Back to episode — Episode 2516 CWSA 06/25/24
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is topic and looks to me like Trump's going to drive that inflation through the roof. Now what would be the argument for why Trump would cause more inflation? What do you think the argument sounds like? Well here we go. One of the reasons that the Trump presidency could take inflation to new heights because a January 6 style attack on Democratic institutions could undermine global economic stabil…
← Previous segment →he details what they're doing about all the homeless camps. Oh okay they're removing the barriers that businesses put up that were trying to end the homeless camps. Okay so this is the wrong direction. They're trying to figure out how to stop businesses from making it difficult to camp in front of their store. That's really happening. Do you think this story will be in the left-leaning press a lot? I don't know it probably wasn't. It probably was in the left-leaning press as a good thing.
All right well the press speaking of the press says that Trump's VP picks are down to three: Burgum, Vance and Rubio. Then this morning there was a Vivek rumor but I don't think there was substance to it. I'm not so sure that it's narrowed down to these three: Burgum, Vance and Rubio. Not so sure. If it were these three I would say Burgum is boring. Vance might be too useful in Congress and by the way he's the whitest looking person in the history of the United States and I do worry that that will just cause the other people to have one more reason to get worked up. Now there's no like I like his views so he's very strong in communication. His communication skills are through the roof. He looks great you know he's handsome he's young he's aggressive he's got balls. It's like everything you want but he's also great in where he is. So some of the calculation is who do you want to move out of a place that they're already great. Rubio some people say you might be a little too connected to I don't know the deep state or something. So people yeah Rubio is too swampy people are saying in the comments right now.
So here's what I think. It's not any of those three. So I'm going to let me say two things first. I have famously written and I'm republishing "Win Big" in the next month or so it's a little updated. So I famously said that nobody can guess the vice president and that that's the worst thing that I can guess. So the vice president pick is totally based on things that are happening behind the curtain that you and I don't know about. So our ability to guess who we pick is close to zero. I mean I didn't see Mike Pence on anybody's list. So I'm going to take the following prediction that it won't be one of those three and it won't be Vivek now. Vivek because he's too strong. The same with Vance they're both too strong. Rubio I wouldn't say Rubio is too strong. He's a great communicator seems to be a solid senator but you know he's got that people have the suspicion he's swampy. I don't know that that's true. I don't personally have any visibility into that but I'm going to say just based on past pattern that we don't know who it is and it's not going to be one of the obvious ones. I think that Trump's got a surprise coming.
So now remember I will ask you not to include this with my prediction list if you're looking what I got right and got wrong. I'm probably wrong. This would be the least confident prediction I'll ever make. Nobody's good on guessing vice presidents. Nobody's good at it and I'm definitely not good at it. It's all based on stuff we couldn't possibly know.
All right here's an interesting question if you like to play Supreme Court judge or justice. So there's a question in the case where Jack Smith is going after the Mar-a-Lago documents. That's Judge Cannon is presiding over that. And I think she said this quote talking about the budget there's some question about what is Jack Smith's budget for going after Trump and I think the answer is there's no budget meaning there's no cap meaning it's unlimited budget. Now what does that tell you? If you heard that the government has a person with an unlimited budget to prosecute one person no matter who that person is would you say to yourself huh that sounds like justice will be done because they got a big budget to do it or would it sound more like clearly targeting somebody because we never say the budget is unlimited. Why would this be the one time the budget is unlimited? The only reason I can think of is that the only thing that matters is getting Trump which would suggest it's political.
Now I wouldn't have seen that. I have to say that's sort of an interesting interpretation but apparently Judge Cannon said quote when it's limitless meaning the budget I think there is a separation of powers concern. Which is the good judge way to put it. A concern about separation of powers. Yes it would look like the executive branch giving an unlimited budget to go after their opponent would look exactly like that.
By the way are you aware that when the documents were found we now have confirmation that the cover sheets that were photographed with those Mar-a-Lago documents it's now confirmed that those were not part of the documents. That the FBI added those into the photos. Now they said they were just placeholders and stuff and blah blah blah. We don't know how they got in the photos but it looked like they intentionally took in cover sheets that would make things look very confidential to mix it in with the stuff that maybe wasn't so confidential so it would look like it was more of a scandal than it was. Now maybe yeah maybe there's some innocent reason for it. It doesn't look like it. It looks like exactly what it looks like.
But here's the more important point. The thing we also know that nobody's arguing is that the FBI asked Mar-a-Lago to turn off the security cameras for what they said was the safety of the agents. What exactly would make the agents less safe if there was a video camera? Is it because we'd learn their identities? Is that why? Because that doesn't seem to be the problem with other law enforcement. Yeah I believe that the police wear body cams fairly routinely and I'm pretty sure that most crimes the way we figure them out is because somebody had a security camera on. So why would this be the one time? And by the way is that common? So I would ask you this question does the FBI ask other entities to turn off the security cameras too? Now if I found out it was standard procedure I'd say well that's maybe a bad procedure but at least I'd understand why it happened in Mar-a-Lago. If it's not the standard procedure in calling Dan Bongino. Dan Bongino I need a ruling. Is it standard procedure to ask for the security cameras to be turned off after a site has been completely controlled before they even entered? So in other words they negotiated with Secret Service that had security control of the whole building and since th
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ey're on the same side you know they're working for the government they're not trying to break any laws they should have known that there was no danger to the people because what would it be other than identities but that seems common to most law enforcement. So I would propose this. If you put me on a jury, I don't think there'll be a jury trial but if you put me on a jury and the defense said I…
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