Jim Walden | Attorney | 03-11-26

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Here he is, the amazing attorney, Jim Walden, and he's out there today, defending my friend,

proud to call her a friend, Vicki Paladino.

Jim, good morning, Powell.

How are you?

Two strong New Yorkers, you and Vicki, and thanks for having me on, Sid.

Nice to be here.

Nice of you to say that, and I think you're right.

I think we are.

You know, look, I've heard people say that they didn't like Vicki's tweets and people

said they didn't like mine.

And I say to those people, it doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter whether you thought they were great, you thought they were gross.

You liked them.

You didn't like them.

It doesn't matter.

That is our first amendment, right?

And she's in the city council and the speaker, Julie Menon, who is Jewish.

I can't tell sometimes I swear to God for a lady that talks about the issues of anti-Semitism.

She seems to stick up with a mayor at every opportunity, every one.

She wants to be mayor so badly, so do whatever he says.

She can say whatever she wants, Vicki.

She should not be in trouble for those tweets.

Isn't it that simple, Jim Walden?

It is that simple, Sid.

They had no power to police the internet.

I mean, think about what they're doing for all of the Democrats that have put vile things

on their social media feeds, including by the way about the cops.

No discipline whatsoever.

But suddenly for Vicki, they're going to make the entire internet their surveillance

place.

It's not going to work.

Not just the cops, those same Democrats, and many more came after me as, you know, Jim

last Wednesday.

Many more.

I mean, I got them all, every one of them.

Those are the same people that refer to President Trump as a Nazi, Nazi.

I don't know.

I think Nazi is probably worse than anything Miyobaki Vicki said.

And then you've got a guy, and I'll mention him by name because he's a dick, Che Osso

from Brooklyn, who's part of that city council who last week on the floor actually called

President Trump a pedophile when we know that story about that 13 year old girl is not

true.

Julie Mennon didn't hold his beat to the fire.

They've done nothing.

Why is it okay for him to say something like that?

But Vicki's in trouble.

It's not like a banana republic, right?

You've got the Democrats that have like 46 seats just doing whatever they want to.

And the thing that drives me crazy is they all went after President Trump as they should

in my view for going after his political enemies, like they were vicious about it.

And now they've just taken that same playbook and gone after Vicki because she's a Republican.

And why?

I mean, she is a strong woman.

She is a fighter.

She's a New Yorker.

You can't make rules for someone like her because you don't like their speech.

And then turn a blind eye to every Democrat, including, say, whatever's name is.

It's another nephobabey.

Yep.

It's really, it's really sad.

You know, I had Julie Mennon on this show a couple of weeks ago.

We got a nice back and forth for about a month.

And Frank Marano, a great congressman, a council member, actually, a Republican sat in

Ireland.

He set the whole thing up.

He's supposed to have lunch at David Goodside's play speech cafe up where he said

didn't happen.

That's fine.

But then the morning when the mayor talked about raising property taxes nine and a half

percent, I reached out to Julie, so did Frank and she agreed to come on.

She had five minutes.

She had some breakfast and she did come on and she was great.

And I showered her with compliments.

You heard it, Jim.

And I showered her with compliments, time and time again for the fighter that she is.

And as soon as the Democrats got to her, the very next day, the very next day, she condemned

me in the local papers and called me an Islamophob.

The problem was that was the second time.

No, excuse me.

The second time came after my tweet to the mayor last week.

So she's come after me twice publicly, sent in with Vicki.

This didn't start just a couple of weeks ago.

Men had just won.

She had just won and Vicki, who's been doing this city council stuff for a long time, beloved

by many, she embarrassed.

She went out of her way to publicly embarrassed Vicki in front of the whole city council.

It was disgusting right the day that she just won the speaker position.

You remember that?

I do remember, Sid, and listen, it's terrible.

And listen, you may not like Vicki's words and maybe sometimes they're a little bit imprecise.

But all she's trying to do is speak out about the very thing that happened this weekend.

All she's trying to do is be the one of the very, very few members of city council who

are saying we have to pay attention to extremists and radicals who want to blow us up.

And you know, we shouldn't even be having a content of whether, whether we like or agree

with her speech, it doesn't matter.

The First Amendment gives her that right.

I mean, literally, you had the mayor of the city of New York saying that he would defend

to his dying grip, Jake Lang, as he should.

But somehow that same city hall, once Vicki prosecuted on disciplinary charges, it's

so hypocritical, they are obviously targeting one of the few Republicans.

Because she is a Republican.

That's right.

And I've spoken again about terrorism.

I mean, to be honest, I love Frank, he's not going to go there, you know, and some of

these others even in it to a certain extent.

And she's a proud Zionist and does a great job.

But Vicki has the biggest set of balls.

I'll say it right now.

She's got the biggest set of balls in the city council.

And she's not a brain and she talks about the fears of terrorism, which as we know now

are real.

I mean, come on, man.

One of my guests that subscribed to New York is Afghanistan.

We've got IEDs in the streets in front of Gracie Mansion.

So you may not like the language that Vicki used, but you know what?

Her content, which you was saying is dead on.

So the question becomes now, Jim, what is your role in all of this?

What exactly do you do on a daily basis to A, A, try to remove this smear campaign for

Vicki and B, get her back in better standing with the council?

Yeah, so a great question said, and you know, number one, she's going to fight like

hell.

I mean, everybody knows Vicki has done someone who's just going to, uh, going to

back down, although they want to, they want to shut her up.

So number one, we got to win in court.

And our next court date is April 7th, and you know, we have been incredibly strongly

okay.

I got good news for you.

That's a great day.

That happens to me.

My daughter, Eva's birthday.

She'll be 22, April 7th.

So you got, you got good luck on your side, Jimmy.

How about that?

Great.

And then, you know, we have to build a coalition.

We need 18 votes.

If the court won't shut it down, then they can't, uh, they can't act against her without

it.

Two thirds vote.

And so when you need two votes.

So, you know, we're going to be doing some coalition building and reaching out to sensible

people on the council there.

There are still some of those left and, uh, and that's our, that's our defense plan.

And you know, lawyer is obviously you guys do a lot of this bargaining star plea bargains

and before it gets really, really ugly and somebody is faced with a impossible future.

So have you guys thought about that sitting down with Julie Menon, uh, trying to get Julie

Menon to come to her senses about the first amendment and what makes this country great

of?

Have you considered that?

Are we so past the point?

Is that bridge so burnt?

You've got no choice.

But these legal proceedings, so there is zero chance, zero chance, uh, that he is going

to try to work out some sort of, uh, you know, clean bargain.

That's just not who she is.

And she shouldn't mean that at the end of the day, the Supreme Court has been super clear.

She can't be expelled.

So anyone that thinks that every, every article that says that she can be expelled for this,

that their reporters are either not doing their homework or their intention.

Well, they don't care.

Right.

It's like all the people that said that Kazmatini says about to fire me from between last

week and the meantime, we've never done better.

So they don't care, right?

They just throw stuff out there because that's what they want to see.

But it's got zero validity, zero click fate.

It's just click fate.

Right.

So the worst they can, the worst they can do is censure.

They already took away five or four committees, uh, so they've already, uh, unconstitutionally

punished her for speech, but in any event, um, the worst they can do is censure her and,

uh, I do want to sit down, but Julie met it because I do respect some of the positions

that she's taken.

And I do respect at least her early leadership on anti-Semitism, which you know is very,

very important to me, uh, but in terms of sitting down in order to cop some kind of plea,

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But I'd love to see is you enjoy success here and Vicki Paladino walk into that chamber.

And look at Julie, everybody else, and stick up her middle finger and say, see ya, I'm

running for mayor, I'm running for Congress, I'm running for state Senate.

I don't need this garbage.

You guys have put me through hell.

You've humiliated me.

You've embarrassed me because even if you get what you want here, Jim.

And you're about as good as any attorney in the city.

And I'll include Takapena and Idala in that mix and my wife, Danielle, even if you get

what you want here, that doesn't remove the stain and the embarrassment that the city

council has unfairly put Vicki through bottom line.

Yeah, but I think most New Yorkers really aren't dialed into this too much, but those

that are dialed in may not like every single word that she used, but they know they need

a fighter who's an instead tell me, please tell me why this is happening.

A fighter who is willing to talk about terrorism consistently and calling out the fact that

we are under attack by radical extremists.

Listen, in the final 30 seconds, Jim, you know, there is, there is no coincidence that

they've spent every day destroying me to the very, very top of this party, okay, every

day.

You know that.

You and I have had conversations here, but about a potential lawsuit and Vicki.

So there is no surprise that Rosenberg and Paladino, two Republicans who are not afraid

to call out city hall for what it is and are worried about terrorism and border.

We look at now, right?

You've been talking about this, right?

You got bombs outside of Gracie Mansion.

So all you morons in the city council and the governor and all you other folks in this

city who just talk about hateful rhetoric, how do Rosenberg and Paladino look about now,

Walden?

Yeah, guys.

Sterling, sterling silver gold, whatever you want to call it, I mean, the idea that this

is that this whole thing with Vicki and you happens, whatever in the same like two weeks

and then all of a sudden and it's not just the two, the three bombs that they had here

in New York City.

They had three more in their storage lockers, right?

That came out in the news yesterday.

So whatever these two guys were, they weren't just, you know, radical hipsters who were

throwing insults.

These guys had a serious weapon that was going to seriously kill people and people got

to wake up.

And we can't talk about this freely as a city.

We're doomed.

That's it.

That's it.

Steve Sherrypa once said on this show, Louis, I think you remember that.

The great Bobby Bakala on the sopranos and Anthony from Bluebloods, you had a very famous

trap on this show.

I think we're doomed.

There you go.

Steve Sherrypa with whom Jim Walden, I think the world of you, you ran for mayor, you run

these studios quite a bit.

Maybe you'll do it again.

Either way, I really do wish you the best of luck.

Personally.

Huge fan of Vicki.

She's a dear friend.

I think she's great.

I really do.

So good luck with this.

And you and I will talk and see each other often in the future.

Thank you, buddy.

And she said, said, we're not doomed with people like you and Vicki speak out.

Thank you, Jim.

You too.

Thank you, buddy.

That's a great attorney, Jim Walden, who is representing Vicki Paladino right here on

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