8-23-25 The Weekend Hour 1: Knock Knock, Who’s There? FBI Searching John Bolton’s Home

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good night.

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Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA director of.

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Talk show host Michael Brown. Brownie, no, Brownie, You're doing
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The Weekend with Michael Brown.

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Pat under the door, now, suge wart under the door?

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Now, oh, excuse me, there's some there's somebody at the door. No, no, no,
not me. Hey, broadcasting live from Denver, Colorado. It's The
Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to have you joining the
program today. I think that may be what has sounded
like at John Bolton's home yes Friday morning at seven am,

(00:39):
when the FBI and local law enforcement decided to execute
a search warrant on his home in Bethesda, Maryland and
his office in Washington, d C. And everybody's all in
a dither over it. And I'm kind of yawning because
I'm thinking to myself, so what, there's nothing new here?

(01:00):
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search warth that was executed on you know, first of all,
let's make sure you understand who John Bolton is. He's

(01:23):
the former ambassador to the United Nations. He's worked for
a lot of presidents, was he was in the Bush
administration for a while when I was there. He's affectionately
or infamously or sarcastically known as the Mustache because of
this big, thick mustache that he has all the time.
And John Bolton personifies the war mongering neo cons in

(01:46):
the country that believe that the military industrial complex is
something that we ought to be using all the time,
and that America is. And don't get me wrong, to
some degree, I believe that we are the world's policeman,
not in the sense that we need to intervene in
every little skirmish that goes on around the world, but
we need to remain the world's superpower. We need to

(02:07):
remain the world's strongest economy so that we can maintain
some order in the world, because tyranny is always on
the march, trying to to rid the world of countries
like ours. So I do believe in that sense that
we do need to be maybe not the world's policemen,

(02:28):
but we need to be the world's crosswalk guard, you know,
school crossing guard or whatever, to make sure that things
don't get out of control. John Bolton, on the other hand,
would probably intervene in everything that he possibly could. I'm
not a fan of John Bolton. If that helps you
understand where I'm coming from. The Wall Street Journal published

(02:52):
a editorial yesterday that has this headline, Trump's vendetta cam
pain targets John Bolton. The subhead says, this FBI rate
makes clear that second term success for the president includes retribution.
Now that kind of I've told you I'm a I'm

(03:13):
a huge fan of the Wall Street Journal editorial page,
but that doesn't mean that I agree with it one
hundred percent of the time. In this case, I think
they're entirely wrong, and I'm going to explain why in
just a minute. But I want to establish this baseline
to help you understand why I'm about to say what
I'm going to say. Here's how the editorial starts out.
President Trump promised voters during his campaign for a second

(03:35):
term that he had bigger things on his mind than
retribution against opponents, But it increasingly it is increasingly clear.
They write that vengeance is a large part, maybe the
largest part, of how he will define success in his
second term. Really, show me the receipts on that, show

(03:56):
me the proof, give me evidence other than this raid
on by the FBI on Ambassador Bolton's home, They say
in the second paragraph, his revenge campaign took ominous turn Friday,
as FBI agents raided the home in the office of
mister Trump's first term national security advisor, John Bolton. They

(04:17):
brought two broad warrants to well. First of all, the
term broad a lot of search warrants unless the cops
or the prosecutor, or the FBI or whoever it might be,
law enforcement in general is looking for something very specific.

(04:38):
Otherwise that this is why I kind of I never
want my house to be searched. Not that I have
anything to hide, but I don't want them ripping through
my house, throwing drawers and you know, throwing everything around,
up ending cushions and cutting into mattresses and doing everything
because they have a broad search warrant. But sometimes a

(04:58):
broad search warrant is necessary because you're looking for something
that might be in electronic form, it might be in
paper form, it might be in a box, it might
be in the attic, it might be in the basement,
it might be in a desk drawer, it might be anywhere.
It's not the kind of thing that you could walk

(05:20):
in and you're looking for a ten foots you know,
gold plated statue of Madonna or something that's in you
know that you could easily see if you just kind
of look through rooms. So it's a broad search warrant.
But the Wall Street Journal wants you to think that
that's somehow unusual. Agents showed up unannounced at his Bethesda

(05:41):
home at seven am. That's pretty standard. That's routine now. Sometimes,
but not often, somebody will give a heads up to say,
someone who's already represented by legal counsel that hey, we
have a search warrant for your clubs ants home, and
we're going to go execute that warrant. Do you want

(06:03):
to come along? In fact, we're going to go do
it right now. Otherwise you don't want to give advanced
notice of a search warrant because that gives someone time.
Hey listen, we're going to come and search your home
right now. It is ten to eleven on Saturday morning,
August twenty third, and Denver, Colorado. They wouldn't come or
call me and say, hey, on Sunday, August twenty four,

(06:28):
at ten am, we're going to come and search your home,
because if I had something to hide, that would give
me plenty of time to go hide it. The whole
premise of this thang Wall Street Journal editorial is driving
me nuts. They say, well, they confiscated his wife, Gretchen's
phone because it was visible and not on her person. Well,

(06:48):
that's pretty much sop stand an operating procedure. Mister Bolton
had already left for his office, which is where FBI
agents greeted him. Also, Cash Betel, the FBI Director, sent
out a cryptic tweet at seven oh three Friday morning
that quote, no one in all caps is above the
law at FBI agents on mission. He didn't specify to

(07:09):
whom he was referring, but the timing is unlikely to
have been coincidental. Yeah, I that was coincidental either, But
to which I would say, so, what.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
Do you know?

Speaker 2 (07:21):
What they didn't do? They didn't call CNN or MSNBC
or any of the networks or anybody else and say, hey,
guess what, guys, we're gonna go raid John Bolton's home
at seven am. Be sure to bring a truck along.
We're gonna have swat teams, we're gonna have armored personnel carriers,
we're gonna have tanks, we're gonna have bazukas, We're gonna
have everything, you know, kind of like they did at
mar Alogo form A for a former president's home that

(07:45):
had Secret Service protection. Remember that one. Well, of course
they don't want you to remember that one, because this
one was conducted by the books, and this one had
a completely legitimate reason for doing it in the first place. Now,

(08:09):
I do question is this just the beginning? Because the
raid John Bolton's fancy home and is fancy Maryland neighbors
in Bethesda kicked off the weekend, awakened by lights and
sirens as the FBI and the Bureau of the FBI
and other law enforcement initiated this search of Bolton's home

(08:32):
at seven o'clock Friday morton Friday morning. So let's dive
into is this justified and is there more to the
story than just what the Wall Street Journal or the
for example, the Drudge Report has up on its site
right now. Revenge raid FBI hits Bolton home, Who's next?

(08:57):
Who cares? If no one's about the law, which, by
the way, Democrats keep telling us every time they went
after Donald Trump, where they say no one is above
the law. Well, if that's the case, let's analyze why
they search John Bolton's home. I'll be right back. Welcome

(09:20):
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and go subscribe to the podcast. So John Bolton a
long time. He was out walking the dogs this morning,

(10:03):
and there's this old Vietnam that that I run into
every once in a while, and I said, I having
a conversation with him, and I don't know how we
got off on it, but we were talking about some
of the stuff going on in DC and he talked
about government employees and I forget he had some derogatory
term for them, but it reminded me. I kind of

(10:25):
joked at him and said, well, I've always heard the
term swamp creature, and he got thawed and thought that
was hilarious. Well, John Bolton is kind of one of
those guys. He's the kind of individual and they're just
there are millions of these people. They graduate from college,
they've got a law degree or a political science degree

(10:46):
or whatever they have, and they get their first job
in DC and then they never leave. And by never leave,
I mean they never moved. They might move slightly outside
the Beltway, live in Virginia or Maryland like Bolton does,
but their entire life is moving through that revolving door

(11:07):
of the government the private sector, which really is kind
of almost meshed into an almost fascist style of ruling
elite now that tends to control our lives. And John
Bolton personifies that his entire life is revolved around DC

(11:29):
and going in and out of administrations in that of positions,
and when he's not in a position, he's a contributor
on you know, one of the cable channels, so that
brings in half a million dollars a year, and he's
on a couple of boards and that brings another couple
half a million dollars a year. So these people make
millions of dollars a year, and then when they go

(11:50):
back into government service, they only make, you know, maybe
something less than two hundred they make one hundred eighty
thousand dollars a year. But then that allows them to
get even more experienced. So when they go back through
the revolving door, they go out and they may and
they can command even more money because the higher they
get up the totem pole, the more they can demand
in the private sector. And that revolving door just spins

(12:11):
around and around like crazy. Well that is John Bolton,
the former national security advisor to Trump Trump one point
zero and the current He is really kind of the
current media go to for anybody who's looking for criticism
of anything that the current administration is doing.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
Well.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
He reportedly was not at home when this raid took
place at seven am.

Speaker 4 (12:37):
The probe dropped when Joe Biden became president.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
So is this picking up where.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
Did you notice what the Fox News host just said.
There was already a probe that had started, which I'll
get I'll give you the details in a minute. But
the probe into his mishandling of classified documents started with
his publication of a book that contained classified information almost
word word for word from the documents, back when he

(13:06):
was working and then after working for Trump.

Speaker 4 (13:09):
The probe dropped when Joe Biden became president. So is
this picking up where that left.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
Off, David, It's possible. I don't know with one hundred
percent certainty, but it is notable, guys, that John Bolton,
Ambassador Bolton's security clearances were stripped earlier this year by
President Trump. Tulsey Gabber, the Director of National Intelligence, took
that security clearance away. They had concerns, the administration had
concerns about Ambassador Bolton still being able to access some

(13:37):
of these documents and have some of those security clearances.
It's also notable that John Bolton has a security detail
as well, because of the threats from Iran on his life.
That security detail, that government, federal paid security detail, was
also taken away by President Trump.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
I actually disagree with that decision when a foreign state actor.
The mola's in Iran put a bounty on your head.
They've got a bounty on They still have a bounty
on George Bush's head, but he obviously will continue to
have Secret Service protection the rest of his life. But

(14:21):
so does former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and so
did John Bolton. The Iranians have vowed and have put up,
you know, millions of dollars to have them assassinated. So
I think they are entitled to taxpayer Secret Service or
some of the federal protective Service, whatever it might be,
protection as long as the molas remain in power, and

(14:43):
as long as that boundary remains on their head. So
I do disagree with the administration cutting off his security detail.
ABC News was reporting that a Maryland magistrate judge, a
magistrate judge in the federal court system is also a
federal judge, but they have the name or the title
magistrate judge because they handle a lot of I would say,

(15:06):
ministerial duties like approving search warrants, which, by the way,
you should note a search warrant of Ambassador Bolton's home
had to have been approved by a federal judge. In
this case, it happened to be a federal magistrate that
signed the warrant, but did not. ABC News did not
disclose when the court had authorized this search. Now the

(15:30):
nature of the investigation is unclear, although one FBI source
told an individual on X another reason why you should
be following me on X is that it related to
materials that were published in Bolton's memoir that he wrote
back in twenty twenty. The name of the book is
the room where it happened, the FBI official is quoted

(15:51):
as saying, it is widely known that Bolton mishandled and
took classified information for use in his twenty twenty book
after he failed to get approval from the National Security
Council for the publication of what they determined to be
highly classified information. This rate of Bolton's residence comes after
years of investigation into this potentially criminal disclosure, which started

(16:14):
in twenty twenty before being put on pause for political
reasons during the Biden administration. In June of twenty twenty,
more than five years ago, the Trump Department of Justice
sued Ambassador Bolton, whom Trump had fired in September of
twenty nineteen, because they alleged that he had violated NDA's

(16:38):
non disclosure agreements that were related to his work at
the White House, and that he engaged in the unlawful
dissemination of national security information that he had published, as
I said before, almost word for word in his book.
Bolton and his publisher Simon and Schuster decided to press
forward with the June twenty third release date. According to

(17:00):
this lawsuit, it was filed back in twenty twenty despite
a mandatory There is a mandatory. I'm still under this
mandatory requirement for a pre publication review process by the
National Security Council if you are disclosing or talking about
anything that was at the time classified, well, he's not

(17:23):
exempt from that. And if that's the allegation, and if
you have proof for evidence that he did so, and
so you sued back in twenty twenty for that reason,
and then Biden tells his Department of Justice drop that lawsuit,
and Trump comes back in and reinstates it. Is that

(17:47):
retribution or is that actually pursuing something that truly may
be unlawful? I think it's the latter. It's the Weekend
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It's always up and running. So back to this search
of Ambassador Bolton's home. Let's go back a few years.
Let's go back twenty nineteen. The publication that this comes
from the June sixteen, twenty twenty lawsuit filed against John

(21:12):
Bolton and Simon and Schuster, his publisher. The lawsuit says
the publication and release of the room where it happened
would cause irreparable harm because the disclosure of instances of
classified information in the manuscript reasonably could be expected to
cause serious damage or exceptionally grave damage to the national

(21:34):
security of the United States. Completion of the pre publication
review process and the provision of written authorization to the defendant,
John Bolton, as specified by the contract, would ameliorate such harm.
Trump officials said that when they sought the temporary restraining

(21:56):
order back in twenty twenty, but on June twenty four,
days after the lawsuit was filed, despite concluding that Bolton,
like quote likely jeopardized national security by disclosing classified information,
in violation of his non disclosure agreement obligation. The district

(22:17):
court judge in D. C. Royce Lambert refused to issue
a temporary restraining order preventing distribution of the book. Now
Lambert also immediately entered a temporary restraining order earlier this year.
Just to give you some perspective on how political this
craps become to stop the president's executive order banding transgender

(22:41):
treatments for federal inmates. So, oh, you won't grant a
temporary restraining order to stop the publication of a book
that might violate his non disclosure agreement and might be
a violation of national security provisions and classification provisions. But

(23:01):
you will grant a temporary restraining order preventing the president
from stopping transgender treatment for federal inmates. Judge Royce Lambert
can be as political as almost any other judges, which
is a much larger problem in this country too, that
we should talk about sometime. He noted that Bolton. The

(23:22):
judge did note that Bolton's book quote has been printed,
bound and shipped across the country, to which I say,
so what, so what? You could still enter a temporary
restraining order and just say you can't distribute the book
out to retailers, you can't Amazon, you can't sell it
online until we finish hearing the merits of this case.

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And then June twenty twenty one rolls around before the
case can get to trial and Joe Biden's Department of
Justice drops the lawsuit. Now, during the Biden regime, well,
Biden was work while whomever was president. During that time,
Bolton became one of the media's most reliable go to

(24:08):
supporters of the law fair against Donald Trump. Listen to
Bolton cheering the twenty twenty two armed raid of Moral Lago,
Trump's home in Florida related to the Biden Department of
Justice investigation into Trump's alleged hoarding of classified papers. Here's

(24:30):
John Bolton.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
Then any given moment. But I don't think he cared
about the classification system. I don't think he appreciated the
sensitivity of this information.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
And isn't it deliciously ironic as he's saying this, he
knows that he has published in a book classified information
and he.

Speaker 3 (24:56):
Didn't appreciate the sensitivity of how it was often a
c the so called sources and methods. So this had
been brief to him before I arrived. It was repeated frequently.
I think it simply had no impact on him.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
Whatever.

Speaker 4 (25:10):
There's a couple of different ways that people think about this,
and people who are not friendly to the president who
think about what's happened here, And one of them is,
you know, Donald Trump, master thief, you know, criminal running
the kind of elaborate conspiracy to bring things out of
the White House and keep them secret for potentially for
political or financial gain. There are other people who added
this attitude is Trump is chaotic, he's careless, he's not

(25:33):
that smart, He just as he wants. He took these
things almost by mistake, and now he's basically stamping his
feet and saying, their mind, I don't want to give
them up. Give me a sense of where you think
the truth lies with respect to Trump's intelligence, carelessness, and
the degree which he might have brought motive to bear
on taking these documents out of the White House and
keeping them for this long at mar Laga.

Speaker 3 (25:58):
Well, don't it's very hard to speculate on motive other
than that he liked cool things. He saw things that
he so he wanted to take them, that he was
pretty much able to take them, and not just on
classified information matters, on all kinds of things that crossed
his desk. Some days he liked to eat a lot
of French fries. Some days he took classified documents. He

(26:20):
wanted them. Why did he want them? Because he could
get them.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
Wow, that's that's John Bolton. So after that appearance on MSNBC,
Special Counsel Jack Smith indicted Donald Trump in June of
twenty three with thirty one counts of violating Title eighteen
of the us CO, Section seven ninety three, the Espionage Act,

(26:45):
alleging willful retention of national defense information, and then Jack
Smith also charged the President with obstruction and perjury, among
numerous other counts. When Jack Smith made his public statement
announcing the indict to the President, the former president at
that time, Jack Smith actually suggested the President had endangered

(27:08):
American troops and government officials by allegedly storing classified papers
at mar A Lago. Smith openly opined at the time, quote,
our laws that protect national defense information are critical to
the safety and security of the United States, and they
must be enforced. Violations of those laws put our country

(27:30):
at risk. Okay, mister Smith, if that was true then
and by the way, MSNBC, if that is true, then
it's true today also, and it is true today, So
could John Bolton face the same charges that Donald Trump
faced Now? While the general statute limitations for the seven

(27:53):
hundred the Section seven ninety three espionage count is five years,
some unique situations extend the timeframe to ten years. Now.
If the FBI is pursuing a conspiracy case against Ambassador Bolton,
the conspiracy lasts until the last overt Act, which might

(28:14):
need neatly fit into a five year statue limitations if
adequate evidence exists. In other words, that statue limitations may
still be out there somewhere and we haven't reached it yet.
So Boltons could still be held accountable for the mishandling

(28:35):
in the disclosure of classified information. But for now, all
of make America Great Again folks everywhere, I think are
actually cheering the first substantive action taking against the legion
of not just Trump anti Trump people, but truly former

(28:59):
government officials that brazenly abuse their power to try to
sabotage Trump and deceive the American public. Just a cursory
review of Bolton's very long resume demonstrates, as I said,
He's one of those creatures of the swamp that's got
his fingerprints everywhere, and particularly on some of the worst

(29:19):
foreign policy decisions in the history of this country, including
pushing the Iraq war. Just just a few months ago,
Bolton is over on CNN publicly wished away the existence
of Trump's top law enforcement and intelligence leaders, actually claiming, well,

(29:41):
listen for yourself.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
I think a lot of Republicans right now just wish Cash, Bettel,
Tulsey Gabbard and a number of other Trump nominees who
just go away.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
I bet he wished the same thing. It's the Weekend
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back to the Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to have
you with me. I appreciate you tuning in. We're talking
about Ambassador Bolton and the fact that his home and

(30:13):
his office were rated looking for evidence of breaking the
law by maintaining and keeping classified documents, the very same
thing that Donald Trump was accused of, but which the

(30:33):
President being different, being the ultimate classifier, I've always argued,
has the right to classify or declassify anything. Now, we
could argue till the cows come home about what the
procedure is for doing that. But the president could literally
look at a document while he's reading it, sitting the
oval off, he's being briefed by somebody, and he's reading

(30:56):
something that's marked Top Secret Specially Compartmentalized Information TSSCI, and
he reads it. Now they may argue with him, but
he's still the boss and say, I went this declassified.
Now they can make all their arguments about, oh, you know,
mister president, no, don't do that, because that might disclose

(31:18):
to our enemies some of our methods, or it might
disclose the names of some of our agents. I don't
think Trump would be that stupid. But I read many
things that were classified as TSSCI or Special Access Program information,
the highest you can possibly imagine that. I thought to myself,
why is this classified? And sometimes I would ask, I

(31:41):
would literally ask during the briefing, you know, with my
CIA briefer there, why is this mark classified? What's in here?
And usually he could tell me why, but there were
times when he could he I don't know because somebody
classified it. Well, look at it, read it to me.
Read it again, I'd hand a notebook back to him.
I mean, what you're thinking here is classified? Because I

(32:02):
was always curious that I was missing something. I was
missing the whole point of what the particular document was
it about. And they might say, all right, you know,
now that I read it, I don't really know why
it is the point. Meaning the president has that ultimate
classification authority and declassification authority. John Bolton does not. So

(32:23):
when the Wall Street General writes that quote, it's unlikely
that mister Bolton broke any laws on national secret on
national secrets, I want to say to the Wall Street Journal,
on what basis do you make that statement? Because the
Department of Justice. I want you to understand that the
Department of Justice just can't make up crap and go

(32:45):
file a federal lawsuit because there's such a thing. I
forget what rule of civil procedure it is. It's been
a while, I have to go look it up. But
if you file what's considered by the judge to be
a frivolous lawsuit, a lawsuit that has no basis in
either fact or law, and you're just doing it for

(33:05):
a ven data, you're just doing it for political purposes.
You're just doing it because well, you're just pissed off
at somebody. You can be sanctioned, meaning you can be fined,
you can be disbarred for it, depending how egregious your
actions are. So don't tell me that in twenty twenty,

(33:27):
when Trump's Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against John
Bolton for violating the classification laws, that they just did
it with willy nilly, without justification at all. I don't
buy that for a New York minute. So to claim
that it's unlikely that mister Bolton broke any laws on

(33:48):
national secrets belies the whole mantra that we have heard
through the past four years and all the lawfare that
no one is above the law. So Cash Battel and
Pam BONDI say, now, you're right, nobody is above the law,
and so let's pick up where we left off. The

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only difference is we had an intervening four years where
Joe Biden dismissed it because I'm quite certain that Joe
Biden was trying to protect John Bolton, and so he
ordered his Department of Justice to dismiss it. And now
the Wall Street Journal editorial board, because this is a
House editorial is now out saying, oh, this is the vendetta, absolutely, absolutely,

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without any qualification or documentation or any other reasonable basis
for doing so. They conclude that mister Bolton has continued
to speak cantonus to the Wall Street Journal. Mister Bolton
has continued to speak candidly about mister Trump's second term
decisions pro and con including in these pages this week.

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The President may also hope the FBI raid will cause
mister Bolton to shut up. They'll knowing him. We can
imagine that working. I can't imagine it working either, because
John Bolton the Mustache is going to speak whenever he
gets to, because that's how he makes his living right now,
But are we supposed to just say, oh, well, then
let's just give up? Or how many times have Republicans

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said that we don't play hardball like Democrats do? And
now we are, and everybody's wringing their hands and gnashing
their teeth about it because we're playing hardball. I think
it's about damn time we do. Whether it's redistricting, whether

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it's you know, and I'm not in favor of law fair.
I'm not in favor of just going after people for
going after people, But if you have grounds to criminally
charge someone and you think it is a serious enough
violation that it warrants your time, energy and resources as
a prosecutor to go do that, then you should go
do that. Otherwise back off. And I think Trump knows

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that too. Trump knows that Bolton in that book I
found you can whether you want to use Google or
Go or anybody else, you can go do your own
search and you can just ask a generic question, did
John Bolton word for word publish information from classified documents

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in his book from twenty nineteen, And you'll find a
lot of articles that talk about, yes, he did, he
did do that. Well, then let's have a hearing. Let's
have a hearing and find out how about that. That
would be a change for once, wouldn't it. It's the
weekend of Michael Brown. Go follow me on x at
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