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arently are trying to back the president on that and not release them, but Democrats want it all released. And they got enough votes in the House with a few crossovers that would not surprise you. So we got Marjorie Taylor Greene voting for disclosure, I believe. Boebert voting for disclosure. And does anybody feel like arguing with either one of those? If Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene say,…

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more of Ukraine so you don't have to. You got it. Just do not let this come out." Is that possible? Maybe.

I mean, Trump's a dealmaker. If you handed him the leverage to win a bunch of negotiations with Great Britain, you're going to ask about Israel, right? But so in your own mind, you could throw that in there if you want. So it could be that Trump knows that if he doesn't give away the secrets, then he gets to use them as his own leverage, which might be, and again, this is just speculation. I'm just showing you that there's a wide range of what could be behind all this. Some of it's good, some of it's bad. We may never know. But Trump would definitely have an advantage if he was the only one who knew or the only politician who knew what the real situation was and who was involved.

All right. Let's see what else. Now this is fun. Let's see how many of you think this is a complete coincidence. So does this have anything to do with Epstein, the next thing I'm going to talk about, or is this just total coincidence?

Trump has written a letter to the Israeli president asking him to pardon Netanyahu from what he thinks is a lawfare kind of unjustified prosecution which has been going on for years. The *Washington Examiner* is writing about this. And it was a long, well-written letter in which Trump made his argument of why they were treating Netanyahu unfairly. And a big part of the argument is that Trump and Netanyahu are such a good team that they could accomplish unprecedented things, but not if Netanyahu is in jail. So a pardon would be a good thing for us allegedly.

But certainly you would see this as Trump doing a favor, wouldn't you? It looks like Trump doing a favor for Netanyahu. Now, he doesn't do favors just to do favors. Well, that's not true. Sometimes he does. He did favors to me just to do a favor. So there's some reason he's doing it now. And it could be that the reason is it's just the right time to do it because Gaza is moving forward in a productive way. Things worked out. Netanyahu's reputation probably isn't going to get better. This would be a good time to strike.

But then I was curious what exactly is he being accused of? And I'm still not entirely sure. But apparently there were $200,000 worth of what they call extravagant gifts that he accepted while in office. Netanyahu did extravagant gifts. Now when Trump talked about the extravagant gifts, he was minimizing it and he said you were talking about champagne and cigars and Trump was acting like, you know, come on.

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They're basically just quality champagne and cigars and stuff like that. And we're not talking about giving somebody a pile of cash. Now, that is very different. You know, what you would do for a pile of cash would be completely different than what you do for a little extra good champagne. So the first thing I'd like to know to understand this topic is Netanyahu really being accused of real crime…

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