10/22/25: Kushner And JD Try To Tame Bibi, Trump Sues DOJ, Trump Lashes Out At Mamdani

28:31Not impossible. Actually, is Maggie on there? Nope. Tyler Page, though. Okay. Well, good reporting by the New York Times. Utterly preposterous, utterly outrageous. Like, there aren't enough words for the idea that a guy who's made himself already a billion dollars through his, like, crypto scams, he and his kids running these crypto scams where he's getting all these people who want things from the American people. So he thinks that because he's president, they want things from him. So people should therefore legally be able to bribe him, give him crypto, give him money. Um, cause he really believes he's like Napoleon.

29:12Like he's the revolution. He's the state. He really believes that, but he's not the government is in the United States of America. It's supposed to be rep, a represent representative of the American people. It's the American people's money. It's the American people's government. Remember when he posted the Napoleon quote, he who saves his country violates no law. Yeah. Right. I'm paraphrasing. Yeah, I think it was a made up Napoleon quote too, right? Oh, it was apocryphal? It might be. I don't know. Either way. Who cares? He posted it. I think it all caps too, actually. Yes, of course. Yes, he did.

29:40So yes, these claims were filed before he was president. Probably from Trump's perspective, it would make sense. Drop the claims. He doesn't need$230 million from the U.S. government to go into construction. He already has millions and millions of dollars from the tech companies that he just threw a dinner for, not just tech companies, but all of these companies that are funding the White House renovations. Who is doing this work? You cannot get people to show up on job sites in Washington, D.C. because of ice running around everywhere. Who's doing this work? This is an interesting question. Well, they also have said that Treasury employees, because this is the East Wing, have to stop taking pictures of the construction.

30:26Basically, the only place you have a good view is from Treasury. You really can't see it if you're, I mean, press barely can see it. So, I mean, maybe some people with like telephoto lenses are able to get pictures, but it's really hard to see. So, no idea. But on top of all of that, so basically he has his net worth has ballooned because of crypto or the Trump family net worth has ballooned because of crypto. It will certainly benefit him when he is out of office. The$230 million in compensation from taxpayers basically could just be dropped now that he is president. These were claims that were filed before he was president in damages.

31:05He won. So he doesn't need the money. could just drop it and then have no significant conflict of interest questions floating over the administration. But I feel like maybe we're just beyond that, Ryan. Right. Donald Trump, I will not take a salary because I care so much about the American public. Keep this$400 ,000. But I will take$230 million from you. 230. Cool 230. Well, part of this, it's more understandable, I suppose, as like a punishment and a disincentive for further corruption if you aren't in the process of attempting to remake, reorganize the Department of Justice itself. So he controls the Department of Justice right now, which is obviously the predicate for this entire story.

31:52So if he's worried about punishing the U.S. government and creating a disincentive, which by the way, support, the DOJ acted horribly throughout the Russia collusion investigation. The punishment looks like Donald Trump getting reelected and completely reorganizing and dismantling the DOJ. The$230 million in potential payments seems like small potatoes compared to him reorganizing the FBI and the DOJ completely as president. So it seems like the thing to do would just be drop the claims. And he's also threatening and using the power of the government to go after his opposition. You can put up B3, an actually good story in Barry Weiss's free press, Inside the Trump-induced chilling effect on liberal philanthropy by Gabe Kaminsky.

32:50takes a look at what the effect already is of Trump saying in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination that he's going to go after all of the groups that he blames for it. And who he blames for it is like liberal nonprofit organizations, which is to me patently absurd. but setting that aside he has threatened to use the IRS to go after his opponents which is completely new like you had this like kind of fake Lois Lerner scandal 15 years ago from the Obama administration where like the Republicans are like oh they're going after conservative groups they also went after like medical marijuana groups and they're like they went after more conservative groups than they did the others yeah maybe more conservative groups probably being shady about their nonprofit status.

33:45I mean, come on. Then the medical marijuana groups. I mean, they were also being shady, so they went after them too. Yeah. And now they don't go after anybody except so that they had years of non-enforcement. Now what Trump is going to bring back is selective enforcement and the qualification will be, do I perceive you to be part of the broad opposition? Do you represent an interest group that has something to do with somebody who voted against me. And so what Kaminsky was finding here is that it's already basically crippling liberal foundations because it's making it very hard for them to raise money because nobody wants to be under the watchful eye of the IRS or the DOJ.

34:34They're spending the money that they do have on security and on high-powered lawyers to go through their books and make sure that they're completely buttoned up because now they're all expecting that somebody's gonna be looking through everything. And there are some cases where the Biden administration here actually deserves some blame because there was this one case where Israel claimed that like these five human rights groups in East Jerusalem or the West Bank were actually terrorist organizations. Europe demanded all of the evidence for this. Israel handed over no evidence and Europe was like, we're not counting this.

35:14This doesn't work. Biden, of course, was like, oh, well, Netanyahu says these are terrorists. They must be terrorists. And to just accept it, even though there was reporting that the Biden administration knew this was all made up, they just accepted it and didn't push back. And so now the Trump administration is coming in and saying, ah, this American nonprofit has a fellowship program with this Palestinian nonprofit. And Biden said that they were terrorists. So therefore, you're terrorists too. It's like, Jesus Christ. Well, and it's going, I mean, so this report, we'll read a little bit from it here.

35:52One head of a nonprofit told Gabe, who's a great reporter, we've had him on before, quote, everybody is concerned across the board about being investigated. That person oversees a nonprofit that has more than a billion dollars in assets. Another told Gabe, it is directly impacting the ability of groups to raise money. There's a chilling effect across the entire nonprofit sector. That's echoed actually by some groups on the right. So in the report, Lawson Bader, the head of Donors Trust, quote, one of the country's most influential right-leaning nonprofits, told me that he has heard from many liberal foundations since he told the free press in late September that the stream of retaliatory rhetoric since Kirk's assassination has the potential to weaponize philanthropy in a way that is antithetical to philanthropic freedom.

36:33There's another there was another Republican who was talking to Gabe about something similar as well. So Philanthropy Roundtable actually is obviously maybe right leaning quote under. They say philanthropy is under attack and that they, quote, stand firmly on the side of philanthropic freedom and defending the right of Americans to give how, when and where they choose within the bounds of the law. Now, one interesting part of this, though, Ryan, is it sort of reminds me of weaponized FARA enforcement. So Foreign Agents Registration Act enforcement. And some of the quotes in here are about nonprofits just like cleaning up their activity and like hiring general counsels to make sure that they're actually operating in compliance with nonprofit standards.

37:13Because that is a thing. There are nonprofits that are just like wildly out of compliance and it's normalized with nonprofit standards and they get all of the tax benefits of that. But interestingly here, Gabe quotes Jason Smith, so Republican of Missouri, saying that organizations who are influenced by our adversaries and who act counter to U.S. national influence should not benefit from tax-exempt status. The days of turning a blind eye to bad actors in the U.S. nonprofit sector are over, Jason Smith told Gabe. I'm reading that and thinking I know he is implying what you just described, Brian, about potential, like, quote, Hamas connections.

37:50sounds a whole lot like AIPAC could be in trouble. Under a future Democratic administration, I guess Mom Donnie can't be president since he wasn't born here. But yeah, under, I don't know, I can't even think, under President Plattner. But see how he... President Plattner can say that AIPAC is... Comrade Plattner. Yeah, Comrade Plattner is supportive Chairman Plattner. that AIPAC is allied with an organization that is the government of Israel that is accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. And so therefore, yeah, it should be itself dissolved. I guess that's, I can't imagine that a world in which that actually happened.

38:37Smith was very careful to use the word adversaries. Organizations are influenced by our adversaries, but the law is really not just adversaries, it's foreign control. And so it'll be like, You can see how this is setting basically doom spiral precedent. But we have yet to understand exactly how they're going to implement this. There's obviously the MPSM 7 that Ken has reported on and talked about a lot that you can understand how it already is having this quote chilling effect that Gabe reports on. Now, there are and you and I would probably disagree on this. I do think there is money that goes from groups like Tides to groups that do like bail funds for some of these protests in Portland or it was in Minneapolis.

39:24And I think there's there's probably reason to look into whether they're going beyond just bail funds. Like what? Like actually funding. demonstrations that are organized for the purpose of being like rabble rousing, breaking laws, and the like? Well, what I would say, but most of these organizations, in my experience across the board, think that they are aligned with the Democratic Party. Like they're part of the Democratic Party orbit. We're talking about tides and such. Yeah. And the groups that tides funds or passes money through to, they're basically part of the Democratic Party. And they all think that violent street demonstrations hurt Democrats.

40:12Like that's, it's, that's a like Antifa lefty thing to want to, you know, get kind of rowdy in the street. These nonprofit groups - They've supported bail funds for like Antifa organizations and that sort of thing. That's all I'm talking about. Bail funds for people who get arrested at demonstrations are different. Totally legitimate. I'm saying that there's, I think there's actually probably, I'm not saying actually that the federal government needs to be weaponized to go into it, but I think that there probably is some reason to suspect certain groups that have gotten money through pass-through entities are actually using that money, not just for bail funds, but for supporting the demonstrations themselves, not just coming in after and bailing people out.

40:57Oh, yeah, but yes, but demonstrations, that's right there in the First Amendment. Demonstrations that they know are not demonstrations. That's what I'm saying. That you think they're going to intentionally turn into riots? Like Portland, like Black Bloc, Antifa type stuff. I would highly doubt it. That's like 50 Portlanders. Like, I mean, if you're in Portland, let us know. But that's like 50 Portlanders. Not just Portland, but in other places, like Seattle and the like. I'm trying to look for who had some good reporting on this. I just interviewed them, actually, but I'm trying to remember where.

41:28Anyway, that's beside the point. The bigger point is that the larger effort here, and this is what I should have started by saying, I don't think there's some vast, widespread conspiracy to prop up using George Soros' money, violent Antifa rioters. I don't think that's the case. And I think what the Trump administration is doing is another example of obviously weaponizing the government in a way that is going to be flipped around the second there's a Dem back in office. It doesn't matter if it's happened to some degree before. It's going to happen on a higher degree now into the future. And something you said stuck with me a few weeks ago, Ryan.

42:05It's that when you start having this chilling effect on people getting into power or people organizing, whatever it is, you just incentivize people having action in the or exercising agency in the political process. And that's dangerous for everyone. Right. Yeah. It's like, be careful what you wish for, because the galaxy brain argument would be that these liberal foundations are actually taking like public anger and funneling it into and shepherding it kind of into a Democratic Party led political process where it is it is muffled and muzzled and and kind of just dispersed in a way that doesn't actually then represent any threat to the system and that if you get rid of that then the anger has nowhere to go and so the anger then just bursts out wherever it bursts out in different populist moments because the the first uh analysis that people will have when they start learning about philanthropy is like oh how ironic it is that the the children and the grandchildren and the descendants of the the Carnegie's and the Ford's and all the Soros's and all, all of these, or the night, all, all of these like oligarchs and plutocrats from 150 years ago, their descendants are now, you know, working against the plutocratic interest and working to uplift the, the working class and the public.

43:40And then you're, after you've been in for a while, you're like, Oh wait, actually, actually it's what we think it is. It is, it is capital. just exploiting tax policy in order to hoard wealth and using that wealth to actually kind of muffle discontent with the contradictions and problems that the plutocrats created 150 years ago. So go ahead and get rid of that and see what happens, would be the galaxy brain take. Yeah, well, I mean, non-profit, we should do a full segment on non-profit laws, period, and like how they've just been. Yeah, the shorter version of it, it's actually Soros and Tides that are holding people back.

44:23You think that they're coming for you. No, no, no, no. It's the opposite. Not yet. Yeah. Not yet. Yeah, well, we'll see. We will see, but it's, I thought it was a good report. So something to keep an eye on for sure. And by the way, it's pretty interesting that in this climate where criticism of Trump is like your ticket to ostracization and the conservative movement, that you have donors trust and philanthropy round table saying anything. Because it's literally a climate where, A, Trump is super sensitive to these loyalty litmus tests, and B, he's weaponizing the, like he's weaponizing the IRS and others to go look at people's nonprofit statuses.

45:06So that tells you how concerned people are about the precedent that this could potentially set. And I think that tells you how serious the precedent that's being set is. So the fact that you have those groups talking about it is significant in and of itself, even if you don't buy it and whatever you think there is bullshit. It's a fairly bold thing to do in this environment to even make those statements if your donor stress will be around table. This is true. Let's move to the New York City mayoral election. Let's do it. All kinds of good stuff. Donald Trump, very frustrated that his man, Andrew Cuomo, is not catching fire as an independent candidate in the general election.

45:45Cuomo, I'm sure, becoming increasingly bitter at the Ackmans and the others in the world who insisted that he pursue this humiliating general election race. But Trump doing everything he can to come to his defense. Let's roll a little bit of our good president here. But he's going to explain there might be some dark, deep psychological reason where they want to vote the opposite way. I don't know what it is, but we have to win the midterms. Otherwise, all of the things that we've done, so many of them are going to be taken away by the radical left lunatics. I mean, we're going to end up with a communist mayor in New York.

46:24Can you believe it? A communist. Remember, I would always say we will not have a socialist elected in our country. Remember, I'd say that all the time. And I was right. we skipped socialist we got a communist elected so i didn't tell a lie i didn't tell a lie i was right we'll have a communist not a socialist okay

46:46anyway so uh he also accused uh mom donnie of posing quote posing with a terrorist this this echoing uh what the new york post and rnc has said um that this is because um he appeared with an imam in New York City, Siraj Wahaj, who the right has been calling a, quote, unindicted co-conspirator of the 93 World Trade Center. Technically not true, right. Right. Which, yeah, not true. Fox News had to issue a correction on its story about that. I see that the RNC is not corrected. It's hit here. So hopefully he sends them a little letter because it's like, you can't do that. And I've seen like the Laura Loomer types say that, you know, this is somebody that the nypd considered to be a threat and had under surveillance it's like bro the nypd had every mosque in the city under surveillance like the the fact that the nypd considers somebody to be suspicious who was muslim in new york city does not mean that there was actually anything remotely wrong with them he was a character witness for the blind sheik though right uh because he was like i can yeah he was in the whatever he was he had been organizing like New York City.

47:59Yeah, and he's said things about, you know, women's rights and stuff. Gay rights, yeah. That people would generally agree with. He also has a huge base of support in New York City. And that's why Eric Adams and Bill de Blasio, you know, appeared with him, went to him because they want to get his supporters to vote for them. He's like a fellow of the community. Yeah, and it was never controversial until, you know, Mom Donnie showed up. Although I'm sure they tried to do something with de Blasio. Yeah, yeah. If you go back and look. Eric Adams, I'm sure he got a pass. If you go back and look, there's, I mean, he's been controversial, but, and I maintain that if a conservative was out there with someone who had said the things about gay people and women, that he said it would have been a much bigger story.

48:44All that is to say. Who's, what was it that Trump had as his like preacher? Like not his preacher, but like the guy at his inauguration. His inauguration. Yeah, it was Pagy or whatever his name, John Pagy or whatever. Oh, Hagee? Hagee, yeah. Oh, yeah. Hagee said crazy stuff, obviously. Yes. That's like the guy doing the inaugural. Trump, I mean, I don't remember whether it was Hagee, but that would obviously... Trump is a slightly different story because he talks to everybody. He talks to Alex Jones. He talks to, like... But if it were Ted Cruz or someone else. So who is Trump to blame Mom Donnie for being on that?

49:17No, I have no disagreement for me on that. No disagreement for me on that whatsoever. However, but again, I don't, I think it's true that this is very obviously much more of a controversy when Momdani does it. And the coverage of the Momdani stuff has been just the fact that Fox News had to issue a correction for calling him an unindicted co-conspirator tells you what you need to know about the standard for Momdani going to see him. Now, Andrew Cuomo went on impulsive spelled p-a-u-l impulsive everybody loves to do a name play and i never did grim news so that was that was a really brave decision how hard that was i mean i didn't difficult uh here's a little flavor of cuomo on impulsive with logan paul ladies and gentlemen andrew cuomo thank you thank you why would you want to be the mayor of new york we are at a point where we have to make progress.

50:15Mamdani is a socialist, the child of wealth, never had to work, never managed anyone. If Mamdani is elected mayor, Trump will take over New York. So why is Mamdani currently leading the polls? He has appealed with very simplistic solutions that would never work. Fast, free buses. Oh yeah, that sounds good. Everyone wants a fast bus. What do you want, a slow bus? Okay, Ryan, that's acts of desperation to me. And of course, He probably is openly desperate at this point. We've seen him down in just about every poll. Not looking good for Andrew Cuomo when you're going on impulsive to laugh about kicking your brother's ass.

50:53I mean, Democrats should, you know, reach out, go on these different, oh, sorry, independents. Because Cuomo tried to be a Democrat and Democrats thoroughly rejected him. So he's independent on there. um but yeah he looks like somebody who wants this election to be over annoyed at the fact that he has to compete for it frustrated at the public for not allowing him to have this easy re-entry into public life and i guess just contemplating like you know what kind of big money organization he's going to like fall back on after his inevitable defeat in the upcoming election because you know and he keeps thinking that and bill akman keeps thinking that if sliwa curtis sliwa the republican nominee will drop out that that would be the ticket for cuomo but it doesn't make any sense like if you are currently supporting sliwa you're you either want some outsider who's says like wacky fun stuff all the time which is not cuomo or you are a very partisan republican and you live in new york city and you hate cuomo more than you hate mom donnie at this point like cuomo has been you know the republicans in new york hate cuomo yeah so on what planet if if sliwa dropped out i would the the lead uh that zoran mom donnie has over Cuomo, I think would actually expand.

52:35Like it's this, this weird idea that like everyone is, would just rush to support Cuomo if only Sliwa wasn't there. It's just completely absurd. So, uh, John Hagee, by the way, did the benediction when Trump moved the embassy to Jerusalem, uh, is what it looks like right now. Um, and Hagee is one of these, um, millennial like... Oh, he's bananas. ...apocalyptic, like we need all of the Jews in Israel to like burn so that we can bring about the apocalypse and whatever. He said the Antichrist will be like Jewish and half, half Jewish and gay. He said all kinds of stuff that like, I think he said...

53:19Yeah, so we don't have to wonder what would happen if Trump appeared with somebody. Well, Trump, right. With views like that. Right, and I have looked it up. He has appeared with Ted Cruz to my point, to undermine my point. But he's, yeah, but I mean, like, he's, I'll say this, like, if he has a following, he has a following. And any conservatives who are acting like this is like that, that it's utterly disqualifying for Mamdani to meet with a community leader, whether or not you like that community leader, everyone does that. But my point is just I think it would be a huge media circus. But that was beside the point of what we were talking about.

53:57I genuinely think it would be a huge media circus like the Haggai stuff was at the time. So anyway, don't need to get into that anymore. We could do a full segment on that. Let's take a look at this mashup from Bill Maher's show last week when Andrew Ross Sorkin went on and said, we have a financial literacy problem in America. But the financial literacy problem in America is affecting the politics in America, which is that if you don't understand that if you actually decide that you think rent stabilization is going to somehow increase the supply of apartments and homes in the country, you've got it completely backwards.

54:34Because what happens is the developers say, well, if they're going to stabilize the rent in this town, we don't really want to be developing in this town, in which case there's not going to be enough supply, in which case it's going to cost more to rent your apartment. That's just the way it is. And unless people understand that, when when a politician stands up and says, excuse me, I'm over here and I'm very happy to give you rent stabilization and the free groceries and this and that. And then it doesn't happen. I think people are going to be in for a surprise. A couple of things. Disturbed by the global, the globalized, the what did you say that just just this made me crazy over the weekend?

55:12And do you see what he said? Globalize the... He didn't say globalize the infidata. Oh, yeah. Infidata, but he did say that he wouldn't condemn it. That clip is so painful. Globalize the what? Globalize the... Globalize the... Oh, he didn't say it, but he said he wouldn't condemn it. I will say that he's one of the harder working guys in media. He's doing a column for the Times. I feel bad for him, yeah. He's doing that show every day. Yeah. He's probably meeting with bankers late at night. to like, you know, like... I feel bad for him because of that. He's got to talk to his bankers. So the guy's probably running on fumes.

55:47So I sympathize with people stumbling over their words. Glass house over here. We have tried to get him on to talk about his new book, 1929. Didn't he come on with the Skristle and Saga? I don't think he did, but I was listening to it this weekend. It's quite interesting. Okay, and so while I will sympathize with the stumbling over the words, what I won't sympathize with is lecturing people about not knowing how things work and then objectively not knowing how things work. Because he's talking about freeze the rent, and he's saying that that will disincentivize developers from building new projects.

56:21Except the freeze the rent program that Mamdani is talking about would apply to particular buildings that are already in the rent stabilization system or whatever that would not necessarily apply to all new developments. And New York City housing law is extremely complicated. There's rent controlled, there's rent stabilized, there's lots of other things. But to say that it would just blanket apply to all rent is just false. And he lives in, at least he works in New York. I don't know where he lives. So he should know that. And it's fine to get that wrong, but he shouldn't get that wrong while you're also criticizing kids for not having financial literacy.

57:02Well, I also think the question of like, where's the financial literacy among those who are overseeing the status quo? If you're missing that part of it and you're criticizing the people criticizing the status quo, while arguably, I mean, I don't want to accuse them of defending the status quo in New York. But if you're just picking on the, quote, financial illiteracy of people who are now asking for rent stabilization, which I obviously disagree with, but there's a huge degree of financial illiteracy among the people who are overseeing the status quo. And if you're just attacking the people against the status quo, never, you know, asking or condescending to the people who are overseeing the status quo, then your priorities are wrong.

57:49And then you wanted to talk about this AI slop that Cuomo's been serving up to people. And if you're angry about your electricity bill every month, you should be a little bit frustrated that Cuomo is using the juice to create, let's roll this utterly disturbing and bizarre AI ad. Hello, it's me, de Blasio, you know, New York City's least favorite mayor. Today, I want to introduce you to my mini-me-mom, Donnie. Hiya! If you thought my policies were evil, you're gonna freaking hate this. Sure will, boss! In 2020, I cut$1 billion from the NYPD, which dramatically spiked crime. But I wanted to defund the police entirely!

58:34So evil. So unsafe. What are we supposed to do with that? This is profoundly embarrassing. I don't know who's laughing at that. It's... I mean... But who's the market for that? You could laugh at it. You could laugh at it. You can't laugh with it. It's a little too pathetic to laugh at almost. You can't laugh with it. But I can imagine some people, like, if you were stoned. Yeah, that's not what he's going for, though. Then. But you'd be so confused because in order to laugh at it, you have to have some sense of what on earth it's trying to do. And then if it doesn't do it, the subversion of that is very funny.

59:10But I keep, like, what? Come on. Come on, guy. What are you doing? It's brutal, but it's the desperation. Trump, this is your king? This is who Trump wants to be the mayor of New York City? Oh, I don't think any part of Trump wants him to be the mayor of New York City. He just wants him a little bit more than he wants Malmedani to be the mayor of New York City. Why is Trump not riding for Sliwa? It's a great question. He has just as much chance as Cuomo and way more Riz. Way more Riz. Well, the AI stuff and the Logan Paul stuff, Logan Paul, he's got a huge audience. Does he have a huge audience of people who are going to vote in the New York City mayoral election based on an interview that Logan Paul probably not?

59:54But he's like Cuomo is down double digits to a 32 year old Democratic socialist. And just within the last like what, two weeks before the election, he decides to get this desperate. That's how bad I mean, his whole campaign has been really bad. It's escalating in its awfulness. Remarkably. It really is. You wouldn't think it could have gotten worse. And here we are. Here we are. Can't wait for his kind of post-election analysis of what he did wrong in the general. That'll be good. That'll be good. My favorite part is that he now is going around saying, why is everybody talking so much about Israel?

1:00:30This is a New York City mayoral election. Incredible. You made the whole thing about Israel. But he could have used that tactic in the primary when Mamdani was saying. I'm going to arrest Netanyahu or whatever. Yeah, I'd be like, why? No, but when Mamdani was saying, hey, he got, Mamdani was praised for his excellent answer to that question in the debate where he said, I'm not going to Israel. I'm staying in New York. I'm the mayor of New York. And Cuomo then decides to get back in the race on a bold platform of learning literally nothing from getting his ass handed to him by a 32-year-old Democratic socialist in the primary.

1:01:04And has continued to talk, talk, talk about Israel as though it's the only way he could possibly win the New York City mayoral race. So let's put this last element on the screen for this block. He was at a town hall on the Upper West Side Monday night with Alicia Wiesel, who is, I believe, the daughter, I'm sorry, the son of Elie Wiesel. So obviously the famous author, Holocaust survivor. And the quote from Alicia Wiesel was, what would our fathers think that we have to be here tonight in this moment? This moment that they spent their entire lives working to make sure never happened again, Ryan.

1:01:43Yeah, yeah. Like to campaign with Elie Wiesel's son, while at the close of the race, while at the same time complaining that it's all too much about Israel, is not well thought out as a campaign strategy. By the way, everybody's read Night, which is, you know, tremendous work of literature. He also wrote Dawn. You read that one? I think we had to read it in school. It's crazy. It's like his character and a British soldier, and his job is to execute the British soldier at dawn because they were killing a lot of British soldiers at the time. And it's just him having a conversation with the guy that he has to kill in the morning.

1:02:29It's a really interesting, disturbing book. But yeah, so I don't know. What's Cuomo doing here? A final thought on this, and maybe you can explain it to me, but the rights, and it's not even just the right, it's people like Andrew Cuomo, who want at the same time to look at Mom Donnie as a radical left culture warrior. and Cuomo isn't on the sort of, he's not on that as much as some people on the right are, but saying this guy is, queer liberation means to fund the police. That's my favorite Mamdani tweet, obviously. But you can't have that and then say he's an Islamist at the same time. Like, that's insane.

1:03:18You can because nothing is required to make any sense. But like, that is the narrative on the right right now about Mamdani is that he's - Queer Sharia law. Right, queer Sharia law. He's a political Islamist. Shaquiri Allah? I've heard people try to square that circle before, but it's the same thing with Ilhan Omar. Or is it Shaquiri Allah? Shaquiri Allah. That's something different. But it makes, like, is that landing with anybody? Because it really, it's on its face, the common sense question to that. It's like, you're telling me he's extremely pro-gay and that he now met with this imam who has said, don't go out with sticks and look for homosexuals but make them feel uncomfortable.

1:04:02You're saying that Mamdani endorses that secretly? That he's fooling us into he's actually like a full Sharia in Manhattan type person? To Trump's credit, he really just sticks with the communist thing. Like his friend Laura Loomer just goes 100 % on the Muslim hit. Whereas Trump, I think, recognizes that that's absurd. And he goes just hard on the—he's a commie. Yes. I guess that is to Trump's credit. Yeah. We'll give him that one.

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