44 posts from Friday, January 12, 2024

Well, thank you very much, as you know, because it is an unconstitutional witch hunt. It's election interference at the highest level, it's a disgrace. It's in coordination with the White House and Joe Biden, because he can't win a campaign fairly. And we're going through it, but he is indeed a terrible witch hunt. We're going to have a news conference a little later on. As you know, I want to speak, I want to make the summation. At this moment, the judge is not letting me make the summation because I'll bring up things that he doesn't want to hear. And it's a very unfair drought, nobody's seen anything like this. I don't think they've ever seen anything like this. We have a situation where a statute was used that doesn't give me a jury, so I have no jury. I really have no rights, and nobody thinks it's constitutional people. Illegal scholars are writing about it like it's something they've never seen before. So it's interference, it's political interference, and it's something that shouldn't be allowed. So I am hoping to speak and to help my lawyers reveal all of the defects of this case, which have never been brought. Very, very strong financial statements, they thought it was the opposite, they had no idea because I'm a private company, and then they saw them knock their socks off, you couldn't believe it. But great financial statements, everything is good. We have a level of detail in our defense that nobody's ever had. This is a case that should have never been brought, and it was brought. And it's very unfair, and it's very bad for New York State. People are fleeing, the streets are driving, and Latisha James, all she thinks about is get drunk. She's been dreaming about it for years, and it's not the way a state should be run, because this is a state that's been in big trouble. You have all the businesses fleeing, and you have the people fleeing, the people that pay taxes, people that don't pay taxes are coming in, so it's not what you want. So I want to thank you. We're going to have a news conference today. We don't know the time. We don't know the time, we'll notify you, but sometime in the early afternoon at 40 Wall Street, so we'll give a news conference where we can actually speak and have a microphone here, because even then, they don't want us to have, and they really don't want us to speak too much. So we'll see whether or not the judge allows me to speak. Perhaps he won't, but I certainly would like to. Thank you very much.

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-This is just an attorney general that hates Donald Trump and wanted to work for governor, wanted to work for attorney general. And it's a shame. I think she should be criminally liable for this. She did this to Exxon, and they drove Exxon out of New York. Exxon paid billions of dollars for taxes. They're now living in Texas. Exxon is very happy in Texas. Other companies, because of what's happening here, are gonna be moving out of New York also. This is an out-of-control attorney general. She's totally out of control. These loans were all good. The banks were extremely happy with me. They still are. We built a great company. We have a company that's very liquid, very strong, great assets, and she sued me because she wanted the publicity to run for office. They find nothing wrong, and I think if anybody was being fair about it -- and I'm not sure you could even hear me because they don't allow microphones over here, which is ridiculous, but if anybody's fair about it, you see, this is a case that should have never been brought And I think we should be entitled to damages.

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-Well, Congressman Issa is absolutely right. Whether it was the UN Relief Agency, where its teachers, its students, and others were praising Hamas's martyrs, justifying rocket attacks, President Trump defunded it, also defunded UNESCO for its anti-Israel bias. Biden restored it to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. We recently voted to defund it again on top of the fact that, under Trump, they tried to at least get Hamas sanctioned and labeled. No one voted for it, not even the UK and France. But the biggest thing that I watched, Sean, under President Trump, because of his maximum-pressure campaign on Iran -- we can't forget the head of the snake here -- Hezbollah, Hamas, the militias in Iraq, the Iranian-backed ones -- were all complaining that they were running out of money. Their coffers were dried up. They couldn't afford to pay their fighters. That was all under President Trump. Now they're flush with cash, and they're unleashing hell upon Israel and the entire world. We've got to get back to those maximum-pressure policies. That's why we got to get Trump back in the White House.

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And, again, we have a secretary of defense who's on bedrest who was missing or not in touch or nobody was looking for him for days. So how does the administration at this point still keep the American public in the dark with the president, you know, calling a lid tonight? This seems like I can't imagine this having happened in the Trump administration. Well, it wouldn't have for several reasons. Either President Trump would be under wing or in the press briefing room or calling reporters into the Oval Office. If it were later into the night, maybe he'd be firing off a couple of tweets that we were told were so chaotic and so crisis-laden. But at least then you would know what the commander in chief was thinking. You would also have spokespeople from the Department of Defense. Look, I think that the secretary of defense being absent all those days should concern everyone because they basically proved he's not a vital part of the conversation here or the coordination. Laura, this is exactly why who's commander in chief is important. And when you stop designating terrorists as terrorists, you're asking them, you're inviting them to be terrorists again, and you're inviting them to threaten America, her interests, her people and her values, her freedom. I think what the gentlemen were just saying is incredibly important because when people look at this, they say this is not some distant fight that's not ours. People are so concerned now that what's happening there is affecting us here. And this is why President Trump long ago pivoted to a general election strategy against Biden. He wants you to think about their two presidencies, their two administrations, sure, economy, energy, border. But this particularly, as he said last night in Fox News' town hall, first president in 72 years did not start a new war. We called terrorists terrorists. We brought hostages home. If you look at Iran, who funds so much of what we're talking about in this world, it's so scary. When you look at Iran, they were starving to make deals by the time we left our administration. Now they basically impose 3 million barrels a day. They stockpile over 80 billion. You know where it's going. You see on the screen where it's going. But Laura and Molly, I think this is why even in the personal attribute questions, Trump is beating Biden, who has a plan, who cares about the middle class, who has the energy and ability, who has the vision and experience, but also on all the major issues, security and affordability. People are very concerned and they are against Biden. I think they're height-inviting. Do you know, last point, we've heard more about and from Hunter Biden than Joe Biden the last few days. We've seen more of Hunter than Joe Biden. Molly. Disgrace. Well, it was interesting last night. One of the questions that was asked at the town hall was about some concern that people might have that chaos would return if Trump were elected. And Trump's answer was pointing out some of the chaos that we're seeing in the country right now, not just domestically, but internationally. And this is a really serious situation. I mean, it's a serious situation that the Houthis have been bombing shipping routes and that that affects so many things. Something needs to be done about this. But we've also been in conflict, either in a proxy way or otherwise, with these people for quite some time now. This is the third administration. And you want to have good communication with the American people. You also want to do things in a constitutional manner. And again, Biden is not the first president to violate what the Constitution says about how Congress should be involved when launching airstrikes. But this is a good example of why Congress should be involved because we do need to think about to the point that. What's next? Yeah. Well, and also how we're going to deal with this being involved in a global conflict in multiple parts. When we're broke. Yes. And but but it matters to people and how we do it matters. And it doesn't seem like a lot of our defense industry or that our defense leadership have been thinking about how to effectively win wars. They're very good about entering into it. Well, we haven't won a war since World War II. Right. They're very good about having them go for a long time. Seventy eight years. Yeah. But we need to know more about what their strategy is before we let them do yet another one. I think Billy Joel saying it's a matter of trust. You know, who's trusting what's happening here? And that's why you really do have to have someone in place. You can say, OK, even if we disagree with this action, they're laying it out for us. Peace through strength. That's what President Trump talked about last night. And when you have a weak economy, when you're self loathing and talk about this one a little bit, you're teaching people to hate your country. You're supporting the pro-Hamas protesters on college campuses. Maybe they're going to be supporting the Hutis tomorrow. I think this is why Trump right now is he really is re realigning what's the traditional Democratic coalition of voters. I mean, he's really burrowing into Hispanics and African-Americans, independents, first time voters who are young or maybe not young. Maybe they're just first time voters, Laura. But the other the other thing here is that we made it the party of the worker. We made it that it was administration that was there for the worker. When you look at when you even talk to Iowa's caucus goers, they're mentioning things like this. They're not just talking about inflation. They're not just talking about the cost of gas and groceries and the border crisis. They're talking about what's going on all around the world, the hot spots. And we were told crisis in a tweet, chaos and palace intrigue. There's crisis and chaos everywhere we look. Everywhere you look at them once again. I remember the the adults will now be in charge and see what's going on there. But you know, we do have a real different vision here of foreign policy. And I think we were robbed of that in the 2020 election to have an actual debate about whose foreign policy was better. It was kind of asserted by corporate media that Biden had a better foreign policy. And we now have this unique situation where we can just compare compare the four years under the Trump administration with the four years under Biden and see who had the just objectively speaking a far better record. Does that not speak to the fact that the US media has so fallen down on its job to first vet Joe Biden in 2020? He was not up to the job. Everybody knew it and they hit it for him. He was a hologram candidate and he's a hologram president who calls the lid on a night like tonight. This is a failure across the board of the elites, the establishment and the corporate media. Molly, you hit this every day. They have a lot to be accountable here tonight. Yeah, and they're very much responsible for getting us into this situation by failing to vet. And it's why it's so important that people are able to have a good evaluation of what they're getting into. There's one reason and the name is Trump. Everything flows from Trump. If you challenge anyone to answer a question about Joe Biden as our commander in chief for our foreign policy or this secretary of defense being missing and you asked him to answer the question, Laura Molly, they can't go 10 words or 10 seconds without saying Trump five times. They're so obsessed with him and so the Trump deranged incision was real. There's no vaccine, no therapeutic for it. And it's so real that it was okay not to vet him. It's okay to lie. It's okay to pretend that what you see, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, not up to the task while we are at war in so many places, including at our southern border. That's okay because the alternative is Trump. It's outrageous. I actually think that's part of the reason why they have such hatred toward Trump. You remember in 2016, they said, if you were elected, we would have nuclear conflict. We would have conflict all over the world. He wouldn't be up to handling the task of all these global issues and play. And then when he not only won, which surprised so many people, but then did such an effective job and you see even again with the town hall last night where he had pretty effective responses to these questions that were being asked. I actually think that's part of the reason why people hate him so much is that they resent that he has command and control and is funny and is engaging with people. This was all over the internet 12 hours ago, that this was going to take place. President Trump was dining with President Xi of China at Mar-a-Lago and I was between the main course and dessert, you know, we unleashed a missile attack against one of our adversaries. Nobody knew about it. Syria. Yeah. Yeah. Remember, remember it very well. He said they didn't have a 12 hour notice that this was going to happen. He said that crazy person gassed kids and here's my response. And well, but isn't that funny too? We were told we were the leakers. Nobody even knew things like that were happening as they were happening. And what does President Trump even said it last night in the Fox News Town Hall? He said, they broadcast everything or he said in an interview recently, they broadcast everything. You don't tell your enemies what you're going to do before you do it. They're enemies for a reason. They don't, we don't have this kind of discipline, we don't have this kind of coordination and collaboration right now because Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as a number one and number two in our nation's government make otherwise smart people say really stupid things all the time. We have a cabinet of firsts and then we have Tony Blinken, who started his tenure as secretary of state, essentially getting lectured by China over that meeting in Alaska. And now headline of the New York Times, Blinken talks a grand vision for Mideast peace, but hits a wall in Israel, strikes expand battleground for the West, for the war in the Middle East. I mean, it's not surprising. There's been a very muddled vision there. There've been mixed messages about what our role is with Israel and

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Political campaigns are traditionally staged at rallies, town halls, even small-town diners. Local politicking where the candidate shakes hands, kisses babies, and persuades voters. Not this year. Biden's campaign's called a lid because-- why campaign when you're arresting your rival? Donald Trump in court today facing a financial assassination attempt. The former president asked Judge Nudy to delay closing arguments so he could mourn the passing of Melania's mother. Judge Nudy said no. And barred him from making a closing argument. Seems totally fair. And Trump's tormentor, New York Attorney General Letitia James, was all smiles. She brought a case that's never been tried in New York's 400-year history. No jury, no victim, and the defendant wasn't allowed to speak. I wonder where a case like this came from. It's a witch hunt in the truest sense of the word. It's election interference. And it just came out. This was just-- right now, Letitia James visited Joe Biden in the White House numerous times during the Trump witch hunt. It's all a conspiracy to try and get Biden, who can't put two sentences together, trying to get him into office. That just broke. The White House has now confirmed the prime time that Letitia James visited the White House not once, not twice, three times. Before she sued the president, while she was suing the president, and then once to see Kamala. But it's not just Letitia James in New York with the conspiracy with Biden. We're learning that district attorney Fannie Willis in Georgia also visited the White House, partied with Kamala and others. And the week after, the giggly wicken, the grand jury's wacky forewoman, recommended charges against Donald Trump. You know Fannie. The DA who appointed the man, she was diddling to prosecute Trump. Loverboy had never tried a felony. So Fannie handed him almost $1 million in taxpayer cash and said, go get him. And Loverboy took the cash and then took Fannie on steamy Caribbean cruises. Fannie's Loverboy also conspiring with the White House, holding long meetings with the White House council, even billing them. And when Fannie wasn't getting sexual kickbacks and colluding with Biden's White House, she had Adam Schiff on speed dial. Fannie was working with Adam Schiff in the January 6th case to build the Georgia prosecution. You remember the January 6 committee that banned Republicans from joining and then destroyed all the evidence they collected? It's almost as if Biden's running the Trump prosecutions from the White House. -My legal issues, every one of them, every one, civil and the criminal ones, are all set up by Joe Biden, crooked Joe Biden. Every time somebody sees me in court, I remember Joe Biden and his thugs that surround him did it. -All cases against Trump brought after he announced, all cases brought by Democrat prosecutors. But Biden assists. His political rival is being prosecuted independently. -I have never once, not one single time, suggested the Justice Department what they should do or not do rather than bring it to charge and not bring it to charge. I'm honest. Now, when you have to insist, you're honest, you're lying. I have kids, trust me. Every single one of Trump's prosecutions leads directly back to Biden. It's political law fair, and Biden's the general. But the media says Biden's clean, and Trump wants to be nailed to the cross. Listen. -There is no campaign without the court. He has made this, these legal issues, all the charges, the indictments, the centerpiece of his campaign because he doesn't want to be talking about policy. -It's got to be part of the campaign. He is portraying himself as the victim, the victim of a witch hunt, the victim of political persecution by Joe Biden, all lies. It's part of this narrative he builds around himself where he's like a Christ-like figure, a martyr. -What politician doesn't love being mugshotted and framed with felonies? I'm surprised all candidates haven't tried to get arrested so they don't have to fly to Iowa. It's cold. But in between kangaroo court hearings, Trump's flying to Iowa at last night's Fox Town Hall. I expected the president to be fuming. Biden judges are accusing him of having an assassination fetish. I'd expect he'd want retribution. He doesn't. -I'm not gonna have time for retribution. We're gonna make this country so successful again. I'm not gonna have time for retribution. And remember this -- our ultimate retribution is success. -That's a great answer. But maybe we could find time for a little retribution. Maybe make time for me, for us. I mean, the media said Trump likes trial by courtroom, so he doesn't have to talk policy. But last night, he talked policy for the whole hour. -Biden drove up the cost of energy. That's what caused inflation, but it's also what caused Putin to become rich enough to go and prosecute a war. By the way, Iran was broke. Iran was broke. I said to China, "If you buy oil from Iran, you're not dealing in here." Energy is so big, it's such a big deal, that when energy goes up, if you make donuts, if you make hamburgers, if you -- Anything you do, you have trucks that deliver your product, you have to heat your stoves, your ovens. Anything you do, it's all energy. They should vote for me, because I'm gonna cut their energy price in half. -That's the difference between the Trump and the Biden campaign. Trump's making his campaign about you, and Biden's making his campaign about Trump. He has to, because he can't run on his record. -I took in $400 billion in tariffs and taxes from China, and one of the reasons China's not doing so well today is because of those tariffs. -And Biden wants to cut him. You know, he got paid off by China, after all, so he wants to help the people that gave him a lot of money. But he's a Manchurian candidate, in the true sense. He got money from China, got money from Russia. -What's really going on here is this. Biden's trying to keep Trump in court so he can't talk about policy, because Trump's policies are popular. They brought us peace and prosperity. He wants to keep Trump in court so he can't talk about the Biden bribery scandal. He wants to keep Trump in court so that Trump talks about Trump. So, as long as Trump talks about Biden, policy, and you, this election is a lock.

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