Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 28, 2020


Episode 1106 Scott Adams： George Papadopoulos Talks About His Book Deep State Target, Then I Review the RNC and Other Craziness


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00:00:00.180 Hey, everybody. Come on in. It's time for one of the most special coffees with Scott Adams all week.
00:00:10.560 It's going to be a good one. A barn burner, as they say. Better than just about anything.
00:00:15.420 Oh, yeah. There's your three taps. That tells you we're serious.
00:00:21.740 Well, I'm going to have a guest on here in a little bit.
00:00:25.500 If our technology works, we'll be talking to George Papadopoulos about his book, Deep State Target.
00:00:32.780 Now, our technology is always a little sketchy, so let's hope we can get him on here today.
00:00:38.520 But before we do that, is there something we need to do?
00:00:43.520 Yes, there is. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it doesn't take much to participate.
00:00:49.020 No, it doesn't take much.
00:00:50.560 All you need is a cup or a mug or a glass of tank or chalice or stein, a canteen drink or flask, a vessel of any kind.
00:00:56.920 Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
00:01:00.540 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day,
00:01:04.800 the thing that makes everything better except the Democrats' National Convention,
00:01:10.220 which, you know what I mean, coffee can't do everything.
00:01:13.620 But join me now for the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go.
00:01:16.240 Ah. I feel the economy improving as I digest that.
00:01:27.660 Now, I've got a few people who have asked to join as guests.
00:01:32.880 Let's just hope one of them is George, and yes, it is.
00:01:36.500 All right. We're going to try to add George Papadopoulos.
00:01:41.480 Yes. And come on, technology. George, are you there?
00:01:46.120 Hi.
00:01:49.740 I'm supposed to have the camera lined up.
00:01:51.700 I can see you.
00:01:52.420 You are audio only, so they can only hear you, but they can see me. Okay?
00:01:58.160 Oh, got it. Got it. Perfect. Perfect.
00:02:00.080 You know, I accidentally set up a parachute light like me,
00:02:03.400 and I was sitting on a couch staring into the abyss.
00:02:05.760 All right. Well, we got it now.
00:02:12.000 It sounds like you might be a little far away from your microphone.
00:02:16.980 How about now? Is this better? Can you hear me better now?
00:02:19.240 Oh, that's way better. Way better.
00:02:21.740 All right. Now, George, I think most of my audience will recognize your name immediately,
00:02:28.440 and I'll say what the book text says when I look for your book, Deep State Target,
00:02:37.180 how I got caught in the crosshairs of the plot to bring down President Trump.
00:02:42.540 And you were advisor to President Trump's presidential campaign, the first campaign,
00:02:48.300 and you got pulled into something, and you wrote a book about it.
00:02:52.460 And, by the way, I just looked at the reviews of your book.
00:02:57.240 Oh, my God, you have good reviews.
00:02:59.600 I don't know if I've seen too many books that have 86% five-star reviews.
00:03:05.460 That's crazy.
00:03:06.660 I mean, I've written a few books, and that's crazy.
00:03:09.580 So congratulations on that.
00:03:11.320 Thank you. Thank you.
00:03:13.280 So, George, our big problem is that we've got people who probably know the details
00:03:18.200 and some don't, can you give us the briefest outline of what happened to you
00:03:23.440 and, therefore, kicked off the book?
00:03:26.340 Absolutely. And thanks a lot for having me, Scott.
00:03:28.380 It's a great pleasure.
00:03:30.380 So, basically, I had worked in D.C. for five years leading up to joining both
00:03:36.260 Ben Carson's presidential campaign and then Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
00:03:40.300 A lot of people forget that I actually joined Ben Carson's campaign first.
00:03:43.660 And at that time, clearly, the deck was stacked against all the Republican candidates.
00:03:50.800 Even when I was on Ben Carson's campaign, there were clear animus by the Obama administration,
00:03:56.860 State Department officials, you name it.
00:03:59.320 They were all either looking to what these candidates were up to, who their teams were,
00:04:04.220 or find ways to basically infiltrate their campaigns.
00:04:07.480 And we saw that happen with Donald Trump's campaign more vivid than any other campaign.
00:04:14.520 And as soon as I joined Donald Trump's campaign, that's exactly when it seems the world's intelligence community
00:04:21.560 collapsed on my lap while I was living in Europe for the first month I was on the campaign.
00:04:27.600 And they were targeting myself, General Flynn, Carter Page, others.
00:04:31.780 And it just really was asserted efforts by not only the Obama administration, but I also argue
00:04:37.960 in my book of foreign governments who had vested interests in a Clinton presidency that wanted
00:04:43.940 to show on the Trump campaign and to assure that if he did end up getting elected, that he
00:04:49.680 would be handcuffed.
00:04:50.760 And that's exactly what we've lived through as a country the last two years.
00:04:53.440 Now, tell us, without all the details, because it's kind of hard to compress it all, what
00:04:59.600 was the first sketchy contact with another person that you had, which was clearly some
00:05:06.720 kind of an intelligence or something that was just sketchy?
00:05:12.460 Who was the first person who contacted you?
00:05:14.500 Before the post even knew that I had publicly joined the Trump campaign, a very shady operative
00:05:22.640 who is now at the center of probably three different investigations, made contact with
00:05:29.720 me in Italy.
00:05:31.140 So this happened in early March.
00:05:33.840 And then if who's ever read my book or who knows the story somewhat, we'll see that individual
00:05:39.040 who then introduces me to the fake niece of Vladimir Putin.
00:05:42.840 He begins to try and infiltrate the campaign through me.
00:05:47.180 He eventually tells me that Hillary's emails.
00:05:50.600 And now he's gone underground for the last couple of years.
00:05:53.120 And he's at the center of the Durham investigation.
00:05:56.660 Now, what is his nationality?
00:05:58.620 This is a Maltese individual.
00:06:01.700 I believe he's a dual Italian Maltese native who had very few, if any, ties to Russia, overwhelmingly
00:06:11.420 tied to the U.S. government, to the British government, and other NATO governments on the
00:06:18.500 continent.
00:06:19.900 Now, early on, the first time he contacted you, did you not sort of Google him and say there
00:06:26.840 might be something a little fishy going on here?
00:06:29.380 At what point did you realize there was something not right about him?
00:06:35.200 Well, actually, the way that I was reeled in was exactly because he wasn't overtly fishy
00:06:41.680 initially.
00:06:42.480 When you Google this guy initially, you'll see that he was a professor.
00:06:46.800 He was connected to the State Department, to various governments in Europe, and he had
00:06:50.680 really no connections whatsoever to any hostile power.
00:06:54.540 So when I first met him, that's how I actually was reeled in to meet him.
00:06:58.760 And shortly thereafter, that's when his motives seemed to be far more sketchy.
00:07:03.600 So would you say that it is a fact that the Obama administration, quote, spied on the campaign, or would
00:07:12.540 you say that that requires some nuance?
00:07:15.500 We have to remember that there's an active criminal investigation looking into the so-called
00:07:20.620 spying.
00:07:21.800 The Durham probe evolved into a criminal matter once information about this individual,
00:07:26.960 Joseph Mifsud, was relayed to Barr's office by the Italian government.
00:07:30.900 Now, we also have evidence that various spies were sent to meet with General Warren, myself,
00:07:38.740 others on the campaign, and Stefan Halper, who is one of these spies, actually tried to
00:07:44.360 ingratiate himself within the transition team.
00:07:47.660 So clearly, there was spying going on against the campaign.
00:07:51.500 The question now is, not if there was spying, but was it illegal?
00:07:55.580 And we've already seen a guilty plea on the other side.
00:07:58.280 And is there anything that you know that would connect it to Obama or Biden personally, or
00:08:05.540 do you just know, in terms of that connection, what you've seen in the news, like the rest
00:08:10.560 of us?
00:08:12.040 What I know is that the type of foreign governments and foreign officials that were involved in
00:08:17.640 my story, from governments like Canada, Italy, these governments are not acting alone, and
00:08:24.260 they're not working to set up Americans abroad, working for presidential campaigns.
00:08:29.240 That just doesn't happen.
00:08:30.220 Clearly, it's directed to do it by the U.S. government.
00:08:33.200 The question is, how high up did it go?
00:08:35.100 We know with the recent unmasking of General Flynn, that Vice President Joe Biden was directly
00:08:39.720 involved in the unmasking of him, which was an illegal act.
00:08:44.200 Was Biden and Obama involved in unmasking other people, possibly Trump himself?
00:08:48.320 That's something that Attorney General Barr and John Durham still have not exposed.
00:08:52.820 That's something that I think we will be seeing moving forward.
00:08:56.900 If you had to guess how this is going to end up when Durham is done, what do you think
00:09:01.860 is the outcome that we should expect?
00:09:05.500 Let me ask it differently.
00:09:08.920 If Durham really got the goods, so that there was no doubt about what happened, what would
00:09:14.040 be the outcome?
00:09:14.580 The outcome, and I've said this for a long time now, is that I think Durham is looking
00:09:19.660 into a conspiracy case, a potential RICO case, that involves a conspiracy to not only fabricate
00:09:28.600 evidence and scenarios around Trump campaign associates, but to then utilize that fake evidence
00:09:34.840 to finally spy on the campaign.
00:09:37.760 We now know that the FBI lied to the FISA court in order to obtain those warrants against Carter
00:09:42.940 Page and others, and moving forward, we're also going to see if treason was committed, as
00:09:48.860 the president himself calls it, because subverting democracy and interfering in the democratic process
00:09:54.520 in this country is treason, and if anyone was treason at the highest level in it, they will
00:09:59.080 be held accountable.
00:10:00.220 That's something I predict.
00:10:01.120 Now, how do you rule out the other hypothesis, which is that the folks who did all of this
00:10:09.540 had a genuine concern about Russia, and they couldn't really know if there was anything
00:10:14.420 there until they dug into it?
00:10:16.360 So that would be their claim.
00:10:18.100 How do you know their intentions versus what they did?
00:10:21.480 Because what they did could be spun either way, wouldn't you say?
00:10:24.580 That's a great question, and I would agree with you if there were true suspicious links
00:10:32.600 between the campaign and a foreign hostile power.
00:10:37.060 But in the case, especially in my case, and which is at the center of the Durham probe,
00:10:42.940 they're looking to see if this was fabricated.
00:10:44.940 If the entire story known as Russiagate was a fake manifestation that you would find a Hollywood
00:10:52.360 screenwriter coming up with, and that's why this Joseph Mifsud, who was at the center
00:10:57.600 of the Mueller report, the Horowitz report, where they were calling him and dingling the
00:11:03.260 Russian emails to me, as I mentioned earlier, if he was really working with the CIA and other
00:11:08.360 friendly governments.
00:11:10.140 Now, if that is...
00:11:11.040 But suppose...
00:11:11.960 Yes?
00:11:12.400 Yeah.
00:11:13.900 Now, but suppose, and I'm just speculating here, imagining what the defense or the explanation
00:11:20.380 would be on the other side, suppose they said, we had real concerns about Trump and
00:11:25.500 Russia, because we heard he had investments, and therefore, if there's a money link, that's
00:11:30.780 a real concern, but we didn't know how to get at that, so we went through a side door
00:11:35.780 by sort of creating a situation, but really, it was to find out if there really was something,
00:11:41.780 because we suspect there was, we just couldn't get at it directly.
00:11:45.480 Now, I don't know if that would be legal or illegal, but suppose they said that.
00:11:48.380 How could you disprove that intention, because that's sort of a mental state?
00:11:54.720 Well, we've seen, actually, the consequences of their attempt to circumvent the law and
00:11:59.840 to do what I believe is illegal action, where you had this FBI lawyer, Kevin Kline, essentially
00:12:08.240 write that Carter Page is not a CIA asset, he's working with the Russians, so let's spy
00:12:13.860 on him, and by extension, target the rest of the campaign.
00:12:17.320 We saw...
00:12:17.860 Well, let's accept that, let's say they confess, yeah, we fudged some things, we lied on the
00:12:28.040 investigative stuff, but our intention was just to get us something that we thought was
00:12:33.360 real.
00:12:33.780 Yeah, we broke some rules, we cut some corners, but our intention was to find something real,
00:12:39.200 we just went through this weird side door that we really shouldn't have.
00:12:42.380 What if they say that?
00:12:43.880 Well, the beauty of our country is that we have a constitution and the rule of law, and
00:12:49.940 you also require an adequate predicate to launch either a counterintelligence or a criminal
00:12:58.400 investigation into an American citizen.
00:13:00.760 That's why the American citizens are protected by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and
00:13:05.100 this is something that...
00:13:06.100 But George, so that part we could prove, we could prove that they did or did not break
00:13:13.320 those laws, and I think it'll be easy to prove that they did break those laws, and that can't
00:13:18.640 be overlooked.
00:13:20.180 But how do you improve their intention?
00:13:22.920 Because it all boils down to what they were thinking when they did it, right?
00:13:26.980 Well, it does, and that's why we're now only recently unearthing declassified documents
00:13:33.160 people like Senator Lindsey Graham, who have showcased that people like Bill Priestip, this
00:13:39.420 high-level FBI attorney, lied under oath, where he said, I don't have any idea about the
00:13:45.200 subsource of steel, and that we verified everything.
00:13:48.320 And this information that we had no idea even existed, that even the Senate didn't know existed,
00:13:54.080 is only now worth, and it's essentially exposing their corruption and possible illegal action.
00:14:01.260 And that's exactly why Richard Grinnell did such a duty to the American public by so much
00:14:06.520 of this, and what the Director of National Intelligence currently, Ratcliffe, is doing
00:14:11.700 as well.
00:14:13.320 So the logic then is that with so much cover-up, the fact that we know, we know there was cover-ups,
00:14:21.300 we know there was bad behavior to get this going, that there's so much of it, and so many
00:14:27.020 people were involved, that it's just hard to write it off as people with good intentions.
00:14:32.540 Is that basically there's just too much evidence to assume that they're all working with good
00:14:39.060 intentions?
00:14:39.720 It would be sort of unlikely.
00:14:41.520 Is that where we're at?
00:14:43.560 And that's exactly what I think, and I think you're absolutely correct here.
00:14:47.900 I think they try to pass accountability and any wrongdoing simply to Kevin Kline's Memphis
00:14:54.380 FBI attorney, but shortly after his guilty plea, like I mentioned, Lindsey Graham went
00:15:00.280 public and stated that he's bringing in other FBI officials now that they've learned new
00:15:03.940 information that they did not know, that clearly demonstrates that they lied under oath, and
00:15:08.220 that this could not simply have been a coincidence.
00:15:10.900 It looks like a concerted effort to undermine a rival presidential campaign, and that's what
00:15:15.520 is at the heart of this new investigation.
00:15:18.980 All right, and what, in your book that I said has amazing reviews, I mean, I'm really impressed.
00:15:25.220 Thank you.
00:15:26.220 I read a number of the five-star reviews, and they're quite blown away by your book, so
00:15:31.940 congratulations on that.
00:15:33.280 So it's called Deep State Target, and if you want to link to it, I tweeted it out to look
00:15:38.400 at the top of my Twitter feed today, if you want to get a copy of that.
00:15:41.500 What would be in your book that you think would be one thing that the general public, unless
00:15:47.880 they were really, really looking into it, but just the general public who's following
00:15:51.660 the story, what is it that they don't know?
00:15:55.440 Is there a fact that you know that may or may not be in the book that would just blow
00:16:00.860 people's mind, they just sort of don't know it?
00:16:03.160 I argue, and I think I lay it out very strategically from A to Z in my book, that the old narrative
00:16:11.360 was that the Trump campaign was colluding to win.
00:16:15.080 I argue, and I lay out with facts, and I think daily and monthly, those facts are now being
00:16:20.540 corroborated by new declassified information, is that not only did the Trump campaign not
00:16:25.320 collude with any foreign governments or with the U.S. government, for that matter, but the
00:16:30.920 Obama administration colluded not only with the Clinton campaign, but with foreign governments
00:16:36.280 to understand the Trump campaign.
00:16:38.640 And that's exactly why it's so difficult for people to understand what happened, because
00:16:44.380 I'm showcasing a different, which is based on reality, and which is being based on facts, being
00:16:51.600 declassified, yet for three years, the mainstream media kept people essentially deluded and unable
00:16:59.500 to understand the reality of the situation, and that's why it's so, it's almost like a shock
00:17:05.780 and awe effect when people really start to find out what really happened, and I don't blame
00:17:11.240 them. I live the story, and I'm still shocked.
00:17:14.460 So, George, from the first moment I started hearing the story and Christopher Steele and
00:17:19.520 X, you know, an X spook, I said to myself, there's no such thing as an X spy. That's not
00:17:26.560 a real thing. There's nobody who's an X spy, because they always know your name. They know
00:17:32.900 who you are. They know you got some connections, some favors. You're never really an X spy.
00:17:38.900 And I thought, well, when is the press going to tell me that Great Britain is highly culpable
00:17:45.600 in this whole thing? And I kept waiting, and they kept presenting evidence that Great Britain
00:17:51.120 was involved, but they never said it. And I kept saying, well, why don't you say what's
00:17:56.440 obvious that Great Britain had to be involved in this? Am I wrong? Was Great Britain involved
00:18:01.900 in this in terms of intelligence-wise helping the United States, or is that not a fact?
00:18:07.600 Scott, you're absolutely correct. And in my book, what I do is, because remember, I was
00:18:13.160 basically the first month I was on the Trump campaign, and what was the number one issue
00:18:17.740 that the UK was dealing with at that time that the candidate was very supportive of,
00:18:22.820 and that was Brexit. The establishment at that time clearly had a motivation to find out what
00:18:29.300 Trump and his team were up to, considering how outspoken Trump was for Brexit. To this day,
00:18:35.820 you see how sensitive the issue is in the UK. And the president, and I should say the candidate,
00:18:40.860 when he would speak about Brexit, and I would meet with UK officials, they were extremely hostile.
00:18:46.160 I was speaking to Iran at that point about how dangerous the candidate was to British interests
00:18:53.800 around the world. And that's why I'm not surprised that Christopher Steele was British,
00:19:00.220 Alexander Downer was connected to MI6, Stefan Helfer was connected to MI6, Richard Dearlove was
00:19:05.860 connected to MI6. And it's another example of it can't be a coincidence, as you mentioned earlier.
00:19:11.840 But wasn't there, correct me on this, wasn't there some interest or Great Britain, certainly
00:19:19.700 would have been concerned that Trump was going to be too friendly to Russia, which would be a
00:19:26.260 gigantic security concern for anybody in the vicinity of Europe. So do you think that was part of it?
00:19:33.160 Just they didn't want a president who they thought, perhaps mistakenly, would be a little
00:19:37.980 too friendly to Russia? If that's the case, and I don't know, I can't, and I only speak about facts.
00:19:45.220 And when I would speak with the UK government at that time, they were very concerned with Brexit
00:19:49.800 more so than regarding Russia. Now, if that was indeed the case, they probably forgot something
00:19:56.660 over the last 100 years, or actually 200 years of American history, and that's at the present
00:20:01.620 foreign policy in this country. Not the diplomats, not the bureaucrats, not the
00:20:07.800 unelected, but the president. And they would have seen a predictable individual who from day one,
00:20:14.700 going as far back as 2015, stated that having a working relationship with Russia and a more,
00:20:21.180 I guess, confrontational relationship with China is in the U.S. interest. And that's exactly what's
00:20:26.280 been playing out for the last couple of years. And it's actually safeguarding U.S. interests
00:20:31.280 throughout the world. All right. So this is fascinating. I'm going to get on to some other
00:20:38.380 topics here, George. But thank you so much for joining. If anybody's joining late, check out
00:20:45.460 George Papadopoulos' book, Deep State Target, How I Got Caught in the Crosshairs of the Plot to
00:20:50.460 Bring Down President Trump. As I said, the reviews for this book are just off the chart. So it sounds
00:20:56.160 like you should get a read, get that and take a good read. Thanks, George. Thanks for joining me.
00:21:01.740 Thank you, Scott. Appreciate it.
00:21:03.840 Take care. All right. That was excellent. Let's talk about some other stuff.
00:21:11.300 All right. I've decided to join with the professional athletes. So the professional
00:21:20.540 athletes, as you know, the NBA walked out and then some other sports also walked out in solidarity.
00:21:26.900 And they're walking out in protest about social injustice. And I've decided to support them,
00:21:34.340 not by walking out, of course, but I support their walkout. And indeed,
00:21:39.260 I don't support them going back to work until systemic racism is solved. So you might say to
00:21:47.180 yourself, hey, isn't a boycott or a strike one of those things that you do because you've got
00:21:53.900 something specific you want to accomplish and it's short term? I guess it doesn't have to be.
00:22:01.120 So the athletes have walked out. And if they go back to work before systemic racism in this country
00:22:07.000 is fixed, I don't know what to think. I don't know what to think. Apparently, they don't care about
00:22:14.760 anything. All right. We still don't have an answer from the White House about why
00:22:21.820 saliva test strips are not okayed by the FDA. I know there's some requirement that eased the
00:22:29.480 restriction on reporting, which was one of the hangups. But I think that got blown away. So the
00:22:35.380 I think the I think the FDA has now said the reporting is optional for some of these types of
00:22:41.860 tests. But I told you more than a week ago that given that these saliva test strips, the kinds that
00:22:50.020 would you would just do at home, you don't need any kind of health care professional. There's nothing
00:22:54.740 that goes up your nose because of saliva. You don't need a device. It'd be like a pregnancy test.
00:23:01.120 Now, apparently, these are easy to make or easy enough. But and the math of it is, even though
00:23:08.860 they're not as sensitive as they like to say, you could you could test so rapidly and so often
00:23:14.300 that even with a less perfect test, you would end up having a much better result because it would be
00:23:20.800 frequent and it would catch people eventually and soon enough. So given that this is the primary
00:23:27.260 thing that could that seems practical, that could stop the coronavirus in its tracks, and the the White
00:23:35.640 House has not and the FDA have not answered the public. And I'm just talking about giving us an
00:23:42.220 answer. Either yes, it's a good idea. And we're working on it. That'd be a good answer. Or no, it's a bad
00:23:49.420 idea. And here are reasons that you didn't know about, which could be acceptable. But not answering
00:23:57.480 it screams corruption, possibly impeachable. Did that sound too strong? If it did, let me say it again,
00:24:08.880 not getting at least an answer to the public and to the press about why these are either in the
00:24:16.660 process and we'll get these approved pretty soon, or why it's not in the process. And there's a good
00:24:22.680 reason. Without any answer, either of those sides, it has to be either corruption or something
00:24:30.760 impeachable doesn't have to be illegal. So I think the Trump administration needs to respond to that.
00:24:39.020 And again, there are only two possibilities. It's corruption. Or if it's being ignored for some other
00:24:46.600 reason, since they obviously know about it, it's got to be impeachable, whatever that reason is, because the
00:24:53.020 public has a very, very clear right to know what's going on there. Did that sound too strong? Because I mean it.
00:25:04.460 Somebody says, bye. Now, if they don't at least tell us, it's either corruption or it's an impeachable
00:25:13.380 something. I don't know what else it would be. Because all they'd have to do is say, we're working
00:25:19.080 on it. We'll get back to you and that'd be fine. You know, I don't need a specific answer. I need to
00:25:25.060 know that they're willing to answer. That's completely different. Yeah, impeachable because it's such an
00:25:32.180 obvious path that if they don't at least tell us why they're not taking it, we cannot assume that
00:25:39.340 they're doing their job on the single biggest priority of the country. All right. So that's
00:25:44.520 the downer part of this. Let's get to something else. The production. I just lost about a thousand
00:25:53.260 viewers by saying that. That's for those of you who wonder if I ever criticized the Trump
00:25:59.300 administration. So you can refer to that when you wonder. The TV production was amazing.
00:26:07.160 So there was no competition between what the RNC and the DNC said. Now, let me ask you this.
00:26:14.500 You're trying to pick a president based on competence, right? Yeah. Does he hire the right
00:26:20.240 people? Can they get the job done? What do we have to compare Biden and Trump? We have Biden who's
00:26:27.300 never run a successful presidential campaign, right? Being a senator is kind of easy, if I'm being
00:26:35.680 honest, because they don't have to manage anything except whatever their little staff, and the staff
00:26:41.020 probably manages them as much as the other way around. So Biden has shown us several examples
00:26:49.060 examples of his ability to get something done in a management leader way. Each of his prior campaigns,
00:26:58.440 which were failures, like really big failures. And then we have his current campaign, which I think
00:27:04.420 even the people on the Democratic side would acknowledge it's done very poorly. Nobody would disagree with
00:27:13.320 that, right? But somebody is mentioning the $5 tests that were just approved. Completely different.
00:27:20.760 Those have to be administered by a healthcare professional, and it's a nasal swab. So if it has
00:27:27.600 to be a healthcare professional that has nothing to do with the saliva test strips, which individuals
00:27:35.700 would use, completely different application, which would solve coronavirus versus the one that was
00:27:41.980 approved, which is real good, but it doesn't come anywhere near solving anything. It's not meant for
00:27:47.760 that, because the volume wouldn't be there. All right. So sorry, I got interrupted, but I saw your
00:27:56.940 comments there. I wanted to address that. So the production was great. And if you compare that to
00:28:03.380 Biden, he ran one of the worst conventions of all time. No, not one of. It was the worst
00:28:10.980 isn't that fair to say? That the worst convention execution was the Biden campaign. So now he's got
00:28:20.500 three or four failed presidential campaigns, his only leadership management jobs that he's ever done
00:28:27.820 that we know of. Then there's this campaign, which he's failing right in front of us. Nobody would even
00:28:34.200 doubt that, I don't think. And now we see him organize his, you know, even though he's not personally
00:28:46.400 organizing the Democratic convention, he's still sort of the guy. So if you're looking at what the
00:28:54.280 Democrats can do collectively, it was a complete failure. Now compare this to Trump's performance.
00:28:59.980 Trump ran for president a few times, but really just dipped his feet in, you know. But when he ran
00:29:06.480 this last time, I think everybody would say it was a great job, great campaign, more effective
00:29:13.360 strategically, went to the right states, did all the right things, had the right energy, gave the best
00:29:19.200 speeches, had the best crowds. And now you're watching the RNC, that both sides 100% agree that the RNC
00:29:29.060 just absolutely smoked, smoked the DNC in terms of production quality. Now, once you've watched
00:29:37.240 all of these managerish leadership organizational things, and you've seen that Biden has only failed,
00:29:46.480 that's all he's done. There is no success that is Biden managing and leading. He's been involved
00:29:53.600 with legislation. He's been a gopher for Obama, but he hasn't really managed anything big.
00:30:00.680 Trump has. He's managed very big things and successfully. So that contrast is enormous.
00:30:08.460 So you got that going on. Here's some surprises from last night. What are the odds? And this just
00:30:16.180 blew me away. So Alice Johnson, who is pardoned the right word, she was released early on that
00:30:22.080 first step thing, I think. I forget the details. So Trump got her out of jail before her term was over,
00:30:28.680 whatever term you use for that. And what were the odds that Alice Johnson was also an incredibly good
00:30:40.240 public speaker. Did anybody see that coming? That was one of the coolest things that I don't know if
00:30:47.960 it's going to get much, you know, much action. But just the fact that she was rotting in prison,
00:30:56.420 you know, no good to anybody. Well, actually, that's wrong. I guess she was very productive
00:31:00.700 in prison with other prisoners, which is part of what got around early. So apparently,
00:31:05.100 she's a really good person. But she's a great public speaker. I mean, that was really good.
00:31:11.700 That's hard to do. If you don't know how hard that is, to do what Alice Jones did, you might not
00:31:17.380 quite appreciate how good she was. I don't think she has practice. So I don't know where she's going
00:31:25.360 in life. But I'd watch her. She's got some game. David Dorn's widow, great on camera. Now,
00:31:33.200 obviously, they probably tested everybody to make sure that they do okay. And they recorded things
00:31:38.260 so they could do it more than once, I suppose. But she was amazing on camera. And then the president
00:31:45.620 gave his what was called too long by both sides, his speech. Here's the thing. Why was it too long?
00:31:55.720 70 minutes. Now, most experts will say, no, you don't want to do a 70-minute speech. Somebody said,
00:32:04.100 I forget who, that 13 minutes, maybe you humor somebody. 13 minutes is how long people can pay
00:32:12.180 attention if it's nothing but you talking. But I don't think that applies to Trump.
00:32:17.280 Trump. I watched all 70 minutes. Didn't you? I watched all 70 minutes. And I couldn't pull
00:32:27.280 my, I couldn't pull myself away. Now, I would agree that he seemed a little lower energy than he
00:32:33.080 normally is. And I think that's because they made him, you know, or he agreed to read off the
00:32:38.200 teleprompter. He is not that excited with a smallish crowd reading off a teleprompter. That's the two
00:32:44.040 things you don't want to give Trump, a small crowd and a teleprompter. That's not his ideal
00:32:51.320 condition. His ideal condition, gigantic live crowd, no teleprompter. You know, walking the wire
00:33:01.000 without the help. So he was a little low energy. But the reason that was long is because he had so
00:33:11.880 many accomplishments and he had so many legitimate complaints about Biden. He could have done a much
00:33:18.220 shorter speech if he had no accomplishments. But it took a long time to list all the stuff he's done.
00:33:26.680 A long time. Now, I don't see how this election could possibly be close because Biden is decomposing
00:33:33.320 before our eyes. Trump's list of accomplishments, which we'll talk about how true or not true they
00:33:39.400 are. But it's a long list. His list of accomplishments is very long. And as somebody said in the comments,
00:33:48.520 it does demonstrate that he can stand and talk for 70 minutes late at night. And that's pretty good.
00:33:54.840 All right. You know that the Republicans nailed it in their convention, because I immediately turned
00:34:05.100 to CNN to see their response. And they were in full tedious frenzy. I mean, they were angry. But the
00:34:13.380 things that they had to complain about were so few that they had to be really angry about really small
00:34:20.580 stuff. So they ended up complaining about them using the law of the White House and the Hatch Act.
00:34:27.940 Literally, nobody in the country cares. Let me speak for 100% of the voters in this country.
00:34:34.900 What's the Hatch Act? It's what? The president can't do what presidents do, which is campaign for
00:34:42.020 reelection in the White House. I can sort of see why that might be a law, but I don't care about it.
00:34:49.300 I wouldn't care if Obama did it. I wouldn't care if the next president does it. I couldn't care less.
00:34:55.580 And by the way, have you heard of the coronavirus? You know, it's a pretty good excuse to work from home
00:35:03.100 is the coronavirus. Now, of course, the participants were mostly not wearing masks. And that became CNN's
00:35:12.780 story. And I almost wondered if that was intentional. Because every time the president
00:35:18.480 or the campaign forces his opponents to talk about the smallest stuff, they're not talking
00:35:25.220 about anything important that can hurt him. If all they're talking about is, hey, those people didn't wear
00:35:30.200 masks, and then Rand, Paul, and the others walk outside, and they're immediately greeted by large groups
00:35:37.880 of people who are not socially distancing and are all Democrats, or at least Democrat-friendly.
00:35:46.680 So it first of all brings up the hypocrisy thing, because obviously there have been protests,
00:35:52.820 et cetera, without social distancing. But it does force them to talk about the thing that the citizens
00:35:59.560 care the least about. Yeah, it's true that as the leader of the country, wouldn't it have been a better
00:36:07.940 message to show them without masks, or to show them wearing masks as modeling good behavior?
00:36:14.740 I can see that. I would say that's not an illegitimate criticism. It's just not very big.
00:36:21.900 So it could be true. It's a true criticism. But it's sort of a small one. And here's the funniest part.
00:36:32.280 The president, I think, is playing this strategically brilliantly so far. We don't know if they're going
00:36:40.560 to be able to maintain this. But the discipline it takes for Trump not to be too provocative during
00:36:48.340 the convention. Think about it. I don't think Trump did anything during the entire convention
00:36:55.240 that made the critics go crazy. He played it straight. And I don't think they like it,
00:37:03.780 because they need him to do some crazy stuff, you know, tweeze something provocative,
00:37:08.380 so we can really dig in and call him a racist or whatever we're going to call him.
00:37:12.540 And he just keeps telling us his accomplishments. And that must be driving them crazy. Because the
00:37:21.080 accomplishments, even though they try to debunk them with the fact checkers and stuff, there's
00:37:26.200 still so many of them that the laundry list persuasion comes into play. Now, I always talk
00:37:31.560 about it, when it gets used against you, it's devastating, because it's a whole bunch of things
00:37:37.020 you don't believe individually. But damn, there's so many of them. Must be something in that list
00:37:41.560 is true. So the president, likewise, has a really long list of accomplishments. If you tried to pick
00:37:48.120 off a few and say, hey, wait a minute, that one's not true, or that one's not quite the way you said
00:37:53.360 it, people go, well, yeah, but look at all this other stuff. I mean, that's, you know, suppose you're
00:37:59.320 right. Suppose that one isn't quite what he says. Look at all this other stuff. So the laundry list
00:38:06.220 persuasion is effective, even if you think it shouldn't be. So they got that going on.
00:38:15.040 So the fact that the president has shown this much restraint, even to the point where they thought
00:38:20.260 his presentation was flat, it's pretty, pretty good strategy. Let's see if he can hold that.
00:38:28.740 Because by the way, all he would have to do, and I say it like it's easy, but it's not,
00:38:35.060 all he'd have to do is not intentionally cause trouble between now and election. I don't see
00:38:40.460 how he could lose. Because he's going to have to do something wrong to lose this thing. And it's
00:38:45.980 going to have to happen between now and election day. If he doesn't do something that's an unforced
00:38:51.500 error between now and then, I just don't see how he loses. It just looks impossible from today's
00:38:57.660 perspective. All right. So watching the CNN go crazy, and they were really worked up. It was
00:39:04.560 funny to watch how agitated they were, like literally funny. I watch it as humor. So here
00:39:12.480 are the kinds of fact checking that they do on Trump's speech. So they had their Daniel Dale
00:39:18.760 fact checker come on. He was all worked up. And he said that this is the lyingest president ever.
00:39:24.040 He's a serial liar. And he had over 20 lies in his speech. But listen to the things they
00:39:31.100 call lies. And compare them, I will in a moment, to Joe Biden's lies. And see if you can see
00:39:39.240 if there's a difference. For example, they fact checked Trump on his claims of how many miles
00:39:49.480 of the wall he's built. And they say, hey, you can't count all that as new wall, because
00:39:55.620 that is wall that's going in to replace inadequate wall that was going to be fixed anyway. Now,
00:40:03.060 is it a lie when the president says, I have X hundreds of miles of wall, if it's also true
00:40:09.440 that there was some kind of barrier there before, could have been small fence or wire, but it
00:40:15.560 wasn't working? Is there a reason that you replace a wall? I think you replace a wall
00:40:21.920 because it's not working. Would they be replacing things that were fine? So I would say it's quite
00:40:29.980 a big accomplishment if you've replaced walls and little fences and minor barriers with something
00:40:36.320 that people can't get over. Because why were those minor barriers where they were? And there
00:40:41.500 are no minor barriers in other places. Well, it's obvious because that was the critical place.
00:40:46.560 There are some places that most of your volume is going to happen, and they plug those places
00:40:53.000 with good wall, good enough wall. Now, is that a lie? Well, CNN says it's a lie. I believe
00:41:04.020 that a reasonable person could say, yes, it's a lie by omission. But does it matter? Here's where I'm
00:41:12.900 going with this. How has your life changed by the fact that he's improving wall that wasn't doing the
00:41:20.400 job versus building brand new wall, which would be the wrong thing to do? Because first you want to
00:41:26.960 improve the wall because that's where the traffic is. It wouldn't make sense to claim credit for
00:41:33.820 building new wall if you hadn't fixed the old wall first. So yeah, I can see technically that it's an
00:41:42.700 over-claim. I mean, not even technically. It's just a flat-out over-claim because there's some context
00:41:49.600 left out. But does it bother you? Do you make less money? Is the country less safe? Let me give you
00:41:58.060 another one. Trump claimed credit for some kind of, I don't know, Veterans Administration thing that he
00:42:04.200 did. And the fact checker says, no, no, no. Obama got that going. And what Trump did was some minor
00:42:11.440 revision that happened later. Okay. Sounds like a little hyperbole, maybe a bit of an over-claim.
00:42:19.480 But how did that affect you? Were you less safe? Did you make less money? Did somebody hate you?
00:42:29.720 Were you hurt? Nothing. Let me give you another one. So Trump claims that Obama, the Administration,
00:42:40.300 spied on his campaign. That is fact-checked as false because CNN says, no, no, you don't use that word,
00:42:48.220 spied. It was more like they had a reason to do some intelligence. George Papadopoulos, I think,
00:42:54.820 put some holes in that. But CNN's claim is really that the word isn't quite right and maybe the full
00:43:03.300 intention hasn't been proven. But does that affect you? Because whatever it is you thought about that
00:43:11.040 story, you still think today. Didn't change anything, did it? So Trump's lies, as they call
00:43:18.820 him, as they call them, or not passing the fact-checking, they all seem to have that quality
00:43:24.380 that they don't kind of matter. They just paint a picture that he's doing his job.
00:43:30.520 Now let's compare that to Joe Biden's lies. Let's see if Joe Biden's lies are those harmless kind.
00:43:37.500 All right? So Joe Biden has claimed famously that President Trump called white supremacists
00:43:44.940 fine people in Charlottesville. Now suppose that the country believes that, or some portion of the
00:43:52.400 country. Is that harmless? That is not harmless. That is the sort of thing that rips the country
00:43:59.600 apart. It causes protests in the street. It causes things that shouldn't trigger riots to trigger riots
00:44:06.640 because it becomes the gasoline just waiting for a match. Maybe the match is these police actions
00:44:13.360 that turn out tragically for black people who got stopped by police. That might be the trigger.
00:44:20.460 But the gasoline is this Joe Biden kind of a lie that the president is literally, which he didn't,
00:44:27.380 praising white supremacists. You can't compare that to exaggerating about how much wall you got built
00:44:33.400 and leaving out some context. Those two things are not the same. One is destroying the whole
00:44:40.000 frickin' country, ripping apart everything good about this country. And the other one is just a
00:44:47.480 salesman talking about his product being good. That's it. Those are not the same.
00:44:52.600 Am I on shaky ground saying that Biden is lying? Well, let me give you a little preview of something
00:45:02.880 that you're going to see. You're going to see in about, you'll see in about an hour and 15 minutes.
00:45:11.480 Or maybe you'll see, anyway, you'll see a little later this morning. So I got a little preview from
00:45:16.600 the Rasmussen reports. And they did a survey to see how many people believe the fine people hoax.
00:45:24.440 How much do you love this so far? There's an actual survey by Rasmussen reports. You'll see the
00:45:31.240 official one in an hour or so. I got a little preview. And apparently 73% of Republicans
00:45:38.920 recall what Trump actually said, which is when he disavowed the white supremacists. So they recall
00:45:48.840 that he actually disavowed them, which is what he actually said. But 59% of Democrats remember it
00:45:56.280 the way Biden does. In other words, if you want to know what is the limit of brainwashing,
00:46:02.760 you just found it. Because the perfect test is if you hold up, you know, I'll do an exaggerated
00:46:10.680 example. If I hold up this pen and say, am I holding a pen? If everybody says, um, yeah,
00:46:18.200 we're looking right at it. You're holding a pen. There is no brainwashing. But what if I could hold
00:46:23.720 up a pen just as clear as this and say, there's no pen here. And I repeated it enough, and I controlled
00:46:32.200 the entire media cycle until 60% of the public couldn't see the pen anymore. Right? It's right
00:46:40.280 here. And 60% of the public couldn't see it. Is that possible? It just happened. The Rasmussen poll
00:46:52.520 found out that Democrats, who presumably are mostly in some kind of a silo of news, that 59% of them,
00:47:00.520 I'm going to round that to 60%, uh, believe something happened, even though they can look
00:47:08.360 right at it, and they know it didn't. They can look right at it. Because you can look at the
00:47:12.680 transcript. It's just written right there. But they've all seen, for the most part, they've seen
00:47:18.360 the hoax version that lops off the clarification. By the way, if you speak a lot in public,
00:47:24.920 as I do, you know, I do like an hour a day without much planning, you very often will say something,
00:47:32.360 and then you start talking about something else. And you'll realize that that thing you said a little
00:47:36.920 while ago needed some clarification, because the way you said it could have been misinterpreted. So
00:47:42.840 you double back. You go, okay, just to be clear, when I was talking about X, this is what I meant,
00:47:48.920 and this is what I did not mean, just so you're all clear on that. Most common thing in the world.
00:47:54.120 When, when you do that, though, it allows your enemies to lop off the clarification
00:47:59.960 and go with the thing that even you knew could have been misconstrued. That's what happened with
00:48:04.520 Trump. He knew it could be misconstrued. So he doubled back without anybody asking. Nobody prompted
00:48:10.680 him. He was just, he was just, you know, riffing. He doubles back and says, just want to make sure
00:48:15.400 it's clear. I'm not talking about the, the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists. And then
00:48:21.960 they just lop that off. So how many people were fooled by that edit? 59% of Democrats were fooled
00:48:29.560 by it. So if you, so if you'd like to know what's the limit of brainwashing for something that can easily
00:48:37.720 be checked, just Google it. Now it's, I say easy, but if you Google that you might get more,
00:48:44.680 you'll probably get two of the hoaxes for every one of the, you know, ones that shows the entire
00:48:50.440 thing. So it isn't that easy. But that gives you kind of a limit of how brainwashed a public can be.
00:48:58.840 So 73% of Republicans got it right. So even, even a lot of Republicans think he actually said that.
00:49:10.840 What? And, but here's the kicker. If you want to know how this is going to play in the election,
00:49:19.640 54% of people not affiliated, I think they're calling them, they don't call them independence
00:49:25.400 anymore because people, maybe because people are not that independent when they actually vote,
00:49:30.440 they tend to be consistent one way or the other. They just call themselves independent. So I think
00:49:35.480 maybe the new name for that with Rasmussen is not affiliated with either political party.
00:49:41.000 So the people who call themselves not affiliated, 54% of them accurately know that the fine people,
00:49:49.160 that the fine people thing is a hoax. 54% of people not affiliated with the party
00:49:55.800 know that Joe Biden is lying about his most central campaign theme. And if they were concerned about
00:50:05.880 Trump being not good with the fact checking, and so they wanted the one who didn't lie,
00:50:12.200 he's literally the worst liar we've ever seen. Worst, not just in terms of quantity. I don't know if
00:50:19.160 he's worst in quantity. Maybe, maybe Trump beats him on quantity. But in terms of how bad the lie is,
00:50:26.600 really, really bad. That's like one of the worst lies you could ever tell. So Rasmussen is going to
00:50:33.640 make a lot of people have TDS because they're going to argue that it's not, it's not accurate
00:50:41.160 that the president didn't call these people fine people. But Rasmussen cleverly shows the text that he
00:50:51.160 did. So part of the poll shows the actual, you know, the poll results, not the poll, but the poll results
00:50:58.360 show his actual words. So there's no doubt about Rasmussen being right about that interpretation.
00:51:02.920 All right. 39% of people polled said they actually believed Biden. Wow.
00:51:15.960 So here's a little, and the other thing that Biden lies about, of course, is that the president
00:51:23.320 suggested drinking disinfectant for coronavirus, which did not happen. I've described in detail that
00:51:30.920 he was talking about light technology. It's obvious if you see the whole quote, but it's not obvious
00:51:37.480 if they lop off the introduction and the summary where he clarifies that he was talking about light.
00:51:44.600 So what did the, what did the mainstream press do? They lopped off the clarification before
00:51:50.040 that gives it context as light and they lopped off his last sentences where he brings it back to light.
00:51:56.200 So, you know, he was only ever talking about light. All right. So that's how that hoax is created.
00:52:02.200 And Biden still pushes that. Now, is it dangerous that the public thinks that the person leading the
00:52:08.440 coronavirus effort thought ever thought that drinking bleach, which is what they, you know,
00:52:14.520 Anderson Cooper changes it into drinking bleach. It's pretty dangerous. It's pretty dangerous to tell
00:52:21.400 the public during a pandemic that their leader is actually that, that crazy. That's dangerous
00:52:29.880 because you need the public to comply when the, when there's something to comply with.
00:52:36.200 All right. Here's a little trick for you that I used at my restaurant years ago and I've,
00:52:42.280 I've reconstituted it and it's a persuasion trick. And it goes like this. If there's somebody who's a big
00:52:48.200 critic of yours and in my old restaurant days, I actually got a picketer. So there was a guy who,
00:52:54.920 who picketed my restaurant because he, he got fired for something he didn't like. I forget what it was.
00:53:01.320 And, you know, he deserved to get fired, but he didn't like it. So he, he picketed. And for a while,
00:53:08.200 it was really bothering the staff. So I came in and I saw the picketer and I said, who's the mascot?
00:53:13.640 And so as soon as I redefined our lone picketer as our mascot, it just became funny and then nobody
00:53:21.880 cared anymore. And then he got bored and went away after a while. So I've decided that, uh,
00:53:28.040 Jennifer Rubin is the mascot for fake news. She's not the person who just continually makes up crazy
00:53:35.640 takes on Trump because I don't know why it looks like a mental problem, but I can't diagnose it from
00:53:42.840 afar. I can just say what it looks like. Yeah. But she, she used to bother you, right? You'd see a
00:53:49.400 Jennifer Rubin, uh, story about Trump and you just say, what, what, what is wrong with you that you
00:53:56.520 would interpret it such a, such a bad way. So stop thinking that and just think that whenever you see
00:54:02.760 her, she's the mascot for the fake news. It's similar to, uh, uh, um, who's the, uh,
00:54:11.240 Carl, Carl Bernstein, the worst than Watergate guy. If you only just listen to him complaining
00:54:17.480 about the president, he's the most annoying person in the world because he seems so illegitimate.
00:54:22.920 Like there's nothing about him that seems even a little bit credible. He's just a partisan.
00:54:27.160 But as soon as I defined him as the worst than Watergate guy that they take out of the closet when
00:54:32.920 they need, they don't have anything. They bring him out when they don't have anything. If you haven't
00:54:37.880 noticed that they only, they only wheel out Carl Bernstein when there's nothing to complain about,
00:54:43.880 and they just need somebody who will complain anyway. It's like, okay, we don't have any, any meat,
00:54:50.600 but Carl doesn't need any. He'll just say it's worse than Watergate, whatever it is.
00:54:54.360 So just think of him that way. It's funnier. If you're not keeping up with this, uh, Kyle
00:55:01.000 Rittenhouse shooting in Kenosha, the, the latest videos make it pretty clear that he's going to get
00:55:09.240 off, uh, from any kind of murder charge because it's so, it's so unambiguously. Well, I won't say
00:55:16.360 unambiguously, but certainly in a situation where reasonable doubt is, is the prime thing that you're
00:55:23.800 trying to prove or disprove in a reasonable doubt situation. All three of the people that he shot
00:55:30.920 allegedly, um, were quite unambiguously attacking him. Now, maybe there's some question about,
00:55:39.320 did he know that he was in grievous bodily potential harm? I would say he was because if
00:55:45.320 any one of those protesters had say gotten the advantage on him, the other protesters would have
00:55:51.240 swarmed in. So I think he has just the most airtight self-defense defense. There may be other issues
00:55:59.240 about why was he there with a gun. He was 17. So there may be some, you know, illegality in that sense,
00:56:05.880 but there really isn't much chance he's going to get convicted of murder based on what we've seen.
00:56:11.720 Um, have you noticed that, uh, Joe Biden has a dementia smile that he uses to stall for time when
00:56:21.480 he gets an unfamiliar question that requires him to think? Watch for it. And it goes like this. So,
00:56:28.840 you know, Biden sometimes has angry Biden look, get off my lawn, you know, hatchback, get off my lawn.
00:56:35.080 I'm stealing Amy Klobuchar's joke about get off my lawn, which was a pretty good tweet. Um,
00:56:42.360 so he's got his angry look, angry, stern, squinty. I'm squinty, stern, and caring. But then he also has
00:56:49.000 his, uh, his smile too big and laugh and laugh too hard. And it goes like this. Uh, Joe Biden,
00:56:58.120 um, you know, a big part of the country knows that you're lying about the, uh, fine people hoax. Uh,
00:57:05.480 what do you say to that? Now that would be a tough question. How does Joe answer it? For those of you
00:57:11.000 who are listening on podcast, this won't be nearly as hilarious as for the people watching it on video.
00:57:17.000 when I give my Joe Biden smiles impression. And it looks like this. First of all,
00:57:22.200 he only smiles with one side. And then that one side is too big. So I was like,
00:57:29.720 and he gives the smile and then he, he'll laugh. Come on, man. Oh, come on, man. Oh,
00:57:38.040 so look for the over smile. It's a total, total tip off that the dementia has slowed him down.
00:57:44.840 And he's looking for a stalling technique. And so laughing about the laughability of the joke.
00:57:51.640 It is so laughable. That question. Oh,
00:57:59.800 so you'll see a lot of that. Nancy Pelosi has suggested that maybe it would be a bad idea for
00:58:07.000 Biden to debate because Trump just lies. And what would be the point of debating with somebody who's
00:58:13.160 just going to get up there and lie or take all your real estate on stage and crowd you? What about
00:58:19.480 that? Now, I don't think that that necessarily means that Joe Biden, uh, has already agreed
00:58:28.120 privately. Let's say publicly, he says he wants to debate, but I don't think it means that privately,
00:58:33.240 Joe Biden has decided he's not going to debate because here's the problem. Joe Biden probably
00:58:40.280 thinks he can, or he's talked himself into thinking that he can debate. I don't think there's anybody
00:58:47.880 on the Democrat side who actually believes he can, at least the people who are on the inside and have
00:58:55.080 good information about him. I don't think there's anybody who thinks he can debate. So Pelosi,
00:59:01.000 by floating the idea that he shouldn't debate from such a high level of Democrat power, um, makes
00:59:08.040 you think that maybe it's already approved, but I think she's just testing the idea. I think she
00:59:15.560 wanted to see what the pundits and the public said about it, but I think it's also creating space
00:59:22.440 so that it wouldn't be some big surprise if Biden later said, you know, uh, there's no point in
00:59:28.440 debating with this big old liar. So I'm just going to cancel. Um, I think she's just softening the room.
00:59:35.400 So, uh, and I also think that somebody doesn't know how to talk to Biden and tell him he can't do this.
00:59:43.240 I think that's a real problem, like an actual problem for the country. I doubt there's anybody
00:59:48.920 who can tell him that he's not up to it and just be honest about it. I don't know that they can do it.
00:59:57.000 All right. Um, did you see, uh, Biden try to get through an Anderson Cooper interview he was doing by
01:00:04.280 zoom or something like it. And it did not look good. He, Joe did not look like he was fully with
01:00:12.440 it. He bumbled a little bit. He answered the wrong question and threw in his Charlottesville
01:00:18.200 hoax for some unrelated question about somebody else. It didn't look good. And I felt as though
01:00:25.960 Anderson Cooper was feeling quite awkward, feeling quite awkward.
01:00:33.400 Uh, cause you don't really know how to deal with that. Um, speaking of Rasmussen,
01:00:39.800 they also have a poll result that says 51% of both Democrats and unaffiliated voters agree
01:00:46.920 that it is important for Biden to address the dementia issue publicly.
01:00:52.520 This view is shared by 81% of Republicans. Uh, so it's mostly Republicans, 81%.
01:00:59.720 But there's a good little slice of Democrats and independents who think, you know, if you add
01:01:06.200 them all together, uh, 38% of voters think, think Biden has dementia. So 81% of Republicans want it to
01:01:15.160 be addressed. That just means they're suspicious. But 38% of all voters think Biden has dementia.
01:01:23.080 And, and, and people think that he can win. Just the fact that anybody thinks that he could actually
01:01:32.760 win this thing is crazy. Now, um, somebody smart said to me, yeah, but you know, the coronavirus
01:01:40.680 performance is going to be the whole story. And that's all people are going to care about. And,
01:01:45.560 you know, Trump is not getting A pluses from the public on that, or at least not from the Democrats.
01:01:52.600 And so he's vulnerable. To which I say, it's not November yet. Do you know how much is going to
01:02:00.040 happen between now and November? A lot. And in all likelihood, wherever we are on the coronavirus,
01:02:07.000 we'll be in better shape. Either we'll be right just a few weeks away from the vaccination,
01:02:13.800 which would look like progress, even if you don't like the vaccination idea.
01:02:17.880 We'll probably have some more therapeutics. We'll probably have an economy that's recovering
01:02:24.360 a little bit better. Oh, here's another one of the things that CNN calls a lie from the president.
01:02:31.720 They say the president says we gained X million jobs, you know, since April, but he forgets,
01:02:38.040 he neglects not forgets, but he leaves out that we lost 22 million. Well, does he need to put that
01:02:45.720 in there? Is there anybody watching the president claim that we've gained 9 million or whatever it
01:02:51.480 was, jobs in the last month or so? Is there anybody who doesn't understand without being told that we
01:02:59.320 lost more than that and we're just, you know, making back some of our loss? Is there anybody who didn't
01:03:04.680 understand that? So that was fact check the lie? Because he left out the context that everybody
01:03:11.320 understands. So these are the trivial kinds of things that CNN says are the president's lies.
01:03:17.320 And then you've got dumbass Biden with his race baiting, you know, hoax that will rip the society
01:03:27.160 apart. Those are not equal. All right. Somebody says, did Harris speak yesterday? I think she did,
01:03:36.440 but she didn't get much attention. All right. So Kamala's speech, she's completely lying. Well,
01:03:50.680 if you're looking for the politician who doesn't lie, good luck. Good luck. There's still a still buzz
01:03:58.920 about hydroxychloroquine. Between now and November, do you know what's also is going to happen?
01:04:05.560 You can have a lot more drug trials for hydroxychloroquine that have been completed.
01:04:12.040 Some of them, I don't know if there's any going on now, but I'm hoping there's at least one of those
01:04:17.520 gold standard types of clinical trials for hydroxychloroquine. I don't know if there will be,
01:04:23.460 but what if there is? What if between now and election day, there's a gold standard test for
01:04:29.740 hydroxychloroquine and it shows it works or shows it doesn't work? It's going to be a pretty
01:04:35.480 big impact on the minds of voters, whichever way it goes. I do think that President Trump's
01:04:45.000 going hard on China is devastatingly effective because Biden is obviously framed as soft on China.
01:04:54.680 And I think that's fair framing. I don't think that's unreasonable. And
01:04:58.520 I, that alone is gigantic. I mean, that would win the Midwest just by being hard on China and trying
01:05:07.320 to get the manufacturing back. Trump also has a surprisingly good story on healthcare
01:05:13.800 because he's cut enough regulations from telehealth to making the most favorite, most favorite nations.
01:05:21.080 That's not cutting a regulation, but getting drug prices that are no worse for the United States
01:05:26.520 than anywhere else. These are some pretty big deals. So the Rand Paul attack, I don't know,
01:05:33.720 that feels a little bit political in the sense that he wasn't attacked, attacked as in nobody was
01:05:40.760 trying to hit him. Maybe they would have, if he had not been surrounded by police, maybe they would
01:05:47.080 have. But I don't think he was assaulted per se. I think there was just aggressive protesters.
01:05:53.080 Now, I wouldn't want any aggressive protesters coming at me like that. And if I had a gun,
01:05:58.120 if I had a gun, I don't know what I'd do if they surrounded me like that. And I didn't have police
01:06:02.840 protection. I'm not exactly sure how that would go down. But it's definitely something to be worried
01:06:10.200 about. And somebody pointed out on Twitter that Maxine Waters had called for this very behavior
01:06:16.760 of not letting these public figures be unharassed in public. So Democrats got to own this, I think.
01:06:27.880 So Dr. Zelenko, somebody says in the comments, says there's a conspiracy theory to
01:06:33.000 squelch the hydroxychloroquine. And I don't know about that. We'll see. I'm still at a 30%
01:06:44.840 chance the hydroxychloroquine works. And, you know, there was some effort to suppress it.
01:06:50.680 I saw the question about Jim Gaffigan. I'm going to give an answer to that only to the subscribers
01:06:55.880 on Locals because I know Jim. I met him, spent some time with him. And I'll tell the people on
01:07:07.160 Locals what that was like. All right. And by the way, if you haven't watched Jim Gaffigan's
01:07:15.640 stand-up comedy, he is just about one of the best ones working today. Maybe the best,
01:07:21.880 could be the best working comedian. Rioters are preventing voters from reaching polls. Maybe.
01:07:34.520 I don't know. Yeah, Kamala Harris gave a pre-buttal speech and nobody cared. That's probably true.
01:07:42.120 Oh, just adding to the... Oh, forgot to tell you. So I had set a trap by saying that Joe Biden's
01:07:53.080 campaign has a lot of satanic imagery. I said before and after and several times during that
01:08:01.000 I'm not a believer. In other words, I don't believe in Satan. I don't believe he exists.
01:08:05.160 But there are a bunch of coincidences that could be confirmation bias, probably are, that look
01:08:13.480 satanic in terms of the campaign. And somebody pointed out that on their logo they've got a
01:08:18.920 pentagram. That's like the satanic pentagram. And I thought, man, when you start looking for it,
01:08:25.560 when you start looking for it, you sure can find a lot of it.
01:08:29.640 But, uh, which again, doesn't mean it's true. However, there was a publication which, uh, uh,
01:08:37.080 decided to fact check me and some kind of, some kind of group that tries to fact check
01:08:43.400 people they think are on the right. And what they did is they lopped off my, uh, part about I'm not
01:08:49.720 a believer. So they did the same editing trick as the fine people hoax, same one as the drinking
01:08:55.960 disinfectant, same one as the overfeeding the koi fish. So it's always the same trick. If there's
01:09:02.680 a clarifier in there, they just edit that out. So they edited out my clarifier to make it look
01:09:08.120 as though I was saying with complete sincerity that Joe Biden is running a satanic campaign.
01:09:14.760 And this was of course, to make me look crazy, but that wasn't the play.
01:09:21.480 The play was to get attention to that idea. And if somebody else believes it,
01:09:27.480 well, that's on them. I already said, I don't believe it. So if they see coincidences and they
01:09:32.760 find it compelling, well, that would be all their own decision because I do not tell them to do that
01:09:38.440 because I don't see it. There are just a lot of coincidences. That's just a fact. All right.
01:09:45.400 That's all for now. And I will talk to you later.