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Back to episode — Episode 2838 CWSA 05/13/25

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Bernie probably knows his party better than I do. I guess I would reflexively disagree with anything Trump does. But here's the good news. He says if Trump is serious about making real change rather than just issuing a press release—oh come on, it's an executive order, not a press release—he will support legislation I will soon be introducing to make sure we pay no more for prescription drugs tha…

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ica, but the fact that it just gives MSNBC something unimportant. I mean, you know, if you look at the whole world and the country, it's not the most important thing happening. There's 59 people. So anyway, I guess I just enjoy the fact that they don't like it.

Well, the Diddy trial is going now, and I guess the Diddy defense is going to be that the violence really did happen, but it wasn't part of sex trafficking. Boy, you know, you never want to be in legal trouble where your best defense is that your violence was real. Well, my violence was real. Yeah, sure. I did beat up some women, but it was part of consensual sex acts and you know, maybe they liked it a little bit. That's your best defense.

But definitely wasn't sex trafficking. Oh no. Oh no. No. It was just violence, people. No sex trafficking.

So he's been accused of drugging people and bribing people and disgusting sex acts. And there was something about a male escort who was paid thousands of dollars to get with his girlfriend Cassie while he watched. Wow. This doesn't seem like the dangerous stuff yet, does it?

Weren't you expecting that the Diddy trial would present a whole bunch of things that were not just about Diddy? Like you'd find out about other people? I'm starting to think there won't be anything about other people, you know, at least other famous people. There'll be other things about, you know, the male escort that he paid and the girlfriends that he did bad things to, but I feel like this is going to be really limited to just Diddy. Which has to be done. But if you were hoping for this to give

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you real news about other people, probably not. The credentials committee—in another story that sounds like the same story because it's so disgusting—but the Democratic National Committee, the ones who had elected David Hogg as their co-chair, there's something called the credentials committee. So the Democratic National Committee has a credentials committee and they voted that the Hogg election…

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