August 18, 2025 • 53 mins
- (:00) Hot Mic's and 'Last Resorts' / "First Things" (news)
- (:13) Let's ask someone that was there.
- (:28) Guest: Thomas Speciale on another Political Character Assassination
- (:44) Guest: Thomas Speciale - What did the Congresswoman know and when?
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I'm fine, Let's give me my quin.
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First thing today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas,
the second most famous Thomas and Charlottesville jewort.
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Said, steal me stemn.
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Every day show's back pleas for work when the sun
comes up, drops a pet to scoop.
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Joe, is everything a dream?
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Do all the treasure?
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Saturday needs no one that Joe Zonies smile.
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He only as p Joe.
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Oh sure, I can hear you saying it now?
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I want to be Joe.
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Joe, Joe, You're better than that, aren't you? Says you?
Four three four eight eight two four two one seven?
Happy Monday morning.
Speaker 8 (00:54):
Yes, I'm the guy on Saturday who is complaining about
the Alaska Summit Bridge being devolved into trivia. That is,
of course, until the commentariat could get the echo chamber
and gear on by the Sunday Morning talkers. But that's
just a fun little hot Mike clip. Jake Tapper hard
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at work on his next best selling novel about how
his s cruise up in the journalism profession, and a
remarkably kind of normal human moment out of Anderson Don't
call me Vanderbilt Cooper. And we've all had these I'm
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indulging a little shaden freud this morning.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Because we've all been there.
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We've all had those I can't hear, I can't hear,
and the hardest thing to do is to maintain on
the air when things are, you know, not necessarily going
according to plan. We were at because I had to
go to a board meeting on Saturday and Sunday, so
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we're at this resort for Saturday Morning's version of the
program podcast available at Joe Thomas in the Morning dot
com or First Thing Today on the Talk Media Network site.
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Network and just they'll send it to you automatically as
they go up there. But Saturday morning, we were on
location and the headphones I had were not optimal for
our setup.
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We plugged ahead.
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I had experience enough to say, Okay, we'll do.
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It live, as Bill O'Reilly once said, we'll do it live.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
And so we've all been there.
Speaker 8 (02:49):
We've all had that moment where everything is not inoptimal
and that's really it's you've heard the expression bravery is
not the absence of fear, but the acknowledgment of fear
and going ahead with what needs to be done.
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Anyway.
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Well, professionalism also says you have to sally forth, you
have to get done what is expected of you by
your customers. Give me my showback, give me. And it's
the choice of phrase that really makes it fun. By
the way, my wife and I are such goobers. We
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never and I said this, I apologize to the folks
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my wife and I just decided we would had never
ever stayed at a five star resort. And I said
to one of the folks that was at working the restaurant,
and I said, we're much more red roof in people
than we are. I please excuse the fact that we're
somewhat ghosh. Anyway, our first things this morning. President Donald
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Trump pushed back on Sunday against media criticism of his
summit in Russia, calling it fake news, claim that merely
inviting Vladimir Putin to the US was a major defeat.
Of course, today is when Ukrainian President Zelensky plus European
leaders like kir Starmer and Emmanuel Macrone are in Washington.
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Quote big day at the White House, the President posted
in that nightcaps is what he's calling it now. On
truth social never had so many European leaders at one time.
A great honor to host them. President DJT Canadian Prime
Minister Mark Carney on Saturday welcomed what he said was
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US openness to providing security guarantees to Ukraine under a
peace deal.
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Quote.
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Robust and credible security guarantees are essential to any just
and lasting peace. The leadership of President Trump in the
United States is creating the opportunity to end Russia's illegal
war in Ukraine end quote. Three publican led states said
Saturday they are deploying hundreds of their National Guard troops
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to the nation's capital to help bolster the administration's effort
to overhaul policing. Those states are West Virginia, South Carolina,
and Ohio. Former FBI Director James Cobe admitted Sunday that
he's a swiftye. He tunes in Taylor Swift's music as
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a coping mechanism to deal with his animosity towards President Trump.
Manufacturing is returning to the United States. According to research
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But I'm afraid of the Russians.
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I can't sleep at night.
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I'm so afraid of the Russians.
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A great we've got.
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Critics of President Trump will say, the pomp and circumstances,
pomp and circumstance, the red carpet, the warm handshake the
President Trump simply lost that the putin game.
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There.
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Ah, that's what it is. Because you're nice to somebody,
you lose. And then the best part about being in
the press for stuff like this is that then you
can hand ring and navel gaze in some special two
our Hearing Both Sides.
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Special.
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We've got David Farnthorpe here from the Hearing All Sides Foundation,
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And I've been in.
Speaker 8 (14:28):
These things for so long. It's such a dog and
pony show. The media doesn't want to listen to both sides.
They want to They want you to listen to their side.
And if they appear to have listened to both sides,
this is why they love guys like Adam Kinsinger or
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Denver Rigglemann or Liz Cheney. I was going to try
to regender the conversation since she's not a guy. Mostly
that that you know, they'll bring them in say, look,
we have a Republican Yeah, so as Martha Raddits testifies
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for the witness that she did have a guess that
she was speaking to in such platitudes. Secretary of State
Marco Rubio, so let's listen to both sides.
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Just by being on the world stage and walking down
a red carpet with the president, your reaction.
Speaker 18 (15:33):
To that, well, I mean, critics of President Trump are
always going to find something to criticize. Don't pay attention
to it anymore. But I will tell you this, Putin
is already on the world stage. He's already on the
world stage. The guy's conducting a full scale war in Ukraine.
He's already on the world stage. He has the world's
largest tactical nuclear arsenal in the world and the second
largest strategic nuclear arsenal in the world.
Speaker 9 (15:53):
He's already on the world stage. When I hear people.
Speaker 18 (15:55):
Say that it elevates them, well, all we do is
talk about Putin all the time. All the height he
has done is talk about Putin all the time for
the last four or five years. That doesn't mean he's
right about the war. That doesn't mean he's justified about
the war.
Speaker 9 (16:06):
Put all that aside.
Speaker 18 (16:07):
It means you're not going to have a peace agreement
between Russia and Ukraine. You're not going to end a
war between Russia and Ukraine without dealing with Putin. That's
just common sense.
Speaker 8 (16:18):
So there's your secretary of State. And of course the
best part of this is after making the rounds, he
hit all the biggies. I think he was on the
Home Shopping Network for a little while. On Sunday, the
coverage is Rubio melts down.
Speaker 9 (16:42):
Did that sound like a meltdown? You tell me?
Speaker 3 (16:44):
I like to think.
Speaker 8 (16:46):
I have a keen ear for this stuff, and I
appreciate and I mentioned this in the onset of the program.
The trivia that see to dominate Friday's coverage of the
event as it was happening. And this is the thing
that I find most telling and I want to share
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with you as a as an inoculation, no thimerosol, just
an opportunity for you to have a little bit of
the infection so you can build an immunity to it.
As the event was happening, the best thing the National
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and International press corps could come up with was Trump
was staggering down the red carpet, and they proved this
by taking the video of him strolling down the red carpet,
speeding it up to a point where you really only
could hear it if you were listening to the old.
Speaker 9 (17:49):
Benny Hill d D did Lead did Eat Eat.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
Music behind it, And I do believe I saw one
version of the video where somebody took that suggestion and
put the music underneath it because it was so ridiculously
sped up. Look at him, Sorry, he must be drunk.
Press Corps showing how keenly aware of the fact that
Donald Trump has never had a drop of alcohol after
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his uncle had a very very bad alcohol problem.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
President Trump has, I mean he has vices.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
Sure, I think RFK Junior will tell you his biggest
vice is diet soda. But there ain't no bourbon in
his diet soda. But anyway, and that Vladimir Putin seemed
to be wearing an awful odd of foundation a lot
of face makeup to cover his pallor at least it
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wasn't Trump wearing makeup, although former CIA director now FBI
director Komy showing what a keen investigats or an open
minded investigatory is taking some shots at our elderly makeup
wearing president in his swifty admission, Oh we'll get there.
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We'll have some fun with that as well. But at
in the moment, as the dust was still settling at
Joint Base Elmendorf and Anchorage, the best the press could
come up with was triviaesoterica. It wasn't until they engaged
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the commentariat, the learned, scowling brows of folks like John Bolton,
what's the name General Keene and all of these would
get me the experts on the set And a quick reminder,
do we still have the clip of President Trump talking
about how wiley a character Putin is and that you
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know he'd be lucky to get it, you know, and
you would know if there was going to be a
deal to be made in the first couple of minutes
of the meeting, who is the one who is the
one that was telling everyone that there was got There
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has to be a ceasefire, He has to abandon the Donbass,
he has to give up, he has to walk away
and resign the presidency of Moscow. Immediately after these who
were the people telling you that that was what had
to happen in Alaska? Was it Donald Trump and Marco
Rubio or was it John Bolton and General Keene? And
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all the rest of the expert commentariot saying.
Speaker 9 (20:45):
We must have a deal. That's the only way. This
is a victory.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
And then when they didn't get one, Joe Biden can
sit down and rugaway questions about his son's involvement with
Beisma and the A's off battalion.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
And it was he's such a statesman, He's going to
be the grown up in the room.
Speaker 8 (21:15):
Was he the grown up in the room? A better
chance that Hunter Biden was the grown up in the room.
So don't let them testify for the witness. There's your
vaccination against the infection. That is the narrative machine. Listen
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to the people who were the people, not the ones
who were sitting at home watching whatever they channel, CNN
or Newsmax. It doesn't make a difference. And then they'll
tell you what they think you should think about what
happened in Alaska when we come back. Tell me if
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Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
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Uh oh, Brah's buzzed.
Speaker 9 (25:56):
Oh yeah yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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And now a speech.
Speaker 13 (26:02):
I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
art and brain.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Who's with me?
Speaker 17 (26:08):
Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
brain is saying when it's time to go home, somebody
call me a ride.
Speaker 14 (26:15):
Love that guy, me too.
Speaker 12 (26:16):
Know your buzzed warning signs call for a ride when
it's time to go home. Buzz driving is drunk driving.
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For you from Joe Thomas. Its first thing today, a
Joe Thomas production.
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The FBI. Tell me if you've heard this one before.
False documents created to create character assassination to win a
political office, to the ruination of a potential political opponent.
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No, not the Steele.
Speaker 8 (28:49):
Dossier, Not Russia, Russia, Russia, but remarkably similar. Such was
the case of a former Senate candidate from Virginia that
we spoke to on Saturday, and knowing that the affiliate
list is different for the Saturday version of the program
than it is on the weekday edition, I wanted to
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jump back because this is a telling story of Tom specially,
who is an intelligence officer in and of his own right,
was probably the deep state's first mistake. And he thought,
as he told us, he was just up against the
Democratic Party doing what they had done with the Steel
dossier to Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
No, what it is is I'm actually in a defamation
lawsuit with the Democrat Party of Virginia, and during discovery
I found out that the defamatory press release was actually
written and approved by the Abigail Stamberger campaign and they
secretly published it through the Democrat Party of Virginia so
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that they could keep their handans clean from the publication.
And that was admitted to and deposition by the communications
director for Abigail Spamberger that they published it through the
Democrat Party of Virginia because the words he used were
because it was negative trending. And I said, what do
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you mean, you mean when you smear somebody? And you know,
his face went red, and you know you could see
clearly it was a smear against you know, it was
a completely fabricated defamatory smear on me to associate me
with yes Lee Vega in order to win the election
in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
So let me lay out the time.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
What do they call it?
Speaker 3 (30:41):
The TikTok here? Tom? So they issue the Democratic Party
supposedly issues this press release.
Speaker 8 (30:49):
Defaming Yeslie Vega as associating with insurrectionists aka yourself, you know,
because of January sixth, because you were associated with Veterans
for Trump?
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Am I correct? Correct?
Speaker 4 (31:06):
I was a national I was the national spokesman for
Veterans for Trump, and that's why I was down there
on the Capitol on January fifth and January sixth.
Speaker 8 (31:15):
And so they took that that, you know, association just
like millions of other people were in Washington, d C.
On January sixth, doesn't make them an insurrection It's even
people who participated in the rally, you know, not necessarily,
but they they the press release connects you to assaulting
and injuring police officers. And I mean it's pretty graphic
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stuff that they malign you with in this press release, Tom.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
They basically the shortest suite of it is that on
November third, just days before the twenty twenty two November
twenty twenty two election, they published this press release that said, Yes,
le Vega is hanging out with notable insurrection as Thomas
Specially who attacked the US capital and then ultimately, yesly
Vega is associating with Tom Specially who bloody to beat
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law enforcement on January sixth, and they did this to
win an election. And it's and their main source, their
main source. This is the crazy part. The main source
they used to associate me with those claims is a
Russian television video.
Speaker 12 (32:25):
What.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Yeah, they used Russian propaganda, Russian active measures. You know,
we're talking about Abigail Stammer's campaign team. Supposedly she's a
secret squirrel spook for the CIA, and she's using Russian
propaganda in this press release to defame me and ultimately
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to influence the twenty twenty two election outcome.
Speaker 8 (32:50):
So that was from Saturday Mornings version of First Thing Today,
and it goes on. If you want to get the
whole thing, we actually talked for three second. It's because
Tom works Intel and has and so has a deep
knowledge of what's going on beyond that. So it's a
great conversation and I would suggest get the full depth
(33:13):
and breadth of it. It's about three quarters of the
final hour of the program on Saturday again up online,
your favorite distribution network, Apple Podcasts, iHeart Spotify. You find
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through the Talk Media Network page for First Thing Today.
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But the key takeaways are the same as they are
time and time again. Why is this a blood sport?
Why must we ruin people just to win an election?
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We can talk about until we're blue like a donkey
in the face, that.
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There's policy issues, and there's per.
Speaker 8 (34:13):
And all of the things that have really grown like
a tumor on the body Americana since the beginning of
the twentieth century under this technocracy movement.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
The experts.
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That gather in Washington and collect large percentages, such large
percentages of your tax payments that the Washington government, the
US government, has a pass through rate if they were
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That's worse than the Clinton Foundation. By the way, we
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leaked out for of course, this is why we do
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leak this at six pm Eastern on Zio.
Speaker 9 (35:08):
Once all the news networks have gone to script.
Speaker 8 (35:11):
And the publishers and the editors have gone home for
the weekend or the cocktail party set. And we report
this partially with the concern that by reporting it it
achieves the purpose of the op which is that it
will keep you from ever standing up, even to the
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point of speaking out at a school board meeting.
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We know for a fact.
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That Merritt Garland's Department of Justice was running dossier's on
the activities of parents once they were found to have
threatened school board members, and by threatened, I want to
make it clear though, those threats, for the most part,
were relegated to I am going to run a reelection
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campaign against you or I am going to start a
recall petition.
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So the threat was that you.
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Might lose your phony ballooney job.
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Poor baby.
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I run for governor, they're just gonna drag up and
they'll infer and use innuendo, and you start going through
your own past and the things you remember you did
in high school or college that will perhaps be extrapolated.
That's that's old school, that's twenty years ago. That they
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Brett Kavanaugh stuff. We've gone beyond that. We don't sing anymore.
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which is better not vote for so and so. In
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the scary thing is is the woman who ordered all this?
Or I guess that's the investigation is you know what
did the congress woman know? And win is potentially going
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That's scary.
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From the home of the First Amendment. First thing today,
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Use other q ANDON production. What was that last bit there?
What in the name of from zymbolism's ghosts?
Speaker 9 (44:35):
It's going on here?
Speaker 8 (44:37):
So character assassination rather than debating over issues yet. Tell
me if you haven't heard people say that, people like
you and me, People who might be caught in public
wearing a red baseball cap with white letters on it,
(44:58):
People that might want a return to constitutional responsibility, like oh,
I don't know the senators whose job it would be
to look out for the best interests of the states
that sent them. And here's so I brought up the
(45:19):
possibility that former intelligence officer turned to congresswoman turned to
gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spenberger might be involved in it. Let
me go back to the Tom Specially interview just for
a moment. This is from Saturday Morning's version of the program,
(45:40):
when he told us, you know how far this goes?
Speaker 3 (45:44):
Because this gets very Watergate ish.
Speaker 4 (45:50):
As I was saying before, I have deposed her entire
campaign staff, and I've deposed the communications director, the former
communications director for the Democrat Party of Virginia. Well, they've
all said, we don't remember if Abigail Spamberger was in
this press release to defend you. And she has been
deposed in writing, and her defense council is trying to
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get her deposition sealed so that the public cannot read it, which.
Speaker 8 (46:19):
Means her opponent can't bring it up even if they
were the debate, which they're not going to.
Speaker 3 (46:25):
And you know this to me is where this comes down.
Speaker 8 (46:30):
And I said this to a speaking engagement I had sometimes,
and you tell me if you think I'm wrong. Sometimes,
perhaps more times than you're sanguine with. Sometimes voting against
something is more important than voting for something. We've talked
(46:59):
about you all manners of things. Spend a little time
San Antonio. Apparently over the weekend, while everyone was busy
dealing with one hundred plus degree temperatures, cities scratched out
their deal on the Project Marville taxpayer funded entertainment Center
(47:21):
to revitalize or at least downtown during the hours when
there's something going on at the event center, San Antonio
Spurs games and et cetera. Unless the San Antonio Spurs
moved to I don't know where would they moved to.
No other city to have moved north? Maybe maybe Omaha.
Speaker 3 (47:51):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 8 (47:52):
All the cool kids want to be in Omaha, especially
as the Little League World Series gets underway, and they're like,
isn't that a cool city? Isn't Warren Buffett's money there?
But sometimes it is okay to vote against things.
Speaker 3 (48:08):
You may say, win some series.
Speaker 8 (48:11):
The candidate for Virginia governors and cut from my piece
of plastic. Same thing with Jack Channarelli, the new Jery. Ah,
that's the same old guy. You know, Do we really
need somebody from the Sopranos running for governor? And you
know this congresswoman nobody can remember. Even people in New
(48:32):
Jersey's eleventh congressional.
Speaker 3 (48:33):
District are like, what was the kind? Hey?
Speaker 8 (48:36):
At least as far as we can tell, she hasn't
committed character assassination on somebody just to win one of
her re election campaigns. But they're not looking because the
polls say that she's twenty plus points ahead, So why
worry about trying to figure out whether she's got dirt
(48:58):
or just manufactured dirt.
Speaker 3 (49:04):
Do you have any dirt on them? No, but we
have some molts that we've made.
Speaker 8 (49:08):
It's the difference, you know, you talk about grassroots versus
astro turf. This is digging up dirt versus pouring on mulch.
And if that's the way she campaigns or orders the
campaigns and very much a watergate thing. So everyone around,
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Howard Hunt and Gordon Lyddy and all these folks.
Speaker 4 (49:33):
They know.
Speaker 3 (49:34):
They finally cop to it. Yeah we did it. So
what did the president know? And win?
Speaker 8 (49:39):
And the question was always, oh, no, this is the
committee to re elect the president. The president didn't know
anything about it. Oh what about the recording that has
seven and a half minutes missing from it? Well, you
can't prove what wasn't there. Yeah, but that's a pretty
good sized evidence sized hole in things that are supposed
to be public record. Wow, well it's not the same thing.
(50:01):
Well okay, so we'll we'll impeach him over that, or
do you want to get out in front of it.
Speaker 3 (50:13):
Early?
Speaker 8 (50:13):
Perhaps you will stun this will stun you. In Colorado Springs,
early voting in Virginia's gubernatorial elections starts in one month,
September nineteenth. People will start showing up with the polls,
casting ballots, and I hope they realize that it's okay
(50:34):
to vote against things. You may say, I don't you know.
I campaign is this campaign is that this is what
is staring at you. And it's the same thing about
presidents and it's a disproportionately powerful though those offices are,
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and it's important for opposition to this kind of thing
to bring it up. You can't just sit here and
yell in the atmospheres, yell into your spacesuit. When you
have a candidate that's taken large campaign contributions from somebody
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we still don't know whether they're a US citizen or not,
or a Chinese national, and nobody's asking because we're afraid
of her. And that's the other subtext. What news organization
would call out somebody who can just engage in this
kind of character assassination and understand, this character assassination happened
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three years ago and it's only just getting here now.
Process is the punishment. Luckily, we're in a post Trump
world where just being indicted for something is no longer
In many cases the scarlet letter that it used to
be five six years ago. It used to be the
(52:14):
front page of the newspaper where you know, Joe Thomas indicted,
radio host indicted, and it would be the end of
me or you. Now we're kind of in a world
where a lot of Americans read that in the newspaper
or you know whatever, they're going to go, oh gee,
you better see how this plays out. And sometimes it's
(52:36):
it's actually a badger. Oh they're indicting him for something.
I I wonder whose feathers he ruffled? Speaking of ruffled feathers,
You know, you talk about the deal in San Antonio.
What about this New Orleans stuff?
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That's buzzed.
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But I'm afraid of the Russians.
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I can't sleep at night.
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I'm so afraid of the Russians.
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A great we've got.
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Critics of President Trump will say, the pomp and circumstances,
pomp and circumstance, the red carpet, the warm handshake the
President Trump simply lost that the putin game.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
There.
Speaker 8 (13:42):
Ah, that's what it is. Because you're nice to somebody,
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And I've been in.
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These things for so long. It's such a dog and
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Denver Rigglemann or Liz Cheney. I was going to try
to regender the conversation since she's not a guy. Mostly
that that you know, they'll bring them in say, look,
we have a Republican Yeah, so as Martha Raddits testifies
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for the witness that she did have a guess that
she was speaking to in such platitudes. Secretary of State
Marco Rubio, so let's listen to both sides.
Speaker 21 (15:29):
Just by being on the world stage and walking down
a red carpet with the president, your reaction.
Speaker 18 (15:33):
To that, well, I mean, critics of President Trump are
always going to find something to criticize. Don't pay attention
to it anymore. But I will tell you this, Putin
is already on the world stage. He's already on the
world stage. The guy's conducting a full scale war in Ukraine.
He's already on the world stage. He has the world's
largest tactical nuclear arsenal in the world and the second
largest strategic nuclear arsenal in the world.
Speaker 9 (15:53):
He's already on the world stage. When I hear people.
Speaker 18 (15:55):
Say that it elevates them, well, all we do is
talk about Putin all the time. All the height he
has done is talk about Putin all the time for
the last four or five years. That doesn't mean he's
right about the war. That doesn't mean he's justified about
the war.
Speaker 9 (16:06):
Put all that aside.
Speaker 18 (16:07):
It means you're not going to have a peace agreement
between Russia and Ukraine. You're not going to end a
war between Russia and Ukraine without dealing with Putin. That's
just common sense.
Speaker 8 (16:18):
So there's your secretary of State. And of course the
best part of this is after making the rounds, he
hit all the biggies. I think he was on the
Home Shopping Network for a little while. On Sunday, the
coverage is Rubio melts down.
Speaker 9 (16:42):
Did that sound like a meltdown? You tell me?
Speaker 3 (16:44):
I like to think.
Speaker 8 (16:46):
I have a keen ear for this stuff, and I
appreciate and I mentioned this in the onset of the program.
The trivia that see to dominate Friday's coverage of the
event as it was happening. And this is the thing
that I find most telling and I want to share
(17:08):
with you as a as an inoculation, no thimerosol, just
an opportunity for you to have a little bit of
the infection so you can build an immunity to it.
As the event was happening, the best thing the National
(17:32):
and International press corps could come up with was Trump
was staggering down the red carpet, and they proved this
by taking the video of him strolling down the red carpet,
speeding it up to a point where you really only
could hear it if you were listening to the old.
Speaker 9 (17:49):
Benny Hill d D did Lead did Eat Eat.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
Music behind it, And I do believe I saw one
version of the video where somebody took that suggestion and
put the music underneath it because it was so ridiculously
sped up. Look at him, Sorry, he must be drunk.
Press Corps showing how keenly aware of the fact that
Donald Trump has never had a drop of alcohol after
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his uncle had a very very bad alcohol problem.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
President Trump has, I mean he has vices.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
Sure, I think RFK Junior will tell you his biggest
vice is diet soda. But there ain't no bourbon in
his diet soda. But anyway, and that Vladimir Putin seemed
to be wearing an awful odd of foundation a lot
of face makeup to cover his pallor at least it
(18:49):
wasn't Trump wearing makeup, although former CIA director now FBI
director Komy showing what a keen investigats or an open
minded investigatory is taking some shots at our elderly makeup
wearing president in his swifty admission, Oh we'll get there.
(19:10):
We'll have some fun with that as well. But at
in the moment, as the dust was still settling at
Joint Base Elmendorf and Anchorage, the best the press could
come up with was triviaesoterica. It wasn't until they engaged
(19:31):
the commentariat, the learned, scowling brows of folks like John Bolton,
what's the name General Keene and all of these would
get me the experts on the set And a quick reminder,
do we still have the clip of President Trump talking
about how wiley a character Putin is and that you
(19:56):
know he'd be lucky to get it, you know, and
you would know if there was going to be a
deal to be made in the first couple of minutes
of the meeting, who is the one who is the
one that was telling everyone that there was got There
(20:16):
has to be a ceasefire, He has to abandon the Donbass,
he has to give up, he has to walk away
and resign the presidency of Moscow. Immediately after these who
were the people telling you that that was what had
to happen in Alaska? Was it Donald Trump and Marco
Rubio or was it John Bolton and General Keene? And
(20:41):
all the rest of the expert commentariot saying.
Speaker 9 (20:45):
We must have a deal. That's the only way. This
is a victory.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
And then when they didn't get one, Joe Biden can
sit down and rugaway questions about his son's involvement with
Beisma and the A's off battalion.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
And it was he's such a statesman, He's going to
be the grown up in the room.
Speaker 8 (21:15):
Was he the grown up in the room? A better
chance that Hunter Biden was the grown up in the room.
So don't let them testify for the witness. There's your
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to the people who were the people, not the ones
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Uh oh, Brah's buzzed.
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Oh yeah yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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And now a speech.
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I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
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Who's with me?
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Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
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Love that guy, me too.
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For you from Joe Thomas. Its first thing today, a
Joe Thomas production.
Speaker 8 (28:26):
The FBI. Tell me if you've heard this one before.
False documents created to create character assassination to win a
political office, to the ruination of a potential political opponent.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
No, not the Steele.
Speaker 8 (28:49):
Dossier, Not Russia, Russia, Russia, but remarkably similar. Such was
the case of a former Senate candidate from Virginia that
we spoke to on Saturday, and knowing that the affiliate
list is different for the Saturday version of the program
than it is on the weekday edition, I wanted to
(29:12):
jump back because this is a telling story of Tom specially,
who is an intelligence officer in and of his own right,
was probably the deep state's first mistake. And he thought,
as he told us, he was just up against the
Democratic Party doing what they had done with the Steel
dossier to Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
No, what it is is I'm actually in a defamation
lawsuit with the Democrat Party of Virginia, and during discovery
I found out that the defamatory press release was actually
written and approved by the Abigail Stamberger campaign and they
secretly published it through the Democrat Party of Virginia so
(29:58):
that they could keep their handans clean from the publication.
And that was admitted to and deposition by the communications
director for Abigail Spamberger that they published it through the
Democrat Party of Virginia because the words he used were
because it was negative trending. And I said, what do
(30:19):
you mean, you mean when you smear somebody? And you know,
his face went red, and you know you could see
clearly it was a smear against you know, it was
a completely fabricated defamatory smear on me to associate me
with yes Lee Vega in order to win the election
in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
So let me lay out the time.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
What do they call it?
Speaker 3 (30:41):
The TikTok here? Tom? So they issue the Democratic Party
supposedly issues this press release.
Speaker 8 (30:49):
Defaming Yeslie Vega as associating with insurrectionists aka yourself, you know,
because of January sixth, because you were associated with Veterans
for Trump?
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Am I correct? Correct?
Speaker 4 (31:06):
I was a national I was the national spokesman for
Veterans for Trump, and that's why I was down there
on the Capitol on January fifth and January sixth.
Speaker 8 (31:15):
And so they took that that, you know, association just
like millions of other people were in Washington, d C.
On January sixth, doesn't make them an insurrection It's even
people who participated in the rally, you know, not necessarily,
but they they the press release connects you to assaulting
and injuring police officers. And I mean it's pretty graphic
(31:38):
stuff that they malign you with in this press release, Tom.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
They basically the shortest suite of it is that on
November third, just days before the twenty twenty two November
twenty twenty two election, they published this press release that said, Yes,
le Vega is hanging out with notable insurrection as Thomas
Specially who attacked the US capital and then ultimately, yesly
Vega is associating with Tom Specially who bloody to beat
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law enforcement on January sixth, and they did this to
win an election. And it's and their main source, their
main source. This is the crazy part. The main source
they used to associate me with those claims is a
Russian television video.
Speaker 12 (32:25):
What.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Yeah, they used Russian propaganda, Russian active measures. You know,
we're talking about Abigail Stammer's campaign team. Supposedly she's a
secret squirrel spook for the CIA, and she's using Russian
propaganda in this press release to defame me and ultimately
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to influence the twenty twenty two election outcome.
Speaker 8 (32:50):
So that was from Saturday Mornings version of First Thing Today,
and it goes on. If you want to get the
whole thing, we actually talked for three second. It's because
Tom works Intel and has and so has a deep
knowledge of what's going on beyond that. So it's a
great conversation and I would suggest get the full depth
(33:13):
and breadth of it. It's about three quarters of the
final hour of the program on Saturday again up online,
your favorite distribution network, Apple Podcasts, iHeart Spotify. You find
it at Joe Thomas in the Morning dot com or
through the Talk Media Network page for First Thing Today.
(33:37):
But the key takeaways are the same as they are
time and time again. Why is this a blood sport?
Why must we ruin people just to win an election?
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We can talk about until we're blue like a donkey
in the face, that.
Speaker 9 (34:09):
There's policy issues, and there's per.
Speaker 8 (34:13):
And all of the things that have really grown like
a tumor on the body Americana since the beginning of
the twentieth century under this technocracy movement.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
The experts.
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That gather in Washington and collect large percentages, such large
percentages of your tax payments that the Washington government, the
US government, has a pass through rate if they were
truly to be judged as a charity, of twenty five percent.
That's worse than the Clinton Foundation. By the way, we
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have an Epstein Clinton Foundation story that's just leaked out,
leaked out for of course, this is why we do
the Saturday program, because they leaked little stuff like hey,
leak this at six pm Eastern on Zio.
Speaker 9 (35:08):
Once all the news networks have gone to script.
Speaker 8 (35:11):
And the publishers and the editors have gone home for
the weekend or the cocktail party set. And we report
this partially with the concern that by reporting it it
achieves the purpose of the op which is that it
will keep you from ever standing up, even to the
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point of speaking out at a school board meeting.
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We know for a fact.
Speaker 8 (35:44):
That Merritt Garland's Department of Justice was running dossier's on
the activities of parents once they were found to have
threatened school board members, and by threatened, I want to
make it clear though, those threats, for the most part,
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campaign against you or I am going to start a
recall petition.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
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Might lose your phony ballooney job.
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Poor baby.
Speaker 8 (36:27):
But I'm hoping that by sharing the fact that people
like me have your back if you want to run
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I run for governor, they're just gonna drag up and
they'll infer and use innuendo, and you start going through
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That's that's old school, that's twenty years ago. That they
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Brett Kavanaugh stuff. We've gone beyond that. We don't sing anymore.
We compose, well, we'll just write whatever crazy ass nonsense
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which is better not vote for so and so. In
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the scary thing is is the woman who ordered all this?
Or I guess that's the investigation is you know what
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Can it bar.
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Cramp?
Speaker 2 (43:13):
I have a cramp? I can probably hit the green
from here? Probably? Can I get a Mulligan.
Speaker 3 (43:26):
Ready to go?
Speaker 4 (43:27):
Hey?
Speaker 23 (43:27):
Are you sure you're okay to drive?
Speaker 20 (43:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (43:30):
I'm pretty sober. Yeah, I'm probably okay.
Speaker 7 (43:35):
Probably okay isn't okay, especially when it comes to drinking
and driving. If you're drinking, call a cab, a car,
or a friend. Buzz driving is drunk driving. A message
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Speaker 23 (43:47):
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Speaker 2 (44:11):
From the home of the First Amendment. First thing today,
the FBI a QM production.
Speaker 8 (44:27):
Use other q ANDON production. What was that last bit there?
What in the name of from zymbolism's ghosts?
Speaker 9 (44:35):
It's going on here?
Speaker 8 (44:37):
So character assassination rather than debating over issues yet. Tell
me if you haven't heard people say that, people like
you and me, People who might be caught in public
wearing a red baseball cap with white letters on it,
(44:58):
People that might want a return to constitutional responsibility, like oh,
I don't know the senators whose job it would be
to look out for the best interests of the states
that sent them. And here's so I brought up the
(45:19):
possibility that former intelligence officer turned to congresswoman turned to
gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spenberger might be involved in it. Let
me go back to the Tom Specially interview just for
a moment. This is from Saturday Morning's version of the program,
(45:40):
when he told us, you know how far this goes?
Speaker 3 (45:44):
Because this gets very Watergate ish.
Speaker 4 (45:50):
As I was saying before, I have deposed her entire
campaign staff, and I've deposed the communications director, the former
communications director for the Democrat Party of Virginia. Well, they've
all said, we don't remember if Abigail Spamberger was in
this press release to defend you. And she has been
deposed in writing, and her defense council is trying to
(46:14):
get her deposition sealed so that the public cannot read it, which.
Speaker 8 (46:19):
Means her opponent can't bring it up even if they
were the debate, which they're not going to.
Speaker 3 (46:25):
And you know this to me is where this comes down.
Speaker 8 (46:30):
And I said this to a speaking engagement I had sometimes,
and you tell me if you think I'm wrong. Sometimes,
perhaps more times than you're sanguine with. Sometimes voting against
something is more important than voting for something. We've talked
(46:59):
about you all manners of things. Spend a little time
San Antonio. Apparently over the weekend, while everyone was busy
dealing with one hundred plus degree temperatures, cities scratched out
their deal on the Project Marville taxpayer funded entertainment Center
(47:21):
to revitalize or at least downtown during the hours when
there's something going on at the event center, San Antonio
Spurs games and et cetera. Unless the San Antonio Spurs
moved to I don't know where would they moved to.
No other city to have moved north? Maybe maybe Omaha.
Speaker 3 (47:51):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 8 (47:52):
All the cool kids want to be in Omaha, especially
as the Little League World Series gets underway, and they're like,
isn't that a cool city? Isn't Warren Buffett's money there?
But sometimes it is okay to vote against things.
Speaker 3 (48:08):
You may say, win some series.
Speaker 8 (48:11):
The candidate for Virginia governors and cut from my piece
of plastic. Same thing with Jack Channarelli, the new Jery. Ah,
that's the same old guy. You know, Do we really
need somebody from the Sopranos running for governor? And you
know this congresswoman nobody can remember. Even people in New
(48:32):
Jersey's eleventh congressional.
Speaker 3 (48:33):
District are like, what was the kind? Hey?
Speaker 8 (48:36):
At least as far as we can tell, she hasn't
committed character assassination on somebody just to win one of
her re election campaigns. But they're not looking because the
polls say that she's twenty plus points ahead, So why
worry about trying to figure out whether she's got dirt
(48:58):
or just manufactured dirt.
Speaker 3 (49:04):
Do you have any dirt on them? No, but we
have some molts that we've made.
Speaker 8 (49:08):
It's the difference, you know, you talk about grassroots versus
astro turf. This is digging up dirt versus pouring on mulch.
And if that's the way she campaigns or orders the
campaigns and very much a watergate thing. So everyone around,
(49:30):
Howard Hunt and Gordon Lyddy and all these folks.
Speaker 4 (49:33):
They know.
Speaker 3 (49:34):
They finally cop to it. Yeah we did it. So
what did the president know? And win?
Speaker 8 (49:39):
And the question was always, oh, no, this is the
committee to re elect the president. The president didn't know
anything about it. Oh what about the recording that has
seven and a half minutes missing from it? Well, you
can't prove what wasn't there. Yeah, but that's a pretty
good sized evidence sized hole in things that are supposed
to be public record. Wow, well it's not the same thing.
(50:01):
Well okay, so we'll we'll impeach him over that, or
do you want to get out in front of it.
Speaker 3 (50:13):
Early?
Speaker 8 (50:13):
Perhaps you will stun this will stun you. In Colorado Springs,
early voting in Virginia's gubernatorial elections starts in one month,
September nineteenth. People will start showing up with the polls,
casting ballots, and I hope they realize that it's okay
(50:34):
to vote against things. You may say, I don't you know.
I campaign is this campaign is that this is what
is staring at you. And it's the same thing about
presidents and it's a disproportionately powerful though those offices are,
(51:02):
and it's important for opposition to this kind of thing
to bring it up. You can't just sit here and
yell in the atmospheres, yell into your spacesuit. When you
have a candidate that's taken large campaign contributions from somebody
(51:23):
we still don't know whether they're a US citizen or not,
or a Chinese national, and nobody's asking because we're afraid
of her. And that's the other subtext. What news organization
would call out somebody who can just engage in this
kind of character assassination and understand, this character assassination happened
(51:50):
three years ago and it's only just getting here now.
Process is the punishment. Luckily, we're in a post Trump
world where just being indicted for something is no longer
In many cases the scarlet letter that it used to
be five six years ago. It used to be the
(52:14):
front page of the newspaper where you know, Joe Thomas indicted,
radio host indicted, and it would be the end of
me or you. Now we're kind of in a world
where a lot of Americans read that in the newspaper
or you know whatever, they're going to go, oh gee,
you better see how this plays out. And sometimes it's
(52:36):
it's actually a badger. Oh they're indicting him for something.
I I wonder whose feathers he ruffled? Speaking of ruffled feathers,
You know, you talk about the deal in San Antonio.
What about this New Orleans stuff?
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