Ep. 1471 - Days Before Election, Media Launches Desperate Anti-Trump Hoax
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Summary
Kamala Harris and her allies have rolled out their October surprise. The only problem is, it s not a surprise. And it s also totally bogus. Plus, a study proving that puberty blockers have no mental health benefits for kids was buried because it didn t fit with the narrative.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Kamala Harris and her allies have rolled out their October surprise.
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And a study proving that puberty blockers have no mental health benefits for kids was buried because it didn't fit with the narrative.
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More and more female athletes are refusing to compete against male athletes, which is a great trend.
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Kamala Harris has asked some standard job interview questions at a town hall.
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She also claimed repeatedly that she raised children, which is just another made-up detail of her phony life story.
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Three years ago, The Atlantic magazine published a long-form article that took a lot of people by surprise.
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It was called The Great Fake Child Sex Trafficking Epidemic.
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It dismissed the supposed moral panic among conservatives on the issue,
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saying that it amounted to an internet conspiracy theory, quote, unquote.
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The Atlantic published this piece just days after a CNN staffer was arrested for attempting to persuade minors
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It was also published while the Ghislaine Maxwell trial was going on.
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Maxwell, of course, conspired with Jeffrey Epstein to operate a sex trafficking ring
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that exploited multiple children over the course of a decade.
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And the piece in The Atlantic came after several reports indicating that the United States,
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is one of the top destinations for child sex trafficking in the entire world.
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Could it be these internet conspiracy theorists wondered that some of the wealthiest and powerful people in this country,
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like the people who run The Atlantic, might have some ulterior motive to downplay child sex trafficking?
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which is that a lot of very powerful and wealthy people are panicking right now.
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Donald Trump clearly has the momentum on his side.
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And this is the same Trump who just a month ago promised to release the full and unredacted list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients.
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He said he would allow the public to know who exactly visited Epstein's private island,
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which is a piece of information that the government has fought to conceal.
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And that brings us to yesterday's alleged bombshell in The Atlantic magazine,
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which may be the single most desperate attempt at an October surprise in certainly the recent history of American politics.
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Out front tonight, the breaking news, the kind of generals Hitler had.
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An 11th hour bombshell report from The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg,
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quoting Trump touting the loyalty of Hitler's generals,
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and reporting that Trump complained about picking up the tab for a fallen U.S. soldier's funeral,
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All right, well, let's start with Hitler's generals.
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Goldberg reporting that Trump asked former, or that he asked Trump's former chief of staff, John Kelly,
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So Goldberg then writes, well, he told me that when Trump raised the subject of German generals,
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Kelly responded by asking, do you mean Bismarck's generals?
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He went on, I mean, I know he didn't know who Bismarck was or about the Franco-Prussian war.
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And The Atlantic goes on to cite then two more sources who were at the Trump White House.
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I need the kind of generals that Hitler had, people who were totally loyal to him that follow orders.
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So the article from Jeffrey Goldberg makes two central claims.
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First, Trump said he wanted generals like Hitler's.
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And second, he complained about the funeral costs for a slain service member,
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saying that he doesn't like the idea of spending a lot of money on a Mexican,
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And then I guess he said, this is MAGA country.
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Now, it's honestly, it's not even worth going through the effort of debunking this.
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And not just because it sounds like a cliche that Jussie Smollett would have come up with
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if you told him to invent a way to smear Donald Trump.
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Now, maybe, you know, 20 years ago, 30 years ago, in a different era,
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when people actually trusted the news media, sort of,
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an article like this would convince some people.
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But we've been through so many high-profile media-driven hoaxes at this point
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that everyone already assumes the story is false without even reading it or hearing anything else about it.
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In fact, several of those high-profile media-driven hoaxes came from Jeffrey Goldberg.
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He was one of the leading propagandists pushing for the Iraq War.
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And more recently, you've probably heard about Goldberg's article claiming that Trump called
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fallen soldiers suckers and losers when he visited a French cemetery,
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if only because, you know, every Democrat repeats that story ad nauseum.
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Now, that article cited an anonymous source that's widely believed to be John Kelly,
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Not a single person went on the record to confirm it.
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Instead, a lot of Trump officials, including people who hate Trump, like John Bolton,
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And John Bolton was on the trip to France with Trump when the comment was supposedly made.
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But none of that matters to smear merchants like Jeffrey Goldberg.
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His job is to serve the interests of the Defense Department and of the security state,
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which are profoundly threatened by the possibility of another Trump presidency.
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So Goldberg launders these hoaxes relentlessly.
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And that's what Jeffrey Goldberg is doing, once again, with this Hitler October surprise.
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Except in this case, it's not even really a surprise.
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Two years ago, a book quoted John Kelly, the same guy who was probably behind the suckers and losers smear,
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saying that Trump wanted his generals to be like Hitler's.
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A bunch of outlets wrote up stories about it at the time, just in time for the midterms.
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NBC News, for example, reported former President Donald Trump once complained to his White House chief of staff
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that his generals weren't totally loyal like Adolf Hitler's during World War II,
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You effing generals, why can't you be like German generals?
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Trump asked then White House chief of staff John Kelly,
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according to the excerpt of The Divider, Trump in the White House 2017 to 2021,
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co-written by New York staff writer Susan Glasser and New York Times correspondent Peter Baker.
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So we're doing a rerun of this same exact hit job.
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This is the laziest October surprise that's ever been attempted,
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But predictably, Kamala Harris is pretending it's a surprise.
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Yesterday, she spoke outside the vice president's residence
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in what can only be described as a completely deranged attempt
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to rile up as many lunatics as possible in an election year
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when two people have already tried to kill Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump's former chief of staff, John Kelly,
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confirmed that while Donald Trump was president,
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he said he wanted generals like Adolf Hitler had.
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Donald Trump said that because he does not want a military
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that is loyal to the United States Constitution.
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He wants a military who will be loyal to him personally,
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one that will obey his orders even when he tells them to break the law
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or abandon their oath to the Constitution of the United States.
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On X, Kamala Harris's account doubled down on this rhetoric.
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quote, Donald Trump is out for unchecked power.
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who will be loyal to him, not our Constitution.
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He is unhinged, unstable, and given a second term,
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there would be no one to stop him from pursuing his worst impulses.
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Now, there's really no other way to look at this.
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for preventing Donald Trump from becoming president
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And she's also inciting someone to assassinate him in the meantime.
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And she's openly saying that he's going to turn America into Nazi Germany.
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And if she really believes that, and more importantly,
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if the deep state that controls Kamala Harris really believes that,
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then we can't be surprised by anything they try to do.
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The entirety of the Biden-Harris administration is now pushing this rhetoric also.
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Is the president aware of John Kelly's assertion
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that Donald Trump meets the definition of a fascist
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and that Trump wanted the kinds of generals Hitler had?
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I mean, look, you have heard from this president over and over again
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about the threats to democracy, and the president has spoken about that.
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saying that he is going to be a dictator on day one.
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And to be praising Adolf Hitler is dangerous, and it's also disgusting.
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So just to be clear, when you said we do agree,
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President Biden believes that Donald Trump is a fascist?
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The former president has said he is going to be a dictator on day one.
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So there's just so much flagrant lying in that one clip.
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The dictator on day one quote, which we've heard about a million times,
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He was asked explicitly to respond to claims that he'd be a dictator,
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and then he joked that he wouldn't be except for day one
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when he'd close the border and lift moratoriums and oil drilling.
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He's referring to executive orders that he'd sign on the first day.
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And, of course, in context, he was joking around.
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They're pretending like he seriously announced that beginning on day one
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and continuing throughout his entire presidency, he'd be a dictator.
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Which, again, even if you take his joke totally seriously, that's still not what he said.
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And it's especially outrageous considering that this is coming from the party that plans to censor Americans
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And this latest Jeffrey Goldberg smear isn't any better.
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The claim is that Trump praised Hitler as a role model.
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And yet John Kelly, the source of this story, didn't resign, didn't reveal this publicly,
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The book where he makes the Hitler claim initially came out in 2022.
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So why didn't Kelly think to mention this sooner?
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Why does he only mention it right before elections?
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Now, of course, the bigger problem with making Trump as Hitler into your closing argument is that,
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as I've said many times, we all experienced four years of Trump in office.
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So we don't have to talk theoretically anymore about what a Trump presidency is like.
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And that means that even if the guy had a shrine to Hitler where he burned incense and offered sacrifices
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every night, the fact would still remain that he did not govern in an authoritarian way at all.
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As I've often pointed out, his flaw, if anything, was the opposite.
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He was, if anything, too hesitant to wield power, which is a mistake I'm hoping he doesn't make if he gets a second chance.
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Trump ran the most restrained presidential administration in modern American history.
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We could start and end with the fact that he's the only one in modern American history
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who didn't start any wars overseas, which if a president wants to expand his power,
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as we've seen, that's the way they so often do it.
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If that's the case, then he may as well go in, if he's elected, and wield power ruthlessly, yet constitutionally.
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Because as many of our parents used to say back in the old days, he should just give them something to cry about,
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if they're going to cry and call him a dictator anyway.
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But beyond the Hitler allegation, there are about a million other holes in this Atlantic story.
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Each one of these problems independently was reason enough to kill the story.
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Specifically, Jeffrey Goldberg also claims, like we talked about yesterday,
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that Donald Trump offered to pay the funeral expenses of Vanessa Guillen,
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a 20-year-old army private who was murdered by a fellow soldier at Fort Hood in Texas.
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And later, when Trump was told that the expenses totaled $60,000,
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it doesn't cost $60,000 to bury an effing Mexican.
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So, there's no on-the-record source for this claim,
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but there are a lot of people who are going on the record denying it.
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Myra Guillen, the sister of the victim, wrote, quote,
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Wow, I don't appreciate how you're exploiting my sister's death for politics,
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hurtful and disrespectful to the important changes she made for service members.
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President Donald Trump did nothing but show respect for my family and Vanessa.
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A translator who was in the room with Trump and the family,
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along with the family's attorney, said the same thing.
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After having dealt with hundreds of reporters in my legal career,
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this is unfortunately the first time I have to go on record
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Ben Williamson, who served as a communications advisor in the Trump White House,
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posted screenshots of his text messages with The Atlantic.
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And he says they deliberately misrepresented what he told them in the article.
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I sent The Atlantic a comment saying President Trump absolutely did not say that,
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referring to the alleged comments about Ms. Guillen they printed.
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The Atlantic translated that comment to didn't hear Trump say it.
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Yesterday, Jeffrey Goldberg was asked about the family's reaction to this piece,
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and he basically said they don't know what they're talking about.
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Of the sister, I understand why they're hurt by this story,
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and I obviously feel very sorry, as we all do, for this family.
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But the fact remains, when the family visited Donald Trump, as I note in the story,
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he said kind words and offered to pay for the funeral.
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Five months later, when the subject came up, he had very unkind things to say about the funeral.
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And I would note that he didn't pay for the funeral.
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So, again, I understand the sensitivities around this, but the truth is the truth.
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And people in the meeting, people who had become somewhat inured to Donald Trump's method of speaking,
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were shocked by what was said, and that's how I learned about it.
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Yeah, and the detail about how ultimately he did not pay for the funeral is a story unto itself,
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So the smoking gun is apparently that Donald Trump didn't personally pay for the funeral.
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That's supposed to convince us that Trump called this woman an effing Mexican.
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But those two accusations are not remotely related.
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And the accusation that Trump didn't pay for the funeral loses a lot of its impact
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when the family repeatedly says that Trump treated them extremely graciously
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They're completely, they're clearly, you know, convinced that they're going to lose the election
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and they're throwing everything at the wall, hoping that something will stick.
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That explains why The Guardian just ran with another desperate hack job.
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A former model who says she met Donald Trump through the late sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein
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has accused the former president of groping and sexually touching her in an incident in Trump Tower in 1993
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in what she believed was a twisted game between the two men.
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Stacey Williams, who is 56 and a native of Pennsylvania,
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has shared parts of her allegation on social media posts in the past,
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but revealed details about the alleged encounter on a call on Monday organized
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which supports Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
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So this is an alleged episode that happened more than 30 years ago.
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It never came up either of the two previous times Donald Trump ran for president.
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Instead, this is just coming out now with less than two weeks to go until the election.
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In election, Donald Trump looks like he's going to win.
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And it's from a woman who, according to the Trump campaign and various reports,
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And the allegation was first revealed during a pro-Kamala Harris event
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that's currently taking out anti-Trump advertisements in the New York Times.
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So every level of it just makes it less credible and less credible, less credible.
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Additionally, there's no actual proof of any of these allegations in the article.
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There's a postcard and a note that suggests Trump at one point spoke to this woman.
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Strangely, though, the note is signed with a signature that looks very different
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from Trump's other signatures from that time period.
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It looks more like Trump's signature today, which is interesting.
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Here's a clip of a portion of the accuser's statement.
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Late winter, early spring of 93, I was on a walk with Jeffrey from his brownstone
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on the Upper East Side down Fifth Avenue when Jeffrey looked at me and said,
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And so we went to Trump Tower and went up the elevator, and moments later, Trump was greeting us.
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Now, one of the big issues here is that, as Zero Hedge pointed out,
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Jeffrey Epstein didn't move into that particular mansion until 1996.
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And that's documented all over the place, including in the New York Times and Vanity Fair.
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So how was Epstein leaving his brownstone apartment there three years earlier if he did not live there?
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I guess that's something for the fact checkers to look into, although they're just going to ignore it.
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Now, with all these red flags, obviously this allegation isn't going to convince anyone of anything,
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but it does highlight one of the many differences between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris,
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which is that Donald Trump is the only candidate who has promised to provide transparency
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He's made it one of his core campaign promises.
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And that makes you wonder, is Donald Trump trying to incriminate himself by releasing the Epstein client list?
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Or is it more likely that Trump's political opponents are accusing him
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with increasing panic of exactly the thing that they are guilty of?
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Now, what we do know for sure is that these people are going to get increasingly desperate and deranged
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It's not an exaggeration to say that the next two weeks will be unlike any other in American history.
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No one can possibly be prepared for the sheer amount of unhinged lying and panic
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After two impeachments, two assassination attempts, hundreds of hoaxes,
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Donald Trump appears to be on the verge of potentially retaking the White House.
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And right now, unfortunately, for hacks like Jeffrey Goldberg and the deep state
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that Trump has vowed to dismantle, it looks increasingly like nothing they say can stop it.
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A prominent doctor and trans rights advocate admitted that she deliberately withheld publication
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of a $10 million taxpayer-funded study on the effect of puberty blockers on American children
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after finding no evidence that they improve patients' mental health.
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Dr. Joanna Olson-Kennedy told the New York Times that she believes the study would be weaponized
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by critics of transgender care for kids and that the research could one day be used in court
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Critics, including one of Olson-Kennedy's fellow researchers on the study,
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said the decision flies in the face of research standards and deprives the public of really important
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science in the field where Americans remain firmly divided.
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For the National Institutes of Health-funded study,
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researchers chose 95 kids who had an average age of 11
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and gave them puberty-blocking drugs starting in 2015.
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The treatments are meant to delay the onset of bodily changes like the development of breasts
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After following up with the youths for two years,
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the treatments did not improve the state of their mental health,
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which Olson-Kennedy chalked up to the kids being in really good shape
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both when they started and concluded the two-year treatment.
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However, the Times pointed out her rosy assessment contradicts earlier data
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recorded by the researchers, which found around one quarter of study participants
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were depressed or suicidal before receiving treatment.
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because if you're telling us that these kids were in really good shape
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I mean, the whole argument, and it's a terrible argument,
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well, you've got to give the kids puberty blockers,
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and you have to sterilize and chemically castrate them,
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and you have to do that because their mental health is in such a state
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she'd be one of the first to say that these treatments are life-saving.
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it prevents these kids from hurting themselves,
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because that's the state of their mental health.
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cited by proponents of giving kids puberty blockers.
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And we won, I should say, politically, primarily.