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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time time time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Very Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Ambassador, thank you for being here tonight.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I mean, I just wonder, as someone who worked inside
the West Wing when Donald Trump was president, what is
it like for you to see his mugshot tonight?
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Well, I thought it was as with most things Trump does,
carefully stage, they must have thought about what look they wanted.
He could have smiled, he could have looked benign. Instead,
he looks like a thug.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
FBI agents have rated the Marylynd home. A former Trump
National security advisor, John Bolton, happened at seven am this morning.
Speaker 6 (00:46):
Shortly after the raid began.
Speaker 7 (00:48):
FBI Director Cash Fattel.
Speaker 6 (00:49):
Posting on X quote, no one is above the law.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
FBI agents on a mission.
Speaker 8 (00:55):
But it is notable, guys that John Bolton, Ambassador bolton
security clearances were stripped earlier this year.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
By President Trump.
Speaker 8 (01:03):
Tulsi Gabbert, 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 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
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security detail, that government, federal paid security detail, was also
taken away.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
I think a lot of Republicans right now just wish
Cash Fattel, Tulsey Gabbard, and a number of other Trump
nominees who just go away.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
There was a probe going on when President Trump was
in office last time because John Bolden wrote a book
and theresident he violated his NDA.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
The President said in doing it and.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
He felt as though they were classified information in that book.
The probe dropped when Joe Biden became president.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I don't think he cared about the classification system. I
don't think he appreciated the sensitivity of this information, and
he didn't appreciate the sensitivity of how it was often acquired,
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 whatever.
Speaker 9 (02:18):
A sense of where you think the truth wise 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 way as of keeping them for this
long and Marlaga.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Well, 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, and 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.
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Some days he took classified documents.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
He wanted them. Why did he want them? Because he
could get them. That was John Bolt's whose home was
rated Friday morning, as was his office. The rumor mill
is very thick with a rather consistent allegation that John
Bolton was selling America's secrets to foreign governments. Now the
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foreign government i'm hearing who has paid him the most
is cutter Or Qatar, however you prefer to say it.
There is a photo that's making its way around the
Internet that's being talked about in political circles. I don't
have verification yet. The photo purports to show John Bolton
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in Doha, which is in cutter Or, Qatar. Close to
what I'm told by reputable sources is a drop site
and a meeting point. Now you have to recognize that
Cutter is a nation that has been a place that's
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been willing to pay, that's been willing to spend a
lot of money inside the United States in ways very
similar to what the Chinese do attacking. For instance, the
University System Texas A and m Esteemed University in Texas
has a relationship or had. It's unclear if that continues.
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If that has continued. There have been a lot of
questions asked about whether Cutter or Catar is doing these
sorts of things, these sort of institutional exchanges and giving
a lot of money to American say institutions in order
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to get access and what that access could mean. John Bolton.
President Trump was very very clear that John Bolton was
in violation of his non disclosure agreements and American laws
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when he worked in the Trump administration in twenty twenty.
That got really bad. Ramon go to six fourteen for me.
This is George Conway, who was married to Kelly Inn
Conway before she divorced him. George Conway is part of
the Republicans who hate Trump because he wouldn't put him
in his White House crowd. He begged, begged for a
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position in the Trump White House, but so he shows
up at Bolton's home while the home is being rated
and says the oddest thing on NBC News.
Speaker 10 (05:51):
But I've heard John Bolton was always fastidious who with
classified verses on classifying story, It's all about the fact
that he wrote a book that was uncomplimentary about the
president's mental capacity and other abilities. If that's what this
is about, well I think we shall all start buying
John's book and reading the passages about Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Well, aren't you clever, George. I'm sure that in the
salons of Georgetown and at the Bulwark. I'm sure Bill
Crystal and Jonah Goldberger most impressed that you've managed to
sell a few more of John Bolton's books. I think
the better question, which I heard posed on the internet
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because it was an early morning raid at John Bolton's home,
the better question is why nobody seemed to be bothered
that George Conway was at John Bolton's home early in
the morning while the raid was going on without wearing
a bra, which was very disturbing. Who knows, I can't
tell you. How does he know how fastidious John Bolton
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was with classified material? How would you know that? Is
that a conversation you.
Speaker 11 (07:01):
Have guitars, cigars, and a few thoughts from Bizarre on
Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
President Trump today signed an executive order ending cashless bail
in the United States. I know you know what that is,
but I want to make sure everybody knows. So just
sit quietly and let me explain this. When a person
is arrested, even if an officer drives up on someone
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and they're stabbing their wife, blood's spurting everywhere, she's dying,
Blood's all over him. Officer runs up, arrests him, brings
him down, books him. Cashless bail. In the past, when
you're booked having been accused of a crime and you're arraigned,
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you brought before the judge to be returned to the
court for a proceeding to determine if you're guilty or not.
In the past, there was a bail system which said
we're not going to let you go home, but we
will let you go home if you put some money up.
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And so when you hear the amount, let's just make
this easy. Let's say the amount is you've got a
five thousand dollars bail. You don't actually spend the five
thousand dollars. What happens is there is a third party
person known as a bail bondsman, and you your family
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goes to a bail bondsman and says I need a
five thousand dollars bail. The bail bondsman then goes to
the court and on your behalf gets you out. That
costs you ten percent of the baill. So if it's
five thousand dollars, you give them five hundred dollars. This
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gives the court system a person kind of a collateral.
You know, when you have to make pledges or when
you buy. When you get a mortgage, you have to
sign I'll pay if I don't. If I don't, I
mean i'll if this deal goes bad, I'll put a
personal signature on it. Well, in this case, this is
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collateralizing the baill by saying, hey, if this guy goes missing,
you got to come up with a full five thousand dollars.
So the bail bondsman says, wait a second, he paid
me five hundred dollars and now I have to give
the court five thousand unless I can bring him in.
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So now you've got dog the bounty hunter involved. This
is how that all came about. So what you've don
done as a governmental entity is you have outsourced the
surety that the person who's been accused of a crime
will show back up at court, And if they don't
show back up at court, it's not the responsibility of
the state to go get them. You've created a financial
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incentive for the bail bondsman to go get them, in
much the same way that you know you have guys
that repoe men that if you don't pay you for
your car note, then they'll go out and repoe your car. Well,
basically they repoe you and they know where you are.
How do they know, But because before they gave you
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that bond, they got every bit of information possible. They
did an investigation, so the state wouldn't So when your
mom comes down and signs that bill, she may have
to if it's one hundred thousand dollars bill, she may
have to put her house up. And that means if
you don't show up, the bail bondsman can sell that
house and get the money that way. But the first
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thing they do is they do a background check. They go,
all right, if I give Tommy this beil, you mom,
tell me all the people associated with him where's his
baby mama live, where's his next baby mama live, where's
his third baby mama live, where's his fourth baby mama live?
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Because there's a very good chance if he gets if
he doesn't shru up the court, he's laid up with
one of them. So we want to know where all
the baby mamas are, where his mama is, where his
brother lives, where the drug house he goes to, all
of that. So what happened was part of the Soro's
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plan to destroy America was to allow crime to run rampant. Well,
they couldn't come out and say at that point, Hey,
what we want to do is have more crime in
America and destroy America. So instead racism it's all he's
based on racism. He ever knows that it's always based
on racism. So the argument went, well, cash bell is racist,
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how's it racist? Well, what if you don't have the
money to pay for the bail, So we'll say, cash
list bell, you just sign and say you promised to
come back. Same guy that was just butchering his wife,
same guy that's got a long rap sheet, He's not
coming back. He's never coming back. So that was how
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criminals got back out on the street and immediately started
committing crimes. We don't want them to build to come
over bell not bad guys anyway, So today President Trump
did this all over the country cashless fail.
Speaker 12 (12:43):
We're ending it, but we're starting by ending it in DC,
and that we have the right to do through federalization.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Okay, let's go.
Speaker 12 (12:52):
Could I just up to saying exactly what this is?
Speaker 13 (12:54):
Of course, so as you've consistently identified CERTA cashless failed
policies are a key dryver of the disorder we see
on city streets all over America, cash and release system
allows criminals to keep going back out onto the street
and reoffending. What this executive order does it charges your
Attorney General with identifying jurisdictions all over the country that
have cashless bail policies, and then it withholds or revokes
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federal funds and grants that are flowing to those jurisdictions
to ensure that we're only supporting the people who have reasonable,
common sense policies around crime.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
So what area does it cover?
Speaker 13 (13:29):
Potentially anywhere that has a cashless bail policy. So some
of the largest cities, some of the most left wing
states and are most in the Illinois would be a
great example, Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Oh, they have a great cash list pail.
Speaker 12 (13:40):
You don't even have to go to court sometimes.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Now, Ellen, I love that state.
Speaker 12 (13:45):
It's a great state, but it's run so badly by Prisco.
They throw them out of the family business and he
becomes governor now wants to run for president.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I don't think that's going to happen.
Speaker 12 (13:55):
Okay, we'll sign right here, right sir. So important, And
this isn't Republican Democrat. This is and by the way,
most Democrats agree with this. But this is just we
got to bring our country back. Okay, that's a big one.
Speaker 13 (14:21):
Also on the issue of casualist scale, sir, this is
a DC specific executive order in addition to the measures
that we're taking that are quite similar to what we're
doing around the country.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
In DC. In particular, the.
Speaker 13 (14:33):
Objective is holding as many criminal defendants in federal custody
and subjecting them to federal charges as possible.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
That means that they'll be held pre trial in federal.
Speaker 13 (14:43):
Jail as opposed to just being cut back out on the.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Streets due to a cashlest scale policy.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Okay, And we have the room.
Speaker 12 (14:54):
And by the way the prison they have and DC
is horrible. It's horrible. People were subjected to live in
that dog trap.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
For so long, so unfairly.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I have Sorrey, as you'll be hearing about him, that
the prisoners.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Are bizar of talk radio, the Michael Berry Show. I'm
mighty proud of that ragged, as are most Americans, which
is why in two thousand and six Senator Hillary then
Senator Hillary Clinton said this, So.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
I hope, mister President, that we can pass a law
that criminalizes flag burning and desecration. I agree that this burning,
this desecration that can happen to our flag, is something
that people have a right to ask this body to
try to prohibit and prevent.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Oh good, then you'll be signing on to President Trump
today this morning, signing an executive order penalizing flag burning
with one year in jail.
Speaker 13 (16:00):
Lastly, sir, this is an executive order on flag burning.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
It charges your attorney general when you listen to this.
Speaker 12 (16:05):
This is a very point flag burning all over the country.
They're burning flags all over the world. They burn the
American flag, and as you know, through a very sad court,
I guess it was a five to four decision. They
called it freedom of speech. But there's another reason, which
is perhaps much more important. It's called death. Because what
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happens when you burn a flag is the area goes crazy.
Speaker 14 (16:32):
If you have hundreds of people, they go crazy. You
could do other things, you can burn this piece of paper,
you can, and it's when you burn the American flag.
It incites riots at levels that.
Speaker 12 (16:43):
We've never seen before. People go crazy in a way
both ways. There are some that are going crazy for
doing it. There are others that are angry angry about
them doing it. Do you want to discuss that?
Speaker 15 (16:56):
Sure?
Speaker 13 (16:57):
What the executive order does or charges your Department of
just this with investigating instances of flag burning and then
where there's evidence of criminal activity, that where prosecution wouldn't
fall a foul of the First Amendment, and instructs the
Department of Justice to prosecute those who are engaged in
these instances of flagbird.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
And what the penalty is going to be.
Speaker 12 (17:18):
If you burn a flag, you get one year in jail,
no early exits, no nothing. You get one year in jail.
If you burn a flag, you get And what it
does is insight to write. I hope they use that
language by the way, did the insight to riot? And
you burn a flag, you get one year in jail.
You don't get ten years, you don't get one month.
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You get one year in jail, and it goes in
your record. And you will see flag burning stopping immediately,
just like when I signed the Statute and Monument Act,
ten years in jail. If you heard any of our
beautiful monuments, everybody left town.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
They were got never had a problem after that.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
It's pretty amazing we stopped it.
Speaker 12 (17:58):
But this is something that's I don't know, in a
certain way, it's equally as important to some people say.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
It's more important Johnny Cash on the matter, I.
Speaker 12 (18:06):
Thank God for all the freedoms we've got in this
country and trace them, even the rights to burn the flag.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
You know, I'm proud of those rights. But I'll tell
you what we've also got. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 12 (18:24):
We've also got right to bear arms, and if you
burn my flag, I'll shoot you. You know.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Flag burning has been an issue since I was in
high school debate, and I remember finding it to be
such an interesting question because at the end of the days,
it's a pure debate over principle rights versus freedoms, and
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I find it a fascinating discussion, absolutely fascinating discussion. And
on one side you have the argument, well, it's just
a piece of cloth. It could be made in China.
It's just a piece of cloth. Nobody's getting hurt. It's
just somebody burning something. Get over it. Okay. If it's
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just a piece of cloth and it doesn't have any meaning,
then I want you to burn a Muslim country's flag.
If the Bible is just a book, I want you
to burn the korn. The reason you're burning the flag
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is for the very purpose of inciting extreme anger. Now,
I have long been of the opinion that hate crimes
and hate speech are stupid and unconstitutional, the idea of
labeling something worse because of it. If offend someone, you
give all the power to the people that are offended.
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But what Trump does is he takes the left logic
and turns around and says, we can play that game too.
And I don't know that anything upsets the left more
than the fact that Trump does that because I have
more of a libertarian streak, or I say that's a
stupid thing they do, and we're not going to play
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their game. We're not going to play the authoritarian rule,
whereas Trump says, I know these people. I've been among them,
They've been on my plane, they've been in my home.
I know how they think, and I'm going to beat
them at their own game. And in many ways, I
think that's why he upsets them more than any other
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Republican is because it's kind of like when Ken Norton
went to the forty nine Ers after having been with
the Cowboys. It's like when a player leaves a team
where he's been and goes to the other team. You know,
he knows all your plays. Trump knows all their plays,
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and he muses them against them and it makes them crazy.
To Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
To be clear, the.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
John Bolton story is very very important. There are people
on the left and people who served in the Trump
administration who betrayed Trump and betrayed our nation. These are
the swamp he spoke about, and if they are not punished,
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then we will see more of that. People need to
fear there will be consequences for selling America's secrets. The
number of folks who tweeted that no one is above
the law when they tried to put Donald Trump in prison,
Joe Biden tweeted exactly that that fat Governor of Illinois JB.
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Pritzker said, no one should be above the law, Amy Klobuchar.
In the United States of America, no one is above
the law. Congressman Jimmy Gomez. This is a reminder that
no one is above the law. Harry Sisson, that little
sissy Hey Donald. Nobody is above the law in the
United States. Keith Overbiden. No one is above the law.
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Chuck Schumer making Hamburgers for the first time in his life.
Doesn't know what he's doing. No one is above the law.
Joe Scarborough and his mistress Miko. In America, no one
is above the law. Big Tish Tish James. No one
is above the law. Frederica Wilson, Well, she's a real
smart one. No one is above the law. Congressman Jim Bowmen.
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No one in this country is above the law. And
figure skater Mark Hammel who hates Trump and just can't
quite get over it. No one is above the law,
Lorie Treyhan. The United States was founded on the belief
that no one is above the law, not even the president. Well,
we agree, but all of this was written while Donald
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Trump was president and shortly thereafter when they tried to
use lawfair to keep him from doing exactly what he's doing. Now,
you know, there's an old adage, when you go for
the king, don't miss if. If you're if you're going
to take a shot at the king. This is a
historical adage. If you're going to take a shot at
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the king, whether that's a coup, an assassination, attempt by
a gun, an arrow, or whatever else, if you're going
to do it, you better take him out or you're
going to be finished. Well they did. They shot him
in the head, but they didn't succeed. They dragged him
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to court, but they didn't succeed. And now it's not
retribution that was the word of the day this weekend,
or maybe it is, maybe it's just justice. Some audio
on the John Bolton issue, and some of the people
who are screeching over this are people who themselves are
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next in line to have their home rated and then
be sent to court and then prison, like Adam Schiff
from California on Meet the Press with Kristen Welker over
the weekend, talking about the Bolton.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Rate, the FBI search of former National Security advisor and
Ambassador John Bolton's home and office.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I did have the.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
Opportunity to ask the Vice President about this. He rejects
the idea that this is political retribution. Do you believe
that people need to let this investigation play out and
not get ahead of it at this point, I.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Think this is clearly retribution.
Speaker 11 (25:03):
I mean the idea that what they just picked John Bolton,
a prominent critic of the president at random. What the
president is trying to do here is very systemic and systematic,
and that is anyone who stands up to the president,
anyone who criticized the president, anyone who says anything adverse
to the President's interests, gets the full weight of the
federal government brought down on them. So if you're John Bolton,
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you get your home seized. If you're on the federal
reserve and you will lower interest rates, you get threatened
with prosecution.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Or with firing.
Speaker 11 (25:33):
If you're a general, like the head of the Defense
Intelligence Agency, and you issue a reporter the agency does
casting doubt on the success of US military strikes on
Iranian nuclear facilities, you get fired. If you are the
head of the Bar of Labor Statistics and you give
a job report that the president doesn't like, you get fired.
They're essentially going after any critic, any opposition, in an
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effort to intimidate them.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
That's what this is about. It as it's not about
Bolton per se.
Speaker 11 (26:03):
It's about anyone else that like Bolton, might stand up
to the president.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Is that right? Is that right? Okay? Next is Clara mccaskell,
former senator from Missouri. She chaired Barack Obama's twenty twelve
reelection campaign. Here she was on MSNBC, and is this
interesting how these Democrats? You know, Bolton was supposed to
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be a Republican, that's what they He's about as Republican
as Liz Cheney. But isn't it interesting how the Democrats
are so eager to defend Republicans. Do you notice what's
going on here?
Speaker 6 (26:43):
Listen to this the FBI search of former National Security
Advisor and Ambassador John Bolton's home.
Speaker 15 (26:50):
And he thought that the president's summit in Alaska with
Labra Putin was going to be a disaster. In fact,
even before the summit occurred, he said that he'd hit
Trump and handed Putin a win. In fact, Trump went
to social media to criticize Bolton for those comments, and
now a few days later we have this.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
We don't know there's a.
Speaker 15 (27:10):
Link, but we certainly know this is a president who's
promised retribution.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Yeah, missus chilling, it really is.
Speaker 7 (27:19):
Listen, John Bolton and I disagreed on many things back
in the days when I was serving in public office.
But I don't think very many people that know John
Bolton would argue that his beliefs were intellectually sound. You
could disagree with him, and that he gave a lot
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to this country in terms of time and his intellect
and his work ethic and it clearly this is retribution.
Clearly this is using the FBI in a way that
not only tarnishes the FBI, but it tarnishes our country.
I mean, this is what they do in countries where
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they don't have rule of law. This is what happens
when despots take over like Putin. And John Bolton has
always been critical of how I mean, he'd got lost
it when Trump wanted to invite the Taliman to Camp David.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
It's chilling.
Speaker 7 (28:19):
Now, do I think they're ever going to have evidence
to convict this man of anything in a court of
law with a jury.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
No, they won't, but they can make it.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Miserable, you think, I hope. So New York Post had
the best headline on the matter, as they always do
great headline writers. Feds raid Bolton's stash. You got that
big walrus mustache. That's a good line, right, there is
stash of documents. So it should always it should always
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arouse your suspicion when partisan had Democrats are passionately defending
a Republican or a neocon Republican member of the Trump administration.
It should always arouse your suspicion when they're telling us
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John Bolton is a good man. I don't think they'll
have anything on him to convict him. He's a good man.
How do you know on what basis do you say
this because he betrayed Trump? If everything you're doing is
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supporting people who betrayed Trump, then ask yourself how advanced
your TDS is. Because that Trump delusion syndrome it makes
fools of people. I mean, it breaks me. Do you
see Rosie o'donald over the weekend saying she ate too
much and drank too much. Oh we can see that, sweetheart,
We can see that he broke that. Poor bol
It's that time time time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Very Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Ambassador, thank you for being here tonight.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I mean, I just wonder, as someone who worked inside
the West Wing when Donald Trump was president, what is
it like for you to see his mugshot tonight?
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Well, I thought it was as with most things Trump does,
carefully stage, they must have thought about what look they wanted.
He could have smiled, he could have looked benign. Instead,
he looks like a thug.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
FBI agents have rated the Marylynd home. A former Trump
National security advisor, John Bolton, happened at seven am this morning.
Speaker 6 (00:46):
Shortly after the raid began.
Speaker 7 (00:48):
FBI Director Cash Fattel.
Speaker 6 (00:49):
Posting on X quote, no one is above the law.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
FBI agents on a mission.
Speaker 8 (00:55):
But it is notable, guys that John Bolton, Ambassador bolton
security clearances were stripped earlier this year.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
By President Trump.
Speaker 8 (01:03):
Tulsi Gabbert, 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 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
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security detail, that government, federal paid security detail, was also
taken away.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
I think a lot of Republicans right now just wish
Cash Fattel, Tulsey Gabbard, and a number of other Trump
nominees who just go away.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
There was a probe going on when President Trump was
in office last time because John Bolden wrote a book
and theresident he violated his NDA.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
The President said in doing it and.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
He felt as though they were classified information in that book.
The probe dropped when Joe Biden became president.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I don't think he cared about the classification system. I
don't think he appreciated the sensitivity of this information, and
he didn't appreciate the sensitivity of how it was often acquired,
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 whatever.
Speaker 9 (02:18):
A sense of where you think the truth wise 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 way as of keeping them for this
long and Marlaga.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Well, 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, and 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.
(02:53):
Some days he took classified documents.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
He wanted them. Why did he want them? Because he
could get them. That was John Bolt's whose home was
rated Friday morning, as was his office. The rumor mill
is very thick with a rather consistent allegation that John
Bolton was selling America's secrets to foreign governments. Now the
(03:24):
foreign government i'm hearing who has paid him the most
is cutter Or Qatar, however you prefer to say it.
There is a photo that's making its way around the
Internet that's being talked about in political circles. I don't
have verification yet. The photo purports to show John Bolton
(03:46):
in Doha, which is in cutter Or, Qatar. Close to
what I'm told by reputable sources is a drop site
and a meeting point. Now you have to recognize that
Cutter is a nation that has been a place that's
(04:10):
been willing to pay, that's been willing to spend a
lot of money inside the United States in ways very
similar to what the Chinese do attacking. For instance, the
University System Texas A and m Esteemed University in Texas
has a relationship or had. It's unclear if that continues.
(04:34):
If that has continued. There have been a lot of
questions asked about whether Cutter or Catar is doing these
sorts of things, these sort of institutional exchanges and giving
a lot of money to American say institutions in order
(04:56):
to get access and what that access could mean. John Bolton.
President Trump was very very clear that John Bolton was
in violation of his non disclosure agreements and American laws
(05:19):
when he worked in the Trump administration in twenty twenty.
That got really bad. Ramon go to six fourteen for me.
This is George Conway, who was married to Kelly Inn
Conway before she divorced him. George Conway is part of
the Republicans who hate Trump because he wouldn't put him
in his White House crowd. He begged, begged for a
(05:41):
position in the Trump White House, but so he shows
up at Bolton's home while the home is being rated
and says the oddest thing on NBC News.
Speaker 10 (05:51):
But I've heard John Bolton was always fastidious who with
classified verses on classifying story, It's all about the fact
that he wrote a book that was uncomplimentary about the
president's mental capacity and other abilities. If that's what this
is about, well I think we shall all start buying
John's book and reading the passages about Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Well, aren't you clever, George. I'm sure that in the
salons of Georgetown and at the Bulwark. I'm sure Bill
Crystal and Jonah Goldberger most impressed that you've managed to
sell a few more of John Bolton's books. I think
the better question, which I heard posed on the internet
(06:33):
because it was an early morning raid at John Bolton's home,
the better question is why nobody seemed to be bothered
that George Conway was at John Bolton's home early in
the morning while the raid was going on without wearing
a bra, which was very disturbing. Who knows, I can't
tell you. How does he know how fastidious John Bolton
(06:57):
was with classified material? How would you know that? Is
that a conversation you.
Speaker 11 (07:01):
Have guitars, cigars, and a few thoughts from Bizarre on
Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
President Trump today signed an executive order ending cashless bail
in the United States. I know you know what that is,
but I want to make sure everybody knows. So just
sit quietly and let me explain this. When a person
is arrested, even if an officer drives up on someone
(07:36):
and they're stabbing their wife, blood's spurting everywhere, she's dying,
Blood's all over him. Officer runs up, arrests him, brings
him down, books him. Cashless bail. In the past, when
you're booked having been accused of a crime and you're arraigned,
(08:00):
you brought before the judge to be returned to the
court for a proceeding to determine if you're guilty or not.
In the past, there was a bail system which said
we're not going to let you go home, but we
will let you go home if you put some money up.
(08:23):
And so when you hear the amount, let's just make
this easy. Let's say the amount is you've got a
five thousand dollars bail. You don't actually spend the five
thousand dollars. What happens is there is a third party
person known as a bail bondsman, and you your family
(08:45):
goes to a bail bondsman and says I need a
five thousand dollars bail. The bail bondsman then goes to
the court and on your behalf gets you out. That
costs you ten percent of the baill. So if it's
five thousand dollars, you give them five hundred dollars. This
(09:10):
gives the court system a person kind of a collateral.
You know, when you have to make pledges or when
you buy. When you get a mortgage, you have to
sign I'll pay if I don't. If I don't, I
mean i'll if this deal goes bad, I'll put a
personal signature on it. Well, in this case, this is
(09:33):
collateralizing the baill by saying, hey, if this guy goes missing,
you got to come up with a full five thousand dollars.
So the bail bondsman says, wait a second, he paid
me five hundred dollars and now I have to give
the court five thousand unless I can bring him in.
(09:53):
So now you've got dog the bounty hunter involved. This
is how that all came about. So what you've don
done as a governmental entity is you have outsourced the
surety that the person who's been accused of a crime
will show back up at court, And if they don't
show back up at court, it's not the responsibility of
the state to go get them. You've created a financial
(10:17):
incentive for the bail bondsman to go get them, in
much the same way that you know you have guys
that repoe men that if you don't pay you for
your car note, then they'll go out and repoe your car. Well,
basically they repoe you and they know where you are.
How do they know, But because before they gave you
(10:38):
that bond, they got every bit of information possible. They
did an investigation, so the state wouldn't So when your
mom comes down and signs that bill, she may have
to if it's one hundred thousand dollars bill, she may
have to put her house up. And that means if
you don't show up, the bail bondsman can sell that
house and get the money that way. But the first
(11:01):
thing they do is they do a background check. They go,
all right, if I give Tommy this beil, you mom,
tell me all the people associated with him where's his
baby mama live, where's his next baby mama live, where's
his third baby mama live, where's his fourth baby mama live?
(11:23):
Because there's a very good chance if he gets if
he doesn't shru up the court, he's laid up with
one of them. So we want to know where all
the baby mamas are, where his mama is, where his
brother lives, where the drug house he goes to, all
of that. So what happened was part of the Soro's
(11:44):
plan to destroy America was to allow crime to run rampant. Well,
they couldn't come out and say at that point, Hey,
what we want to do is have more crime in
America and destroy America. So instead racism it's all he's
based on racism. He ever knows that it's always based
on racism. So the argument went, well, cash bell is racist,
(12:09):
how's it racist? Well, what if you don't have the
money to pay for the bail, So we'll say, cash
list bell, you just sign and say you promised to
come back. Same guy that was just butchering his wife,
same guy that's got a long rap sheet, He's not
coming back. He's never coming back. So that was how
(12:29):
criminals got back out on the street and immediately started
committing crimes. We don't want them to build to come
over bell not bad guys anyway, So today President Trump
did this all over the country cashless fail.
Speaker 12 (12:43):
We're ending it, but we're starting by ending it in DC,
and that we have the right to do through federalization.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Okay, let's go.
Speaker 12 (12:52):
Could I just up to saying exactly what this is?
Speaker 13 (12:54):
Of course, so as you've consistently identified CERTA cashless failed
policies are a key dryver of the disorder we see
on city streets all over America, cash and release system
allows criminals to keep going back out onto the street
and reoffending. What this executive order does it charges your
Attorney General with identifying jurisdictions all over the country that
have cashless bail policies, and then it withholds or revokes
(13:18):
federal funds and grants that are flowing to those jurisdictions
to ensure that we're only supporting the people who have reasonable,
common sense policies around crime.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
So what area does it cover?
Speaker 13 (13:29):
Potentially anywhere that has a cashless bail policy. So some
of the largest cities, some of the most left wing
states and are most in the Illinois would be a
great example, Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Oh, they have a great cash list pail.
Speaker 12 (13:40):
You don't even have to go to court sometimes.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Now, Ellen, I love that state.
Speaker 12 (13:45):
It's a great state, but it's run so badly by Prisco.
They throw them out of the family business and he
becomes governor now wants to run for president.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I don't think that's going to happen.
Speaker 12 (13:55):
Okay, we'll sign right here, right sir. So important, And
this isn't Republican Democrat. This is and by the way,
most Democrats agree with this. But this is just we
got to bring our country back. Okay, that's a big one.
Speaker 13 (14:21):
Also on the issue of casualist scale, sir, this is
a DC specific executive order in addition to the measures
that we're taking that are quite similar to what we're
doing around the country.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
In DC. In particular, the.
Speaker 13 (14:33):
Objective is holding as many criminal defendants in federal custody
and subjecting them to federal charges as possible.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
That means that they'll be held pre trial in federal.
Speaker 13 (14:43):
Jail as opposed to just being cut back out on the.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Streets due to a cashlest scale policy.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Okay, And we have the room.
Speaker 12 (14:54):
And by the way the prison they have and DC
is horrible. It's horrible. People were subjected to live in
that dog trap.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
For so long, so unfairly.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I have Sorrey, as you'll be hearing about him, that
the prisoners.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Are bizar of talk radio, the Michael Berry Show. I'm
mighty proud of that ragged, as are most Americans, which
is why in two thousand and six Senator Hillary then
Senator Hillary Clinton said this, So.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
I hope, mister President, that we can pass a law
that criminalizes flag burning and desecration. I agree that this burning,
this desecration that can happen to our flag, is something
that people have a right to ask this body to
try to prohibit and prevent.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Oh good, then you'll be signing on to President Trump
today this morning, signing an executive order penalizing flag burning
with one year in jail.
Speaker 13 (16:00):
Lastly, sir, this is an executive order on flag burning.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
It charges your attorney general when you listen to this.
Speaker 12 (16:05):
This is a very point flag burning all over the country.
They're burning flags all over the world. They burn the
American flag, and as you know, through a very sad court,
I guess it was a five to four decision. They
called it freedom of speech. But there's another reason, which
is perhaps much more important. It's called death. Because what
(16:26):
happens when you burn a flag is the area goes crazy.
Speaker 14 (16:32):
If you have hundreds of people, they go crazy. You
could do other things, you can burn this piece of paper,
you can, and it's when you burn the American flag.
It incites riots at levels that.
Speaker 12 (16:43):
We've never seen before. People go crazy in a way
both ways. There are some that are going crazy for
doing it. There are others that are angry angry about
them doing it. Do you want to discuss that?
Speaker 15 (16:56):
Sure?
Speaker 13 (16:57):
What the executive order does or charges your Department of
just this with investigating instances of flag burning and then
where there's evidence of criminal activity, that where prosecution wouldn't
fall a foul of the First Amendment, and instructs the
Department of Justice to prosecute those who are engaged in
these instances of flagbird.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
And what the penalty is going to be.
Speaker 12 (17:18):
If you burn a flag, you get one year in jail,
no early exits, no nothing. You get one year in jail.
If you burn a flag, you get And what it
does is insight to write. I hope they use that
language by the way, did the insight to riot? And
you burn a flag, you get one year in jail.
You don't get ten years, you don't get one month.
(17:39):
You get one year in jail, and it goes in
your record. And you will see flag burning stopping immediately,
just like when I signed the Statute and Monument Act,
ten years in jail. If you heard any of our
beautiful monuments, everybody left town.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
They were got never had a problem after that.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
It's pretty amazing we stopped it.
Speaker 12 (17:58):
But this is something that's I don't know, in a
certain way, it's equally as important to some people say.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
It's more important Johnny Cash on the matter, I.
Speaker 12 (18:06):
Thank God for all the freedoms we've got in this
country and trace them, even the rights to burn the flag.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
You know, I'm proud of those rights. But I'll tell
you what we've also got. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 12 (18:24):
We've also got right to bear arms, and if you
burn my flag, I'll shoot you. You know.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Flag burning has been an issue since I was in
high school debate, and I remember finding it to be
such an interesting question because at the end of the days,
it's a pure debate over principle rights versus freedoms, and
(18:54):
I find it a fascinating discussion, absolutely fascinating discussion. And
on one side you have the argument, well, it's just
a piece of cloth. It could be made in China.
It's just a piece of cloth. Nobody's getting hurt. It's
just somebody burning something. Get over it. Okay. If it's
(19:19):
just a piece of cloth and it doesn't have any meaning,
then I want you to burn a Muslim country's flag.
If the Bible is just a book, I want you
to burn the korn. The reason you're burning the flag
(19:42):
is for the very purpose of inciting extreme anger. Now,
I have long been of the opinion that hate crimes
and hate speech are stupid and unconstitutional, the idea of
labeling something worse because of it. If offend someone, you
give all the power to the people that are offended.
(20:04):
But what Trump does is he takes the left logic
and turns around and says, we can play that game too.
And I don't know that anything upsets the left more
than the fact that Trump does that because I have
more of a libertarian streak, or I say that's a
stupid thing they do, and we're not going to play
(20:26):
their game. We're not going to play the authoritarian rule,
whereas Trump says, I know these people. I've been among them,
They've been on my plane, they've been in my home.
I know how they think, and I'm going to beat
them at their own game. And in many ways, I
think that's why he upsets them more than any other
(20:48):
Republican is because it's kind of like when Ken Norton
went to the forty nine Ers after having been with
the Cowboys. It's like when a player leaves a team
where he's been and goes to the other team. You know,
he knows all your plays. Trump knows all their plays,
(21:10):
and he muses them against them and it makes them crazy.
To Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
To be clear, the.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
John Bolton story is very very important. There are people
on the left and people who served in the Trump
administration who betrayed Trump and betrayed our nation. These are
the swamp he spoke about, and if they are not punished,
(21:50):
then we will see more of that. People need to
fear there will be consequences for selling America's secrets. The
number of folks who tweeted that no one is above
the law when they tried to put Donald Trump in prison,
Joe Biden tweeted exactly that that fat Governor of Illinois JB.
(22:15):
Pritzker said, no one should be above the law, Amy Klobuchar.
In the United States of America, no one is above
the law. Congressman Jimmy Gomez. This is a reminder that
no one is above the law. Harry Sisson, that little
sissy Hey Donald. Nobody is above the law in the
United States. Keith Overbiden. No one is above the law.
(22:37):
Chuck Schumer making Hamburgers for the first time in his life.
Doesn't know what he's doing. No one is above the law.
Joe Scarborough and his mistress Miko. In America, no one
is above the law. Big Tish Tish James. No one
is above the law. Frederica Wilson, Well, she's a real
smart one. No one is above the law. Congressman Jim Bowmen.
(23:01):
No one in this country is above the law. And
figure skater Mark Hammel who hates Trump and just can't
quite get over it. No one is above the law,
Lorie Treyhan. The United States was founded on the belief
that no one is above the law, not even the president. Well,
we agree, but all of this was written while Donald
(23:23):
Trump was president and shortly thereafter when they tried to
use lawfair to keep him from doing exactly what he's doing. Now,
you know, there's an old adage, when you go for
the king, don't miss if. If you're if you're going
to take a shot at the king. This is a
historical adage. If you're going to take a shot at
(23:45):
the king, whether that's a coup, an assassination, attempt by
a gun, an arrow, or whatever else, if you're going
to do it, you better take him out or you're
going to be finished. Well they did. They shot him
in the head, but they didn't succeed. They dragged him
(24:05):
to court, but they didn't succeed. And now it's not
retribution that was the word of the day this weekend,
or maybe it is, maybe it's just justice. Some audio
on the John Bolton issue, and some of the people
who are screeching over this are people who themselves are
(24:27):
next in line to have their home rated and then
be sent to court and then prison, like Adam Schiff
from California on Meet the Press with Kristen Welker over
the weekend, talking about the Bolton.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Rate, the FBI search of former National Security advisor and
Ambassador John Bolton's home and office.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I did have the.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
Opportunity to ask the Vice President about this. He rejects
the idea that this is political retribution. Do you believe
that people need to let this investigation play out and
not get ahead of it at this point, I.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Think this is clearly retribution.
Speaker 11 (25:03):
I mean the idea that what they just picked John Bolton,
a prominent critic of the president at random. What the
president is trying to do here is very systemic and systematic,
and that is anyone who stands up to the president,
anyone who criticized the president, anyone who says anything adverse
to the President's interests, gets the full weight of the
federal government brought down on them. So if you're John Bolton,
(25:25):
you get your home seized. If you're on the federal
reserve and you will lower interest rates, you get threatened
with prosecution.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Or with firing.
Speaker 11 (25:33):
If you're a general, like the head of the Defense
Intelligence Agency, and you issue a reporter the agency does
casting doubt on the success of US military strikes on
Iranian nuclear facilities, you get fired. If you are the
head of the Bar of Labor Statistics and you give
a job report that the president doesn't like, you get fired.
They're essentially going after any critic, any opposition, in an
(25:57):
effort to intimidate them.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
That's what this is about. It as it's not about
Bolton per se.
Speaker 11 (26:03):
It's about anyone else that like Bolton, might stand up
to the president.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Is that right? Is that right? Okay? Next is Clara mccaskell,
former senator from Missouri. She chaired Barack Obama's twenty twelve
reelection campaign. Here she was on MSNBC, and is this
interesting how these Democrats? You know, Bolton was supposed to
(26:30):
be a Republican, that's what they He's about as Republican
as Liz Cheney. But isn't it interesting how the Democrats
are so eager to defend Republicans. Do you notice what's
going on here?
Speaker 6 (26:43):
Listen to this the FBI search of former National Security
Advisor and Ambassador John Bolton's home.
Speaker 15 (26:50):
And he thought that the president's summit in Alaska with
Labra Putin was going to be a disaster. In fact,
even before the summit occurred, he said that he'd hit
Trump and handed Putin a win. In fact, Trump went
to social media to criticize Bolton for those comments, and
now a few days later we have this.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
We don't know there's a.
Speaker 15 (27:10):
Link, but we certainly know this is a president who's
promised retribution.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Yeah, missus chilling, it really is.
Speaker 7 (27:19):
Listen, John Bolton and I disagreed on many things back
in the days when I was serving in public office.
But I don't think very many people that know John
Bolton would argue that his beliefs were intellectually sound. You
could disagree with him, and that he gave a lot
(27:40):
to this country in terms of time and his intellect
and his work ethic and it clearly this is retribution.
Clearly this is using the FBI in a way that
not only tarnishes the FBI, but it tarnishes our country.
I mean, this is what they do in countries where
(28:01):
they don't have rule of law. This is what happens
when despots take over like Putin. And John Bolton has
always been critical of how I mean, he'd got lost
it when Trump wanted to invite the Taliman to Camp David.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
It's chilling.
Speaker 7 (28:19):
Now, do I think they're ever going to have evidence
to convict this man of anything in a court of
law with a jury.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
No, they won't, but they can make it.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Miserable, you think, I hope. So New York Post had
the best headline on the matter, as they always do
great headline writers. Feds raid Bolton's stash. You got that
big walrus mustache. That's a good line, right, there is
stash of documents. So it should always it should always
(28:55):
arouse your suspicion when partisan had Democrats are passionately defending
a Republican or a neocon Republican member of the Trump administration.
It should always arouse your suspicion when they're telling us
(29:17):
John Bolton is a good man. I don't think they'll
have anything on him to convict him. He's a good man.
How do you know on what basis do you say
this because he betrayed Trump? If everything you're doing is
(29:39):
supporting people who betrayed Trump, then ask yourself how advanced
your TDS is. Because that Trump delusion syndrome it makes
fools of people. I mean, it breaks me. Do you
see Rosie o'donald over the weekend saying she ate too
much and drank too much. Oh we can see that, sweetheart,
We can see that he broke that. Poor bol
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