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l right obviously the DEI stuff and the identity stuff is ridiculous. Obviously DEI destroys everything it touches. This would have destroyed the NASDAQ because companies would have said I'll just list somewhere else. Or it would have created a competitor. Imagine if the NASDAQ just put itself out of business by becoming so hard to work with that everybody said well I think I'll go to the New York…

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tly find out if that's true. So I'm going to hire an inspector general. The inspector general goes and talks to that agent and says I'm trying to find out what's true. And the FBI agent says this is true. The same stuff I was trying to show everybody else. And the IG says let me look at that. All right I'll put that in the report. Where do you think the IG gets their information? By asking the FBI. So there shouldn't be that much difference between the FBI telling you themselves and the FBI telling the inspector general who tells you what the FBI told them. Do you think the inspector general had their own confidential sources inside the FBI and they're working through their moles to find out what was real? And do you think that the FBI if they had been involved in something terribly illegal or unethical on January 6 do you think they would have written it down in their documents so that when they did an email

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search it like oh there it is it's right in this email. You just said you have 18 there and you told them to cause trouble. No. If they were involved in something that bad, overthrowing the United States government, they're not going to write that in an email. It's not going to be in a text. So how in the world would the IG know anything? The IG would know exactly what the FBI told them. And if th…

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