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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Join us for one of the most special coffees of the week as Scott Adams sits down with George Papadopoulos to talk about his new book, Deep State Target, about how he got caught up in a plot to bring down President Trump s campaign.
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Hey, everybody. Come on in. It's time for one of the most special coffees with Scott Adams all week.
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It's going to be a good one. A barn burner, as they say. Better than just about anything.
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Oh, yeah. There's your three taps. That tells you we're serious.
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Well, I'm going to have a guest on here in a little bit.
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If our technology works, we'll be talking to George Papadopoulos about his book, Deep State Target.
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Now, our technology is always a little sketchy, so let's hope we can get him on here today.
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But before we do that, is there something we need to do?
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Yes, there is. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it doesn't take much to participate.
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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.
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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day,
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the thing that makes everything better except the Democrats' National Convention,
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which, you know what I mean, coffee can't do everything.
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But join me now for the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go.
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Ah. I feel the economy improving as I digest that.
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Now, I've got a few people who have asked to join as guests.
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Let's just hope one of them is George, and yes, it is.
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All right. We're going to try to add George Papadopoulos.
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Yes. And come on, technology. George, are you there?
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You are audio only, so they can only hear you, but they can see me. Okay?
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You know, I accidentally set up a parachute light like me,
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and I was sitting on a couch staring into the abyss.
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It sounds like you might be a little far away from your microphone.
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How about now? Is this better? Can you hear me better now?
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All right. Now, George, I think most of my audience will recognize your name immediately,
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and I'll say what the book text says when I look for your book, Deep State Target,
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how I got caught in the crosshairs of the plot to bring down President Trump.
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And you were advisor to President Trump's presidential campaign, the first campaign,
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and you got pulled into something, and you wrote a book about it.
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And, by the way, I just looked at the reviews of your book.
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I don't know if I've seen too many books that have 86% five-star reviews.
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I mean, I've written a few books, and that's crazy.
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So, George, our big problem is that we've got people who probably know the details
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and some don't, can you give us the briefest outline of what happened to you
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Absolutely. And thanks a lot for having me, Scott.
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So, basically, I had worked in D.C. for five years leading up to joining both
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Ben Carson's presidential campaign and then Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
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A lot of people forget that I actually joined Ben Carson's campaign first.
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And at that time, clearly, the deck was stacked against all the Republican candidates.
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Even when I was on Ben Carson's campaign, there were clear animus by the Obama administration,
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They were all either looking to what these candidates were up to, who their teams were,
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or find ways to basically infiltrate their campaigns.
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And we saw that happen with Donald Trump's campaign more vivid than any other campaign.
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And as soon as I joined Donald Trump's campaign, that's exactly when it seems the world's intelligence community
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collapsed on my lap while I was living in Europe for the first month I was on the campaign.
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And they were targeting myself, General Flynn, Carter Page, others.
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And it just really was asserted efforts by not only the Obama administration, but I also argue
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in my book of foreign governments who had vested interests in a Clinton presidency that wanted
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to show on the Trump campaign and to assure that if he did end up getting elected, that he
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And that's exactly what we've lived through as a country the last two years.
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Now, tell us, without all the details, because it's kind of hard to compress it all, what
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was the first sketchy contact with another person that you had, which was clearly some
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kind of an intelligence or something that was just sketchy?
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Before the post even knew that I had publicly joined the Trump campaign, a very shady operative
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who is now at the center of probably three different investigations, made contact with
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And then if who's ever read my book or who knows the story somewhat, we'll see that individual
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who then introduces me to the fake niece of Vladimir Putin.
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He begins to try and infiltrate the campaign through me.
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And now he's gone underground for the last couple of years.
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And he's at the center of the Durham investigation.
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I believe he's a dual Italian Maltese native who had very few, if any, ties to Russia, overwhelmingly
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tied to the U.S. government, to the British government, and other NATO governments on the
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Now, early on, the first time he contacted you, did you not sort of Google him and say there
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might be something a little fishy going on here?
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At what point did you realize there was something not right about him?
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Well, actually, the way that I was reeled in was exactly because he wasn't overtly fishy
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When you Google this guy initially, you'll see that he was a professor.
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He was connected to the State Department, to various governments in Europe, and he had
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really no connections whatsoever to any hostile power.
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So when I first met him, that's how I actually was reeled in to meet him.
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And shortly thereafter, that's when his motives seemed to be far more sketchy.
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So would you say that it is a fact that the Obama administration, quote, spied on the campaign, or would
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We have to remember that there's an active criminal investigation looking into the so-called
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The Durham probe evolved into a criminal matter once information about this individual,
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Joseph Mifsud, was relayed to Barr's office by the Italian government.
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Now, we also have evidence that various spies were sent to meet with General Warren, myself,
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others on the campaign, and Stefan Halper, who is one of these spies, actually tried to
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So clearly, there was spying going on against the campaign.
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The question now is, not if there was spying, but was it illegal?
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And we've already seen a guilty plea on the other side.
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And is there anything that you know that would connect it to Obama or Biden personally, or
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do you just know, in terms of that connection, what you've seen in the news, like the rest
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What I know is that the type of foreign governments and foreign officials that were involved in
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my story, from governments like Canada, Italy, these governments are not acting alone, and
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they're not working to set up Americans abroad, working for presidential campaigns.
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Clearly, it's directed to do it by the U.S. government.
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We know with the recent unmasking of General Flynn, that Vice President Joe Biden was directly
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involved in the unmasking of him, which was an illegal act.
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Was Biden and Obama involved in unmasking other people, possibly Trump himself?
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That's something that Attorney General Barr and John Durham still have not exposed.
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That's something that I think we will be seeing moving forward.
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If you had to guess how this is going to end up when Durham is done, what do you think
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If Durham really got the goods, so that there was no doubt about what happened, what would
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The outcome, and I've said this for a long time now, is that I think Durham is looking
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into a conspiracy case, a potential RICO case, that involves a conspiracy to not only fabricate
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evidence and scenarios around Trump campaign associates, but to then utilize that fake evidence
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We now know that the FBI lied to the FISA court in order to obtain those warrants against Carter
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Page and others, and moving forward, we're also going to see if treason was committed, as
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the president himself calls it, because subverting democracy and interfering in the democratic process
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in this country is treason, and if anyone was treason at the highest level in it, they will
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Now, how do you rule out the other hypothesis, which is that the folks who did all of this
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had a genuine concern about Russia, and they couldn't really know if there was anything
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How do you know their intentions versus what they did?
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Because what they did could be spun either way, wouldn't you say?
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That's a great question, and I would agree with you if there were true suspicious links
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between the campaign and a foreign hostile power.
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But in the case, especially in my case, and which is at the center of the Durham probe,
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If the entire story known as Russiagate was a fake manifestation that you would find a Hollywood
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screenwriter coming up with, and that's why this Joseph Mifsud, who was at the center
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of the Mueller report, the Horowitz report, where they were calling him and dingling the
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Russian emails to me, as I mentioned earlier, if he was really working with the CIA and other
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Now, but suppose, and I'm just speculating here, imagining what the defense or the explanation
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would be on the other side, suppose they said, we had real concerns about Trump and
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Russia, because we heard he had investments, and therefore, if there's a money link, that's
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a real concern, but we didn't know how to get at that, so we went through a side door
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by sort of creating a situation, but really, it was to find out if there really was something,
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because we suspect there was, we just couldn't get at it directly.
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Now, I don't know if that would be legal or illegal, but suppose they said that.
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How could you disprove that intention, because that's sort of a mental state?
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Well, we've seen, actually, the consequences of their attempt to circumvent the law and
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to do what I believe is illegal action, where you had this FBI lawyer, Kevin Kline, essentially
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write that Carter Page is not a CIA asset, he's working with the Russians, so let's spy
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on him, and by extension, target the rest of the campaign.
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Well, let's accept that, let's say they confess, yeah, we fudged some things, we lied on the
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investigative stuff, but our intention was just to get us something that we thought was
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Yeah, we broke some rules, we cut some corners, but our intention was to find something real,
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we just went through this weird side door that we really shouldn't have.
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Well, the beauty of our country is that we have a constitution and the rule of law, and
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you also require an adequate predicate to launch either a counterintelligence or a criminal
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That's why the American citizens are protected by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and
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But George, so that part we could prove, we could prove that they did or did not break
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those laws, and I think it'll be easy to prove that they did break those laws, and that can't
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Because it all boils down to what they were thinking when they did it, right?
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Well, it does, and that's why we're now only recently unearthing declassified documents
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people like Senator Lindsey Graham, who have showcased that people like Bill Priestip, this
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high-level FBI attorney, lied under oath, where he said, I don't have any idea about the
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subsource of steel, and that we verified everything.
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And this information that we had no idea even existed, that even the Senate didn't know existed,
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is only now worth, and it's essentially exposing their corruption and possible illegal action.
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And that's exactly why Richard Grinnell did such a duty to the American public by so much
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of this, and what the Director of National Intelligence currently, Ratcliffe, is doing
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So the logic then is that with so much cover-up, the fact that we know, we know there was cover-ups,
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we know there was bad behavior to get this going, that there's so much of it, and so many
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people were involved, that it's just hard to write it off as people with good intentions.
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Is that basically there's just too much evidence to assume that they're all working with good
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And that's exactly what I think, and I think you're absolutely correct here.
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I think they try to pass accountability and any wrongdoing simply to Kevin Kline's Memphis
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FBI attorney, but shortly after his guilty plea, like I mentioned, Lindsey Graham went
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public and stated that he's bringing in other FBI officials now that they've learned new
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information that they did not know, that clearly demonstrates that they lied under oath, and
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that this could not simply have been a coincidence.
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It looks like a concerted effort to undermine a rival presidential campaign, and that's what
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All right, and what, in your book that I said has amazing reviews, I mean, I'm really impressed.
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I read a number of the five-star reviews, and they're quite blown away by your book, so
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So it's called Deep State Target, and if you want to link to it, I tweeted it out to look
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at the top of my Twitter feed today, if you want to get a copy of that.
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What would be in your book that you think would be one thing that the general public, unless
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they were really, really looking into it, but just the general public who's following
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Is there a fact that you know that may or may not be in the book that would just blow
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people's mind, they just sort of don't know it?
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I argue, and I think I lay it out very strategically from A to Z in my book, that the old narrative
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was that the Trump campaign was colluding to win.
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I argue, and I lay out with facts, and I think daily and monthly, those facts are now being
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corroborated by new declassified information, is that not only did the Trump campaign not
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collude with any foreign governments or with the U.S. government, for that matter, but the
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Obama administration colluded not only with the Clinton campaign, but with foreign governments
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And that's exactly why it's so difficult for people to understand what happened, because
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I'm showcasing a different, which is based on reality, and which is being based on facts, being
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declassified, yet for three years, the mainstream media kept people essentially deluded and unable
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to understand the reality of the situation, and that's why it's so, it's almost like a shock
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and awe effect when people really start to find out what really happened, and I don't blame
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So, George, from the first moment I started hearing the story and Christopher Steele and
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X, you know, an X spook, I said to myself, there's no such thing as an X spy. That's not
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a real thing. There's nobody who's an X spy, because they always know your name. They know
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who you are. They know you got some connections, some favors. You're never really an X spy.
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And I thought, well, when is the press going to tell me that Great Britain is highly culpable
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in this whole thing? And I kept waiting, and they kept presenting evidence that Great Britain
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was involved, but they never said it. And I kept saying, well, why don't you say what's
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obvious that Great Britain had to be involved in this? Am I wrong? Was Great Britain involved
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in this in terms of intelligence-wise helping the United States, or is that not a fact?
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Scott, you're absolutely correct. And in my book, what I do is, because remember, I was
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basically the first month I was on the Trump campaign, and what was the number one issue
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that the UK was dealing with at that time that the candidate was very supportive of,
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and that was Brexit. The establishment at that time clearly had a motivation to find out what
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Trump and his team were up to, considering how outspoken Trump was for Brexit. To this day,
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you see how sensitive the issue is in the UK. And the president, and I should say the candidate,
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when he would speak about Brexit, and I would meet with UK officials, they were extremely hostile.
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I was speaking to Iran at that point about how dangerous the candidate was to British interests
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around the world. And that's why I'm not surprised that Christopher Steele was British,
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Alexander Downer was connected to MI6, Stefan Helfer was connected to MI6, Richard Dearlove was
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connected to MI6. And it's another example of it can't be a coincidence, as you mentioned earlier.
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But wasn't there, correct me on this, wasn't there some interest or Great Britain, certainly
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would have been concerned that Trump was going to be too friendly to Russia, which would be a
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gigantic security concern for anybody in the vicinity of Europe. So do you think that was part of it?
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Just they didn't want a president who they thought, perhaps mistakenly, would be a little
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too friendly to Russia? If that's the case, and I don't know, I can't, and I only speak about facts.
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And when I would speak with the UK government at that time, they were very concerned with Brexit
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more so than regarding Russia. Now, if that was indeed the case, they probably forgot something
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over the last 100 years, or actually 200 years of American history, and that's at the present
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foreign policy in this country. Not the diplomats, not the bureaucrats, not the
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unelected, but the president. And they would have seen a predictable individual who from day one,
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going as far back as 2015, stated that having a working relationship with Russia and a more,
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I guess, confrontational relationship with China is in the U.S. interest. And that's exactly what's
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been playing out for the last couple of years. And it's actually safeguarding U.S. interests
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throughout the world. All right. So this is fascinating. I'm going to get on to some other
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topics here, George. But thank you so much for joining. If anybody's joining late, check out
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George Papadopoulos' book, Deep State Target, How I Got Caught in the Crosshairs of the Plot to
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Bring Down President Trump. As I said, the reviews for this book are just off the chart. So it sounds
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like you should get a read, get that and take a good read. Thanks, George. Thanks for joining me.
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Take care. All right. That was excellent. Let's talk about some other stuff.
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All right. I've decided to join with the professional athletes. So the professional
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athletes, as you know, the NBA walked out and then some other sports also walked out in solidarity.
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And they're walking out in protest about social injustice. And I've decided to support them,
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not by walking out, of course, but I support their walkout. And indeed,
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I don't support them going back to work until systemic racism is solved. So you might say to
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yourself, hey, isn't a boycott or a strike one of those things that you do because you've got
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something specific you want to accomplish and it's short term? I guess it doesn't have to be.
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So the athletes have walked out. And if they go back to work before systemic racism in this country
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is fixed, I don't know what to think. I don't know what to think. Apparently, they don't care about
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anything. All right. We still don't have an answer from the White House about why
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saliva test strips are not okayed by the FDA. I know there's some requirement that eased the
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restriction on reporting, which was one of the hangups. But I think that got blown away. So the
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I think the I think the FDA has now said the reporting is optional for some of these types of
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tests. But I told you more than a week ago that given that these saliva test strips, the kinds that
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would you would just do at home, you don't need any kind of health care professional. There's nothing
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that goes up your nose because of saliva. You don't need a device. It'd be like a pregnancy test.
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Now, apparently, these are easy to make or easy enough. But and the math of it is, even though
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they're not as sensitive as they like to say, you could you could test so rapidly and so often
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that even with a less perfect test, you would end up having a much better result because it would be
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frequent and it would catch people eventually and soon enough. So given that this is the primary
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thing that could that seems practical, that could stop the coronavirus in its tracks, and the the White
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House has not and the FDA have not answered the public. And I'm just talking about giving us an
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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
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idea. And here are reasons that you didn't know about, which could be acceptable. But not answering
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it screams corruption, possibly impeachable. Did that sound too strong? If it did, let me say it again,
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not getting at least an answer to the public and to the press about why these are either in the
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process and we'll get these approved pretty soon, or why it's not in the process. And there's a good
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reason. Without any answer, either of those sides, it has to be either corruption or something
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impeachable doesn't have to be illegal. So I think the Trump administration needs to respond to that.
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And again, there are only two possibilities. It's corruption. Or if it's being ignored for some other
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reason, since they obviously know about it, it's got to be impeachable, whatever that reason is, because the
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public has a very, very clear right to know what's going on there. Did that sound too strong? Because I mean it.
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Somebody says, bye. Now, if they don't at least tell us, it's either corruption or it's an impeachable
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something. I don't know what else it would be. Because all they'd have to do is say, we're working
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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
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know that they're willing to answer. That's completely different. Yeah, impeachable because it's such an
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obvious path that if they don't at least tell us why they're not taking it, we cannot assume that
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they're doing their job on the single biggest priority of the country. All right. So that's
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the downer part of this. Let's get to something else. The production. I just lost about a thousand
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viewers by saying that. That's for those of you who wonder if I ever criticized the Trump
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administration. So you can refer to that when you wonder. The TV production was amazing.
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So there was no competition between what the RNC and the DNC said. Now, let me ask you this.
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You're trying to pick a president based on competence, right? Yeah. Does he hire the right
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people? Can they get the job done? What do we have to compare Biden and Trump? We have Biden who's
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never run a successful presidential campaign, right? Being a senator is kind of easy, if I'm being
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honest, because they don't have to manage anything except whatever their little staff, and the staff
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probably manages them as much as the other way around. So Biden has shown us several examples
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examples of his ability to get something done in a management leader way. Each of his prior campaigns,
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which were failures, like really big failures. And then we have his current campaign, which I think
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even the people on the Democratic side would acknowledge it's done very poorly. Nobody would disagree with
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that, right? But somebody is mentioning the $5 tests that were just approved. Completely different.
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Those have to be administered by a healthcare professional, and it's a nasal swab. So if it has
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to be a healthcare professional that has nothing to do with the saliva test strips, which individuals
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would use, completely different application, which would solve coronavirus versus the one that was
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approved, which is real good, but it doesn't come anywhere near solving anything. It's not meant for
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that, because the volume wouldn't be there. All right. So sorry, I got interrupted, but I saw your
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comments there. I wanted to address that. So the production was great. And if you compare that to
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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,
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um, you know, a big part of the country knows that you're lying about the, uh, fine people hoax. Uh,
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what do you say to that? Now that would be a tough question. How does Joe answer it? For those of you
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who are listening on podcast, this won't be nearly as hilarious as for the people watching it on video.
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when I give my Joe Biden smiles impression. And it looks like this. First of all,
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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,
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so look for the over smile. It's a total, total tip off that the dementia has slowed him down.
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And he's looking for a stalling technique. And so laughing about the laughability of the joke.
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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
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just going to get up there and lie or take all your real estate on stage and crowd you? What about
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that? Now, I don't think that that necessarily means that Joe Biden, uh, has already agreed
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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
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thinks he can, or he's talked himself into thinking that he can debate. I don't think there's anybody
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on the Democrat side who actually believes he can, at least the people who are on the inside and have
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good information about him. I don't think there's anybody who thinks he can debate. So Pelosi,
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by floating the idea that he shouldn't debate from such a high level of Democrat power, um, makes
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you think that maybe it's already approved, but I think she's just testing the idea. I think she
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wanted to see what the pundits and the public said about it, but I think it's also creating space
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so that it wouldn't be some big surprise if Biden later said, you know, uh, there's no point in
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debating with this big old liar. So I'm just going to cancel. Um, I think she's just softening the room.
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So, uh, and I also think that somebody doesn't know how to talk to Biden and tell him he can't do this.
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I think that's a real problem, like an actual problem for the country. I doubt there's anybody
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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
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zoom or something like it. And it did not look good. He, Joe did not look like he was fully with
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it. He bumbled a little bit. He answered the wrong question and threw in his Charlottesville
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hoax for some unrelated question about somebody else. It didn't look good. And I felt as though
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Anderson Cooper was feeling quite awkward, feeling quite awkward.
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Uh, cause you don't really know how to deal with that. Um, speaking of Rasmussen,
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they also have a poll result that says 51% of both Democrats and unaffiliated voters agree
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that it is important for Biden to address the dementia issue publicly.
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This view is shared by 81% of Republicans. Uh, so it's mostly Republicans, 81%.
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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
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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
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win this thing is crazy. Now, um, somebody smart said to me, yeah, but you know, the coronavirus
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performance is going to be the whole story. And that's all people are going to care about. And,
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you know, Trump is not getting A pluses from the public on that, or at least not from the Democrats.
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And so he's vulnerable. To which I say, it's not November yet. Do you know how much is going to
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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,
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which would look like progress, even if you don't like the vaccination idea.
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We'll probably have some more therapeutics. We'll probably have an economy that's recovering
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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,
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he neglects not forgets, but he leaves out that we lost 22 million. Well, does he need to put that
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in there? Is there anybody watching the president claim that we've gained 9 million or whatever it
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was, jobs in the last month or so? Is there anybody who doesn't understand without being told that we
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lost more than that and we're just, you know, making back some of our loss? Is there anybody who didn't
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understand that? So that was fact check the lie? Because he left out the context that everybody
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understands. So these are the trivial kinds of things that CNN says are the president's lies.
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And then you've got dumbass Biden with his race baiting, you know, hoax that will rip the society
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apart. Those are not equal. All right. Somebody says, did Harris speak yesterday? I think she did,
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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
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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
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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
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trying to hit him. Maybe they would have, if he had not been surrounded by police, maybe they would
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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,
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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
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protection. I'm not exactly sure how that would go down. But it's definitely something to be worried
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about. And somebody pointed out on Twitter that Maxine Waters had called for this very behavior
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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
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squelch the hydroxychloroquine. And I don't know about that. We'll see. I'm still at a 30%
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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
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Locals what that was like. All right. And by the way, if you haven't watched Jim Gaffigan's
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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.
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I don't know. Yeah, Kamala Harris gave a pre-buttal speech and nobody cared. That's probably true.
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Oh, just adding to the... Oh, forgot to tell you. So I had set a trap by saying that Joe Biden's
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campaign has a lot of satanic imagery. I said before and after and several times during that
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I'm not a believer. In other words, I don't believe in Satan. I don't believe he exists.
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But there are a bunch of coincidences that could be confirmation bias, probably are, that look
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satanic in terms of the campaign. And somebody pointed out that on their logo they've got a
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pentagram. That's like the satanic pentagram. And I thought, man, when you start looking for it,
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when you start looking for it, you sure can find a lot of it.
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But, uh, which again, doesn't mean it's true. However, there was a publication which, uh, uh,
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decided to fact check me and some kind of, some kind of group that tries to fact check
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people they think are on the right. And what they did is they lopped off my, uh, part about I'm not
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a believer. So they did the same editing trick as the fine people hoax, same one as the drinking
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disinfectant, same one as the overfeeding the koi fish. So it's always the same trick. If there's
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a clarifier in there, they just edit that out. So they edited out my clarifier to make it look
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as though I was saying with complete sincerity that Joe Biden is running a satanic campaign.
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And this was of course, to make me look crazy, but that wasn't the play.
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The play was to get attention to that idea. And if somebody else believes it,
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well, that's on them. I already said, I don't believe it. So if they see coincidences and they
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find it compelling, well, that would be all their own decision because I do not tell them to do that
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because I don't see it. There are just a lot of coincidences. That's just a fact. All right.
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That's all for now. And I will talk to you later.