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[00:00.000 --> 00:02.640]  Welcome back to the channel.
[00:02.640 --> 00:07.760]  On August 8th, 2022, the Federal Bureau of Investigation served a search warrant on the
[00:07.760 --> 00:11.680]  Florida home of former President Donald Trump.
[00:11.680 --> 00:14.960]  There's a lot of very odd things being said about that.
[00:14.960 --> 00:23.200]  Let's take a look at what it's really all about.
[00:23.200 --> 00:34.520]  The Dr. Reality Vodcast with Dave Champion.
[00:34.520 --> 00:39.120]  The allegations that gave rise to the warrant are twofold.
[00:39.120 --> 00:45.280]  First is President Trump's and now former President Trump handling of official presidential
[00:45.280 --> 00:50.400]  records, which is a specific legal thing in the Presidential Records Act.
[00:50.720 --> 00:57.000]  It is alleged that documents and other materials that should have, under the law, been placed
[00:57.000 --> 01:02.840]  in the possession of the National Archivist instead were taken by Trump to his Florida
[01:02.840 --> 01:03.840]  home.
[01:03.840 --> 01:09.040]  If true, that would, in fact, be a violation of the Presidential Records Act.
[01:09.040 --> 01:16.960]  The second allegation is that former President Trump removed classified documents from the
[01:17.680 --> 01:22.520]  United States government and took them to his residence in Florida.
[01:22.520 --> 01:25.480]  What is the Presidential Records Act?
[01:25.480 --> 01:30.720]  It's a federal statute that was enacted in the wake of Watergate and Nixon to make sure
[01:30.720 --> 01:35.840]  that the records created by a sitting president are defined as the property of the United
[01:35.840 --> 01:41.040]  States and upon leaving office, those records have to go into the possession of the National
[01:41.040 --> 01:42.040]  Archive.
[01:42.040 --> 01:44.640]  They have to be turned over to the National Archivist.
[01:44.720 --> 01:48.880]  Without going too deep into the Presidential Records Act from now on, I'm just going to
[01:48.880 --> 01:52.160]  call it the PRA, without going too deeply into the PRA, because there's a lot of different
[01:52.160 --> 01:56.320]  elements to it, the primary element is that it's two primary elements.
[01:56.320 --> 02:00.520]  Number one, it defines that presidential records are the property of the United States, where
[02:00.520 --> 02:04.080]  before that, that was questionable and a lot of presidents asserted that records actually
[02:04.080 --> 02:05.080]  belonged to them.
[02:05.080 --> 02:10.800]  In 1981, Congress passed a statute, the then president signed it into law, and so now,
[02:10.800 --> 02:14.520]  in law, the records created by a sitting president become the property of the United States.
[02:14.560 --> 02:18.480]  They are not the property of the individual sitting in the Oval Office.
[02:18.480 --> 02:22.880]  Another significant element of the PRA is that it places the responsibility for getting
[02:22.880 --> 02:28.200]  presidential official presidential records from the president to the archivist.
[02:28.200 --> 02:33.640]  That responsibility is under the statute, the responsibility of the president, and that
[02:33.640 --> 02:39.240]  makes sense, because who knows more about that president creating things that fall into
[02:39.240 --> 02:46.120]  the definition of official presidential records than the guy who's doing it day in and day out?
[02:46.120 --> 02:52.440]  The president, so logically and rationally, Congress put the responsibility on the president.
[02:52.440 --> 02:55.800]  Pretty sure you can all connect the dots on the official presidential records and the
[02:55.800 --> 02:58.040]  presidential records act.
[02:58.040 --> 03:01.040]  Donald Trump was obligated to take official presidential records and hand them over to
[03:01.040 --> 03:05.360]  the archivist when he left the White House, but didn't and took them back to his home
[03:05.360 --> 03:06.360]  in Florida.
[03:06.360 --> 03:09.760]  That's a violation of the PRA, so I won't belabor that.
[03:09.760 --> 03:18.160]  I do, however, want to say a word about the allegation that Trump took classified documents
[03:18.160 --> 03:21.840]  from the White House to his home in Florida.
[03:21.840 --> 03:24.080]  Here's the thing about that.
[03:24.080 --> 03:30.200]  Presidents when they leave office have about the highest security clearance of anyone on
[03:30.200 --> 03:34.720]  the planet, and that is for the purpose that they may be called upon to review documents
[03:34.720 --> 03:40.040]  and discuss classified operations and so forth, even after they've left office.
[03:40.040 --> 03:45.040]  It's in the best interest of the United States that the president retains a very high clearance
[03:45.040 --> 03:49.480]  level so that he can support the goals and interests of the United States moving forward,
[03:49.480 --> 03:52.560]  if need be, even after he's left office.
[03:52.560 --> 03:57.840]  However, as far as the allegation, this is a huge however.
[03:57.840 --> 04:04.800]  No former president has the right to remove classified documents from the custody of the
[04:04.800 --> 04:10.280]  United States government and take them to his own home or put them in his own car or
[04:10.280 --> 04:12.800]  give them to a subordinate.
[04:12.800 --> 04:19.480]  No ex-president has that authority, and if the allegation is true, that is a significant
[04:19.480 --> 04:21.200]  violation of law.
[04:21.200 --> 04:25.400]  Although not relevant to the warrant that was just served on former President Trump's
[04:25.560 --> 04:29.480]  home in Florida, Maggie Haberman, who is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter now working
[04:29.480 --> 04:35.400]  for the New York Times, has featured the fact that Donald Trump was known to make notes
[04:35.400 --> 04:40.760]  during meetings and after the meeting tear up the notes and go to a nearby toilet and
[04:40.760 --> 04:44.440]  throw the torn up notes in the toilet.
[04:44.440 --> 04:53.100]  There are literally photographs of torn up pieces of paper with the text side up floating
[04:53.100 --> 04:58.260]  in the water of a toilet and the handwriting on the paper is that of Donald Trump.
[04:58.260 --> 05:03.300]  In addition to those photographs, a number of people who were closely with Donald Trump
[05:03.300 --> 05:08.580]  during the time that he was in the Oval Office said yes, he would do that fairly often.
[05:08.580 --> 05:15.340]  That practice is almost certainly a violation of the Presidential Records Act, unless of
[05:15.340 --> 05:18.080]  course during the meeting, when everybody was handling world affairs, he was writing
[05:18.080 --> 05:21.060]  down a recipe for muffins.
[05:21.060 --> 05:24.140]  But if the notes were relevant to what was being discussed in the meeting, then tearing
[05:24.140 --> 05:29.900]  them up and throwing them in the toilet would be a violation of the PRA.
[05:29.900 --> 05:35.220]  As you can imagine, the left thinks that the FBI serving a search warrant on Donald Trump's
[05:35.220 --> 05:37.700]  home in Florida is an absolutely fabulous thing.
[05:37.700 --> 05:43.900]  And of course, the right then has pulled out and dusted off one of Trump's famous, infamous
[05:43.900 --> 05:48.140]  mantras, it's a witch hunt.
[05:48.140 --> 05:54.420]  One of the oddest claims that the FBI served that warrant for these particular issues on
[05:54.420 --> 06:01.340]  Donald Trump's home because they are trying to get him disqualified from running for president
[06:01.340 --> 06:04.340]  in the 2024 election.
[06:04.340 --> 06:12.140]  And that's based on Title 18 United States Code Section 2071, which is entitled Concealment,
[06:13.020 --> 06:17.980]  or mutilation generally, and reads in its relevance part as follows.
[06:17.980 --> 06:24.980]  Whoever, having custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or
[06:24.980 --> 06:31.980]  other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, removes being relevant to the warrant,
[06:31.980 --> 06:38.060]  mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title
[06:38.380 --> 06:44.380]  or imprisoned not more than three years or both, and shall forfeit his office and be
[06:44.380 --> 06:51.860]  disqualified from holding any office under the United States.
[06:51.860 --> 06:57.300]  That disqualification provision is what some expositors and the writer using to hang their
[06:57.300 --> 07:04.300]  hat on to explain why the FBI executed a search warrant on Donald Trump's home in Florida.
[07:05.220 --> 07:14.020]  So first, Section 2071 is part of a larger group of statutes pertaining to government
[07:14.020 --> 07:22.020]  records and reports generally, not the Presidential Records Act specifically.
[07:22.020 --> 07:30.780]  Second, the disqualification provision cannot be applied to Donald Trump or any candidate
[07:30.780 --> 07:36.780]  running for president, because the requirements for that are found in the United States Constitution
[07:36.780 --> 07:41.860]  and Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5, which reads as follows.
[07:41.860 --> 07:48.860]  The president must be at least 35 years of age, be a natural-born citizen, and must have
[07:48.860 --> 07:52.860]  lived in the United States for at least 14 years.
[07:52.860 --> 07:58.060]  When I say that the disqualification provision in 2071 cannot be applied to a candidate running
[07:58.140 --> 08:08.140]  for president, that is the prevailing view of constitutional scholars across the nation.
[08:08.140 --> 08:14.220]  That's based on the notion, the theory, the doctrine that since the qualifications to
[08:14.220 --> 08:20.700]  run for president, to win perhaps, and to serve as president are specified in the United
[08:20.700 --> 08:26.300]  States Constitution, you just heard them, and that Congress then has no authority to
[08:26.300 --> 08:32.660]  come along behind the Constitution and say, except if you were convicted of this, or you
[08:32.660 --> 08:35.420]  committed that violation, or so forth.
[08:35.420 --> 08:41.100]  In other words, the understanding is, if we the people want to elect as president somebody
[08:41.100 --> 08:46.380]  who has been convicted of a violation of law, or multiple violations of law, because we
[08:46.380 --> 08:51.300]  think that person is best suited to be the chief executive of the federal government,
[08:51.380 --> 08:57.260]  and we can, and Congress cannot tell we the people, no, you can't elect the person you
[08:57.260 --> 08:58.260]  think best.
[08:58.260 --> 09:00.740]  Let me put an even finer point on this.
[09:00.740 --> 09:05.560]  If somebody who wanted to run for president had been indicted for a crime, had been tried
[09:05.560 --> 09:11.060]  for that crime, had been convicted for that crime, and was sitting in prison at the time
[09:11.060 --> 09:15.900]  he was running for president, and the people of the United States elected that person to
[09:15.900 --> 09:20.380]  be president, and that person was sitting in a jail cell and had quite some time to
[09:20.380 --> 09:25.020]  go before they would complete their sentence, that person would have to be sworn in as president.
[09:25.020 --> 09:31.460]  So with all that said, just as an intellectual exercise, what would happen if Donald Trump
[09:31.460 --> 09:36.940]  was indicted for a violation of the PRA, and or removing classified documents from the
[09:36.940 --> 09:43.100]  custody of the United States government, stood trial, and was convicted by a jury?
[09:43.100 --> 09:47.560]  What would happen then if he announced he wanted to run for office?
[09:47.560 --> 09:52.760]  As I said, the prevailing wisdom in the majority of constitutional scholars across the nation
[09:52.760 --> 09:57.320]  is that could not stop Donald Trump or any president in a similar situation from running
[09:57.320 --> 10:02.160]  for president, perhaps winning, and if winning, getting sworn in as president.
[10:02.160 --> 10:10.160]  Now, with that said, you can bet in this hypothetical scenario we're discussing now, if Donald
[10:10.160 --> 10:15.640]  Trump were convicted, there would be lawsuits all across the country by those who oppose
[10:15.640 --> 10:19.840]  Donald Trump attempting to make sure he could not get on the balance of the states of the
[10:19.840 --> 10:26.640]  union based on the disqualification provision of 2071, which we discussed a few moments ago.
[10:26.640 --> 10:30.680]  Now, I'm confident that the course of rule exactly what we discussed here, that 2071
[10:30.680 --> 10:39.000]  is not applicable to any elected office, the qualifications for which appear in the Constitution.
[10:39.000 --> 10:45.160]  But despite the high likelihood of that being the outcome, you can bet your rear end that
[10:45.160 --> 10:52.080]  claim would be litigated across the country and possibly all the way to the Supreme Court.
[10:52.080 --> 10:59.240]  I don't know whether the legal ins and outs of this kind of thing are enjoyable to you,
[10:59.240 --> 11:04.120]  are intriguing to you, but they have been to me my whole life.
[11:04.120 --> 11:11.800]  That eventually caused me to write Income Tax Shattering the Myths, which tackles the
[11:12.120 --> 11:18.240]  most complex area of US law, income tax law.
[11:18.240 --> 11:25.080]  It lays out the law from 1895 all the way through to this very moment in a clear way
[11:25.080 --> 11:34.240]  that every single American can understand and incontrovertibly proves that Congress
[11:34.240 --> 11:37.840]  has never imposed the income tax on the ordinary American.
[11:37.840 --> 11:40.520]  The kind of person gets up in the morning, cup of coffee, a little breakfast, gets the
[11:40.520 --> 11:43.120]  kids off to school, goes to work, earns a living.
[11:43.120 --> 11:49.400]  Congress has never imposed the income tax on that ordinary American.
[11:49.400 --> 11:55.960]  But from a 60-year propaganda campaign, a disinformation campaign, a massive disinformation
[11:55.960 --> 12:02.000]  campaign by the United States government, gosh, the vast majority of the American public
[12:02.000 --> 12:05.920]  falsely believes that to be true.
[12:05.920 --> 12:12.960]  So if you'd like to see what the law says with your own eyes, instead of just listening
[12:12.960 --> 12:17.840]  to what other people tell you, here's a hint, they haven't read the law either.
[12:17.840 --> 12:21.880]  If you would like to be the expert in the room, if you would like to see the law with
[12:21.880 --> 12:25.280]  your own two eyes, when I say the expert in the room, I'm not joking.
[12:25.280 --> 12:28.680]  When you're done and close the file, it's 400 pages approximately, when you close the
[12:28.680 --> 12:32.680]  final page of Income Tax Shattering the Myths, and by the way, people describe it as a fascinating
[12:33.400 --> 12:38.920]  they often describe it as a mystery, where you know who done it, but boy, it sure is
[12:38.920 --> 12:44.400]  exciting to see how they did it, and it's more exciting to learn that you now have the
[12:44.400 --> 12:48.120]  entire thing figured out.
[12:48.120 --> 12:51.200]  But back to the expert in the room, when you close that final page of Income Tax Shattering
[12:51.200 --> 12:54.240]  the Myths, it doesn't matter whether you're sitting in a room with a bookkeeper, with
[12:54.240 --> 12:59.320]  an accountant, with a tax attorney, you will be the expert in the room, and I know that
[12:59.320 --> 13:03.160]  might seem hard to believe, but anybody who's read Income Tax Shattering the Myths will
[13:03.160 --> 13:04.160]  tell you that.
[13:04.160 --> 13:07.360]  They will tell you they can sit down with any of those people all the way up to a tax
[13:07.360 --> 13:08.360]  attorney.
[13:08.360 --> 13:12.560]  They can sit down and say, tell me what the answer to this is.
[13:12.560 --> 13:15.880]  The tax attorney can't answer or answers it incorrectly.
[13:15.880 --> 13:19.440]  It has to get corrected by the person who's read Income Tax Shattering the Myths, and
[13:19.440 --> 13:20.440]  on and on it goes.
[13:20.440 --> 13:24.520]  So if you want to be that guy, by the way, I just heard an adage the other day that I
[13:24.520 --> 13:26.080]  thought was really intriguing.
[13:26.080 --> 13:28.000]  It goes like this.
[13:28.000 --> 13:32.600]  Warriors confront the evil most people refuse to acknowledge.
[13:32.600 --> 13:35.000]  I'll share that with you again.
[13:35.000 --> 13:41.200]  Warriors confront the evil most people refuse to acknowledge.
[13:41.200 --> 13:45.360]  If you would consider the United States government running a massive disinformation campaign
[13:45.360 --> 13:50.080]  for 60 years in order to commit the largest financial crime in the history of the world
[13:50.080 --> 13:57.360]  against you and the other 330 million Americans who don't owe a penny to the government because
[13:57.360 --> 13:58.760]  they earn a living.
[13:58.760 --> 14:04.200]  If you consider that evil, are you a warrior?
[14:04.200 --> 14:05.560]  Are you a punk?
[14:05.560 --> 14:12.120]  If you're a warrior, I want to encourage you to go to drreality.news.
[14:12.120 --> 14:14.920]  Grab yourself a copy of Income Tax Shattering the Myths.
[14:14.920 --> 14:16.160]  You have my word.
[14:16.160 --> 14:20.360]  It will be one of the most fascinating, intriguing, enjoyable books you will...
[14:20.360 --> 14:21.360]  Okay, wait a second.
[14:21.360 --> 14:26.840]  When I say enjoyable, since I'm giving you my word, I want to be clear when I say enjoyable,
[14:26.840 --> 14:29.720]  it is going to piss you off.
[14:29.720 --> 14:33.240]  But in the end, you're going to be thrilled that you read it.
[14:33.240 --> 14:37.960]  And by purchasing a copy of Income Tax Shattering the Myths or perhaps Body Science or anything
[14:37.960 --> 14:42.560]  else that I've written that's on the site, you help me to continue to be here for you
[14:42.560 --> 14:43.560]  with these kind of presentations.
[14:43.560 --> 14:44.560]  Thank you.