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ded with the Russian government to win the 2016 election. You know that there is literally no evidence of that, right? Like none at all. Nobody suggested anything like it. There's nobody who claims it and was in the room. There's no document. Absolutely nothing. 60% of Democrats think that Russia helped get Trump elected. What percentage of people do you think believe it's very likely that Russia…

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you do the negotiation. That's not a thing.

So no, Iran is not serious about negotiating.

So this may have happened already. Maybe you can tell me in the comments, but allegedly Trump is making some big announcement about Ukraine, right? And if Lindsey Graham can be believed, he's completely ruined Trump's surprise. If I were Trump, I'd be so mad at Lindsey Graham because he sort of tipped off what the surprise is going to be.

And apparently—we don't know this for sure—but Trump is going to approve the sale of offensive weapons to Ukraine. Now if you didn't know, the weapons that the US was involved in supplying were mostly defensive, meaning missiles that would shoot down other incoming missiles, that sort of thing.

But so Lindsey Graham says, "I don't want to get ahead of the president." And then he gets ahead of the president. He goes, "But stay tuned about seized assets in tomorrow's announcement." All right. So Lindsey Graham, you are terrible at keeping a secret. You're terrible at it.

Apparently Trump is going to use seized Russian assets. I think there are maybe 300 billion or something that we somehow have banking control over. And he would use these seized Russian assets to buy offensive weapons and also defensive, I guess, for Ukraine.

Now given that Trump is saying directly that he maybe trusted Putin's happy talk too much and that he now believes that Putin was just basically screwing him and stringing him along and never really intended to make a peace deal.

Now how would you like to be Trump where your brand and your reputation and how other countries think of you as well as how the US thinks of you, those are really important things. And Trump definitely is getting a black eye from appearing to be a little too trusting of Putin's willingness to negotiate.

Do you believe that Trump feels like Putin screwed him not just geopolitically but screwed him personally and screwed his reputation and his brand? And I think the answer is yes that Trump i

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s now off of the "well maybe if we're friends and I treat him well we could come to some kind of agreement that people could live with." He's completely off of that. Trump is now in revenge mode because Putin stabbed him in the back while smiling at him. What do you think Trump does when somebody stabs him in the back in front of the entire world? Does he A, let it go? No. Does he B, look for cre…

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