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Everyone, it's me, Sam Stein. I am the managing editor here at the Bulwark and I'm joining you on a Saturday morning because some crazy stuff is happening. Like obviously crazy stuff happens all the time, but last night in Trump world, it was particularly wild. So I want to step back before we get to last night's insanity because we had a really crazy day. Even before that, there was a whole host of things that were happening. For instance, among other things, there was a story that came out that said RFK Jr. Our HHS Secretary, still uses psychedelics. I thought that was really wild and may have even smoked. I don't even know how to pronounce this. Demethyltrypetamine. Geez, I don't even know. Whatever. It's a drug that makes you feel like you're close to death. Don't smoke it. That was just one. We had another report. The Deputy FBI Director, Dan Bongino may have not taken a polygraph test prior to getting hired for the job. That's pretty wild stuff. There was also the President melting down over the Epstein files where he called on the Attorney General to just investigate the Democrats that were. It was pretty overt about it. Just investigate the Democrats that were named in these files. And then she said, sure, I'm on it. And she appointed someone to do it. It was just sort of brazen. And then there's another story that the DHS secretary had sent millions of dollars of ad contracts to a firm that had ties close to her. Listen, any one of these alone would have been a salacious scandal, but it all happened in the 24 hour period. And yet that's not the thing I want to focus on. So there was a tweet yesterday that really caught my attention, and it was by guy who normally doesn't catch my attention for things other than wild conspiracies. And it's a guy named Mike Cernovich. Now, you might know Mike Cernovich because he's a conservative maga ish operative who was integral in the Pizzagate Scandal. Anyways, he's fairly loyal to Trump, and, you know, you don't expect stuff like this from him, but he put up a tweet yesterday about a visit he had taken to D.C. and this is what caught my eye. Quote, the talk of everyone was how overt the corruption was. It's at levels you read about in history books in nearly every department. Lots of do people just think Democrats will never win and they'll all get away with this question mark that really stood out. Like, you don't normally hear people say stuff like that from that side of the ledger, even though it's true. And some of the things I just read you overtly corrupt. Steering contracts to a firm that's tied to is overtly corrupt. For instance, another story that I didn't even mention is that they're in talks to make a settlement with Michael Flynn, Trump's old national security advisor, who is caught up in all the Russiagate stuff and lying to the Feds. They want to settle for $50 million. It's basically a payment from the DOJ. Another thing that didn't even read you senators, Republican senators tucked into the government funding provision, provision that allows them to sue the Department of justice for $500,000 each because they access the metadata on their phone records. It's just a payoff. And it's happening out in the open. This is nothing to say of Trump getting his own potential settlement of $230 million or getting the Qataris to send him a jet that he says is going to be for Air Force One, but, oh, he gets to keep and put in his museum like he'll never fly it anyways. So this caught Mike Cernovich's attention, and that's kind of notable that even people like him are like, whoa, this is pretty brazen. And that leads me to the story that is just like. It's insane. So the Swiss delegation to the United States has been trying desperately to get out from under the 39% tariffs that Trump has put on the country, like a lot of other countries. And like other countries, they've, you know, tried hiring lobbyists. They've worked the Hill, they've worked their contacts. And then, according to our old pal Mark Caputo, they did something pretty brazen. They gave Trump a ton of gifts. And so this is what Mark writes. To cut tariffs and President Trump imposed on the country, the Swiss sent a delegation of industry tycoons bearing gifts. A special Rolex desktop clock, a 1 kg personalized gold bar, and loads of flattery. Okay, The Swiss bar given to Trump during the delegation's visit on November 4th. So that's just like a week and a half ago, was stamped with 45 and 47 in homage to his presidential terms. It's worth a little more than $130,000. Trump accepted the gifts on behalf of his presidential library, making them legal. White House officials say they gave him $130,000 gold bar. I mean, yeah, it's going to his library. What the hell? This is madness. People. Like, utter madness. But it worked. Swiss delegation got their tariffs down to 15%, as Axios reported this morning. And this isn't the only type of thing we've seen. You know, there's that infamous moment where Tim Cook gave Trump this kind of engraved glass disc with a gold case on it, and that was just to commemorate the company's investment in the United States. Everyone is lavishing this president with gifts. It is blatant corruption, the likes of which we've honestly never seen. And people are talking about it, including Mike Cernovich, which leads me to Trump last night. So Trump's had these kind of meltdowns before, where usually on Friday night, he just, you know, posts a lot. He lets it all out. The week's been kind of building up, and he just got to let off steam, and that's what Trump does. But even by those sort of historic standards, I felt like last night was particularly crazy. So he gets pressed, for instance, on why he got an MRI recently, and the guy just cannot be honest about it. He's, like, hiding something or just unwilling to admit to something or simply. I guess the most generous explanation is he can't remember why he got an mri. But this type of attitude, like, I don't need to tell you anything about my own, you know, medical history or what's going on. It's an arrogance that, like, you know, kind of Biden ish, a little bit where they hid things, but much worse because they're just being like, screw you. Here's the middle finger and here's the video so you can watch it for yourself.