Speaker 1: Hey, everybody. Welcome to The David Pakman Show. I'm producer Pat Forde,
filling in for David today. David is on vacation for much of this week. He will be back on Friday.
A number of Republicans are calling for the arrest of Joe Biden and also Hunter Biden
and any other Democrats that they can possibly trumped up charges against as a way to retaliate
against Donald Trump getting indicted and then arrested last week in New York. Now,
what issues do they want to arrest Biden and these other Democrats over? That's not
as important. They just want to do this because they see it as a way to get vindication. Right.
Because Donald Trump, for once in his entire life, is finally being held accountable to some degree,
to some small degree after his years and years of criminality. I spoke about this matter on last
week's Friday bonus show, the award winning world famous bonus show, I might add. But there have
since been more Republicans adding to this chorus of right wing calls to do something like this to
to levy charges against Joe Biden and these other Democrats. First and foremost, we're hearing from
Congressman James Comer, who chairs the House Oversight Committee. He went on Fox and Friends
late last week to comment on how there are these district attorneys in places like Kentucky and
Tennessee who are trying to come up with some way to charge the Bidens, even though
they don't know what issue they're going to do it over. Let's take a look at this clip.
Speaker 2: And I had two calls yesterday, one from a county attorney in Kentucky and one from
a county attorney in Tennessee. They were Republican, obviously, that both states are
heavily Republican. They want to know if there are ways they can go after the Bidens now. And they've
opened up a can of worms. They've set precedents now that we can't go back on. And now we're going
to see a judicial system that's already bogged down with doing what they're supposed to do,
and that's going after real criminals, people that are committing real crimes.
Speaker 1: Now, what jurisdiction would these days have to indict Biden? There, of course, isn't any
because the crime would have had to take place in one of those two states. Remember Donald Trump's
hush money payment that took place in New York City? And where are the charges coming from about
this? You guessed it, New York City. The issues that Republicans talk about potentially indicting
Biden on have to do with his supposed corruption, even though they really can't articulate it all
that well. But they'll mention Ukraine or China or some other foreign country. Sometimes they'll
talk about the classified documents scandal that implicated Joe Biden, even though Donald Trump
is way more guilty on that topic. So if you're going to go after Biden on this, it stands to
reason you'd also have to go after Donald Trump. If you do go after Biden on any of these topics,
it would probably need to come from the federal governments or at least involve the states in
question like the supposed crime that took place would have had to have taken place in
one of these states. But the fact is that this has nothing to do with, you know, trying to stay
consistent or trying to uphold the rule of law or trying to, you know, make sure that this is done
in a proper way. It really is just about getting vindication. We're also now hearing from whiney,
hysterical right wing talk show host Mark Levin about this topic. He's also trying to get someone,
anyone to charge Joe Biden and the Democrats for what? Again, not important, but he just knows that
it has to be done. Here's Mark Levin. Speaker 3: And once again,
from multiple times the show's heard all over the country. It's heard all over the world, actually.
I'm asking Republican prosecutors out there to take a very good look at your own statutes,
local, state and even federal, but particularly the state prosecutors,
the DA's, the state prosecutors and so forth.
See if there's anything there that you can use to charge Biden or any senior Democrat official.
I mean, if you're not 100% certain, you're 80% certain that it'll fly, then do it.
So the only way this will stop. Do it. Because otherwise this will continue. You'd be doing it
for your country. You'd be doing it in the name of the law. It is a legitimate reply in response.
It's the only way to at least begin the process of clawing us back from the abyss
because we're already falling into the abyss. Speaker 1: In addition to the days in Tennessee
and Kentucky that Conor mentioned and Mark Levin talking about how we got to charge Biden, we're
also hearing from Tom Fitton, who is the president of the conservative legal group Judicial Watch. He
said, quote, All bets are off. You can expect grand jury indictments of leftist politicians
like Biden, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer as surely as
night follows day. Mike Davis, a former chief counsel for nominations on the Senate Judiciary
Committee and president of the Article three project, said that, quote, If New York can turn
a routine settlement of a business dispute seven years ago into a felony, I think our Republican
AGs and D.A. should get creative. Get creative is what he says. Like he seems to admit there that
there's no actual reason to charge the Bidens. It would be right to do so. But he wants them to get
creative. He went on to say that two wrongs don't make a right, but it does make it even. And that's
what this is about, getting even. So he's out now saying, yeah, we're we're just going to make it
up. We're just going to come up with whatever reason we can charge the Bidens on hearing from
these Republicans. You would think that Donald Trump just didn't get a pass like he did over
and over again throughout the entire course of his political career. He did get a pass and now
he's finally to the smallest degree, being held accountable for just one of these alleged crimes.
This is the hush money payment, of course, the incident that took place back in 2016. His then
fixer, Michael Cohen, who has since been a guest on this program, went to prison over this. Donald
Trump was a sitting president at the time, and he was protected by this idea that there's this
long standing precedent that you can't charge a sitting president. It hasn't actually been tested
before. But that's long been the tradition here in this country. But that wasn't the only issue
that you could have possibly gone after Trump on. Of course, there was the Russia scandal
where Robert Mueller concluded his report that Donald Trump should be charged for obstruction of
justice. But since it was believed you couldn't indict a sitting president, he was saying that
it's actually Congress's responsibility to hold him accountable, accountable Congress should
impeach Donald Trump. And of course, they ended up not doing that. Then there was the scandal
in Ukraine, which would have been criminal if done by anyone else who was not a sitting president,
you know, withholding congressionally approved aid from a country, saying that he's not going
to give that to him unless they dig up dirt on his political opponent. Then there's, of course,
the fraudulent business practices that the Trump organization committed where he would inflate the
value of his assets when it was time to take out a loan and he would deflate them when it was time
to pay taxes. They chose not to go after Trump personally on this matter just to hold the company
accountable. There's obviously the phone call in Georgia where he pressured Brad Raffensperger to
find him, 11,280 votes that didn't exist when it was clear that he had lost the election.
Hopefully, there will be some accountability on that. Hopefully, we eventually get some charges
out of Georgia, but thus far, it hasn't happened. There's the January 6th insurrection where he sent
his supporters to the Capitol to commit a coup, and then he didn't try to stop them. Once the
coup is actually unfolding, there's a classified document scandal, which I alluded to before, where
he took sensitive information to Mar a Lago and then lied about giving the documents back when he
actually didn't got to the point where the FBI had to actually conduct a search on his home and seize
the documents to get them back to the National Archives. So all of these things and more all of
these things are indictable infractions. He's only so far being held accountable for one of them,
just one of them. And it's probably the least serious of all of them. And for whatever reason,
Republicans feel as though this is grounds to go after Democrats on and, you know,
make this a tit for tat sort of thing. So Trump has gotten away with so much. What
would it take for Republicans to accept that he was actually worthy of prosecution without
turning this into a political game? Like, would he actually have to shoot someone on Fifth Avenue,
even if that happened? Even if he did shoot someone on Fifth Avenue, I think they would
still bring the conversation back to Hunter Biden and the laptop from hell. But that's
the latest Republicans trying to make up charges against Joe Biden and the other Democrats that
they want to make their new political targets. I hope that the American public sees through this.
I hope that if Biden actually is indicted for some reason, then that the American public will be able
to understand that it's Republicans just trying to play dirty political games. And Biden isn't
actually worthy of being charged for anything. But that's what Republicans are doing right now.