Special Opinion by Paul Plante
God bless the smarmy little Burbank, California Democrat Adam Schiff, or so say the Democrats, anyway, and hey, people, why not – afterall, along with “Closet Commie” AOC and Nancy Pelosi, who makes her money selling access to our government to the highest bidders, smarmy little Adam is a Democrat FUNDRAISING POWERHOUSE for the Democrats, which is really what it is all about for the Democrats, making money off of “government,” as opposed to actually governing, something they are incapable of doing, as we see from an article from the Center for Responsive Politics entitled “House Democrats broke fundraising records in 2018. They’re on pace to eclipse those numbers” by Karl Evers-Hillstrom on April 17, 2019 where we have as follows:
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) leads the pack with nearly $1.9 million, an unprecedented number for a safe incumbent member.
Schiff, chair of the House Intelligence Committee, has taken advantage of personal attacks from President Donald Trump, spending more than $250,000 on Facebook ads to build a list of small donors, whose contributions made up 52 percent of his fundraising.
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And God bless Trump says smarmy little Adam, because without Trump to make personal attacks on, this smarmy little TWERP-O-CRAT would be nothing at all, just another empty-headed empty suit in the CONGRESS of CLOWNS that now controls government in the corrupt ****-hole known as Washington, D.C.
And then we have an article praising little Adam’s fundraising prowess from the Los Angeles Daily News entitled “Adam Schiff’s campaign cashes in on Trump feud with $1.8 million in first quarter – Exposure brings money to Democrat from Burbank.” by Kevin Modesti on April 16, 2019, as follows:
In proof that controversy pays in modern politics, Adam Schiff appears to lead all Democratic members of the House of Representatives in early fundraising for next year’s campaigns for Congress.
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Ah, yes, it really is controversy that pays little Adam in the “modern” form of politics the little twerp plays, where the controversy is totally manufactured by Adam from a toxic blend of horse****, pig**** and bull**** from a secret Democrat recipe for garnering the most money possible from nothing more than hot air and a passel of lies, which is the specialty of the house from Celebrity Chef Adam Schiff, which takes us back to the Daily News article as follows:
Schiff, D-Burbank, reported $1,874,781 in total receipts for the first three months of 2019, according to data from the Federal Election Committee.
And it places him slightly ahead of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, the next-best Democratic fundraiser.
Schiff’s impressive fundraising confirms his support among Democrats across the country has only intensified during his ongoing feud with President Trump and other leading Republicans.
As chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, which is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, Schiff has long alleged collusion between Russia and Trump’s campaign.
Schiff has continued to claim there is a “large body of evidence of illicit contact or collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, as well as the president’s efforts to obstruct the investigation,” as he put it in an op-ed last week in the Los Angeles Daily News.
Schiff’s first-quarter fundraising total was 15 times as big as the sum he reported for the corresponding period in 2017.
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And then we have an op-ed from Adam in the Los Angeles Daily News entitled “The president’s actions were not OK. Not by a long shot: Adam Schiff” on April 10, 2019, where we have this message from Adam himself, to wit:
While we await the release of the Mueller report, it is worth examining what we know from the public record already, especially in light of repeated false attacks by conservative commentators against members of congress, like myself, who have raised the alarm about the inherently immoral actions by this president and his campaign, and who insist on accountability.
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Ah, yes, people, collusion with the Russians (SHUDDER SHUDDER), the public record and demands for accountability!
So what then, pray tell, are we to make from an RT News article entitled “California among top 10 investors in Russian debt thanks to cops & firefighters” by Max Whittake of Reuters published 12 Oct. 2018, to wit:
It takes more than sanctions to scare California’s police and firefighters from investing in Russia.
The US state is reported to be a top 10 holder of Russia’s state-issued bonds.
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, or Calpers, had about $460 million invested in Russian OFZ bonds as of the end of June, Bloomberg reports.
Other US investors like BlackRock and Stone Harbor Investment Partners remain among the top 10 holders of Russian bonds, according to the media.
BlackRock is the largest foreign holder of Russian OFZs with $2.53 billion invested.
Analysts have said that huge investments by US pension funds is a sign that they oppose rhetoric from the White House.
Investing in Russian bonds has been lucrative in the last years.
The central bank of Russia is offering a yield from 7 to 9 percent depending on the maturity of the bonds.
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Isn’t that blatant colluding here, people – the home state of Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Financial Services Committee, supporting Russia through buying its bonds, rather than investing that money in upgrading its own crumbling infrastructure?
And how about the RT News story “Sanctioned Russian assets attracting investment from biggest US pension funds” by Sergey Pyatakov / Sputnik published 22 Oct. 2018, to wit:
Mounting political tensions between Moscow and Washington along with endless US threats to impose more and more sanctions haven’t prevented America’s biggest pension funds from investing in Russia.
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (Calpers), managing retirement savings of nearly two million Americans, has $1.1 billion dollars invested in Russian assets, including state-issued bonds and shares of companies hit by US sanctions, reports Russian business daily RBK.
Apart from Russia’s state debt, the fund that controls pensions of California’s firefighters and police officers, reportedly holds $872 million in share depositary receipts of Russian firms – $658 billion of which are from companies subject to US sanctions.
Calpers has invested in Russian energy companies Rosneft, Gazprom, Novatek and Surgutneftegas.
The Californian pension fund has added state-lender Sberbank shares, worth $238 million traded in the US, and VTB depositary receipts worth $12.5 million traded in Europe.
Calpers is not the only institution investing in Russia.
The second largest pension fund in the US, California State Teachers’ Retirement System, or Calstrs, held about $9.5 million in Russian bonds and nearly $164 million in Lukoil receipts as of the end of 2017, according to media reports.
Meanwhile, the country’s fourth biggest fund Florida Retirement Systems (FRS) held Russian investments worth $354 million as of June 30 this year.
The holdings reportedly include shares of Novatek, Rosneft, VTB, Sberbank, Gazprom, Gazprom-neft, Lukoil, Surgutneftegas and Transneft.
At the same time, the New York State Common Retirement Fund, the third largest in the country, reportedly has $82.7 million worth of Russian investments in its portfolio – $59.3 million of which are companies on the sanctions list.
Investing in Russian state-issued obligations has been highly profitable over the last decade.
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And again, that is not collusion?
Adam Schiff’s home state of California certainly seems to care more for Russia than it does the United States of America, so why is it we hear nothing from Adam about any of that?
And there is this from Russia Business Today in an article entitled “California Pension Fund Invests in Russia’s Sovereign Debt” on October 12, 2018, to wit:
The biggest U.S. pension fund, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), has increased its investments in Russian sovereign debt by 8% over the last year up to $460 million, documents obtained by Bloomberg reveal.
This makes the fund the 10th biggest foreign investor in Russian government bonds among those who disclose such data, the report says.
The increase in investments is happening amid growing tensions between Washington and Moscow and threats of tougher sanctions.
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has presented a bill targeting Russian sovereign debt in August 2018 over Moscow’s alleged interference in the 2016 presidential elections.
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So, at a time when Schiff and the rabid Democrats were screaming at us about Trump’s supposed dealings with Russia, his home state of California was actively supporting the Russians.
Collusion, anyone?
You bet!
Paul Plante says
“PUTIN WON!”
That is a sensationalistic headline being screamed at us by the Wall Street Journal in an article entitled “‘Putin Has Won’: Mueller Report Details How Russia Interfered in 2016 Election” by Dustin Volz and Alan Cullison on 19 April 2019, and if that statement is true, that Putin did win something here, it was with the financial aid and assistance of the Democrat-controlled Soviet Socialist Republic of California, home of Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff and Maxine Waters, and the Soviet Socialist Republic of New York, home of the “Closet Commie” AOC, which makes it seem very much like New York and California are giving aid and comfort to an enemy of the United States in a time of war, which seems very much like treason to me, anyway, which takes us back to that Wall Street Journal article as follows:
WASHINGTON—Robert Mueller’s long-awaited report is unambiguously clear on this point: Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election and sought to help Donald Trump win the White House.
The report from Mr. Mueller will likely serve as the definitive document about Russia’s use of an array of digital weapons to influence the American electorate in 2016.
It will also bolster warnings from senior U.S. intelligence officials that Russia and other hostile foreign powers remain intent on disrupting future elections, including the 2020 presidential contest.
Mr. Mueller asserted on the very first page of the report that the Russian government “interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion.”
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Now, given the financial support given to Mother Russia by its socialist satellites California and New York here in the United States, doesn’t it seem very likely that by giving this financial aid to Mother Russia, California and New York are in essence aiding and abetting a form of state-sponsored terrorism intended to bring down Republican government here in America so it can be replaced with Soviet-style socialism as exists in Putin’s Mother Russia?
And what am I saying, of course it does.
So when can we expect an investigation into the actions of California and New York of aiding Russian interference in our elections through financial support?
Soon, one would hope, for the sake of this seriously divided nation.
Paul Plante says
One thing that you can say in praise of the Democrats is that when they shovel ****, they use a real big shovel, and that is a fact, which takes us to a POLITICO article entitled “Schiff: ‘Ample evidence of collusion in plain sight’” by David Cohen on 04/21/2019, where we have as follows:
Responding to attacks by White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, Rep. Adam Schiff on Sunday insisted his criticism of the Trump administration was not wrong, saying there was “ample evidence of collusion in plain sight.”
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And as we can see from the above article from RT News entitled “California among top 10 investors in Russian debt thanks to cops & firefighters” by Max Whittake of Reuters published 12 Oct. 2018, and the RT News story “Sanctioned Russian assets attracting investment from biggest US pension funds” by Sergey Pyatakov/Sputnik published 22 Oct. 2018, and the Russia Business Today article entitled “California Pension Fund Invests in Russia’s Sovereign Debt” on October 12, 2018, there most certainly is ample evidence of collusion between the Soviet Socialist Republic of California and Mother Russia right there in as plain of sight as plain sight can be, and yet, curiously, Adam Schiff totally disregards that ample evidence and instead tries to focus our attention on Trump, as we can see by returning to the Politico article as follows:
“And the fact that a candidate for president and now president of the United States would not only not stand up and resist Russian interference in our election but would welcome it goes well beyond anything Nixon did.“
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Yes, I see, I see, but then, what about California and New York, home of Democrat “Jumping Jerry” Nadler, who were actively financing that interference, Adam?
What commentary can you give us on that, dude?
Jack Trump says
Politics makes strange bedfellows. Democrats are going to do what they do. Republicans will do what they do. The policy makers of their parties will do what they do. The Fundraisers will do what they do. The Image makers do what they do. The talking heads out front digest all the info, all the talking points, and influence and sway the media and voters in order to win votes in the big show on election day. They all work together and all create the bigger bang depending on the bigger buck that they have. It’s all about the benjamins. The more benjamins they have the more meetings they have, signs they make, ads they buy , influence they peddle, eyes and ears they reach, and when better presented that the opposition, the more votes and power they get.
It’s the reason the democrats have so many people running. They believe the more candidates that run, the more money they will raise from every corner of their party, and then they will have more money left over for the general election.
Sound bytes work. Sadly the press uses them to support their own agenda, and the reduction of The American Concentration Span”. Then political flip flops sound “new” and sexy to the distracted brain.
Pay attention. Support your candidate. America isn’t easy.
The democrats know they have a hard uphill battle on their hands. They are waving and screaming, with the help of the press, that they are raising lots of money. Is that because empty barrels make the most noise ? Is that because they know Trump has been raising $ since his last election and they will never catch the $ amount republicans have raised ?
In the meantime, and locally, The Mirror is even already press releasing for democrats about their local candidate in the 100th district of Va. EH ? In the spirit of equal time, are any press releases pending for Delegate Bloxom ? Local guy. Solid family guy. Solid political bloodlines. Hard working prior “rookie of the year” as elected by fellow delegates. Yet the “sound bytes” talk about the new guy, and his education, and democrat affiliations he has infused with name dropping. hmmmmmmm………
Paul Plante says
Many points to consider, Jack, many points, indeed, and yes, of course, this is America, so it is about the Benjamins, but in this specific case, it is about California, home of Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff and Maxine Waters, and the corrupt ****hole of New York, home of AOC and Charley “Chuck” Schumer and Young Andy Cuomo sending those Benjamins over to Mother Russia, at that same time that we are hearing all these Democrats, some of whom seem to be reporting in from somewhere over the rainbow, like Elijah “The Prophet” Cummings, who was just quoted in a CBS NEWS article entitled “Top Democrat says he can foresee impeachment proceedings ‘possibly coming'” by Grace Segers on 21 April 2019 as saying, “The American people — a lot of them clearly still don’t believe that President Trump is doing things to destroy our democracy and has done a lot of things very poorly,” and, “so I think that number one, we need to make sure the Congress has all the information and then we need to be able to have the public know that information so that they can see that they have a president that basically has been about the business, I think, of doing great harm not only to our country but to our democracy.” and “We’re in a fight for the soul of our democracy, no doubt about it,” that Mother Russia owns Trump and is America’s adversary, as we see in the FOX NEWS story “Elizabeth Warren doubles down on Trump impeachment push, says it’s ‘bigger than politics’” by Adam Shaw on 20 April 2019 where we hear an apparently hysterical and out-of-control Lizzie Warren shrilly screeching in a tone reminiscent of Hillary Clinton’s shrill screeching that “We cannot be an America that says it is OK for a president of the United States to try and block an investigation into a foreign attack on our country or an investigation into that president’s own misbehavior — so I have called on the House to initiate impeachment proceedings,” and “A hostile foreign government attacked our 2016 election in order to help Donald Trump; Donald Trump welcomed that help; and when the federal government tried to investigate what happened, Donald Trump took multiple steps to try and derail or obstruct the investigations.”
So, Jack, not looking to the right, or left here, given what Lizzie is saying there, the central question in this thread is WHY are there no investigation of the treasonous acts of California and New York in funding those terroristic actions of Mother Russia, given that it is a hostile foreign government that attacked our 2016 election in order to help Donald Trump.
As to candidates strutting their stuff here in the Cape Charles Mirror, how come Bloxom isn’t availing himself of the opportunity clearly offered by the Cape Charles Mirror to tell the people of the world who he is?
Does he expect the Cape Charles Mirror to do that for him?
If so, wouldn’t that be a sign he is simply lazy and would make a lousy office holder?
If the Cape Charles Mirror was on the side of the Democrats, do you honestly think that our voices would be allowed to be heard in here, as if this were the politically biased Washington Post?
Paul Plante says
And while we are on the subject of “collusion” with Russia, in the light of the facts that both California and New York state are actively providing financial support to Mother Russia and Putin, let’s drop back in time to an Associated Press article entitled “Russian-American lobbyist joined Trump’s son’s meeting, too” by Desmond Butler and Chad Day on 14 July 2107, for some very necessary background to this on-going political farce, as follows:
WASHINGTON A prominent Russian-American lobbyist and former Soviet military officer attended a meeting with President Donald Trump’s son, son-in-law and campaign chairman last year, the lobbyist said Friday, adding a new wrinkle to the Trump team’s evolving explanations about the June 2016 session.
Rinat Akhmetshin confirmed his involvement to The Associated Press in an interview.
He had not been previously identified as a participant in the meeting at Trump Tower in New York, which was billed as part of a Russian government effort to help the Republican’s White House campaign.
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So, okay, people – here we are, the stage is set, the actors are coming out from behind the curtains, or maybe out of the woodwork, and the show is going to be all about what was been billed by the rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth Democrats and their media lackeys in the MSM as a part of a Russian government effort to help the Trump’s White House campaign, which has led to the charges we are hearing today, over and over and over and over again, about collusion and obstruction of justice by trump, which the Democrats are calling an impeachable offence, which is serious business indeed if any of it is true, which takes us back to 14 July 2107 and the Associated Press article as follows:
The meeting has heightened questions about whether Trump’s associates coordinated with Russia to meddle in the presidential election – to help him and thwart Hillary Clinton – and whether they’ve been forthcoming about their foreign contacts.
Federal and congressional investigators are probing possible connections between the campaign and Moscow.
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And there is the ALPHA which has led us to the OMEGA of the Mueller Report today, and all this continuous shrieking and caterwauling and hysterical screeching we are hearing today from such Democrat notables as Democratic Socialist superstar, media darling and TWITTER QUEEN AOC, and the foul-mouthed Rashida Tlaib and Lizzie Warren, who are all now calling for Trump to be impeached in some large part based on that meeting, as we clearly see from this CNN article entitled “Elizabeth Warren calls for House to begin impeachment proceedings on Trump” by MJ Lee, CNN Political Correspondent, on 20 April 2019, as follows:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren called on the House of Representatives to begin impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump Friday.
“The Mueller report lays out facts showing that a hostile foreign government attacked our 2016 election to help Donald Trump and Donald Trump welcomed that help.”
“Once elected, Donald Trump obstructed the investigation into that attack,” the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate wrote on Twitter.
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Quite frankly, people, Lizzie is hysterical and full of ****, but, if any of that crap about “facts showing that a hostile foreign government attacked our 2016 election” were to be true, what also would be true is the undisputed fact that both California and New York state are giving financial support to that hostile foreign government, and thus are supporting its efforts to undermine our Republican frame of government in this country, which is treason if what Lizzie Warren says is true, which takes us back to 14 July 2107 and the Associated Press article, to wit:
In emails posted by Donald Trump Jr. earlier this week, a music publicist said he arranged the meeting because a Russian lawyer wanted to pass on negative information about Democrat Clinton.
In a statement Sunday, Trump Jr. said the attorney had said she had information that people tied to Russia were funding the Democratic National Committee and supporting Clinton, a description that Akhmetshin backed up in his interview with the AP.
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WHOA, hold it a second – can we back the tape up just a minute here and get a read-back?
Yes, stop right there, that’s what we want to focus on, thank you: the attorney said she had information that people tied to Russia were funding the Democratic National Committee and supporting Clinton, a description that Akhmetshin backed up in his interview with the AP.
Now, contrast that revelation that people tied to Russia were funding the Democratic National Committee and supporting Clinton, a description that Akhmetshin backed up in his interview with the AP, which we never heard another peep about from Hillary Clinton, who never denied it, and who was gifted with expensive Cognac by Putin himself, or the DNC, or the Democrats themselves, or Mueller, who couldn’t have been ignorant of that fact, given he knew all about the meeting from those who were there, with what has been subsequently reported in a Wall Street Journal article entitled “‘Putin Has Won’: Mueller Report Details How Russia Interfered in 2016 Election” by Dustin Volz and Alan Cullison on 19 April 2019, as follows:
WASHINGTON—Robert Mueller’s long-awaited report is unambiguously clear on this point: Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election and sought to help Donald Trump win the White House.
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Based on the facts which the Mueller team consisting of Clinton Democrat lawyers apparently buried to protect Hillary, who is an untouchable, the story appears to be quite diffferent – Team Trump was handed evidence that people tied to Russia were funding the Democratic National Committee and supporting Clinton, a description that Akhmetshin backed up in his interview with the AP, and now, they faced a serious quandary – what to do with that evidence, given that the DBC controlled the White House, and through the White House the Department of Justice and the FBI, which is political, not impartial.
Who could they take evidence to that Hillary Clinton was dirty and in bed with the Russians?
Hussein Obama, who had personally selected Hillary to be his successor to carry on his legacy of stupidity and incompetence?
Was Hussein going to turn on Hillary?
And could Hussein himself have been ignorant of the fact that that people tied to Russia were funding the Democratic National Committee and supporting Clinton, a description that Akhmetshin backed up in his interview with the AP?
Not likely is my thought.
So how about Loretta Lynch then?
But wait, she was the one who met with Hillary’s straying husband Bill on the tarmac for the express purpose of making sure that no kind of “dirt” like that fact that Hillary was in bed with the Russians could get out.
So hey, how about Comey and the FBI?
Gosh, you would think that some dude like Comey would be salivating to jump all over the fact that that people tied to Russia were funding the Democratic National Committee and supporting Clinton, a description that Akhmetshin backed up in his interview with the AP, wouldn’t you?
HAH HAH HAH!
Getting back to 14 July 2107 and the Associated Press article, we have:
In his first public interview about the meeting, Akhmetshin said he accompanied Veselnitskaya to Trump Tower where they met an interpreter.
He said he had learned about the meeting only that day when Veselnitskaya asked him to attend.
Veselnitskaya brought with her a plastic folder with printed-out documents that detailed what she believed was the flow of illicit funds to the Democrats, Akhmetshin said.
Veselnitskaya presented the contents of the documents to the Trump associates and suggested that making the information public could help the campaign, he said.
“This could be a good issue to expose how the DNC is accepting bad money,” Akhmetshin recalled her saying.
Trump Jr. asked the attorney if she had sufficient evidence to back up her claims, including whether she could demonstrate the flow of the money.
But Veselnitskaya said the Trump campaign would need to research it more.
After that, Trump Jr. lost interest, according to Akhmetshin.
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So where is that evidence today then, and why didn’t Mueller investigate it further, if he and his team were really intent on finding the truth here, as opposed to conducting a combination witch hunt of Trump on the one hand and cover-up/white-wash of wrongdoing by Hillary on the other?
And that takes us back to 14 July 2107 and the Associated Press article and Adam Schiff, as follows:
The confirmation of Akhmetshin’s participation in the meeting drew swift reaction from the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee.
Rep. Adam Schiff of California said whether Akhmetshin is connected to Russian intelligence or not “it is clear the Kremlin got the message that Donald Trump welcomed the help of the Russian government in providing dirt on Hillary Clinton.”
Schiff said Trump Jr.’s omission of Akhmetshin’s role in his public account of the meeting and the president’s son’s shifting explanations “paint a portrait of consistent dissembling and deceit.”
Kushner disclosed the meeting on his security clearance paperwork, but Schiff said the Akhmetshin revelation raises questions about how much Kushner disclosed about it.
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Now, whether or not Kushner, who really doesn’t come across as being very bright, disclosed any information about that meeting, it is incandescently clear that the Associated Press knew about the meeting, since they reported on it, and since the smarmy little Democrat Adam Schiff is quoted in that article, it is also incandescently clear that he would have to be very much aware that the meeting was about people tied to Russia funding the Democratic National Committee and supporting Clinton, a description that Akhmetshin backed up in his interview with the AP, so why did we never hear another peep from Adam Schiff about that?
WHY THE ******* COVER-UP?
Oh, right, Adam is a top Democrat fundraiser, and he is not going to jeopardize that by turning on his own dirty party, which again takes us back to 14 July 2107 and the Associated Press article, to wit:
Akhmetshin said he has not been contacted by the U.S. special counsel’s office or the FBI about the meeting with Trump Jr.
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WOW, a real big surprise there, isn’t it?
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