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rt people are. And when Sachs tells him what to do on one of these topics like crypto or AI, I'm pretty sure he's listening. And that is just nothing would make me more comfortable than that because Sachs also is connected to all the people who know everything about those topics. So it's not like he's sitting in a room by himself making up opinions. He's connected to all the smartest people. So that is really good news in terms of the organization of your government.

MSNBC is saying out loud that the worst predictions that inflation was going to be fueled by Trump's tariffs have not turned out to be the case. So MSNBC is saying directly, well, we were kind of worried about all this inflation, but by now we should have seen some. Scott Bessent, head of the Treasury, is explaining that the reason for that is probably that the cost increases are being absorbed by the shipper or the receiver and that there were some margins there that they had to play with. We might not see, we might never see inflation caused by that.

Now, have I ever told you that economics is mostly guessing? Wouldn't you think that the easiest thing you could predict if you were some professional economist is whether these tariffs would increase inflation? Shouldn't that be right on the list of the easiest things you could ever predict? And apparently it went the other way so far. I mean, it could all reverse tomorrow, I suppose. But at the moment, pretty much almost every economist got this wrong. I'm thinking back to my days under Jimmy Carter's presidency and there was a belief that you couldn't have slow growth and inflation at the same time, so-called stagflation for stagnant economy with inflation, but it happened and I think the economists said that's not even possible but it happened. So a lot of what you think is science in economics, it really isn't. It really isn't.

Meanwhile, the US and the EU are getting closer to a deal according to a number of reports. And Trump says he's got a 15% tariff deal with Japan, which would be a gigantic relief because they're one of our bigger trading partners. And that would be an improvement for the US. And as I've said a number of times that Trump will apparently given that things look like they're starting to work out, he will be announcing big trade deals that are better for America probably one a week for weeks and weeks and weeks. And the Democrats are going to be so mad. So mad that the main thing they had to talk about, which was the tariffs, are turning out to be a gigantic victory that you will be reminded of every week because it'll just be one after another saying, "All right, all right, we'll pay extra tariffs and your inflation is not going up."

Representative James Comer has issued and his group in Congress issued a subpoena to Ghislaine Maxwell and I believe that they're planning to talk to her today at her prison. So that means somebody in his group will depose her or get her opinion on a bunch of questions today. But I would like to point out that the theory that we live in a simulation is now proven by the fact that Comer is going against a groomer. Comer versus the groomer. Come on. We must be living in a simulation. There's no way that's natural.

So will we learn anything? I don't think so. My guess is that Ghislaine has nothing to say. Do you know what I would do if I were Ghislaine? I would say I'm happy to sit here and listen to your questions, but it would be against my interest to answer them. Because if I'm going to tell you some juicy stuff that you really want to hear, and boy do I have some juicy stuff. If you want me to name names, I'm not going to do it from prison. You're going to have to get to the DOJ and you're going to have to make me a deal to get out of prison. And then I'll tell you everything you need to know. So I feel as if there's a very low odds that she will name names we haven't heard before. So I wouldn't

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get all excited about this one. Apparently we have learned that the Department of Justice told Trump back in May that his name, among many other names of people, are on the Epstein files. Now, that doesn't mean he's on the client list, and there is no client list that we know of. It just means that he's mentioned as are many prominent people who knew Epstein but does not mean and there is no indi…

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