The DOJ Has Become Weaponized, Looking to Put Trump in Jail for the Rest of His Life
The Rich Zeoli Show
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🗓️ 13 June 2023
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The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (06/13/2023):
3:05pm- On Tuesday, former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty in federal court in Miami, Florida. Trump has been charged with 37 criminal counts related to his alleged mishandling of classified documents and subsequent refusal to surrender them to authorities upon request. This is the first time a former U.S. President has faced federal criminal charges. You can read more about Trump’s indictment, and his not guilty plea, here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/13/trump-miami-court-indictment-hearing/
3:30pm- Now that Donald Trump has been charged by a rival administration, will this set a dangerous precedent moving forward? If Republicans take the White House in 2024, can we expect charges against prominent Democrat officials?
3:40pm- In an article for Just the News, journalist John Solomon writes about the Bill Clinton “Sock Drawer” defense and how it relates to Donald Trump’s legal troubles: “[t]he case in question is titled Judicial Watch v. National Archives and Records Administration and it involved an effort by the conservative watchdog to compel the Archives to forcibly seize hours of audio recordings that Clinton made during his presidency with historian Taylor Branch…U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington D.C. ultimately rejected Judicial Watch's suit by concluding there was no provision in the Presidential Records Act to force the National Archives to seize records from a former president.” Concluding “that a president's discretion on what are personal vs. official records is far-reaching and solely his, as is his ability to declassify or destroy records at will.” You can read Solomon’s full article here: https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/old-case-over-audio-tapes-bill-clintons-sock-drawer-could-impact
4:05pm- In 2017, then-President Donald Trump publicly stated that his Justice Department should not pursue charges against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton—citing that any prosecution “would be very, very divisive for the country.”
4:15pm- After leaving a federal court where he pleaded not guilty to 37 criminal charges, former President Donald Trump stopped at a Miami café where he took photos with supporters and offered to buy lunch for customers.
4:30pm- Rich speaks with callers who vent about the Trump indictment. Tom from Delran wonders why Nikki Haley has seemingly pulled support for Donald Trump as he faces serious criminal charges.
4:35pm- Addressing the media, Trump attorney Alina Habba compared the indictment of her client to “the type of thing you see in dictatorships like Cuba and Venezuela.”
4:40pm- According to a report from Geoffrey Dickens of NewsBusters: ABC, NBC, and CBS spent a combined total of 291 minutes on Monday night covering the Trump indictment, however, they spent 0 minutes on the Biden Burisma bribery allegations. You can read Dickens' report here: https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/geoffrey-dickens/2023/06/13/nets-spend-291-minutes-trump-indictment-0-seconds-biden
4:45pm- Brooke Singman of Fox News writes that on Monday, while speaking from the Senate floor, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) revealed “the Burisma executive who allegedly paid Joe Biden and Hunter Biden kept 17 audio recordings of his conversations with them as an ‘insurance policy.’” You can read Singman’s full article here: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/grassley-burisma-executive-who-allegedly-paid-biden-has-audio-recordings-of-conversations-with-joe-hunter
4:50pm- While speaking with Larry Kudlow on Fox Business Network, Congressman James Comer (R-KY) alleged that Burisma—a Ukrainian natural gas company—had sought to enter the U.S. energy market and, subsequently, appealed to the Biden family for assistance.
5:05pm- On Saturday, the Biden Administration held an event for Pride Month at the White House. During the event, one transgender social media influencer briefly went topless. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre condemned the influencer’s actions and said the person will not be invited to future events.
5:15pm- At the White House’s Saturday Pride Month event, U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health Dr. Rachel Levine commented that the event could not take place in states like Florida—criticizing the state for passing laws that prohibit “gender affirming” surgeries on children.
5:20pm- After leaving a federal court where he pleaded not guilty to 37 criminal charges, former President Donald Trump stopped at a Miami café where he took photos with supporters and offered to buy lunch for customers. Trump briefly spoke to reporters saying, “we have a country that’s got nothing but problems. We’re a nation in decline.”
5:25pm- According to Brad Dress of The Hill, writes “the feud between former President Trump and the nation’s highest-ranking military officer, Gen. Mark Milley, played a key role in the historic indictment handed down last week over Trump’s alleged criminal mishandling of classified documents. Key audio in the case captured…Trump [claiming] he had a document about a ‘plan of attack’ on Iran…and he admitted he knew the document was secret and not declassified by him, contradicting some of his claims in the case.” Dress reveals that “[i]t’s unclear whether the document in question exists.” You can read the full article here: https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4046504-trump-milley-feud-played-key-role-in-classified-documents-case/
5:35pm- John Yoo— the Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley & a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his latest article, “Biden DOJ Crossed Political Rubicon with Trump Indictment.” Professor Yoo writes, “[f]or the first time in our history, federal prosecutors have charged a former president. Also for the first time in our history, an executive branch held by the incumbent political party indicted the leading presidential candidate of the other main political party. President Joseph Biden has taken a fateful step about which even Richard Nixon did not dare to dream.” You can read the full article here: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/biden-doj-crossed-political-rubicon-with-trump-indictment
6:05pm- On Sunday, a portion of I-95 in Northeast Philadelphia collapsed after a truck carrying gasoline caught fire while under the stretch of road. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro issued a disaster declaration and estimated that rebuilding the interstate would take “some number of months.”
6:10pm- In his latest editorial in The Wall Street Journal, columnist John Fund outlines how the city of Philadelphia can use incentives to quickly rebuild I-95. You can read his editorial here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-rebuild-fast-after-the-interstate-95-collapse-philly-los-angeles-incentives-515e5ae7?mod=opinion_lead_pos6
6:15pm- On Tuesday, the outgoing Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Dr. Rochelle Walensky testified before the House Oversight Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. While being questioned by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Dr. Walensky denied misleading the public on COVID-19 vaccine efficacy.
6:20pm- According to a report from Khadeeja Safdar and David Benoit of The Wall Street Journal, “JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay $290 million to settle a lawsuit over its ties to Jeffrey Epstein, said lawyers for Epstein accusers, shortly after top executives were questioned about the bank’s years of dealings with the convicted sex offender.” You can read the full article here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/jpmorgan-chase-agrees-to-settle-jeffrey-epstein-accusers-suit-9dbbabff?mod=hp_lead_pos7
6:25pm- Matt reveals the worst part of day…writing down the email addresses of contest winners?
6:40pm- While speaking with Nicole Wallace on MSNBC, former CIA Director John Brennan referred to Donald Trump as a “major danger to our national security.”
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| 0:30.0 | It's a day. It's going to be a day and it is a day as a lot's going on in Miami right now. |
| 0:36.9 | Uh, we'll talk about it. As the former president of the United States pleads guilty to, uh, not guilty to 37 charges in the document's case. |
| 0:46.8 | Yeah, not guilty. Welcome to the show. Glad you're here. |
| 0:49.6 | 855-839-1210 on Twitter at Rich Zeeoli and you know what? |
| 0:54.9 | As I'm watching this, uh, entire media obsession with this and obviously there's, I mean, |
| 0:59.2 | it's just on every, it's on every channel. It's on every network. |
| 1:02.2 | It's, uh, camped out people outside the courthouse, the motorcade. They were doing the whole O.J. Simpson |
| 1:07.6 | following the motorcade all around. I can't help but think that this looks like a clown show to the entire world. It really does. |
| 1:15.5 | Uh, a clown show because this is the former president of the United States of America and the government is going after him |
| 1:22.8 | much like we go after political enemies in countries around the world all the time. |
| 1:26.8 | And this is not the way the United States of America does business and yet here we are right now. |
| 1:32.2 | At this moment, the espionage act completely ridiculous charges against them, the espionage act, the espionage act. |
| 1:39.6 | I mean, just think about that for a moment, alleging that the former president of the United States of America |
| 1:44.3 | is guilty of violating the espionage act. |
| 1:48.3 | And even if you believe that he should have returned those documents, |
| 1:52.8 | even if you believe he shouldn't have had those documents to argue that he violated the espionage act of the United States of America. |
| 1:59.8 | It's just ludicrous. And this is why I think the prosecution is going to lose because these charges are just so over the top. |
| 2:05.4 | They really are. They're over the top. |
| 2:07.2 | And the presidential records act covers this and there is more than a way as I've been explaining ever since this happened on Friday. |
| 2:14.5 | There is more than enough of a way for the archivist to pursue civil charges against the president |
| 2:21.2 | and have a federal judge order the documents returned under the civil proceedings and all of that could have occurred without the FBI |
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