Swalwell Mocks GOP, Asks Them To Raise Hands If They Were With A Convicted Felon After Trump Meeting
At a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) mocked Republicans after they met with former President Donald Trump.
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00:00that objection uh gentleman from california is recognized just a show of hands for anyone in the
00:05room who hung out with a felon today hey guys probably want to get your hands up if you're
00:13hanging out with convicted felon donald trump i don't think anyone on our side did
00:19but that's why we're here ambassador eisen what city did donald trump commit his crimes in
00:27in new york city where were the drones where were the jurors drawn from for donald trump's trial
00:34from manhattan did defendant trump have a say in picking his jury i was there for it there was a
00:42vigorous voir dire uh his defense counsel were extremely active and i thought effective
00:49and after that jury of his peers his neighbors deliberated they had to make 34 decisions
00:5812 jurors 34 decisions what do they say they decided 34 times that donald trump falsified
01:07documents to cover up his 2016 criminal election interference scheme 408 straight times
01:19they said the word guilty now let's let's transfer or fast forward to another trial that took place
01:28recently uh the president's son hunter biden he tried to plead was not able to do that he was
01:33found guilty and actually i heard your side and fox news celebrating the verdict celebrating the
01:39idea that a jury of his peers found him guilty so again when it hurts their guy it's a rigged jury
01:47when it hurts the president's son we celebrate the jury i want to talk a little bit about
01:54judicial bias because they've suggested that there's a bias uh that occurred in this case
01:58ambassador eisen in donald trump's other case where he's alleged to have stolen national security
02:07secrets who is the judge who appointed the judge to the bench in the southern florida federal case
02:15um unlike the special counsel in the hunter biden prosecution who is a trump holdover david weiss
02:25that was a last minute referring back to our history midnight appointment you can call it
02:32by donald trump of judge eileen cannon are you kidding me donald trump is complaining about
02:40bias in his case and he's on trial for stealing national security documents with a judge that he
02:47appointed that's interesting i didn't hear any of you all talking about that well let's talk
02:52about the supreme court who's deciding whether he has absolute immunity and can send the navy
02:56seals to kill any of his opponents as he alleges in his arguments that he can do
03:03one judge is flying an insurrection flag in solidarity with the insurrection on january
03:096th that tried to overturn donald trump's loss in the 2020 election another judge's wife was at
03:18the president's speech on january 6th right before the insurrection occurred but ambassador
03:25eisen i want to talk about now that he's a convicted felon declared 408 times guilty by his neighbors
03:33are convicted felons allowed to hold a security clearance
03:36no are convicted felons allowed to serve in the military no are convicted felons allowed to visit
03:42most countries there's a long list of countries they cannot visit and typically the terms of
03:52probation for a convicted felon do they allow you to hang out with other felons that's prohibited
04:00there are other prohibitions such as gun ownership that's probably going to be a problem
04:05if your friends are criminals like paul manafort who was donald trump's former campaign manager
04:14vice chairman of the campaign rick gates aid to the campaign and convicted felon roger stone
04:23former white house aide also convicted peter navarro
04:29steve bannon also a convict on his way to jail soon former national security advisor also a
04:36convict michael flynn and his accountant alan weisselberg currently in custody right now
04:45right now but this is the person who you all chose to hang out with this morning
04:54delaying the original start time of our hearing because rather than getting work done for people
05:00who need us to work you chose a felon over helping families we're going to flip that
05:07and we're going to choose families over felons and i yield back gentleman yields back