🎙️ David does The News
✍️ Show Notes
Trump attack machine targets Fulton County DA Fani Willis over nothing; The arrest of Alexander Smirnov whose testimony is central to the GOP’s case against Joe and Hunter Biden; UK follows Japan into recession; The truth about the firing of Ukraine’s prosecutor Viktor Shokin; GOP’s Biden impeachment playbook is fantastical lies reduced to digestible soundbites; The stalemate over section 702; The House of Representatives adjourned yesterday for a 13 day vacation
💬Chapters
00:00 UK slips into recession, Biden impeachment probe doomed
UK and Japan in recession, Conservative Prime minister Rishi Sunak’s election prospects, Democrat’s unhappy with Attorney General Merrick Garland
Indictment of House Republicans’ key witness in Biden impeachment probe
04:41 Vice President Biden DID NOT push for the firing of Ukraine’s top prosecutor to protect Burisma. The $1 billion loan was NOT contingent upon firing the prosecutor to protect Burisma from prosecution. FBI and justice department charged Republican’s key witness with false accusations against the Bidens.
14:14 Representative Jamie Raskin calls GOP impeachment probe “nonsensical.”
Raskin formally calls for an end to the investigation by the House oversight committee.
Special counsel Robert Hur scheduled to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on President Biden’s mental capacity.
18:30 Republicans, including Speaker Mike Johnson, are delaying 2024 budget work and might precipitate a government shutdown
Republicans took the house in January 2023 and still haven’t passed a budget.
They should have finished the 2024 budget by October 1, 2023 and started work on the 2025 budget by now. Mike Johnson, the speaker, has also halted progress on a Bill to reform section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Act. Their procrastination may lead to a partial government shutdown in two weeks and a full-blown shutdown a week later.
26:48 Republicans openly admitting they don’t want to fund Ukraine and want Putin to win
Trump promises to pull out of NATO and welcomes Putin invading any NATO country that doesn’t pay its dues. Putin expresses hope that Biden beats Trump, stating Russia would be better off with a more predictable old school politician. We should take him at his word, right?
31:01 Allegations of financial benefit from a romantic relationship with lead prosecutor Nathan Wade were refuted by DA Fani Willis during Thursday’s evidentiary hearing
Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis indicted Donald Trump and 18 others for election interference.
39:56 Trump’s lawyers are trying to delay the prosecution using technicalities
They are getting paid millions to create busy work and justify their billing
Their plan is to move the trial to a Trump-friendly prosecutor’s office and postpone it if Trump wins the election
44:18 Fani Willis faced death threats and intimidation from Donald Trump and his supporters. Fani Willis and her staff had to receive round-the-clock protection due to racially tinged death threats and were often told not to come to work for their safety.
Donald Trump used private investigators to undermine Fani Willis’s credibility, creating a dangerous and intimidating environment for prosecutors and witnesses.
53:11 Vladimir Putin’s influence and manipulation of GOP using money and kompromat
Dietrich Bonhoeffer quote on the link between stupidity and fascism
57:31 Fani Willis may, at worst, get slapped with a fine
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