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. You can't tell. Can't tell. That's what makes it exciting. Now I have told you there's one, you know there are a few little signals you look for. The person who's got the trigger right now. If you've not been triggered, for example when I heard about this study I said to myself oh that's exactly what I expected. You know I would have predicted this exact outcome based on what I know. So there's…
← Previous segment →vid Frum has sexual, psychosomatic feeling about Trump. Which by the way is probably common. Are there any women watching this who have had sexual dreams about Trump? Go. Any women who have had sexual dreams about Trump? Because for a while that was a thing, you know, maybe before his first election. All right I see one. Yes. My wife. Yes. Most of you know but you see a sprinkling of yes, right? I assume it was mostly. Now I know to the dead right. So I've heard of people who did as well. So it's not unusual to have sexual fantasies about a president or anybody in power anyway. That's what I see in this.
What else is going on? What a fun day. All right, what about those top secret folders? So here's a question I asked. And doesn't this amaze you that we don't have to answer this? I'll say this again. I feel that there's a missing service in the news industry. And the missing service is that the citizens should have a place they can go where they can say this is the question I'd like to have answered from my government. And then the news people would be able to look at the list and say okay this is what people wonder about. So I will ask their questions plus my own good questions. But it'll be nice to know what the public wants to know. And the number of times that the press simply doesn't ask the question that the public wants to know is really astounding, isn't it? And you don't always notice. But really the reason that the questions they ask are asked is why? Why do the press people ask the specific questions they ask? What is their motivation for the questions they ask? Yeah it's all gotcha questions, right? It's gotchas or it's trying to make the person look good. It could go either way. But more importantly it's for the reporter's career, right? The journalist is trying to make the journalist look good. That's the motivation. You know all the other motivations are subsidiary to that. The top motivation is for the journalists to look good because it's a career defining moment. So that's all that matters.
So under that situation, what do you think of those blank top secret folders that were found at Mar-a-Lago? So a bunch of empty top secret folders. And here's the question that I've not seen anybody ask. So this is why we need that website, to ask these questions. How normal is it for a president's office to have extra top secret folders in case you need one? I would think that they'd be laying around readily available, would they not? Because it seems to me there are things that probably enter the Oval Office and probably get recharacterized on the fly, don't they? Don't you think there are some things that come in and they're marked top secret and then the president looks at it and says all right this doesn't really need to be top secret and just throws away the folder or just tosses it on the desk? Has that ever happened? Probably. I mean probably it's probably happened at least once because the president has that power. The president could just say why is this top secret? I just tossed this folder. You know somebody write this down. This one's not top secret anymore. That's a possibility.
The other possibility is that stuff comes in that looks like it's not top secret but when the people in the Oval Office look at it they're like oh, oh actually upon better thinking we better not let anybody see this. And so they reach into a drawer and slap a folder on it and then they do the paperwork. But I think you'd want to get the folder onto it right away, right? Like I get that the paperwork has
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to be done but you're not going to leave it unfolded while you work through the paperwork, right? You're going to reach into your desk, you can slap a folder on it. You're going to hand it to the secretary or whoever and say you know do the paperwork to make this top secret. So here's the question. Is it normal to have empty top secret folders somewhere in the working area of a president? My intu…
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