Back to episode — Episode 2495 CWSA 06/04/24
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Elie Honig, who had pointed out a number of improprieties in the lawfare cases against Trump. So now you've got Elie Honig doing what I would consider a really solid analysis, exactly the kind of thing that CNN needs to be credible because you're going to see the other side. So why not see the real one? And then here, just pulling it all together, Smirconish — once Carville had criticized Elie Ho…
← Previous segment →ly they send to say it's false. If they send Adam Schiff to say it's not true, oh, it's true. If they send Jamie Raskin to say it's not true, it's definitely true. If they send George Stephanopoulos to say it's not true, oh, it's definitely true. It's definitely true. And if The Atlantic says something's true, it's definitely not true. So there, those are your strongest signals for fake news: Raskin, Schiff, and George Stephanopoulos in The Atlantic. And then you can see that Alex Soros seems to be maybe pushing the narrative from the top.
We're told — I see Unusual Whales is reporting that there's some expectation that Biden's going to sign an immigration order to temporarily close the border from asylum seekers. Does that even sound real? I'm having trouble believing anything these days. Do you believe it's real that a few months before the election Biden would suddenly discover that he had the power to close the border and then he would do it? Thus proving that the whole thing was based on either incompetence or a giant scheme to destroy the country or something. Because at this point it doesn't seem like he'd be better off acting like it was impossible. Because if he just turns around and issues an executive order and closes the border, you know, seals it tighter than a baby's butt or something — I don't know, there's some kind of old saying like that. No, that's smoother. You don't want to say tighter than a baby's butt. That sounds really bad. I think the saying is smoother than a baby's butt. No, it's tighter than a gnat's ass but smoother than a baby's butt. You don't want to confuse those. Never confuse those two.
All right. My father had a lot of colorful sayings. Every now and then, you know, you become your father. You don't want to, but every now and then I'll dredge up some old saying that I heard when I was eight years old and never left me. Tighter than a gnat's ass. All right.
There's an article in The Hill. So The Hill has become sort of hilarious, the publication The Hill, because the closer it gets to the election, the more laughably absurd the commentary is. Let me give you this one. There's somebody named Alexander Bolton who's writing in The Hill. Now how many people have a last name of Bolton? I mean, I know there are a few. There's a singer, but I just wonder if he's related to any other Boltons in the government. I don't know. I'm just wondering. I haven't looked it up. But here's one of the things he said, and I quote: right now, listen to this. This is a real thing that somebody wrote in a real publication and it got published. Right? Just try to hold on to your head and just try to hold your head from exploding. This is just casually stated like it's a fact, okay? Merchan, who earned favorable reviews from legal experts for his careful handling of the case — Judge Merchan, who earned favorable reviews from legal experts for his careful handling of the case. Which reality did that happen in? I was very much in the other reality, the one where all I heard were people like Elie Honig and you know, Dershowitz and basically everybody honest said it was a total hijack. But even if you're going to say he did earn favorable reviews — because by the way, that's not false. He did earn favorable reviews from all the partisans. But if you're not going to point out that some of the most respected legal minds in America have said it's total lawfare and the most ridiculous thing they've ever seen in the history of the courts, I think you left out kind of a key fact there. It's kind of a key fact. Propaganda anyway.
The topic was whether or not there'll be jail time for Trump. And some people say he might choose it, but it could be house arrest or it could be community service. It would be highly unusual, say the experts. I don't think it would be highly unusual to put him in jail. And the reason is it would be highly unusual that he would be even charged with those crimes. So if you start with the most highly unusual prosecution in the highly unusual world we live in, it's completely within the realm of expected behavior that they would put him in jail. If the death sentence was on the table, I would say it might be. Luckily it's not one of the options. So yeah, let's keep an eye on that.
Now the interesting thing is that I'm hearing some people say that maybe the judges will be influenced by the fact that if they rule against Trump it could cause a civil war. If they were to put him in jail, do you think it would cause a civil war? The answer is oh yes it would. But you know what happens? It's too close to the election. Now today if you put Trump in jail, it guarantees his election. And he's already said bring it on. Yeah, if it's jail, it's jail. It's not going to be like years. If it's jail, it's only going to be jail until he's president. Then he pardons himself I guess or something happens. But I think he's willing to go to jail because it
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's easier. It's probably easier than campaigning. It would be the best campaign of all. But here's what I think. Given that he made allegedly $200 million in campaign donations because of the lawfare, if he spent one minute in jail, do you have any idea the size of his campaign donations? As soon as his foot crosses that barrier into a jail cell, it'll be like that foot just enters the jail cell…
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