Episode 1830 Scott Adams: FBI Raids Trumps Mar-a-Lago Home And That Means Trouble...For Everyone
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Summary
Trump's Mar-a-Lago home is raided by the FBI at 4:00am, and Scott Adams is here to explain why. Plus, Scott explains why he thinks the FBI is trying to protect itself from Trump.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of civilization.
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day,
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that I'm going to start blocking anybody who tries to vax-splain to me.
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Scott, don't you know that the vaccinations that you call shots are not really vaccinations
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because they don't prevent you from getting it?
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But how many times do you have to tell me what everybody knows?
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If you just tell me the same thing everybody knows,
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do you assume I'm the last person in the world to find out that the vaccinations,
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And every time you mention it again, I'm going to block you.
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All right, well, I don't know if you heard, but Trump's Mar-a-Lago home got raided by the FBI.
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It's just people showing up unexpectedly at 4 a.m. with guns and asking for access to your house.
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There's nothing raid-like about that whatsoever.
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Just the legal process working exactly the way it's supposed to.
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My take is that Trump just won the black vote for 2024 because every time he seems unfairly targeted by law enforcement,
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I feel like there's a little bell that rings inside the head of everybody who feels like maybe they have also been unfairly targeted by law enforcement.
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If you're going to bond over something, bonding over being unfairly treated by law enforcement is a real good way to go.
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The best part about this is that Trump backed prison reform.
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Trump worked hard and sacrificed quite a bit of his political capital, I would argue,
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to get a lot of black people out of jail sooner than they would have.
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Now, it wasn't just for black people, of course, but since they're disproportionately affected by the justice system.
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So here is Trump, who, to his credit, I would say, because I was in favor of it,
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did a great deal to reduce the amount of jail time that black people were experiencing in the United States.
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And now he has, it looks like, we don't know what the justification is yet.
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Maybe this time the walls really are closing in on Trump.
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Maybe it's really worse than Watergate for the first time.
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But I think if you look at it, it kind of looks like they don't have anything.
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Because I feel like we would have heard about it.
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But, yeah, so certainly the voters are going to have some reaction to this,
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Because I think our opinion won't be finalized until we find out what the warrant is about.
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So the next is just literally just how it feels.
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So there's no factual basis to the next thing I'm going to say.
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It feels like the FBI is protecting itself from Trump.
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Because I can't think of anything that I felt threatened by
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by knowing that the president who has full clearance for any kind of information,
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an ex-president who has complete security clearance,
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if somebody with complete security clearance has some documents
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How many documents make it into the White House
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that are not digitally recorded before they're handed to the president?
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Do they only record it after the president touches it?
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well, there's a document we don't have to do anything with?
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Don't you assume it all exists in a scanned form?
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What kind of documents exactly is he taking home
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that are not recorded in some form in another place?
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I guess I have some questions about the process.
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Well, to me, it looks like the FBI is trying to avoid Trump
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But again, we're reacting on incomplete information.
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and no federal judge would have signed off on it
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if there weren't significant evidence to warrant it.
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oh, let's say the Department of Justice plus the FBI,
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I'm going to lump them together for this conversation.
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So he's going to give you the Democrat spin on everything.
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But I can't think of a time when he's lied directly.
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because he's more transparent about being on a team
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and he says things that don't sound that crazy.
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on selling this perspective that's clearly ridiculous.
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This is the first time I've seen him try to sell
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a perspective that's obviously and clearly ridiculous.
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which I've taught you many times by different...
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But I think mocking has lost a lot of its importance.
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Mocking in the political field doesn't really work.
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Mocking in the corporate world works really well.
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Mockery is brutally effective in the corporate world.
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Nobody wants to get mocked in the corporate world.
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I mean, mocking each other is literally all that's going on.
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So it doesn't really have any power in politics.
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So I would say that responding to a ridiculous point of view
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So here's my response to the David Axelrod tweet.
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So when he says there must be significant evidence
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I said this point by David Axelrod might have been valid 10 years ago.
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Today, anyone not zombified by fake news assumes an FBI raid on a Republican
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The high ground is, well, you're absolutely right 10 years ago.
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If I just said everything you're saying is ridiculous,
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that just sounds like somebody disagreeing, just to disagree.
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But if you say your point of view was absolutely valid 10 years ago,
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but it ignores our recent history in which the FBI has shown that they can't be trusted
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on exactly this question of, do you have a good reason to act?
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This exact question has been, you know, proven to us publicly and without any doubt,
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So the fact that David Axelrod would live through the last several years
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and would say without any hedging that if the FBI is acting on a warrant,
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And everything suggests that that's just not true.
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Now, if I just said, well, you're full of shit and you're lying,
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But if you say, yeah, you were right 10 years ago, that's the way it used to be.
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You've really accepted the point of view, but you've infantilized them at the same time.
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So that's basically what I did with his point of view.
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I basically said, well, you know, you were right as far as you went,
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but the adults can go a little bit further, right?
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The children can say, yes, warrants need good reasons.
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You know, lately the pattern has been very clear and established by the courts,
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or at least a legal system, because we do have somebody admitting to it, right?
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So we're going to find out today how many Americans have not heard of the Russia collusion hoax.
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There are actually people who don't know that the Russia collusion thing was a hoax,
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They literally don't know that that was a hoax.
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They actually think, and they believe that because, what's his name, Manafort.
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The Democrats have believed that because Manafort is known to have shared some internal polling information with one Russian,
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for money, I guess, that therefore Russia collusion was proved.
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Now, has anybody asked the question, how much national security value was internal polling information?
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How in the world was that valuable, internal polling information?
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What do you suppose Manafort told a Russian that was useful?
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That actually the Russian said, oh, it's a good thing I know that from your internal polling.
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I can't even imagine anything that would have been useful.
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What could be possibly an internal polling information that would make a difference to international security or anything?
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The best case scenario is it might have been a heads up about, oh, you know, maybe who's going to win or something.
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I mean, internal polling is not exactly the most reliable stuff.
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So nobody's going to ask the question, what did Manafort actually share?
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Because if I were Manafort, I would have done the following.
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I would have found something I could give to this Russian who would pay me money or return a favor or something later.
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Because I'm pretty sure Manafort didn't want to hurt America.
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Because he wasn't really trying very hard to hurt America.
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And I'd love to know what he thought was useful to them, but also not harmful to America.
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So, God, there's so much going on about this one story.
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So, Jerry Nadler, when he retweeted a New York Times headline that said Trump's Mar-a-Lago had been raided.
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Now, I understand that, you know, he's politically on a different side.
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Because as far as I know, there's not even an alleged crime.
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Not even an alleged crime that would go to this level.
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In other words, if it's really just some documents, you would not expect a raid.
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The fact that America doesn't know why the FBI, which has no credibility, just raided a political enemy of the current administration?
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In what world can you say in public that this is good?
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Even if you thought Trump had been guilty of a crime, is this good?
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And so, I would like to put a stake in the ground.
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When Jerry Nadler dies of natural causes, which I'm guessing could be within the week.
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I mean, if you just take a look at him, he looks like he's going to go any minute.
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But when Jerry Nadler dies, I'm assuming I'm going to outlive him.
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Because I think he's proven that he's not, he's really not on Team America here.
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Because in my country, if Biden's home got raided, and I didn't have an alleged crime
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that I was even aware of, I would say, fuck that.
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If you send the FBI to raid him and you don't tell me why, just, you know, I hate to do this,
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Imagine Trump in office and having him investigate Biden, but let's say there was no Biden laptop.
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If Trump had done this to Biden with, you know, equally sketchy reasons, let's say Biden
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had some documents that were, you know, in question.
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I would not support Trump doing that or the Trump administration doing that.
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Now, I suppose it's easy for me to say that because I'm not in that situation.
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But I feel like I know myself well enough that there's no situation in which I'd be okay with
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Even if I thought Biden had done something sketchy, I still wouldn't be in favor of it.
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Because that whole don't go after your political enemies, that's a tradition that we kind of
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And I get the whole argument of, well, it really depends how bad the accusation is that's in
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If it turns out that there was a hostage situation at Mar-a-Lago, and the hostage was in some kind
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of a container with limited air, and the oxygen was running out, and there was no time to delay,
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Execute the warrant, even if you're not quite sure.
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But are we going to find out that whatever the reason that's listed on the warrant, is
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that going to sound to you like a hostage running out of oxygen?
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Do you think you're going to feel the urgency when you find out what this is?
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Because these documents have been there a long time.
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For the Democrats' point of view to be valid, you would have to accept the following.
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And by the way, this is a really good persuasion tip.
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And the tip goes into the category, in order to believe X, you must also believe these following
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things, because they're necessary to support your belief.
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So in order to believe that there's something incriminating in the documents, here's what
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That Trump took incriminating documents that everybody would expect to be incriminating,
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He would store them where lots of people knew where they were, because obviously people at
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And that he would have them stored in a building that's full of, and I don't know if you know
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this, but Mar-a-Lago was built in the era in which they have toilets.
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Probably the guests have at least one to share.
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No, they probably have their own toilets, I'll bet you.
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I'll bet you that place is just filled with toilets.
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So here you have your incriminating information on pieces of paper, sitting in a building with a guy who the Democrats say would never want anybody to see what's in those documents.
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And then they're sitting next to probably 25 toilets.
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And we have evidence, photographic evidence, that Trump has allegedly torn up documents and put them in a toilet, because we actually saw the photos of actual documents in a toilet.
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Now, do you think that Trump could have put all these things together and said, documents that would be highly incriminating to me, but I've got possession of them, I'll store them here next to my 25 toilets.
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If only there were a way to get rid of the incriminating information.
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The Democrat point of view is, number one, the FBI would never raid somebody on a warrant unless they had really good evidence.
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That's ridiculous. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Ridiculous.
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In 2022, that's ridiculous. Of course they would.
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Because there's nothing they wouldn't do based on their recent history.
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Once you understand the Russia collusion hoax, once you understand what they did, that's known.
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Because what exactly was worse than trying to depose or change the course of American history by making up a crime?
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I'm just going to throw this story in the middle, then we'll get back to it.
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And I would like to congratulate both Israel and Gaza for getting everything that they wanted out of this recent flare-up.
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And I say that because the government of Israel kind of needs to have an active enemy.
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Every time somebody attacks Israel, Israel gets stronger.
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They, you know, have to take a high ground to defend themselves, maybe keep it.
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But the best case scenario is that it's a low-grade conflict.
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And they needed to flare-up now and then to remind you.
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Likewise, the folks in Gaza who were firing the missiles and stuff,
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they also need a flare-up of violence every now and then,
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because that's how they get more funding from their sponsors.
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You know, nobody in Gaza thought they were going to conquer Israel.
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Nobody in Gaza thought they were going to conquer Israel.
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Do you think Israel couldn't completely stop this from happening if they wanted to?
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But it would require far more brutality than they could handle, right, reputationally.
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So the very best situation is that this type of attack flares up.
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It killed 43 people this time, including 15 children.
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But from Israel's point of view, that was an acceptable loss,
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And from the Gazans' point of view, I think it was an acceptable loss,
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because they got everything they needed out of it.
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I'm not even sure this needs to be news anymore.
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Like, it's a weird kind of news where it's just two sides getting exactly what they want
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and then going back to the status quo to wait until the next flare-up.
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So, how angry are you about the Mar-a-Lago raid?
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Did it immediately make you want to go all January 6th on this situation?
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So, here's the thing I'm going to warn you about.
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Because you know there's some militia right now that just got their marching orders, right?
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Somewhere there's a right-leaning militia that Trump will get tagged with,
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even though he doesn't even know the names, probably.
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and they're going to use this as their justification for marching or whatever.
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Now, I don't think they're going to start shooting.
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I think they're just going to make another show of, you know, a show of here we are.
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and they'll say not only is Trump obviously a criminal, they will say,
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because look at this warrant, which we have no details about.
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because nobody would do an invalid warrant just because they have done it recently,
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So, I would worry that the Democrats, at least part of the strategy,
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Because, remember, the January 6th thing completely fell apart.
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They were trying to show that the Republicans are a bunch of, you know,
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and the entire January 6th thing just dissolved in sunlight.
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showed that the vast majority of the people attended
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They thought they were saving it from an insurrection.
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any big crowd is going to have some minority opinion in it.
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and the evidence didn't seem damning of Trump at all,
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Imagine what would happen if all the militias show up
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I'm sure there's somebody in the militia who's watching this.
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Whatever your militia, you know, long-term objectives are,
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Now, what do you think they're actually going to come up with
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Trump himself has to find out what it's about, right?
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The person who's targeted has to hear what the charge is.
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So, are you telling me that the FBI can come to your house?
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so that would suggest that it was legal at one point.
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But the no-knock part had more to do with avoiding violence.
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Are you telling me that the target of the warrant
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I feel like we're all bad lawyers trying to figure this out.
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They don't have to show you the details until later.
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Yeah, well, let's watch Barnes and Fry talk about this.
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the warrant describes the premises to be searched.
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It doesn't describe the crime or alleged crime.
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Now, I guess you could have a warrant to search somebody
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Because you could be searching a confederate's house
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of doing some kind of a document of destruction crime,
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or listened to somebody who looked at the warrant
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at the same time he's trying to run for re-election?