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would know that he can't pull the football away one more time. That would, if you could read the room, and I think Putin's pretty good at reading the room, one more time would really weaponize America against him in a way that we haven't seen because it would look like he's just with us at that point, which is what it does look like. It does look like he's just with us. But if he does this high-pr…

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mean this would be completely different because Trump was willing to sort of act like his friend as long as that would give Trump some benefits and give them some benefits. But now it's just humiliating. If Putin does it to him one more time it's going to get real expensive for Russia in ways that maybe we don't even understand yet. So he shouldn't do that.

According to Just the News we now know that one-third of the detainees released from Guantanamo Bay, you know the terrorists, have returned to terrorism. One-third of the hundreds of detainees released, one-third of them just went back to being terrorists. Now here's the problem and it's sort of what Israel's problem is. What are you going to do with a population that would rather die than play by the rules? So there we go. It's not like the terrorists who had been at Guantanamo Bay were going to go get jobs in finance or something. What did they think they were going to do?

I guess Trump is having the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia come to the White House for a peace summit. How many of you even knew that Azerbaijan and Armenia were having some military conflict? Did anybody even know that? I didn't know it. But here again Trump is adding to his Nobel Peace Prize resume.

One of the things that Putin has working for him is that I don't think there's anything that Trump wants more than to be the person who solved the Ukraine and Russia war. Probably you could argue the economy or tariffs are something he cares more ab

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out, but if he solves Russia and Ukraine and gets credit for it, how in the world does he not get the Nobel Prize for Peace? I mean how does he not at that point? It would be just laughable if he didn't get it assuming that people widely believed he was the agent of the peace. So we'll see. But I love the fact that Trump keeps racking up these little peace deal victories that we didn't even know n…

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