March 31, 2024 • 24 mins
Dive headfirst into a rollercoaster ride with us as we dissect a chaotic week for the Republicans, marked by an unusual juxtaposition of Transvisibility Day and Easter celebrations. If you're ready to peel back the layers of Donald Trump's financial enigma, you've come to the right place. We scrutinize the former President's billionaire claims, dissecting his tech venture's shaky prospects and his partnership with the RNC to pad out his war chest – does his financial reality match his public persona? Meanwhile, as Trump's legal eagles find themselves ensnared in their own dramas, we chart the descent of Alina Habba, Stephanie Lambert, and more from defenders to defendants, painting a portrait of a legal strategy in disarray.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Yo, what up?
It's your boy D-Night andyou're listening to the Pardon
the Interruption Podcast.
My oh my, what a week it hasbeen.
What a forking week.
Fork me.
Hope.
All of my DEIs out there isdoing great.
Hope.
You had a fantasticTransvisibility Day, as the
right is quite so upset about,as though that somehow replaced
(00:23):
Easter or something I don't know.
These people probably weren'teven in church to begin with, so
the fact that they're like,outraged over over a day that's
been on the calendar every yearfor over a decade is actually
par for the course for theirasinine behavior.
But before we get to the news,let's give a quick shout out to
(00:45):
our sponsor sheets and giggles.
The ceo, the man of the hour,colin d mcintosh, sent us some
of the most soft and luxurioussheets you could possibly find
on planet earth, sheets sowonderful that if you died and
we laid you to rest and wrap youup in these sheets, that they
are so refreshing andrestorative that you might get
(01:06):
up out of there in three daysand be back like the man himself
, probably going to hell forthat.
But as long as you buy somesheets some sheets and giggles,
at least I will have done mygood deed and maybe I can make
my way into heaven for that.
But we're gonna take a peekback at like, what kind of week,
(01:30):
or a little over a week, hasbeen for the republican party.
Uh, it's, it's just been one ofthose it like.
You can't even stress enoughhow fucking insane it's been
until you hear it for yourselves.
It's the worst reality TV showin the history of TV, as well as
probably the worst politicalparty since the advent of TV.
(01:54):
So Trump finally caught thatbreak in the appeals court in
New York last week, where he hadhis bond reduced in a civil
fraud trial from over $4 milliondollars to a measly mere 175
million dollars.
That's, uh, that's quite adiscount he got there, and the
court also stayed the number anumber of aspects from the
(02:16):
judgment as well, includingextending the deadline for him
to pay about 10 days.
That was practically a week ago.
Recording this on sunday you'llprobably be listening to this
on monday, so it will have beena week by then.
And also, the court did decideto leave barbara jones, the
court-appointed monitor, inplace along with the compliance
(02:38):
officer, and that right there isan indicator that, even though
the appeals court might behanding Trump.
A small, well, a rather largevictory, nearly 300 million
dollar victory.
The fact that they left BarbaraJones in place along with a
compliance officer, that is anindicator that they don't trust
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that man.
And why would they Right?
You know, it's not like he'sever broken the law before.
It's not like he's underindictment for nearly 90
criminal counts in multiplejurisdictions, and this is just
a civil fraud case.
But you know, of course theygave him a discount because they
have absolutely no reason tobelieve he wouldn't eventually
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pay up.
Right, he has.
He has plenty of money, doesn'the?
Especially considering hisnewly minted multi-billionaire
status, the successful launch ofhis website, his little bitty
website, with like half amillion people on it, at a
whopping eight, nine somethingbillion dollar evaluation.
That number keeps fluctuatingbecause the stock price is
(03:42):
unstable, because I think we'realready in the in the dump phase
of the trump and dump scheme.
But, yeah, that netted himsingle digit billions of dollars
in net worth.
A totally legitimate businessventure, considering its revenue
is somewhere around threemillion dollars per year.
You know, three, three and ahalf, maybe four million, and
(04:07):
you know, over the course of itslife it's it's made a whopping
total of negative 55 milliondollars.
So totally on the up and up.
And that evaluation is totallyaccurate and in line with the
amount of revenue that isbringing in and the size of its
audience, it makes total sense.
Oh, and the price?
It's being inflated by abillionaire tiktok investor who
(04:30):
has an interest in tiktok notbeing banned, which trump was
all for until them dudes hungout a few weeks ago.
Trump was like ready to ready tosign the tiktok ban when he was
in office and then suddenly,when he's in financial dire
straits, a dude shows up with aninterest in making sure that
doesn't happen to tiktok bandwhen he was in office.
And then suddenly, when he's infinancial dire straits, a dude
shows up with an interest inmaking sure that doesn't happen
to tiktok and is willing to takeyou know a handful of well, you
(04:52):
know hundreds of millions ofdollars and and pump it into a
stock to make sure that pricestays high, helping trump out
this evaluation.
But I'm sure uh, just give itsome time like there's no way
this thing is sustainable,especially now that it's
publicly traded.
But uh, and now that it is, nowthat it is officially public, I
(05:15):
do suggest that you all go takea trip to their sarasota,
florida headquarters, where youwill find all the hallmarks of a
multi-billion dollar techcompany, like empty offices and
no employees whatsoever, has tobe totally on the up and up
there.
And because of his newfoundwealth, he no longer needs to
sell his 400 golden air fraudones, and that is why he has
(05:41):
since announced that he will beselling instead $60 American
flag Constitution Bibles withgold wrapped in gold trim,
because apparently Jesus was thegreatest American.
Or maybe this is a way forchurches to circumvent laws
preventing them from sendingdonations to a political
candidate?
(06:01):
Maybe, but nah, that couldn'tpossibly be it, because surely
Trump doesn't have any moneyproblems, right?
And one would imagine, with hisnew fundraising agreement with
the RNC, where he gets most oftheir donations up front in this
new form of trickle-downeconomics that I'm sure
Republicans will be excited forcome Election Day, they must be
(06:23):
flush with cash, right?
Well, other than the part wherethe rnc, they entered the month
with less cash than get this,and you'll never guess who the
rnc had less money than when themonth started.
Take a guess, take a wild shotin the dark.
That's right.
Nikki fucking haley, that isnikki with three K's, who is no
(06:45):
longer even a presidentialcandidate.
That's right.
Nikki Haley, who ain't evenrunning for office, got more
money than the RNC, so it's aperfect time for them to be
dumping their money into Trump'scoffers.
And speaking of money problems,mike Lindell the pillow guy you
know, who is most famous fortrying to aid trump and
attempting to smother ourdemocracy to death not only is
(07:07):
he being evicted from his mypillow warehouse because he's
like over two hundred thousanddollars behind and paying up his
rent, he also owes fox newsmore than eight million dollars
in unpaid ad fees.
I can only imagine howdisappointed and downtrodden Fox
and their audience must be atthe idea that they ain't gonna
(07:30):
get to see no more Mike Pillowads on their network Must be
heartbroken.
Oh, not to mention MikeLindell's lawyer.
He also dropped Mike Lindell asa client over unpaid millions
of dollars in legal fees.
And, of course, if there'sanyone who knows about unpaid
legal fees, it is none otherthan Rudy Giuliani, who was
(07:54):
being forced to sell his threeand a half million dollar
Florida condo by his creditorsin a bankruptcy suit with your
girls from the elections downthere in georgia.
They, they hit him up for that175 mil and then he had to claim
bankruptcy and now everybodytrying to get rudy giuliani to
(08:14):
liquidate some of his assets tocome up with them dollars that
they need.
Uh yeah, so maybe if only trumphad like paid giuliani for even
a tad bit of the work he did totry and overthrow the election,
maybe he would be in bettershape.
But you know, I'm sure all ofTrump's other lawyers are doing
well, like Alina Haba, forinstance, who at this point is
(08:39):
single handedly responsible forlike the half a billion dollars
of judgments against Trump inall of these civil cases, for
like the half a billion dollarsof judgments against trump in
all of these civil cases.
Uh yeah, you know, it's likeshe's doing a fantastic bang up
job there in new york handlingthe eg and carol suit and and
the civil fraud suit.
It appears that she has leftherself open to a lawsuit
(08:59):
herself for an illegal hushmoney scheme weeks before trump
is set to go on trial for anillegal hush money scheme, weeks
before Trump is set to go ontrial for an illegal hush money
scheme.
It's fucking unbelievable, likethe level of symmetry here.
It's it's absolutely fuckingbananas.
But you know, this is like anindicator that Alina Haba in all
(09:20):
likelihood attended Trump LawSchool and I imagine that is how
she ended up representing Parkand Garages, but at least she
hadn't been arrested, unlikeSuper Pro Trump lawyer,
stephanie Lambert, who sued tooverturn the 2020 election in
Michigan.
She got arrested for failing toappear in a Michigan case for
illegally accessing votingmachines in order to presumably
(09:43):
prove that the 2020 election wasrigged.
Funny enough, she was arrestedin DC in court because, because
you know, once you crime fortrump, you can't stay out of
court.
But yeah, she was arrested incourt where she was appearing as
part of a different lawsuitfrom dominion voting systems for
leaking their confidentialinternal emails that she got
(10:05):
during discovery.
These trump branded attorneysare having a hell of a run here,
like Evan Corcoran, forinstance.
Y'all remember him from Florida, from a documents case.
He got crime fraud accepted andnow he's a witness against
Trump, which is a common theme,a regular occurrence.
(10:26):
Trump's lawyers turn andwitness against him in court
because, well, obviously theycan't stop committing crimes.
And then, like, once you'reworking for trump, he forces you
or manipulates you in some wayto be a part of some of his more
cockamamie schemes.
Uh, john eastman, for instancehe had been recommended for
(10:49):
disbarment the other day by ajudge in california for his role
in attempting to help trumpsteal the 2020 election after he
lost michael cohen.
Of course, I'm sure everybody'sfamiliar with him at this point.
You know he's the one whoalready went to jail for the
shit that trump is about to goon trial for here, starting on
april 15th, or at least that'swhen the jury selection begins.
(11:11):
So he's got some familiaritywith with not only going to jail
for trump but, like the, thelengths you must go to is
trump's attorney to engage inthese crimes and also, again,
the fact that he's been to jail.
That just that bodes well forthe possibility of a conviction
(11:32):
for trump.
Obviously, I don't think he'sgoing to go to jail in the hush
money election interference case, but he's going to have that
felony on his record.
It's a re-bob and that's notgoing to make him more popular
with the voters.
It's just a number of NikkiHaley voters out there who was
(11:53):
like oh, what's against thatfelony?
We out of here.
Also another example of ofTrump branded lawyers having a
fucking blast out here JeffreyInsurrection Act will call you
when there's an oil spill.
Clark, that guy you mightremember him from his attempt to
try and take over the attorneygeneral spot after the election
(12:17):
so he could help Trump launderthese lies and announce
investigations into stateelections, so they could try and
rig this shit with the fakeelector plot.
Yeah, that guy.
Well, so he just had hisdisbarment hearing on the East
Coast here recently and hepleaded the fifth, like eleven
thousand seven hundred andeighty times.
(12:37):
It was a whole lot, like youknow.
Of course, trump told us thatthe only criminals plead the
fifth.
Well, if that is accurate andthe level of criminality is
commensurate with the number oftimes that you plead the fifth
is, uh, commensurate with thenumber of times that you plead
the fifth.
Dan jeffrey clark is one of thebiggest criminals on planet
(12:58):
earth in history because hecouldn't stop.
He couldn't stop pleading thefifth and claiming another, a
number of other insane uhprivileges, like attorney client
privilege and executiveprivilege and all this, like it
was just wild.
I I don't even know if heanswered the question what is
your name?
That's how many times your boywas in there pleading the fifth,
(13:23):
but he came out looking guiltyas fuck.
We also got one little tidbit ofinformation confirmed that we'd
all speculated about, thanks tosome uh call records at the
time suggesting that he had beenappointed attorney general or
at least acting attorney general.
Well, it turns out he confirmedthat he was in fact temporarily
appointed attorney general,even though everybody in doj
(13:47):
said that they was gonna resign.
But apparently it somewherealong line over the course of
the next 24 hours, or even less,trump was like oh no, I was
saying that I don't even knowhow you can understand that.
Like, if you fire the attorneygeneral and you put another dude
in the job, can you just like Ididn't know there was, take
(14:08):
seats back, seats for that Ididn't know.
You could read the egg on that.
Like, don't you have to put insome paperwork or notify some
people or something that's gotto go on the record?
And then you like nah, changeyour mind, I'm gonna get his
other duty job back.
Can you just swap out attorneygenerals at your leisure?
I don't feel like that's theway that process is supposed to
work.
(14:28):
But who the fuck knows, giventhe way the just the
dysfunctional nature of thetrump administration, like, who
knows?
But yeah, jeffrey clark, thatguy, he had a rough week.
You might also be more familiarwith his work from when the
feds raided his house and theyleft his ass standing out there
in the street in his underwearthat was.
(14:50):
That was quite a moment.
Sorry for the mental imagery.
I I apologize, uh, but yeah,given the fact, uh, given the
fact that he was stuck out therein his underwear like that, he
may want to stay away from mattschlapp.
That's the former c-pack chair,the one who uh got accused by
one of the republican operativeswho claimed, you know, he was
(15:14):
trying to sex him up and hefondling his.
Well, you know that guy.
So Matt Schlapp here claimedvindication earlier this week
when that sexual, sexual assaultlawsuit against him was dropped
, but apparently, as it turnsout, that was thanks to a 480
000 settlement.
(15:35):
Yeah, so no, complete and totalexoneration there.
You just cut, dude, a check andit wasn't even slapped.
They cut him a check.
It was an insurance company,like I didn't even know you
could get insurance for that,like grabbing, grabbing them by
the dick insurance.
I didn't know that existed.
But you know, apparentlyRepublicans they think of
everything.
I don't know how do they comeup with this shit.
(15:59):
I'd also like to highlight theslight disparity ever so slight
disparity between the cost ofgrabbing somebody by the dick
being like a half a milliondollars and then a hundred
million dollars for Trump,grabbing EJ and Carol by well,
nevermind you, you know where Iwas going with that, but
(16:21):
Republicans have clearly grabbedthe 2024 election by the balls,
one would think.
Except house Republicans keepretiring months before the
election.
That doesn't bode well.
So, with Ken Buck and MikeGallagher announcing their exit,
that'll leave the Republicanswith practically no margin for
error when they trying to pass abill, or at least one that they
(16:45):
actually want to pass.
The Democrats don't.
It's not not going to make iteasy for them.
It definitely leaves them withabsolutely no margin for more
retirements or they couldpotentially end up losing the
House to Democrats before weeven get to the election,
resulting in the first blackspeaker of the House, mr Hakeem
(17:11):
Jeffries, I said like upon hiscoronation and speaker at a
house.
We got to treat him like he'sPrince Ikeen from coming to
America.
Go ahead and throw some flowersat that man's feet.
But yeah, given the state ofaffairs, with this ever
decreasing margin forRepublicans in the house, that's
why it is a perfect time forMarjorie green to bring a moat,
(17:36):
a motion to vacate her ownspeaker of the House because it
only took like 11 votes toconfirm a speaker the last time
they injected a guy and they hada much larger majority there.
So what could possibly go wrong?
What could go wrong Again?
It's not like they're in dangerof losing the House before they
even get to the election oranything like that, but if there
(17:59):
is one place where they allbanded together, it's the RNC
coming out to support they girl,pro insurrectionist and fake
elector co-conspirator RonnaRomney, right after she was
fired unceremoniously from MSNBC, right after she was hired,
right after she was firedunceremoniously from MSNBC,
right after she was hired, rightafter she was fired from the
(18:20):
RNC.
That's right, folks.
The RNC got rid of her ass.
But the second MSNBC gets herup out of the paint.
Oh, they throw a fit like howcould you dare treat Ronna
McDaniel like this?
I mean, I guess you know oneman's trash is another man's
treasure.
After she was the other man'strash.
I don't really know how thatanalogy is supposed to work in
(18:42):
this case, but you kind of getthe idea.
You know what it is that I wastrying to get to, but the way I
feel about it is firing RonaldMcDaniel.
That is the kind of politicalboth sides-ism that I personally
support.
But you know where there is noboth sides.
That would be the House ofRepresentatives where one party
(19:03):
got to have a majority and itcan't be split 50-50.
And the odds of Republicanskeeping the House in November
are not looking very great.
Right after this specialelection in Alabamaabama, where
maryland lands, the democrat wonby a landslide, flipping a
republican seat and winning by25 points, guys, 25 points by
(19:25):
running on access to abortionand access to ivf, even though
the polls had her losing by alarge margin.
And that's that's super rad.
Alabama like again.
Somebody might want to go checkthese polls in these swing
states, because if somebody isgetting you know, it's like a
democrats blowing out arepublican in alabama in a
special election.
(19:45):
Maybe some of these polls inthese states are also inaccurate
.
I just you know.
Keep that in mind, perhaps, butwith Republicans losing to
abortion in Alabama, maybe it istime that they abort their
plans to win in November,whatever those plans may be
considering.
(20:05):
That is just one instance in along line of choking in these
special elections and with noone in history being gagged more
(20:39):
than Trump, it is no surprisethat he has decided to
continually violate his newlyissued gag order already because
he couldn't wait to attack thejudge's daughter in a New York
case over some postings from aTwitter account that didn't
actually belong to the judge'sdaughter.
So just out here doing insane,crazy shit to rile up his judge,
to lay the hammer down over atwitter account that ain't
actually real.
It just, my god man, absolutelybananas.
So with that kind of behavior,he is definitely soon to follow
in the footsteps of sam bankmcfreed, who just got fraud in
Manhattan, where that judgehanded down a 25-year sentence
for committing Trump levels offraud, but not just Trump levels
(21:03):
of fraud, like Trump levels offraud on steroids.
I'm sure you're all familiarwith his multi-billion dollar
scheme steal from his cryptocompany.
Yeah, that result was predictedby nearly everyone, except for
elon musk, who for some reasonsaid that because sam bama free
(21:24):
donated to democrats, therewasn't gonna be an investigation
.
And then he was arrestedsummarily after and then went on
trial and now has beensentenced like uh, yeah, that
wasn't a tough one to figure out.
Everyone knew that was coming,but elon, but what?
Republicans focused on blaming?
They out here, blaming likecollapsing bridges on dei and
(21:49):
you know, obviously a bridgebuilt during the notoriously
woke nixon administration.
Like, of course dei isresponsible for that and they're
trying to deport gonzaga'sbasketball team for trying to
get to the ncaa tournament.
Like I, I know you're like damn, that was a lot of stuff, dog.
What, like?
What was?
What was the through line?
Like, how do all these?
(22:10):
These points connect?
Like, paint the picture for me.
These points connect like paintthe picture for me.
Well, I'm going to.
The common theme here is this isfucking insane.
We ain't never seen no shitlike this.
Like a political party engagedin these types of asinine
endeavors, not over the courseof an administration or even an
(22:32):
election year, but over thecourse of a fucking 10-day
period like this is absolutebonkers.
Like total chaos, complete,total, utter chaos.
And if you compare that topresident biden, who just raised
the record 25 million dollarsin a single night hanging out
(22:55):
with his predecessors Barry Oand you know, the other dude,
that we really don't even betalking about that much, because
you know how he get down, wedon't kick sit with him.
I like his wife, though, butthe fact that Biden is bringing
in 25 mil in a night and the GOPis engaged in this utter
(23:16):
fucking insanity.
It looks like the GOP tookMarch Madness a little too
fucking literally and I know allof y'all listening out there
are probably concerned aboutwhat the potential odds are for
Republicans winning in Novemberand ending our democracy if
Trump somehow gets back inoffice.
(23:37):
And I totally get that.
But if you just look at thestate of affairs, I will put my
money on the Democrats if I wasa better man like Shohei
Ohtani's interpreter.
And that concludes this episodeof Paranormal Insurrection.
Yo, what up?
It's your boy D-Night andyou're listening to the Pardon
the Interruption Podcast.
My oh my, what a week it hasbeen.
What a forking week.
Fork me.
Hope.
All of my DEIs out there isdoing great.
Hope.
You had a fantasticTransvisibility Day, as the
right is quite so upset about,as though that somehow replaced
(00:23):
Easter or something I don't know.
These people probably weren'teven in church to begin with, so
the fact that they're like,outraged over over a day that's
been on the calendar every yearfor over a decade is actually
par for the course for theirasinine behavior.
But before we get to the news,let's give a quick shout out to
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But we're gonna take a peekback at like, what kind of week,
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or a little over a week, hasbeen for the republican party.
Uh, it's, it's just been one ofthose it like.
You can't even stress enoughhow fucking insane it's been
until you hear it for yourselves.
It's the worst reality TV showin the history of TV, as well as
probably the worst politicalparty since the advent of TV.
(01:54):
So Trump finally caught thatbreak in the appeals court in
New York last week, where he hadhis bond reduced in a civil
fraud trial from over $4 milliondollars to a measly mere 175
million dollars.
That's, uh, that's quite adiscount he got there, and the
court also stayed the number anumber of aspects from the
(02:16):
judgment as well, includingextending the deadline for him
to pay about 10 days.
That was practically a week ago.
Recording this on sunday you'llprobably be listening to this
on monday, so it will have beena week by then.
And also, the court did decideto leave barbara jones, the
court-appointed monitor, inplace along with the compliance
(02:38):
officer, and that right there isan indicator that, even though
the appeals court might behanding Trump.
A small, well, a rather largevictory, nearly 300 million
dollar victory.
The fact that they left BarbaraJones in place along with a
compliance officer, that is anindicator that they don't trust
(02:59):
that man.
And why would they Right?
You know, it's not like he'sever broken the law before.
It's not like he's underindictment for nearly 90
criminal counts in multiplejurisdictions, and this is just
a civil fraud case.
But you know, of course theygave him a discount because they
have absolutely no reason tobelieve he wouldn't eventually
(03:20):
pay up.
Right, he has.
He has plenty of money, doesn'the?
Especially considering hisnewly minted multi-billionaire
status, the successful launch ofhis website, his little bitty
website, with like half amillion people on it, at a
whopping eight, nine somethingbillion dollar evaluation.
That number keeps fluctuatingbecause the stock price is
(03:42):
unstable, because I think we'realready in the in the dump phase
of the trump and dump scheme.
But, yeah, that netted himsingle digit billions of dollars
in net worth.
A totally legitimate businessventure, considering its revenue
is somewhere around threemillion dollars per year.
You know, three, three and ahalf, maybe four million, and
(04:07):
you know, over the course of itslife it's it's made a whopping
total of negative 55 milliondollars.
So totally on the up and up.
And that evaluation is totallyaccurate and in line with the
amount of revenue that isbringing in and the size of its
audience, it makes total sense.
Oh, and the price?
It's being inflated by abillionaire tiktok investor who
(04:30):
has an interest in tiktok notbeing banned, which trump was
all for until them dudes hungout a few weeks ago.
Trump was like ready to ready tosign the tiktok ban when he was
in office and then suddenly,when he's in financial dire
straits, a dude shows up with aninterest in making sure that
doesn't happen to tiktok bandwhen he was in office.
And then suddenly, when he's infinancial dire straits, a dude
shows up with an interest inmaking sure that doesn't happen
to tiktok and is willing to takeyou know a handful of well, you
(04:52):
know hundreds of millions ofdollars and and pump it into a
stock to make sure that pricestays high, helping trump out
this evaluation.
But I'm sure uh, just give itsome time like there's no way
this thing is sustainable,especially now that it's
publicly traded.
But uh, and now that it is, nowthat it is officially public, I
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do suggest that you all go takea trip to their sarasota,
florida headquarters, where youwill find all the hallmarks of a
multi-billion dollar techcompany, like empty offices and
no employees whatsoever, has tobe totally on the up and up
there.
And because of his newfoundwealth, he no longer needs to
sell his 400 golden air fraudones, and that is why he has
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since announced that he will beselling instead $60 American
flag Constitution Bibles withgold wrapped in gold trim,
because apparently Jesus was thegreatest American.
Or maybe this is a way forchurches to circumvent laws
preventing them from sendingdonations to a political
candidate?
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Maybe, but nah, that couldn'tpossibly be it, because surely
Trump doesn't have any moneyproblems, right?
And one would imagine, with hisnew fundraising agreement with
the RNC, where he gets most oftheir donations up front in this
new form of trickle-downeconomics that I'm sure
Republicans will be excited forcome Election Day, they must be
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flush with cash, right?
Well, other than the part wherethe rnc, they entered the month
with less cash than get this,and you'll never guess who the
rnc had less money than when themonth started.
Take a guess, take a wild shotin the dark.
That's right.
Nikki fucking haley, that isnikki with three K's, who is no
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longer even a presidentialcandidate.
That's right.
Nikki Haley, who ain't evenrunning for office, got more
money than the RNC, so it's aperfect time for them to be
dumping their money into Trump'scoffers.
And speaking of money problems,mike Lindell the pillow guy you
know, who is most famous fortrying to aid trump and
attempting to smother ourdemocracy to death not only is
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he being evicted from his mypillow warehouse because he's
like over two hundred thousanddollars behind and paying up his
rent, he also owes fox newsmore than eight million dollars
in unpaid ad fees.
I can only imagine howdisappointed and downtrodden Fox
and their audience must be atthe idea that they ain't gonna
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get to see no more Mike Pillowads on their network Must be
heartbroken.
Oh, not to mention MikeLindell's lawyer.
He also dropped Mike Lindell asa client over unpaid millions
of dollars in legal fees.
And, of course, if there'sanyone who knows about unpaid
legal fees, it is none otherthan Rudy Giuliani, who was
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being forced to sell his threeand a half million dollar
Florida condo by his creditorsin a bankruptcy suit with your
girls from the elections downthere in georgia.
They, they hit him up for that175 mil and then he had to claim
bankruptcy and now everybodytrying to get rudy giuliani to
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liquidate some of his assets tocome up with them dollars that
they need.
Uh yeah, so maybe if only trumphad like paid giuliani for even
a tad bit of the work he did totry and overthrow the election,
maybe he would be in bettershape.
But you know, I'm sure all ofTrump's other lawyers are doing
well, like Alina Haba, forinstance, who at this point is
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single handedly responsible forlike the half a billion dollars
of judgments against Trump inall of these civil cases, for
like the half a billion dollarsof judgments against trump in
all of these civil cases.
Uh yeah, you know, it's likeshe's doing a fantastic bang up
job there in new york handlingthe eg and carol suit and and
the civil fraud suit.
It appears that she has leftherself open to a lawsuit
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herself for an illegal hushmoney scheme weeks before trump
is set to go on trial for anillegal hush money scheme, weeks
before Trump is set to go ontrial for an illegal hush money
scheme.
It's fucking unbelievable, likethe level of symmetry here.
It's it's absolutely fuckingbananas.
But you know, this is like anindicator that Alina Haba in all
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likelihood attended Trump LawSchool and I imagine that is how
she ended up representing Parkand Garages, but at least she
hadn't been arrested, unlikeSuper Pro Trump lawyer,
stephanie Lambert, who sued tooverturn the 2020 election in
Michigan.
She got arrested for failing toappear in a Michigan case for
illegally accessing votingmachines in order to presumably
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prove that the 2020 election wasrigged.
Funny enough, she was arrestedin DC in court because, because
you know, once you crime fortrump, you can't stay out of
court.
But yeah, she was arrested incourt where she was appearing as
part of a different lawsuitfrom dominion voting systems for
leaking their confidentialinternal emails that she got
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during discovery.
These trump branded attorneysare having a hell of a run here,
like Evan Corcoran, forinstance.
Y'all remember him from Florida, from a documents case.
He got crime fraud accepted andnow he's a witness against
Trump, which is a common theme,a regular occurrence.
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Trump's lawyers turn andwitness against him in court
because, well, obviously theycan't stop committing crimes.
And then, like, once you'reworking for trump, he forces you
or manipulates you in some wayto be a part of some of his more
cockamamie schemes.
Uh, john eastman, for instancehe had been recommended for
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disbarment the other day by ajudge in california for his role
in attempting to help trumpsteal the 2020 election after he
lost michael cohen.
Of course, I'm sure everybody'sfamiliar with him at this point.
You know he's the one whoalready went to jail for the
shit that trump is about to goon trial for here, starting on
april 15th, or at least that'swhen the jury selection begins.
(11:11):
So he's got some familiaritywith with not only going to jail
for trump but, like the, thelengths you must go to is
trump's attorney to engage inthese crimes and also, again,
the fact that he's been to jail.
That just that bodes well forthe possibility of a conviction
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for trump.
Obviously, I don't think he'sgoing to go to jail in the hush
money election interference case, but he's going to have that
felony on his record.
It's a re-bob and that's notgoing to make him more popular
with the voters.
It's just a number of NikkiHaley voters out there who was
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like oh, what's against thatfelony?
We out of here.
Also another example of ofTrump branded lawyers having a
fucking blast out here JeffreyInsurrection Act will call you
when there's an oil spill.
Clark, that guy you mightremember him from his attempt to
try and take over the attorneygeneral spot after the election
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so he could help Trump launderthese lies and announce
investigations into stateelections, so they could try and
rig this shit with the fakeelector plot.
Yeah, that guy.
Well, so he just had hisdisbarment hearing on the East
Coast here recently and hepleaded the fifth, like eleven
thousand seven hundred andeighty times.
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It was a whole lot, like youknow.
Of course, trump told us thatthe only criminals plead the
fifth.
Well, if that is accurate andthe level of criminality is
commensurate with the number oftimes that you plead the fifth
is, uh, commensurate with thenumber of times that you plead
the fifth.
Dan jeffrey clark is one of thebiggest criminals on planet
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earth in history because hecouldn't stop.
He couldn't stop pleading thefifth and claiming another, a
number of other insane uhprivileges, like attorney client
privilege and executiveprivilege and all this, like it
was just wild.
I I don't even know if heanswered the question what is
your name?
That's how many times your boywas in there pleading the fifth,
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but he came out looking guiltyas fuck.
We also got one little tidbit ofinformation confirmed that we'd
all speculated about, thanks tosome uh call records at the
time suggesting that he had beenappointed attorney general or
at least acting attorney general.
Well, it turns out he confirmedthat he was in fact temporarily
appointed attorney general,even though everybody in doj
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said that they was gonna resign.
But apparently it somewherealong line over the course of
the next 24 hours, or even less,trump was like oh no, I was
saying that I don't even knowhow you can understand that.
Like, if you fire the attorneygeneral and you put another dude
in the job, can you just like Ididn't know there was, take
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seats back, seats for that Ididn't know.
You could read the egg on that.
Like, don't you have to put insome paperwork or notify some
people or something that's gotto go on the record?
And then you like nah, changeyour mind, I'm gonna get his
other duty job back.
Can you just swap out attorneygenerals at your leisure?
I don't feel like that's theway that process is supposed to
work.
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But who the fuck knows, giventhe way the just the
dysfunctional nature of thetrump administration, like, who
knows?
But yeah, jeffrey clark, thatguy, he had a rough week.
You might also be more familiarwith his work from when the
feds raided his house and theyleft his ass standing out there
in the street in his underwearthat was.
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That was quite a moment.
Sorry for the mental imagery.
I I apologize, uh, but yeah,given the fact, uh, given the
fact that he was stuck out therein his underwear like that, he
may want to stay away from mattschlapp.
That's the former c-pack chair,the one who uh got accused by
one of the republican operativeswho claimed, you know, he was
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trying to sex him up and hefondling his.
Well, you know that guy.
So Matt Schlapp here claimedvindication earlier this week
when that sexual, sexual assaultlawsuit against him was dropped
, but apparently, as it turnsout, that was thanks to a 480
000 settlement.
(15:35):
Yeah, so no, complete and totalexoneration there.
You just cut, dude, a check andit wasn't even slapped.
They cut him a check.
It was an insurance company,like I didn't even know you
could get insurance for that,like grabbing, grabbing them by
the dick insurance.
I didn't know that existed.
But you know, apparentlyRepublicans they think of
everything.
I don't know how do they comeup with this shit.
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I'd also like to highlight theslight disparity ever so slight
disparity between the cost ofgrabbing somebody by the dick
being like a half a milliondollars and then a hundred
million dollars for Trump,grabbing EJ and Carol by well,
nevermind you, you know where Iwas going with that, but
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Republicans have clearly grabbedthe 2024 election by the balls,
one would think.
Except house Republicans keepretiring months before the
election.
That doesn't bode well.
So, with Ken Buck and MikeGallagher announcing their exit,
that'll leave the Republicanswith practically no margin for
error when they trying to pass abill, or at least one that they
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actually want to pass.
The Democrats don't.
It's not not going to make iteasy for them.
It definitely leaves them withabsolutely no margin for more
retirements or they couldpotentially end up losing the
House to Democrats before weeven get to the election,
resulting in the first blackspeaker of the House, mr Hakeem
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Jeffries, I said like upon hiscoronation and speaker at a
house.
We got to treat him like he'sPrince Ikeen from coming to
America.
Go ahead and throw some flowersat that man's feet.
But yeah, given the state ofaffairs, with this ever
decreasing margin forRepublicans in the house, that's
why it is a perfect time forMarjorie green to bring a moat,
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a motion to vacate her ownspeaker of the House because it
only took like 11 votes toconfirm a speaker the last time
they injected a guy and they hada much larger majority there.
So what could possibly go wrong?
What could go wrong Again?
It's not like they're in dangerof losing the House before they
even get to the election oranything like that, but if there
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is one place where they allbanded together, it's the RNC
coming out to support they girl,pro insurrectionist and fake
elector co-conspirator RonnaRomney, right after she was
fired unceremoniously from MSNBC, right after she was hired,
right after she was firedunceremoniously from MSNBC,
right after she was hired, rightafter she was fired from the
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RNC.
That's right, folks.
The RNC got rid of her ass.
But the second MSNBC gets herup out of the paint.
Oh, they throw a fit like howcould you dare treat Ronna
McDaniel like this?
I mean, I guess you know oneman's trash is another man's
treasure.
After she was the other man'strash.
I don't really know how thatanalogy is supposed to work in
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this case, but you kind of getthe idea.
You know what it is that I wastrying to get to, but the way I
feel about it is firing RonaldMcDaniel.
That is the kind of politicalboth sides-ism that I personally
support.
But you know where there is noboth sides.
That would be the House ofRepresentatives where one party
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got to have a majority and itcan't be split 50-50.
And the odds of Republicanskeeping the House in November
are not looking very great.
Right after this specialelection in Alabamaabama, where
maryland lands, the democrat wonby a landslide, flipping a
republican seat and winning by25 points, guys, 25 points by
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running on access to abortionand access to ivf, even though
the polls had her losing by alarge margin.
And that's that's super rad.
Alabama like again.
Somebody might want to go checkthese polls in these swing
states, because if somebody isgetting you know, it's like a
democrats blowing out arepublican in alabama in a
special election.
(19:45):
Maybe some of these polls inthese states are also inaccurate
.
I just you know.
Keep that in mind, perhaps, butwith Republicans losing to
abortion in Alabama, maybe it istime that they abort their
plans to win in November,whatever those plans may be
considering.
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That is just one instance in along line of choking in these
special elections and with noone in history being gagged more
(20:39):
than Trump, it is no surprisethat he has decided to
continually violate his newlyissued gag order already because
he couldn't wait to attack thejudge's daughter in a New York
case over some postings from aTwitter account that didn't
actually belong to the judge'sdaughter.
So just out here doing insane,crazy shit to rile up his judge,
to lay the hammer down over atwitter account that ain't
actually real.
It just, my god man, absolutelybananas.
So with that kind of behavior,he is definitely soon to follow
in the footsteps of sam bankmcfreed, who just got fraud in
Manhattan, where that judgehanded down a 25-year sentence
for committing Trump levels offraud, but not just Trump levels
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of fraud, like Trump levels offraud on steroids.
I'm sure you're all familiarwith his multi-billion dollar
scheme steal from his cryptocompany.
Yeah, that result was predictedby nearly everyone, except for
elon musk, who for some reasonsaid that because sam bama free
(21:24):
donated to democrats, therewasn't gonna be an investigation
.
And then he was arrestedsummarily after and then went on
trial and now has beensentenced like uh, yeah, that
wasn't a tough one to figure out.
Everyone knew that was coming,but elon, but what?
Republicans focused on blaming?
They out here, blaming likecollapsing bridges on dei and
(21:49):
you know, obviously a bridgebuilt during the notoriously
woke nixon administration.
Like, of course dei isresponsible for that and they're
trying to deport gonzaga'sbasketball team for trying to
get to the ncaa tournament.
Like I, I know you're like damn, that was a lot of stuff, dog.
What, like?
What was?
What was the through line?
Like, how do all these?
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These points connect?
Like, paint the picture for me.
These points connect like paintthe picture for me.
Well, I'm going to.
The common theme here is this isfucking insane.
We ain't never seen no shitlike this.
Like a political party engagedin these types of asinine
endeavors, not over the courseof an administration or even an
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election year, but over thecourse of a fucking 10-day
period like this is absolutebonkers.
Like total chaos, complete,total, utter chaos.
And if you compare that topresident biden, who just raised
the record 25 million dollarsin a single night hanging out
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with his predecessors Barry Oand you know, the other dude,
that we really don't even betalking about that much, because
you know how he get down, wedon't kick sit with him.
I like his wife, though, butthe fact that Biden is bringing
in 25 mil in a night and the GOPis engaged in this utter
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fucking insanity.
It looks like the GOP tookMarch Madness a little too
fucking literally and I know allof y'all listening out there
are probably concerned aboutwhat the potential odds are for
Republicans winning in Novemberand ending our democracy if
Trump somehow gets back inoffice.
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And I totally get that.
But if you just look at thestate of affairs, I will put my
money on the Democrats if I wasa better man like Shohei
Ohtani's interpreter.
And that concludes this episodeof Paranormal Insurrection.
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