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Speaker 1: According to the lead from the Washington Post quote, prosecutors

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Speaker 1: announced additional charges against Donald Trump on Thursday in his

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Speaker 1: alleged hoarding and hiding of classified documents to mor Lago,

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Speaker 1: accusing the former president and a newly indicted aid of

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Speaker 1: and bringing the number of total federal charges against Trump

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Speaker 1: to forty. Let me read from the federal indictment. The

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Speaker 1: classified documents Trump stored in his boxes included information regarding

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Speaker 1: defense and weapons capabilities of both the United States and

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Speaker 1: United States and its allies to military attack, and plans

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Speaker 1: for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack. The

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Speaker 1: unauthorized disclosure of these classified documents could put at risk

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Speaker 1: ordered one of his aids to try to erase video

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Speaker 1: evidence of the possession and tampering of these documents. Among

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Speaker 1: these documents are war plans contingencies for what the United

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Speaker 1: States would need to do if it were to have

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Speaker 1: military conflict with the Islamic Republic of Iran, a theocratic,

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Speaker 1: apocalyptic state that has promised, through its political leaders its

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Speaker 1: aatolas to wipe the state of Israel off the mat

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Speaker 1: over and over again. It refers to the United States

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Speaker 1: as the Great Satan. It sponsors terrorism and instability all

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Speaker 1: over the world, and the Iranian regime has a nuclear

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Speaker 1: Should they be joined by the Iranians, the world will

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Speaker 1: The proliferation of those weapons through those countries countries Lake

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Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia will mean inevitably that these weapons will be used,

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Speaker 1: And the use of these weapons in the twenty first

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Speaker 1: was cavalierly waving around were warplanes. Let's be clear about something.

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Speaker 1: The aircraft carrier that will launch the American planes to

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Speaker 1: would jump from airplanes at thirty five thousand feet. None

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Speaker 1: of those people who would be coming at the tip

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Speaker 1: of the spear, the tip of America's spear, doing the

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Speaker 1: work ordered by the commander in chief, doing the work

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Speaker 1: of the American people. None of those people will be

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Speaker 1: named Eric or Donald or Baron Trump. They will be

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Speaker 1: America's sons and daughters going into harm's way, and their

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Speaker 1: lives were riffed by Donald Trump's alleged criminal conduct. Why

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Speaker 1: The answer is clear and obvious. The Trump family were

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Speaker 1: like pigs at the trough during their years of the

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Speaker 1: White House. We may not hear much from the Princess

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Speaker 1: Ivanka anymore, but alongside Jared Kushner, they made over half

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Speaker 1: eight billion dollars during their White House service. And months

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Speaker 1: after leaving the White House, Jared Kushner, who by the way,

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Speaker 1: has free, total and absolute reign to every room in

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Speaker 1: by the Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund for his new investment

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Speaker 1: fund despite the objections of the professional managers of the

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Speaker 1: fund and the fact that Kushner, the son of a

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Speaker 1: felon and the disgraced White House advisor's son in law

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Speaker 1: money successfully ever, in any type of fund. Does anybody

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Speaker 1: else think that the proximity of Jared Kushner's payments to

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Speaker 1: of where they were? These aren't conspiracy theories. This is

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Speaker 1: basic common fucking sense. This family of grifters stole as

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Speaker 1: much as they could get their hands on and then some,

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Speaker 1: and the American people thus far have tolerated it. Thank

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Speaker 1: of you for listening and watching. Donald Trump. At this

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Speaker 1: hour stands facing forty federal criminal accounts, including charges under

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Speaker 1: the Espionage Act. Apparently, he is soon to face more charges,

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Speaker 1: direct charges for his role in citing the insurrection of

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Speaker 1: These are serious charges, some of the most serious in

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Speaker 1: be charged with inciting insurrection, trying to topple democracy so

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Speaker 1: in this conspiracy to retain power also new he lost.

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Speaker 1: He faces charges for stealing from the White House the

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Speaker 1: nation's most sensitive military secrets, classified comportmentalized information that was

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Speaker 1: whether that information remains secure or not. It is one

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Speaker 1: of the greatest violations of trust in the history of

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Speaker 1: charged for interfering in a presidential election in the state

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Speaker 1: In their total, these are the greatest crimes against the

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Speaker 1: They represent appalling and immoral conduct. And yet what has

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Speaker 1: happened to the man who has been charged politically? Since

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Speaker 1: the charges have been filed. He's gone up in the

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Speaker 1: polls inside the Republican primary. Think about that, Donald Trump,

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Speaker 1: who stands accused of forty counts of hoarding and stealing

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Speaker 1: more serious the charges have become. Donald Trump was right

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Speaker 1: when he said in twenty sixteen that he could shoot

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Speaker 1: What power that must fill him with. What a sense

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Speaker 1: of well being that must instill in Donald Trump to

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Speaker 1: be a cult leader, knowing that his cult is so

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Speaker 1: well in hand that they will obey him absolutely, that

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Speaker 1: his control is complete. What keeps America safe? Is it

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Speaker 1: is American liberty, an idea that our rights come from

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Speaker 1: Why is it, then, that so many millions of Americans

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Speaker 1: What is it about America's government, the system, the political classes,

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Speaker 1: it will all burn down. It is all on the line,

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Speaker 1: elected to the presidency as an absolute lack of imagination

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Speaker 1: power peacefully. This tradition is our nation's great miracle, and

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump does not have a majority that supports him

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Speaker 1: there is. Donald Trump made nothing great. What Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: charges against Donald Trump are serious. And understand this. Laughing

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Speaker 1: them off pretending they aren't, that makes you complicit in

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Speaker 1: in the end, that man has ever cared about his money,

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Speaker 1: and Donald Trump