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Turn On The News: The Perfect Storm · Donald Drumpf Theatre radio show

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  SPEAKER_03: We interrupt this broadcast to bring you a special news bulletin direct via
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  No, we can't.
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  SPEAKER_03: Husker do you think JD Vance likes Husker do Why does everything have to be so
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  SPEAKER_03: weird these are dangerous times something terrible is going to happen I
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  SPEAKER_03: Ah, greetings.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yes, it is I, the Count.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I'm about to find out what the number of the day is.
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  SPEAKER_03: Oh, I wonder what it will be.
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  SPEAKER_03: Oh, the suspense is too much.
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  SPEAKER_03: I hope it is... Five...
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  SPEAKER_03: A scary and powerful hurricane is barreling towards Florida right now.
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  SPEAKER_03: Hurricane Milton is at category five out of five,
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  SPEAKER_03: which is something even the experts,
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  SPEAKER_03: even the people who know everything there is to know about hurricanes have not
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  SPEAKER_03: heard of.
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  SPEAKER_03: I would like to tell you that there's a very violent hurricane that's coming down the line.
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  SPEAKER_03: And it's a Category 5,
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  SPEAKER_03: which is something that I've never heard a Category 5 actually coming onto land,
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  SPEAKER_03: but it looks like it's going to.
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  SPEAKER_03: You never heard of a Category 5 coming onto land.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's interesting because I was under the impression that you had.
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  SPEAKER_03: I saw the devastating effects of that Category 5.
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  SPEAKER_03: Hurricane, Category 5.
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  SPEAKER_03: Never heard about Category 5s before.
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  SPEAKER_03: It was a Category 5.
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  SPEAKER_03: I never even knew a Category 5 existed.
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  SPEAKER_03: Category 5.
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  SPEAKER_03: Nobody's ever heard of a 5 hitting land.
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  SPEAKER_03: Usually by that time it's dissipated.
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  SPEAKER_03: This was almost coming in at a five.
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  SPEAKER_03: It was a five, a little bit out offshore.
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  SPEAKER_03: I don't know that we've ever seen that.
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  SPEAKER_03: You know, he did get his meteorology degree from Trump University.
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  SPEAKER_03: Wow, Donald, you never heard of a Category 5 hurricane hitting land?
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  SPEAKER_03: It's weird, because I remember one happening while you were president.
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  SPEAKER_03: What did you say after that happened?
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm not sure that I've ever even heard of a Category 5.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yes, yes, yes.
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  SPEAKER_03: For all you people who think he's in mental decline,
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  SPEAKER_03: turns out he's been the same level of stupidity for years.
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  SPEAKER_03: That was a horrific storm, much worse.
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  SPEAKER_03: And, you know, it's late in the season.
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  SPEAKER_03: You wouldn't think a thing like that could happen.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, no, it's not late in the season.
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  SPEAKER_03: Hurricane season goes until the end of November.
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  SPEAKER_03: He said this about Hurricane Helene, too.
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  SPEAKER_03: The guy lives in Florida.
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  SPEAKER_03: He doesn't know when hurricanes happen.
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  SPEAKER_03: It doesn't matter when they happen.
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  SPEAKER_03: What matters is why they happen.
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  SPEAKER_03: And the answer to why is Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
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  SPEAKER_03: Only Donald Trump sees a natural disaster coming and goes, hmm, who can I blame for this?
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  SPEAKER_03: Even Laura Ingraham wasn't buying this load of crap.
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  SPEAKER_03: They don't have the people.
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  SPEAKER_03: They're not doing it.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's a bad, it's a very bad thing.
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  SPEAKER_03: How would you do it differently?
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  SPEAKER_03: I'd have a tremendous team of people here.
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  SPEAKER_03: They don't have any people.
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  SPEAKER_03: Florida was hit very hard.
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  SPEAKER_03: Biden said the response has been robust and well-coordinated, Mr. President.
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  SPEAKER_03: Nobody says that.
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  SPEAKER_03: He doesn't know what robust is.
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  SPEAKER_03: He should be there, and she should be there.
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  SPEAKER_03: She shouldn't be at fundraisers.
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  SPEAKER_03: She was there today for three hours, I believe, Kamala Harris.
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  SPEAKER_03: Really?
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  SPEAKER_03: Go bust it, I guess.
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  SPEAKER_03: But yes,
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  SPEAKER_03: Hurricane Milton is bearing down on Florida,
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  SPEAKER_03: which is terrible,
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  SPEAKER_03: because we still haven't cleaned up the fallout from Helene.
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  SPEAKER_03: And not just the flooding and the debris.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm talking about the torrent of misinformation and bullshit that we're still wading through.
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  SPEAKER_03: Because if you've been getting your news from Eternal Hurricane on the Spotless
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  SPEAKER_03: Mind over here,
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  SPEAKER_03: you might think that the victims of Hurricane Helene have been completely abandoned
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  SPEAKER_03: by the government.
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  SPEAKER_03: The White House is doing nothing.
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  SPEAKER_03: They've abandoned us.
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  SPEAKER_03: And you know it's largely a Republican area.
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  SPEAKER_03: They haven't seen anybody from the federal government yet.
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  SPEAKER_03: The federal government isn't there.
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  SPEAKER_03: Horrifying, if true.
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  SPEAKER_03: Comrade Kamala and Sleepy Joe's federal government has left Republican voters out
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  SPEAKER_03: to dry just because of their party affiliations.
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  SPEAKER_03: Now, these Republican governors of those states must be outraged.
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  SPEAKER_03: Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, tell the world what horrors you've seen.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm incredibly appreciative of the racket response and the cooperation from the federal team at FEMA.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay, you're probably some deep state Democratic ploy.
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  SPEAKER_03: But Tennessee and Florida and Georgia, you guys are the real red states.
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  SPEAKER_03: Your governors will dish on how slow the federal government's response has been.
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  SPEAKER_03: The response was quick from the federal government.
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  SPEAKER_03: We have what we need.
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  SPEAKER_03: We got what we need.
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  SPEAKER_03: He offered that if there's other things we need, just to call him directly.
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  Okay.
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  SPEAKER_03: All right.
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  SPEAKER_03: All right.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_03: Let me get this right.
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  SPEAKER_03: So every red state governor said Biden is competently helping them.
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  SPEAKER_03: But Trump isn't the only one spreading misinformation.
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  SPEAKER_03: Conservative media is spreading lies that FEMA is diverting resources to Ukraine,
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  SPEAKER_03: that Jews in the government are secretly sabotaging aid,
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  SPEAKER_03: and the biggest conspiracy of all,
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  SPEAKER_03: that the hurricane was deliberate.
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  SPEAKER_02: Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene posting on X, yes, they can control the weather.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it cannot be done.
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  SPEAKER_03: Ah!
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  SPEAKER_03: Whatever happened to the good old days when conservatives believed sensible things
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  SPEAKER_03: like hurricanes were creations of God who was pissed off by gay marriage?
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  SPEAKER_03: These crazy conspiracy theories aren't harmless.
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  SPEAKER_03: They spread paranoia around a population that is already desperate.
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  SPEAKER_03: And we're starting to see the effect.
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  SPEAKER_02: We talked to people who believed that there were federal officials who were seizing
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  SPEAKER_02: a town called Chimney Rock,
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  SPEAKER_02: North Carolina,
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  SPEAKER_02: that there was this conspiracy to seize the town and to bulldoze all the bodies and
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  SPEAKER_02: hide them,
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  SPEAKER_02: maybe to mine it for lithium.
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  SPEAKER_03: People are afraid those who are coming to help are actually coming to steal their lithium.
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  SPEAKER_03: Everyone, let's be clear, completely clear.
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  SPEAKER_03: The US government doesn't destroy towns to steal their resources.
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  SPEAKER_03: In the US, in the Middle East, sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: leaders on the ground who know that it is not in the best interest of the people
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  SPEAKER_01: living in those areas to not know their rights,
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  SPEAKER_01: not to know what they're entitled to,
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  SPEAKER_01: and to be afraid of seeking help.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is dangerous.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is unconscionable,
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  SPEAKER_01: frankly,
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  SPEAKER_01: that anyone who would consider themselves a leader would mislead desperate people.
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  SPEAKER_03: All this misinformation distracts from the fact that there are real people in these
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  SPEAKER_03: disaster zones who need help.
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  SPEAKER_03: Like this heartbreaking photo of this little girl and her puppy.
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  SPEAKER_03: Beneath all these lies, her suffering is real.
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  SPEAKER_03: No.
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  SPEAKER_03: These photos claiming to show girls and puppies being rescued after Hurricane Helene are not real.
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  SPEAKER_03: They were made with AI.
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  SPEAKER_03: Damn it!
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  SPEAKER_03: How can something so fake elicit such real tears?
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  SPEAKER_03: Of course,
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  SPEAKER_03: this hurricane is happening in 2024,
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  SPEAKER_03: which means on top of all the misinformation from our politicians,
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  SPEAKER_03: we also have to deal with a flood of fake AI bullshit.
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  SPEAKER_03: Like these pictures of little girls, or this fake picture of Donald Trump wading through the floodwaters.
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  SPEAKER_03: Now,
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  SPEAKER_03: this one is subtle,
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  SPEAKER_03: but you can tell this one is fake because it's a picture of Donald Trump helping people.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_03: But...
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  SPEAKER_03: You have to look close.
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  SPEAKER_03: funny business don't ask me how I skid away there are no secrets and frankly
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  there's trouble I do it all the time
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  SPEAKER_03: I do it all the time
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  SPEAKER_03: a judge unsealed special prosecutor Jack Smith's 165-page brief in the election
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  SPEAKER_03: fraud case against Trump,
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  SPEAKER_03: reminding us yet again of the ridiculous steps he took to avoid leaving office.
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  SPEAKER_03: The brief presents the fullest picture yet of Smith's case that Trump knew he lost,
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  SPEAKER_02: but lied to the American people anyway.
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  SPEAKER_02: Prosecutors claim they spoke to one White House staffer who said he overheard Trump
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  SPEAKER_02: telling family members,
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  SPEAKER_02: it doesn't matter if you won or lost the election.
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  SPEAKER_02: You still have to fight like hell.
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  SPEAKER_02: But it's...
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  SPEAKER_02: Super matters if you lost.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's kind of the main thing that matters.
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  SPEAKER_03: That is the most unsettling thing you could possibly overhear if you work at the White House.
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  SPEAKER_03: And while there was a lot in the filing that we already knew,
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  SPEAKER_03: like Trump responding after being told Mike Pence had to be evacuated from the
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  SPEAKER_03: Capitol with,
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  SPEAKER_03: "'So what?'
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  SPEAKER_03: It also featured new details,
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  SPEAKER_03: like Trump at one point muting Sidney Powell when she was outlining her bogus fraud claims,
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  SPEAKER_03: telling people she was crazy.
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  SPEAKER_03: And if I ever found out that I lied so badly that Donald Trump muted the call to say,
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  SPEAKER_03: this is some crazy shit,
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  SPEAKER_03: you would never see me again.
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  SPEAKER_03: I would walk directly into the ocean.
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  SPEAKER_03: And none of this is theoretical.
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  SPEAKER_03: If he loses next month, there is every reason to believe Trump will dispute the results again.
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  SPEAKER_03: And Vance has made it clear he's got no problem with that.
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  SPEAKER_03: And that alone should be disqualifying.
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  SPEAKER_03: It is all tremendously bleak,
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  SPEAKER_03: which is why,
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  SPEAKER_03: to borrow a phrase I heard recently,
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm focused on the future.
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  SPEAKER_03: Specifically, one in which in four weeks' time, Trump hopefully loses this fucking election.
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  SPEAKER_03: People don't leave my rallies.
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  SPEAKER_03: We have the biggest rallies, the most incredible rallies in the history of politics.
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  SPEAKER_03: So we do these rallies, they're massive rallies.
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  SPEAKER_03: Everybody loves, everybody stays till the end, by the way.
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  SPEAKER_03: You know, when she said that, well, your rallies, people leave.
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  SPEAKER_03: Honestly, nobody does.
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  SPEAKER_03: And if I saw them leaving, I'd say, and ladies and gentlemen, make America great again.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I'd get the hell out, okay?
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  SPEAKER_03: Because I don't want people leaving.
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  SPEAKER_03: Also,
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  SPEAKER_03: even if they tried to leave,
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  SPEAKER_03: they can't because we've replaced the regular stairs with MC Escher stairs.
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  SPEAKER_03: Generally speaking,
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  SPEAKER_03: if you're at an event and the host of that event keeps insisting no one is going to leave,
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  SPEAKER_03: it is time to start worrying.
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  SPEAKER_03: If I'm at a party and the host comes up to me and says,
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  SPEAKER_03: people are going to stay for games after dinner,
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  SPEAKER_03: okay?
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  SPEAKER_03: I know people are saying everyone leaves when Nancy says it's time for Mafia.
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  SPEAKER_03: because I'm too competitive and too intense, but they're wrong because I'm not, and I'm not.
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  SPEAKER_03: People are going to stay."
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  SPEAKER_03: By now,
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  SPEAKER_03: of course,
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  SPEAKER_03: we've all seen the images of exhausted audience members streaming for the exits at
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  SPEAKER_03: Trump rallies,
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  SPEAKER_03: but,
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  SPEAKER_03: according to Trump,
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  SPEAKER_03: it's all actually just a giant misunderstanding.
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  SPEAKER_03: -"I want to explain something.
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  SPEAKER_03: The people that you see leaving, because nobody ever leaves.
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  SPEAKER_03: And when they do, I finish up quick, believe me.
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  SPEAKER_03: but I couldn't take pictures at the beginning.
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  SPEAKER_03: So I take them at the end sometimes.
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  SPEAKER_03: If I'm late, the plane gets late, you get delayed, lots of things happen.
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  SPEAKER_03: There's a little hurricane going on in Florida, as you know.
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  SPEAKER_03: And so what they do is they say, oh, please come up now at the end of my speech.
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  SPEAKER_03: I said, don't do that.
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  SPEAKER_03: because it looks like they're leaving.
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  SPEAKER_03: You might see people in the parking lot getting in their cars and driving away, but they're not leaving.
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  SPEAKER_03: They're driving to a second location where I'll be taking photos, because I was late to this rally.
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  SPEAKER_03: Of course,
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  SPEAKER_03: if I'm late to the second location,
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  SPEAKER_03: they'll have to leave and go to a third location to wait for me to take photos.
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  SPEAKER_03: And if I'm late to the third location,
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  SPEAKER_03: which I definitely will be,
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  SPEAKER_03: they can come back here and wait for the next rally.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's all part of my brand-new Trump escape room.
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  SPEAKER_03: But it turns out, and this may shock you, Trump is lying.
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  SPEAKER_03: People are leaving.
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  SPEAKER_03: The Washington Post spoke to some of them for the article headlined,
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  SPEAKER_03: The Reasons People Say They Leave Donald Trump's Rallies Early.
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  SPEAKER_03: According to the Post, some said they wanted to beat traffic or had work the next day.
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  SPEAKER_03: Others complained about sound quality.
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  SPEAKER_03: One man wanted to go home to his French bulldog.
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  SPEAKER_03: Another needed to get home to his daughter.
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  SPEAKER_03: A third had a Yorkie with him that started acting out.
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  SPEAKER_03: A fourth man said his phone died.
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  SPEAKER_03: Those are all,
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  SPEAKER_03: I should stress,
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  SPEAKER_03: all totally normal reasons that someone would leave a public event early.
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  SPEAKER_03: There is no shame in it.
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  SPEAKER_03: And it would be totally unremarkable if Trump would just admit that some people do leave his rallies.
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  SPEAKER_03: Also,
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  SPEAKER_03: I will say I love that on more than one occasion,
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  SPEAKER_03: Trump has lost his audience's attention because of a dog.
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  SPEAKER_03: Maybe that explains the conspiracy theories.
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  SPEAKER_03: You know, people are leaving around dinner time to go home to their dogs, which can only mean one thing.
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  SPEAKER_03: They're eating the dogs.
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  SPEAKER_03: Again, Trump is the one lying about this.
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  SPEAKER_03: Which is why a fact check is even necessary.
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  SPEAKER_03: For example,
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  SPEAKER_03: The Post also reported that in Las Vegas,
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  SPEAKER_03: some attendees grew frustrated with Trump's tardiness and said they had trouble
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  SPEAKER_03: hearing him.
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  SPEAKER_03: A reporter standing by the door counted more than 200 people leaving in the first 20 minutes.
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  SPEAKER_03: And in some cases, Trump's meandering incoherence actually seems to have cost him votes.
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  SPEAKER_03: One rally-goer quickly grew tired of the insults and was ready to leave.
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  SPEAKER_03: She was undecided before attending the rally with her aunt, who supports Harris.
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  SPEAKER_03: But after hearing Trump speak, she said she planned to vote for Harris.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_03: It was the insults and just being an hour late, she said.
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  SPEAKER_03: I mean, how could anyone accurately describe any of this?
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  SPEAKER_03: Any of this to another sane human being?
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_03: Their windmills are causing whales to die in numbers never seen before.
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  SPEAKER_03: The windmills are driving them crazy.
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  SPEAKER_03: They're driving the whales, I think, a little batty.
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  SPEAKER_03: The late, great Hannibal Lecter.
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  SPEAKER_03: He's a wonderful man.
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  SPEAKER_03: Do I stay on top of the boat and get electrocuted,
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  SPEAKER_03: or do I jump over by the shark and not get electrocuted?
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  SPEAKER_03: The great Pavarotti, the singer, when, you know, he was a diva.
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  SPEAKER_03: He was the greatest of all divas.
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  SPEAKER_03: The greatest, right?
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  SPEAKER_03: Pavarotti.
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  SPEAKER_03: But he liked me, for whatever reason.
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  SPEAKER_03: He was very terrible to other people.
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  SPEAKER_03: To me, he was nice.
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  SPEAKER_03: He liked me.
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  SPEAKER_03: Sinks, toilets, and showers.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_03: How do you describe any of that?
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  SPEAKER_03: It's like someone captured a sick Bigfoot and made it watch 1,000 hours of bad stand-up comedy.
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  SPEAKER_03: Is that close?
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_03: And the problem isn't just content.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's length.
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  SPEAKER_03: According to a computer analysis by the New York Times,
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  SPEAKER_03: Trump's rally speeches now last an average of 82 minutes,
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  SPEAKER_03: compared with 45 minutes in 2016.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: Oh.
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  SPEAKER_03: Oh.
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  SPEAKER_03: Oh.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_03: Remember the early days of the COVID pandemic when tests had just been developed,
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  SPEAKER_03: but you couldn't find one to save your life?
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_03: Well, now we know where they went.
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  SPEAKER_03: There is reporting that former President Trump,
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  SPEAKER_03: the then sitting president at the time,
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  SPEAKER_03: had,
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  SPEAKER_03: quote,
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  SPEAKER_03: secretly sent Putin a bunch of Abbott point-of-care COVID test machines for his
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  SPEAKER_03: personal use as the virus spread rapidly through Russia.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's how the phone call goes between Trump and Putin.
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  SPEAKER_00: Putin says, please don't tell anybody you sent these to me, Trump.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_00: I don't care.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: Fine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Putin, no, no.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you, not me.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_00: They don't care about you.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_03: Trump was secretly giving sound medical advice to a foreign adversary while
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_03: publicly convincing Americans to poison themselves with bleach.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_03: I gotta say, most presidents would do that the other way around, but hey.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_03: He secretly sent some to Putin and also has spoken to Putin as many as seven times since leaving office.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_03: The book says Trump even asked one of his own top aides to leave the room so he
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_03: could have a private call with Putin.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_03: which means that they were talking about something Trump didn't want anybody to know about.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_03: Trump says none of these things happened,
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_03: but the Kremlin confirmed that Trump sent the COVID test and denied they've had
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_03: phone calls since he left office.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_03: Team Trump says it's all lies.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_03: Saralago released a forceful statement lashing out at Bob Woodward,
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_03: calling the book the work of a truly demented and deranged man and that it belongs
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_03: in the bargain bin of the fiction section of a discount bookstore or used as toilet tissue.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_03: Maybelline brand ambassador J.D.
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  SPEAKER_03: Vance likes.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_03: He enjoys taking questions from the press at his appearances so the crowd can boo the reporters.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_03: I guess that's fun for him.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_03: At a campaign stop in Detroit, a reporter asked him about these calls with Putin, and J.D.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_03: doesn't seem to have any problem with them at all.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_03: Even if it's true, look, is there something wrong with speaking to world leaders?
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_03: First of all, yes.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_03: And second,
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_03: yes,
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_03: is it's very wrong to have chats with dictators who are trying to exterminate our
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_03: allies when you aren't the president anymore.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_03: It's also,
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_03: in addition to being inappropriate,
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_03: it's illegal under the Logan Act for private citizens to engage in foreign policy
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_03: that undercuts America.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_03: I put America first.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_03: I always did, and I always will.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_03: As your president, I put America first every single time, every day, and every night.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_03: My heart is loyal only to the American people.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_03: I just feel for the American people.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_03: My only loyalty is to you, the people.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_03: I always put America first, every single time.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_03: We're gonna make this into an incredible country that can afford to take care of
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_03: its people,
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_03: and then we'll worry about the rest of the world.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_03: They've only hardened my resolve to use my time on Earth to make America great again,
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_03: for all Americans to put America first.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_03: gonna put America first.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_03: I always put our term, America first.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_03: Very simple.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_03: America first.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_03: So,
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_03: Trump was clear,
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_03: as president,
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_03: he put Americans first,
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_03: like,
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_03: during the early days of the pandemic,
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_03: when it was basically impossible for Americans to get their hands on highly
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_03: sought-after COVID tests.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_03: Turns out that America first champion Donald Trump was secretly engaged in an
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_03: endearing act of personal kindness for one young man who was afraid of the virus
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_03: and needed help.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_03: This is truly a heartwarming story of an American president helping an American
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_03: citizen get through the pandemic.
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_03: New reporting from journalist Bob Woodward, his new book called War.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_03: The veteran reporter writing that during the early days of the pandemic,
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_03: while it was raging here in the US,
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_03: that then President Trump secretly sent a number of those rare COVID test machines
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_03: to Vladimir Putin for Putin's personal use.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_03: America, but first...
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  SPEAKER_03: So the guy who claims he put Americans first as president sent rare COVID tests to
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_03: a Russian dictator when Americans needed them.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_03: And by the way,
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_03: not only was Trump sending desperately needed COVID tests to a corrupt Russian
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_03: dictator instead of his own American citizens,
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_03: he was also simultaneously claiming that Americans actually don't need testing at all.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_03: I have always said testing is somewhat overrated because what happens after somebody takes a test?
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_03: What's going on there?
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_03: I don't think you need that kind of testing or that much testing.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_03: It could be the testing's, frankly,
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_03: They were saying we want more because the virus kept spreading.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_03: They needed more tests because people were getting sick.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_03: That clip we just played where Trump said...
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_03: Testing is overrated.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_03: That was May 7th, 2020.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_03: And the New York Times reports that Trump discussed sending COVID tests to Putin in
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_03: a May 7th telephone call.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_03: So that means Trump was telling Americans the COVID test was overrated on the exact
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_03: same day he was telling Vladimir Putin he was sending him his best COVID test,
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_03: his...
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_03: ...Glengarry COVID tests.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_03: At one point,
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_03: again,
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_03: while he was secretly sending COVID tests to Putin,
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_03: Trump was planning on cutting back testing for Americans because he was obsessed
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_03: with the fact
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_03: then more tests would reveal more cases, which he thought made him look bad.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_03: By having more tests, we find more cases.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_03: Therefore, we test, we're going to have more cases.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_03: By having more cases, it sounds bad.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_03: We have more cases than anybody in the world.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_03: But why?
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_03: Because we do more testing.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_03: When you test, you have a case.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_03: When you test, you find something is wrong.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_03: with people.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_03: If we didn't do any testing, we would have very few cases.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_03: We test more than anybody by far.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_03: And when you test, you create cases.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_03: So we've created cases.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_03: Tests don't create cases just like smoke alarms don't create fires.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_03: You don't have to think Trump is some sort of secret Kremlin agent or that he
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_03: colluded with Russia or that he's being controlled by Putin.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_03: This story is not about that.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_03: This story is simple.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_03: When the chips are down,
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_03: And Trump has a choice between helping Americans and helping his wealthy, powerful friends.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_03: He's always going to turn to his wealthy, powerful friends and say... -"My only loyalty is to you."
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_03: Hoosker do.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_03: I do like hoosker do.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_03: You think JD Vance likes hoosker do?
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_03: No.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_03: JD seems like a hoosker don't.