Nov 10, 2023
Trump Officially ADMITS To Alarming Weaponized DOJ Scheme
Donald Trump has total breakdown over his legal cases in jeopardy and openly admits he would try to weaponize the FBI and the DOJ against his political opponents if he wins the 2024 election in interview with Univision Noticias. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report.
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As the legal threats against Donald Trump
Mount, so too do his threats against his
opposition, threats for
what he'll do if he becomes president.
He had an interview with
Univision this week, and
he laid it out about as
clear as he ever has before.
Saying they have done something
that allows the next party.
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If somebody, if I happen to be president
and I see somebody who's doing well and
beating me very badly, I say,
go down and indict them.
Mostly what that would be,
they would be out of business.
They'd be out,
they'd be out of the election.
Super clear.
Super clear about why he'd be doing it,
what the goal would be but
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he's not 100% sure that
it's gonna end up there.
He's sort of like,
warning them that maybe they can back off.
He says, if they do this and
they've already done it, but if they want
to follow through on this, yeah,
it could certainly happen in reverse.
It could certainly happen in reverse,
saying.
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Hey, maybe if you back off,
if you stop these court cases against me,
then maybe I don't have to lock up you and
your families in the future.
So that's fun from an authoritarian sense.
But then he starts to sort
of lose his way he says,
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what they've done is they've
released the genie out of the box.
You understand that?
They've done something that
nobody thought would happen.
They've taken a president
who's very popular.
I got 75 million votes, much more than
that, I believe no president's ever
gotten that many votes, and
they've taken that number of people.
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And I think you can double it, or almost,
you can triple it in terms
of the real feeling.
You can't do that.
You can't go after people
unless you're him, presumably.
Now, that said, that's the substance,
and we will return to that.
But there were just some little things,
Brett,
that I'm sure you picked up on there,
that really bothered me.
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I understand that people are frustrated
with the energy level and
capacity of Joe Biden.
Makes total sense, but he is, underrated
for Swiss cheeseness of the brain.
Genies quite notably live in lamps.
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That's sort of their whole deal,
really not boxes.
Clearly, he has boxes on the brain,
but this is a guy who's confusing
the leadership of China and North Korea.
He's forgetting where genies live.
Does he know what year it is?
>> Speaker 3: It's weird that
you would take this moment to
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attack Christina Aguilera for saying
that genies are in a bottle as well.
>> Speaker 1: Yeah, that's weird.
>> Speaker 3: You put your D in a box, the
genie goes in the lamp or the bottle, but
you don't have a box full of genies.
I don't know what bargain
basement knockoff genies.
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I know he likes to rub things without
their permission, but that was ridiculous.
Listen, it's fine to say there is
criticism to be had about the timing of
the trials against Trump.
Trump has been indicted for many crimes,
but many of them, the people prosecuting
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even said, I don't want to do this,
just give the documents back.
But that said, Donald Trump does
go on trial on March 4th of 2024,
and Super Tuesday is on March 5.
So the timing of these trials,
I am certain, is politically motivated.
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But the content of these
trials is absolutely,
from what I've seen, substantiated.
If you look at the one in Florida,
multiple, quote,
co conspirators have pled guilty already.
So this isn't just out of thin air or
whole cloth that these
indictments have been brought.
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What Donald Trump is trying to do is go
way past anything he has a right to say
and say, no, what I would do is go after
these people for purely political reasons.
Because he wants to be seen as the victim.
>> Speaker 1: Yeah, 100%.
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It's really just like,
it's a clarification of the stance
that we know that he has.
And, yeah, maybe we shouldn't be surprised
that this is what he's going to do.
He's the guy who went into the 2016
election with the chance of locker up.
The idea that he considers going after
your opponents to be an unprecedented
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thing has never made any sense.
But I want to make sure that people
understand that it's not just him.
And if it were just him that is gonna
dispatch the DOJ or something, look,
that's going to be very
frustrating to a lot of people.
But they still theoretically have to
prove that Biden or Hunter Biden or
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whoever has actually done something and
you can defend yourself legally.
It gets scarier when it's not just Trump,
when others are sort of
playing the same game.
And we got additional evidence of that
coming out of the new House speaker,
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Mike Johnson.
He had a meeting with moderates
within his party this week, and
he appeared to agree, apparently,
with Republican lawmakers who argued that.
Since Biden's polling numbers have been so
weak, there's less of a political
imperative to impeach him, according
to Republicans who attended that.
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So he has openly been.
Yeah, I guess if he was doing better,
we'd impeach him but he's not.
So I guess we know all that stuff about
corruption, taking bribes and everything.
Doesn't really matter.
He's not really doing that well.
This is not just Trump, I assume we should
be able to have a slightly higher standard
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for Mike Johnson or for
the other Republicans.
Maybe not, I don't know,
I've been gone for a while.
>> Speaker 3: Right, whether you're gonna
charge someone of a crime and try them for
a crime should probably depend not on
the political factors at the time,
but rather on whether
they committed a crime.
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That's it.
But obviously, I don't want to be the guy
who's like, I can't believe politics is so
political, but
that's absolutely what it is.
And the best thing is going to be they
might have to change their mind later on.
Trump puts up a bunch of bluster
about how this actually helped me.
Even Ron DeSantis said that the
indictments against Trump helped Trump.
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I don't think that's true, and I'm certain
that won't be true as we get closer and
closer to primaries and
there are ongoing trials, gavel to gavel.
It's some kind of weird
crossover between West Wing and
Law order happening at
the exact same time.
>> Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.
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The recent polls have been worried.
It's still a long ways away, and
we don't know exactly what's
gonna happen with Trump.
We don't know exactly what's gonna
happen with Biden, we'll have to see but
I remain a little bit worried.
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