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p. It's not much of a guess actually. It was another study. A team of scientists in Hong Kong. They did some tests with hamsters or something and they determined that wearing masks is 75 percent effective. It reduces droplets by 75 percent. Doesn't it seem to you that with all the masks people are wearing and the attention they're giving to social distancing that — and also learning what the wors…

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he fail to cut some regulations because he had morally bottomed out? I don't remember that story. I think he just cut regulations really quickly.

Did we not get ventilators on time because the president had morally bottomed out? I don't remember that story. I feel like we got ventilators and more than we needed. And just go down the line. You pick any topic: trade deal, taxes, you name it, the Supreme Court. Find me one example where the events of the world or the decisions of the president somehow would correspond to this horrible problem that he had morally bottomed out. What exactly was that? Can you give me an example of that?

Now I get it that you don't like his person and his character. I get it. We've heard you say that. But can you give me an example of how that affected me? Can I have a choice of somebody who — I can't see into his soul so I don't know if there's anything dark in his inner soul or in his mind. But I like low taxes. I like being tough with China. Give me an example of where things went wrong.

So the fact that Frank Bruni — I wish I could pronounce his name, so I apologize if I'm saying it wrong. The fact that he would say out loud that he would pick somebody in a declining mental state, in his own words declining mentally, and he says why should he care? Holy cow.

But he goes on. So as soon as more of this Frank Bruni stuff. Let's say that oh, and you're saying that Trump has bottomed out morally. And here's an example. So here's how you know that's a big problem that Trump bottomed out morally. So listen to this. His example is that Trump said recently that Biden has absolutely no idea what's happening. Trump also said he doesn't know he's alive. So Trump is questioning the mental ability of Joe

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Biden. And that's an example of Trump's low moral standards. In the same article, the very first sentence, the author of the article, Frank Bruni, questioned Joe Biden's mental ability. I'm not even making this up. I mean I'm reading it to you right here. So the statement is that anybody who had questioned Joe Biden's mental acuity is being morally low. And the author does that in his first sente…

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