There's no real estate investor isn't inflating the worth of their real estate.
You don't know anything about real estate, Jessica.
You rent. Look at that building right there.
Trump owns that building.
Take a look at the entire Manhattan skyline.
Just say that Trump owes all of these beautiful properties.
- He's built these things. - Oh, he actually said that.
What do you know about it? You rent.
That was a discussion about Donald Trump's legal woes.
On Monday's edition of the five, Jesse Watters, as usual,
ran cover for Donald Trump.
At this time, he insulted co-host Jessica Tarlov along the way,
alleging that because she's a renter, she couldn't possibly know enough about
real estate to comment on Donald Trump's financial troubles and financial fraud
for which he was found liable.
We'll get to the Fox segment again.
But just in case any of you have forgotten, what is it sort of at issue
here, the AP reports a judge ordered the former president to fork over $355 million
of his fortune plus interest, finding he lied for years
about his wealth and financial statements he used to secure loans and make deals
as he built the real estate empire that vaulted him to fame and the presidency.
The frauds found here leap off the page and shock the conscience, Judge
Arthur Engoron wrote in a 92 page decision that spares Trump's company from closure
but forces it into years of court supervision, among other sanctions.
Donald Trump now.
So of course, Donald Trump gets the $355 million penalty.
Initially, it adds up with interest to a bond that he would have to pay
a $450 million in order to appeal.
That bond just got reduced.
And there's a discussion about that $175 million.
But at the moment, the penalty itself, $450 million still stands, possibly at
the end of this unless it gets reversed.
So that's the New York civil fraud case.
In addition, in New York, Donald Trump is has also been charged with
34 criminal felony charges of falsifying records in the Stormy Daniels case.
That is the criminal case.
Walters brushed all of that under the rug in the five, calling the prosecutions
against Trump a savage attack on a man.
Because these people are mentally ill, They're just trying to attack him
any which way they can.
Donald Trump has great.
I mean, he thinks it's great representation.
He is being given due process.
He has gotten almost all of his requests from the Supreme Court
down to the state courts.
Okay.
And what you just said, beyond the incredibly rude way that you began
about the fact that I rent my apartment.
Yes, Jessica is basically giving him carte blanche to do everything
from storing classified documents and flouting subpoenas and not returning
them to fomenting an insurrection after he lost an election by millions of votes.
Not charged with that, is he?
What I'm saying, Jessica, what I'm saying is there's no victims
in any of these cases.
That's just flat wrong.
And by the way, anybody who would sort of stick their hand in the neighbor's face
on the set has got some serious problems.
And that's a whole other issue.
But in aside from being entirely wrong on the facts, as Jesse Waters often is,
and being wrong about Donald Trump and his crimes, Jesse Waters elitist
comment and his clear disdain for ordinary Americans should, in theory, also anger
a lot of the Fox News core audience.
Right?
Because about 30% of Americans rent 30. I'm sorry, 32% of Americans rent.
That's over 100 million people who rent. And a big chunk of them are Republicans.
And they also care about high housing costs as well.
According to a morning consult poll, 88% of Democrats and 75% of Republicans
said it was important that the federal government address high housing costs
that are contributing to inflation.
So for all the Fox viewers who are out there who think that Jesse Waters is
some kind of populist who cares about the economic challenges of average Americans,
he should know that he is absolutely not.
He is unhinged. He's clearly a sexist.
He's very immature.
And I don't know, I'm just I'm still surprised
was that the show does as well as it does.
I mean, maybe this is a deliberate effort by Jesse Waters to sort of play the role
of the clown, knowing that, you know, the audience kind of likes seeing him
get socked by Jessica Tarlov and kind of finds it sort of humorous
that he acts so immature.
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I believe people watch the show out of ritual.
I don't know that people are getting out of that show.
You know, their marching orders for how they should feel
about the country's politics.
It's kind of a morning zoo crew type of atmosphere up there.
We often see some of the crazy soundbites that come out of that crew.
But Jesse Waters, you know, he let his fangs show.
He let his he let it slip and show how he feels about actual normal people who have
to rent, who don't own vacation homes, who don't have, you know,
second and third properties where they're extracting rents and exploiting people.
He's he showed a contempt for people who aren't part of that club
and that class of Americans.
So we shouldn't be surprised by the empty suit at Fox News a walking, breathing.
Haircut that he would have these things to say about everyday, normal working people,
you know, who have to pay rent every month, myself included.
I can't afford a crib in Los Angeles, David.
Well, speaking of empty suits, I will admit that it goes both ways.
As I was telling your colleagues earlier, I actually own the house that I'm in now,
but that doesn't make me any more informed or any more of an expert on real estate
and real estate fraud.
And that part I still have lost on this stuff.
And even though you have monthly mortgage.
But I mean, so the point is just absurd and I wonder if it just sort of gets to
occasionally I could sort of see there's a sort of towel snapping kind of vibe
that comes across on the five, particularly in terms of the conservatives
Jesse Watters and Greg Gutfeld and how they interact with Jessica Tarlov,
who is clearly smarter than both of them combined, smarter
than everybody combined in that show.
So they kind of razz her a little bit with this sort of immature kind of thing,
because that's all they can do because they can't win on the actual arguments.
Yeah.
I don't think Jesse Waters is up there to present like some, you know, some
nice well crafted opinion or argument.
He's up there to, to be a smiling face for for and you know, he obviously understands
there's a, there's always a role to play when it comes to groveling
and being a Trump sycophant, particularly on Trump's favorite news station.
And so he's playing the game.
That guy's never had an original thought in his life.
Well, and to that point, I mean, Jesse Watters has already proclaimed
that he is for Donald Trump.
At least Donald Trump should be elected.
Wants to campaign for Donald Trump, even though I suppose that that goes
against Fox policy of where their anchors and hosts should be.
But in any case, the other part about it is you mentioned that he's not
a very bright man, and the irony is that the person he worked for at Fox
who held that slot before him, Bill O'Reilly, for all of Bill O'Reilly's
crazy conservative stuff, Bill O'Reilly is actually a very smart guy and was
a very sort of logical thinker and could you might disagree with his arguments,
but at least he had a compelling argument that he would put forward.
Jesse Watters can't put forward any sort of compelling, rational,
logical argument behind his thoughts.
It's all these sort of little sort of side jokes and putting his hand up
and oh, yeah, whatever, and just sort of dismissiveness,
which I find very off putting.
But maybe that's the way our culture has gone, particularly among
conservative media, that it's really no longer about actually having conservative
intellectual ideas and arguments.
Now it's just about being a jerk.
It's just about following Donald Trump and insulting people, even people
who are sitting right next to you.
I mean, the main mainstream conservative politics these days, it's no longer like
Milton Friedman and his, you know, his economic arguments about the hour and the
sanctity and purity of free markets and all of that crap that they were espousing
when the conservative movement first, you know, sort of started going like, that's
not the argument they're making anymore.
It's just it's just an argument of cruelty and anger and fear mongering.
There's no basis like, they're not going to get up there and be like,
oh, let's talk about how every single Republican wants to strip your granny
of Social Security and Medicare tomorrow.
If they could.
They're not going to do segments on that because nobody wants to hear that.
That's their actual policy beliefs, but nobody actually wants
to listen to them talk about that.
And, you know, try to give logic to that argument.
And so they go up there and do stuff like this.
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