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registered voters support deporting all illegal immigrants. 62% of the country is in favor of deporting all illegal immigrants. That's, I think, the highest that's ever been by far. Now, of course that's nearly 100% all Republicans, but that doesn't get you to 62%. So it must be all Republicans plus 30 to 50% of Democrats are willing to ship every single non-citizen back home. That's pretty extrem…

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don't want to put you in jail for a non-crime. Nobody wants that. That's your team. That's projection. The Democrats have created a situation where they say, well, if they're all Nazis and Hitler, we don't need a real crime. We just need to put them away. No, that's not happening on the other side.

I don't know anybody who's a Republican or a conservative who says, well, I'm sure they've done something bad, so let's find anything and put them in jail. Never. Not once. It's just not something that happens on the political right. The political right is entirely formed around the Constitution. That would be so far off their basic DNA to do something non-constitutional to get even with the other side. No, no. The entire conservative Republican philosophy, character, everything that's important says don't do that. That's rule number one.

Do the Democrats not even understand that the right part of the political world is constitutionally driven and that violating it so you could get back at an enemy is what we don't want? That's what the right doesn't want. They don't do it. It's what they're trying to stop. So no, there's no chance of that.

But I would say that the people that Bannon noted, it seems to me, have done horrible, horrible crimes against the country. And I think they're largely obvious. So if the legal system went hard on them, and by the way, what do you see in common with these names? Some Bannon names: Comey, Brennan, Clapper. What do they have in common? Bunch of white guys. Yeah, yeah.

Here's another thing that Republicans will do. They will police their own, you know, whether it's a white guy or anybody else. But the Republicans will police their own a little bit. That's not something you see on the other side.

All right. And I'm going to say again, other people have said it, that the choice of Attorney General if Trump gets in, the choice of Attorney General will be the most important thing he does. Everything else will be subsidiary to that. I agree with that.

And I'm coming to the view that Bill Barr was a handler. Meaning that he was pro-Republican, pro-conservative, but he wasn't so pro-Republican and so pro-conservative that he was going to let the full populist energy do what it wanted to do. So I do think that around the time he was saying stop questioning the election and stuff like that, he was operating more as a handler of Trump than an appointee. So I feel like he had sort of a double objective there. He was genuinely a conservative, but he was a conservative who didn't want a full Trumpy experience in his country. That's what it felt like.

So no, he was, in retrospect, he would be the wrong person if you were to choose today, that's for sure. But I don't know if the left knows how many people have been caught in lies and crimes anyway.

Tucker Carlson calls the January 6 thing a hoax, most corrupt thing he's ever seen. And I'm not sure if everybody was saying it so clearly two years ago. I think that the fact that credible people are saying, oh yeah, it was a total setup and hoax, is people just feeling comfortable with the truth for once.

And I guess we should talk about Nancy Pelosi got caught on a video that was taken on January 6th by, I think, her daughter who was doing a documentary. And she was in the car and it seemed to show her maybe leaving the event, leaving the protest. And she was very upset and complaining to whoever she was talking to that she had failed because it was her responsibility to protect the Capitol and she hadn't done it.

So I would say that based on what we learned from that, I would personally — your mileage might differ — but I would say we can eliminate the hypothesis that she set it up to have somebody attack herself. I don't think anybody runs an op that involves the possibility that you will be killed when you can do it without that possibility. So I don't think she was a setup. I think that she took advantage of the fact, knowing it was her problem because she said directly that she was taking responsibility for the lapse in security. But having said that, I think she just figured out a way to make it right. And the way to make it right was to blame Trump for forming an insurrection. So she had to reframe it with all of her other bad people so it looked like an insurrecti

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on when clearly it wasn't. Clearly. And so I'm now completely of the opinion that General Milley, who was the military guy, head of the military at the time, that he's just a dumb guy who believed the Democrat narrative. And he thought that Trump was Hitler and was going to — he actually talked about a Reich moment coming. So he was completely brainwashed by his own team. And so much so that it l…

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