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We'll talk about all the follow up 31 00:01:40.680 --> 00:01:43.120 from that fun little gaff and the possibility that Trump 32 00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:47.599 may personally pocket billions in taxpayer dollars because of a 33 00:01:47.640 --> 00:01:50.640 lawsuit he filed that his own Justice Department is on 34 00:01:50.719 --> 00:01:53.200 the verge of settling. We'll also talk about the Democrats' 35 00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:57.000 latest plan to fight the Republican jerrymanderspree, more updates on 36 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:00.599 the DNC and it's phantom twenty twenty four autopsy, and 37 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:03.959 of course, why the new twenty two foot golden statue 38 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:06.719 of Donald Trump at his golf club, blessed by his 39 00:02:06.799 --> 00:02:13.319 spiritual advisor, is definitely not a golden calf. Before we 40 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:15.960 get into any of that. 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He called the communist dictator 61 00:03:24.400 --> 00:03:28.039 a quote great leader while dropping some knowledge on his 62 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:29.000 Chinese hosts. 63 00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:34.039 Chinese restaurants in America today outnumber the five largest fast 64 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:37.159 food chains in the United States all combined. 65 00:03:37.199 --> 00:03:38.479 That's a pretty big statement. 66 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:43.840 Pretty pretty big statement, pretty big statement. Glad he glad 67 00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:46.240 he gave them that one. The Beijing leg of Trump's 68 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:48.280 affordability tour puts him out of the country at a 69 00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:51.479 moment when the president has never been less popular. After 70 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:53.400 starting a war he can't seem to end that's led 71 00:03:53.439 --> 00:03:56.280 to inflation he doesn't seem to care about, which, for 72 00:03:56.360 --> 00:03:58.680 some reason he won't stop telling us. 73 00:03:59.560 --> 00:04:01.680 Can bring up play down is now at its highest 74 00:04:01.719 --> 00:04:02.840 level in three years. 75 00:04:02.919 --> 00:04:06.479 Are your policies not working? What's happening? Need be working? Incredibly, 76 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:09.680 we have a ballroom that's under budgets. We're right now 77 00:04:09.800 --> 00:04:10.960 on budget, under. 78 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:13.400 Budget and ahead of sketch I double the size of 79 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:18.160 a new dumb person. We're already deluctiating with the rhyme 80 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:19.920 under preject one extent. 81 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:23.160 Are mair case financial maintence motivating you to make. 82 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:25.600 It meal, not even a little bit. I don't think 83 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:28.759 about American financial situation. 84 00:04:28.959 --> 00:04:34.480 I don't think about anybody. The best part of that is, 85 00:04:34.519 --> 00:04:37.120 like it would have been bad enough if he had 86 00:04:37.160 --> 00:04:40.120 just stuck with not at all, because then like, that's 87 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:41.720 still bad. But then you would have had to, like, 88 00:04:41.839 --> 00:04:44.759 you know, make sure you heard the reporters question. But 89 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:47.120 then he like does the quote as if it was like, 90 00:04:47.199 --> 00:04:49.319 here's the line that if you say it will be 91 00:04:49.399 --> 00:04:51.240 a major gaff, and he's like, I will do the 92 00:04:51.279 --> 00:04:53.000 whole line. I will just say it. I do not 93 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:56.360 think about american's financial situation. I don't think about anybody. 94 00:04:56.560 --> 00:04:57.959 The only thing would have been worse if he'd asked 95 00:04:57.959 --> 00:05:00.240 them to turn the helicopter engines off first, to could 96 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:00.439 say it. 97 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:02.879 So the audio Okay, folks, I'm gonna do one more take. 98 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:05.959 I'm gonna say a little louder and two camera just 99 00:05:06.040 --> 00:05:07.000 so it looks better. 100 00:05:07.639 --> 00:05:11.160 Let me hold this big box of gold right now? 101 00:05:11.240 --> 00:05:13.680 Why can you get the can you get the unfinished 102 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:17.600 ballroom in the back front shot? In fairness, the one 103 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:21.360 group of Americans whose financial situation Trump keeps improving are 104 00:05:21.439 --> 00:05:26.839 democratic ad makers. In the pantheon of gaffes, where do 105 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:27.600 you rank this one? 106 00:05:27.759 --> 00:05:30.439 Donald Trump has said many offensive and morally odious things 107 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:33.199 over the years, but from a political perspective, this is 108 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:36.800 the worst thing he has said by far, hands down, 109 00:05:37.160 --> 00:05:37.800 not even close. 110 00:05:37.879 --> 00:05:40.160 Do you think so? I mean, god, I can't remember, 111 00:05:40.199 --> 00:05:42.319 it's been ten years, but yeah, it's up there for sure. 112 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:44.839 It absolutely has to be. And here here's why. Because 113 00:05:44.839 --> 00:05:47.439 a lot of Trump's like though terrible things he says, 114 00:05:47.439 --> 00:05:51.079 like Nazis are fine people, I trust the Russian intell 115 00:05:51.160 --> 00:05:53.279 your trust Russia over our own intelligence agents. All those 116 00:05:53.279 --> 00:05:55.240 things which are really really bad things for president to 117 00:05:55.240 --> 00:05:59.800 say on every level, are a field from the thing 118 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:02.199 Americans care most about. So right here he is doing 119 00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:03.720 the worst kind of gafs are when you say the 120 00:06:03.720 --> 00:06:06.240 truth out loud. And that's what this is because what 121 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:08.319 he said was the exact thing that the people who 122 00:06:08.399 --> 00:06:10.639 voted for Trump, who have grown disillusion with him and 123 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:13.519 are thinking voted for Democrats fear most that he does 124 00:06:13.560 --> 00:06:16.360 not give a shit about them. Yeah, it's like he said, 125 00:06:16.360 --> 00:06:18.600 the whole thing, and you just that is our message, 126 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:22.319 like somewhere on a whiteboard and a Democratic superpack is 127 00:06:22.600 --> 00:06:25.600 Trump does not care about American people's financial situations. And 128 00:06:25.639 --> 00:06:28.480 then he said it. He set our message on camera 129 00:06:29.079 --> 00:06:29.720 that's bad. 130 00:06:30.600 --> 00:06:34.279 Remember, Kamala is for they them, Trump's for you. I 131 00:06:34.279 --> 00:06:36.279 guess Trump is not for you. 132 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:38.040 No, Trump is not for you. But this is this 133 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:41.560 is see you. This is like when Kamala Harris the 134 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:43.959 two quotes which we'll get to this later, but when 135 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:47.199 Kamala Harris said that Biden nomics were working and when 136 00:06:47.240 --> 00:06:49.120 she had no ways in which she was separated herself 137 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:51.319 from Joe Biden. Similar right, when you make a gaff 138 00:06:51.639 --> 00:06:54.519 that fits with people's greatest fear about you, those are 139 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:55.839 the gaffs that hurt the most. 140 00:06:56.079 --> 00:06:58.079 I was thinking whether this was even the worst gaff 141 00:06:58.160 --> 00:07:02.439 within the context of all of the terrible, politically stupid 142 00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:06.439 gas he's made, within the context of the just affordability, 143 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:09.279 just in that category, because it was like, affordability is 144 00:07:09.319 --> 00:07:14.920 a hoax, it's bullshit, it's bullshit, everything's fine, people are okay. 145 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:17.439 If it could be worse gas prices, I mean, there's 146 00:07:17.519 --> 00:07:19.600 just so many of them. I do think this nicely 147 00:07:19.720 --> 00:07:23.480 encapsulates that aside from anyone policy or him being out 148 00:07:23.480 --> 00:07:25.439 of touch with how people are feeling, he actually just 149 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:26.680 doesn't think about. 150 00:07:26.439 --> 00:07:29.879 It, does not care, could not care less. 151 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:34.160 Back to the ballroom, there it's like the advisors are saying, well, 152 00:07:34.199 --> 00:07:36.240 he was talking about it was talking about this in 153 00:07:36.279 --> 00:07:38.439 the context of Around having a nuclear weapon, and what 154 00:07:38.519 --> 00:07:40.800 he was saying is that he doesn't think about America's 155 00:07:40.839 --> 00:07:44.519 financial situation in a way that would stop him from 156 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:46.600 doing what he needs to do to stop around from 157 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:49.160 getting a nuclear weapon, which is also funny because he 158 00:07:49.199 --> 00:07:50.160 hasn't done that either. 159 00:07:55.040 --> 00:07:57.600 They still have the uranium dust and our gas prices 160 00:07:57.600 --> 00:07:58.160 are really high. 161 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:02.279 Zero progress, zero progress since this war. The latest war 162 00:08:02.319 --> 00:08:05.639 began in February of twenty eight. Whatever he bombed over 163 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:08.480 last summer is one thing, but like nothing on the 164 00:08:08.560 --> 00:08:13.560 nuclear dust since since this war started, so hasn't figured 165 00:08:13.560 --> 00:08:17.240 that out. Doesn't think of American's financial situation. It has 166 00:08:17.240 --> 00:08:19.800 been funny to watch Republicans respond to this one, which 167 00:08:19.800 --> 00:08:22.279 so many of them have been asked to do, including 168 00:08:22.920 --> 00:08:25.160 the Vice President and the Speaker of the House and 169 00:08:25.279 --> 00:08:27.040 random members of Congress. Let's listen. 170 00:08:27.199 --> 00:08:30.199 Yes, the President was asking about whether American's financial concerned 171 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:32.200 for motivating to make a deal with the wrong His 172 00:08:32.279 --> 00:08:36.240 response was, I don't think about americans financial situations. That's 173 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:39.759 the right message. He doesn't should be considering the financial 174 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:42.000 tool I don't know the context in which he made 175 00:08:42.039 --> 00:08:43.639 that comment, but I can tell you the President thinks 176 00:08:43.639 --> 00:08:45.919 about the American's financial situations. I'd talked to him on 177 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:48.279 average twice a day, sometimes three or four times a day. 178 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:50.759 I could just kind of give a little clarity to 179 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:52.919 what I think President Trump was saying is, look, he 180 00:08:53.039 --> 00:08:55.480 does care about the American people. He does care about 181 00:08:55.480 --> 00:08:56.240 the price of the pump. 182 00:08:56.519 --> 00:08:58.679 Well, I don't think the President said that. 183 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:01.080 I think that's a misrepresentation to what the President said. 184 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:04.200 So good, so good. I like, let me just clarify, 185 00:09:04.320 --> 00:09:07.320 let me just clarify. When the President said he doesn't 186 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:10.720 think about americans financial situation, what he actually meant was 187 00:09:10.759 --> 00:09:12.840 that he cares about America's financial situation. 188 00:09:13.720 --> 00:09:16.159 It's like, look, he's an older gentleman, isn't get a 189 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:18.240 lot of sleep. He gets confused sometimes. 190 00:09:18.759 --> 00:09:21.200 I like that Mike Johnson went to I mean I 191 00:09:21.320 --> 00:09:23.559 talked to him two three times a day. It's like, 192 00:09:23.879 --> 00:09:25.320 what does that have to do with him caring about 193 00:09:25.320 --> 00:09:28.120 American's financial situation. I also enjoyed that there's the question 194 00:09:28.360 --> 00:09:29.960 was do you think that's a good message? 195 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:34.320 And I don't know the context, but like no one 196 00:09:34.360 --> 00:09:36.279 has a narrow media diet than Mike Johnson. 197 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:40.240 I feel like every Democratic candidate on the ballot in 198 00:09:40.320 --> 00:09:44.480 twenty twenty six should make their Republican opponent. 199 00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:47.480 Answer for this. Right, it feels like a leading question. 200 00:09:47.639 --> 00:09:50.960 John I'm just saying, like why I haven't I've mean 201 00:09:51.159 --> 00:09:52.759 trying to figure out, like why I haven't seen more 202 00:09:52.759 --> 00:09:54.039 of that yet. I mean, I guess you can only 203 00:09:54.080 --> 00:09:56.320 really do that in a I guess the place to 204 00:09:56.440 --> 00:09:59.279 do that is in a debate, because if you do 205 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:01.519 some video where like I call on my opponent to 206 00:10:01.799 --> 00:10:03.559 you know, no one's gonna no one's gonna actually do that. 207 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:04.840 That's not going to get you very far. But I 208 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:06.240 do think would be a good debate moment. 209 00:10:06.519 --> 00:10:09.000 So I think the way we generally think about this, 210 00:10:09.159 --> 00:10:11.960 with the way that question is framed, is like basing 211 00:10:12.039 --> 00:10:14.039 this other world of politics that you and I came 212 00:10:14.159 --> 00:10:16.000 up in, where these Republicans are out there on the 213 00:10:16.039 --> 00:10:20.000 campaign trail. They're being trailed by a pack of experienced 214 00:10:21.080 --> 00:10:24.159 local reporters who are waiving recorders and notepads at them, 215 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:29.440 demanding answers sort of like, yeah, well it's that doesn't 216 00:10:29.440 --> 00:10:32.519 that's not how the world works anymore, And so that's 217 00:10:32.600 --> 00:10:35.159 not like I would like a world like I want 218 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:38.240 every Republican walking down the halls of Congress to be 219 00:10:38.360 --> 00:10:41.000 swarmed by the staff of punch Bowl News and demand 220 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:43.840 it they can't leave the Senate subway until they answer 221 00:10:43.919 --> 00:10:46.039 this question, Like I would like that. That is good 222 00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:50.519 karmic justice. What it's it's and people should use it 223 00:10:50.519 --> 00:10:52.559 in debates. The better thing to do here in this 224 00:10:52.679 --> 00:10:55.720 media environment is you take the Trump clip, you mix 225 00:10:55.799 --> 00:10:57.480 it with a that you then followed up with a 226 00:10:57.519 --> 00:11:01.039 bunch of policies that this Republican member supported or is 227 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:03.840 fine with, or has done, or they themselves said that 228 00:11:04.440 --> 00:11:07.759 illustrate this larger point that Trump and his Republican flunkies 229 00:11:08.120 --> 00:11:10.120 do not give a shit about your financialransituation and to 230 00:11:10.120 --> 00:11:12.320 focus on all these other things. And I think that's 231 00:11:12.360 --> 00:11:15.080 sort of the way it happens now, like in a campaign, 232 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:16.679 I just like you hear this all the time. I 233 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:18.480 think about this. I always like, why is no one 234 00:11:18.519 --> 00:11:20.200 forcing these can'ts ask about it? Because there was no 235 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:22.360 one to force them to do it anymore? Right, there's 236 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:24.480 maybe one reporter trailing them in some of these places. 237 00:11:24.840 --> 00:11:27.559 You know, I watched the I don't know if you've 238 00:11:27.600 --> 00:11:29.320 watched any of these. This is sort of off topic, 239 00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:31.600 but I watched the last California gubernatorial debate. 240 00:11:31.759 --> 00:11:34.200 It seems like they're the CNN one or the Buffy 241 00:11:34.240 --> 00:11:34.679 Wicks one. 242 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:39.799 Neither the local NBC affiliate one that came after the 243 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:40.919 LA mayor ol debate. 244 00:11:40.960 --> 00:11:42.919 Oh okay, yeah, I watched the CNN one and I 245 00:11:42.960 --> 00:11:45.320 watched the Buffy one. Yeah. None of the Buffy Buffy 246 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:49.759 Wick sponsored to housing debates. I know that. I will 247 00:11:49.759 --> 00:11:51.759 say that Buffy Wicks is an assembly member California in 248 00:11:51.759 --> 00:11:52.240 a friend of ours. 249 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:54.879 Yeah, no, I will say that neither the LA mayor 250 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:58.200 Aal debate or the California gubernatorial debate that I watch 251 00:11:58.320 --> 00:11:59.120 was very inspiring. 252 00:12:00.159 --> 00:12:04.120 Yeah, if you've done if you've done local races, the 253 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:06.159 and it's been a long time, seve have done that. 254 00:12:06.279 --> 00:12:10.879 But like these debates are never they're not presidential debates. 255 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:12.039 No, they're really not. 256 00:12:12.519 --> 00:12:14.519 There is not a hard follow up. 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Remember the ten billion dollar lawsuit Donald Trump 329 00:15:39.320 --> 00:15:43.600 filed against the IRS over his tax returns leaking well. 330 00:15:43.639 --> 00:15:46.399 The New York Times reports that Trump's Justice Department might 331 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:50.159 settle the lawsuit any day now, and that quote a 332 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:53.159 settlement payment even a fraction of the size of mister 333 00:15:53.240 --> 00:15:57.240 Trump's requested ten billion dollars could be much larger than 334 00:15:57.279 --> 00:16:01.799 his other attempts at private gain potential doubling his net 335 00:16:01.919 --> 00:16:04.399 worth with our tax dollars. 336 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:05.240 Uh. 337 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:07.320 I know a lot of these corruption stories are a 338 00:16:07.399 --> 00:16:10.799 bit complicated, but this would just be Trump literally just 339 00:16:11.159 --> 00:16:15.399 taking the tax dollars we send the government and putting 340 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:19.639 them directly into his pocket. First of all, before we 341 00:16:19.679 --> 00:16:22.639 get into like the political implications of this, do you 342 00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:27.000 think they'll actually do something so brazenly stupid as this, 343 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:28.399 even by Trump's standards. 344 00:16:28.720 --> 00:16:30.960 Yeah, I think they might, and I think they'll justify 345 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:32.360 it by saying, look, it's that we didn't do it 346 00:16:32.399 --> 00:16:34.200 for ten billion, and we did it for one billion 347 00:16:34.279 --> 00:16:34.879 or two billion. 348 00:16:35.080 --> 00:16:37.039 You think so you'll. Yeah. The other thing that they 349 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:39.600 kind of floated in the story and I couldn't tell. 350 00:16:39.720 --> 00:16:41.679 I couldn't tell if this was you know, some reporting 351 00:16:41.759 --> 00:16:45.600 that didn't they couldn't bear out yet, which was there's 352 00:16:45.600 --> 00:16:49.679 a possibility they might just say no, no financial award 353 00:16:50.279 --> 00:16:53.279 goes to Trump from Trump's Justice Department, but that somehow 354 00:16:53.320 --> 00:16:58.679 he gets protected from ever being audited again, seems, which 355 00:16:58.759 --> 00:17:01.879 is also incredibly corruptive. Course. Yes, but I do think 356 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:07.000 any kind of dollar amount is who fucking nuts, man it. 357 00:17:07.799 --> 00:17:09.559 I mean, it would have to be let's say it's 358 00:17:09.559 --> 00:17:12.480 a let's say it's one million dollars, right, Let's say 359 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:15.720 it's let's say just still stealing. This is a lawsuit 360 00:17:15.799 --> 00:17:19.119 where Donald Trump sued Donald Trump, and now Donald Trump 361 00:17:19.200 --> 00:17:21.960 is going to settle with Donald Trump to give Donald 362 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:24.599 Trump money, our money. 363 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:25.599 Our money. 364 00:17:26.079 --> 00:17:29.839 He's basically just backing up a truck to the Treasury 365 00:17:29.880 --> 00:17:32.559 department and taking our money and giving it to himself. 366 00:17:33.359 --> 00:17:35.000 And he's gonna say he's giving it to charity. That's 367 00:17:35.000 --> 00:17:36.240 what he said when he was pushed on this in 368 00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:39.920 an NBC interview earlier this year. Donald Trump's been lying 369 00:17:39.960 --> 00:17:42.880 with giving money charity his whole life. Like this would 370 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:46.680 be the greatest example of presidential coruption in American history 371 00:17:46.720 --> 00:17:49.160 by a factor of a thousand. It's just stealing money. 372 00:17:49.400 --> 00:17:52.200 I was gonna say, the easiest to explain. Don't fucking 373 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:53.960 get out your message box on this one, Dan. 374 00:17:54.799 --> 00:17:56.359 Oh, don't worry, I'll be a message boxing let me. 375 00:17:56.759 --> 00:17:59.119 Let me tell you. It's just like, uh, he's stealing 376 00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:01.440 from us. You go to work, you get a paycheck, 377 00:18:01.519 --> 00:18:03.640 they take taxes out of the paycheck. It goes to 378 00:18:03.720 --> 00:18:06.480 the government. Now those taxes go in Donald Trump's pocket. 379 00:18:06.640 --> 00:18:11.160 He's a thief. He is stealing from US ten billion dollars. 380 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:12.640 He is a crook. That's it. 381 00:18:13.519 --> 00:18:14.440 I mean, it's it's wild. 382 00:18:14.920 --> 00:18:17.400 Really. It's also it's like a lawsuit that I mean 383 00:18:17.559 --> 00:18:19.160 not to get into the details here, but now that 384 00:18:19.519 --> 00:18:23.519 that we've done our top line message, like an IRS 385 00:18:23.640 --> 00:18:27.160 contractor leaked all these tax returns of a whole bunch 386 00:18:27.160 --> 00:18:30.359 of wealthy people, including Donald Trump to pro Publica. Apparently 387 00:18:30.359 --> 00:18:32.039 the guy went to jail for five years over this, 388 00:18:32.640 --> 00:18:38.799 and others who had their tax tax returns leaked sued. 389 00:18:39.759 --> 00:18:43.480 None of them got any damages. Ken Griffin, the billionaire, 390 00:18:44.759 --> 00:18:46.920 he was one of them. He got like a public 391 00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:49.599 apology from the irs. There's all kinds of problems with 392 00:18:49.599 --> 00:18:51.720 the lawsuits. It's for way too much money. First of all, 393 00:18:52.240 --> 00:18:53.960 he doesn't seem to have filed it at the right time, 394 00:18:54.599 --> 00:18:56.200 and so there's. 395 00:18:56.200 --> 00:18:58.599 Only one party of the lawsuit. Well that's the big thing. 396 00:18:58.680 --> 00:18:59.839 But no, no, I think the big thing is it 397 00:18:59.920 --> 00:19:02.519 is It's also clear that if it was Donald Trump 398 00:19:02.599 --> 00:19:05.759 suing Joe Biden's federal government or some other president, this 399 00:19:05.920 --> 00:19:08.319 lawsuit would he would never get anything from this because 400 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:12.519 it's a fucking phony lawsuit. And the only reason he 401 00:19:12.559 --> 00:19:16.079