Trump’s loyalty in this pick isn’t necessarily all or even mostly about his belief that JD Vance will forever be loyal to him and his positions so much as Donald Trump Jr. is convinced that he will be.
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(00:00):
Freedom is here to stay. Timefor Brian Mudds tom three take boys the
Center from Florida America's comeback starts rightnow. All right, as we dive
into my top three takeaways, Trump, Trump's VP pick for his role in
making presidential history, and Cannon's firingof Jack Smith. My top takeaway today
(00:22):
youth and loyalty. In the end, the former and likely future president of
the United States opted for youth andloyalty with his VP pick and thirty nine
year old freshman Senator jd. Vance. He's literally half the age of Donald
Trump, which makes him well lessthan half the age of the current President
(00:42):
of the United States. Now,on the one hand, it sounds extremely
odd to suggests that a man whoonce said I'm a never Trump guy,
I never liked him and my god, what an idiot, among many other
very negative things he once said aboutTrump, that he is now Trump's running
mate. It would also seem tobe odd that I would refer to Vann's
(01:04):
as Trump's loyalty pick because of that, So I'll explain it in the moment.
What's a parent with Donald Trump's decisionis a sense of pragmatism, and
now the kind of pragmatism that somepeople attempted to apply to the process,
such as suggesting, I don't knowhe should choose Tim Scott. Why,
(01:27):
I mean, how many people honestlyare like, man, I'm just super
passionate about Tim Scott, and Imean not to take anything away from him,
just I mean pretty obvious in thenomination process, right, how many
people are really passionate about Tim Scott? What is the honest reason why a
(01:49):
lot of people are high in TimScott as a potential running mate. The
honest conversation is, well, becausehe's black and theoretically that should help with
the black vote, right. Orhe should go to Nicky Haley because she's
a woman and we know that Trumpneeds help with women, right, or
at least deefonic for some reason insertother women here, you get the point.
(02:13):
Or even some people were suggesting,Hey, you need to go with
Glenn Youngkin because he could win Virginia, and independent of that, I do
especially like Glenn Youngkin. In reality, there's no evidence that a running mate
in either party has had any materialimpact on the outcome of an election in
at least several generations. And Ialways when I say stuff like that.
(02:35):
I always have people a comeback andsay, well, hold on, I
mean, how can you say that? Just the easiest way I can put
this For anyone who doubts me onthis, just answer the question in which
presidential election have you voted for presidentdue to the vice presidential run? Go
(03:04):
in my now twenty seven years ofdoing this, I've lost track how many
times people have tried to rebut meon this particular point. You don't think
anybody voted for George W. Bushbecause they like Cheney? Of course they
did, right. You probably hadsomebody locally who did because they like Cheney
brothers I have, I mean,and who didn't love them some Dick Cheney
(03:29):
anyway? Right, That's all I'mAnd so this is the broader point.
I have yet to have a singleperson come to me and say, you
know what, I really did votefor whomever because of their running mate.
And that's where you know, thisgets down to. People do not vote
(03:51):
for the bottom of the ticket.Now, I have said to the extent
that a person like that may existon this planet, this might be that
election cycle, way what matter?Because of the dynamics associated with the you
know, top of the ticket inboth instances, but in reality it's not
going to be the reason that thingsare that states are decided. So anyway,
(04:17):
one of the things that I wantedto address in this identity politics.
Identity politics is the name of theDemocrats game. And I've heard some people
say, well, Trump didn't needanother white man. Far too many Republicans
(04:40):
get sucked into accepting the false narrativethat the party should stand for merit based
outcomes and principle. Right, Imean, we should stand for merit based
outcomes in the workplace and education,you name it. But to get there,
what we should do is choose politicianswho check boxes. Right. We
reject DEI and principle, but weshould play the Dei game in getting there.
(05:05):
I mean, just stop and thinkabout that for a moment. It's
very hypocritical. But the pragmatism associatedwith this pick is Donald Trump's willingness to
accept the fact that during the twentysixteen campaign JD. Van stood in vocal
opposition to him. But now couldbe a tremendous asset for him. I've
(05:25):
said it many times. In twentysixteen, Marco was little and Ted was
lyon well and with his Bible noless and in twenty twenty four, Marco
was a shortlist VP candidate who mayhave only not been the pick because he's
also a Floridian. I never thoughtMarko was going to be the choice because
Trump did not want the constitutional questionto come up. I mean, for
(05:47):
all the other things he has dealtwith, why wade into that one as
well, where you could win theelection then have the course over turn it
or something like that. You takea look these days, Ted Cruz campus
to be one of the most vocalsupporters of Trump that you'll find in Congress.
But a lot of people thought,and this is what it really shows
about Trump's character, that is anarrative buster. Many people thought that Trump
(06:12):
could dish it out, sure,but that he couldn't take it right.
Trump is your classic bully, justa mean, bad orange many and go
after people. But he couldn't takea hit and forgive somebody or like the
other way or whatever, be thebigger person. Obviously that's not the case.
And as for loyalty, here's howthat plays. The pick of JD.
Vans suggests that Donald Trump thought differentlyof a VP this time around.
(06:36):
In twenty sixteen, he made acompletely pragmatic pick in Mike Pence. No
one really suspected until he was announcedas the pick, But the choice was
made because Donald Trump needed someone whoknew how to effectively govern given that no
political experience, and now he's gotto run the country. Pence had been
(06:57):
both a governor and in congressional leadership, knew how to get things done at
both levels, and he was ableto help fill in those gaps. But
in the end, he wasn't loyalto Trump, according to Trump. Now,
Trump's loyalty in this pick isn't necessarilyall or even mostly about his belief
that JD. Vans will forever beloyal to him in his positions, though
I'm sure that applies so much asit's the belief of Donald Trump. Junior.
(07:24):
Vance was always Junior's choice from theword go. He was Junior's guy,
and the father trusted his oldest sonwith this one. That's where the
loyalty came in. And speaking ofTrump's sons in presidential politics, Eric Trump
and Florida made presidential history. Mysecond takeaway today. Prior to yesterday,
(07:45):
there never been a Republican presidential candidateto win the party's nomination. Three times,
the record in either party is FDR'sfor Democrat nominations. So yesterday when
history was made, it was onceagain Florida taking center stage as Eric Trump
announced Florida's delegates had voted for DonaldTrump, clinching the historic nomination. There's
(08:05):
never been a politician like Trump,and Trump continues to accomplish what no other
Republican politician before him has accomplished.And as for Florida, we may no
longer be the ultimate swing state.However, what happens in this state continues
to be more relevant then what happensin any other state in shaping the future
of this country. Yesterday that wason display once again. My third takeaway
(08:30):
for you today is a false premise. Has that been known to say if
the premise of anything is false,anything built on it will fail too.
But yesterday, and yet another remarkablenews day, Judge Cannon ruled that Jack
Smith's cons by Dox case was basedon a false premise and actually most approprially
stated. Judge Cannon said that JackSmith himself is the false premise, as
(08:56):
then he has been illegally prosecuting casesagainst Donald Trump while illegally using tens of
millions of dollars to do it.And this is because, in Cannon's judgment,
but also as recently stated by JusticeClarence Thomas, Attorney General Merrick Garland
unconstitutionally appointed a private citizen who hadnever been confirmed by Congress to any position
to effectively the second most powerful lawenforcement position in the land with an unlimited
(09:22):
budget. And by the way,what does that say generally about the Attorney
general's judgment? So the bottom lineis this Congress has constitutional oversight unappointed positions
in government spending. Those processes werebypassed by Garland with the selection of Smith.
Many on the left will and alreadyhave been wailing and moaning about Cannon
being a conservative hack that's in thetank for Trump because she was appointed by
(09:46):
Trump. But what that argument doesn'taddress are the merits of her decision.
It's like this, who thinks anyfuture administration should be able to find any
attorney they like off of the street, name them as special prosecutor, war
them unfettered power to prosecute potical opponentswith unlimited taxpayer resources, right? I
(10:09):
mean, who doesn't think that one'sa great idea? It's insane, isn't
it? And that's the point here. The entire process run by Merrick Garland
has been an unconstitutionally insane attack onthe administration's poltical opponent. Now sign over.
Yet the decision is being appealed.It'll be decided to in an appellate
(10:30):
court or perhaps the Supreme Court.But if Jack Smith is allowed to stand
as a special prosecutor, that insanescenario, you know, the one that
we're actually in right now, wouldbecome precedent. It's a false supremise
Freedom is here to stay. Timefor Brian Mudds tom three take boys the
Center from Florida America's comeback starts rightnow. All right, as we dive
into my top three takeaways, Trump, Trump's VP pick for his role in
making presidential history, and Cannon's firingof Jack Smith. My top takeaway today
(00:22):
youth and loyalty. In the end, the former and likely future president of
the United States opted for youth andloyalty with his VP pick and thirty nine
year old freshman Senator jd. Vance. He's literally half the age of Donald
Trump, which makes him well lessthan half the age of the current President
(00:42):
of the United States. Now,on the one hand, it sounds extremely
odd to suggests that a man whoonce said I'm a never Trump guy,
I never liked him and my god, what an idiot, among many other
very negative things he once said aboutTrump, that he is now Trump's running
mate. It would also seem tobe odd that I would refer to Vann's
(01:04):
as Trump's loyalty pick because of that, So I'll explain it in the moment.
What's a parent with Donald Trump's decisionis a sense of pragmatism, and
now the kind of pragmatism that somepeople attempted to apply to the process,
such as suggesting, I don't knowhe should choose Tim Scott. Why,
(01:27):
I mean, how many people honestlyare like, man, I'm just super
passionate about Tim Scott, and Imean not to take anything away from him,
just I mean pretty obvious in thenomination process, right, how many
people are really passionate about Tim Scott? What is the honest reason why a
(01:49):
lot of people are high in TimScott as a potential running mate. The
honest conversation is, well, becausehe's black and theoretically that should help with
the black vote, right. Orhe should go to Nicky Haley because she's
a woman and we know that Trumpneeds help with women, right, or
at least deefonic for some reason insertother women here, you get the point.
(02:13):
Or even some people were suggesting,Hey, you need to go with
Glenn Youngkin because he could win Virginia, and independent of that, I do
especially like Glenn Youngkin. In reality, there's no evidence that a running mate
in either party has had any materialimpact on the outcome of an election in
at least several generations. And Ialways when I say stuff like that.
(02:35):
I always have people a comeback andsay, well, hold on, I
mean, how can you say that? Just the easiest way I can put
this For anyone who doubts me onthis, just answer the question in which
presidential election have you voted for presidentdue to the vice presidential run? Go
(03:04):
in my now twenty seven years ofdoing this, I've lost track how many
times people have tried to rebut meon this particular point. You don't think
anybody voted for George W. Bushbecause they like Cheney? Of course they
did, right. You probably hadsomebody locally who did because they like Cheney
brothers I have, I mean,and who didn't love them some Dick Cheney
(03:29):
anyway? Right, That's all I'mAnd so this is the broader point.
I have yet to have a singleperson come to me and say, you
know what, I really did votefor whomever because of their running mate.
And that's where you know, thisgets down to. People do not vote
(03:51):
for the bottom of the ticket.Now, I have said to the extent
that a person like that may existon this planet, this might be that
election cycle, way what matter?Because of the dynamics associated with the you
know, top of the ticket inboth instances, but in reality it's not
going to be the reason that thingsare that states are decided. So anyway,
(04:17):
one of the things that I wantedto address in this identity politics.
Identity politics is the name of theDemocrats game. And I've heard some people
say, well, Trump didn't needanother white man. Far too many Republicans
(04:40):
get sucked into accepting the false narrativethat the party should stand for merit based
outcomes and principle. Right, Imean, we should stand for merit based
outcomes in the workplace and education,you name it. But to get there,
what we should do is choose politicianswho check boxes. Right. We
reject DEI and principle, but weshould play the Dei game in getting there.
(05:05):
I mean, just stop and thinkabout that for a moment. It's
very hypocritical. But the pragmatism associatedwith this pick is Donald Trump's willingness to
accept the fact that during the twentysixteen campaign JD. Van stood in vocal
opposition to him. But now couldbe a tremendous asset for him. I've
(05:25):
said it many times. In twentysixteen, Marco was little and Ted was
lyon well and with his Bible noless and in twenty twenty four, Marco
was a shortlist VP candidate who mayhave only not been the pick because he's
also a Floridian. I never thoughtMarko was going to be the choice because
Trump did not want the constitutional questionto come up. I mean, for
(05:47):
all the other things he has dealtwith, why wade into that one as
well, where you could win theelection then have the course over turn it
or something like that. You takea look these days, Ted Cruz campus
to be one of the most vocalsupporters of Trump that you'll find in Congress.
But a lot of people thought,and this is what it really shows
about Trump's character, that is anarrative buster. Many people thought that Trump
(06:12):
could dish it out, sure,but that he couldn't take it right.
Trump is your classic bully, justa mean, bad orange many and go
after people. But he couldn't takea hit and forgive somebody or like the
other way or whatever, be thebigger person. Obviously that's not the case.
And as for loyalty, here's howthat plays. The pick of JD.
Vans suggests that Donald Trump thought differentlyof a VP this time around.
(06:36):
In twenty sixteen, he made acompletely pragmatic pick in Mike Pence. No
one really suspected until he was announcedas the pick, But the choice was
made because Donald Trump needed someone whoknew how to effectively govern given that no
political experience, and now he's gotto run the country. Pence had been
(06:57):
both a governor and in congressional leadership, knew how to get things done at
both levels, and he was ableto help fill in those gaps. But
in the end, he wasn't loyalto Trump, according to Trump. Now,
Trump's loyalty in this pick isn't necessarilyall or even mostly about his belief
that JD. Vans will forever beloyal to him in his positions, though
I'm sure that applies so much asit's the belief of Donald Trump. Junior.
(07:24):
Vance was always Junior's choice from theword go. He was Junior's guy,
and the father trusted his oldest sonwith this one. That's where the
loyalty came in. And speaking ofTrump's sons in presidential politics, Eric Trump
and Florida made presidential history. Mysecond takeaway today. Prior to yesterday,
(07:45):
there never been a Republican presidential candidateto win the party's nomination. Three times,
the record in either party is FDR'sfor Democrat nominations. So yesterday when
history was made, it was onceagain Florida taking center stage as Eric Trump
announced Florida's delegates had voted for DonaldTrump, clinching the historic nomination. There's
(08:05):
never been a politician like Trump,and Trump continues to accomplish what no other
Republican politician before him has accomplished.And as for Florida, we may no
longer be the ultimate swing state.However, what happens in this state continues
to be more relevant then what happensin any other state in shaping the future
of this country. Yesterday that wason display once again. My third takeaway
(08:30):
for you today is a false premise. Has that been known to say if
the premise of anything is false,anything built on it will fail too.
But yesterday, and yet another remarkablenews day, Judge Cannon ruled that Jack
Smith's cons by Dox case was basedon a false premise and actually most approprially
stated. Judge Cannon said that JackSmith himself is the false premise, as
(08:56):
then he has been illegally prosecuting casesagainst Donald Trump while illegally using tens of
millions of dollars to do it.And this is because, in Cannon's judgment,
but also as recently stated by JusticeClarence Thomas, Attorney General Merrick Garland
unconstitutionally appointed a private citizen who hadnever been confirmed by Congress to any position
to effectively the second most powerful lawenforcement position in the land with an unlimited
(09:22):
budget. And by the way,what does that say generally about the Attorney
general's judgment? So the bottom lineis this Congress has constitutional oversight unappointed positions
in government spending. Those processes werebypassed by Garland with the selection of Smith.
Many on the left will and alreadyhave been wailing and moaning about Cannon
being a conservative hack that's in thetank for Trump because she was appointed by
(09:46):
Trump. But what that argument doesn'taddress are the merits of her decision.
It's like this, who thinks anyfuture administration should be able to find any
attorney they like off of the street, name them as special prosecutor, war
them unfettered power to prosecute potical opponentswith unlimited taxpayer resources, right? I
(10:09):
mean, who doesn't think that one'sa great idea? It's insane, isn't
it? And that's the point here. The entire process run by Merrick Garland
has been an unconstitutionally insane attack onthe administration's poltical opponent. Now sign over.
Yet the decision is being appealed.It'll be decided to in an appellate
(10:30):
court or perhaps the Supreme Court.But if Jack Smith is allowed to stand
as a special prosecutor, that insanescenario, you know, the one that
we're actually in right now, wouldbecome precedent. It's a false supremise
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