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our pockets. So they're probably behind maybe a third of all of our problems. And by the way, I don't think they're going away. It looks like even Trump can't make them go away. It's too complicated. There are too many of them. They have too much support. It's how everybody gets their fake paychecks. So I don't think Trump's going to make any difference. It does seem like you could make some kind…

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st Mexico is beefing up the one that they like and maybe they need to do that to stay alive.

But separately, apparently the US Customs and Border Protection flew a military drone over 600 miles into Mexico and they were looking at one of the cartel strongholds and then coming back. So I don't think they bombed anything. I think it was just looking. But isn't that what you always assumed was happening anyway? Are we to believe that the US military has never used a drone to look at the cartel operations in Mexico? Who would believe that? I assume we've been doing it for years. I don't know.

Anyway, so Trump and Putin are going to meet and I saw an article in Axios that was very much in line with what I was saying that Putin has made the mistake of making this personal with Trump. And the personal part is that Trump says Putin is just tapping him along and essentially lying to him and making him look bad because it looks like he got suckered. So Trump is now going into this and if he leaves this empty-handed, it's going to look really bad for Trump. Would you agree? It would look like Putin played him again, just bought some time, got some credibility by meeting with the president, but that it was all just another trick, and tha

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t Trump would once again be duped by this clever Putin guy. Do you think that Trump can allow that to happen this time? So I think because this is now completely personal, it's political but it's also very personal. I think that Trump is going to tell Putin, here's the deal. I need to leave here with something real, you know, like a ceasefire, for example, or I'm going to just destroy your econom…

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