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he doesn't know that. I would say every adult with an IQ over 110 would know that. I don't have to explain it to you. Anyway, and of course Putin is running the same play on Trump, you know, flattering. Good morning, Ken. Then the funniest thing I'm watching is that MSNBC always has all these anti-Trump critics who have to be on every day. And one of them is Molly Jong-Fast. And I like watching h…

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Mueller indicted 12 Russian nationals on charges of hacking the DNC. And this is something I noted at the time too. The indictment was designed to create political chaos, but Mueller knew that the 12 Russians were located in Russia and would never stand trial. Meaning we'd never know for sure, would we? We'd never know for sure if Russia was behind it. Probably was, but we'd never know for sure. So the Democrats have been using Russia as their club for a long time.

According to CNN's Harry Enten, Americans trust Trump and the GOP on crime way more than they trust the Democrats. He said that, well, that's a pretty big deal. I mean, if Trump and the GOP are favored by quite a bit on the topic of crime, it'd be kind of hard to beat them in the midterms. But midterms I think could go any way at this point.

Peter Schweizer points out he's an author. He wrote the book Clinton Cash about the Clinton Foundation and the alleged bribery and money laundering. I guess pay-to-play and bribery. It was not money laundering although it's a form of money laundering to do the pay-to-play and the bribery but he points out that we now know from the new classified document releases that several FBI field offices were planning to investigate the Clintons for the pay-to-play and bribery potential of the Clinton Foundation and the Obama Department of Justice told them to shut it down. And I think that Peter Schweizer assumes that if there's something going on right now, some other kind of FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation from back then that they're going to find stuff and it might be a real big deal. And I think that too. So there's nobody to tell them to shut it down. And I don't think you get multiple FBI field offices involved back in 2018 unless they had some kind of actionable intelligence.

Well, Trump is deploying 4,000 Marines around Latin American waters to stop the drug dealers, the cartels. And apparently that's a pretty big military. So that would include warships, nuclear-powered subs, spy planes, and a marine expeditionary force. Wow. And some say it's just a show of force. It might be more than that. And then the Mexican government has confirmed that they have approved and they knew about US government drones flying over Mexico as part of the anti-cartel stuff. So I don't know if Mexico is just trying to cover their butts by saying, "Oh yeah, we knew about it and we approved it." Or if we were just doing it anyway and maybe they approved it. I don't know.

And then there's Governor Newsom who is still becoming crazier and crazier in his anti-Trump stuff. And Newsom actually said in public that he believes that Trump is serious about running again in 2028. And partly he believes that because he received a Trump 2028 hat in the mail and he just reminds all the Democrats that they must fight like hell. And that UCLA, who is one of the entities that the Trump administration is going after for being racist, he says that UCLA will not sell its soul. So believe it or not, Newsom is siding with racists and siding with racism because the alternative is to sell their soul. So I assume their souls are disgusting racist souls and they don't want to sell them to be less racist like the Trump administration would like them to do. So they are stuck in that fight like hell frame with nothing else.

Well, Trump told us, and I don't believe this for a second, but he says that President Xi of China told him that China will not invade Taiwan as long as Trump is in office. Quote, he told me, this is Trump saying that, "I will never do it as long as you're president, but I am very patient and China is very patient." Do you believe that Xi told Trump that he would never do it while Trump was in office, but he plans to do it? Well, that's what you say when you're trying to get elected in 2028. No, I don't think he, my guess since I can't read minds is that Trump is not taking seriously running in 2028 because the Constitution would not allow it and I can't imagine it would ever work. But on the other hand, he probably is attracted to the idea that it's even an idea. Yeah. How would you not love that? That there are people seriously who would want to change the constitution to keep you in power. That'd be nice. I don't think he's taking it seriously though.

Well, the mayor of New Orleans, LaToya Cantrell, according to the Gateway Pundit, a grand jury has charged her with dozens of felony counts, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to

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obstruction of justice, making false statements, etc. It makes me wonder given that the problem with local government is that the way it's designed, it guarantees that the leaders will be corrupt. It guarantees it. It doesn't guarantee any specific leader and it doesn't guarantee that it will happen on day one, but it guarantees that people who know that they can exploit that office for financial…

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