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- 0:00Speaker 1: It started a donkey, I mean, trying to be donkey
- 0:03Speaker 1: today more.
- 0:04Speaker 2: They should be embarrassed by what they already did. I'm
- 0:06Speaker 2: not making these people do these.
- 0:07Speaker 1: Days called donkey of the day, and it really caught
- 0:10Speaker 1: me off guard.
- 0:11Speaker 2: Damn Charlamagne the.
- 0:13Speaker 3: Donkey out of day to day.
- 0:15Speaker 2: Wow, just hilarious.
- 0:16Speaker 1: Donkey Today for Wednesday, July tenth goes to George Stephanopolis
- 0:20Speaker 1: of ABC News. George is a former White House Communications director. He's,
- 0:25Speaker 1: of course the TV commentator political commentator. You see him
- 0:28Speaker 1: every morning with Robin Roberts and Michael screenhan on Good
- 0:30Speaker 1: Morning America. He's a fantastic journalist, one of the best
- 0:32Speaker 1: out there, and that's why it pains me to see
- 0:35Speaker 1: someone like him have to apologize for saying exactly how
- 0:38Speaker 1: he feels when what he said actually needs to be said.
- 0:42Speaker 2: See TMZ obtained video.
- 0:44Speaker 1: Of George out and about working out in the streets
- 0:46Speaker 1: of New York City when a random pedestrian approached him
- 0:49Speaker 1: and fresh off the heels of an interview George did
- 0:51Speaker 1: with President Biden, an interview that was supposed to clean
- 0:54Speaker 1: up the mess Biden made at his debate against Trump.
- 0:57Speaker 1: The pedestrian asked the question that a lot of Americans
- 0:59Speaker 1: are asking. That question is simply, do you think Biden
- 1:02Speaker 1: should step down? Well, George replied with something the American
- 1:05Speaker 1: people don't get too often.
- 1:07Speaker 2: And that's an honest answer. Let's listen, what do you think?
- 1:10Speaker 2: Do you think Biden should step down? You talked to
- 1:14Speaker 2: him more than anybody else have lately, and.
- 1:16Speaker 3: You could be answer for more years?
- 1:17Speaker 2: You don't think you can serve four more years? All right?
- 1:20Speaker 2: That's an answer. Nothing wrong with that answer.
- 1:24Speaker 1: If folks don't feel like, you know, Biden can serve
- 1:27Speaker 1: four more years, if folks don't feel like Biden can win,
- 1:30Speaker 1: if folks don't feel like he's physically or mentally capable of,
- 1:33Speaker 1: you know, serving four more years, and they should say
- 1:35Speaker 1: that because I've been asking a simple question four over
- 1:38Speaker 1: a year now. Is the Biden Harris ticket a winnable
- 1:40Speaker 1: ticket in twenty twenty four?
- 1:42Speaker 2: Most of the polling I'm seeing says no.
- 1:43Speaker 1: So, whether you are a high ranking Democrat and a
- 1:46Speaker 1: party or a pundit on TV, you cannot lie to
- 1:48Speaker 1: the American people about what they see and feel. You
- 1:51Speaker 1: don't gain the trust of people like that. The reason
- 1:54Speaker 1: this man in the street as George about Biden was
- 1:57Speaker 1: because George has been up close in person with Biden.
- 2:00Speaker 2: He just spoke to him.
- 2:02Speaker 1: So it is beyond damaging to hear George say that
- 2:06Speaker 1: he doesn't feel President Biden can do four more years.
- 2:09Speaker 1: But the follow up question for George should have been, well,
- 2:12Speaker 1: who are you going to vote for? I can almost
- 2:14Speaker 1: guarantee George would say Biden. Because George gives a damn
- 2:17Speaker 1: about democracy. I'm sure the pedestrian would say to George, well,
- 2:20Speaker 1: if you don't think he can serve four more years,
- 2:22Speaker 1: why are you voting for him. George's answer would probably
- 2:24Speaker 1: be because these are our choices, Okay, Trump and Biden,
- 2:27Speaker 1: So I have to choose one. Are you can choose
- 2:30Speaker 1: to stay home? I can guarantee you a former senior
- 2:33Speaker 1: advisor to the Democratic Party is not going to stay home.
- 2:36Speaker 2: Now.
- 2:36Speaker 1: Why is George getting Donkey of the day Because yesterday, okay, George,
- 2:40Speaker 1: Stephanophlis apologized for his comment on Joe Biden's second term
- 2:45Speaker 1: White House chances.
- 2:46Speaker 2: In a statement obtained by.
- 2:47Speaker 1: NBC News, George said, earlier today, I responded to a
- 2:51Speaker 1: question from a passer by. I shouldn't have ABC News
- 2:55Speaker 1: also said in the statement, George expressed his own point
- 2:59Speaker 1: of view and the position of ABC News. You know,
- 3:02Speaker 1: it just bothers me because journalists like George.
- 3:05Speaker 2: Are people we trust. Okay, they're people we trust.
- 3:10Speaker 1: So if George thinks Biden, you know, you know, can't
- 3:13Speaker 1: serve another four years, you know, he should be allowed
- 3:17Speaker 1: to say it and deal with whatever backlash comes with that.
- 3:20Speaker 1: But truthfully, it shouldn't be any backlash because we should
- 3:22Speaker 1: appreciate a journalist like George telling the truth.
- 3:25Speaker 2: Journalists like George owe.
- 3:26Speaker 1: Us the truth, and when the truth is spoken, the
- 3:28Speaker 1: Biden campaign should adjust accordingly. The Democratic Party needs to
- 3:32Speaker 1: adjust accordingly. The only person making George feel like Biden
- 3:36Speaker 1: can't serve another four years is Joe Biden. And the
- 3:39Speaker 1: only person who has to convince the American people people
- 3:41Speaker 1: they are capable of running for four more years is
- 3:44Speaker 1: Joe Biden. And if Joe Biden is sitting down with
- 3:47Speaker 1: folks like George and George walks away.
- 3:49Speaker 2: Feeling like he can't serve another four years, guess whose
- 3:51Speaker 2: fault that is? President Biden and his campaign.
- 3:55Speaker 1: If folks don't think that ticket can win, then damn it.
- 3:58Speaker 1: Put together a plan that changes people's minds, because if
- 4:01Speaker 1: you're losing November because you choose to ignore poles, more importantly,
- 4:05Speaker 1: you choose to ignore the feelings of the people, then
- 4:08Speaker 1: that is your fault. Okay, And I'm giving George donkey
- 4:13Speaker 1: today because the only reason he backed off those remarks
- 4:15Speaker 1: is because I guarant damn t the White House threatened
- 4:20Speaker 1: ABC with no access if they didn't. I know how
- 4:23Speaker 1: this works, They know how damaging what George said about
- 4:26Speaker 1: President Biden was. So someone made a call and he said,
- 4:28Speaker 1: if y'all don't walk this back, we will never sit
- 4:31Speaker 1: with ABC News ever again. All access to the White
- 4:33Speaker 1: House and the President and the Vice President will be denied, guaranteed.
- 4:37Speaker 1: That's what happened. And that's a damn shame that people
- 4:39Speaker 1: would go to those links to suppress the truth. And
- 4:42Speaker 1: that is what discourages people in regards to this whole
- 4:46Speaker 1: voting thing. You don't lie to people and attempt to
- 4:48Speaker 1: forenest people and pee on people's leg and telling miss raining.
- 4:51Speaker 2: Just tell me the truth because I already have eyes
- 4:54Speaker 2: and ears.
- 4:54Speaker 1: Okay, y'all don't want Biden to drop out, fine, y'all
- 4:57Speaker 1: don't want Vice President Harris at the top.
- 4:59Speaker 2: Of the ticket.
- 5:00Speaker 1: But don't lie to me about how you feel in
- 5:02Speaker 1: regard to this eighty one year old man. If you
- 5:04Speaker 1: don't think he can serve another four years, cool, Thank
- 5:07Speaker 1: you for confirming what I already believed. But I also
- 5:10Speaker 1: know I only got two choices in this coming election.
- 5:13Speaker 1: So now that you told me you don't think he
- 5:15Speaker 1: can serve another four years, tell me why I should
- 5:17Speaker 1: vote for him anyway. Hey, Trump passed thirty four felony convictions,
- 5:21Speaker 1: charges of fraud, election subversion, obstruction. Okay, he let an
- 5:25Speaker 1: attempt to cool his country, and he's the primary architect
- 5:27Speaker 1: of an institution that has no longer legitimate called the
- 5:29Speaker 1: Supreme Court. He selected three of those corrupt ask judges
- 5:32Speaker 1: that have abolished Roby Wade, that have made it legal
- 5:35Speaker 1: for state and local officials they accept bribes, and made
- 5:37Speaker 1: presidents immune the criminal prosecution for official acts in office.
- 5:40Speaker 1: With all that, people still feel like they're gonna vote
- 5:43Speaker 1: for Trump anyway. So you mean to tell me that
- 5:45Speaker 1: folks can't handle the truth about Joe Biden Joe Biden
- 5:48Speaker 1: and still vote for him in spite of They.
- 5:50Speaker 2: Can look past all of that with Trump, but not
- 5:52Speaker 2: for Biden.
- 5:53Speaker 1: This is what I mean when I say Republicans are
- 5:56Speaker 1: more sincere about their lives than Democrats are about their truth.
- 5:59Speaker 1: Republicans have no problem saying, so what keep it moving? Meanwhile,
- 6:03Speaker 1: George Stephanopolis tells the truth, and now he has to
- 6:06Speaker 1: apologize for it instead of being on Good Morning America
- 6:09Speaker 1: this morning having a discussion about why he feels Biden
- 6:12Speaker 1: can't serve four more years, but also why he's probably.
- 6:16Speaker 2: Gonna vote for him anyway.
- 6:18Speaker 1: Please give George stephanophilis the sweet sounds of the Hamiltons.
- 6:22Speaker 3: You, Oh the day, Oh the day. Ye.
- 6:40Speaker 1: I'm starting to think y'all purposely turn up the heat
- 6:42Speaker 1: when I do donkey today for some reason. Loving I
- 6:46Speaker 1: think that's what it is. They want to see me
- 6:48Speaker 1: do the fans, That's what it is. It's be perfectly
- 6:51Speaker 1: fine in here. You got on a blanket and I'm
- 6:53Speaker 1: over here burning up.
- 6:54Speaker 2: What's going on that side of the row and V
- 6:55Speaker 2: always giving somebody on with the the little shaw.
- 7:01Speaker 1: I drink my water and my juice, and I get
- 7:04Speaker 1: cold in the morning, I get a little chili, so
- 7:05Speaker 1: I just put on my little Oh that's menopause. Bring
- 7:08Speaker 1: us no they do something with this heat the way
- 7:12Speaker 1: to heat the menause. But most Dominican men do get
- 7:15Speaker 1: menopause around after forty five.
- 7:17Speaker 2: I'm not Dominican.
- 7:20Speaker 1: These don't the Dominican man gonna call up like, no,
- 7:22Speaker 1: we don't, don't do all that.
- 7:24Speaker 2: All right, Well, thank you for that.
- 7:26Speaker 1: Donkey Today, Yes, and don't be afraid to tell the truth.
- 7:28Speaker 1: People trust me. The American people can handle it. Okay, okay.
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