Well, it appears that Donald Trump has lost his touch or
at least his ability to persuade his supporters to riot on his behalf.
This follows his calls for
his supporters to protest before the Manhattan District Attorney's office
after he alleged that he will be arrested this week by the Manhattan DA.
Now, there are some indications that he could potentially be indicted and
arrested in connection to the hush money payments paid to Stormy Daniels.
But putting that aside for a second, just focusing on the lack of protests
that ensued following Donald Trump's demand that they do protest.
It's interesting because they have a conspiracy theory that this is
all just a trap, okay?
So let's get to those details.
Infowars contributor, for instance,
Paul Joseph Watson pulled 1850 truth social users.
With the question is the potential protest against Trump being arrested,
a J6-style trap to which 85% of respondents voted, yes.
Now that is a reference to the fact that Donald Trump encouraged his supporters and
rally goers to march to the Capitol.
And essentially get Mike Pence to do their bidding and reverse the results of
the election that led to riots that led to hundreds of Trump supporters
getting arrested and charged for their involvement and Trump abandoned them.
Didn't pardon a single one of them didn't help any of them with legal
fees associated with fighting their charges.
And so that is what they're referring to there.
Now, some Proud Boy chapters have circulated an image of Ray Epps,
an Arizona man who unwittingly became the central
focus of the what they refer to Fedsurrection conspiracy.
If you see this man at a protest next week, do not follow him anywhere.
North Carolina Proud Boys chapter wrote on telegram,
contact your local Proud Boy chapter and report his whereabouts.
So in other words, they are under this assumption that again, it's just a trap.
It's a conspiracy, I guess with the FBI's involvement to get all
these folks to do something that will get them arrested.
>> Yeah, look, I don't want them going out there because I'm worried that the minute
you've got radical right wingers who are going to go by nature,
go to this type of event, they're going to have violence, right?
So I I hope not, but that's what happened on January 6th.
By the way, remember to be fair.
The right wing there were tons of people on January 6th and not all of them went
into the Capitol, the majority of them did not go into the Capitol, okay?
So if they just got together and protested, great,
you have no obligation to come protest and then break the law,
they broke into the Capitol, they just chanted hang Mike Pence, etcetera.
If you just came to the Capitol and didn't do any of those things,
there would've been nothing wrong with January 6th, right?
But I love that the conspiracy theories are coming back to bite them in the grass
here because now everything is a conspiracy, right?
So they're like you want us to support Donald Trump must be
a conspiracy to not support Donald Trump.
So I'm not gonna fall into your trap.
I love it, that's great.
I didn't even know I set that trap.
>> I just, I don't really understand their conspiracy theory here because
Donald Trump is the one who was egging them on, but they think that it's the FBI
behind this that's trying to get them all arrested for being Trump supporters.
>> And I got news for you.
>> I know, I know, I know, I know.
Look, but know that this is, this is actually there is a silver lining here,
okay, aside from the fact that they did not take Trump's bait and
show up to riot before the District Attorney's office.
It's that turns out arresting and charging people does serve as a deterrent.
They saw those hundreds of Trump supporters get arrested, charged and
in many cases convicted of pretty serious crimes.
In some cases seditious acts and they saw them,
they're like, no, don't, don't, don't want that, it's, it's a deterrent.
>> I'm going to jump in on that one because one of the most maddening debates
of my lifetime in politics is both from the left and the right, the left says
it about things like the death penalty and crime and general sometimes and
the right says that about guns is that deterrence doesn't work.
That's just not true.
Have you met a human being?
Hey, you can do this name, whatever it is and there'll be no consequence, or
you can do this and spent two years in a lockup with terrible food and no freedom.
Yeah, that's gonna affect somebody's decision making, of course and
the level of certainty matters, etcetera.
No deterrence is very, very real.
If you think it doesn't exist in the world.
I'm sorry, I love you, but I hate to break it to you.
You're just wrong.
>> Now I wanted to give one more example of Trump supporters thinking that this
is all a conspiracy by the Feds QAnon influencer Ghost Ezra real name,
Robert Smart, who has nearly 200,000 subscribers on telegram, also
suggested that any protest over Trump's this week would be teeming with federal.
>> Well, that's true.
There's going to be a lot of police and there's going to be Federal agents to make
sure that there isn't rioting like you guys did last time
>> but that's not a conspiracy.
That's just being prepared.
>> Thats called policing, okay?
Look, guys, if you want to warn, if you're right winger and
you're in like the Q and Amaga, what all these guys, right?
And you want to warn your site, hey, listen, if you go to protest,
don't fall in the trap of anyone egging you on to do violence or breaking the law.
Great, that's a wonderful message.
I wish you did that every time,
we do that every time on the left do not ever fall into a trap.
And sometimes there are agents that try to entrap you into doing violence.
Well, easy way to fix that.
Don't do it, okay?
So you have every right in the world of protest as an American citizen,
you don't have the right to do violence or break the law.
Easy distinction.
>> Now, Ben Collins had a Twitter thread that showed what the scene looked like.
Was there a big protest and I just want to reiterate.
There was not a big protest.
That is good news.
Okay, so by the way, big protest that's peaceful.
There's nothing wrong with that.
As Jake mentioned earlier, there is something wrong with riots,
but one of his tweets says I'm at the pro Trump protest put on by
the New York Young Republicans Club not a joke.
There are more reporters here than Trump supporters.
This was supposed to be a big one and nothing got out of hand,
which again is good news.
Now, final part of this story that I'm personally amused by because Trump
just can't help himself.
He's fundraising off of this.
Of course, he is. So, so here it is.
Insider was able to obtain an email that Trump had sent out, and
they see that he's trying to fundraise off of it.
And by the way, if you, if you look at this, it says, thank you.
Your name was successfully added to the petition, and
then it directs people to the fundraiser page.
And if you notice the fundraising options include $24.47 dollars,
$75, $ 100 dollars, and
you can donate up to $3000 if you choose one of the preset donation amounts.
>> That makes A lot of sense because when Trump says protest,
he means give me money.
>> 100%.
>> [LAUGH] That's a unique form of protest.
I hadn't thought of give him credit for ingenuity.
Last thing in Florida, this is he is in Mar A Lago in Florida.
If you're a right winger, you do come to protest and you block the streets as
happens sometimes on January 6th, mainly it was the Capitol Hill issue.
But if you block the streets in front of Mar A Lago, for example,
that is a felony in Florida because the Santas passed the law against left wing
protesters protesting corporations.
He didn't like that, and he wanted to make sure that if you step one step
inside a public road and as you're protesting an oil company or
something, you're going to go away for a long time.
>> I'm sure that law will be applied equally and will not at all be applied in
a biased manner that favors some protesters while disfavoring others.
>> But here, let's have fun in planting conspiracy theory.
Did De Santis pass that law?
Because he knew that there would be protests in front of wanted to
arrest the Trump supporters.
>> Maybe.
>> It's a felony, you'll be facing serious prison time.
>> Think about it.
>> And hey, it isn't me.
It's the Santis take it up with him.
A loss of freedom for some of us means a loss of freedom for all of us.
Keep that in mind.