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do that kind of funding and he's not going to endorse anybody. He's not going to get political. What's that sound like to you? That's a Trump endorsement. I'm sorry, it's a Trump endorsement. He's not going to spend money to help the Democrats alter elections the way they had. He said that Trump did the most badass thing he'd ever seen when he did the fight fight after he got shot. He's seen that…

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, you're probably looking at genius if it happens more than once.

So now this little bit feels a little like genius but maybe desperation too. Because you could have them at the same time. I think it's obvious that Harris cannot win a debate against Trump and I would think that the Democrats know that. But what they could do is make Trump look like a bully. What they could do is give Kamala a whole bunch of cool one-liners to say when she gets interrupted. It's like sorry, I'm talking now. You know that thing. So I agree with the people who say that it's a trap and that Trump won easily over Biden by not having his microphone on. I think that works for Trump. When the first time I heard that the microphones would be off during the Biden thing I said to myself oh my God there's no way. There's no way Trump loses. The only way Trump can lose is being so unpleasant by interrupting that people go I don't even care what your policies are. You're just being a jerk now. I hate you. So since it's a vibe election, if Trump wants to get the right vibe he wants to visit the Vietnamese restaurant and show everybody loves him, which he did. Go to a black barber shop, see that everybody's fine with him. He hasn't done that but he should. But being the nicest Trump is really his best play. So yeah I think he would be wise to do what he was doing, which is say well you know we'd already agreed there would be no microphones. Let's stick to it. We'll see what happens.

So there was a hearing in Congress on the Trump assassination attempt and it featured three really interesting people. So you had Navy SEAL Eric Prince, who used to run his own private army for sale, and you had Dan Bongino, and a Washington Regional SWAT operator who was on site that day. Now those would be three in my opinion seemingly highly qualified voices that would tell it the way it is. You know they wouldn't make something up. And it was fascinating. So there were massive evidence of incompetence, which I call the Dilbert filter. You know every organization is incompetent at this point and probably there was a bunch of stuff that just looks like incompetence. But on top of that there were questions which don't have an answer, such as cleaning off the roof prematurely, you know kind of cremating the body before anybody knew, a whole bunch of what's up with the encrypted apps that that guy's got, how did he learn to make a bomb with a remote that's just made for that. Just a whole bunch of questions that the three of them were very clear that these are super important questions and unanswered.

So I don't know what it all means, but when the smartest people in the game tell you there's something that doesn't smell right, I would definitely trust that. Right, normally you don't trust doesn't smel

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l right, but from these three, if Dan Bongino tells you something doesn't smell right in the domain he knows about, I'm sure listening to that. So and I think it's like the Telegram CEO story. You'll never know. I don't think there's much any chance at all that we'll ever know the truth of what happened with that guy, that Thomas Crooks assassin guy. Well James Carville was on I think it was CNN…

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