Trump Bemoans Harvey Weinstein’s Prosecution in Bonkers Interview

Donald Trump expressed surprise at Harvey Weinstein’s legal trouble in an interview on The Dan Bongino Show Friday morning.

“I was so amazed that Harvey Weinstein got schlonged. He got hit as hard as you can get hit. Because he was sort of the king of the woke, right? And yet he got it. And I figured that maybe he wouldn’t get hit so hard,” Trump told Bongino. 

Trump seemed to be insinuating some sort of left-wing or liberal conspiracy behind who faces criminal charges in referring to Weinstein, a convicted serial sex offender and longtime Democratic donor. 

“So when they do get hit, they get hit. But that’s the only one I can think of. Normally they protect everybody. What they did with [Eric Adams] is very suspect,” Trump added, referring to the recently indicted New York City mayor, a Democrat.    

There’s a lot to unpack from Trump’s comments, as his claim that liberals tend to protect their own from prosecution also isn’t true, considering the cases of Democrats Senator Bob Menendez and Representative Henry Cuellar this year as well as others in recent decades. 

Trump also brought up Weinstein unprompted, and said “I don’t know him well.” This raises the question of whether the former president is lying and did know Weinstein, which then raises further questions about whether Trump knew about Weinstein’s reputation as a serial abuser. It wouldn’t be too much of a surprise, considering Trump’s own record with sexual abuse.

It’s a reminder of Trump’s relationship with another infamous sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein. The former president has praised Epstein as a “good salesman” and was named in the documents released following a lawsuit against the billionaire from one of his victims.  

With less than three weeks til Election Day, Donald Trump’s lukewarm media appearances—which have featured the Republican presidential nominee struggling to piece words together—showcase just how frail he has become.

During an appearance on Fox & Friends Friday morning, Trump voluntarily created sound bites that were so absurd they could be mistaken for deepfakes.

Responding to a call-in question from a child inquiring about his favorite farm animal, Trump couldn’t help himself from dropping an unfounded rally talking point of his: that Vice President Kamala Harris wants to ban bovines in the United States.

“I’ll tell you what I love, I love cows,” Trump slurred. “But if we go with Kamala you won’t have any cows.

“I don’t want to ruin this kid’s day. I love cows, I think they’re so cute and so beautiful and so.… But according to Kamala, who’s a radical left lunatic, you will not have any cows anymore,” he added.

Elsewhere in the interview, Trump suddenly flipped and got snippy with the Fox hosts, scolding them for playing “attack ads” against him this election cycle.

“But you know the difference? In the old days, you never played negative ads. When I leave here, I’ll then be hit by five or six ads,” Trump said. “When I leave, I’ll have 12 people from Kamala on—and, you know, pretty much unopposed—for 19 days. I don’t think we should do that anymore.

“You shouldn’t play negative ads,” Trump continued. “I love complaining, I like to have everything perfect.”

Trump’s own allies appear aware of the fatal flaw, with some of the MAGA leader’s closest advisers admitting that Trump isn’t consistently at his best.

“When he’s good, he’s great, and when he’s off message, he’s not so great. I don’t think anyone is really changing their mind at this point, but when he distracts from his biggest, broadest messaging, it’s counterproductive because the Harris campaign uses it to turn out their voters,” Trump adviser David Urban told The New York Times.

Right-wingers in the United States and across the pond are spinning out about a small group of Labour Party organizers coming to canvas in battleground states.

According to a LinkedIn post by the head of operations of the Labour Party, nearly 100 of the U.K.’s left-wing party’s staff are coming to knock doors in North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. MAGA leaders are claiming this is foreign election interference, even though it is expressly legal, according to the Federal Election Commission.

“Foreign nationals are not allowed to be involved in anyway in U.S. election,” wrote Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene on Thursday, claiming that the U.K. volunteers are violating Federal Election Commission regulations. “Please go back to the UK and fix your own mass immigration problems that are ruining your country.”

“Yet another reason to vote for President Trump,” said Senator Tom Cotton.

“Isn’t this foreign election interference? Imagine if members of the Russian Duma did this,” wrote far-right poster Ian Miles Cheong, who pinned the tweet to his profile. Elon Musk agreed, writing simply, “This is illegal.”

It’s not. Although foreign nationals may not donate or take on management roles in a campaign, they “may participate in campaign activities as an uncompensated volunteer,” according to FEC guidelines.

Given that volunteers are reportedly paying for their own travel and are unpaid volunteers, they shouldn’t be breaking the law. This also isn’t a new phenomenon; in 2016 at least 70 British Labour activists came to swing states to campaign for Hillary Clinton. However, one constitutional and electoral law expert who spoke to the Telegraph suggested that if an individual spends more than $1,000 on the trip, they could be breaking an FEC rule, as travel expenses about that amount could be considered a donation to the party.

Even U.K. politicians, including Brexiteer Nigel Farage tried to paint the canvassing as nefarious. “This is direct election interference by the governing Labour Party, and particularly stupid if Trump wins. Who is paying for all of this?”

However, it appears that Farage didn’t have any problems directly campaigning for Donald Trump in 2020.

And one of the featured speakers at the RNC? Former Conservative Prime Minister Liz “Lettuce” Truss.

The judge in Donald Trump’s criminal 2020 election inference case released hundreds of pages of evidence Friday.

Judge Tanya Chutkan ordered that the clerk of courts file all four volumes of special counsel Jack Smith’s redacted appendix Friday morning, one day after rejecting a request from Trump’s legal team to delay the unsealing until after the presidential election next month.

Volume I of the filing contained several mostly unredacted interviews conducted by the House January 6 committee. One, with Trump’s valet, was previously redacted in a release from House Republicans. The valet recalled telling Trump that his televised speech had been cut short to show the unrest at the Capitol.

Volume II contained a collection of tweets, the majority of which were from Trump’s personal account, not his official POTUS account. This included his call for followers to attend a “big protest” in Washington, D.C., noting that it “will be wild!”

Volume III contained highlighted excerpts of Mike Pence’s book So Help Me God, detailing how Pence had tried to “encourage” Trump to accept the actual election results as his fraud cases fell apart. Pence reminded Trump that he’d taken “a dying political party and given it a new lease on life.”

Volume IV of the filing contained several pieces of evidence that were already publicly available, such as Trump’s speech on the Ellipse that preceded the January 6 riot at the Capitol, in which he undermined the results of the election.

It included Trump’s comments on January 6, broadcast on C-SPAN, urging MAGA rioters to “go home” while reaffirming that the election had been “stolen.” The volume also contained the special counsel’s report, which found that Trump’s former attorney Peter Navarro had violated the Hatch Act.

Additionally, the filing includes several fundraising emails from the Trump campaign and budget and travel planning documents, which might financially connect Trump to the January 6 riot.

While the promise of such a massive release brought many to believe they would find new information about Trump’s alleged illegal activities, much of the filings were redacted, with large sections appearing blank, not available for public viewing.

But that didn’t stop Trump’s legal team from scrambling until the last minute to try and prevent the documents’ release.

This story has been updated.

Hundreds of pages of evidence in Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case are set to be unsealed Friday, and it has the former president shaking in his boots.

Judge Tanya Chutkan denied Trump’s request Thursday to delay the unsealing until after the presidential election, and said that the court documents containing evidence submitted by the government would be docketed publicly the next day.

Trump’s legal team had argued that “the asymmetric release of charged allegations and related documents during early voting creates a concerning appearance of election interference,” and pushed for the unsealing to be postponed.

But Chutkan didn’t seem particularly swayed by that argument.

“If the court withheld information that the public otherwise had a right to access solely because of the potential political consequences of releasing it, that withholding could itself constitute—or appear to be—election interference,” Chutkan wrote in her filing Thursday.

NBC’s legal analyst Lisa Rubin remarked on Morning Joe that Trump’s team seemed particularly desperate in their scrambled efforts to prevent the release of the evidence.

“They got their ruling last Thursday, they asked for more time to evaluate their litigation options. Then they waited until the eleventh hour instead of getting a ruling from the appeals court, which they didn’t have the ability to do,” Rubin said.

“Why are they fighting so hard if what we’re about to see isn’t really all that surprising? There’s probably something in there that they don’t want the voting public to know about or see in a more fulsome way,” she added.

By Friday morning, Chutkan ordered that the clerk of courts file special counsel Jack Smith’s Redacted Appendix (of exhibits to his immunity determination motion) of Volume I, Volume II, Volume III, and Volume IV.