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e your LDL because that was bad stuff. So I was looking back on my history of diet and science, and correct me if I'm wrong, but over my lifetime, science has been wrong about everything about diet fairly consistently. And I think almost everything except maybe soda. Soda's always been considered not the best thing for you, but almost everything else went through a phase where somebody said it was…

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l to totally look at what you're doing with your regular dollars. So do you really have privacy when it comes to larger transactions? No, you don't. You don't have any privacy when it comes to large transactions. If your government is interested, if they want to look at what you're doing, they're going to be able to look at it. They always have been able to. So do I think that a central bank digital currency would make it that much easier for the government to spy on you and control you? I don't know. Maybe. But I think if you think it's a big deal, you probably don't realize how easily they can spy on you now.

Anyway, so those are two things I don't understand, but what I do like is that David Sacks is in charge of explaining and getting changes in the government that are going to be helpful for crypto. And while I don't think that Trump has a full understanding of this crypto world, I do think that Sacks does. So this is one of those cases where I'm willing to trust the plan only because I believe that the person in charge is smart enough and honest enough that he would lead us in the right direction. And we'll see.

The story of the alleged Donald Trump doodle on a birthday card to Epstein when Epstein was 50. So that would have been years ago, 2003. The new wrinkle is that Michael Cohen, who went to jail and he was Trump's attorney and you know he loved Trump when they were working together, but then they became enemies. Like really enemies. And even Michael Cohen, who remains, I would say, a big enemy of Donald Trump, says, quote, "During the 13-year time period that he was close to Trump, I never heard Trump mention Jeffrey Epstein, and over 13 years of being by the man's side, I have never once seen him doodle. I never saw him draw a picture. In fact, I would be very shocked if Donald Trump actually can doodle." So I feel at this point the public opinion at least on the right is that the Wall Street Journal report is fake news and maybe they didn't intend it that way. But it doesn't look like the evidence that they produced is reliable to me. This looks like, bolstering the idea that it's fake news, Trump is suing Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal for producing that article, which Trump would say they would know was fake. Otherwise, it wouldn't be a problem. If they did it accidentally, thinking it was real, I think they're safe. But if they knew it wasn't real and they did it anyway, well then they might have some legal problems with Trump. So he's got his lawsuit going. He says he's looking forward to Murdoch testifying.

All right. But what would be the most predictable part of the story? The most predictable thing. The most predictable thing would be that we would someday find out that the reporter behind the story for the Wall Street Journal has some connection to the Democrat deep state. Do you think that maybe that's true? Well, it turns out the Gateway Pundit is writing that according to Real Clear Politics and National Political Correspondent Susan Crabtree uncovered a damning connection between the reporter who wrote that story about the birthday card and the little drawing on it. It's Joe Palazzolo. And apparently he was connected with, let's see, he previously worked as a reporter for something called Main Justice. So far you're saying, "Well, that's nothing." But Main Justice was a publication run by Glenn Simpson's wife. Have you made the connection yet? Glenn Simpson was the founder of Fusion GPS. Are you there yet? Have you made the connection yet? Fusion GPS was behind the Steele dossier. So at the same time that, and we'll talk about this, that the Trump administration is putting all kinds of pressure on the creators of the Steele dossier and all the fake Russia collusion hoax. At the same time, the Wall Street Journal coincidentally produces a major story in which somebody who was, let me say it again, the reporter who wrote the story used to work for Glenn Simpson's wife and Glenn Simpson was the one whose firm was behind the

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Steele dossier, which we know is fake. So, don't you think we need an AI program that will do this automatically? I feel like it could do it because these connections are always public. Like, you can always find a story or a connection or a LinkedIn profile or something. So I would love to know every time a reporter writes a negative piece on somebody I would like to know ah so what's your spouse…

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