Back to episode — Episode 2886 CWSA 07/03/25
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lleged to have done are the things he was found guilty of, probably they wouldn't even take it to court. I think it was basically technically prostitution with women who clearly were, according to their own text messages, women who were consensually involved. That's it. Now, I don't obviously I'm the worst one to talk about the legal stuff, but what I think is true is that he was accused of a tec…
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The most easy example of two movies on one screen is that the critics and at least some of these scoring organizations say that it will drive up the debt or the deficit by over $3 trillion over time. $3 trillion. But the Trump administration would say they're not scoring it right because they're acting like nothing changes except the budget. But what would really change is that the budget could be part of a larger effort to goose the economy Trump style until the economy is just clicking away like we've never seen it. The GDP's up to five or seven or some number we've never even seen before. And it's producing all this extra revenue that the groups who do the analysis of the budget impact don't include because they just assume that the GDP does what it always does. And the whole point of it is to goose the GDP so it doesn't do what it always did, but it does way better.
So Trump and company would say it's going to reduce the deficit by two trillion. So now we have a $5 trillion gap between what the Democrats are being told the bill will do and what the Republicans are being told it will do. So will it cost you three trillion or will it save you two trillion? Which one do you believe is true? And the answer is, I don't know. How would I know? I mean, really, how would I know? How would you know? Because
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somebody that you don't know told you they did an analysis and they came up with a certain answer. Would you believe that? These are completely unknowable things at this point. So I do think that if anyone except Trump had said to me, we're going to goose the economy so much that we'll make extra money. If anyone else had said that, I would not believe it for a second. Because I would just think…
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