SMACKDOWN: Brian Tyler Cohen STUNS Trump’s lawyer on national TV

But do you think that DOJ will follow through with this?And what does the pardon that presidential Biden gave Fauci have to do with any of it?

Yeah, it's a huge part of it.I mean, normally, if you have a Fifth Amendment privilege, but you receive a pardon, the pardon eliminates the privilege.And so you're not in a position to be forced to testify because you know, if you in normal circumstances, you can be forced because you've been pardoned, you have nothing to hide.

I actually take issue with with what you said about about this idea that he doesn't have the right to plead the fifth here.The Supreme Court ruled in a case called Ohio versus Reiner in 2001.that a defendant can plead the fifth if there's a reasonable expectation that they'll be exposed to criminal liability, even if they're innocent.And we know that there is exposure, the risk of exposure to criminal liability, even if Anthony Fauci is innocent, because Rand Paul, for example, came out and said that he is not going to rest until Anthony Fauci is prosecuted.And this DOJ has shown that it's perfectly willing to prosecute all of its enemies.It's done so or attempted to do so to Jack Smith, Cassidy Hutchinson, Jerome Powell, Letitia James, James Comey, John Brennan, David Hearn, the six Democrats who dared recite what the UCMJ said, and even a guy who threw a Subway sandwich at a federal agent.

None of those prosecutions went forward, but that doesn't mean the DOJ hadn't tried.So of course Anthony Fauci is well within his rights to plead the fifth, because there is very clearly exposure to criminal liability, even for somebody who's innocent.

Jim, do you just want to respond to that accusation that DOJ is going after political enemies rather than people who are accused of breaking the law?In particular, though, Dr. Anthony Fauci, whose contempt charges were walked over, or referral rather, were walked over to DOJ today.

I mean, I kept waiting to hear if John Bolton's name was going to be mentioned, too.He kind of dropped off the list of victims by pleading guilty.

From a political perspective, we wouldn't need to be relitigating COVID from six monthsanything else to run on, but of course prices are higher, inflation is higher, we're engaged in a brand new war in the Middle East that Trump swore would never happen, and the Epstein files are still suppressed.So I'm not surprised that we need to dive into the Anthony Fauci is bad, he's a boogeyman frame.

you should set aside.

I stopped Donald Trump from firing Anthony Fauci.

Yes, you and many others were very concerned about the president's ability to fire Anthony Fauci, which he did not have the ability to do so.Maybe if he had fired Anthony Fauci, we would have had a better outcome with COVID.and on we've been covering this.We're going to continue covering it because we believe in holding the highest paid bureaucrats in the country accountable when they're illegally frankensteining viruses to make them more deadly, causing a pandemic, covering it up and then claiming they have nothing to do with it and pleading the fifth more than a hundred times when Americans deserve answers.

Remind me how, when Donald Trump appointed RFK Jr., how the measles cases are doing in this country.

Why don't you tell me, Brian?

This is somebody who the Democrats, you know, we had we had no we had no bearing on on RFK Jr.How are measles cases doing right now?

Well, maybe we should talk about where the measles cases are coming from.They're coming from communities that came over the border who are not vaccinated.So we can talk about it.It's always it's always brown people.

That was me debating both Trump's attorney, Jim Trustee, who represented Trump in the classified documents and January 6 cases, along with Katie Pavlik,the NewsNation host.Now this conversation began with both Trustee and Pavlich attempting to promote this idea that Anthony Fauci will be prosecuted.Here's the short version.He won't.No judge worth his or her salt is going to take a criminal referral from this Department of Justice seriously when all they've done is send a parade of political opponents in front of juries and judges only to see literally all of them.

walk free.They have been successful in zero vindictive prosecutions.As I mentioned, that list includes Jack Smith, Cassidy Hutchinson, Jerome Powell, Letitia James, James Comey, John Brennan, David Hearn, the six Democrats who dared recite what the UCMJ said, and a guy who threw a Subway sandwich at a federal agent.If there had been only one vindictive prosecution, then maybe.But when you squander every ounce of credibility that you have trying to prosecute them every week, Not so much.And judges are clearly wising up to that.

Quick side note here.As you know, I've been making videos like this for a decade now.I have never paywalled any of my content.I never will.But this is the one time that I'll ask for some support.I'd like to try and hit the New York Times bestseller list this week for my new book, The Day After.

If you haven't yet grabbed a copy, please click the link on the screen, in the post description, in the comments, or go to bryantylercohen .com slash book.I really appreciate it.So going back to Dr. Fauci, he was well within his rights to plead the fifth, knowing full well that the Republicans would use anything he said to try and prosecute him.I mean, hell, they took him saying nothing as justification to send over a criminal referral, meaning either way, they were going to try and take him down, which I discussed with Glenn Kirshner here.to answer any of these questions, they were going to, and they did, move forward with a criminal prosecution referral.

to the DOJ.for what they claim is a wrongful assertion of his Fifth Amendment right.And if he did say something, they would have found any crumb to hang their hat on and prosecuted him for that.So either way, the fix was in, and it looks like the Republicans had figured out a way that they could get a criminal referral over to the DOJ, whether he spoke or he didn't.

You're exactly right.I mean, he could have been asked, you know, what color sport coat were you wearing on the day you learned about the COVID epidemic?He said, I think it was blue.Well, no, it was actually dark blue perjury.I mean, it's a it's a ridiculous example, but nothing is too ridiculous for the you know, this dirty D .O .

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So that raises the obvious question.If this is a doomed effort, why why would Republicans focus so much energy and attention on it?And the answer is that they have nothing else.What else could they possibly run on?The economy is in the toilet.Job growth is anemic, if not negative.

Inflation is rising.Gas is surging.Prices are through the roof across every sector, we're spending billions of dollars on a war that Trump promised would never happen, and the entire Republican Party, except for maybe two people, are engaged in a pedophile cover -up.Of course they have to run a 2020 redux and try and turn Anthony Fauci into the biggest news item of the day.If they didn't, they might actually have to run on their record, and think about what a disaster that would be.And when I pressed Pavlich and Trustee on that point, I was hit with talking points about how we must hold Anthony Fauci to account for what he did.

After all, how can we forget about those things?First of all, it's so funny to me how Anthony Fauci is to blame for all of the problems during COVID when Donald Trump, the president of the United States, turned the White House press briefing room into his own personal reality TV show for the better part of a year, offering up pseudoscience and straight bullshit.And that, according to Republicans, was totally fine.He bears none of the blame.told people to inject disinfectant, A -OK.But the guy who dared suggest that we wear masks is a criminal?

Get real.If a Democratic president suggested injecting disinfectant, you would be calling for the electric chair.But because it's Trump, he gets a pass because the buck never stops with this president.Desperate to consolidate all this power, but doesn't want an ounce of accountability when he actually uses it.Convenient, huh?Also, if Anthony Fauci is responsible for all COVID deaths, then by that That same logic, is RFK Jr. not responsible for the cyclospora outbreak or the measles outbreak right now?

Measles are at their highest point in modern U .S.history, with more cases this year already than the entirety of last year, which at that point was ALSO the highest point in modern U .S.history.So by Katie Pavlich's logic, RFK should be prosecuted, right?

And does Trump bear no responsibility in appointing him, despite knowing full well that he was an anti -science quack?I asked that question to Katie Pavlich and OF FUCKING COURSE she pivots to who else but immigrants.You see, measles isn't RFK or Trump's fault, despite dismantling our healthcare system, it's coming in from across the border.Always the fault of some brown person somewhere.Trump could, as he said, shoot someone on 5th Avenue and these right wing sycophants would figure out some way to blame a migrant caravan 5 ,000 miles away.So look.

My job on this show was not to convince anybody on that panel, both the host and her guest are Trump sycophants to the nth degree, but I go on that show to offer up facts to the audience and expose the lies that they feed their viewers on a daily basis.And if I can change even one person's mind by explaining the truth about a Fauci criminal referral or the hypocrisy surrounding Republicans blaming Fauci but not RFK, then I feel like I've done my job.And I know that there is a lot of concern over platforming people,or validating other people's platforms.Look, these people exist.Their platforms exist.

Pretending that they don't gets us nowhere.I'd rather try and do my part to talk some sense into their audience than seed those spaces entirely.And yes, I will get ganged up on, I'll get railroaded, and sometimes I even get threatened to be muted on national television.I won't stop.If you'd like to support what I do, you can subscribe to my channel.And again, you can grab a copy of my new book, The Day After, which I have spent the last year working on and would love to get into the zeitgeist.

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