Back to episode — Episode 2493 CWSA 06/02/24
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ere's how David Sacks explains it. He calls it the business records double standard. In 2016 Hillary Clinton's campaign was fined $8,000. That was it. A fine of $8,000 for the following, for violating federal campaign finance laws. Why? Her team falsely reported the funding of the Steele dossier as legal services and legal and compliance consulting. Well what does that sound like? This sounds exac…
← Previous segment →et? Quite a few, right? So and I'll stay with that. You might be the smartest person I've ever met. Now here I'm calling smart not just depth but breadth. He can tell you the better take on more topics than any human being I've ever met and it'll be a different take and it'll be better than one you had on so many different topics. It's crazy.
All right, so when he talks there are enough people, certainly in the investment world, in the technical world, he's well known. So when he says anything that kind of strays from his non-political stance your ears just go wait, what did I just hear? And here's what he said. He put two of Biden's posts on X next to each other. And one of them was about Biden bragging that he ignored the Supreme Court to get student loans cancelled. And then the next one was where he was saying that nobody's above the law after the one where he said he got around the law. So Naval quotes a famous quote from I think some South American dictator type. And he said just this and nothing else. Quote, for my friends everything, for my enemies the law. Now the way that quote is taken is that when he says for my enemies the law he doesn't mean just if they broke the law. That's the important part. He means you can use the law to get rid of enemies and that's just the tool you use. And that is what we are observing.
So now CNN has made it safe for the least political person in all of public life to tell you that the former president of the United States is getting lawed right in front of you. Now to you this might seem like a small deal but I don't think you quite understand how much persuasive influence Naval has on the smartest people in Silicon Valley. He is so respected that when he puts down a stake, and I would say that he put down a stake that this is too far to get him to talk about anything in the political domain and to make a direct statement about it, this is pretty direct, is extraordinary. I think the dam is about to break. I think CNN's already broken. I think the investors in Silicon Valley, they're all going to turn. The All-In podcast is all in. Elon Musk is all in. Naval, he just broke a long tradition and I'm sure he thought about it for a long time before he did it. Something's happening that's bigger than anything you could imagine. It's not obvious yet but wow, you can feel it. That the feeling that things have gone too far is so strong right now. Yeah, the energy is very different.
And here's the part that I was saving for you. Do you know what Judge Merchan's first name is? How many of you know his first name just off the top of your head? Have you ever heard it? His first name is Juan. Yeah, Juan Merchan. That's the judge that's going to jail Trump probably. Do you know where he was born? Colombia. Country of Colombia. Yeah. Judge Merchan was born in Colombia. He's an immigrant. The judge that's judging Trump is an immigrant from below the border. Does that sound like the right choice? The most famous build the wall, keep the South Americans where they are of all time, and his judge is one of the people that would have presumably the biggest problem with that kind of attitude. Gets better. His father was a military officer in Colombia, military officer for a while, and then he later served in Colombia's intelligence services. Huh. Colombia. What do we know about Colombia? What do we know about their military? What do we know about the Colombian intelligence services? Let's see. Some people would say that Colombia and the government and the military are tightly connected with the cartels, some would say. And some would say that the cartels are tightly linked with the American CIA, some would say.
So let me ask you this. If you were the CIA and you knew that Trump didn't even use your services for intelligence and you knew that he was talking about, and other Republicans like Tucker were talking about, eliminating the CIA and all of your jobs and you wanted to stop him, who would be the best pick to do that? Well I would go with Juan Merchan, father military officer from Colombia who once worked in their intelligence services, somehow made it to the United States as an immigrant and built quite a good life. That's who I'd pick. So now I'm not going to make an allegation because I don't know anything about his father. But why does it look exactly like you would think it would look if the worst case scenario were true and that the whole thing is the CIA and is fixed? Why does it look exactly like that? Is that a coincidence? Can we write that off to coincidence that it looks exactly like a CIA operation? Now again I'm only making unfair inferences about people who are known to be the types of people who associate with other types of people. So that's a big, I don't want to go further than that because that would be defamation. So I'm not going to make a claim that I know it's true. I'm just asking. Just asking. Don't you hate that? I'm curious why there's such a big coincidence involved, especially when we know that his selection was supposed to be random but clearly wasn't because he got three Trump cases in a row, all three.
So is it exactly what it looks like? And in the meantime we hear the people who are part of the deep state saying that Merchan is going to recommend jail time despite the fact that nobody would get jail time for this if they were not Trump. And the argument was because Trump was sort of had a bad attitude and violated the gag order so therefore they would send him to jail. That's the argument. And on CNN one of the legal guys was testing that argument out. That's the most absurd thing I've ever heard. At the same time there's a movement to change the law so he can't get Secret Service protection while he's in jail so he can be killed.
Now I was talking with one of my online buddies just before I went live and I mentioned that it looked like on the surface it looks like they're trying to kill him. And he didn't understand that I meant that literally. He thought I meant figuratively. No, literally. Now I'm not going to say I know that that's the case. I'm going to say if I were going to put odds on it I'd say it's a 50 percent chance that there's an active plan by our government to kill Trump. I think it's at least a 50 percent chance. And the reason I say that is that we lived through Epstein. If there had never been an Epstein, if there had never been a Kennedy who got assassinated, if we didn't see that RFK Jr. also doesn't get Secret Service protection for no good reason, I would have said okay our government doesn't do things like that. But clearly they do things like that. So yes, they have an existential risk to their jobs if Trump becomes the president again. And what would they do if they are the dirty tricks group of the country? The people who are selected by their willingness to break rules. The CIA is selected by their willingness to do illegal things, at least the operators are, because they're doing illegal things in other countries. You could argue that it's still legal in our country if they do illegal things and it's authorized by our country. But that's sort of cutting it fine. I mean they're basically people who signed up for yeah I'll go do super illegal things, that'll be my job. And that way we would assume that they wouldn't do super illegal things when it's the very group that's been selected because they like to do or at least they're willing to do super illegal things. No, it's at least a 50 percent chance that they're trying to kill him. Don Jr. says the same thing. It's not crazy. It is well within the parameters of what we've seen. If I'd never seen the lawfare happen then I'd say well the courts are fair. No they're not. To me it looks like the court case is driven by the same people who are apparently, if you look at it on the surface, on the surface it looks exactly like a murder plot with a statistical element, which is maybe they don't know for sure he'll be killed in prison but they think there's a good chance. So anyway that's scary.
Over on MSNBC, the stupid network, representative Bowman is on there. He says if you stay home and you do not exercise the power of your vote you're giving your power to white supremacist MAGA individuals. You know where the white supremacist MAGA individuals are because I've never really seen one on the news. But I'm going to take a guess. I think they're up in the mountains with the white supremacist militia that's forming. They're hiding away with the black guy who can't figure out how to get an ID to vote. And well you get it. You get the idea.
Vivek had an interesting legal take. I don't know if I'm buying it yet but it's interesting. He says that Trump can be pardoned by a president for his New York conviction even though it's a state matter. Normally a president can only pardon or commute for something that was a federal offense. You can't do it for a state charge. And Trump was charged and convicted by the state. However the sta
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te's charges depended entirely upon the fact that there were also federal violations per their case. So if you were to pardon Trump from the federal part of it it would make the state part of it dissolve because the state part of it depended on the federal part. So even though the federal part was not really what the state found they still relied on the jury thinking a federal thing had been viola…
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