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Speaker 1: So as you all know, I'm no stranger to being

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placed in situations that I was never actually in. I mean,

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remember Prague, Remember the Russia hoax, right, the lies, lies, lies. Well,

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today's spin is that I spend time at Metropolitan Detention

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Center and that's the facility where Nicholas Maduro is currently

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being held. Now media outlets to have a heyday, eight

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absolute field day, naming all of the people who are

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held behind bars at MDC. But as mainstream media continues

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to gossip, they're actually falling into the trap that's set

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by the Trump administration. You see, as the zone is

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flooded with venezuela and chaos, people are forgetting that we

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still haven't received the full Epstein files, which are required

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by law. There are in fact two million records that

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are still needed to be released to the public. But

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mainstream media, they may fall for the Trump distraction tactics,

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but I won't. And welcome back to The Michael Cohen

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Show on our continued journey to a million subscribers. Let's

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get there, hit subscribe, watch, comment, and share, because the stupidity,

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the nonsense, it really has to stop. So Saturday was

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the statutory date for the DOJ to explain why there

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were so many redactions in the first Epstein file drop,

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but instead they attacked Venezuela. Here's what the House Oversight

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Democrats posted. In it, they write, we are Short's just

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a coincidence, but today is the statutory date for the

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DOJ to explain its redactions in the Epstein file productions.

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We have not forgotten and we won't let up, regardless

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of the president's new unconstitutional actions. Now, let me also

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show you two more recent posts calling for the DOJ's accountability.

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The first one turns around and said, again by the

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Oversight Dems, there's a lot going on in the world

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that's important, and that includes our work on the Epstein files.

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We won't forget and we won't be distracted. Another one

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turns around and says, the Epstein files production we received

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from the DOJ last month was both incomplete and overly redacted.

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Entire pages blacked out with zero explanation, a clear obstruction

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of justice for survivors and accountability for co conspirators. We

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won't stop until we get the truth. But look at

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the amount of redaction in that document. It is absolutely obscene. Now,

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Representative Robert Garcia well, he's the Democratic ranking member on

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the Oversight Committee, and this is what he said about

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the Epstein file. Play the clip.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't buy that. I just don't see

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how you have documents. This is a critical, well publicized case.

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Everyone is talking about the Epstein files, And didn't Pambond

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do you already have these on her desk? Susie Wills,

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acquiring of Vanity Fair, had already seen them. So this

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idea that somehow this is somehow new to them, or

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they just happened to find one million new documents is

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just not believable. You know, Todd blanche here is out

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here partying next to the president on New Year's Eve

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at mar A Lago. He's over a meeting with Gallainne

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Maxwell in secret, giving her special deals, and is now

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essentially finding new documents out of nowhere, while they continue

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to redact the president's name in places where we know

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it shouldn't happen. This is a directed White House cover

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up by the President and the Attorney General. I mean,

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there's no question of that. And I think the American

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public now see that, and it's very clear we've got

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to be very careful and diligent in going through the

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new documents and holding Pambondi accountable if that means contempt

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or other measures, and using the legal process, which we've

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seeing and hearing about in the weeks ahead.

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Speaker 1: Okay. So basically, what they're doing is the same thing

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that Trump does. And this is the part that infuriates

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me and I'm certain infuriates you too. They do have

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things that they can do. They have an arsenal of

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things that they can do in order to demand the release.

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and action against Pam Bondy and action against Todd Blanche.

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They could have done something. Instead, what do they do.

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They go to MS now, they go to CNN, they

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even go on to Fox to bitch and complain. Well,

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you know what, nobody cares on the Republican side about

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your whining. Actually do something, literally, literally do something, file

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in action against the DOJ, the Attorney General, or whoever.

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But do something now. Representative Melanie Stansbury she posted this

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on x explaining her determination to find the truth. Let

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me show you what she writes. She writes things invading Venezuela,

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don't stop, and here's the list. The Epstein investigation and

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the DOJ's failure to comply. New reporting on Trump's relationship

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with Epstein and the recruitment of girls from mar A

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Lago January sixth anniversary, and testimony from Jack Smith on

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Trump's involvement and use of classified documents. Healthcare costs skyrocketing

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and the president's failure to act skyrocketing costs them, Trump's

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tariffs and giveaway to billionaires on the backs of working people.

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a foreign country to take their oil. Another government shut

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down deadline in twenty five days. That's why this week

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in Congress, Democrats will force votes on war powers, healthcare,

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and continue to fight for the American people once again.

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All tough talk, by the way, great great texts, great post.

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Very proud of you. Now actually do something again, other

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than bitch and wind and complain about it. Actually do

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something now. Representative James Walkinshaw. He also took to the

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news to count direct Trump's distractions. Play the clip.

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Speaker 3: As of today, best we can tell, we have maybe

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five percent of the total documents that should have been

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produced and released publicly. So the Trump administration, the Department

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of Justice is blatantly violating the law and engaging in

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to the ninety five percent that we don't have, there's

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been released. We know there are ten co conspirators. Who

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are those ten co conspirators? Where are the survivor's statements,

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the statements they made to the FBI, where as they

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have said they out mind a number of the men

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who were involved in this abuse. So on and on

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So, as I wrote in my substack of This

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Morning James, which I called reality ignored for ratings in it,

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that there are more than two million documents potentially responsive

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to the Epstein Files Transparency Act that are currently in

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various stages of review. Two million documents. Let that sit

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with you. You see, Congress set a clear deadline for disclosure,

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the public received so far? Let me, James give you

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some real numbers about twelve thousand, two hundred and eighty

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one hundred and twenty five thousand pages which are now

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uploaded to the DOJ's Epstein library. My friends, as I'm

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going to agree with James on this one. That's not transparency.

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reporter tried to approach Bondi regarding the files, she was

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turned away. Let me show you what happened in it.

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They're right, I asked. This is from Meredith Lee Hill

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of Politico. I asked Agpam Bondi when DOJ will comply

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with the Epstein disclosure law as she entered a classified

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Hill briefing on Venezuela. She didn't respond. Dj has yet

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to fully comply with the law, which Congress passed in

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November to release its entire Epstein related file. The department

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has released tranches of often heavily redacted documents, but says

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it's still working through potentially a million more. Bondy is

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expected to testify in a rescheduled oversight hearing in the

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coming weeks with how Judiciary, where Representative Thomas Massey is

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a member. Now let me also be clear here Milania

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Speaker 4: Play the clip Malania is a key part of the

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puzzle what happened with Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump? Malania

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shed's an enormous amount of light. I got a letter

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saying you gotta talk about Milania and Trump before they

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consume me for a billion dollars. We went into court

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and sued them. We filed that suit on October twenty second,

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and that's almost ten weeks ago. One of the things

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Speaker 5: Do is to serve the first lady. It turns out

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to be very difficult. They're basically hiding they don't want

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this to go forward because we've kind of screwed themselves.

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their friends basically anything I want about the relationship to

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Jeffrey Epstein. That is something that I think they cannot

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let happen. We have not heard from Milania or her lawyers.

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to ask that our suit be moved from the New

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York courts to the federal courts. That's a delay tactic,

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which means that we have to start the service process

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all over again. He cannot let this happen. I mean,

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her options are to run out the clock on this,

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which they will certainly try to do. Every delay tactic

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that's available to them they will use.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's many ways within which to serve whether

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first Lady. By the way, all you need to do

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is in DC or she's in New York. So if

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via nail and mail. You could do it by service

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to downstairs, to the concierge at the Trump Tower. There's

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many ways within which to do it, and I'm certain

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Michael Wolfe's lawyers know how to do it. Meanwhile, despite

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sub stack. They're important. We cannot be distracted. Trump is

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still out there spreading the distractions. I mean, this morning alone,

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he claimed the United States markets are at an all

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time high. Okay, great, let me show you what he

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says in it. He writes, the USA markets just hit

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another all time high, all of them. Thank you you,

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mister Tariff. Pray that the United States Supreme Court allows

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our country to continue its unpreced dented march toward unparalleled greatness.

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I think many people would absolutely disagree with that one. Yes,

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the market is at an all time high. Great. You

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know what else is impossible to deal with? It's called affordability. Now.

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Trump also bragged about cutting funding for childcare. Congrats. Let

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me show you what he wrote in it. Trump cuts

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off and this is from his this is from his

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true social Trump cuts off ten billion in funding to

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The Trump administration's cutting off more than ten billion in

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Democratic led States officials told the Post today. Now, look,

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because ironing is always fun to dissect, I do want

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to show you a post from the year twenty twelve

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where Trump was extremely critical of Obama. You'll understand exactly

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why I want to show this to you. In it,

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he turns around and he says, remember October ninth of

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twenty twelve, Now that Obama's poll numbers are in tailspin,

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watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran.

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He is desperate. I don't know how's Trump's numbers doing

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right now? Tailspin? Maybe? Oh way, did we just launch

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an attack? Where did we just go ahead and invade

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in order to grab a head of state? Oh yeah,

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then Isuela? So always be careful what you say on

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the internet, because now everyone is claiming that Trump's attack

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on Venezuela is all part of this distraction tactic. That

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and of course oil. So look as I turn around

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and I say in my sub stack, at the very

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very end, this isn't accidental. It's profitable. They're actually making

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money off this. You see what Trump does here is

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he floods the zone and cable news they cash the checks. Meanwhile,

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we the American people. We actually bleed off camera, dying

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quietly while everyone is too busy staring at these distractions,

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and we must ensure that it stops. And as always,

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