Episode 22 - Trump’s Personal Attorney’s Office Raided

Date: 2018-06-18 | Duration: 20:37

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[0:06]

Pom pom pom pom pom pom pom pom pom pom. I thought it was going to be a quiet news day, but it’s not looking like that now. Have you all seen the news? According to the New York Times, federal agents have raided the office of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen. What do you think of that? Let me give you my opinion at this point—and this is just my opinion as a citizen of the country—at this point, and at no point before this, but at this point, President Trump has my full support to fire everybody he can fire. People who just have names that sound like these: he can fire Sessions; he can fire Rosenstein.

[1:08]

He can fire all of them now. He has my full support. Fire everybody you need to do, and I am totally on board. I don’t care what the charges are. I don’t care what they find at President Trump’s personal lawyer’s place. Period. Game over. Now, I don’t know if the President will fire anybody, but now it’s a free pass. It’s a free punch. I’m completely on board with the firing now. Fire them all. I wouldn’t have said any of that literally ten minutes ago. Ten minutes ago, I would have said firing these guys would be the worst thing that ever happened; it would be the dumbest idea. And now? Fire them all. I’m on board. I would love to see a poll. Give me a flash opinion.

[2:13]

In your opinion, can the President just fire everybody now? Does anybody disagree with that at this point? Is there anybody who thinks that it would be prudent for him not to fire them at this point? This is the most agreement I’ve ever seen on any question I’ve ever asked on Periscope. Is there even one person who thinks these people need to keep their jobs? If you missed the first minute, we’re talking about the New York Times reporting that federal agents have raided the office of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, which gives them access to all of the private communications that relate to Stormy Daniels and the President and the hush payment and whatever else they might find in the personal communications. That is a line.

[3:18]

You think Syria crossed the line? Syria did not cross the line. They crossed the line too, but this is a frickin’ line. As a citizen, I am fully on board. Mr. President, time to get rid of all of them. All of them. I’d get rid of every frickin’ person who even touched this decision. I’d do it tomorrow. I don’t care if there’s empty seats. I don’t care if it causes a riot in the street. I don’t care if it puts a stain on his presidency. I don’t care. This is the biggest firing offense I’ve ever seen. I don’t even care if they followed all the rules. There’s one person here says he should let it play out. There’s a bigger issue here.

[4:18]

He could let it play out because maybe that’s the best legal strategy, but there’s sort of a bigger issue here. This crosses a line that is so striking to me that it just goes to overthrow of the presidency kind of situation. But beyond that—that’s just one of the lines—one of the lines they are crossing is they’re just interfering with the people at this point. The freaking people elected this President. We did not elect a bunch of bureaucrats to make his job impossible. That’s not good for me. I’m personally not better off with any of the stuff that’s happening with Trump’s lawyer. Crossed the line. Crossed the line. Did I see the latest Q post? No, and I don’t care about it.

[5:23]

They took his phone, computer, everything. I’d close them down. It may be too late at this point to ever get any of that stuff back. It might just be that at this point it’s just going to be what it’s going to be. Once they’ve seized them, I don’t know if he could ever get them back. You could just keep firing people until nobody wants to touch it anymore. What would happen next if he fired them all? Let’s play that through. Let’s say President Trump fires—I don’t know how deep you’d have to fire, but seems like there’s a lot of firing that needs to be done. At least Mueller. I think Mueller’s got to go now. Was it Mueller? They said the FBI, but does that mean it was Mueller? I get a little confused about who does what over there, but whoever sent the FBI after Trump’s personal lawyer over the Stormy Daniels stuff—oh my god, way over the line.

[6:23]

What would happen if you were to fire the Special Counsel now? Here’s my answer: I don’t care. Crossed the line. That’s the whole point of a line. The whole point of a line is that if you cross that line, I don’t care anymore. The implications are the implications. If it causes other problems, bring them on. It wasn’t our decision to cross the line. My head is just shaking over this. I can’t remember the last time I was so offended by something the government did—and the government does a lot to offend me.

[7:23]

It’s not as if we don’t have a lot of choices for things to be offended by, but holy cow. Rosenstein approved it. It might be that everybody was just doing their job and that they had to follow the evidence and they can’t ignore any potential laws. If the trail seems to point to them, they can’t ignore it. I say fire them anyway. Fire them all. You have my full support, Mr. President. I don’t care what the consequences are. Once they go after his personal life and his personal lawyer in a political context, shut them down.

[8:25]

You’re seeing the subdued version of me. I’m literally doing everything I can not to show the full extent of my anger right now. I’m going to be mad at the President if we get to the end of today and any of those people still have jobs. I’m going to start getting mad at him if it doesn’t happen right away. Let me see what the various news organizations… let’s see how they’re covering it. Let’s look at Fox News: “Trump bashes the FBI raid.” It talks about the President calling it disgraceful.

[9:29]

Over on CNN, I think the news is so new that they’re both going to be covering it the same, so there won’t be much opinion yet. There’s Chris Cillizza, who I believe—I don’t know if he had time to write an actual article, so I believe he’s just still masturbating to it. He’s just masturbating to the news at this point because this has got to be the happiest day of his life. Looking at CNN: “Trump on whether he’ll fire Mueller.” This is from six minutes ago and it’s titled “Trump on whether he’ll fire Mueller.” Quote: “We’ll see what happens.”

[10:34]

Somebody asked, “Why don’t you just fire Mueller?” He says, “I think it’s a disgrace what’s going on. We’ll see what happens.” A disgrace. Trump is also framing it as an attack on our country. That’s how I see it. That’s how I see it: as an attack on the country. Just for all the Dales, I’ve got to give you a preemptive Dale. Are you ready for a preemptive Dale? Here it is: “Louis, you’re Scott. Why didn’t you say the same thing when President Clinton was being impeached for the Monica Lewinsky thing? Why didn’t you say the same thing then?” Dale, I will slap that beard right off you! I did say the same thing then. I didn’t like it when President Clinton’s personal life became a public problem, and I don’t like it now.

[11:35]

I feel exactly the same. Before anybody accuses me of being hypocritical on this: same rules. If this were the Democrats, if this were Hillary Clinton going through the same situation—same reaction. This is more about the country; this isn’t so much about the politicians anymore. This is no longer about Democrat and Republican. This is the Republic. This is the world you want to live in. This is us getting to decide: is this the world that we can tolerate? Can you tolerate this environment? I can’t. I can’t tolerate it. So I’m all up for the firing. Bring it on. I’ll say again as clearly as possible: if the President doesn’t do some firing because of this, I’m going to be real disappointed.

[12:37]

What about the fallout from the firing? What about all the bad things? The marches in the street? What about the protests? What about the violence that would certainly happen? Probably there would be protests. Probably people would get hurt. Here’s my answer: don’t care. Don’t care. The line has been crossed. Now let’s just bring on that stuff. Let’s get it over with. Let’s hurry it up. Let’s have the protests. Bring them on. Bring on the people who say he’s a dictator, he’s firing people who are just investigating the law. Bring it all on. It’s time to just get all this cleared away. We are still waiting for people who actually know what they’re talking about to weigh in, and that usually means somebody like Dershowitz. I cannot wait to hear Alan Dershowitz talk about this.

[13:41]

I don’t know what Dershowitz is going to say, and this might be the first time that he and I disagree. I suspect that Dershowitz would speak in terms of the law and what’s the best legal strategy. But I’m not really talking on that level. I no longer care about the law. Sorry, I no longer care about the law. That’s not what this is about anymore. This is about something completely different. What if he does not fire anyone? I’m not even sure this will hurt him for reelection.

[14:47]

If these guys really dig into this Stormy stuff and they use the stuff they found from his personal lawyer to get at him, I’m going to register to vote, man. That’s how angry I would be. Do you know how many people like you get to vote if I tried to? It would be a lot. This is one of those issues that should cross the aisle, at least a little bit, because this is the same standard you’d want to see with a politician on either side. You shouldn’t care about what team they’re on at this point. “You will invoke privilege?” I don’t know how that works.

[15:54]

I’m not sure I have much else to say about that. Dershowitz is on Hannity tonight, and Hannity says Dershowitz is apoplectic. Is that true? Well, it’s probably true because the way you said it made it sound like you just saw it. I’m clearing my calendar because I’m going to watch Dershowitz’s head explode on live TV. If he disagrees with me on this, it’ll be the first time I disagreed with him. It might be that there’s just a terrible legal peril if he fires them, and maybe Dershowitz, being a good lawyer, would say, “Even though you might want to, don’t do it.” But I’m not on that team. I’m on the team of: I don’t care what the consequence is. Time to fire. Time to just shut it down.

[16:55]

DNC is trying to martyr Mueller? Bring it on. Here’s the important thing: all of the what-ifs—if he fires him, this repercussion, that repercussion—bring on the repercussions. I’m all about the repercussions now. I don’t want anybody to get hurt, but let’s just bring on the repercussions now. In fact, I think that will be my new hashtag. Repercussions are something you’re supposed to try to avoid? No, I don’t want to avoid repercussions anymore. I am pro-repercussions. Bring them on. Repercussion our asses as hard as you want. I’ll take those repercussions with a smile.

[17:56]

I think all of you are just sharing the emotion; that’s sort of what we’re doing here. There’s not much in terms of information being exchanged, nobody’s learning everything, but we’re having this weirdly cathartic, shared, immediate experience. It’s kind of unique, isn’t it? I feel that most of you are having the same reaction I’m having, and it feels good for you to see the same reaction coming out of me. There’s just something necessary about that. It’s just something that we all needed at the same time.

[18:59]

“Repercussions won’t be good for anyone,” somebody says. Fine. Bring them on. I’m not sure exactly who needs to get fired other than Mueller, so let’s start there. Then the question is, does Rosenstein… I never get those right. Is he part of that? Is Jeff Sessions part of that? We’ll see. By the way, I don’t think we need to march in the streets or anything about this. Someone is asking, “Am I crying?” No, I’m whatever is the opposite of that.

[20:01]

They banned knives in London, I thought. You want to be so lucky that you’re the pro-gun President at a time when London has to ban knives because there are so many knife attacks. You can’t replace just being in the right place at the right time. I’ve never seen so much agreement on a point, which is that this has gone too far. I think I’m going to watch a little news coverage. You’ll probably do the same. Stay tuned for more tonight. Bye for now.