Why Would We Believe the WaPo Nuke Documents Story?

CLAY: The Washington Post is arguing that this was a necessary raid because there were nuclear documents, classified, that were being kept inside of Mar-a-Lago. Now, this is a pretty significant shift from the initial story that they told us, which was this was a National Archives level investigation and that it was predicated on the idea that the National Archives needed to get back some of the documents that had been under Trump’s purview when he was president and that some of those were confidential and needed to be back.

Well, now suddenly — maybe, I would submit, because of all the criticism they’re getting — they’re saying, “No, no, this was under the influence utmost important. We had to go get these documents dealing with nuclear armament because of security issues and how important they were.” But if that’s true, why did they wait 18 months after Donald Trump left the White House to suddenly need to stage a raid? Some of you might say, “Well, they didn’t know that he had those documents.”

Well, shouldn’t the government know if there are important confidential documents that are missing before we get 18 months down, and shouldn’t they have found those documents when they visited and were allowed to have access to everything in June at Mar-a-Lago? This does not add up. And I’m gonna continue to go after the Washington Post when we come back because “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” It also dies when the Washington Post is doing reporting these days.

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CLAY: I mentioned I was gonna go after the Washington Post here. And I do think that is a big part of the story right now surrounding the Trump, Mar-a-Lago raid that was personally approved by Merrick Garland who should, should have to step back and recuse himself from any investigation of Donald Trump if there was actually any truth and justice in our Justice Department right now, that would be necessary.

But what’s interesting about the Washington Post is how much they’ve gotten wrong. And I think we’ve got a boy-who-cries-wolf scenario really in play when it comes to the Washington Post, MSNBC, CNN, and certainly the New York Times. When you’ve gotten everything wrong, just run through the list. And this is a good argument that I would like for you to put in your back pocket and use for your persuadable friends who may be suffering from some tinge of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Think about all the things that those outlets that I just ran through have gotten wrong about Donald Trump. First of all, Russia collusion, a hundred percent a lie, all of it made up. They spent years telling you it was gonna bring down Trump. Was all made up. Remember the Steele dossier, the idea of the golden showers, the idea of what Trump did in Russia and all the compromising info that Russia had on Trump? The Steele dossier was a hundred percent made up.

Russia paying bounties on U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan does not appear to be true. Remember Trump in the wake of Charlottesville, they tried to tell you, he called neo-Nazis “very fine people.” That’s a hundred percent a lie if you go look at the transcript. How about when they tried to get you with the idea that Trump said you needed to either drink or inject bleach to fight covid. Not true.

The tear gas getting fired outside in Lafayette Park to clear off the protesters so Trump could walk out with a Bible for the photo-op. That’s not true. They told you that Hunter’s laptop was all disinformation, and they wouldn’t even allow the New York Post Twitter account to exist. That’s all been proven to actually be true. They told you that January 6th was an insurrection and an attempt to overthrow the government and that they had killed many different police officers.

All untrue. Ashli Babbitt was the only person who died there. And then, of course, they told you that Trump choked a Secret Service agent and tried to grab the steering wheel of his Secret Service vehicle. If you had heard all of that and it had all been proven to be untrue, all about Donald Trump, the question that I would ask you, maybe the media’s just competent and they just get everything wrong. But if almost all of that had come from anonymous sources, would you start asking whether those anonymous sources might be telling you the truth?

And let me just ask you this. And this is I want you to put in according to our back pocket, and I want you to deploy, in discussions with your friends, your family, some of whom might be reasonable, if the media just got all those things wrong, which they did, and I just ran through with you, how much did they get wrong that benefited Trump? If there wasn’t major bias at play, wouldn’t there occasionally be a story in the Washington Post or the New York Times or CNN or MSNBC that was a hundred percent wrong but made Donald Trump sound better?

That story hasn’t existed in seven years. Just think about it. There’s never been a story, “Hey, there was a little kid, and he was starting to have, you know, like, an asthma attack, and Trump saw him in the crowd, and he rushed his Secret Service agent over and they saved that little kid’s life. And if Donald Trump hadn’t been doing his rally and hadn’t pointed out that kid, he would have died.” And then it comes out that that story wasn’t true at all, but it was a positive story about Trump.

There hasn’t been any story at all Trump was out driving in his Beast vehicle and he noticed that there was a dog on the side of the road that had had puppies and the dog was in danger of getting hit by a car, and he stopped his motorcade and he said, let’s save those puppies and get that dog out of danger. And then it comes out that it’s not true. Those stories have never happened. And I would submit thousand that there are all sorts of super… Like, every time Joe Biden goes and gets a new ice cream flavor we hear about it.

“Oh, look at Joe Biden, man of the people! He goes and got a new ice cream flavor. What flavor did you get, Joe?” There’s all sorts of fluff stories out there. How, in seven years of covering Donald Trump with a fine-tooth comb have the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, and MSNBC never falsely reported something that was positive for Donald Trump? If they were just incompetent and they just got things wrong all the time, wouldn’t he this get something wrong in his favor?

Wouldn’t they be like, “Hey, you know, they raided Mar-a-Lago, and you know what they found? They found out that Donald Trump has been pen pals with a bunch of kids all over the country, and he’s been writing them daily, weekly, monthly, and this is just the most beautiful stories that you’ve ever seen. These were kids who otherwise would have never had any hope in life and they happened to write Donald Trump asking him to become a pen pal and he started doing it.”

And then it turned out not to be true, but it was a really positive story about Trump. Wouldn’t there be one? If there wasn’t bias in play wouldn’t there be one story that you could point to that made Trump look amazing that later ended up being wrong? Instead, every single story that we get is a negative one. So, I’m sorry if, after hearing that Donald Trump was getting prostitutes in Russia to give golden showers — don’t look it up, kids — all over a bed ’cause he didn’t like Barack Obama…

Then I’m skeptical that he took nuclear documents to Mar-a-Lago and they’ve been there for 18 months and the nation is in such danger because of it that for 18 months the government couldn’t get around to trying to recover them and then they suddenly stormed the gates of Mar-a-Lago and had to get ’em immediately. I’m sorry if I just don’t buy the Washington Post telling me that story.

Because they’ve been the boy who cried wolf for so long, and everything that they’ve gotten wrong has all been in favor of Donald Trump being an awful person. Nothing positive about Trump at all. I just ask you to take that to your friends. Say, yeah, you know, it’s indisputable they’ve gotten a lot wrong. Have they ever gotten anything wrong that benefited Trump? The answer is no. And if you’re incompetent on one side and not incompetent on the other, that’s called biased. And we know Democrats love to talk about bias because everything is systemic racism. We got systemic bias against Donald Trump. They just pretend that it didn’t happen.