One thing that makes America the city on the hill is
confidence in our justice system.
And today, what we see is a justice system where the scales are weighted.
That seems to be the outcome of where we are today.
As President of the United States, I would purge all of the injustices and
impurities in our system so that every American can have confidence
that they will be seen by the lady of justice with a blindfold on.
>> I do find it ironic that he is now saying that he can identify systemic
injustices in our justice system, when on The View earlier this week,
he was pretending they've never existed.
That was Tim Scott.
He's doing what basically, all of the challengers to Trump,
they're running against him, and they're taking it very seriously,
they wanna beat him, have to do.
They have to go out and they have to say something.
And some are a little bit critical of him, most incredibly defensive.
Deferential to Donald Trump, like you saw with Tim Scott right there.
By the way, that was just a short clip of Tim Scott's appearance on Fox News.
You can watch the entire thing and what you'll notice,
he is not going to engage with any of the details that have been revealed.
Nothing about what Trump has said, about the movement of the documents, the content
of the documents, it's all super vague, almost like that's a coincidence.
Well, we've also got Ron DeSantis.
Ron DeSantis put out a tweet last night saying that this
is weaponization of federal law enforcement.
We can't be using the law based on people's political affiliation.
We can't have political bias.
I assume that all of this is satire mocking his own history in Florida and
the way he's used law enforcement there to target liberals.
But anyway, we have Nikki Haley saying this is not how justice should be pursued
in this country, it's prosecutorial overreach.
Again, none of them engaging with anything specific having to do with the case.
What's interesting is that some of those, they've been pitching themselves as
being more aggressive towards Trump are not yet using this opportunity.
Chris Christie is saying that he's gonna be super aggressive.
He was coming out swinging this week, pointing out the Kushners' corruption.
He just said he would wait for more facts to be revealed, that's it.
Mike Pence said that it's deeply troubling, and
he also said that no one is above the law.
But earlier this week in a town hall,
he said that they shouldn't be charging him at all, and
he would refuse to say whether he would pardon Trump if he had the opportunity.
There are some other people who are technically running.
Hutchinson, by the way, is the only one who was openly critical of Donald Trump.
That's a candidate, anyway.
Mitt Romney, a few others have put out statements that are critical.
But of those who are running against him, only one of the nine or so
is willing to actually attack Trump based on it.
>> Yeah, so why are they doing that?
Because the Republican base loves Trump.
The Republican base doesn't mind him breaking the law at all.
In fact, if you say that Trump broke the law, your career is probably done.
So I mean, Chris Christie's whole point is not necessarily to win, but
to just obliterate Trump on behalf of the establishment, and
even he's worried about saying it.
That's kind of remarkable.
Because Republican voters are screaming in unison,
we love this criminal, give us more.
The more indictments there are, the more we love him, okay?
That just means he's being targeted.
I mean, the fact that he broke all those laws is irrelevant to them.
And that's why, by the way, every one of these candidates,
as John pointed out, are being vague.
And they're all going to the same exact talking point, double standard,
double standard.
Okay, so let's say there's a double standard, and this one guy killed a guy,
another one also killed him, and one guy got charged and the other one didn't.
Isn't the issue the guy who didn't get charged,
not letting go of the guy who did get charged?
>> Mm-hm.
>> That doesn't make any sense.
Yeah, let the murderer go cuz you didn't charge the other murderer.
No, charge them both.
So if you're screaming that Biden and Pence should be charged cuz they had some
documents in their house, I don't necessarily agree with you.
We talked about it earlier, but okay, that's a fine thing to charge.
And on Hunter Biden, we were like, look, the laptop shows it,
he said that his dad wouldn't deliver, so it looks like it's exculpatory of Biden.
But if you want to go after Hunter, Biden for corruption, have at it,
what do I care, right?
I don't care about protecting the powerful.
But to say, yeah, my guy is obviously super guilty, but
you should just let him go anyway, is not really an argument.
That's why they go, and it's indefensible, he obviously did it.
There's not 1% question about it, and all those Republican candidates know it too.
They all know that he did it, that's why they're, the squirrel,
squirrel, Biden, Corvette, Hunter, okay?
>> Chinatown.
>> Chinatown, they don't even speak English.
He says that all the time.
Anyway, but guys, one thing I'm really, really worried about,
really worried about, that when Republicans get in charge,
they're gonna say, well, you went after someone on our side,
now we're gonna go after a lot of people on your side.
Who cares about what the law is, and if they actually broke it,
who cares what the rules are, who cares what facts are?
You guys did it to us first.
Look, I've seen that a thousand times online.
>> Can I give you a quote?
>> Yeah.
>> Representative Andy Biggs tweeted,
we have now reached a war phase, eye for an eye.
>> Okay, look, by the way, if eye for an eye means, hey,
I found a Democrat breaking the law and I'm gonna prosecute him, I say, good.
I don't want the powerful getting away with anything,
whether they're Democrats or Republicans.
If an eye for an eye means, yeah, Trump broke the law, and massively so,
and you're holding him accountable, so I'm gonna put a bunch of you in prison for
no reason.
No, that's not the right response here.
And of course, as I worried, it is the Republican response.
>> Yeah. >> Yeah, and I think what you have to keep
in mind when you're thinking about their reaction to it is that they
100% believe with certainty that Biden is a world historic criminal.
That he really has committed way worse crimes than Trump and
yet is getting let go.
And so that's kind of the context for those claims that they're making,
that this is unfair, unequal treatment.
And they're not even talking about.
They'll talk about the boxes of classified documents by the Corvette or whatever.
But what they're really talking about is the Burisma stuff that's been coming out
recently.
You've seen a ton of that on the exact same day that it was proven.
And you keep seeing people like Marjorie Taylor Greene say that it's been proven
now that Biden was bribed $5 million to do something on behalf of Burisma in Ukraine.
I think since people don't follow that very closely, I think it might be worth,
I could tell them, tell you guys real quickly why that isn't necessarily true.
So there's a Fox News article that says that this confidential human source
met with somebody else in 2015 and said, do you need help with the White House?
And the person said, no, no, no, we've already got Hunter,
but we also do need, we're hiring other people cuz Hunter's kind of an idiot.
And then he goes on to say, it's costing us $10 million for
both Bidens, $5 million for Hunter and $5 million for Joe Biden.
So that person says this to the human source.
Five years later,
this confidential human source in June 2020 tells the FBI about this.
That's what the Republicans are now saying proves that Biden was bribed.
But you can obviously walk backwards from this a bunch of different ways and say,
well, that's worth probing.
If you got that tip, you should go check it out.
But it also could be just a guy talking in a bar.
It doesn't necessarily mean that that was true.
It could be that Hunter said it was true, but it wasn't actually true.
Cuz you also have text messages from Hunter to his family saying
that I won't take half of your earnings like Dad does.
But Hunter could just be making stuff up.
So the idea that this has been proven is not remotely true.
But if you're a Republican Trump voter right now, if you're a Trump supporter,
you believe that all of this happened.
And that the FBI knows it and that the FBI is not prosecuting it because they're in
the tank for the Democrats and all they want to do is go after Trump.
So, if you get your head in that space, then you can see why they're
kind of losing their minds over this- >> No, I-
>> And why they're then threatening to
come back at Democrats.
>> So, Ryan, I agree and disagree.
So, yeah, I can see why they're in that headspace.
They're always in that headspace.
>> Yes. >> And
if it turns out that Biden actually took $5 million from the Ukrainians in
a corrupt deal- >> Lock him up.
>> Yeah, I'll chant lock them up.
>> Yes, yes.
>> And I won't hesitate for one second.
I know what the establishment guys will say, how dare,
you can't even suggest it, right?
No, I can suggest it, and I don't give a damn about Joe Biden.
And so if he did something like that, I say lock them both up.
That is the rational response.
>> They can share a cell.
>> Yeah, but I guarantee you that, by the way, to be fair to the MAGA guys,
if that's actually true, MSNBC will be like, outrageous.
How dare you say that Joe Biden should be held accountable, right?
So they'll defend him no matter what, and everybody knows that.
And Fox News will defend Trump no matter what, they used to.
[LAUGH] But the right wingers will defend Trump no matter what.
No, the correct answer is not let all of the criminals out of jail cuz they're on
my side, the correct answer is if they've committed crimes, put them both in jail.
>> Yeah, absolutely.
>> So, look, I'd be shocked if any allegation by a Republican is ever true.
They're serial pathological liars.
If a Republican politician is speaking, there's a 98% chance he's lying, okay?
So there's a rebuttable presumption, but can that presumption be rebutted?
Of course. You show me actual evidence from official
sources, etc., no problem at all.
But if some loudmouth idiot Republican politician's like, yeah,
terrorist [SOUND] [LAUGH], the Jewish space lasers proved it.
No, no deal, give me actual evidence.
>> 100%, yeah, and by the way, the claim that,
isn't it coincidence that they're charging him today?
Well, you just sent out Marjorie Greene in the morning to start claiming that they've
proven this, but you knew the charges could be coming today.
It's not a coincidence, but only because you made it the same day,
you chose to do that.
And if it wasn't that, then it would have been the border last week or
it would have been inflation the week before that.
They're gonna spend two solid years claiming that they've got stuff on Biden.
It's always gonna link up with something.
And as you said, it doesn't matter anyway.
It doesn't mean that Trump didn't break the law.
I also just wanna say,
in terms of the Andy Biggs quote about we've reached a war phase,
eye for an eye, you should know, and you won't be surprised to find out, that
the Internet is full of MAGA people saying that it is time to start killing people.
That this is the time for civil war, specific talking about
family members of Jack Smith, talking about other people involved in this, and
saying kids aren't off limits and stuff like that.
A lot of this probably is just insane fascistic bluster.
But I also think that we are in a period where violence is possible.
And when you have actual elected representatives saying that we've reached
the war phase, that is as irresponsible as you can imagine.
What, in the last six months,
how many obviously politically motivated attacks have we had?
People's heads being bashed in with hammers,
shootings accompanied with manifestos.
They know what they're doing when they do this.
>> And last thing, guys, cuz I cannot stand the gaslighting.
28% of Republicans in a poll, in several polls, said it's time for violence.
And then we do false equivalencies and we go, maybe, maybe not.
No, when a giant percentage of the country, tens of millions of people
are saying, it might be time for violence, you should take that seriously.
>> Yeah. >> They're not joking.
I know it can't get through to people's heads.
No, everything has to be equal, we have to be neutral.
We have to be neutral and we have to love Republican voters.
Republican voters are sacrosanct.
Well, that 28% that say that they might want to kill you, not sacrosanct.
Yes, sorry if it hurts your feelings, but they're lunatics,
they're really dangerous, and we should be extraordinarily careful.