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Speaker 1: And those lies have merged and melded with Donald Trump's magalies.

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Speaker 1: There is a practical effect, an outcome, a cause, an effect,

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Speaker 1: the incessancy and constancy of the lies has a practical

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Speaker 1: But there are other ideas, and every one of those

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Speaker 1: it seriously. There has never been an era in American

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Speaker 1: on Moscow on Fox News, lie after lie after lie,

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Speaker 1: madness after madness, conspiracy after conspiracy. To the American people,

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Speaker 1: blanket of lies, to bring on the darkness that subjugates

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Speaker 1: and let it always be so. Thank you for listening

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