The Kuhner Report (WRKO 680)November 1, 202511m

Watergate 2.0

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his attempts to have alternate slate of electors from Pennsylvania, from Michigan, from Georgia, from Wisconsin, those contested states to be sent back to those states in case they decided that the election was stolen and there should be another slate of electors sent. They wanted to now claim that Trump sought to overturn the election and that he was ultimately responsible for January 6. So it was part of their lawfare against President Trump. They wanted him behind bars for 500 years. And they thought January 6 was the way to do it. Now, what has now come out, is that rather than just investigate January 6, essentially now, Biden, Garland, and Biden's so-called Politburo, his inner circle, decided on a high-risk strategy, highly illegal, clearly unethical, but it is also criminal, to deliver a killshot, not just the Trump. But to the entire Republican Party apparatus, as Senator Chuck Grassley put it. They put together a political enemies list. And they said, let's use the fig leaf of January 6 to launch investigation after investigation into leading Republican senators without their knowledge. Republican members of Congress without their knowledge. Former key Trump aides like Stephen Miller and Dan Sullivan Kavino. And I could go on and on without their knowledge. Leading Republican conservative organizations like the late Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA without their knowledge on a massive fishing expedition. to see if they could turn up any kind of crime possible so that they could indict and imprison and jail all of them. All of them. In other words, they concocted a political enemies list. And what they did under Operation Arctic Frost, and let's just take the most explosive, they were secretly surveilling. Nine Republican senators. It now appears it could be as high as 20 Republican senators. And now it has been found out through these disclosures. Listen now to this. That Judge Bostberg, remember him? The district judge, the chief district judge who issued those nationwide injunctions against Trump, this radical leftist. preventing him from deporting Tren Daraagua or MS-13 gangbangers to El Salvador? Well, that Bozberg apparently gave Jack Smith a blank check, a court order, telling him that he could now secretly get the phone records and the phone metadata of Ted Cruz.

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Marsha Blackburn, Chuck Grassley, Lindsey Graham, Senator Eric Schmidt, Senator after Senator after Senator, all of them Republicans. And what is even more egregious, not only was he going through their phone records behind their backs on no basis whatsoever, none. Except to see, did they have anything to do with January 6? Hmm. Who are they calling? Is that a mistress? Is that a lover? Who is this? As they were combing through the phone records, the order then told, for example, Ted Cruz's phone carrier is AT&T? AT&T kept saying, But you're violating Senator Ted Cruz's privacy. You're going through his phone records behind his back, unbeknownst to him. You're going through all of his phone data, his metadata. Who he's calling, who he's not calling. How long has he been talking to that person? What day, what time, all of it behind his back, which is illegal and in violation of his privacy, we have an obligation under the law to tell Ted Cruz, we have to hand over your phone records to Jack Smith and to the DOJ and to the Biden Special Counsel, you know, Smith. Boasberg, in his order. Told AT&T, you will not tell Ted Cruz. that you have to hand over his phone records. You will not tell Ted Cruz that Jack Smith is secretly surveilling him and going through all of his phone data and looking at who he's calling and who he's not calling. And the same thing for Chuck Grassley, the same thing for Blackburn, the same thing for Senator Lindsey Graham, the same thing for Senator Eric Schmidt, Senator after Senator after Senator. They were being secretly surveilled in this massive abuse of power because they were hoping to find any kind of crime possible in order to destroy all of these senators, the leadership of the Republican Party, conservative organizations, in other words, to guarantee that the Democrats win the election in 2024. Don't just take out Trump. take out almost all of his key supporters, both in Congress and institutionally and organizationally. Now, as Chuck Grassley said yesterday, at a highly emotional, very angry press conference, because now you've got senators saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, use the Biden regime through Jack Smith, through Arctic Frost.

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You spied on us behind our back? You wanted to see our conversations and who we were talking to behind our back? And then you used this radical left-wing judge to give a ridiculous court order saying that our phone carriers couldn't even tell us that they had to hand over all of our phone records and phone data. and they were told that we had no way of knowing this and that we shouldn't know this, that our own government is spying on us, because Boseberg argued that Ted Cruz would destroy evidence, that Blackburn would destroy evidence, that Chuck Grassley would destroy evidence, that Senator Graham would destroy evidence, that Senator Schmidt would destroy evidence, with zero evidence, by the way, whatsoever, that they were going to do any of this. If this was done to the Democrats, there would be held to pay. As Chuck Grassley said, it would be Watergate-style hearings. The Attorney General would be risking going to jail. The FBI director would be risking going to jail. The special counsel who went after this and engaged in this kind of illegal criminal activity would be immediately disbarred and go to jail. And so now Republicans are demanding Watergate-style hearings. They want to put Merrick Garland under oath. They want to put Christopher Ray under oath. They want to put Jack Smith under oath. They want to put Lisa Monaco under oath. In other words, they want to put all of them under oath. And President Trump from Asia said, enough is enough. Pam Bondi now needs to launch a massive criminal investigation. There now needs to be a massive investigation in Congress. People need to go to jail. I've never seen Republicans this angry in my entire life. You know why? Because this time the target was them. So maybe they'll finally do something. You're locked into Boston's bulldozer. The Cooner Report Weekend Edition. The Voice of Boston. Your whole neighborhood goes black in seconds. Except your house. The Patriot Power Generator 2200X from Four Patriots keeps your lights on when the grid goes down. It's the most powerful generator Four Patriots has ever built. Only Four Patriots gives you backup power without gas, fumes, or a loud engine. Just lights, a cold fridge, and peace of mind when the power fails. Right now, save $500 and get two solar panels free. That means you can recharge twice as fast, but only while supplies last. Keep your lights on, your food cold, and your family calm when the grid goes down. Don't wait for the next blackout. Visit 4Patriates.com today. That's the number 4, P-A-T-R-I-O-T-S dot com.

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