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June 13, 2023 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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Trump’s Arraignment: Live from Miami with Ben Bergquam
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Indicting Donald Trump 00:06:15
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Trump is arraigned.
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I have right here, as I did yesterday, the indictment.
Yeah, I encourage you to read it.
Paperwork.
That's what we're talking about.
We're indicting a former president over paperwork.
A incredibly loose reading of the Espionage Act, which came from Woodrow Wilson.
Donald Trump will be arraigned in a couple hours here.
Could be early, could be late.
We're going to keep our eyes closely on that.
The Department of Justice, via Merrick Garland and Joe Biden, they're playing offense.
Remember, they must keep the pressure on.
It's one of Solinsky's rules for radicals.
To be perfectly honest, we have not spent adequate time on this show detailing all the new news about the Biden crime syndicate.
And I have to be honest about something I have to do better as a host.
I'm exhausted talking about the Biden thing.
It doesn't interest me, but I have to get over that.
He's a crook.
He's a criminal.
And not everyone knows that.
I just, I kind of just always assume, okay, you know that Joe Biden is a total criminal.
He's a traitor to the United States.
He obviously has dementia.
Let's move on.
Amazingly, that has not yet set in to the zeitgeist of the country.
I mean, ever since Peter Schweiser's book, when he was running as a candidate, we knew about the capital flows from overseas.
This is not exactly breaking news for those of us that have been following this closely.
It's not exactly something where we see this and we say, oh, you know, this is incredibly damning evidence.
But there's actually new evidence that keeps on coming out.
In fact, the Media Research Center has showed that the networks, ABC, CBS, NBC, has spent 291 minutes on the Trump indictment coverage and zero seconds on the new information of the Biden-Barisma Biden coverage.
Now, one of the tactics that the media uses, the Operation Mockingbird Intel agency coordinated media, is they protect people like Biden by saying, oh, this is old news.
When in fact, this is now new news.
We now have new information thanks to James Comer and the House of Representatives of shell corporations and money flows.
And so I have to get over it.
Because personally, I just kind of roll my eyes.
I don't want to live in a political environment where I do the show every day and we say, we got to go get Biden and we got to go get Biden.
I don't think that's good for the country.
I got to suck it up.
And we all have to.
They are now indicting Donald Trump.
We have to go full court press with Jim Jordan and Speaker McCarthy.
And we have to now say, okay, you're going to run this crook for the White House in 2024.
Equal and opposite reaction, folks.
This guy is the El Chapo of political corruption.
He is the kingpin.
This guy has done crimes and misdemeanors for decades.
I believe selling out American national security.
They want to play offense against Trump, a shot across the bow, all of a sudden saying, oh, yeah, you're storing national secrets.
All of us have to suck it up and say, okay, Biden, we are going to go full force and expose your corruption, whether it be impeachment or whatever it is.
The ballgame is now occurring.
Now, it is an interesting question.
Are they going after Trump this enthusiastically to also be able to go after Joe Biden to claim they're bipartisan?
I'm not seeing any evidence of that, but that could twist and turn at some point.
They do have some people on the bench, Gavin Newsom, who I think Gavin Newsom would be a difficult candidate, far more difficult than Joe Biden.
Joe Biden has so many obvious weaknesses, so many obvious weaknesses.
But I get tired of the Joe Biden corruption talk because I don't think it's helpful for a conservative movement to non-stop just bash an incumbent president.
We should talk about what we're for and where our ideas come from and where we're winning.
And that's what we try to do on this program.
However, now it is necessary.
The lines are drawn.
And today they are arraigning Donald Trump on this indictment.
Right here.
The United States of America versus Donald J. Trump.
You never thought you'd see that, did you?
There's no spin here.
Yeah, there are some positives that Donald Trump can glean from it.
We did that episode yesterday.
But sometimes when you see something tragic, you should just take pause and say, that's really sad.
No spin, no BS.
Should infuriate you.
This regime keeps the borders completely wide open.
They allow violent criminals on the streets.
Arsonists, rapists, people that push people in front of subways, mass looting.
But the criminalization of paperwork is where they want to lock Donald Trump up, potentially.
Obama's Silent Complicity 00:02:42
I mean, again, he's not going to get the full sentence if he gets convicted, but he could face 100 years in prison.
That doesn't happen.
But those are the sentencing guidelines.
They want to lock him up for the rest of his life.
Now, a component and an element of this that I don't think we always recognize is how much pent up scorn there is between people that are in the same generation as Donald Trump because they view him as the disruptor of their great power crescendo and climax.
Joe Biden, Chuck Hugh Schumer, Hillary Clinton, Merrick Garland, Bob Mueller, these people are all about the same age.
Nancy Pelosi, they're all like mid-70s, early 80s.
They're all kind of what you would call baby boomers or silent generation.
They're right there.
Is it the silent generation?
I think that went boomer, silent.
No, greatest silent boomer.
Anyway, I get that confused sometimes.
The point is that they're all about the same age, and they all came up in politics together.
They were all largely colleagues.
Joe Biden worked with Bob Mueller on 9-11 stuff, Chuck Hugh Schumer, and there was a plan.
And the plan was to keep on climbing the ranks of American politics uninterrupted.
Barack Obama at first was a threat to that plan because he talked like a populist but governed like a corporate oligarch.
So they took him over and threatened him with the intel agencies and Obama kept his mouth shut and did what he was told.
But original Obama like O.G. Obama, like Obama that announced for President United States in Springfield, Illinois in 2007, talked like a America first populist on national security, on borders, on political corruption.
But they got to Obama and that Obama was not for gay marriage.
I mean, they got to him in his ear and he said, okay, got it.
I know CIA, FBI is in charge.
And Obama had all these promises.
Remember, Obama was like, I will shut down Gitmo.
Nope.
I will end all these foreign wars.
Nope.
I will make sure the intel agencies are checked.
Nope.
I will repeal the Patriot Act.
Nope.
I'm going to make sure you have all this time to review bills before they're passed.
Nope.
I'm not going to bomb kids with drones.
Nope.
I'm going to stop all these bailouts of Wall Street.
Nope.
So Obama just became a typical transactional business-style corporate Democrat.
And of course, Biden was the vice president.
But this cabal of Pelosi, Chuck Hugh Schumer, of these, all the same age, that kind of came up in the same time.
They all climb the ladder simultaneously, looking out for one another, covering up for entire misdeeds.
They vacation together.
They go on codels together.
They travel internationally together.
Repealing The Patriot Act 00:10:43
They had a plan.
And that plan was supposed to really reach its apex, the place where they get to rule, where they get to reach the Philosopher King clouds and see from the top of unrest to society was supposed to happen with the election of Hillary Clinton.
You see, Joe Biden and all these different people, and Hillary Clinton, especially, because she was colleagues with those people as a senator from New York and Secretary of State, they were supposed to have uninterrupted flow of quote unquote the revolution, the machine taking over.
And of course, Donald Trump won in a surprise fashion.
And I cannot even put into words the personal vendetta that these people need to settle with Donald Trump because he messed it all up.
He put Supreme Court justices on the Supreme Court, all the federal regulation stuff, embassy to Jerusalem.
He just was a glitch in the matrix.
And so this plan that they had, that these people all the same age, Pelosi, Schumer, Bob Mueller, all of a sudden was disrupted by this guy in New York City, and they need to settle that score.
So much of what you are seeing play out in Miami is yes about the 2024 election, but it's even bigger than that.
It's really just petty personal score settling of people like Merrick Garland who thought he would be a Supreme Court justice, or people like Nancy Pelosi that thought she would oversee a Hillary Clinton presidency as Speaker of the House, or people like Chuck Schumer that they never thought they'd have to now spend all their energy and time recovering for the progress or the forward momentum that Donald Trump had for the conservative movement.
Trump is a threat to generations of corruption in the administrative state, and now the administrative state bites back.
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Sad day for America.
Ben Berquam is on the ground in Miami, Florida.
Ben, welcome to the program.
Fill us in.
What is the vibe on the ground?
What are you hearing?
What are you seeing?
Ben, walk us through it.
You got some sort of Palestinian flag or something, it looks like.
Something.
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know which one that is.
It's got a whole combination of things.
The vibe out here is definitely electric.
We're calling it MAGA Pride Day.
You've got patriots from all over the country, obviously from Florida down here as well.
But people coming out saying they're sick of it.
They're tired of seeing Hillary Clinton get away with it.
Joe Biden get away with it.
Hunter Biden get away with it.
All of these people, these traitors to our country, get away with it.
And this continuation of the coup against President Trump.
And one group, Charlie, that I didn't hear you mention, you may have mentioned them, but the one group that's all around me, there is more propaganda, fake news media than I've ever seen in one place.
If you pan down this way and we pan down this way, they go around the entire block and they are salivating just as much as the Chuck Schumers and the Nancy Pelosis and all of the left that want to destroy this country and have just seen Trump as the thing that's in their way.
So give us a little bit of an idea.
I mean, we already have self-proclaimed federal agents going on camera and saying, oh, you know, this is going to make January 6 like a playground.
Don't take the bait.
Reject that nonsense.
MAGA's peaceful today.
Tell us about what you're hearing and seeing.
Is Antifa there trying to provoke us?
Do we have, have you seen any sort of ray-ups, look-alikes in the audience?
Yeah, there's definitely, look, every event I've ever been to, MAGA is always peaceful.
The violence is always started by the left.
We are anticipating that Antifa does show up.
Hopefully the police do their job today.
If Antifa and Black Block show up and they start causing violence, hopefully they're held accountable for it.
And the people that I've seen out here, even though there's both sides, the vast majority of people that are out here are pro-Trump, but you do have a few protesters against President Trump out here.
And there's been some yelling back and forth, but for the most part, it's been peaceful.
So I haven't seen any violence.
I haven't heard of any violence.
But we're definitely keenly aware of that and the plans of the left.
And that's the whole thing is you can't get sucked into it.
But you also can't allow that premise to keep you from coming out and standing up for what you believe in.
That's part of what they wanted to do with January 6th, was to silence our voice, to get people to be afraid to show up and stand up.
You just have to know how to handle yourself in those situations.
Be calm, spread the love of Jesus, shine the light.
Don't get sucked into it.
So, Ben, do you believe that Donald Trump will increase in support because of these indictments?
What are you hearing on the ground?
And also, Vivek Ramaswamy is there.
Are any of the other 2024 candidates there?
Is Chris Christie there or Asa Hutchinson or Nikki Haley?
Is the governor of Florida there?
Are they there to show support for the American people against the administrative state?
No, the only one that I saw was Vivek.
It's funny because I flew out from Arkansas, so I'm so sure Aza could have done the same thing.
But no, there's no other ones out here.
The only one we saw today was Vivek.
And, you know, like you said, it's folks standing up and saying, we're sick of it.
We're tired of it.
We don't want this.
The bottom line is we don't have equal protection under the law.
And if we don't have equal protection under the law, we no longer have a constitution.
That's the argument that people have.
And there's no question about it.
To answer your first question, the support for President Trump is increasing in this.
I wear my MAGA hat.
Again, we're calling it MAGA Pride, MAGA Pride Day today.
I wear this everywhere I go.
And people are coming up to me in the airports all over the country.
They're saying, we're pissed.
We're not taking anymore.
What they're doing to President Trump is a travesty.
But it's just a continuation of what they did for four years.
But there's no question.
It's driving people to Trump, not away from him.
So, Ben, I just want to make sure I'm clear.
This is the most cameras you've probably seen at anything, right?
So you have a bunch of people running for the president ever.
You got a bunch of people running for the presidency that are trying to get attention.
Ben, let's just say Governor DeSantis showed up and did a press conference, and he could even say, I don't like Trump.
I don't, you know, I'm not getting along with him, but this is wrong.
Well, Ben, how would that be received?
Probably very favorably, right?
Absolutely.
People are even asking that.
And, you know, because a lot of this crowd was a Trump 2024, DeSantis 2028, until DeSantis basically aligned himself with the establishment Republicans and went against President Trump.
So there's a lot of people that still want to see.
They would love to see DeSantis come out here.
And as you said, even like Vivek said, Vivek didn't step down.
He's still running, but he said this is an injustice.
We should all stand up against this.
If this was happening to anyone else, I would be saying the same thing.
It looks like the crowds.
Hey, hang on, guys.
Hang on.
Stay back.
Stay back.
Hang on.
So we've got the crowd kind of coming around here.
But no, there's no question about it, Charlie.
If that's what people want to see, they want to see people come out and say that this is an injustice.
Whether you're right or left, this is an injustice.
It is an injustice.
It is confusing and perplexing to me that people running for the presidency that want nothing but attention won't go to the place where all the attention in the world is and show up and say it's wrong that an unelected deep state and administrative state can go after a former president.
It's bizarre.
Ben, we'll get back to you soon.
Thank you so much.
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I want to spend some time on Woodrow Wilson because it's super important.
And you're not going to hear this indictment of Woodrow Wilson on any other program because so much of what we're living through is designed by Woodrow Wilson.
Public Square App Launch 00:05:51
It's also a cautionary tale for Donald Trump and a cautionary tale of what happens when you run third parties if you were to do that.
Because some people say, oh, Donald Trump should just run in a third party.
You get leaders like Woodrow Wilson if you divide a populist nationalist base, which is exactly what happened in the election of 1912.
William Howard Taft won the election of 1908, was the heir apparent for Teddy Roosevelt.
Teddy Roosevelt got so mad at him, tried to rewin the Republican nomination, failed, and then ran under the Bull Moose Party, dividing the Republican patriotic nationalist populist base.
And you had this academic Woodrow Wilson win in 1912.
So I'm going to get to Woodrow Wilson in just a second, but I have to complete the point that is perplexing and confusing, and it's very telling to me.
Why are none of these Republicans in Miami?
Vivek is there.
Good for you, Vivek.
Vivek had a press conference, really wasn't much of a press conference in the sense where he said, Look, you know, I'm going to pardon Donald Trump if I become president.
Okay, that's fine.
Glad you're there.
I mean that.
Vivek is a friend and I think he deserves applause.
But these candidates, every single candidate running for the presidency, should either either have a choice: either be there in Miami, Florida, and support Trump heavily, or they should go the other way, like Chris Christie, and say this is serious and he should be in jail.
There is no middle ground.
And what every one of these candidates is broadcasting to us is they're trying to have it both ways.
And despite the more judgmental political dynamics here that I'm offering, which is you could tell a lot by a candidate with this, let's just talk about how dumb it is not to be there.
You have no exaggeration over 1,000 cameras right now in Miami, Florida.
And they're getting a little bit tired of filming the same sort of MAGA grannies and MAGA Cubans chant with bullhorns and flags, right?
How many times can you take a picture of that New York Times photographer?
So they're starving for content in this dead period before Donald Trump comes from Doral to the courthouse.
They're literally starving for content.
Everyone wants to know what's happening in Miami.
And wouldn't it be logical for the governor of Florida to show up on a stage?
I bet he could get a permit.
He is the governor of Florida to show up on stage.
And he could even do all the stuff.
I don't like Trump and blah, blah, blah, blah, whatever.
Fine.
Not the point.
I'm not, people say, you know, all the critics say, oh, Charlie Kirk wants Ron DeSantis to suck up to Trump.
I'm not even saying that.
I'm saying show a physical presence against the administrative state.
That's all I'm asking.
I'm asking for a, and by the way, those of you in the audience that are pro-DeSantis, explain to me why you wouldn't want to be in front of all the cameras when you're running for the presidency.
What's that?
I mean, for those of us that are pro-Trump, like, thanks for letting us go 10 more points up in the polls because that's what's happening.
But I'm not saying this is a way to try to help other candidates.
I'm saying it because it actually would be good for the country to have a bunch of other candidates show a solidified opposition party to this Leviathan.
The fact that it's Vivek and Trump and the rest are in Iowa or New Hampshire, it's like, okay, the most important news story on planet Earth.
That's right.
The most important news story on planet Earth.
It's not just American media.
You got Reuters there.
You got everybody.
And they're talking to like nine people on some sort of coffee table in Iowa.
It seems like a remarkable blown opportunity.
And if you just say, okay, let's say Donald Trump gets convicted or something, do you think the MAGA base is going to just like those funds are going to transfer?
They're going to remember where you were or where you were not when it mattered.
The MAGA base has long memory.
It is, this is consultant class stuff.
I tweeted it out.
A lot of people mocked me.
A lot of people said, oh, you know, you can't do that.
You guys don't understand the base at all.
Blown opportunity, bad instincts, bad tactics, bad for the country.
But Chris Christie, who I have plenty of things to say about, he's actually on the one side.
So you're either on one of two sides.
You're in Miami showing solidarity with Donald Trump against administrative state persecution, or you're doing the Chris Christie thing, which is saying it's his fault.
Okay?
Play cut 26.
When did we get to the point where we're always blaming our adversaries for the weakness of our candidates?
Oh, it's the Democrats' fault.
It's DOJ's fault.
It's this person's fault.
It's the media's fault.
How bad it's his.
He hasn't won a damn thing since 2016.
Three-time loser.
2018, we lost the House.
2020, we lost the White House.
We lost the United States Senate a couple of weeks later in 2021.
And in 2022, we lost two more governorships, another Senate seat, and barely took the House of Representatives when Joe Biden had the most incompetent first two years I've ever seen in my life.
Okay.
I mean, obviously I disagree with all of that, but Chris Christie is doing the thing that it's either you're on one side or the other side.
You're going to do a CNN town hall to 10 people ranting and raving on the same sort of kind of repurposed talking points?
Or are you going to go down to Miami?
Chris Christie has chosen, and you guys will remember that.
Play one more piece of tape here.
And actually, Chris Christie is a perfect segue to Woodrow Wilson because they were both governors of New Jersey, believe it or not.
Let's just, one more little piece of evidence here, play cut 25.
It's just a show often.
It turned out to be right.
This, and that's what makes it so ridiculous that we're here and we're in a situation where there are people in my own party who are blaming DOJ.
How about blame him?
Shadow Government Elections 00:09:32
He did it.
He kept, he took Don Cummins, he wasn't supposed to take.
He kept them when they asked him back for them.
They got a grand jury subpoena.
He refused to comply.
They raided his home finally because he refused to comply.
All of those things were brought on himself, as was this indictment.
Okay, so this indictment is a mockery to the American justice system, but there's a deeper story at play.
And it all started actually in the very same office that Chris Christie occupied.
It's Woodrow Wilson.
Woodrow Wilson is without a doubt probably the worst president in American history, if not the worst.
Now, worst is a difficult word to use.
So let me actually clarify that.
He did the most damage because you could say, okay, what about Ulysses S. Grant or all these people that were just terrible at managing and they were stealing from the treasury and they were drunk, but they didn't have long-term generational destruction to the Republic.
Woodrow Wilson did.
The indictment of Donald Trump isn't just standard government overreach.
It's a huge triumph for the American administrative state.
Woodrow Wilson is the father of what we now call the deep state.
The technical term, the academic term is administrative state, but you can call it the shadow government.
You can call it the deep state.
You could call it the cabal.
You could call it the kingdom of Washington, D.C.
These are all synonyms for the same thing.
So let's just repeat.
And those of you that watch this program and listen to this program frequently, we are laser focused on the administrative state.
What is the administrative state?
Well, Woodrow Wilson is a case study in the dangers of giving academics too much power.
He was our only academic to become an American president.
Before becoming president, he was president of Prince University back when it was a respectable place.
He actually published a paper that I encourage you all to read if you have spare time today, The Study of Administration.
And that paper argued for reshaping and remolding our government on administrative lines.
Now, what does that mean?
In short, it means detaching government from politics or the business of people, getting rid of consent to the governed, and instead putting in a government of professional bureaucrats who do the real administration and the running of government.
Woodrow Wilson said that there's something wrong when the government has all these different factions against one another.
We think that's a beauty of our government.
We think checks and balances are what then keeps us free.
Woodrow Wilson saw that as an impediment.
Woodrow Wilson thought it was a design flaw in the Constitution.
And in fact, he said the error of trying to do too much by vote, too much by the people, was, quote, self-government does not consist in having a hand in everything.
In short, administrators should be given heavy leeway to govern as they saw fit without being checked constantly by voters.
He said, quote, living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice.
Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of life, not of mechanics.
So instead of a Newtonian approach to government, he had a Darwinian approach to government.
It must evolve, not be understood.
All that progressives ask or desire is permission in an era when development evolution is the scientific word to interpret the Constitution according to Darwinian principles.
All they ask is the recognition of the fact that a nation is a living thing, not a machine.
Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States.
So he loathed checks and balances.
And as president, he said, quote, that government, I said this, but I'll repeat it.
Government is not a machine, but a living thing.
It should not have different factions set against each other.
So separation of powers, got to get rid of that.
Checks and balances, got to get rid of that.
Consent to the governed.
Instead, it should be, and this comes from German historicism, largely Hegelianism.
It must be this beast that marches through time, that grows in intensity, that grows in ferocity, that is managed by an almost secret society of academic elites that have a secret gnosis, a secret knowledge, and the people are not able to touch them or question them because they know what's best.
Anthony Fauci is a perfect example of what the administrative state creates.
Untouchable, failing upwards, unelected, and massive amounts of power.
This beast, this Leviathan, this monster, this Praetorian guard that is now indicting Donald Trump was birthed into existence 106 or 107 years ago.
They dreamed of a day where they could check and balance.
And remember, it was Woodrow Wilson who ran against a populace in the 1912 election.
And instead of dealing with those pesky elections, they want a council of elders and experts and philosopher kings to put you in jail instead of allowing the people to have a voice.
America eventually became the type of government, the form of government that Woodrow Wilson envisioned.
Just as he took office, the states foolishly ratified the 16th Amendment, legalizing an income tax.
In 1913, Wilson's government created the Federal Reserve, which now is to blame for our massive inflation.
In the 1920s, federal law enforcement expanded dramatically to enforce prohibition.
But when prohibition ended, the government power stayed.
When FDR took office in 1933, there were a half a million federal employees.
Now there's more than 2.2 million federal civilian employees, and that civilian count only goes up in time.
The massive government of agencies and bureaucracies has gathered more and more power over time.
But I want to just emphasize this.
And by the way, the Espionage Act actually was passed while Woodrow Wilson was president, and he put innocent people in jail.
Woodrow Wilson used this as a way to put political dissidents in jail.
But I want to just reemphasize one quote of Woodrow Wilson.
And I kind of went through this too quickly.
He said, we must stay away from the error of trying to do too much by voting.
Self-government does not consist in having a hand in everything.
That's exactly what they're doing to Trump right now.
Woodrow Wilson said this voting thing, we're trying to do too much by that.
It's the secret society of the shadow government that should call the shots, not the people.
The people, we have a mistake of trying to do too much by vote.
This is a fulfillment of Wilson's vision.
This right here, it doesn't matter that Donald Trump is running for the presidency.
It doesn't matter that he was a former president.
We, the administrative state, inspired by the godfather of such a project, Woodrow Wilson, will not let that happen.
It truly is a tension of the people versus the shadow government.
That is what is happening right now in Miami.
Which form of government is going to win?
Which philosophical promise, is it going to be serfs or citizens?
Is it going to be elections or selections?
The administrative state selects.
The founding fathers wanted elections.
Is it going to be states' rights or is it going to be shadow governments?
This is what's playing out right now in Miami.
And Chris Christie and the slovenly bunch of Republicans want to make it seem like it's about this indictment, this document stuff.
No, no, no, no.
This is a almost event.
This was in some ways eventual, but this is the collision of the American form of government brought to you by Madison, Jay, Hamilton, articulated in the Declaration by Jefferson, fought for by Washington, and now the administrative state shadow government model.
Which is going to win?
Do we want self-righteousness or self-government?
Do we want bottom-up or top-down?
Do we want states' rights or shadow government?
Do we want elections or do we want selections?
Do we want serfs or do we want a citizenry?
Do we want a constitution or do we want hidden rules that are selected by philosopher kings?
That is what Miami is all about.
It's not about Trump.
It's about whether the country the founders birthed will survive.
Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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Thanks so much for listening and God bless.
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