February 12, 2024 • 36 mins
In this episode, we delve into the complexities of recent newsmakers with a humorous twist. From wry commentaries on serious events to light-hearted debates about public opinion, our host showcases the often contradictory nature of political biases. Get insight into Joe Biden's alleged memory issues and the shockwaves that classified document charges have sent through the political strata. Our host shares his personal experiences in radio broadcasting, offering a chance to glimpse the behind-the-scenes dynamics of news dissemination.
This episode breaks down the notorious controversy around classified documents into an easily understandable format. Despite unpredictable technical glitches, the host's jovial demeanor remains unflustered, guiding listeners through the intriguing world of politics. If you're keen on exploring recent political happenings from a new vantage point, then this is a must-listen episode.
Shattering Political Narratives: A Battle with Essential Tremors and a Critique of Memory Recall StandardsIn an episode filled with personal revelations and sharp political critiques, our host bravely shares his struggles with essential tremors and memory recall. He addresses the unrealistic expectations surrounding perfect memory recall, pointing out the recurring memory lapses in public figures like Donald Trump as a strong case in point. The host dives into the repercussions arising from comparisons between Trump and Biden's handling of classified documents, rubbishing the concept of flawless memory recall.
Offering a critique of Trump's careless factual errors, the host recounts an anecdote involving Nikki Haley's husband and the US National Guard. He then engages in a provocative examination of Trump’s resilient political career despite glaring missteps. The host likens Trump's unyielding support base to cult-like dynamics, driving home the astounding power leaders possess, even in the face of substantial criticisms.
This episode invites listeners to introspect on their own political biases and encourages a lively dialogue in the comments section. This episode is tailored for you if you are interested in politics and want to understand it from a distinctive perspective.
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All right, so the first thing I want to say is I just spent 20 minutes giving
you the most entertaining, informative,
life-changing monologue that I have ever given in my life.
And I forgot to hit record. court.
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So that means it's well rehearsed.
And that means this one, it will go down in the annals of history as perhaps
the greatest political commentary of all time.
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Either that or I will will fall asleep.
Cause man, I was into it. Oh, that is so frustrating.
Oh, you know, in, in, in radio, you just, you, you know, at times you forget
to turn the mic on, but there's, you know, you've got a producer there,
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you've got co-hosts there,
you know, and, and you got got your headphones on and I don't like recording
these with the, with, uh, headphones on, but you've got somebody saying, Hey, turn your mic on.
I just can't believe that. Okay. All right. So here was the goal.
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The goal was to give you a commentary on a number of the recent news stories
that we've seen and my way of interpreting Now,
I have been making a very concerted effort to release short videos,
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TikToks, YouTube shorts, Facebook reels every single day about all the issues going on.
So if you want to just pop in and see what's been going on, uh, then that's been great.
Um, but I haven't done a lot of long form commentary and I just feel like tonight's the night.
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Uh, the other thing I would share with you is, uh, I redid my whole setup.
I rewired everything and, um, my camera is being jumpy a little bit.
So if we get some jump, I apologize. Hopefully the audio is good.
Please let the audio be good.
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But if there's a little bit of jump, please forgive me.
All right. So I wanted to start out with a
screaming banner headline that came out this week about Joe Biden and the the
issue with his memory and the issue with him not being charged for classified documents.
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Now, the minute this came out, I heard two roars from the right.
Did you hear them? Because they were pretty loud.
Because the information came out, it came out, you know, one piece and then the other.
And it kind of put people on the right in, in a difficult situation because
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the first piece of the information comes out.
Now I've got Fox on one TV and I've got CNN on the other. Right.
And so the first piece of information comes out and it's Joe Biden's not going
to be charged for classified documents.
And it's like the scream, Oh my gosh, these people are hacks.
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This is a a perfect sign that there's two tiers of justice.
These people can't be trusted. We need to drain the swamp.
This is why we need Donald Trump. We need to throw this report out.
This is the most biased thing we've ever heard in our life. And then...
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And just 10 seconds later, the second piece of info drops.
And the report seems to suggest that Joe Biden has an issue with his memory.
And so then you have the second.
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All of a sudden, this report is the most honest.
These people, you can trust everything that they say. I mean, look at it.
It says right there in a report that he has memory issues.
And we've been telling you this all the time. And we're so glad that there's
finally a legitimate source who's telling us about what we already knew.
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And I'm just sitting back there laughing so hard.
It was It was the perfect moment because in a matter of seconds,
people went from dismissing this report as favoritism, as just a sign of the deep state,
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to, see, we told you he had memory issues.
Issues if this was just not a more perfect example of the political world that
we live in. Oh, my goodness.
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Wow.
I have been laughing about that since the moment it happened.
Oh, Oh my goodness.
So I just want to ask, I'll just put it out there and I'll put it in a,
I'll put it on TikTok too. I just want to ask.
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So just quick question is the person who put together this, uh,
this report, this special counsel report, are they credible or are they not credible.
I just want to know, because on the right, they're not credible because they,
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didn't want to charge Biden for classified documents, but they are credible
because he talked about his bad memory.
And then on the left, it's just the opposite, that this report is totally totally
credible because it exonerates Biden,
but it's a, it's a, it's a political hit job because they talked about memory.
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Oh man, that is so juicy that why, why am I enjoying that so much? Wow.
That is so good. I can see that my camera is jerking around.
I, I'm sorry. I will fix it.
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All right. I just made some changes. Hopefully, uh, the camera will not jerk around as much as it was.
I will watch. But again, I, I apologize.
Please forgive me. Um, but let's talk a little bit more about the specifics
of this, um, this special counsel report.
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Um, there, this is something that, uh, that people aren't going to tell you.
Um, unless they are trying to be, uh, some, some level of credible and I,
I'm not, I'm not trying to be perfectly right.
Right. I am sharing my opinions here, but in all of the hubbub about classified
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documents and comparing Biden to Trump, we don't get a lot of explanation about that.
Well, what is the standard operating procedure for classified documents?
And we all imagine what we've seen on TV about classified documents.
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And that's pretty much our only frame of reference for classified documents.
And that's just not how it works. And then the other thing we think in our head
is if somebody is found to have a classified document.
Document okay i've tried fixing this camera a
couple of times and uh one one
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of the reasons i'm having camera problems is because i
just redid all the wiring under the desk and i
still have a lot of trash you can see it oh it's over here wait right there
that's trash that i still have to take out um so but i'm human you know just
human uh so hopefully this camera will stop stop doing things and let me just.
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So like I said, the classified document situation is not like you see on Mission
Impossible or 007 or everything else.
There are different levels of classified documents, right?
And there are people who have different levels of access.
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You know that we've We've all seen that on on the TV shows.
But and then there are certifications and classes that they have to take on classified documents.
But people are allowed to remove classified documents depending upon what type
they are and what level they are.
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Former presidents and officials are allowed to kind of it's kind of like a library.
They're allowed to check some of them out depending on what's in there. so at any given time,
There's probably, I mean, when you think about the federal government,
there's probably hundreds of thousands of classified documents out there.
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And the federal government knows this. They know it so well that they have a
system for what happens when you find out or realize that you have classified documents.
And it's not like, you know, they're knocking on the door saying,
if you have a single classified document, you're going to jail.
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It's not like that at all. In fact, it's just the opposite.
I'm assuming there's a video on it with some friendly face who says,
if you find that you accidentally have retained classified documents,
please follow the following steps. steps.
Step one, please dial this 800 number and report that you have found the documents.
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Step three, step two, please secure the documents in a safe location.
Step three, whatever. Let's get the documents back to us.
You know what it is. Then they do an investigation to find out if the documents
were what level they were.
Should they have been possessed in the first place?
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Were they shared with anybody um was
there any malicious intent and i'm
gonna say 99 of the time uh they
don't find any issues and and it's no big thing it's just none yeah there's
nothing to see here some of the reasons that classified documents have become
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so big recently is first of all Hillary Clinton's email servers, right?
So Trump made a huge deal about that.
But I've told you, Trump always ends up doing what he accuses of others of doing.
It's just this Trump superpower.
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I mean, I don't know if he's taking notes, trying to check them off,
but it is a Trump superpower.
Superpower if he goes after somebody for
doing something he he's done it
already or he's going to do it so he went
after hillary for classified documents and now
he's storing them in his bathroom that's just a side note he goes after people
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for the fifth for claiming the fifth he does it hundreds of times i could go
on and on that's just trump's superpower among among other things.
The other is that everything he writes is beautiful and that he's smarter than
anybody else on Earth and he's going to tell you about it all the time.
But beyond that, I digress. Um...
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So the question here with the with the Biden documents was the question that
was supposed to be asked by the special prosecutor is why were the documents retained?
Was there ill intent? Was the information shared?
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Were procedures and protocols followed once the documents were discovered?
Recovered and is their cause to recommend any type of charges.
That's the special counsel's job. The special counsel's job is not to opine
on the mental capacity of President Biden. That's not their job.
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And that's one of the things that Democrats are complaining about.
They're saying that's why is even bringing that up? That's not his job.
Well, it could be as simple as them as as the special counsel saying,
we asked the president about what he was doing about this time of the year.
And so we could find out where the documents were and he couldn't remember.
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And somehow that's extrapolated out into the president has a poor memory.
But let's be clear here. Did anyone have any questions about Joe Biden's memory? Anybody?
Anybody out there thinking and this guy is sharp as a tack. Anybody?
You were? You were, really? Okay.
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I've been following Joe Biden for as long as I've been in radio, 25 years.
I've never once thought, now that guy, his memory, wow.
Just not what he is known for.
We'll talk about memory here in a minute. But back to this.
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So the special counsel found that Joe Biden shouldn't have had the documents,
but did everything he was supposed to do to return the documents.
He was the one who identified to the federal government that he had the documents
and he followed all the protocols to return the documents. Mike Pence did the same thing.
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It was just, you know, fascinating.
I mean, we've had such crazy turn of events here.
We've had the, um, we've had, uh, Trump, you know, being accused of having documents
and then Biden coming out and berating him for having the documents.
And then it turns out Biden had the documents.
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What a bizarre, bizarre. political world we live in.
But what I'm trying to say is I don't think that there is any reason for the
special counsel to suggest memory issues unless it's absolutely germane to the investigation.
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If he says we asked the president about this and the president said he didn't recall.
Call, then that's very different than putting something in there saying,
generally, we found that he did not have very good memory.
Now, I'm going to be totally honest with you.
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Unlike my days in talk radio, I didn't read the 400 page report. I didn't do it.
I'm not going to do it. But from what I saw,
it felt what I read, it felt more like this was a gratuitous comment about the
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president's memory and it didn't feel appropriate.
And, uh, so I think that, uh, that Democrats have a case when they talk about it being gratuitous.
That's, that's kind of what I think about that now.
Um, uh, as far as the whole memory issue, like we're sitting here thinking that,
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that the president has to have perfect memory.
I, I don't know where this comes from.
Um if your whole assessment
of whether or not somebody should be president is whether
or not they have a good memory i that's just
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not realistic to me at all i don't
i don't care that you're a computer because you
know what knowledge it's like you know the gotcha
questions when you're running for president or somebody somebody
says who is the president of you
know wherever and you don't know the answer and everybody's
like oh they want to be president and uh
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and they don't know that hello there's something
called google hello you have staff
to remember things are you really telling me that your expectation is that the
president of the united states is going to remember every meeting every discussion
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every president it in every situation.
Come on. We, this is not realistic at all in any way, shape or form.
Now there's a lot of people who, uh, supported me running for Congress who felt
that I could do a great job at that.
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And who would probably consider me to be, uh, somebody of, uh.
I'm not going to say smart, but at least I can convey concepts and principles.
I can speak and share my thoughts in a cohesive way.
But you might be surprised to know that my memory is horrific.
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I mean, horrific. I mean, look, I can remember.
It's interesting. I can remember concepts. concepts
i can remember events like i
can remember things about world war ii that
i i've no idea why i can remember those things
but i have no memory whatsoever for um dates and times if you asked me what
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what i was doing like if i was accused of a crime for uh tuesday night and you
asked me what what I was doing on Tuesday night at eight o'clock,
I, I would go to the electric chair before I could remember that.
I have no memory for dates and places, and I have no memory for people, for names. I just don't.
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I just don't.
And, uh, people are like, oh, you don't try. My wife knows it.
We have our code, you know, the marriage code.
I'm like, you know, the person with the bob, they always sit this place in church.
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She's like, oh yeah, that's the so-and-sos.
So we have our little shorthand where she helps me because she knows.
My former co-host at KSL, She knew I was terrible with names.
And so I wouldn't remember the names of the people in the cubicles next to us.
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And at first she thought that was just because I didn't care.
Well, I've actually since learned it's part of this condition,
the essential tremors that I have.
And I've told you about one of the issues is recall. call.
And in fact, since I've started talking about essential tremors on my broadcast,
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I've had several people ask me, do you have recall issues with your tremors?
And the answer is, absolutely, I do.
But it's more for things like that. It's like for names.
If you ask me to quickly explain to you the 14th Amendment and court cases and
these kind of things, man, for some reason i could just yeah yeah and this and
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that and i can debate very effectively.
I couldn't remember somebody's name or date.
I see people saying, what were you when you were 10?
And they're like, oh, yeah, I was going to this school and my teacher's name was so and so.
And I'm sorry, I just don't have that. I just don't. I never have.
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I don't plan on ever, ever having it.
In fact, I used to get really paranoid before I would go on the air interviewing
somebody I always used computers for everything.
I hate paper partly because I shake.
But man, before I went on the air to interview somebody, I had their name written
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down how to pronounce it.
And I referred back to it over and over again because I think the first time I messed up.
Um what was his name tony kanan kanan he was an indie car racer that i was interviewing.
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Massacred his name and i just
i'm never i'm not doing that again anyway so this idea that somebody uh doesn't
have a perfect recollection of events nonsense it's just nonsense just get over
it and And and and by the way,
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Trump has shown himself to not be a bastion of clear recollection either.
Not even close. He has had some amazing gaffes lately, and I could parade those in front of you.
I could sit here and I could play those all day long.
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Look, he he he said, Nikki, but he meant Hillary.
He said this, but he said that. You haven't seen me show any of that or talk about any of it. Why?
Because honestly, I think that we all do that.
I've had so many times. In fact, you can go back and find it.
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You can find a podcast that I released a couple of weeks ago where it was the E.
Jean Carroll verdict. But instead of E.
Jean Carroll, I put in the name of Fannie Ellis.
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But I'm telling you, when I did that, my mouth said E. Jean Carroll.
There's no doubt in my mind, that's what my face said. That's what my brain
told my mouth to say. And that's what I said.
And of course, the first person, first comment, it wasn't Fanny Ellis.
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I'm like, ah, because that's always how they sound in my mind.
So look you know even though
trump tells us he has a great memory even though he's
always telling us about how brilliant he is recall as far as stuff like it's
a non-issue for me is it's just a non-issue now if you do want to take a minute
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and compare the classified document situation with Trump versus Biden,
there is no comparison.
There is absolutely no comparison. And people are going to try and they're going to sell you this.
And it just is not real.
Just by virtue of what I've told you already, you should know there is no comparison
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between the Biden confidential confidential documents and the Trump confidential documents.
There are no similarities.
Do I have to go through it? You really want me to go through it?
Or can you, you figure them out? I just, I'm there.
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The only, the only thing I can't figure out is, is, is Trump's superpower.
Yeah.
Where if he accuses somebody of doing something, he has done it or he will do it. It's just amazing.
It's a gift.
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It's a skill. It is just amazing.
Okay, so one other thing that happened. This happened today.
I'm recording this on Saturday night, February 10th, to give you an idea of
where I'm at time frame wise. This happened today.
President Trump. I keep saying President Trump. That's what I'm used to.
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People get mad at me. Of course, I mean former President Trump.
He was at a rally and he was riffing, you know, like he does.
And he gets that look on his face where he knows he's about to say something
that he thinks is totally smart and sarcastic and is going to make everybody go, ooh.
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And he starts asking where Nikki Haley's husband is.
Why isn't Nikki Haley's husband on the campaign? It's like, ooh,
why isn't she on the campaign?
And, of course, the crowd, as they often do with Trump, they're trying to play
along, but they're not getting the joke or getting the inference.
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Interference uh and so he dives in
a little bit more and said and and basically
my interpretation because i
do speak trump or i interpret trump is what he was trying to say was that even
her husband knows that she can't win so he's not out on the campaign trail with
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her now what trump Trump didn't know,
and I know he didn't know this because he doesn't research.
He doesn't investigate. He doesn't process things before they come out of his face.
He thinks that would be cool, and he says that.
What he didn't know is that Nikki Haley's husband is overseas serving in the
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United States National Guard.
Oops. So now, of course, the headline, depending upon which news story you watch,
was that Trump goes after Nikki's husband for serving in the military.
That's not what he did.
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He was just Trump being stupid. That's all it was.
He was riffing and he riffed in the wrong place.
And of course, Hillary, Hillary, see, I just did it.
And of course, Nikki comes out and she says, if you want to ask questions like
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that, you need to do them to my face in a debate.
And of course, you know, her people applauded. There's no way Trump is going to debate her.
He has no reason to debate her.
Trump was not making any inference about his military support,
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but he falls into this trap because he has made these types of comments in the past.
He has made comments that should have instantly, instantly tanked his political career.
I mean, in a New York second, when you talk about things that candidates have
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said that should end their political career,
the moment it's not potato from quail. It's not.
It's when Trump several times criticized McCain for becoming a war hero and
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said he likes his war heroes who don't get caught.
If ever there was a moment, and there's actually two here for your pleasure,
but Trump has survived a number of them.
But if there ever, ever, ever was a moment in time where I thought,
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that's it, pack it in, this man is done, that should have been the moment.
If that statement was made by John Kerry,
by Joe Biden, by Al Gore,
by anybody on the left, it would have been political suicide and somehow Donald
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Trump survives it and says it more than once.
Unbelievable. The other time when the audio comes out and Trump basically admits
to assaulting women and grabbing them in the and laughing about it.
Again, if that's Bill Clinton, done.
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If that's if that's anyone on the left, done. done. For Trump, ain't no thing.
Just cruising along here. Why? Because he's got all his supporters convinced
that anything negative that is reported about him is not really something you
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should think bad about him.
It is really just a sign. It's evidence.
It's proof that he is so So important that all of these bad things that are
coming out about him, they prove how valuable he is.
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They prove how chosen he is.
This is a unique place to be. it's a place that only can be created by the finest cult leaders and.
Dictators that have ever existed in the world hitler was able to do it cult
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leaders across america have been able to do it and it it's this fascinating
thing where first they they They talk about fake news,
and first they convince you that you can't trust any sources from the outside
because they're all against you. Hitler called it fake news.
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Trump calls it fake news. And then they start to convince you that anything
negative that is said about them is actually proof of their divinity.
As opposed to something that you should consider as a reason not to support them.
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This is a skill that few have.
It is a tactic it
is i don't know how they do it but trump is in this place and this is when somebody
literally becomes a god on earth because i would ask you i'm sure i don't have
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a lot of trump supporters listening at this particular moment but i i would ask you.
What does Trump have to do for you to not support him if you're a Trump supporter now?
What does he have to do if he's convicted of crimes?
No, that's not going to happen. If he's convicted of sexual assault,
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no, that's not going to do it.
If he's convicted and accused of selling secrets to Russia, no,
that's not going to do it. What is it?
What is that thing?
I'm just so curious i'm just so curious what is that thing that you will hear will you say,
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gotta leave you trump that that's the one that broke me that's the one that
i can't get past it doesn't exist and that should scare all of us to death and
the one who knows it more than anybody is Trump.
Because now, once you know that you've convinced everybody that any bad reporting,
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anything negative said about you is actually confirmation of your importance. importance.
Now you get to go out and stir things up.
Now you get to go out and create reasons for the negative criticism.
Now you get to go out and create the mayhem.
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And this is why people are like, oh my gosh, Trump did it again.
Why would he say it again? Why would he do it again? Are you kidding me?
He has convinced his primary supporters that every negative report,
every negative thing said about him is confirmation of his divinity.
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And he knows it.
And he is playing it perhaps better than it has ever, ever been played before.
And I will just end with this question.
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If you are a Trump supporter, if you know a Trump supporter, ask them that question.
What is the thing?
What is the one thing that could happen that would break you from Trump?
What is it? I'd like to know.
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And tell me what they say. Leave it in the comments. I would absolutely love to hear it.
All right, so the first thing I want to say is I just spent 20 minutes giving
you the most entertaining, informative,
life-changing monologue that I have ever given in my life.
And I forgot to hit record. court.
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So that means it's well rehearsed.
And that means this one, it will go down in the annals of history as perhaps
the greatest political commentary of all time.
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Either that or I will will fall asleep.
Cause man, I was into it. Oh, that is so frustrating.
Oh, you know, in, in, in radio, you just, you, you know, at times you forget
to turn the mic on, but there's, you know, you've got a producer there,
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you've got co-hosts there,
you know, and, and you got got your headphones on and I don't like recording
these with the, with, uh, headphones on, but you've got somebody saying, Hey, turn your mic on.
I just can't believe that. Okay. All right. So here was the goal.
(01:26):
The goal was to give you a commentary on a number of the recent news stories
that we've seen and my way of interpreting Now,
I have been making a very concerted effort to release short videos,
(01:50):
TikToks, YouTube shorts, Facebook reels every single day about all the issues going on.
So if you want to just pop in and see what's been going on, uh, then that's been great.
Um, but I haven't done a lot of long form commentary and I just feel like tonight's the night.
(02:13):
Uh, the other thing I would share with you is, uh, I redid my whole setup.
I rewired everything and, um, my camera is being jumpy a little bit.
So if we get some jump, I apologize. Hopefully the audio is good.
Please let the audio be good.
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But if there's a little bit of jump, please forgive me.
All right. So I wanted to start out with a
screaming banner headline that came out this week about Joe Biden and the the
issue with his memory and the issue with him not being charged for classified documents.
(03:00):
Now, the minute this came out, I heard two roars from the right.
Did you hear them? Because they were pretty loud.
Because the information came out, it came out, you know, one piece and then the other.
And it kind of put people on the right in, in a difficult situation because
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the first piece of the information comes out.
Now I've got Fox on one TV and I've got CNN on the other. Right.
And so the first piece of information comes out and it's Joe Biden's not going
to be charged for classified documents.
And it's like the scream, Oh my gosh, these people are hacks.
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This is a a perfect sign that there's two tiers of justice.
These people can't be trusted. We need to drain the swamp.
This is why we need Donald Trump. We need to throw this report out.
This is the most biased thing we've ever heard in our life. And then...
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And just 10 seconds later, the second piece of info drops.
And the report seems to suggest that Joe Biden has an issue with his memory.
And so then you have the second.
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All of a sudden, this report is the most honest.
These people, you can trust everything that they say. I mean, look at it.
It says right there in a report that he has memory issues.
And we've been telling you this all the time. And we're so glad that there's
finally a legitimate source who's telling us about what we already knew.
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And I'm just sitting back there laughing so hard.
It was It was the perfect moment because in a matter of seconds,
people went from dismissing this report as favoritism, as just a sign of the deep state,
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to, see, we told you he had memory issues.
Issues if this was just not a more perfect example of the political world that
we live in. Oh, my goodness.
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Wow.
I have been laughing about that since the moment it happened.
Oh, Oh my goodness.
So I just want to ask, I'll just put it out there and I'll put it in a,
I'll put it on TikTok too. I just want to ask.
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So just quick question is the person who put together this, uh,
this report, this special counsel report, are they credible or are they not credible.
I just want to know, because on the right, they're not credible because they,
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didn't want to charge Biden for classified documents, but they are credible
because he talked about his bad memory.
And then on the left, it's just the opposite, that this report is totally totally
credible because it exonerates Biden,
but it's a, it's a, it's a political hit job because they talked about memory.
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Oh man, that is so juicy that why, why am I enjoying that so much? Wow.
That is so good. I can see that my camera is jerking around.
I, I'm sorry. I will fix it.
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All right. I just made some changes. Hopefully, uh, the camera will not jerk around as much as it was.
I will watch. But again, I, I apologize.
Please forgive me. Um, but let's talk a little bit more about the specifics
of this, um, this special counsel report.
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Um, there, this is something that, uh, that people aren't going to tell you.
Um, unless they are trying to be, uh, some, some level of credible and I,
I'm not, I'm not trying to be perfectly right.
Right. I am sharing my opinions here, but in all of the hubbub about classified
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documents and comparing Biden to Trump, we don't get a lot of explanation about that.
Well, what is the standard operating procedure for classified documents?
And we all imagine what we've seen on TV about classified documents.
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And that's pretty much our only frame of reference for classified documents.
And that's just not how it works. And then the other thing we think in our head
is if somebody is found to have a classified document.
Document okay i've tried fixing this camera a
couple of times and uh one one
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of the reasons i'm having camera problems is because i
just redid all the wiring under the desk and i
still have a lot of trash you can see it oh it's over here wait right there
that's trash that i still have to take out um so but i'm human you know just
human uh so hopefully this camera will stop stop doing things and let me just.
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So like I said, the classified document situation is not like you see on Mission
Impossible or 007 or everything else.
There are different levels of classified documents, right?
And there are people who have different levels of access.
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You know that we've We've all seen that on on the TV shows.
But and then there are certifications and classes that they have to take on classified documents.
But people are allowed to remove classified documents depending upon what type
they are and what level they are.
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Former presidents and officials are allowed to kind of it's kind of like a library.
They're allowed to check some of them out depending on what's in there. so at any given time,
There's probably, I mean, when you think about the federal government,
there's probably hundreds of thousands of classified documents out there.
(10:19):
And the federal government knows this. They know it so well that they have a
system for what happens when you find out or realize that you have classified documents.
And it's not like, you know, they're knocking on the door saying,
if you have a single classified document, you're going to jail.
(10:42):
It's not like that at all. In fact, it's just the opposite.
I'm assuming there's a video on it with some friendly face who says,
if you find that you accidentally have retained classified documents,
please follow the following steps. steps.
Step one, please dial this 800 number and report that you have found the documents.
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Step three, step two, please secure the documents in a safe location.
Step three, whatever. Let's get the documents back to us.
You know what it is. Then they do an investigation to find out if the documents
were what level they were.
Should they have been possessed in the first place?
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Were they shared with anybody um was
there any malicious intent and i'm
gonna say 99 of the time uh they
don't find any issues and and it's no big thing it's just none yeah there's
nothing to see here some of the reasons that classified documents have become
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so big recently is first of all Hillary Clinton's email servers, right?
So Trump made a huge deal about that.
But I've told you, Trump always ends up doing what he accuses of others of doing.
It's just this Trump superpower.
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I mean, I don't know if he's taking notes, trying to check them off,
but it is a Trump superpower.
Superpower if he goes after somebody for
doing something he he's done it
already or he's going to do it so he went
after hillary for classified documents and now
he's storing them in his bathroom that's just a side note he goes after people
(12:39):
for the fifth for claiming the fifth he does it hundreds of times i could go
on and on that's just trump's superpower among among other things.
The other is that everything he writes is beautiful and that he's smarter than
anybody else on Earth and he's going to tell you about it all the time.
But beyond that, I digress. Um...
(13:03):
So the question here with the with the Biden documents was the question that
was supposed to be asked by the special prosecutor is why were the documents retained?
Was there ill intent? Was the information shared?
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Were procedures and protocols followed once the documents were discovered?
Recovered and is their cause to recommend any type of charges.
That's the special counsel's job. The special counsel's job is not to opine
on the mental capacity of President Biden. That's not their job.
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And that's one of the things that Democrats are complaining about.
They're saying that's why is even bringing that up? That's not his job.
Well, it could be as simple as them as as the special counsel saying,
we asked the president about what he was doing about this time of the year.
And so we could find out where the documents were and he couldn't remember.
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And somehow that's extrapolated out into the president has a poor memory.
But let's be clear here. Did anyone have any questions about Joe Biden's memory? Anybody?
Anybody out there thinking and this guy is sharp as a tack. Anybody?
You were? You were, really? Okay.
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I've been following Joe Biden for as long as I've been in radio, 25 years.
I've never once thought, now that guy, his memory, wow.
Just not what he is known for.
We'll talk about memory here in a minute. But back to this.
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So the special counsel found that Joe Biden shouldn't have had the documents,
but did everything he was supposed to do to return the documents.
He was the one who identified to the federal government that he had the documents
and he followed all the protocols to return the documents. Mike Pence did the same thing.
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It was just, you know, fascinating.
I mean, we've had such crazy turn of events here.
We've had the, um, we've had, uh, Trump, you know, being accused of having documents
and then Biden coming out and berating him for having the documents.
And then it turns out Biden had the documents.
(15:47):
What a bizarre, bizarre. political world we live in.
But what I'm trying to say is I don't think that there is any reason for the
special counsel to suggest memory issues unless it's absolutely germane to the investigation.
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If he says we asked the president about this and the president said he didn't recall.
Call, then that's very different than putting something in there saying,
generally, we found that he did not have very good memory.
Now, I'm going to be totally honest with you.
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Unlike my days in talk radio, I didn't read the 400 page report. I didn't do it.
I'm not going to do it. But from what I saw,
it felt what I read, it felt more like this was a gratuitous comment about the
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president's memory and it didn't feel appropriate.
And, uh, so I think that, uh, that Democrats have a case when they talk about it being gratuitous.
That's, that's kind of what I think about that now.
Um, uh, as far as the whole memory issue, like we're sitting here thinking that,
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that the president has to have perfect memory.
I, I don't know where this comes from.
Um if your whole assessment
of whether or not somebody should be president is whether
or not they have a good memory i that's just
(17:38):
not realistic to me at all i don't
i don't care that you're a computer because you
know what knowledge it's like you know the gotcha
questions when you're running for president or somebody somebody
says who is the president of you
know wherever and you don't know the answer and everybody's
like oh they want to be president and uh
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and they don't know that hello there's something
called google hello you have staff
to remember things are you really telling me that your expectation is that the
president of the united states is going to remember every meeting every discussion
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every president it in every situation.
Come on. We, this is not realistic at all in any way, shape or form.
Now there's a lot of people who, uh, supported me running for Congress who felt
that I could do a great job at that.
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And who would probably consider me to be, uh, somebody of, uh.
I'm not going to say smart, but at least I can convey concepts and principles.
I can speak and share my thoughts in a cohesive way.
But you might be surprised to know that my memory is horrific.
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I mean, horrific. I mean, look, I can remember.
It's interesting. I can remember concepts. concepts
i can remember events like i
can remember things about world war ii that
i i've no idea why i can remember those things
but i have no memory whatsoever for um dates and times if you asked me what
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what i was doing like if i was accused of a crime for uh tuesday night and you
asked me what what I was doing on Tuesday night at eight o'clock,
I, I would go to the electric chair before I could remember that.
I have no memory for dates and places, and I have no memory for people, for names. I just don't.
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I just don't.
And, uh, people are like, oh, you don't try. My wife knows it.
We have our code, you know, the marriage code.
I'm like, you know, the person with the bob, they always sit this place in church.
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She's like, oh yeah, that's the so-and-sos.
So we have our little shorthand where she helps me because she knows.
My former co-host at KSL, She knew I was terrible with names.
And so I wouldn't remember the names of the people in the cubicles next to us.
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And at first she thought that was just because I didn't care.
Well, I've actually since learned it's part of this condition,
the essential tremors that I have.
And I've told you about one of the issues is recall. call.
And in fact, since I've started talking about essential tremors on my broadcast,
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I've had several people ask me, do you have recall issues with your tremors?
And the answer is, absolutely, I do.
But it's more for things like that. It's like for names.
If you ask me to quickly explain to you the 14th Amendment and court cases and
these kind of things, man, for some reason i could just yeah yeah and this and
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that and i can debate very effectively.
I couldn't remember somebody's name or date.
I see people saying, what were you when you were 10?
And they're like, oh, yeah, I was going to this school and my teacher's name was so and so.
And I'm sorry, I just don't have that. I just don't. I never have.
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I don't plan on ever, ever having it.
In fact, I used to get really paranoid before I would go on the air interviewing
somebody I always used computers for everything.
I hate paper partly because I shake.
But man, before I went on the air to interview somebody, I had their name written
(22:17):
down how to pronounce it.
And I referred back to it over and over again because I think the first time I messed up.
Um what was his name tony kanan kanan he was an indie car racer that i was interviewing.
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Massacred his name and i just
i'm never i'm not doing that again anyway so this idea that somebody uh doesn't
have a perfect recollection of events nonsense it's just nonsense just get over
it and And and and by the way,
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Trump has shown himself to not be a bastion of clear recollection either.
Not even close. He has had some amazing gaffes lately, and I could parade those in front of you.
I could sit here and I could play those all day long.
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Look, he he he said, Nikki, but he meant Hillary.
He said this, but he said that. You haven't seen me show any of that or talk about any of it. Why?
Because honestly, I think that we all do that.
I've had so many times. In fact, you can go back and find it.
(23:40):
You can find a podcast that I released a couple of weeks ago where it was the E.
Jean Carroll verdict. But instead of E.
Jean Carroll, I put in the name of Fannie Ellis.
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But I'm telling you, when I did that, my mouth said E. Jean Carroll.
There's no doubt in my mind, that's what my face said. That's what my brain
told my mouth to say. And that's what I said.
And of course, the first person, first comment, it wasn't Fanny Ellis.
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I'm like, ah, because that's always how they sound in my mind.
So look you know even though
trump tells us he has a great memory even though he's
always telling us about how brilliant he is recall as far as stuff like it's
a non-issue for me is it's just a non-issue now if you do want to take a minute
(24:49):
and compare the classified document situation with Trump versus Biden,
there is no comparison.
There is absolutely no comparison. And people are going to try and they're going to sell you this.
And it just is not real.
Just by virtue of what I've told you already, you should know there is no comparison
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between the Biden confidential confidential documents and the Trump confidential documents.
There are no similarities.
Do I have to go through it? You really want me to go through it?
Or can you, you figure them out? I just, I'm there.
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The only, the only thing I can't figure out is, is, is Trump's superpower.
Yeah.
Where if he accuses somebody of doing something, he has done it or he will do it. It's just amazing.
It's a gift.
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It's a skill. It is just amazing.
Okay, so one other thing that happened. This happened today.
I'm recording this on Saturday night, February 10th, to give you an idea of
where I'm at time frame wise. This happened today.
President Trump. I keep saying President Trump. That's what I'm used to.
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People get mad at me. Of course, I mean former President Trump.
He was at a rally and he was riffing, you know, like he does.
And he gets that look on his face where he knows he's about to say something
that he thinks is totally smart and sarcastic and is going to make everybody go, ooh.
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And he starts asking where Nikki Haley's husband is.
Why isn't Nikki Haley's husband on the campaign? It's like, ooh,
why isn't she on the campaign?
And, of course, the crowd, as they often do with Trump, they're trying to play
along, but they're not getting the joke or getting the inference.
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Interference uh and so he dives in
a little bit more and said and and basically
my interpretation because i
do speak trump or i interpret trump is what he was trying to say was that even
her husband knows that she can't win so he's not out on the campaign trail with
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her now what trump Trump didn't know,
and I know he didn't know this because he doesn't research.
He doesn't investigate. He doesn't process things before they come out of his face.
He thinks that would be cool, and he says that.
What he didn't know is that Nikki Haley's husband is overseas serving in the
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United States National Guard.
Oops. So now, of course, the headline, depending upon which news story you watch,
was that Trump goes after Nikki's husband for serving in the military.
That's not what he did.
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He was just Trump being stupid. That's all it was.
He was riffing and he riffed in the wrong place.
And of course, Hillary, Hillary, see, I just did it.
And of course, Nikki comes out and she says, if you want to ask questions like
(28:47):
that, you need to do them to my face in a debate.
And of course, you know, her people applauded. There's no way Trump is going to debate her.
He has no reason to debate her.
Trump was not making any inference about his military support,
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but he falls into this trap because he has made these types of comments in the past.
He has made comments that should have instantly, instantly tanked his political career.
I mean, in a New York second, when you talk about things that candidates have
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said that should end their political career,
the moment it's not potato from quail. It's not.
It's when Trump several times criticized McCain for becoming a war hero and
(29:59):
said he likes his war heroes who don't get caught.
If ever there was a moment, and there's actually two here for your pleasure,
but Trump has survived a number of them.
But if there ever, ever, ever was a moment in time where I thought,
(30:21):
that's it, pack it in, this man is done, that should have been the moment.
If that statement was made by John Kerry,
by Joe Biden, by Al Gore,
by anybody on the left, it would have been political suicide and somehow Donald
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Trump survives it and says it more than once.
Unbelievable. The other time when the audio comes out and Trump basically admits
to assaulting women and grabbing them in the and laughing about it.
Again, if that's Bill Clinton, done.
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If that's if that's anyone on the left, done. done. For Trump, ain't no thing.
Just cruising along here. Why? Because he's got all his supporters convinced
that anything negative that is reported about him is not really something you
(31:31):
should think bad about him.
It is really just a sign. It's evidence.
It's proof that he is so So important that all of these bad things that are
coming out about him, they prove how valuable he is.
(31:52):
They prove how chosen he is.
This is a unique place to be. it's a place that only can be created by the finest cult leaders and.
Dictators that have ever existed in the world hitler was able to do it cult
(32:17):
leaders across america have been able to do it and it it's this fascinating
thing where first they they They talk about fake news,
and first they convince you that you can't trust any sources from the outside
because they're all against you. Hitler called it fake news.
(32:39):
Trump calls it fake news. And then they start to convince you that anything
negative that is said about them is actually proof of their divinity.
As opposed to something that you should consider as a reason not to support them.
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This is a skill that few have.
It is a tactic it
is i don't know how they do it but trump is in this place and this is when somebody
literally becomes a god on earth because i would ask you i'm sure i don't have
(33:24):
a lot of trump supporters listening at this particular moment but i i would ask you.
What does Trump have to do for you to not support him if you're a Trump supporter now?
What does he have to do if he's convicted of crimes?
No, that's not going to happen. If he's convicted of sexual assault,
(33:46):
no, that's not going to do it.
If he's convicted and accused of selling secrets to Russia, no,
that's not going to do it. What is it?
What is that thing?
I'm just so curious i'm just so curious what is that thing that you will hear will you say,
(34:09):
gotta leave you trump that that's the one that broke me that's the one that
i can't get past it doesn't exist and that should scare all of us to death and
the one who knows it more than anybody is Trump.
Because now, once you know that you've convinced everybody that any bad reporting,
(34:37):
anything negative said about you is actually confirmation of your importance. importance.
Now you get to go out and stir things up.
Now you get to go out and create reasons for the negative criticism.
Now you get to go out and create the mayhem.
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And this is why people are like, oh my gosh, Trump did it again.
Why would he say it again? Why would he do it again? Are you kidding me?
He has convinced his primary supporters that every negative report,
every negative thing said about him is confirmation of his divinity.
(35:21):
And he knows it.
And he is playing it perhaps better than it has ever, ever been played before.
And I will just end with this question.
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If you are a Trump supporter, if you know a Trump supporter, ask them that question.
What is the thing?
What is the one thing that could happen that would break you from Trump?
What is it? I'd like to know.
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And tell me what they say. Leave it in the comments. I would absolutely love to hear it.
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