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Back to episode — Episode 2967 CWSA 09/23/25

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ly thought of it that way, cost dozens of people that you really like, you know they're your staff, cost them all their jobs because of some dumb thing you did. Imagine how that would hurt. Like if you were a normal person who cared about other people, that would really hurt. So if you imagine that Jimmy Kimmel just had a few days off and then he's just back to work and everything's good, I would…

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50,000 in cash in a bag for potential services later should he become his current job and should Trump have gotten elected. So this was before Trump got elected and before he was in his job.

Do you know what the White House's response to that story is? It never happened. The response is not he took the money but it was when he was a consultant and maybe he didn't do anything that was illegal. It's not that. They say it just didn't happen. There was no transfer of money. He didn't take any money.

Do you believe that? That's a pretty bold claim. If the allegation is allegedly on video, the allegation is that it was a sting operation, which would mean that somebody in the FBI literally had the video of the transfer of money in a bag. Do you think that if that exists and there's any chance that somebody would have access to the video and maybe got a copy, do you think that they would just

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say, "No, it never happened. There was no transfer of money whatsoever"? I don't know. They must be pretty confident that nobody can prove them wrong because it's binary. It's yes or no. It either exists or it doesn't exist. But I am willing to believe that the White House is correct and maybe it doesn't exist. It could be that they offered him the money and he didn't give a hard no, nor did he g…

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