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#314 - Trump to Netanyahu: ‘You’re F***ing Crazy!’— Is the U.S.-Israel Alliance Cracking? · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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  Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu had a very heated exchange that got leaked
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  by Axios regarding Israel, the ongoing fights between Israel and Lebanon.
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  And I think a lot of people are, why was this leaked?
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  People that are pro-Israel are very upset because it's shown weakness and showing
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  a schism between Donald Trump and Israel, between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu.
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  So in Axios, it came out that summarizing, it says Trump's remarks to Netanyahu, the U.S.
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  Official said, you're effing crazy. You'd be in prison if it weren't for me. I'm saving your ass.
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  Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.
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  And Donald Trump just came out and he confirmed that this was not misreported.
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  This was accurate in what happened.
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  Which you were angry with him. You said, are you effing crazy?
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  What are you effing doing?
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  I helped you stay out of jail. Is that true? Did you speak to him in those terms? I did.
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  I don't want to say angry. I was a little bit perturbed at his constantly fighting with Lebanon.
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  You know, at some point, I said, we've got to stop this. We've got to stop it.
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  But I have a very good relationship. We've done well, done well together.
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  He always says, we could never have done it, but everybody knows that we could
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  have never done it without the United States.
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  But I've worked very well together. I like Bibi a lot, and I've worked very well with him.
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  I'm a wartime president. He's a wartime prime minister, a very important part of the world.
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  And I think we've done very well. We've got along very well together.
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  So I don't know what you think about that, but this all coming out,
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  I think that they are still aligned. And I think even this being leaked,
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  it's kind of a show that there's something going on.
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  Because Donald Trump, a lot of people do not like Israel at this point.
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  A lot of people do not like Benjamin Netanyahu.
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  Both of these men have been compared to Hitler, but especially Benjamin Netanyahu.
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  I think if you took a poll right now, nobody likes him.
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  What Israel has done is the most massive mishap of PR in history.
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  I can I can in just basically a year, two years top since October 7th,
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  which was a horrific event.
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  But since that has happened, whatever is exactly happening over in Israel and
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  if there's anything that is being misrepresented in Gaza and just everything,
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  the talking point is that Israel has committed a genocide against the people of Palestine.
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  And putting that aside, I would say with the U.S.'s involvement in getting into
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  this war, this operation in Iran, this was Donald Trump's decision.
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  Make no mistake about that. He decided to those months leading up to Iran,
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  he put our whole fleet over there, got all the U.S. soldiers and everything in position.
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  He knew what he was getting into. He was not being pulled and dragged along. Donald Trump, he...
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  Really, I mean, what does he stand to gain by just being lockstep with Israel?
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  Really, it's not going to benefit him and his presidency here in history in the U.S.
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  You could think he's taking the long game. Like, he wants to be looked at as
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  good and standing for the Jewish people.
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  His daughter becoming Jewish with Jared Kushner and marrying him.
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  Maybe that's what's going on. But, like, I would say that Donald Trump is not
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  a little kid. He's not a little baby or a little boy.
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  Making rash decisions. He knows what he's doing. And us being over there.
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  So I think that this being leaked is it's a real exchange, but it's not like
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  he's going to have that exchange with Putin or president of China, Xi.
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  He's not going to have those exchanges with them. This is somebody he feels
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  comfortable that he can say that.
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  And he's also very upset with Israel and like how how misguided people are about them.
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  Like I'm not saying I'm like locked in with them
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  either i i think they're not doing everything perfect
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  whatsoever and i think a lot of people that
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  are very pro israel have been quiet about this not really talking about this
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  because they like they've been standing with donald trump so long because he's
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  been so like united with israel and now that he's kind of like that this has
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  come out like it's like oh my gosh the house is on fire i think this just shows
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  like that we're in it for the long haul we're in it for
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  long run. And I, I'm not exactly happy about that.
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  I, and I, with everyday regular Americans, what, like what we're facing,
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  unless you have a, a member of your family that's over there and in harm's way
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  or impossible harm's way, I can understand that.
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  But just like regular Americans, we're, we're seeing like prices go up at the
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  pump. We're seeing like prices go up in the grocery store, which we really are.
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  But this really has, I think it's just more of the internet talking heads on
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  people that are just being crazy about this and saying just nutso things because
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  they want to be on the side of.
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  Not standing with Israel and
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  not linking arms with them. I don't think we necessarily need to at all.
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  But I'm not like where it's just like the wind is just turned against Israel.
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  And if you're speaking against them, then you're OK and you can be blasted in front of everybody.
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  And that's what people are receiving right now. That's that's where people are
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  standing. That's the the the popular opinion right now.
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  I just, I just know throughout time, I've seen this, like, I can't believe how
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  crazy it's gotten with Israel.
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  I remember years back when I did some traveling and I remember being in some
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  states like around Israel and I didn't know anything about them at all.
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  And I just remember people talking about like, even back then,
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  like this was about early, like, or late two thousands.
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  And it was like, if Israel was on your passport, like you couldn't even travel
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  through a lot of the countries.
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  And i i i can't believe that that they
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  have become so like hated because it
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  started over there like the arab countries surrounded them but now
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  it's spread across the whole world it's like i just see i just see it as people
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  give them so much more credit than they really deserve like and they're always
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  behind every conspiracy that's happening but there's never a smoking gun that
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  links it to them like have we i don't understand that at all i because like
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  conspiracies are fun and all,
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  but like, there's never ever something that exactly points it at them.
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  There's always this, this hearsay, the circumstantial evidence,
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  but never anything that really says that they were, they did it.
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  And I just, I just see like people have gotten to the point where it's just
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  derangement with Israel.
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  And it's like, whatever they do is evil and bad.
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  And they're so happy to see Donald Trump. He is, I see him still linked arms
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  with, with Israel and Donald and, and Benjamin Netanyahu.
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  I do see him as still standing for
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  them this is probably just a flare-up something that
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  got leaked and probably just like the rubio thing whenever it
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  came out there that he spilled the beans out well israel
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  they just pulled us you know they we had to preemptively strike because
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  we knew what israel is going to do really i think you're just playing the pr
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  game you're playing the game because you know what what are the people in the
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  united states going to think underneath the surface the people it's weird that
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  the people at the most top you can say that they're controlled by israel and
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  That's why they're all standing so closely together and lockstep with him.
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  I don't see it that way at all. I just see it as like.
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  We're not going to have this type of familiarity and this commonality like with
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  all these other countries like with the uk and the european nations with russia
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  like there's almost like it's,
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  it's you israel is like the united states of the east of the middle east it
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  feels like that they're the ones that have the same similar values i mean i
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  call let me know if you think i'm wrong about that i mean if we're honest like
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  if you go over there you would almost feel like you're stepping into Florida
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  or you're stepping into,
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  you know, I don't know, Kansas.
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  It would be like a regular place as opposed to just some of these other Arab
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  countries or even just other countries that like nuts, nuts,
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  so crazy things are happening in Europe.
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  And just like, you can't talk. You can't have freedom of expression and say
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  what you want or you're being locked up.
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  I know people are getting upset because they're saying like,
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  you can't say anything about Israel. You can't. I see it from both sides.
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  That's my curse. I see it from both sides and I get what people are saying,
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  but I would heavily much more agree with and land on that Israel,
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  you know, shares our same values. It's a good thing for us.
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  At least be there a helping hand for them, you know, and things because they're a helping hand to us.
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  They're not using us where I think we're both using us, using each other together.
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  And a lot of the things that we're trying to accomplish and what we're trying
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  to make happen in this world.
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  Donald Trump, he, he cares about his legacy. He cares about,
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  you know, standing for Jewish people.
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  He's standing for Israel. And it's like this whole idea of like people that are
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  jewish that don't like agree with
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  the nation of israel it's like if say say like one
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  ethnicity got together and there's just one a black nation that
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  they're just all black or all one all white nation they're just all white it's
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  like it would just almost be like turncoat like you're or traitorous you're
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  like you're not going to support your own people and that's kind of what it
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  feels like what israel itself is it's like the homeland the nation for the jewish people it might this,
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  might sound like you know looney tunes but it's i don't
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  see it as looney tunes i just see it as like the people
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  that are they most represent your ideology your
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  viewpoint your heritage who you are and so i i get i get when people are upset
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  like you know americans you know be stand for america and that's why i strive
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  to be america first what's in our interest but it's like we got to call things
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  out as they are like it just seems so weird like like the dave smith you know he's.
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  Does he care more about his career, his popularity?
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  Say in the talking points, they're going to get you accepted in major circles as opposed to,
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  Man, that's your heritage. I mean, you say that's your belief system, who you are.
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  I just don't I don't get that. I really don't understand that.
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  I've never, never grasped that.
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  Doesn't that seem weird? Doesn't that seem odd? Like if I was just like,
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  I'm openly against America.
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  I can't stand them. I can't stand people that are Americans. I can't take it.
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  Doesn't that just seem weird? Like, you know, like the whole thing about Jewish
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  people, Like that was the place that they said, we're building our lifestyle,
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  our way of life. Get everybody here that's Jewish.
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  I just, I don't get that. That's something I've, I have not,
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  you know, come of age, I guess, but help me through it.
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  Help me, help me understand and see what you see about all this.
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  I see Donald Trump and Benjamin, you know, who I think this is just a, it's just a flicker.
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  It's not, not even really anything, you know, it's just something that just
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  randomly happened. it was probably meant to be leaked.
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  And even if it was like a heat exchange, it just shows that like these guys,
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  they can say what they think.
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  They're not like scared to talk each other.
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  You think that Trump is going to say something like his handler,
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  the person that is controlling his life, you know, and he's going to say that to him?
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  I doubt it. There's no way. There's no way. Donald Trump, he's doing his own thing.
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  And this is PR. This is PR of putting in front of people that,
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  oh, we're having a skiff, you know, we want them to, Donald Trump,
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  he's for the greater Israel project, because that is the America project over there.
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  If Israel is controlling more of the Middle East, that is going to be benefit,
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  that's going to benefit the United States.
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  You could travel through all these countries, you know, and I have to put on
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  the hijab or I have to whatever you and worship Allah for five or three times
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  a day or whatever, but you have freedom of religion.
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  Israel has that the countries around them they don't have that so that's how
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  I feel about all that let me know what you think I'm always open to whatever
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  truth I want truth and I bet you do too so we'll leave it at that hope you all
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  have a good Wednesday see y'all.