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friendliest place in the world for Hunter: Delaware, home state, Biden-friendly judge, we hear. Now this is an interesting case because my understanding is the facts of it are completely clear. There's no question of what happened, which is very interesting. How do you defend when the law has been broken and there is no question about the details of what happened? Yeah, there's no question that he…

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a drug addict who hasn't had a drug for a little while, do you get to say that you're not one when you fill out your federal form? Because that would be a lie. So does everybody who ever used to be drinking too much or used to be on drugs, do they never get to have a gun? Because they would be lying if they say they're not drug addicts. That would definitely be a lie. What if — and this is how I would do the defense. Here's how I do it. I'd say this standard of are you or are you not a drug addict is subjective. In other words, the day I got the gun, it was in my honest opinion a day when I was not a drug addict because that day I wasn't high and I planned to stay that way. I planned to stay not high. So the day I applied for the gun, in my own opinion, which is the only one that matters because it's not based on a medical standard, it's based on self-reporting, and my self-reported truth was that day in my own mind I believed I was clean and was going to stay clean. It didn't work out. I didn't stay clean. But when I got the gun, I was not a drug addict in my opinion.

And if it's somebody else's opinion that you were a drug addict, how do you apply that standard? So there's kind of an interesting question here that it could easily get to the Supreme Court, which is how do you apply the standard that somebody is a drug addict at the moment of the purchase? I don't see how that standard could ever work. So it's interesting. We'll see.

All right. Piers Morgan had some guests on, and it was funny because the panel was for smart people plus a Democrat. I know that sounds funny, but that's what it was. And one of the people was Michael Knowles, you know him from Daily Wire. And he said, Piers, to ask the Democrat, he said, I would challenge her to see if she could articulate what crime Trump committed. Because she was going all anti-Trump and he's a felon. So Piers, smelling blood in the water, goes, what crime did Trump commit? Just in the most non-threatening way. Yeah, and what crime was that? So she goes, well, it was financial crimes or white-collar crimes. And then Piers just calmly goes, I know, but like specifically, like what was the crime? Well, things and things and complicated financial things that weren't supposed to be those things that were different than the things. And Piers just made her squirm while the other smart people were just smiling with that pleased look. Oh, I want to see more of this. Can we please just have Democrats on and have somebody asked to describe what the charge was? Can we please do that? That'd be great.

There's some kind of melanoma shot that in early trials looks impressive. So if you had melanoma cancer, they say this mRNA shot — it's a vaccine, they say — could cut the risk of dying in half. So I don't know why they call it a vaccine because you get it after you got the melanoma. So I didn't know the word worked that way. But do you trust the new mRNA vaccine if it bec

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omes available? You going to sign up for that? Here's a problem. Are you like me? You've lost all faith in everything medical. I just don't believe anything from a doctor or the science or the — just I've lost all credibility is just gone. I don't know what to do about that. Let's talk about the fake news. So the Washington Post had a big shakeup. They had a new attitude. And here's the funny par…

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