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rongest on fentanyl. He would go after the cartels, he says. So far that's the best take. So I'm going to talk about his persuasion skills. If you can be alert enough to know that doesn't mean I support everything he says and does. Right? I'm a one-policy. You voted this time just on fentanyl. But on Hoodwinked on Twitter, Twitter user OnHoodwinked, who's also a good follow, very provocative twee…

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there anybody who didn't understand that the risk was more than normal? Anybody? So would you say there was informed consent? I've never seen more informed consent. Or well-informed. The consent part is optional. I've never seen more information that this was not the same safety protocol as before. And I think we were told directly, consistently, and often that we also don't know how bad the virus itself would be. So we're looking at two unknowns and we're taking our best shot. But nobody was presented with a level of safety that was consistent with the past, right?

So the informed consent thing is ridiculous in my mind because I was informed. Why were you not informed? I was totally informed. Do you remember that I waited from the time that I was eligible, which was early on because of my age? I waited, I don't know, six months or so. Do you remember why I said I waited? I said because they're telling us it's not as safe as regular things of the past. I waited because they told me. They informed me it might not be as safe. And that I acted according to my own desires and wishes. You don't think Trump can defend that? Yeah, he can. Yeah, he can.

Now here's the part you're missing. Everything is compared to something else. No matter who Trump runs against, he's going to look better on this because there's nobody. Everybody has something to explain about their actions, right? Everybody, including me. Everybody has something to explain. He's not going to run against somebody who has less to explain. He's only going to be running against somebody who's probably pro-mandate. I mean, it's not even going to be close. If your only choice is a pro-mandate and an anti-mandate, he wins. He owns it.

Now he has barely even tried to defend himself. He's just said we did. But all he'd have to do is say what I did. Every one of you people complaining knew there was extra risk. That's why you didn't get vaxxed. You can't simultaneously say we all knew there was a risk and then say you weren't informed. You can't say both. Everybody who told me they didn't get a vax, they said it's because it was very clear from day one this was not the same risk profile as the past, right? So how can you argue both sides? I totally knew what the risk was and it was more than normal and nobody told me the risk. Pick a side. You got to pick a side.

So like I told you, I'm not going to convince anybody to change their mind about this. I'm just saying that Trump has a freeway right through it. I mean, he can slice through this like a hot knife through butter. It just doesn't feel like it because it hasn't really ramped up yet. But he will. He will. Now he could also blow it. I mean, he could say the wrong thing. Blah blah. He could. But where do you see what else he's got cooking? Oh, this gets better. This gets so much better. And it's going to really challenge me to stick to my single-issue vote and not get involved in his other opinions. But he's got something that he's signaled today or yesterday that is really cool persuasion-wise.

All right, so again I'm only talking about his persuasion game. That's the part that always impresses me, not necessarily the policies. So here's what Trump has decided to do. Let's see. So he's tweeting about the empty folders. And you're going to say to yourself, but Scott, this is a different topic. The empty folders and the vaccinations, totally different topics, right? They were. Watch what Trump does to the empty folders.

All right, now here's what he said. He posted on Truth Social that the empty folders were marked classified. And then he explained that it was common for the folders to have contents in them during a meeting. And at the end of the meeting, to keep these classified documents safe, they would collect up the documents but not the folders because the folders were unnecessary. Because they were just going to maybe destroy the extra documents, probably because they had copies. And so Trump says that he had hundreds of them and he kept them as cool keepsakes. Does anybody believe that? Does anybody believe he kept empty documents as cool keepsakes? I don't think so. I doubt it. You might keep one. You might use three of them. If he said I kept three of them as a keepsake, I'd say maybe. But they're literally just folders with words on them. Why would you keep 300 of those? So I can't support this take.

But he uses this to suggest that maybe the bad people in the FBI would put something in one of those folders to make it look like it was always there. Now who knows if anything like that would happen. But I think we'd all agree that the FBI is not above it, would you? I mean, that's an outrageous claim that the FBI would possibly plant classified documents just to put it away. That's outrageous. And also well within the range of things they've done recently. Totally within the range. So this is the sort of thing that ten years ago if you said the FBI is trying to frame me, wouldn't you laugh at that? Well, I think the FBI is trying to frame the president. No they're not. But today, yeah, it looks totally within the realm of very reasonably possible. Now I don't think so. If I had to bet I'd bet against it. But totally within the range of possible.

So Trump puts it out there just to keep that in your head because he knows some people are going to believe it. But here's the best part. He referred to the FBI agents as Gestapo. Gestapo. Do you see it yet? I think he's going to brand the Democrats and the FBI as the real Nazis. God, I hope so. If there's... I'm not a believer, but just once I'm going to pray. Dear God, please let him just brand the Democrats so the FBI is the real Nazis and just hammer it to death. And please, if I can ask for one more thing, would you ask him to address directly the fine people hoax? Don't say a word about it. Just create a good little video that shows it's a hoax and tweet it. That's all. That's all I ask.

What is Trump's biggest problem? They think he's the Nazi, right? Do you think you could brand the pro-mandate team that sends people in to rile, let's say everybody from Roger Stone to you name it, you don't think he can brand them as Nazis? They want to take away your guns, give you mandates, give power to the WEF. Oh yeah. Yeah. And if you told me there's going to be a politician running for office and he's going to go branding his enemies as Nazis, what would you say? You'd say I don't like that guy or woman. You would say no, no, no, no, no. You know you can't be branding your enemies as Nazis. This is the United States. We're just political. We're not branding anybody as a Nazi. But in this one case it's exactly the

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right thing to do. He needs to brand them Nazis full out and just say you're Nazi hoaxers. The FBI can't be trusted. It needs to be gutted, the leadership, not the good people who work there. And he should just go for it. Just go for it. And I think he could win. I think he could win. What do you think? Because his weakest point is hey blah blah blah you're racist. Now let's say he took my advice…

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