Pam Bondi Fired By Pres. Trump (04/02)

Now, is that Pam Bondi's fault? I mean, without getting too much in the weeds here, but how does a prosecutor be unlawfully installed to prosecute cases? And then the judge throws out the cases. I didn't understand that. Yeah, good point. So the deal is a lot of jobs have to be approved by the Senate or else you don't have the job, like Supreme Court Justice, like cabinet member. But you're entitled on occasion to put in an interim person if somebody dies or quits and you have to have an attorney general. So you put somebody in, but it's interim in the sense that the law says, well, okay, for only like 60 days or 90 days. And after that, they turn into a pumpkin. They're no longer interim anything. You know, they can't just linger forever. get around the requirement of the Senate confirming. So that's what happened here. A bunch of things were done by folks in the Attorney General's office as an interim appointee. But that was only one aspect of the judge's rejections, John. In addition, several of the judges said, hey, you know, setting aside the fact that, you know, you're not street legal, ma'am. The arguments against Letitia James and James Comey, they're just really weak. I mean, you said that they lied on some sort of mortgage application. Oh, there was just misunderstanding. And so I'm dismissing the case on that basis. So it could have been a substantive reason or could have been a procedural deal. Bottom line is Trump's not happy because the AG isn't getting it done. Well, as I'm saying, is it Pam Bondi in this trap where Trump... demands that they be prosecuted, but the cases are too weak to actually convince a judge or a grand jury to follow through. Absolutely. And that's Donald Trump's frustration. And let's face it, whether you love him or hate him, he's not a lawyer. He doesn't have a deep understanding of the criminal law. I mean, it's had some up first, close and personal experiences with criminal law over the last few years. But, you know, and that's really, speaking of the four indictments of Donald Trump, let's face it. That's why he's going against James Comey and Letitia James and Adam Schiff and so on. Because Trump's attitude is. You people engaged in warfare, you manipulated the criminal justice system, filing phony actions against me, timed perfectly. You rolled out four indictments every few months in 2023 so that there would be maybe four criminal trials in 2024. Oops, that's the year he's running to get back into the White House. So Trump's attitude is, you guys messed with me. I'm going to mess with you. Now, does he have a valid basis? for the criminal allegations? You'd be the judge. Everybody can evaluate... But there's no doubt as to why he's doing this. Oh, yeah, I know, I understand. Because they did rig so that all those trials would happen in 2024. To me, in my mind, there's no question about that. There's no question that these are revenge prosecutions that Trump has ordered. But ultimately, even if you do a revenge prosecution, you have to have the goods. And what I've seen is that prosecutors...

tried to get Letitia James re-indicted twice, but the grand juries rejected them both times. So the Letitia James case has been rejected three times, once by a judge and twice by grand juries. So whatever the case against her is, it looks like Pam Bondi can't come up with enough evidence to satisfy anyone. Well, that's right. And from Trump's perspective, you should have done better. You should have worked harder and been more creative. Instead of Melania's, you know, be best, be better. But, you know, Jeff Sessions, he fired him, William Barr, the Attorney General, he fired it. Rex Tillerson, the Secretary of State, fired him, John Bolton and James Comey. Trump gets rid of these folks when he feels like it, and now this is the latest. And interestingly, Pam Bondi's successor, at least for now, is Todd Blanche, who you may remember, he was the criminal defense lawyer for Trump in the Stormy Daniels case where Trump was convicted of 34 felonies. Of course, he skated at the end, no fines, no jail time. But Todd Blanche, you know, he, who know, I don't think Trump's thinking of him as the permanent attorney general. I think he's going for this guy, Lee Zeldin, who runs the Environmental Protection Agency, used to be in Congress. But, I mean, Todd Blanche, you know, he's working his way up the last. But that's like a dead-end job, though, to be the attorney general because he fired two attorney generals in his first term because he asked them to do things that practically can't be done. It's like being a pearl diver, you know. There are a lot of ways for you to die. And several people have come up with ways. But, yeah, I mean, that's his MO. You're fired. Let's get somebody in and get the job done. Yeah, he's also upset because he wanted Pam Bondi to find criminal cases over the 2020 election. And she couldn't. And, I mean, he lost 60 times in court. I mean, I just, I can't believe he's still flogging that thing. Right. Well, and, you know, as you say, the prosecutors don't get to file their cases based on politics. They need evidence. They need grand juries. They need judges who'll sign off. And, you know, you got a lot of Democrat appointees on the bench who, like nothing better than to find a valid basis to reject Donald Trump's legal position. And as you say, it happened 60 times on the election interference. And now it's happened several times with respect to James Comey and Letitia James and the others. Well, thank you very much, Royalex, for coming on again, ABC News Legal Analyst on Pam Bondi getting fired. You bet, thanks. Thank you. All right, when we come back, this actually makes me kind of crazy. There are these tiny protest groups that are trying to get data centers banned. from their towns, which is data centers are going to carry all the AI traffic as we transition into the AI era of modern life. And they're coming. You can't stop them. You can't stop AI from taking over the world. But the data centers, boy, that's a lot of blue-collar jobs to build them. And these locals are all worked up. They're environmental types.

And they're costing blue collar people a lot of work here in Southern California. I'll tell you all about it. We come back. You're listening to John Cobalt on demand from KFI AM 640. You could follow us at John Cobalt Radio on social media at John Cobalt Radio or subscribe on YouTube. YouTube.com slash at John Cobalt show. And you'll get notification whenever we put up a new video, which is most nights right after the show. YouTube.com slash at John Cobalt show. I told you that we're going to talk about how these tiny groups of residents are stopping progress. Progress that could mean a lot of jobs for people. This is happening in Monterey Park. They don't want a data center built. The data centers are huge. They consume a lot of power and a lot of water, but it's the way the world is going. It's to facilitate the AI boom. The AI Revolution. This is what Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta, they're spending money on these. And it's also a lot of blue-collar jobs to construct these data centers. I'm going to get into it in the next segment because there's more to it than I've got time for right now. What I do want to bring you now is, and this is almost comical, Matthew Seidorf, who's been doing great work at Fox 11. One of the persistent problems, and again, the frustrating thing in this era, and Gavin Newsom and Bass are primary examples of this, is they do not acknowledge, they do not respond to real bad problems. They pretend they don't exist or it's someone else's fault, and clearly they just don't care, and there's no way to shame them. They don't suffer any consequences. Because Karen Bass lets tens of thousands of people live in the streets, they start a lot of fires. They start thousands of fires. The fire stations have been massively defunded. They only have half the money and half the personnel and half the equipment. Literally half. And now you've added these tens of thousands of homeless people in the street. And they set fires all day long. I mean, thousands of them. So he's reporting in this segment on how Los Angeles Fire Department Station 11, busiest station in L.A., 80% of their calls are for the homeless. Listen to what happens while he's doing the report. It's just unbelievable that this post office is still operating. There's at least a dozen encampments. There's rats. There's trash. Really unbelievable. Go ahead and take a look at this video. This is just before it got dark this evening outside the post office. The image is pretty shocking. The mounds of trash flooding the parking lot, almost blocking spaces. I'd estimate at least a dozen encampments, maybe more. Some of them very impressive plugged into electricity. Inside one of them, I saw a working...

fan, even a refrigerator. Now speaking with a postal worker, he tells me he has safety concerns. He was assaulted here once while the homeless have been here for months. You hear me about 90 months. Luckily we haven't got any kicked out of here yet because every other people they kicked us out. We used everything and went to being streets. I've been asleep at bus stops. I've been chased by man nearly almost got you know abused everything. If the city came by and offered resources, would you take it? I'll jump on it. Just a second. And they haven't done that? No, not over here. They go to other places and take by that, but haven't came here at all. So we reached out to a district one council office and they said that they were aware of it, but there we go, another fire. The busiest fire station in town. We're about two blocks from MacArthur Park. They say 80% of their calls are relating to the homeless, and it's really nonstop. We just had their truck. One truck leave that way. Now we have another one going this way, and it sounds like there's another one coming out right now. These firefighters are earning their keep out here. I'll go ahead and send it back to you. Okay, so in terms of... And there's another one. This is unbelievable, Matthew. Nothing like live television. So you're right outside the station. This is literally next door to the post office then? Yeah, so the fire station's right here. The post office is right across the street. Blind with encampments. And again, it's shocking that it's still operating. The people go there and try to maneuver around the homeless encampments and the trash to get their mail or get a passport. And I know the woman you talked to said that she's never been offered any city services. Is that, did you hear that same sentiment from postal workers? I mean, have city workers approach them? Speaking with a postal worker, he says that he was assaulted there and that he was actually punched in the side of the head while he was unloading his truck there. He says that they have cleared out those encampments previously, but within just a day or two, people come right back. There were five fire trucks that blew by Matthew Seedorf, and that was Marlite as the anchor. And they were trying to have a conversation. Five fire trucks, because the fires being set in real time as that was being recorded. There's about five layers of dysfunction and incompetence from Karen Bass. That's like was the perfect encapsulation of Karen Bass's. Los Angeles right there. First, you have encampments. And we have tens of thousands of people still living in the streets. Her inside safe thing, she's a compulsive liar, like Gavin Newsom. There is a set of impressive encampments. There are mounds of trash. So she doesn't clean up the encampments. She doesn't clean up the garbage. The vagrants are stealing electricity, and they'll tell you that crime is down.

They're stealing electricity. They'll never be prosecuted for that. One of them assaulted a postal worker. They'll tell you that crime is down. And they're starting fires to a defunded fire department. There's five trucks that went by there. So you have the fires going off. You've got the mounds of trash. You've got the homeless encampments. They're stealing electricity, and they beat up a postal worker. That was two minutes and 39 seconds. On one block in one moment of Los Angeles life. 80% of the cause to fire station 11. Vagrants, mental patients, drug addicts, starting fires. Bass defunds the fire department. It's never been like this. I don't know if it's ever been like this in any city, anywhere at any time. When we come back, crazy people in Monterey Park, they don't want an AI data center, and they don't care how many jobs they cost over it, because they're a bunch of selfish boobs. We'll tell you about it. We come back. You're listening to John Cobalt, On Demand, from KFI, AM 640. We are on every day from 3 to 6, and then after 6 o'clock, John Cobalt show On Demand on the iHeart app, and that's where you listen. to whatever got by you. All right? So, and in fact, you know, if you weren't listening in three o'clock hour, we had Bill Salyon, the assistant U.S. attorney here in the central district, and he was part of a big bus this morning, 15 fraudsters who'd built California's Medicare and Medicaid program at a $60 million. These are fake hospices with fake dead people, fake patients, fake health care centers. Gavin Newsom did nothing about it, so the Trump administration came in, and they reeled in 15 of these characters. We'll tell you all about it next hour. Now, there's something stupid going on because people don't understand that the world is changing and you can't stop it. AI data centers, they're huge. There's one that was supposed to come to Monterey Park. It would be the equivalent of four football fields. These power artificial intelligence. There's nothing you can do to stop the artificial intelligence revolution. It is going to dramatically transform many companies, if not most companies. It's going to transform the entire, it already is transforming the technology sector. Your job. And because every company has to get in on this, because if they don't, all their competitors will. This is going to produce tremendous amounts of efficiency, streamlining, save companies, large amounts of money. You can't stand in front of this locomotive. I mean, you can. You could go live and grow vegetables in Kansas if you want. And when they build these data centers, it provides thousands of jobs for blue-collar workers. And the people who live in Monterey Park, well, there's 200 of them. And they showed up at a public meeting. And what happens at public? You probably were never at a public meeting. Most of them are filled with activists for one cause or another.

Environmental activists, bike activists, racial activists. And then there's, don't build a data center in my city activists. So there were 200 of them, probably organized, probably funded. They're all holding placards saying no data center. And the company that wants, that invested tens of millions of dollars and is actually the largest landowner in Monterey Park may not be able to get their data center built. And the thing is, California, which is the center of technological advancement for the last 50, 60 years, companies can't build data centers here. In fact, here's a story. A guy named Medi Parayavi. He advises governments and companies on data center projects. He suggested California to a European executive who wanted to invest hundreds of millions of dollars. He was quickly dismissed. Absolutely not. The executive snapped back, according to Parayavi. He's chairman of a think tank International Data Center Authority. The aversion to California is pretty standard in the industry. Land is too expensive. Electricity rates are too high. It's double the rest of the country. There's too many regulations. And now you have all these wacky local groups. By the way, you know, who spearheads this cause is the two idiots, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the bartender, and Bernie Sanders, the grifter. You know, the guy owns three homes and is worth seven figures. Millionaire Bernie Sanders with his three homes is railing against tech executives. So California, who has had so many companies move out, is now losing tech companies, which is its overwhelming strength. And now the data centers can't be built because of all the regulations and all these crazy local groups. So they're still going to have their data centers. They're going to move it to states where it's cheaper and the locals are friendlier. This is a lot of money. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta are going to spend over $700 billion. on data center construction. Just this year alone, this is a multi-trillion dollar business. It's going to provide tons and tons of construction workers with jobs. But not here in California, not here in Monterey Park. So 200 Yahoo's in Monterey Park are screaming at City Hall. They should have all been tossed out into the street. And this is... This is more normal people. They never go to these meetings, right? Like the blue collar workers in this area probably don't even know that potential high-paying jobs for them may have just been destroyed this week in Monterey Park. They don't even know. That's the thing. You can't organize a group that doesn't know they've been affected because they hadn't been hired yet.

There weren't many supporters of the project, and that's the way it always is. Normal people have busy lives. Activists have no life, and they go to public meetings and intimidate the city officials. That's what happened in Monterey Park. And they spout all this progressive garbage. AI takes jobs. Big AI is a threat to democracy. If I hear that phrase threat to democracy one more time, I'm taking hostages. It's a class injustice. The tech bros are absolutely the Epstein class. They are not the working class. Well, here were jobs for thousands of people in the working class, and you may have just destroyed them. You moron, you. The tech guys are going to make their money. You can't stop it. They're just going to move to other states. Because a lot of states are very friendly. You know, everybody, like one guy who's with the sheet metal workers union, everybody loves the juice, but they don't like how it's squeezed. I'm going to fight for my members to have a job to work at. But you can't expect socialist bozos who admire Bernie Sanders and a Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to understand that. They don't do hard work. They don't do physical labor. They don't know how well a lot of those jobs pay. They don't know how important it is to the economy. They don't understand that there's no stopping this AI revolution. It's absolutely impossible. $700 billion just this year where you think these companies would invest that much money if it wasn't going to be that revolutionary and make them so many trillions of dollars down the road? Now, this thing still has to be voted on in June. But this, you repeat the story all over the state in so many different ways. This is the most hostile state to business. And you're going to see eventually with what we lost 350,000 people here in Los Angeles County just in five years. The company's moving out like crazy. It's because the stupid people are in charge. The stupid people are louder than people who work for a living. So let the stupid people run things. I got another story here, California Post, about how Los Angeles may become the next Detroit. Because we let the stupid people run things here. You ever go to Detroit? I went there once. I've never been. Holy geez. I went there once years ago after it already crashed. I don't know, parts of it may be coming back now. But they died, Detroit died about 50, yeah, over 50 years ago in the early 70s. And stuff I saw, it looked like, looks like what probably parts of Iran look like now. Tell you about this idea that L.A. is already in the Detroit spiral and we come back. It's because stupid groups like this and stupid politicians. You're listening to John Cobalt on demand from KFI AM 640. We're on every day from 3 until 6. Moist Line is 877 Moist 86. 877 Moist 86. You use the talkback feature. And after 6 o'clock, you can get the podcast.

We were talking about how the idiots in Monterey Park, this group of about 200 people are trying to stop a data center from being constructed, even though it'll provide a huge number of blue-collar jobs to construct the place. They're anti-AI. It's really irritating, you know. And the thing is, they're going to wonder, they're going to wonder why. They're not making money. They're going to be resentful that they're not making money. And it's because instead of embracing AI and embrace the economic explosion that AI is going to bring to this country and embrace the construction jobs that pay really well, they want to show. Oh, and it brings in lots of tax money. And the tax monies would fund all kinds of services in Monterey Park. I mean, it's really just really shooting yourself in the head. And I don't understand it. And they'll complain about lack of services in town and income inequality and all this nonsense. The tech people work for a living. You guys protest for a living. Of course they have a lot of money. You think they waste their time shouting at public meetings like you guys do? And the same things happen in Los Angeles. They have chased out all the Hollywood jobs. And now there's a headline in the California Post, fears grow of a Detroit-style decline as Hollywood jobs evaporate. Back in the 1970s, some of you may remember, the Detroit auto industry collapsed. And people moved out of Detroit. It was taken over by criminals. A lot of it had to do with greedy unions demanding too much money, and the Detroit car companies couldn't be competitive with the Japanese companies. Toyota was rolling and all the rest. And now it's happened here. Other states, other countries offer much lower costs. The unions here, the Hollywood unions, they went on strike a couple of years ago. It was the worst thing they ever could have done. Shut down production, raised the cost of production, no tax breaks at a new summer bass. And everybody said, we're going elsewhere. There is an arrogance, and I can't believe the arrogance persisted right up until now that nobody would ever leave California because of the weather. And it turns out there's literally millions of people who've left California, despite the great weather. Because they can't earn a living. They can't own a house. Their industry is getting destroyed. There's been a 30% drop in film and TV employment since 2022. 30%. And the Wall Street Journal says that it looks like it is going down the Detroit death spiral. As of March 2026, we used to have 455,000 entertainment jobs. It's now down to 344,000. So it's lost over 100,000 jobs, 100,000 jobs, 100,000 families maybe.

And Gavin Newsom recently gave a big tax break, but it's too late. He wouldn't listen. The 93 IQ, he's got a 93 IQ. He can't do math. And it says since 2022, employment for below the line workers is down 45 million hours, according to the union. The U.S.'s share of global production dropped from 52 to 38%. Most major studio movies, the big budget movies, now shoot in the UK. Now I left the country. Not only left the state, they left the country entirely. And they're shooting in Great Britain. And they're gone. And it happened in three years. Because of stupid pig-headed politicians and stupid pig-headed unions. And everybody thought, oh, it'll never happen. It'll never happen. Well, it's happened, and it's not going to come back. People don't understand. You live in a country with 50 states, 50 governments, you're competing against the other 49 states, you know, on taxes. on regulations. In fact, I can't do that now. I'll tell later. I have seen, I know that a lot of people who listen to this show move to Georgia. And I'll tell you how I know this next hour. But... I was seeing actually watch in front. I can see it month by month people moving out of California and going to other states, especially one particular city in Georgia for a reason. I'll talk about coming up. Deborah Mark live in the KFI 24-hour newsroom. You've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on KFI AM 640 from 3 to 6 p.m. every Monday through Friday. And of course, anytime on demand on the IHeart Radio app. KFI AM 640. More stimulating talk.