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Back to episode — Episode 2900 CWSA 07/17/25

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. You know they were sitting together in the Oval Office and whenever Trump turned to him he would have this big smile on his face and you know he laughed at his jokes and stuff. So he looks like he's getting along with Trump well. But Trump answered questions about all manner of things. And he said that the press should be focusing on Biden and the autopen, not the Epstein stuff. All right here'…

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it to get power over you and so far not successful.

And then he was asked about whether he still supports defunding the police, which is something he had said in the past. And he decided to avoid the question. Avoid the question. How in the world would all these top CEOs like Jamie Dimon and you know a bunch of people like that, how in the world are they going to back this guy? Well we don't know if they will or not but apparently a bunch of out-of-state people are donating to Mamdani's campaign. He's got 350,000 since his primary win from out of state. Now he gets also in-state but that's a lot. And I'm wondering if Republicans are donating to him. Are there any Republicans who are so Machiavellian that they say to themselves you know if we let the Communist completely destroy New York City the Democrat party will be dead for a generation? Is there any Republican with enough money that they actually think that? It's like well you know I don't want to destroy New York City but they apparently want to destroy themselves. So we'll just give them the tools to do it and then nobody will vote for a Democrat ever again. Maybe. I don't know.

Well Adam Schiff, who used to say no one is above the law, now says that Trump's attacks on Schiff are more dangerous than ever because it involves the law. So Adam Schiff, who apparently broke the law when it came to saying what was his primary residence because he had two primary residences which is not a thing. It's illegal. But he's saying the real problem is Trump's abuse of law, not the fact that he broke it in the most obvious way, allegedly.

According to the Wall Street Journal, vigilante groups

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are taking control of Russia's streets because so many of their police officers have been shipped to the war. Now the way the story reads, the reason so many police officers in Russia have been sent to the war is because it pays better to be a soldier than it does to be a police officer. To which I say how much more does it pay that you would go into a meat grinder where you can't walk outside wit…

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