You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the Buck Brief. David Marcus back on the hot seat for this episode. He's a writer and author. He's like the Hemingway of eastern West Virginia, and he joins us. Now, let's start with this based on what we saw with Merrick Garland today on Capitol Hill where he's getting into or he's getting into it with Matt Gates specifically on whether there's any coordination between the DOJ and any of these specifically New York, but any of these prosecutions going on against Trump.
I feel like, you know, they keep saying that's a conspiracy theory.
That doesn't sting anymore, because the conspiracy theorists on a whole range of things when it comes to Democrats have been right on everything for quite a while.
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Look absolutely, and I think Gates had the answer for that. Gates said, Okay, give us all the correspondence you have between the Department of Justice and Fanny Willis's office, Alvin Bragg's office. If this should be very simple to do, and if it's a conspiracy theory, then these documents will show that this is a conspiracy theory. And Garland won't do that, you know, I think for obvious reasons. Look, it's not crazy to ask why Matthew Colangelo would leave being number three.
At the DOJ.
Right, how many people work at the DJOS tens of thousands.
I mean overall, it's like one hundred and twenty thousand or something.
It's huge, right, So.
He's number three in an organization of that size, and he says, you know, what what I really want to do is go to New York City and you know, prosecute beat level crime as an assistant district attorney. Nonsense, nobody believes that. And then oh it just happens to wind up on Trump's case. I mean that strains credulity. And for Garland to say, well, I didn't have anything to do with it, it's not good enough.
If someone asks you if the uh, we know the system is being abused, but as the system truly broken our justice system, and if the answer is yes, then what.
No?
Look I think it is and I think that what I think is so important about this lawfare of this happening in regard to what's going to happen in the election is you go back about six months and you look at the polling on the issues right that matter to Americans, Trump has a big lead on most of them, immigration, the economy, crime, foreign policy. There were two where Biden had a significant lead. There was abortion and he still does. And then there was this question of like, you know, who's the greater threat to democracy? Six months ago, Biden was up fifteen twenty points on that question. He's up seven now six. Right, that is completely narrowed. That question has become a wash, and it is like the entire basis of the Biden campaign is, oh my goodness, this guy's going to destroy democracy. If that issue is a wash now, and it looks like it is, that's a big problem for Joe Biden.
Do you think Democrats are actually worried or do you think that they assume still that all the lawfair stuff is going to be sufficient to knock Trump out?
I mean, look, I think they're foolish if they're not worried. Look, I don't think that what they're banking on ultimately is the lawfair. I think what Democrats are banking on is what they always bank on, which is that this election is going to come down to about one point five million persuadable voters in six states, right, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan. Right, there's a very small group of people are going to decide this election, and Democrats are really really good at targeting the voters that they need finding out who they are. So I think that's kind of what they're banking on, But that's going to get complicated this year because usually that means run up the numbers of black voters in Philadelphia. Well, hold on a second, they might not all be on your side this time.
Do you think that's real when people point to the change in sentiment that seems to be observable at least in the polls about young black men who I don't know if it's more that they just don't see any reason to vote for Biden or that they start to see they're starting to see reasons to vote for Trump. Do you think that's real in a way that it could translate on election Day? Or is this yet another moment where Republicans are seeing something that makes them really happy and is really encouraging, and then somehow it doesn't turn you know, twenty twenty two, I think looms large for people just in terms of Wow, that wasn't what we thought it was going to be.
Now look, I think it's real.
And the black vote is unique today in terms of being hegemonically democrat in the way that it is like eighty five ninety percent voting. That wasn't always true. That that's actually a product of an urban voting base who expects constituent services. But there was an old joke about an Irish guy in Philly who was a Republican right and he was on his deathbed and the Democrat ward leader came by to pay his respects, and the dying man said, well, Johnny, I'll tell you one thing. I never voted a Republican. And the ward leader said, don't worry, Frank, you will, you will, right, I mean, so, all of these ethnic enclaves and urban environments tend to cling to one party because they get services from them. That was always the deal. People didn't vote for Charlie Wrangle because he wasn't corrupt or he was great. They voted for him because he got stuff done in the neighborhood. That's breaking down. AOC doesn't do that. Presley doesn't do that. That's not the kind of politicians they are. And I think when black voters walk past the Roosevelt Hotel and see illegal immigrants getting, you know, ATM cards with thousands of dollars on them, they say, what am I getting from you people? So yeah, I think it's real.
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No, it's insane, I mean it's absolutely crazy. I mean, this is a this is obviously a city that thrives on tourism. Now it's you know, thriving on illegal immigrant tourism. I mean, no, this makes no sense, and I know that New Yorkers are very frustrated by it, as our people in Chicago, as our people in Boston. And obviously that's why you see Joe Biden's cynical ploy today, five months out from an election, suddenly saying, oh, well, maybe there is something I can do, after three years of saying there's nothing I can do.
Look, I think most people will see through it.
The one advantage that he might get is, as as effeckless as this plan is, it might be effective enough to avoid stuff like we saw under the bridge in del Rio.
Yeah, right, like.
He's to say them, he's going to process them faster. And and it's like what I've said is if you think of this like a like a shoplifting problem, if think of a legal immigration which is illegal like shoplifting. Instead of arresting and prosecuting people that shoplift, Biden is basically saying, hey, we're just going to have more greeters and more check out people. It's like, well, yes, that's not that's going to make people move in and out faster, but it's not going to stop the stealing.
Yeah.
I mean he won't even put the deodor in behind a lock and key, right, I mean, so yeah, I look, I think that that's I think that that's exactly right. But you know, he promised some kind of action. I think that this all goes back to the whole mess that we had in November when McCarthy was kicked out. I really believe that McCarthy's idea when he was kicked out was that he was going to keep the government open, which is why he got kicked out. But then he was negotiate some kind of a border situation with Biden that turned into this whole huge legislation. I don't think it was ever intended to be that. I think you're absolutely right on that Republicans were foolish to get on board with that at all. But look, I don't think this is any big win for Biden. I don't think this turns the numbers around.
On the ball. It could be wrong.
I mean, you know, I'm curious your take on that.
If you think this, well, he's got I mean, he's got to do something.
We're just based on what the polls are telling him, right, I mean, it's the option of just continue to right. I mean, even if you can't stop the fire from burning down your house, if you've got a bucket of water, you're gonna throw it on it, Right, You're gonna you're gonna do what you can do you think he gets Do you think.
He gets any credit with independence or those voters in the middle for bucking the left a little bit?
Right?
Because you're gonna see a you alreways see like talib and the regular people they're getting upset with him. Could that actually kind of work for Biden if he's pissing off the far left.
Well, you know this is my my I shouldn't say it so much. Is My theory is people keep telling me this about what's his name, Fetterman in Pennsylvania. They say, don't because we're like, look, he's saying stuff about Israel that makes a lot of sense to me. And he's he said some other things about you know, Menendez is a corrupt scumbag. I'm like, yeah, true, Like he says things and I'm like, this is good stuff. But but people in Pennsylvania, friends of mine have know this scene. They say, no, you got to understand he's trying to help There's a very competitive Senate election coming up with Dave McCormick.
And and uh, what is it? Is it? Casey? Yeah? Casey right, and he's running.
Against his dad too.
Yeah, well look at that and his and.
His dad was the last pro I grew up in Philly as a pro life, pro union Democrat. Right, this was a thing in the world that doesn't exist anymore. And Bob Casey Sr. Was he was the avatar of that. Those guys don't exist anymore.
Yeah.
So uh, anyway, the Fetterman thing is now people are saying because I do like and I've said I like some of the things Fetterman has said recently, and you know, if you say something that's smart, I'm not gonna say it's Tom because I don't like you, right. I mean he's saying good things, but they're saying, well, no, you understand, this is political posturing so that the Democrat Party internally in Pennsylvania can have people who don't look completely insane. And I think that that's a game that obviously Biden is playing here on the border. Right, So he knows I told people because he ever says, oh but BLM and Biden said Biden, it's not gonna get hit with BLM. Biden never. Biden never has said defund police. He's never He allows the looney left because they're at his base and they're, you know, the hart and soul of the Democrat Party to do with it. He won't condemn them, but he won't go along with it.
That's he knows that.
That's But should we but should we be legitimately because I'm on the fence on this, should we be legitimately happy if the Democrats have this come to Jesus moment where it's like, oh my goodness.
No, because it's fake. No, it's fake.
It's this is the guy who's promising his girlfriend, I'm not gonna cheat on you. I promise I don't want to be alone this weekend.
Come over.
He's gonna cheat on her in a couple of weeks. They're you know what I'm saying, It's just they're just the election is coming up and they've decided that, you know, they're gonna play this game.
They love to do this. They love to do this.
So Democrats pretend to not be Democrats, you know what I mean, That's that's how they win the election.
They were ones, but buck they were ones right before Barack Obama. They were still essentially the Party of Kennedy, right. Bill Clinton was an extension of.
Are You're like, you're like a dinosaur. It's like I'm talking to a dela posaurus or something brought back to life, a pro life Democrat. Yes, I mean, I know you're not Democrat anymore, but I'm saying the fact that you ever were like, that's a that's a rare species, my friend.
They've basically gone extinct.
Yeah, but that's my point, right, I mean, can't like so, look, so, was it good for the country, For example, that the Republican Party stopped being the neoliberal Mitt Romney Paul Ryan sort of like, I'm very smart. Put me in charge, and I'll tell you what you want, and turned into the Trump version of the party, which was I'm going to listen to you and give you what you want. Right for me, that transformation of the Republican Party, whether you're a Democrat or you're a Republican, I think that that was better for the country. Is it possible that some kind of a transformation away from the Party of Obama and that divisiveness could actually help the country?
You seem skeptical.
Oh, I'm so skeptical because I love I love skepticism is the water in which I swim. But we'll come back to this here and close us out in a moment. But I want to talk about Telling the Towers Foundation for a second. Telling the Towers has been helping America's heroes ever since nine to eleven. When a first responder or a military service member doesn't come home and young children are left behind, Tunnel the Towers pays the mortgage on the family home to lift the financial burden for severely injured veterans and first responders. Tunnel to Towers builds mortgage free smart homes, enabling severely injured heroes to move around their homes more independently. Through the foundation's Homeless Veteran program, Tunnel the Towers is providing housing and services to homeless veterans. More than thirty three hundred were help last year alone. Because all veterans who honorably serve, whether in peacetime or war, deserve our nation's gratitude, donate eleven dollars a month to help out. Please at T two t dot org. That's T the number two T dot org. It's summertime. Marcus. I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna give you a shot here. Okay, the book that you could recommend to the people listening or watching this that you have the highest confidence if they listen to you, they will enjoy reading it. Okay, I've laid out for you what the mission is. Don't you be the will no no any book that you that not one that you've written. I do, because obviously you know you've written some great books. We'll put that aside. Get a David Marcus book. Run up those numbers on Amazon for him. Put that aside though, for a second. In addition, in addition to that, what would be your recommendation.
I really like to read Mbarto Echo in the Summer. I just think he's sort of you know, those those sort of long lingering days on.
The back porch, like like he's pretty perfect.
So if you haven't read Name of the Rose, that's a really wonderful novel. There's also one called Prague Funeral that's like super weird, like identities change and like you have no idea what's going on. So yeah, like my recommendation would be some Umberto Echo, and there's there's a lot of great stuff to choose from.
Mucco's Gracias David Marcus, thank you so much. Well, I'm Buck, so you actually so whatever Umberto could that be?
Could that be Spanish? I don't know, sounds like a Spanish A to B.
But whatever, you just called me, so you yeah, exactly, we had We just connected with Haymakers at the same time. Double knockout. Great to see you, my friend. Thanks for spending some time here today and we'll talk soon, all right. Thank you, Buck, Thanks so much.