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million things to talk about, so I'm just gonna hit them fast and some of them are really fun. So today is a really good one. You know there are days when you have lots of news that's worth talking about, days when you don't. Today's a very newsy day.
I had never mentioned President Trump's comment about Biden's brain. So I guess the president last time he was talking about Biden mentioned he points to his head. He says there's something changed. There's something wrong there. Something different now. The news of course has covered this but they haven't quite put the spin on it that I'm going to.
I'm going to teach you a little bit about persuasion today, especially looking at Jared Kushner's speech about the Middle East. We'll talk about it in a minute. But there's some technique in the president's mention of Biden's brain. It's not just an accusation, it's technique.
And here's what makes it a technique and not an accusation. It would be specific. He would say I think he's got Alzheimer's. There's no evidence of that. I think he's drunk. There's no evidence of that. I think he's too old, maybe. But if the president had something that said there's something specific wrong with Biden either mentally or substance wise or health wise or anything else, you would have something to falsify. You would be able to say no, that specific accusation is not true. Maybe I think there's something else wrong with him but I don't think that that is wrong with him.
The beauty of the way the president does it, and trust me this is technique, it's not an accident that he does this so well, I'm going to give you another example. This in a bit. The president allows you, and this is straight out of hypnosis class by the way, that's literally where I learned the thing I'm going to teach you. If you want people to have the most persuasive argument in their
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heads, let them make it themselves. In other words, don't give them too much detail. Give them enough detail that their imagination fills in the gaps. So when you say to me, "Biden's not the same, you know, up here. There's something that's changed." That's a very broad statement. It allows you to imagine that Biden is drunk. It allows you to imagine that he's tired, too tired to run for presiden…
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