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crime? Is there some kind of crime you can help somebody do and you're not in trouble? Does operating from another soil make you safe if you're doing it from another country? Is that enough to not be illegal? And if it's legal, why is our CIA not having them assassinated? Because isn't that what we pay them to do? If there was some entity that was not in the United States, or even if they were, an…

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open to what it is that I don't know, and I think you've watched the show enough to watch me change on the fly when a comment comes in and says, oh, you forgot this or you're not looking at this. So do some of that and I'll actually be happy for it. But this, you're making yourself look ignorant. I just figure you're an idiot. That's the only impression I get when I see that comment. It doesn't matter who it's coming from. From anybody. Somebody here is saying that this is because I didn't get enough sleep last night. You're so right. You're so right. I was telling the locals people I didn't get enough sleep last night. That's mostly what this is about. But it's still bad form. Just don't do it.

Anyway, so I think there should be some way to stop the illegal thing. Now if what you're going to say is, Scott, Scott, you don't understand that the CIA and the government wants them to come in. Was that what you were waiting for? Did you think I didn't know that the government wants them to come in? Oh, you're probably just waiting for the second issue to drop. No, I know that. There's way more than this. Of course I know that. It must be your first day here.

Anyway, have you seen the video? I don't know how old it is. I feel like it maybe has been around a while. But one of the hosts of The View, Sunny Hostin, was on that show where you find out who your relatives were. Your DNA gets checked and then they check your background. And she found out that she was completely wrong about her own background. She thought she was Puerto Rican or half Puerto Rican, but turns out that might have been a Spanish part of the family from Spain, and there were slave owners. That's right. Sunny Hostin of The View comes from a family of slave owners. And watching her learn that she's from a family of slave owners was something I had to watch 20 times in a row. I just kept playing it and replaying it, because there was a part where she tried to laugh about it, but the smile and the laugh was so fake that it was just hilariously uncomfortable. You have to see it. It's in my X feed if you're looking for it. So that was fun.

But even more fun than that, apparently there now have been three separate times in the last week, I'll take a fact check on this, three separate times in the last week when The View had to read a legal disclaimer. So apparently they had to do it four times in Friday's episode. Is that true? Did she have to stop four times and read a legal clarification? I think she did. It's telling me that the lawyers for The View just hate the hosts, because the lawyers are probably trying to figure out how can we stop them saying things that are clearly going to get us in trouble. And the hosts can't stop lying because their entire show is built around lying about what people did. Basically it's a show about lying about Republicans. Basically. So if they can't lie about Republicans, they don't have content, because that's all they have. So the lawyers are like, you can't just lie about their legal situation. You maybe could lie about reading their minds, but you can't lie about whether they were convicted of a crime. You can't lie about that.

So it looks like the legal staff is trying to put The View on a short leash, like actually literally it looks like they're trying to force some amount of honesty, which might be what's happening.

The New York Times has an article by Samuel Moyn, who's a lawyer. Now what's interesting is that this article is in the New York Times, and as others have pointed out, it seems like they're admitting that the lawfare against Trump was not based on the law but was lawfare. So here's a sentence in the New York Times by Samuel

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Moyn, a lawyer. He said it wasn't bad luck. They did not put Trump in jail. Well, I'm paraphrasing that part. He said, quote, the more uncomfortable truth is that our search for political salvation primarily through the law has backfired. Let me read that again. The more uncomfortable truth is that our search for political salvation primarily through the law has backfired. Is that admitting that t…

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