Nov 10, 2023
Trump's Cover Up DETERIORATES In Shattering Staffer Trial Revelations
Donald Trump completely loses it over breaking news that multiple Mar-A-Lago staffers will be likely called to testify against Trump in classified documents trial and that Aileen Cannon will likely keep set trial date. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report.
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CNN released a report late last
night saying that a plumber, a maid,
a chauffeur, and a woodworker are among
the staffers of Mar-a-Lago, including
some current staffers, as well as contract
workers who federal prosecutors are gonna
be calling to testify against
Donald Trump and his two co-defendants.
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Other likely witnesses include
Trump's Secret Service agents,
former intelligence officials, as well as
people who were in the room during that
infamous call where he
produced the bomb Iran plans.
Currently, the trial is set to
begin in Florida in May, that is,
before the election.
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There had been the possibility that
Aileen Cannon was going to shift that.
But apparently, the update is that as of
this morning, she has announced that,
at least as of right now,
that she is not going to do that,
which I actually find that to be a more
interesting development perhaps than
the fact that we have a better
idea of the witnesses.
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You can dive into that report if you want
a little bit of information about what
those witnesses have previously
told prosecutors that they've seen.
There's a lot of reports
of them seeing documents,
although many of them don't seem to
know exactly what the documents were.
It doesn't seem like they were
rooting around in the boxes.
They just saw that.
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Yeah, there's official
government looking documents or
just strewn around haphazardly.
But the idea that Aileen Cannon, a judge
who has previously shown an incredible
willingness or desire to help out
Donald Trump in whatever way she can,
if she's not gonna manipulate
the timing of this,
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that's more consequential than maybe
any other decision that she's made.
And obviously, there's time for
her to reverse that, Bret, but
we were previously talking on the show
about the timing of these things.
We would probably want to get these
trials done before the election, so
at least they'll happen at all,
but what do you think?
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>> Speaker 2: Well, a lot of the public
sentiment around political figures has to
do with what's in the news
cycle at the time,
not whether those elements of
the news cycle have been resolved.
If I'm Donald Trump and
I feel like I'm innocent,
I want those trials to be
wrapped up before we go to vote.
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But if they're just starting,
they're in the ether,
they're out there and people
are thinking about it and they're like.
And I think one of the reasons that
Donald Trump lost is obviously,
people were stuffing ballot
boxes obviously, voter fraud,
even though no one can prove that at all.
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It's a joke, but
one of the reasons he lost is people
are like just Donald Trump's too much.
I can't handle it.
There's this horrible feeling
of how it is out there.
At the time, it was COVID,
people are just like I can't,
it's too stressful plus Trump
is just too much of a headache.
I can't handle all this anymore.
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Right now, Biden gets that like.
It just feels horrible out there.
Negativity on his polling numbers, but
Trump is still the one where people
are like, I can't, I can't handle the guy.
And so the question will be,
will folks wanna jump off of the boat?
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That's just kind of making
them feel a little seasick and
onto the one that has several holes in
it and is going right for the rapids.
No one's gonna wanna do that in
the calculation of the Democrats.
But Aileen Cannon is a Trump appointed
judge, and many Trump appointed judges
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have done things that don't go so
well for Donald Trump.
And so we'll see how it pans.
>> Speaker 1: This is getting into
raw speculation, but there had been
a lot of reports coming out over
the past couple of weeks like increasing
concern over Aileen Cannon, whether
she should remain in charge of this.
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Is it possible that this is a sort of
strategic thing of rejecting, at least for
now, the possibility of changing the
timeline to reassure critics that she can
be considered a responsible
judge in this case?
I don't know, I don't know.
But anyway, okay, we wanna get to
Donald Trump's response to this,
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because he did not like
this report coming out.
Although, again, most of these
witnesses we're gonna be testifying,
we already know that they have
talked to federal prosecutors.
So I don't know why you'd be so
shocked by this.
It's a confirmation that
they'll be coming back and
a confirmation that some of
them might not know that much.
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But he put out this
long truth social post,
I'm not gonna read this entire thing.
There's little tidbits
that I find interesting.
I mean, he talks about how the boxes
were openly and plainly brought from
the White House, as is my right
under the Presidential Records Act.
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He really thinks that if he just keeps
claiming that something that has never
been true, then I guess he
doesn't have to have a trial.
And they weren't openly and
plainly brought,
you avoided for a year and
a half, turning them back over.
And after you turned some of them over,
you hid others.
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There's nothing open or plain about
that except perhaps the law breaking.
But anyways,
he says he even suppliednupon request,
security tapes to these
election interfering thugs.
He was required to turn over the tapes.
This is not charity, buddy.
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This is not like you being a mens or
something.
You had to turn over those tapes.
>> And he wants credit for not breaking
more laws than he already had.
>> More, 100%, and then he goes into,
of course, forget all that stuff.
Biden had documents on his garage
floor by his cherished Corvette.
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I love that he at least
respects the connection,
the relationship between a man and
his cherished sports car.
Or Chinatown, where it was just learned
that boxes moved freely in and out.
I don't know what that update is supposed
to be a reference to, probably nothing.
And then blah, blah, blah,
he's very angry about all this.
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So look, it's a lot of bluster.
It's a lot of defenses that are not
defenses that we've heard before.
But coming out of this, I mean, we can't
ignore the fact that there's a lot of
people that can attest to
the documents being there.
I don't know why that matters so much,
because we know that the documents
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were there, but there's a lot of potential
what he might see as people who should
have been loyal to him, who are willing
now to work with prosecutors.
So it's not great for him.
Any other thoughts, Bret?
>> Speaker 2: I just love it.
A plumber, a maid, a woodworker,
a chauffeur, a priest,
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a rabbi, walk into a mar, [LAUGH] and
it's just a complete setup for
a joke,
because America is such a joke right now.
All of our leaders look are like
animatronic figures at Disneyland that
are breaking down in the hall of
Presidents, which is a crappy ride.
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I hate it, it's so sad.
>> Speaker 1: Was there
a time where our politics, or
even just our presidential
elections weren't stupid?
Utterly, ridiculously stupid?
>> Speaker 2: I mean, they weren't, no.
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>> Speaker 1: Obama versus Romney.
>> Speaker 2: They have
been not stupid before.
They're expressly the stupidest
they've ever been.
There have been stupid things along
the way, like a guy going like, I'm gonna
cancel these important groups, these
important federal agencies like, pass.
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I don't remember them, oops.
>> Speaker 2: [LAUGH]
>> And
there have been like silly things
that have gotten you in trouble
like Michael Dukakis in
a weird outfit in a tank.
And they've been mean, they've been
wildly tricky, and horrible, and mean.
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Stupid things have sunk presidential
candidates like Nixon not shaving before
a debate and looking sweaty, but
they've never been this expressly stupid.
I don't remember anything quite on
the level of, yeah, I took a bunch
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of boxes and put them by my toilet,
and in those boxes are laser secrets.
>> Speaker 1: [LAUGH]
>> Horrible.
>> Just relentlessly dumb.
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