Want to go to Don Peebles right now, the former
Barack Obama fundraiser, advisor and friend, Biebles Corporation CEO and
founder.
Don I.
I do want to talk to you about other things,
of course.
But this trial going on for Hunter Biden, an issue
for the president or how do you see it?
I mean, look, he's got home field advantage, right?
It is in Delaware and the First lady is attending
the the case.
I mean, I think it's a problem, but not any
greater problem than he's already had.
It'll be interesting to see whether or not he's convicted.
It seems pretty apparent that he should be.
The idea of throwing a gun in the trash is
a little bit.
Well you need though is 1 juror.
It doesn't agree.
That's true and you may get that, but you never
know.
Look, I think that it will be another issue for
the president, but the president has a bunch of issues
that are I think are more problematic for him than
his son right now.
All right, let's talk at some of those issues.
You've been talking about the economy and inflation, and it's
very reality that the president just can't get around.
What do you what do you say?
I think that the Americans are struggling right now.
They're feeling the pain of a high inflation that's been
ongoing since he came into office.
They've done very little to change that.
In fact, they fueled it for the first year and
a half.
And and his campaign rhetoric is not about the issues
that Americans are experiencing right now.
They're wedge issues.
He's trying to go and attract women based on reproductive
rights.
He's trying to scare African Americans in the voting form.
Neither one of them is he going to and saying,
hey, I've got a plan to level the playing field
so we can turn the page on race.
What about on on the immigration issue?
He's taking these, you know, executive actions, whatever you want
to call him today to do something Republicans say should
have done a long time ago, not to the president's,
you know, benefit here said, well, I'm doing it now
and you guys are still criticizing me.
And the back and forth goes, it's being highly charged
politically.
What do you think?
Well, I mean too little, too late.
I mean, look at the impact that's had on New
York.
His policies have decimated New York City.
His abandonment of New York City in terms of leaving
us to fend for ourselves here with this migrant crises,
not supporting a Democratic mayor.
And in fact, because the Democratic mayor spoke out against
some of his policies, started attacking him, too.
I mean, I just think that his approach now to
immigration is merely to try to swing some voters because
they're stuck in the mud.
He can't move.
His numbers aren't moving.
But even progressives, some party, don't like the actions he's
taking here because some of them will, will make it
much tougher to, say, claim asylum when you want to
come to the United States.
So they're already willing and eager to challenge that in
court.
And here we go again.
Yeah.
I mean, the president has nowhere to go.
His numbers aren't going to move.
He's not going to become a different person than he
is.
He is who he is.
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
And he is a candidate that we're going to have
to face Donald Trump on.
The polls are pretty close.
It it there was any sense of harm to former
President Trump.
But there's 34, you know, guilty verdicts hasn't really popped
up, certainly hasn't affected, you know, his money raising capabilities,
anything it's it's emboldened them.
I guess some of the figures have it at about
$400 million that he's been raising between, you know, a
rich billionaire heiress and and to say nothing of just
people giving 2025 bucks at a time, 10s of $1,000,000
worth of that.
So the president and the former president will have ample
funds to carry on this race.
How do you think that goes?
Well, I think that the advantage is clearly Donald Trump.
I think he's under polling.
I think that there are voters who will be uncomfortable
telling strangers who they're voting for, and especially Donald Trump.
Yes, because I think people, I think the the far
left and, and the mainstream media overall have vilified him.
And, and I think that most Americans, me included, think
this trial was a farce.
I mean, it is absurd to manufacture 34 felonies over
some accounting issues that he's not an accounting.
He's not the CFO.
So the convictions carry no weight.
And in your opinion, you know, even though some Americans
are saying 47 percent or so, you know, yeah, it,
it, it, it, it, it matters, but not matters enough
to tip the scales because the polls so far don't
show it.
I mean, look, everybody can't have it both ways, right?
If you look at what happened in Florida when George
Zimmerman killed Trayvon Trayon Martin, when Trayvon Martin was killed,
he was acquitted because the the local juries had a
bias towards standing your ground and other issues there.
So he was unfairly acquitted.
Donald Trump was unfairly convicted in an environment where it
would be impossible for him to get a fair trial.
And these are not the issues, man, the Manhattan District
Attorney going after the president of the United States or
former president of the United States and trying to affect
a federal election.
This is a federal issue, should have been a federal
issue.
And we know that the only reason Trump was indicted
and tried and convicted is because people here don't agree
with his politics.
So let's talk a little bit about when you were
last here.
I got a big response because a lot of people
say, you know, we should run that guy for office
referring to you.
But you said something about Eric Adams, the mayor of
New York, who if he wants to run for re
election, you won't challenge him.
And in a city like this where Democrats rule the
roots, that was just as good as re electing it,
wasn't it?
Well, no.
Look, I think that the mayor, I think Eric Adams
came into office with a plan to focus on moving
New York forward to get crime under control.
And it's not no one, but not working well, actually
crime is down a bit.
And so he came in to do that and then
was saddled with this migrant crisis and got no help
popular.
And so I, well, I think I just want to
be clear with you when you said you're not entertaining
running for mayor and I, I think he would do
very well.
I'm not politically astute, but I think people are looking
for an adult to someone who can calmly look at
the crisis and deal with you're.
You're saying you're taking a pass on that?
Yeah, I think that I do believe that some of
the policies that Eric Adams is implementing will take root
and they will show results.
They're beginning to show them now.
He has a lot of headwinds.
I mean, what about governor?
Would you run for governor?
I mean, Kathy Hochul just gotten reelected, and she needs
to do her job.
And I think she's gonna work hard to keep doing
her job.
Not governor, not mayor.
I guess that leaves president down the road.
But what do you think?
That you never know.
No.
OK, There we go.
There we go.
Don.
Always good seeing you.
Thank you.
Very.