ely by promoting him as bad cop. So his critics created an image of him as the ultimate strong man who could not be persuaded and of his views. None of that's true, but I'll bet it helps him negotiate. So his critics get the assist, not the win.

Jake Tapper is I'm kind of enjoying what he's doing right now. So CNN as you know has been trying to find the middle and not just be the anti-Trump network. And I got to give them credit. They're giving plenty of time to Scott Jennings. And they do seem serious about trying to find a reasonable middle ground. That's real news. Here's an example of it. So Jake Tapper is challenging some of the Democrat leaders by saying that in the past when the news talked about government shutdown and they talked about the continuing resolution option which allows you to keep it open until you agree on a final budget. So he points out to the Democrats that the Republicans have offered to sign a continuing resolution which means everybody gets paid, military gets paid, all the Medicare medical stuff gets covered until it's time to negotiate for real, which is not too many weeks away. Now Jake Tapper correctly says, "In the past, we would call this the Democrats shutting the government because the Republicans have directly said, 'No, we'll open it whenever you want. We'll open it today. Every one of us will vote to open it and the only thing you have to do is put off the negotiating until a few weeks.'" So yes, that is very clearly and unambiguously the Democrats closing the government. So good on you, Jake Tapper. I didn't see anybody else doing that and that was actually a really salient point.

Meanwhile, I saw a video of Chuck Schumer who is the worst communicator in the history of communicators. I mean he's so bad. And he was talking about the shutdown. He actually said the following in public. He said that every day of government shutdown gets better for Democrats. Now do I have to tell you how bad a mistake that sentence is? So people are wondering how to pay their bills. People are wondering if they'll have healthcare. I mean really panicky stuff. And what does he talk about? Oh what's better for Democrats, which he means Democrat leaders, and those are the ones who are getting paid. So he wants to make sure that the people who are getting paid, who are making sure that you're not getting paid, as Jake Tapper says, is the Democrats, they're making sure you're not getting paid if you're one of the government people not getting paid. But oh he's really happy that every day without you getting paid is better for Democrats. Can you believe that their leader is so dumb that he thinks saying that what's good for the leadership is the thing he should focus on? That is so lost. So lost.

Now I get that there's a political element to this, but you got to start with this shutdown is terrible for the people. We want it to end as soon as possible, but I don't think the Republicans have made the right bet on this. That would be fine. That would be fine because at least he's showing that his thoughts are with the people not getting paid. But now his thoughts are with himself and his career. Terrible. Just so bad.

There's so much interesting news today. Apparently Dominion, the voting machine company, has sold to they call him an ex-Republican kind of guy who was an entrepreneur. So he bought it. We don't know what price, but I saw Rasmussen, the polling people, had some comments about this. They've been talking about Rasmussen always talks about the past election integrity and Rasmussen said in a post, you bet your bippy that we're reading between the lines here, which is what we're all doing. I'm going to read between the lines too. But with what is surfacing almost daily, it's practically the only reason it makes sense. And that would be that Dominion sold it for scrap because indictments are expected. Now indictments in this context, in Rasmussen's context, would be for rigging the election or lying about rigging the election or something. Now I don't have any evidence that anybody rigged an election through Dominion. I do know there are a lot of accusations, a lot of allegations and I think people have done legally binding signed things saying that they believe stuff happened. But part of this deal is they had to settle the ongoing cases with let's see who else was it? Lindell. I think they were still in a lawsuit with Lindell and some other people. So they had to stop suing the Republicans to get this deal done. And Liberty Vote, that's who bought it. And it's a former Republican election official, Scott Linczer.

Now I'll give you my own reading between the lines. We don't know how much they sold it for, but I'll bet it wasn't as much as it used to be worth because Trump is talking about removing all electronic voting machines from the United States. If you were the electronic voting machine company, now they service the world, not just the United States, but the United States has to be one of the big customers. And so if you don't know if you're going to lose your biggest customer, and by the way if the United States removed them because they weren't safe, what would the other countries do? Do you think the other countries could keep them after the United States had hypothetically said, "No, these are too unsafe. We don't even want them in our election." It probably would take down the whole company.

Now what would be the one and only way that Dominion could survive, let's say reliably survive under the Trump regime, which is just trying to get rid of electronic machines? Well I would say the one and only way to do it is if you could find an ex-Republican who's just really Republican who would allow you and your people and whoever needs to to really look at those machines. And number one, for the first time, find out what's going on. And number two, get rid of any rigging or if there is rigging, make sure it's in favor of Republicans. Now under those conditions, you can see why a sale would go through because the Republicans would have a massive incentive to have full access to the code and find out what was real and maybe make sure any rigging doesn't happen again, if it ever happened. So you can see why a Republican might buy this company. If you ask me as just let's say an entrepreneur, I would never buy that company. Given the turmoil and the suspicions and the allegations and the lawsuits that are going on, that would be the worst company you could ever own. So if somebody bought it, I'm going to guess that it was for reasons more than profitability. In other words, it had to be a larger purpose for the sale to even go through because nobody in their right mind would buy a company that had that many threats that you can't know how they're going to turn out. It was an unbuyable company that got bought. So there's something happening in the background there that probably has to do with figuring out what really happened.

Anyway, Judicial Watch, you know them, right? They did a FOIA req