The Economy IS Failing - July 14th, Hour 1
Sean shares the "canary in the coalmine" for the failing economy. It IS coming and we should all be worried.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sean shares the "canary in the coalmine" for the failing economy. It IS coming and we should all be worried.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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800, 941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program. | |
Um more bad economic news. | |
We'll get it out of the way so we can get to some of the other news of the day. | |
Although there's not a lot of oh, this is great news, you know, to be sharing with people, but you need to be aware. | |
You know, the one thing that I don't talk enough about that I really should talk more about is well, how do you how do you navigate through inflationary times, tough economic times? | |
You know, I pointed out yesterday the average individual, the the Biden inflation tax for the average American is thirty, four hundred dollars. | |
Now, if you drive a car, you're gonna pay an additional two thousand dollars uh in gas, considering since Joe's been president, gas prices have have more than doubled. | |
Oh, but it went down 30 cents, Hannity. | |
You're not factoring that sucker in. | |
I'm like, oh, okay, I'll take the cut, but I expect it to go back up again. | |
I'm sure it probably will. | |
Well, you know, what does it mean? | |
There was this article on Fox News.com skyrocketing inflation is forcing shoppers to work overtime and change diets as prices soared. | |
Now, Linda, you might laugh at me, and I don't care if you laugh at me. | |
I tell you all the time I love Walmarts, I love Targets. | |
As a matter of fact, me Gomez, Sweet Baby James, we took you to a Target so you could buy a choo-choo train for your son Liam. | |
I would like to say that I was not in favor of that group trip. | |
That was supposed to be a solo adventure. | |
Okay, but I knew you would go in there, and I was right because I'm watching you shop for one choo-choo train, and you're picking up every choo-choo train in the aisle, and so looking at the price and and twisting it and turning it and running it and playing with it and seeing which and I'm finally I said I can't take it anymore. | |
I couldn't stand it. | |
That's because you're impatient. | |
That's not anything I don't know. | |
No, it's I'm I mean, it's just ridiculous. | |
So I went and I got a cart, and I brought the cart back and I started throwing all the choo-choo trains in, or at least the the top ten or twelve, and I said, let's get out of here. | |
I mean, time you're very selective in your shopping. | |
Okay, now did it was like Christmas for Liam. | |
Liam got all the choo-choo trains he wanted. | |
He was happier than the biggest thing. | |
Except that I had to take those bags when we got off the air and we got out of the airplane. | |
Oh, I'm so sorry. | |
Yeah, well, you try lugging in along. | |
What a horrible uncle I am. | |
Yeah, you're anyway. | |
So skyrocketing inflation forces shoppers to work over time and change their diets as prices soared. | |
This is true. | |
I saw this article, and I I I it blew me away because I have eaten this myself, and so at the Wall Street Journal had the article. | |
The $1.50 Costco Hot Dog Combo that defies inflation. | |
This is how great this deal is. | |
Now, the the price of this hot dog. | |
Now you get a 20-ounce uh you know Pepsi with it. | |
It's only a buck fifty for an all-beef hot dog. | |
And that price is not changed since 1985. | |
This is why I love Costco. | |
I love Costco. | |
I love Costco too, at least prior to COVID. | |
Well, they're bringing it back a little bit. | |
They always would have people cooking like, you know, the different foods in the aisle and giving you taste of it. | |
You can get a slice of pizza that's really good. | |
You know, for a buck ninety-nine, you can get a 16-inch whole, I think it's 16 inch. | |
How big is it? | |
18 inch whole pie for $9.95. | |
And it's it's good food. | |
I'm sorry. | |
I like junk food, as you know. | |
But these are the decisions. | |
There's only two, well, there are two main things people can do. | |
One is also, by the way, make the switch to Pure Talk and your cell phone service. | |
Uh check in with American Financing.net. | |
These are these are companies that are saving people a lot of money. | |
But you have two choices. | |
You either cut back on your spending, or you can alter your diet and and maybe eating, you know, uh for example, beans are very healthy in protein. | |
I'm a big protein guy. | |
I'm a I'm a paleo guy. | |
And so I eat a lot of meat. | |
And I watch meat prices and they're going through the roof. | |
It drives me absolutely bonkers. | |
But there's got to be, and then you got to look at is there any way that you can work into your busy schedule the ability to make more money, maybe start a little side business, maybe whatever it happens to be, maybe take another job. | |
It sucks. | |
But that's the only two ways I know of when I was living paycheck to paycheck to do it. | |
Now it got worse today because yesterday we got the the CPI number, the inflation, the highest now in over 41 years, the highest number for Biden, and he's already had 40-year highs at 9.1%. | |
We got new numbers today. | |
Inflation rising to 11.3%. | |
This is the as measured by the producer wholesale prices. | |
And you got to understand, we buy retail. | |
Producer wholesale prices went up to 11.3%. | |
That is nearer the highest number ever recorded. | |
Now, what does that mean when wholesale prices go up? | |
That means that all of that cost increase is going back to you. | |
So that means expect another eleven percent increase in in in goods that we're going to buy everywhere. | |
You know, I don't know where the Dow is Dow's down about 200 on my last look today. | |
Hasn't been great at the Dow. | |
Uh we, you know, they're flirting with going below 30,000 again. | |
So people we've wiped out people's, you know, retirement funds, people on fixed incomes, the poor, the middle class in this country, they're getting killed by this. | |
And now the only the next step they're talking about is okay, well, the Fed's gonna come back out with a you know 0.75 basis point increase in interest rates, or or some are even predicting a full uh point basis point increase of one point one percentage point. | |
That that's not going to be good. | |
Lawrence Summers, he's not been wrong in this. | |
Work with Obama, so I'm not quoting the most conservative people out there, but even he is saying that the June inflation report has increased the likelihood the Fed will push the economy into a deep recession. | |
I I think we already are in one. | |
That's my take, the early days of it for sure, as they try to combat runaway consumer prices, according to Lawrence Summers. | |
He said, quote, I think it is unlikely, very unlikely that we're gonna see inflation come down to a target range without a significant economic downturn. | |
Now, all of this is happening, and the real estate market hasn't been impacted yet. | |
We'll be only beginning to see signs of it being impacted. | |
And all of these assurances by the White House, there was a really good New York Post cover today, and it said repeat the line. | |
Joe doesn't need a teleprompter to quote, repeat the line. | |
Inflation hits historic highs again. | |
Biden blames everyone else again. | |
He's got no plan again. | |
And then it goes through the Biden presidency. | |
I was very impressed with the graphs they had, and Joe is blind to you know what's happening as as inflation is just declined dramatically. | |
Now Joe becomes president, inflation is 1.4%. | |
The consumer price index, 1.4%. | |
Then in February, 1.7, March 2.6, April, 4.2, May 5.0. | |
Now, at one point, Jerome Powell's saying, well, these one-time increases in prices are likely to have only a transitory effect, or Janet Yellen saying, my judgment right now is that the recent inflation that we have seen will be temporary. | |
It's not something that's endemic. | |
She said that in May. | |
And in May was only 5% of the consumer price index, half of where we're getting we're at now. | |
Then, of course, you know, Joe Biden said in December when it was at 7%. | |
He said, Well, you know, we probably have now hit our peak here. | |
I think it's it's the peak of the crisis. | |
That was December 10th, when we got the numbers for November. | |
Uh that didn't work out particularly well either. | |
You know, then Powell backing off the transitory comment. | |
We tend to use transitory to mean that it won't leave permanent a permanent mark in the form of high inflation. | |
I think it's it's probably a good time to retire that word and try to explain more clearly what we mean. | |
Uh we knew too well what you mean. | |
You were in denial and you had no clue about what was happening to the economy. | |
And then the blame game. | |
We'll blame we'll blame the Republicans now as he did earlier this week, and then blaming Putin, and then blaming uh the pandemic, and then blaming Trump and blaming Fox News and you know, Biden in June saying, look, here's where we are. | |
We have the fastest growing economy in the world, the world, he said, just leading into this this recent disaster. | |
Now it's worse today. | |
I mean, this report of 11.3% wholesale producer wholesale prices ticking up is not good for anybody. | |
They've been wrong the entire time. | |
Even Joe Manchin is blasting Biden for continuing to fuel this inflation fire. | |
He put out a statement, you know, shooting down the any notion of the Senate passing additional stimulus funding, which in part caused all of this, according to any economist that has any brain. | |
And he said today's inflation data illustrates the pain families across the country are feeling as costs continue to rise at a historic rate and is cause for serious concern. | |
He said items like chicken, eggs, lunch meat have increased to new highs. | |
Energy costs rose more than 40% in June, and those that can least afford it are suffering the most. | |
In other words, Manchin got this nailed. | |
He's right, he's been right from the beginning. | |
And he gets the crap beat at him by the climate alarmist religious cult. | |
He said it's time to work together to get unnecessary spending under control, produce more energy at home, and take active and serious steps to address record inflation that now poses a clear and present danger to our economy. | |
Yeah, and and what a Democrat Democrats are pushing for higher taxes for the middle class in this country, and they're pushing for to use reconciliation. | |
They want more spending, which I thought the idea was that the economy was overheated. | |
Bonds are slumping as inflation is surging, and people now are betting on a hundred basis point Fed rate hike. | |
That'll happen before the end of the month. | |
Mark my words, point seven five or full point. | |
Um the White House's assurances on inflation has sparked a backlash from swing state Democrats that know that their political futures are hanging in the balance because of this idiocy. | |
You know, we went over with Steve Moore yesterday on this program. | |
He was on TV last night, 15-page report that he put together and his committee to unleash prosperity, John Decker did it with him, and not ready for primetime players, he went through the majority of Biden appointees have zero years of business experience. | |
And they analyzed the background of the top 68 officials in the Biden administration, starting with the president himself, including the cabinet members, regulatory officials, White House advisors, and their executive summary. | |
What they determined was, first and foremost, 62% of Biden's top political appointees and staffers who deal with economic policy, regulation, commerce, energy, and finance have virtually no business experience. | |
I mean, why don't we just take kids out of grade school and put them in charge? | |
Because that's how stupid this all is. | |
And so much of it is is preventable, just like the border crisis preventable, just like the energy crisis preventable. | |
If you would have maintained the Trump pol uh the Trump policies on both those issues, inflation is erasing any wage Gain and people can't keep up. | |
So now people are stuck. | |
Oh, but gas is down 30 cents, Hannity. | |
You need still double what it was when they took office. | |
And now he's he's sucking up to Iran. | |
He's trying to sell the Israelis. | |
He's trying to sell the Saudis on this idiotic deal with Iran just so we can get Iranian energy, and again, completely ignoring the hundreds and hundreds of years of resources we have domestically. | |
We don't need Iran. | |
We don't need OPEC. | |
We don't need the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. | |
We don't need the murdering dictator thug in Venezuela. | |
You know, what is there not one person besides Joe Manchin from West Virginia that gets this? | |
Good grief. | |
These people are dumb. | |
It created the crisis, and they continue to double down on their religious indoctrination, their cult indoctrination. | |
All right, just to put a fine point on where this is headed. | |
I forgot where I read this today. | |
Somebody called it the economic canary in the coal mine. | |
This hasn't even hit the housing market yet. | |
I mean, well, it in one sense it has. | |
I I gave you the statistic that nationwide in June, 14.9% of homes that went under contract, the contract agreements fell through. | |
That's about 60,000 home purchases on on average, which is a really high number. | |
The highest comparison recently was at when the pandemic hit in in March and April of 2020. | |
Uh, and there was a lot so much uncertainty at the time. | |
So now we're at this point. | |
What happen what happens when the housing market gets hit and gets hit hard? | |
What's gonna happen when we get a 0.75 increase, uh basis point increase or a full point basis point increase in interest rates on top of all the other rate increases? | |
What what does it mean for a 30-year mortgage? | |
What, six, seven percent, 30-year average, we're headed probably to even 8%, probably even more. | |
It means that new home construction is going to stop dead in its tracks, with maybe a few notable exceptions in states where people are migrating to, like Florida, Tennessee, the Carolinas, it's you know, Texas. | |
They might there's going to be some exceptions. | |
Then what's gonna happen to the sale of existing properties? | |
That's gonna cause to come to a standstill also. | |
Now you think people that have 3% 30-year mortgages are gonna s uh sell their home and upgrade their home uh and get a seven uh percent 30-year mortgage, which is gonna cost them thousands more every month. | |
They're not gonna do it. | |
So that's gonna come to a standstill. | |
What's that gonna what is that gonna do on top of everybody losing a fortune in their retirement funds, their 401ks, IRAs, etc., because the stock market is tanked under by Biden. | |
All right, most people's biggest investment is their home. | |
So now when their home values decrease, what happens to their net worth? | |
It tanks. | |
All right, 25 to the top of the hour. | |
Thank you for being with us. | |
800, 941 Sean. | |
You want to be a part of the So I'm I'm not trying to be the bearer of bad news. | |
I'm just giving you the truth, the reality so you understand this is only the beginning. | |
So to the extent, I'm not a financial advisor just like I wasn't a doctor during COVID. | |
So I'm not giving anybody any advice here, except it's simple basic economics. | |
You know, to the extent you can find areas in your life to save money, I would urge you strongly to dig in for the long haul here. | |
Now, why am I predicting this is gonna be a long haul? | |
Because it hasn't even really touched the housing uh industry yet. | |
That that's gonna get clobbered. | |
It's inevitable. | |
And the fact that people aren't talking about it or anticipating it is a little bit shocking to me because it's so obvious what's gonna happen. | |
You know, I guess the administration's too worried about bogotas and calling people tacos. | |
Um, but it's gonna it's it's going to get worse. | |
It's not going to get better. | |
And on the other hand, the you know, to the extent you can do two things. | |
Save in the places where you can save, you know, and then on the other hand, you try and and find other sources of income, which is a really hard thing to say to people. | |
Linda, I think people take it the wrong way. | |
This I I'm speaking as somebody that struggled and and lived paycheck to paycheck for years in my early adult life. | |
It wasn't fun. | |
But I remember the mindset has never left me. | |
And you look for other ways to make money. | |
Now, at that point in my life, I was responsible for myself and myself only, so I just worked myself to death, and and that was kind of in my DNA. | |
Uh, so that helped. | |
Um, yeah, but family gets a little tougher. | |
Because you got to get your kids off to school. | |
You gotta you got a whole bunch, you gotta a whole other list of priorities you gotta deal with. | |
So it gets it gets way more complicated. | |
Can I make a reference? | |
Do you remember a very good reference that you and I have talked about before? | |
And I just watched this again recently. | |
But the movie Cinderella Man. | |
And he's giving the interview to all the reporters, and and they ask him, you know, what changed? | |
What changed? | |
Why are you fighting so differently? | |
He goes, Well, I know what I'm fighting for now. | |
He's well, what do you think? | |
Wait, wait, wait, wait. | |
Milk. | |
That's right. | |
And these unfortunately, I kind of feel like that's where we're at. | |
Like we're in a spot right now where people are choosing to not eat to feed their kids to not buying all the little things to not going places like for Kamala Harris to say that gas is down 40 cents because of something they did. | |
I'm like, no, it's supply and demand, and people can't afford it. | |
So they're staying home. | |
So the demand is lower. | |
That's all that's happening. | |
But she doesn't understand basic economics. | |
So that's I mean, goes back to Steve Moore's report from yesterday. | |
Um, and and that's all that I could say to people. | |
I mean, I wish I had I wish I had other words to tell you that this is gonna end anytime soon. | |
Listen, I'll I'll be the first to admit I hope I'm wrong. | |
I'm I hope this isn't gonna be as deep and uh like they talk about soft landings. | |
I don't see a soft landing here. | |
I I don't see it at all. | |
I see nothing but radical policies. | |
The one thing they could do would be to return to the Trump economic energy policies, and that's not on the table. | |
Which brings us to Joe Biden. | |
By the way, his chief of staff Ron Klain says his fitness, his vigor is beyond question. | |
Uh I don't uh what is your bait? | |
What what's the basis for that idiotic statement? | |
We had Ronnie Jackson on last night, this nasty email that's sent to him by Obama. | |
How dare he? | |
It's beneath his office. | |
He took care of three presidents, George W. Bush, Obama, and Donald Trump. | |
And he was the one that administered the cognitive test that the mob and the media demanded about Donald Trump. | |
He can't be that smart. | |
He must be done. | |
He he aced the test. | |
Where's the call for the test for Joe Biden's cognitive abilities? | |
Because he doesn't have any. | |
If you agree with me, go to Joe 3030. | |
Play the radio. | |
Make sure the television excuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night. | |
Make sure the kids hear words. | |
We choose truth over facts. | |
Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids. | |
Maine New Hampshire, America gone on the men. | |
They're on the they're not on the men any longer. | |
They're on the move. | |
Please sit down. | |
I'm Jill's husband. | |
And then we might follow. | |
Senator Duckworth introduced her to 11-year-old. | |
Is it Vivian? | |
Vivian. | |
Vivian. | |
I'm sorry. | |
Woman who just died, the Secretary of State used to have an expression. | |
She said we are the essential nation. | |
The first lady's husband contracts in COVID. | |
But uh look at this room and what you see. | |
Pardon? | |
That's right. | |
She's fine. | |
Hey. | |
That's not the guess. | |
And by the way, my sympathies to your the family of your uh uh your CFO who uh dropped dead very unexpectedly. | |
My best of their family. | |
Good grief. | |
The political coverage of the look. | |
Um of the political players and some of the let me ask rhetorical questions. | |
No, I'm anyway. | |
it's that bad. | |
Senator John Kennedy was on Hanaday last night, said Biden is like an old Buick. | |
Someday he starts, other day he doesn't. | |
I couldn't stop. | |
I started laughing. | |
And I'm not supposed to laugh at this anymore. | |
I don't know whether to last. | |
You have to, you have to, or you're going to burst into tears. | |
I'm going to have a show. | |
I'm going to stroke out right here on this program, which I know would make a lot of liberals really happy. | |
Anyway, so they make a big deal. | |
You have Jake Sullivan announcing Wednesday last week. | |
That the president is going to avoid shaking hands during his four-day trip out of an abundance of caution due to COVID-19. | |
Anyway, so he appears to abide by the policy when he arrived in Israel, greeting the Israeli prime minister and other officials with fist pumps. | |
But then Biden shook hands with former Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, who I think will likely be prime minister again, and God, we need him back on the world stage more than ever. | |
The problem is Biden's trip is really two-fold here. | |
One is when he goes to Saudi Arabia, he's gonna beg them for oil. | |
The only reason that Donald Trump was able to pull off something that he'll never get credit for, which was an alliance that I would never have predicted could happen. | |
And that was the United States, Israel, the Saudis, the Emirates, the Jordanians, the Egyptians, was all against Iranian hegemony. | |
You know, because you know, Donald Trump backed right out of this idiotic, stupid deal with Iran. | |
Remember that that deal gave them you know how many billions of dollars in cash and other currency, and they had they'd never got uh inspections any place, any time. | |
Uh, no U.S. inspectors at all. | |
They continue to enrich their uranium, they never abide by any agreement, and the agreement would have expired in what, 2025 and allow the Iranians to then continue to pursue nuclear weapons. | |
We can you can't have a nuclear-armed Iran. | |
You can't marry that radical ideology with weapons as powerful as nuclear weapons. | |
If you do, you know, their promise, their threats that are never ending to wipe Israel and the United States off the map could be real. | |
Anyway, so he you know, Joe Biden addresses the controversy with Iran. | |
He's there to convince Israel, and he's there to convince the Saudis that his stupid Iranian deal, which again is all rooted in his desire to get energy from Iran, and now it's even being supported by the idiotic, | |
you know, uh NATO countries, Western European countries that were stupid the first time by getting all of their energy, capitulating to their own climate alarmist religious cult members and giving up all their energy independence. | |
You know, they're now trying to fire back up these these old coal-burning uh electrical grid uh grids that had been in mothballed for years uh because Vladimir Putin turned off the spigot. | |
So they gave a hostile actor, a hostile regime, all power, and got him rich as hell, and they were reliant on foreign sources of the lifeblood of their economy, especially Germany. | |
And Trump warned everybody, nobody listened to Trump. | |
Anyway, so Biden is there defending this Iranian deal, which we're told would open up not only tens of billions of dollars in sanctioned monies that are frozen to the Iranian mulas, but would also then open up the ability of the Iranians we would buy their oil. | |
Western Europe would buy their oil, and then we'd be dependent on those people, the mullahs in Iran. | |
Let's to be clear, the very people that threaten to wipe us off the map and wipe Israel off the map. | |
The number one state sponsor of terror. | |
We're gonna do a deal with them. | |
And the Saudis, you know what? | |
I've never trusted the Saudis. | |
I won't look, I know this big golf thing with Saudi Arabia is a big deal to everybody. | |
I could care less what golfers decide to do. | |
That's between them and and their conscience. | |
I don't want anything to do with Saudi Arabia. | |
You know, the the a country that oppresses women, you know, gays and lesbians are often killed for who they are. | |
Women up until recently couldn't drive. | |
They're told what to wear. | |
They're told when they can go out in public, who they have to be with when they're out in public. | |
It's insane. | |
And, you know, talk about human rights abuses. | |
So that's what Joe is there for. | |
Begging for oil and begging them to see the wisdom behind his deal with Iran. | |
And it's just so short-sighted, dumb, and stupid. | |
I can't believe you'd want to do business with the devil. | |
You don't do business with the state's number one state sponsor of terror that threatens you constantly. | |
Why would you put your reliance on them? | |
This this goes to the heart of everything that's wrong with the Biden administration. | |
So much of it is rooted in the climate alarmist religious cult. | |
Because somehow they've convinced themselves that we can't produce our energy needs domestically. | |
And they lie and they say, oh no, we're producing it all domestically. | |
No, they're not. | |
I've talked to the leaders of these of people in the gas industry, oil industry. | |
They're all telling me the same thing. | |
They've taken away every possible venue for them to increase output and production of oil and gas in this country. | |
We were energy independent. | |
We were a net exporter of energy. | |
We are now. | |
And I hear these liberals and they're out there, they just repeat the lie. | |
No, we still are. | |
No, we're not. | |
He artificially reduced the world supply. | |
And the idea that we're now, somehow they've convinced themselves that because remember, this was all to protect Mother Earth and the environment. | |
As if it makes a difference if you extract a barrel of oil from Russia, Iran, this Saudi Arabia, other OPEC nations of Venezuela, or produce it domestically. | |
We're going to do it faster, cheaper, and cleaner than any of these other countries. | |
So why don't we do it here? | |
Now, if they come up with some incredible new energy that's clean, that's cheap and affordable, that will transform the world. | |
I'm not against it. | |
I'm all for it. | |
Whoever comes up with it's going to be, you know, a multi-trillionaire at that point. | |
It'll tr it has the potential to transform the world. | |
But we're not there yet. | |
That's the problem. | |
By the way, Professor Alan Dershowitz, just the news.com, another top legal experts blasting Biden's Justice Department over their strong armed tactics that they're employing against Trump supporters that dare to criticize the White House. | |
The FBI Justice Department are violating civil liberties using brutish tactics during politically motivated, highly politicized raids, arrests of critics of the Biden administration. | |
These displays of force, some observers have claimed are unnecessary, designed to humiliate those arrested, intimidate others, appear to have one thing in common. | |
The person of interest supported Donald Trump. | |
Quote, law enforcement seems to be using arrest tactics on Trump supporters that are generally reserved for violent and or fleeing suspects. | |
Professor Alan Dershowitz. | |
They do not seem justified in most of these cases. | |
And he's right. | |
And why are we enforcing the laws? | |
Now, Maryland's announced that they're going to arrest Supreme Court Justice presidential protesters, but only if they disturb the peace. | |
They're not going to be allowed to use bullhorns or drums or any loud behavior. | |
Linda, what are you saying in my ear? | |
You're talking to me. | |
Okay. | |
Hang on one second. | |
This is urgent. | |
Ba-blah blah blah, blah, blah. | |
Let's see. | |
Uh-da-da-da. | |
Oh no. | |
Okay. | |
Donald Trump's first wife, Ivana Trump has passed away. | |
We're sure. | |
This is Yeah, we're sure. | |
You're sure. | |
73 years old. | |
That's Don Jr., Eric, and Avanka's mom. | |
Anyway, apparently the incident reported 1230 today, emergency services. | |
She was in New York City at the time. | |
Paramedics arrived. | |
Later pronounced dead. | |
Well, I'm very saddened to inform all those that loved her, of which there are many that Ivana Trump has passed away in at her home in New York City. | |
The former president said she was a wonderful, beautiful, amazing woman who led a great inspirational life. | |
He added her pride and joy were her three children, Don Jr. | |
Ivanka, and Eric. | |
She was so proud of them, as were as we were also proud of her. | |
Rest in peace, Davonna. | |
Oh boy. | |
I hate sadness. | |
Let's continue. | |
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I I don't know how he's gonna spin his way out of this one. | |
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