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Speaker 1: Jared Kushner is one of the most corrupt officials who

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Speaker 1: ever served on the White House staff. It's Valentine's Day,

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Speaker 1: February fourteenth. There are two hundred and sixty five days

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Speaker 1: to go until the presidential election, and this is the warning. Yesterday, Axios,

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Speaker 1: the access driven digital media company, saw fit to host

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Speaker 1: Jared Kushner at its Miami BFD conference, and there Jared Kushner,

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Speaker 1: now in the private equity business, announced he doesn't plan

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Speaker 1: to return to the White House, which is the place

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Speaker 1: Jared Kushner should never, ever, ever have worked at.

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Speaker 2: So is that a note? If he calls you on

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Speaker 2: November whatever and says I'd like to come back to

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Speaker 2: see you, say thanks, but I'm good.

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Speaker 1: Yes, let's take a look back. Jared Kushner, the son

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Speaker 1: of a felon, couldn't get security clearances. He was denied

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Speaker 1: them because of his massive conflicts of interest. He was

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Speaker 1: given the highest level security clearances on direct order from

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Speaker 1: his father in law to President. Jared Kushner is the

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Speaker 1: soft handed child of a billionaire felon who has never

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Speaker 1: worked an hour in his life. He's never been in

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Speaker 1: a fistfight, He's never picked up a shovel or a

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Speaker 1: hammer or struck a nail. He's soft, he's entitled. His

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Speaker 1: family bought his way into Harvard. His entire life has

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Speaker 1: been one of easy, glazed privilege. And yet he wasn't

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Speaker 1: content with that. Jared Kushner, you see, wanted power, and

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Speaker 1: Jared Kushner was given carte blanche to travel all over

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Speaker 1: the world. America's greatest know nothing. Somebody who's never suffered,

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Speaker 1: never served, never sacrificed, who's never done anything, decided he

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Speaker 1: would take it upon himself to become a diplomat. And

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Speaker 1: what Jared Kushner did is architect the Abraham Accords. And

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Speaker 1: what the Abraham Chords did was laid a fuse, and

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Speaker 1: that fuse exploded. It exploded because the Abraham Chords were

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Speaker 1: a cynical business transaction that discounted history, culture, religion, and

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Speaker 1: cut the Palestinian people out of the deal. Jared Kushner

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Speaker 1: set off chaos in the Middle East because he was

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Speaker 1: a know nothing with a powerful job. What Jared Kushner did, though,

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Speaker 1: after he left the White House, is the most important

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Speaker 1: thing to talk about, and of course Axios dared not

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Speaker 1: ask any questions about what could be the greatest act

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Speaker 1: of political corruption in American history. Jared Kushner reportedly was

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Speaker 1: the number one consumer of classified information in the White House.

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Speaker 1: He couldn't get enough of it. He wanted briefing after

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Speaker 1: briefing after briefing, and a few months after he left

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Speaker 1: the White House over the objections of the professional money managers,

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Speaker 1: on the direct orders of the Saudi Crown Prince, two

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Speaker 1: billion dollars was invested in Jared Kushner's hedge fund. To

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Speaker 1: Jared Kushner has no experience whatsoever an investment. The payment

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Speaker 1: was a bride or reward, but it should have been

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Speaker 1: investigated as espionage. Jared Kushner is one of the most

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Speaker 1: corrupt officials who ever served on the White House staff,

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Speaker 1: and that service was a disgrace. He talked about during

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Speaker 1: his Axios interview that his father in last campaign today

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Speaker 1: is professionally run.

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Speaker 2: From my perspective, again, if you look at the way

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Speaker 2: President Trump has been handling his campaign this time, this

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Speaker 2: is his third time doing it, and he's had time

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Speaker 2: to really reflect on everything. I think that the team

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Speaker 2: around him is maybe the best he's had.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about his father's campaign, and let's talk about

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Speaker 1: the appalling American media coverage that followed the insanity of

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Speaker 1: this weekend, where a Trump crowd chanted over and over

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Speaker 1: again fuck Joe Biden, as Trump promised to withdraw from

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Speaker 1: the most powerful military alliance and world history that keeps

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Speaker 1: America safe and cheered on Vladimir Putin so he can

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Speaker 1: invade England and France and Poland. Donald Trump is unhinged,

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Speaker 1: He's deranged, He's deeply dangerous. I don't know why anybody

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Speaker 1: would choose to put Donald Trump, of all people, at

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Speaker 1: the center of a cult of personality. Personally, I find

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Speaker 1: him repulsive, revolted, idiotic, and unintelligible. Yet here we are.

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Speaker 1: We don't talk enough about the dynamics of group contagion,

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Speaker 1: the frenzy of the crowd. But as we move forward

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Speaker 1: in this election cycle, the Biden team must understands the

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Speaker 1: Trump crowds will get bigger, they will get crazier, they

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Speaker 1: will become more frenzied. What is building is malevolent, it

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Speaker 1: is terrible, and it's coming must be opposed. Today. Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump must be hit and hit hard by the Biden

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Speaker 1: campaign in the White House, and then he must be

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Speaker 1: hit hard again tomorrow and the next day and for

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Speaker 1: two one hundred and sixty five more days until this

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Speaker 1: fever breaks. The United States of America will celebrate at

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Speaker 1: the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its independence. Question

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Speaker 1: for all of us will a fascist be leading the celebration?

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