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ed governors, because she's accused quite credibly, and I don't believe she's denied it, that she did some mortgage fraud when she was a little bit younger. And she claimed two homes as her primary residence to get better rates, I guess, and that's illegal. So, she's fired, but I think she's going to fight it in court. And I saw a post by Eric Daugherty talking about how the experts were imaginin…

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rtificial where there's somebody funding a protest, but if nobody's funding a protest, things like this just don't happen. You know, things like people going, "Oh, no, he's firing a Fed governor. I'll have to remove all my stock investments." It just doesn't happen. In the real world, people just look at the news and shrug. They just go on with their lives.

I think only in the social media world do you imagine that this is going to cause some big reaction with the public. And not really. It's just one of a million things I had to process today.

Well, Trump quite cleverly, the administration is looking to take over Washington DC's Union Station. You know, where you grab a train, I guess. The New York Post is talking about this and it used to be sort of the jewel of DC, people say, but now it's too dangerous. And if they take it over, I guess they can remove all the danger. I think people are going to love that, don't you?

So I would say it's another home run by the Trump administration, simply identifying something that you're guaranteed to get people on your side. How would you like it if we made that place that you all go to on a regular basis safe? Yes, please. Yes. How about yes?

Even the mayor of DC, I won't say she's pro-Trump, but she thanked him for surging all these resources into her city and reducing crime. So, you know, there was some question. At first, she seemed positive about it and then she seemed negative about it. Now, she's back to some version of positive about it.

I feel like probably she's wrestling with the fact that she knows she wants it and she knows it's good. You know, the federal surging of law enforcement but the

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Democrats are probably pestering her saying, "You can't say that. Whatever you do, don't say it worked." And then she's thinking, you know, I'm just speculating. I don't know. Then I imagine her thinking, "Everybody knows this worked. Everybody knows it worked. And you're asking me to go in public and say, 'Oh, this is a terrible mistake. We like the crime.' I'm not going to do that." So, if that…

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