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's easier. It's probably easier than campaigning. It would be the best campaign of all. But here's what I think. Given that he made allegedly $200 million in campaign donations because of the lawfare, if he spent one minute in jail, do you have any idea the size of his campaign donations? As soon as his foot crosses that barrier into a jail cell, it'll be like that foot just enters the jail cell…

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What about somebody had a gun in their car? Well okay, that probably happened too. But really, are those your counter to a 99% peaceful protest?

All right. The 11th Circuit Court has upheld a ruling that said the venture capital firm can't be racist. Well that's good. Something called the Fearless Fund. They were trying to have some kind of grants that were race-based and they got sued. And apparently now they can't be race-based. So apparently DEI is dying in a thousand cuts.

Meanwhile over at Harvard, the faculty has dropped the mandatory diversity statement. Can you believe that ever existed? I remember hearing stories about the McCarthy hearings. You know, I was too young to remember them, but the McCarthy hearings were famous as a dark day in American history that people had to show their loyalty to the country and act like they don't have any bad political ideas or you'll be blacklisted forever. But to know that you were alive when Harvard forced you to make a DEI diversity statement and if you didn't say the right stuff and forcefully enough you couldn't get hired. It just amazes me that a political pledge to diversity had to be made before you could get a job. Unbelievable. But at least they backed off on that wisely because of the pressure.

Bill Maher, who is 99% rational, but everything he says about Trump is actually just batshit crazy. I mean Bill Maher is basically just a 20-year-old college girl when it comes to Trump. Oh no, he's under the bed. I think he's going to climb up on the bed and rape me. Now Bill Maher is a 20-year-old college student female and he thinks that MAGA would go nuts if Trump is jailed. Yes we will go nuts with our wallets. Do you know why we go nuts with our wallets as opposed to our guns? Because we're not crazy. We're not crazy. The bullets will work. Guns would be a big mistake. So we'll use the thing that works. Yeah, put him in jail for one day. He will become more of a legend than ever. If you want to turn him into the greatest martyr of all time in America, go ahead. Go ahead. I'm going to say the same thing that Trump said. Don't beg for anything. If it's going to happen, it's going to happen. And we'll take that variable and we'll work with it. And we can work with it. We can guarantee his election.

And you know what else is funny? I'm assuming there's no way he'd ever be in general population. We're clear on that, right? I mean even if they tried the most ridiculous thing of getting rid of all security and put him into the general population to be killed, I

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don't think there's really any chance of that happening. So you know what the interesting thing is? If their plan was to assassinate him before he got into office, before the election, he'd be too protected because he would be in the safest place that a president could ever be. As long as he's away from the other prisoners, which I imagine he would be, it's the safest place he could be. So they mi…

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