IHIP News: 🚨 Trump Calls For GOP to TAKEOVER VOTING as DOJ Ramps Up 'WEAPONIZATION' For Him!

All right. Donald Trump went on Dan. Bonino's podcast. You may remember the. podcaster he hired to be second in. command at the FBI who didn't like his. job because it was too many hours, so he. quit. So Donald Trump calls into Dan. Bonino today because the Democrats are. winning in all of these special election. races, even in Trump strong counties in. Texas. So Trump calls in to Dan Bonino. and says this, play the clip. and they vote illegally and the you know.

amazing that the Republicans aren't. tougher on it. The Republicans should. say we want to take over we should take. over the voting the voting. [clears throat] in at least. many 15 places. The Republicans ought to. nationalize the voting and we have. states that are so. >> all right. So he's clearly obsessed with. this because he knows what's coming and. our voting is localized. Josh Welch is. filling in for pumps today. She has the. day off. Josh, what's your take on this? >> I don't think this is a surprise at all.

Actually, we saw the search warrant that. was issued in Fulton County. Uh we know. in 2020 that he actually called the. state officials in Georgia asking for. more votes. So, the fact that he's in. office uh sees that he's unpopular. Um. the public sentiment is clearly against. him. He lost this recent election in. Texas or the Republicans did that he had. carried by 17 points. So that's what. authoritarians do when there are areas. of control that they can't areas of.

power they can't control. What do they. do? They try to seize control whether. lawful or unlawful. >> All right. And speaking of trying to. seize control, we have Pam Bondi, the. attorney general at um DOJ and she is. going to ramp up weaponization. She's. calling for weekly meetings. Put up the. headline. CNN is reporting Justice Department. expected to ramp up efforts to deliver. on Trump's weaponization priorities. And.

here's an excerpt from the article. Almost immediately after Pam Bondi. stepped into her role as attorney. general last year, she established a. weaponization working group to review. law enforcement actions taken under the. Biden administration for any examples of. what she described as quote politicized. justice. She said the group would focus. on investigations into Trump conducted. by former special counsel Jack Smith and. his staff, Manhattan District Attorney.

Alvin Bragg and New York Attorney. General Leticia James and any improper. investigations into the January 6, 2020. attack on the capital. It goes on to. say, "In recent weeks, Trump has been. pressuring Justice Department officials. for results in these and other. investigations recently admonishing a. group of US attorneys for failing to. deliver on cases he once brought." And. you may remember he tried James Comey,

Leticia James. Um, he wants whatever the. Republicans have always accused the. Democrats of, it's just a confession. It's what they want to do. Josh, you. work with a lot of US attorneys. You. work with DOJ. What is your take on. this? >> I think from a legal perspective, this. is the most interesting because you see. uh Trump utilizing his Department of. Justice there. You remember there used. to be a little bit of independence. uh with the Department of Justice and. the the executive branch, the president.

here. um the President Trump and AG. Bondi uh make no uh secret of the fact. that the AG's office is serving uh to. weaponize that office as you pointed out. in your intro uh against his enemies. I. mean they're very blunt about it. Uh and. that's the biggest difference in in what. you're seeing across the country in. Minnesota, you see it in almost every. district or US attorneys taking a stance. and some of them saying I didn't sign up. for this. Uh, the rule of law means.

something to me. I'm not going to. prosecute or fail to prosecute any. certain case just because the president. wants me to or doesn't want me to. I. think you saw that mass exodus in. Minnesota when they refused to. investigate the homicides of Alex Prey. and Renee Good. And you're seeing it a. lot. I think the Minnesota US Attorney's. Office had 50 career prosecutors at one. point. They were down to 17. Um, if you. look at some of the recent indictments,

like on Don Lemon's indictment, you see. that none of the local US attorneys. signed off on it, which means only the. Department of Justice lynch men are. doing it because no one else will have. anything to do with it. So, it's a. systematic problem across the country. and judges, district court judges are. having to confront the incompetence of. what is now uh the Department of. Justice. You remember when Meritt. Garland was attorney general and they. had worked out a plea deal with um. Hunter Biden and the Republicans pitched.

a fit and so then they said, "Okay, we're going to charge Hunter Biden. because we don't want to have the. appearance of um not being, you know, of. of curring favor with the president." Do. you remember that? And then they ended. up charging Hunter Biden. And this is. also the same DOJ under Merrick Garland. that has that had the Epstein files for. four years. The same DOJ that failed to.

charge the elites that funded January 6. They only charged the poor, lower income. people that were paid to go and their. travel was paid to go to do the. insurrection. They didn't charge the the. high up people that funded it. talk. about the difference. between the way these two parties. operate, the way the Republicans are. operating and way the Biden DOJ. operated. >> So when Merrick Garland was appointed. attorney general, it's like he went out. of his way to say that this is an.

independent organization. We do not work. at the behast of President Biden. We're. not going to investigate or charge. political enemies just for the sake of. doing so. So, there's that mindset. There's that. thought. And then you have someone like. Pam Bondi in President Trump's mindset, which is very overtly, very uh in your. face. We are coming after people that. investigated President Trump. And it's.

like they're playing this game, we're. playing this game. And I think all of us. at the time with AG Garland were all. kind of shaking our heads saying, "What. are you doing? I mean, this insurrection. happened on national TV. We all watched. it. Uh, as you point out, they didn't. investigate any of the top tier. financers of 16. They went after these. low-level individuals that that breached. the capital. Um, they're just playing by. a different set of rules. And and.

President Biden and the Department of. Justice, they had all of this. information about Epstein. They sat on. it for four years. Uh, every time I find. myself getting more and more upset about. President Trump, I find myself getting. angrier and angrier at former President. Biden and Merrick Garland because I I. blame both of those individuals for. putting us in this situation to begin. with. >> I don't think there's any question about. it. It becomes it makes you wonder like.

they had valid reasons. the protection. of democracy, um reconciling the uh. guard rails that collapsed in order for. Donald Trump to do the stuff that he did. in Trump 1.0. He was impeached. >> and you could and it was all. justifiable. I don't think anybody could. make the argument that this would have. been some sort of a witch hunt or a. political prosecution. It was all on. national TV. President Trump, >> let me say this. This is what pisses me.

off about the Democrats. They are so. scared of the narrative that right-wing. says Trump, it's a witch hunt. It's a. witch hunt. Russia, Russia, Russia is a. hoax that they allow themselves and. their moral compass to be defined by. right-wing And that's what. Biden and Biden DOJ did. Don't you. think? >> 100%. And I think we're all waiting. We. wondered why it took a year, year and a. half for Merrick Garland to initiate any.

sort of meaningful investigation into. President Trump. It was something none. of us could explain. And then I remember. we discussed President Biden at one. point said that he wouldn't pardon his. son. And and it's when I heard that that. I thought to myself, are you kidding me? What do you think President Trump would. say to that? It's just that you you have. uh two mindsets. You have someone who's. evil that will do anything and then you. have this other approach that we're. going to play integrity politics and.

that's exactly precisely why we're in. the situation that we're in 100%. >> All right. And then as all authoritarian. regimes do, they start off by attacking. comedians because they're thin skinned. And we saw what happened with Jimmy. Kimmel after the Grammys last night. Um, the comedians were making jokes about. President Trump, which welcome to being. in the big boy chair. All presidents get. ridiculed and made fun of. Of course, now he's threatening to sue Trevor Noah. because he's such a titty baby. He can't.

handle it. And then they go after the. press. Trump's. um propaganda. towards the press started a long long. time ago, even before he descended down. the escalator. you know, uh, uh, the. Vanity Fair article that talked about. him having little hands and he's sued. all sorts of people at the in the press. Barbara Walters in the 80s spoke to him. about him reading from Hitler and he's. been mad at the press forever. So why.

somebody that's so thin skinned and. doesn't have enough um, confidence to. handle the press would choose to be in. public office is a case for the. psychiatrist. But now he finally has his. DOJ going after our friend, friend of. the show and my Josh's personal friend, Don Lemon. And here is what he said on. Air Force One regarding his DOJ.

uh weaponizing and targeting Don Lemon. after three judges said there was. nothing to bring charges for. Play the. clip. Do. you have any knowledge of the rest of. Don Lemon or how many trucking office? >> No, I don't know anything about the Don. Lemon thing, but he's a squeeze bag. Everyone's still dead. So, probably from. his standpoint, the best thing that could happen to him, he's getting, you know, he had no. viewers. He had he was a failure. He was.

a failed host. And now he's uh he's in. the news. I didn't know anything about. >> Okay, two questions, Josh. Number one, when the people in Pam Bondi's DOJ after. two rounds of judges said, "No, there's. nothing to see here, no charges." And. then somebody that works in DOJ, an. assistant US attorney says, "We will. stop at nothing to arrest Don Lemon.". Number one, can that be a defense of. Dawn to be selective prosecution? Number. two, if you were Don Lemon's criminal.

defense lawyer and you have the. president of the United States who has. no independence from the DOJ standing. there calling him a scuzz scuzz bag and. all of scumbag and all of this stuff is. are they just so incompetent? Do they. sabotage their cases before they even. get them in front of a grand jury? >> I think to answer your second question. first as to incompetence, absolutely. There's what's called selective andor. vindictive prosecution. And I think that. president's tr President Trump's words.

in the clip you just played calling him. a sleas bag. And I think I'm sure. there's a plethora of other public. statements that Donald Trump has made. about Don Lemon. All of those will go. very neatly into a motion uh to dismiss. this matter for various reasons. One of. which will be uh he's vindictive, selective. Um but then there's a whole. another plethora of motions that I'm. sure his lawyers are going to attack. this case with. If you'll notice the. narrative by the Department of Justice.

in the indictment and in any sort of. public comments they've made about this. is that they try to paint Don as a. participant in the protest, not a pro. not not a journalist covering because. they realize that there is a first. amendment right uh [clears throat] for. journalist. So they try to switch or. change the narrative to the fact that. he's a protester. Well, that obviously. there's all sorts of problems with that. because Don himself says multiple. multiple times during the live stream, I'm covering this as a journalist. So,

uh I I don't think that when Pam Bondi. brings these charges, I don't think they. think about having enough evidence to. get a conviction. And when I say that, it almost makes my head sort of explode. because all prosecutors, according to. DOJ manuals, have to look at the. evidence as far as whether or not. they're able to obtain a conviction. But. I don't think that's even in their pro. thought process. I think what they're. thinking is they're going to get some. immediate gratification for their boss.

by being able to say that we've charged. this person. We were asked to charge. this person. We were told that we had to. charge this person. in this case being. Don Lemon, we did it. So, we get to take. a victory lap. And then I think that as. you see in James Comey and Leticia James. and other cases, they crumble. They fall. apart. I anticipate in Don's case with. the caliber of lawyers that he has. assisting him that uh that will play out. the very same way. Unfortunately for. him, he does have to go through this.

process. Um but it's clear to me that. this case is a is a clear winner for the. defendant. Uh but it still doesn't uh. sit right the fact that you have a. president that can weaponize this DOJ to. pretty much do anything that they want. at any time. >> Well, they're going to start meeting. weekly to make sure they continue the. weaponization of the DOJ. But in the. indictment, it says one of their points. is that Don Lemon peppered the pastor.

with questions. As a criminal defense. attorney, Josh, if you're Don Lemon's. attorney who is a journalist, journalists are known for quote. peppering their interviewee with. questions. How idiotic is this? And also. in the indictment, it says that John Don. reports that the kids look scared. He's. doing they actively in the indictment. describe the job description of what. journalists do. And I'm just puzzled as.

to how they think this helps their case, those points. >> Well, the elements of both of these. offenses require that there be some sort. of intimidation or some sort of. aggressive act. And so you see in the. indictment, they've alleged these overt. acts in a conspiracy. uh none of which. give rise to meeting the definition of. intimidate um. or scare tactics or or use of force or.

anything like that. Um I I think they. say that that when Don's interviewing. the pastor that the pastor gets too. close to him and Don uh pats his hand. away or something like that as if that's. some form of aggressive act. I mean the. indictment's complete. uh with all sorts. of exaggerations. And and here's the. thing in in the court of public opinion, Pam Bond body can say these things. She. can put these things on Twitter. She can. grandstand. She can do whatever she.

wants to. When you get into a courtroom, you have specific elements that the. government has to prove beyond a. reasonable doubt. [gasps]. They can't meet those elements in either. count. He's charged in two separate. counts. Um and their case is going to. fall apart. Don didn't go in. He didn't. intimidate. He didn't threaten, he. didn't harass uh any of the members of. that church, at least what's on the. video. Um so again, a courtroom is. different than the court of public. opinion. In a courtroom, you have to put.

up or shut up. And you've seen the. Department of Justice results in all of. the acquittents. that have gone to trial that they're not. able to prove these cases. And I'm not. sure that they even care about that, which is a really sad thing for this. Department of Justice. >> Yeah, I read. Sorry if you guys hear. snorting viewer and listener in the. background. It's my two little French. bulldogs having afternoon playtime. Um. but I read somewhere that authoritarians. what he's trying to do by arresting Don. Lemon is send um a jolt of fear to.

people like me and Pumps and Midas Touch. and other people in independent media. Donald Trump has been able to pay off to. shake down corporate media. He's been. able to get hardcore right-wingers like. Larry Ellison and Barry Weiss to. completely. uh turn CBS upside down. He's got Jeff. Bezos in his pocket. Jeff Bezos spiked. the story endorsing Kla Harris and the. Washington Post. But independent media.

is the fastest growing media and. everybody's abandoned the Washington. Post, CNN, MSNBC. So you have this whole. media ecosystem that's growing very. quickly and also in the black community. it's very much felt personally because. they notice immediately that the four. journalists that were arrested it's not. just Don all four black journalists and. [clears throat]. this white supremacist fascist cult hang.

on you guys stop it this white. supremacist sorry listener this white. supremacist fascist cult. is going to go to the people that. they've been actively dehumanizing year. after year, decade after decade, century. after century, black people, to remind. the base, look, these black people. shouldn't be journalists. We're going to. show them, we're going to tell them they. can't go into and report on news that's. happening. >> That's right. And if you look at.

authoritarian regimes, they try to. dismantle various aspects of society. And so, just look at what he's done in. Minnesota. He's arrested a member of the. press. We have freedom of the press in the. First Amendment. He's arrested. protesters. We have freedom of assembly. in the first amendment of the. constitution. He's now gone after the. ballot boxes. In Georgia, we have the. right to vote. which is a fundamental part of our.

democracy. We have the right to due. process. We see all of these. non-citizens being detained without any. form of probable cause. We have academic. freedom in this country. We see all the. universities under attack. We have the. right to privacy against unreasonable. search and seizure. We see that these. encounters with these non-citizens with. different individuals are not based on. any kind of probable cause. So you see. this systematic effort intentional on.

the part of the government to slowly. dismantle or chip away at each of those. different rights that form our democracy. that form our country and it's a. systematic intentional effort uh albeit. led by incompetence at certain times. very mean vindictive individuals that. are held in on carrying out this agenda. for this president. I there's no question. And then we. don't, you know, we didn't even talk. about all of the um warehouses that are. being purchased in all of these red.

states to create a network of. concentration camps with our taxpayer. dollars because this regime's desire for. recreational cruelty is nothing short of. sadism and racism. And the worst people. in the world are trying to silence the. best people in this country. And so. Josh, I want to thank you for filling in. for pumps and for your legal expertise. Listener, I'm sorry about my little. piglets snorting in the background. This. is Independent Media. It puts a little. real life spin on it. Thank you for.

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