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Jack Armstrong
You're listening to an iHeart podcast broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty.
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Joe Getty
How you doing?
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Jack Armstrong
Welcome to the show. Thank you very much for tuning in. MICHAEL the gift plane from Qatar would have to be stripped from the lead. We got that 70 on my sheet. No, well, I'll just say it what he said the gift plane from Qatar would have to be stripped for security reasons. We were talking about that earlier. So the idea of a Qatari jet being lent to the President to be the new Air Force One, then maybe goes to his library. I there's a lot being made of it, probably too much, but we'll let the President himself explain what he's thinking. Clip 73 Michael Mr. President, would you say to people who view that luxury.
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Joe Getty
Jet as a personal gift to you.
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Donald Trump
Why not leave it behind your ABC fake news? Right.
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Jack Armstrong
Why not?
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Donald Trump
Only, only abc. Well, a few of you would let me tell you, you should be embarrassed asking that question. They're giving us a free jet. I could say, no, no, no, don't give us I want to pay you a billion or 400 million or whatever it say. Thank you very much. You know, there was an old golfer named Sam Sneed. Did you ever HEAR he won 82 tournaments? He was a great golfer. And he had a motto. When they give you a putt, you say, thank you very much. You pick up your ball and you walk to the next hole. A lot of people are stupid. They say, no, no, I insist on putting it. Then they putt it and they miss it and their partner gets angry at them. You know what? Remember that SAM Snead, when they give you a putt, you pick it up and you walk to the next hole and you say, thank you very much.
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Jack Armstrong
Sam Snead would have hit you with a golf club, you fake news ABC reporter. Why, I oughta just KATIE so many, so many people are stupid.
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Michael
Just he just, you know, love or hate the guy.
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Jack Armstrong
He's funny. Yeah, sometimes. Yes, yes. So I'm less worried about the plain thing than some people are because there are ways that to take care of any ethical problems and I have a feeling they'll be taken care of. I just there are much, much bigger problems facing the US Of A. However, before we get to my main point, which is kicking cutter the country, why not have a little fun with it? It's a late night joke off. We've got three comedians all making Jokes about the same topic. I, Joe Getty will grade them. The bottom grade Getter will be banned from comedy for life. Hit it, Michael. Yeah. The 89 passenger luxury plane has wood finishes, custom carpets and gold walls. The only thing it doesn't have is a way to safely land at Newark Airport. That's the only thing it doesn't have.
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Comedian 1
Qatar is donating this new Air Force One to the government, but it's really just for Trump, cuz Air Force One is the President's personal plane. And when he's done being president, the plane would then be donated to Trump's presidential library. Meaning he may continue using it after leaving office. No, I actually think it's fitting that the only thing Trump's gonna check out of his library is big plane.
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Comedian 2
The Trump administration is planning to accept a 400 million dollar luxury jet as a gift from Qatar's royal family. The jet features three lounges, nine bathrooms, and I'm guessing about 150 hidden microphones.
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Joe Getty
Wow. Oh boy.
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Jack Armstrong
Fallon, Myers. Both with C's. Just because, you know, they're reasonably topical and. Or yeah, the hidden microphone thing. Colbert with a D minus God. And it would be an F except that somebody in the audience appeared to like it. I don't. That was terrible.
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Joe Getty
That person.
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Jack Armstrong
Michael. Stupid. Give him an F. Yes, F, you're right. It's too much grade inflation. That. That made us all sad and less alive. That was terrible. Terrible. And I blame you. It's. Which is the important thing. Anyway, so yeah, the whole. He gets to use it after the office. It's donated to his library. Number one, Trump is old as the hills. Two, if that is ethically unacceptable. There, there will be. It'll be dealt with. It's just. It'll be fine. I'm not worried about this bringing down the United States. And if there are ethical questions, I think they will probably be answered. By the way, there are a handful of presidential libraries, I think. I know Reagan's has the Air Force One that he used and other Air Force ones have been donated to various aerospace museums and flight museums and that sort of thing. So the fact that it's don't quote unquote donated to his library, I mean that's, that's a gift to a museum anyway. So, you know, you might disagree on that. I was talking earlier about. I am very, very wary of accepting gifts from various Middle Eastern regimes, including the Qataris in general. Beware Qataris offering gifts, bearing gifts. Great piece by Eli Lake I came across not long ago, a couple of days ago, actually. Qatar's war for young American minds. Right now, senior leaders of Hamas, the perpetrators of the worst atrocity against Jews since the Holocaust, are huddled in Qatar. Or do you say they've been there for years? But American foreign policy has turned a blind eye. Why? One reason might be that for the last 25 years, this small energy rich state has pumped billions of dollars into America to purchase influence in good the Qataris have spent their lavish fortune at American law firms, on lobbying contracts with former senior officials, and on junkets and partnerships with big media companies. The biggest recipients of Qatari largess though, have been major universities and think tanks. And we're talking about unbelievable amounts of money. A couple of years ago, the national association of Scholars did a study. Qatar is the largest foreign donor to American universities. Seems kind of odd, doesn't it, that this little oil rich country in the Middle east would care so deeply about our universities. The study found that in the 20 years between 2001 and 2021, the Petro State donated a whopping just under $5 billion to US colleges largest recipients. Those are some of America's most prestigious institutions of higher learning that already have a ton of money. Hmm, that's odd too. It's as if the Qataris are trying to buy influence, not education. These schools have partnered with the regime to build campuses in Doha's Education City, a special district of the capital that hosts rather satellite colleges for American universities. So for instance, in last quarter century or so, Qatar has donated more than $103 million to Virginia Commonwealth, 1.8 billion to Cornell, 700 million to Texas a and M, and the list goes on and on. $760 million to Georgetown University for School of Politics and 602 million Northwestern University for a School of Journalism. All but one of the universities contacted declined to comment on the relationship and the future of the Doha campuses in Qatar, which again hosts Hamas and has for years and years and years. There's one school that said serves a broader purpose, fostering international dialogue and cooperation, peaceful resolutions rather than conflict, which is a lovely sentiment, but there is a significant body of thinking that believes that the Qataris are trying to soft pedal any criticism of their behavior and Islamism in general and organizations like Hamas. These universities have incredibly Islamist friendly faculties and programs, and the reason is they're getting hundreds of millions of dollars from Qatar. So I just, I see Qatar coming with another big giant gift and I think you guys are up to something. Anyway, we'll dig more into this at another time. I have the very latest that's enough for now.
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Joe Getty
I have the very latest in the Sean Combs trial.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, good lord, is it gross.
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Joe Getty
Today's the day, man. The star witness, the key to the whole thing is testifying. And this is the whole ball of wax today. Even though it's expected to be kind of a longish trial. The whole ball of waxes today.
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Jack Armstrong
Pop singer Cassie, also known as Cassandra, what's her name? Yeah, that's the gal, the one who took the beating in the hotel lobby.
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Joe Getty
Right. And she is testifying and she's got some gruesome things to say. And I will explain what those are coming up. And it might be one of those. What's not. Might want to be one of those deals. One of those deals where you don't want, definitely don't want your kids listening.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh boy.
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Joe Getty
In any way whatsoever. But I can't imagine how this would these details will land with a jury. She's eight months pregnant. So you got an eight month pregnant woman up there testifying to some really crazy stuff.
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Jack Armstrong
Right.
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Joe Getty
I think she's gonna be quite sympathetic.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh yeah, 100%. But then the def. The defense is going to hammer.
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Joe Getty
Look, dating 10 years.
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Jack Armstrong
What's that?
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Joe Getty
You dated him for 10 years.
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Jack Armstrong
That's.
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Joe Getty
Well, one thing.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, number one. And number two is going to be. Look, having wild sex is not sex trafficking.
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Joe Getty
Right.
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Jack Armstrong
Domestic battery is not necessarily sex trafficking. He's a hot tempered guy. He's hit a woman. It's terrible. But that's not the charge here folks. That's what the defense is going to say, folks.
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Joe Getty
You dropped the folks.
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Jack Armstrong
Absolutely. You know why? Because I'm folksy, folks.
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Joe Getty
Seems out of place given the testimony. But that and other stuff on the way. Stay right here.
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Michael
Armstrong and Getty.
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Sports Commentator
Big news from the sports world. Number 23 is back. Michael Jordan will be part of the NBC Sports coverage of the NBA. Jordan said he's excited about his new role as a special contributor. You can catch the six time NBA champ starting this October and we'll see.
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Joe Getty
If he's got anything to say. It's not really ever been his brand of having particularly witty or interesting things to say in a compelling way. But we'll see. I wonder what he's getting paid. As opposed to his former best friend Charles Barkley whose contract goes from TNT to ESPN next year. And he said over the weekend ESPN was rolling out all this stape. So Barkley decided to keep working. They threw so much money at him. I think it's 200 million. $200 million. 10 year deal.
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Jack Armstrong
Wow.
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Joe Getty
And he decided to keep working for that amount of money. But so they are announcing all this stuff for Barkley that he would be, you know, he'd be joining on this show in the morning and this show in the afternoon and all this stuff. And he came out over the week and said, no, I'm not, I'm not doing any of that stuff. You think I'm gonna do any extra work at this point in my life? Fire me if you want, but I'm not doing those shows.
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Jack Armstrong
Wow, that's funny.
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Joe Getty
That's something, man. That's when you got leverage.
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Jack Armstrong
I'm surprised he signed a 10 year deal though. I mean, maybe he just really enjoys it. Good for him.
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Joe Getty
He enjoys it if he gets to completely dictate, you know, his own hours and pace. So they came out with some sort of. And we've been in these situations before where it's like now you're going to go on the morning show in New York every Tuesday morning at 8 and he said, no, I'm not, I'm not doing that.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, well. And I should know better than this. It's a ten year deal, but he can quit anytime he wants. He just can't go to work for a competitor.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. And he's got more money than God anyway. And then the NBA last night, as we mentioned, the knicks are up 31 over the Celtics, the defending champions. But the star player for the defending champs went down. I've always been interested in the idea that athletes are so in touch with their body and injuries that they seem to know it instantly when they've got an injury. That's a really big deal. Like most of us, I don't know. I've gotten hurt before. I thought, oh my God, I'll never walk again, you know, and it's fine. Or we're the opposite, I think, you know, that's kind of a little tweak and then it ends up being eight weeks or something. But they seem to just know and like this, Jason Tatum for the Celtics. He went, went down and his. Everybody said he knew immediately, oh, this might be the end of my career. I'm not playing again this next year. Even. It just, they know this.
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Jack Armstrong
There are some injuries, I think, yeah, you don't need to be with an incredible rapport with your body or whatever. But I see your point. But yeah, some. When your knee is pointing sideways, you think, well, that's doomed.
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Joe Getty
This was an ankle. But he is, he's. He may be done forever. So the Sean P. Diddy thing. Just want to throw that out there. Do not. If you're squeamish about this sort of stuff. I shouldn't even say squeamish. That makes it. Make it sound like you're weak or something like that. I don't even know what the right term is. But this is really gross, what I'm about to say.
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Jack Armstrong
And it is testimony that the jury is hearing.
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Joe Getty
But this is really gross.
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Jack Armstrong
I mean, this is not some sort of rumor on the web. This is evidence in the trial.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. So this Cassie Ventura, who was P. Diddy's girlfriend for 10 years. And if you know anything about this trial, you've seen the video where he drags her down the hall by the hair and all that sort of stuff. And she's the star witness in the trial. And I guess there was some discussion of whether or not she'd actually even testify as recently as this past weekend. But here she's going to testify and it's today. Like it's right now. And this is going to be the really hard to overcome thing. And he is. She is going to corroborate. Corroborate. She's going to say the same thing somebody else said to a bodyguard yesterday that testified that Diddy would hire male escorts to have sex with his girlfriend in front of him, sometimes for as long as 10 hours, which is hard to even imagine. On.
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Jack Armstrong
Hey, this is great, but there's a ball game on. I'm gonna. Yeah, that's. Wow, that's a kink.
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Joe Getty
I don't know if that's a drug thing like that. Those of us who don't do those kind of drugs can't understand. It keeps you interested for who could stay interested for 10 hours.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, there's. There's other stuff to do. Yeah.
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Joe Getty
Or there's a, you know, I don't know if you know how the whole sex thing works, but there is a, there is a payoff. Usually that is quite pleasant. And then you think, you know what? I'm good for a while. I'm good for a while. 10 hours. No, maybe next week, maybe even this weekend. But not like after lunch today. Anyway.
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Jack Armstrong
Non stop.
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Joe Getty
The testimony yesterday was. And again, this is highly gross. Among the things the paid escort was forced to do, like did he threaten them? Was he had to do.
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Jack Armstrong
We wanna. Can we just be vague?
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Joe Getty
How do you be vague about this?
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Jack Armstrong
They played horrible, disgusting pee pee games.
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Joe Getty
Well, she was on the receiving end of something that she says was not her idea or something she wanted.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
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Joe Getty
And she's going to say, yeah, that did happen. And I'm thinking in terms of scoring points with a jury.
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Jack Armstrong
Oof.
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Joe Getty
That makes you look like a crazy person.
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Jack Armstrong
Well, and I've been harping on the fact that the, the defense is going to say, well, being a perv is not sex trafficking, having orgies, not sex trafficking. If they testify that she was made to do something so gross and off putting for most people, the vast majority of people, and they ask her, why did you do it anyway? And she says, because I was terrified. That's going to be really damaging. Right.
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Joe Getty
So this thing, we're two days into this and the big kahuna is today. Yeah, there you go.
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Jack Armstrong
And then I guess you get into the specifics of trafficking and money being transferred, laws being broken, I guess more legalistic stuff.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. So I guess that's the way you want to do it. You want to, you want to hit the, hit the jury with this hard first, early, while they're paying attention, then get into the.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah, I see the strategy. Sure.
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Joe Getty
So who won the big trade deal between China and Trump? It seems to be running pretty one sided when you ask people to be.
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Michael
Joel, Whale, Armstrong and Getty.
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Comedian 2
The drastic de escalation in the trade war between the United States and China. Starting Wednesday and effective for the next 90 days, the United States government will lower its overall tariffs on Chinese goods from 145% to 30%. China will lower its duties on American imports from 125% to 10%.
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Joe Getty
Okay, so that was the headline yesterday. And as you know, as we had it here, and here's where I get. I could get in trouble with Trump fans if I had to. If I had to click a box of whether I'm a Trump fan or a Trump hater, I definitely would have to check Trump fan between those two choices. But I took in a lot of coverage on the analysis of this yesterday and I'd be interested in what your takeaway was. The vast majority of it, I mean like 95% of it, unless it was somebody who worked for Trump, basically said he backed down, he backed down and we accomplished nothing. And that's from obviously from the Trump hating sources, but from also conservative leaning sources.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, some of whom hate Trump. But true. Yeah. I have searched far and wide for people who are saying that this made perfect sense and the result is great and just nobody's really saying that.
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Joe Getty
And to the extent that the markets roared back up, it's not because, yay, we won something. It's okay now we've got some certainty. The super bad scare of immediate recession, stagflation we can put off and kick the can down the road, which is the way markets react. It wasn't a yay, this was a great deal.
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Jack Armstrong
It was a thank God it's over.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. It was a thanks God it's over. Yeah. As I heard somebody describe it yesterday, it was a, you know, it's like you're punching yourself in the face and you stop punching in yourself in the face. It feels good and you're, you're happy for it, but it doesn't mean it was a good idea to put yourself in the face in the first place.
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Jack Armstrong
Right. Yeah, I would agree. Yeah. I'm troubled by a lot of it end. It's, you know, it's one of those issues that there are a couple of layers to it which doesn't lend itself well to a lot of the super blunt, super strongly felt talk of whether it's talk radio or politics in general. You talk about tariffs. All right. Against our allies. All right, what are their non trade barriers? Let's talk about it. Let's, let's have a little more equity here. I'm a hundred percent fine with that. The China thing's completely different. And within the China thing, are we talking about areas where they are flooding the market in ways that violate trade agreements with, with steel for instance, which we'll get to in a second, or is it a strategic industry that we need to protect just for national security reasons? That's a different question. And, and then you got the problem that wherever there are tariffs, there are carve outs. Because the powerful and well connected go hat in hand to the White House promising gigantic contributions or threats or whatever. And the powerful and well connected get carve outs and the small business people don't. And it becomes a very, very swampy cesspool of what's called rent seeking among economists, which means begging the government. Essentially spending your time, energy and money on begging the government as opposed to innovating and designing better products. And so the tariff thing bothers me a lot on that level.
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Joe Getty
Oh, by the way, I want to get to later, there's a chunk of the new Jake Tapper book that comes out in a few days about all the secret hidden stuff in the Biden White House that Jake Tapper and his friends were ignoring. But anyway, there's some interesting details in there about Biden's infirmities. Maybe we'll get to an hour three.
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Jack Armstrong
So anyway, the whole, you know, is this been good or Bad. What Trump's done with China, I don't know. It's complicated and it's not over yet. We've still got a weird system where we're hammering some of our allies harder than we are. China, if you leave out the 20%. Hey, cut it out with the fentanyl tariff. Anyway, I thought this was. Go ahead. Were you gonna jump in there? So do you know who Kevin O' Leary is? The bald headed shark tank guy. Mr. Wonderful they call him. It's funny, they point out in the free press that he's got a lot in common with Donald J. Trump. Both conservative built reputations as successful businessmen turned into reality TV stars. And like most tycoons, O' Leary takes issue with Trump's 145% tariff on most Chinese products. This was written a couple of days ago before the big change. The twist. O' Leary doesn't think they're too high. He thinks they aren't high enough. And here's what he said. When President Bill Clinton welcomed China into the World Trade Organization in 01, the idea was to hold him accountable. China was supposed to adhere to WTO rules guaranteeing intellectual property rights and cooperating with American producers. But they never complied. Not in the first week and not in the 20th year of doing business. The WTO should have kicked them out for non compliance. Instead, it's a given that the Communist, the Chinese Communist Party had free reign to cheat and steal from other members. Partly that's because the west was able to import cheap Chinese goods even if their own companies were being put out of business. But it's also because too many governments were intimidated by China. Now the WTO is racked and stacked with grievances from the US and other countries that have never been arbitrated, litigated or resolved. Frankly, I don't see the point of the WTO even existing if it can't keep China in check.
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Joe Getty
That's pretty good.
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Jack Armstrong
And some details. Let me give you a good example. Steel dumping. Chinese government intentionally subsidizes the overproduction of steel, flooding global markets with products with exports rather that China sells for below the cost of production. That is totally against the international rules of free trade. Producers in the US, Europe and Asia simply can't compete while China unfairly gains market share. Or how about the way the Chinese government repeatedly steals intellectual property? And then he gives a couple of examples, including one that was on Shark Tank, that it was just clearly a ripoff. The Briggs is the folks in in question went to all the trouble and Expense of patenting their product. Patenting their product and did them no good. As soon as the revenue hit a certain amount, China just absolutely stole it.
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Joe Getty
Man, that is frustrating.
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Jack Armstrong
Here's another of China's favorite tricks, the golden share. That's when a preferred shareholder sells all their stock except 1%. But that 1% still allows them to control the company. Guess what? The Chinese Communist Party has golden shares in everything. Literally. There is no major Chinese company that is not controlled by the CCP. So when something like TikTok comes along with Congress demanding that TikTok either be sold or banned from the US there's nobody at the company to negotiate with. There's only one guy to talk to, the guy who runs the Chinese government, Xi Jinping, since he holds the golden share. And then he goes into the fact that Chinese companies are not complying with the generally accepted accounting principles, the gaap, when they list their stock in the New York Stock Exchange. And those are the rules that guide financial reporting in the U.S. in 2020, Congress passed a law that gave them three years to comply. But as U.S. china completely ignored the law and the chairman of the securities and Exchange Commission under Biden didn't so much as lift a finger against them. Now his successor is trying to force China to be compliant. But doing so could involve delisting companies with as much as an $800 billion market cap on the New York Stock Exchange than the nasdaq. Let hurt the nasdaq. Sure it will, but some things are more important and there's paragraphs more of this stuff.
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Joe Getty
So the wto. WTO is yet another farce of an international body that China runs over and nobody pays any attention.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, certainly it doesn't stand up against the Chinese communists. It's very much like the who run by that China ass kissing Moroccan guy. What's his face during COVID that helped cover up for the communists spreading.
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Joe Getty
The ass kissing Moroccan guy. I can picture him.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. What was his name? I don't want to name the wrong ass kissing Moroccan guy and be accused of slander. One more thing from Mr. Wonderful. The trouble is that collectively we in the west have allowed China to walk all over us for years. Administration after administration, not just in the US but also in Europe have let China screw the west time after time. I speak for millions who are sick to death of China's shady business practices which they've been getting away with for decades. So my advice to President Trump is squeeze China even harder. The current tariffs which are around 145% don't go far enough. Come on top. The US should impose 400% tariffs or put another way, should shut down trade with China completely. Well, Kevin, bad news, brother. Not only are we not doing that, we backtracked from the other stuff. You know, getting back to the theme of this stuff is fairly complicated and doesn't lend itself to bellowing on talk radio. He's right in principle. But if you got a heroin addict who dt, the dts will kill if he goes cold turkey, then you gotta come up with another way. And some of the stories about small businesses being absolutely murdered by those 145% tariffs were heartbreaking. I mean, they're the backbone of the US economy, and a lot of them do a lot of business with China because that's what we've set up partly by ignoring all the stuff Oleary's talking about. But that's. Our economy is a heroin addict for Chinese goods and manufacturing and the rest of it. And so, you know, Trump tried to go semi cold turkey and a lot of people were howling. And not just, you know, ouch, that's hurting me. Even though I'm a giant rich corporation. They were like, no, I will. My business will go away and I will be poverty stricken. We have gotten ourselves into a tough spot. You do the. You know what, kids? First of all, what the hell are you listening to this show for if you're a kid? Secondly, you do the wrong thing long enough, undoing it becomes really, really hard.
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Joe Getty
We have breaking news. Joe Biden has a nodule on his prostate. According to an exam today, Joe Biden's prostate nodule will have graphs, and.
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Jack Armstrong
At least it's not another perverted thing Diddy did.
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Joe Getty
Full team cover coverage coming up of Biden's prostate Nazi.
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Jack Armstrong
No. Did Jill discover it? She is a doctor.
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Joe Getty
That's true. That's true.
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Jack Armstrong
Not a real doctor.
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Joe Getty
That's true. She is a doctor. I looked up at CBS News. They're doing, why is allergy season worse this year? It's all across. What's interesting to me is that it's all across the country that it's worse this year. I didn't know that's the way allergies could work with so many different plants and weather systems and, you know, climates and all that sort of stuff. But it is horrible for everyone nationwide coast to coast. It's worse than practically in a year.
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Jack Armstrong
So if you're guessing, it's the climate change, according to the TV news people.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. A doctor, very nice doctor who helped me a lot On Saturday. But I. I said something about the allergies. He said, well, allergies are only gonna get worse with climate change.
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Jack Armstrong
And then.
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Joe Getty
All right, whatever.
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Jack Armstrong
All right, all right.
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Joe Getty
A couple. Another headline I just came across. There's a report Fox is saying that Democrats are looking to have an intervention against Senator Fetterman of Pennsylvania to try to drive him from office. So that hit piece in the Atlantic about his brain, or the New Yorker, I guess, is just the beginning of it. Now the Democrats are looking at an intervention where they would. I don't know what you do. Is there a article 5 something or other like you can do with the president with a senator to say that.
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Jack Armstrong
They'Re not mentally mental?
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Joe Getty
Yeah, 25th Amendment. I don't know. Anyway, that's kind of an interesting story. And also, how bad a shape was Joe Biden? According to Jake Tapper's new book, they're starting to leak stuff out before it comes out. We can get to that, too. A lot of good stuff. Sounds fine there. A lot of good stuff. Stay here.
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Michael
Armstrong and Getty. The new study comparing two popular drugs used for weight loss. Researchers studying obese and overweight patients for 72 weeks, finding those on Zepbound lost an average of 50 pounds, with govy patients losing an average of 33 pounds. Both groups reported some known side effects. Both drugs helped improve blood sugar and cholesterol. The study in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, of course, the question is always, do you keep it off?
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Jack Armstrong
Right, of course. And the whole side effects thing, which jackass David Muir kind of glossed over there. Oh, I can't stand him. That was the nicest, cleanest word I could come up with.
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Joe Getty
What did he do to wrong you? I mean, you really do hate him. What was the main offense?
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, he's had so many. But he is horrifying during the debate.
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Joe Getty
Oh, right, right, right, right, right.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, he was blatantly biased.
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Joe Getty
Does Judy like him? Is that. Is Judy kind of. Ooh. David Muir is on again. Okay.
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Jack Armstrong
Couldn't pick him out of a lineup. No.
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Joe Getty
Okay. You know, if it was a personal grudge or something.
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Jack Armstrong
No, he's just. He's a jackass. What was I gonna say? Oh, I was reading a bit about the side effects. And you have to remember, if 10% of people experience. Blah. That sounds like a small number. But with many, many hundreds of thousands, millions of people getting prescribed this, the number of people who are having, like, horrendous side effects is. Is nasty speaking, including death. Now, that's a side Effect.
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Joe Getty
Speaking of weight loss, Taylor Swift's boyfriend, Travis Kelsey, is showing up to camp looking like a different human being. Got a new body this year. Kind of dropped the, you know, kind of soft physique that he'd been carrying the last couple of years after a. An embarrassing super bowl loss and is in really good shape. So there you go. This is something. At Newark Airport, which had all those troubles last week and everything like that one air traffic controller showed up yesterday. They're supposed to have a minimum of 15 to operate, and they had one.
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Jack Armstrong
A big walkout, huh?
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Joe Getty
No, it's just. It doesn't even really explain it. It's just all kinds of, you know, somebody's sick or that person's not here or their shift is up or what are. They just aren't enough of them. And it all kind of coincided on a day where they had one, they thought they'd have two or three, which is way fewer than you're supposed to have. And they had one for at least the morning. So isn't that crazy? I don't understand any of this stuff, but it is astonishing.
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Jack Armstrong
That's like, you know, a surgeon showing up to the operating room, and there are no nurses, right? And he's just like, well, I gotta try to do this.
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Joe Getty
Yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
How does that happen?
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Joe Getty
So it's getting. I don't know why this is getting any attention. I miss. This was a mistake. I made a mistake in pre. Bought the Jake Tapper Tell all book about Joe Biden, and as we get it comes out in a few days, that's $25 wasted. Because I'm realizing more and more there's just a very little there that's surprising in the least. And they're putting out probably the most interesting stuff ahead of time to try to tease people to buy it. I mean, that's usually the way previews for TV shows, movies, or books work. But they've got the stuff out today that they. The. I mean, this is shocking. You might want to sit down for this. Turns out the team was thinking Joe Biden might need a wheelchair after he wins the election, but not before, because they thought it would do too much damage to have him be seen in a wheelchair. But how. How could that be even in the least bit surprising or interesting, really, to anyone?
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Jack Armstrong
He could barely walk. He's crazy old and getting older. Yeah, we can. We can do that math ourselves. Thanks, Jay.
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Joe Getty
Joe. As he evolved our institutions, Joe Biden's physical deterioration was so severe in 2023 and 2024. Yeah. We all knew that every day we talked about it. I like the way you write it a year later in a book and act like it's some sort of cheap fake.
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Jack Armstrong
That was a Republican talking point conspiracy.
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Joe Getty
Theory that advisers privately discussed the possibility he'd need to use a wheelchair if he won re election. CNN's Jake Tappernell and Axios Alex Thompson write in their new book Original Sin. The discussions reflected the extent of the President's declining health. Yeah, we know. And his aides alarm over it as Biden sought a second term at age 81. The conversations also reveal the White House's determination to conceal the reality of Biden's condition. Yeah, we caught onto that too, by starting to use the lower steps and the shorter ramps and the surrounding him with people so you couldn't see him. We all knew this. Do you not know that we all knew this?
- [33:56]
Jack Armstrong
David Burge, the great Iowa Hawke blogger, just tweeted. Come on now. It was just an ambulatory stutter.
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Joe Getty
That's pretty funny. The book is based on interviews with more than 200 people, mostly Democratic insiders. Oh, man, you're so lucky to have access to 200 insiders to bring us this information that we all knew three years ago. I find that odd that this is.
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Jack Armstrong
Even happening straight out of the department of Elephants are big and the sun is hot.
- [34:30]
Joe Getty
No kidding.
- [34:30]
Jack Armstrong
Thank you for that revelation.
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Joe Getty
Biden's physical deterioration, most apparent in his halting walk. Yeah, I know. Had become so severe that there were internal discussions about blah, blah, blah. Goes on and on. I do they think they're revealing something? I mean, are they so surrounded by they're kind that they think they're revealing something that's the least bit surprising to most of us?
- [34:55]
Jack Armstrong
I think we would be shocked the level. Shocked by the level of non disagreement with any of the big talking points. Biden's fine. He's great. And nobody dared dissent in their circles. That's wild.
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Joe Getty
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Michael
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Jack Armstrong
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