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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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a lot done, which he is.

The name of the Uzbek president is Shavkat. Shavkat. Shave the cat. All right. I like them already.

All right, here's a story you all want me to talk about. Blaze Media has a pretty big breaking news scoop. So their investigative journalist Steve Baker of Blaze Media apparently he worked with some entities that can do gait analysis, which is the gait, how you walk. You know, the specific way you walk. And the claim is that using this gait analysis that they've identified a woman who planted the pipe bomb on January 6. Remember the pipe bomb planter was on video but you couldn't see any face, but you see the body and you can see him walk. We thought it was a man probably, but it's a woman. And the claim is that the odds, if you add together the fact that the gait analysis is usually in the 90% accuracy and you add to that some human intelligence, they pop the odds that he has identified the correct person at around 98%. That's a high number.

Now do you believe that? The other thing that sort of raises your eyebrow is that the person named was a US Capitol police officer. Uh-oh. Shaunie Kirkoff. Where do you think she works now? Let's see. She's accused, just accused, this is an allegation only, of planting that pipe bomb under the role of being a US Capitol police officer. Where does she work now? Take a

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guess. Where did she get promoted to? It's a place called the CIA. That's right. If she had moved to anywhere on the whole planet except the CIA, I think I would have just missed this. But really? Really? All right. But now I'm going to give you my BS filter tests. Remember I've given you lots of ways to find out if something is real. What would you expect to see if this were real? Meaning that i…

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