Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody. Recording from Podstream Studios in
Speaker 1: Times Square.
Speaker 2: Folks, it is.
Speaker 1: Wednesday, and holy shit, right like you come off of
Speaker 1: the holiday weekend, which I will get to in a
Speaker 1: moment because if you follow me on Instagram or on Twitter,
Speaker 1: you saw my tweet about the Juneteenth holiday. But I
Speaker 1: will get into that in a moment. But my god,
Speaker 1: did the news cycle decide to pick the fuck up
Speaker 1: in a very quick way. So there is a lot
Speaker 1: to get woke to this week, and we'll jump right in.
Speaker 1: So first off, you know, Monday was a federal holiday
Speaker 1: for Juneteenth, and folks, let me tell you, I got
Speaker 1: a lot of mixed fucking feelings about June teenth being
Speaker 1: made a federal holiday in a country that has banned
Speaker 1: critical thought in a majority of states, that is rewriting textbooks,
Speaker 1: that is taking out anything that is integral to understanding
Speaker 1: the founding of this country. Our racist roots, our racial
Speaker 1: wealth gap, all of these things are tied up and
Speaker 1: being able to actually understand history. How the fuck do
Speaker 1: you give a day off? But people don't really know
Speaker 1: why they have that day off? And in a majority
Speaker 1: of states in this country, it has been made illegal. Right,
Speaker 1: much in the same way that white slave owners didn't
Speaker 1: want slaves to be able to read, right, because education
Speaker 1: is fundamental to your liberation. Right, So you saying the
Speaker 1: same tactics that their white slave holding ancestors did have
Speaker 1: made it illegal for young people to be able to
Speaker 1: actualize critical thought in any real way and use that
Speaker 1: to better understand why we have such persistent and unrelenting
Speaker 1: racism in this country. But we're gonna give motherfuckers a
Speaker 1: day off. And I guarantee you that if you asked
Speaker 1: at least five people in your social circle.
Speaker 2: What is June teenth?
Speaker 1: Why do you have the day off? A majority of
Speaker 1: those people would have no idea.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's about something black. Well.
Speaker 1: Juneteenth is actually America's real Independence Day because it is
Speaker 1: the time when all people in this country were liberated
Speaker 1: from chattel slavery. How the fuck you celebrate Independence Day
Speaker 1: while there were people in shackles?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: But what pisses me off about the Juneteenth holiday is
Speaker 1: that instead of providing justice or actual police reform, after
Speaker 1: we all watched and bore witness to George Floyd being
Speaker 1: suffocated to death for close to nine minutes, right, instead
Speaker 1: of actually doing something about every single fucking sea to
Speaker 1: shining sea, bad fucking police department in this country, we
Speaker 1: just were thrown a federal holiday. That's how Juneteenth became
Speaker 1: a federal holiday. We can't get a report done on
Speaker 1: what reparations would look like in this country for all.
Speaker 2: Of the extracted free labor.
Speaker 1: That then followed was followed by Jim Crow, was followed
Speaker 1: by redlining, was followed by every single economic deterrent that
Speaker 1: would be available to provide economic mobility to the black community.
Speaker 1: But you want to give us June teenth ice cream?
Speaker 1: Give me a fucking break. So those are my thoughts
Speaker 1: about Juneteenth, And what I said in my tweet was this,
Speaker 1: I take issue with Juneteenth being a federal holiday in
Speaker 1: a country that has banned critical thought in a majority
Speaker 1: of its states. I take issue with white Americans who
Speaker 1: hold racism and privilege in their bones, being given a
Speaker 1: day off to luxuriate in their ignorance. I take issue
Speaker 1: with a nation that would provide a federal holiday after
Speaker 1: the World War witness to the murder of a black
Speaker 1: man on video for close to nine minutes but not
Speaker 1: provide justice through real police reform. America could do better,
Speaker 1: but I often wonder if it ever will. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a tricky place sometimes to be in to try
Speaker 1: and fight for a nation that does not fight for you,
Speaker 1: To try and fight for liberation that your ancestors were beaten, raped, suffocated,
Speaker 1: tortured and murdered for trying to access it is tricky.
Speaker 1: And I will tell you that for me, I spent
Speaker 1: Monday Juneteenth in deep reflection. I also spent it in
Speaker 1: deep rest. I realized that I don't often when I
Speaker 1: say that I'm taking time off, I actually don't really
Speaker 1: take time off. That I'm always doing something. I'm always
Speaker 1: researching something. I'm always, you know, trying to piece together
Speaker 1: the next story, the next conversation, the next set of guests,
Speaker 1: you know, to interview.
Speaker 2: I'm never just being.
Speaker 1: And so on Juneteenth, I decided to just be right,
Speaker 1: no plans, no barbecues, no gatherings, just with myself, with
Speaker 1: my thoughts, looking up at the clouds and my flowers,
Speaker 1: and just sitting in the sunshine and just being. And
Speaker 1: I felt that on that day it was probably the
Speaker 1: most glorious act of resistance I've ever done. And I
Speaker 1: say that as somebody who has dedicated their lives to
Speaker 1: work in policy, to work on Capitol Hill, to be
Speaker 1: a teacher in the classroom, to work to better our environment,
Speaker 1: to you know, do whatever it is that I can
Speaker 1: to bend the arc right, to bend the arc towards justice.
Speaker 2: And I will tell you.
Speaker 1: That, as a black woman, as a black queer woman,
Speaker 1: as a black queer woman that is a child of immigrants,
Speaker 1: to sit and do nothing but luxuriate in my skin. Right,
Speaker 1: pour some rose, eat some oysters was probably the biggest
Speaker 1: act of defiance that I could do. Because white mainstream
Speaker 1: society doesn't want me to rest right. They either want
Speaker 1: me to die of hustle culture right, hustling to close
Speaker 1: a racial wealth gap that they created through racist and
Speaker 1: discriminatory policies, but dangle carrots in front of me that
Speaker 1: make me believe that at one time or another I'll
Speaker 1: be able to catch up to wealth that has been
Speaker 1: purposefully extracted. Right, capitalism was built literally on the backs
Speaker 1: of black people and continuing to toil away in a
Speaker 1: system that protects right, the technocrats and you know, and
Speaker 1: the top one percent, while the rest of us are
Speaker 1: told that we can make it, we just need to
Speaker 1: work hard. Rest is our biggest resistance. Joy right is
Speaker 1: our biggest weapon. And so that's what I decided to
Speaker 1: reflect on, you know, for the Juneteenth holiday that I
Speaker 1: do not believe should be a federal holiday because unless
Speaker 1: you are willing to really understand what it must have
Speaker 1: been like to continue to toil away. How many people
Speaker 1: in Galveston, Texas, how many people enslaved people were killed
Speaker 1: during those two years when they could have been free.
Speaker 2: Think about that. So shifting gears into the news.
Speaker 1: That came off of the holiday, and where we are,
Speaker 1: My goodness, my fucking goodness. So Hunter Biden has reached
Speaker 1: a plea deal after five years, five years of being
Speaker 1: investigated by Republicans because these investigations started when Jeff Sessions
Speaker 1: was in charge of the Justice Department, then was handed
Speaker 1: over to Bill Barr, then was handed over to a
Speaker 1: Special Council who was a Trump appointee in Delaware. After
Speaker 1: five years, god knows how much fucking money spent on
Speaker 1: trying to create a there there right for the fabrications,
Speaker 1: and by fabrications, I mean boldface fucking lies that the
Speaker 1: Republicans have been able to grift off of for the
Speaker 1: last several years with regard to the Biden crime family
Speaker 1: and Hunter Biden's laptop, and we need to get to
Speaker 1: the bottom of this. He is pleaded out and there
Speaker 1: were two misdemeanor tax charges and he's avoiding prosecution on
Speaker 1: a separate gun charge. He didn't pay his taxes in
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen and in twenty eighteen, but has paid his
Speaker 1: taxes now in full. He did so I believe in
Speaker 1: either twenty twenty or twenty twenty one. This plea deal
Speaker 1: that he has is that he needs to remain sober
Speaker 1: for the next twenty four months. And this was on
Speaker 1: some very odd gun charge right where he falsified I
Speaker 1: guess documents, and by falsified, I mean when he went
Speaker 1: to go buy a gun and it asked the question
Speaker 1: on there whether you have used drugs?
Speaker 2: Do you use drugs? Are you an addict?
Speaker 1: I have no idea what the form says, but he
Speaker 1: did not disclose, and for that reason he is being charged.
Speaker 1: And you know what's funny is that the lawyers that
Speaker 1: are on television are basically saying that it's kind of
Speaker 1: a bullshit, trumped up charge. Pun intended because there are
Speaker 1: many people who lie on their gun forms, right, the
Speaker 1: purchase forms for a firearm, and because we are a
Speaker 1: country that is proliferated with guns. You know how many
Speaker 1: people that you would have to arrest with regard to
Speaker 1: the charges on the taxes. It would have been tax
Speaker 1: evasion if he didn't cough up the money that he owed.
Speaker 1: But he did so five years right of taxpayer dollars
Speaker 1: of Republican talking points and what do they say now, Oh,
Speaker 1: this was a sweetheart deal. Oh you know, we're going
Speaker 1: to continue to get to the bottom of this. When
Speaker 1: asked by reporters, Kevin McCarthy, when asked by reporters, well,
Speaker 1: this was a Trump appointee. Are you not trusting the
Speaker 1: judge that Donald Trump put in place? Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: do is it thorough? Is it thorough? Like? Nothing will suffice?
Speaker 1: And that's what Democrats have to get like in their
Speaker 1: fucking heads. Unless you were gonna throw Hunter Biden in
Speaker 1: jail or guantanamo and lock them away for the next
Speaker 1: twenty to thirty years on bullshit suspicion. Republicans are not
Speaker 1: gonna be happy, right because they've made up a boogeyman
Speaker 1: in their heads. They've given it the name Hunter Biden
Speaker 1: because it is a way to deflect from all of
Speaker 1: the fucking grift that the Trump spawn have done, that
Speaker 1: the Trump spawns spouses have done, and that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: himself have done. So there were no indictments, there was
Speaker 1: nothing major because there was no fucking there there. But
Speaker 1: once again, to show that, oh, we're not politicizing the office,
Speaker 1: you play out on bullshit charges that a regular person
Speaker 1: not with the last name Biden probably wouldn't have faced.
Speaker 1: And that is what many attorneys are saying that actually
Speaker 1: this Justice Department went harder on Hunter Biden to give
Speaker 1: the perception that the Justice Department isn't being weaponized. How
Speaker 1: the fuck does that make sense? But what does make sense, folks,
Speaker 1: are all of the things that I've said about Merrick
Speaker 1: Garland and his salot like pace around investigating Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: And so what we have learned right as we get
Speaker 1: past the hoop law and bullshit around Hunter Biden, which
Speaker 1: of course the Republican Party won't let go of, not now,
Speaker 1: not ever. So I don't know why again we pretend
Speaker 1: to have this farce of there being no partisanship, because
Speaker 1: you are operating by not deciding to investigate Donald Trump
Speaker 1: at a time when you had the ability to, by
Speaker 1: slow walking shit by getting a special counsel, you were
Speaker 1: playing politics.
Speaker 2: And this is.
Speaker 1: New reporting coming from the Washington Post in an article
Speaker 1: entitled FBI resisted opening probe into Trump's role in January
Speaker 1: sixth for more than a year subtitle in the DOJ's
Speaker 1: investigation of January six key Justice officials also quashed an
Speaker 1: early plan for a task force focused on people in
Speaker 1: Trump's orbit. This reporting is being done was done by
Speaker 1: Karrol Leoning and Aaron C. Davis, And so here is
Speaker 1: what they said, which I you know, my friend Jen
Speaker 1: Tobb and friend of the show pointed out in a
Speaker 1: tweet basically vindicating all of us who had talked shit
Speaker 1: about Merrick Garland because we weren't actually just talking shit
Speaker 1: to talk shit. That this backs up everything that people
Speaker 1: have thought right. So quote this is from the piece.
Speaker 1: Hours after he was sworn in as Attorney General, Merrick
Speaker 1: Garland and his deputies gathered in a wood paneled conference
Speaker 1: room in the Justice Department for a private briefing on
Speaker 1: the investigation he had promised to make his highest priority
Speaker 1: bringing to justice those responsible for the attack on the
Speaker 1: US Capitol on January sixth, twenty twenty one. In the
Speaker 1: two months since the siege, federal agents had conducted seven
Speaker 1: hundred and nine searches, charged two hundred and seventy eight rioters,
Speaker 1: and identified eight hundred and eighty five likely suspects, said
Speaker 1: Michael R. Sh Sherwin, then acting US Attorney for the
Speaker 1: District of Columbia, taking through a slide presentation. Garland and
Speaker 1: some of his deputies nodded approvingly at the stats, and
Speaker 1: the new Attorney General called the progress quote remarkable, according
Speaker 1: to people in the room, Sherwin's office, with the help
Speaker 1: of the FBI, was responsible for prosecuting all crimes stemming
Speaker 1: from January sixth attack. He had made headlines a day
Speaker 1: after by refusing to rule out the possibility that President
Speaker 1: Donald Trump himself could be culpable.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 1: We are looking at all actors, not only the people
Speaker 1: who went into the building, Sherwin said, in response to
Speaker 1: a reporter's question about Trump. If the evidence fits the
Speaker 1: elements of a crime, they're going.
Speaker 2: To be charged. Hmmm.
Speaker 1: Interesting. But according to a copy of the briefing document
Speaker 1: absent from Sherwin's eleven page presentation to Garland on More eleven,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, Just again, two months after, right too
Speaker 1: much after our Capitol building was up in smoke, was
Speaker 1: any reference to Trump or his advisors, those who did
Speaker 1: not go to the Capitol riot but orchestrated events that
Speaker 1: led to it. A Washington Post investigation found that more
Speaker 1: than a year. More than a year, folks, would pass
Speaker 1: before prosecutors and FBI agents jointly embarked on a formal
Speaker 1: probe of actions directed from the White House to try
Speaker 1: to steal the election. Even then, according to this Washington
Speaker 1: Post investigative article, even then, the FBI stopped short of
Speaker 1: identifying the former president as a focus of that investigation.
Speaker 1: Here we go, folks, and here is the best part.
Speaker 1: A wariness of about appearing, partisan institutional caution, and clashes
Speaker 1: over how much evidence was sufficient to investigate the actions
Speaker 1: of Trump and those around him all contributed to the
Speaker 1: slow pace. Garland and the Deputy Attorney General, Lisa Monico
Speaker 1: charted a cautious course aimed at restoring public trust in
Speaker 1: the department, while some prosecutors below them chafed, feeling top
Speaker 1: officials were shying away from looking at evidence of potential
Speaker 1: crimes by Trump and those close to him. So, folks,
Speaker 1: here we have it in black and white, and this
Speaker 1: is a very lengthy article and I encourage you all
Speaker 1: to check it out in the Washington Post. For more
Speaker 1: than a year, Merrick Garland the FBI did nothing to
Speaker 1: investigate the people who orchestrated the mob to enter into
Speaker 1: our Capitol building. The people write the suits, as Glenn
Speaker 1: Kershner used to refer to them, the suits.
Speaker 2: Of the operation were let off.
Speaker 1: The hook while Merrick Garland and the FBI would go
Speaker 1: after the boots on the ground. The people that actually
Speaker 1: went into the building. Well, here's a logic train for you,
Speaker 1: is that those people would have never gone into the
Speaker 1: building had they not been directed to by the President
Speaker 1: of the United States. Those people would have never been
Speaker 1: in Washington, DC. Had Donald Trump and his allies not
Speaker 1: set up this stopped the steal rally, those people would
Speaker 1: not have been riled up to quote unquote take their
Speaker 1: country back and to build a gallows to hang the
Speaker 1: Vice president of the United State dates. Had Donald Trump
Speaker 1: and his associates not orchestrated between election Day until January sixth,
Speaker 1: a plan to put in fake electors steal the election,
Speaker 1: utilize Fox News's platform and microphones in order to broadcast
Speaker 1: to tens of millions of people that their country was
Speaker 1: being stolen from them. So, with all of the evidence
Speaker 1: right that was coming in bit by bit, all of
Speaker 1: these fucking interviews that they did two months after they
Speaker 1: would sit on their hands for a fucking year, how
Speaker 1: does that preserve the institution of the Department of Justice?
Speaker 2: How does that restore faith? How does knowing.
Speaker 1: That there were people inside of that White House for
Speaker 1: weeks putting together a plan to obstruct our electoral process
Speaker 1: and steal the election from the American people to give
Speaker 1: it to Donald Trump. How does not not register on
Speaker 1: your meter of things that need to be dealt with
Speaker 1: in order to preserve the integrity of the Department of
Speaker 1: Justice that, prior to the Biden administration had been weaponized
Speaker 1: against political enemies by both Jeff's Sessions and Bill Barr,
Speaker 1: the logic train clearly missed the Department of Justice. Because
Speaker 1: this article in the Washington Post is absolutely fucking damning.
Speaker 1: So what Merrick Garland did was play politics by not
Speaker 1: moving on this investigation so that it wouldn't look like
Speaker 1: he was playing politics. What folks, I tell you that
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be then right until June eighth, According to
Speaker 1: this article. In a separate investigation that was also turned
Speaker 1: over to the Special Council, Jack Smith, who secured a
Speaker 1: grand jury indictment against the former president for a mishandling
Speaker 1: classified documents after leaving office. Essentially, Merrick Garland didn't want
Speaker 1: to do a goddamn thing about the insurrection. He wanted
Speaker 1: to have the appearance of taking care of those people
Speaker 1: that storm the Capitol, but wanting to have no fingerprints
Speaker 1: on Donald Trump whatsoever, because he thinks that keeping Republicans
Speaker 1: happy is how you uphold democracy, and that to me
Speaker 1: makes no fucking sense whatsoever. So we appoint Jack Smith.
Speaker 1: He gives them these two hefty cases, the Document's case
Speaker 1: and the January sixth case. We know where we are
Speaker 1: with the Document's case, And frankly, if I were Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's lawyers, I would have his mouth sewn shut. But
Speaker 1: this motherfucker is gonna talk himself into a guilty plea.
Speaker 1: And what I know to be true, friends, is that
Speaker 1: if Donald Trump had just shut the fuck up, because
Speaker 1: it's free, if he had just shut the fuck up
Speaker 1: given back the documents. If he had shut the fuck
Speaker 1: up about continuing to lie about the election being stolen,
Speaker 1: he would have given Merrick Garland the cover to just
Speaker 1: allow this to fade into the consciousness of America, just
Speaker 1: allow it to just go away. But because Donald Trump
Speaker 1: can't once again shut the fuck up. And in an
Speaker 1: interview that has gone viral now in clips with Brett
Speaker 1: bher from Fox News, it is the first time I
Speaker 1: believe that anyone from Fox has interviewed Donald Trump with
Speaker 1: any type of temerity. Brett Bhaer might have been the
Speaker 1: best interviewer thus far of Donald Trump. Why because one,
Speaker 1: we know that Donald Trump doesn't prepare for anything, but
Speaker 1: he's sure as hell wasn't prepared for Brett bhar to
Speaker 1: talk about all of the quote unquote good people that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump has all surrounded himself with who are either
Speaker 1: running against him or have said that he's in danger
Speaker 1: to society or have said that he's not backing them.
Speaker 1: It was person after person, your secretary of Defense, your
Speaker 1: former attorney general, your US ambassador, you're Vice President of
Speaker 1: the United States, you're former chief of staff, your former
Speaker 1: press secretary. He just brought every single receipt and Donald
Speaker 1: Trump looked dumb. And then when Donald trum I've tried
Speaker 1: to say once again on Fox, who, by the way,
Speaker 1: had to pay out dominion voting systems close to a
Speaker 1: billion dollars because of pushing the election lie. When Donald
Speaker 1: Trump said once again that the election had been stolen
Speaker 1: from him, Brett Baer said, no, it hasn't. It's been investigated.
Speaker 1: You lost. I think this might be the first time ever,
Speaker 1: right that Fox has actually done what the fuck they
Speaker 1: should have done in the beginning. Now, look, I will
Speaker 1: give credit where credit is due. Even a broken clock
Speaker 1: is right twice a day. So Brett Bhar came with
Speaker 1: the receipts that apparently CNN left at home right when
Speaker 1: they interviewed Donald Trump for his bullshit town hall, basically
Speaker 1: just a campaign press stop. He actually came prepared and ready,
Speaker 1: and Donald Trump continued to talk himself into a prison cell.
Speaker 1: When asked by Brett bare so, why didn't you just
Speaker 1: return the documents like you were asked multiple times? It's
Speaker 1: been over two years, Donald Trump says, Well, I had,
Speaker 1: you know, golf shorts and golf shirts and newspaper clippings
Speaker 1: and all of this other stuff mixed up with classified
Speaker 1: top secret documents. Doesn't seem safe. Oh, I wanted to
Speaker 1: look through all those boxes. So again, your lawyers being
Speaker 1: able to say that you didn't know what was in
Speaker 1: the contents of these boxes, by the way, which the
Speaker 1: prosecution does.
Speaker 2: Not have to prove.
Speaker 1: But Donald Trump just keeps talking, and everything that he's
Speaker 1: saying will be admissible in court because it is public
Speaker 1: knowledge now because he can't shut the fuck up. It
Speaker 1: is just, folks, a wild place that we are in.
Speaker 1: You know, the Republican Party is working overtime to twist
Speaker 1: themselves into not to try and compare how Hunter Biden
Speaker 1: is being treated vers how Donald Trump is being treated.
Speaker 1: And if you are a person that follows facts, which
Speaker 1: means that you wouldn't have an R after your name,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't be a Republican, you would recognize that the
Speaker 1: Department of Justice did actually play politics in both cases,
Speaker 1: with Hunter Biden, far lesser charges right misdemeanors. He paid
Speaker 1: his taxes, his back taxes right in full. He took responsibility,
Speaker 1: he pled guilty right, and he's facing a penalty for it.
Speaker 1: But a majority of Americans wouldn't have been charged. But
Speaker 1: because his last name is Biden, and they didn't want
Speaker 1: to make it seem like they were giving him a
Speaker 1: slap on the wrist. They charged him for what most
Speaker 1: Americans would get off with. Now in the case of
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, where most Americans would have already been under
Speaker 1: a jail cell for the shit that Donald Trump has done.
Speaker 1: The Justice Department worked over time to try and prevent
Speaker 1: these cases from seeing the light of day because they
Speaker 1: didn't want to be perceived as being partisan. So what
Speaker 1: we would have been convicted of ten times over, Donald
Speaker 1: Trump gets escaped by but because I'll say it for
Speaker 1: the last time, he can't shut the fuck up, they
Speaker 1: had no choice but to bring charges. So either way
Speaker 1: you look at this, the Department of Justice doesn't look good.
Speaker 1: They don't look like they're actually doing their jobs and
Speaker 1: following the law. For as the law presents itself, it
Speaker 1: looks like they are indeed playing politics. The politics just
Speaker 1: happened to favor the squeakiest wheel, which is the Republican Party.
Speaker 1: Make it make sense, Make it make sense, all right, folks.
Speaker 1: That is it for me on this woke Wednesday. As always,
Speaker 1: dear friends, power to the people and to all the people.
Speaker 2: Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck,