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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…
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So here's the question. Is it normal to have empty top secret folders somewhere in the working area of a president? My intuition tells me that that would be common but I don't know. It seems common. And so if somebody threw a bunch of stuff in the box what evidence do we have that it was anything but extra ones? And then the other question is can't we tell if something's missing at this point? So at this point the GSA, whoever, has a list of all the documents. Now we also have a list of the documents that have been recovered. Can't they tell us which ones are top secret and missing? Because the ones that were top secret they must have been recorded as in the president's possession. So again there's like obvious questions that are not being asked.
Apparently the president at his rally had a speaker there who's been advocating for the release of some of these January 6 defendants. But one of them is really a sketchy case. So one of them, one of the jailed, still jailed January 6 protester types is an actual Hitler supporter. Like an actual Nazi. Like actually has been photographed with a little Hitler mustache, talks about it openly, right? So there's at least one guy that's being held in jail because he's overtly a Nazi sympathizer.
Now so here's my point. Oh you're ahead of me. Hold on. You'll be happy. You'll be happy. I know where you're going on this but hold on, hold on, hold on. That isn't illegal. That isn't illegal. And do you know why the judge is holding him? He has not been accused of violence. He has not been accused of violence. He has not been accused of violence. He has not been accused of violence. Here's why he's being held. The judge in the case said he should be held awaiting trial because he posed a threat to the public and that there was a potential for a quote escalation of violence from his alleged long-held neo-Nazi beliefs. He is overtly and publicly and transparently being held in jail for crimes that somebody suspects he might do. Not for crimes he did. Not for crimes he did.
Now the crime he did gives them the cover for holding him of course. The crime of trespassing I suppose. But I don't care that he's a Nazi sympathizer. I mean I care of course. I care that he's a Nazi sympathizer. But it's not really relevant to this question, is it? Not really relevant. This is very unacceptable. And the trouble is it's a trap. You see the trap because you know you can see that Trump walked into the trap. The trap is that as long as they keep at least one person who is definitely a neo-Nazi, they've got to keep at least one who's definitely a neo-Nazi. Because then when Trump releases, let's say all of them or pardons them, then Trump released a neo-Nazi. That's the game. There's no way that this isn't a political imprisonment. There's no way.
And you know, all right I'm just going to say this. This might be the last time you see me. I always say that but you know I never know when it's going to be the last time you ever see me. But one of the biggest issues is the concern, a valid concern, that the public is getting whipped up against the judges, against the FBI, against the Department of Justice. And that the public might become dangerous. And we don't want a world where the public is threatening judges. Would you agree? You don't want a world where people are threatening judges, do you? If your judge puts somebody in jail for obviously just a political reason, you don't want that person to be threatened, do you? No we don't want anybody to be threatened with violence. But boy if anybody ever got close to the point where you would change your mind it would be somebody who put somebody in jail just for that. That's why. And I'm not talking about the person who's in jail. He's getting it too but you know I don't care that much about a neo-Nazi frankly. Frankly I don't care about him personally. But in terms of the concept, freedom of speech, equal justice, and the fact that this clearly seems to be a trap that's been set for people like me. This is a trap for me, right? The moment I found out about this story I said to myself A, I can't resist it and B, I'm going to be flying really close to the sun here when I talk about this. Because even what I've said so far it's enough to be taken out of context, isn't it? I've already said enough that I could be brutally edited into complete oblivion. But I had to say it. I had to say it. And that's the trap. Because you can't be a good citizen and let this go unmentioned.
So here I have a choice of being a patriot, like being a citizen, being, trying to be useful. Definitely at the risk of my entire career. My entire career is risked just to say something that is right and true and good for the country. It's just amazing. Amazing times. But this is the sort of thing where a Trump presidency sort of would clean some of the cobwebs out of the system. And there are definitely some cobwebs there.
You know what I suspect was Trump's biggest mistake politically? I think it was during his debate with Hillary Clinton in which he said directly if he were president she would be in jail. I believe that Hillary was actually worried about going to jail. Like actual jail. I think she actually was worried about that. And I believe that the response of the Democrats who sort of did things I wouldn't have expected to see, the intelligence agencies, the FBI, et cetera, they acted as though they were protecting Hillary. And the only way to do that is to take Trump down. So I think that what you and I are watching is Hillary trying to stay out of jail by putting Trump in jail. And maybe not just Hillary but people associated with her, you know what I mean? So to me this looks like Hillary and Democrats trying to stay out of jail and the way they can do that is to take down Trump and all of his supporters. And it's working. It's working so far. If Trump gets back in office and he doesn't need to get reelected because it's a second term I've got a feeling some people might go to jail. I don't know if the system can convict a Democrat frankly. You know a high-ranking Democrat. I don't even know if the system could do it. The system is so corrupt at this point I wouldn't even trust it to be able to put somebody in jail no matter how good the evidence is. But that's what I see. I think it's just Hillary trying to stay out of jail and everything else is about that.
So the chief financial officer of Bed Bath & Beyond jumped out of a hotel window. No, he's in his high-rise apartment. Jumped out of a high-rise apartment window to his death. Now he had been accused of pumping up the stock and selling his shares before people knew that there were problems there. So he was involved in a financial scandal. But what caught my eye is that it was at his apartment where he has both a bed and a bathroom. And now he's gone to the great beyond. So code reuse question.
Did CNN always label its opinion opinion? Did they? No it's not too soon. He was a crook. If he wasn't a crook it was too soon. But allegedly he was a crook. So I can't remember because I saw that they did label Dean Obeidallah's opinion. Now Dean Obeidallah is famous for having the most anti-Trump opinions or among the most anti-Trump. And he's talking
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about how Trump's remarks are alarming given the unprecedented spike of threats against the FBI. Now what do you think of that? Do you think that Trump is the cause of the unprecedented threats against the FBI? Is it Trump's, is he the one that caused that? Is it his rhetoric that's causing the increase in threats against the FBI? Or I'm just going to put this out there as an alternative. Could it…
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