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[00:00:29] So I mentioned in the last, on the last topic, the three big stories, right, that NPR blew over the last five years, right, the Russia hoax, the COVID lab leak theory and the Hunter Biden laptop story, all of those three, you know, stories, they were on the wrong side of and promoted misinformation, disinformation and everything else.
[00:00:48] But there was another story. And it's the greatest political scandal in American history. I have said this before. It is Joe Biden's mental cognitive decline. And now it can be told, right? Now, okay, now we're going to get the books and we're going to get the articles that, okay, yeah, everybody kind of did know this.
[00:01:14] And I've already covered a couple of these, quote, revelations. We've got more now. So this is our friend Stacey Matthews at redstate.com. And she found this clip from the Young Turks. That's a leftist progressive YouTube show, right? The host, Cenk Uygur.
[00:01:42] And he's interviewing a guy named Michael LaRosa. Michael LaRosa worked for Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign. He was Jill Biden, sorry, Dr. Jill Biden's traveling press secretary, okay? And then when Biden won, LaRosa became the first lady's press secretary.
[00:02:10] But he didn't last very long. He resigned in the summer of 2022. So about two years into the gig, right after Dr. Jill's breakfast taco debacle. Do you remember that one where she mispronounced the word bodegas and said something like,
[00:02:34] this community is as diverse as the breakfast tacos in San Antonio or something like this. Oh, my gosh. Like breakfast tacos to the Hispanic organization she was speaking in front of. Anyway, so that, I guess, precipitated this guy LaRosa's exit from the post, okay? Since then, LaRosa has made some concerning admissions about what he says went on in the Biden White House.
[00:03:03] For instance, in February, he said, quote, The president's team was scared to death of impromptu, unscripted, unrehearsed, unpracticed, unchoreographed anything. They couldn't compete for the attention economy. I would say in the attention economy, right? They couldn't compete. Quote,
[00:03:28] We were always, from day one, cognizant that age was an issue. He also admitted at that time in February that the, quote, gaslighting people accused Biden's handlers of engaging in regard. He said that Biden's handlers were engaged in gaslighting whenever anybody asked questions about his cognitive health. And that they all knew. They all knew.
[00:03:58] And then they would just lie about it and gaslight us. And you may recall, we had an example of that occur right here on WBT when our news director got an interview with Corringe Jambier. And he asked her flat out, does he have dementia? And she got all outraged over it and proceeded to gaslight Mark Garrison, the news director, and the audience, all of us that heard it.
[00:04:26] So now we have this interview with Michael LaRosa on The Young Turks with Cenk Uygur. And here's what Michael LaRosa says. How do you bully the press? What do you threaten? Well, look, there are a lot of ways. I mean, I thought it was weird that they only did interviews for, quote, approval. There was this thing in Biden world about, quote, approval. Everything had to be on, quote, approval.
[00:04:56] So you talk to a reporter, but one person decides what the reporter can use, what quotes they can use. There was weird things like that. I mean, you saw them get caught trying to script questions to radio reporters that summer or summer of 2024. It was very reminiscent to me of being on the campaign in 2020 where these young press staffers in these states like New Hampshire or Iowa or Nevada,
[00:05:23] they were sort of like dog trained to make the questions conditional for interviews. And I said to them, please never ask the journalist for the questions ahead of time. You can always ask about the topics, but do not ask them for the questions. Right. That's standard, by the way. That is a standard thing. Hey, what do you want to talk about?
[00:05:49] And then you'll throw out, oh, I wanted to ask the person about, you know, how the campaign's going. Just a broad topic. So they have an understanding of what they're going to be talking about. So you can throw out the topics. You don't give them the questions, nor if anybody ever. And I've had people ask me that. Well, what kind of questions do you want to ask? I'm not going to tell you what questions I'm asking. I'm not going to give you a list of the questions. I'm going to tell you it's going to be about a topic. That's standard.
[00:06:18] So, so far, what he's directing these staffers about is completely appropriate. Or Dr. Biden. And they said, well, that's what, you know, the other side tells us to do for him. I said, that's OK. Fine. That's their problem. You know, my job was to protect my boss and they could handle their, we call it the boys' side. The boys' team could do their thing with regard to prepping him for interviews.
[00:06:43] But I did not want, I knew from being a, you know, a former producer at NBC, having long relationships in the press, that was just like 101. It was really unethical to be doing that. But these young kids are really taught to make that a part of their sort of pre-pre-screening for interviews. Yeah. Their pre-screening for interviews for the boys' team, Joe Biden's side.
[00:07:14] That they would get the questions from the reporters. Pre-approval on the quotes. And this was in 2020. So this is like 2019, actually, because it was the 2020 campaign. Right? So this goes back to 2019. So they knew. Before he even won the first time. Pre-COVID. Right?
[00:07:41] One series of incidents that comes to mind was what was happening in the aftermath of the disastrous June 2024 debate performance against Donald Trump. When it was revealed that leftist radio hosts, this is what LaRosa mentioned, agreed in advance to ask certain White House slash Biden campaign approved questions during the, quote, interviews.
[00:08:04] Which were designed to reassure voters and make his nightmarish debate appearance look like a one-off. Right? This was the cleanup. This was the damage control. And he went out to do these radio interviews with friendlies with scripted questions. Glenn Greenwald, independent journalist guy. He said the most significant media scandal of the Biden years was how they did not just hide what the public knew.
[00:08:32] Biden's severe cognitive decline to the point that he couldn't even remotely govern. But there were aggressive attacks on anybody pointing it out and calling it disinformation. Calling them disinformation agents. Right? You had media doing this. And they knew. Because if you did any interviews with Biden, you had to submit your questions. You had to get them pre-approved. And then anybody who was like, hey, he's got a list of the questions. Look. Look at the picture.
[00:09:02] And they would attack you. They would gaslight. This is why it's the biggest scandal. Who was actually signing all of those executive orders? Who was actually governing? Who was making foreign policy decisions? Maybe now it can be told. All right. If you're listening to this show, you know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events. And I know you do, too. And you've probably heard me say, get your news from multiple sources. Why?
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[00:10:17] Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports Ground News as they make the media landscape more transparent. One last part of this clip. Again, this is from Stacey Matthews over at redstate.com. She writes under the nom de plume of Sister Tolja. That was the name of her original blog going back probably, I guess, 20 years maybe at this point. I mean, she was like one of the OG bloggers.
[00:10:42] And she pulls this clip that came from the Young Turks progressive YouTube channel. And the host, Cenk Uygur, is interviewing Michael LaRosa. LaRosa worked for Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign, but he worked for Dr. Jill. He worked as her press secretary.
[00:11:05] And then when they won, he went to work in the first lady's press shop as the press secretary. And he's talking about, in this interview, how they would get the questions from all of the reporters for Joe. And he always said, don't do that for Jill. But for Joe, that's how their side operated. All of the staffers would get all of the questions ahead of time from the journalists.
[00:11:35] And here you're going to hear the host, Cenk Uygur. He's going to express disbelief that basically the secret got kept. It's amazing to me that no one in the press complained about it. Well, you know, I kind of always wondered that myself. Like, why didn't any of these reporters, even in New Hampshire and some of these small town papers or local news, like, why didn't anybody ever say anything? I thought it was so weird at the time.
[00:12:04] But it was my first presidential campaign. I'm thinking, okay, maybe these people know better than I do. But no, it was just, I learned over the course of the next four years. And I learned a lot last summer, just how bad their instincts actually are and how their instincts really didn't serve the president very well.
[00:12:24] Because no matter how hostile they were or how punitive they were to the reporters covering Biden, his press coverage never improved. In fact, it only got worse. Yeah, so they actually did a disservice. This is another, it's another example. And I talk about, you know, the left has become intellectually flabby because they are never challenged.
[00:12:52] Resistance to pressure builds strength. And they were trying to protect Joe because he obviously could not handle unscripted questions. They wanted to limit the gaps and they wanted to, you know, mask his cognitive decline. And then the whole thing blew up and also that the coverage wasn't beneficial for him.
[00:13:17] Because even if you're demanding the questions of the media, right now it might work for you. But the people who are engaged in that behavior, they may not all be cool with that. But they feel like they've got to go along with it in order to get the interview. And that's what they were prizing. But they didn't like the fact that you were doing this to them. So you did a disservice. You made your candidate weaker by trying to protect them or him from everything.
[00:13:46] And he also mentioned there that their instincts were just bad. The staffers, their instincts on this were just bad. Then there's this story. This is from Jonathan Turley. He has a blog, jonathanturley.org. And he's highlighting a quote from Dan Goldman. Remember him? He was one of the star lawyers in the impeachment of Donald Trump.
[00:14:14] And then he parlayed that into a run for Congress as a Democrat from New York. And he is now in Congress. And Dan Goldman is one of those guys that thinks he's way smarter than he actually is. And he's a lawyer, which makes him like a particularly potent sort of stupid. So Turley, also a constitutional law professor, legal expert guy himself.
[00:14:38] He says, for many of us who were long active in Democrat politics, it is becoming increasingly difficult to recognize the party as a new generation of foul-mouthed. I went over that yesterday, right, with this strategy of using profanity because they think it makes them seem authentic. It's like that's – no. Especially if you're not a cusser, you know, and you don't use them well.
[00:15:04] You don't know how to drop the cuss words at the appropriate time for the correct emphasis. It doesn't make you look authentic. Actually, quite the opposite. But again, it's just this like cheap trick that they're trying to turn or trying – well, they're trying to do this cheap trick because they don't have a strategy other than to curse more, right? That's – again, you're intellectually flabby.
[00:15:30] You have not been served well by your alliance and protection with the media. Them not asking you hard-probing questions. The why question. Why are you doing that? Why do you believe this? Why is this the right policy? Let's explore that, you know, idea or this proposal, whatever. They don't ask for those types of details. They just accept the slogans. And that makes you flabby.
[00:15:57] So he's like, I don't even recognize this new iteration of the party, this new generation of foul-mouthed, censorship-supporting, mob-enabling leaders that have taken over. That sense returned this week when Representative Daniel Goldman claimed that the FBI investigating attacks on Tesla cars and facilities is nothing but lawfare and political weaponization. That's what this lawyer guy says.
[00:16:26] Dan Goldman, a lawyer, says that the FBI investigating attacks on Tesla, its vehicles, its dealerships, whatever, that that's lawfare. That this is political weaponization. Using the FBI to investigate domestic terrorism because it has to do with Tesla, that that's weaponization.
[00:16:49] Goldman had nothing to say about weaponization when the FBI was being turned loose on pro-lifers standing silently outside of an abortion clinic or the parents showing up at the school board meetings. No problems with lawfare or political weaponization there. No, no, no.
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[00:19:04] This is the political weaponization of the DOJ. Trump uses his official authority to defend his benefactor, Elon Musk. The FBI then creates a task force to use our law enforcement to crack down on adversaries of Musk's. Where are the Republicans so opposed to lawfare? This is so stupid. It's against the law, dude.
[00:19:30] It's against the law to engage in this kind of vandalism and violent behavior. And to whatever extent it's being funded and organized by organizations, then there could be RICO implications. Racketeering, right? And that is something that the FBI does, in fact, investigate. Turley goes on to say, It is clearly political violence orchestrated against an American company and American property owners,
[00:20:00] including individual citizens, to push consumers away from buying Musk's products. It sounds a lot, he says, and these attacks sound a lot like the definition of terrorism. The Justice Department defines domestic terrorism as, quote,
[00:20:35] That sounds, yeah, that sounds like what we're seeing. It is political violence. It is designed to intimidate and harm people with opposing political views. It meets the definition. Very clearly so. The Democrats have long been accused of belittling or dismissing the seriousness of such crimes, he says.
[00:20:59] There is a sense of license among some on the left in carrying out attacks on those on the right. I'm so glad to hear somebody like Jonathan Turley say this. He is a well-respected individual in, you know, law and in government and policy debates and such. And he is identifying, I've been talking about this, I did, I did, I've done many, many episodes,
[00:21:27] many topics related to this sense that he calls a sense of license, that political violence is okay when we do it on the left. It's the same thing with Biden's cognitive decline. Right? Like, I can see this happening. And if I can see it, I know other people can see it too. And then you get gaslit by people who are like, oh, he's fine. He's sharp as a tack.
[00:21:54] Yeah, he's doing jumping jacks and running circles around the young staffers. We can't even keep up with them. Right? The lies. And now you got this Goldman guy saying that, oh, this is lawfare. This is the weaponization of the DOJ against domestic terrorists? Against people blowing up Tesla dealerships? That's... He says, what few today want to admit... He's talking about lefties.
[00:22:23] What very few people want to admit is that they like it. They like the violence. They like the attacks on their political opponents. They like the freedom that it affords, the ability to hate and harass without a sense of responsibility. It is evident all around us, as people engage in language and conduct, that they repudiate in others. We have become a nation of rage addicts,
[00:22:51] flailing against anybody or anything that stands in opposition to our own truths. Yeah. JonathanTurley.org. It's a lengthier piece. I just gave you the highlights there. So, well worth the visit. It's a great website. He does a lot of great analysis over there. I mentioned the Sharp as a Tack. That is actually a copyrighted, a registered trademark, I believe,
[00:23:19] of Ed Morrissey over at HotAir.com. I'm just kidding. But he puts the little R next to it, the Sharp as a Tack. Regarding Joe Biden's mental acuity. Right? Well, there's another installment in the Now It Can Be Told saga over at The Guardian.
[00:23:41] They have a preview of a book that's soon to be released by Jonathan Allen and Amy Parnas. The name of the book is called Fight Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House. And Allen and Parnas detail what happened in the general election last year when Biden was forced to withdraw after the exposure of his cognitive impairment.
[00:24:10] However, while both the White House and the protection racket media kept insisting that Joe Biden was more vital than staffers half his age and sharp as a tack, Kamala Harris's staff felt it necessary to draw up plans in case Biden died. And they drew up these plans in 2022. And I know what you're thinking. Well, isn't this normal? Right?
[00:24:38] I mean, he was, you know, 80 years old. You would naturally have some plans if he were to pass away, given his age, right? COVID, all of it. Right? All of it. So isn't that normal? Well, yes, and not really. Ed Morrissey will explain in a second. Here's a part of the excerpt from their book. Aides to Harris, the vice president who assumed the nomination then lost to Trump,
[00:25:06] that these aides had strategized around the possibility that Biden might die in office. Such planning was led by Jamal Simmons, Harris's White House communications director. According to the book, they went as far as the drawing up of a death pool roster of federal judges who might swear Harris in.
[00:25:31] Simmons never told the vice president about the death pool roster before leaving her camp in January of 2023. But he advised colleagues that he should still be notified immediately if something happened to Biden because he had worked out an entire communication strategy and he left the spreadsheet with another Harris aide. Okay. So is this the kind of planning that takes place in any administration? Maybe.
[00:26:00] But that kind of planning would normally involve the president. Right? Donald Trump probably has already planned for this kind of a contingency. Right? Or would have at least probably discussed it with J.D. Vance, especially after he survived two assassination attempts. Right? Ed Morrissey says this effort that these reporters detail in their book,
[00:26:30] this effort was conducted behind Joe Biden's back and apparently behind Kamala Harris's back too. If Joe Biden was involved in the planning, it would not have been quarterbacked by Jamal Simmons. It would not have been operating out of the vice president's office. So no, this is not business as usual.
[00:26:52] This took place in secret because everybody knew that Biden was neither running rings around his staffers nor was he sharp as a tack. That's why he wasn't brought in, Morrissey says. Allen and Parnes in their book also report that top DNC officials knew Biden had run out of gas well before the June 27th debate.
[00:27:16] In fact, they knew about Biden's cognition issues before the DNC cooked the primary rules to prevent any competitive challenge to the crumbling incumbent. Quote, a handful of Democratic National Committee officials already had considered contingency plans.
[00:27:36] In hush-hush talks that began in 2023, these officials at the DNC gamed out various Biden withdrawal scenarios. They wanted to make sure that the party was ready for every possible circumstance. And yet, DNC officials began restructuring the primaries to lock out challengers rather than force Biden to compete honestly for the nomination.
[00:28:04] The DNC covered up Biden's incapacity instead and made sure that it stayed covered up for as long as possible. That's what these guys divulge in their book. Did they know at the time? Right? Limbaugh used to talk about this all the time. All these reporters, they withhold all of this information for their own book deals. And they keep it from us, the voters, until after the election.
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[00:29:57] And he says, I believe most people with any political sense know this, but many fear to say so because Obama was the anointed one who shall not be criticized. Yeah. We're going to find out. There was the auto pen person. I never even heard of this person. The one that was signing the president's name to all these things. Like, this is a story and a scandal that is not going away.
[00:30:25] Because the further away we get, especially at some point, you know, when Joe Biden passes away, then I think you're going to hear a lot more stuff come out if it happens anytime soon. And I'm not saying I wanted to. I'm just saying, like, I think, like, that would create the space. That would create a safe space. Or, you know, I don't know. Maybe people are too afraid, yeah, to cross Obama. Not sure. I don't know if he's even in charge anymore in the party.
[00:30:56] I can't tell. Do you hear about Cori Bush's husband? Cori Bush, the former Democrat congresswoman from Missouri. Her husband apparently built taxpayers out of more than $20,000 in a COVID loan scheme. And then used the money for his personal benefit and enjoyment, according to the D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office. Guy's name is Courtney Merritts.
[00:31:25] He was charged in a federal indictment with two counts of wire fraud related to allegedly fraudulent applications that he had filed with the Small Business Administration in 2020 and 2021 that allowed him to collect and never repay government funds from the pandemic era economic injury disaster loan program. And the paycheck protection program.
[00:31:52] Merritts received a loan from the EIDL of $8,500 for his moving business and then certified that his company, Vetted Couriers, had six employees and generated $32,000 in gross revenue the previous year.
[00:32:10] The day after he got that loan, he filed another application through the same program for a different business, which he identified only as Courtney Merritts, his name, and claimed that he employed 10 people and generated $53,000 in revenue. Now, the SBA rejected those applications. The D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office claims that Merritts lied about the number of employees he had and his revenues.
[00:32:39] Then a year later, Merritts once again seeks taxpayer money in the form of a PPP loan for Courtney Merritts. This time he claimed his business was created in 2020 and generated $128,000 in gross income. Those claims were also fraudulent. Fraudulent. He did not get those loans either.
[00:33:01] The indictment did not include details of what exactly he blew the cash on for the SBA loans, but he did get the $20,000 loan from the PPP. Which makes you wonder, like, you got rejected for the SBA loans, but why did you get the PPP loan? An attorney for Merritts said that his client intends to plead not guilty. All right, so Cori Bush is this guy's wife. She was a member of the squad. Remember?
[00:33:31] She lost her last re-election in 2024. She is not accused of any wrongdoing. Although, in 2023, she was hit with an FEC and congressional ethics complaint over money that her campaign had paid to Merritts when he was providing her security. Remember that?
[00:33:58] Even though he didn't have any license to be a security agent. She, yeah. Oh, and she was also doing this at a time when she was demanding that we defund the police. Right. Yeah, she's a big advocate for defunding the police, but then paying her husband with campaign money to use campaign funds for personal use when she shelled out $60,000 to her husband.
[00:34:27] But then she married him. I think she was they were dating before. Yeah, they were dating and then she gave him the money and then he married her. At the same time, the Bush campaign was paying merits for security. It was also spending $225,000 on a St. Louis based firm called Peace Security and another $50,000 on another security guard named Nathaniel Davis. I don't think she married that guy.
[00:34:53] The Justice Department was reportedly investigating Bush last year over her use of money intended for members of Congress and candidates to spend on private security. Yeah, so she just said, oh, yeah, you can't be too safe. What else? A Democrat U.S. Senator is being accused of voting for millions of dollars in taxpayer funds to go to a consulting company owned by his wife. This is Sheldon Whitehouse.
[00:35:23] The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust called on the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, the guy who goes to the whites only clubs, you know, to determine whether he violated Senate ethics rules on conflicts of interest. The alleged conflict of interest relates to funding that benefited the Ocean Conservancy. That is a nonprofit linked to his wife, Sandra Whitehouse.
[00:35:48] The organization called Fact said that the senator's wife had been paid a total of $2.686 million from the Ocean Conservancy, either directly or through her consulting firm.
[00:36:06] The senator's wife has been the president of the consulting firm Ocean Wonks LLC since back in 2017 and directly employed at the Ocean Conservancy since 2008. So she's like double dipping here. She's got the she's got the consulting firm and she's an employee. The complaint said the Ocean Conservancy paid the senator's wife through the consulting firm.
[00:36:32] Whitehouse is known as a climate policy hawk and he supports bills that directly benefited Ocean Conservancy, which has reportedly received more than $14 million in federal grants since 2008. The group received the grants to help fund marine debris cleanup efforts. They deny any wrongdoing. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening.
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