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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Three European leaders get back in their train car and
reporters follow. What happens next depends on who you believe.
Some people say nothing was there, Others say it was
a napkin and a coffee stir. Others say it was
cocaine in a bag along with a spoon normally used
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to start cocaine, but the media covers it all up
for them.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Well damn it, Alexa, you've derailed the program already.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Shocking, shocking, I know what the hell is she talking about?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Well, okay, okay, so Alexa, I love you dearly and
I don't want to lose you as as a goober.
But there were several things I I don't know whether it's
fortunate or not, but I have a lot of ums here,
which is I'm it's Monday. Well it's it's not just
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this Monday. But I'm trying to be somewhat diplomatic here
without sounding arrogant or conceitful or anything else. But one
of the things that's and I don't know why, I
have no reason to. I can't tell you explain why.
And I'm sure some of you have been able to
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do the same thing. But on x formerly Twitter I
am a I'm an account that they often will put
something in my timeline that says, there is a post
that either needs a community note, would you be willing
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to write one? Or has lots of community notes and
we'd like for you to review them, or there's a
community note, or it's getting a lot of community notes
and you know, do you agree or not agree with them?
And so I get to access the community notes and
then read them and analyze them, and then I can
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tell them why this is a good note or not
note Dragon and say I don't even know why there's
a note on this post. Here's the great thing about
community notes on X. It provides context. So it's kind
of a way to Musk has set it up. So
it's kind of a way to stop false information from spreading,
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or for people who are posting something that is true
and everybody's trying to claim that it's not. It's a
place where there's actually some debate and some context to
be provided about particular posts. I think I think Alexa
may have sent you and I Dragon this email earlier
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yesterday or Saturday. I forget when. But there is a
post that Macron and Starmer and Zelensky were together, and
they get on a train car of some sort to
have a meeting, and Twitter x x blew up because,
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oh my gosh, look, Macrone, there's a there's a there's
a nickelbag or whatever of coke on the table, and
uh mcron very deftly and obviously in my in my opinion,
but definitely takes whatever whatever it is. We'll leave leave
that open for now. Takes whatever that is and takes
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his hand and sweeps it over and crosses his arms
so that you can't see it, and then finally takes
it and puts it down on unders in his pocket
or somewhere, and the internet blew up that they're all
doing coke.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
The other thing that somebody tried to point out was, oh, look,
and they've got, you know, the little spoon you might
use or you know, whatever you might use to snort
your in You know, I thought you always just took
your credit card and and you know, made a straight
line and then took a little straw and just snorted
it up, or just took your nostril.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I only know what I've seen in the movies, and
that that's a you to do. One hundred dollars bill, and.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
You know a hundred right right, or you do a
one hundred dollar bill or sometimes you know, if you
don't have a one hundred dollars bill, like you wouldn't
you and you wouldn't use one of your one dollar bills,
you would just you know, take your nose down there
and just snort up that.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
I don't think I've ever seen in the movies where
somebody goes with a spoon.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
The fingernail thing, and I don't know if this was
a spoon.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
It looked like a little spoon to me, but someone
also playing that it was, you know, these little stirs,
like there's always little cups of stir like we have met.
I think we may have.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Even had that, like the wooden sticks, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
The wooden sticks or something. You could it was green
enough you couldn't really tell whether it was a spoon
on the end of it or not, but it was something.
But I whenever this popped up Saturday, your Sunday, uh,
I was asked to review the notes on that post.
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So I went through and I and of course in
the notes itself, somebody had provided a high resolution photo.
Now I have in my lifetime in an official capacity,
not in like, not at some party, but in an
official capacity in a police department. I've seen bags of cocaine.
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I've seen them. I've picked one up and held it,
looked at it. This was not a bag of cocaine.
It appeared to me because, uh, if you can imagine
a tea bag without the string on it, or you
can imagine a little plastic bag like said, you know
the baggies that you get you put leftovers or something
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in a little sandwich bags, little sandwich bags, but imagine
one of those that is, you know, maybe two inches
by two inches and he just still has a little
seal across the top. Okay, to bag you of coke
and you have lace, it lays flat, and when you
put the cocine there, Uh, it tends to you know,
flat maut too, because you know it's it's yeah, it's
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a powder, so it starts to flatten out. When you
look at this particular picture, it's got jagged edges everywhere.
It looks like. For example, sometimes because my allergies are horrible,
I'll take a paper towel that Alexa herself I think
is graciously provided to us. I'll take one of these
paper towels. Take a single sheet of it, and I'll
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play it here on the counter, not to be too gross,
and then between segments, all I'll blow my nose and
I'll wad it up and I'll lay it over here,
and it's wadded up.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I am absolutely convinced it was not cocaine. The photograph
does not look like any bag of cocaine I've ever
seen in my entire life in the movies, in real
life or anywhere else in photos, movies, anything. It does
not look like a bag of cocaine. But here's what
I here's what I honestly believes going on. I've done
things similarly myself. Health. You sit down at a table
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and there's something that you know is either gross, inappropriate,
or you don't want in the photograph. It could be
any number of things. And so as you sit down,
because you know, as a politician, I've been in these
situations byself, you know, the cameras either video or still
are on you constantly, and so you try to be
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you know, Joe cool, and you take whatever that is
and you just kind of pull it over to you.
And you know, in the past, I've done that, and
I've dropped stuff in my lap, so it's out of
you of the camera. I just I don't get why
everybody it's group think I was just in Alexa. I'm
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not griping at you, and I'm not making fun of you.
I'm just saying that it was. It's interesting to me
how people can have to one hundred and eighty degree
opposite perceptions. Have you found have you found the yeah post?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Trying to find a video right now?
Speaker 4 (08:08):
It is slightly suspicious, maybe the way he kind of
looks at it and grabs it and immediately puts it
under his other arm.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
And maybe, but if if it was like Snotrag done
the same thing, true, right, I would have done exactly
the same thing. And and and for that if if
there been other people there and there'd been a coffee
stir laying or anything else, you know, you know, I
don't think that if I recall, there was no attempt
to hide the coffee stir or that maybe just to
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push it aside or whatever. But I just don't get it.
But that's not the only post. The other post was uh,
and I think this shows culture a difference in culture. Now,
Alexa didn't mention this post. I take that back, Alexa.
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You didn't mention it, but you did send it. I
think you sent it to me and Dragon and made
a joke about Is that how Dragon and I hug
each other at the end of every program. No, it's not.
But neither are of us European or more specifically French.
But I can tell you that I have been in
those kinds of embraces with foreign leaders. I've been in
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those kinds of embraces with men and women in Europe,
not so much in the Middle East, but because they're
not quite that lovey dovey, touchy and in South America,
where the Latins are very lovey dovey, it's it's a
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cultural difference I didn't find. Here's the only thing I
found interesting about the hug between Emmanuel Macron and Volodomore
is a littlemore Vortimore Votimore Zelensky is they almost worship
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him because he's standing up against the big, bad Russian bear.
But setting that aside, Emmanuel McCrone probably hugs lots of
people like that. He's a Frenchman. He doesn't have anything
to do with homosexuality or gayness, or feminism or feminism
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or effeminine or a feet or anything else. It's the
way many Europeans are. They're just that's just there. I
have an Italian friend. I'm sorry, I have an Italian friend.
I've got an Italian friend who when we haven't seen
each other for quite a while, I get a gigantic
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bear hug from him. Every single time, I get this
big bear hug, and I always just you know, I
hug him back. There's nothing about it. I just find
it interesting Americans. Now, I'm making a generalization here. This
is not about you, Alexa. I'm making a generalization here
that Americans somehow think that we are better, or we
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are the way we do things is the only way
to do things, and we're ignorant or refuse to accept
that a culture, another culture may do something differently. And
I've always found that interesting. It's why I wish. Oh look,
I pulled the Drudge Report up here. Macron quote Cocaine
claims erupt after KIV meeting, France rambles to snuff out.
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Oh what a clever headline to snuff it out. I
don't see anything about the hug. But once again I
looked at it, and it was I would say, from
my perception my perspective, it was clearly not a bag
of cocaine. And my first thought was, there's a crumpled
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up napkin, a crumpled up tissue, a crumpled up snot rag,
whatever it is. And Macron knows that, Oh, let's let's
get this off the table, and let's try to do
it in a cool way, which makes it look awkward,
you know, which makes it look awkward. I I find
it funny. Did have you looked at it again? Dragon?
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:23):
And I can see both ways and say, hey, this
is my bag of coke, I better get rid of it,
or this is my snot rag.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Better get rid of it.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
And don't you think when you look at it it's
something he wants to get rid of it from the table.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
It's clear that he wants it off the tape.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Right there, are seconds away from taking a photo, and
he goes, oh, let me move this.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah right, And isn't it funny if you if you
say to yourself, oh, look, he's moving a bag of cocaine,
then you can see that, right if you say to yourself, oh,
he's he's moving a crumpled up piece of paper or
tissue or whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Is it a blue dress or is it a gold dress?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Right? Then, it's the same thing. I find it just
absolutely Uh had no intention of talking about that today
because I just and have you? Have you found the
hug picture?
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Yeah, I think I'm pretty s Yeah, I think Alexas
sent us that, so I'll post that as well.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
So have you watched the Hug?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Yes? I did.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Now you and I, you and I other than in
extraordinary circumstances, let's say that uh, missus missus Brown or
missus Redbeard uh died in a tragic car accident, I
would probably.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Hug you like that, probably, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
But otherwise I don't want you within six feet of me,
true separate right right exactly. There's a time, there's a
time and a place for everything, and there would be
very rare, if ever, times that you and I would
even like get within like stay away.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
And even when we're in the same room with each other,
it's like four feet It probably.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Is about four feet, isn't it. Yeah? Yeah, And if
I have a diet coke, if I have an extra
diet coke and refrigerator and you're heating up your breakfast,
we have to like do that squeeze around each other
to get to the refrigerator because we don't want to
actually have to actually even breathe each other's you know,
the same error. Well, here's what I wanted to talk about.
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So yesterday I'm doing I'm trying to find a Michael
Brown minute, and I look at the I look at
the Rockies and I realize, God, they really do suck.
They totally suck here. Really, So here's here's here's what
I wrote. I don't know whether this is an exact
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corollary or not, but it's it's somewhat. I think there's
a corollary here. We could have that debate for a while,
But here's what I wrote. The Colorado Rockies are on
track to become the worst team in baseball history since
the infamous eighteen ninety nine Cleveland Spiders. That team is
considered to be the worst team ever assembled, who lost
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only one hundred and thirty four games. Now, since then,
there have been some other teams that have lost more,
but this team in the history of baseball, not in
modern history, but in the history of baseball, the Cleveland
Spiders are considered the worst team ever. Now, an interesting
story about the Cleveland Spiders. The owners of the Cleveland
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Spiders were actually starving that team of manpower, personnel, equipment, everything,
because they had secretly bought This is how corrupt baseball
used to be. They had bought another franchise and they
were moving all of the The owner was moving all
of their resources over to the other franchise. So the
Cleveland Spiders were just going down the tube. But here's
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what I wrote. Makes you wonder if Dick Monford is
doing the same thing. Has he secretly invested in a
winning franchise somewhere else, some other you know, group ownership,
and he's trying to destroy this franchise. I wish I
could believe that kind of conspiracy, but I don't. But
I think the Rockies are a corollary to the demise
of Colorado. You think about this. When I do my
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Michael Brown Minutes, they often cover Colorado's horrible economic our
criminal problems, our homeless problems, our illegal alien problems, our
transportation problems, all of our problems. It's such an easy
thing to do, you know. Sometimes I have to scramble
is really find something but that interests me, Because if
it doesn't interest me, I just don't want to write
about it, but it's generally speaking, it's a fairly easy
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thing to do. So all of those problems I list
think about it, they're the results of what they're intentional,
and the result of one party controlled by the Democrats.
So is there a corollary between the Colorado Rockies baseball
team and the fact that you have a one, single
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individual ownership. It's not a group ownership. You got one
single ownership Dick Monfort, who's out of touch, who doesn't care,
and just as long as he's getting the revenue from
the concessions, he knows he has a tourist attraction. Looks
as I've told people, I would gladly go to a
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baseball game. I would go to see another team. I
would go because of the ambiance at coors Field. I
would go on a really nice spring evening where and
get some really good seats. And by the way, I'm
an original and former season ticket holder. Uh yeah, right
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off third base, way down low. I had great season tickets.
But then they started going down the tube and I
just said, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna spend my
money on this. I'm not gonna do it. So I
haven't been a season ticket holder for a decade or longer,
which and they've been. They've sucked for a decade or longer.
But is mom forred of one party, out of touch
owner who just doesn't care? Is that the way the
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entire state of Colorado is just you know, everything's one
ownership and just nobody can I after I it was
after I wrote this minute that I'm on Facebook just
doing some dead scrolling and I come across an announcement
from the Rockies that they fired Bud Black and I'm
killing a couple of other people. They've moved, They've shuffled
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some people around. I think, didn't we agree? Isn't? Isn't
Hurdles still there? I'm not sure what Hurdle's doing.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Because they just recently brought him on. Yeah, yeah, so
I think Hurdles could get rid of them so quickly.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
So anyway, now there's there's a segment down and stuff
that I've never planned to talk about. Come on my planes,
trains and audible meals.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
You snort cooke from a spoon when you're on.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
To go, Okay, okay, you started from spoon. You also
have tiny little in foreign countries, Uh, and in some
fam see restaurants in this country you have tiny little spoons,
and on trains you get tiny little spoons for which
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you can use to take your granulated sugar and put
it in your coffee or your tea or your you know,
if you're British, they've got these little, tiny spoons that
they use. And if that was a spoon laying on
the table in that train, I'm not shocked by that.
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Why does let me ask this, in the absence of
convincing evidence otherwise, why does everybody jump to the conclusion
that it was coke? Now, look, I'm aware of crack.
I've never seen crack cocaine, but I know what it is.
I know. I know it comes in in rock form
at crystal kind of like rock formations. I get all
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of that. This did not look like that at all.
It looked like a crumpled up tissue.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
But in these videos it's posted at Michael says go
here dot com, I'm not seeing any spoons anywhere.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
So okay, So to Macron's left, I think that's where
Mertz is sitting or comes in and sits down, and
just to his so it'd be to.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Macron glasses of water. It's not like they're drinking tea
or anything. And you see a little teaspoon, a little
tea stir or anything. But when when he moves the
tissue paper out of the way, there's there's no.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
But when you when they first come in the room,
where to Macron's left, where Mert sits down, uh, to
Mertz right, where it would be is either a stir
or a little spoon or whatever. And and and I've
seen the stirs that have that they almost look like
an ore, uh, you know, like you'd use on a rowboat.
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They and I and I've seen with them, you know,
little tiny spoons, little bamboo spoons. I've seen all of that.
But let's let's let's just forget all of that for
a moment. Why why the sun that it's coke? Well?
Why why the assumption? Now it I'll put it this way.
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Would I be surprised if mccron or Zeleiinsky do coke? No,
I wouldn't be surprised. But neither do I make the
assumption that they do coke? But how why does everyone
just run with the herd? Where does anybody ever stop
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and just think is is this true or not? True.
Why did we just accept that whatever's fed to you
on social media is true? My god, stop that there
are first you have to recognize that. And I don't
know who the original poster is of that particular video.
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Did you ever stop thinking it might be a Russian bot?
Did you ever stop to think it might be misinformation
or disinformation? Did you ever stop to think that it
might be you know, a party operative that's you know,
hiding by hiding to eyd some sort of you know
other name that's using that account for a particular purpose.
I mean, I can think of so many things. It's
why I don't believe anything. It's why I question everything
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that I see. Don't follow the crowd, don't be those lemmings,
because it doesn't really turn out very well, you know,
the lemmings kind of go off the cliff.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
So I.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Well, let me see if I can swerve into what
I really want to start talking about talking about this morning. Now.
I don't want to talk specifically about the Boeing seven
forty seven that the government of Cutter has or Katar. However,
you once say it that they have offered and that
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there are apparently discussions and or negotiations going on between
the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, probably the
White House. I'm sure White House Council is involved, and
the appropriate State department people and foreign ministers of both countries.
US and Cutter about loaning or gifting either. We're not
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even sure which term to use yet of this seven
forty seven. It's a Boeing seven forty seven. It's called
a palace in the sky because it's all fitted out,
you know, for one of the shakes to use that
they have offered it because Boeing is so far behind
and so far over budget in the new I think
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there's either two or three new Air Force ones on
the assembly line. Boeing is so far behind and soul
over budget that Cutter has stepped in and said, hey,
we will donate this to the Department of Defense.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
And real quick before anybody get throws any shade at us. Yes,
we know when the President is not on the plane
and is not known as Air Force one, but for
simplicity's sake here we'll just call it air Force one.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Yes, thank you.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Yes, Because I.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Know that somebody's gonna text in or leave.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
It to you. I can even tell you who that person,
probably would.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Do so, just for simplicity's sake. The jet that the
president will be receiving as a gift or a president
or whatever.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
We'll just call it air force, going to.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Call it air Force one, right, Yes, uh so, so
that particular seven forty seven is the subject of law
of some controversy which we will eventually get to. But
surrounding that story, The New York Times did a story
about how Donald Trump is in violation of the emoluments Clause,
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which basically says that you cannot you know, you can't
benefit from your government service. You cannot take gifts that
benefit you based on your government service. It's a very
nuanced prohibition. There's nothing wrong with a president making money
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while they're in office. Nothing says that you have to
be a pauper to be president. What you need to
do is you need to take The Trump Organization is
owned by the Trump family, the Trump Organization, and Donald
Trump is the beneficiary of the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trusts.
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I forget the date on it, but the Donald J.
Trump Revocable Trust, which is the trustee and is the
beneficiary of another trust, which is an ownership of the
Donald Trump Organization. It's not an unusual situation. I have
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some trusts, I have some property set up in trusts.
It's not unusual. I'm both the trustee and the beneficiary,
and then I have subsequent beneficiaries, which would include Tamra
and my children and my grandchildren. Yet I maintain control
of the trust. If I were to become president, I
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would remain the beneficiary of that trust. Yet I would
appoint I'd probably appoint my lawyer to be the trustee
to act on behalf of me in the trust, so
that I'm not the one directing the activities of the trust.
Trump has done that with the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust.
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I forget which of the sons. I think it's Don Junior,
and then it's some lawyer. But so I did a
deep dive over the weekend to find out whether or
not Trump was personally benefiting by making decisions on behalf
of the trust, and apparently not. Now here's what I
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find interesting, because the New York Times wants to claim
that he is well information on specific financial transactions involving
Trump or his immediate family. And by the immediate family,
I mean Millennia Avonka, Jared Jared Kushner, the son in law,
Don Junior, Eric Trump, Tiffany Trump, or Baron Trump. So
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there's that's the immediate family. Any information is limited in
publicly available sources. Now, the available data including web reports
and posts on X, which Okay, I'm not gonna give
much credence to that. They do mean business dealings involving
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Trump's sons, Eric and Donald Junior. But none of those
posts detail any sort of transactional specifics. They don't include dates,
they don't include amounts, they don't include the contract terms.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
So what is there?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Well, the New York Times relies predominantly on posts on
X of all places. In those posts, they highlight business
ventures that have been announced or promoted by Eric and
Don Jor that the New York Time says directly benefits
Donald J. Trump financially. And those ventures include places across
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different continents, different industries. But there's no specific details. I
can't find any specific details. But let me walk through
a couple of them, because I think that this is
a carryover from the first term, that generally speaking, Trump
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as the beneficiary of that trust can indeed receive benefits,
but not directly. Well, what would those be, Well, somebody
has to maintain marl Lago, which probably itself, I don't
know for a fact, but mar al Lago itself is
probably in an LLC or a trust or something. But
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there has to be income from mar A Lago to
pay all of the maintenance costs, to pay the employees,
to pay the you know, the hell's bill's the landscaping.
Somebody's got to clean the pool out. Somebody's got to
mow the grass on the greens. Somebody's got to water
the greens and irrigate the greens. Somebody's got to pay
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for the water to irrigates the greens. Does that financially
benefit Trump Well, in an indirect way. It does. But
does it mean he gets money in his pocket. No,
But it means that there might be money that goes
into the trust, the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust. Because
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what most people don't, I guess understand is if if
I get elected president and I want to have well,
we had Italian food last night for Mother's Day. If
I want to have Italian food, I tell the White
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House mess that, Hey, tonight, I want uh fetuccini bolonnaise
or you know, or I want feeduccini bolonaise with some
little Italian sausage, and I want a caprazy salad or whatever.
I Guess who pays for that? You may think you do,
you don't.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Now.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
You pay. You pay for the you pay for the
White House chef, you pay for the White House mess,
you pay for the utilities to cook the meals. But
guess where the groceries come from. They come from the
pocket of the president. The president I don't know. I
don't know whether he uses an electric razor or he
shaves with a razor and shaving cream like I do.
He needs some more shaving cream, so he gets online
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and Blanni orders it from Amazon or wherever they order it,
or he gets it you know from who knows, you know,
some high end place in Manhattan. So they place an order.
They pay for that. Well, they need a salary. They
need some money to pay for that, so they need
to pay out of the presidential salary, or they could
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have the trust pay for it. There's there's nothing illegal
about that, but for some reason, everybody thinks there is.
So what's Trump engaged in that the New York Times
thinks is illegal?
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Next incredible announcement by President Trump yesterday regarding a decrease
in drug prices for people in the United States. I
can't wait to hear the media's spin on how this
makes him an evil person and those other poor nations
who have had lower drug prices always, but it was
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okay for the US to get screwed on drug prices.
It will be fun to see the outcome of this.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Oh my, that's some mind of us the topics today too.
I don't think alex is gonna like my analysis that
he hasn't He hasn't issued the executive order, but apparently
he's joined to issue in the executive order today granting
most Favored Nation status. Uh, so that we can get
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drugs at whatever prices are being sold to the you
know whatever, whatever the cheapest drug price is, say for
I don't know, pick a pick a drug. Drugs are
good example, but im that we're gonna get at the
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same price that it sold to Canada or to Somalia
or wherever else. I don't know that that will actually
lower drug prices. I mean it could, it could lower
drug prices. It could also I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna.
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I'm not gonna chase to to me rabbits squirrels to
chase today. So let's think about this hotel in Dubai.
This luxury hotel project excuse me, in Dubai in the
UAE is often mentioned as part of the Trump organization's portfolio. Now,
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the deals reported to personally benefit Trump, but probably through
licensing fees, management contracts, or maybe maybe some ownership stake.
I don't know, because that's kind of what's typical for
Trump branded properties. But there are no specific financial figures
or transaction details. There's no contract signing date, there's no
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payment amounts anything that are provided anywhere that anybody can
find the source for The New York Times article cited X.
Yes they cited X. But let's think about the hotel
that is something that would benefit the Trump organization. Trump's
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relationship to the Trump organization right now is the Donald J.
Trump Revocable Trust. So to the extent that the trust,
the Trump Trust, gets any financial benefit from the Trump organization,
that would be money that he's entitled to, but that
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is still controlled by And again I don't know whether
it's Donald or Eric, Donald Junior or Eric and this
lawyer that are actually the ones that are op raiding
the trust right now, so that would be like me
still getting Let's say I put some of the real
estate in turned it into rental property. Well, I would
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get rents, but those would go to my trust. And
if I were president, I could use some of those
monies to pay for my groceries or shaving cream.
Three European leaders get back in their train car and
reporters follow. What happens next depends on who you believe.
Some people say nothing was there, Others say it was
a napkin and a coffee stir. Others say it was
cocaine in a bag along with a spoon normally used
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to start cocaine, but the media covers it all up
for them.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Well damn it, Alexa, you've derailed the program already.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Shocking, shocking, I know what the hell is she talking about?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Well, okay, okay, so Alexa, I love you dearly and
I don't want to lose you as as a goober.
But there were several things I I don't know whether it's
fortunate or not, but I have a lot of ums here,
which is I'm it's Monday. Well it's it's not just
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this Monday. But I'm trying to be somewhat diplomatic here
without sounding arrogant or conceitful or anything else. But one
of the things that's and I don't know why, I
have no reason to. I can't tell you explain why.
And I'm sure some of you have been able to
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do the same thing. But on x formerly Twitter I
am a I'm an account that they often will put
something in my timeline that says, there is a post
that either needs a community note, would you be willing
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to write one? Or has lots of community notes and
we'd like for you to review them, or there's a
community note, or it's getting a lot of community notes
and you know, do you agree or not agree with them?
And so I get to access the community notes and
then read them and analyze them, and then I can
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tell them why this is a good note or not
note Dragon and say I don't even know why there's
a note on this post. Here's the great thing about
community notes on X. It provides context. So it's kind
of a way to Musk has set it up. So
it's kind of a way to stop false information from spreading,
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or for people who are posting something that is true
and everybody's trying to claim that it's not. It's a
place where there's actually some debate and some context to
be provided about particular posts. I think I think Alexa
may have sent you and I Dragon this email earlier
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yesterday or Saturday. I forget when. But there is a
post that Macron and Starmer and Zelensky were together, and
they get on a train car of some sort to
have a meeting, and Twitter x x blew up because,
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oh my gosh, look, Macrone, there's a there's a there's
a nickelbag or whatever of coke on the table, and
uh mcron very deftly and obviously in my in my opinion,
but definitely takes whatever whatever it is. We'll leave leave
that open for now. Takes whatever that is and takes
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his hand and sweeps it over and crosses his arms
so that you can't see it, and then finally takes
it and puts it down on unders in his pocket
or somewhere, and the internet blew up that they're all
doing coke.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
The other thing that somebody tried to point out was, oh, look,
and they've got, you know, the little spoon you might
use or you know, whatever you might use to snort
your in You know, I thought you always just took
your credit card and and you know, made a straight
line and then took a little straw and just snorted
it up, or just took your nostril.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I only know what I've seen in the movies, and
that that's a you to do. One hundred dollars bill, and.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
You know a hundred right right, or you do a
one hundred dollar bill or sometimes you know, if you
don't have a one hundred dollars bill, like you wouldn't
you and you wouldn't use one of your one dollar bills,
you would just you know, take your nose down there
and just snort up that.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
I don't think I've ever seen in the movies where
somebody goes with a spoon.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
The fingernail thing, and I don't know if this was
a spoon.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
It looked like a little spoon to me, but someone
also playing that it was, you know, these little stirs,
like there's always little cups of stir like we have met.
I think we may have.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Even had that, like the wooden sticks, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
The wooden sticks or something. You could it was green
enough you couldn't really tell whether it was a spoon
on the end of it or not, but it was something.
But I whenever this popped up Saturday, your Sunday, uh,
I was asked to review the notes on that post.
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So I went through and I and of course in
the notes itself, somebody had provided a high resolution photo.
Now I have in my lifetime in an official capacity,
not in like, not at some party, but in an
official capacity in a police department. I've seen bags of cocaine.
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I've seen them. I've picked one up and held it,
looked at it. This was not a bag of cocaine.
It appeared to me because, uh, if you can imagine
a tea bag without the string on it, or you
can imagine a little plastic bag like said, you know
the baggies that you get you put leftovers or something
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in a little sandwich bags, little sandwich bags, but imagine
one of those that is, you know, maybe two inches
by two inches and he just still has a little
seal across the top. Okay, to bag you of coke
and you have lace, it lays flat, and when you
put the cocine there, Uh, it tends to you know,
flat maut too, because you know it's it's yeah, it's
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a powder, so it starts to flatten out. When you
look at this particular picture, it's got jagged edges everywhere.
It looks like. For example, sometimes because my allergies are horrible,
I'll take a paper towel that Alexa herself I think
is graciously provided to us. I'll take one of these
paper towels. Take a single sheet of it, and I'll
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play it here on the counter, not to be too gross,
and then between segments, all I'll blow my nose and
I'll wad it up and I'll lay it over here,
and it's wadded up.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I am absolutely convinced it was not cocaine. The photograph
does not look like any bag of cocaine I've ever
seen in my entire life in the movies, in real
life or anywhere else in photos, movies, anything. It does
not look like a bag of cocaine. But here's what
I here's what I honestly believes going on. I've done
things similarly myself. Health. You sit down at a table
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and there's something that you know is either gross, inappropriate,
or you don't want in the photograph. It could be
any number of things. And so as you sit down,
because you know, as a politician, I've been in these
situations byself, you know, the cameras either video or still
are on you constantly, and so you try to be
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you know, Joe cool, and you take whatever that is
and you just kind of pull it over to you.
And you know, in the past, I've done that, and
I've dropped stuff in my lap, so it's out of
you of the camera. I just I don't get why
everybody it's group think I was just in Alexa. I'm
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not griping at you, and I'm not making fun of you.
I'm just saying that it was. It's interesting to me
how people can have to one hundred and eighty degree
opposite perceptions. Have you found have you found the yeah post?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Trying to find a video right now?
Speaker 4 (08:08):
It is slightly suspicious, maybe the way he kind of
looks at it and grabs it and immediately puts it
under his other arm.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
And maybe, but if if it was like Snotrag done
the same thing, true, right, I would have done exactly
the same thing. And and and for that if if
there been other people there and there'd been a coffee
stir laying or anything else, you know, you know, I
don't think that if I recall, there was no attempt
to hide the coffee stir or that maybe just to
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push it aside or whatever. But I just don't get it.
But that's not the only post. The other post was uh,
and I think this shows culture a difference in culture. Now,
Alexa didn't mention this post. I take that back, Alexa.
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You didn't mention it, but you did send it. I
think you sent it to me and Dragon and made
a joke about Is that how Dragon and I hug
each other at the end of every program. No, it's not.
But neither are of us European or more specifically French.
But I can tell you that I have been in
those kinds of embraces with foreign leaders. I've been in
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those kinds of embraces with men and women in Europe,
not so much in the Middle East, but because they're
not quite that lovey dovey, touchy and in South America,
where the Latins are very lovey dovey, it's it's a
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cultural difference I didn't find. Here's the only thing I
found interesting about the hug between Emmanuel Macron and Volodomore
is a littlemore Vortimore Votimore Zelensky is they almost worship
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him because he's standing up against the big, bad Russian bear.
But setting that aside, Emmanuel McCrone probably hugs lots of
people like that. He's a Frenchman. He doesn't have anything
to do with homosexuality or gayness, or feminism or feminism
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or effeminine or a feet or anything else. It's the
way many Europeans are. They're just that's just there. I
have an Italian friend. I'm sorry, I have an Italian friend.
I've got an Italian friend who when we haven't seen
each other for quite a while, I get a gigantic
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bear hug from him. Every single time, I get this
big bear hug, and I always just you know, I
hug him back. There's nothing about it. I just find
it interesting Americans. Now, I'm making a generalization here. This
is not about you, Alexa. I'm making a generalization here
that Americans somehow think that we are better, or we
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are the way we do things is the only way
to do things, and we're ignorant or refuse to accept
that a culture, another culture may do something differently. And
I've always found that interesting. It's why I wish. Oh look,
I pulled the Drudge Report up here. Macron quote Cocaine
claims erupt after KIV meeting, France rambles to snuff out.
(11:41):
Oh what a clever headline to snuff it out. I
don't see anything about the hug. But once again I
looked at it, and it was I would say, from
my perception my perspective, it was clearly not a bag
of cocaine. And my first thought was, there's a crumpled
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up napkin, a crumpled up tissue, a crumpled up snot rag,
whatever it is. And Macron knows that, Oh, let's let's
get this off the table, and let's try to do
it in a cool way, which makes it look awkward,
you know, which makes it look awkward. I I find
it funny. Did have you looked at it again? Dragon?
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:23):
And I can see both ways and say, hey, this
is my bag of coke, I better get rid of it,
or this is my snot rag.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Better get rid of it.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
And don't you think when you look at it it's
something he wants to get rid of it from the table.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
It's clear that he wants it off the tape.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Right there, are seconds away from taking a photo, and
he goes, oh, let me move this.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah right, And isn't it funny if you if you
say to yourself, oh, look, he's moving a bag of cocaine,
then you can see that, right if you say to yourself, oh,
he's he's moving a crumpled up piece of paper or
tissue or whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Is it a blue dress or is it a gold dress?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Right? Then, it's the same thing. I find it just
absolutely Uh had no intention of talking about that today
because I just and have you? Have you found the
hug picture?
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Yeah, I think I'm pretty s Yeah, I think Alexas
sent us that, so I'll post that as well.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
So have you watched the Hug?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Yes? I did.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Now you and I, you and I other than in
extraordinary circumstances, let's say that uh, missus missus Brown or
missus Redbeard uh died in a tragic car accident, I
would probably.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Hug you like that, probably, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
But otherwise I don't want you within six feet of me,
true separate right right exactly. There's a time, there's a
time and a place for everything, and there would be
very rare, if ever, times that you and I would
even like get within like stay away.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
And even when we're in the same room with each other,
it's like four feet It probably.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Is about four feet, isn't it. Yeah? Yeah, And if
I have a diet coke, if I have an extra
diet coke and refrigerator and you're heating up your breakfast,
we have to like do that squeeze around each other
to get to the refrigerator because we don't want to
actually have to actually even breathe each other's you know,
the same error. Well, here's what I wanted to talk about.
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So yesterday I'm doing I'm trying to find a Michael
Brown minute, and I look at the I look at
the Rockies and I realize, God, they really do suck.
They totally suck here. Really, So here's here's here's what
I wrote. I don't know whether this is an exact
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corollary or not, but it's it's somewhat. I think there's
a corollary here. We could have that debate for a while,
But here's what I wrote. The Colorado Rockies are on
track to become the worst team in baseball history since
the infamous eighteen ninety nine Cleveland Spiders. That team is
considered to be the worst team ever assembled, who lost
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only one hundred and thirty four games. Now, since then,
there have been some other teams that have lost more,
but this team in the history of baseball, not in
modern history, but in the history of baseball, the Cleveland
Spiders are considered the worst team ever. Now, an interesting
story about the Cleveland Spiders. The owners of the Cleveland
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Spiders were actually starving that team of manpower, personnel, equipment, everything,
because they had secretly bought This is how corrupt baseball
used to be. They had bought another franchise and they
were moving all of the The owner was moving all
of their resources over to the other franchise. So the
Cleveland Spiders were just going down the tube. But here's
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what I wrote. Makes you wonder if Dick Monford is
doing the same thing. Has he secretly invested in a
winning franchise somewhere else, some other you know, group ownership,
and he's trying to destroy this franchise. I wish I
could believe that kind of conspiracy, but I don't. But
I think the Rockies are a corollary to the demise
of Colorado. You think about this. When I do my
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Michael Brown Minutes, they often cover Colorado's horrible economic our
criminal problems, our homeless problems, our illegal alien problems, our
transportation problems, all of our problems. It's such an easy
thing to do, you know. Sometimes I have to scramble
is really find something but that interests me, Because if
it doesn't interest me, I just don't want to write
about it, but it's generally speaking, it's a fairly easy
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thing to do. So all of those problems I list
think about it, they're the results of what they're intentional,
and the result of one party controlled by the Democrats.
So is there a corollary between the Colorado Rockies baseball
team and the fact that you have a one, single
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individual ownership. It's not a group ownership. You got one
single ownership Dick Monfort, who's out of touch, who doesn't care,
and just as long as he's getting the revenue from
the concessions, he knows he has a tourist attraction. Looks
as I've told people, I would gladly go to a
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baseball game. I would go to see another team. I
would go because of the ambiance at coors Field. I
would go on a really nice spring evening where and
get some really good seats. And by the way, I'm
an original and former season ticket holder. Uh yeah, right
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off third base, way down low. I had great season tickets.
But then they started going down the tube and I
just said, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna spend my
money on this. I'm not gonna do it. So I
haven't been a season ticket holder for a decade or longer,
which and they've been. They've sucked for a decade or longer.
But is mom forred of one party, out of touch
owner who just doesn't care? Is that the way the
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entire state of Colorado is just you know, everything's one
ownership and just nobody can I after I it was
after I wrote this minute that I'm on Facebook just
doing some dead scrolling and I come across an announcement
from the Rockies that they fired Bud Black and I'm
killing a couple of other people. They've moved, They've shuffled
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some people around. I think, didn't we agree? Isn't? Isn't
Hurdles still there? I'm not sure what Hurdle's doing.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Because they just recently brought him on. Yeah, yeah, so
I think Hurdles could get rid of them so quickly.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
So anyway, now there's there's a segment down and stuff
that I've never planned to talk about. Come on my planes,
trains and audible meals.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
You snort cooke from a spoon when you're on.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
To go, Okay, okay, you started from spoon. You also
have tiny little in foreign countries, Uh, and in some
fam see restaurants in this country you have tiny little spoons,
and on trains you get tiny little spoons for which
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you can use to take your granulated sugar and put
it in your coffee or your tea or your you know,
if you're British, they've got these little, tiny spoons that
they use. And if that was a spoon laying on
the table in that train, I'm not shocked by that.
(19:27):
Why does let me ask this, in the absence of
convincing evidence otherwise, why does everybody jump to the conclusion
that it was coke? Now, look, I'm aware of crack.
I've never seen crack cocaine, but I know what it is.
I know. I know it comes in in rock form
at crystal kind of like rock formations. I get all
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of that. This did not look like that at all.
It looked like a crumpled up tissue.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
But in these videos it's posted at Michael says go
here dot com, I'm not seeing any spoons anywhere.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
So okay, So to Macron's left, I think that's where
Mertz is sitting or comes in and sits down, and
just to his so it'd be to.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Macron glasses of water. It's not like they're drinking tea
or anything. And you see a little teaspoon, a little
tea stir or anything. But when when he moves the
tissue paper out of the way, there's there's no.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
But when you when they first come in the room,
where to Macron's left, where Mert sits down, uh, to
Mertz right, where it would be is either a stir
or a little spoon or whatever. And and and I've
seen the stirs that have that they almost look like
an ore, uh, you know, like you'd use on a rowboat.
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They and I and I've seen with them, you know,
little tiny spoons, little bamboo spoons. I've seen all of that.
But let's let's let's just forget all of that for
a moment. Why why the sun that it's coke? Well?
Why why the assumption? Now it I'll put it this way.
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Would I be surprised if mccron or Zeleiinsky do coke? No,
I wouldn't be surprised. But neither do I make the
assumption that they do coke? But how why does everyone
just run with the herd? Where does anybody ever stop
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and just think is is this true or not? True.
Why did we just accept that whatever's fed to you
on social media is true? My god, stop that there
are first you have to recognize that. And I don't
know who the original poster is of that particular video.
(21:52):
Did you ever stop thinking it might be a Russian bot?
Did you ever stop to think it might be misinformation
or disinformation? Did you ever stop to think that it
might be you know, a party operative that's you know,
hiding by hiding to eyd some sort of you know
other name that's using that account for a particular purpose.
I mean, I can think of so many things. It's
why I don't believe anything. It's why I question everything
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that I see. Don't follow the crowd, don't be those lemmings,
because it doesn't really turn out very well, you know,
the lemmings kind of go off the cliff.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
So I.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Well, let me see if I can swerve into what
I really want to start talking about talking about this morning. Now.
I don't want to talk specifically about the Boeing seven
forty seven that the government of Cutter has or Katar. However,
you once say it that they have offered and that
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there are apparently discussions and or negotiations going on between
the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, probably the
White House. I'm sure White House Council is involved, and
the appropriate State department people and foreign ministers of both countries.
US and Cutter about loaning or gifting either. We're not
(23:27):
even sure which term to use yet of this seven
forty seven. It's a Boeing seven forty seven. It's called
a palace in the sky because it's all fitted out,
you know, for one of the shakes to use that
they have offered it because Boeing is so far behind
and so far over budget in the new I think
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there's either two or three new Air Force ones on
the assembly line. Boeing is so far behind and soul
over budget that Cutter has stepped in and said, hey,
we will donate this to the Department of Defense.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
And real quick before anybody get throws any shade at us. Yes,
we know when the President is not on the plane
and is not known as Air Force one, but for
simplicity's sake here we'll just call it air Force one.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Yes, thank you.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Yes, Because I.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Know that somebody's gonna text in or leave.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
It to you. I can even tell you who that person,
probably would.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Do so, just for simplicity's sake. The jet that the
president will be receiving as a gift or a president
or whatever.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
We'll just call it air force, going to.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Call it air Force one, right, Yes, uh so, so
that particular seven forty seven is the subject of law
of some controversy which we will eventually get to. But
surrounding that story, The New York Times did a story
about how Donald Trump is in violation of the emoluments Clause,
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which basically says that you cannot you know, you can't
benefit from your government service. You cannot take gifts that
benefit you based on your government service. It's a very
nuanced prohibition. There's nothing wrong with a president making money
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while they're in office. Nothing says that you have to
be a pauper to be president. What you need to
do is you need to take The Trump Organization is
owned by the Trump family, the Trump Organization, and Donald
Trump is the beneficiary of the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trusts.
(25:44):
I forget the date on it, but the Donald J.
Trump Revocable Trust, which is the trustee and is the
beneficiary of another trust, which is an ownership of the
Donald Trump Organization. It's not an unusual situation. I have
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some trusts, I have some property set up in trusts.
It's not unusual. I'm both the trustee and the beneficiary,
and then I have subsequent beneficiaries, which would include Tamra
and my children and my grandchildren. Yet I maintain control
of the trust. If I were to become president, I
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would remain the beneficiary of that trust. Yet I would
appoint I'd probably appoint my lawyer to be the trustee
to act on behalf of me in the trust, so
that I'm not the one directing the activities of the trust.
Trump has done that with the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust.
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I forget which of the sons. I think it's Don Junior,
and then it's some lawyer. But so I did a
deep dive over the weekend to find out whether or
not Trump was personally benefiting by making decisions on behalf
of the trust, and apparently not. Now here's what I
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find interesting, because the New York Times wants to claim
that he is well information on specific financial transactions involving
Trump or his immediate family. And by the immediate family,
I mean Millennia Avonka, Jared Jared Kushner, the son in law,
Don Junior, Eric Trump, Tiffany Trump, or Baron Trump. So
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there's that's the immediate family. Any information is limited in
publicly available sources. Now, the available data including web reports
and posts on X, which Okay, I'm not gonna give
much credence to that. They do mean business dealings involving
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Trump's sons, Eric and Donald Junior. But none of those
posts detail any sort of transactional specifics. They don't include dates,
they don't include amounts, they don't include the contract terms.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
So what is there?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Well, the New York Times relies predominantly on posts on
X of all places. In those posts, they highlight business
ventures that have been announced or promoted by Eric and
Don Jor that the New York Time says directly benefits
Donald J. Trump financially. And those ventures include places across
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different continents, different industries. But there's no specific details. I
can't find any specific details. But let me walk through
a couple of them, because I think that this is
a carryover from the first term, that generally speaking, Trump
(29:06):
as the beneficiary of that trust can indeed receive benefits,
but not directly. Well, what would those be, Well, somebody
has to maintain marl Lago, which probably itself, I don't
know for a fact, but mar al Lago itself is
probably in an LLC or a trust or something. But
(29:29):
there has to be income from mar A Lago to
pay all of the maintenance costs, to pay the employees,
to pay the you know, the hell's bill's the landscaping.
Somebody's got to clean the pool out. Somebody's got to
mow the grass on the greens. Somebody's got to water
the greens and irrigate the greens. Somebody's got to pay
(29:50):
for the water to irrigates the greens. Does that financially
benefit Trump Well, in an indirect way. It does. But
does it mean he gets money in his pocket. No,
But it means that there might be money that goes
into the trust, the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust. Because
(30:10):
what most people don't, I guess understand is if if
I get elected president and I want to have well,
we had Italian food last night for Mother's Day. If
I want to have Italian food, I tell the White
(30:32):
House mess that, Hey, tonight, I want uh fetuccini bolonnaise
or you know, or I want feeduccini bolonaise with some
little Italian sausage, and I want a caprazy salad or whatever.
I Guess who pays for that? You may think you do,
you don't.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Now.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
You pay. You pay for the you pay for the
White House chef, you pay for the White House mess,
you pay for the utilities to cook the meals. But
guess where the groceries come from. They come from the
pocket of the president. The president I don't know. I
don't know whether he uses an electric razor or he
shaves with a razor and shaving cream like I do.
He needs some more shaving cream, so he gets online
(31:14):
and Blanni orders it from Amazon or wherever they order it,
or he gets it you know from who knows, you know,
some high end place in Manhattan. So they place an order.
They pay for that. Well, they need a salary. They
need some money to pay for that, so they need
to pay out of the presidential salary, or they could
(31:35):
have the trust pay for it. There's there's nothing illegal
about that, but for some reason, everybody thinks there is.
So what's Trump engaged in that the New York Times
thinks is illegal?
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Next incredible announcement by President Trump yesterday regarding a decrease
in drug prices for people in the United States. I
can't wait to hear the media's spin on how this
makes him an evil person and those other poor nations
who have had lower drug prices always, but it was
(32:11):
okay for the US to get screwed on drug prices.
It will be fun to see the outcome of this.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Oh my, that's some mind of us the topics today too.
I don't think alex is gonna like my analysis that
he hasn't He hasn't issued the executive order, but apparently
he's joined to issue in the executive order today granting
most Favored Nation status. Uh, so that we can get
(32:40):
drugs at whatever prices are being sold to the you
know whatever, whatever the cheapest drug price is, say for
I don't know, pick a pick a drug. Drugs are
good example, but im that we're gonna get at the
(33:00):
same price that it sold to Canada or to Somalia
or wherever else. I don't know that that will actually
lower drug prices. I mean it could, it could lower
drug prices. It could also I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna.
(33:22):
I'm not gonna chase to to me rabbits squirrels to
chase today. So let's think about this hotel in Dubai.
This luxury hotel project excuse me, in Dubai in the
UAE is often mentioned as part of the Trump organization's portfolio. Now,
(33:43):
the deals reported to personally benefit Trump, but probably through
licensing fees, management contracts, or maybe maybe some ownership stake.
I don't know, because that's kind of what's typical for
Trump branded properties. But there are no specific financial figures
or transaction details. There's no contract signing date, there's no
(34:04):
payment amounts anything that are provided anywhere that anybody can
find the source for The New York Times article cited X.
Yes they cited X. But let's think about the hotel
that is something that would benefit the Trump organization. Trump's
(34:30):
relationship to the Trump organization right now is the Donald J.
Trump Revocable Trust. So to the extent that the trust,
the Trump Trust, gets any financial benefit from the Trump organization,
that would be money that he's entitled to, but that
(34:50):
is still controlled by And again I don't know whether
it's Donald or Eric, Donald Junior or Eric and this
lawyer that are actually the ones that are op raiding
the trust right now, so that would be like me
still getting Let's say I put some of the real
estate in turned it into rental property. Well, I would
(35:11):
get rents, but those would go to my trust. And
if I were president, I could use some of those
monies to pay for my groceries or shaving cream.
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