The Jan. 6th Prosecutions vs. Liberal Riots

JIM JORDAN: You know what this is about. This is about going after President Trump, you know. The Democrats, they don’t want to talk about anything else. They don’t wanna talk about this. They don’t want to talk about the crime that’s going up in every major urban area; they don’t want to talk about the crisis at the border.

They don’t want to talk about the price — the fact that the price of everything is going up. The price of eggs went up. The price of milk’s went up. The price of lumber’s went up. The price of an airline ticket’s up, the price of a used car. Everything’s gone up. They don’t want to talk about all that, so they gotta talk about, oh, how we’re gonna go after president for the third time.

BUCK: Welcome back to the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show. I’m Buck, and there you had Congressman Jim Jordan. I don’t know, Clay. I feel like hopefully… You and I both like the congressman. Maybe he’s listening to the show ’cause it sounds like what we were talking about yesterday. They gotta discuss the insurrection — and we’ve been saying this for weeks — because Biden is a flop.

This administration’s agenda is all supposed to be crammed through in this mega budget. No legislation of any real consequence in the first year. They know they’re going into rough seas with the midterms. This just goes to the Trump fixation not only of the Democrat Party but of the Democrat-aligned corporate media as well. Which is why in January 6th Commission… We already had an impeachment! We’ve already seen all videos.

CLAY: We had a couple of impeachments. (laughing) The insurrection-related impeachment, yeah.

BUCK: On this specifically. And as I noted yesterday, I even checked with a friend of mine who’s a criminal defense attorney who listens to the show, I asked, I said, “Correct me if I’m wrong, there is…” I looked up the federal statute. There’s a federal statute on rebellion or insurrection that you can charge. It’s very serious. You can charge people with it. Not a single person from the so-called insurrection has been — or I would wager will be — charged with insurrection. I mean, if you’re gonna call something a bank robbery, Clay, don’t you think you would charge robbery?

CLAY: It’s well said. The reason they’re not being charged with an insurrection is because the lawyers who are prosecuting these cases are aware they would lose.

BUCK: Yep.

CLAY: And what is happening here is there is a desperate fixation on Trump, and you understand why. We talked early about CNN and how they’re so untrustworthy. They’ve lost 75% of their audience, Buck, since January of this year. Imagine whatever business you are in, imagine if you lost 75% of your business in the space of a year. That would be an all-hands-on-deck meeting.

BUCK: Yeah, this wouldn’t be the Clay and Buck show. This would be the Bob and Bill show or something. (laughing)

CLAY: Yeah. For what we do, if we lost 75% of our audience, if you lost 75% of your customer base, you’d have everybody sitting around the table tossing ideas ought. And they’ve tried to make Tucker Carlson the worst person, the modern version of Trump. It hasn’t worked, and honestly, it’s probably only helped his ratings overall ’cause a lot of people tune in ’cause they’re thinking, “I can’t wait to see what’s gonna be said next.”

And it’s just a big failure.

By the way, I just texted Jim Jordan I think does incredible work and we’re gonna try to get him on the show. I want to tell people out there who are listening, make sure to be here tomorrow. We played earlier — and I’m sure we’ll play it again tomorrow as a part of this Rand Paul. Senator Rand Paul’s gonna join us. And we’re gonna be discussing some of the dishonesty that is occurring at a high rate. Even in Washington, D.C., a city built on hot air, there’s an unprecedented amount of hot air, I think, that’s blowing right now.

BUCK: I also wanted to throw this out there for everybody, just a little bit of a compare-and-contrast here. We’ve got the insurrection and people being held in solitary for months who committed no violent crime nor were in process of a violent crime because of their role on January 6th. Meanwhile, you had here in New York City, Clay, two Ivy League-educated lawyers… Remember this one back during that?

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: It was a year ago, back during the actual insurrection on the streets of America with BLM, who firebombed a police cruiser with a Molotov cocktail. It’s notably a weapon of war, folks, because it’s named for Molotov by the Finns who were fighting against the Soviet invasion of their country during World War II.

But I would just note that these two, Clay, are on video bombing the car, firebombing the car — there are police officers who saw them do it — and yet they’re taking this to trial. They’re not taking a plea. Almost like maybe they think because they were BLM activists, they’re gonna get off.

CLAY: A jury won’t convict them — and these are high-end, well-educated lawyers. I mean, I remember reading this story and being just in disbelief that anybody could be this crazy. And that’s the temperature of the country at the time that this was all going on. But you got guys who went in and took a picture in the Capitol that are going away to jail for nearly a year and not out on parole, not out on bail. This is crazy.

BUCK: Both defendants, according to the Free Beacon here, face seven felony charges: Civil disorder, arson conspiracy, and a federal explosives charge. You take, as you well know, Clay.

CLAY: That’s why I said —

BUCK: I know from working on investigative side and you know from just the lawyer’s side. You take a deal when you’re facing those kinds of charges. The only way they’re rolling the dice is because they have top lawyers. The number one defense lawyer in some people’s minds in New York City taking up the case. I’m sure pro bono, too, by the way, ’cause BLM —

CLAY: And look. I don’t have a problem with that. But it is funny to think about the way that that is being received compared to anybody who was representing Trump. I mean, Giuliani just lost his law license, at least has it suspended, and I think you’re right. I think they are gonna throw themselves on the mercy of a woke jury and argue that they were fighting The Man, and they were trying to stand up for BLM. It’s like all these ridiculous protests that were okay as long as a protest was going on surrounding BLM. But nobody else could be out and about.

BUCK: One juror who thinks BLM hashtags and black squares on Instagram is more important than law and order — and guess what? They’re gonna walk.