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to the rights. Here's your conservative
but not bitter host, Todd Huff.

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That is right, my friends,
we are conservative not bitter. Indeed,

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is pleasure to be here today.
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would like. Just make sure you
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more adoration and praise than you think
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and make it count, my friends. Todd at todepshow dot com is the

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eight three zero. So a couple
of things that I want to hit on

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briefly and cover a lot here hopefully
today. First and foremost you would have

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seen that on Wednesday night, Chris
Christy announced that he was suspending his presidential

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campaign, which basically just means he's
dropping out of the race. So now

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we're down to again. You know
my thoughts on this, and I don't

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mean this to be I don't mean
this to be disrespectful to anyone in the

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race, although I have to be
honest, of all the people that entered

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the race, the two that are
the most perplexing to me where Chris Christy

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and Mike Pince. That is not
personal. I'm just telling you what I

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think. You can disagree with that
assessment. Chris Christie I think is running

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for the wrong party in a lot
of ways. I think Chris Christie,

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the things he was saying on that
debate stage when he was part of the

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well when he you know my thoughts. I don't think any of these folks

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are part of this. It is
Trump's nomination. This is something that you

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know, we just haven't dealt with
in modern times. This is not the

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way that it's supposed to work.
There's supposed to be a nomination process where

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everyone participates in the debates, they
exchange ideas, they challenge each other,

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they get you know, applause and
crowds to hoot and holler for him,

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and whatever way is you know,
beneficial hopefully to them. Is from their

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perspective, But none of that's happened
here because Trump is the runaway favorite DeSantis.

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I don't understand ultimately why any of
these folks entered the race, but

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especially Pence and Christie's. I said, from the very beginning of this thing.

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As I said, from the very
beginning, the reason Nicki Haley,

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the reason the Santis, the reason
Chris Christy, Mike Pence ran for the

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nomination was to be there if and
when President Trump stumbled because of whatever challenges

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were thrown his way. Name taken
off of ballot, carted away in handcuffs

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and an orange jumpsuit, not to
be confused with Hillary Clinton's orange pants suit

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from two thousand and sixteen. And
so this was the strategy all along.

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It was the strategy all along.
And I I remember when DeSantis entered,

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I said, look, there's a
lot of things to like about this guy.

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I don't see the upside here.
This is still Trump's to lose.

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I understand the desire to seize an
opportunity when it's before you. DeSantis had

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a lot of momentum at the time. A lot of people like what DeSantis

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has been doing in the state of
Florida. I had no problem with any

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of that. I just questioned the
logic of it at the time. I

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remember saying, and I know he's
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this applies to if it applies to
him, who to me at that

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time, when people were beginning to
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one who was most likely to be
the next guy, the next choice,

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then if he had that sort of
well series of obstacles to contend with,

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that I think are impossible, virtually
impossible, and I'm almost opt I missed

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a guy that you're going to find
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realities were that this is Trump's this, We've never experienced, this, what

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we are dealing with before. I
told you when I started this program,

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I never planned on ever ever choosing
someone as endorsing someone, I should say,

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during the presidential primary. I kind
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that. In fact, if you
go back to the archives, which you

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can find out on our website and
go scroll back, scroll back to twenty

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sixteen, and you'll find it out. I remember doing an episode where I

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spoke something favorably about every presidential candidate
at the time. I've never even told,

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never mentioned on this program who I
voted for in twenty sixteen in the

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primary. Indiana, by the way, was the state, the last state

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to cast a ballot where it was
still competitive. Ted Cruz dropped out of

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the race after after losing Indiana to
Trump, so I had the choice.

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We had the choice of Ted Cruz
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think John Kasik was on there as
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time he was running fourth out of
two candidates because it was Rubio Trump,

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Cruz and John Kasich, and Kaiseich
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still running in fourth out of only
two candidates, which is remarkable that you

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can do something like that. But
anyway, I didn't always have this approach.

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But given what has happened, given
the attacks on Trump, impeachment one,

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impeachment true Russia, Russia, Russia
collusion, what's happened with him after

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leaving office January sixth, attempts to
take him off of ballots, attempts to

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throw him in prison, all of
this stuff. Some of that, by

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the way, I wrote about in
this week's column, which you can get

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for free. It went out on
Wednesday, toddushow dot com. You can

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sign up there. But when those
sorts of battle lines are drawn, and

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you have a president who's immensely popular
even in his defeat in twenty twenty,

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and you have a guy that can
still keep I mean there were signs.

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My family and I traveled this country. We traveled a big chunk of it

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with our fifth will with Eagle one, the fifth wheel that's hitched to the

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back of what are the kids called
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I don't know anyway, Henry Ford, I think anyhow, as we

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traveled the country, I just there
were Trump signs all across. I'm talking

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long after, long after Trump had
been removed frontwell, who lost the election,

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wasn't running at the time we were
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two, I guess you know,
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twenty three, and you would see
these signs that had been up for a

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long time. You would see Trump
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had not happened, And so they
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folks that decided to enter this race. Chris Christy, who never had a

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chance. Who was the closest thing
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that debate stage is now dropped out, and you know whoever's remaining? Nikki

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Haley, Ron DeSantis, the Akaramaswamy, who, by the way, is

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the one that I think, actually
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candidacy, given that he was relatively
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large, largely unknown individual. But
I can understand him running more than I

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can the others. But nonetheless,
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Trump wasn't even attending isn't even attending
these debates. So Chris Christie's out.

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The question is who's going to be
next. We've got, by the way,

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on Monday. Here we are on
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the Is that right Monday? OZ? It's Monday? Right? The Iowa

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caucuses January fifteenth, that's Monday,
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Iowa Caucuses are Monday. We're going
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what's going to happen there, and
there's going to be some other primary battles.

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Then we're moving towards the big date, which is going to be March

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what is it March fifth, I
believe Super Tuesday, the day after Trump's

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DC trial is supposed to begin.
So you get all of these things converging

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around Trump. They only serve to
make the guy stronger. Teflon Don this

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guy ooka And I'm not saying this, I just think that this is how

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he is viewed. I think this
is part of the appeal. Nothing stops

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or phases this guy. And for
those of us who have watched presidential politics

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or politics in general for the better
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several decades, and we've we've watched
it, and we've seen the weakness of

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Republicans. We've seen how they've not
held true to their principles, how they've

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backed down whenever there's media criticism,
how they get wobbly in the knees every

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time there's any hint of controversy.
They want to go running to the hills

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and waving the white flag. For
those of us who have seen that and

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have voiced our disgust and displeasure and
just complete just we've been completely in some

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sense situations, in some circumstances,
completely abandoned by Republicans. Even people who

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said that they agree with conservative principles
and values, and so forth, they

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give up and they quit, and
they don't have an ounce of fight.

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And along comes this guy Trump,
and he's not an ideological conservative, but

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more times than not, the things
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the people that are around him,
many more times than not, the conservative

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solution is the one he recognizes is
the right one. Not in every case,

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not in every case, certainly,
but in I would argue the vast

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majority of the cases, at least
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that we're dealing with now, the
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and foremost, but a border security
right, illegal immigration, strength, right,

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having peace through strength on the international
stage, taxes, lowering taxes,

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reducing bureaucracy, the nomination of certain
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the United States of America. These
things, my friends, all compute,

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if you will, they all compute
for the average conservative, if we can

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see past whatever. Some people have
personal problems and don't like the tweets and

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everything else, and it's just it's
just a little bit invigorating politically to watch

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this happen, because we haven't had
a candidate like that, and so every

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time he walks through the next challenge, walks through the next fire, it

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encourages it. It just motivates the
crowd, the people who have had enough

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of what our government has been doing
to us. The trage read the direction

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that they are taking us, and
it's going to be It's going to be

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impossible short of something cataclysmic happening to
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Chris Christie's coming to realize that the
others are on the path to realizing

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that as well. They probably do
behind closed doors, but they at least

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want to get through Iowa. Who
knows what happens after that. Anyway,

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there you go, Chris Christie's out. Chris Christie's also caught on a hot

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mic saying that he's not the only
one that's gonna get Smokedy mentions another candidate

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by name as well. We'll get
to that after the break, as well

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as many other things in the news
concerning Hunter Biden, concerning the economy.

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Maybe even get to an offering,
a course offering at Rice University called afro

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chemistry. Anyway, lots of the
stack of stuff today, My friends.

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Quick time out though, is in
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Welcome back, my friends. So
I want to play this clip.

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This was from what I guess it
was Wednesday night. This was the day

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that Christy dropped out of the race, Chris Christy. This was Trump on

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the stage for what they call a
town hall meeting, a modern day town

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hall where they give you some sort
of a stool to sit on in the

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middle of a stage or a couple
of reporters. What is this? This

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is Fox News, Brettbear. I
think that's Martha McCollum. I'm looking here

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at the I got the video.
You don't have that, but you do

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have the audio here because I'm gonna
play it for you. So Trump is

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asked, He's asked about his VP. Now, a couple of things here.

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Number one, Trump is Trump's the
master of this. Trump is the

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master of the teas. Trump is
the master of controlling the news narrative.

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This is something that given everything that
he is dealing with and all that we're

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dealing with as a nation, the
assault on liberty, actual and real election

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interference by the left through their seven
Pillars of propaganda, which we talk about

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on this program, sometimes we don't
spend as much time on some of these

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subtle things, these little differences,
these things that make Trump who Trump is,

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or the things that make Trump capable
able to connect with his audience.

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It's this sort of stuff. He's
mastered this over the course of his lifetime,

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and this is something that I mean, many candidates can't pull this off

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with as much ease. And it's
just he does this. He does this

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so so well. So he's asked
about the VP, and I wanted to

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wait to play this this segment because
he references Chris Christie and you're going to

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hear him make a comment about Chris
Christy, and you're going to hear something

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else that Trump does extraordinarily well that
others in politics just I don't think they

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don't have the acumen, the skill
set, the personality to pull this off,

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and Trump does. When you enter
into a competition with Trump, he

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has the goal of obliterating you,
right. I remember I was a long

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time ago, but I did play
football back in back in the day,

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and I just remember between those sidelines
and between the whistles, we weren't friends

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on the on the football field.
If you were on the other team,

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and I was there. You know, we were there to win, we

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were there to compete. And I
remember thinking, if you don't want to

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get hit, you, you know, don't come around, don't try to

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block, don't don't grab the ball, don't suit up. That's what this

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game is. It's it's a physical
game. It's changed a lot, my

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goodness. I know. The idea
of a defenseless player, to me is

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is preposterous. I get the concept
of I get the concept of trying to

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limit the concussions. I understand that. But my thinking always was if a

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receiver doesn't want to be defenseless,
then don't die for the ball, right,

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I mean, you can make a
decision to not go get it.

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And that was, you know,
back in the day, intimidation. That

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was one of the reasons these guys
would wallop a guy coming across the middle.

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Was not they weren't trying to permanently
disable or injure the man. They

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were trying to make him a dislodge
the ball from him, but be mentally

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win that battle, so that if
he was coming across the middle on the

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next player the next series, he
had reservations, he didn't really want to

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go in there and make that catch. That's an advantage for the defense anyway.

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The point is Trump has the same
mentality. You step into the arena

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of competition with Trump to win the
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whatever. If you were someone that
was up against him in some business

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deal in New York City or anywhere
around the world, you were his You

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were his enemy quote unquote until the
decision was made or until you got out

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of that business or whatever. Same
thing happens here. This stuff is not

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I don't it's not personal for Trump. Now. I think there's lines it

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can be crossed that make it personal. And I think I think when he's

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looking at coming back to run against
the machine, the swamp, whatever you

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want to call it, the seven
pillars of propaganda, I think he would

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look at this and that is personal
to him. But for the other these

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other folks that are running against him
in the primary, it's not personal.

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For Trump, it's not personal,
and he's willing to shake hands and say,

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all right, now that you're not
on the other side, we can

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get along and let's move this thing
forward as Republicans. So Trump's asked here

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about his VP pick, which are
the right questions. You know, it

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has to be maddening for these folks
who are running against him. There's no

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attention paid to the debates because people
are watching things like this. It's it's

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embarrassing. I've said this before for
the Republican Party, you know, the

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Republican Party. What are they supposed
to do? I mean, are they

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supposed to cancel the debates? It's
it's they're in a lose lose situation in

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a lot of ways. But but
Trump steals the show. Trump is the

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presumptive nominee. Trump is targeted with
everything that the left has, and there

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is a huge, massive amount of
support people that are chomping at the bit

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as I say. I know it's
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some say champing at the bit,
and I'm telling you that just sounds wrong

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to me. It's chomping at the
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vote for him. They don't care
what's going on in these debates. Doesn't

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mean that they don't ever want to
see these folks again. But the guy

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is Trump, and so it's it's
gotta be disheartening to candidates to see Trump

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being asked about who's your VP nominee. You know, you're the only person

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on our stage. Everybody watching this. No one's watching when the rest of

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the folks are on stage debating because
it seems insignificant because Trump is not there

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so much going on here. But
I want to play this and I want

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you to listen to what Trump says
about his VP pick and this olive branch

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of sorts that he's extended in a
way here to Chris Christy would be in

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the running for a vice president?
Well, I can't tell you that,

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really. I mean, I know
who it's going to be. Give us

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a hint. I'll give you.
We'll do another show sometimes. What about

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any of the people who you've run
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fences with Well, I will,
I've already started, like Christy vetter Christie

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for vice president. I don't see
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would be an upset Christy for vice
president, And gentlemen, I'd like to

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announce now I do want to get
to this other question. So there you

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go. It's not going to be
Christy for vice president. But he's ready

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to mend fences. He likes him
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because Hey, after all, you're
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and you're not gonna be up there
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saying bad things about Trump, and
I'm sure he will in some way,

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shape, manner or form. But
anyway, Trump says, Hey, that's

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over and done with. I know
my nominee. Have a good idea who

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the nominee is gonna be. We
can talk about that. Have me back

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on again, just the master of
this stuff, right, And of course

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gets chuckles and the crowd loves it
and so forth. So there you go.

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Trump is again. Trump is the
Republican nominee. It's a formality,

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I know. Look and you'll hear
me say this. I just think it's

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such a massive gap in the momentum
and movement is behind Trump. It matters

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not what the polls say right now. It matters how these primaries and caucuses

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go. But I think it is
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to happen, what the American people, at least the Republican Party is ready

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to do when it comes to choosing
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clear that it's Trump to me and
these other folks are playing for a very

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very very distant second place, and
I've got to take a time out with

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my friends. Here we go,
quick time out is in order. Should

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gears here a little bit as we
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So there was some drama on Wednesday, drama on Wednesday in our nation's

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capital, Hunter Biden, some drama
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through the House a couple of House
committees, I think the Oversight and Judicial

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Committee, it had to look.
I don't have that in front of me

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at the moment, but a couple
of committees have now formally recommended that Hunter

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Biden be held in contempt of Congress, be held in contempt of Congress.

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And so we've got that going on
as well. Right, That's something that's

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going to be going on as we
get into this the meat of this election

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here. So we got to keep
our eyes on that. But we also

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have an exchange in exchange that Hunter
Biden had with the journalists that I want

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to talk about here this segment before
we go to break. This is a

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FoxBusiness dot com headline here Hunter Biden
defends including father on business calls. Quote,

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do you have a dad? Hunter
Biden appeared before a House committee that

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is considering holding him in contempt of
Congress. They have since said they recommend

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he be held in contempt of Congress, but this was written prior to that

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particular point in time. Here's what
the article says. Hunter Biden defended including

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his father on business calls with Ukrainian
associates. While speaking to a Fox Business

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reporter on Wednesday, Hunter Biden was
questioned by Fox Business Business is Hillary Vaughan

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after walking out of a house hearing
that was the drama I referenced earlier as

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Representative Marjorie Taylor Green, the Republican
from Georgia, began to question him about

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President Biden's ongoing impeachment probe. Why
did you put your dad on speakerphone during

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these business meetings if he had nothing
to do with your business, Vaughn asked

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Biden as he left the Rayburn office
building on Capitol Hill. And this is

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what Hunter said. This is what
Hunter said. Do you have a dad?

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Does he call you? The first
son asked in reply, yes,

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Vaughn said, do you answer the
phone? Biden continued yes. Vaughn answered,

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okay, Biden said, and that
was his response. She continued,

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Vaughn said, yes, but why
did you talk to him during business meetings

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if he had nothing to do with
your business, it seems like a logical

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question, right, So remember remember
where this all started. This is how

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the the the filth of the swamp, my friends, is I mean,

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it is completely just disgusting, beyond
beyond belief. So you have you have

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an individual Hunter Biden. And this
is not about Hunter. This is I

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mean, there are certainly things that
Hunter did that are i mean just crazy

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immoral. Some appear allegedly to be
illegal, as it pertains to things we've

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read about a handgun and so forth. But just this is not about targeting

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the president's son. They want you
to believe that. They want you to

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believe that so that Biden can go
to the podium and say, man,

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Hunter's been through some bad times.
He struggled with drugs after he lost his

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brother, Beau, and that's tragic. That is absolutely tragic. And bo

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Biden passing away from from cancer.
It was tragic. It was horrible.

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It was absolutely terrible. But then
they get they can turn this from you

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know what, this evidence seems to
suggest a reasonable person would ask into Let's

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not get into the personal business of
a family who's grieving. Let's not make

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this about Hunter Biden's drug habits or
propensity to hire prostitutes allegedly or whatever things

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that we would that have been found
on this laptop, laptop that we know

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is his. This isn't made up, This isn't Russian propaganda, as the

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fifty one intelligence officers told us in
the days leading up to the twenty twenty

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election, This does not have the
quote unquote hallmark of Russian propaganda and disinformation.

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This was the real deal. They
knew it back in twenty twenty.

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They didn't care. They know it
today the run out of ways to defend

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it. Remember Biden. Joe Biden
first said he had nothing to do,

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never ever talked about Hunter's businesses with
Hunter, didn't even know, didn't even

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know what Hunter was up to.
Just love and his son. Which fine,

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great if that was the case.
But the problem is there's testimony from

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Devin Archer, who was the former
best friend of Hunter Biden. It was

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a business associate with Hunter Biden Ukraine. He was on that Bearisma board of

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directors with Hunter Biden, and he
is testified. He has testified that Joe

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Biden on I believe he said either
twenty or two dozen instances, to the

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best of his estimates, jumped on
phone calls with Hunter Biden when Joe Biden,

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I believe was vice president jumped on
phone calls with his son Hunter as

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he was making business deals with these
associates. And why what was being said

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there? That's really what this is
about. What if your dad had nothing

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to do with your businesses, why
was he jumping on the phone with you

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and talking to these these folks that
you're trying to do business deals with.

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Explain that to us? And Hunter
said, do you have a dad?

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Does he call you? Do you
answer the phone? Okay, that's it,

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that's the questions that that's the way
that Hunter Biden is trying to defend

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this. Well, I have a
dad, a dad that I love and

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care about. I will tell you
this. I don't always pick up the

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phone when my father calls and write. For example, my dad called me

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right now, I wouldn't pick it
up. I wouldn't pick it up,

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put him on speaker phone and let
him talk to you. Although that might

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be quite entertaining if you knew my
father, Actually that might make this show.

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I can think of very few things
that would make this show better,

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But that might be one, but
we don't do that right. It's not

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that the person doesn't matter, but
there's some instances that if I'm in the

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business meeting, if I'm working,
if I'm mowing the grass, if I'm

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whatever, there's certain things where you
just you can't take phone calls. What

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is he talking about? Right?
What do you It's so preposterous. If

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you take the names out of this
and you just read the words of this

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exchange, you can tell that this
makes no sense what Hunter Biden is saying.

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But there are people that are blinded
deliberately to the truth. They don't

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want to know. Don't ask,
don't tell. Just I want to vote

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for Biden. I'm riding with Biden
in twenty twenty four. Doesn't matter.

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Now that says a lot about the
person as well. My friends, timeouts

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in order. I wanted to share
that this break or excuse me, this

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segment, but we're gonna take a
quick time out listening here to conservative and

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not bitter talk. You've tuned in
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Huff. Great decision you made,
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it. Sit tight, my friends. Back in just a minute. Welcome

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It's almost no matter what happens,
no matter what happens at this point,

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if Trump gets taken off the ballot, if Trump remains on the ballot,

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if Trump gets convicted, if Trump
gets acquitted, if Trump whatever.

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I mean, it's just the Left
has invested decades into getting to where we

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are, and they are metaphorically millimeters
inches from the finish line, and they

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are they can see that they're about
to have a victory, or they think

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they are, and then along comes
this guy named Donald J. Trump.

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So it's going to be contentious,
intense, and all of that. There's

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no avoiding that. However, however, we can have a little bit of

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fun with this. In fact,
this was from This was from the actually

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in a hearing in Congress Representative Promila
Jayapaul, who is a Democrat from the

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state of Washington. She is talking
about Trump, and she's trying to say

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that Trump incited an insurrection. But
instead of saying that, she says she

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says some thing altogether different. Here, hold on, here, my volume's

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too low. Here we are,
she says, this instead many things.

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But if we're going to talk about
outrageous things that have happened or things that

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have never happened, let's talk about
the fact that President Trump incited an erection.

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And maybe that too, and he
could talk about that too. I

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guess maybe we should talk about that
too. The president incited an insurrection.

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Mm hmmm. I think, my
friends, I think, my friends.

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She realizes that the saying that Trump
incited an insurrection is just as laughable as

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saying that Trump incited an erection.
I just can't I can't even believe I'm

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saying these words uttered from a committee
hearing in Congress. Let's talk about the

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fact that President Trump, she says, incited and erection. Oh my goodness,

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Quick time out, my friends.
You're listening here to conservative not better

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talk. I am your host,
Todd huff back in a minute. Two

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quick things, my friends, Two
quick things. As we wrap up for

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the week. Number one, you
might have seen that inflation has risen more

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than expected in December, pushing the
annual rate of inflation to three point four

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percent. Just wanted to let you
know that, in completely unrelated news,

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completely unrelated news, the Biden administration
is out there blaming the media for making

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people think the economy is bad.
That's in the stack of stuff as well.

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And the other thing I wanted to
tell you here where is it I

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got to hear in the stack of
stuff. Well, I'll tell you this.

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If you've not read, if you've
not read anything about this Fanny Willis,

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you should check that out. Oh
here it is. Rice University is

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going to be offering afro chemistry to
address quote the inequities in chemistry. Thank

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you Rice for taking care of that. And of course there's all kinds of

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other stuff that's crazy going on in
the world as well. But I've got

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to wrap up, my friends.
You have a wonderful weekend. We will

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see you Monday. SDG