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Back to episode — Episode 2893 CWSA 07/10/25

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arently they're being accused of being the masterminds behind the whole thing. Why did it take us years to get to this point? Well, apparently the way our government works and the justice system is that it takes five years before somebody admits that something was wrong and action is taken and by then you're just tired of the story and it just doesn't have the impact it would if they had started…

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ought into the idea that your government can lie to you. So don't act like you're all above it. We're not above it.

I wake up knowing that my country has a CIA and that their job is to not tell the truth. I mean it's built into the job and I don't expect them to tell me the truth, but I do expect them to keep me safe. So they're not going to be perfect and there'll be some corruption that gets into every system. But if you trust Trump to handle the country's interests first, then you should also trust him to know when to lie to you and that when that's in your best interest or the best interest of the country as a whole. So that's where I'm at.

To me it's obvious that Bongino and Bondi and Kash Patel and Trump are all lying. I just accept that as a fact because they could not wink at us any harder, could they? Wink wink. We didn't find anything. Wink wink wink. To me they're doing the best they can, which is letting you know without letting you know that they're lying to you. And you would have to trust that all four of those people, because we presume they all have some version of the truth. I don't think they're in the dark. I think they know the truth.

And would you trust that all four of them with nobody defecting because that's important. None of them turned whistleblower. None of them resigned. None of them said, "Well, I disagree with this decision." They all got right on the same page, which suggests that they probably think that the country is better off if they just don't let us know the full truth.

Now it could also be that there is no full truth to find because all the records have been scrubbed long ago. So there was nothing to find. So it could be that they simply have their own suspicions about the data being deleted and the files disappearing and stuff. They may have their own suspicions but it's also possible they don't have any proof of any crimes that we don't know about. So if they didn't have any proof, because it'd all been removed from the files, what are they going to do? What would you do? Because it's not your job to spread rumors or hunches. You would unfortunately do what they did. You'd say, "Well, I looked at all the files and I didn't see anything to show you."

Anyway, so my current take is that I'm going to trust that the four of them are more patriots than weasels because I don't think any of them lack bravery. Would you agree with me on that? Would you say that the four of them, Trump, Bondi, Patel, and Bongino, they don't lack bravery. So they're not afraid. They're probably protecting us.

Now, is that the most generous take you could ever imagine? Probably. But have those four people earned a little extra trust? And the answer is yes. Yes, they have. Now, does that mean I'm right? I don't know. But you have to take a position because you have to live in this world and you're going to have to accept some int

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erpretation as more likely than the other. I feel like the most likely interpretation is that they know it would be bad for the country to be fully disclosing what they know. It doesn't mean that they're bad people. It could mean the opposite, that they're protecting us, but I don't know. Maybe someday we'll find that out. As Alex Jones says and others have said, maybe the other possibility is th…

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