Brad Johnson, retired CIA Officer and President of Americans for Intelligence Reform analyzes Trump’s daily briefing from April 15. Trump challenged the media claim of his incompetence and Brad puts his take on it, even to the next level. Congress knows where the US Attorney Durham is going with investigations into former CIA Director John Brennan’s alleged abuse of power and it affects the behaviors of Democrats. Brad has some questions for the RNP. Watch interview below.
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Brad Johnson President Trump did a
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rather content-rich broadcast to the
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country about the nature of things a
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nature of a number of things and you had
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you had some observations to make on
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that he did that taints what Monday the
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20th of April and last week I believe it
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was on Wednesday that President does a
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daily briefing on on what’s going on
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with co19 so he’s been out in front of
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the press a lot with this and a lot of a
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lot has come out of that just public
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kind of awareness of things a lot of
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reporting going on and and he’s very
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much in the in the eye of the United
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States by having these press conferences
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on a daily basis every afternoon and
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last week one of the things he did and
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he he described it during the press
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conference he said well we put this
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together in the last couple hours and we
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just we had all these clips laying
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around of what everybody had been saying
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we just put together a little little
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piece on it so he he as he’s up there at
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the press conference he was he’s doing
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what he always does and just said you
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know you guys in the process you know
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you lie about this stuff you just don’t
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tell the truth you’re not helping the
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American people you’re doing things to
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mislead them on the truth and and I just
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put together you know the New York Times
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came out with this article last week
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that was talking about President Trump
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and they were saying how ill-prepared he
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was and incompetent it’s it’s the same
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old stuff and I’ve said many many many
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times what’s going on is the Democrats
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know what’s coming out of this
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investigation that’s gonna surface out
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of the FISA Fiasco and they know they’re
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in trouble so they’ve got to do anything
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they can do to tarnish the president so
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anything now they’ve got Cove in 19 so
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they’re doing everything that they can
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to damage the economy they’re doing
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everything they can to tarnish the image
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of President Trump and so this is just
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part of that overall program that’s been
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going on since before President Trump
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was even the candidate for president let
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alone president so now what they’re
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doing on this is pretending that
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President Trump is completely
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incompetent to screw everything up so a
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president Trump did was he put together
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a two-minute video showing some of what
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had gone on and basically the timeline I
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won’t repeat it verbatim but the basic
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timeline was in January
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all of these same guys that are
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criticism criticizing him including in
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the price dr pouchy all of these guys
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are saying in January you know there’s
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nothing to worry about we don’t have any
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cases here in the United States this
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isn’t a big deal
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don’t change your behavior you know
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maybe wash your hands more often but
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that’s it we don’t need to do anything
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else and in that period of time nobody
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had it in the United States nobody died
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from it there were a couple of cases by
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by the mid to late January but that was
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it and everybody was saying don’t do
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anything don’t do anything were fine
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including the press all the press was
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saying that as well so at the end of
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January President Trump sees this saying
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getting out of control in China cuts off
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travel then shortly after that to China
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and then shortly after that he cuts off
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travel to Europe to stop all these guys
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flooding in with this coveted 19 to stop
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it from spreading yet all the press all
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the doctors doctor foul Qi all of these
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guys specifically are saying now you
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don’t need to do any of that we’re fine
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we’re fine we’re fine
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then you know so Trump’s way ahead of
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all of this he’s ahead of the power
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curve he’s making very decisive actions
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and trying to stay ahead of this problem
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then the problem hits then he starts
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following all the this doctrine about
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keeping separate separate you know the
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distancing and all of these sorts of
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things mitigation is the term that
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everybody is using it for using for it
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and so then as all this stuff starts to
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work and the president was way ahead of
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it and he’s getting all the equipment at
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the federal level to all the states as
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they need it and he’s ahead on
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everything just everything that all of
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the equipment that they need ad for
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assisted breathing for people who are so
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sick and the masks and the testing and
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just surpassed the situation in every
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way but so what the argument is that
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they have to come out and say that he’s
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incompetent so he he plays all these
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tapes proving that when he took decisive
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action they were all still saying action
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wasn’t needed and yet now they say he
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didn’t act soon enough when at the time
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when he was doing this stuff they said
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he was a racist a bigot a Chinese hater
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a Chinese bader all of his stuff Nancy
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Pelosi they have a tape of her was in
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Chinatown in California saying yeah come
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on down visitor
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ron’s you know this is you fight this
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racial hatred so she’s arguing exactly
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the opposite if Nancy Pelosi had been in
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charge according to these models we’d
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have two more million dead people in the
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United States according to the models if
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we had done what Nancy Pelosi was saying
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and if we did what the Democrats are
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saying and if we did with dr. Koch she
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was saying and so truck plays all this
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throws it right in their face but he
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didn’t say too much he just played the
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tapes of all the stuff that they were
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saying and showed the timeline of what
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he did by comparison
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so it was masterful once again Donald
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Trump shows that he’s way ahead of them
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in all of this and by the nature of the
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beast he is ahead because the press is
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reacting they just they hate Trump
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they’re gonna argue with anything he
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says so they have to wait for him to say
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something to argue to it so they’re
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there they’re being reactive by nature
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so Trump is also better at handling the
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press and the press is dealing with the
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president
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so he’s smarter than they are better at
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all this and they are and he’s just in
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control of this whole thing from top to
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bottom and when the when the New York
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Times came out with his just lying hit
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piece that they did on him he struck
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back and he struck back by just laying
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out their own words to them he didn’t
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argue he didn’t call him names in that
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sense he was just saying look here’s
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what he said here’s what he said here’s
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what I did here’s what you said here’s
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what I did and he just proved it to them
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and of course their reaction to all this
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oh this horrible propaganda thing
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President Trump had a complete crack up
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crack down and by the way that’s what’s
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picked up worldwide that’s what people
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are seeing overseas is that President
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Trump had some sort of crack down or
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crack up I’m sorry and and just the the
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truth couldn’t be further away from what
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they’re reporting and it’s just the same
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the press is just Liars on this stuff
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just boldface you watch the interview
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which is out there for anybody to search
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and watch on Google the president was
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just calmly laying out his case and the
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ones that were going ballistic having
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the breakdown were the press they were
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going nuts I mean it was actually
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comedic if this if the you know in the
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way this played out if the subject
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matter weren’t so serious it would just
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be one of those hilarious things where
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the you just look at the press and go
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these people are so in their little
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world
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in their little ivory tower that they’re
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just morons they’re so stupid with what
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they’re doing out there and it’s it’s
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one of those things where Trump is just
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absolutely kicking their butts his
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numbers are going up Biden who’s the
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candidate against him is in full
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free-flow meltdown
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he’s not getting any press nobody cares
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what he says every time he speaks he
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screws up and the press they’re out
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there lying through their teeth trying
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to be the frontman for him and the
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president should probably ask for equal
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time because essentially all of the the
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mainstream media now are as part of the
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campaign for Biden you know they’re not
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even bothered to try and report the
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truth or confirm any of it and when
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confronted with it they just have a
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complete meltdown and call it propaganda
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and what did the president do like I
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said all he did was play what the press
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had been reporting that’s all he did and
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just pointed out what he did that was it
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and that’s what they constitute that’s
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what they call propaganda well of course
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they’re what they were saying was the
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propaganda one final point on this and
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I’ll end with this but what’s really
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important out of this this is all you
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know president Trump is just it’s
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winning on all of these things it’s
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going to easily be reelected as this
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keeps going forward but the very
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important point that everybody’s missing
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on the Republican side not and maybe the
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Conservatives too because those are kind
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of separate areas but what the
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Republicans are particularly missing the
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Mitch McConnell’s and all of the people
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of that nature the sort of this
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mainstream Republican is that he’s how
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easily present Trump is winning how the
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people are looking at this thing going
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you know I know a lie when I see if
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these guys are the ones lying the media
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not the president and this is just this
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is the pathway forward but the
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Republicans just don’t see it and it’s
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kind of hard for me to understand this
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blind spot and much of this the
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groundwork was laid for what we see was
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Trump with President Reagan who also
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made the economy just boom with these
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policies everybody was better off and
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this is then being repeated and built
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upon and made better by President Trump
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and he’s late
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path work and a pathway and shown how to
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defeat the press how to defeat the
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extreme left mainstream media who only
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lies to the population and doesn’t
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report the truth he’s shown how to
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defeat them yet the Republicans just
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they don’t understand it they talk bad
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many of the Republican mainstream types
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talk bad about President Reagan today
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you know decades later and this is they
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just don’t see this stuff and that’s the
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thing I find so confusing about them and
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that’s why these guys like Mitch
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McConnell are dinosaurs I mean they’re
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just dying off because they just can’t
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deal with the reality of today anymore
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fair enough thank you very much Fred
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Johnson you know in the next upcoming
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election campaign should President Trump
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decide on going with the nickname
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strategy I’m really hoping he picks
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Nancy gelato well we’ll see it’s coming
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out of her after her little appearance
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on that I don’t forget what it was at
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CNN where she showed a $5,000 freezer
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totally stuffed with luxury ice creams
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well being in an ivory tower and ivory
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tower with a with a nice freezer section
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exactly
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rust pits are lined up at Costco hoping
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to get some toilet paper anyway thank
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you very much Fred
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you
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