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Trump Hits New Low: Phony Zuckerberg Lockbox Ballot Dumps
Donald Trump’s post-presidency media tour continues, this time with an interview on Stuart Varney’s Fox Business show. The two had a conversation about cybersecurity and how to prevent ransomware attacks. Trump said about the issue, “the way you stop it is going back to a much more old fashion way of accounting and things.” He went on to say “you need a lot more security” along with other unenlightening hot takes. Every time Trump is asked about computers and cybersecurity, he has to bring up his 15-year-old son Barron and how he’s “so good with computers” and “can make these things sing.” But the headline is that Trump proposed moving away from using computers and the internet as the solution to ransomware attacks and other threats because “anyone can break in.”
Later on in the interview, Trump and Varney discussed the coronavirus pandemic wrapping up in the United States. Trump argued that the number of cases and deaths in America were overreported and that if people died from a heart attack or any other reason, medical personnel would just determine it to be a COVID death. In fact the opposite is probably true. Many cases and deaths, especially early on in the pandemic, went without being reported because of a lack of testing. Even once testing became available, some people refused to take them for one reason or another. Trump then managed to connect this to the 2020 election, as no interview of his is complete now without baseless allegations of voter fraud. Trump told the Fox audience, “I won the election and they cheated” without any pushback from the host. The ex-POTUS then introduced a new election conspiracy theory, which is that Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg paid $500 million for phony lockboxes to rig the presidential race. As time goes on and people care less and less about Trump’s voter fraud claims, he’s finding a need to update them in wackier and more desperate ways.
Rudy Giuliani CAUGHT in Treasonous Audio Recording
As if things couldn't get any worse for Rudy Giuliani, he has now been completely exposed by some newly-released audio recordings. In these newly uncovered tapes, Rudy calls Ukrainian officials and tells them to say that they have opened up an investigation into Joe Biden. Rudy is potentially in some serious trouble here. This further confirms the allegations from the first Trump impeachment, that the former president was trying to coerce Ukraine to dig up dirt on his political opponent. In the recording, Giuliani urges that an investigation be announced, but not necessarily that an investigation be carried out. This further suggests there was a propaganda motive, because the Trump team thought the announcement of the investigation alone would be beneficial. The actual results of the investigation wouldn’t mater because the 2020 election would be over by that point. The calculation was that Biden would be weakened by the investigation and look corrupt in the eyes of the American people, causing him to lose the 2020 election to Donald Trump.
Rudy said on the tapes, “all we need from the President (Zelensky) is to say: ‘I’m gonna put an honest prosecutor in charge, he’s gonna investigate and dig up the evidence that presently exists and is there any other evidence about involvement of the 2016 election and then the Biden things has to be run out.’ I don’t know if it’s true or not, I mean, I see him bragging about it on television and to me as a lawyer, it sounds like a bribe.” Giuliani went on to encourage the Ukrainian president to make a public statement to “clear the air really well.” The plan was then for Rudy to travel to Ukraine to follow up. It’s possible that a plan like this could have worked if the Trump team covered their tracks more and if Ukraine was more receptive to it. Instead, Rudy failed to convince Ukrainian officials who did not want to get wrapped up in the charade. Now it is Rudy who is the one under investigation by the FBI and possibly even looking at prison time for his alleged wrongdoing.
From yesterday’s show:
Trump Might Run for CONGRESS...to Impeach Biden!
Donald Trump is mulling over yet another idea to crowbar his way back into power. The plan is that Trump could run and win a seat in Congress representing a district in Florida. And then if Republicans take back control of the House in 2022, Trump could make them elect him speaker. Once Trump takes the gavel, he would be able to launch investigations into the Biden administration and perhaps impeach him over such bogus claims as winning the 2020 election with voter fraud. Trump, in fact, wouldn’t even have to win a House seat in order to be elected Speaker, as the Constitution does not mandate that the Speaker be a member of Congress. Trump appears to be taking this idea seriously but it could also backfire tremendously. If Trump announces he’s running for a House seat, Democratic voters around the country could become mobilized again and prevent Republicans from taking a majority. Trump, however, appears to be incapable of long-term planning and calculation so he may just decide to do it anyway if he thinks it will be a way to get back at Joe Biden.
--On the Show:
--Olivier Sibony, Professor at HEC Paris and co-author of the book "Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment," co-written by Daniel Kahneman and Cass Sunstein, joins David to discuss human decision making, noise, bias, and more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3crbecK
--Will August bring the sequel to the January 6 Trump riots?
--There were 10 mass shootings this past weekend, and barely any made news
--Right wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos now says he is no longer gay, and has been doing a bizarre round of interviews
--Leaked files show that many billionaires pay effectively no taxes
--Voicemail caller asks whether more Trumpists would currently be getting vaccinated if Donald Trump had won the 2020 Presidential election
--On the Bonus Show: US recovers millions in cryptocurrency paid to Colonial Pipeline hackers, Republicans pledge allegiance to fossil fuels, SCOTUS rules against immigrants in temporary status, much more...
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