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Biden - Is He A Dottering Old Puppet Or A Scheming Manipulator? · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Our guest is Alex Marlow. He is the editor in chief for the bright
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  Bart News Network and he's author of a book called Breaking Biden, and it
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  is jumped in to the New York Times bestseller list at number fourteen. Alex,
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  good to have you with us this morning. It's great to be here.
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  Thank you for having me. Aulo joze for my voice in a long
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  week. Oh man, I guess so let's start here the book Breaking Biden.
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  You know, I've talked to literally thousands of authors over the years,
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  and there's always one thing that pushes somebody from an idea to Okay, this
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  is a project that we're doing. What was it for you. One of
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  the reasons why I wanted to take on Joe Biden as a research project was
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  actually because I got the impression that people were underestimating him, and a lot
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  of us on the right we have this tendency to dismiss him as a sort
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  of a sort of a nincompoop or an idiot who kind of love into the
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  job, and it's sort of out of patriotism in a way. I felt
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  the need to challenge that hypothesis because I believe in this country and I believe
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  it's a great country, So how could we possibly elect a person like that?
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  And I realized we really didn't. We elected someone who's much more savvy,
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  much more clever, much more resilient than that. And I was determined
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  to figure him out because we're going to lose to him again if we're not
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  careful, because he wins almost every election he has. He was senator for
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  thirty odd years, he's vice president, and then now he's president, and
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  he beat a very popular guy who got the most votes of all time for
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  a sitting president. And I was trying to figure out, what's the alchemy
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  that Joe has? Why does he keep beating us? And I think I
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  was able to figure it out. He's got a combination of skills that are
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  very very relevant. First of all, he's not an idiot. He's got
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  a fastball, and we get distracted by the dumb things he said. But
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  he said dumb thing for fifty years and we let that allow, We let
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  that to wash over us and think it's funny. Well it's not funny.
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  What it does is it is a curveball that it causes us to get in
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  our heels. And once you kind of start realizing that's what's happening. Then
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  you start challenging other hypotheses, like is Joe a puppett, Well, he's
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  not really, because he's willing to go things alone when it's a terrible idea.
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  Take, for example, the Afghanistan withdrawal, where he defied his generals,
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  he defied all of our allies. He took a strategy that was his
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  strategy, and his strategy alone, and not only did it lead to the
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  death of American service members, it wind up droning a car full of children.
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  And then we didn't even talk about it, really, we just allowed
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  for that to happen. And then he left seven billion dollars of equipment in
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  Afghanistan that was gobbled up by the Taliban and sold in the black market to
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  terrorists like the one that killed all these Raelies over the weekend. And so
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  what you start seeing that he really isn't just an idiot. He's actually an
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  incredibly nefarious figure in American history, and not a dumb one. And he's
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  got an agenda. His agenda is advancing his family accumulating power, but is
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  not particularly ideological, which has served him well, and that's allowed him to
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  move his feet a little more easily the more ideologically driven presidents. And so
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  once we're in that realization and we're start to get in that headspace that I
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  think you understand him better and I think that gives us a better chance to
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  to feed him in a year. Alex Marlow with me, Alex standby,
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  We're going to take a quick seventy second break here for whether in traffic.
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  The book Breaking Biden, who was released on October third. You can get
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  it at all the book outlets that you prefer, and we'll keep talking here
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  on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Welcome to Mad Radio Network, Make
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  a Difference Radio Network, and this is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
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  Eleven minutes past, Jerome Hudson, dear friend and entertainment editor at Breitbart dot
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  Com, was kind enough to link me up with Alex Marlow. He's the
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  editor in chief of the breit Bart News network and, more importantly to our
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  visit today, author of Breaking Biden and the subtitle exposing the hidden forces and
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  secret money machine behind Joe Biden, his family, and his administration. Alex,
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  without the benefit of being able to do a ton of research, you
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  know what I do for a living. I look at a bunch of news
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  stories, try to dig just a little bit, offer a thought or two,
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  but just keep people informed on things. I go back to Joe's vice
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  presidency, and he managed to get himself assigned to China and Ukraine and lo
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  and behold, that's where his son is making millions, and that's where the
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  payoff is. And you see it now when he's the resident of the United
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  States. But where does this really start? Where does Joe begin that path
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  of conniving. Does it go all the way back to his early days in
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  the US Senate? Yeah? Does it actually goes back before his first Center
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  race. I have reason to believe was rigged. It was a really close
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  race. He'd be the guy named Caleb Boggs. Joe was heavily the underdog
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  in that race. He was twenty nine years old, when the youngest senators
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  ever and he actually ran as a young, fresh upstar face, which is
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  kind of insane to think about today. And that race was very close.
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  In the very end of the race, there was going to be a bunch
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  of opposition research, a bunch of negative press that Joe was going to get
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  the last minute, and it was all going to run in local papers,
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  and then all of a sudden the papers went on strike. And it's pretty
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  clear that they went on strike, not pretty particular reason other than that their
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  arms were twisted to go on strike, and they were twisted by a guy
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  named Frank Sheeran, which is a name that is probably fromamiliar to a lot
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  of people in the audience because he was the subject of the book I Heard
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  You Paint Houses, which turned into the Martin Scorsese movie The Irishman. Yep,
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  so yeah, literally, the Robert de Niro character from The Irishman.
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  Probably I don't have hard and fast evidence, but it seems likely stepped in
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  and rigged the Center race on behalf of Joe Biden that got him into the
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  Senate. So perhaps we could have avoided the whole thing if not for Frank
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  Sheran, and then we wouldn't be in this mess today. That's what it
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  appears to be the case. So do I know if Joe had his hands
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  on the gears, then maybe not. Maybe it was people working in Joe's
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  behalf. Again, it gets murky when you're going back fifty years, but
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  it is it does appear that that was the case, and he got in
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  in a rigged election. Well, anyone that's ever watched The Godfather knows anyone
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  who receives favors wants favors in return. I love that. And the fact
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  of the matter is, so, even if Joe's not pulling the levers at
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  that point, the people that were want something in exchange. So is that
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  our logical starting point is and it's the logical middle point and end points.
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  The whole story of Joe Biden nailed it. I mean, and think about
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  the Beisma example, which is the one that's probably the most familiar to your
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  audience, but still the best one. It's a one hundred gets a million
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  dollars a year job. If the breizeman's got we have no idea what his
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  background is in Ukraine or his background is an energy he's none, So he's
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  got a million dollars a year coming in. The Breezeman's got one request.
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  Can you get the prosecutor to back off of us? They ask two times
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  the testimony. Devin Archer confirms this, and then Joe comes in, and
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  Joe comes in and gets the prosecutor fired, then brags about it on tape.
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  We have a tape and them bragging about firing a prosecutor. Well,
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  since the bragger Joe Biden was talking the Council on Forward Relations about this,
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  we now learn thanks to Foye's that the State Department was very satisfied with the
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  prosecutor. So we materially change United States policy to the clear financial benefit of
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  Jo'biden's family, which is the statute for a violence to the statutes of bribery.
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  So, I mean, he should have been hauled the lady ancuffs at
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  that moment the second we got that tape, I mean, cous on Form
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  Relations, all the evidence was there, and so it just proves two things.
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  One he is willing to sell the American policy for money and two he's
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  gotten away with everything over his career fifty years in his time. The voters
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  finally hold him accountable. Joining me on the program is Alex Marlow, the
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  book Breaking Biden. Alex stand by, We got another segment to go.
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  We're gonna dig just a little bit deeper, but again, get the book,
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  get all the information mentions holding people accountable. Boy, wouldn't that be
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  refreshing. More to come on The Morning Show with Preston Scott WFLA at WFLA,
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  FBAM dot com, on your phone with the iHeartRadio app, and on
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  hundreds of devices like Alexa, Google Home, Xbox, and Sonos and Iheart's
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  radio station. Final segment with the author of the book Breaking Biden, Alex
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  Marlowe, who is editor in chief of bright Bart News, and my guess
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  for just a few more minutes. You mentioned the tape Council for the Foreign
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  Relations I've been playing that since he ran for the presidency and had a lot
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  of fun with it. He's basically admitting a crime, Alex. But my
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  question is how what's in it for Barack Obama. Clearly he had to know
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  what Joe was doing. Yeah, I think so, And I think he
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  was fine to get away with it. I would to let Joe get away
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  with it because one of the things that appealed to Joe. One of the
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  reasons why Joe was actually was actually put him in ticket with Obama is because
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  he gave the impression that he was a poor person. Now, Joe wasn't
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  particularly poor. He lived in a ten thousand square foot house. It had
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  a ballroom in it, and then the house sold to a bank executive who
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  was a big owner or a for a bank that was a huge downer to
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  Joe Biden's campaign. So it's all very corrupt, and Joe certainly had some
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  money, but Joe is bad with money. Joe's whole family's bad with money.
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  If you look at their history, it is a story going back to
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  Joe's dad, of the Biden's making a lot of money and then squandering it.
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  If you look at a hunter, he's so often coming into deals that
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  are worth six figures, seven figures, perhaps even eight figures, though it's
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  hard to get the exact dollar amounts in some of these cases, and then
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  he ends up blowing all of it and ends up, you know, they
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  all have to put their heads together and how to make more money. But
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  because of this, he got the impression that Joe was kind of a poor
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  guy, and that was a big incentive for Obama to put him on the
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  list, to make him seem, to make him seem more relatable. And
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  I think that other than that, Obama I think is kind of tuned out.
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  I don't think he's puppeteering Joe. I think Obama is a very self
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  aggrandizing guy. I think he's a liberal, but I think he's a pragmatist
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  in the sense that we's left this and a pragmatist in that he's fine with
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  incremental change and that's what Joe's bringing him. So I think Obama's pretty happy
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  with Joe. I think he's happy you picked Joe. And even though he
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  has said he'd never underestimate Joe's ability to f things up, he knows if
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  you give him big assignments, there's a very good chance it's going to be
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  a problem. You mentioned Joe being ideologically flexible throughout his career, and I
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  agree with that up until becoming the resident of the United States. It's hard
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  for me to say president. It seems as though he has gone extreme far
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  agendaed left. What's the end game? What's the exit strategy for Joe and
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  all of this? Yeah, well, the exit strategy was Joe had hoped
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  you'd have a dynasty. This was one of the things that was sort of
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  one of the most fascinating parts of our research was realizing not only has is
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  he ambitious enough to be president, he wants to be able to pass it
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  on and the goal was to pass it on to Bo. But Bo,
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  of course passed away of cancer. So he's got no one to He can't
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  really hand it to. You know, his brothers, Frank and Jim,
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  they're both Fredos in the group to continue the Godfather analogy, yep't he can't
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  hand it to Hunter for obvious reasons. So he's kind of stuck here.
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  So it really is a super long game Joe was playing. But you're correct
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  to note that he's become a leftist. But I think that's a practical thing.
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  I think he's learned over time that if you throw bones and you satisfy
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  the biggest goals of the left wing base, they will forgive you. And
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  them forgiving you doesn't just mean that they're going to vote for you. It
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  means you're going to cut checks. It means the newspaper write ups are going
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  to be more positive. It means that they're basically going to keep their hands
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  off and they're going to leave them alone. And so I think pandering to
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  the left is a huge part of his secret sauce. Before you get to
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  something that you tease me with when we were talking in the break that you
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  thought I'd find funny, amusing or interesting? Does is Joe the nominee in
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  twenty four I have maintained he would not be. Yeah, we have to
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  operate with the premise that he will be because he's wanted this since he was
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  a boy. I almost couldn't go far back enough to determine when he had
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  gone and he wanted to be president, but it was certainly an early childhood.
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  So he's not going to get shuffled off after thinking about this thing for
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  seventy years. His whole life has been defined by the presidency, first coveting
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  it and now being it. So and there's no logical air. If bo
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  was a governor of Delaware right now in the sixty percent approval rating, yeah
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  he'd step aside and let Bow in there. But he doesn't have that.
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  So because it's the scenario is not there for him. I think he's on
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  the ballot unless he takes a huge dive health wise. But I wanted to
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  share a thank you to Tallahassee because I have a research team of five people
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  that helped me on the book, and all of them have helped you just
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  write your own past number one best sellers before those people, or at least
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  three, I think one since moved, are all Tallahassee residents. So Tallahassee
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  plays a big role in the success of his book. So I owe the
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  town of yet imagine that considering we have survived twenty one years in one of
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  the most liberal communities in the state of Florida. I just explained to people,
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  Alex, you want proof that there is a God. I'm on the
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  air in Tallahassee and have been for twenty one years. There you go,
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  yeah, And you know, I grew up in LA I went to Berkeley,
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  I lived in DC, I lived north of LA. I mean there
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  is in this country, which is a truly diverse country. You do see
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  these that there's pockets of hope within Tallahassen that are hopefully changing the world.
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  And I can't thank you guys all enough. Alex, thanks for the time
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  this morning. Best of success on the book. Give our friend Jeromah hello.
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  I will do that. Thanks again, Thank you, sir, Alex
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  Marlow with us this morning. The book is Breaking Biden, exposing the hidden
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  forces and secret money machine behind Joe biden Is family and his administration. Our
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  guest here on The Morning Show with Preston Scott