The Ten Most Damning Lines From Trump's Bedminster Tape

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by Bob Cesca

WASHINGTON, DC – Between now and whenever, Donald Trump will do everything he can to make sure he never goes to trial in the Mar-a-lago documents case, because if he does, he will absolutely be found guilty. When or if the trial begins, there will be no way out. He can scream at his rallies and on Troth Senchul all he wants and it won’t matter to a jury.

It’s unclear whether he’ll be incarcerated in an actual federal prison, but whether he goes or not, history will always remember Trump as having committed espionage against the United States. 

So, he knows that his only option is to either get his hand-picked judge to throw out the case, or to somehow delay the case beyond January 20, 2025 when a Republican might be inaugurated – a president who would almost certainly pardon him. In a very democratic way, whether Trump is convicted or pardoned is up to you and me, and whether we do what we need to do to re-elect Joe Biden.

The July 2021 tape of Trump discussing a document outlining an American war plan to invade Iran is easily one of the most damning bits of evidence we’ve seen. Not only is Trump heard clearly on the tape, but there are multiple witnesses who will likely corroborate the authenticity of the recording.

In particular, there are several lines spoken by Trump that highlight his obvious guilt.

1) “uh, let me see that”

Right out of the gate, Trump seems to ask a staffer to hand him the Iran document. This means an unknown person, presumably without the proper security clearances, handled the Iran documents – at least long enough to find it and hand it to Trump. It’s one thing for Trump to have the documents, it’s another thing entirely for a rando Trump staffer to handle it. Now, it could be Walt Nauta who’s already been indicted. But the staffer who’s on the tape sounds female.

2) “I have a big pile of papers, this thing just came up.”

“This thing,” we can safely assume, is the Iran document. It sounds like he was keeping it among an alleged “big pile” of other papers. Perhaps that’s why the Iran document has gone missing, according to reports. Since the transcript of the tape first dropped, Trump has claimed he was showing random papers – maybe even a newspaper – and acting with “bravado.” In other words, he wants his fanboys to believe there wasn’t a classified Iran document. But among people who live on Earth-1, not to mention a judge and jury, there’s simply no credible way he was using a decoy or another paper as a prop. If it was something else, how would the staffer know to hand the correct document to him?

3) “This was him. They presented me this—this is off the record, but—they presented me this. This was him. This was the Defense Department and him.”

That’s a lot of “this” – “this” being the document. And if he were just holding a random piece of paper as a prop – pretending it was a top secret war plan – why would he insist the information was off the record? Guess what’s back on the record, Donald? 

4) “This was him. This wasn’t done by me, this was him. All sorts of stuff—pages long, look.”

First, there’s something wrong with his brain – he often repeats phrases like “this was him” over and over. Does he realize it? Meantime, he’s clearly showing the document to the other people in the room. From the very beginning, I’ve said that one (underscore “one”) of the reasons he kept all of the documents was for bragging rights. Trump is a poseur. He’s a faker. He has a brittle ego and is deeply insecure about his status. So keeping documents for show-and-tell is absolutely in keeping with his desperate psychosis.

5) “I just found, isn’t that amazing? This totally wins my case, you know.”

He’s talking about the stolen evidence he’s found to disprove what General Mark Milley said.

6) “Except it is, like, highly confidential.”

He was president for four years and yet he’s not fluent in the classification system. Good thing ignorance of the law isn’t a valid defense.

7) “Isn’t that incredible?”

What? The newspaper he told Bret Baier he was holding? Come on.

8) “This was done by the military and given to me.”

Once again, “this” indicates an object he’s showing off. He’s presenting it like a trophy. Only the sucker cult members who worship him believe otherwise.

9) “Staffer: I don’t know, we’ll, we’ll have to see. Yeah, we’ll have to try to—
Trump: Declassify it.”

Here, Trump and his ass-kissing staffer are spitballing ways to get the Iran document declassified so Trump can go public with it. And then…

10) “See as president I could have declassified it. Now I can’t, you know, but this is still a secret.”

I mean, of course he’s holding a classified Iran war plan document. It’s indisputable. 

And, to repeat, there will be further evidence presented that will backstop this tape. Who knows? There could also be video. There could be a second tape. There could be contemporaneous notes taken by the Mark Meadows ghost writer. We have no idea if Trump is stressed out or losing sleep because of all this. But you know what? He should be.

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The Goop President

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s candidacy for President might be exciting to many voters, but he's a practiced liar and a menace to public health

RFK Jr.’s “natural” physique. Images via Twitter.

by Ben Cohen

“It’s such an exciting time to be an American because we are at this amazing inflection point and everything is kind of up in the air….people are clearly tired of the status quo… it’s sort of like someone threw it all in the air and we’re going to see how it all lands.”

- Gwyneth Paltrow after the election of Donald Trump in 2016

I have no doubt Robert F Kennedy Jr. believes what he says about vaccines. I have no doubt he believes in his policy platform of environmental justice, solving poverty, and ending wars. That being said, RFK Jr. is still a deeply dishonest, unserious person who has absolutely no business running for president.

Just as Donald Trump’s 2016 highly unorthodox campaign drew in voters across the political spectrum, RFK Jr.’s is doing the same. The political landscape has changed significantly since then, and in a post pandemic era, it is increasingly difficult to predict voter affiliation.

RFK Jr.’s campaign is designed to exploit this more politically fluid era, specifically via New Age wellness communities that are “tired of the status quo”. These communities attracted huge numbers of Alt Left and Alt Right followers during the Covid pandemic through influencer podcasts and Youtube channels, and became politically engaged hotbeds for Covid misinformation. They took aim at Dr. Anthony Fauci, vilified Democratic politicians who enforced masks and vaccine mandates, and went after media organizations that responsibly reported on the crisis.

RFK Jr. was already one of America’s most notorious vaccine conspiracy theorists, so he not only had a huge community he could tap into, but a network of powerful social media influencers to help promote his campaign…

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