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Back to episode — Episode 3012 CWSA 11/08/25

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e lawyer made the case. It doesn't mean it's true. It doesn't mean it's false. But this is not credible as presented. Do you remember when Dinesh D'Souza made some claims about the people dropping things off in dropboxes? And you remember what I said about that? If you can't show me at least a video or two of the same person dropping multiple things in these boxes, I don't think you really have a…

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y materialized after not voting in the last three gubernatorial elections. Is there anything else you need to know that half a million people suddenly were Democrats and suddenly voted whereas they hadn't voted in the last three elections and there was nothing really that. But then you say, "But Scott, maybe they just registered a lot of Democrats." No. No, that didn't happen. Just half a million people disappeared and it turns out that they mostly voted in the same direction.

So now we've watched so many claims being made about 2020 and none of them, as far as I know, none of them panned out. At least in terms of a court, there's no court that ruled that something went wrong at a big level. Anyway, this feels a lot like that, doesn't it? If you had to predict, what do you think is more likely to happen? That we will learn that the half a million number is just bad data and that really there's not half a million more and they just cared more because of, I don't know, if they wanted to defeat Trump or something. So do you think it's going to be that this really is or in the end is it going to disappear like so many other claims about elections when somebody says, "Ah, you just counted the numbers wrong or you were looking at the wrong list. It's not 500,000." Which way do you think this will go? I don't know about this one. It feels to me like this would be way too much thumb on way too much scale tha

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t anybody thought they could get away with it. So I'm going to go with this will never be proven. This is what I call a category problem for credibility. It's in the category of things that tend not to get proven. It doesn't mean it's not true. Again, difference between credibility and what's true or not true. There's a difference, but it feels to me just like all those other Kraken kind of storie…

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