he next thing he says will be confusing to you. So Trump stands in front of the world and says, you know, “Your intel agency says X but Putin says very strongly...” He did not pick a winner.

Now there’s something else you should have heard in that and it sounds like this. Imagine you’re hearing President Trump say that Putin, President Putin says they didn’t do it and he was very strong about that. Now listen carefully. Wink wink wink wink wink. Did you hear that? Wink wink. How about now? Wink wink. Could he wink any harder? Is it even possible to wink harder than he was winking? Did he even sound a little bit like he believed it? He did not. Just listen to his sort of body language. It’s like, “Yeah, Putin said very strongly they didn’t do it.” Do you really think he believes that? No. President Trump is describing to us a path to get from the crappy place we were, terrible relations with a country that we need to solve some other problems, to a better place that’s just better for the United States. And here’s how you do it. “Hey, my guy standing next to me that I need for a bunch of things, here’s how you don’t do it. President Putin, you are big liar. We cannot trust anything you say.” Why am I saying that in a Russian accent? Let me say it in American accent. “President Putin, you’re a big ol’ liar. Everything you say is a lie. We’re going to crush you.” Would that be good? That wouldn’t work.

How about this? “President Putin denies the allegations.” Wink wink wink wink wink. Now the problem of course is that the American public is not so good at hearing and seeing the wink. You have to see the wink or none of this makes sense.

Now I see a lot of folks talking about that the president let his ego get in the way because he wants the public to know that he had a clean win over Clinton and he doesn’t want to cloud it up with the Russians ruining the election. True. I’m sure that his ego would feel better if the history recorded he had a clean win. And as far as I know there’s no direct evidence that Russia actually successfully changed any votes. But the story is out there, right? And the odds that Russia tried to interfere with our election, probably 100 percent. Odds that we’ve tried to interfere with their politics in the past, 100 percent. So we’re not really arguing whether anybody tried to interfere with anybody else. 100 percent of course we did. Rand Paul just noted in that video that I was showing you, part you didn’t see, but he said there was some study where there were 81 instances of countries interfering with other countries’ elections. Apparently it’s the most common thing in the world.

All right, so let me ask you this. Which would be better for the United States? President Trump saying, you know, “I think my election was not legitimate.” That’s choice one. Or what he did say: “This Russian interfering stuff is baloney. I won fair and square.” Which one is better for the country? There’s no competition. There’s no competition. There are only two choices. He either says I wasn’t elected legitimately because Russia helped. That would be terrible for the country, terrible for him as well. Let’s you know that’s a factor but it would be terrible for the country. What would be better for the country? To deny the impact of Russia no matter what they did or did not do. The smart correct political thing to do is even if you had secret information that some votes were changed, you should lie lie lie. Why? Because it’s good for me, it’s good for you, it’s good for the integrity of the country. There are situations where lying is absolutel