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and I hope he was not as victimized as people are speculating. Then there was this star Aaron Carter. I hope I have the right name. He was a young, sort of a Bieber kind of a young fellow who was also part of that Diddy world, and he allegedly died young. And some people are saying, well, was it, did he really die or was he murdered? I'm not making any assumptions here. Again, I'm just telling yo…

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d love that. It would just be so natural because every time, I don't know if you noticed this, but 100% of the time that Trump talks in public, the anti-Trump press will find something to take out of context and some reason to not like it. But every time Trump talks to citizens, it's a home run. And you know, I'm pro this because I was lucky enough, I've told you too many times, that I spent some time with him at the White House in 2018 when he was just, I think he was just shoring up support among the people that he knew supported him. And spending time with him is the easiest, most fun thing you'll ever do in your life. To me it was a highlight of really my whole life. He is so good, so good on the individual charisma human interaction level that the more he does of that, it's just magic. So this was a good play.

All right, let's talk about propaganda, which you call news. So Anderson Cooper and James Carville, and listen to some of the things that Cooper says. When you think that he's having somebody on to get some news from the person he's talking to, but you find out that the person he's talking to is irrelevant because he's making the news by his statements. In other words, he's using the interview just to spread propaganda. This is my interpretation. So here's something that Cooper said to Carville on the air. Quote, when you look at the last couple of months, you have Donald Trump talking about Haitians eating cats and dogs, his candidate in North Carolina talking about himself as a black Nazi on a porn site. He brought a 9/11 conspiracy theorist to a 9/11 memorial ceremony. And then he says to Carville, why do you think it's this close? Now that sounds a little like payback because this is what I've been saying. So almost every day I tell you something that's so ridiculously absurd coming out of the Harris campaign, and I always end with, and the polls are tied. Because to me it's hilarious that you could have somebody who is afraid to appear in public, who's running for president, who has no accomplishments whatsoever, is part of the administration that everybody thinks failed, and that is close. And we know exactly what Trump did in the first term. And if you were to compare that to what has happened recently, it's, I don't think it's close. One was anti-war, one was pro-war. I mean, to me it doesn't look close. But can you tell that the way Cooper phrased the question that it was never about the question? It was about him saying that Trump is so bad that why doesn't the public see it yet when we, the news, keep telling them? Here I'm the news. I'm telling you. I'm telling you he's bad. Why don't you vote differently? Yeah, that was no news value. No news value, nor could there have possibly been any news value. There wasn't even any potential for news value. It was pure propaganda in which the person who was the guest, in this case Carville, was really a prop. He wasn't even part of the process. He was just a prop.

Now, what is Carville most famous for? He's most famous for helping Clinton originally get elected and for using the phrase "It's the economy, stupid." So he was the smart one who said people care about buying groceries. If you keep it to that, you're going to win. And then Clinton did. Do you hear Carville say that anymore? Do you hear Carville say "It's the economy, stupid"? Do you think it stopped being about the economy when the economy is actually more important to people now than maybe just about any time except the Great Depression? No. Carville can't even say the thing that made him famous. Just think about that. When they bring on the "worse than Watergate" guys, I always joke about that. They make sure that the "worse than Watergate" guys say something was worse than Watergate. But when Trump said he wants to eat a cat, was that worse than Watergate? Oh, that's worse than Watergate. So much worse than Watergate. But you bring on Carville, who is the famous "It's the economy, stupid," but he can't say that. Do you know why? Do you know why Carville can't say "It's the economy, stupid"? Because it's the economy, stupid. He can't say it becau

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se it's true. Just hold that in your mind. He can't say it because it's true. And Trump dominates in the public's mind about who would do a better job on the economy. So the moment you put Carville on the air and then Carville says what made him famous, which was always true and remains maybe even more true today, nope, can't say it because it's true. So then here's the second Anderson Cooper pro…

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