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A unanimous ruling by the United States Supreme Court. Unanimous, that's right. Even the three lefty judges joining in to say Colorado cannot block Donald Trump from the ballot. A unanimous ruling. Welcome to the Dana Show.

Dana's off today. It's me, Rich Zioli, with you from Dana's Affiliate, WPHD in Philadelphia. Yeah, you know, it's funny because Keith Oberman wants to cancel the entire Supreme Court. Just cancel it. Just dissolve the entire court.

He's so angry, even at the three lefty judges who joined in the ruling. I mean, look, you had to know it was going to go this way. You had to. If you listened to the oral arguments that day, which I did, I listened to all of them because I'm kind of a Supreme Court nerd, so I enjoyed listening. I'd love to watch them, but they don't allow cameras in the courtroom.

So you have to listen to the oral arguments. But I mean, it was obvious. There were a couple of major red flags for Colorado in this, and a couple of definite, definite, definite. Excuse me. Signs that Trump was going to win.

Trump was going to win this one in a big way. First of all, let's think about, number one, what Justice Khatanji. Jackson said, all right. Justice Jackson came out and said that if there's any ambiguity, any ambiguity whatsoever. You should err on the side of democracy.

That's what she said. She said you should err on the side of democracy.

So that's what the court did. Because the question of whether or not Donald Trump would be excluded, or any president under the Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, does it apply to presidents? And her point was: look, you know, it's not clear. I mean, you just admitted, and she questioned, she grilled one of the attorneys for Colorado in that. And they're they explained how it was presumed to be, and then they talked about how the conversation had come up when the amendment was was first tested out.

And she said, Well, that that proves my point. There's ambiguity here, and if there's ambiguity, you got to go on the side of democracy. I remember the day that that case happened because I wound up playing clips from the lefty judges more than the conservative judges. I mean, and Justice Elena Kagan, too, was asking a lot of questions regarding this. And how would this work?

And doesn't this disenfranchise people? And why not leave it to the voters? And then what happens if you get into a situation where some states say that Trump is ineligible and other states say he is? And what if other states say this candidate is and another state says this candidate isn't? I mean, it could turn into an absolute circus.

And they were right about that. I mean, they were right with that interpretation. The fact that it's unanimous, though, sends a clear and convincing statement across the country: hey, listen, this has to stop, this nonsense, because you know they're trying this in Illinois, obviously, Maine, and it's got to stop. Like, enough, it's over, it's done, move on from this.

So, the Supreme Court weighing in unanimously, you can't even have the usual talking heads. I mean, they'll try to come out and say, well, it's a conservative Supreme Court. But It's not. And Justice Barrett's concurrence saying, for present purposes, our differences are far less important than our unanimity. It's a unanimous ruling.

So while they may have had some different Takes on this overall, the justices. The bottom line is, it was a unanimous decision that they cannot keep Trump off the ballot. That's the key takeaway. the the the the nine nothing ruling. Overturning the Colorado Supreme Court decision, removing Trump from the state primary ballot.

Remember, too, in that case with Colorado, when the Supreme Court made that ruling. There were three judges who dissented from that, three of the state justices, and they're all and they're all Democrats. I mean the whole Colorado Supreme Court, they're Democrats. But even there, it was a 4-3 decision with three dissents, and one of the more liberal justices on that court was the one who wrote the dissenting opinion. And the unanimous ruling holds that only Congress has the authority to restrict ballot access based on a candidate's alleged violation of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.

Quote The case raises the question whether the States, in addition to Congress, may also enforce Section 3. We conclude that States may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold State office, but States have no power under the Constitution to enforce Section 3 with respect to Federal offices, especially. the Presidency. That's a big deal. That's a big deal.

Because remember, they said in Colorado, well, it's self-enforcing, Section 3. Like, you know it when it happens. You just know it. And they said, Well, how do you know if somebody's actually disqualified? I said, Well, you just know.

I said, Well, that doesn't seem to make any sense. It's kind of like obscenity, you know. You know when you see it.

Well, how do you know what a candidate would be disqualified under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment?

Well, you just know. It's just so obvious. What we saw on January 6th is just so obvious. that for that reason then it's it's self-enforcing and the amendment is just it automatically kicks in.

Now, that's ridiculous, obviously. And if states were to be able to do that, then you'd have states disqualifying Joe Biden from being on the ballot. I mean, Texas has already said, why don't we disqualify Joe Biden because he's just allowing the border to be wide open? You know, he's allowing this invasion to occur. We could say he's allowing an insurrection.

He's giving aid and comfort to those who are committing an insurrection against the United States of America. And therefore, we hold it to be self-evident that Texas can keep him off the ballot. You would have chaos, is what you'd have. You'd have absolute chaos. And the other point too is that for all the talk that Donald Trump is trying to destroy democracy and Donald Trump is trying to be a tyrant and dictator and everything else, all these efforts by the Democrats to keep him off the ballot are truly what's disenfranchising voters.

I mean, you had guys like David Axelrod, who was Obama's guy, come out and say that. You you had James Carville come out and say that too. It's like all you're doing is just disenfranchising people and telling them that their votes don't count. You're disenfranchising millions of people, and people don't like that. News flashed, they don't like to be disenfranchised.

They like to be able to make decisions for themselves. I know, I know it's crazy, right? That people like to make their own determinations. And for a couple of people in black robes to say to millions of people in Colorado, you can't choose the candidate you want.

Well, that's not democracy. And for so often, we hear that too. We hear, don't we hear that? Democracy's dying, the death of democracy. I love the Washington Post too.

They still have that democracy dies in darkness is their slogan.

Well, democracy also dies even though we are a republic, but the concept of democracy dies if you don't let people vote for who they want to vote for. I mean, that's just kind of. Basic Democracy 101 right there. In a democracy, you're supposed to be able to elect. the person you want to elect.

But I also knew that this case was doomed from the start for Colorado because Their basis essentially was: well, we gave Donald Trump due process. I mean, he had the opportunity to weigh in on the state trial, and he never did. But you turn around and you go, well, why does the state of Colorado, what what gives them the right to try somebody for a federal crime that he was never even charged with? And I remember it was Justice Neil Gorsuch who asked that question. You know, we have an insurrection clause.

It might have been Kavanaugh, I forget one of them. We have an insurrection statute. Trump was not charged with that, let alone convicted of that.

So how does Colorado get the right to do that? And isn't it funny too, as this is all playing out, we're being told simultaneously that Texas cannot enforce federal immigration law. You know, that's up that's up to the feds. But somehow the state of Colorado thought it could enforce a federal insurrection law. But how does that work?

On the one hand, you've got federal judges telling Texas you don't have the authority to be able to enforce federal immigration law. That's up to the feds. At the very same time, though, they're turning around and saying, well, some justices were, in Colorado at least, we can enforce federal insurrection law, even though it's a federal crime, even though there's been no charges around it, and even though there's been no conviction around it. We can enforce it and we can apply the penalty as well. That is crazy.

Come on. And then the other point, and this is the part that scares me though. What scares me about this is that Jack Smith, the special prosecutor, this guy is so hell-bent on getting Trump. I mean, he just wakes up every day and he dreams of it. He lives it.

It's what he wants to do more than anything. It's very possible he may upgrade the charges against the former President with regards to January 6th and say that he gave aid and comfort to those committing an insurrection. Meaning the Proud Boys, who were found guilty of seditious conspiracy, which was a ridiculous over-prosecution. I mean, they never committed seditious conspiracy. Nobody was actually ever going to overthrow the United States government on January 6th.

No, nobody was ever gonna do that. They were never gonna achieve that. The best case scenario they may have achieved that day would have been a totally legal one. under the Electoral Count Act, which was still the law of the land as of that day, in which case Congress would have sent the results back to the States.

Something that that people like Jamie Raskin have tried to do on multiple occasions. I don't know if you know this or not, but they tried to reject the electoral results of George Bush in 2001, of George Bush in 2005, of Donald Trump in 2017. Members of Congress, Using the Electoral Count Act to say, nope, this should go back to the States. And those claims were rejected by the Congress. But I mean, it was within their legal right to do so.

So I mean, Trump had every right to ask people to go lobby the Congress. Presidents do it all the time. I mean, Joe Biden's in the process of doing it right now with regards to the fake border bill. which is not about our border, it's about Ukraine's border, obviously. It's about getting our money over the border of Ukraine.

But Biden's out there all the time telling people, call Congress. I want Congress to do this. Presidents tell Congress what to do. They try to anyway all the time. I mean, when Biden gives his State of the Union address coming up, if he's able to stay awake through it, he's going to tell Congress what he wants them to do.

There's nothing illegal about that. There's nothing illegal about asking Congress what you want them to do. And there's nothing illegal about asking people to go and ask Congress. what the President wants them to do. It's called the bully pulpit.

It's the power of the bully pop it. It's really one of the few powers the president actually has besides signing or vetoing legislation or ordering a military strike. Beyond that, the powers of the Presidency are supposed to be pretty limited. And the power of the bully pulpit is not actually a power, it's obviously influence, it's persuasion. The president stands at the podium, the bully pulpit.

It was Teddy Roosevelt who really gave that moniker to it. lobbies and advocates a position. Completely legal, completely constitutional, totally within lines of the First Amendment, obviously, of the United States of America.

So Trump didn't do anything wrong on January 6th. I mean, other people did things wrong on January 6th, but he didn't do anything wrong. Telling people to fight like hell is not a is that's not illegal. You know, that's political speech. It's protected political rhetoric.

And politicians use it all the time. We're going to take back our country. We'll unleash the whirlwind. Remember when Chuck Schumer said that? To the justices, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.

He said, Well, you've unleashed the whirlwind, Justice Gorsuch. Justice Kavanaugh. You're allowed to make claims like that in politics. There's nothing wrong with that. You can't make a specific thing like go kill that person, but you can certainly say we're gonna fight like hell.

Trump said we'll march to the Capitol peacefully. He didn't have to say peacefully. You know, there's no asterisk in the First Amendment that says you gotta always use the word peacefully. Whenever you're giving a fiery political speech, you better remind people it's got to be peaceful. See, in this country, we.

We understand that if people take actions on their own because they've been inspired by a politician and those actions that they take are illegal, well, that's on them. Then they've broken the law, not the politician who inspired them with their rhetoric. Whether it's the whackjob Bernie Sanders supporter who shot up Steve Scalise or it's people on January 6th, if you decide you've heard something. that makes you do something that is illegal, well, bat congratulations, that's on you. We don't we don't prosecute politicians for their rhetoric.

Not in this country, we don't. That's what they're trying to do to Trump, but that's not what we do. And then we certainly don't have a state disqualify them from the ballot. based on a federal insurrection charge that he was never charged with.

So now the only question is will Jack Smith up the ante? Will he come back and add charges onto Trump's already sitting indictment? The guy's been indicted more times than. Like Charles Manson, I think they said today was indicted ten times. Trump's been indicted like ninety three.

There's ninety three counts or something.

So I would not be surprised if they try to do more to try to get him. It may not work. But now they're trying to still get him. Don't forget on the classified documents thing. Even though Biden, not him, but still trying to get Trump on that.

All right, we got a lot to talk about. We'll hear what Trump is going to say live from Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, as he reacts to the unanimous Supreme Court victory. It is the Dana Show with me, Rich Zioli, in for Dana. We'll be right back. Have you seen any of those viral videos, the ones that show aisles stacked with emergency food supplies in stores?

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A unanimous ruling from the Supreme Court. Welcome back to The Dana Show. It's me, Rich Zeoli in for Dana Today. 9-0 ruling. With a couple of little twists and caveats, obviously, as you can imagine, there's already outrage from a lot of people on the left.

But let's think about what the court said today as it slapped down Colorado. And also, what is the Colorado Secretary of State, Jenna Griswold, saying in response to this?

Well, obviously, as you can imagine, she's not happy, not happy at all. We are awaiting Donald Trump to speak from Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, his residence there. Got the big gold crest in the background, all the flags. But it's a big deal. I mean, this ruling is a big deal.

The fact that the lefty judges were all on board with this is a sign that You can't say this is the conservative court giving Donald Trump a pass. You can't say it's a conservative court overstepping democracy as a unanimous ruling. There there's a couple of things here that I want to that I want to mention. Before disqualifying someone under Section 3, The court observed there there must be a determination that the provision actually applies to that person.

So that's number one. How do you make the determination?

Now, Colorado and Maine had argued that, well, it's just, you just know it. You just know it when you see it. You just know it. It's just self self uh affecting. It's just there.

Court disagreed. Court said there has to actually be a a provision, a process by which we can determine that that actually applies to that person. You can't just say I saw something on television that day and therefore we can disqualify somebody from being on the ballot. And they noted correctly: Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment gives the power to make that determination. to Congress.

By authorizing it to pass appropriate legislation to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment. Nothing in the Fourteenth Amendment, the court stressed, gives states the power to enforce Section 3 against candidates for federal office, nor was there any history of states doing so in the years after the amendment was ratified. Remember, Section 3 is what's at issue here. That's the part of it that says: hey, if you've been involved in an insurrection, we can keep you off the ballot. you're you're ineligible for being in office.

So the court's point is, hey, look, you've got to have a process here by which you make that determination, and that determination has to be made by Congress. It can't be left up to an individual state to make it. Because that would be madness and chaos. Moreover, the court added: allowing states to enforce Section 3 against candidates for federal office could create a variety of problems. First, although Section five requires Congress to tailor any legislation that it that it enacts to implement Section three so that it specifically targets the conduct The section was adopted to prevent States' efforts to enforce that provision would not face the same limitation.

But the notion that the Constitution grants the States freer reign than Congress to decide how that provision should be enforced with respect to federal offices is simply implausible. legislative bodies and it would just be a it would be a disaster. I mean It could result in a scenario in which a single candidate would be declared ineligible in some states, but not others. based on the same conduct and perhaps even the same factual record. And that could create a patchwork that could dramatically change the behavior of voters, parties, and states across the country in different ways and at different times.

Nothing in the Constitution requires that we endorse such chaos.

So the court is correct here in saying what what would ensue? would be sheer insanity. And nothing less than insanity. Because you'd have, you know, maybe thirty states have Trump on the ballot and fifteen don't and then you know the other the o the other uh fifteen states decide that they're gonna Um, put him on the ballot, but only like his first name, not his last name. I mean, like, stu stupidity would just en ensue ensue.

So, no, you can't you can't do it that way.

Now, the court did not reach some of the other issues that Trump had urged them to decide in his brief, such as whether or not he had actually engaged in an insurrection on January the sixth.

Now to that end. Justice Amy Coney Barrett penned a one-page opinion, concurring in part and concurring in the judgment. In her view, The court's holding that states cannot enforce Section 3 against presidential candidates was sufficient to resolve the case. The court should not, she suggested, have weighed in on the complicated question whether federal legislation is the exclusive vehicle through which Section 3 can be enforced. And in a relatively rare move, according to SCODIS blog, she appeared to criticize the tone of the joint opinion.

Filed by Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Justice Katanji Brown Jackson, asserting that this is not the time to amplify disagreement with stridency. The court has settled a politically charged issue in the volatile season of a presidential election. particularly in this circumstance. Writings on the court should turn the national temperature down, not up.

So what is she referring to? In a six-page joint opinion, The three lefty judges agreed with the result that the opinion of the court reached. That Colorado cannot disqualify Trump, but not its reasoning. The three justices acknowledge that permitting Colorado to remove Trump from the ballot would create a chaotic state-by-state patchwork.

So they acknowledge that point. It would create that patchwork that would happen. Here, let's take a listen to what Donald Trump is saying live from Mar-Lago. Go ahead. People in Colorado thought that was a terrible thing.

That they did. And while we're on the subject, and another thing that will be coming up very soon will be immunity for a President, and not immunity for me, but for any president. If a president doesn't have full immunity, You really don't have a president because nobody that is serving in that office. Will have the courage to make, in many cases, what would be the right decision, or it could be the wrong decision. It could be, in some cases, the wrong decision, but.

They have to make decisions and they have to make them free of all terror that can be rained upon them when they leave office or even before they leave office. And some decisions are very tough. I can tell you that as a president, that some decisions to make are very tough. I Took out ices. And I took out some very big people from the standpoint of a different part of the world.

uh two of the leading terrorists, probably the two leading terrorists ever. that we've ever seen in this world. And those are big decisions. I don't want to be prosecuted for it. Another president wouldn't want to be prosecuted for it.

It had a tremendously positive impact. It stopped everything cold. And sometimes you have to make those, they were tough decisions.

Sometimes you have to make decisions like that. When you make a decision, you don't want to have your. Opposing party or opponent, or even somebody that just thinks you're wrong, bring a criminal suit against you or any kind of a suit when you leave office. I have that right now at a level that nobody's ever seen before. Rogue prosecutors.

And I have rogue judges. I have judges that are out of control. And it's a very unfair thing for me, but serving perhaps as a sample. Two others of what should not be happening. When you make good decisions, and in my case, the economy was great.

We didn't go into any wars, we totally defeated ISIS. We provided the largest tax cuts in history. We provided the largest regulation cuts in history, but think of it, no wars. We beat ISIS 100% of the caliphate. There were no wars.

We did a job that was great, but I maybe I wouldn't have done that. The caliphate defeating them was Very powerful. It was going to take four years. It took me four months. But it was a very strong Nah.

dictum that I gave. I said Get him. Defeat him. End it. We were fighting for 20 years against ISIS and we did it very quickly.

I don't want to be prosecuted. In that case, it worked out very well. There will be some things that. Perhaps don't work out so well, but I don't want to be prosecuted because I. decided to do something that is very much for the good of the country and actually for the good of the world.

A president shouldn't have that. On his mind, and he has to have a free and clear mind when he makes very big decisions. Or it's going to be nothing more than a ceremonial post. You'll be president, it'll be a wonderful thing, and you won't do anything because you don't want to be Hit by your opponent or hit by somebody else, because who wants to leave office and go through what I've gone through. I'm being prosecuted by Biden, my opponent, because every one of these things, whether it's Fannie Willis or Bragg.

These are local and state but They're in total coordination. With the White House, you can't do that. It shouldn't be done. I mean, a thing like that, in the case of the DA's office, they put one of the top people, maybe the second person. In the Manhattan DA's office.

to get Trump. They had a Hillary Clinton lawyer. Leave the law firm, very prestigious big law firm, leave the law firm. to go into the DA's office to Get Trump Pomerance. Mr.

Palmeraz.

So he goes in to become a prosecutor, worked for the Democrat Party and Hillary Clinton, goes in to prosecute Donald Trump at a local level. in total coordination with the Department of Justice, meaning Biden. And then you have the Fanny Willis, or as she would say, Fawnie Farnie. F A and I, but Farnie. And she hired somebody, knew the person long before.

This horrible prosecution took place, and she went out and. She paid him an unbelievable amount of money, more money than he ever had dreamt possible. Much more money than other people that do that for a living. He never did it at all, had no experience in it at all. And They had obviously a conflict.

We don't have to go into that, but They were able to get a lot of money because it was a high-profile person. Me, I'm a very high-profile person.

So they were able to pay him close to a million dollars. When he was not Equipped to do the job, and she's not equipped to do the job, and that case should end immediately. That case is so conflicted, nobody's ever seen anything. Like it. And then you have deranged Jack Smith, who's a Trump hater.

and represents all the Trump haters. And he's going wild. He's just a wild man. He's been overturned unanimously by the Supreme Court. Went after other people over the years.

He said, Great failure. But he's mean, he's nasty, he's unfair. And the judges on these cases, they're all trumpeters. Other than we have maybe one or two that I think can be fair. But you look at New York, what's happened, I mean, these people have Tremendous hatred.

You can't do this to a president. And again, I'm not talking about me, I'm talking about in the future. A president has to be free. A president has to be, if the president does a good job, I did.

Some people would say a great job. But if the president does a good job, a president should be free and clear and frankly celebrated. for having done a good job. not indicted four times. and not gone after on a civil basis.

And not uh Demanded to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in fines on something that was absolutely perfect, where there were no victims. Where the financial statements were absolutely flawless, where you have disclaimer clauses. I mean, nobody's ever had a thing like this. I wasn't given a jury. And I had a clubhouse judge just come up with this number.

On a perfect land. And very conservative financial statements, but even at that, If you look, the disclaimer says don't rely on the financial statements in any way, shape, or form. Go out and do your own work. The bank in question had the most sophisticated lawyers in the world, frankly, a very top, one of the top law firms anywhere in the country. And they can defend themselves.

Guys like Uh Bragg and uh Letitia James and Fonnie And Duranged Jack Smith, what they should be doing is fighting violent crime. And that would lead me to the end. I will say that. President Biden, number one, stop weaponization. Fight your fight yourself.

Don't use prosecutors and judges to go after your opponent to try and damage your opponent so you can win an election. Our country is much bigger than that. The other thing I say too President Biden. Close the borders now. This is not sustainable for our country.

It's not sustainable for our cities. Our country is under siege. This is a Violent thing that you've done. And many people are dying. Many, many people are dying.

They die on the trip up. They die going through the border and they die in our country. But many of the people coming up are from prisons and jails. From Mental institutions and insane asylums. Many break here on the data show, but that's Donald Trump.

Obviously, very happy with the ruling by the court, but he still has a lot of legal challenges to go, as you can imagine. All right, quick break, coming right back on the data show. Don't go away. All right, folks.

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I'll talk a little bit more about that in the next hour with you here on the Dana show, but um he's right. I mean, presidents need to be able to do their job without fear of being criminally prosecuted when they leave office. It would also open up a another just uh disastrous can of worms. But On that one, though, there are some conservative pundits who think the court is going to uphold the D. C.

Circuit Court's opinion that Trump does not enjoy immunity for January sixth. I disagree. I'll give you my thoughts on that. But Jack Smith, his special counsel, is trying to push for a July trial date. For all of this stuff, July trial date, at least for the classified documents portion of things.

Now that would upend the The presidential election in a big way. It would also violate the Department of Justice's own guidelines on when you can bring a trial. close to an election. It would violate the DOJ's own guidelines, but they don't care about that, obviously. And even if they were to kick the trials till after Trump is Out of office, let's say, you know, they kick it till after he gets elected and then they wait till he leaves office because you can't try a sitting president.

What will happen is the dangerous effect of that is that you're going to have people questioning the legitimacy of Trump's election. By saying, well, they should have disqualified him and they should have allowed the trials to go forward, in which case then he wouldn't have been elected.

So you see, either way, what Jack Smith, the special counsel, is doing here is he's setting up the country to turn around and say, if Trump wins, he's an illegitimate president. That had the trials been allowed to move forward, it would have been a different outcome. Therefore, he's illegitimate and just sowing the seeds of absolute the usual kind of chaos that you'd imagine and disunity in this country. But that's what the special counsel Jack Smith wants to do. I mean, he's not looking to bring America together, he's looking to destroy Donald Trump.

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Thank you for being here today. I broadcast from WPHD in Philadelphia, one of Dana's affiliates, where I do the afternoon drive show from 3 to 7 p.m. every day. Speaking of the border, an appeals court has reversed. the order blocking Texas from enforcing their immigration law, which of course now sets up a Supreme Court showdown.

But the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals late Saturday reversed a lower court's ruling that halted a new state law Which you're familiar with, of course, I know Dana talked a lot about it, allowing Texas police to arrest people suspected of crossing the Texas-Mexico border illegally. The New Orleans-based appeals court immediately paused its order for seven days to give the federal government time to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. If the higher court doesn't intervene, the new law could go into effect on Saturday as the legal battle continues.

Now the question of course is will the Supreme Court intervene? My sense of it is is they probably will and I think the reason why is because of that ruling on Arizona years ago which said states can't enforce federal immigration law. Yeah. But of course this particular law that we're talking about here is I I I think Texas is not saying that they're going to enforce federal immigration law. What they're saying, though, is that Texas is going to enforce the laws within its own states.

And within its state. And doesn't a state have the right to do that? I mean, if a state has powers. Under the Constitution, which it does, to protect itself from an invasion if the federal government does not. Then isn't the state doing that?

Isn't the state just doing what it is entitled to do under the United States Constitution? Governor Greg Abbott noted, of course, Texas's attempt to deter people from crossing the Rio Grande. And it it it makes illegally crossing the border a Class B misdemeanor. carrying a punishment of up to six months in jail. It requires state judges to order migrants returned to Mexico if they are convicted.

Local law enforcement would be responsible for transporting migrants to the border. A judge could drop the charges if a migrant agrees to return to Mexico voluntarily.

Now, To argue that Texas is enforcing immigration law, I think would be saying if if Texas was handing out green cards or something like that, or if Texas was. deciding on work permits on the federal level or something. That that might be you could argue that they were trying to enforce federal immigration law. What this is doing is this is just Texas protecting Texas from an invasion that's occurring. And the governor's done a great job.

I mean a great job of laying that all out. How Texas is empowered under the United States Constitution. And how, if the federal government is not doing the job that it needs to do, then the state has the right to do so. The state has the right to do what it needs to do to protect itself. And I'm glad that at least for now the law is allowed to go into place.

Will the Supreme Court weigh in? Most likely. I would imagine so. And we'll see how they rule on that. But I think, like I said, I think the governor's done a very good job of making the case.

Look, what are we supposed to do? The Constitution's clear. We've got the power to deal with an invasion if the federal government won't.

So, what are we supposed to do? I mean, just sit back and take it? No. Why would we? If the power is there, look at the Constitution.

Look at the text of the Constitution. Look at the text of Article I. And it's very it's uh it's right there, boom, it's there. You know, the Constitution was not meant when the states decided to create the federal government and not the other way around. The states did so, but they didn't decide that they were going to just turn around and let the federal government.

Be able to ensure their own safety and security, or the safety and security of their people. The federal government has a part to play in that, but the states weren't stupid enough to turn around and say, hey, well, listen, if the federal government's not doing that, then we're just sitting ducks here, and that's okay. No, and that's why states have militias, and it's also why states have the ability to call up those militias, and it's also why we, the people, are the militia. Under article of the second under the second amendment, and that we are we are the militia, which is why we are allowed. As per what's enshrined in the Constitution, of course, by our God-given Creator, of course, to be able to be armed.

Yeah. We are the militia. We make the militia. We create it. We are the militia.

And so a state shouldn't just have to sit back and take it if the federal government's not doing its job to actually enforce what is a role that it does play. in ensuring the safety and security of the United States of America. And the states have a role to play in that too. And that's very obvious here based on what the governor has outlined, and Abbott's done a great job with that. The other issue, of course, the Supreme Court's going to have to make a determination on is whether or not presidents have immunity, criminal immunity, from what they do while in office.

So obviously, if you're just joining the show, the big news of the day today is that the Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that Colorado cannot keep Trump off the ballot.

Now, it's a little nuanced in the ruling, and I can get into that in more detail as the show goes on here. There was a concurrent opinion. by the three lefty judges and then another concurring opinion by Amy Coney Barrett. But the court was unanimous in saying Colorado can't do it. They just had different reasons for why Colorado can't do it.

And one of them, of course, is the question of whether or not A state can determine a president has committed an insurrection or not.

So I'll get into that. But let's talk about what Trump was just mentioning with Mar-a-Lago, he was talking about the immunity claims.

So now you have a president of the United States who leaves office, and you have the new guy comes in there. And hates the old guy, you know, hates the former president, beats him in an election. Wants to really, really go after him. And his United States Attorney General, or one of the various United States Attorneys General for the District of whatever. You know, the U.S.

attorney for DC decides he's going to charge the former president with a crime. And he he may not think he's going to get a conviction, but what the heck? I mean, this is a career maker here. He gets to do the press conference, you get to have the former president arrested, fingerprint, do the perp walk maybe. And all you got to do is get a grand jury to indict, and that's not hard to do.

As you know, a grand jury can indict a ham sandwich, as the old saying goes. It's a cliché, but it's a cliche because it's a true cliche. I mean, clichés are true. It's why they're clichés, you know?

So, yeah, a grand jury can indict them, especially in D.C. Take Trump's case for example. Uh Trump lost to DC primary. The jury pool that will be created are not going to be very, it's not going to be a bunch of MAGA people on that jury.

So he's got to deal with that. But again, the case I keep coming back to is when Barack Obama ordered the death of American citizens with drone strikes during the war on terror. His argument was: in the case of Anwar al-Awlaki, hey, look, he's not a U.S. citizen because he's decided to side with ISIS, therefore I can kill him. All right, well, that's an opinion.

I mean, it's not necessarily a an agreed upon fact. Congress didn't pass a law saying that, and you didn't have a trial in absentia.

So, I mean, you can make the argument that you have the right to kill the guy, but somebody else can make the argument that it was murder. She murdered the guy. You know, you said he's a terrorist, but you didn't prove it. And the Fifth Amendment requires that before you take somebody's life, liberty, or property, you have to actually have due process.

So you can't just whack the guy. This isn't the mafia here. Don't get to just whack em. Got to have due process.

So now I'm a uh I I'm I'm a I'm a budding United States attorney. For the District of Columbia, or whatever state. I could argue that murder has first of all, murder has no statute of limitations. I could argue that the actions of the president, even though that person didn't live in my state, still affected all the residents of my state because it's a chilling precedent. when a president can kill an American citizen.

So I charge him with murder. And I charge Barack Obama with the crime of murder, and I have him arrested. The FBI comes to his house, and you know. Puts him in chains and perp walks him like they did to Mark Hauk. Mark Hauk's a guy in Pennsylvania, and they literally put him in chains.

I mean, they they had the whole the whole the whole deal, you know, for the photo op. trained his feet, trained his hands. All for the photo op. What was his big crime?

Well, the jury acquitted him, but the crime that the government alleged was that he he he physically encountered a protester at an abortion clinic and for that reason that he committed assault and Got to throw the book at him.

So they raided his house early on a Sunday morning.

So you take the former president of the United States, you make him, you perp welcome, orange jumpsuit. You chain his feet, chain his hands, the whole deal, fingerprints, mug shot, the whole kit and caboodle. Whether I get a conviction or not, the old saying is: the process is the punishment. And a lot of these prosecutors love to do it. Like, I remember when Chris Christie was the United States Attorney for New Jersey, he actually did this to a guy named Charles Kushner, put him in chains.

And had him do the perp walk. He was a big Democrat donor back in the day, Jared Kushner's father, actually. And they did the whole thing. I mean, the whole thing for the cameras, you know. Big press conference.

They these guys use these moments in their prosecutorial life to launch campaigns for governor, U.S. Senate, the presidency. And I mean to get a former president. on criminal charges.

Now that is the big fish. You know, that's the big get. That's the one you put on the mantle. Am I right? I mean that's that's the one on the mantle right there.

So you would open that up to where every former President would be subject to the intense scrutiny of the Department of Justice of their political enemy. And there's an old saying: you know, if the government wants to get you, the government can find something to get you. And I mean, if the President made any any issues with his taxes.

Well, he was president. You know, any deductions that he shouldn't have taken or anything like that.

Well, you know, charge the guy. What the heck? And do the whole thing, criminally charge them. All you got to do is just allow that to be the norm. And then somebody's going to indict Joe Biden.

Somebody's going to try to get a conviction against Joe Biden for allowing the invasion of the United States of America to occur. Dereliction of duty. Say he edited and he aided and abetted, gave aid and comfort to criminal gangs, MS-13, drug cartels. Lake and Riley's killer. You know, by not deporting him.

Yeah. And then you just get an arrest. That's all you need. to become a a hero. You just have to get the arrest.

I don't have to get the conviction. The conviction is That's the, you know 'cause convictions even get overturned, you know.

So the United States Supreme Court needs to jump in right away here and say that no, you can't charge former presidents criminally. We already know that we can't go after former presidents civilly. That was decided in a case involving Richard Nixon. And a unanimous ruling of the Supreme Court said: no, you can't go after presidents civilly for their actions as president. That would be insane.

Well, same thing with you can't go after former presidents for their actions criminally. And how do you determine what is a presidential action and what isn't? I mean, you're always president. Even when you take a day off, like Biden does every day, basically, you're still president. You still have all the powers of the presidency.

You still have the national command authority.

So does the Supreme Court want to weigh in on that too and say, well, we consider this to be official presidential conduct and this to be private conduct? No. It doesn't. All the Supreme Court of the United States has to do is turn around and say: there is a remedy to deal with presidents who break the law. It's called the Impeachment Clause.

And in Trump's case, with regards to January 6th, they already had that case. I mean, they impeached him in the House. And then they tried him in the Senate and he was acquitted.

So, although it doesn't violate double jeopardy in the classic legal sense, it certainly impugns double jeopardy. It certainly is a re rejection of the concept of double jeopardy. To say that we can now go after a president criminally, even though he was tried in Congress. But you already have a remedy for dealing with presidents who break the law.

Now the question becomes: well, then what happens if the information comes to light after the President's already left office? That he broke the law.

Well, tough noogies. I mean, you know, that's just the way it goes. Tough noogies. It's the uh tough noogies clause of the Constitution. You had a chance to get them, you didn't get them.

Too bad. Congress has the impeachment power, period. The courts do not. And the court, it's not on the courts to turn around and say that we can now apply criminal laws to the presidency because that would also be a violation of the separation of powers. All right, more to come here on the Dana Show with me, Rich Zioli, Infer Dana.

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Well, a father has been charged with DUI. after two children were rescued from frigid water in New Hampshire. He was canoeing with his young kids, and the canoe capsized, and the kids were dumped into the water. Thank God the kids are okay. But the father was charged with DUI, tipsy canoeing.

It's actually a thing. DUI of a vessel. And other charges are expected as well, probably child neglect. But thank God the children were okay, at least as of this writing.

So, you know, let's hope that stays that way. A restaurant gets revenge on an angry influencer who said she deserved to eat for free. These people are annoying, aren't they? Everybody's an influencer today. You just have to just be an influencer.

I influence people. An angry Instagram influencer claimed she could eat where she wanted for free and call the restaurant owner arrogant after being told she had to pay for her meal. This is a scam, of course, to get free food. It was at a sushi place in Manchester, and the restaurant gave it right back, right back to her. Personally, I think you're being out of order.

How dare you try and expose us like that?

So you think people like us don't deserve to eat for free? That's what the influencer asked and the restaurant says, We're truly sorry for attempting to uncover your behind-the-scenes tactics. And as you know, we're so sorry for trying to make a living. And people did not like the fact that the influencer was trying to scam free food. As Chevy Camaro theft skyrocketed more than a thousand percent in Los Angeles, Police unlock a secret of car thieves.

Apparently, there is a way, I guess, to particularly steal this particular kind of car, something with the key fob. By unlocking Camaros and bypassing the vehicle's existing security system. It'll be interesting to see whether or not the state tries to make Chevy responsible for this, because that's what they did in New Jersey by writing to the automakers of Hyundai's and Kies and saying, hey, we're gonna blame you, the victim. You gotta do more to make your cars harder to steal. They actually did that.

A main man has been indicted for lacing ice cream with THC at a New Hampshire cafe. Indicted for that, it sounds like he was doing people a favor, right? As he gave them free cannabis, plus, it's New Hampshire. I mean, live, free, or die. They probably loved it.

And finally, a school district, Deer Creek. They are responding after a viral video showing students licking toes. Disgusting, the tactics they'll think of in schools. All right, it's a Dana show. We've got more to come.

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is still under attack. And that is why the Justice Department is fighting back. That is why one of the first things I did when I came into office was to double the size of the voting section of the Civil Rights Division. That is why we are challenging efforts by states and jurisdictions to implement discriminatory, burdensome and unnecessary restrictions on access to the ballot, including those related to mail in voting, the use of drop boxes and voter ID requirements. That is why we are working to block the adoption of discriminatory redistricting plans that dilute the vote of black voters and other voters of color.

So, you see, voter ID is racist, and it's got to be something stopped. Also, things like, you know, postmarks on ballots. That's also discriminatory. Why should you have to put a postmark on your mail-in ballot when you mail it in and prove that it was actually mailed? Welcome back to the Dana Show.

Glad you're here. It's me, Rich Zioli, in for Dana today. There's actually a case going through the courts involving Pennsylvania and whether or not ballots have to be postmarked properly and dated properly. In the 2020 election in Pennsylvania, the Supreme Court said: we really don't care that the law says the time, matter, and place of the election is decided by the legislature. And we don't care that the legislature requires ballots to have postmarks and that they have to be legible and they have to be postmarked prior to the election.

Uh we'll override all those things and we'll let all these ballots count. Part of the reason why people don't trust the process anymore. And there you have the Attorney General of the United States, Merrick Garland. saying voter ID requirements. Are discriminatory burdensome and unnecessary.

What about all the other things you need an ID for? Are they also discriminatory, burdensome, and unnecessary? What about all all the other things you need postmarks for? I mean, if you send in your taxes late, And it's not postmarked by the 15th or 16th or whatever the day is. The IRS.

will assess fines and consider your taxes to be late. That postmark is not on tax day. Just saying. Secondly late. They get it a few days later, but the postmark is not on the 15th.

Or whatever the date is this year, they always change it. It's like depending on that Monday, right? It's considered late.

Well, isn't that burdensome? Isn't that unnecessary? Isn't that discriminatory? Yeah, I'm always late when I mail things out. You're discriminating against me.

But this is the efforts by Democrats going into 2024 to try to make sure that they can sow as much chaos as possible. Because they know That they can use mail-in ballots and drop boxes to cheat. I mean, we've seen the evidence. Remember the one video of that woman who was. She was the secretary of the county, she was a county clerk.

She was stuffing the ballot box, and she was caught on camera stuffing the ballot boxes that her office is in charge of. And the only reason why we knew about it was 'cause there was a whistle blower in the office who who blew the whistle on it. 'Cause there her cameras right over the drop boxes to monitor them to make sure people don't cheat. And there's the clerk stuffing the ballot box.

So of course all these things are rife. For chaos and rife for cheating. And the Democrats want to do everything they possibly can to make sure that they're able to cheat if necessary. Part of that is the requirement that a ballot has to be dated. It's the whole thing.

You know, how many ballots do you need? We're about 115 shy. And then all of a sudden, 125 ballots just magically appear. In order to make sure that doesn't happen. You make sure that the mail-in ballots were actually mailed in.

prior to election day and not just dropped off after the fact because you need the extra votes. This is why people don't believe the process is legit. This is why people have their confidence in elections undermined. But they're going to try. They're going to keep trying.

And I have no doubts that something is coming involving a reason to have people do more mail-in balloting. And Republicans need to embrace it. They do. Republicans need to embrace mail-in balloting and drop boxes. I don't like it.

You don't like it. We don't like it. But it's a huge advantage and the Democrats are seizing The opportunity. And Republicans are far too often just letting it play out on Election Day. And the problem is that if the Democrats have such a head start, Doing the early voting, the early in-person voting, the drop boxes, the mail-in ballots.

If they have such a head start doing all those things, well, then they're going to. they're gonna be able to do what they have to do to be able to pull this off. And even if that involves cheating, they'll do it. But also, Republicans are leaving it up the chance that everything's going to work out just fine on Election Day. You don't want to be in that position.

You're driving home and something goes wrong, you get a flat tire, meeting goes late, kids are sick, can't go out and vote. All those things?

So you you you wind up having your vote not count. And the truth is, I can't go to my polling place and get there at 8.05 and say, well, listen, I hit a red light. And I it was traffic. And you're disenfranchising me if you don't allow me to vote now. I can't do that.

But If my mail-in ballot is received after election day, without a postmark on it. The Democrats are arguing that that that ballot should still be counted. I mean why? If you didn't do it right, if you didn't fill it out right, you're an idiot. It's not that hard.

You gotta sign and date it. And then mail it back. You can't do those simple things. I don't want your vote counting because you're an idiot. You're probably voting for an idiot person.

'Cause you can't read simple instructions. Hunter Biden um Uh as you know. The Hunter Biden issue is not going away for Joe Biden. It's a real problem for him. The Question of whether or not the President of the United States of America is corrupt.

is weighing on people's minds heavily. But it's not just that, it's all of the things. That's just one piece of it. People are looking at Biden right now through the lens of an old guy who can't stand trial for the classified documents thing, because a jury would just say, oh, he's elderly and forgetful and just a kind-hearted old man. They're looking at him through the lens of the special counsel turning around and saying, Biden can't stand trial.

He's he his memory is too bad. And you know, the special counsel is covering for Biden with that statement. I mean, he wants everybody to focus on that. And not focus on what he really found, which is that Joe Biden had classified documents in his possession. The same time that Hunter Biden was doing all the work with Ukraine.

And Hunter was coming up with charming missives about Ukrainian national security and the threat the Russians pose and Ukrainian energy at the same time the guy was high as a kite on crack. And having orgies with Russian prostitutes.

So the point is that Hunter could not have come up with those things on his own. He's an idiot. He was a the cracked idiot's son, so he was getting the information from somewhere. And it's logical to conclude that that information was given to the Vice President of the United States of America in preparation for his meeting with the Ukrainian Prime Minister, and those documents were classified. and Hunter had access to them.

In order to help, looked good for his client, Barisma. And then of course we now know that Joe Biden was of course the big guy.

So all this is happening in the context of the American people turning around and saying, you know, I don't really think this guy is doing a great job. And it's one thing if everybody's getting m getting rich. And they think politicians are corrupt. They turn around and they go, well, you know, I mean, they're all corrupt. The economy's great.

People are struggling. And when people are struggling and they see the corruption of politicians, it particularly irks them. You and I are struggling, but these guys are getting rich off of us. No, no, no, no, no.

So what do we learn from the Biden family depositions? Wall Street Journal had a great piece on this. House Republicans have released transcripts of their depositions with Hunter and James Biden, and we've read them, so you don't have to trust what other papers don't want to report. Far from Democratic claims that they show nothing wrong. The testimony confirms the story of political influence peddling and family profiteering.

Even if he didn't get a dime himself, Joe Biden willingly Assisted his son Hunter and his brother James in schemes to cash in on the Biden. family name. Under hours of questioning, Hunter and James acknowledge unsavory facts revealed by prior witnesses. Hunter finally admitted that former partner James Gilliard was indeed referring to Joe. when he envisioned an equity partnership that included ten percent held by H.

For the big guy. The big guy is Joe Biden. That was part of the 2017 deal with the Chinese energy company CEFC. This is notable after years of democratic claims that the laptop on which the email was found was Russian disinformation. Ah, I remember those days, the good old days of Russian disinformation, the Hunter Biden laptop story?

New York Post publishes this in-depth reporting on this laptop that the idiot Crackhead son left at a repair shop in Delaware. a repair shop owned by John Paul Mack Isaac. And big tech, social media and the government, the unholy triad, did their thing. They all colluded together to tell you that it was Russian disinformation. Fifty former national security hacks all came out to say this has all the earmarks of Russian disinformation.

And we know the CIA started the whole thing. We know that big tech was more than happy to suspend the New York Post account, not let you share the story with your friends. We know that the corporate media ran in, didn't come to the defense of the New York Post or their reporting, but mocked the New York Post, accused the New York Post of peddling Russian disinformation. This was October of 2020. This was right before the election.

They had to do everything to cover this up. Why? Because the laptop showed a whole lot more than just nude pics of Hunter. The laptop confirmed that Joe Biden was in on it. And at the time, they wanted everybody to believe that Joe is just a kind old man in the basement.

trying to keep you and your family safe from COVID and mean tweets? He wasn't a corrupt DC swamp rat. Hunter also confirmed former business partner Tony Bobolinski's testimony of a meeting that same year in Los Angeles with Hunter, James, Tony and Joe in the midst of the Chinese energy deal making talks. He didn't contest former partner Rob Walker's testimony that Hunter introduced Joe to the Chinese energy chairman at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York. He conceded that former business partner Devin Archer's testimony that Joe showed up at business dinners that Hunter hosted in Washington's elite cafe Milano with Kazakhstan and Russian oligarchs And that he put his father on speakerphone.

during other meetings. Several witnesses have explained Hunter's role as selling the Biden family brand. That is his father's influence in Washington. Devin Archer, who sat on the board of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, told the committee: Burisma would have gone out of business. if it didn't have the brand attached to it.

The brand being the Bidens. Mr. Bobelinski said Hunter's speakerphone calls were engineered so Joe could impress would-be clients, enabling the transaction. A recent political piece about James Biden's ill-fated venture with a hospital opera, excuse me, start that again. His ill-fated venture with a hospital operator Cited executives who said James invoked Joe.

while wooing potential business partners.

Well, of course he did. My brother is the Vice President. My brother's a very powerful man. And my brother's president. I mean, all these things.

going on for years. with the Biden Crime family. Yet, even as the duo confirmed all this, they want the public to believe that testimony by the same witnesses about influenced peddling. It's dishonest. Hunter said his father's calls were merely c you know, bonding moments, that's all, they were co coincidental.

and just bonding moments. I mean, doesn't everyone put their dad on speakerphone during business meetings? He said the big guy email from his partner Gilliar was pie in the sky dreams of working with a former vice president and that Hunter shut it down. He explained that Joe, sojourning over to Cafe Milano to say hi and order spaghetti. was uh different than Joe coming for dinner.

I just happened to walk in. Oh, hey, there's my son Hunter and a bunch of prominent Chinese energy people. By the way, you're not getting spaghetti at Cafe Milano. Come on. Maybe cache or pepe, but not just spaghetti.

James claimed not to recall his specific interactions with Tony Bubolinski during the Chinese energy deal, even as he insisted that mister Bubolinsky never met Joe, a claim contradicted by Hunter. Hunter blamed his faulty memory and his behavior on being out of his mind on drugs and alcohol, yet he suggests his substance abuse never caused him to cross ethical lines when it came to his father. And Joe's involvement with Chinese energy and the big guy email occurred shortly after he left the Vice Presidency. suggesting that Joe thought his political career might be over and was out to make money. But What about 2020?

You see, it was obvious that Joe was looking to run for president in 2020. Finally, the interviews verified that Hunter and James made a bundle from their overseas work, though both struggled to describe what they provided in return to their clients. They failed to provide compelling explanations for their financial accounts, which often involved odd payments, wires. business business entities, LLCs and whatnot. The committee has found more than twenty million dollars from foreign sources that went to Hunter, James and his business associates.

Amazing stuff and good money. If you can get it, this is the Danish show. We'll be right back. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. Yeah.

It's time for Florida Man.

Well, I tell you, you know, you got to stay away from cocaine sharks. You know that, right? Cocaine sharks, it's a real thing. It's true. It's a real thing.

There was a story from Scientific American about this: that there are cocaine sharks scarfing down drugs off Florida coasts because people truck drugs overboard when they think they're going to be seized by the Coast Guard or the Navy or something.

So they have massive doses of cocaine. And there's a reality show about this now, too. But if you don't have the ability to get a cocaine shark, you can do what this guy does. This Florida man, known as Hood Fishing Entertainment on social media, documented himself carrying a large shark. as if he had just caught a catfish.

He walks around with a gigantic shark. And in the video, the man proceeds to hold the large fish by the tail, and take it for a modest walk in the shallow end of the beach. all while sporting a wide grin and acting seemingly unconcerned about the fact that he was handling an actual live shark. But this guy seems very, very confident that he's holding a shark. He doesn't seem at all concerned.

But this Florida man should just be careful because if that shark is high in cocaine I'm just saying. You know, there was White House cocaine dogs. Those are the commander and major. They got, I think, whoever's cocaine it was at the White House, we don't know whose. We could guess, but But the sharks are I mean if If you're a drug dealer and you got to throw cocaine overboard and there's a shark there, sharks are going to eat anything.

You saw jaws, you know, this, they just swim around, they eat anything. Their mouths wide open, tires and cocaine. Cocaine. Whatever it is. But this guy doesn't mind holding a shark.

This Collier County man, though, in Florida, this guy crashed into a canal. I know all these people being dumb on the water, right? High on drugs, high on booze, high on something or another. Had a police chase with the police boats, wild ride, and ultimately then he crashed. Into a canal and swam, made a run for it.

He kind of was like a triathlon here. He swam, made a run across the street to the Home Depot parking lot. Then he jumped a couple fences, hid out in some bushes. until the canine found him soaked and covered in mud. I would recruit this guy.

I mean, this is a guy who could play for a team. I'm just saying. Does all the things: the running, the jumping, the evading, the swimming. It's not easy to be a triathlon. It's not easy to be a triathlete.

So just sign this guy up. Don't let him go to waste just simply putting him in jail where he belongs. Maybe there'll be an Olympic spot for him. You never know. All right, third hour coming up.

The United States Supreme Court has ruled in Donald Trump's favor. What is the outrage by the left? As you can imagine, it is palpable. And why are some of the justices not agreeing, even though it's a unanimous opinion? Today in a show, don't go away.

Our CBS News poll out this morning shows the former president with a four-point edge over the current president among likely voters nationwide. That is Trump's largest general election lead yet in our surveys this cycle. Wow, imagine that. Plus, Trump is winning in all the seven key swing states that actually matter, like Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada. Welcome back to the Dana Show.

Glad you're here today. It's me, Rich Zioli, from one of those swing states of Pennsylvania, where I do the afternoon drive show on Talk Radio 1210, WPHT, one of Dana's affiliates.

So what is the White House reaction to that?

Well, Karine Jean-Pierre today trying to explain to everybody, this is a president. I mean, this president has done more in three years than most presidents have done in two terms. He's done so much. That's what they're trying to convince everybody right now.

So here is Corrine Jean-Pierre. Cut number 10. What I can say is: look, you're going to hear the president on Thursday speak to. Speak about the state of the union, obviously. Speak to Congress, but also millions of Americans who are going to be watching.

This is a president that has done more. In his three years. as president than most president has done in their two terms. Oh, yes, and the results have been amazing and staggering. He has done a lot, though.

He has. Let's understand that. He has done a lot. I mean, it's been destructive, but he's done a lot. As soon as he got in there on day one, he starts undoing all the things that Trump did to keep the border secure.

All the executive actions he took, ninety two of them, 92 executive actions. In fact, there was a flashback clip of Majorkis from I think it was 2021. He was talking to Nicole Wallace, bragging about how. He doesn't even have time to name. All the executive actions they've taken to undo all the things Donald Trump has done to secure the border.

So, I guess you gotta just go with the idea then that part of the reason why people might be upset. In 2016, Trump used the border as one of his pivotal issues. That and the fact that the establishment had sold out the American worker. And then what does Biden do when he gets in there?

Well, he turns around, he opens the border. And now you have this invasion and they keep whining about it. The Border Patrol They they have been very outspoken here. The President does not care. In fact, here's former Biden Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz.

I've never had one. Oh, sorry, go ahead, cut 11. I've never had one conversation with the president or the vice president for that matter. And so I was the chief of the border patrol. I commanded 21,000 people.

That's a problem. Yeah, and he never had a single conversation with him.

So then you have. Joe Biden talking about he needs to have more authority, needs to have more fences, blah, blah, blah. Mayorkis is repeating all these claims too. Impeached Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkis, who has done a great job Of opening the border and a great job of not enforcing immigration laws in this country. Here's Biden.

Uh here's my organs excuse me uh Going on about how Biden has no authority. There's just no authority. He can't do anything. The guy's got no power. What are you going to do?

Cut six. Is there anything he can do without Congress? to act now. Margaret, we as an administration have taken executive actions. Those executive actions are being litigated.

We do need Congress to act. For more than three decades, our system has been broken. You see, the system is not what we're talking about. This is what the Democrats do. They keep trying to talk about the immigration system.

The system has to deal with when you go through asylum, when you go through court, getting your green card, getting your citizenship, all that. That's the system. We're not talking about the system, we're talking about the border. two separate things.

Now the border is part of the immigration system in the sense that there are legal ports of entry, there are legal border crossings. But again, that's not what we're talking about here. Hey, listen, you want to have a conversation about how to make crossing the border legally more efficient? In terms of ensuring commerce can move more smoothly between nations and how people who are returning from Cancun can go through. Fine, you want to do all that?

I'm have at it. That's not what we're talking about here. We're talking about people crossing illegally And that is a national security issue. And that's not what this border bill does. It doesn't address that.

The whole thing is a scam. It's a scam. But Democrats know what they're doing, they use language deliberately. The immigration system is broken, but that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about the southern border being wide open.

They just have no interest in actually. fixing it. Although Biden is apparently very detail-oriented, Even though he doesn't talk to Border Patrol and hasn't had any conversations with them in years, he's very detail-oriented. Cut number seven. They should spend a bit of time with Joe Biden like I have done.

Let me share something with you. I prepare a lot for meetings with him and engagements with him because he's remarkably detail-oriented. probing and operationally focused. Mm-hmm. And it sounds like you did not in any way, shape or form rehearse that prior to saying it.

Yeah. Mayorges also read directly from his notes the shocking murder of Lake and Riley. By an illegal immigrant who should have been deported, a man who should have been deported. But reap the benefits of sanctuary city policies that enable criminals who Should be deported. to have asylum From immigration and customs enforcement.

These are criminals in jail who should be deported, but instead, the Democrats protect them even though they're criminals. Asylum doesn't refer to stopping ice from going to people's houses. You're literally dealing with people who are in jail. And then ICE says, we have a detainer on that guy, we want to go get him. And then the sanctuary policies turn around and go, no.

So Lake and Riley's death was shocking, and it absolutely broke people's hearts, and it woke people up to what's happening in this country. In fact, you have illegal immigrants, yes, but you have illegal immigrants who have committed crimes and they're not being deported because of Sanctuary City and Sanctuary State policies.

So here's my orchest reading directly from his notes. Such compassion. Should this man have been deported? Um a few thoughts. First, Margaret, first and foremost.

An absolute tragedy. and our hearts break for and our prayers are with the family. Number one. Number two, and importantly, as a prosecutor, having prosecuted violent crime and other crimes for twelve years, one individual is responsible for the murder, and that is the murderer. And we work very closely with state and local law enforcement to ensure that individuals who pose a threat to public safety are indeed our highest priority for detention and removal.

But are you saying there that the federal government had been informed? about this individual and the alleged crimes he had committed in those states because he could have been deported if that was the case. Was there a breakdown in the system?

So, Margaret, there are a number of cities around the country that have varying degrees of cooperation with the immigration authorities. We firmly believe that if we firmly believe that if a city is aware of an individual who poses a threat to public safety, then we would request that they provide us with that information so that we can ensure that that individual is detained if the facts so warrant. And did they? And that's the point. They didn't.

And that's the other point because they brag about providing sanctuary for these criminals who are in their jails. Philadelphia, where I broadcast from years ago when the mayor of Philadelphia, Jim Kenny, did the white man's overbite in the hallway, dancing, literally dancing and singing a song, We Are a Sanctuary City, yeah And then he high fives his chief of staff in the hallway. They're bragging about it. The mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, came out last week and said the sanctuary city policies, the sanctuary policies of New York State are not allowing him to deport people who should be deported. who are criminals.

America's is full of crap. They know damn well who these people are. They just don't get the cooperation from the cities and the states. And this administration is certainly not pushing. Obviously, and don't forget the sheriff of that county in Athens, Georgia ran on a platform of not cooperating with ICE.

The mayor, who was screamed at by his own constituents. over the murder of Lake and Riley. That guy also was defending Sanctuary City policies and has no intention of changing them. And you still have Democrats making stupid decisions. Lancaster City, Pennsylvania, adopted a resolution that they are going to be a sanctuary city in the year 2024.

So you understand, and the American people can see with their own eyes too, how different the two parties are on this issue. And immigration is still ranking as a top issue for the American people. Non-abortion, immigration, and the economy. And here's J.B. Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, who sympathizes with all these states.

Now as you listen to this, though, ask yourself this, does he sympathize with Texas? Because Texas is the state that started to say, hey, listen, we can't bear the burden of this by ourselves, so you're going to take some of the fair share here. We're going to put these migrants on buses and we're going to ship them to you. Good luck. And you see, they don't like that.

They want America to be open borders. They want sanctuary cities and states. They just don't want it in their state. They want open borders as long as nobody comes to their city. The minute people start showing up, they turn around and go, Oh, we don't really want you here.

I mean, we want you to be able to come. But you gotta stay in Texas. You shouldn't be able to come anywhere else. You shouldn't be allowed to leave Texas. They probably would favor a border wall if it was a border wall around the state of Texas to keep all the illegal immigrants in Texas.

They would favor that wall. Not a wall between Mexico and think this uh the barbed wire. You know, all these Democrats are against Texas putting up razor wire, but if Texas put up razor wire to keep illegal immigrants in, Oh, then they'd be cheering it on. Bravo, yes. Don't make them come to our states and our cities, even though we embrace the very policies that led them here.

Here's Pritzker. But listen, I sympathize with every state that is receiving asylum seekers and even undocumented immigrants who can't manage those. And I suppose that is what Governor Abbott is trying to tell everybody by shipping folks across the country. But what we've seen is that the inhumane way in which he's done it. First of all, it's been completely political.

It's the inhumane way of doing it, you see. Uh totally political to put these people on buses and What if they want to leave Texas? I mean, that's the question. Why do they have to stay in Texas? Maybe they want to go to Illinois.

Maybe they want a good Chicago hot dog. I don't know why they'd ever want Chicago pizza because it's not real pizza, but come on. Maybe they don't want to stay in Texas. Have you ever thought of that? Maybe they want to actually go to some of these other places.

They want to go to New York. They want to see the big apple. These Democrats are exposing their own hypocrisy here because they don't like the idea of America closing its border, but they want Texas to close its border and not let anyone who's illegal leave the state of Texas. Here's idiot Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut. who was talking about the best interests of our country, Cut thirteen.

As the whole Sanctuary City movement, did it go too far? Are we seeing a rollback of that? Should there be a rollback of that?

Well, you know, we treat immigrants compassionately in Connecticut as well. And listen, I think that speaks to the best of this country. Ultimately, this solution has to be on the border and in the countries that people are fleeing. I don't think it's in the best interest of this country to push immigrants into the shadows once they are here.

Well, they are going into the shadows because you give them a court date. seven years from now and they go, All right, see ya and they disappear. There's absolutely no incentive for them to not go in the shadows. If you don't want them to go in the shadows, you reinstate Remain in Mexico, which is a policy that Trump put in place and then Biden undid. Of course they're going to go into the shadows.

They're crossing the border illegally for the purpose of disappearing into this country. What idiot thinks they're going to actually show up for their court date in seven years? They're not going to. That's the point. And they don't really sympathize with any of these red states that are dealing with the border issue.

They don't care. They want them to keep all the people there and then feed them and house them, clothe them, all of it. All of those things. All right, more to come here on the Dana Show. We got a lot to chat about before 3 o'clock comes around, so don't go away.

And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.

Well, because Hollywood isn't woke enough, there's now a climate reality check test for movies. Yes, a climate reality check for movies. It's a new test directed at writers, producers, and other entertainment industry creatives that aims to measure the presence of climate change by evaluating 31 feature films nominated for an Academy Award. And this year, three Oscar-nominated features passed, including Barbie. Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning, Part 1, and some other stupid movie, I don't know.

They all properly show the impacts of climate change. The more you know. Mark Zuckerberg is worried about the end of times. He's among other millionaires who are. Prepping by hoarding gold.

Yes, prepping by hoarding gold is election and sell outages End of time's fear. I think little Zuck is also one of those guys who's building a gigantic bunker. A big bunker for himself. The bunker is probably bigger than most of our houses, but it'd be one of those underground. Bunkers.

All the rich guys always have that, and properly stocked with a good amount of. Find wine because you know, wine only continues to age, obviously. What's with all these grenades? A thrift store called Cops after someone donated a World War II grenade they've been using as a paperweight. Because the local police said the grenade was decommissioned.

And the donor said he's been using it as a paperweight, but the thrift store was nervous. They called 911 and officers proceeded to evacuate the store and the surrounding businesses out of an abundance of caution. But the experts determined that it was in fact decommissioned. But in New York, anti-Israel protesters stopped cops from reaching an actual grenade in an Uber. during a Times Square march, according to sources.

The grenade was inert. An inert grenade, but not decommissioned, was in the back of the seat of an Uber in Times Square Saturday. The NYPD bomb squad struggled to reach it. due to anti-Israel protesters blocking traffic. Can we start arresting people, please, for blocking traffic?

It's not a constitutional right to block traffic and to stop the authorities from being able to do their job. And also, making me late for work. You're never gonna win hearts and minds by blocking traffic. Just FYI. Heads up, just so you know.

Another thing for your health, just two cans of soda a week. Maybe too much, even if you exercise, according to a new study.

Now, I'm not a big soda guy myself, I prefer something called beer. But nevertheless, if you do drink soda, know this, the corn syrup. the sugary sodas, or if you mix it with bourbon or something like that, which you should never do. Could turn out to be majorly, majorly problematic for your health. Even just two cans a week.

Imagine that. All right, as the show goes on, Nikki Haley says she is not bound to back Donald Trump. There'll be no unity with the RNC. In addition to that, Donald Trump says we're going to have a big win so that nobody can even contest the election. It's the Dana Show.

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But until then, Republicans must win. We have to win to get it done. And we want a landslide that is too big, too rigged. Too big. Direct.

That's what we Too big to rig. Welcome back to the Dennis Show. In order to do that, one of the ways that the former President is trying to do that, he's going on the radio waves in some of the most important swing states.

So right now, Trump has a lead in all seven of the key swing states that matter. In Georgia, Pennsylvania and Michigan, They're starting a radio campaign aimed at black voters. Taylor Buttowich, who is the CEO of Make America Great Again, Incorporated, tells Axios, this is a first step in a sustained effort to reach every voter in every corner in America. Voters who traditionally vote Democratic are switching their support to Trump because they want a secure border, growing economy, and safe communities. President Trump will protect our daughters our daughters' sports teams.

A narrator who is African American says according to the minute-long spot, Trump will declare war on the cartels and stop the flooding of drugs and crime into our communities. President Trump delivered for us before and he'll do it again. Interesting. that they're talking to to moms and dads about keeping their their daughters safe in sports. Inside Biden's plan to shore up black and Hispanic support in 2024, he's losing.

I mean, he's hemorrhaging black voters. He really is. He's hemorrhaging them. And they're nervous about this. They really are.

They're really nervous about this.

Now They can't win these people back. The the ones you've already b There are voters who have decided they're back in Trump. No matter what, they're back in Trump. The best thing that the Biden campaign can hope for is that a lot of the voters. Stay home.

Now they're they still lose though if they stay home. That's the problem. Best case scenario for them is a lot of these voters just stay home, but they still lose if you look at the numbers in the swing states. They basically need to have African American. And black voter turnout to be as high as it was in the past in order to have a shot at winning this election.

And if you don't think black voters are fed up with the immigration crisis, if you don't think black voters have had it with dudes identifying as women. and competing in women's sports, then you're nuts. Because these voters have had it. And then, of course, the crime in the economy and the crime in the cities and these prosecutors who are all turning around and deciding that criminals are the victims and going after cops and choosing to allow crime to pour into the streets, there's no question in my mind. The Democrats are terrified that Joe Biden's going to lose.

So then the question becomes, what do they do? Moments after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump cannot be stopped from being on the ballot. Jamie Raskin and some of the other idiots came out with a bill. They're working on federal legislation to remove Trump from the ballots in the name of democracy.

They're going to take Donald Trump off the ballot on the federal level. That's what they're trying to do. And I told you, I think Jack Smith, the special prosecutor, is probably going to come back and hand Trump more charges related to giving aid and comfort to an insurrection. Thereby, they can properly remove him. Using the 14th Amendment, Section 3.

by finding him guilty with a jury in DC. That's what they're going to try to do. But the other scenario, of course, is that they just decide to swap out Joe Biden. which I'm not convinced. It's not going to happen.

I think it's very likely they swap Biden out at the convention. I really do. Maybe even before. But they want to wait as long as possible. They won wh whoever they they swap in.

To take Biden, and it's not going to be Kamala Harris because she's even worse. She's even more unpopular than Biden is, if you can believe that. Otherwise, Biden would have been God already. They also have a problem, which is they can't just swap by Kamal Harris out with another white dude like Gavin Newsom because woke won't like that. Wilk will be very, very upset.

And Tomo Harris is not going to win you any black voters. Her record alone as a prosecutor in California would disqualify her. She went after so many black people for drug crimes, something that Trump has effectively been doing to. Ingratiate himself with the black community is talking about that. The weaponization by the Department of Justice against him.

is something that people can relate to. They see with their own eyes. And now, SNL is even mocking Joe Biden on his age. Over the weekend, Bill Maher came out and said: Biden should just acknowledge he's old. Acknowledge that he walks around like he's uh a toddler who pooped his pants.

acknowledge it and walk around and just b b say the truth. But I think you're all saying these things because they want Biden out of the race. I think that this is their way of trying to Get him out. 'Cause they know he loses to Trump, and Trump is the ultimate threat to the swamp. They're not worried about Nikki Haley.

I mean, Nikki Haley has no shot of winning, but they'd be fine if Nikki Haley wins, because Nikki Haley will keep the war in Ukraine going. And that's really, let's face it, that's what these people care about. The establishment, the swamp, the military-industrial complex, as long as the war in Ukraine gets fully funded, they don't care who's president. But they know it won't with Trump, and that's the problem. They knew Trump wouldn't start any more wars, so they tried to stop him from becoming President in 2016 and then undermine his Presidency when he wasn't there.

But here's SNL mocking Joe Biden over his age and their cold open. Cut 22. Hello, Dana. Pleasure to be with you to talk about the most vigorous man I've ever known, Joe Biden. Really?

Absolutely. I was just with him. And behind closed doors, he's a whirlwind. I mean, Dana, look at his schedule. 7 a.m.

Soul Cycle class. And I'm not talking about taking one. He leads it. 8.30 a.m. Plays speech chess in the park.

8.32 a.m. wins chess game, points at opponent and says, next time, young blood. 9.30 a.m. meets with joint chiefs for a military strategy meeting and push-up contest. 10.02 a.m.

wins contest, points at the head of the joint chiefs and says, next time, young blood. The fact that they're making jokes about Biden in Saturday Night Live, something they haven't done for years. Remember early on in 2020 when they had Jim Kerry play Joe Biden as the cool guy who wore aviator sunglasses? They've never really made fun of Joe Biden before.

So now they're mocking him and mocking his age. And doesn't that sound a lot like the clip I played you earlier in the show about my orcas? When he goes on, he goes, Oh, trust me, this guy, he is operationally focused and detail-oriented and probing and blah, blah. It sounds exactly like that. Behind closed doors, Biden is just he's he's totally with it.

It's just when he gets in front of the camera that he just looks old and doddering and out of it and. It's not going to work for them. I mean, they've got a major problem here. No, they'd be fine if Nikki Haley were the nominee. And Nikki Haley seems to be staying in the race, although there's all these stories today that she hasn't bought any more media.

And that's a problem because you have deadlines to buy media. And if you don't buy it by those deadlines, then your ads are not going to run.

So, Nikki Haley may finally see the writing on the wall. I just think that. The establishment is going to try to keep her in just in case. Just in case somehow they get lucky and they lock up Trump in Georgia, just in case they get lucky and lock him up in New York, or just in case they get lucky and lock him up on the federal level. Just in case and then maybe the convention they can they can move her in.

But, see, I think so many Republican voters hate her at this point, but even if that were to occur, where they had a. swap Trump out, and I do not see that occurring. Let me just make that point. I do not see that happening. But they're not picking Nikki Haley if it does.

No way. They'll get DeSantis back in the race. They won't. He'll unsuspend his campaign and then he'll become the nominee. Or Tim Scott, or whoever his running mate, whoever Trump's running mate is, but it's not going to be Haley, but.

I think she's staying in the race. Because the establishment is still pushing her. hoping against hope that somehow something will happen to Trump. And she says she doesn't feel bound to support him anyway. And she won't Who cares if she does?

She has no juice. The only primary she's won is the Washington, D.C. primary that doesn't even count. Here's Haley, cut 24. Let me try it this way.

You did sign a pledge, an RNC pledge, to support the eventual nominee. Do you still feel bound by that pledge? I have always said that I have serious concerns about Donald Trump. I have even more concerns about Joe Biden.

So is that a no? Are you bound by the RNC pledge? The RNC pledge, I mean, at the time of the debate, we had to take it to where, would you support the nominee? And you had to, in order to get on that debate stage, you said yes. The RNC is now not the same RNC.

Now it's not.

So you're no longer bound by that pledge. No, I think I'll make what decision I want to make, but that's not something I'm thinking of. Who cares? Who cares if she supports him or not? Trump doesn't need Nikki Haley's support and her five friends.

He doesn't need that. Give me a break. But speaking of Biden and the problems that he has. He twice announced airdrops into Ukraine instead of Gaza. Despite reading from a note card directly in front of him, he still manages to to mess this up twice in the course of twenty seconds.

In the coming days, we're going to join with our friends in Jordan and others on Friday airdrops of additional food and supplies in the Ukraine and seek to continue to open up other avenues in the Ukraine, including the possibility of a marine corridor to deliver large amounts of humanitarian assistance. Into Ukraine. Got it? Ukraine. Not Gaza, Ukraine.

I said it twice. And I don't even know if he caught himself, but But then the problem is this. What do you do? You got to get rid of the guy because you know he's going to lose to Trump. You make Kamala Harris a nominee?

No? Why not? Because she's even more unpopular than Biden is. She makes people even more nervous. And it's stuff like this.

Cut number one. Fundamental freedoms. Under assault. The freedom to vote. The freedom From fear, violence, and harm, the freedom to learn, the freedom to control one's own body, and the freedom.

to just simply be. Simply be, just to be. You don't have the freedom to just simply be. to just exist and simply be, man.

Sounds like she's having a little some of that Jamaican stuff, if you know what I mean. But the other problem the Biden campaign has right now is you got a lot of young voters that are very, very angry about his support for Israel.

Now, I personally don't think his support for Israel is is there at all. Think about it, he doesn't call for a ceasefire with regards to Ukraine and Russia. He just keeps writing checks. Or tries to anyway. With Israel, though, he tries to tell Israel what to do.

And he demands ceasefires, and so does Kamala Harris. And the reason why they're doing this is you've got so many whack jobs, all these pro Palestinian whack jobs in the Democrat Party, like Rashida Talib and Ilan Omar and Pramila Jaypal and others. But Biden is worried that that part of the base is going to stay home. And look what just happened in Michigan. Where you had two Uncommitted delegates were elected.

Two. In Michigan, in key counties that Biden needs to win, if he's going to win the state of Michigan, which he's not, Trump's going to win Michigan. The election rail today, he wins Michigan hands down. But a lot of those young people, they're angry at Biden, not only for Israel, but they're angry because they don't think he's doing enough on climate justice. They don't think he's doing enough.

That's how kooky the Democrat Party is today. But here's Kamala Harris calling for an immediate ceasefire, cut to. And given. The immense scale. of suffering in Gaza.

There must be an immediate ceasefire. For at least the next six weeks. which is what is currently on the table. You hear? And then the cheers, the cheers in support of that.

Why is that?

Well, because of people like Jamal Bowman and Rashida Tlaib leading a chant of free Palestine, which, of course, implies that Palestine is somehow under the control of Israel, and therefore Israel's the bad guy, and Israel's the oppressor, and this is what the Democrat Party is dealing with right now. This is who they are, Cut 16. Please. Free, free. Let us die, free free, let us go, free free free free.

Now, those are your people right there. Those are your peeps. Here's Senator Tina Smith confused to why Israel would want to eliminate Hamas after all they've done in the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust on October 7th. She's a little confused by this, as you can imagine. Cut 15.

And if that doesn't happen, then the President can exercise his full power to halt military aid.

So I think this is an important bit of leverage that the President has with Netanyahu, who, as I said in the beginning, seems sort of hell-bent to continue this terribly destructive to civilian life battle in Gaza. And see, this is what they think. Israel's the bad guy. Israel's the oppressor, you see. Democrats have a major problem right now.

I can't emphasize enough to you the kook factor. within the Democrat Party and how that hurts Joe Biden's reelection. And then you add that together with all of the fact that people who are angry about the border and the economy and everything else, you got a problem. And they got and then and then the fact that the guy's so old and not old in a good way old, old in a way that he doesn't know that he's saying he's gonna drop food into Ukraine and not Gaza. It's a problem.

It's a real problem. This is the Dana show. Final moments straight ahead. Don't let FOMO get the best of you. Stay in the loop and ahead of the curve by following Dana on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Well, the big story today, of course, is the unanimous decision by the United States Supreme Court to say Colorado cannot block Donald Trump from the ballot. But there's a little caveat here. It's actually a five, four decision, as Andy McCarthy puts it. Basically, what you have here is you have a majority of the of the court's justices, five of the six of them. Who went beyond the question about state power and ruled that Section 3 can only be enforced by congressional legislation?

Under Section five of the Fourteenth Amendment, And that the only existing statute along those lines is the Penal Law Against Insurrection, which is Section 2383 of the Federal Code. What that means is that if Donald Trump were to win the presidential election, Congressional Democrats would not be able in the next January 6th joint session of Congress. to refuse to ratify his victory on the grounds that he is an insurrectionist. which is good. Under the court's holding, it is now a prerequisite To enforcement of the Section 3 disqualification, that a person must have been convicted under the Insurrection Statute.

Now, Justice Barrett did not join in this part of the court's opinion.

However, But she doesn't necessarily disagree with it. The three progressive justices clearly dissent. They don't buy into the illusion that the court is speaking unanimously. They refer to the opinion of the five justices as the majority. And they don't mince words about exactly what their colleagues have done.

They said they decided novel constitutional questions to insulate this court and petitioner Donald Trump from future controversy. Basically, even though it's unanimous. It's not unanimous. And so what you're going to hear is you're going to hear that from people screaming at the left. It's still a conservative court trying to protect Donald Trump in the future.

What I worry about. What what I worry about going forward is that The Supreme Court Decision today is going to inspire the special counsel Jack Smith to turn around and add charges against Donald Trump to for insurrection so that they can get a jury to convict him and they can say, okay, he definitely is not allowed to be on the ballot as per the Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3. I hope I'm wrong. But this prosecutor seems hell-bent on getting Donald Trump. All right, before we conclude the Dana show, I know Steve's got some dumb audio of the day for us.

Steve, what do we got? Oh, famed lawyer and view co-host Sonny Hostin, which we have on this segment a lot, had a hot take when it came to the Supreme Court decision. And you can probably guess where she went with this one. The Supreme Court should just answer the question before it. And I had far too much.

I had far too much hope. Hope. That the court would be united in this and not overstep in favor of Donald Trump. And I think what we saw was a court where justices. that behaved in a partisan manner and that disappoints me.

Aw, that's a shame. Oh, it's too bad. All right, well, listen, thank you for listening to the Dana Show. I appreciate it. You can follow me on Twitter at RichZioli.

I'll now go do my afternoon drive show on Talk Radio 1210 WPHD in Philadelphia. Would love to have you join me. We've got a lot of stuff to talk about, don't we? I'll be back with you tomorrow. Have a great rest of your day.

Thank you.