The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Ken Buck Explains MAGA’S Control Over the GOP

Episode Date: July 2, 2024

Jon Stewart sits with former Colorado Representative Ken Buck to discuss his early departure from Congress, his disagreement with the MAGA component of the Republican Party, and the precedent set by Trump’s criminal trial and verdict.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We handpick some of our favorite recent moments from the show, in case you missed him. We'll be back with brand new episodes next week. Until then, enjoy today's episode. Welcome back to the program. My guest tonight, a Republican who used to represent Colorado's fourth district in Congress for nine years until his resignation in March. Please welcome to the program, former Congressman Ken Buck. Sir. Now, for those are the only to the sir.

Sir, you are the only ones you might not know. So, sir, you are a congressman for nine years. Sir, you are a congressman for nine years. Conservative bona fides, I mean, impeccable. And yet, not strong enough in fealty to the Trump world that you were immune from the pressure and the penalties that they might place on you. Well, Donald Trump's not a conservative. Exactly. But now you're the rhino. You with, and you and I probably disagree on most things. Hopefully everything.

Well done, sir. Well done. But what is the pressure like? You know, I see so many Republican stalwarts. But, but what is the pressure like? You know, I see so many Republican stalwarts who are on the record as saying, this man is a con man. This man is not worthy of the highest office of the presidency. This man defiles our great country. I'm supporting him in 2024. What is the mental process of that?

Well, it's really pretty simple. In order to get elected, you've got to get 51% of the vote. And so there's this combination of wanting to do the right thing, so you run for office, and then you need to be popular in order to win. And the Republican Party now, a majority of Republican primary voters, are MAGA supporters. And so you don't want to make the man mad who is really in control or strongly influencing the MAGO voters. So those folks are making a calculation. They want to stay in office. What is the, in your mind, what's the percentage of that?

How much of it is cynical calculation and how much of it is people like yourself leave and they are filled in by real ideologues who believe in that message? The message of it's really whatever Trump wants having nothing to do with conservative principle. Well, I think that there's 100 percent of the folks who are running for office who recognize that if they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they their their their their their th th th th th th th thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi thi thi. People thi thi thi. People thi. People thi. People thi. People thi. People thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. People thi. People thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. And thi. And thi. And thi. And thi. And thi. thiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. thiiiii. People like thi. People like thi. People like thi.% of the folks who are running for office who recognize that if they're going to win a Republican primary, they need to be Trump supporters. Right. And that's what's happening. Was there discussion behind the scenes in Congress where people would say, I want this

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Or if I want a primary, it would be because there were so many people who wanted to run against me that they split the one. And what was the crime that you committed? Because your positions hadn't changed. So I don't know that it's a crime, now that we're talking about verdicts and things like that. I'm just trying to stay away from whatever crime I... You are not under oath in any way. Whatever crime I committed, the statute of limitations probably hasn't run, so I want

to make sure I'm clear there. My goal in leaving Congress was to leave undefeated and undindicted. And I have accomplished that goal. So I'm very happy about that. You gotta aim higher next time. You gotta. You gotta. No. But you do have a frustration and complaints about the process of this

Donald Trump trial. You called it shameful president? Is that correct? A shameful precedent. I think it is a bad precedent. I was a prosecutor for 25 years. th thi. I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, thi thi thi thi thi, I, I, I, I, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm very thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi. thiiiiiiiiiii. thiiiiii. thi. thi. thi, thi, shameful precedent? I think it is a bad precedent. Okay. I was a prosecutor for 25 years. Why do you think it's a bad precedent? It is a bad precedent because, Lady Justice, blindfold, scale, sword, the image of Lady Justice. We went out in the 70s, I'm very familiar. Okay. In this case, the blindfold came off. The blindfold is on because people shouldn't be targeted.

And the system is flawed. I'm not saying that doesn't happen. People shouldn't be targeted because they're white or black. Man or woman, Republican Democrat, rich, poor. The blindfold came off and Donald Trump was targeed. Now how was he, I'm curious how he was targeted. So Cyrus Vance was the previous DA declined this case. Alvin Bragg brought a case where the misdemeanor had, the statute of limitations had expired,

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Hunter Biden. He wouldn't be wouldn't wouldn't wouldn't wouldn't wouldn't wouldn't wouldn't wouldn't wouldn't wouldn't wouldn't wouldn't wouldn who brought a gun somewhere. He wouldn't be facing the charges he's facing. Well, we probably disagree about that. I think that hopefully Hunter Biden would be facing rather than like a rehab stint or something along those lines. You think the attention on Hunter Biden would be occurring whether his name was Hunter Biden or not. I prosecuted hundreds of gun cases. Some of them because drug dealers, drug users, drug addicts, had purchased a gun, yes. But doesn't that say more about this country's view on drug cases and how we prosecute them and how we excuse white-collar crime? We basically have a bargain with white collar crime where we say, how about if you give us like 5% of it?

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A black kid walks into a bank, robs a bank, twenty years. A white guy at a bank steals millions of dollars compared to $1,200, gets off with probation or goes to a camp in Florida for a few months. Absolutely inequitable. Absolutely. And Congress and... So couldn't you look at this as actually not a shameful precedent, but an unbelievably positive step in sending a message that the low level of corruption that seems to be the center of our political life is unacceptable. I mean that was a good way out of look at. But I was not a prosecutor.

I didn't think that was coming. I apologize. No, no. You all get bonuses. Yes, exactly. So it is a dangerous precedent in my mind. Yeah. Because when we start charging former presidents, we, and I'm not saying that, look, I think what Donald Trump did in an Atlantic City with

the casinos and other things, right? There was fraud and it maybe went beyond civil fraud, and there are plenty of things that people could look at and say that's a criminal case. Sure. I think when you look at a former president and he has gone up, how many civil cases now? and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I th th th th th th th th thi, and I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm I I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I I I'm I I I'm I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I'm th. And I'm th. And I'm thi and I'm thi and I'm thi and I'm thi and I'm thi and I'm not thi, and I'm not thi, and, and, and I'm not th. thi, and, and, and I'm not th. thi, and I'm not thi,'s a criminal case. Sure. I think when you look at a former president and he has gone up how many civil cases now and for criminal cases. But let's be clear, Donald Trump didn't come into office a Boy Scout. He was probably one of the most sued individuals in New York State history. I mean his first lawyer was Roy Cone. You don't hire Roy Cone and say to him like, and I want to make sure everything's done on the up and up. Like, Roy Cone I think was Donald Trump's lawyer and Satan's lawyer.

I think, and if I remember correctly, even Satan would say to him like, take it down an notch, Roy, that's a little bit. Did you say pay his bills? He did not pay his bills. But my point is, this is a continuation of a process. So the targeting aspect of it, look, a healthy country would have viewed what Donald Trump did from the election day through January 6th, the way that he meticulously and relentlessly pursued all avenues to overturn a democratic election. That's what a healthy country would deal with.

But a healthy country also looks at other aspects of what seemed to be fraud. If you have a home office and you put it on your taxes, but you don't really have a home office, that's a problem for you. Is it not? Why aren't? They say like it's just a bookkeeping error of $130,000. Donald Trump colluded with his lawyer and a publisher of a major tabloid to buy and bury stories that he would deem hurtful to his election and then use the finances that he paid for those stories and put them down as not that. That is a crime. Is it not? He didn't

put him down in a ledger as not a payment for the anybody. But so what would he, what would he, well you can falsify your own books. You just can't falsify your books when you submit him to the IRS. Oh so when he obscited him he said he said it was a legal expense. Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, th, th, th th th, th, th, th, the the the their their their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, they, they. thi, thi, thi, thi, they. the, the, the, the, they. the, the, the, the, the, the, you submit him to the IRS. Oh, so when he absented him, he said this is... He said it was a legal expense. It wasn't a campaign expense. I understand the point you're making. So here's where this takes us, I think. I don't believe Donald Trump is the sole threat to our democracy. I truly don't.

I think he is a symptom of a dissatisfaction that people have with the democratic system where if you have money and you're powerful you can go, oh my ledger is a legal expense. That's not a real, it's not a legal expense. It's not for my election. It's, I think they see that his prescription of our system is correct. The system is rigged. And people's dissatisfaction with that is what leads to Donald Trump being able to command that dissatisfaction. Where I would disagree with him is I don't think he wants to drain the swamp. I think he wants the deed to the swamp signed over to him to him to him to him to him to him to him the the the th. the th. the th. the th. the the th. the, the, the, the, th. I, the, the, th. I, thi. I, I, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I, I, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I' the, I' the, I' the, I'e, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I, I, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, theyyyyyyyyymea, the.e.e.e.e.e.e.e. I'm thii.e.e. the. I'm their, he wants to drain the swamp. I think he wants the deed to the swamp signed over to him so that he can turn America into just another subsidiary of the Trump organization.

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wherever you get your podcast. Getting back to our democracy. Look, I just find all this high dudgeon. Look, I just find all this high dugeon really disingenuous. The prosecutor ran on getting Donald Trump. Well, he's the DA. He runs on weeding out corruption, right? Can I answer that? Please. I was a prosecutor.

25 years. But I ran three separate times. Okay. I ran on, we've got a combat violent crime. We've got to go after repeat offenders. Okay. Never ran on. I'm going to get that guy. But you could run on, I'm getting white-collar corruption.

Howevin Bragg didn't say I'm going to get Trump. What he said was I'm the most qualified-I thi-I I'm th said was, I'm the most qualified. This guy has a record in New York decades long of corruption. And I think it's, look, if you were Dick Tracy and you wanted to be the thing, wouldn't you be like, I'm going to get Scarface or whoever, one of the Dick Tracy guys, like, this was a guy pulling that. And the second point to that would be this. In 2016, what was one of the platforms that Donald Trump ran on? Let's get crooked Hillary. Thank God he's not a prosecutor. I understand, but do you get my point? The point is, this guy ran on, Hillary is crooked, and I'm going to put her in jail. And then with Biden, he said, the Biden crime failure is crooked and I'm going to

put them in jail. And then a prosecutor in New York said, I have evidence you've committed a felony, so we're going to put you on trial. And he's like, what? How dare you, sir? What? What are we talking about? That's the only... What is this?

What are we dealing with't I, sir? Respectfully. Please. Apples and oranges. Why? Because you've got someone in a political system. And how many people in America believe what a politician says? Sir, not, no, no, no.

Hey, tickets are free. I will throw you out of here, respectfully. We're having a conversation. This is not Rome. A prosecutor walks into a courtroom and tells a lie, and that prosecutor loses a law license and probably goes to prison. Exactly. So, so the difference between Alvin Bragg saying, I am going after that person and that prosecutor loses a law license and probably goes to prison. Exactly. So the difference between Alvin Bragg saying I am going after that person

and Donald Trump saying that person should go to prison is two different forums. Who has the more power? Who has more candidate? No, the president and someone running for president. This is kind of a crazy argument you're making. No, no, no, no, let me finish. Bill Barr, great attorney general. Merrick Garland, great attorney general. Merrick Garland appoints a special counsel and then puts the report out that says that Joe Biden should not be prosecuted

because he's a kind gentleman with a bad memory, something to that effect. Right. That's not what he said was he would present to the jury the jury the jury the jury the jury the jury the jury. . Right. That's not what he said, but OK. Well, it's close. What he said was he would present to the jury as a kind of general, which means I don't think we can win this case, because I think he's too sympathetic a figure. OK. Yeah.

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I don't know. All right. It's a long time ago. But my point being that if a candidate says I'm going to get this person, then that's all Alvin Bragg was at that time as a candidate. So why aren't you holding Donald Trump, who's running for president to the same standard that you would hold Alvin Bragg. And not only that, when Donald Trump was president, he did impanel a special prosecutor

to go after the Russian collusion hoax, that John Durham panel, and that was there to try and get charges against Hillary killing. You can't be mad at the Democrats for committing murder, just because your team only committed attempted murder. Like, that just doesn't fly. They were successful in their prosecution, as opposed to those other cases where you just tried to get her. So Donald Trump never had the authority to request a search warrant,

put handcuffs on somebody, prosecute somebody. That is always done by an independent Department of Justice. On the other hand, Alvin Bragg ran for office to get that authority to do those those those those those those those those th th th th th th th th th th th thosesesesesese th those those those to do those to do those to do to do to do to do to do to do to do to to do to do to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to th th thoes thoes thoes thoes thoes thoes thoes thoes thoes thoes thoes thoes thoes thoooooo. thoooooooooooooooooes. their thooooooooooes. thooooes thooes. thoes thoes of Justice. On the other hand, Alvin Bragg ran for office to get that authority to do those very things. It's two separate situations. Not solely, and also those things come with a process. He can't just go in there and go, arrest that guy. This isn't Navalny.

This is a grand jury was impaneled of normal New Yorkers, not Alvin Brett, and he presented his evidence. And they came back and said, yeah, there's a case here. So then they impaneled the jury. And then that's the case. You can indict a ham sandwich. That's what a grand jury is. Okay. But generally, you wouldn't convict a ham sandwich. Because at some point, 12 New Yorkers would go, that's just a hand sandwich. And we will see what an appeals court does. Look, you're putting me in an unenviable position of defending Donald Trump. I've spent a long time telling people- I'm putting you in a position of defending the process that he was put through.

That process has standards. You said it yourself. An appeals court is going to look at this. There are many safeguards within our legal system. And he's getting the benefit of almost all of them. In a way that poor New Yorkers will never get a sniff of. Agree both. So he's getting doier process than anybody has ever gotten. So I don't understand just because you don't like the result. He doesn't like the result of the election. Our elections are a fraud and we're a third world country. He doesn't like the result of a criminal case. Our courts are a fraud.

What would make them better if they did what I wanted? That's not our system. No, I think what would make them better in his mind if they didn't convict him. That's my point. But I don't think he wants justice in this country. I don't think he's standing up and saying we need justice. He's standing up and saying the election is stolen, so let's let's see if we can overturn the election in Congress.

I didn't win in the courts, so let's go to Congress. I voted to certify those electors, by the way. You and I, you walked out here and you said to me, this is just 15 minutes ago. I promised I wouldn't do this. You said to me, I'll bet we don't agree on anything. And yet, sir, here we are. Agreeing. Agreeing. If we can do this so. How does this get prepared? I retract my previous comments. I will have the scenographer, note those in the, how do we, my point in the first segment was, the courts have been a really important stopgap.

I think our courts are, there is a two-tiered system and poor people without access get screwed. But I do think it's played an important role in holding up certain things in terms of corruption. I think the news media has forgotten that that can be part of their role. Is that something that you think could bring a sense more of an established reality, an earned authority from the media that could create some parameters that we can all sort of agree on? Is that something that you think would be possible? I appreciate the question. I'm no longer a defense attorney, now I can go to. So I think we went from Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather to entertainment. And I think the problem...

Why are you looking at me? I didn't... I had nothing to do with this. I think the problem right now is everybody gets their news sources in silos and they just keep getting reinforced with certain ideas. I went to a neighbor's house the day after the 2020 election their flag was upside down. I was... You live next to the Elitos? I thought they made a mistake. That's crazy. I knocked on the door and asked them, your flags up is... I thought they made a mistake. Oh gosh, but it was they were sending a message.

Oh, yeah. It's a crazy mess. There were kids playing across the street. There was food in the refrigerator, gas and the tank, there was, what's the distress? You thought it was a dystopian like the last of us kind of it, yeah, they were falling apart. I wonder too if the algorithm, you know, has played a role. You know, people can say like, oh, they're in their silos, but I think also the algorithms of social media incentivize you to more and more radical, they want to keep you engaged, in the same way that the news media needs kind of fear and urgency. I always say it's built for 9-11, but in the absence of 9-11, they have to make you think like it's 9-11. And I think the algorithm, you know, plays a role in that as well,

driving us into those holes, lacking perspective. I don't know what you do about that, but... Well, one, you create more competition Facebook should have five Facebooks that they compete with and hopefully there would be a point where what they do is they buy anything that even resembles a budding Facebook and stick it in their Facebook drawer right that's the tough part oh it's it's do you miss Congress in any way is there something about do you feel it was a a job left undone for you do you feel what what are your ultimate thoughts about leaving the way you did and the unfulfilled potential of a government that is completely disconnected from the needs of its people, allowing demagogues

like Donald Trump to rise? Well, I left because I couldn't tell the lie. The 2020 election wasn't stolen. The January 6th defendants aren't political prisoners on and on. And so... That's him saying that not me. I just want to make that clear. I don't... I don't... If I ever decide to run for Congress as a Republican, I just want to make sure that, that's Ken Buck saying that, not me. Continue. So, so, not telling the, not agreeing to the party line.

You're a victim of cancel culture. Well, I am, one, I'm not a victim of anything. I am absolutely blessed beyond belief with six grandkids and plenty of reasons. Six grandkids. Six and a half grandkids. One on the way. Oh, God. I'm sorry.

I immediately went to like Salomonic wisdom of like, no, you're not supposed to do that. No, but you know, there's a lot of life out there besides arguing about nothing and telling lies. And so I made a choice to go enjoy what I've got to live. What will break this fever in Washington? One, America does great with a crisis. 9.12, America came together and we were a unified country.

So I hope we don't get to the crisis. For like seven hours. Hope we don't get to that crisis point. But I think that there is a leader out there that will unify and help unify America. And it's somebody who has great morals, somebody who has great leadership skills, a John F. Kennedy. You know, I probably wouldn't have said this 20 years ago that he was a great hero, but you look at what John F. Kennedy did in terms of bringing the country together

during the Cold War and moving us forward. There is somebody there that will help America th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the the the the the the the the the the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. thi. thi. I thi. I thi. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I I th. I I I I th. I I I I th. I I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. thi. thi. thi. I theea. I thea. I thei. I'm thei. I thei. I'm thei. I thea. I thea. I the. I will help America heal and move forward. You wouldn't happen to have a name would you? I know it's not Kent Buck and I know it's not one of the two candidates leading the country in the in the polls right now. Right. Well I very much appreciate you coming back and and having the discussion with this come back and to see us again. I much appreciated. Wish of that. Former Congress in Can't about. Explore more shows from the Daily Show podcast universe by searching the Daily Show wherever you get your podcasts. Watch the Daily Show weeknights at 11 10 Central on Comedy Central and stream full episodes anytime on Fairmount Plus. Paramount Podcasts Hey everybody, John Stewart here. I am here to tell you about my new podcast, the weekly show coming out every Thursday. We're going to be talking about the election, earnings calls. What are they talking about on these earnings calls? We're going to be talking about

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