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Back to episode — Episode 22 - Trump’s Personal Attorney’s Office Raided

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Wow. Let me see what the various news organizations, let's see how they're covering it. So let's look at Fox News. Trump bashes the FBI raid and it talks about the president calling it disgraceful. And over on CNN, I think the news is so new that they're both going to be covering it the same so there won't be much opinion in it. And there's Chris Cilizza who I believe, you know Chris Cilizza over…

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And just for all the deals, I got to give you a pre-emptive Dale. Okay? Are you ready for a pre-emptive Dale? Here it is. Dilbert, why didn't you say the same thing when President Clinton was being impeached for a Monica Lewinsky thing? Why didn't you say the same thing then? Dale, I will slap that beard right off you. I did say the same thing then. I didn't like it when President Clinton's personal life became a public problem and I don't like it now. I feel exactly the same.

So before anybody accuses me of being hypocritical on this, same rules. If this were the Democrats, if this were Hillary Clinton going through the same situation, same reaction. This is more about the country. This isn't so much about the politicians anymore. This is no longer about Democrat and Republican. This is the Republic. This is the world you want to live in. This is us getting to decide, is this the world that we can tolerate? Can you tolerate this environment? I can't. I can't tolerate it. So I'm all up for the firing. Bring it on.

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And I'll say again as clearly as possible, if the president doesn't do some firing because of this, I'm going to be real disappointed. And when you ask me what do I think of the ramifications, what about the fallout from the firing, what about all the bad things, the marches in the street, what about the protests, what about the violence that would certainly happen? Probably there would be protest…

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