So obviously Donald Trump last week, probably one of the worst weeks the man has ever had,
not only did the FBI of course, search Mar Lago take a bunch of documents that we found out later
could have been related to nuclear weapons, all labeled top secret. He also had to plead the fifth
440 times in front of New York, attorney general Latisha James. And of course, a lot of other
problems with his lawyers in, in Georgia and everything else, and here to break down pretty
much every crazy thing Trump has done just in the last week and a half is cliff Shector. He is
the host of the takedown with cliff Shector on youtube@youtube.com slash C Shecter. So cliff,
thank you for joining us once again, here on ring of fire, always great to have you let's uh,
let's let's start, I guess, with where it all started, you know, this big raid on Malago because
the FBI is trying to take down Donald Trump and not let him run for office again. Right? I mean,
They don't like him, as I'm told in my comments on Twitter and YouTube and stuff like that, like
you can't just go and, and arrest people cuz you don't like them. um, can you arrest them
for having dead ferrets on their head? Because that'd be another reason we could do that in,
you know, if we wanted just arrest him for that or his clothing choice or the toilet paper stuck
to his shoe as he walked up, uh, air force one, but no we're actually arresting and we
haven't arrested him. We're actually wanting to arrest him. Um, because he's a serial criminal
just because he's gotten away with it his whole life. I mean he's pled guilty to enough stuff that
we can call him. That is Trump university ripped off people. He had to pay $25 million. And now
in the surreal world, we live in our worst nightmare has maybe been perpetrated by
our worst nightmare, uh, which is the man stole. We knew, you know, this had come out earlier a few
months ago, he stole reams of documents that don't belong to him that belong to the United States of
America. Um, that are top secret. We, we found out first that there was a raid on Malago lot of
dancing that evening. I'm trying to remember about a week ago. Exactly. Um, something like that, um,
where they took is it 15, 20 boxes full of documents. We were made aware that, uh, there are
nuclear secrets in there and if you're, you know, a smart person or even a sort of a semi smart
person, you look for patterns, the patterns are there, Jared Kushner's, uh, you know, his startup,
you know, fund cuz he's a genius. By the way, if you haven't read the, the, the, the book review
of his book today in the New York times, it's one of the best things you'll ever read in your life.
It takes it down. But this genius, you know, he gets 2 billion. Why, why is the, why are
these golf tournaments being run by the Saudis at Trump's various properties? Why did they rent out
floors of, of, you know, of hotel space at the Trump's hotel in Washington? They didn't do all
this because they're nice people. They did this cuz they wanted something in return. And in 2019,
if you look back, you'll see that, that there's an article I believe was in the Washington post
on how Trump wanted to transfer certain nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia as did Kushner.
And that Republicans were alarmed by this. So it doesn't take a lot of Sherlock homes here to
get an idea. And last thing I'll say again before you, you know, not to filibuster here, but there
were other secrets in there. Apparently there is information on, on president Mac hall, um,
that could have been blackmail material for right now. One of the few, few of our strongest allies
in NATO, one of the allies in NATO who hasn't joined forces with, with, with Putin, you know,
not an Orban or an Erdogan or others, but an actual force for democracy who knows what that
is too. And there's a lot more so yeah. Um, the espionage act he's being freaking looked into
for the ESP espionage act. Again, you couldn't write this script and you couldn't imagine,
I don't think anything worse coming out of a Trump presidency than what has happened.
And what's great about it too. Is you have the Republicans who are telling us no, no, no. It's
okay. Well, first of all, obviously we gotta go through the five stages of grief in any Trump
scandal. First is absolute denial. Totally didn't happen. It's a complete setup. The second is of
course. Well, um, you know, if, if it did happen, it was probably okay. And then it was, yes, it did
happen, but it is definitely. Okay. And then, you know, this week we hit the point where ran, Paul
says, well, why don't we just get rid of the law that he broke so that we can't even prosecute him?
Isn't that cool when white Republicans break laws, it's then time to get rid of those laws. Clearly
Go ahead. Exactly. And so where we're at right now, of course, is Republicans telling
us would it's okay because he declassified the documents. He just mumbled under his breath,
this magical incantation that apparently declassified documents. So Harry Potter,
Who Knew exactly. But even
if we take that at, you know, I, if suppose it happened, suppose he declassified these documents,
he's still in violation of the presidential records act, which carries up to a three year
penalty and permanent barring from holding public office again. So their excuses for it don't even
absolve him of criminal behavior. It just changes which crime he would be prosecuted for. And I,
I don't, we he's Teflon Don, we know this, we have talked plenty about all the other scandals.
We've all gotten our hopes up a million different times. The guy always walks away. This feels
different, right? I mean, it feels different. Yeah. I was talking to somebody today when I
ran to grab some coffee, a Democrat, I know at a coffee shop and I was like all the other stuff. I
always just assumed because this man has always walked, but the ESP espionage act is nothing
to mess with. Uh, that's serious, which is why I ran. Paul wants to get rid of it. I mean, that was
passed in 1917. That's based on us PA you know, secrets being passed to enemies for world war. I,
you know, and those times, um, you know, the, so, so no, I don't think he will just scan this.
I mean, look, my, my, my biggest worry always with him is he will never actually be convicted
of anything, cuz it just takes one Trump cultist to get a, to get a hung jury on any,
on any jury that you put together and that, and so that's the, the biggest problem
with him, his actually doing prison time To get this full interview and access to
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