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Hey, thanks for listening, and welcome back to the Brian
Mud Show. Time now for today's top three takeaways an injustice,
Trump sentencing and presidential degrees of separation. On this Friday,
my takeaways for you. My top one is injustice. In
ten days, Donald Trump will be sworn in as the
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forty seventh president of the United States this morning at
nine thirty. The president elect has been ordered to virtually
report to New York Judge Wan Mershon's courtroom for the
purpose of attempting to achieve one final injustice and then
coordinated but ultimately failed four year law fair campaign against them.
Judge Murshon's insistence on sentencing the former and future president
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of the United States for last year's conviction and the stormy,
stinking Daniels case, of all things, comes down to one thing.
One not so in significant detail. Did you know that
Donald Trump, as of this moment is in fact not
a convicted felon. Yes, that's right. Every news report, every
characterization along those lines that you've heard since last spring
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branding him as a convicted felon. After the hand Pick
New York jury decided that Trump was in fact guilty
on thirty four charges of being Donald Trump, I mean
false fining documents pretending to the one hundred and thirty
thousand dollars NDA Stormy Daniel's payment in twenty sixteen. Every
one of those characterizations has been false. I'll uh fake
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news ABC ABC News their headline right after this win
down last May. Trump is now a convicted felon. Here's
what that could mean for his rights. No, ABC News
still fake news. Here's what that means if you pay
attention to them, or US News and World reports Trump's
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defiant day as a felon false? Fake news? And NBC news?
Could you have fake news reports without including NBC? Can
a convicted felon be president? Well we knew that answer,
but also not a convicted felon, So there those in All,
similar characterizations against Trump have been and currently are falls
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under the law. One is only officially convicted in this
case of felon when a sentence has been issued. That's
what this morning's hearing is all about. While the lawfare
campaigns against Trump all failed in a spectacular way, with
the American people delivering Trump a far larger victory this
time around compared to the first time around, the petty
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leftists of the world, like Judge Jan Mershawn, still want
people to refer to this guy a certain way. They
still want to be able to extract their pound of
flesh by branding the President of the United States as
a convicted felon. The one thing that could have stopped
this was the final appeal to the United States Supreme Court.
Last night, the Supremes, led by the parent five to
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four vote, with Justices Barrett and Roberts joining Soda, Mayor Kagan,
and Jackson, opted not to take the extraordinary action of
intervening at this point in the process. As they stated, first,
the alleged evidentiary violations at President elect Trump's state court
trial can be addressed in the ordinary course on appeal,
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meaning that they will take it up if it gets
to them once the sentencing is issued. Second, the burden
that sentencing will impose on President elect Trump's responsibilities is
relatively insubstantial in light of the trial court's stated intent
to impose a sentence of unconditional discharge after a brief
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virtual hearing. Okay, So, now, once the sentence is issued
and the conviction is confirmed, the appeals process will begin
all over again, as Team Trump will look to have
the conviction overturned. As I mentioned on June seventh last year,
Trump's conviction will be overturned. My second takeaway today, as
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I said that day, maybe you've thought it objectively, with
the violations of due process and Judge one Mershan's handling
of Trump's New York State case that led to his
criminal conviction on thirty four counts, it should happen. But
while we wait, watch and see what will be with
the eventual appeals process that will come into play following
the sentencing of the former and perhaps future president of
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the United States. Former US Attorney General Bill Barr is
predicting that it will happen. Bill Barr, the two time
AG that famously had a falling out with Trump following
the twenty twenty election, leading to bar leaving his post
as AG. Prior to January sixth, he told Fox News
that an overturning of the conviction would be forthcoming. In fact,
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he had a lot more to say than just that.
Quoting Bar when people were talking about it, I said
the case was an abomination, and I didn't think it
was going to be brought at the end of the
day because it was so vaporous. I was surprised they
went ahead with it. It was an abomination and everybody's
talked about that. But you think about, how are the
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American people going to react in a very close election
if Trump loses and this case is overturned, which it
will be. This case will be overturned. It's unfair to
the voter. And you know, the co conspirator in all
this is the mainstream media, Yeah, who will not talk
about the issues or give honest reports on anything. There
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you go. He also added this, I think the Justice
Department knows that the facts election in this case would
not have constituted a federal campaign violation if they keep
this gag order on them. Again, it's unprecedented and crazy
if you have a major candidate who can't defend himself. Okay,
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so obviously Trump did not lose the close election, but
instead one a by a sizable margin because the American
people saw right through the election interference sham, and it's
likely that one way or another, the legal system will
see through this sham of a conviction as well, be
it this morning or later. Be interested to see how
quickly the appeals process rolls through. Once the sentence is issued.
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The third takeaway today, degrees of separation. You know, most
of the conversations surrounding former President Jimmy Carter's funeral yesterday
involved the former and future presidents and vice presidents on
hand for the ceremony and specifically how they interacted or
didn't with one another. For example, on hand for the funeral,
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Al Gore not on hand for the funeral Tipper Gore.
By the way, did you know they apparently not been
together since twenty ten? They've been separated. I guess legally
separated since had no clue. No, I mean, I guess
that just shows how much I care about al Gore,
but learned that yesterday, so that you would say that
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is a large and long degree of separation. Incidentally, al
Gore was the first to greet President elect Trump as
he entered to take a seat. For perhaps the largest
degree of separation exists with the Cheneys. The former vice
president to George W. Bush notably wasn't on hand, making
Dick Cheney the only living president or vice president not
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to attend. No reason was given, but it's perhaps reasonable
to think that the Cheney's, both father and daughter, having
failed in their attempt to do anything to prevent Donald
Trump from once again becoming president had a lot to
do with it. The degree of separation between Trump and
former Vice President Mike Pence and the President elect meanwhile
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didn't appear to be so great despite the significant distance
that's been voiced public between the two. There was a
cordial encounter handshake that took place. But what really stole
the show was what happened to be a great convo
between the Big O who was on hand without the
other oh she stayed back in Hawaii, and Donald Trump.
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The two shared it back and forth that lasted several
minutes and that often featured smiles and brief laps. That's
what was happening. When the Clintons arrived, who were ignored
by both Obama and Trump, dittoh the bushes that George
and Laura received a warm recession a reception from all
the others, and Obama and Trump were still well into
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their conversation when Vice President Kamala Harris arrived, who actually
looked back towards President's Obama and Trump seemingly She's going
to greet them or something, only to grimace when she
saw that they were engaged with each other. And quickly
turned back around. Last, but not leads to enter were
the bidens, who likewise weren't acknowledged by the previous two presidents.
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It's easy to read way too much into what does
or doesn't happen on a solemn occasion, but it's also
rather easy to see who most appreciates whose company, and
to what extent there tends to be degrees of separation
between our current, former and future leaders.