The following is a transcript from the Pro America Report with Ed Martin.
Welcome, Welcome, welcome. It’s Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report. Great to be together on this incredible day in American history. Just hours ago The New York jury, a jury of 12 in New York, decided that Donald Trump was in fact guilty of whatever the crime was. I mean, nobody still explains it to me very well. It’s a some sort of record keeping record keeping problem, but it was so possibly so related to a campaign that maybe. It was a felony. Anyway. He was he was found guilty. Listen.
Welcome to the Pro America Report. I’m Ed Martin. Visit proamericareport.com. In fact, I’m gonna send this segment that we’re talking about out to my big list. If you go to proamericareport.com and sign up or if you’re listening to this, you’re Probably already signed Up.
But here’s the thing, you know this is a very, very sad day, but it’s also a clarifying day because for many, many years we have watched as the left in this country, and far too many people in this country have decided, made the decision and lived their lives in such a way that they diminish institutions that have a lot to do with us being Americans. So when you are an American, you are part of a system and we’ve talked about this before. The system is based on the Constitution and the rule of law, and on the Judeo-Christian values, it, the values of fairness, the values of honesty, integrity, the kinds of things that you know, if you’re In the Judeo-Christian tradition, it didn’t mean it never did that. You have to be. Excuse me a a Jewish adherent to the Jewish faith, or even an adherent. Pardon me, to the Christian faith. It just meant that you bought into the system that had those values undergirding the rule of law and the Constitution. That’s how it always was.
And in the last 60 or so years, maybe a little bit longer, it’s been a it’s been a gradual decline, but it’s been seems like it’s precipitous in the last say 10 or 15 years. Probably accelerated by technology more than anything, but in the last 60 or 70 years. It has been clear. Pardon me, that more and more Americans do not buy into, are are not subscribing to those Judeo-Christian values. And you could say well, they don’t go to church or synagogue. Well, that’s one way to measure it. But they also just don’t they they have.
We have watched as institutions. Have been repeatedly diminished and that is that I’d say the institutional church. Education as something that’s really focused on the kids, associations, amongst individuals, even to the thing, even things like the tradition of of gamesmanship and fair play.
Sometimes it’s follow the money. Once the NFL became, you know, a a multi, multi billion Billion dollar business. You knew things were gonna change and they have. Same thing with all sports and all all entertainment. Hollywood. Another example that’s changed dramatically over the last sixty or 70 years.
So as that has happened, we we have less people who are either interested in supporting what it is at the heart of America, Judeo-Christian values, the rule of law, the Constitution, or they don’t even know it.
They’re just, you know, kind of unwitting, unwitting dupes moving along.
And then amongst that in that by the way, are some really nasty people, communists and really nasty, evil people that they want to do things that are terrible. They wanna tear things down. They wanna diminish government, they wanna diminish the quality.
And one of the places that they have come to diminish is the law. And the around the law. First you see in the training for lawyers, you know, until the 1960s, there was no law school you went to, universities, went to colleges, and you studied law and you got a bachelors in law. And then you went and sat for the bar and you probably had kind of an apprenticeship, not a formal one. Like they do in England At the bar there but here.
But then they created the system. And the system was law schools, three years, lots of money, lots of time.
And in the system there we had professors who were godless and who were again not subscribing to the system. And the system became dominated by money and by power. And here’s where we get to where we are today.
There used to be, there is a historic Touchstone for all of America. All aspects of it, and it’s called due process and due process. The phrase due, it, it means what you’re owed, right? What what is your due? What are you due, you know, what are you owed? And process obviously is the procedure under the law. How things happen under the law.
And due process as a term comes out of the, I think the 13th century, 1200s. Magna Carta and and England in English common law and the notion was that individuals at that time they were property rights, property owners, but individuals came to develop, had a certain set of of procedures that went along with them being individuals in the community, in the, under the law. And so it developed, and in America we really fine-tuned it.
The due process – that you, you, you, every citizen. Is owed the process and the process was not just a set of rules, it was a set of rules undergirded by the Judeo-Christian values – fairness, honesty, integrity, justice. The pursuit – didn’t mean we hit it all the time. Didn’t mean we didn’t mean we had major, major problems. We did. And you look back and say what, what were the, what were those men almost exclusively men at the time, thinking when they came up with this incredibly generous and serious notion of proper, of due process. And they didn’t include black people because of their color. Well, it was a it was a problem. There has always been improvement in the system. It’s always been fine-tuned, but it’s been exceptional because it’s undergirded. By the Judeo-Christian values.
And due process, the process owed to you owed to me owed to citizens. The owed process, the due process, the process due process owed, has been extraordinary protections in the system of justice: right to counsel, right to not self incriminate, a right to protections under the law.
And especially in the tribunal where your liberty is at stake and your property. Liberty especially. You had certain fairness requirements: impartiality, a jury of your peers and and the and the the the deck was stacked in the favor of the individual because we value the individual so much in our culture that because the individual it is the sovereign. In our nation. OK.
What we have watched And you know, I was thinking about remember the old Nike, the Nike tagline and the shirt for a long time. Just do it. Just do it. That was the thing. Just do it, was kind of. It was great. Three syllables. Just do it. Boom, boom, boom. Kind of the the height of the Michael Jordan era when it was like Nike was so trendy. Just do it and the commercials there was a, you know, I think Bo Jackson was in one of those commercials. But. You get the point if you if you have that memory, you remember what I’m saying it. Was just do it.
What we watched what happened in New York and why it’s such a dark day. Is to me it’s an ending point. And the point now is not due process, it’s due power due power. If you have the ability to seize power, Alvin Bragg run for office and say, well, I’m gonna get Trump and then just use your power to get Trump.
It is true that there were people elected appointed in office in, in places of influence, and they did use their power in ways that were abusive before yesterday. Before the the jury verdict.
But the system would have recognized it as either an anomaly, a mistake, an oversight or a problem. What happened in New York was that the system that is supposed to deliver due process. It’s no longer just saying things like, oh, the process is the punishment. What they did, what they did to Donald Trump for for weeks and trial and said all this stuff, and now they call him names and they they’re gonna call him a convicted felon and blah, blah blah, that that would you’d say that’s the process is the punishment, no. That’s not what I mean. Not anymore.
What I mean is, there’s no due process. It’s just do power. Do if you have it, do power. If you have it do do use the power. Use the power that you have that you wield. It doesn’t matter. Honesty, fairness. None of that matters. Just use the power.
You know I listen to I read and and and watch and. And I don’t listen to him as much. He doesn’t do as much broadcasting. He used to, Cernovich, Mike Cernovich, who’s on X. I think it’s @cernovich as his handle. It’s a great X profile. He has great posts but he has said that In the past. The left and the Democrats, when they get power, they use it. And when Republicans, conservatives get power, they talk about it. And that’s exactly right. And I think it’s because we want to believe. Conservatives do, that he system is still there. It’s still working that the system that has the rule of law and the Judeo-Christian values undergirding it. The Constitution that it’s still working.
Even if there are these anomalies, even if we see the weaponization of of government against groups and individuals, even if we see them targeting lawyers and all these things we say to ourselves, we have said to ourselves, you know, these are anomalies. These are this a bad crop. But it’s not, the system’s not bad.
Well, I’m here to say when the jury came back. In New York, after absolutely positively pure, pure nonsense, pure showmanship, you never, you haven’t seen a Broadway play that has been as intricately staged as that trial with liars lying, with judges Acting like partisans, all the parts of it were done in such a way, every part of it orchestrated to deliver. The final curtain and to get. The the guilty verdict. Due process. Being gone. Due process Missing is not a great loss, it is. It’s great, but it’s not missing. The system is what’s broken now.
Due process isn’t possible if you don’t believe in fairness, due process is not possible. If you don’t believe in justice, it due process isn’t possible. If you don’t subscribe to the Judeo-Christian Values and it and it. It appears enough of the Americans. Enough Americans are are are either brainwashed by the media. By the powerful and they’re not worried about due process. The powerful, they’re just going to do power and they’re going to do it to Trump. They’re going to do it to you and me and anybody else who gets in the way.
Very, very sad Sad day and it’s a brand new America. God knows what it will Be. But it will be going forward, but it’s not. Like it was. That’s what you need To know. Be right back.
