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n't that sound generic? I feel like they organized the protests and then they didn't have a reason. So they said they went to AI and they said, "ChatGPT, we're going to have an anti-Trump protest all over the country. Can you give us some reasons why we're doing it?" And then AI says, "Well, we are outraged by attacks on our civil rights, the cutting of essential services, the disappearance of our…

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n't, that it's over? I don't know.

I'm seeing Pam Bondi is getting a lot of heat for suckering those various MAGA influencers into holding a copy of the phase one of the Epstein documents and acting like there was more to come. I would be really mad if that happened to me. But apparently the MAGA influencers were not mad about that. They were just sort of tricked, you know. She said, "Come into this room and hey, you get a copy of this Epstein phase one." But she did tell them there's not much new in there. Turns out there was nothing new in there.

Anyway, according to also Tucker Carlson, who's at that TPUSA event or was, he thinks that Dan Bongino got completely shafted because the Epstein situation would make it impossible for him to go back and become a podcaster because too many people would think he lied about Epstein. Is that what you think? Do you think that Bongino has lost the option of just going back and becoming a popular podcaster? I don't know. Maybe. Or maybe it would take a hit.

But if he quit over in protest, then I think he would be fine. If he doesn't quit and he's still unhappy about it and time goes by, then it might be a little bit harder to resuscitate his podcasting life, but there is a play. He does have a path, definitely has a path to get back to where he was if that's what he wants.

So I would disagree with Tucker that it's a certainty, but I would not disagree that he's got something to navigate there. So that's Tucker's take. But you all heard my take, which the bottom line is I said that the commander in chief, if he tells you that he's not going to tell you what the secrets are and we should move on, that it's his job. I won't go into the whole long argument. I'm just setting up the next part.

And I said I accept that we hired him to decide what we should know about national secrets and defense and stuff. And this is no exception. If Trump says we should move on, I believe it's not necessarily because if it's what's good for Tru

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mp. Probably there's something there that would be bad for the country if it got out in his opinion. And we hired him to have that opinion. So my take was that if the guy who's in charge of telling you what you should and should not know tells you, wink wink, there's nothing to see here, that that's why you hired him. Doesn't mean he's telling the truth, but it does mean that you're not going to…

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