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Brad Johnson, President, and retired CIA Senior Officer and Chief of Staff. Insight into current events from an intelligence angle.

Resignation of Bill Barr AG

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brad johnson it is december 16th 2020
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this is the one i have been
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dreading um obviously in an election
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update
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or steal the steal the election update
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and i guess we’re going to have to
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include something about bill barr
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because
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now that’s a guy that both of us have
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been championing since he was appointed
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as a.g
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and at just at the moment uh he looks
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like a pretty big disappointment
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i mean even though at some level i get
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his decisions
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i can see why he did the things he did
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and but basically
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from the point of view of trump fans and
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those of us that wanted to see
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the swamp cleaned it looks like he
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stepped in did nothing and then stepped
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out
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so maybe you could speak to these two
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things
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yeah on the election front i i think
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these two things are intertwined as you
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correctly imply
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uh on the election thing trump the the
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election has been certified
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so now biden is officially the
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president-elect it doesn’t mean it’s all
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over
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but it means that the ways in which
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this could all be overturned are getting
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to be uh
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outside of any body of law that
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that is prepared to do that i mean that
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was written
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in order to cover such circumstances so
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um you know
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the bottom line on that is this is all
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uncharted waters
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so i i would
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you know i i just don’t know how this is
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going to turn out but it certainly looks
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like at this point that biden is
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is going to carry the day and i i think
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it
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it’s uh to i hate to quote hillary
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clinton but
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i think you know in order to believe
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that biden actually
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won the election you have to this is the
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quote
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you have to suspend disbelief because
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i don’t think any rational mind is going
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to look at the numbers and the ways this
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took place
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and say biden legal eagle won this thing
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so
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it’s it’s one of those things where
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knowing that the truth is on the side of
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president trump
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is there a way for him to overcome it
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and it is possible there are things
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chugging along some of the looks at
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these voting machines and so on
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and i’ve previously touched on there’s a
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scandal going on in
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italy right now that’s over this very
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thing and that apparently a lot of these
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numbers were switched i will be doing an
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update hopefully on that fairly
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soon but don’t don’t have that much
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right now
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but the billbar the u.s attorney general
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barr
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he has resigned he tended his
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resignation
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i believe his ass last day is actually
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christmas so coming up on the 25th
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and uh yes i
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and i certainly you and i were both
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defenders i would say of bill barr
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and i’ve always thought that while he’s
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sort of an old lady about stuff
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and you know very meticulous and if he
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can’t win
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you know if he can’t go to federal court
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with that
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97 98 sure that i’m going to win
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he won’t do it and that i think is a
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mistake on his part in the sense of
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you have to consider the importance of
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the case you’re taking to court
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and there’s cases that should be taken
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to court at an 80 percent sure
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versus a 97 percent sure and i think bar
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lacks that perspective so i think he’s
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limited
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in that way and uh but yet
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i’ve always thought he’s respected the
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law where it looks like at this point
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right now that he’s just gonna check out
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and never have done anything at all
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i mean really significant he’s he has
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done some stuff good
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in the kind of just normal legal sense
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however
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and this is interesting everyone mark
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this down on your calendars
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right now behind the scenes what they’re
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saying is barr
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is finally coming out with a bunch of
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high-level indictments
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tomorrow so today’s the 16th so the 17th
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they’re supposed to announce a bunch of
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high-level uh
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indictments now uh as
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always they never do anything on time so
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if the 17th slips to the 18th
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you know don’t be surprised people
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criticize me saying i’m way off if
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if the government says they’re going to
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do it on the 16th and don’t do it till
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the 20th
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you know that’s not my fault but in this
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particular case behind the scenes
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they’re saying tomorrow
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so high level indictments what does that
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mean
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uh i i don’t know if that means that
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anything out of the durham report
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is ready so if it is
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uh and those are all high-level people
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that had a lot to do
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with the elections and the campaign and
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all of that
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it does open up an interesting
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uh possibility that there’s something
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that could be done against the election
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but i tend to suspect that it’s not the
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derma report i may eat my words tomorrow
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if they come out
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as they’re supposed to but i would lean
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more towards the hunter biden case
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the reason is because it’s much more
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definable
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it’s a smaller case where i think the
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durham case is growing
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just completely out of control and it
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gives a it gives them a chance to
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actually indict
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and stuff have these cases going to
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court uh
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prior to the changeover of government so
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i tend to think it’s that way there’s a
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lot of emails and
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all of these things on taxes that hunter
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biden
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uh has out there that’s well documented
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and and like i say these things about
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what
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what the left is always saying is that
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this has all been debunked
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but nothing has been debunked that isn’t
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just an outright lie
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the fact is that these emails have been
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confirmed to be true
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there are for example hunter biden sends
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an email going
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uh i need you know 10 million dollars
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and he uh
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you know the chinese to pay us 10
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million dollars and that’s sent out to
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six
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people in this email chain and so people
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have gone to
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other people on those emails saying did
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you get this email and they’re going
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yeah i did i was on that email
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so that’s absolute 100 confirmation
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that those emails are real this isn’t
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some sort of russian russia russia thing
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where
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the russians have snuck in and planted
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these emails that hunter biden never
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wrote
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so uh yeah i i it looks to me like
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this is going to be u.s attorney general
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barr’s swan song that he’s going to go
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out
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where he feels he’s now treating things
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honestly
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he by law there are requirements that
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he’s not supposed to do
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anything that would impact the election
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before the election and so would have
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legitimately held off
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on uh this hunter biden case if that’s
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the one
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but now that the election’s over and we
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have somebody who’s the electoral
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college by law
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this is over so there’s really no way to
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overturn the election
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that’s like i say that’s laid out by law
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so from his perspective now he’s free to
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bring these things out
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so i think he’s immediately on the heels
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of that electoral college
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uh confirmation of the president-elect
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biden
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i think he will indeed tomorrow or the
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next day perhaps
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uh come out with these indictments my
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guess
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uh my best guess is that it’s a hunter
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biden related thing
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but i wish it were the durham one and i
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wish it was up
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you know the long laundry risk of all
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these things we’ve been waiting for but
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hopefully we’ll find out tomorrow it
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hasn’t been reported on by anybody that
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i know of
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so uh you know stay
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sitting on your seat tomorrow and see if
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this is true or not
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yeah also there’s rumors of a possible
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pardon for assange and for snowden
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i think that would be really interesting
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if true
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that is and in fact you had some
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information on that i was looking over
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and apparently assange was at some point
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trying to help the state department
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uh keep a lot of these excuse me
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classified documents from
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leaking out and uh so i think he’s he’s
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banking on that as
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as something where he through biden of
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course not through trump i don’t think
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uh can can get a pardon so i know that
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he wants to come back
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and be able to be in the united states
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and those sorts of things so we’ll see
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how that unfolds as well
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