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personal risk for the benefit of the public? Yes, very much so. He's had two assassination attempts. That's as much risk as you could put on anything. So while I understand all the criticisms and I understand why people would be wary that it might turn into something else, I get that. But we are experiencing the golden age. I hate to tell you, but you could not design a better government than a s…

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t coming out of Venezuela to be blown up and it was. So at some point the drug boats are going to either run out of drug boats or run out of people who are willing to get on a drug boat because it's just going to be a suicide sale.

Anyway, let's talk about Gaza. That's the big news. So as you know, the Gazans or the Hamas has acted like they're going to say yes to the peace deal, but they said yes to a different peace deal, not the one that was offered. So they're still trying to weasel their way into being relevant, maybe keeping their weapons a little bit, maybe being involved in the government going forward. And that's a hard no from Israel. So I don't think we're actually close to a deal, but it still might get done, which is what I'm going to talk about a little bit.

So here's what Trump allegedly said to Netanyahu according to Joel Pollak writing for Breitbart. Trump said, "This is your chance for victory." And he was fine with it. Trump said he's got to be fine with it. He has no choice with me. He's got to be fine. So Trump is basically telling the world and telling Netanyahu, I'm going to tell you what to do and then you're going to do it. Now what other president could even say those words? None. He's the only president who could say out loud, I told him he's got to do this and now he's got to do it. No one else. You know that, right? There's no one else who could even say those words and be taken seriously, but Trump can. He can.

And I think this is in response to all the people who think Israel is the tail wagging the dog and that the US is sort of following Netanyahu's lead. And this is Trump saying no, let me explain how this works. He's got to do what I tell him to do. Period. That's it. I'm going to tell him what to do and he'll do it. So I like this. I like this. So this is Trump again being the strongman authoritarian that he is and he wants you to know that this smallish country of Israel is not pushing him around and that he is in fact pushing Israel.

Now if he gets this done then I would say he has made his case that he's the one pushing Israel. If he doesn't get it done and Israel decides that they'd rather keep fighting and then they do, well then it's going to start looking a little bit like maybe Israel is calling the shots. So this is really important in terms of how we think of the relationship between Israel and the US. If Netanyahu does in fact make a deal in a way that all of us see wasn't his first choice, you know maybe he didn't get everything he wanted, that would be really good for Trump because it would show that h

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e forced it to happen and it would show that he had the control. But if it doesn't happen and it goes the other way, it's really going to prove that Netanyahu actually does run the country. So I'm exaggerating a little bit. That's a little bit of hyperbole, but this matters. Everybody's watching this. So unless the two of them suddenly act like they're exactly on the same page, it's going to look…

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