A (4:45)

And also what an indictment this is on all of these billionaire tech leaders. Yeah, that we all saw it and that they all colluded to make sure that this man, this criminal, this criminal who could not accept that he lost, who wanted to throw feces, literal feces all over, who wanted his vice president killed, that these industry titans, that these people who have made so much money off of a rigged economic system in their favor and that they wanted him to get elected again. This whole Jack Smith thing is an indictment on the Democratic Party.

B (5:29)

Absolutely.

A (5:29)

For not taking the appointment of doj, the most serious appointment of our lifetime. And we don't get Jack Smith until 2022. It's just, it's crazy. All right, here is Jack Smith on Trump refusing to send help to the Capitol. Play the clip.

C (5:52)

That violence started, the president refused to stop it. He endangered the life of his vice president. And he's getting calls, and not just not calls from, from Democrats, not calls from people he doesn't know, calls from people he trusts, calls from people he relies on and still refuses to come to the aid of the people at the Capitol. That's very important and evidence for criminal intent.

B (6:17)

In our case, we heard Mike, Mike McCarthy say that Trump was like, I don't care. I mean he was flippant. He did not give a, he did not want to send help because he sat there and he lied to people for three months about a stolen election knowing they believed him when he knew it was a lie. These lie like they breathe. Are you kidding me?

A (6:41)

Sorry. And I think it's interesting to point out that this video that we just saw of Jack Smith, this used to be kind of the Republican law and order default setting. The Republican party, just like 10 years ago, this type of, of litigator in the DOJ, that is fact driven, law driven, procedural driven, that was kind of a default setting. Typically a lot of these law enforcements, if you go to their voter registry administration, are Republicans. In just 10 years, Donald Trump has taken to where now his position, which is fact based, following the laws, procedures is now some woke issue, right? And it's stunning to me, the death spiral and the 180 degree turn of country club Republicans, they used to like that used to be kind of their M.O. this type of, this type of DOJ, this type of FBI. And now it's just a complete mockery of what it once was. So here is an article from Reuters where Jack Smith said Trump knew that he lost. Pop this up. Amy Siskin, whom I absolutely love with Democracy now tweets. Jack Smith says Trump acknowledged to others that he lost the 2020 election. We know this and this is not new information. But then it brings us to a video where Jack Smith says that Trump was the most culpable person in January 6th. And just the day that I watched it while I was at my interior design office and I'm watching the whole thing, I knew exactly who was at the epicenter of this entire thing. I know who started it. I know who refused to stop it. I know who finally stopped it. It was abundantly obvious to anybody that even has an average IQ what this was all about. Play the clip.

C (8:42)

The evidence here made clear that President Trump was by a large measure the most culpable and most responsible person in this conspiracy. The these crimes were committed for his benefit. The attack that happened at the Capitol as part of this case does not happen without him. The other co conspirators were doing this for his benefit. So in terms of why we would pursue a case against him, I entirely disagree with any characterization that our work was in any way meant to hamper him in the presidential election. I would Never take orders from a political leader to hamper another person in an election.

B (9:35)

You know, it's interesting because Trump, all he talked about during his campaign for 2024 was weaponization of the Justice Department. And I believe Jack Smith, because he has served in as a prosecutor at the Hague, to make objective decisions based on fact and not politics. And then you see Trump goes in and he just makes DOJ his own personal attorney. But Donald Trump knew he lost. Donald Trump wanted to stay in office, which goes back to the billionaires. They want him in office too, because they get whatever the fuck they want. They are okay with the President that launched a coup because they get what they want. And Donald Trump did not want to leave office. He. He paid his own money. He pays his own money for fucking nothing. He paid his own money to help this. Nobody benefited from that action more than Donald Trump. Rudy. Rudy Giuliani disbarred. You go through the list, you know, people went to jail. This man wanted to overthrow the government, full stop. There is no other way around it. He fed people full of lies that he knew were impressionable because he didn't want to leave the White House, which is why it's so terrifying what he's going to build at the. Where the old East Wing was.

A (10:53)

And I here's what's so stunning to me about the whole Jack Smith thing, and I want to take it back to the oligarchs. After January 6, Trump was banned by all of these oligarchs on all of these sites because what he did was so illegal and dangerous and harmful and criminal. And he was banned from all of these places. He was a pariah. And then two years go by before Jack Smith is even able to start his investigation. And in those two years that we did not see this criminal act quickly and efficiently and immediately rectified. It broke a lot of people. It broke the oligarchs. And there's an episode we could do later that they've always been broken and exploitative. But in this moment, in that moment, Trump was banned from everything. I think even Pinterest chimed in, was like, yeah, we're banning Donald Trump. We're like, okay, whatever, Pinterest. But he was a complete pariah. And these types of hearings where you hear an incredibly intelligent person spit facts based on evidence used to be the norm, right? Republicans, the Republican Party used to get off on this kind of shit, this type of law and order accountability style hearings. And I'm just so fascinated how in such a short period of time, the entire country has been completely broken. And then when you hear him do this, like nothing Jack Smith says surprises me. Nothing.

B (12:34)

No.

A (12:34)

What surprises me is that we're just now hearing it at the end of 2025, at the beginning of 2026, six years later. What a failure of the Justice Department. What a fail failure of the United States of America. What a failure of all of the industry titans and political leaders who have bent the knee to him, and even Democrats who have voted for a lot of his people in his cabinet after January 6. Any Democrat, even the vote for Marco Rubio. No. It's disqualifying. If Marco Rubio wants to go work for a man that put his vice president's life in danger, put everybody in the Capitol at danger, something's wrong with Marco Rubio. That should have not been a 99 and oh vote. That should have been a 0 to 99 vote. And something about this whole thing broke our country. And if you're a Republican and you've triple trumped, it broke you, and it made you worse of a person that you are, and if you're a progressive like we are, it broke us. And we're descending into nihilism and fear and absolutely no faith, none whatsoever in any institution. Most importantly for me, the Democratic Party, because there has to be an opposition party. There has to be an opposition to this. And time and time again, the Democrats have not proven to be that. They've proven that. They dip their toes on both sides of it, and it's just so infuriating. And I'll leave you with this. Jack Smith said he would have gotten a conviction. Surprise, surprise. Play the clip.

D (14:18)

Start with the bottom line up front. One of your investigations focused on whether any person violated the law in connection with efforts to interfere in the lawful transfer of power following the 2020 election. Is that correct?

C (14:29)

Yes.

D (14:30)

At the conclusion of that investigation related to the interference in the lawful transfer of power following the 2020 election, when your office indicted Mr. Trump for his criminal scheme to overturn the 2020 election, did you believe that you had sufficient evidence to obtain a and sustained a conviction against Mr. Donald Trump?

A (14:46)

Yes.

D (14:48)

For these charges coming from Mr. Trump's criminal scheme to overturn the 2020 election, did you believe that you had sufficient evidence to prove these charges beyond reasonable doubt?

A (14:56)

Yes.

D (14:57)

And we know that it's more than just a reasonable doubt. Did you believe that there were multiple substantial federal interests in proceeding with prosecuting Mr. Trump after he attempted to criminally overturn the 2020 election?

A (15:07)

I did.

B (15:08)

Of course he would have gotten a conviction, people. We were sitting in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and we could see Trump's culpability. Of course he would have gotten a criminal conviction, but he didn't get the chance because of the absolute failure of Merrick Garland and Joe Biden.

A (15:25)

There's just. No, there's no question about it. This is such a travesty. And now hearings like this, which America's had a lot of problems, but when there is wrongdoing, we have put experts like Jack Smith in charge of fact finding missions in the DOJ or special counsel's office to go and bird dog out what really happened and use procedures and policies that are fair and legal and sane. And now you have cash, Cha Ching Patel money, out on a bender, drinking with his pals, talking about his country music sensation girlfriend on Twitter. Hey, we have the suspect. Jake KJK no, we don't have the suspect. And it's just that type of decorum. Oh, and intelligence, that is gone. That's what they thought the deep state was, which was all a ruse because what they saw is the deep state were independent jurists like him. And now they are putting all Trump loyalists in. And now we really have a swamp and we really have a deep state. And they are embedding these people in all over the government. You have even people that are handpicked from the Kremlin, that have very high positions of power in the government. You have a bunch of these tech oligarch people that have been given high positions in the United States Army. And you can dig deeper and deeper and deeper into this. But this is just, to me, the whole Jack Smith thing. I was surprised. Zero on any of it, but it caused me an intense amount of sadness because those days of hearings like this, of accountability, of people following the rule of law are gone. And that used to be something the Republican Party embraced, that. That's the kind of stuff where the party of decorum and a rule of law and blah, blah, and now they're just, you know, you got fleabag Lindsey Graham and Moses, Mike Grinder Johnson and all these dipshits that just go on Fox News and just humiliate and embarrass themselves. And it's just, it's really difficult to be an American. It's really difficult.

B (17:42)

And you look at it and you think, you cannot shame the shameless. They have no shame.

A (17:48)

All right, that's all we have. We'll be back later with more news.