Speaker 1: Donald Trump is panicking now, predicting another arrest.
This is not the Georgia arrest, although maybe it is.
This seems to be the second.
Federal arrest that Trump is now awaiting Trump posting to his platform.
Truth, Social.
Speaker 2: Truth Essential.
Speaker 1: Quote.
I assume that an indictment from deranged Jack Smith and his highly partizan gang of
capital T thugs pertaining to my peacefully and patriotically speech will be coming out
any day now as yet another attempt to cover up all of the bad news about bribes, payoffs
and extortion coming from the Biden camp.
This seems to be the way they do it.
Election interference, prosecutorial misconduct, of course.
None of this has been demonstrated.
There's not a shred of evidence of any of this.
But Trump is panicking.
He's almost out of money to pay legal fees, which, of course, he's grifting from his followers.
We'll get to that in a moment.
But Trump also adding on troth, quote, The radical left Democrat thugs shouldn't be allowed
to investigate me during and in the middle of my campaign for president.
Why didn't they file these ridiculous charges 2.5 years ago?
They waited because they wanted to illegally and negatively influence the 2024 presidential
election, arguably the most important election in the history of the USA.
We are going to take our now third world nation airports, elections, roads, highways, borders,
etc. and make America great again, be strong.
So a couple of different things there.
First of all, when you're posting this sort of stuff, it's not going well.
It is not going well even remotely.
But the framing of this entire story, as you might guess, is false.
One of the really important things to understand with this new argument that the charges were
delayed until such time that they would be more politically advantageous for Joe Biden.
Two different things on that.
Number one, if you really wanted to make the charges as damaging as possible to Trump,
you wouldn't do them now.
You would wait.
So the first thing is, is this actually the ideal time to file charges if you're trying
to hurt Trump, the answer is no.
It would be, I believe, better if you're trying to make it so Trump isn't even the nominee.
You would wait until we're closer to the first primary votes.
However, it seems that Biden is doing quite well against Donald Trump, and thus, if you
really wanted to use charges politically, the timing to hurt Trump, you would let Trump
become the nominee, then dump all the charges on him.
Once it's Trump versus Biden, they're not doing that.
So the argument that these the timing of all of these indictments is to help Joe Biden.
It's not the best time to help Joe Biden.
Second part of the argument that's nonsense is that Trump says they could have charged
him years ago, except they delayed on purpose for political reasons.
Some of this stuff Trump is getting charged for happened just months ago.
And certainly in the post-presidential period.
It is normal that with federal charges it can take 12 to 18 months to complete an investigation.
Some of the stuff they're talking about is from last summer, the moving around of boxes,
documents, all these different things, the aftermath of it.
So it is perfectly reasonable that you wouldn't be able to get what you need in order to finalize
a charging decision until now.
None of it is true.
It's almost.
Oh.
One other thing.
Trump also says you really shouldn't be able to investigate me when I'm running for president
or if I'm the nominee or whatever.
When Trump was president, the argument was he's the president.
You shouldn't be able to investigate a president.
You shouldn't be able to charge the president or any of it.
Then it was, well, he's a potential candidate now.
He's an actual candidate.
If he wins the Republican nomination, it will be you can't investigate the guy who's the
actual Republican nominee.
And if we are so unlucky and unfortunate that Trump becomes president again, it will again
go to Oh, no, no, no, no.
You got to wait till he's 85 and out of office or however old he would be before you can
actually investigate or charge, no matter what's going on.
It's the wrong time.
That's their argument.