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Impeachment Talk... Again · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West Carol Morning Show.
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Wednesday morning, twenty sixth day of July. I'm Wes, thanks for joining
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me. Haven't talked a whole lot about the developments in the Biden family business
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dealings. The more evidence that's come in and certainly starting to indicate that when
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the president before he was president, was asked about his dealings with his son
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and he said that he never discussed business with Hunter, Biden never discussed business
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with him, and you know it wasn't involved and never discussed. That was
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the carefully crafted wording for his excuse, I've never discussed business with my son
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Hunter, because I think it was becoming more and more clear over time that
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he was, in fact his son was in fact doing some very shady business
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dealings overseas, was involved in some things, and I think at the very
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least we knew for a long time that there was something suspicious going on.
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And then we had times where the then Vice president bragged about, you know,
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forcing someone in Ukraine to do something or else. He wasn't going to
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get some money he was gonna get it, wasn't going to give him money
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unless he took care of someone and some business dealings, and I remember all
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that. We remember all that, and it started to become more and more
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clear that there was something just not right. Over time, right, we
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knew there was something suspicious about all of it. But the White House,
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once Joe Biden got into the White House, kept insisting that he didn't have
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anything to do with the business dealings. He wasn't involved, he wasn't aware
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of them, but specifically that he never discussed business with Hunter Biden. So
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I think it's possible that he didn't discuss business with him until the evidence came
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in that it's pretty clear that he was definitely involved, right, I mean,
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the evidence points to involvement. Is it possible for a father not to
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get involved in business dealings of their son. Sure, I heard people say
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differently. Of course he was talking with them. All fathers who care about
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their sons would talk about business with their son. And that's not necessarily true.
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You raise your kid, you expect him to at some point leave the
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nest, right, wink and winkin and nod. They got to leave the
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nest. They got to get out there and fly away and do their thing.
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But this isn't a typical family. This isn't a typical family situation.
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It's pretty clear something and we've known this for a long time. Something there's
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business dealings going on that involve all sorts of members of this family. So
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for a long time we were getting the excuse of they never discussed it.
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There was a point with the previous Press secretary in the White House, Jensak,
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when she was asked in a press conference if they are standing by the
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defense that Joe Biden never discussed on Biden's business dealings with a son. Yes,
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was the answer given. And they have continued to say that while she
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was Press secretary, and for the most part that's been the general defense of
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all of it. This week is when things started to check change a little
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bit, and I think as we start to get more and more evidence to
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the contrary of this, no, he never disgusted with him. So now
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it seems to be just a little bit different. Now the answer is a
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different answer. Karine Jehan Pierre, who's now the White House Secretary of this
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week, has said the President was never in business with his son. Again,
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it's a very specifically crafted answer to the question, isn't it never in
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business with his son, and then that's going to be the answer that they're
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going to give moving forward. Now, keep in mind, we are at
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a point now as Republicans are starting to look into whether or not impeachment hearings
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would be justified for this pres isn't it. I've said before that I think
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that ever since the Clinton impeachment, we have entered into a phase of it's
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now just a smearing. Impeachment is no longer an actual attempt at hanging charges
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on someone, pressing charges on someone. There's a perception that impeachment is bad,
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which it is. A President of the United States being impeached is bad.
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An elected official being impeached is bad. That is not something that someone
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wants. If you are in a position of authority and you are impeached or
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there's a vote of no confidence against you, those sorts of things, those
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are not things that you want to have happened. You don't want any of
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those things to happen to you. You don't. You just it hangs a
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certain shroud of negativity towards you. Right, It's not something that you want.
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So we had the Clinton impeachment, and it was pretty clear that there
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were situations where the then president had been lying under oath and all these things.
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It's pretty clear it was justified impeachment in that regard. The president shouldn't
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have done it, he should have known better, But it was pretty clear
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it wasn't going to go anywhere. We weren't going to get to a situation
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where he was going to be found guilty and thrown out of office. That
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was never going to happen. And I think when it comes to impeachments,
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that was certainly a case, and there were certainly inappropriate conduct that was happening
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lying under oath. Any of those things you would say not okay for a
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sitting president. Inappropriate relations with staff, with interns, not okay, not
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okay at all. But when it comes to impeachments, I personally feel like,
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and I'll quote the great Robert van Winkle who once said, under his
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pseudonym Vanilla Ice, you better hit bull's eye the kid don't play. And
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I think if in the name of politics, we would stop looking at impeachments
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as a way of hanging a shroud on someone and look at it as a
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situation of we're going to impeach someone because we feel that they're guilty and that
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we can actually get a guilty verdict if we were to pursue this, but
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that's not what happens. So Clinton impeached and acquitted. Then came President George
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W. Bush, and there was some controversy in question about him and his
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winning of that election in two thousand. We had people who election deniers,
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largely on the left. May have been a couple of people on the right.
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I think they were. People on the right would have been happy,
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but there may have been some on the right. I won't say that everyone
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who had issues with it was on the left, but from a politician standpoint,
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it was probably just people on the left who denied that outcome. John
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lewis one who you know, we've had election laws named after him. He
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denied the outcome of that election. There were many others who did. I
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just like to bring him up because everybody thinks he was, you know,
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such a staunch supporter of supporting the outcome of elections and voter rights and things,
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but he wasn't. He would later object to the Donald Trump win as
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well, but they were and wouldn't attend States of the Union, wouldn't attend
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inaugurations, any of that stuff. So there were people who objected to the
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outcome of the two thousand election. They said, no, no, no,
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no, this can't be the outcome. There was something suspicious about the
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way it was handled in the state of Florida, and that George W.
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Bush did not win. Al Gore should have been president, and then anything
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that George W. Bush did at that point, and we'll just impeach him,
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Let's impeach him, let's let's get him, let's impeach him. And
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people would say that about him, and of course he wasn't impeached. He
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served his eight years. We had Barack Obama, Barack us Saint Obama when
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people he got into office, and people said, oh, he needs to
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be impeached, and people said, well what for, I don't know,
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just impeach him, let's just get him. What exactly did he do?
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What did George W. Bush do that you wanted to impeach him for?
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And some people waiting very weak arguments in both cases. Oh, a birth
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certificates going to war for no reason in Iraq except to defend the honor of
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his father, those sorts of things. There were no weapons of mass destruction,
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and ultimately, of course, neither of them faced the impeachment. When
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people wanted it to happen, they said it should happen, he should be
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impeached. Then Donald Trump comes along, people immediately impeach him. He didn't
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really win. We know he didn't win. Hillary Clinton should have been the
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winner. He didn't win. And if people were screaming for impeachment, writer
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they gate. There were politicians who promised, we will impeach him. That's
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going to happen. That will be our goal while he is serving as president
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of the United States. Our goal is to impeach the man. We're gonna
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get him, not having anything it was. It didn't start from a place
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of he's done something criminal. It started from a place of we're going to
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find a reason to impeach him. And then they did. Any reasons that
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they might have wanted to impeach Donald Trump, by the way, from the
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beginning all from lies and made up allegations, right, it was all made
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up. I think they knew that then the people who wanted the impeachment,
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but they wanted the impeachment, so they didn't really care. It didn't concern
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them that it was made up or that they were part of making it up.
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Their concern was hanging the shroud on him. They wanted to get him,
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They wanted to punish him and try to embarrass him. That's what they
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wanted at the beginning. So it was impeach, impeach, impeach, and
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ultimately they came up with some reason that they were going to do it.
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We're going to impeach him, that's what we're gonna do. We're gonna we're
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gonna file articles of impeachment, and we know that it's not going to go
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through. We're not going to convict him. He was acquitted. Then we
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got to the end of the presidency and there were things that happened in the
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final days, and just for good measure, well I take you back.
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I need to go back a little bit and say that those people who promised
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that they were going to impeach him bragged about, Yes, we managed to
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do it. We told you we were going to impeach him, we were
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going to do it, and we did it for you because we were honoring
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our promise, our campaign promises that we would do it. And I'm talking
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about people like former Speaker Nancy Pelosi. So then we get to the end
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of his presidency, and for good measure, as he's on his way out
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the door, it's over. It's the presidency's over. But for good measure,
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there was this call to impeach him again. So they did, let's
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impeach him again. He'll be the only president who's ever been impeached twice.
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But there's not enough time to do anything or for it to matter. Also,
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it's not like you're going to get the votes this time, but it's
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not about that. It's about the fact that he'll be the only president who's
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ever been impeached twice. That's what we want. We want to hang that
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shroud on him, and then that's what they did. So now we're in
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a situation where we're working our way towards a reelection time for Joe Biden,
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and it seems like this is now going to be weaponized again, at least
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considering weaponizing it again. I got a few questions on it because I do
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think that this is this whole impeachment thing has become ridiculous. It's you either
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have the potential or you either have committed a crime and you've got the evidence
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to support a trial. Where you think you're going to be able to have
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them convicted, or you're just doing it for the show. I mean,
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that's what it comes down to, and that's what it's become any comments or
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conversation. And I also feel like every time the impeachment comes out of the
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holster, and it shouldn't come out of the holster very often, but apparently
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is just going to keep coming out, or at least, you know,
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people screaming that they're going to take it out, that it should not come
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out without a real possibility of And every time we do it, it's just
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gonna incite someone else to do it again next time. And I think the
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talk of impeaching Joe Biden right now, although as evidence starts to mount,
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we're starting to learn a whole lot more about business dealings within this family,
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and it's a long list of them, and they're growing, and the evidence
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is growing and the accusations are growing. So it certainly seems like it could
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be justified. But I do think we have to get to a point where
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there's even a slight possibility that it's going to end up with a conviction.
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Now, the question is is that what they're trying to do is just to
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hang this on them and go, you you impeached our guy, We're going
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to impeach your guy. Because we're rolling into an election. At the very
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least, the score would be two to one the impeachments and acquittals, because
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I think it's all always important to remind people when someone is impeached and then
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acquitted. There's a defense that comes up sometimes about Bill Clinton where they say
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he was impeached, but he was acquitted. Nobody seems to want to bring
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up the fact that Trump was twice acquitted. He was not found guilty in
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either case. So is this talk from Republicans that or are they simply playing
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along into something that could be a longer term game that Democrats maybe secretly deep
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down want to happen. They want Trump out, and if Trump's out,
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they want Biden out. So is that possibly where this could all be heading
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with all the criminal charges for Trump and trying to strategically organize the trials so
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that they'll be going on during the election next year, hoping that that will
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be enough to make sure that he can't possibly win against Joe Biden, because
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they believe Joe and the only person who can beat him but if they figure
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out a way to get Trump out of there completely, then they're gonna need
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a way to make sure they get Biden out of there as well, because
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then they're gonna want to move on. Because if someone like Rhonda Santis or
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Tim Scott or Nicky Haley or any one of the Republicans that are starting to
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make some weight, if one of them becomes a serious contender for the White
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House because Trump's out of the way, I think Democrats are going to start
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looking for some youth as well, and they're going to start looking somewhere like
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a Gavin Newsom. I think they're gonna have to and they're gonna need some
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way that they can just push Biden out of there. So is this Republicans
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kind of playing into that or is this just part of the I don't know.
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I mean, the idea that there could be a former president, you
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know, facing charges with court hearings going on next May, and that we
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could have a current sitting president in the middle of an impeachment process next year,
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with both of them poised to be the candidates for their party in November
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of next year. It's a weird scenario. It's just a bizarre set of
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circumstances that we're looking at. But now as we're starting to hear from the
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White House this talk of I mean, they're certainly not saying that he wasn't
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in the room during some of the business dealings. All they're admitting to now
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is that he was never in business with his son. What does that mean?
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They never had a business license together. They never went down and had
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a yard sale together and signed up for it and had people come over,
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and you know, a garage sale, yard sale. It couldn't be a
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garage sale because he had documents in his garage, didn't he It's just some
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sort of a yard sale or something that they could have been doing. But
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no, they never were in business together. That is not that is the
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admission right now. They were never in business together. That I mean that
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they you know, I don't know, Hunter Biden's got a lot of real
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shady business that he's been involved in, but criminal stuff, you know,
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with the crack and the prostitutes. But those are business dealings. I would
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assume, I would hope that his dad wasn't in any way involved in those
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business dealings. Maybe there's the business that they're referring to he wasn't involved in
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those that business with a song. I don't know, I don't know what
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they're talking about. I just know that it's a very crafted it's been altered.
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This has changed, and it's changed now since the last Press Secretary,
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and it's changed drastically since just earlier this year because now it's very different verbiage
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and it means something very different. So we'll see moving forward as Republicans are
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ten percent of diners between two and five PM, which is up five percent
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from twenty nineteen. Okay, yeah, two between two and four. I
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your things home. I think there's a there's been a long fear about being
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able to I don't know, there's something there's something biblically concerning about this.
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I'll just say it that way. It seems like it could be, you
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know, I mean, it's not quite getting a mark or a chip or
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something. But if has this feel of that, doesn't it just a little
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bit of a feel of that. I mean, I don't I don't want
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to, you know, ignore the convenience of this, because I like the
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idea of not having to carry around my wallet or having to carry around I
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can we get to this point with like our driver's license. How many times
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if you had left the house and just sought, man, if I could
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just not have to have my wallet it at all? And why do I
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need this? Can I put the driver's license? Can you? Can you
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have that in an app on your phone? That would be convenient, wouldn't
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it? So with a palm reader for that would be nice. But it's
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still a little concerning. Does have a certain you know, certain implication,
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certain I don't know, just has a very doomsday feel to it, doesn't
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It doesn't it feel like we're I don't know. That'll do it for this
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