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. You don't want to go home in a body bag. Okay? You could feel that now compared to Trump is effing up the city. I use a swear word. Did anybody catch that? I used a swear word. One of those is four-star A++ persuasion. It's the body bag one. Yeah. It's not the "Oh he's effing things up. Oh I'm going to effing fight so hard." Oh. Oh mockery. I got a happy cat right there. All right. People can't…

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tarts taking out people who were good at their job at being Democrats. That doesn't count. If somehow he started looking for some dirt on Fetterman just so they could find some way to put him in jail I'd be against that. Very much against that. That would flip me immediately. But so far it looks like he's only getting rid of people who participated in hoaxes against him or acts which I would consider unethical, you know going after the January Sixers for example. So he's on strong ground. I'm completely supportive of if they want to call it revenge, go ahead. I call it mutually assured destruction has been activated and he's the agent of it. And he's going to make sure that if you think about lawfaring the next leader maybe you should think about what happens when you do that. Maybe you should think that that leader is going to kick your ass if he gets a chance. So that's okay with me. Hold society together.

Apparently Chairman Comer, Republican, is looking at subpoenaing Kamala Harris to talk about the hiding of Biden's health problems. And I have two feelings on that. Number one, yes. Yes I would like to know what she says about that. And the other feeling is yes. And why haven't we done that yet? Why is it even a question? She was the vice president. That's the most obvious person to ask. What did you know and when did you know it and why didn't you do something about it? So yeah, I hope that happens. I don't know that it will. And if she did maybe she would just take the fifth which would look really weak.

Well believe it or not we now have the Ghislaine Maxwell transcript and audio. I think it's fully unredacted. Where Trump's ex-personal lawyer who now works for him in another capacity interviewed her and asked all the important questions. So there were quite a few things that came out of it. So I'll run down the list. A big part of the list I got from DataRepublican. So on X the DataRepublican account did a good job of summarizing some of the things we learned.

All right. So before I tell you what we've learned, can we all agree on the following? She is not a credible witness. Everybody. Because otherwise it's going to drive me crazy when I look in the comments and you're yelling at me and saying Scott you fool don't you know that she lies? Can we all start by saying we all understand she's not a credible witness on anything she says? Say it. Say it out loud. I understand she's not a credible witness. And then I can save some time when I tell you the thing she said so I don't have to stop after every one and say but remember I'm smart enough to know it's not necessarily true because she said it. Are we all on the same page? Can we handle this?

All right. Ghislaine Maxwell says that Trump never did anything inappropriate and that he was a gentleman in all respects and that he was never even around a massage setting. Hold. I know you want so badly to say but she got in return a better jail. So of course she said that because he might pardon her. Hold. We all understand that. You don't need to say it in the comments. You don't. No matter how much of an NPC you are you don't have to say it. We all know.

All right. She also said that Bill Clinton never went to the island and I don't think she believes she saw him do anything inappropriate either. Huh. So you're telling me that Bill Clinton, the guy who's associated with the highest body count through his wife, that he never did anything on the island either. Huh. Well totally believable.

She said Trump did not receive any massages. She said Bill Clinton didn't even visit the island. She said there's no client list. Epstein didn't work for any intelligence agency. She said that there were no cameras on the island. So that there are no videos. I know. Hold. Hold. Don't make me say it again. Hold.

Let's see. So apparently Ghislaine Maxwell said she worked with Clinton to set up the Clinton Global Initiative. And I believe that's the entity that everybody assumes was a pay-for-play, was a huge bribery mechanism so that foreigners could pay large amounts of money into it. And then Hillary Clinton when she was state department and or senator I guess would have done what they wanted in return for that large amount of money to their Clinton Global Initiative which they allegedly may have siphoned off for themselves. And she believes that Jeffrey Epstein actually funded the Clinton Global Initiative and that that was the main reason that Clinton and Epstein had a relationship is financial.

Okay. And let's see. So the new movie that's emerging, I'm going to call the Mike Benz filter on it, is that it's possible, and I'm not going to say that this is my view of it, but it's possible that the sex crimes were entirely Epstein doing it himself and or just some people close to him that he might have pulled into the scene, but that it might not be about blackmail. That rather he seems to have been involved in very large financial entities and transactions and that he seemed to be an expert on rich people hiding and moving money that can't be tracked. So that makes sense if he was setting up the Clinton global whatever it was that he was an expert on helping rich people make money illegitimately and or hiding it illegitimately. And it could be that everything we think was a blackmail scheme and working with intelligence agencies may have been nothing but a whole bunch of opportunities that were big ones. So they he may have intersected with some intelligence people but that he wasn't on their payroll. It's entirely possible that he worked with some of them and that maybe he helped him out in some cases in return for some other favors. So I wouldn't say that he had no contact with any intelligence people but it might be that that wasn't sort of what defined him. It could be that was just opportunistic or something and that really he was just looking for gigantic financial transactions and that it helped him to have close personal relationships with people, not necessarily for blackmail, but if you did some, let's say hypothetically, you had some rich friend and the two of you got into some sketchy sexual behavior here that the two of you knew about but other people didn't, you probably would be more open to working with that person so they didn't sell you out. So it could be that the situation with Epstein was more nuanced, but that's not my view. I'm just saying that there more than one movie has now appeared. We don't know which one is true.

Ghislaine thought that Epstein did not kill himself so she thinks he was murdered but doesn't know by who. She denies that she solicited women for Epstein. I've certainly read lots of details that would suggest that she did. She did not see underage girls involved with anything non-consensual or anything improper. Okay we don't believe that.

Maxwell says that again I'm using the DataRepublican summary here says there's never been a list, you know like a client list, which would make sense if he wasn't in the business of just blackmail. If he was in the business of knowing as many rich people as possible and he

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lping them set up clever schemes with their money, it could be that the sexual stuff was just it made sense in some cases, didn't make sense to bring somebody into that world in other cases, and he just discriminated. And Maxwell said there was no blackmail and no intelligence ties, as I said. And Epstein managed the money of Elizabeth Johnson, a Johnson and Johnson heir in the 90s. And he had a…

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