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mazing. So he's a mandatory follow because he shows you what's on the other side of the curtain. And you don't get that from everybody. I'll give you other mandatories as we go along here. Here's a way to know if you are dumb. A lot of you have been wondering, am I dumb? Do you ever have that thought? Sometimes it might be the imposter effect. You're not really dumb but you worry that you are co…
← Previous segment →n't fail it so badly that you could say it's impossible. All right, it doesn't pass the sniff test but it's not completely ruled out.
Okay, now I looked at the documents, the emails back and forth. And the way it's presented is that hey, there's an extra benefit if you help us out with this 25 million dollars that they call the loan. But I don't know if you would call it a loan because a loan is something you expect to get repaid. I don't know if anybody expected that to be repaid. So let's first say that characterizing it as a loan is maybe a subjective call. Even if there was some alleged plan to repay, it feels a little iffy to me.
Now when you looked at the documents, did you say to yourself there's an extortion thing? Because part of the offer was that they would try to lobby the government to get Matt Gaetz cleared or pardoned, presidentially pardoned, of some wrongdoings which were unspecified about whatever they heard about these sex crimes.
Now do you believe that these two lawyers had enough weight that they could have done anything at all to get a pardon for Matt Gaetz should he have done anything that so far we're not aware of, right? So let me say it again. There's no evidence of a specific anything. None. No evidence to the public. We don't know if anybody else has seen anything but you and I have seen no evidence of a crime.
Now imagine you're the Gaetzes and you've got this offer that will help you get out of this alleged crime if you help us with this alleged loan for a captive who is allegedly alive. What do you do with that? Well, what the Gaetzes did is they went to law enforcement. They said this feels like extortion.
All right, now let me ask you this. We're amateurs looking from the outside, right? And we take the clues. Carpe, good to see you. That wasn't worth twenty dollars. You should just text me. But thank you. What was I saying? I was just — good to see you, Carpe. Carpe Duncan joins, has just joined the show here.
So we're looking at this situation and here's my question that I haven't seen answered. What would cause the Gaetze
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s to think this was extortion? What would cause them to think that? I think one thing that would certainly cause you to think that is — wait for it — if you were Matt Gaetz and you knew for sure that you had not been involved in any sex crimes, right? If you thought you had been involved in sexual crimes and these people said we have a way to maybe help you get out, wouldn't you be a little bit i…
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