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So apparently Joe Biden is planning to go to Charlottesville to announce his candidacy. I think there's two places he's going but Charlottesville is one of them. And it makes you wonder, is that a coincidence? Is it a coincidence that Joe Biden is going to Charlottesville? Well, maybe. Could be. But far more likely, given the fame that Charlottesville has had, he's going there to launch his campaign on a hoax. That's right. Joe Biden is so completely useless that he might actually be going from the Russia hoax directly back to the Charlottesville hoax because he can't tell the difference. He can't tell the difference. He doesn't know what's even real.

If you have a potential president who thought the Russia investigation was real and also thought that the reporting on Charlottesville was real, that the president actually called the Nazis fine people, he actually believes that happened. And it looks like he's going to base his campaign, or at least launch it, on the back of the second biggest hoax that the country has ever seen.

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And this makes me ask the following question. What will history report about the last several years and maybe the next several? Didn't you always think that history books, sure they might have been biased in the sense that they would leave things out? You know, maybe there were things that one country would de-emphasize. You know, maybe the country had a history of doing bad things so it de-emphas…

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