Fetterman supports taxpayer funded drug dens and
the complete decriminalization of illegal drugs including heroin,
cocaine, crystal meth and ultra lethal fentanyl and
by the way he takes them himself.
>> You just heard Donald Trump accuse Fetterman, in fact,
defame Fetterman as someone who takes drugs like Fentanyl.
Now of course Fetterman is a candidate running against Trump's preferred
Republican candidate, Mehmet Oz for a Senate seat in Pennsylvania, and
Oz is not performing so well in the polls.
So, of course, there you see trump stumping for Oz in an attempt to save him
in this election, we'll see if it plays out for him.
But nonetheless, here he is, just straight out saying something that's
incredibly defamatory and what I'm curious about, Cenk, before we go on to
more of his insane speech is whether Trump could be sued by Fetterman for that.
Because he didn't say, I think Fetterman takes Fentanyl, he said that he
takes these drugs when there's absolutely no evidence indicating that he does.
Public officials are actually allowed to lie in public like,
if he was still in elected office,
he could have made that statement without any fears of legal ramifications,
any fears of a defamation lawsuit, but he's not an elected official.
>> Yeah.
So look, he's in the political arena,
I think that lawsuit would be very difficult.
But I think politically there's something that's as usual drive me mad
because of the gas lighting.
So that was an outrageous lie to say, that somebody's taking meth and Fentanyl.
I mean, imagine for a second if Joe Biden picked a random republican senator,
goes like I think Marco Rubio is on Fentanyl, I think Ted Cruz is doing meth.
And he just says it right, no evidence, no nothing, he just says it and
he's like not a big deal that they're doing meth.
I know they're doing meth.
I know they're doing fentanyl.
That's all the country would talk about, and
they would say after what an outrageous statement, he needs to apologize.
This is unbecoming, not befitting of a president.
How could he?
I mean, we'd talk about it for years.
Remember when Biden made up that Rubio and Cruz were on meth and fentanyl, right?
I mean, he said semi-fascist once, they're still talking about it.
How could he?
This is outrageous, and that's just his opinion, right?
Trump says it, it's barely a new story.
Why?
Because we all know, including his own fans,
we all know he's a pathological liar.
He lies nonstop.
No one takes him seriously because he's a goddamn clown, right?
>> Yeah. But they then turn around, go,
he's perfectly credible.
No, no, we're saying that Trump is lying, that's that's not neutral.
No, that'll get you fired on CNN now.
>> Yeah, I just- >> The double standard is insane.
>> Well, the lunacy has been fully normalized.
So when you say this didn't even get much attention,
it's because his lunacy is normalized.
It's another day, it's Tuesday, right, literally.
>> But then the [INAUDIBLE] lunatic,
his fans are like, you have no evidence of that.
A liar, he's never lied in his life.
>> You can get upset at us calling him a lunatic.
He's a lunatic.
You can't go around accusing people of doing drugs that they're not doing,
and there's no evidence of them doing.
>> Can we do it?
>> That is defamation.
>> Can wejust say it- >> I mean we've speculated that Trump and
other politicians not just trump might take some stimulants before doing
speeches, but it's one thing to say, he seems like he's sniffling a lot.
Seems like he might have snorted something prior to this speech that's different than
saying Donald Trump is doing cocaine.
You can't say that, there's no evidence indicating that that's the case.
>> Yeah, guys, there's all the difference in the world between making fun of
Charlie Kirk, constantly doing this.
[SOUND] [LAUGH] >> [LAUGH]
>> Okay, then they say,
I know Charlie Kirk does meth.
I don't even know what drug makes you do this.
>> [LAUGH] >> I don't know.
>> [LAUGH] Okay, but Trump, former President of the United States,
says it and everybody says two things that are completely contradictory.
Well, it doesn't count cuz everyone knows Trump lies all the time.
>> Look at that face.
>> So you can't take him seriously, and two, Trump never lies, and I can't believe
the fake news says that Trump lies, it's unfair, and it's not neutral.
You can't have it both ways.
>> Well, there's more from his speech.
So let's take a look at the next portion of it,
where he attacks Fetterman on his views on criminal justice reform.
>> He's a raging lunatic, hell-bent on springing hardened criminals out
of jail in the middle of the worst crime wave in Pennsylvania history.
He wants everybody out of jail, and by the way, he wants to get rid of your police.
>> But does he, does he?
So, obviously, I don't trust anything Trump says and for good reason.
And so I looked into Fetterman views on criminal justice reform, and
he's absolutely right on criminal justice reform.
I'll give you a few examples.
So one of the specific issues that he came out in support of was pardoning all
the people that are serving time in prison for
simple marijuana possession, which is insane.
So this is from six days ago,
it was posted on the website for Pennsylvania's governor.
Governor Wolf and Lieutenant Governor Fetterman announced effort to quickly
pardon thousands of Pennsylvanians from marijuana-related convictions.
These are nonviolent individuals who are serving time behind bars for
possession of a plant.
And so I totally agree with him on that but if you-
>> That's weird,
it's not fentanyl or meth.
>> It's not fentanyl or meth.
>> It's almost like he made that up.
>> Yeah, totally, yeah.
>> And later, when he talked about how he wants to let go of all the murderers and
rapists, and it turns out it was just people who smoke marijuana.
It almost seems like Trump made that up too.
>> Yeah.
Well, in the details in that press release that was posted
on the governor's website said this, Governor Tom Wolf and
Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman announced a coordinated effort for
a one-time, large-scale pardoning project for
people with select minor nonviolent marijuana criminal convictions.
Look, Americans love pot, including many of the Americans who support Donald Trump.
Do they think they should spend time in prison for their love of marijuana?
I think not.
Now, if you go to Fetterman's website and
look into his views on criminal justice reform, he's not some abolitionist,
he's not someone who wants to do away with policing, do away with prisons.
In fact, he writes, as your senator, I will fight for
a criminal legal system where everyone is equal in the eyes of the law.
I will work to make sure that serious crimes receive serious punishment
while also alleviating the burdens placed on prosecutors and
judges by focusing on effective diversion programs for
nonviolent offenders and prioritizing sentencing reform.
That is the most measured view on criminal justice reform imaginable.
But it doesn't matter,
the truth doesn't matter to Donald Trum,p whose candidate is flailing.
Okay, Oz is suffering immensely because of his own terrible candidacy and
Trump is trying to save him, and he's trying to do so with lies about Fetterman.
>> Yeah, look, Fetterman's position is exactly down the middle of the lane.
So I can't imagine that there's too many people in the country, Republican or
Democrat, that disagree with them.
Yes, there's a super far left fringe who says no prisons,
Shangri La, I'm sure the criminals will be lovely after therapy.
Let's just take a chance and let them run wild.
I'm not in that campus, you can tell, and neither is anyone else.
There's seven people on the internet that are in that camp, and that's it.
And on the right wing, they say no marijuana, some say not very many either.
Some say no, marijuana is super dangerous.
If you ever even looked at it, you should be put in prison for a long time,
lock everybody up.
But the overwhelming majority of Americans say no, let
the guy on marijuana possession go, that's the equivalent of having a Coors Light.
No one cares, you're costing us money,
you're taking away their freedom, and by the way, we all smoke pot.
On the other hand, they don't wanna let murderers and rapists go.
That is exactly Fetterman's position.
It's not 1% controversial, but it sounds controversial when Trump lies,
as he did in that speech, and says that Fetterman wants to let murderers,
rapists and child molesters out of jail.
Not remotely true.
Just made it up.
And if you ask a right-winger, they'll say, well, obviously he made that up, but
he never lies.
Okay, now there is one other clip from this speech that I think he lost his
own audience too, on this, [CROSSTALK] but it's funny, so
let's watch and see if it has significance.
>> Yes.
>> As a disaster, he comes in with a sweatsuit, and
I've never seen him wear a suit.
A dirty, dirty, dirty sweatsuit, it's really disgusting.
>> [LAUGH] So we've told you this before,
one of the things that triggers the right wing mind and
especially Donald Trump's is disgust, it's number one actually, fear is number two.
These are based on studies.
And so if he doesn't like something, he'll always call it dirty,
immigrants are dirty, John Fetterman is dirty, his sweatshirt's dirty, right?
But if you notice the crowd, which loves to laugh at the most insignificant things
that Trump says, didn't find that amusing at all.
Why?
Because they're Americans, they wear sweatshirts, they don't think sweatshirts
are dirty, dirty and anyone who wears them is poor, middle class, yuck!
That's what Trump is actually saying.
>> Now this story just broke, and it's not good for Oz, all right?
So you guys ready for it?
Jezebel reporting on an interview that has been unearthed
featuring Dr. Oz weighing in on the issue of incest.
This is from 2014 when he was on the Breakfast Club,
host Angela Yee asked Oz to weigh in on a question sent in by a listener about
someone struggling with an incestuous relationship.
I'm going to ask you this, and you tell me if this is safe for this person, okay?
Yee prompted Oz.
Well, he said, Yee, I can't stop smashing my cousin,
that means sleeping with, thank you, Yee.
So that was the question, right?
>> Yeah.
>> And then she continued to read out the question,
we hooked up at a young age and now in our twenties she still wants it.
No matter how much I wanna stop, I always give it to her.
Help me.
What advice would you give that person?
But Oz took it in a direction that you probably didn't expect.
Oz said if you're more than a first cousin away, it's not a big problem.
Yee responds with, okay, so second cousin is fine to smash?
Charlamagne says it's so funny because I knew that.
DJ Envy says, how did you know that?
Charlamagne says, cuz I'm from the country, and Oz says, yeah, it's fine.
>> It's not a standard answer.
[LAUGH] Okay.
>> Smashing cousins, Dr. Oz in favor.
>> [LAUGH] But, okay, so, look, in reality,
in the old world where Dr Oz is from, not just Turkey, but
a lot of immigrants, are there second cousins that are married to one another?
Of course.
Is it also true in the country?
As Charlamagne said, yes, okay?
Is that I think you should say and celebrate on air?
Probably not, right?
Now, let's flip it, let's say the Fetterman had said it.
What would the right wing say?
They would.
>> They would be like, he's a groomer.
Look at what he's saying, he wants incest.
And then they would go, they'd call him, Fetterman incest for
the rest of his life, and they would never, ever stop.
So you'll see this Dr Oz story, people get a giggle out of it, and
then you'll probably never see it again.