Will Cain breaks down the FBI's raid of Trump's Mar-a-Lago

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i’ll confess i don’t care if it’s cheesy
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i really liked legends of the fall you remember the 1990s movie starring
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brad pitt and anthony hopkins a western where brad pitt plays a highly romantic
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character that every girl wants to sleep with and every guy wants to be he is a
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wild and rough world war one fighter and cowboy and at the end of the movie
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there’s a line there’s a line where his native american friend says
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i thought tristan the character played by brad pitt i thought tristan would
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never live to be an old man i was wrong about that i was wrong about many things
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it was those who loved him the most who died young he was the rock they broke themselves
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against i think for much of the past six years
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americans have broken themselves against the rock of donald trump
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everything from covid to joe biden has been a proxy about how you feel
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about donald trump i don’t know if you’ve ever played any strategy games if you play chess
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maybe even checkers if you played any game that requires a little bit of subterfuge
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a little bit of secrecy there comes a point in the game
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where your opponent’s strategy is revealed a certain move is made and
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you can see i’m in trouble i can now see the next five moves i now see the way he’s trying to guard me i
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now realize why i’m losing at that point in the game you can delude
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yourself and keep playing with the same strategy
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that you started or you can see the game for what it is
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in the game of america the move has been exposed
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you should now be able to see the strategy of permanent washington
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let’s go through the trump raid from the warrant to the application of the law
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let’s start with the warrant to search donald trump’s residence in mar-a-lago
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last friday the warrant
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granted the fbi the power to go through locked closets at mar-a-lago looking for classified material materials marked top
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secret or tscif top secret materials intended to be viewed exclusively in a secured
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facility it’s brought up a conversation about what is and is not a classified document
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the trump team has maintained that before leaving office before
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leaving washington four hours before joe biden is inaugurated in as the president of the
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united states boxes of materials were taken from the white house and effectively declassified
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by the then president of the united states donald trump meaning anything that is maintained at mar-a-lago is
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declassified is that true on one hand we have a mainstream media
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led by the likes and the voices maybe best illustrated by rachel maddow who believed that donald trump was selling
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state secrets and sharing the nuclear codes with our sworn enemies in exchange
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for quid pro quo payments on the other hand the documents
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were declassified according to the new york times
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the new york times the president of the united states has broad authority and power
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to declassify well anything and everything at any time
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i’m reading now from the new york times the legal basis for the classification system comes from the president’s
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constitutional authority as commander-in-chief presidents have established and developed it through a series of executive orders dating back
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to the era encompassing world war ii and the early cold war
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the classification system for the most part is about bureaucratic control the
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main punishment for disobedience is administrative officials can be admonished and lose their security
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clearance or be fired now the classification system is largely
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a system within the executive branch of the government that binds subordinates from sharing information that their
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superiors have deemed for only certain eyes there is no superior to the president of
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the united states i read now again from the new york times can presidents declassify matters directly
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yes because it is ultimately their constitutional authority again quoting
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from the new york times normally presidents who want something declassified direct subordinates
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overseeing the department or agency with primary responsibility for the information to review the matter with an
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eye of making it more public but on rare occasions presidents can declassify something directly for example
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in 2004 president george w bush himself declassified a portion of his
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presidential daily intelligence briefing from august 2001 a month before the september 11th terrorist attacks in
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which he had been warned bin laden determined to strike in u.s the new york times reporting and
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admitting i’m sure to the chagrin of their followers that it is in the power
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of the president of the united states to declassify the classification system again is a
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binding administrative procedure on subordinates the president of the united states has no superior
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he can declassify at any time anything
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anywhere i said this on fox and friends this weekend it drew the attention of
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the usual slimy liars like those at media matters but life is not driven by pop culture
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and life is not driven by the reduction of hollywood
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there was a famous scene in the movie frost nixon which was based upon the broadway play frost nixon which was
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based upon the real life interview encounter between david frost and richard nixon after he had already left
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office and richard nixon issued a famous line in that movie in that play in real life
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and he said if the president does it that means it’s not illegal
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now in the realm of pop culture that is the aha got you moment
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richard nixon contends that he is above the law it plays perfectly into the mantra that
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has been issued somewhere i guess on high for all media institutions to reiterate last week that no one is above
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the law it is so odd how they develop these verbal tics and every channel from msnbc
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to cnn to the new york times to washington post glitch on to these
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religious mantras i believe in science no one is above the law
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that’s the current current thing and richards nixon’s famous line if the
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president does it that means it’s not illegal works perfectly if your only real understanding of history the
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constitution or the law is the reduction of hollywood into the
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popular zeitgeist oh my god screams media matters will
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kane believes that richard nixon is the source of moral guidance richard nixon the president who had to be impeached
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the richard nixon the president that resigned as though it’s all an indictment of
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anything ever uttered by richardson richard nixon
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but as is so easy to do if you simply pay attention
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we can again use their own words this is politifact in 2017.
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i’m quoting now the national security experts at the blog law fair wrote in the wake of the post revelation talking
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about a donald trump utterance in 2017 that the infamous comment by president richard nixon that when the president
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does it that means it’s not illegal is actually true about some things
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now that’s interesting coming from politifact but i’m not done
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when the president does it that means it’s not illegal is actually true about some things
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classified information is one of them the nature of the system is that the president gets to disclose what he wants
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politifact 2017
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president donald trump has the power under the executive branch of the united states government as granted to him in
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the constitution to control the classification administrative system
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of his government if the documents that he held at mar-a-lago were deemed declassified
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regardless of whatever procedure or forms we think must be followed then those
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documents are declassified
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now that brings us to the warrant the warrant isn’t as concerned about the
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classification of documents as is msnbc the warrant focuses in
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on the espionage act a 1917 law that makes it illegal
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to maintain information share that information that is top
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secret relative to america’s national defense it’s an interesting law that will if
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this case is pushed forward be one that lands on the desks of the supreme court of the united states can the legislative
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branch bind the executive branch when it comes to information regarding the national defense that will be a question
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for the supreme court but the question for us is just because the espionage act was invoked does that
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mean donald trump was a top secret super spy selling nuclear codes to the saudis
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let’s look at the espionage act again i believe i’m going to go ahead and
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quote this time from the new york times the espionage act although it’s called
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the espionage act i’m quoting it does not necessarily mean that trump took the documents with the intention of passing
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them to a foreign power the statute also covers more minor offenses for example
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someone who is lawfully in possession of documents photos and so on and passes them to anyone not entitled to receive
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it interesting so maybe not super spy but maybe in
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possession of documents and shares it with someone who should not be in possession of documents
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oh but wait i’m not done the espionage act also
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reads that it makes it a crime for someone to fail to hand over those documents to officials who ought to have
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it so the espionage act can make it a crime for donald trump not to hand over
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declassified documents to the national archives we can run with the most salacious
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possible reading of the events of the past week espionage act donald trump
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nuclear codes super spy tit for tat quid pro quo selling america for his own
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riches or we can read the law and realize that it also means
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or could encompass simply declining to return declassified records to the national
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archives it’s interesting now let’s move from the
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warrant and the law to probable cause and the timeline the warrant actually doesn’t tell us that much about what
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was in the interest of the fbi in order for the fbi to secure that warrant from
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a federal magistrate they had to file a probable cause affidavit this is wherein they would have laid out their evidence
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and wherein they would have give us some insight into the allegations of a crime
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was it about not returning records to the national archives or was it about selling the nuclear codes we’d know more
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if we saw that affidavit of probable cause now this is where we get into the timeline
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something happened between june and august of this year
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for roughly 18 months the national archives has been trying to retrieve
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certain documents from donald trump they worked in coordination for quite some time the national archives
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got frustrated we know that at some point the national archives calls upon the department of justice to get
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involved the department of justice secures a subpoena to go into mar-a-lago and look
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through documents and that’s what they did in june of 2022
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just 45 days ago fbi agents including those involved in counterintelligence
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went into mar-a-lago and look through documents 15 boxes of documents held by donald trump
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they took some away and they then asked the trump officials to secure that room with a
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padlock to keep it more secure and tight there was even an interaction with donald trump and those agents
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of the fbi it seemed at that point it would seem it’s a reasonable assumption
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that the fbi had been satisfied that they walked
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away from that encounter satisfied with what they found now to be fair
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it’s possible that the fbi walked away from that encounter having witnessed something they think
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amounts to the potentiality of a crime perhaps
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they walked away satisfied perhaps they walked away with what they later used
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as a claim of probable cause in an affidavit to secure a search warrant something changed between june and
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august and it’s a curious change because to that point the subpoena had allowed
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the fbi to go into mar-a-lago and peruse documents
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most probably at their convenience and freedom but the second time around
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there’s an urgency an exigency to go back in not this time through a subpoena
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but this time through a search warrant with 30 armed fbi agents what
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changed now we’re told that urgency in exigency is
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back to the espionage act that it could have been according to the washington post something to do if with not the
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nuclear codes nuclear information of the united states of america let’s dispatch
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with that absurdity with rapidity there is simply no way
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that the fbi was certainly highly concerned about the nuclear codes by the way quite
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literally we know it’s not the nuclear codes those things change you think that donald trump walked away with a few
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passcodes to the nukes and the fbi and the national security apparatus hadn’t gotten around to changing it like an old
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house alarm or a padlock you just left on your house after you moved out whatever happens with the next guy those
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nuclear codes change on a daily basis maybe it’s something else maybe it’s nuclear secrets but are you telling me
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the fbi waited first 18 months from the initial negotiation
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with the national archives the national archives wanted the return of nuclear secrets and waited through 18 months of
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negotiation and then contacted the doj who only responded with subpoena and then finally
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decided to come in breaking down doors and safes to retrieve america’s nuclear secrets
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that is beyond belief it’s also beyond belief that that warrant
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was issued on a friday and wasn’t executed until monday
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and it involved the retrieval of a nuclear secrets you don’t wait three days
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not if it’s that serious not if it’s that urgent not if it’s about
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nuclear codes so what happened between june and august that elevated
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this from a cooperative subpoena situation to break in safes under a search warrant
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now let’s turn to the application of the law
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this past weekend i was on fox and friends with the esteemed bill bennett former secretary of
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education under ronald reagan has been involved in numerous administrations and understands the workings of the united
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states of america and bill bennett said something fascinating he said we have a legitimacy crisis
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in the united states a good portion of this country just never accepted that donald trump is a legitimate president
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they don’t believe he’s a legitimate person they don’t believe he’s a legitimate businessman they don’t believe he legitimately won in 2016.
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he’s not a legitimate president there’s another group of people in this
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country who are now in serious question of the legitimacy
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of america’s institutions and in no small part that’s because
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they’ve witnessed an inconsistent application of the law
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we talked about it right here on the will kane podcast last week with jonathan turley when it comes to classified documents
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in the past there has been no invocation of the espionage act there has been no
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search warrant execution and to a large extent there has been no criminal prosecution we can look at the examples
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hillary clinton and everyone on the left thinks the right just yells but her emails and
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invokes hillary clinton it’s fairly on the nose and by the way when it comes to classified documents hillary clinton had
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superiors she was not the president of the united states so classifications mattered
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to the secretary of state she had classified documents emails on
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her server we know this to be true did the fbi execute a search warrant did
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they bust down doors did they prosecute no sandy berger
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as told to us by jonathan turley absconded with classified materials in his sock stuffed down in his pants
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was he the subject of a search warrant a raid no general david petraeus shared american
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military secrets with his lover his extramarital affair
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was he met with the raid and the weight of the united states doj and
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prosecution no and it is not off base to bring up
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hunter biden whose laptop has the subject of potential corruption at the highest levels of the american
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government and asked not only why has hunter not been the subject of a raid or a search warrant but not much at all of
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an investigation and in fact the spin that any questions about the bidens is
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disinformation it is an inequal inconsistent
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application of the law but there is consistency and the
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consistency is that for six years donald trump has been the subject of an attack
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by many american people and many institutions from the media to the national security state apparatus
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who believe that he is illegitimate that has been consistent and that brings
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us to our final category the credibility of these institutions
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we’ve talked about this in the past if there are many people that believe that donald trump is illegitimate there
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are perhaps more who believe that the institutions the united states are now illegitimate and why would they believe
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that why would they have such little faith why would they believe the fbi the doj
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the media have no credibility it might be
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because of this over the past six years one the russia collusion hoax two the
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steele dossier hooker story three russia paying bounties on u.s soldiers in
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afghanistan four trump calling neo-nazis supposedly very fine people five trump
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suggesting drinking injecting bleach to fight covid six trump overfed koi fish
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in japan seven trump cleared protesters with tear gas for a bible photo op eight
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hundred lap hunter’s laptop was russian disinformation nine elections were fair because no court found major fraud 10
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january 6 was an insurrection to overthrow the government 11 trump tried to grab the steering wheel of the beast
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he leaned over the secret service and grabbed the steering wheel of the beast
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if you believe that you will believe in peter pan
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all of these stories are false now listen there’s a great many people who don’t
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know that and won’t believe that when i say that and they’ll say they even have visual evidence and they’ve seen it with their own eyes i’ve seen the smoke
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grenades going off and donald trump holding up a bible what they don’t know is those stories have been debunked that that was
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down the street it wasn’t where he crossed the street they don’t know that it’s been totally debunked
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that he neglected to care about russian bounties on u.s soldiers they don’t know that the steele dossier was complete and
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utter fabrication they don’t know that the clinton campaign ceded the
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entire predicate for the russia collusion hoax they don’t know
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any of these details they don’t know the truth
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but for those that do we’re just going to jump on the bandwagon of believing that donald trump
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stole the nuclear codes there’s a loss of credibility in
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americans institution and that leads me to what i believe i believe the following
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i believe donald trump represented a threat to what i have begun to call the uniparty in permanent washington
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i don’t think it is expansive enough to just indict the democratic party oh yes
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it is to the benefit most often of the democratic party but it is not exclusively the democratic party it also
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includes republicans it includes career bureaucrats it includes the apparatus that remains
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when political parties come and go when elections are won and lost it is permanent washington call it what you
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want the administrative state the deep state whatever
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donald trump represented a threat if a good
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percentage of americans broke themselves against the rock of donald trump permanent washington is intent on
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breaking donald trump just about two weeks ago axios reported that if donald trump wins a second
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administration one of his primary objectives would be to cut fifty thousand just fifty thousand but fifty
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thousand of the two million jobs within the federal government that he wanted to take a butcher knife
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to the administrative state say what you will about donald trump but you and i both know one adjective that
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absolutely applies is outsider oh you want to argue about competency
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you want to argue about moral clarity you want to argue about character fine but you can’t argue
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he was an outsider and for that he would never be forgiven especially when he acted like an
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outsider who would destroy some of the inside
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chuck schumer democratic center from new york knew exactly the tight rope that donald trump was walking and he warned
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donald trump listen
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that is chuck schumer telling donald trump if you mess with
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the national security apparatus they have six ways of sunday of getting back at you don’t listen to
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me listen to chuck schumer
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i don’t believe this was ever about classified documents i don’t believe this is about the retention of any documents i believe this was a fishing
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expedition in large part with two potential goals
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one to find something anything to disqualify donald trump either through the legal
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process or in the mind of the american public most likely tied to january 6 that’s why the presence of
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counterintelligence fbi agents during the raid find something find anything no one is
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really concerned about the espionage act nobody is concerned about classifications nobody’s concerned about
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top secret find something find anything incriminating about donald trump or in
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the alternative tie him up in a legal battle about classifications
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that goes all the way to the supreme court something that bogs him down admires him in the mud distracts him
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from a campaign for presidency by the way the warrant
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with both of those goals in mind is so broad warrants are largely supposed to be narrowly tailored both in scope
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target and even geography the warrant here is so broad that donald trump doesn’t just have to play defense he can
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possibly play offense he can challenge this as a violation of a fourth
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amendment of the united states constitution
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but at this point i want to ask you what you think i’ve told you what i think
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i believe donald trump represent a threat to permanent washington and this is permanent
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washington looking to break trump so i ask you this
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how many of us have been broken against the rock of trump it always boils down to it doesn’t it kovid joe biden science
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really just proxy fights all about how you feel about trump and there are people that hate trump and always will they were broken against the
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rock there are others by the way who love trump and always will regardless of what he does but what i’m curious about
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is those souls those people who either have floated down the stream and not yet met the rock or managed to float around
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the rock i’m curious about those people will they see this raid will they see
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this moment in time as an opportunity to break themselves against the rock
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will they turn against trump or will they see this opportunity as the strategy move that has all of a sudden
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opens your eyes and you can see the game of permanent washington i sincerely do
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not know the answer what will happen to the average american
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what do they think how will they vote
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how will they believe or establish credibility or live
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in a unified united states of america and i’ll leave that to you
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because i asked that question in all earnestness you can leave a comment on youtube you
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can go to my social media will kane on twitter see will kane on instagram will kane on facebook
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what do you think will happen will america break themselves against the rock of donald trump or will they see that final strategy move will they see
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permanent washington story number two why does the irs need more
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employees than the state department the pentagon border patrol and the fbi
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combined earlier this week congress passed
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the inflation reduction act it’s pretty fascinating
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almost immediately after being passed the inflation reduction act all of a sudden stopped being referred to
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as the inflation reduction act this was pointed out by stephen miller on twitter goes by the handle red steez he pointed
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out at the new york times immediately last sunday and monday read as follows from the headlines
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senate vote puts climate action in reach all caps i thought we were reducing inflation
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climate action the new york times wasn’t alone cbs reported senate passes democrats
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sweeping climate health and tax bill yesterday it was the inflation reduction act
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cnn and the guardian used the same language trotting into town like a snake
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oil salesman who told you that the magic elixir would solve every manner of ills from bad complexion to cancer and now he
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tells you hey man you already bought it it’s snake oil
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largely lard melted down a few spices mixed in welcome to our new thermostat
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the climate reduction bill nancy pelosi laid it out this week in
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sincerely comedic terms listen to this
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how can they vote against the planet mother earth doesn’t like it when you
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don’t make sacrificial offerings mother earth can get very angry
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it’s literally deifying nature planet mother earth it literally
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sounds like a 13th century priest asking for offering
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how can they vote against the planet make your sacrifices it is elevating
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climate change of course not to the mantle of science but to the mantle of faith
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don’t make angry mother earth for what it’s worth the inflation
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reduction act also empowers the irs to hire 87 000 new
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agents 87 000 i think some context is in order as we stand today the irs employs 93 000
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agents so in essence just shy of doubling the irs does the inflation
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reduction act it gives the irs 170 000 employees now i mentioned it if you
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combine combine border patrol who maintains about 19 000 officers
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employed the fbi roughly 35 000 the state department and the pentagon you
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get 159 000 employees the irs with more employees again than
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the state pentagon fbi and border patrol combined
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why well of course for audits almost everyone has recognized at this
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point that the inflation reduction act is going to amount to more audits and
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we can sell ourselves little lullabies at night those audits almost exclusively be focused on the rich people but
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they’re simply not enough rich people in america to pay for the spending plans
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of the democrats you could tax every millionaire in the country as quoted by my co-host and friend pete
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headset this weekend at 100 taxation rate and you will fund the united states government for six months
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no no no no they’re coming after the middle class why because that’s where the money is in the
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middle class according to congress’s joint committee on taxation ninety percent of people making between
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seventy five and one hundred thousand dollars can expect a tax increase ninety seven percent of people between
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one hundred and two hundred thousand dollars a year in annual earnings can expect a tax increase
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americans for tax reform says this will also include taxes on crude oil oh
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more inflation so like the opposite of the inflation reduction act
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and of course more audits what do you think all those 170 000 irs
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agents are going to do we
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have to understand that story one on this podcast and story two on this podcast are connected
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i think one of the truest things that donald trump ever said is they’re not after me they’re after you
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i’m just in the way permanent washington will look and find
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and implement a way to remain permanent
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by the way the inflation reduction act and the irs’s increase in employment
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serves as a backdoor fundraiser fascinating little ploy for the democratic party
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here’s why the national treasury employees union
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public sector employees union represents 70 000 of the
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currently 87 000 employed irs agents seventy thousand irs employees
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represented by the national treasury employees union the americans for tax reform found that the union’s political action committee
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donated roughly six hundred thousand dollars in the most recent campaign cycle any guess where that money went
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97 percent of it went to democrats so let me get this straight
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a public sector union that represents the employees of the irs contributed funds to democratic
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politicians and 97 percent of those funds went to democrats
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democrats in turn fund the expansion of the irs and by
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extension the national treasury employees union thus in turn funding
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more salaries more union confiscations more political contributions back to
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democrats what a convenient and vicious cycle there’s always a ploy
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