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story books will say? Because it's not true. Or will they say that the protesters were trying to save the country from what they thought was an obvious insurrection by the left, and they were trying to make sure that the election had not been rigged because it certainly looked like it had? Or will the history book say, well, there are two points of view on this. Some people say this, some people s…

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hat volume, you would have to have some way to get rid of a lot of bodies. And horribly, this might be how they did it. Incredible.

Anyway, you heard about the activist judge, an Obama appointee, of course, who said that Trump can't use the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to get rid of the Venezuelan gangs. So apparently there was some kind of old law on the books that Trump was using to say, all right, you can deport all these gang members. And some of them were already on planes. And this judge said, nope, you got to take at least a 14-day pause. So it's a pause. I guess they got 14 days to work it out, and even to the point of telling the airplanes to turn around if they were in the air.

Now, I'm getting just exhausted in talking about all the bad judges and the lawfare and how they're trying to stop Trump in every single thing he does because they all sound the same. Trump tried to do something that's common sense and good for the country. An Obama or Biden-appointed judge stopped him for reasons that sound ridiculous. But eventually a higher court overturned that stupid judge, and then we're back in business. But here's a new challenge from a new Obama-appointed judge and a new problem, and then you just rinse and repeat. So they all started sounding the same after a while.

But a related wrinkle is that Marco Rubio is reporting, he said we have sent two dangerous top MS-13 leaders plus 21 of its most wanted back to face justice in El Salvador. And so we've got a deal worked out with El Salvador where we sent 250 members of this Tren de Aragua gang to El Salvador, which has agreed to hold them in the El Salvador jails at a fair price. So we're saving money and getting them held in a secure facility with a friendly country. And Secretary Rubio says that President Bukele of El Salvador is not only the strongest security leader in our region, he's also a great friend of the US. Thank you.

Now, I got to say this Bukele guy, he does some amazingly smart things. And one of the amazingly smart things is this, simply offering to use their existing facilities to handle some of the worst people. And I don't think we asked him. I think he volunteered it, which is such a strong move. It would be one thing if we tried to lean on them a little bit and said, well, you know, we're like your big brother, so maybe you should do us a solid. All right, if I have to. That's so different than we don't know, we've got this problem, we don't know how to solve it. And then he raises his hand and says, I have a solution. I can save you some money and take care of this completely. And then he does. That is so baller. And the fact that Rubio says he's the strongest security leader in our region, did that include the United States? Did he just say that El Salvador's better in security than the United States? Because I wouldn't disagree. You know, we're trying to catch up, but that's a hell of a thing.

Anyway, according to Todd Lyons, who's the acting director of ICE, apparently Biden was cooking the books on his ICE arrests. Oh, big surprise. How many people didn't know that Biden was lying about the numbers? Of course he was. But one specific way he was lying is that they were categorizing people that they processed and then released into the interior of the United States as ICE arrests. Does it count as an ICE arrest if all you do is release them into the United States? To me that would be called ICE not doing his job or ICE not arresting them. But if they were technically arrested and then they were processed and then released without any penalty into the United States, I'm not sure I would call that an ICE arrest. But Biden did. Look at all those arrests we're doing.

Anyway, Mario Nawfal was reminding us of this story. Then do you remember that one of the smartest people for the Democrats, one of their geniuses called James Carville, who's even smarter than Bill Burr, barely. No, I'm joking. Carville's actually pretty smart. But he did realize that the Democrats have no skill and no leadership and no plan. So he came up with the genius idea of doing nothing. We're going to call it the playing possum strategy.

Well, here's what you should do since we don't have anybody who can do anything useful and we don't have any leaders, we don't have anybody with charisma, we don't have anybody who's got good policies, and we don't have anybody who's not a complete loser. So what we're going to do is we're going to play dead. In about 30 days the media will pick apart whatever Trump is doing, so his popularity will plunge. So just do nothing because the more you do something, the stupider we look. So stop doing something. Every time you do something, you look stupid. Jasmine Crockett, Maxine Waters, Schumer. He had a point. The people that the Democrats were putting out front, not really the best look. Not really the best look.

So in sort of a I've given up all hope, he decided that if they just did nothing, that might be their best play. S

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o let's check in on that. It's been about 30 days, and Rasmussen just did a poll and found out his approval is 52 percent, the same as I think he's at a high point. So Trump's success according to Rasmussen is at a high point. Now, if any of you are polling nerds, if you've ever heard how the left talks about the Rasmussen poll, do you know what they say about him? So the Rasmussen poll is often…

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