Rick Wilson & Oliver Darcy 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:04.160 Hi, I'm Molly John Fast and this is Fast Politics, 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:07.120 where we discussed the top political headlines with some of 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:11.600 today's best minds. And Trump's approval rating is underwater in 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:15.160 eleven of the states he won. We have such a 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:17.440 great show for you today. The Link Project's own Rick 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:21.320 Wilson joins us to discuss Donald Trump having his bank 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:24.840 accounts closed on suspicions. 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:25.000 Of money laundering. 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:29.640 Then we'll talk to Status News's own Oliver Darcy about 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:33.240 Barry Weiss running CBS into the ground. 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:35.000 But first the news Somali. 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:39.479 Trump really does not have an easy time prosecuting people 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:42.879 for the crimes that they He often is inventing that 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:45.559 they've done. And if we have another failure and the 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:48.520 seat of the crime is the reflecting pool or the 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:49.880 scene of the not crime. 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:53.680 So just for those who have a life unlike Jesse 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:56.840 and I, there's a guy he gets in trouble for 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:00.640 he gets arrested for stacking his hand in the reflect pool. 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:04.560 They decided to charge him with vandalism. Trump had been 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:09.160 for a couple of days before and after tweeting about 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:13.840 vandalism the reflecting pool. Of course, you'll be shocked to 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:17.440 know just like the sandwich guy. Remember the sandwich guy. 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:18.319 This is the deep gray. 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:19.240 How could I forget? 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:22.880 Yeah, who threw a sandwich? And it turned out the 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:25.800 sandwich guy had worked in the DOJ That guy who 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:28.160 threw a sandwich and an officer. They tried to charge 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:32.320 him with battery, assault or something that effect, and you 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:34.280 know what happened, got a no bill. 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:34.840 Right. 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:38.600 The grand jury was like, uh uh and uh that's 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:42.039 basically what happened here. There was no damage. No, Okay, 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:46.840 is there damage that reflecting pool. There are different theories 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:51.360 of the case, but if there is, it's very possible, 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:56.960 nay likely, that that damage came from Donald Trump and 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:01.520 his people driving their cars on the reflection pool, or 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:05.440 perhaps it came from the no big contract that he 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:10.800 gave to green Water Water Treatment or whatever it is 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:13.959 who put together a plastic thing at the bottom of 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:17.800 the reflecting pool, the reflecting pool. I just want to say, 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:21.000 first of all, it's so stupid and it shows really 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:25.320 how disinterested Donald Trump is in affordability, which is the 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:27.760 one thing that anyone wants him to be interested in. 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:31.160 But the other thing about this stupid story, which I 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:33.239 will be talking about for the rest of my life, 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:37.120 besides the Marie Antoinette of it is the fact that 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:40.680 like Obama had trouble with the reflecting pool too. And 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:43.800 actually it's funny. I was talking to someone who worked 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:48.280 in New York City government, in city government when Donald 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:52.040 Trump was a young developer, and he was talking about 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:55.200 how when Donald Trump took over the ice rank in 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:58.720 Central Park, Donald Trump said, oh, look I did it. 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:01.320 I fixed the ice rank no one else could. And 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:03.920 you felt like he was kind of a scammer, like 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:06.720 he was saying he was saving something that he really wasn't. 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:08.880 That this was just like he was making it seem 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:09.840 like more than it was. 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:14.160 And that is sort of I think the core of 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:18.160 trump Ism is it's this sort of scamminess, this belief 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:21.000 that he can do things that other people can't, when 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:24.560 in fact, he can't do things that other people can. 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:27.880 And so I say to you, if you suffer from 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:32.160 imposter syndrome, you should look to Donald Trump to see 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:35.160 that there is no You should feel pretty good about yourself. 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:36.000 Yeah. 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:39.680 I think that whole thing is really well chronicled in 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:42.880 the movie The Apprentice. It really gets snails that sentiment 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:46.520 very well. So speaking of people who one day will 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:49.560 be mocked in a movie. In a similar way, Elon 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:53.200 Musk is going all in on Senator Susan Collins, and 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:55.800 he's opening up his wallet and saying, here you. 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:59.480 Go, girl, yeah you know. So here's what's happened. 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:03.480 Has decided to do one hundred million in the midterms. 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:08.640 Maybe more. Now, Elon Musk is a big that's just Susan. 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:12.040 Oh just one hundred million for Susan. Oh wow, look 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:12.320 at this. 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:15.560 Yeah, Musk plans to spend between one hundred million and 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:18.360 one hundred and twenty million to help Collins as well 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:22.120 as other Republicans candidates. I think that's the whole group 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:25.600 in close Senate races. Now here's the thing. Troy Jackson, 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:31.000 fifth generation Maynor was a lumber guy, okay, running against 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:34.520 Susan Collins. Susan Collins is from the fancy part of 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:37.800 Maine Portland. She has the support of fancy people like 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:41.080 the Bushes. She is now got the support of the 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:43.960 richest man in the world, okay, the. 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:47.080 Richest man of the world, but also mister Data Center, 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:50.320 which shob not very popular like janit bills like basically 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:52.839 took off like ten points of her popularity. 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:55.479 People estimate from just supporting data centers. 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:58.320 Data centers is a real eighty twenty issue, and people 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:01.360 hate them. They're scared of them, and they see that 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:04.440 they use electricity, they use water. They're terrible, I mean, 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:07.360 and the idea that you should you know, I mean, 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.800 I'm sure people have seen the videos of the noise 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:14.239 that data centers make, or that they raise your electricity bills, 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:17.080 or that they use your water, or that they I mean, 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:20.080 there's so many reasons to hate data centers and did 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:23.880 not want them to move into your state. And so 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:28.560 if Elon Musk is able to get Susan Collins reelected, 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:32.359 which he very warm might because she often overperforms polling, 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:36.839 it will mean very likely that mean and the rest 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:39.400 of us will get more data centers, which is a 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:44.440 pretty distressing situation. But he plans to also spend his 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:48.720 America pack plants to spend in Alaska, Iowa, Ohio, and Michigan. 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.279 By the way, you know why he's spending money in 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:52.200 those dates. 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:56.880 Because the republicanscerned trouble. Yeah, So there's an interesting thing 0:05:56.960 --> 0:06:00.880 happening here. On the cover of Drudge Today, we have 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:05.160 a really wild graphic about Iran's plans to poison our 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:06.799 water in seven different states. 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:11.440 Yes, and Governor Walls is accusing the Trump administration of 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:12.440 covering this up. 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:15.920 It's not good. So here are a couple things here. 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:20.680 We know that you can't trust this administration. We know 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:25.360 that this administration does a lot of really destructive shit. 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:29.840 We know that this administration is deeply dishonest about all 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:35.039 sorts of stuff. So it's not hard to put together 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:38.720 the Walls that he would be right about this. Okay, 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:41.960 so he says President Trump is lying about who committed 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:44.720 the cyber attack on his state and purposefully hiding how 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:48.520 many states were affected. Trump on Friday dismissconcerns that Iran 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.320 was likely responsible for a cyber attack against him. By 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:54.160 the way, Iran has done a lot of cyber attacks. 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:58.200 And also Donald Trump did go to war with Iran again, 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:02.320 we still don't know why. The probably because Natanyahu convinced 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.400 him to. Trump knows exactly who is responsible for the attack, 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:08.600 and other states were hit too, Waltz wrote on X 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:11.640 and remember like this is an administration that has been 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:16.240 really disinterested in cyber warfare or getting us up to 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:19.240 speed on this stuff, and has asked for you know, 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:23.920 they're more focused on trying to test war fighter's testosterone 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:28.280 and making sure that black people don't get promotions, because 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:30.960 anti anti racism is racism. 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:35.400 So Molly the Daily Mail has this wild report that 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:39.440 MAGA exiles, including Marjorie Taylor Green and Tucker Carlson, thought 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:42.280 to launch a new political party and are going to 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:43.480 wage war on Trump. 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:46.160 We're not going to have a Never Trump party. We're 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:49.160 going to have, of course, the America First Party. 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:52.640 If it's never Trump and it's Trump, then what is this? 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:57.560 This is like get we need sometimes sometimes before Trump, 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:02.040 right exactly, we need we want the racism. 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:02.440 But none want. 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:05.240 I wanted to be Trump's mistress for many years, and 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:05.920 now I don't. 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:09.040 It's important to remember, I think, like when we talk 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:12.720 about this, So these are former Trump allies turn detractors 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:16.000 who have grown frustrated by the President's broken campaign promises. 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:19.520 The people in this group Tucker Grlst and Marjorie Taylor Green, 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:24.800 Thomas Massey, Joe Kent. Okay, so I want to pause 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:28.080 for a minute and just explain the danger of this. Okay, 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:32.200 these are not our friends. Okay, these are not like, 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:36.080 these are not just because they're anti Trump and and good. 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:40.200 These are not the people you want to be okay, 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:45.000 Like these are people who don't want to fund I mean, 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:49.320 these are not your father's Republicans. These are like real, 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:54.199 this is the racism and the anti Semitism and all 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:58.760 the stuff that is really it's just not this is 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:01.840 not this. This is not the stuff than any of 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:05.480 us wants to be associated with. So look, if there's 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.080 a split in MAGA, which is something we have talked 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.160 a lot about, right it started with the Iran war, 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:16.520 it went to the Ebstein stuff. You know, in every 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:19.880 which way Donald Trump made promises. But some of these promises, 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:22.920 like these people, you know, they want to end forem wrest, 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:26.520 but they don't necessarily want to do it because they 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:30.080 are against war or you know, I just think you 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:36.840 should be really, really really cautious about this group. And 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:40.520 by the way, Laura Lumer, who is still all Trump, 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:43.120 called for all seven of them to be put on 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:46.800 a watch list for being traders to the country. Everyone's 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:51.120 gotten so far afield from normal here. Every single one 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:54.400 of these people belongs on a government watch list. Every 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:57.880 persons photo is a trader to an America America and 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:01.560 an anti Trump operative amplify by foreign adversaries. 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:04.240 Megan McCain. I don't know if you know who her 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:04.800 dad is. 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:07.560 Never never heard her talk about it. 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:10.360 Yeah, she I mean, look, you know, I don't know. 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:12.560 I'm very suspicious about all. 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:15.440 But well, I mean, i'll tell you why it'll be suspicious. 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:18.080 We discussed this previously. I said the thing I said, 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:22.280 I bet you this happens once Trump crosses the bushline. 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:25.200 Trump cross the bushline sweep right. It's like, this is 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:28.400 no coincidence. I could have imagined that in a meeting 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:29.319 so easily. 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:30.080 Yeah. 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:32.680 And so the idea is that Trump's polling has gotten 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:36.640 bad enough that this crew has decided that they don't 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:39.520 have to pretend to like him anymore. And that makes 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:41.280 a lot of sense, I think. 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:43.360 And you know. 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.240 Look, you have a party that basically still has had 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:51.400 absolutely no nothing besides Trump. Right, there's not you know, 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:55.440 it's just Trump. You know, there isn't like a megabase, right, 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:56.800 it's Trump Advance. 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:59.200 Yeah, you know that's it, all right, My. 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:03.319 Since I know he's your fave, I have a president 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:06.440 for you. We're going to listen to RFK Junior go 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:10.080 absolutely batshit on data. Basche's state of the Union show 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:10.559 and see and. 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:14.199 Then I just want to say that Chiron reads US 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:17.200 measles cases reach thirty five year high. 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:21.400 Let's watch there are other countries that at higher. 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:25.080 But you can go ahead about why we had that, 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:29.880 but you nobody can tell you. I mean, we have, 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:33.600 as you say, in the highest crimes in the world. 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:38.360 And Anthony Fauci was mismanaging the COVID pandemic. Who was 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:42.080 doing it under the Biden administration. President Trump wanted to 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:46.640 hand the lockdowns, And in fact, in Anthony Fauci's diaries, 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:50.440 he talks about how President Trump is calling him every 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.160 day trying to get him to reopen the country. 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:57.200 Yeah, well, the lockdowns were done by governors. I mean, 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:00.199 certainly Anthony Fauci and the President had opinions at the 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:02.600 lockdowns were done by governors. 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:06.560 And largely because and largely because largely because they were 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:10.559 hearing they were hearing from hospitals saying that their ICUs 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:13.280 were overrun and they needed some help while that was happening. 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:14.480 But I wasn't. 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:15.640 That's just not true. 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:17.120 What you're saying is not true. 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:18.160 No, they were doing it. 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:22.640 Because Anthony Fauci was telling him from the top, you 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.360 need to lockdown. There were ICUs that were empty all 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:28.040 over the country, including in New York at the height. 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.840 I'm asking you, I'm going to go back to what 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:35.200 I asked you at the beginning, which is President Trump 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:40.000 and he was the guy in charge, and you tweeted back. 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:45.080 In twenty twenty four that he let bureaucrats like Anthony 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.680 Fauci shut down the entire country. 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:50.360 Again the president. 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:54.560 The president was trying to reopen the country when he left. 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:59.079 The country was kept closed for another almost a year 0:12:59.120 --> 0:12:59.840 and a half after. 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:05.079 Boy, I'm telling you what I love about this is 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:08.920 nothing the idea that they're still litigating COVID, that they're 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:13.760 litigating COVID and we are what we're year six years 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:14.600 past COVID. 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:15.960 It's such a loser. 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:18.959 And and look, this is coming up because ram Paul, 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:22.160 you know, has released the diaries and had him come. 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.960 And it's all distraction from the poor polling, from the 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:29.719 high gas prices, from all of this stupid crabs. This 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:33.839 is such an unnecessary distraction. And like, instead of getting 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:37.840 us prepared for more, you know, for whatever is coming 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:41.319 down the pipe next, or dealing with the measles outbreak, 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:44.119 or doing any of the stuff that could be productive 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:47.679 or working on climate change or the forest fires in Canada, 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:49.199 any of that shit, Nada. 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:52.360 What do we have instead? We have them, like, you know, having. 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:55.280 These hearings with his eighty four year old public servant 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:58.679 because they want to get him for not get for 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:00.920 not what for not for being. 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:05.760 Too much for COVID restrictions. I mean, it's ridiculous. It's 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:07.600 so stupid, it's like being in a house. 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:13.920 Wick Wilson is the founder of the Lincoln Project and 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:16.000 the host of the Lincoln Project podcast. 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:19.320 Rick Wilson Wellie John Fast. 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:23.840 Capital on Financials said it closed accounts belonging to President 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:28.040 Donald Trump, not Donald Trump's real estate company, in twenty 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:32.960 twenty one, not because of politics, but because of legitimate 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:39.280 reasons after an internal review by the banks anti money 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:41.360 laundering team. 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:44.440 I don't know about you, Molly. I mean, first off, 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:46.880 everyone knows Donald Trump is really on the up and 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:48.640 up as a businessman, so I don't know why this 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.280 would have fled. Oh wait, they fagged it because he 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:55.280 had over three hundred checking accounts apparently, and it triggered 0:14:56.560 --> 0:15:00.880 this automatic review in their software. Is it targeting him 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:03.720 personally because he was a bad person. It was targeting 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:06.400 him because the software showed that he was engaged in 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:12.040 patterns that they associated with money laundering. And the irony 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:15.520 is they are required to do this under federal law. 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:16.040 Right. 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:17.440 They don't get a vote on this. They don't get 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:20.240 It's not like it's like they can say, yeah, well 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:22.000 this guy's a nice guy. We're not going to cover this. 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:24.400 They know your customer law. If there are signs of 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:28.880 money laundering, they have to either investigate it or close them, 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:31.000 and they closed them. 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:32.200 I also think what. 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:36.600 Is so relevant about this story and important is that 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:41.240 Donald Trump. They the bank made this revelation in a 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:47.080 filing as a response to a lawsuit from Donald Trump 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:51.800 because he said they debanked him for political reasons. 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:55.800 The performative nature of all Trump lawsuits. I think this 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:57.920 is my third Wilson rule. Everything Trump got just dies. 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:01.440 Everybody hit said cruise. And the third one is no 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:05.880 Trump lawsuit survives discovery, right because now that the bank 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:08.280 is going to say, okay, well, if you want us 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:10.560 to show why we think you were money laundering, we 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.680 will reveal in court why we think you were money laundering. 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:16.920 And Trump's people, I promise you they're gonna go h 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:21.840 haamahammahammahamda nevermind, right, it always it is. It is like 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:24.360 all these cases where that when the rubber hits the road, 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:28.360 when the facts matter, when the discovery is going to 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:30.960 embarrass the living hell out of them. You know. It's 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:33.400 why they dropped the charges against the Olympian this week 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:38.120 after he allegedly personally destroyed the reflecting pool. It's why 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:41.800 they just can't hold up on these these bs defamation cases, 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:46.080 like against the BBC and other things. They there's just 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:51.080 a sense that that these lawsuits are are like a 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:53.880 lottery ticket for him. Maybe sometimes somebody will just collapse 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:55.160 and go, okay, we'll give you money. 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:58.520 Well, and that it's interesting because it's like it has 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:05.760 certainly worked with some people, right, law firms and edu, SHC, ABC, 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:07.840 A lot of places have settled. 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:10.600 You know. Trump has been able. 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:16.400 To censor certain groups, right the lawyers, the some universities 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:20.280 some but ultimately, if you push back at all, it 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:22.720 all falls apart. And like the reflecting pool is a 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:27.240 great example, right, they drove the cars on the reflecting pool, 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:32.000 like clearly, you know, like there's a reason people don't 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:35.800 drive tons of cars on things like that, and you know, 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:39.399 and then they hired Trump hired this no bid contract 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:42.119 for Greenwater, right, Greenwater. 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:45.360 The guy who looks like a who looks like looks. 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:47.439 Who looks like he was rejected from the Sopranos for 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:48.600 looking too mobbed up. 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:49.880 That's right, that guy. 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:54.119 And yeah, he's and he turns out he's a mar 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:58.920 a Lago member. Turns out Yeah, shockingly, he's a mar 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:03.760 Alago member. And he's also more importantly, like, this was 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:08.560 a no bid contract. And you know, I think, like, so, 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:11.960 there's also this other thing that's happening right now besides 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:16.119 the Trump money laundering fiasco, is that Trump is also 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:22.080 the true social is selling this ability to get Donald 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:26.280 Trump's truth earlier so you can insider trade Rogie, so. 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:29.520 You can front run the market by signing up for 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:32.080 one hundred thousand dollars a month of service that is 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:35.960 going to give hedge funds and private equity guys and 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:40.440 other people who want to do short trading on Trump's 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:46.399 coming tweets. And look, if we had a securities an 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:49.760 exchange commission that was functional, he would have already been 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:52.560 indicted for trying to do it. And I will say this, 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:54.840 I think There are probably plenty of companies out there 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:57.200 that will do this, that will sign up for this. 0:18:57.600 --> 0:18:58.920 They will make a ton of money on. 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:01.240 It, and they'll have to pay it back like with. 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:04.560 The and when there's an SEC again, and there will 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:07.280 be folks in for sure three years. 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:10.520 Maybe three months. If Democrats flip back the. 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:13.280 House, you know, yeah, you were going to see you 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:17.520 were going to see an absolute bloodbath. If you're paying 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:19.800 one hundred thousand dollars a month for this, you better 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:22.320 be ready to pay one hundred million dollars in legal 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:25.600 fees and penalties. Are in penalties and legal costs to 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:29.040 defend yourself on it when there is a recapitulation or 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:33.560 reconstitution of the power of the SEC or eventually a 0:19:33.600 --> 0:19:36.440 Department of Justice not run by Donald Trump's personal attorney. 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:39.840 That's right, Noah agreed. And I think we're going to 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:42.600 see quite a lot of that. And I think and 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:45.840 that's the real question is when you look at this moment. 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:48.840 But I just I want to turn now because what 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:53.600 we saw this week was so many bad polls for Trump. 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:55.680 Like this morning, as I was. 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:59.960 Walking home, I was looking at a tweet from Jonathan 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:04.320 and Leamir that talks about how Donald Trump is actually is. 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:08.400 There is no president in like basically since the nineteen 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:10.440 forties who has been this unpopular. 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:14.280 Molly, I'm I have a big piece coming out tomorrow 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:17.600 on Substack about this. I spent the morning writing, going 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:20.480 through my personal archive of numbers and looking online for 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:24.359 all these back you know, all these previous moments in 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:29.560 electoral politics, and that one lesson that comes screaming out. 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:32.479 It's like in two thousand and six when Bush's numbers 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:35.560 and they were better than Trump's. Right now, they were bad, 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:37.480 but they were still higher than Trump's are right now, 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:40.000 and high gas prices in an unpopular war in the 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:46.600 Middle East and high growing inflation. We couldn't win even 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:49.040 with great candidates and good messages back then. On the 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:54.320 Republican side, in twenty ten, we couldn't lose even with 0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:59.879 morons and widows, right and so so right now you 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:04.080 a very unhappy political dynamic for Trump and the Republicans 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:07.639 is that the Democrats have a lot of good candidates. 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:12.000 Trump's numbers, which define where Republicans fall, are in the 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:17.600 basement and going lower, and the political climate is absolutely 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:22.000 brutal now and you're seeing the real breakout. Democratic voter 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:26.840 intensity is up, up up the independence you know this 0:21:27.000 --> 0:21:30.200 long slow slide independence. When Trump won office, he won 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:33.560 independence in twenty twenty four. Yeah, they by the end 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:36.960 of last year were about two to one against him. 0:21:37.440 --> 0:21:39.960 Now there and most of this year they've been about 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:41.520 two and a half to three to one against him. 0:21:41.560 --> 0:21:44.600 Now they're closing in on four to one against Trump. Yeah, 0:21:44.640 --> 0:21:47.760 this is an electoral nightmare for them. They're watching Texas 0:21:47.840 --> 0:21:51.960 slip away, They're watching North Carolina slip away, They're watching 0:21:52.080 --> 0:21:55.800 Alaska slip away. Iowa is not feeling great for them anymore. 0:21:56.240 --> 0:21:58.800 They are really looking at a bad, bad, bad day. 0:21:59.240 --> 0:22:00.959 And it all comes down to the fact that they 0:22:01.040 --> 0:22:04.720 define themselves as Trump's party, and when Trump is this unpopular, 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:06.720 they pay the price. 0:22:06.680 --> 0:22:07.920 Because there's no one else. 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:11.160 But also the Texas. I want you to talk about 0:22:11.200 --> 0:22:14.760 the Texas pulling because what I think people don't understand 0:22:14.960 --> 0:22:21.639 is that Beto never pulled better. Then, so explain to 0:22:21.760 --> 0:22:26.080 us this story here, because better never pulled better than 0:22:26.160 --> 0:22:26.800 Ted Cruz. 0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:30.640 Right, Look, Beto was a talented candidate. Is a talented 0:22:30.640 --> 0:22:31.320