Do you think that the Justice Department ought to settle because of its $10 billion lawsuit over the leak of its tax returns? Is that appropriate? Is there a conflict of interest there? One of the things that is not in my purview is the Department of Justice, and [00:00:17] how they evaluate cases and resolution of all that. I don't know, I haven't thought about that or read into it. I get enough to grace over every day, okay? So go ask the executive branch about it, all right? I got enough to say grace over. I don't have to think about what could be the most out and out corrupt act that has ever happened in our country. Is [00:00:36] that my purview, the Department of Justice? Don't Google, if I've ever weighed in on what the DOJ has done before. Don't Google if I always had something to say when it was Joe Biden. Don't Google that, please. I'm just, get off my back, man. I'm a tiny little coward. Obviously, [00:00:59] it's crazy that Donald Trump is gonna do this. Obviously, it's corrupt, but if I say that, I'll lose my job. So that's the truth of what's going on. Mike Johnson never lost an opportunity to comment when it was Joe Biden, even if it was conspiratorial, absolute nonsense. But [00:01:17] now, they're talking about handing $10 billion of our dollars over to Donald Trump with the case being adjudicated between his personal lawyers on one side. his personal lawyers on the other side. And the Speaker of the House, who sure doesn't seem to like the speaking [00:01:35] part of that job, has nothing to say about it. Okay, I've got something to say about it. We're going to catch everybody up on the facts. We're going see what Jackson has to say about it. So right now, yes, the DOJ is considering how much money do we give Donald Trump? Do we [00:01:51] give him 1 billion? Do we give him 5 billion? I don't know. Donald Trump's other post personal lawyer, how much do you think we should give him? That's what's going on right now. So in January, Trump with two of his sons and the Trump family business sued the IRS for $10 billion over the leak of their tax returns during the president's first term, which I [00:02:09] will remind you a guy is already in prison for having been done. They argued that the IRS should have done more to prevent a former contractor from disclosing tax information to the New York Times and ProPublica. Again, he's in prison right now for doing that. He's in prison. Donald [00:02:25] Trump is not in prison for all that he's done. The crimes he's committed in full plain view. That guy's in prison, but Trump deserves $10 billion because obviously all of the damage that was done to his businesses and his reputation and his electoral fortunes when we found out [00:02:40] that he doesn't pay any taxes. Oops, there was no damage done whatsoever because we are the dumbest least serious country in world history. We can find out. that this billionaire never pays any taxes and has been lying about being audited. And it doesn't hurt him at all. [00:02:55] There's literally no damages. So how can there possibly be money as recompense for damages? It seems ridiculous. I'll leave the facts to legal eagle. We will proceed with just another brief description. Generally, for a lawsuit to be valid, the two parties must actually be on opposite sides. Otherwise, the judge can throw out the case. In this case, obviously [00:03:15] they're on the same side. The DOJ, is literally being led by Todd Blanch, who is a personal lawyer to Donald Trump, who replaced the previous AG, who was also a personal lawyer to Donald Trump. It's all Donald Trump's lawyers bargaining over how much money to give him. That is obviously [00:03:35] ridiculous. Now let's make it just slightly more ridiculous. In addition to the money perhaps, they're talking about potentially dropping any audits of Trump, his family or businesses. First of all, I don't even know if I actually care about that because I don't believe the [00:03:52] audits are happening and I don't think anything will come of them. But even okay, let's say that you do think that they're a serious thing. What possible reason would you have to drop the audits? Because we did find out that he's been committing tax fraud. He's not paying his taxes. That's reason to do deeper audits, not to just free him up. But why not Jackson? [00:04:13] mean, the Supreme Court has already said he can do literally anything he wants. He can commit any crime. Why shouldn't the IRS get on board at this point? What do you think? I mean, yeah, why not? ABC gave him what $16 million? This dude has like $350 million in [00:04:31] a slush fund account in Qatar after they gave him a half billion dollar jet. uh The first oil sales from Venezuela went to, I can't remember the name of the organization, but some pack that gave him a bunch of money. The Board of Peace that he has that he's the president for [00:04:49] life of, he funneled over a billion dollars in taxpayer money to that and he has control over it. All the crypto deals, mean, this man is so corrupt, it's Like how we ever gonna be outraged about anything again in our lives? Like there's just no chance that anyone, well, [00:05:08] let me not say that, but there's just a very low chance that it will ever see this level of corruption again. It's $10 billion from the IRS for what? A penny from the IRS is [00:05:23] too much for this, but $10 billion, there was no thought process that went into that. You didn't do any math. You just woke up one day and said I want billions of dollars from the IRS. That's all this is. And Mike Johnson, a couple of days ago, he's up there and he [00:05:41] says, uh basically in the Bill of Rights, our natural rights are given to us by God, not by the government. Dude, shut up. The government can take away your rights. So what are you even there for? What are you there for other than to kiss Trump's boots? Yeah, and also [00:06:01] he's not even playing out the part well, Mike Johnson. Donald Trump has placed you in the congressional cuck chair. You're sitting there, you're supposed to comment on it as the guy sleeps with your constitution. You're supposed to chime in from time to time. How do you not [00:06:17] know? Anyway, the entire thing is utterly frustrating. Also, this is a hypothetical. Let me first lay out, as I've said many times, political violence is never acceptable. But to respond to a comment that the media made in uh response to the White House Correspondents Dinner attempted [00:06:34] shooting where they were like, why would a person do this? I mean, they're robbing us of $10 billion of taxpayer money. Don't do this, never do this, it's terrible to do this. But that might go a ways towards explaining why a deranged person might- they should do something [00:06:54] when this sort of stuff is happening. Especially when it comes on the back of so much other blatant corruption, like Donald Trump pardoning a tax cheat after his mother attended a $1 million dinner. So Donald Trump made a million dollars to pardon a tax cheat. He pardoned Julian Todd Chrisley, also frauds, tax evaders. Pardoned Palm Beach Gardens tax cheat two weeks [00:07:14] after the judge sentenced him to prison. Pardoned former New York representative Michael Grimm after tax fraud, just fraud after fraud after fraud after fraud and he sets them free. generally after they've committed even more fraud by bribing the President of United States. These are the sorts of things that are floating around the zeitgeist that might lead a deranged person [00:07:31] to do something insane. And meanwhile, like we're focusing on Mike Johnson, he's the Speaker of the House, the rest of them are scarcely any better. John Thune was asked about this. He said he was unfamiliar with the case. He asked to clarify, wait, do you mean 10 million [00:07:46] or 10 billion? Billion, 10 billion, that is news to me. Fault question. Should it be? Should it be news to you that he's gonna take $10 billion? What the? I can't swear he could rob you of [00:08:01] $10 billion, but I can't say the F word on YouTube. Shouldn't you know that they're gonna rob us of $10 billion? You are the majority leader of the greatest deliberative body in world history, and you don't know that they're gonna rob us of $10 billion? Representative Don [00:08:19] Bacon, said he thinks it looks bad. And that is the best response from a Republican we've been able to get Jackson. What do think? [00:08:36] uh Well, we are in a bit of a pickle here. I will say that. mean, I don't know, it's not my job to know anything. I'm only one of the most powerful people literally on the planet. It's not my job to know things. But it's the Republican Party, and this is why we're seeing [00:08:57] them. worked so hard over time to destroy the democratic process. I mean, what is the organization anymore? What is it? uh Besides bending over backwards for Donald Trump literally at every corner, except for, and I always have to point this out, they'll do anything Trump wants [00:09:17] except good things for the public. Except that. One of the things that was part of Donald Trump's platform was something called favored nation policy. And the goal of it was to lower prescription drug prices and Republican after Republican was like, nope. No, we're not doing [00:09:36] that. We'll do everything else. We won't do that. And also you will I mean, he's pardoned so many people, but he also pardoned Juan Hernandez, the big time coke trafficker. And then he pardoned Steve Womack's son, who was uh in prison. He was doing a federal sentence for [00:09:53] selling methamphetamine. And this is the same administration that we're blowing up fishermen off the coast of Venezuela and saying that they're drug boats, so we have the right to kill them. Meanwhile, you're pardoning people who are doing a fed sentence for meth. It's complete [00:10:12] incoherency.