Donald Trump's legal team is attempting to pull a "Hail Mary" legal move by asking Judge Aileen Cannon to completely dismiss the classified documents trial along with all the charges Trump is facing for taking the documents. They are arguing that he is protected by Presidential immunity, even though the Supreme Court has yet to rule on how immunity would protect him in a situation like this (or in any other cases.) But this one is very different from the other cases where Trump claimed immunity, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains. Link - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-classified-documents_n_65d85f6fe4b0189a6a7d74bb Check out our merch by visiting our store: https://www.buyrof.com/ Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: https://twitter.com/RingofFireMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. Donald Trump's legal team is attempting what I guess you would call a legal Hail Mary with their attempts to get the documents charges against Donald Trump, dismissed by Judge Eileen Cannon. In a flurry of motions filed late last week, Donald Trump's lawyers argued in two separate motions that the case should be dismissed on various grounds. Now, the first one, stupid enough as it is, they said, Hey, Jack Smith, uh, Merrick Garland, the Attorney General didn't actually have the authority to appoint him as a special prosecutor, therefore, case dismissed. That's, that's actually, that's, that's not even a thing. Merrick Garland could have appointed me to be the special prosecutor if he wanted to, and it would be legal, and I don't even have a law degree, so he can appoint whoever he wants to be a special prosecutor. That one fails on its merits straight off. The second one, of course, little bit more involved. The second one they say is that Donald Trump has immunity from prosecution. Even though so far every single court that has looked at the issue of immunity said, no, you don't. I mean, most recently, of course, we had the appellate court that told him, no, you don't. But there's still now months after the charges were filed, months after going through discovery, going through everything else, now they're telling Judge Cannon, oh, by the way, uh, all this is moot anyway because he is immune from prosecution and they say he's immune from prosecution because of course he had the authority to take the documents. He, he actually, they said, you know, he, he declassified them and he gave himself permission while president to take the documents. So like you can't even prosecute 'em for it Anyway, so he's totally immune. None of that happened, by the way. There has to be a record of these things happening in order for it to make them real. Now, Donald Trump, as president of the United States, did 100% have the authority to stand over documents and say, I declassify thee. He could do that. But it has to be recorded in order for it to be official. Paperwork does have to be filled out to declassify these Trump just saying it can do it as long as the proper paperwork is then filled out. If the paperwork is not filled out, if there are no witnesses, which there are no witnesses in this instance, then it's, it's not real like it's hearsay at this point, inadmissible in any court in the United States for any reason. So that claim foot, uh, fails on its merits. The second one, of course, he's immune. Now, here's the thing about the immunity. The immunity that he is claiming in the documents case is a lot different than the immunity. With like the January 6th case. He says that, Hey, I was, I was doing my axis president. I was given a speech. These people rioted. That ain't my fault. I'm president. I give speeches. Uh, but the documents case, however, things are a little different. Obviously, taking documents is not a part of the President's official duties. Not to mention the fact that we also have to now look at the timeframe of it. When did you take the documents? ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFG-kHVOn9M

A Saudi Arabian woman has been sentenced to 45 years in jail for the crime of Tweeting critical statements about the Saudi Arabia government. Attorney Michael Bixby, filing in for Mike Papantonio this week, is joined by Farron Cousins to discuss more. link - https://www.jurist.org/news/2022/09/saudi-arabia-court-sentences-woman-to-45-years-for-tweets/ Check out our merch by visiting our store: https://www.buyrof.com/ Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: https://twitter.com/RingofFireMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. A Saudi Arabian woman has been sentenced to 45 years in jail for the crime of tweeting critical statements about the Saudi Arabian government. Farron, this one here again sounds unfortunately a lot like the situation in, in Russia and this is not the first time this has happened. Talk about a little bit about what, how is Saudi Arabia charging people with for, for, for retweeting somebody and they're putting them in jail for retweeting someone? It, it's terrorism. That is what Saudi Arabia has now classified these tweeters, as terrorist because it's, under Saudi Arabia's counterterrorism law and anti cyber crime law using the internet to tear the country's social fabric. So they are effectively treating these people as if you are a domestic terrorist, because you got on the little bird app and said, man, things are pretty bad here. They just beheaded a hundred people in the stadium, basically for being political dissidents. And they say, okay, well look, we're not gonna cut your head off and Pap and I, again, we, we talked about the story where they did behead over a hundred people recently. They said, okay, we're just gonna put you in jail basically for the rest of your life. You sent out a tweet we didn't like, you're in jail for 45 years. Another woman recently in jail for I think 34 years. Right. For a tweet, a tweet and, and you're removed from society. For a retweet. I, I think that's what the, that's what I was reading is that it's, and there's still a lot of information that's not known here, which is part of what's frankly, even more scary because you hear about the situations that we do have the knowledge of. But somebody, somebody hits the retweet button. Can you imagine, I mean, think about how crazy this is, because you want to think about if this was applied in the United States of America, if we had this type of a law here and we've got plenty of things to criticize about what we have going on, there's plenty of failures here. I mean, we, you know, 80, 90% of the country for tearing apart the social fabric. I mean, the law itself is basically it's designed as, as a blank check for if we see somebody that we don't like, if it's a woman who's speaking up about women's rights in Saudi Arabia, if it's somebody who is going against essentially the, the Royal family, the people who are connected, it's like, we're going to call that person out. We are gonna take care of them. And maybe if they're lucky, they're not gonna get beheaded, but they're gonna go away for decades. I, I think it's unconscionable. Yeah. I mean, I, I, I don't think that's a controversial statement for anybody who believes in any sort of any form of free, freedom, democracy at all. What this raises to me, the issue we, you and I have talked about before, Pap's talked about as well is, you know, what are we doing with this country? Why are we still so cozy with a country that is actively doing this? That's unrepentant in doing it and just absolutely frankly, destroying people's lives over nothing. Yeah. We, we get reports every single year when they do the, you know, worst human rights abusers, Saudi Arabia is always right at the top of that list in terms of violating their own citizens human rights and they have been for many, many, many years. And the United States, whether it's a Democrat or Republican, it doesn't matter. They look at that and they say, ah, they've got all that oil we want, oh, they buy a lot of weapons from us. They're putting a lot of money in the economy. So we're gonna look the other way when they're killing people, when they're bombing other countries or when they're throwing somebody in jail for the rest of their life because they retweeted something. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IrQXixZrGA

According to a shocking new report from The Daily Beast, the Department of Justice is actively stonewalling the House Ethics Committee investigation into Matt Gaetz by refusing to turn over vital information that they had gathered during their own investigation. This is quite the bizarre move, and it begs the question as to why the DOJ is trying to hard to protect Gaetz. After all, they easily could have charged him but refused to do so, and now they are withholding information from the body that could do something about his behavior. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses what's happening. Link - https://www.thedailybeast.com/doj-stonewalling-house-ethics-committee-probe-of-rep-matt-gaetz?ref=home?ref=home Check out our merch by visiting our store: https://www.buyrof.com/ Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: https://twitter.com/RingofFireMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. According to a shocking new report from the Daily Beast this week, the House Ethics Committee that is currently investigating, Matt Gates, has hit a bit of a wall. A wall called the United States Department of Justice, because according to the report and the sources close to the investigation, who spoke to reporters at The Daily Beast, the DOJ is not cooperating and is actually refusing to turn over vital information for the Matt Gates investigation in the house. Now, obviously, the US Department of Justice has finished their investigation and Matt Gates, so that is not an ongoing investigation. They already announced they're not gonna bring charges against him. That was announced over a year ago. So there is no logical reason for the DOJ to not give the House Ethics Committee what they need for their investigation because they're not looking into the other people that the DOJ is still investigating, because that's what the DOJ is trying to claim. Like, Hey, we've got ongoing investigations, and the house is like, great, wonderful. We don't care about those people. We want this guy, the guy you finished with, give us all that stuff. To make matters worse, the House Ethics Committee has authorized subpoenas to the DOJ to force them to turn over this information, but they haven't actually issued the subpoenas, right? They've made them, but they have not delivered them. They're still kinda waffling like, do we really wanna pick a fight with the Department of Justice to get this information on Matt Gaetz, or do we just wanna wait and hope that they end up cooperating? So right now, this investigation that had been going on the Fast Track once they finished with George Santos at the end of last year is kind of stalled. They know what they need, they know what they want to do, they know where they're headed with it, but they can't get there because for some strange reason, the Department of Justice is still trying to protect Matt Gates. Now if you ask me, that's the part that also needs to be investigated. Why did the DOJ choose to not charge Matt Gaetz a decision that even the cooperating witnesses who worked with the DOJ said this is total bs. Like we gave you evidence of criminal activity. Why are you not prosecuting him? And now why are you still protecting him? Those are two questions to which the American public deserves answers. If we have a sitting member of Congress, doesn't matter if you're in his district like I am or not, if we have a member of Congress that, you know, broke the law, but you are somehow trying to protect him for some reason or another, we have every right to know that. And we need to know who is protecting him, why they're protecting him, and how quickly we can get those people removed from their office, because this is utter nonsense. And let me tell you this, the House Ethics committee was once the DOJ originally launched their investigation into Matt Gaetz, the House Ethics Committee did the same. They said, oh, is one of our people we'll investigate? And the DOJ came to the House Ethics Committee and said, Hey, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa. Could you guys not do this right now? Because we are investigating him. You know, we've got all this authority. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqikh4ciloI

Michael Cohen, the star witness for the Manhattan DA's investigation into Donald Trump, has issued an ultimatum to investigators: Either move forward with the indictments or he's no longer willing to help them. If this were to happen, it would likely be the death knell for the ongoing investigation, but there's a good chance that the new DA doesn't go forward with what everyone else sees as a solid indictment. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening. Link - https://www.thedailybeast.com/manhattan-das-star-witness-michael-cohen-indict-trump-now-or-im-out?ref=home Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Find our merchandise at Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/rof-store Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/RingofFireRadio Google+: http://plus.google.com/118415831573195648557 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ Follow more of our stories at http://www.TROFIRE.com Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. The star witness in the Manhattan district attorney's investigation into Donald Trump, the witness whose own testimony and documents have basically formed the basis of this ongoing investigation has effectively given an ultimatum to those prosecutors, Alvin Bragg at the DA's office, the da himself, that star witness of course is Michael Cohen. Donald Trump's former lawyer. And Cohen says, if you don't indict him in the next nine days, basically by April 30th at this point. So now we're down to a eight days. If you don't indict him in the next eight days, I'm done, I'm no longer are working with you. I'm not gonna continue to, you know, come in and waste my time. When clearly you have no interest in sending this guy to jail. And to be perfectly honest, I don't blame Michael Cohen because here's the situation. This is actually what's happening up there in New York. We know the prosecutors have resigned. We know thats before he left office was literally just days away from issuing indictments to Donald Trump. Alvin Bragg came in, said, nah, uh, we're not doing that. But he swears the investigation's still ongoing. The two prosecutors who resigned said, we are ready to ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSJqOwOFY2o