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Speaker 1: Should Donald Trump be president, he has pledged that he

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Speaker 1: will be a dictator on day one. Day five will

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Speaker 1: be day five of a profound national crisis. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: to another session of Ask Me Anything, And the question

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Speaker 1: is from the warning community. Where do I think the

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Speaker 1: United States will be on January twenty fifth, twenty twenty five?

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Speaker 1: I suspect the United States will remain on the North

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Speaker 1: American continent, just joking. On the other hand, should Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump be president, he has pledged that he will be

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Speaker 1: a dictator on day one, So day five will be

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Speaker 1: day five of a profound national crisis. The singularly most

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Speaker 1: dangerous aspect of what Donald Trump is promising to do

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Speaker 1: is to deploy the American military as a police force

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Speaker 1: against the American people on American soil, into a American

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Speaker 1: communities in the name of a national emergency declared absurdly,

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Speaker 1: ludicrously and belevolently under the Insurrection Act. Should that be happening,

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Speaker 1: there will be mass protests on the streets. The society

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Speaker 1: will shut down. What we will see is an unraveling,

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Speaker 1: constant chaos. The society will be at each other's throats.

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Speaker 1: It will be a time of tumult global panic, and

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Speaker 1: it will preface what is to come, and each day

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Speaker 1: of that Trump presidency will be worse than the next.

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Speaker 1: It will get heavier, and then there will be war.

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Speaker 1: There will be a war in Europe, and there will

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Speaker 1: be a war in Asia. And it will not be

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Speaker 1: a low casualty war like the American wars in Afghanistan,

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Speaker 1: It will be a war of great suffering and death,

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Speaker 1: where beautiful cities are reduced to rubble. On the other hand,

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Speaker 1: if President Biden is reelected, what that will mean is

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Speaker 1: that Donald Trump will never be the Republican nominee again.

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Speaker 1: It will not mean that he doesn't remain for some

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Speaker 1: time the leader of this malignant fascist movement. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean that he'll disappear, but it means he will have

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Speaker 1: been defenestrated. It will mean that the campaign promising retribution,

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Speaker 1: the campaign promising concentration camps, the campaign promising a police state,

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Speaker 1: which is what would be required to achieve the mass

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Speaker 1: deportations that Trump is talking about, had been repudiated. You

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Speaker 1: have been defeated, and America will be taking its first

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Speaker 1: steps moving on. And the question is from the warning community,

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Speaker 1: is Biden's PR team the worst you've ever seen? The

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Speaker 1: answer to that question is no. The worst I've ever

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Speaker 1: seen is the Trump communications team. It was an abysmal,

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Speaker 1: degenerate pack of liars. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Kelly Mcaninni, Sean Spicer.

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Speaker 1: There has never been a White House communication operation that

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Speaker 1: lied as a matter of core strategy to the American people.

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Speaker 1: The very first thing said on camera by a member

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Speaker 1: smaller crowd size in fact is bigger, it was a

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Speaker 1: scene straight out of nineteen eighty four. There are few

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Speaker 1: Americans who have ever raised their hand and sworn an

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Speaker 1: it as badly as the people around Donald Trump. Ever,

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Speaker 1: and the worst person in the Trump communications operation, the

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Speaker 1: Kelly Anne Conway. And Kelly An Conway is an abusive parent,

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Speaker 1: a narcissistic personality, and somebody made famous by the access

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Speaker 1: their faces. Kelly Ann Conway is a total of the

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Speaker 1: corruption of the American media, the corruption of the Trump

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Speaker 1: The Biden White House has an incompetent communication operation. When

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Speaker 1: though many people in the White House believe that. Well

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Speaker 1: been a president who's had more legislative success without appreciation,

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Speaker 1: And now because of the failure to do that, the

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Speaker 1: But the fact of the matter is this, American politics

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Speaker 1: at the presidential level is a communications business. Period. Would

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Speaker 1: of course not. The idea that a presidential campaign can

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Speaker 1: be detached from the capacity to inspire people is nonsense.

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Speaker 1: Defeating Trump requires the president to lay out a vision

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Speaker 1: that's better than the insanity. Communications in a presidential campaign

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Speaker 1: It's a transaction about the future, and nobody seems to

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Speaker 1: understand that. In the Biden White House, the president is cloistered,

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Speaker 1: he's sheltered, and the result of that is every appearance

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Speaker 1: the stakes are raised existentially raised. This deficit in the

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Speaker 1: Biden White House can cost him the presidency and cost

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Speaker 1: democracy in America. There has never been a White House

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Speaker 1: where there's been a better legislative affairs effort, frankly, a

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Speaker 1: and they need serious help. And I think that's going

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Speaker 1: because this is so broken. The question is is why

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Speaker 1: isn't Donald Trump behind bars? This is very simple. I

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Speaker 1: want everybody to understand this. If you are a critic

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Speaker 1: of Donald Trump, you must be at the front of

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Speaker 1: the line demanded fairness for Donald Trump in his criminal trials.

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Speaker 1: The entire point of all of this is Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: is not above the law, but he's also not below it.

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Speaker 1: He's entitled to the constitutional protections that every American citizen is.

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Speaker 1: And Donald Trump has been convicted of no crimes. He's

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Speaker 1: been charged with crimes. He's been found guilty as a

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Speaker 1: if he's convicted by a jury, and nobody, nobody, nobody

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Speaker 1: Flynn was speaking in twenty sixteen, and the wild crowd

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Speaker 1: was chanting over and over again, lock her up, lock

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Speaker 1: This isn't something that happens in a healthy democracy. It's

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Speaker 1: what happens in banana republics. Is the United States to

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Speaker 1: be a banana republic. We must not allow this. These

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Speaker 1: criminal cases against Trump have been compromised, in the case

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Speaker 1: of Georgia by the misconduct of the prosecutor. Franny willis

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Speaker 1: with him. Holy shit, It's like, does she work for

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump? She ran on a platform of integrity and

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Speaker 1: when it was examined, kaboom. So don't root for Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump to go to jail, root for America to move

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Speaker 1: past Trump, root for the system to work. Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: has put the country in an impossible position with his misconduct.

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Speaker 1: He has brought us to this point. One man, with

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump's life as his testament to the damage one demna,

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Speaker 1: god man, one ruthless person can do to a country

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Speaker 1: thing that can make it worse is if Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: and trump Ism and maggot contaminate the only political party

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Speaker 1: in the values of the republic. The next ask me

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Speaker 1: don't think that the issue is so much influencing candidates,

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Speaker 1: it's influencing elected officials. It is a very simple proposition.

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Speaker 1: Most elected officials want to be re elected. Can you organize?

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Speaker 1: Can you be a component part of a cohort that

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Speaker 1: The most important thing to understand is these people work

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Speaker 1: for you, and you don't have to tolerate they're bullshit.

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Speaker 1: We live in an era where American politics has gone

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Speaker 1: And so being involved, being part of a community is

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Speaker 1: how you influence elected officials. When it comes to influencing candidates,

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Speaker 1: trying to lobby candidates to take positions is not effective.

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Speaker 1: be involved in the choice, but don't try to impose

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Speaker 1: all time. Defund the police. Defund the Police was a

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. Just ask me anything. Question is, Steve,

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Speaker 1: are you concerned about the third party candidates? Am I

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Speaker 1: that you have eighty six percent of the country eighty

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Speaker 1: and they're delivering a result that the market doesn't want.

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Speaker 1: Let me be clear about this, I will crawl over

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Speaker 1: broken glass to vote for Joe Biden over Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: Am I happy with that choice? I'm outraged by it.

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Speaker 1: So one of the things the White House has to

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Speaker 1: Biden voter. There are a lot of us who are deeply,

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Speaker 1: by deeply, I mean deeply unhappy about the President walking

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Speaker 1: the idea that this country would have a president pushing

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Speaker 1: the choice is the choice. Now. The national media is

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Speaker 1: what Harry Truman faced in nineteen forty eight. Do you

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Speaker 1: remember the famous headline de he defeats Truman. Harry Truman

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Speaker 1: You have to play the deck of cards. That's dealt. Yelling, ignoring,

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