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| Day 303, 316 days since Joey, your president, promised that he would not abandon Americans or our Afghan allies or people with green cards behind. | |
| Now we're finding out, the New York Post reporting over the weekend that in fact, thousands of former U.S. aides abandoned by Joe Biden in Afghanistan 303 days ago, and he's turned the page, never talked about it again. | |
| But the New York Post reports, five weeks before the Taliban captured Kabul, President Joe Biden told the American people, quote, Afghan nationals who work side by side with U.S. forces would not be abandoned by America. | |
| There's a home for you in the U.S. if you so choose, and we will stand with you just as you stood with us. | |
| Biden's commitment to Afghans who placed their lives in danger, translators, women's rights advocates, civil society leaders. | |
| Yeah, they were all abandoned. | |
| And nearly a year after the U.S. departure, 240,000 Afghans still waiting for special immigrant visas and refugees and humanitarian parole applications. | |
| They're not forthcoming. | |
| And then the stories of people being killed. | |
| And then the old Taliban is back. | |
| The old Taliban is now the new Taliban. | |
| Women can't work. | |
| Girls can't go to school. | |
| What a shock. | |
| What a surprise. | |
| And it'll be a safe haven for terrorists. | |
| Anyway, thanks for being with us. | |
| You know what's sick about our media? | |
| I could spend a lot of time on this. | |
| We have Mike Lee on later. | |
| He wrote a really terrific book, Saving Nine, the Fight Against the Left's Audacious Plan to PAC the Supreme Court and destroy American Liberty. | |
| But anyway, except for Fox News Sunday, do you think one of the Sunday shows, not one of them, ABC, CBS, NBC, fake news CNN, not one of them even mentioned last week's attempted assassination of a Supreme Court justice? | |
| All they wanted to talk about was January 6th. | |
| You know, none of these people, these same people that just, I love these images we have of cities on fire in the background. | |
| And there's a fake news CNN or MSDNC reporter. | |
| It's mostly peaceful. | |
| Behind them, the place is burning to the ground. | |
| You know, dozens dead, thousands of cops injured, billions in property damage. | |
| No, we're not going to look into that. | |
| Anyway, it's so predictable. | |
| Oh, and this is another thing. | |
| You know, Donald Trump, when he was president, and this, I think, is a little bit interesting, just as a side note, not that we're going to spend, as I said, a lot of time on this. | |
| You know, you go back, and I saw, was it Joe Scarborough? | |
| I think it was him this morning. | |
| And I saw an article about it. | |
| And anyway, so he's out there saying, well, Donald Trump's the apprentice, you know, only got seven celebrity apprentice, only got 7.9 million viewers, and 20 million people watched Liz Cheney. | |
| Liz Cheney was on every channel. | |
| The celebrity apprentice was on one. | |
| I mean, if you want to compare apples to apples, Trump's State of the Union address in 2017 was 42.7 million. | |
| In 2018, 40.5 million. | |
| In 2019, 42.2 million. | |
| His lowest was 33.8 million in 2020. | |
| I'm like, you want to compare apples to apples? | |
| Meaning, you can't compare one network when all three networks, every other channel is covering this stupid thing except thankfully Fox. | |
| Although we did cover it on a Fox business, Fox Nation, Foxnews.com. | |
| If you wanted it, you could find it. | |
| It's unbelievable. | |
| Look, this is a moment where we've got to understand more deeply what is going on inside of the minds of the left. | |
| The left has become very authoritarian, but more importantly, they have now married their entire agenda to this climate alarmism and that is now a religious cult for them. | |
| Because the normal way to react to high gas prices, one record after another record after another record, gas now, on average, over the weekend, we passed the $5 mark. | |
| And today, the average price of a gallon of gasoline is $5.10 per gallon. | |
| Diesel is costing you more. | |
| And that means every trucker that fills up a load in their 18-wheeler and takes it to whatever store and drops their products off at that store. | |
| Every store you go to, you're going to pay more for everything that you buy. | |
| I mean, it's just now this is the reality. | |
| So you would think, well, logical people would say, okay, these policies are not working. | |
| This is hurting the American people, especially the poor, middle-class people on fixed incomes. | |
| They are really suffering here. | |
| They cannot afford a 42-year high of inflation. | |
| They can't afford $5.10 a gallon. | |
| You know, it was the average person that commutes all year was going to pay an extra $2,000. | |
| Now we're up to, what, $2,200 a year, $2,300 a year, more than you paid last year? | |
| Joe Biden inherits a gallon of gasoline was $2.39 a gallon. | |
| Let's go back to the good old days. | |
| But anyway, that's what it costs. | |
| Average U.S. price, regular grade gasoline goes up 39% over the last three weeks. | |
| It's now on average $5.10 a gallon. | |
| So you ask yourself, why haven't these people reversed course? | |
| Now, then this gets even more strange. | |
| Why is Joe, he's on again, off again? | |
| I don't know if I'm going to Saudi Arabia. | |
| I'm going to Saudi Arabia. | |
| I'm not sure if I'm going to Saudi Arabia. | |
| I'm going, but I'm probably not going to talk about oil with Saudi Arabia. | |
| I mean, he can't make up his mind. | |
| This administration is flipping and flopping and flailing. | |
| I don't know because OPEC probably rejected him 20 separate times. | |
| All these countries now don't even want to take Joe Biden's call. | |
| So again, it goes to a simple question. | |
| For these climate alarmists, and they're worried about Mother Earth, and tell me the difference if the oil comes from Russia, Iran, Venezuela, OPEC nations, Saudi Arabia, what difference does that make to Mother Earth where you drill the oil? | |
| If anything, because we have enough resources domestically, we don't need to import one barrel of oil, although it would be nice to finish the Keystone XL pipeline and we get 900,000 barrels of Canadian oil every single day flowing through that pipeline, and that would probably help reduce the price of gasoline, maybe not significantly, but it could put a little dent in it. | |
| You want to know why inflation is so high? | |
| This is now going to result these issues. | |
| It's the economy stupid, and their policies have caused this. | |
| But it's deeper than that because now you have to, why won't they change course? | |
| Now, what's the definition of insanity? | |
| You know, you do the same thing over and over and over and over and over again and expect a different result. | |
| They will not budge. | |
| They are so wedded to this climate alarmist cult, this new Green Deal socialist cult. | |
| Joe Biden is so afraid of the base of his party, he dare not move one inch towards energy independence again. | |
| But he can do a deal with Iran and he can make the Iranian mullahs rich again and that thug murdering dictator in Venezuela rich again and he could make the Saudis rich again and the OPEC nations rich again and Russia's getting rich again. | |
| And we're stupid because we've got more resources with gas and oil than these countries combined. | |
| We wouldn't have to rely on them. | |
| That's good for national security. | |
| We'd create high-paying career jobs for so many Americans. | |
| That's good for American workers. | |
| We now would put a big, huge dent in the price of gasoline because we'd dramatically increase the world supply. | |
| That would drive down the price. | |
| As you drive down the price, that reduces the price of everything that we're paying for in every store that we're going to, and that would ease the inflationary pressures we are now feeling, especially with the Fed now talking about a 35% basis point increase on Wednesday. | |
| Maybe a half a point, maybe three quarters of a point, but interest rates are going up again. | |
| This is not serving the American people well at all. | |
| By the way, and now we've got food problems emerging. | |
| One thing I've learned a lot from our audience, truckers, I've learned a lot from them. | |
| I've learned a lot. | |
| All these farmers that have been calling this program have taught me something. | |
| A food shortage likelihood is far greater than I think anyone's given any attention to. | |
| It really is. | |
| Now, the food inflation has widened. | |
| There's a great piece in the New York Post about the food prices are going to keep climbing with no end in sight. | |
| Here's why, because they don't have enough fertilizer. | |
| They don't have enough seeds. | |
| They don't have the ability to fix their equipment that breaks down, if a tractor breaks down, whatever equipment that farmers are using. | |
| And so what's their next alternative but to raise prices or shut down? | |
| Because as soon as they're not going to make money, they're not going to work. | |
| As soon as truckers now, they're feeling inflationary pressures. | |
| They're paying $1,000, $2,000 more a week, depending how many miles they're putting on their rig every week. | |
| That cost has to get passed on to the consumer. | |
| Trucking companies, they're not going to take a cut. | |
| Dispatches aren't going to take a cut. | |
| Truck drivers don't want to take a cut, and they shouldn't have to take a cut. | |
| Real wages down 3% on an annual basis because of the inflation increase last week. | |
| By the way, inflation is going to crank up your air conditioning bill this summer. | |
| It will translate to 540. | |
| One estimate came out, May Consumer Price Index. | |
| Anyway, that's $540 an estimate increase electric bills for the average American household. | |
| And that's only from June and August. | |
| I mean, that's up dramatically from just a year ago. | |
| And again, we're going to how does it impact Mother Earth differently if we beg the Saudis, the Venezuelan. | |
| It doesn't. | |
| None of this makes sense, except that we have some very stupid people that would rather make the world's dictators and thugs rich again than be energy independent. | |
| It'd be good for national security, good for job creation, good to lower inflation, you know, good to ease the pressures that every American's family, two-thirds of Americans now living paycheck to paycheck. | |
| But the Commerce Secretary is claiming Biden's very serious about bringing down gas prices. | |
| No, he's not serious. | |
| Now they're talking about brownouts, blackouts all over the country potentially this summer. | |
| You know, Biden seems to praise high gas prices. | |
| It's an incredible transition. | |
| Let's take you back in time, shall we? | |
| Joe Biden. | |
| Now, Donald Trump and Joe Biden were debating, and this is six. | |
| And Trump in this points out, whoa, you're going to get rid of fossil fuels? | |
| Pay attention to what he's saying here. | |
| Listen. | |
| Would he close down the oil industry? | |
| That's false. | |
| Would you close down the oil industry? | |
| I would transition from the oil industry. | |
| Yes. | |
| Oh, that's a big deal. | |
| That is a big statement. | |
| That's a big question. | |
| Because I would stop. | |
| Why would you do that? | |
| Because the oil industry pollutes significantly. | |
| I see. | |
| Here's the deal. | |
| But that's a big statement. | |
| Well, if you let me finish the statement, because it has to be replaced by renewable energy over time, over time. | |
| And I'd stop giving to the oil industry. | |
| I'd stop giving them federal subsidies. | |
| You won't give federal subsidies to the gas, excuse me, to solar and wind. | |
| Why are we giving it to oil industry? | |
| We actually do give it to solar and wind. | |
| That's maybe the biggest statement in terms of business. | |
| That's the biggest statement. | |
| Because basically what he's saying is he is going to destroy the oil industry. | |
| Will you remember that Texas? | |
| Will you remember that Pennsylvania, Oklahoma? | |
| And then he predicted gas will go to $7, $8, $9 a gallon. | |
| Listen. | |
| We have more oil than anybody, okay? | |
| And it's an incredible thing that has happened over the last few years, a lot of great things. | |
| And you're paying, what, $2 a gallon for your gasoline? | |
| That's okay. | |
| You know what that's like? | |
| That's like a tax cut. | |
| That's bigger than a tax cut. | |
| If Biden got in, you'd be paying $7, $8, $9. | |
| Didn't they say, get rid of your car? | |
| Okay, get rid of your car. | |
| Now, when we come back, I'll play Biden telling us he was going to do all of this. | |
| Because now that he's doing it, now these are the predictable results. | |
| You think he's going to go back? | |
| You think AOC and the Democratic Socialist Party and the climate cult alarmists are going to let him go back? | |
| All right, so I played for you the debate segment when Joe Biden said he was going to close the oil industry down. | |
| And then we had Donald Trump predict, yeah, Biden's president, yeah, gas is going to go to $7, $8, $9 a gallon. | |
| But nobody paid attention to Joe Biden's own words. | |
| We did. | |
| Listen, this was in the campaign the few moments he left the bunker. | |
| We're all dead. | |
| Doing away with any subsidies for fossil fuels, number one. | |
| Number two, holding them liable for what they have done, particularly in those cases where you're underserved neighborhoods and you know the deal, okay? | |
| And by the way, when they don't or when they're deliberate, put them in jail. | |
| Kiddo, I want you to just take a look, okay? | |
| You don't have to agree, but I want you to look in my eyes. | |
| I guarantee you. | |
| I guarantee you, we're going to end fossil fuel, and I am not going to cooperate with you. | |
| Would there be any place for fossil fuels, including coal and fracking, in the Biden administration? | |
| No, we would work it out. | |
| We would make sure it's eliminated. | |
| Eliminated. | |
| And all fossil fuels. | |
| So, Joe, so this has been the plan. | |
| This is the religious cult. | |
| This is the agenda. | |
| Anybody that thinks for a second that the Democrats don't want this, this happened, it's out of their hands, they can't control this. | |
| None of that is true. | |
| You know, they can claim all they want. | |
| Vladimir Putin caused this. | |
| No, Vladimir Putin did not cause this. | |
| And we've shown the graphs on television again and again and again and again. | |
| Fuel prices went up dramatically because of the policies that removed us from being energy independent and a net exporter of energy. | |
| So I'm just tired of being lied to. | |
| Anyway, 800-941-Sean is our number. | |
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| So much is every, you got to understand when you get to this point, it's now June 13th, and maybe it seems like in some people's minds the midterms are very far away. | |
| They're not that far away. | |
| You're going to blow through the summer. | |
| Next thing you'll know, here's Labor Day. | |
| You know, you'll take your summer vacations. | |
| You'll see your family. | |
| You'll get a little rest, relaxation, hopefully. | |
| And I don't know if people are going to be traveling like they maybe planned because of this record high inflation and people, two-thirds of Americans living paycheck to paycheck. | |
| And then Labor Day comes, and then we're going to be very focused on the election. | |
| Democrats, you know, assuming the leaked version of a repeal of Roe, if that in fact becomes the final opinion, which I would assume it will. | |
| All right, so they'll run on abortion, but Americans, by the time November comes around, they'll figure out abortion is still legal in America. | |
| I don't think that's going to have the impact the Democrats are hoping for. | |
| They're hoping that on the issue of the Second Amendment and Second Amendment rights, Joe Biden is saying this has got to be a big election issue. | |
| Okay. | |
| So they're going to run on that. | |
| Obviously, they're trying to make January 6th into the biggest issue of all time. | |
| Everybody knows about January 6th at this point. | |
| There's nothing we learned new the other night. | |
| And for the people, what I've read about today, it was another, it was a snooze fest. | |
| And this is just, everybody sees this for what it is, a very partisan. | |
| Seemed like the only criteria that was needed for you to be on the committee was to have voted to impeach Trump. | |
| All right, so it's now a second impeachment hearing about Trump and January 6th. | |
| Okay, got it. | |
| Understand. | |
| That's politics. | |
| That's not going to get them, I don't think, a single vote. | |
| When people vote, they usually vote on two big issues, peace and prosperity. | |
| Now, in terms of America's position in the world, after 303 days ago, abandoning Americans behind enemy lines and the Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan, you couple that with the war in Europe, which, by the way, is not going well right now for the Ukrainians. | |
| And I'm going to tell you why. | |
| I blame Europe. | |
| I blame NATO nations because they didn't step up with the weaponry that was needed for Zelensky to win the war. | |
| If they would have given it to him early, including the U.S., give them enough equipment to win the war. | |
| We don't fight wars to win wars anymore. | |
| Get all gung-ho. | |
| We start wars. | |
| You know, we fight them half-assed. | |
| You don't fight to win them. | |
| And then they get politicized. | |
| Then you say, never mind. | |
| And then how much of our national treasure did we lose in the process? | |
| That can't be, that can't happen anymore. | |
| But the other thing, so people are going to look at the average price of a gallon of gasoline. | |
| And I promise you, by the time Election Day rolls around, all of these comments, Biden's war on fossil fuels, I'm going to end fossil fuels. | |
| I'm going to eliminate fossil fuels. | |
| I'm going to close the oil industry. | |
| He said all of this. | |
| And Donald Trump called them out and said, yeah, well, then if these policies, America, pay attention, you'll be paying $7, $8, $9 a gallon. | |
| So eventually you get rid of your card. | |
| Now, there's no propensity at all to do the smart thing. | |
| Now, if you're president and under your watch, the price of a gallon of gasoline goes up 140%. | |
| And everything that everybody buys at every store they go to is up dramatically. | |
| And the average American family, this is now the $6,000 average American household Biden inflation tax that Americans can't afford based on just last year, never mind since the beginning of his presidency. | |
| It's the prosperity part of what motivates people to vote in elections. | |
| Now, this is an opportunity for Republicans if they couple these issues. | |
| If you look at everything in total, and you look at the 41-year high of inflation, you look at the price of gasoline, you look at every store you go to, everything costs more, and then you add that to, oh, the biggest caravan to date is marching towards our border. | |
| And in all likelihood, all Biden is going to do is let people, not enforce the laws, let people break our laws, enter the country illegally. | |
| He's going to process them. | |
| He's not going to have any background checks, no health checks in the middle of a pandemic, no means tests, you know, whether people will be a burden on the American people. | |
| We can't afford it. | |
| That's not going to happen. | |
| And so Biden will allow that to happen. | |
| It'll give him a free Biden phone and then transportation in the dark of night to, I guess, the city, the state of their choice. | |
| And then those cities, you know, are then pretty much forced because of the policies of the federal government not enforcing the law to take care of people. | |
| And it's now putting a burden on our educational system, our criminal justice system. | |
| It's putting a burden on our health care system. | |
| We're paying for all of this. | |
| And people are going to look at that too. | |
| And they're going to realize, you know what? | |
| We had secure borders. | |
| You know what? | |
| I did like $2 a gallon gasoline or $2.39 or whatever $220 it was at any given point in time. | |
| And Americans are not going to take this. | |
| We're better than this. | |
| If these predicted brownouts happen and blackouts happen or whatever is going to happen with the power grid that many people are predicting very well could happen this summer, that's not going to go over well with the American people either. | |
| You know, and this line of the Biden administration that they're doing everything in their power, they're not doing everything in their power. | |
| Begging Saudi Arabia and OPEC and Iran and Venezuela is not doing everything in your power to lower the price of a gallon of gasoline. | |
| You could bring back the Keystone XL pipeline. | |
| Why won't they? | |
| Ask yourself, why won't they? | |
| They're willing to do deals with countries that will drill for oil. | |
| You got to ask yourself, why won't they drill for that oil here? | |
| So we don't have to rely on them, especially the countries that hate us. | |
| Why are we making those countries rich again? | |
| Why are we creating high-paying career jobs in this country? | |
| Why are we energy independent? | |
| Great for national security, great for job creation, great to lower the record high inflation that we have. | |
| Why aren't they doing that? | |
| And the only answer I can come up with is they care more about their religious cult than they do about you and your family. | |
| Obama's Treasury Secretary, Lawrence Summers, he's not been wrong so far. | |
| He's been dead on accurate. | |
| He says Biden's Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen, is wrong. | |
| He says, I think the optimists were wrong a year ago, and he said it, in saying that we have no inflation, that it's transitory. | |
| I think they're wrong now, if anyone is highly competent that we're going to avoid recession. | |
| And Janet Yellen is out there saying, and Jerome Powers' predictions are too optimistic, he said. | |
| And Yellen last week saying that there's nothing to suggest inflation if a recession is in the works. | |
| Oh, really? | |
| Summers explained that the combination of high inflation, low unemployment is always followed within two years by a recession. | |
| Lawrence Summers has been right. | |
| They've been wrong. | |
| This is Obama's Treasury Secretary. | |
| I can't believe I'm quoting him regularly. | |
| And he added, I think there's certainly a risk of recession in the next year. | |
| And I think given what we've gotten to, it's more likely than not that we're going to have a recession in the next two years. | |
| And on top of everything that I keep mentioning, the Labor Department said on Friday that grocery prices went up another 11.9% in May from a year ago. | |
| From farmers to factories to grocery stores to every restaurant, executives are saying they're experiencing jaw-dropping cost increases for labor and packaging and ingredients and transportation. | |
| All these truckers calling us, telling us the price of diesel is killing them. | |
| All these farmers saying they can't afford the fertilizer and the seeds. | |
| They can't get their equipment fixed. | |
| And on top of that, electricity costs are up double digits again. | |
| By the way, all right, so they're going to raise interest rates again Wednesday. | |
| It's either a half a point, you know, 0.50 basis points, or it's going to be three quarters of a point interest rate hike. | |
| Okay, well, already, before we get to that on Wednesday, mortgage demand is now at its lowest level in 22 years this week. | |
| And what's the next logical thing that is going to happen? | |
| Actually, two things. | |
| Home building is going to stop right dead in its tracks, and it's already happening because people can't get the loans at a favorable rate, and it's going to cost that many thousands of dollars more per month if they go forward with building the home. | |
| We already have a shortage of homes in this country. | |
| And number two, all that money that you thought you had as equity in your home is going to get evaporated because all the bids that have been going on around the country and the home selling has been crazy. | |
| All that's pretty much going to come to a standstill because people aren't going to want to pay the high interest rates. | |
| I know people now that locked into interest rates three months ago, they're dying to close on their deals because they got that rate locked in. | |
| And Biden has, you know, it's, I've never met such an incompetent group of people. | |
| You know, Kraft, Tyson, McDonald's, all saying higher fuel, labor, and ingredient expenses are driving this inflation. | |
| They're all right. | |
| These are companies that want to make money. | |
| McDonald's doesn't want to charge you $8 and $8.99 for a quarter pound of a cheese because they know they'll have fewer customers. | |
| You know, it's, and Powell now quoted, we're being told, is facing an increasingly grim calculus. | |
| It's between elevated U.S. inflation and recession. | |
| I think we're going to end up with both if you want the answer. | |
| The largest pork company in the U.S. is shut down in California and a plant there. | |
| Why? | |
| High costs. | |
| They can't compete. | |
| That ought to be a canary in the coal mine. | |
| Bank of America, warning of future inflation shocks. | |
| I mean, look at, have you seen the stock market the last three months? | |
| Trump warned about that too. | |
| And he says, you know, that's everybody's retirement. | |
| IRA, 401k, all now, you know, headed towards disastrous times. | |
| This is an opportunity for common sense Americans. | |
| No, I'm not even talking about Republican and Democrat anymore. | |
| There's got to be a new American majority, and Republicans should lead the way. | |
| And it should be the simple principles of conservatism, limited government, less bureaucracy, liberty, freedom, capitalism, our constitution, lower taxes, less burdensome regulation, energy independence, secure borders, follow the law, law and order so everyone is safe and secure. | |
| If you're safe and secure, you can pursue happiness. | |
| Constitutionalists on the bench, choice in schools. | |
| Stop burdening our kids with all this social indoctrination. | |
| Let the parents instill the values. | |
| Let the kids learn reading, writing, math, science, and computers and move on from everything else. | |
| And if this new majority emerges, an American majority of common sense Americans, we can be the prosperous nation. | |
| None of these things, none of these problems I'm talking about are that complicated. | |
| That's what's frustrating to me. | |
| We are all suffering needlessly. | |
| And it's no wonder that the front page of the New York Post, even the New York Times saying it, say it ain't Joe. | |
| We now have a real clear politics average. | |
| It just came out. | |
| The lowest approval rating Joe's ever had in the 30s. | |
| That's the average. | |
| That's phony polls that have him up at 45% approval rating included in this. | |
| New York Times, you know, pointing out midway through the 2022 primary season, many Democratic lawmakers, party officials are venting their frustrations with President Biden's struggle to advance the bulk of his agenda, doubting his ability to rescue the party from a predicted midterm trouncing and increasingly viewing him as an anchor that they should cut loose in 2024. | |
| Interviews with nearly 50 Democratic officials from county leaders to members of Congress, disappointed voters who backed Biden in 2020 reveal the party is alarmed about Republicans' rising strength and extraordinarily pessimistic about an immediate path forward. | |
| Biden should announce his intent not to seek reelection. | |
| AOC would not endorse him this week. | |
| And I'll play that later. | |
| Biden White House, by the way, we found out on Foxnews.com, they're always breaking great news there, apparently hosted defund police activists. | |
| Those are two other issues. | |
| If you want a new American majority, conservatives need to go into every town and city and say, we will hire the police to make you safe. | |
| We will protect your city and your town. | |
| We will refund the police. | |
| They should tell people that. | |
| We're going to fix your schools. | |
| We're going to break the unholy alliance between teachers' unions and the Democratic Party. | |
| As a matter of fact, Pete Hagseth will talk about that at the top of the hour. | |
| You know, to say the country was on the right track would be a flagrant departure from reality. | |
| Biden should announce his intent not to seek reelection in 24 right after the midterms. | |
| One current DNC member says. | |
| His New York Times piece was brutal about how Democrats feel about Biden right now. | |
| Rightly so. | |
| And David Axerod, he's not a dummy. | |
| He said Biden's age is a major issue if he wins re-election. | |
| And he's a, you know, he's, it's not just his age, it's his failing policies. | |
| I mean, when Obama's Treasury Secretary is pointing you in the right direction repeatedly and you don't listen to them, that tells you something. | |
| But they're busy hosting Defund the Police People, according to White House logs that have come out. | |
| It's, you know, and by the way, there's still this executive order of Biden last week is just Defund by a different name. | |
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