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gh I don't know him. I've never heard him talk. I'm watching me. So if you don't think I'm going to have a problem with him being convicted if that's the way it goes well you're wrong. And there will be consequences. I don't know what they will be but let me just say this to any part of the world that is looking to put this guy away. You better be really careful because this one's not free. You kn…

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thing that Trump needs more than he needs one more loyal soldier doing a thing is another big media entity that supports him. Because you saw all the media entities are under some kind of fire from the left. So if Matt Gaetz decided to take his existing podcast and just beef it up and get more interesting guests and go full Alex Jones and really make it like a foundational thing that conservatives listen to, he has all of those skills. I'm looking at a message going by. Yeah so Gaetz has all of those podcasting skills with the behind the curtain knowledge with all the contacts with the ability to invite anybody on the show, name recognition. It's kind of perfect. So I've got a feeling he might go into the media. That would be where he would have the most impact and make the most money etc.

But there's one other possibility. I'll just put this out there. He's married to the sister of Palmer Luckey who's the creator of Anduril. Is that the name of it? It's a defense company. It's a new one and they do kind of newer cooler high-tech defense stuff like drones that can do things and other things. Now suppose that Palmer Luckey wanted an executive to put in the company to help it go public. Well that would be good for his sister because his sister would be married to somebody who would get massive stock options and become a billionaire within three years maybe. I mean because the company looks like it's ragingly successful and I think it's still private as far as I know. So they would presumably be looking at a way to go public and cash out and maybe he could be some officer in that company. So there's so many things that he could do that it's hard to guess what's happening.

So I'm going to say this. I don't think we'll ever know what the real story was. I don't think, I mean it could be as simple as just exactly what he said. He wanted it. Trump wanted it. There were about four or five senators who said no. He knew he couldn't change the mind. Didn't want to do the recess appointment. He just pivoted. But the weird thing about this is that everybody wins. Isn't that weird? When is the last time you saw a story where everybody wins? We get a better attorney general, one that's less controversial. Matt Gaetz will be turned loose to do something that's probably something he's better at. Trump still wins because he gets what he wants. I don't know. Just seems like everything worked out there.

But MSNBC is saying that Bondi is worse because she's competent. So MSNBC went from he's the worst choice in the world to okay she's worse because she's good. Okay.

The Republicans who allegedly were not going to support Gaetz were John Curtis Utah, Susan Collins of M

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aine, Lisa Murkowski Alaska, and Mitch McConnell Kentucky. Mitch McConnell anyway. Bill O'Reilly had some interesting things to say on NewsNation with Cuomo about MSNBC's fate. So it looks like Comcast who owns both NBC News and CNBC and MSNBC, it looks like they might be looking to spin off MSNBC and CNBC. And that makes sense because MSNBC's audience took a big hit. It'll probably come back aft…

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