If it wasn't already clear that Donald Trump plans on running for
president in 2024.
He reiterated that point during a rally in Conroe texas over the weekend.
He also decided to dangle the possibility of pardons for
January 6th capitol rioters, let's watch.
>> If I run and if I win, we will treat those people from January
6th fairly, we will treat them fairly.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> And if it requires pardons,
we will give them pardons because they are being treated so unfairly.
>> Now, we've talked at length in regard to the treatment of these individuals,
including the ability to plea down the charges.
Very few of them are facing serious sedition charges.
And there's an abundance of evidence to back up those charges for
the few individuals who have been charged with sedition.
But for the most part, many of them were able to serve while their case is
unfolding, they're able to spend time at home.
A lot of them are getting preferential treatment, certainly compared to how other
people in the justice system, particularly people of color, are treated.
So it's just amazing how these are people who stormed the capitol.
These are people who use violence against capitol police officers and the narrative,
the dominant narrative from Trump.
And his supporters is that they're victims, they did nothing wrong there,
total victims, and of course they were incited by Donald Trump himself.
There's more to this, including his recent statement in regard to mike Pence,
he's still attacking Pence for not doing something that Pence doesn't
have the ability to do, but before we get to that Genk.
>> Yes, so that that's the main thing I wanna talk about because look,
there's two aspects of the story that is really concerning.
One is him encouraging the kind of thing that we saw on january 6th.
He's saying, don't worry if you do something like that, I'm gonna pardon you.
And then later in the speech, as we're gonna tell you,
he went on to say now who you should really protest vigorously?
Are the people trying to prosecute me in Atlanta, New York and DC.
In other words, hey,
those guys that I just told you about that committed the violence.
I like them a lot, and if it was up to me they would face no repercussions for
their violence, so that is an enormous problem.
And then the second issue is the real coup which wasn't breaking into the capitol.
It was this plot with to get Pence to pretend that hey, maybe Biden didn't win
the election, I wanna talk more about that in a second, but let's give you more.
>> Exactly, now before we get to that here,
here's a specific statement in regard to Pence.
He released it through his save America Pac,
he said quote, if vice president mike Pence had absolutely no right to
change the presidential election results in the Senate despite fraud.
There was no fraud and many other your irregularities.
How come the democrats and republicans RINO Republicans like
Wacky Susan Collins are desperately trying to pass legislation that will not
allow the vice president to change the results of the election?
Actually, what they're saying is that Mike Pence did have the right to change
the outcome and they now want to take that right away.
Okay, so I gotta break down what Susan Collins and 14 other senators,
including Democratic senators, are trying to do.
Part of what they're trying to do through this proposed legislation is just clarify
that the vice president only engages in this ceremony of opening the envelope.
He doesn't actually have the power to change the results of the election.
He doesn't have that power, and so
this legislation is just meant to clarify it for people who have a difficult time
understanding what the current laws are and what the current electoral processes.
But there's another part of that, which I'll get to in just a second.
So let's go to graphic three here,
a bipartisan group of senators met last week.
This is what Trump is talking about to discuss potential changes to
the Electoral College Act,
a decades old statute that outlines how the Electoral College results are counted.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has said the possibility
of making changes to the Electoral College Act is quote worth discussing end quote.
And House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has kept the door open to reforming
the statute.
Now, what would they be reforming?
Basically, they want to change the number of senators or
a number of lawmakers that are necessary in order to spark the kind of
conflict that we saw in the 2020 election.
The senators are eyeing changes to the Electoral Count Act,
including clarifying the vice president's role is ceremonial.
And increasing the number of lawmakers that must sign onto an objection
challenging the state's Electoral College slate before the House and
Senate are forced to vote on that challenge.
So currently, only one member of the House and
only one member of the Senate must sign onto an objection to a state's
Electoral College slate to force a vote on the challenge in both chambers.
Multiple members of the Senate group have said that threshold should be much higher.
And so there are some suggestions that the threshold should be
increased to one third of both chambers.
And I think that makes a lot of sense,
especially considering what we're dealing with right now.
With all these GOP enablers who know that Trump lost fair and square, but
want to pander to his supporters.
So they're enabling him with all this nonsense, so we'll see what happens.
I think that Congress is useless and they're unlikely to do anything, but
I could be wrong.
>> Yeah, so look, as I explained before, Mike Pence's role,
any vice president's role is like throwing out the first pitch in a baseball game.
It's ceremonial, it doesn't mean anything, it's not actually part of the game,
he's not actually pitching.
Now the reason why it became a real issue is because they wanted to use that as
a matter of optics.
It was called the Green Bay sweep.
Peter Navarro has written about a book about it.
Steve Bannon talked about it on air before they did it.
The idea is they were going to take that ceremonial role and
they were gonna cause confusion with it.
Where Pence was supposed to say no I'm not certifying the election and
then people are confused.
Wait, I guess the sort of election is not certified.
And then they were gonna go back to the states, and they had fake electors ready,
it's amazing.
They've admitted all of this publicly, fake electors who signed documents that
were not true about who they were and what they were representing.
And they were gonna bring in the fake electors and say that Trump won,
that was the coup attempt.
None of that is legal, that is why they should all be arrested.
Now, of course, Democrats would rather insult their own base than
actually hold anyone in power accountable because they're in power.
And so they don't want to affect anything in the club and
everyone saw the Republican come out and go, yeah,
if you do it like Newt Gingrich did the other day.
We'll arrest all of you when we're in charge and
that scares the crap out of republicans.
So they go, no, you violate the law anyway, you like, we'll just do marketing,
we'll do a January 6th committee and we'll hope to win elections that way.
But we're never gonna hold you accountable.
But there was a real actual coup attempt, and
this leads to the uncomfortable fact that you have to give Mike Pence credit.
Even though he did the bare minimum, which is go out and throw that first pitch,
he at least didn't participate in their attempt to
literally destroy our democracy.
And that's why they're furious at him to this day and
that's why Trump goes and gives a speech this weekend where he just admits it.
And guys, there is no, like we shouldn't be surprised that he's, he's admitting it.
This has been the plan from day one, they executed the plan and in a sense,
I'm frustrated with democrats, media and
prosecutors because they are focusing their energies on the guys with no power.
Those gymnastics writers, they should go to jail, they broke clear laws, I get it,
prosecute them.
But if you just leave it at that, they're not the organizers of the cool,
they're a bunch of knuckleheads who got all riled up by brainwashing was like.
Let's smash windows and hope we can make a difference and
maybe murder someone by the way, that's why they were chanting hang mike pence.
But the real organizers are Navarro, Bannon, and
Trump and they're saying it publicly every day and
if they get back in charge, he's telling you he's gonna do it again.
>> Yep.
So we can't have it, but yet here we are.
And that's why Collins and
others are trying to pass a law clarifying what is already in the law,
which is this job has no actual legal power in certifying.
And the last thing is I can prove it to you guys.
If you're a republican, you said that's not true,
the vice president has ultimate authority and can decide who the winner is.
Great Kamala Harris is the vice president.
Are you sure you want that?
Why do you think some republicans are trying to pass this law clarifying it?
Because otherwise Kamala Harris could come in and go under trump's theory,
biden didn't lose.
He one.
Now we're going to keep power.
You want that?
I don't want that.
I'm a democrat and
I definitely, definitely don't want that that destroys our democracy.
>> Right, I mean,
you don't want that because you want to see a political party win based on merit.
You want to uphold the democratic process, knowing full well that
it's likely that many times your preferred party is gonna lose.
You have to take yourself your own personal biases out of it to see what's
best for the greater good, right, like what's best for the country.
But I mean republican voters, unfortunately,
those who have been brainwashed by Trump.
Impressionable people who went out there and
put themselves in harm's way who decided to break the law themselves?
Who did the dirty work for Trump?
Don't get it, they don't get it at all.
Anyway, let's move on to the other part of this story, what would a Trump rally be
without intimidating individuals or threatening individuals he doesn't like?
So during Trump's rally in Conroe Texas, he decided to specifically go after
the prosecutors who are investigating his potential financial crimes.
And also prosecutors who are looking into his nonstop lies about the 2020
election and the incitements of violence that came along with that.
Remember, he tried to get officials in Georgia to change the votes of
the 2020 election to ensure that he won.
He's being investigated for that, and so during his rally speech he decided to
make all sorts of accusations and claims about the prosecutors, let's watch.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> If these radical vicious racist
prosecutors do anything wrong or illegal.
I hope we are going to have in this country the biggest protests
we have ever had in Washington, DC, in New York.
In Atlanta and elsewhere because our country and
our elections are corrupt, they're corrupt.
So a lot of interesting parts of that statement.
Okay, first off,
how ridiculous is it that he's referring to these investigations as racist?
Now the prosecutors are black and he's white.
So I'm guessing he thinks that racism is the motivation behind these
investigations, which is ridiculous.
The prosecutors in the places he mentioned New York,
attorney general Tish James, you have DC.
Attorney general, Karl, racine Fulton County District Attorney, Fani Willis and
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg are all black.
Willis actually wrote a letter to the FBI on sunday asking for assistance in
securing government buildings in Atlanta after Trump's comments.
But the other thing that I found striking about his statement,
there was the very end,
where he talks about corruption because corruption certainly does ring true.
And it reminded me a little of what you'll see from,
let's say, Alex Jones when he's spewing whatever insane conspiracy theory.
There's typically like a tiny little kernel of truth and
that lends credibility to an otherwise insane conspiracy theory or argument, and
that's what I think Trump was trying to do there.
>> Yeah, he knows that people hate corruption, that's why he ran on drain
the swamp in 2016 and one he didn't run on it in 2020 because he was so corrupt.
I don't know if even he was worried about hypocrisy and
that that issue would then hurt him rather than help him.
But now he's back to, now that I'm not in charge anymore corruption over there,
now in this case, there is no corruption whatsoever.
Look there's no one more obsessed with corruption than I am, but
prosecutors just going after them based on tax fraud and
other issues have nothing to do with corruption.
If they were targeting a political enemy,
even if it was a Republican, I would hate it.
And oftentimes the establishment and targets people outside the mainstream
thought and we talked about it all the time,
whether it's on the left or the right, this is not one of those cases.
He has broken the law both in his personal business and
in these political ramifications very clearly.
And of course,
they should hold them to account as they would any American citizen.
But most importantly, like I said in that speech, he said that you should go and
protest against those prosecutors, normal protests, nothing wrong with it at all.
But when he mentioned it in the context of like they did on January 6th in
that portion of the speech that makes you concerned
that he's trying to promote violence against them.
>> Exactly, yeah, he knows what he's doing and he's careful with his language
because he wants to provide plausible deniability, right?
I said, protest, protest is protected under our constitution,
unless you're left wing protester in that case,
right wing lawmakers want to justify through legislation.
People running you over if you happen to be protesting in the streets,
that's the kind of protest that they don't like.
But anyway, so there you have it, Trump is ramping up his rhetoric, of course,
these rallies because he does plan on running in 2024.
And should he win, there are some serious consequences for that,
not just politically or legislatively, but when it comes to our democratic process,
whatever is left of it.
>> Yeah, let's just last thought here because it's so clear.
Remember, the guy who was the left wing shooter, and
he shot the some republicans in a softball game.
Imagine if a Democratic president said now that guy, poor,
poor guy, if I ever get in charge, I'm gonna pardon him and
I would like more protests like his.
Well, then everybody would know you're telling everybody to go shoot Republicans,
that would be outraged that this is the same thing.
He's like remember those guys who went and were chanting, Hang, Mike Pence, hang,
Mike Pence, murder, my own vice president.
And that broke stuff and that broke in and trespassed and looked for
the politicians to murder.
I would pardon all of them and I want you to do protests like them.
The guy is dangerous, and sometimes the right wingers asked, hey Genk,
why do you call him a fascist?
That's why I call him a fascist.
That's exactly what fascists do.
They threaten violence against their political opponents,
they do a takeover and end democracy, it's Trump 101