WEBVTT - Chuck’s Commentary - Trump Has Weaponized Every Part Of Government + US Has Lost Moral Authority On World Stage 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:08.880 Hello there, Happy Monday. It is Columbus Day Indigenous People 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:12.800 Day depending on the state you live in. Yes, both 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:16.680 are used. At the end of the day, a lot 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:19.799 of people have today off, which should mean quite a 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:22.960 few of you have more time to be listening. So welcome. 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:26.400 For those of you trying the podcast out for the 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:33.240 first time, Thank you appreciate it. We've loved our growth lately. 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:36.519 A few pieces of housekeeping. The biggest thing in the 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:41.519 podcast household is we have a new dog, rescue Dog two. 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:44.839 She's a poodle mix. I bring it up because she 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:48.960 may or may not make her presence known during this 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:53.199 portion of my recording. That's mostly why I'm sharing. I'm 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:56.160 sharing that news with you. Those of you that follow 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:58.920 me very closely on social media know at the end 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:02.240 of June we lost we lost a dog that we 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:07.760 had for fourteen years, Ruby. She was a standard Poodle. 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:15.199 She was terrific and lived a very full life until 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:18.000 the end. So we've been waiting for the summer. I'll 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:20.720 be honest, and I wanted to make sure it was 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:23.560 a rescue. This time. We didn't have kids in the house, 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:25.759 so you feel like you can be a little more 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:33.680 accommodating two more rambunctious dogs. Shall we say. She's got 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:37.000 a ton of energy. She's got the puppy energy of 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:38.959 a two year old. And at the same time, you know, 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.720 I probably only have like six to nine months of 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:46.320 this rather than the three years of puppy behavior that 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.240 many of you I know are used to when you 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:52.080 get a new dog. Anyway, so that is my daughter's 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:54.840 in town visiting for fall break, and so she's been 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:57.200 a big help here. My son comes for fall break 0:01:57.240 --> 0:02:00.760 to meet her. He's a bit bumped that he wasn't 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:03.800 here for, but hey, she came a little bit earlier 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:07.280 than we expected. When you're on a rescue list, you 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:10.639 never know when they're going to say yes. Big thanks 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:15.040 to the folks in DC at City Dogs Rescue. They 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:18.280 do great work. It's almost all volunteers, as anybody knows. 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:20.640 You know. I hope if you're a pet lover you 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:24.320 help out any sort of dog and cat rescue in 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:28.880 your community. We know they do terrific work and it 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:32.400 is done simply. Most of the volunteers are there just 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:35.120 for the love of the animals. So big thanks to 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:39.359 City Dogs in Washington, d C. China. In the United 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:44.399 States had a escalating set of threats for the trade war, 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:50.000 one hundred percent tariffs and responds to protectionism with the 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:53.200 minerals in China. For what it's worth, all of it 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.919 seems to be posturing before the actual negotiation between the 0:02:56.960 --> 0:03:00.000 two world leaders takes place in the next few weeks 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:03.359 weeks to a month. So even though the markets are reacting, 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:05.720 and it is interesting, when do the markets react to 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:09.160 Trump tariff threats, it appears whenever it's about China. Any 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:12.120 other aspect of tariff threats don't seem to impact the 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:15.280 stock market China. That's enough. Another story which I think 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.920 tells you how important the Chinese economy is to the 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:22.359 world economy. Right, we are the dominant economy in the world, 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:26.040 but we're not alone, and you know we can have 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:29.680 We can have a lot of impact, and so can China. 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:33.440 So I think we're learning here and each country is 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:36.960 feeling each other out. I think each country thought they 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:39.040 could quote unquote when this trade war, and I think 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:41.480 both countries are finding out in some ways this is 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:43.880 an unwinnable trade war. I'll get to more of it 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:45.920 before we get to my interview with Sandy, but I 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:47.600 wanted to get that out of the way. But look, 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:51.320 I'm going to begin with what we've been talking about 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:53.920 for some time, and that is where we are in 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:57.040 the government shutdown. And I will tell you this, We're 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:03.320 nowhere near We're nowhere close to seeing this resolved. And 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:06.760 the biggest reason is Donald Trump's not involved. Whatever you 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:10.480 think of Donald Trump, these days, you cannot negotiate with 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:13.800 Congressional Republicans without the sign off of Donald Trump. Congressional 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:17.320 Republicans cannot sign off on anything without getting permission from 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:19.719 Donald Trump. What do I mean by that? Permission? Sounds 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:21.640 you know, it sounds like I'm being snarky. But the 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:25.039 fact is, if Trump doesn't like something, he can absolutely 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:28.039 pull the rug out underneath from Republicans, as he has 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:30.640 right as he did, as he does to his own 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:34.080 cabinet secretaries. He just did a big one on Howard Lutnik, 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:37.680 who was about to amp up tariffs on international pharmaceutical 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:41.000 companies until Donald Trump stepped in and said, nah, we're 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:44.280 not going to do that because he's paranoid about price 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:48.479 hikes and uncertain things. Right, prescription drugs is one that 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:51.560 he's ultra sensitive to. He doesn't seem to be sensitive 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:55.240 to some things where his tariffs raise prices, but on 0:04:55.279 --> 0:05:00.480 pharmaceuticals he is sensitive to that. I think it gets 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:04.799 what he believes is a big part of his constituency, older, 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:10.240 culturally conservative Americans who have been voting Democrat for most 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:13.880 of most of this twenty first century until Donald Trump 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:16.720 essentially promised that he wasn't going to be a Republican 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:19.719 that tried to cut sold security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Of course, 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:23.720 we're going to about to litigate a midterm election over 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:27.120 whether what the Republicans did is a cut to Medicaid 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:32.640 or not, and what voters think of the medicaid policy 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:37.040 that Republicans have put in. But it's just a fact. 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:39.960 And with Donald Trump really not engaged yet in the 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:43.039 government shutdown at all, he is in the Middle East 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:46.080 as I record this, essentially or on his way to 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:49.760 the Middle East, getting ready for a victory lap. And frankly, 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:52.800 it's a victory lop he deserves on this one, because 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:57.000 you know, when you look at his style of diplomacy, 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:59.279 it's not a good style of diplomacy to deal with 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:02.200 the Europeans. It is not a good style of diplomacy. 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:07.120 To deal with Southeast Asia, China, East Asia, you name it. 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:11.359 Not a good way. Maybe you could argue his style 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.479 works sort of kind of with the Indians, but that 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:18.320 so far has been a bit problematic. The one place 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:22.880 where his style of diplomacy I think can work is 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:26.359 in the Middle East. He's transactional, where many other of 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:30.719 an American president wouldn't feel comfortable, sort of doing the 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:34.680 kind of sleazy financial deals that are being done with 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:38.080 the Gulf States right now that get them engaged in 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:40.520 helping to pay for the rebuild of Gaza, get them 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:43.360 engaged with working with Israel. And if the Trumps make 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:45.000 a couple of bucks off of it, what does Donald 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.320 Trump care? And all of this right that it is 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.520 this sort of scratch my back, scratch your back kind 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:57.800 of mindset. It's unethical. It's something that I think we're 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:01.280 not comfortable our government doing, but it's going to get 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:05.280 the job done in some ways because there are no 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:09.479 rules in the Middle East at times. I think that 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:13.240 that's why you're seeing this style where ninety percent of 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:16.280 the time it's ineffective, but in this case it's an 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:18.760 effective way to go. I don't know if another American 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:22.280 president could have bullied Netnahu into taking this deal. He 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:25.400 didn't want to take any deal because his right flank 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:29.720 wasn't going to accept any deal. Any deal that stopped 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:33.440 this war clearly wasn't going to be acceptable to the 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:37.200 far right. One thing Donald Trump wanted was a victory, right, 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.040 He wanted to take the win. And it's an interesting 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:45.120 parallel because he basically it was interesting when they announced 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:48.239 the deal. Hamas accepted, but not quite on the terms 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:51.400 that Israel wanted. Trump went ahead and said, great, great 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:54.560 job Hamas, glad you took this deal. And it left 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:58.640 Netnah who completely naked, right, he yanked the rug. Bibi 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:02.360 did not want to say that Hamas agreed to those terms. 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:06.880 He wanted to continue to press forward, and Trump essentially 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:10.160 told him, no, you're not going to do it. Take 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:13.400 the win and move on. Now. Of course, the question 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:18.120 is going to be whether politically BB can survive without 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:23.200 having the threat of war right, Who's entire political career 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:28.520 has been about playing off of fear, fear of a Ran, 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:32.400 fear of Hamas, fear of Hesbelah. But it's always been 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.840 fear fear, fear. In some ways he's had, you know, 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:39.839 the last two years incredibly successful dealing with Iran, dealing 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:44.000 with Lebanon and Hesbela essentially is kneecapped Hesbela completely. Even 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:48.680 the uties are laying off, You're seeing diplomatic ties being 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:53.480 forged with many a Gulf state, and with all of 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:56.839 those fear factors off the table, it is likely going 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:01.520 to mean that the This is probably the beginning of 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:04.880 the end of bb NET. Now, who's political career is. 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.800 Does he have another six months? Does he stretch this 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:10.520 a year? We'll see. I told you about that poll 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:16.600 last week that showed two thirds of Israeli voters believe 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:21.120 he should resign. About two thirds of those wanted him 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:23.400 to resign immediately, another third we're willing to wait till 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:25.440 the war is over. Well, the war is essentially on 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:27.800 its way to being over. So we are now up 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:30.880 to two thirds of Israelis believe he needs to take responsibility. 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:34.520 That it was on his watch that an exposed Israel 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:38.760 got attacked by Jamas and all of it. You know, 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:43.720 it was strange much of the military strategy that bb 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:48.640 signed off on dealing with Iran. The hooties or hesblah, 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:52.800 we're all really smart and savvy. He never dealt He 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:55.160 never listened to his military advisors on how to deal 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:58.640 with Gaza and Hamas, which is arguably why it was 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:03.319 so brutal, was so terrible, why it was so poorly 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:08.080 thought out, and why it is made Israel among the 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:12.880 most isolated nations in the free world. And that's uh, 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:17.560 that's sad. For It's just sad. I'm very sad about 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:20.800 the fact that Israel is so isolated. I'm relieved that 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:25.720 many of the threats are gone, but how you conduct 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:30.560 yourself over time has a huge impact long term, and 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:32.360 we're going to see what kind of long term penalty 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:35.960 israel Is is going to have to pay for. How 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:39.920 for the horrendous way that BB and his team conducted 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:45.120 the war in Gaza. Everywhere else was much more precision efficiency, 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:48.880 sort of the the the way the Israelis had been 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:53.920 in some ways admired by militaries around the world for 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:56.760 their for their Saturday savvy and their strategy. Nobody was 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:59.720 admiring what they were doing in Gaza. There was nothing 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:02.400 like that, and in some ways that was driven by 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:08.160 just a far right fringe that was keeping BB in power. 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.839 But still that is what President Trump is doing right 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:13.560 now he's taking a victory, Levet. What he is not 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:17.960 doing is in the room on the shutdown, and that 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:20.200 at the end of the day is why we are 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:24.520 going to be here until he engages and at this point, 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:26.960 and this is this sort of gets to the theme 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:31.720 I want to hit on today, and that is the 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:36.320 sort of next level ugliness of our politics. You know, 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:42.120 there's always been this. Obviously politics and governing blur, but 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:47.360 there is a point where every successful government, no matter 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:50.000 which why you were governed, why you were elected. You 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:51.679 were elected because you're a liberal, you're elected because you 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:55.520 were a conservative, that ultimately, when you're governing you have 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:58.400 to do what's in the best interests of everybody. That 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:02.120 when you're governing, you don't just worry about your supporters, 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:05.280 you actually worry about the electorate as a whole. That's 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:13.240 the hallmark of this democracy. This administration governs has weaponized 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:17.200 everything through a political lens. When you look at what 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:19.800 Russell Voyd is doing at the Budget Department, this is 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:24.360 not a left right thing. This is dangerous behavior. Because 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:30.199 the minute we decide that you should govern politically and 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:34.080 only govern for those that support you, that is the 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:36.760 end of the republic as we know it is the 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:40.200 I'm not saying that our democracy ends, but what it 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:44.920 becomes is that each time one party gets elected, they 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:48.200 get in there and decide to purge the other party 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:51.559 and purge the government of You've heard Donald Trump say 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:54.400 that he wants to just lay off the Democrat part 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.200 of the government, right, which is why you know, in 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.920 their first round of doing this, Russell Voyd, who is 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:04.520 as usual, is sloppy with his initial you know, he 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:07.640 comes across as somebody that's very precise. But it's shocking 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:10.880 how often they do a lot of stupid things when 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:15.480 they try to do these layoffs or reduction the reduction 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:19.240 in force, and that they overfired at CDC and they 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:21.880 overfired at HHS and why did they target, right, HHS 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:26.480 is considered a democratic cabinet agency. Right, It's obvious they 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:29.560 do that when you look which ones they consider the 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:33.120 democratic agencies and which one they consider the republican agencies. 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:37.520 Like nobody has essentially hardly anybody's been furloughed or laid 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:41.800 off from the Department of Olymit Security, but quite a 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:43.880 few have been laid off at the Department of Labor. 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:48.200 And they went with a hatchet at the Department of HHS, 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:51.959 specifically at CDC, and then they realized, oh wow, all 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:57.320 these people are experts at certain things. These aren't political hacks. 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:04.120 These are reputable sciences that have incredible expertise in a 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:08.080 lot of areas that are crucial for the US government 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:10.559 to be involved in. Public health is something government has 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:14.720 to be involved in. This is not something you can privatize, certainly, 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:19.000 and so it is this is what is so scary 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:21.120 about what's happening. And in some ways Lindsay Graham gave 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:26.320 a piece of this in a recent appearance on Meet 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:29.360 the Press, and this goes at the weaponization of the 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:32.880 Justice Department, where essentially he justified what Trump was doing 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:37.480 by saying, but they went after Trump, and because Letitia 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:41.160 James went after Trump and went over the top something 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:43.600 that I look, I don't disagree that she shouldn't have. 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:46.120 She shouldn't have gone there. She could have, but she 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:51.200 went there for solely political reasons. You know, there it is. 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:54.160 It's certainly that doesn't mean he didn't do anything wrong, 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:57.600 but it's pretty clear she went after him. To quote, 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:02.920 get Trump on that front. But if you are upset 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:06.960 about the weaponization law of law enforcement. Then the last 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:10.280 thing you ought to be doing is then weaponizing law enforcement. 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:14.360 But that's exactly what they're doing right. Pam Bondi's just 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:18.600 despicable appearance in front of the Judiciary Committee last week, 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:22.160 where you know we now have learned thanks to some 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:25.680 photographs that sort of leaked she wrote down. She clearly 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:30.160 had her staff she so cares about politicizing the Justice 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:33.080 Department that she prepared for her testimony with one line 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:36.480 Zingers to go after any Democrat that questioned her in 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.320 a tough way. So she like had some pre made 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:42.480 attacks on Sheldon Whitehouse and pre made attacks on different 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:46.120 Democrats that questioned what she was doing over there. And 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:49.480 it just just take a step back, take your partisan 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:51.960 hat off, or put your partisan hat on, and say 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:57.000 if that is how Merret Garland had behaved, okay, and 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.800 it sent a Judiciary Committee, it's just coming up with 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:03.840 these spending time, taxpayer dollars to get her get his 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:07.040 staff to write one line zingers. Republicans would be rightfully 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:10.640 apoplectic at the politicizing of the Justice Department. But that's 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:15.320 exactly what Pam Bondi did. She literally spent taxpayer dollars 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:18.360 coming up with one liners and zingers to go after 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:22.160 rather than explaining if they're because she had no legal 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:24.560 rationale for what they did to Jim Comey, She had 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:27.000 no legal rationale for what they're doing to Leticia James. 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:29.440 She had no legal rationale to how they're just firing 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:34.640 US attorneys if they don't abide by the president's words. 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:38.040 And you know, this is another story that sort of 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:42.120 has gotten lost. The Washington Post has since reported and 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:47.840 got multiple sources to confirm that when in the infamous 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:52.320 Donald Trump truth social posts, that is going to probably 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:54.920 get the Jim Comy case thrown out of court, and 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:57.440 likely we'll get the Leticia James thrown out of court 0:16:57.480 --> 0:17:01.640 because of the obvious buy that was used to get 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:04.639 them and diet it. And if I remind you, the 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:08.240 truth social Post stated this, Pam, I have reviewed over 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:11.240 thirty statements in posts saying that essentially quote same old 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:14.000 story as last time, all talked, no action, nothing is 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:17.920 being done. What about Kmy, Adam, Shifty Shift, Letitia, They're 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:20.080 all guilty as hell, but nothing is going to be done. 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:23.000 Then we almost put a Democrat supported US attorney in 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:26.800 Virginia and with a really bad Republican past awoke rhino 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.160 who is never going to do his job. That's why 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:31.680 two of the worst DEM senators pushed him so hard, 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:35.520 referring to Mark Warner and Tim Kaine for agreeing to 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:40.800 have to confirm that US attorney even lied to the 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:42.760 media and said he quit and that we had no case. No, 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:44.639 I fired him, and there is a great case, and 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:48.080 many lawyers in legal pundits say so, Lindsay Halligan is 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:50.320 a really good lawyer and likes you a lot. We 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:53.320 can't delay any longer. It's killing our reputation and our credibility. 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:56.679 They impeach me twice, induited me five times over nothing 0:17:56.840 --> 0:18:00.800 just as must be served now. President DJT this because 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:03.720 we now know this was never intended to be a 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:07.919 public truth social post, so believe it or not, in 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:11.239 the year twenty twenty five, your United States government, the 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:15.440 President of the United States sends a private direct message. 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:19.960 Although he didn't the seventy nine year old techno expert 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:22.080 didn't know how to do it right. Pretty much all 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:25.080 of our some of us in our fifties have been there, 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:27.679 but certainly many people in there. Was this supposed to 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:31.280 be public. I didn't know, but apparently he was trying 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:33.840 to send her a private message. Apparently the only way 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:36.159 he can send a private message to the sitting Attorney 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:42.959 General of the United States is through his truth Social app. Seriously, 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:46.760 but apparently that's what it was, because this was never 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:49.800 meant for the public. This was supposed to be a 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:54.240 direct message. This is how your president of the United 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:59.240 States communicates with our attorney general. Our president is doing 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:03.480 is communicating this way. How what kind of direct messages 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:07.560 have gotten through? This is how he communicates even to 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:13.040 his own staff. Look, he was clearly threatening her and like, hey, 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:15.200 you better get it done. I already fired in a 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:18.440 US attorney that wouldn't do what I asked. I mean, 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:21.080 it is not hard to jump to the conclusions that 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:23.760 he was using this. You know, he didn't. He didn't 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:27.679 give her any any sort of honorific It was Pam, 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:31.639 let me tell you what you're going to do. But 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:35.120 I don't think we have had nearly the amount of 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:39.199 focus and attention to the fact that the president is 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:43.919 communicating with his staff on a completely unsecured truth. Trust me, 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:48.400 you think truth socials are really secure, just up to snuff, 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:51.440 right that Devin Newness man. That guy is a real 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:54.919 sharp guy, right, you trust him with your cybersecurity, You 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:58.040 trust him with the government cybersecurity. This is the way 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:02.760 the president. You Look, did you have any did you 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:05.920 have an issue with Hillary Clinton's emails and her private server? 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:12.920 This is a hundred times worse. Look, this was why 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:16.520 some of us thought what Hillary Clinton did was wrong. 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:20.000 Don't set these precedents. Don't sit here and say no, no, no. 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:23.080 But it's okay for me because I'm somehow I'm not 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:25.320 you know, I know what is what belongs in the 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:29.160 public record, and what doesn't. And this is what happens. 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Okay, but she but she was held accountable, 0:22:55.040 --> 0:23:00.080 and then some nobody's holding Donald Trump accountable for But 0:23:00.119 --> 0:23:05.120 it is a brazen violation of the Government Records Act 0:23:05.240 --> 0:23:14.639 one two, exposing all sorts of security issues by using 0:23:14.800 --> 0:23:21.360 an unsecure truth Social app to communicate with a member 0:23:21.560 --> 0:23:24.879 of the National Security Council. The Attorney General is a 0:23:24.920 --> 0:23:29.080 member of the National Security Council, so in theory, much 0:23:29.119 --> 0:23:35.320 of what they discuss is classified information all somehow in 0:23:35.440 --> 0:23:41.080 this stew again of that, you know, because I'm sure 0:23:41.119 --> 0:23:46.080 many people feel comfortable. If you feel comfortable with the 0:23:46.119 --> 0:23:50.239 security of truth Social go ahead and direct message your 0:23:50.280 --> 0:23:52.680 social security number Donald Trump. Tell me if you would 0:23:52.680 --> 0:23:56.800 be comfortable doing that. I don't think you would. But 0:23:56.960 --> 0:24:02.439 this is something that is just completely completely insane, and 0:24:02.440 --> 0:24:05.400 we're like totally glossed over it because we're so used 0:24:05.440 --> 0:24:09.119 to Donald Trump not sort of abiding by norms or 0:24:09.200 --> 0:24:12.520 following the law. You know, when we say abiding by norms, 0:24:12.520 --> 0:24:15.680 that's code for not following the law. Sort of totally 0:24:15.720 --> 0:24:18.560 dismissive of laws in the US Congress's past. But of 0:24:18.600 --> 0:24:23.640 course we have a Congress. This current Republican control Congress 0:24:23.760 --> 0:24:28.359 is the single weakest Congress we have had easily going 0:24:28.400 --> 0:24:31.399 back to the FDR and the New Deal. Right, but 0:24:31.480 --> 0:24:34.160 he at least had numbers on his side. That's why 0:24:34.200 --> 0:24:37.639 he was overwhelmingly getting Congress to essentially do what he wanted. 0:24:38.040 --> 0:24:41.200 He actually won a large political argument which gave him 0:24:41.400 --> 0:24:46.000 a large majority. Donald Trump has never won a majority 0:24:46.040 --> 0:24:50.080 of anything. Even winning the popular vote, he didn't get 0:24:50.119 --> 0:24:55.040