Trump WHINES About NEW Indictment in AWKWARD Press Moment

0:00 Brian, President Trump finally broke a silence today about

0:02 a terrifying assassination attempt on his life by a mad man.

0:07 Let's watch.

0:07 If anybody knows anything about uh crime, they know 86.

0:13 You know what 8?

0:14 It's a mob term for kill him.

0:16 You know, you ever see the movies 86.

0:20 People like Comey have created tremendous danger,

0:23 I think, for politicians and others.

0:26 He, you know, Comey is a dirty cop.

0:28 He's a very dirty cop.

0:30 Uh he cheated on the elections.

0:32 He tried to help Hillary Clinton, as you know.

0:35 He dismissed a lot of things that he should have proceeded with.

0:39 President Trump was of course talking about uh DOJ prosecuting former FBI

0:43 director Jim Comey for posting an Instagram of seashells that said 8647.

0:49 A shell shocking update.

0:52 Yeah, this is ridiculous.

0:53 The whole thing The whole prosecute Brian for that joke.

0:56 The whole thing is is so absurd.

0:59 I mean, first of all, everyone's playing kayfape,

1:01 but they don't know what 86 means.

1:03 If you work in a kitchen, as people have said, uh,

1:06 it means to get rid of something like we're out of, you know,

1:08 if we're out of like meat and then

1:09 you have something on the menu that involves meat,

1:11 then you have to say you have 86 that like it doesn't mean to kill it.

1:15 It doesn't mean to murder it or assassinate.

1:16 It means to get rid of it.

1:18 Like this is James Comey taking a picture of seashells.

1:21 Like what are we doing here?

1:23 It is the most transparent vindictive prosecution that you could possibly have,

1:29 which which really says something in an administration where

1:31 that that really just engages in so many vindictive prosecutions.

1:35 But this is going nowhere.

1:36 Like this this will not even go to trial.

1:38 It'll likely be thrown out the second uh it

1:41 gets before any judge who recognizes what this is.

1:44 But I I think the point here is not to convict

1:47 James Comey because it's not he's not going to be Yeah.

1:49 It's just to harass him.

1:50 It's to make him spend money.

1:51 It's to it's to make him expend resources.

1:53 It's to stress him out, uh, take up his time, energy, whatever it may be.

1:58 But that's what it looks like when

2:00 you weaponize the government against your political opponents.

2:02 And

2:02 and like Trump in that clip,

2:03 like he couldn't even bring himself to really pretend he cared.

2:06 He's like, I don't know, you know, it's 86 or something.

2:09 Like he just like, and also Comey

2:11 says he didn't even arrange the shells himself.

2:13 Took a picture for Instagram, stumbled upon them.

2:15 He says he doesn't know that 86 could

2:17 be interpreted as a threat to kill someone.

2:19 and prosecutors have to prove that Comey was not

2:21 only aware of how the message could be read,

2:23 but that he intended it as a threat to the president.

2:26 So, seems like a bit of a high bar.

2:29 Uh, to your point, the Comey team said

2:31 they're going to say it's a vindictive prosecution.

2:33 DOJ has also tried to indict Comey for lying to Congress.

2:36 That case was dismissed over issues with the US attorney who brought the case.

2:40 But again, it just it's what you said.

2:42 They are trying to relentlessly harass this guy.

2:44 Yeah.

2:44 I mean that that's you know it's it's amazing that they have endless resources

2:48 to engage in these prosecutions against their political

2:51 opponents whether it's James Comey or Leticia James

2:54 but apparently they have no resources to get

2:56 the Epstein files released even though we're more

2:58 than 4 months after the Epstein Files Transparency

3:00 Act mandated that all the files be released.

3:02 We've got 3 million files.

3:03 We haven't seen a single other file.

3:05 No time for that.

3:06 no other FBI or DOJ agents to go through

3:09 those files that we can hold pedophiles to account.

3:13 But prosecute James Comey for an Instagram picture of seashells.

3:16 Hell yeah.

3:17 Plenty of resources for that.

3:18 Well, he shouldn't have used that sepia filter.

3:20 Um Cash Patel, the FBI director, current one.

3:24 Uh he was also very worked up about this, Brian.

3:26 And I don't know if you caught this clip

3:27 from earlier this week of them talking about

3:30 um how uh deliberate and thoughtful and how

3:34 much time it took them to conduct this investigation.

3:36 Let's watch that.

3:37 While many of you may read this indictment

3:39 and view this matter as a simple investigation,

3:41 it is the farthest thing from that.

3:43 Every single investigation this FBI and our partners

3:46 at the Department of Justice undertake,

3:48 especially those that involve the threats to um

3:51 harm or hurt or even kill individuals,

3:53 whether they behold public office or civilians in our country,

3:56 are met with the same measure of investigative prowess and tools

3:59 and personnel and partnership with the Department of Justice as anyone else.

4:03 As the US attorney indicated, James Comey will be afforded every matter

4:06 of due process under the United States Constitution.

4:09 And as the attorney general indicated,

4:11 this has been a case that's been investigated over the past uh 9, 10, 11 months.

4:16 These cases take time.

4:17 Our investigators work methodically.

4:20 They are career agents, career prosecutors who work these matters.

4:23 They call the balls and strikes in the field as they

4:26 see fit pursuant to the facts of the case and the law.

4:28 So, uh, what Mumbles was just saying there is this case,

4:33 this case took 11 months.

4:34 They were investigating Instagram for 11 months.

4:37 What do you think they were doing?

4:39 What?

4:39 What do I think they were doing the other 10 months, 29 days?

4:43 It looks like some shells.

4:44 Yep, it is shells.

4:45 Deep research on the shells themselves.

4:49 Yeah, this one's from the Cretaceian period.

4:50 What are we talking about?

4:51 Th this this is like an hourong investigation.

4:55 James Comey James Comey took a picture of some seashells.

4:58 It means get rid of the president.

5:00 Yeah, that's it.

5:00 That's the whole investigation.

5:02 This is so stupid.

5:02 I like I hate these people.

5:04 And also look, I was talking to the MAGA people in in DC when we

5:07 were both there for the White House correspondents

5:10 stuff and one of these one, you know,

5:12 kind of MAGA person was saying uh they just view

5:16 all these uh investigations as uh fodder for the base obviously,

5:20 but they sincerely seem to think that this is

5:22 what is going to turn out their base.

5:24 It's like going after Comey, going after Brennan,

5:26 going after know Hillary's probably up next.

5:29 I maybe like maybe that's what fires up

5:32 the like 25% of the hardcore super ultra mega base,

5:36 but I I don't it just seems crazy to me.

5:38 Do people really give a about sea shells?

5:40 I I can't imagine they do.

5:42 And also, I mean, I know this hearkens back to what I was saying before,

5:45 but it would be one thing if this was happening

5:48 in conjunction with the administration pushing forward the rest of its agenda,

5:52 but this is the same group of people.

5:54 These are the same law enforcement agents that should be

5:57 doing the other things that Donald Trump promised to his base,

6:00 which is to release the Epstein file.

6:02 So, if the same people are failing at this principal objective, um you know,

6:07 the the basically the the the basis for for this MAGA movement,

6:12 which is like get rid of this this elite cabal

6:14 of people who are able to commit crimes uh uh with impunity.

6:18 Like if you can't do that, then you

6:20 don't also get credit for the same people who

6:22 have who have um who are derelictked in their duties

6:26 to come back and and do something else.

6:28 Like that's this is not going to compensate for that.

6:31 You know what I'm saying?

6:32 Yeah.

6:33 I I don't think a molluskbased agenda is is going to really do it.

6:37 You're you're just looking up synonyms for like

6:40 I don't like buy valves either or seephalopod shells,

6:44 but I I don't know that that's going to turn me out in a midterm election.

6:47 I could be wrong.

6:49 Indict Tommy.

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7:56 Okay, so we started with that uh cuz it's so stupid so we could

8:00 laugh at it because there was also some news out of the Supreme Court today.

8:03 It is objectively terrible.

8:04 Uh here's a clip of President Trump explaining all the details.

8:07 He's very well verssed in this.

8:09 I want to go back to the Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act.

8:11 I know you said you haven't seen it.

8:12 When did it come out?

8:13 just now.

8:13 Um, no, it came out this morning.

8:15 Uh, but basically very much narrows the Voting Rights Act,

8:18 which you considered a win for

8:19 a win for Republicans.

8:20 I love it.

8:21 But my question, this is a very good We can end this news conference right now.

8:25 I want to read it.

8:26 Early voting begins Saturday there, for instance.

8:30 Should they redraw the map in the next couple?

8:31 I would.

8:32 I mean, it depends.

8:33 I mean, some states don't need to redraw and some do.

8:36 I mean, I know what the concept of the ruling.

8:39 I just haven't seen the result.

8:40 Uh so as you can tell there, Brian,

8:42 uh President Trump was totally unfamiliar with the details.

8:44 This ruling had come out several hours before this press event.

8:47 Instead, he had spent his time uh doing a press conference in front

8:50 of some astronauts and then he said

8:52 meeting with the contractors for the ballroom.

8:54 So I'm glad he has his priorities straight.

8:56 Um can you tell us what this thing means in practice?

8:59 It feels uh quite ominous for Yeah.

9:01 So this is the Cala decision.

9:02 It's Louisiana versus Cala.

9:03 So basically the Supreme Court ruled 6 to3 um

9:07 to essentially gut section two of the Voting Rights Act.

9:09 That's the section that mandates that there have

9:11 to be opportunity districts for uh to have minority representation.

9:15 So, black opportunity districts,

9:16 Latino opportunity districts to make sure that that you know,

9:19 especially in the South,

9:21 uh that these Republicans aren't going to be able to draw um

9:24 to draw minority voters out of their districts

9:27 and and to afford them representation.

9:29 With that gone, that basically clears the way

9:32 for these very states that I was just

9:34 alluding to to redraw their maps and basically

9:37 draw out um these black and brown representatives.

9:40 And so we could see anywhere from 12 to about 20 seats uh uh get drawn out

9:46 and those would very likely flip from blue

9:50 to red uh as the result of this decision.

9:52 Um it basically just hobbles the entirety or what's left

9:56 of the Voting Rights Act now that section five was gutted.

9:59 uh pre-clance a few years back.

10:01 Um, and what worries me here is not just the fact that we're going

10:05 to see a lot of Republican states

10:07 redraw their maps to eliminate minority representation,

10:11 uh, which of course, you know,

10:12 that the Voting Rights Act was was what basically ended Jim Crow.

10:17 And so knowing that we're basically hearkening back to that era,

10:21 um, is bad enough unto itself.

10:23 We've seen what happens with entrenched Republican rule.

10:26 We're in it right now.

10:27 wars, prices surging, corruption rampant,

10:31 like all of that stuff speaks for itself.

10:33 But even in a moment where

10:35 let's say the Democrats are lucky enough to get the House, the Senate,

10:38 and the White House, and we're able to pass uh a Voting Rights Act again,

10:43 well, now we already know that even if legislation is passed,

10:45 like this this existing Voting Rights Act from 1965

10:48 was reaffirmed over and over and over again.

10:50 It was passed, I think, in 2006, 98 to nothing in the Senate.

10:53 It was signed by George W.

10:55 Bush again.

10:55 And so even if we're able to pass the legislation,

10:58 we now have a permanent barrier in the Supreme

11:01 Court that will always be there to knock it down.

11:03 And so we have a permanent obstacle to progress so

11:06 long as the Supreme Court remains um in Republican hands.

11:10 And so that's worrisome because like you think that okay,

11:13 if we can just get House,

11:14 Senate, White House and Democratic control, then then the sky's is the limit.

11:17 Eliminate the filibuster, we can do anything.

11:18 But like so long as um as this Supreme Court remains

11:22 in in in in place with the uh breakdown as it currently stands,

11:26 then like it's it's it's grim, you know.

11:30 And so the only solution here then is to be able to expand the court.

11:33 It's to have enough of a majority in government

11:36 where we can actually and enough and enough courage,

11:38 enough of a spine to say we don't just need to be able to pass this legislation.

11:42 We need to make sure that foundationally we we we put in place

11:47 um you know government structures where we

11:49 can actually uphold the stuff we pass.

11:51 Yeah, this is real bad.

11:51 This is like a worst case scenario a lot of people have been looking at.

11:54 It sounds like Trump you know is going to call

11:56 on some Republican states to move quickly, redraw maps.

11:59 Florida already did today.

12:00 Florida out of their legislature passed uh a jerrymander that would

12:04 add four seats to Republicans and so that's

12:06 just awaiting Ronda Santis's signature at this point.

12:09 So, that's going to be a way

12:10 for them to counteract what just happened in Virginia.

12:13 Um, obviously California and Texas cancel each other out.

12:16 But remember, Republicans were also able to pass

12:19 maps uh that added seats in North Carolina, in Missouri, and Ohio.

12:24 Uh, we got one seat for Democrats in Utah, but again,

12:27 it looks like Republicans already have a slight advantage here.

12:30 Um we we we'll also we'll also see what happens in Florida because uh it's

12:35 there's a fear in Florida that you

12:36 know Republicans feel know that it's not going

12:39 to be a good midterm for them and they don't want to redraw the maps

12:42 and think they have the thing in the bag and then

12:44 lose seats because they actually spread out more of their votes.

12:47 So that is the only hope.

12:48 There is something called a dummy mander

12:49 which is you gerrymander too much and you

12:52 actually spread out Republican votes too uh thin

12:54 and you can actually end up losing seats.

12:56 But hopefully it won't be a for nothing sweep for Republicans.

13:01 Um it's also worth noting that

13:04 there is a uh uh a partisan jerrymander prohibition in the Florida Constitution,

13:08 but six of the seven justices on Florida's Supreme Court were appointed

13:12 by Ronda Santis and they already allowed the existing jerrymander to go through.

13:16 That was the jerrymander that was pushed by Dantis just a couple of years ago.

13:19 So if those people didn't object to the existing gerrymander,

13:23 it's highly unlikely that these right-wing hacks are going to be are

13:26 going to be um there to serve as a check on Dantis now.

13:29 Yeah.

13:29 The the Florida Supreme Court is not um deep thinkers who care about balance

13:34 and checks and balances and just it's it's a naga kind of like amen chorus.

13:39 So yeah, I don't feel great about that.

13:40 Uh busy week also on Capitol Hill.

13:43 A bunch of Pentagon officials were up on the hill this week

13:45 and we finally got an official cost estimate for the war in Iran.

13:50 Let's check that out.

13:51 Approximately at this day we're spending

13:52 about $25 billion on Operation Epic Fury.

13:55 U most of that is in munitions.

13:57 There's part of that is obviously O andM and equipment replacement.

14:00 We will formulate a supplemental uh through the White House that will come

14:03 to Congress once we have a full assessment of the cost of the conflict.

14:06 Okay.

14:06 So you're saying the full cost at this point is 25 billion.

14:09 Yeah, that's our estimate for the cost.

14:11 Okay.

14:12 Interesting.

14:12 because we I'm glad you answered that question because we've been asking

14:15 for a hell of a long time and no one's given us the number.

14:17 So, we only spent $25 billion, Brian and the results are that Iran's

14:22 nuclear materials are still sitting in Tyrron.

14:24 Uh the straight of Hormuz is closed.

14:26 It was once open.

14:28 Uh oil and gas is way more expensive.

14:30 There could be a global food crisis uh

14:32 because fertilizer can't get through the the straight.

14:35 So, I I feel like that was a bargain.

14:37 I don't know about you.

14:38 Other than that, Mrs.

14:38 Lincoln, how was the play?

14:39 It was wonderful.

14:40 Thank you.

14:40 I mean, there's also reporting that our munitions

14:43 are at like dangerously low levels.

14:45 So, we basically depleted our whole munition stockpile.

14:48 And what we have to show for it is that the the passageway uh for, you know,

14:52 the the biggest supplier of oil in the world that was once open,

14:55 as you said, is now closed.

14:57 And uh and we're no closer

14:58 to eliminating um eliminating Iran's enriched uranium.

15:02 And the regime change that was supposed

15:04 to take place went from Kamini to Kamini.

15:06 Uh a younger Kamini, this one who's not sick.

15:08 So, who's really mad?

15:09 Yeah.

15:10 who's who's now has a vendetta,

15:11 a personal vendetta against the United States for killing his father,

15:14 killing his whole family.

15:15 And uh they also keep bragging that he's

15:17 like severely maimed and maybe lost a leg,

15:20 his face like got burnt off, like all these horrible things.

15:23 It's like to me, you're just describing a man who hates us

15:26 as much as humanly possible when you kind of like brag about this stuff.

15:29 Also, I'm not sure that I even believe the $25 billion.

15:32 I think it probably be a lot more than I I would I would

15:35 like the operating cost of just like having three aircraft carrier

15:38 strike groups in the Gulf all the time is wildly expensive.

15:41 Like I think they're talking about direct costs of uh

15:44 munitions fired which is very expensive and like airplanes flying around.

15:49 But like there's just an operating cost that I

15:50 just don't think is getting priced in here.

15:52 It also wouldn't make sense because after

15:54 the sixth day of this war the price was

15:56 estimated to be roughly 11.5 billion dollars and we're

15:59 like in the second month of this thing.

16:02 Yeah.

16:02 Although they they fired like the biggest ticket

16:04 I like standoff precision munitions first like the things

16:08 you can fire from like 1500 miles away

16:10 like the TAMs the tomahawk missiles and those are

16:13 more expensive and once they took out

16:14 the air defense systems then you're flying over

16:16 and like dropping dumb bombs which are a lot

16:18 cheaper but I mean we're still talking like tens of thousands of dollars each.

16:22 I mean it's crazy.

16:23 So and and you know it's it's worth noting amid all of this that

16:29 this would be bad enough unto itself like

16:30 a war that nobody asked for but at the hands

16:32 of an administration that swore up and down that it

16:34 would be America first is just like is just the

16:38 wouldn't have start wars in the Middle East that that that expression

16:41 J's op-ed like best part of Trump foreign policy no new wars.

16:44 Yeah well Kamla Kamla the hawk Donald the dove the dove

16:47 but like all of this is coming at the same

16:49 time that the Trump administration and Republicans are ripping away healthcare.

16:53 I mean, we've got Medicaid cut from 17 million Americans.

16:55 We've got ACA subsidies cut from 24 million Americans.

16:58 Food assistance cut to the tune of 186 billion.

17:01 We have prices on everything rising.

17:03 Uh uh utility and electricity costs are surging right now.

17:06 Gas is at the highest point that it's been almost ever.

17:09 And uh and so you know again just to have this war that nobody wanted would

17:14 be bad enough but like for an a purported

17:17 America first president to come in and find

17:20 endless sums of money for dropping bombs in the Middle East at the same time

17:25 that they're cutting healthcare and food and and regular

17:27 costs for Americans is just beyond the pale.

17:30 It is terrible.

17:31 Nobody wants this.

17:32 Uh, finally, Brian, I heard something really uh,

17:35 smart and interesting about cancel culture that I wanted to share with you.

17:39 Let's watch.

17:40 People sometimes want to say cancel.

17:42 Oh, people aren't cancelled cuz they're still doing this or that.

17:45 There are different gradations of it.

17:47 There's soft cancelling.

17:49 I would say I've had some of that happen to me.

17:52 So, like what soft cancelling would be like,

17:54 we will never give you an Emmy even though plainly I deserve them.

18:02 No, Bill.

18:03 And no, you don't think I've ever You don't think my show

18:06 I don't know what the what the categories or the context or any of that.

18:10 You don't You don't watch that Yes.

18:12 So, the man uh who has hosted his current show

18:15 since 2003 uh on HBO has this lame ass podcast.

18:19 I think it's called Club Random.

18:21 It kills me that name.

18:22 He's filthy rich.

18:23 He smokes weed and just like talks to his friends.

18:25 He that man, he was soft canceled.

18:27 Soft canceled because he hasn't won an Emmy.

18:30 entitlement the entitlement for for these awards.

18:32 Otherw if if it weren't for the the SJWs who canceled him,

18:36 he would have his Emmy guaranteed.

18:39 Maybe people don't like your show, sir.

18:41 Is that a possibility?

18:42 No, it's not.

18:43 He's been cancelled.

18:44 Soft cancelled.

18:45 Soft cancel like when the when the Viagra doesn't work.

18:47 Is that what we're talking about here?

18:48 Uh Mr.

18:49 Maher, that's the the anti-sealis cancellation.

18:53 What an It's like David Cross is sitting there being like,

18:57 I can't believe you're saying this.

18:59 Like I I made a career of like not breaking and really

19:02 funny scenes and I just had to laugh in your face.

19:04 I think what's most important here is that is

19:07 that we counteract the soft cancellation that's happening

19:10 of independent progressive media.

19:12 And so if you want to push back against that soft cancellation,

19:15 the best way to do that is to subscribe to POTS America's YouTube channel.

19:19 We're going to put the link right on the screen

19:20 and also in the post description of this video.

19:23 And uh and this way you can push

19:24 back against the cancel culture that's plaguing this country.

19:27 Yeah, it's not hard.

19:29 Just Tommy and Bill Maher up there fighting the good fight.