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Back to episode — Episode 2824 CWSA 04/29/25

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. But it happens now. Go. Sensational. So, so good. Well, there was some kind of an election in Canada, and I don't really care. Does anybody care? Let's take a vote in the comments. Does anybody care about the election in Canada? No. Okay, moving on. Apparently Amazon has decided to show the tariff costs in your cart before you pay for it. But as Sean Davis pointed out on X, why don't they tel…

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uclear secrets." Of course not.

Here's some more fake news. Trump is claiming he's already made 200 trade deals, but he won't specify. He won't give any examples so you can't check on him. Does anybody think that Trump already made 200 trade deals? Does anybody think that's even a little bit true? So some of the claims that Trump is making are just hilarious. I saw Scott Bessent was in an interview when he was asked about that. He was asked what about these 200 trade deals and Bessent had to sort of talk around it because he couldn't confirm it because it's obviously not true. But he didn't want to go against his boss, so he just sort of weasel-worded it and talked around it. Now it might be, it could be true that a whole bunch of different countries have decided on some kind of framework or maybe decided on some small part of a deal and Trump's calling those trade deals even though they're not comprehensive for each country. So maybe he's talking about that, but it just looks like a made-up number to me.

I saw a poll by Rasmussen. It's a poll on whether people trust polls. Apparently a majority, 51%, either have not very much trust or no trust at all in major media polls. How many of you trust major media polls, especially about politics? Do you think they're real? I had a conversation with one of my pollster friends. You know, he's been working in that industry forever. And when I said, "Yeah, everybody knows the major polls are fake," oh my goodness, did he not agree with that? No, no, no. But then I specified, "No, I'm talking about the political stuff. The political stuff is obviously fake." And he says, "No, you are completely wrong about that. The political polls are very reliable." But here's a quote that I think is hilarious. This isn't Rasmussen's reporting on this. So after Trump won the 2024 election, there was a Harris senior campaign adviser, this guy David Plouffe, who admitted he was quote surprised that many public polls last year showed that Harris was ahead of Trump because the Harris campaign's own internal polling never had her leading. Have you seen the list of major media polls that said that Harris was ahead? They were all fake. They must have been because their internal polling never showed it. And I don't think Trump's internal polling ever showed it. And I don't think Rasmussen ever showed it. But all the rest of them like, "Oh yeah, yeah, she's up by two points. No problem. She's totally going to win." None of that was ever true.

So if the only thing you knew was that the central adviser to Harris didn't believe the polls because their own poll that they paid for was not a

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greeing with them, that's all you need to know to know that they were fake. 48% of voters believe that the problem with the polls is that some pollsters were deliberately adjusting their numbers to support Harris while 35% think it was because they don't know how to accurately poll. Do you think the problem is they don't know how to accurately poll? No, that's not the problem. I'm pretty sure they…

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