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Now what would be the best way to bond, you know, to find something in common between Putin and Trump which would make both of them better at negotiating with each other? Which is your ideal situation. You don't want one of the people to think they went away oh I got bullied into something. You want both of them to think this is a good negotiation. I'm going in this strong. I'm going in it against somebody strong. We respect each other. We can be honest. You know you're bad here, you're good here. We like the good. Stop doing the bad. It's kind of a perfect situation.

So I'm pretty sure that 100% of all the people who have had experience in negotiating — and that used to be one of my corporate jobs was negotiating with vendors over prices and stuff — and yeah this is negotiating 101. Trump should be saying that Putin's a strong leader, that Putin has been maybe good for Russia. That might be a little too far but you can say good things about him.

There's some talk about Trump may be pardoning Hunter Biden because that would be a good way to get some unity back. I don't think Hunter should be pardoned. At the same time there are still legal risks, lawfare let's call it, against Trump. Now there is optimism that all of Trump's legal problems will be swept away and that might happen but hasn't happened yet. So I think it's certainly premature to be talking about any pardons.

But as Mike Benz weighs in on this he said talking about the Hunter Biden pardon, he said I'm actually okay with this on the condition that Hunter becomes a federal informant for six months and tells the Trump DOJ every federal crime committed by the CIA, State Department and some other groups and gives the comms. Now I don't think there's any chance in the world that Hunter Biden could roll over on the CIA and the Atlantic Council and anybody else because I think literally he would be killed. You know if there's anything there that really needs to be hidden I think he would actually be killed. Like literally no joke no hyperbole I think he would be killed. So I don't think there's really a chance of that.

So it's too bad. There's definitely a strong part of me that would like the Hunter Biden thing to be wrapped up and maybe it's good for the country to say can we get past this and just take care of business. This is the past. He was a drug addict. Maybe he did some illegal money laundering Ukraine things but we don't have to worry about it now. We're past it. So I mean you don't need to give somebody a pardon unless they actually did something that is jailable and it looks like maybe there's some jailable things in there if you look hard enough. I don't know. So I guess I'm on the fence on this one. But definitely no as long as Trump is still in lawfare territory.

So as Fisher King points out on X that winning the popular vote was a pretty big deal and we have the blue states to thank for that because it means that a lot of people like me got people to vote in California and I voted for the first ti