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old his aides to give him an updated plan for acquiring Greenland, but Rubio says the plan is to buy it. So that seems like the right way to go, doesn't it? To at first make a legitimate effort to buy it. But your negotiation for that would be strong under the condition that you're definitely going to take it by force if you have to. Now that people believe, and I'm sure they do, that Trump would…

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the decision has been made. The decision is that the United States will buy or just take Greenland and it won't be forever from now. Almost certainly would happen within the next three years.

And if we move at what I call Trump's speed, you know how everything Trump does is faster. If you put the usual filter on it, you say, "Well, how many years is it going to take to negotiate it or you have a military reaction or something?" And the answer is, if this were a normal president, it might take longer than the president is even in office. But in the world of Trump speed, Trump could get this done in six months. And I'd say there's a good chance he will. Not a 100% chance, but he's the only president who could say, "Starting now, we're going to own Greenland in six months" and mean it and actually pull it off.

Jonathan Turley, who's a great writer by the way, I love his writing, he says, "Are you not entertained? Democrats announced new impeachment games to draw midterm voters." And the funny part is that the thing he would be impeached for if it happened would be using the military without the kind of approval that you would want to have from Congress. But the awkward thing is that the so-called designated liars on the Democrat si

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de have so recently had the opposite point of view than the one that they want to have. What I mean by that is that some of the prominent Democrats have said that Maduro has to go and then when Madur

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