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everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Ah, that's some good sipping. Well, Peter Navarro is getting freed today. Is he already freed? Has anybody heard from him yet? I always wonder about the day that you're supposed to be freed from prison. Did they make it happen ri

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ght away? Because I always wonder, do you wake up in the morning and say, "Oh, today's the day I go free," and then you call the guard over and say, "Today's the day, today's the day I go free." Then the guard looks at you and says, "That's after the shift. That's at 5:00." You're like, "Wait a minute. Today's the day I go free. I don't go like when I wake up?" No, sort of an end-of-day thing. You got to serve some more jail today. How's that work? Somebody says he's already out. It seems like they would do it first thing in the morning, doesn't it?

All right, well, we'll celebrate that in a bit. No, we're going to celebrate now with a sip of coffee. Who's with me? Peter Navarro sip of coffee. Peter, if you're watching, glad you're out. It's about time. Stronger, probably. Go.

All right. Everything seems to be going Trump's way, directly and indirectly. Seems like God has chosen him. I don't know if that's true, but it looks like it. Do you know how many coincidences or events it takes before somebody who doesn't even, I'm not even a believer, but even I think it looks like God has chosen Trump? It's getting harder and harder to deny at this point.

All right. He's out. Peter Navarro is out anyway.

Gold Bar Bob, New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez, he's found guilty of taking money from some Egyptian people. As Greg Gutfeld said last night on Gutfeld, he sounded like a pyramid scheme because he took money from Egyptians. Oh, anyway, it's pretty funny. But also from a Qatari or their government. So here's the question. Isn't it lucky that there was just that one criminal in Congress? Thank goodness we got that one guy who's trading favors for money. We finally got that one guy. It makes me think he must have pissed off the intelligence service or something. He must have made somebody mad who normally would just let things go. It's like, we can make some kind of an example out of Gold Bar Bob.

Well, there's an update on Biden's brain. Apparently before Trump was nearly assassinated, he had a Zoom call with a bunch of moderate Democrats. And the call went like this: "President Biden, what do you plan to do to resurrect your campaign and get it going again?" Well, anyway, so something like that. So reportedly it was bad. It was really bad. But here's what I don't understand. How was it that he looked completely coherent in the evening when he talked about the assassination attempt? How did they drug him up? Or is it just totally random? Because he looked presidential, but he couldn't do a Zoom call earlier that day. This is all very mysterious.

Well, so Biden is talking about Supreme Court limits. Well, actually term limits. And I saw in the comments that some people are saying that he can't do it, he doesn't have the authority. And the interesting thing would be if he tried to institute term limits and there was a legal objection and it got appealed. Am I wrong that the Supreme Court gets to decide on its own whether it can have term limits? Because it will decide whether the ruling was constitutional or not. Do we have the absurd situation where the Supreme Court will vote on whether they get fired? Now that'll be fun. I'm assuming there'll be all kinds of legal analyses that are arcane and weird and don't seem obvious.

But unconfirmed miracle drugs. What are we talking about? Somebody's talking about the miracle drugs to get Biden to talk. Okay, I'm on.

Rasmussen has a poll on what people think of the shooter's motives. Forty percent of likely voters think he's just mentally ill. But forty-one percent believe it was mainly caused by the Democrats, basically the rhetoric against Trump. So forty-one percent of the country believes that the way Biden and the Democrats were talking caused an assassination attempt. And I've got a feeling that some of those forty percent who just think it's mental illness, do they think Trump was chosen randomly? If your opinion was that the reason for the shooting was mental illness, do you think he randomly chose the president or randomly from mental illness? Now, mental illness or not, he picked a specific person and the hardest one to get. So it had to be a little bit about something about Trump. And how would a twenty-year-old know anything about Trump? Their opinions are assigned by the media. These are assigned opinions. So I would say that the forty percent who say he's mentally ill is really the same as the forty-one percent who said it's caused by the rhetoric. To me this looks like eighty-one percent of people think the rhetoric caused it. Now if he was also mentally ill, you know, that's a contributing factor. But certainly the rhetoric, no matter what, no matter how sane he was, he didn't randomly pick the guy that they've been calling Hitler for years.

So then there's a quote from JD Vance that says the central premise of the Biden campaign is that Trump was an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. And the rhetoric led directly to the attempt of assassination. Apparently sixty-one percent of likely voters agreed with that quote. So that would suggest that at least some of the people who thought mental illness was part of it also think the rhetoric was part of it too. So that makes sense. Split the difference.

All right. So Dan Bongino, who I would consider one of the best voices on the whole topic of how the shooter did what he did and the Secret Service, etc., Bongino is the one to listen to. He's got the best insight on that, I would think. But he said he had an unimpeachable source that there was a police officer whose job it was to secure that area, apparently did not show up f

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or work. And there's no word yet why. Is there an update on that? I didn't see an update this morning. But the unimpeachable source says there should have been somebody on the roof and the roof guy didn't show up. But we don't know why the roof guy didn't show up. Now that still makes the possibility that there was some shenanigans, because we don't know why the roof guy didn't show up. However,…

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