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t business model and hired somebody who did it for a flat fee. So I just negotiated it basically and made it go away. Now it's the same thing if you were buying or selling a house. If you weren't already negotiating the broker's fee, you could have. I don't even know why this is the law. You could have. All right, there's a very funny story about Francis Macron. Now I didn't know this was happen…

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an interview about the allegations that his wife is a man. Now here's the funny part. He didn't ask that question specifically. He didn't say, you know, there's an allegation your wife is a man. What he said was there's an allegation that some of the Mar-a-Lago files included some information about Macron's sex life. And that Trump said at one point that he had some shocking information about Macron's sex life. Now do you think that these shocking allegations are that his wife is a man? I don't think so. He's a French leader with an elderly wife. He's a young French leader with an elderly wife. What do you think the most likely rumors about his sex life are? Most likely has something to do with somebody other than his wife. I mean that would be the French sort of thing.

I will not rule out the Candace Owens hypothesis because as she said she looked into it. And saying that you would stake your entire professional reputation on it is quite a thing to say. So I'm going to say maybe. I'm going to give it a maybe. But probably not. Probably not.

All right. However, I will say that when Jake Tapper asked Macron about information about his explosive information about his sex life, that Macron looked really, really worried in my opinion. Now my opinion of how worried somebody looks is not exactly important. But in my opinion he looked pretty panicked by the allegation. Now I imagine he'd be panicked if it was just something like an affair. So that doesn't mean his wife's a man. But maybe. I just love the fact that it's possible. It's within the range of possibility.

All right, the Post Millennial and others are reporting that Lara Trump, who's now the co-chair of the RNC — or is it chair? I'm not sure — is going to hire Scott Presler to lead its legal ballot harvesting. Now if you're a Trump supporter, how happy are you about that? The Trump supporters have been asking for that specifically by name for a long time. And Lara Trump's going to make it happen.

So here's what I think. You're going to — well, I'll tell you it's already forming. Is it in my imagination or is it obvious in a whole bunch of different ways that Trump really learned how to do this stuff? It doesn't seem like Trump learned a lot from the first go-round because replacing the head of the DNC with Lara — although you know you get the nepotism charges, etc. She's already done the new CEO move. You know the new CEO move. I talked about that a lot in their first election. The new CEO move is when you go in and you immediately do a popular or dramatic thing that becomes your brand for the rest of the time you're in the job. The first thing you do is what people remember you for if it's big. And so the first thing she did was do a very crowd-pleasing and smart thing because Scott Presler has definitely shown that he's got all the skills and the energy and he knows how to do this. So excellent.

And I think that Republicans especially were panicked that the Republicans were not going to do their own legal ballot harvesting. So that's a big confidence builder. As a crowd pleaser it gives you confidence that Trump picked the right person even though she's a family member. And it gives you confidence that she knows what she's doing because she did this quickly and correctly. Real good. Everything about this I like. You don't get to tell those stories a lot where everything about it is good. But look for more signs that the Trump campaign and just his whole game is just a whole bunch better than it used to be because he's learned.

All right, here's a scary story. Judge Napolitano said that right before Trump left office in 2021, Judge Napolitano asked Trump about releasing the JFK assassination files. And Trump said — quote, this is a reported quote so we don't know if this is an exact quote — but reportedly said, "Judge, if they showed you what they showed me, you wouldn't have released it either." And I said, who's they and what did they show you? And I guess that got murky.

Do you believe that? Do you believe that Trump saw the JFK assassination files and said, oh God, now I know why you didn't show it to anybody? Do you think that really happened? I don't know

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. I could imagine it happened. Now that makes you speculate what is it that the public would not be able to see so many years later. And I would say the obvious answer is that it was an inside job. Isn't that the obvious answer? Because if it was an inside job then it suggests that nothing's changed and they could take out the president anytime they wanted. So I'm going to say that the lack of pro…

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