Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 2, 2026
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ou could certainly make the case that it's a good thing we're in NATO. It's the only thing to stop Putin, and that would be a strong argument. But you could also make the case that maybe none of this would look this way if he had pulled out of NATO and Putin didn't feel threatened. The other possibility is that Putin wouldn't feel threatened by having NATO on his doorstep if America was not part o…

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biggest legal risk at the moment — correct me if I'm wrong because it might be what I'm missing — is a civil case against Trump the company, not even against Trump himself. So not criminal and not even against Trump. Am I right? That's his biggest risk right now. And what is the power of the case? Let me summarize it. The Trump company handled their accounting the way all normal companies do. That's it. That's the case. They did things exactly the way normal companies do. They took the highest number they thought they could get away with when valuing it for loans, and then they got the loan and then they paid back the loan and then the bank was happy. But when they were doing their property tax assessments, you want the lowest number you can get away with. There he went the opposite way, like everybody, like everybody.

Now he may have exaggerated or the Trump company may have exaggerated more than other companies do, and that would be worth discussing. But no matter what it is, it's going to be a civil fine. It's not exactly the crime of the century to have exaggerated more when you are the company that exaggerates more and your entire business model is built on your brand. The Trump brand is the value of the business. And so would you expect somebody whose entire business model is about telling people their brand is better than maybe it is? This is a little business model. So if he did it consistently everywhere he told everybody that he was better than maybe somebody else thinks, I don't know, it might be a crime. Likely you might be able to find a jury who says yeah, that's slightly a crime. That's a little bit more exaggerating than I think you should have done. So maybe you should pay a fine. That is just business as usual for every company, every big company that gets audited. Do you think they get away from the audit with nothing? Do you think there's nothing? Just pick a company. Just pick any company. Pick Google. Do you think if Google got audited they'd end up paying nothing? Sometimes maybe. But it's very common that a traditional company gets audited and pays a little extra money because they exaggerated something. That's how it happens. They exaggerate stuff or minimize things.

So just think about the fact that what the remaining complaints about Trump have all just kind of dissolved. So the January 6th thing has turned into nothing. They're trying to breathe some life into it with the jaws of life today, I guess. So they're trying to make the nothing into something. But January 6 proved there was nothing, at least nothing of criminal indictable quality. Now all of his other legal problems have gone away except that trivial one that really is nothing. What's left? What's left? Anything? So he wasn't colluding with Russia. I mean what's left? The only thing left is how his performan

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ce would be compared to Biden. Now of course Democrats look at Biden and say yeah he's killing it, he's doing great. And Republicans say the opposite. Although they have the lady who claimed that he raped her in a dressing room in a store, E. Jean Carroll. So I guess she's doing her lawsuit again, but nobody thinks that's going anywhere, right? Isn't that just a he-said-she-said situation? That's…

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