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Who met with Ghislaine Maxwell and then apparently made some promises to her and then moved her to a cream puff prison, has been sworn in as the Attorney general and he has staged a photo op for his arrival at the doj. Play the clip. Here he is walking into the DOJ with all of these law and order people clapping for this criminal. Attorney General Josh Welch is here today while Pumps is on vacation to discuss this. Josh,
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I first think of the disconnect that's associated with these people that work for the Department of Justice that are, like you mentioned, are law and order individuals and that the disconnect they have when they see him and they applaud his entry, whether it was staged or not, just the theatrics, the dishonesty associated with that, the hypocrisy associated with that. And I try to understand it, but I think that these people that live in Washington live in this fantasy land. Like they're not seeing what the rest of the country's seen as it relates to Todd Blanche. He's the most corporate, corrupt, unqualified candidate for Attorney general that we've ever had. And he's admitted to, to a certain extent that his loyalties lie with President Trump. He's not law and order. He fired his ethics adviser anytime that they tried to tell him he had to recuse from a case that Donald Trump was a part of. It's jaw dropping. And I say that word, jaw dropping a lot on this show. But all the things that I see about his conduct, about them parading him through the Department of Justice, him being applauded in grand like, like this hero's welcome back home. It's disgusting. It's absolutely disgusting.
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All right. And Trump asked if slush fund is still alive. Let's play the clip.
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Yeah.
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The anti weaponization plan, do you think it's still alive at this point? And are there any options that you're looking at to. Well, that'll be up to Todd Blanche. He was our new and who will be, I think, a great attorney general. Yeah, please.
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Thank you.
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Okay, Josh, how insane, insane is it you are a criminal defense attorney, that there is an anti weaponization fund where the federal government, at the request of our demented, pathologically lying senior citizen president, wants to pay the people who literally broke into the Capitol, wanted to hang Frank Pence and took a literal shits, pulled their pants down and took a in the Capitol and Trump and Todd Blanche want to give them money.
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There's many layers to this, but this is batshit. Crazy. But there are several layers to this. Number one, Todd Blanche, so called rescission of the anti weaponization fund is worthless. It's not worth the paper that it's written on. And that's what he, that's what he issued to convince Senators Cornyn and tell us that they should nomination forward out of judiciary. And it means nothing. And all the legal pundits and experts know that it means nothing. But, but here's the trick. This is what the Trump administration does, is they ask for something so outlandish, so crazy, and this is a great mechanism for gaslighting. When you ask for something so absurd and then you pull it back, it makes you think that you're giving them something. It makes you think that they're getting something out of it. And that's what he's done here. He's asked for this absurd fund that everybody just went what the fuck are you talking about? But then when he pulls it back, you act like you're winning this battle, this mountain, and in fact you're not. You're just getting back what never should have been asked for. And on top of that, there's millions of reasons why he's unethical and unqualified to be Attorney General.
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Yes. And that provided Dr. Cassidy, Senator Cassidy cover that they make up this thing. And he's like, okay, I'm, I'm, you know, I'm reserving my vote for this. And then they take it back. But I agree with you. The fact that any of these senators believe what any of these nominees say, what they believe, that any Supreme Court justice says, that they believe them and they take them at their word is such, it's such performative. Which brings me to Sam Alito, another pathological liar. And Trump is now responding. There's been all these rumors that Alito is retiring. Right. And like a press breaks it and Alito's like news to me, blah, blah. Well, I think somebody from inside the Trump circle is leaking this and they're trying to force him out because Trump keeps toying with this idea of nominating Ted Cruz. Nobody likes Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz is the biggest cuck for Donald Trump on the planet. He'll vote for, you know, to rape and pillage all of the country. Street. He can't even stand up for his own wife. Right.
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He's got no problem bending over at will.
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Exactly. So here is Donald Trump trying to provide cover on true social. Pop this up. Great news for our country. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has announced that he is staying on for another term. He is one of the greatest of all time. We are lucky. There's so many things wrong with this, but number one, there is not another term for which he can sign up to stay on to. But apparently, you know, clearly somebody from Alito's office called Trump's office and said, fucking stop leaking this shit. He's not resigning. That's my take on it. What's your take on it?
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I think that's 100% right. And then, of course, with Trump, all of this is subject to change on the dime. That if you see that he's about to get defeated or if something, you know, if they lose the House and the Senate or who knows what could happen, but he will reverse course on this fucking thing. Like, Like, I mean, just look at the Iran war. I mean, look at anything that he does, like schizophrenic, like bipolar. So I agree with you. I don't think that was earnest. I think that was sort of him responding to Alito and just kind of giving him this, and then he's just going to wait and see. But make no mistake that if he wants a fourth nominee on the court, like, he will dump Alito in a heartbeat.
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Oh, 100% he would. Okay. And so you say this all the time when we are talking about politics when we're not on camera. You've always said these blowhards can go out and say whatever they want to in television interviews. They can say whatever they want to in front of cameras. But when you walk in front of a judge in a courtroom, it's a completely different story. Look no further than the fact that Fox News, the pathologically lying propaganda news channel that services senior citizens in this country, had to pay a billion dollars for lying over the voting machines regarding the 2020 election. Well, Trump and all of the sycophants, all of the trad wives, and when I say tradwise, I'm talking about the MAGA men that, that service him. They have been going on and on about this ballroom. Well, guess what happened. Pop this up. Midas touches reporting. A federal appeals court has ruled that Trump's proposed White House ballroom cannot be built without congressional approval, affirming an injunction blocking construction. The D.C. circuit said Congress has not given the executive branch authority to dramatically redesign, reshape, and reconstruct the White House, the people's House, to fit a particular president's desires. The ruling is stayed for 14 days to allow an appeal to. Surprise, surprise, the Supreme Court, where he just sent the Congratulations Alito on Your new term.
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That's right. And I think we've discussed, you know, the district courts and the appellate courts in large part have maintained the rule of law, but it's the Supreme Court element. It's this element where this thing will work its way up there and then what will they. They do with it? I have a little bit different take on this ballroom thing and this reflecting pool thing. Like, like these controversies, these are not, these are not issues that help day to day Americans that are struggling in this economy. When you look up and you're reading all this stuff about a reflecting pool or him wanting to make these big changes to the White House or these monuments or whatever it is he's doing, like, I would dare to say that these things don't resonate in the midd America where people can't afford to put gas in their car, they can't afford to pay their rent, they can't afford to buy groceries because of the state of this economy with this Republican president and this Republican Senate and in Congress.
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I completely agree. I just said yesterday in an episode. These are distractions.
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Exactly.
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Gives a shit about how much gold he puts in the Oval. Yeah, it's a juicy nugget on an IIP news episode. His delusions, empathic, logical, lying about the reflecting pool. None of these things, in the overall scheme of things have any impact and can be easily reversed. Easily. Anything he bulldozes, we can easily fix the, the stuff that he's doing by putting a criminal liar into the Attorney General position. These are the things that are breaking the country.
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Yeah. And, and it will. Like, like Todd Blanch is by far the, the worst person we could have in that office who has discretion to prosecute and investigate people at will and has shown a prop exactly what the President tells him to do. That's dangerous.
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That's right. And it's, it's like they play two games. They play the PR game, which is where they spin and lie and then they have to play court game. In the court game, you can't spin and lie. And I think we're going to see that in the reflecting pole issue that that comes up, I think with Ms. Pirro and her responsibility and how Trump is so pissed at her that she won't go pedal his lies to a judge in the D.C. circuit.
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Well, speaking of that, Trump has appointed a Project 2025 member to oversee a review of the reflecting pool. As you can see, with all of the issues hitting his approval rating right now, he is laser focused.
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Right.
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And has obviously put in somebody incredibly qualified, some over at Project 2025, some handmade tail rag. All right, pop this up. Washington Post. Donald Trump nominated Project 2025 author and former political appointee Dennis Kirk to lead the Interior Department's inspector general office, raising concerns about the independence of the watchd. Washington Post. It's not just raising concerns about the independence of the watchdog. Watchdog? He just said there will be no watchdog. I'm eliminating the watchdog and putting in some Christian nationalist nut who will do whatever I want him to do.
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That's 100% right. So any, any hope that there's any neutral investigation or objective investigation into the ethics of the Department of Interior in these projects, you can completely forget.
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Yeah.
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With disappointment. That's what the article should say, though. That.
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That's exactly what it should say.
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Yeah. That's the framing of how they normalize these things, as if this is just some political appointment. That's the part of reading Washington Post and the New York Times and other. Other newspapers that do that day to day.
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Okay. And then, as you know, an Olympian was charged in Reflecting Pool case, and this is where he got in a big fight with Jeanine Pirro. He is fighting back. Pop this up. David Hearn's lawyers exploring legal remedies over Trump's continued harassment. And so we see Norm Eisman there and he's always at the forefront fighting this. Josh, what, what would you do if you were defending this Olympian and break this down for the audience?
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Well, you have to first look at what you can do against a sitting president. And we've seen that in Trump versus United States, how they've given him so much immunity. And so I honestly, I don't know if it would be worth pursuing a claim against him right now while he's in office. He's got a very well respected lawyer that can help him make those judgments. But the thought that he's going to get any kind of meaningful recovery, I think is somewhat limited. And I'm just being honest, just being realistic about what his options are at this point. This story to me is characteristic of Trump and his control or attempted control over his Department of Justice with Jeanine Pirro. And this is a classic situation where you mentioned earlier that he wanted something done one way and he said all these things, all these lies about the Reflecting Pool and vandalism and this Mr. Hearn caught the brunt of that. And then Jeanine Pirro gets involved in it and investigates it and realizes that none of the things that Donald Trump said were true and that she can't prove any of these things in a court of law in front of a judge. And so she has to dismiss these cases. And, and so, and then you remember last week that Trump summoned her to the White House and they had a meeting at the White House. And I'm sure he was like, janine, what are you doing? And I'm sure she was like, president Trump, there's no proof. I can't just go in front of a court and say this shit. And I'm sure he's like, well, why can't you? You know, why, why? You know, I'm sure it went like that, but. And that's dangerous. Aside from all this stuff. This gentleman that you talked about, Mr. David Hearn, I think is his name, he's been run through the ringer through this. And I'm sure that the MAGA conglomerate has jumped all over him and upended his day to day life and with whatever he's doing. So it's a really sad situation. Legally, I wouldn't be too optimistic that he can get any kind of meaningful recovery at least now. But he's got very skilled lawyers that can help him with those decisions.
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Josh, thank you so much for joining us. Make sure listener, you buy my book. It's linked right below in the show Notes pre order it. October will be here before you know it. And we'll be back later with more news.