Sept. 3, 2026

The Bill Martinez Show 09 03 26

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Yeah.

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Okay, let's do it.

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Bill Martinez Live, a program about current events, our culture,

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our values, our politics, and our future.

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And now, Bill Martinez.

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Hey, good morning.

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How you doing?

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It's six minutes after the top of the hour. Bill

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Martinez here. We got Mike O'Neill from Landmark Legal. Hey, Mike,

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how we doing?

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Good.

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Good to be with you, Bill.

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Good to catch up on some things. The saga of

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the Trump ballroom. continues. And of course, they probably hate

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the fact that I said Trump in ballroom in the

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same sentence.

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I mean, it just, it won't end. And this, as

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I've said before, this, in any other administration, this would

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have been just a side note. Wouldn't have attracted attention.

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It would have been celebrated. Construction continues on the new,

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brand new, beautiful ballroom. That would have been it. But because,

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of course, it's Donald Trump and because There's just been

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the weaponization and legal lawfare against everything and anything that

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he does, any and all of his executive actions. It

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becomes way blown out of proportion. This is something that's

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necessary that the White House needs. We know this because

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they've been reduced to having events for decades. They've had events,

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international diplomatic events intense on the White House lawn. which

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really doesn't make a lot of sense from a security

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perspective in the.

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Era of drone. Especially with drone warfare now in play, right?

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Right.

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It's not a secure site. You need something. You need

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a hard, secure location that they can host these sorts

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of high-profile events at. And so Donald Trump made theâ

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and he's a builder. He took the reasonable measure to

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decide he was going to put a nice ballroom, reasonable.

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And he's also going toâ since there was going to

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be massive construction, they were going to beef up the

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security apparatus under the White House. So there's a secure

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location that the president and others can evacuate to or

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vacate to in the event of a national emergency.

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Right.

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Nonetheless, this was litigated. This was a lawsuit. The most

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specious standing analysis was done to somehow concluding that an

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individual who who was part of a member of a

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historic trust, which, by the way. is just a euphemism

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for a wealthy NGO, exempt organization with tens of millions,

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if not hundreds of millions of dollars in reserves, whose

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sole purpose appears to be to make wage lawfare against

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the president of the United States. And that's what you

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see over and over again. And keep in mind, I'm

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someone who is part of an NGO. I'm an attorney

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at an exempt organization. So I can see how this

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works from the inside. You have these groups that are

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just waging this and are funding this. And yet you

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have a D.C. court, a district court, the D.C. Circuit

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Court of Appeals, and four justices of the Supreme Court. Now,

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we saw this. Four justices, including John Roberts, conclude that

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they would have stopped construction on this. And they completely

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washed over a simple threshold question that all courts have

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to ask themselves when they entertain a lawsuit, when a

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lawsuit is filed. And that is whether the party's bringing

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the lawsuit, the party or parties bringing the lawsuit, In

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other words, have they suffered an injury in fact?

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Right.

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And I defy you to convince me that somebody whose

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view of the East Wing of the White House is

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so offended to the point where they have suffered an

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acute injury that justifies injury. a multimillion-dollar lawsuit being brought

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all the way to the United States Supreme Court to

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stop the construction of something that the chief executive of

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the United States has decided is necessary for security purposes.

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What does it say about the legal system, Mike, that's

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something so academic that you probably learned in your first

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semester of law school that finds its way to the

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Supreme Court? What does that say about the whole judicial

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process right now?

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I mean, that's a deep sigh for me because it's

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just incredibly disappointing that you would have this threshold issue.

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And keep in mind, I spend days, weeks trying to

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ensure that any lawsuits have sufficient standing. In other words,

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does this when conservatives bring lawsuits in cases so often,

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you know, I hear this over and over again. Well,

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I want to sue because this state law is, you know,

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it allows noncitizens to vote. or doesn't properly secure my

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right to vote, or the structure of my state's election

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system is such that they don't have sufficient controls in

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place to ensure that ineligible voters aren't casting votes. Can

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I sue? I'm worried that my vote is being diluted,

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the value of my vote, because people who are ineligible

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are casting ballots, or non-citizens are in the voter rolls.

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And I have to answer these questions. I have to say, well,

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there's not this generalized standing principle. You can't have this

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generalized injury. You have to have the cognizable injury in fact.

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And it drives me crazy that I have to answer

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those questions that way, but I do.

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But how do you determine that? Because usually the injury

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doesn't occur until post-election. And then you have to have

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the evidence to be able to demonstrate that there was,

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you know, said infringement upon that one vote.

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And then it's too late, right?

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Right.

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Yeah.

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And to the court's credit, there's been a little bit

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of a loosening in that. In the boss decision last term,

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they actually concluded that a candidate If you're a candidate,

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you can actually sue proactively. But a generalized citizen, you know,

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can't sue because, well.

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Wait a minute.

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I know my vote in the November election is going

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to be devalued because I know for at least I

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should be, you know, at least as a facially that

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there's going to be people who are ineligible who are

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going to be casting ballots. And I want to file

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a lawsuit because I want to be able to prove

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to a jury that. by a preponderance of evidence, that

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that's going to be the case. And I want to

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be able to conduct discovery. And I want to be

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able to look into this and subpoena the system and

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pull the curtain back.

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No, no, no.

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There's not this generalized voter standing. So they're so quick

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to say that. Yet, on the other side of the ledger,

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if it's against a Donald Trump construction or a Donald

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Trump executive action, we can say, oh, wait, wait a second.

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My view of the East Wing of the White House

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is offended, which is entirely subjective in and of itself.

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That's sufficient evidence for both a district court and a

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circuit court and four justices. Four justices. Keep in mind now,

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I think you asked the question why. And I think

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that their arguments were that he doesn't have any kind

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of legal authority to do this and that they were

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so offended by his lack of legal authority to do

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this that they were able to overcome.

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Their standing issues.

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But again, Standing is a threshold necessary issue that you

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have to resolve before you can entertain a lawsuit. It's

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the very first question the court asks itself. You don't

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even get to the merits of the case until you

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overcome standing. And again, standing, injury in fact, redressability and traceability. Traceability,

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you have to be able to trace the injury you

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suffered to the party that you're doing. And then redressability,

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the court actually has to have statutory legal constitutional power

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to actually redress your purported injury.

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Well, Michael, how can how can they say that Donald

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Trump isn't legally authorized? I mean, his number one job

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is national security.

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That's why I take issue with that as well.

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Right.

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Again, and that's why it's kind of surprising with the

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chief justice, because so in a lot of cases he's understood,

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you know, immigration cases come to mind, for example. He said, look,

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the plenary authority of the executive is to determine national security.

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We're not going to infringe on that. And this is

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an executive action taken on executive land, you know, executive property.

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This is the executive mansion. So we're going to defer

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to his findings there. And again, it's not it's a

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necessary it's necessary in and of itself. We know that

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this is a these are legitimate threats that the president

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United States faces. Keep in mind, and we lose track

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of this. The fact that there was an assassination attempt

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at a ballroom a couple of months ago.

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Right down the street.

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So, OK, wait a minute. Let's not have the president

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of the United States be in these to the extent

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possible that we can control it. Doesn't it make sense

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to have a big ballroom on a secure White House

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grounds so that the president can have these events there

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instead of having to be transported and shut down the

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city and inhale at the Hilton? and shut down the

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streets around the city and have all these security checkpoints

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and then have some lunatic be able to still run

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through and get almost, you know, get, you know, within

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a few feet of the ballroom. What if he had,

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you know, what if that guy was a suicide bomber, right?

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What if he were a suicide bomber? He could, he got,

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he got through, he kind of got through the initial

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security checkpoint, the security, the secret service tackled him. But

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what if he had a bomb strapped to himself? Again,

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what if there's a drone? It's like, we can just,

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we can go down this, this road of hypotheticals you know,

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until we're blue in the face. But they're all, the

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thing is, they're all legitimate threats. We're not just making

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this up. So you would think there would be some

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deference to that.

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Yeah, you would think. I mean, and the other thing,

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oh yeah, by the way, this construction is being privately

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done and paid for. No taxpayer money is being used

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on this. I can't imagine that any future Democratic president,

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if there would be one, would not be grateful for

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this ballroom. We got to go to quick break. We've

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got more from Mike O'Neill after this. Stay with us.

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Hey, we're back with you.

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Bill Martinez with Mike O'Neill from Landmark Legal. We're talking

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about the whole uproar about the ballroom. You know, it's

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almost I want the Democrats to say, OK, sign a document.

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that says after this ballroom is constructed that no Democratic

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president in the future will ever use it, that they

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will insist, because they have such disdain for the ballroom

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and its security, that they're going to do all their

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parties under tents on the White House lawn, right?

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That's the other kind of final irony in this situation.

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in this saga is the fact that he's not even,

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Donald Trump's going to use it, what, for a few months, maybe,

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you know, maybe, maybe six or seven months. I don't

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even know what the timeline is.

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Yeah.

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He might barely get a ribbon cutting ceremony.

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Right.

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Exactly.

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He's going to be able to have a couple of

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events there and then it's going to be for whoever's

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next in line. And it's just, it's, it's, it's absurd

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on its face, but it really is. It's really, it's

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really kind of emblematic of the larger issue that we all,

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that we consistently talk about here. And this is, this

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is unceasing law. And you're like, well, why would we

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waste so much time talking about the ballroom? It's not

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necessarily just the ballroom. It's the larger issues, the standing issue,

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the fact.

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Well, every, everything is so anti-Trump. It's all TDS. I mean, whether,

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you know, everything, this E.G. Carroll case, I mean, it's absurd.

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All the stuff that the New York district attorney had

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to do and all this pretzel legal logic that they

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came to in order to do this along with the judge.

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You know, it's, It's getting exhausting that, and here it is,

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this president is in the middle of navigating a peaceful

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settlement in the Middle East that could be absolutely historic.

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And you've got Democrats, you've got the mainstream media, everybody

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siding with the enemy. And they are, in fact, extending,

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they're extending the conflict because of all the propaganda and

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the narrative that they're throwing out there. And the American

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people are going to vote for these guys. for doing that,

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all for the sake of, you know, politics. They're putting

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us in additional and unnecessary danger because the longer this

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carries out, you've got the increased risk of American soldiers,

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you know, becoming casualties, Mike.

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Yeah, certainly it behooves us to end this as quickly

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and efficiently as possible in a manner that's secure for

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the American people and the world. And I do think,

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I mean, just from my limited reading on this, it

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seems like it's kind of getting lost in the fact

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that we're kind of choking out the Iranian regime, right?

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I think that kind of the siege mentality that we've

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kind of adopted now, and again, it's kind of gotten

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hot in the past few days, has been effective. And

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the fact that you can starve out this regime. I

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do get frustrated with the standard that you see so

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often is that Iran responds. And it's like, you're trying

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to equate, you would think like reading about this, it's

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like the Soviet Union circa 1982 versus the united states

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like iran iran the united states are not equals in.

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This right not even close right not even.

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Close and trying to bring up and that's what they

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count on and to your point i think that's what

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that's what the regime counts on is aid and comfort

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given it's like if you bring us up to it

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we only have to respond and you're like oh my

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god okay so it's just i i think the strategy

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seems to be working now i do i would like

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to see you know it resolved in time for elections. But,

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you know, I think it'd be good to see also

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gas prices, and they are going down, I've noticed, generally speaking,

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below $ 4 a gallon in my area. So that's good.

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I'd like to see the economy continue to trudge up.

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At some point- You know, Mike, regarding gas prices, you know,

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when the Democrats were in charge, it was always kind

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of a hope and a prayer. You know, you keep

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seeing Obama's poster, you know, hope, you know, and it

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was always about hope, but there was never really any

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backup to that hope. It was just, It was an

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empty aspiration. At least with Trump, you're saying, OK, look

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what he did in Venezuela. Look what's lined up here.

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Look at $ 19 trillion in foreign investment coming, businesses, manufacturing,

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jobs coming back to the country. I mean, you start

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seeing this supply chain that is coming here. It's not

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like somebody, you know, like Barack Obama getting in front

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of a microphone and and charming people like a snake charmer.

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And he has no substance. He just, you know, he's

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got a whistle. That's it, you know? And people, oh yeah,

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that's cool. Let's all clap and everything like that. A

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fundamental transformation of America. Oh yeah, great idea. What the

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heck does that mean?

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You know?

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Yeah, affordable health care. What does that mean? You can

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keep your same diet.

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I don't know what that means.

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Until you realize what it means, it was bupkis. It

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was absolutely empty. You hear, what's your name from Wendy's,

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Miss Claire? Where's the beef? And that's what you keep

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asking about anything that has to do with the Democrats

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and this whole situation. But getting back to the Trump

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derangement syndrome, it's not just about Trump. It's about anything conservative,

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anything that connects with the founding values of this country.

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I mean, what came out this past week was, you know,

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the latest revelation about the FBI's infamous infamous Richmond memo scandal.

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And this is something that Christopher Wray lied about repeatedly.

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And this was an attack, if you remember, about conservative

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Catholic churches. Now, this whistleblower leaked to the Richmond memo

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to members of Congress. Now, the FBI, when that happened,

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the FBI, FBI, mind you, they go into full damage control.

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That was when Christopher Wray tells Congress, oh, no, there's

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nothing there. You know, it's it's you know, it's a

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nothing burger in the whole deal. Well, the fact of

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the matter was it was more than it was a

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burger burger.

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You know, I think it's it's and you continue to

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see this. And I don't think it gets enough discussion.

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And I'm glad you raise these these points because it

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really bears discussion. is the ideologically driven agenda of the

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Obama administration and then Biden part two, you know, Biden,

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and Biden, you can just say Biden, Obama part three, right?

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Obama chapter three, Obama chapter three, the Biden administration was

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four years of Obama running the country, basically, and his

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people running the country. Let's just be very clear about this.

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Biden was not in charge of anything for four years.

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It was Obama and his radical ilk who were running

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the country without accountability, by the way, because they could

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operate from behind the scenes. The fact that The extent

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to which they had weaponized the justice system against traditional

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religious Christians in this country is important. And how it

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was weaponized and driven to suppress religious belief and targeted

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The Bill Martinez Show 09 03 26

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