was the closest they could get to making that stick, is talking about an unrelated topic. That's the closest they could get.

So if Trump were to run for re-election, he would be the most vetted person of all time. I don't think I would ever worry again that he would be caught in some illegality or blackmailed. He might be the least blackmailable president now of all time. Am I right?

I mean, then you add to that his age, right? At some age you stop worrying about getting blackmailed. I was thinking about this the other day. You know, at my current age I was saying, what if somebody blackmailed me? Like they really had the goods, whatever that was. And they said, "Okay, you're going to be so terribly embarrassed. Your career will be destroyed if I release this information." Well, if I were 30 that would be pretty scary, wouldn't it? Because you're like, "Oh, my whole life's ahead of me." You know, going to let this stuff out.

If it happened now, I feel like I think it was funny. I'm not positive. And I suppose it would depend on what it is, I guess. But I feel like I would just laugh because it's hard. Nobody's going to take my money away from me, or at least nobody but the government, I guess. So I'm not sure what I would have to lose. It would just make me seem more interesting even in a bad way. And say, "Well, okay, I'll take that trade-off if it makes me seem more interesting."

And by the way, if you ever hear bad things about me, I encourage you to believe all of them except the illegal ones. If I did anything illegal, totally did not do that. Because I actually do try pretty hard to avoid illegal stuff. But if you hear anything that's just like wildly provocative, I would encourage you to believe it even though it's very unlikely it's true. But if it's fun, you should believe it if you enjoy it.

So now there's a story about, I guess, Hannity was exchanging a whole bunch of messages, over 80 messages, with Mark Meadows about the January 6 situation. And the big scandal is that Hannity was giving advice to the administration and the president through Mark Meadows. And I'm watching this. I'm thinking, remind me why this is a story. What is it? What is the part that's news? Is the news that Hannity and Trump were friends? Because they both talked about that publicly all the time. Everybody knew that. Did anybody think that Trump doesn't listen to people who are exactly the right person to give you exactly the right kind of advice?

Who would you want advice from if you were a Republican president in a tight spot? Who could give you the best possible advice? Well, you know, Hannity would be near the top, I would think, right? You don't have to agree with Hannity's opinions on anything for me to make this point. I'm just saying Hannity's talent stack, as I've pointed out before, is just a perfect example of a talent stack. Somebody who if you looked at any individual thing he has a talent at, you know, speaking in public, knowing about politics or whatever, you say, "Oh, that's good." And sometimes really, really good. But there's not one of those things that stands out as the best anybody's been at that thing, right?

He's got a look. He talks right. He's got the energy. He just has everything. So his magic is there are no gaps. He just has everything. So it makes him very effective. So if you were going to give somebody advice in this exact topic, which is how to handle the public opinion of something, I would go to somebody who is one of the best people on the planet in managing public opinion. Hannity is exactly whose advice I'd want to hear.

And what kind of advice did he give? One of them is that he said that Trump should announce he will lead a nationwide effort to reform voting integrity. Go to Florida and watch Joe mess up daily. Stay engaged. When he speaks, people will listen. And I thought to myself, okay, that's really good advice, isn't it? That's about as good as if you were going to get advice, that's about as good as you could get.

Now Trump didn't take this advice, right? Trump decided to be Trump. And maybe there's nothing wrong with that because he's made it work so far. And so Trump decided to be fully competitive. But if I read between the lines, I think Hannity's approach w