September 3, 2025 • 7 mins
Jeffrey Lichtman joins Mendte in the Morning to talk about the continued coverage of the Jeffrey Epstein case, and the authority Donald Trump has to send in the National Guard to other cities.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Defense attorney Jeffrey Lickman, host of Beyond the Legal Limit podcast,
which can be found on the iHeartRadio app. Good morning
to you, Jeffrey, Thanks again for being here this morning.
Good to talk to you today. A lot going on.
Let's start with the Epstein files. Are you surprised this
has such legs? I mean, this doesn't seem to be
(00:22):
going away until everything is released.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I think I'm not really surprised because I think for
the most part, people are idiots and they see a
shiny object and they can't keep their eyes off it.
I mean, who really cares about this at this point?
I mean, how does it really change what's going on
in the world. The guy's dead. People did what they did.
I mean, there's so many more important things. You've got
(00:49):
a communist is about to take over New York City.
You've got your hottest and terrorist meeting in Detroit over
the weekend talking about destroying America and destroying is real,
and you know, taking over America. And then you've got
you know, idiots that are concerned. Oh, you know, Jeffrey Epstein.
There may have been there may have been a cover up.
(01:09):
We don't know, but we think there may have been
because Trump is acting a little dodgy. I mean, you know,
you know who cares for me? Look? Is it bad
stuff that Epstein did? Of course? Was there a cover up?
Was there government involvement? I have no doubt at this
point who really gives it them? We've got so many
(01:29):
other bigger fish to fry that I just there's you know,
who cares. No.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I happen to agree with you. The only reason I
would care at all is because the victims care. I'll
follow their lead whatever they say they want at this
point that I'll go along with that. But but I
agree with you. When this first happened, I thought, really, really,
we're gonna go down this rabbit hole when you have
so much going on in the world, and so I'm
(01:56):
in a one hundred percent agreement with you. Let's talk
about something that that is real and is happening right
now and is dominating the news, and that is the
crime problem in Chicago. I thought that Brandon Johnson and
Pritzker looked like idiots, especially Pritzker when he was talking
about a beautiful day in Chicago today after they had
(02:17):
fifty eight shootings and eight murders over the weekend. That
is all playing in the background. Does Donald Trump have
any standing to go in now?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
You know, it's it's a question because they're gonna They're
gonna sue. The Liberals are gonna sue and try to
keep the National Guard out, and they tried that in California,
and there they were successful. At least at this point,
at court said that Trump had no right to put
in troops. The liberals would rather have their dumps of
cities overrun with crime than to admit that Donald Trump
(02:57):
is right. They would rather die than admit that Donald
Trump is right. I mean, this is just how it is.
So I'm not surprised every one of these large cities
has become a toilet bowl. I'm tired of hearing about
how the crime is going down. Oh, in New York City,
you know there's less murders. They'll read the fine what
a murder is, Larry if it will help their agenda
(03:20):
to show that crime is going down. I mean, this
is just what, you know, this is what the country
has become. We're so divided that they would rather die.
The liberals have become they are Palestinians. At this point.
The Palestinians. A poll just came out that says that
they want the war to continue if it means that
(03:40):
Hamas has to be disarmed. I mean their crime genocide, holocaust, famine, slaughter, sixteen,
Holocaust one is not enough, Larry. But we would rather die.
We would rather our children die than to allow the
terrorists that destroyed Gaza to have them discory. This is
(04:01):
the same mentality of liberals. We'd like to see our
cities destroyed just so that we can say that Trump
has been defeated.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
It is, It is sickening, and that is exactly what
is happening across the country. Let's get back to New
York because you brought this up in a moment ago
in your answer when you were talking about the fear
of Zorin Mamdanni taking over. Jim Walden dropped out of
the race today, and that's that's not significant because he
was only getting about three percent in the polls. But
(04:30):
what he did is he shamed some of the other
candidates and said, the only way you're going to stop
Zurin Mamdani if you is if you do what I do.
And he's pushing Eric Adams and Curtis Leewa both to
drop out of the race. First of all, that sounds
like a good idea, right, and but there's it doesn't
seem at this point like that's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Well, it's not gonna happen, because if you ever spent
any time with Curtis Leewa and Eric Adams, do you
think it's possible to shame the two of them? I mean,
Eric Adams belongs in a cage. He's a criminal. He's
polling in single digits. All he cares about his going
to the club and putting in his jewelry into his ears.
And Curtis Lee was living in It's nineteen fifty. Inside
(05:14):
his head, he's like, you know, he's like skip mahoney,
you know at the West End Gang whatever the hell
they were. This guy's like not even living in reality.
I don't even know. He's living with twenty nine cats, Larry,
and he can't win. He's never won an election. He's
not gonna win this one. But this is what we're
dealing with him, which what I've been saying is that
(05:35):
the two of them, for the rest of their natural lives,
every time anybody sees them on the street, they need
to be shamed, abused, pointed at because they're the ones
they're gonna give us. Now, Listen, I can't say that
it's completely their fault because New York City. The fact
that zorn Mundani is even has the potential to get
any votes shows what a cesspool, a leftist cesspool in
(05:59):
New York City has become. But that being said, because
I think it's going to happen eventually. Adams and Sliwa,
as far as I'm concerned, they're public enemies number one,
and they get every kind of abuse and misery for
the rest of their lives that they get. They deserve
it all.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
But yeah, so you would love to see them drop
out at this point, is what you're saying. You would
love that to happen.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah, I mean, look, you know, look, part of me,
I've said this before, there is a part of me
that wants Mamdani to win because I want New York
City to hit such total rock bottom that they get
exactly what they deserve for all these years of leftism,
of brainwashing kids in schools, of supporting all of this garbage. Yes,
(06:41):
at the other part of me says, do we really
want the biggest city in the world, the greatest city
in America to go that low, you know, of course not,
but it'll be because of Adams. It'll be because of Sliwa.
There is no way that Mamdanni is losing this election
if those two mores and I use the word moron,
(07:02):
you know I'm being conservative in the words. I'd like
to say something much worse, but this is a family program, Larry,
and I can't say what I really do think of
the other two.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Jeffrey Lickman, high profile defense attorney and also host of
Beyond the Legal Limit podcast, which you can find on
the iHeartRadio app. Jeffrey, thanks again, Thank you.
Defense attorney Jeffrey Lickman, host of Beyond the Legal Limit podcast,
which can be found on the iHeartRadio app. Good morning
to you, Jeffrey, Thanks again for being here this morning.
Good to talk to you today. A lot going on.
Let's start with the Epstein files. Are you surprised this
has such legs? I mean, this doesn't seem to be
(00:22):
going away until everything is released.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I think I'm not really surprised because I think for
the most part, people are idiots and they see a
shiny object and they can't keep their eyes off it.
I mean, who really cares about this at this point?
I mean, how does it really change what's going on
in the world. The guy's dead. People did what they did.
I mean, there's so many more important things. You've got
(00:49):
a communist is about to take over New York City.
You've got your hottest and terrorist meeting in Detroit over
the weekend talking about destroying America and destroying is real,
and you know, taking over America. And then you've got
you know, idiots that are concerned. Oh, you know, Jeffrey Epstein.
There may have been there may have been a cover up.
(01:09):
We don't know, but we think there may have been
because Trump is acting a little dodgy. I mean, you know,
you know who cares for me? Look? Is it bad
stuff that Epstein did? Of course? Was there a cover up?
Was there government involvement? I have no doubt at this
point who really gives it them? We've got so many
(01:29):
other bigger fish to fry that I just there's you know,
who cares. No.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I happen to agree with you. The only reason I
would care at all is because the victims care. I'll
follow their lead whatever they say they want at this
point that I'll go along with that. But but I
agree with you. When this first happened, I thought, really, really,
we're gonna go down this rabbit hole when you have
so much going on in the world, and so I'm
(01:56):
in a one hundred percent agreement with you. Let's talk
about something that that is real and is happening right
now and is dominating the news, and that is the
crime problem in Chicago. I thought that Brandon Johnson and
Pritzker looked like idiots, especially Pritzker when he was talking
about a beautiful day in Chicago today after they had
(02:17):
fifty eight shootings and eight murders over the weekend. That
is all playing in the background. Does Donald Trump have
any standing to go in now?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
You know, it's it's a question because they're gonna They're
gonna sue. The Liberals are gonna sue and try to
keep the National Guard out, and they tried that in California,
and there they were successful. At least at this point,
at court said that Trump had no right to put
in troops. The liberals would rather have their dumps of
cities overrun with crime than to admit that Donald Trump
(02:57):
is right. They would rather die than admit that Donald
Trump is right. I mean, this is just how it is.
So I'm not surprised every one of these large cities
has become a toilet bowl. I'm tired of hearing about
how the crime is going down. Oh, in New York City,
you know there's less murders. They'll read the fine what
a murder is, Larry if it will help their agenda
(03:20):
to show that crime is going down. I mean, this
is just what, you know, this is what the country
has become. We're so divided that they would rather die.
The liberals have become they are Palestinians. At this point.
The Palestinians. A poll just came out that says that
they want the war to continue if it means that
(03:40):
Hamas has to be disarmed. I mean their crime genocide, holocaust, famine, slaughter, sixteen,
Holocaust one is not enough, Larry. But we would rather die.
We would rather our children die than to allow the
terrorists that destroyed Gaza to have them discory. This is
(04:01):
the same mentality of liberals. We'd like to see our
cities destroyed just so that we can say that Trump
has been defeated.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
It is, It is sickening, and that is exactly what
is happening across the country. Let's get back to New
York because you brought this up in a moment ago
in your answer when you were talking about the fear
of Zorin Mamdanni taking over. Jim Walden dropped out of
the race today, and that's that's not significant because he
was only getting about three percent in the polls. But
(04:30):
what he did is he shamed some of the other
candidates and said, the only way you're going to stop
Zurin Mamdani if you is if you do what I do.
And he's pushing Eric Adams and Curtis Leewa both to
drop out of the race. First of all, that sounds
like a good idea, right, and but there's it doesn't
seem at this point like that's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Well, it's not gonna happen, because if you ever spent
any time with Curtis Leewa and Eric Adams, do you
think it's possible to shame the two of them? I mean,
Eric Adams belongs in a cage. He's a criminal. He's
polling in single digits. All he cares about his going
to the club and putting in his jewelry into his ears.
And Curtis Lee was living in It's nineteen fifty. Inside
(05:14):
his head, he's like, you know, he's like skip mahoney,
you know at the West End Gang whatever the hell
they were. This guy's like not even living in reality.
I don't even know. He's living with twenty nine cats, Larry,
and he can't win. He's never won an election. He's
not gonna win this one. But this is what we're
dealing with him, which what I've been saying is that
(05:35):
the two of them, for the rest of their natural lives,
every time anybody sees them on the street, they need
to be shamed, abused, pointed at because they're the ones
they're gonna give us. Now, Listen, I can't say that
it's completely their fault because New York City. The fact
that zorn Mundani is even has the potential to get
any votes shows what a cesspool, a leftist cesspool in
(05:59):
New York City has become. But that being said, because
I think it's going to happen eventually. Adams and Sliwa,
as far as I'm concerned, they're public enemies number one,
and they get every kind of abuse and misery for
the rest of their lives that they get. They deserve
it all.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
But yeah, so you would love to see them drop
out at this point, is what you're saying. You would
love that to happen.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah, I mean, look, you know, look, part of me,
I've said this before, there is a part of me
that wants Mamdani to win because I want New York
City to hit such total rock bottom that they get
exactly what they deserve for all these years of leftism,
of brainwashing kids in schools, of supporting all of this garbage. Yes,
(06:41):
at the other part of me says, do we really
want the biggest city in the world, the greatest city
in America to go that low, you know, of course not,
but it'll be because of Adams. It'll be because of Sliwa.
There is no way that Mamdanni is losing this election
if those two mores and I use the word moron,
(07:02):
you know I'm being conservative in the words. I'd like
to say something much worse, but this is a family program, Larry,
and I can't say what I really do think of
the other two.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Jeffrey Lickman, high profile defense attorney and also host of
Beyond the Legal Limit podcast, which you can find on
the iHeartRadio app. Jeffrey, thanks again, Thank you.
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