RADIOMay 21, 2024

Why Michael Cohen's CONFESSION Could TANK the Trump Hush Money Trial

Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen keeps making things worse and worse for the prosecution that he's supposed to be helping. Glenn and Stu provide the latest update: Cohen has admitted to stealing from the Trump Organization and lying about it. The media has tried to paint this confession as just "another big ding." But Glenn argues that this is more akin to a massive car wreck that could topple the trial. However, has this jury already made up its mind — similar to what happened in OJ Simpson's case — so that nothing can change its mind?

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GLENN: All right. Let's get an update here on what just happened in the -- in the Cohen and Donald Trump trial. There's -- Cohen is still on the stand. Oh, my gosh. It's going to be the longest days of his life. He is being cross-examined.

Remember, he's the key witness, in this Donald Trump trial with Stormy Daniels.

STU: And he's really -- without Cohen, there isn't even a case to be brought. You have to believe Cohen. Because much of the evidence that you would need, to make Donald Trump into the bad guy here is specifically based on things that Cohen has said or done. And has sole knowledge of.

He's the only person who has knowledge of it. So you have to trust Cohen.

GLENN: Yeah. It all went true him. He's the guy, who if he dropped dead, hit by a bus, the whole thing would be gone.

STU: And just to remind listeners, the -- you know, the -- the Michael Cohen situation is not a good one. It was never a good one when Trump was there. I believe he won our least reliable human being on earth competition for five straight years.

GLENN: Yes. Yes.

STU: He was not reliable back then. Substantiate reliable now. The media has tried to rehabilitate him, because they need him for this case.

So the attorney for Trump is questioning, and going after Michael Cohen to try to make him look as credible as he actually is. Which is not at all.

And he went to him, and talked to him about a specific transaction with a company called Red Finch. Red Finch was an IT kind of company that Michael Cohen was kind of dealing with. And what they were doing with this company, at the time was somewhat embarrassing, I suppose.

They were trying to rig online polls in Trump's favor. So remember about the time, these polls would come out. Who do you think should win the Republican nomination?

This is the 2016 election.

And Trump would win overwhelmingly

Even when he wasn't winning in the normal polls.

He would win on the other polls.

GLENN: This is why we said, the online polls are ridiculous.

Everybody rigs it. Everybody.

STU: Yeah. Although, this is --

GLENN: No. No. No. To some degree.

People will be like, I will vote. Hey, vote on this. Vote on this.

Vote a million times. Whatever it is.

STU: This is apparently a professional effort to do that. And they were owed $50,000 for their efforts in this front.

Now, Cohen, apparently. And this all happened on the stand.

Cohen was supposed to pay $50,000 to this company.

But ended up only paying them $20,000.

He still, however, asked for a 50,000-dollar reimbursement from the Trump organization.

Blanch, the attorney asked Cohen, hey, did you lie about this?

Cohen, on the stand says, yes.

Admits that, yes. He did lie about this.

GLENN: Wait. Wait. Wait.

He just admitted. I just want to make sure everybody understands.

He just admitted to cheating a company out of 30 grand.

Asking his own company. Or his own firm.

Donald Trump's firm to pay the 50,000 to him. Which he was supposed to pay. He only pays 20.

And what does he do with the other 30?

STU: I mean, he pockets it.

It's interesting. The reporting on it. It's a little hard to tell, whether he actually said this. Or whether he just sort of agreed to it.

But he was -- blanch, the attorney, brought up the possibility of him having the money in either a tussle bag, or a brown paper bag.

GLENN: That's where I like to keep my money.

It's safe that way.

STU: It's the Fani Willis banking system. That's -- that's the way that works.

So he -- he goes to this. And he says, okay. You have this duffle bag of cash.

Where was the cash?

He goes after him on this.

He then tries to focus. What he says true. Of course, if you're an employee of a company. And you're working on a company. And you charge someone $50,000.

And then pocket $30,000. That's -- what we all recognize, is theft.

GLENN: Embezzlement or theft.

STU: Yeah. You're just stealing money from the company that gave you $50,000.

GLENN: Wait a minute. I just want to make sure, Stu, Sara, you both understand that concept, right?

That's theft.

STU: I'm not sure what he's saying. Sara.
(laughter)

STU: Are you there?

GLENN: Okay. Go ahead.

STU: So the Trump attorney says, and tries to get this down. Get everyone to understand it.

In case people don't understand. This is stealing.

He says, quote, you stole from the Trump organization. Right?

He, by the way, was -- Cohen was reimbursed for about $100,000 in these expenses. Because he was always double the expenses from taxes.

About $100,000 in all.

GLENN: Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait.

What do you mean he was getting doubled for taxes?

STU: If he took $50,000 to do one of these shady dealings. Like he did with Stormy Daniels. The Trump organization would pay him basically double. So Cohen wouldn't get stuck with the tax bill.

So Cohen would pay the taxes as if it was income. And then he would still be left over with the same amount he paid to Stormy Daniels or in this case, this IT organization.

GLENN: Got it.

STU: So he's -- the quote is, you stole from the Trump organization, right? From the attorney. Cohen admits, yes, sir. He says, on the stand.

Now, even the New York Times writes this up this way, there is another -- this is another big ding to Cohen's credibility.

GLENN: Ding?

STU: Yes. Jurors have heard he's lied to Congress, tax authorities, and on the witness stand. And now they are hearing that he stole from the Trump organization.

GLENN: Now, I've had dings in my car.

STU: Yes.

GLENN: I would say this was a massive wreckage, where the car would be totaled.

STU: I would argue they totaled the car on this one. I don't know how you could possibly believe this guy anyway. Now, if there were text messages or other things supporting it, maybe you could say, all right. Well, he's telling the story.

There are a few other pieces of evidence that agree with it. And that has happened on some points during this case.

But generally speaking, they are relying almost solely on Michael Cohen to be the voice of credibility.

And now we know that not only has he lied to everyone else in his life. By the way, including his wife.

We didn't even include that on the list. Who he lied to, when he took out all of this money on a second mortgage, and tried to hide it from her by his own admission. He's admitted to lying to all of these people.

Basically, you're supposed to believe, that he's taken every moment of his entire life. And filled it with lies.

With every person he's ever dealt with, except this one moment where he's sitting in front of you, on the witness stand.

GLENN: Okay. So here me out on this theory.

O.J. Simpson.

I think this is a -- this is a political version of what happened to O.J. Simpson.

And I hope it doesn't turn that way in the end. But if they find him guilty, it will be exactly what happened with the O.J. Simpson case, except this is political, not racial.

The jury hates him. Donald Trump so much, that no matter what the facts say, they'll deem him guilty.

Where O.J. Simpson, the jurors wanted a black man to beat the system. Beat the man.

So badly, that they admitted now, they voted for not guilty, even though they believe the facts led to guilty.

STU: Uh-huh.

GLENN: I hope that doesn't happen. But that's what this feels like to me.

Because it's in New York. Any other place. But in New York, can you get -- with this judge, can you get a trial, that -- and with the jurors, enough jurors to tell the truth?

And, by the way, just like, you remember -- were you old enough to remember the O.J. Simpson trial?

STU: Oh, yeah. I certainly do.

GLENN: So O.J. Simpson. If you remember right, there was speculation, can the trial -- can the jurors ever identify themselves, if they find him guilty?

Because the black community was so for O.J. Simpson. And I would ask the same thing.

Can these jurors, all from New York City, can they live a normal life and not -- and live without danger, if they release him?

STU: Because -- certainly won't get invited to many parties, I will tell you that.

GLENN: No. What are all of the other factors that are coming into this?

This is tough.

STU: Isn't there a moment here for you, Glenn. Where you think a little bit about the legal system, and the fact that it's supposed to work.

And that we have a tradition of people, judging these people honestly. Isn't there at least a possibility that the hung jury. Isn't there one or two people on this jury, maybe, that look at this as this is a joke?

GLENN: It only needs one. It only needs one.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: And it is my hope, that there is one that will hold out and say, no way. No way. I will not change my vote. No.

I don't care what you guys say. No.

Hopefully, we can pray that there's one person.

I mean, assuming, we're not in the jury room.

But what it looks like here, this is -- this is a -- this is an assault on our judicial system. Just like I think O.J. Simpson was an assault on the judicial system.

I understood that one a little more. Because the black man had been, you know, just raped in our judicial system for so long.

That I kind of -- it was still a travesty, and awful. And I hated it. But you could see it.
This one is merely politics. That's it.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: Politics.

STU: They see this as their last opportunity to win an election in a way.

GLENN: Yes. Yes.

STU: And the other three trials probably aren't going to happen before the election. Obviously, if Trump wins, he will throw out two of them. Right? The federal stuff will all be thrown out.

This is a -- this feels like their last chance, and they're looking at this like an opportunity.

And, you know, coming into this case, Glenn. It was a weak case. Everyone knew that. The fact that it's gone so much more poorly than they even expected.

Has to rise to some level of -- of --

GLENN: You would think.

STU: Of opportunity for this to be -- I mean, doesn't it?

If you have any faith in the legal system. And look, criminals do go to jail in New York.

It's not like every single time they're wrong.

GLENN: Do they?

STU: Yeah. I think that's true. I'm pretty sure. I'm sure Harvey Weinstein is out there walking around. Forget that example.

GLENN: The plans of New York are all just -- keep Harvey away from me.

STU: Right. I mean, they don't charge anybody in New York, for crimes anymore, unless your last name is Trump.

But if you think about the average person in New York. Again, remember, the Trump attorneys had a chance to throw out anyone they thought was massively liberal and against Trump. To an extent.

GLENN: To an extent.

STU: To an extent. They did their best to find people they thought would be fairly by.

I mean, if we were really at the point where they can't find anyone to judge this rationally. We are at a real crossroads, as far as our legal system goes entirely. Right?

This is not just a question about Donald Trump and this election, it's far beyond that.

PAT: Alan Dershowitz said it. This is banana republic time.

PREVIEW: George AI tells me the ONLY way to SAVE America

Glenn Beck previews his upcoming interview with George AI, an artificial intelligence he's creating for The Torch using ONLY writings from the founding era. And George has some incredible advice for how to save America ...

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GLENN: Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. I was at Mar-a-Lago last night. I've been trying to help raise funds for several organizations. I've been speaking at several fundraisers at Mar-a-Lago over the last couple of weeks. And it's -- it's an amazing thing to see how many people are just deeply, deeply engaged in saving our nation. And, you know -- you know, our -- our life. Our -- our fortune, and our sacred honor, comes to -- comes to mind.

The denegation of people. Last night, I was there, for the American Journey Experience. Which is an offshoot of Mercury One.

It's our history section. We announce that we are building a museum. A brick and mortar museum. We begin early next year.

And we had some really exciting things to say about that. We'll give you updates on that, as it goes. But we would love to have -- right now, you can come into a very small museum. I think we have -- I don't know. Maybe 10,000 square feet. I think our vault is 5,000 square feet. And, you know, we invite people in to see some of the things.

It's really by invitation only. Or if you call Mercury One, you can get in. But we will open up the museum. And it's not just a museum, it's also the teaching center.

So we were talking about that last night, and last night, I introduced for the first time, George AI. The interaction that I had with AI. Now, remember, this is proprietary technology. And information.

This is based on the library, that we have. Which is the third largest collection of founding documents in the world.

Only behind the national archives, and the library of Congress.

And it's all original sources. So it's all the writings of the Founders. All of the -- all of the writings that influence them. That we know, from their writing, they read this. Or they were basing these things on these different items.

It's the Federalist papers. It's all of the documents. It's all of their letters to each other. It's their personal writings.

It's the Bible. It's Blackstone's law. It's all of the things that they had access to that influenced them.

In a positive way, to build America. And we have George, which is the librarian.

And George is going to be a -- a system that will be able to give you answers to things.

And show you the actual documents.

But will be able to speak to you, in your own language. If you try to read the Founders now, it's so hard!

Because they were so smart! They're using words, like, I don't even know what that means.

And when you read the Founders, you usually to have read it with a dictionary, side by side.

It's difficult. And their language is so formal.

So it's hard for us to relate to them. But all of the knowledge, this deep, deep knowledge is there from these guys.

Ritually, they wrote.

I'm trying to remember, is it George Washington?

One of them wrote at a 70th grade level.

Seventieth grade. You know, and so they're just way advanced. Way advanced. We put all of this information into our own system. This is an AI system built by me and my team.

And it has pretty much like, if you will, an electric fence around it. It cannot go and pull information from the outside. And mix it, with the information from the inside. So it can go and we can import things and say, hey. I want you to look at this bill, and tell me, is this bill even constitutional?

What would the Founders even say about this bill?

And it will look at that bill, and then it will go through all of their, you know, discussions and everything else. Everything that is in that system, memorized from start to finish. Which starts hallucinations. And it will analyze that bill. Or it will analyze that story.

Or you can say, hey. I want my kids to understand the Bill of Rights.

In George AI, right now, is I don't even know how many thousands of sermons there are, from the pulpit, where the churches where these guys attended.

Because almost everything from the declaration and Bill of Rights came from the pulpits.

And it's amazing, when you read some of these sermons that these guys gave.

It will be on, you know, the right to life, liberty, and property.

I mean, that will be the sermon.

And today, everybody will be like, oh, I can't say that from the pulpit.

We have all these sermons that our laws were based on. These whys were based on.

And so you can ask him anything.

And so when you sit down, for the very time, and you're going to talk to George Washington or a reasonable facsimile of him, when you ask him -- my question was, we fed in all the conditions of what's happening in America today. And I wanted to have a conversation. And here's a bit of the very first conversation with George AI. Listen.

VOICE: George, we have programmed a lot of information and given you a lot of information on what's going on in today's America. Based on your writing and the writings of the rest of the Founders, what do you feel like is the biggest problem or where we should start to fix things?

VOICE: If I may speak plainly, my countrymen, the danger -- the greatest danger in our republic lies not in foreign arms or.

GLENN: May I stop you for a second. Can you dumb it down just a little bit.

VOICE: Okay. I do have 29 points and they're all referenced to exactly what we said in the past.

VOICE: Just in today's language. Okay. Okay. I get it.

Let me speak to Americans. If I'm honest, America's biggest problem isn't political or economic. It's all moral. You've drifted from the virtues that make liberty possible in the first place. Freedom. To be free, you have to discipline. You have to have faith. You have to have character.

And if you don't have any of those things, laws -- laws can't stop anything. And I mean little government terms, either weak or oppressive.

You have grown skeptical of truth. You're reckless with debt. You're comfortable blaming instead of building anything. And this my time, we've understood that self-governance begins with self-control. Do you even recognize what self-control is?

Public virtue matters more than public opinion. You keep electing these people, expecting things to change, but you haven't changed. The fix is not going to be found in Washington, DC. It's going to be found in every home, every school, every heart.

You know, where are the citizens who value duty over comfort? Principle over popularity?

America was built to be a moral and self-governing nation. It's only that foundation that will still save her.
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GLENN: Beginning January 5th, on the Torch. You can find information at Glenn Beck.com. You'll notice he started speaking. Because this is what you will see. At the beginning, I will have to do the interviews with him. Because compute power is so expensive.

And we'll ask you to write in. In fact, you can do it now. The Torch at GlennBeck.com.

What would you like to learn from the Founders. What would you like the children to learn from the Founders.

Would you like a posts from the Founders, on the Bill of Rights, or the Federalist papers. Or whatever.

What would you ask, if you could ask the Founders a question, what would you ask them.

At the beginning, because of compute power, we will be feeding those in. Examine then producing and rolling out every day, different podcasts or answers or whatever, from George AI. I -- I pray and I hope, and I'm -- and I'm -- I have pretty good advisers on what we're going to be able to do. And it depends on how many people are -- are using it. And -- and, you know, if we get people to help us in support.

Compute power, the cost of it will go down.

And we'll be able to afford bigger amounts of compute. And you'll be able to have a one-on-one conversation like I just did. Have a one-on-one conversation, and you'll notice at the beginning, he came out. Because this is the way. It's trained to give you the actual verbiage. And when he said, I have 29 points. Believe me, because we edited there. He went on.

And, oh, my gosh.

It gets tedious. But he has the 29 points. He can show you the documents. And it's all in his language. Or you can do what I did and say, just speak in language. Dumb this done. This needs to be understood by an 8-year-old.

And it will continue to adjust. You'll eventually, hopefully in the first year in 2026 for the 250th anniversary, you will be -- you will be able to say, I have a 15-minute commute, and I'm taking my kids to school every day. And it takes me 15 minutes to drive to solo.

And they need to understand, whatever it is.

They need to understand the civic responsibilities, they need to understand the
responsibility part of our rights.

Whatever it is. Can you develop a podcast? I need them to understand the Bill of Rights, so I would like to do it in the next ten days.

And it needs to be no longer each episode. Each episode needs to be no longer than 14 minutes. So you get into the car. And it's 14 minutes.

Eventually, when it's coming to you live, it will ask you questions. At the end, it will finish the podcast.

Then it will ask each member. You can say, I have an 8-year-old. 12-year-old.

And me. And I'm 40.

It will each of you questions, just to gauge, did you understand what was just taught?

And if you don't -- if -- if AI decides you don't really have it, you don't understand the real essence of this, it will then rejigger the next posts. So the next time you're in the car, going to and from school, it will adapt to you, to be able to go back and teach it more clearly.

And it will learn you. So it will learn, ah. The deficit is here. Or they're a more visual learner.

They're more of this kind of learner or whatever. They'll understand in stories or they understand just in facts, whatever. It will understand each member. And it will be able to teach them, directly, in their language.

The way they learn. I hope, this is my goal.

Because I feel like I -- I accomplish what I set out to accomplish with TheBlaze. I feel like I've accomplished that a few years ago, and I'm not good at treading water. And I feel like we accomplished our goal of my goal, at least, was to just open a door that others could walk through.
Open the door.

And show America and show talent, that you can start something yourself. You can do this on your own.

And you can present it in a way, that is just as credible and more -- just as, if not more powerful than any of the networks, and you don't have a boss breathing down your neck. You don't have people that you are having to answer to. You can speak your mind and tell the truth as you understand it and chart your own course. Nobody was doing that when I started TheBlaze.

I mean, the only people that had a spine. A backbone, if you will. A digital backbone, that could provide a live network kind of feed was Major League Baseball. They were the only ones. They were the first in to say, we can do a live sports coverage.

I partnered with Major League Baseball and say, can we use your spine? We want to do live news. We did. This is at a time when Netflix was still sending movies through the mail. Now, look at what's happened. So I think we've disrupted the news industry, we've disrupted all of that, destroyed it and reinvented it. This is my next phase of my life, probably the last chapter of my life. I want to do the same thing and disrupt education and the way we learn, and to show you an ethical way to use AI, one that you will not get lost into, it will always remain a tool in your hands, not the other way around.

FACT-CHECK: Is Tim Walz (politically) RETARDED?

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is mad that President Trump called him “retarded”, and that now people are driving past his house and calling him a retard. Glenn looks at the cold, hard facts: Is Tim Walz actually retarded…at least politically?

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GLENN: You're going to be upset by this. You're going to be seriously upset by this, okay? And I'm going to use -- only because I have to. Only because I have to. And 99 percent of me wants to. Okay. I lied. One hundred and two percent of me wants to use the R-word in this particular case. Tim Walz. Tim Walz is upset because the President has called him retarded.

Now, I think he might be retarded. Now, not necessarily, you know, I don't know what his IQ is. Probably pretty low. But I don't know if he's down to 60. But had you seen PQ is definitely under 60. His political quotient is definitely under 60. You know, the guy, hmm, he's, you know, I put him in the category of -- what was his name? Dean. Howard Dean. Yeah! Remember that guy who walked out. We're going to go to Virginia and Kentucky and Minnesota. Yeah!

And you're like, no. Dude, you just lost. You're not going anywhere past here.

I am not sure that he is clinically retarded. But in the playground sense, he's definitely retarded. You know what I'm saying, Stu?
STU: Yeah. Like how, you know, kids used to say it back in the day. Like that --

GLENN: Yeah, the playground.

STU: That general. Certainly, that definition, it would apply to him, I assume.

GLENN: Right. And, remember, that's the same point to where, all of us heard from our mothers, sticks and stones can break your bones, but words will hurt you. Remember? Remember that one? Remember that -- when you were called retarded or whatever on the playground. And you would go home, they called me retarded. And your mom would look at you like, yeah, well, maybe you are.

Or she just immediately said to you, sticks and stones will breaking just remember that. Just remember that, son. Words can never hurt you.

It doesn't matter what they say about you. We don't say that anymore.

STU: It was pretty good advice. Especially with the internet in mind. I don't think that's what our parents thought of at that time.

But it's much, much worse. And much more people seem to be affected by the words are violence sort of thought process. Like, that is -- that is real these days.

GLENN: I -- I also have a problem with a guy who, you know, surrounds himself with people who call the president a Nazi. I don't know. Which one is worse? A Nazi or a retarded?

STU: Yeah. Nazis were really bad. That's actually a serious accusation.

Fascist is another one.

Pretty serious accusation.

GLENN: Yeah, or just weird.

STU: I was just about to say that. That is exactly the reason he was on the ticket is because he was name-calling other people, and calling them weird.

It was his only qualification outside of he's -- you know, massively inept and corrupt.

All the other things that would, of course, qualify him to be on a democratic ticket. Outside of that. The only reason he stood out from all the other loser Democrats. Is that he said the word weird on TV once.

And Kamala Harris, who has admitted that the reason that she made. Or at least the day she made that decision. She was, quote, unquote, overtired. Why would you point that out?

I don't understand. But that the only theoretical reason he was on the ticket was because he was calling people names. He called them weird.

Which was another school -- was another like school play ground, like insult back in the day.

You're weird.

GLENN: Yeah, weirdo.

STU: Yeah. Weirdo.

Yeah, that was the way it was.

And so he's able to enjoy the benefits of calling people childish names.

But when he gets called those names, it gets really scary for him.

GLENN: I know. Well, he hasn't listened to his mother. He thinks words can actually hurt him.

Now, Stu, do we know, does he agree, does he agree with the -- the state senator that says that Minnesota won't survive without Somalians?

Can we play this, please?

It's cut four.

VOICE: State Senator Zaynab Mohamed said these attacks will stop with Somalis, and their contributions can't easily be erased.

VOICE: We are in every industry. And Minnesota will not be able to survive, nor thrive without Somalis.

STU: Hmm. Really? Is that accurate?

That the -- the state of Minnesota cannot survive without the Somali community.

Now, my understanding was that they are relatively new to the state, which has survived for a very long time before their arrival.

I would also note, Glenn. And you might be able to help me with this one.

This one, we will get deep here. And I understand at times, the audience hears us get deep into science and mathematics.

GLENN: Oh, we're known for that. We're known.

STU: We're known.

And I understand sometimes it will be confusing. You're driving to work. Hearing all these numbers.

Maybe if you looked at them on a spreadsheet, you would be able to recognize what's going on.

When you're in your car, it's hard to internalize all of this.

I'm going to try to lay it out. Because I don't understand it. And maybe you do.

What we understand is about a billion dollars of fraud, not all of it from the Somali community. But the vast majority seemingly coming from the Somali community. And then the comeback to that was that Somali community pays about 67 million dollars in taxes, every year.

So can you do the math on this?

One of the numbers is a billion. And the other one is 67 million.

Which one do you think is more important?

Which one is higher. Do we need to get AI.

GLENN: Tim Walz. Tim Walz.

67 million.

STU: 67 million. Or a billion. That's the question. Which one is larger?

GLENN: Four.

You mean with four?

Four.

STU: Now, if you think about it, Glenn, the first number in both of those. Like 1 billion, the first number is a one.

67 million, the first number is a 6.

GLENN: Six is bigger than one!

STU: Right? Six is bigger than one. Six is bigger than one!

GLENN: That's what's going on here.

GLENN: I would say. I would say, there are 933 reasons to say, anyone who says that that math works out. Is retarded.

Okay? It doesn't work out. Now, look, even though, they generate $500 million every year.

Okay. All right. And then they give back out of that, their taxes. Out of that.

Which this itself, it doesn't make sense to me. $500 million in revenue is what they generate. But then they pay in taxes $67 million. But what we're missing here is the $1 billion of fraudulent money being taken from the taxpayer.

So the 500 million doesn't do anything.

Okay?

STU: Still smaller.

GLENN: Still going to the Somali community.

Half. Half.

Dare I say it. Half of the size of what they just -- yeah. Okay.

I don't know. Can Grok do that? That's like a ten-year problem.

Ten-year problem!

Anyway, you have half. That number doesn't even -- you have 1 billion that's been stolen. 67 million that has been paid in taxes. That leaves $933 million, that is a deficit.

That -- you remain -- $933 million in the hole. I think we can survive without that. You mean -- I mean, sure, we don't get your 500 million.

But that's -- that's okay. That's okay.

Because we would have a billion dollars, that you didn't take.

STU: Yeah. That's right. I think we would be ahead. And, by the way, that's if -- that's if we took every Somali and just lumped them into this, which is not.

I'm sure there are some Somalis that are, you know, part of that 500 million, that are not crooked.

STU: I'm sure.

GLENN: They can stay. They're fine.

STU: I'm certain of that. In fact, I would argue, those are the people likely paying the 67 million people in taxes.

The people who were stealing all the money. Weren't paying taxes on it, which is kind of the problem. In fact, all that money that came from the state was specifically designed so they don't have to pay taxes on it.

The programs were designed, of course, when you're talking about a low income person, right?

You're not going to charge them taxes on their autism treatment. Of course, those weren't really treating kids with autism. So the actual productive members of this society, were instead paying those taxes to fund the corrupt Somalis who were stealing all the money.

And, you know, again, we've made this point a million times. And I think it holds here. Maybe treat people like individuals, right?

Maybe don't -- don't -- people -- there are members of the Somali community, that I'm sure are very important to -- to the -- to the state. They probably are great. Probably great people in that community.

I can tell you, we know with these charges. That there were a lot of people that were not living up to that expectation. Those people should be punished.

We shouldn't hide from it. We shouldn't act as if this isn't a massive problem from this group people. Charge the people responsible for it. Stop acting like we need them to survive. We don't need criminals survive as a country or a state.

GLENN: Let me just -- I have to go back to Tim Walz being upset about the retarded thing.

Play cut two, please.

VOICE: This creates danger. And I'll tell you what, in my time on this, I had never seen this before. People driving by my house and using the R-word in front of people. This is shameful. And I have yet to see an elected official, a Republican-elected official say, that's right. It's shameful. He should not say it.

Look, I'm worried. We know how these things go. They starts with taunts. They turn to violence.

STU: Taunts! Founder of the taunts of weird.

GLENN: That's weird.

STU: Thinks that that taunt can lead to violence. That's so strange.

GLENN: Who is living in the world of, he's a fascist Nazi.

STU: Uh-huh.

GLENN: Okay. Now suddenly, and I've never seen this.

I've never seen anything like this, Stu.

Never seen anything like this. I'm in my house, and people are driving by my house, rolling down their windows, and just screaming "retard" out.

That's going to lead to violence. That's going to lead to violence.

STU: Violence.

GLENN: No. No. It's not nice. And it's wrong. Jesus wouldn't have done it. But I don't think Jesus had to put up with all these retards as politicians, quite honestly.

I mean, I can't -- I can't answer for that. I don't know.

STU: I --

GLENN: I'm not a Biblical scholar or scientist or mathematician.

STU: We've learned that. We can't even tell numbers apart.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: But I will say, while you're right, it's obviously not -- I wouldn't tell my -- teach my children to behave that way.

GLENN: No. It is shameful. It's not right. It's not right.

STU: I will say, it's wrong to do. I will also say, it's objectively funny, picturing Tim Walz looking out his window and hearing people yell the R-word at him when he's going out to get his mail.

And people -- like, it's an objectively funny scenario.

GLENN: Every time. It is. It is. It is funny.

STU: It's bad. It's wrong that it's funny. But it's objectively funny.

GLENN: No, it's horrible.

STU: But it's objectively funny. There's no way -- there's no way to read it.

Look, I'm sure the left laughed, because -- think of what they did with J.D. Vance. They called him weird, right?

Because he ran, came up from a very poor upbringing. And rose to the levels of -- high levels of wealth and achievement and power.

They called that weird.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

STU: That he loved his family.

And they -- they celebrated.

GLENN: We call that the American dream.

STU: Yeah. That used to be the American dream. Now it's weird. They, of course, yell this all the time.

They make the meme of him looking like you would say, potentially retarded would be the example of the meme they've created, to mock J.D. Vance.

They constantly mock him with this. But that doesn't lead to violence. Calling people Nazis don't lead to violence.

Despite the fact that we have seen the president of the United States, taking a bullet after all of this has happened. We saw a Charlie Kirk get assassinated at a stage. After people said that about him.

But it's the R-word being yelled at Tim Walz when he goes to get -- when he waddles out to get his mail.

That's the thing we're supposed to be concerned about?

No. No.

GLENN: I mean, I don't want to see this in real life. I don't want this to happen.

Because it is wrong. But I do want somebody to create an AI reproduction of just some kids driving by.

And he's in his fuzzy slippers getting newspaper in the morning.

And these kids, like in American graffiti, going, hey, retard.

I mean, I do kind of want to see that. I do. I do. Yeah. It's wrong. It's wrong of me.

All right.

“TOTAL VINDICATION”: Gov. Abbott reacts to SCOTUS decision on Texas redistricting map

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott joins Glenn Beck to discuss the Supreme Court's "total vindication" of state Republicans' new redistricting map, why he's putting CAIR on notice, and whether he's still going after the EPIC City Islamic development outside of Dallas.

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled they ruled that the G.O.P. drawn congressional map for the next election can be used.

But I believe there's some other cases that are following, that might change that. But right now, the G.O.P. can use them.

Governor Abbott is here to comment on this from the great state of Texas.

Hello, Governor Abbott. How are you?
GREG: Hey, Glenn. Doing great. How are you doing?

GLENN: I'm good. I'm good.

Good news yesterday for Republicans in the state of Texas. Tell me how you view this.

GREG: Well, it's huge news for Republicans in Texas. And I will tell you, also, Republicans across the United States of America. But many more importantly, huge news, for the Constitution and for the Supreme Court President. With the Supreme Court made clear yesterday. And that is this trial court that ruled against Texas, completely abandoned and ignored Supreme Court precedent.

And -- and the Supreme Court made clear that the Trump court was wrong on the facts. Wrong on the law.

And this was maybe the worst briefdown of a lower court decision, that I've ever seen imposed by the United States Supreme Court. So this is total vindication for the state of Texas. For the legislature. For what all of us did. In drawing these maps. These maps were drawn for two reasons: One, to make sure that they fully complied with the United States Constitution, and with the Supreme Court precedent.

But second and very important thing here. What's allowed is to ensure that we are able to draw a map, to truly represent the values of the people of our state.

Our state, like some other states have had districts, congressional districts, hijacked by far progressive leftists that don't represent our state values. We're able to redraw those lines in a way for political reasons, to ensure we will have representation, that truly represents the values of our state. And as a result, we should be picking five more Republican seats in the state of Texas,
in the United States Congress.

STU: Governor, are we seeing the end of these challenges? Do we think this is locked in now, or is there still more to come?

GREG: Well, there will be more to come in the sense that the United States Supreme Court will have briefing on this issue and then a total final decision. But if you look at what the opinion says, they allowed us to move forward with our elections on the maps that we passed this summer.

Based upon their conclusion, that the state of Texas is likely to win upon further briefing. Upon further decision making by the Supreme Court.

This was a preliminary stage decision. So it could stay definitively. They could articulate based upon everything they've seen, from the lower court decisions. And based upon US Supreme Court precedent -- was going to win. You know, one thing that is very important here, and they did this just last year. The United States Supreme Court issued a decision on restricting, that was -- the guidepost for how this was supposed to be decided by the lower court.

And the lower court completely abandoned that United States Supreme Court precedent, and the Supreme Court beat down the lower court for violating that precedent.

For reasons which no one can understand. The lower court is well off on its own. It seemed like it wanted to dictate an outcome and wrote a decision to -- without -- without applying the law, without applying the facts.

GLENN: How -- how are we going to get these lower courts under control?

GREG: You know, listen, you raise a very important issue. Because we have problems with the lower courts and redistricting. We have problems with lower courts in so many of these other areas. You see leftist courts across the country.

They're doing things that the president can't look forward to. And the National Guard let them.

The President is fully authorized by the United States Constitution and by federal law to be able to deploy the National Guard for the purpose of protecting federal employees, like ICE, whenever and however the President decided to do it.

And some of these rulings, in that regard. In other ways, we have lower federal district courts, that are abandoning the Constitution, this Constitution. Abandoning their obligation to follow the law. This is a real problem.

GLENN: So a couple of days ago, you celebrity a letter to Secretary Bessent. About suspending CAIR's tax-exempt status. Can you talk a little bit about that?

GREG: Sure. The letter I've got is for Secretary Bessent. It's a request to deny CAIR. And for your listeners, CAIR stands for Council on American-Islamic Relations. And the letter requesting that they be denied their 501(c)(3) status is based upon an earlier document that was issued. Which was a proclamation that CAIR is a foreign terrorist organization.

Now, and, Glenn, let me just connect a couple of dots here. That will show why we're making this allegation.

For one, for -- for detection, CAIR has been intertwined with terrorism.

And there are three organizations.

That operate in the shadow way, in collaboration with each other.

So if you would, follow along, as I connect a couple of dots. Hamas is a at the scene I go natured foreign terror organization bit United States of America.

Hamas is a branch of the Muslim brotherhood in Gaza. Trump as you probably know is considering ending the Muslim brotherhood. A terrorist foreign organization.

Then, the federal documents connect CAIR with the Muslim Brotherhood.

And as we've articulated, CAIR has historic connections to terrorism.

A founder of the Texas branch of terror was convicted by a jury in Dallas, for providing financing for terrorism.

And then more recently, just last month, an illegal immigrant from Jordan in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, with an order to be deported.

And the tee portation order required a in my understanding it he actually provided material support for terrorism!

And then after that, last month, CAIR fought to keep this material supporter of terrorism in the state of Texas, and they even called him a pillar of the community.

Here's the bottom line: If CAIR doesn't want to be labeled as a terrorist organization, if it wants to shed its early ties to terrorism, it needs to stop supporting those who are identified by the federal government as supporters of terrorism. But because they haven't, you know -- they haven't completely abandoned their connection to terrorism. Because they support terrorists to this day. That is exactly why they deserve, for one, to be labeled a foreign organization.

And for another, why they should not be receiving the benefits of a 501(c)(3) organization.

GLENN: Tell me about Epic, otherwise now going to be renamed the Meadow. Does that mean the investigation is going to stop?

GREG: Absolutely not. Let me explain. For one, Epic, as you know, is this compound that was put together by an Islamic organization in the Dallas County area. It was a massive compound, and it was structured in a way that it would be a Muslim-only community which directly violates Texas law.

And so we -- we did you go into the documents they were using to create this program. And the documents themselves were in violation of Texas law. I'll just give you one quick example of many that would exist, and that is. If you had gone out and bought land that was in this compound area, and you wanted to sell that property later, you couldn't just sell it to anybody you wanted to.

You had to go through the local imam and get the imam's approval about whether or not you could sell the property and who you could sell it to.

And if the imam disapproved, you would have to sell it to the imam. That was one way they would to have control and make sure that was to be a Muslim-only community. For that and other reasons. And for our investigations, they knew they were never going to be able to break ground, on the Epic City compound, there in Dallas County area, so they completely abandoned Epic City. And now that they've come up with a new name called the Meadow. Well, listen, a name-change doesn't -- doesn't purge the legal flaws that they have already incurred in the process.

And that's why we still have ongoing investigations. We have something like five state agencies that are conducting investigations as we speak right now.

There's the attorney general's office. The Texas Rangers. The Texas Security Board. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. And the housing authority here in the state of Texas. All looking into the practices, and they've already been established by this Islamic organization. Which we believe, again, is trying to set up a program under a -- a less offensive name, the Meadow. Just because they changed names to Meadow, it doesn't mean they're going to be able to set up an Islamic-only community there in the Dallas County area.

GLENN: The cleric behind this thing is a pretty radical guy. Now, he says he's not radical anymore.

But, I mean, he was openly calling for the death of homosexuals. You know, the death of Jews.

There's recordings of him saying, let's see here.

One recording says, preaching about vices and mandate executions under Sharia law in Islam.

This is part of our religion. To kill, by the way, the homosexual.

This is our religion. He says, well, no. I was just talking about that happen. It was radical. But I'm not radical like that anymore.

But, I mean, he says horrible, horrible things.

Is he under investigation? Do you know about him?

GREG: Yeah. Anybody and everybody, involved in this entire process is going to be under investigation.

First, let's go back to what you were talking about. Because as part of the method of operation. That many Muslim organizations in Texas and the United States operate under.

And it's part of their international program. Where they literally talk out of both size of their mouth.

They -- they have these -- like what you were talks about, to impose Sharia law. Sharia standards.

While at the same time, you know, they come out and says, well, we're just a civil white organization trying to back all Americans, which is hogwash. And so all of them -- and this needs to be vigilant, about following exactly what they're doing.

Ignoring the candy coating on what they're saying. But looking at what their true intentions are.

And that is to take over land in the state of Texas, or other states, and they're doing this in states across the entire country.

Take over land. And then slowly impose their -- their Sharia policies, whether it be enforcement through the courts or compound community, as well as the case may be. And that's why we are investigating this from top to bottom.

GLENN: Great. Governor thank you so much.

Appreciate your time. And we look forward to talking to you again.

God bless. Stay safe. You bet. Greg Abbott.

I should NEVER have said this about Donald Trump

Glenn Beck tells the story leading up to his criticism of Donald Trump after the 2015 "golden escalator" announcement, and why he now "really regrets" how he reacted.

Transcript

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GLENN: The Trump that you see on TV that they are always mocking and always talking about is that flash of him as a performer. In real life, he is that really genteel, very kind, kind of guy.

Very personal. One on one.

It's an amazing thing.

They never see that. They never see that. But they --

STU: Yeah. You've told the story.

GLENN: Apparently -- apparently, because he tweets a lot. We need to buy a cowboy hat.

STU: Right. You told the story, Glenn of above before Trump was running for president.

You were staying at one of the Trump resorts. Right?

If I'm remembering the story. And didn't he call you, you know.

GLENN: And I misjudged him.

I misjudged him privilege think about this all the time.

I can't tell you how many times I've apologized to the man.

I so misjudged the man.

Because I didn't know anybody like him. And now that I've gotten to know him.

And I know people like him. And I've known him forever.

This is who he is. And so it was right before he announced, but we knew he was going to run.

And we had been friends for a while.

And I don't want to say friends. I mean, I don't think I'm a friend of his now. But I kind of am, I guess. He'll call me. We'll text each other. But so he was just -- he said to me, this is like, I don't know.

2010, or something. We met at a party for Larry King, his 900th birthday.

And he knew I would travel a lot.

And, you know, he was a fan of the show. And he would watch and he would see that I was doing all the stage shows. In the days it that I would travel for 30 different days of the year.

And he said, you know, whenever you're in town and in New York. Or when you're traveling around. You know, stay.

At a Trump hotel. Now, I had to pay, you know what I mean?

He wasn't offering it for free. But just stay at a Trump hotel. I'm telling you, they're the best. We take care of our guests. Okay. So I go to New York. And I'm staying at the Trump International, and it's at this time where, remember, I had to eat that diet. I had a diet where I could only eat like 70 ingredients. And was it really, really strict.

And because I was going through -- my doctors, every doctor I saw, they're like, you're being poisoned. And I'm like, yeah, we've done all the poison tests, I'm not being poisoned. They're like, we're being poisoned.

I'm like, I'm paranoid enough. Would you stop saying that?.

And we couldn't ever figure out what was happening with my body, but I started -- they put me on a very strict diet of 70 ingredients. And so I couldn't eat anywhere.

And so I called him up. And I said, hey. I'm coming to New York. I have a chef that has to travel with me because I can only eat these 70 things. And it has to be exact.

And I said, would you -- could you accommodate?

And he's like, now, in New York. Somebody who doesn't work in that kitchen to be allowed in the kitchen. That's a hassle.

Okay?

And he's like, absolutely. Not a problem.

So we go there, I stay for a couple of days. And I was supposed to stay for a week.

And I had to cancel it because my father was dying.

So I'm there for two days. And then because I left abruptly and, you know, the kitchen was like, where is the guy with the -- you know, is Mr. Beck still here?

Somehow or another, he found out that I left. I go to Seattle. My father dies. I come back home. And he calls me up. And he said, is -- is there a reason you left early from the hotel? Did something go wrong?

And I said, yes, sir, my father passed away.

And he said, oh, my gosh, Glenn. I'm so sorry to hear. And he just gushed, gushed, gushed. And he was so relatable and so kind and everything else.

And then like, I don't know. A week later, he announces that he's running for president.

And I assumed worst of the man.

And I can't believe I'm confessing this. This is so horrible for me to say. This is one of the worst things, I've done in a long time. I really regret the things I said about Donald Trump. Because I was really wrong.

Anyway, so I remember getting on the air, as soon as he announces. Or we know. And I said, that son of a bitch has been courting me this whole time. He has been setting me up for an endorsement. That's what this whole thing has been about.

And I assumed the worst of him. And that's not what it was about. I can tell you now, that's not what it was about. That is who he is. And he was just such a gracious guy. And I spat in his face for it. And I regret it.

But he's -- he's not anything that you think he is. Anything the press says he is, he's not that guy. And you know it, you know. The one thing I did say about him when I was saying bad things about him. The one thing I couldn't swear. And I kept saying this is the only thing that doesn't make sense is his kids are so unbelievable, and his daughters love him to death!

And you can't be that guy. How is it he has raised such great children?

And I thought, well, it's their mom. It's not.

I mean, I'm sure their mom played a role in that, but it's him too. They are -- they love him. And if you listen to, just watch the way they react about him.

I mean, my kids don't act that way about me. I mean, you know, they adore the man. Adore the man. And you can't fake that with your kids. They just won't do it. Just won't.

So is that the story you were trying to weasel out of me in my weakness?

STU: I almost got you to cry. So I was close. Got you down the road.

Got you down there.

GLENN: But I refused to go.

STU: I thought, if you would leave this tired, the tears would flow. Whatever. We got close.

GLENN: Yeah. Thanks a lot. Well, that's what we pay you for, apparently.