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to turn into anything like jail time? How many of you believe that based on everything you've lived through, everything you've seen, everything you know about the government, that the logical end state here is that these people who clearly were doing something inappropriate, I don't know what's legal and what's not legal. I'm not good at that. But clearly something monstrously inappropriate. Just…

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u had a better one, you'd use it, right? As in, I'll give you an example. Let's say that most of her gains was in one or two stocks and she said, you know what, I was watching the same news you were, and to me it looked like AI was going to be big. So I bought a bunch of Nvidia early, and that's about 30% of all my gains. But then I also got lucky. And then tell a story basically of how she did in fact make ordinary investments and they just happened to be good and they did unusually well. Now I'm not saying that's really what happened. I'm saying if that is what happened, why wouldn't you go with that? That would be entirely at least believable. I mean, she could prove when she bought something and when she sold it and you could look at the headlines and you could say, "Didn't we all know that that was going to be good or did she have some special access?" Now it does seem guilty as hell when she just says, "My husband does the trading." Now he's professional, so if he does trading he should do better than other people, right? Maybe not that better. Not that much better. So yeah, that looks like it's exactly what it looks like. It's just a mass of a bunch of insider trading or she's very bad at alibis. One of the two.

Apparently Trump has reached some kind of hundred billion dollar trade deal with Uzbekistan. Thank God. We've all been waiting for this one. It's the big one. Uzbekistan. Finally. Finally. Do you believe that it's a hundred billion dollar deal? Well, first of all, it's over 10 years, so more like 10 billion. But it's a small place. 36 million people live there. However, every single day, as

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I've been telling you for a long time, every day that Trump can make one of these trade deals, and there are a lot of countries left, it makes it look like progress, doesn't it? I mean, it looks like something good happened. And if he just keeps rolling these up, like today is Uzbekistan, maybe tomorrow is Kazakhstan, day after that is Albania, it's just going to look like he's getting

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