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God, you see this too, right? The look on their face was to the audience, you see this too, don't you? Oh, it was perfect. It was just perfect. Now I don't think they planned that. I think it was just spontaneous. I think they were actually amused. Like they didn't look like they were acting. I think they were about to break out laughing because the Democrat was looking so stupid at that moment. S…

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a real story, right? They want to sell this as something that's real. So all right, so what's happening is that New York, I guess Manhattan prosecutor Attorney Alvin Bragg, he's notifying attorneys. I heard this in the New York Post that the commander, the ex-commander-in-chief Trump is going to be asked to defend himself in front of a grand jury hearing. Now people in the know say that if you're asked to defend yourself in front of a grand jury it's indication that it's sort of the last step before they indict. So there's the signal is very clear that the intention is to indict.

So how strong is this claim? Let's see. It involves Stormy Daniels payments. They think Trump will decline the offer. And it's unclear what charges Bragg intends to bring against Trump. But the report notes from the New York Post, the report notes that prosecutors could accuse the former president of falsifying business records. That'll put him away forever, won't it? Falsifying some business records. Not tax records but just some business records. Falsifying some business records. And then they could, here's the good part, they could elevate that charge to a felony because otherwise you know it's not going to keep him out of office or anything. But they get elevated to a felony by arguing that it was attached to a second crime. What? So apparently if you do something that's not too important but they can attach it to another thing that's not important, the two of the things that are not that important can be conflated into a felony charge. They are literally coming up with imaginary crimes. That is an imaginary crime. If you have to take two non-crimes and add them together and argue there's a connection and then when you connect them the two are greater than the sum of the parts.

Now I get that you know that could look like a RICO thing. Like a RICO thing is a whole bunch of things that suggest it's all connected and stuff. So I don't know. To me, well I'm just going to go with the mainstream. The walls are closing in. They got him this time. Once they conflate those two small things into a big felony the jury is likely to go for that. It does not seem even slightly dangerous. And imagine that Trump, imagine this is the last thing he has left. It could be like the last legal thing and it would mean that all of them were nothing. They're either trivial or just absolutely made up or nothing.

New York Post also reports that privately it leads to DeSantis says he's in the race. Do you believe that? Do you believe that DeSantis is definitely already decided? He's already created a structure and he's just waiting to May to announce. It's believable. It's believable. But I feel like there was something else I would need to know. And I think what I would need to know is what is his thinking about Trump. Could it be that he's preparing without spending too much money or time? Could he be preparing in case Trump doesn't run? Let's say you get some legal problems or something else. Maybe Trump has a health problem. You know, anything could happen between now and May. Is it possible he's just getting ready in case and that his intention to run is conditional on what Trump does? Because I could see that usually being confused as an intention to run when it might be a conditional intention to run. As in if this happens and if this happens I'll run. You know it's always conditional I guess. In reality everything's conditional. You can change your mind at any time. But does that sound right? Does it sound like it might be conditional and maybe he sees how he polls or something before he makes a decision? Yeah.

Well I would, do you think the world is better if DeSantis gets in and pushes Trump? Because I love the fact that Vivek Ramaswamy's in the race because he's definitely made the primary better. He's already made Republicans better. Republicans, I think. Yeah, well we'll see. It'll be interesting. I guess I'd like to see him get in just because I like competition.

Tim Poole had Kash Patel on his show and he gives two reasons to suspect that Ray Epps was a Fed working on January 6 for the feds. Here is two reasons. One of them is one I gave you. First he says that Epps was on FBI's most wanted list for one day and the next day he was off. There are only two ways that happens. You die or you become an informant. Now remember Kash Patel was a prosecutor so he's worked sources. So when he says there's only one, you know there's only one way or two ways you can get off the FBI's most wanted list, he's not guessing. He's not guessing. There's only two ways. I mean maybe there's some weird third way. And then the other point is the one I gave. When the representative from the FBI, I forget which one, was asked by Ted Cruz under oath were there any FBI agents involved in January 6, she refused to answer. And as Kash points out and I pointed out, when it happens if the answer was no you would not say we don't talk about that stuff, am I right? If the answer is just no you say no because you wouldn't be giving up any secrets and you would resolve the matter or you'd be closer to resolving it right there. I don't see any way that Ray Epps wasn't up to something with the government. I don't know what. It doesn't necessarily mean that he was hired to cause the riot. It could be that he just wanted to do it anyway. But it could be that they were going to ask him for information about it or it would help him get into the, maybe he would help him infiltrate more MAGA organizations or something. So it's possible that he was working for the feds but not in some assertive way that caused the violence to happen. Maybe he was just there to watch and observe and they're trying to work with him to make him more of a source in the future. Maybe. I don't know. So there is some room for Ray Epps could be working for the feds. I don't want him to sue me so I'll just say allegedly. And it's still not being what you think. Is that a possibility? Is it a possibility that he was totally working for the government but that it wasn't a big deal? It was just one of the many people there trying to turn into informants. Anything is possible. That's right.

So DeSantis is picking up free money again. As I often say he will do the thing that when he does it you wonder why everybody else didn't do it first. Have you noticed that quality about DeSantis? He's really good at it like consistently. Here's the next one. This is just free money. Best tennis player in the world I think still, Novak Djokovic, is not allowed in the country for the Miami Open which is a huge event in the country, much less or even much more for Florida, because he's not vaccinated. It's 2023. The healthiest man in the world can't come into the country because he's not vaccinated. He might be the healthiest person in the world if you've ever seen him train and play. I mean he's in really good shape.

So DeSantis somehow cleverly realizing that this ban was about

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airline travel, he asked the Biden administration to confirm that Djokovic would be let into Florida if he came by boat. Because apparently you can come by boat but not airline. What? Are you kidding me? That's a real thing. That's a real thing. And the government hasn't moved to fix it. So the government should either make the boats require the vaccination or make the airlines not. But it's just…

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