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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
That, that Glenn was a point or two in 2021. And remember, Trump only lost New Jersey by five last year. And they think the Trump team does if they had had Kamala Level money that they could have flipped New Jersey into their column.
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Buck Sexton
So New Jersey is still blue, but it's, it's more interesting than they want it to be. But for sure, and this might help a bit more. This is just one of the great moments on, on Charlemagne, the God on the Breakfast Club.
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Clay Travis
Mr.
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Buck Sexton
The God was sitting down with Democrat candidate, New Jersey Governor Mikey Sherrill. So the Democrat Cabinet, sorry, Democrat candidate for governor Mikey Sherrill. And I'm not familiar. That's why I'm asking people to weigh in a little bit on what do I need to know about Mikey Sherrill. But this was a great moment. And Mr. The God asked about this and I think it was worth us all just hearing for a second because people are very sick and tired of members of the of Congress particularly, who seemingly are trading in a way in the stock market that mirrors information that they would only have access to because of things that they're doing in Congress and making a lot of money. She was asked Mikey Sherrill about this and here is the response from the Breakfast Club a couple of, of days ago. Play this one.
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Clay Travis
When Newsmax claims that you made $7 million from stock trades, what are they talking about? Newsmax is first of all a very questionable organization that is paying multiple fines. I'm not sure what they're talking about. Did you make 7 million in stock trades at all? I, I haven't, I don't believe I did. But I'd have to go see what, what that was alluding to again, what.
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Buck Sexton
Kind of came from Clay. I think if you're a member of Congress making about 180 grand, by the way, I think that if you made $7 million trading the stock market, whether somebody else is making those trades on your you're making them, I think you.
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Clay Travis
Should know, unless you're a billionaire and so rich that you couldn't plausibly say I don't know what happened with $7 million. 99.99% of people in America would know if they made $7 million or not in the stock market. A lot of you out there would know if you made $700 in the stock market or not. Certainly 7,000 or 70,000, to say nothing of 7 million. These people are so bad at this, buck. I just, I watch so many of these politicians and we've reached out, by the way, to Jack Citarelli, who is the Republican contender who almost won in 2021. He is the nominee on the Republican side for this race. To remind all of you, Virginia and New Jersey and the mayor of New York City are all off calendar elections, so they will be taking place this November. That's in basically six weeks. Some of you basically can already go early vote on these. I just, I mean, credit to Charlemagne, the God who is of the left, I think, but is kind of pointing out a $7 million. Can you follow up and just kind of tell us what happened here?
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Buck Sexton
All right. I've got some, I've got some, some stats and numbers to throw into the mix here. Cheryl makes I said 180, 174 grand as New Jersey's 11th congressional district Rep. So she, remember, they have financial disclosures, everybody. So we can know this public. It's public record how much money these individuals have within a range. But you have some sense of it, right? So in 2019, she reported total assets between 730. And I'm just going to abbreviate the numbers here, but $730,004.3 million. Now that's a huge range, by the way.
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Clay Travis
Yes.
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Buck Sexton
That includes your house. You know, to anybody listening, the difference being worth 700 grand on paper and being worth 4 million on paper feels like a lot. But anyway, that's where she was. But Clay, in her most recent one, in her most recent disclosure form, she's worth More like 12 million.
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Clay Travis
Yeah. This is tough to explain.
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Buck Sexton
And so you say to yourself, wait a second, she's making 174. It's not like she had some huge trust fund, because we would know that from the financial disclosure forms previously. So somehow she has. And Jack Cittarelli has come out and hammered her on this somehow, while a member of Congress sitting on the Armed Services Committee who allegedly has a fondness for trading Clay and defense stocks, saying, interesting, she has gone from being worth, you know, let's call it a couple million dollars to put it in the middle, to being worth about $12 million. I mean, she could be worth as much as 4 million there. Even still, that would be a tripling of her net worth while making 180 grand a year.
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Clay Travis
Now, sometimes spouses make the money, which can also sometimes be suspect, right? Because they'll say, well, this is not the money that I'm making. This is my spouse. I think this is what happened with. And I don't even know who her spouse is now. But Elon, now he's.
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Buck Sexton
We'll get. He's an investment banker, so his compensation may be a significant part of this. But Clay, she was fined for failing to disclose stock sales in 2021.
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Clay Travis
Well, this is where it gets very shady. Okay, correct me if I'm wrong on this, because this seems like something that shouldn't be allowed. You basically cannot prosecute elected officials like congressmen and senators for insider trading. Correct? Because they get all sorts of information that is not public, and then they're allowed to trade on it. And this is where it gets super shady. This is like the Nancy Pelosi situation. The spouse oftentimes is the person who's actually trading on this, and they are able to monetize this in a way that is hyper shady. Remember, if you look at Nancy Pelosi's trading record for stocks. She's somehow better than Warren Buffett at buying and selling stocks. Stocks. There's a Nancy Tracker out there where you can look at all the moves Pelosi makes because they have to disclose it. I, I, I don't understand why it isn't basic required for everybody out there to put their holdings in a trust and just use that. Let me give you an example, Buck. Most of my money after I sold Outkick, that is not in real estate, is in S&P 500 index funds. That is, I just buy the 500 largest companies in America. 90% of the time the S&P 500 outperforms experts. I am not by and large buying and selling very many stocks. Now, there's no restriction on me buying and selling very many stocks in the first place, but I would say about 5% of my stock assets are in physical stocks that I control and about 95% is effectively in S&P 500 index funds. I don't understand why it isn't standard for everybody, Democrat, Republican, independent, who is elected to Congress to put their assets, their 401k, their individual stocks, just put it into a index fund and say, I'm not going to buy and sell individual stocks while I'm a representative of the United States Congress. What am I missing here? To me, that seems like it should be standard for everyone out there. And if they're arguing otherwise, I think it's highly suspect for people to be trading hundreds of times in a year. And remember what happened during COVID because I haven't forgotten this. Remember when they got the briefings about how dangerous Covid was going to be and what was going to happen? And a ton of congressmen and women immediately sold all their stocks before the stock market started to decline. They got access to information that you and I didn't have access to about what was going to happen in terms of shutdowns. The stock market plummeted and a lot of congressmen and women sold before the stock market collapsed and then bought at bottoms and made a ton of money off information that's not public. I don't know what I'm missing here. This candidate, I think is lying. I think she has likely benefited off inside information. But this is important when it comes to corruption. We don't just focus on corruption itself. We focus on the appearance of corruption because it's so toxic to public trust. How is there not a direct appearance of corruption when individual congressmen and women are making trades and destroying the Greatest investors of our lifetimes in their results.
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Buck Sexton
Just, just so everybody understands in something like the, like National Defense Authorization act or one of those big omnibus or, you know, porculus or whatever you want to call it, these big bills that come out where they're just full of pork and they're full of all this spending. If you're on some committee and you know that a certain defense contractor, for example, is about to get correct, a 3 or 5 or $10 billion government contract, guess what? It's probably gonna go up as a stock. Okay.
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Clay Travis
Yes.
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Buck Sexton
I think we all understand that. And so if you are essentially now, I, you know, the rules. They've changed the rules so that technically there's like a little more reporting and stuff, but you're not barred from trading. And let's just. Let's just take. Let's just be honest about this. Have you seen anybody get in trouble for insider trading from the United States Congress? No, I'm not aware of it. Right.
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Clay Travis
I think, Buck, that they're not. You're not allowed to be prosecuted for it. I think it used to be the.
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Buck Sexton
Case they changed the rule. Let me. Let me check on it. They made some. The stock act. They made some adjustment to it, but I think it's like, you can't be prosecuted for knowledge that comes from the course of your job, which is the whole point of that. Let me check on this one. I got to see what the rules are because this was Clay. This has been a push for over a decade. People have been trying to, you know, trying to figure out why members of Congress are able to get so. So rich.
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Clay Travis
But larger issue. Yes. On that. To me, it's just. It shouldn't be allowed. Minor issue or secondary issue as it pertains to this race. If you made $7 million in stock trades, you better have a good explanation for how that happened. And again, the husband may well be the reason. But to claim, oh, I don't know. I'd have to look into that. How out of touch are you if you can make $7 million and not recall whether or not it happened? Unless you're a billionaire and your stock price valuation is constantly going up and down again. All I'm saying is I'm not a congress person. S&P 500 index funds a good option. Why would we not make that standard for anybody who's in elective office? Now, there are some complexities, usually blind trust. And this is getting into specifics. Let's. You own a company and that company is publicly traded. You can Just say, hey, I'm not going to buy or sell stock or it's a blind trust. I'm not managing it. There are lots of ways to handle this that do not create this huge, this huge impression of impropriety. That to me would make a lot of sense.
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Buck Sexton
Well, I just would. Note, Clay, so two former members of the House of Representatives have been prosecuted and convicted for insider trading, which the stock act of 2012. That's what I referred. So this has been going on for a while. So there is this Stock Act. It doesn't bar them from trading. Obviously there's disclosure requirements. But here's the thing, it's super hard because of the information that they're coming into contact with is of a political nature. It can be very like, if you're going to invest in a big defense contractor, what's. How do you know that you don't just, you know, they get into this mosaic defense strategy for white collar criminals of like, well, did I do it because I thought of this bill that's coming up or. Because I love the fundamentals and I know I read the latest 10K. I mean, that's.
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Clay Travis
Well, also curious on whatever. I would be curious what the prosecution for insider trading is because those guys could have been prosecuted for actual insider trading that had nothing to do with Congress. Right. In other words, I believe the testimony that you hear behind closed doors is not allowed to be prosecutable for insider trading. You could still be prosecuted if, for instance, you're out of office and your cousin calls you and he sits on the board of X Company and he says, hey, we're about to.
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Buck Sexton
That's what happened.
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Clay Travis
Yeah.
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Buck Sexton
By the way, they actually were not prosecuted. This is a very important clarification. They were not prosecuted for anything under the Stock act or anything having to do with Congress. They were prosecuted for insider trading access they had before being in Congress. Yes, that's a different. This is what I'm saying.
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Clay Travis
Like, you basically get a free rein to insider trade at Congress.
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Buck Sexton
So my, my initial premise of like, no one in Congress is ever that no one in Congress has ever been prosecuted for insider Congress, insider congressional information. That is true.
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Clay Travis
Which, by the way, some breaking news as we go to commercial break here. Buck. There has been a verdict reached in the second assassin attempt of President Trump in Florida. The West Palm beach assassin. I would imagine that he has been found guilty, but we will see what that result is. They're going to announce that shortly.
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Clay Travis
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Clay Travis
Buck Sexton Show I did want to mention this. We've been talking about Jimmy Kimmel. He's returning. Quick turn here buck. But Disney plus has elected to raise prices $3 a month today. I don't know who advises some of these companies on pr, but if you are out there and you're either angry about what Disney did with Jimmy Kimmel and you're a leftist or you're on the right and you're saying, hey, they censor us all the time. I don't know that now is the time when I would decide to announce that everybody has to pay three more dollars a month for their Disney plus accounts. I would also point out everybody's going to end up paying way more in streaming cost than we ever paid in cable cost. That a whole idea of, oh, I'm going to save money in streaming. It's gone out the window. We all pay a lot more and get a lot less. It feels like to me our friends.
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Clay Travis
Guilty on all counts. And I would point out I played this Trump West Palm beach golf course with tunnel to Towers last year. They pointed it out exactly where this would be assassin was set up. The fact that he was able to be there all day one month after Trump had his ear buzzed by another would be assassin in Butler, Pennsylvania. And Corey Campatore lost his life at that Butler, Pennsylvania rally. The fact that this was ever allowed to happen even that he could get close. Remember the story is that a Secret Service agent saw the sunlight glinting off off his gun barrel. The guy was there for hours all day waiting for Trump to come by, playing golf. And I have to tell you, this is, I mean, the guy would have been 30 or 40 yards away from Trump in that tee box. I just, I know this story doesn't get talked about very much. And the fact that a Secret Service agent fired at him, missed only because a woman took down the license plate number of the car reportedly were we able to later get him driving somewhere on the Florida Turnpike to Buck's Point, a long distance away from where he tried to kill Trump. And the fact that he did it because he believed Trump was Hitler and he was a crazy Ukraine fanatic and he believed that he needed to save America from fascism him all of the arguments that Democrats have been making for the last decade, the same arguments, frankly and sadly, that the assassin of Charlie Kirk embraced as well. I mean, even the Atlantic, no great bastion of fairhandedness or sanity. I saw this just a little bit ago, Buck. The Atlantic is even now having to write stories about left wing political violence and our friend Senator Mike Lee shared it. But the Atlantic has a headline right now. Left Wing Terrorism is On the rise for the first time in more than 30 years, attacks by the far left outnumber those by the far right, and they continue to stack up. And no one is out there saying, hey, you know what, we may disagree with Trump, but he's not actually Hitler. In fact, do we have the cut of Kamala Harris with Rachel Maddow now saying Trump is a communist dictator? I guess now they've decided that instead of Hitler on the right, he now is Fidel Castro on the left. Can we play the communist dictator line from Kamala?
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Podcast Host
Right now we are dealing with, as I called him at my speech on the Ellipse, a tyrant. We used to compare the strength of our democracy to communist dictators. That's what we're dealing with right now. Donald Trump and these titans of industry are not speaking up. And perhaps it is because his threats and the way he has used the weight of the federal government to take out vengeance on his critics is something that they fear. And I get that. I understand why they do. We've seen the demonstration of it.
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Clay Travis
Yeah. I mean, next thing you know, he may try to bankrupt, imprison, and kill his political adversaries. Can you imagine if we tried to put a top political figure in prison on trumped up charges that made absolutely no sense whatsoever and were entirely filed based on political basis? Can you imagine if the state of Georgia did that? If they did it in Florida, if they did it in Washington D.C. and if they did it in New York, I mean, we might even find a situation where four different jurisdictions could be trying to put the president in prison for the rest of his. Oh, wait, that's what they did. Yeah.
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Buck Sexton
Well, this is why you can't have a, a discussion with them about this because they're so far apart. You know, it's like if you're in a negotiation with somebody and you think their house is worth $100,000 and they think the house is worth a million dollars, there's really not a lot to talk about. Yeah, that's where we are on political violence. Like Democrats are just operating in an alternate reality where whether it's a question of this is like a both sides thing or, you know, we just need to cool the temperature down a little bit. They need to cool the temperature down. They're the ones that do censorship. They're the ones that act in an author, I mean, to call us authoritarian. It's like we're all supposed to forget about how they acted during COVID I mean, that was the most clear. That was the Biggest opportunity to show whether or not you were a true authoritarian. Wanted the government's boot to be at your disposal to put on someone else's neck. And it was all the Democrats who were pushing that stuff. And it was the right that was saying, hold on a second, like, what's going on here? Why are you doing this?
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Clay Travis
Um, I also was going to mention this. A lot of you have been reaching out. Keith Olbermann is crazy. And I asked Buck about this off air, but I'll say it on air, too. I don't know where the Keith Olbermann story is going to, but I don't think it's going to be a very positive destination. And I feel bad in many ways because this was a guy that was one of my idols. When I was a kid, Buck, I would get up in the morning, get ready for school, eat my cereal.
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Buck Sexton
Clay. That's worse than me downloading Kamala's book.
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Clay Travis
No, no. I bet there's tons of people out there listening. He was great on SportsCenter with Dan Patrick. Back in the day. They. If you were a sports fan, I bet huge percentages of our listeners out there that are sports fans did the same thing as me. You would wake up in the morning, you would put on Sports center, you would eat your breakfast. And Dan Patrick, who was still doing great work, distributed by iheart on sports talk radio. Legend of sports talk radio and Keith Olbermann were an incredible duo. They were really funny. They made sports more fun. And now I really feel like he's. He's. He's gone off the deep end, Buck. And he just issued an apology. Producer Greg just got my back. He said, I'm one of those guys. I loved Olbermann and dan Patrick on SportsCenter. There are a lot of us out there that grew up. I used to love them. I used to love Keith Olbermann. Dan Patrick, very funny. I still love Dan Patrick Colbert. Olbermann's crazy. Here is what he just had to do. He tweeted at Scott Jennings, our friend on cnn, your next m. You got to get an idea. Er, uh. And then he just said, I'm guessing his attorneys. Yesterday, I wrote and immediately deleted 2 Responses to Scott Jennings about Kimmel. Because they could be misinterpreted as a threat to anything besides his career, I immediately replaced them with one specifying what I actually meant. I oppose and condemn political violence and the threat of it all. Times are the wrong time to leave even an inadvertent impression of it. But this time is Especially wrong. I should have acknowledged the deletion and apologized yesterday. I'm sorry I delayed. This is what happened. He says, I apologize without reservation to Scott Jennings. Your next expletive. Keep mugging to the camera. And this was turned into the FBI because it sounds like a threat. And he meant. Olbermann is saying that he believes Scott Jennings should be canceled from television, like Jimmy Kimmel was. That is his explanation. But again, I just. I think this guy is on a fast track to crazy town. He may already be there. And this was one of the most successful people in media. I mean, what years did Keith Olbermann. Was he the straw that stirred the drink at MSNBC early 2000s, when he was like. And look, I'm talking about watching him on SportsCenter back in the 90s, which was when he had his apex as a sports figure. But early 2000s, Keith Olbermann was about as big as you could get in media. And now he's having to apologize because people are reading his tweets and thinking he's threatening to kill someone.
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Buck Sexton
Remember he had that period where he was on Current TV where Al Gore's absurd statements about climate change in that preposterous documentary made him so much money that he then bought a whole TV station to put left wing loons on? And Keith Olbermann was the. What are you looking at me like?
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Clay Travis
Didn't he sell. Didn't he sell that network for $500 million or something?
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Buck Sexton
Yes, he did something like that. Yes.
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Clay Travis
So, I mean, not only did he create a network that none of us have ever heard of before prior he sold it. What happened to Current TV? I mean, that feels like somebody just gave him $500 million. I feel like it was purchased in the Middle East. Am I wrong? I think it was Cutter.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, yeah. Or Qatar, as people like to say these days. Yes.
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Clay Travis
And now, you know, Gore got $500 million for that. But, yeah, Overman got paid a ton of money to go to Current tv. Nobody watched him. And now he lives in a apartment overlooking Central park, and he looks and sounds like a crazy person. More so every single day. So I'm glad he apologized because obviously I hope I never send a tweet where people are like, Clay Travis is saying, we need to kill someone. But I think this is the sign of kind of where Olbermann is falling apart.
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Buck Sexton
You know what's a really important lesson, though, Clay? The way to avoid that is not to put tweets out that suggest that you think somebody should be killed. So you and I don't have a. We don't have a problem here. There's not an issue really.
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Clay Travis
You know, so far I have not done that in 20 some odd years. I hope I never have to apologize for saying that that people thinking that I want to kill someone. But that is where Keith Olbermann is. We'll come back, we'll take some of your talk back, some of your calls. In the meantime, get the energy your body needs with Chalk. This is all natural. Based in the great state of Texas family business dedicated to helping people feel their best, the Chalk Mail Vitality Stack is the most popular product. What is it? It's an ingredient that replenishes diminished testosterone levels in men. Do you know testosterone the body's natural source of energy for men? When your levels are low and every guy's testosterone levels declines as you age, you'll start to feel not as good as you did in your 20s and 30s. You can get all natural replenishment from Chalk's male vitality stack of up to 20% in just three months time. Spelled with a Q Gives you energy to get through your day. C H O Q. You can use my name Clay as the promo code to get a massive discount on any Chalk subscription for life. That's go online to chalk.com c h o q.com don't forget to use my name Clay. Massive discount on any subscription for life. You can cancel any time with no penalty. No worries about that. That's chalk.com c h o q.com keep up with the biggest political comeback in world history on the Team 47 podcast claim Buck Highlight Trump replays from the week, Sundays at noon Eastern. Find it on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Clay Travis
In Clay Travis Buck Sexton show we'll finish up with some of your talkbacks. I was right, by the way. Current TV sold in 2013 for $500 million. They renamed it Al Jazeera Media Network US version English language. And then there was not enough of an audience and so they shut it down in 2016 due to financial losses. So several different callers, variety of perspectives.
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Buck Sexton
Let's tell you, they asked me many times to go on that channel, oh, you gotta ask to do terrorism analysis. And I was like, you guys are like, like a enemy media. Like I have no interest in talking to you. But they used to ask all the time.
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Clay Travis
I mean, I don't know how often a company would sell for $500 million in media and get shut down a couple of years later because there's no audience for it. So, I mean, Al Gore really basically got paid off by the Qataris because it shut down three years later and they bought it for $500 million. I mean, that's hard to explain. Phil in North Carolina. What's up, Phil?
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Caller
I'm just calling about the, the trading, you know, with everybody in Congress. Yeah, yeah, on the inside. Well, it's really inside trade. But how is it they are still, I mean, they're so rich and they still take money from the taxpayer. I mean, can they pass a law saying, hey, if you're worth 5 million or $10 million, you shouldn't be taking any money from the darn taxpayer. I'm sorry. I mean, that's, that's crazy.
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Clay Travis
Thanks for the call. Trump is not taking a salary, doesn't get talked about very much, but he donates. I believe the President, United States makes 400 grand, if I'm not mistaken. Buck. And Trump donates the entirety of it back to the federal government.
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Buck Sexton
Bloomberg as mayor did the same thing.
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Clay Travis
Bloomberg did the same thing.
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Buck Sexton
Not, not a big, not a big hardship for him. He's, he's doing okay. Bloomberg, same thing with Trump, not a big hardship.
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Clay Travis
I mean, if I were a senator or a governor, I wouldn't take the salary. I would donate it back. I mean, I feel like I've got enough to take care of my family. Now, some people, to be fair, they need the money. I mean, they are working. It's a. It's a job that requires a lot of effort and energy, and a lot of them do not have the independent wealth to not be able to. To take the salary. But I give credit to people like Trump and to your point, people like Bloomberg, and again, I'm nowhere near as wealthy as those guys. But if I were serving in office, I would donate my entire salary to charity. I mean, that seems like something that's reasonable. There probably are other wealthy senators and congressmen out there that don't get a lot of attention to it. Maybe they don't want to draw attention to it that I would bet also make that same decision. But I think it's a fair question to ask. If you're worth massive amounts of money, why not just say, I'm doing this for the public interest? I think it eliminates a lot of the arguments that you're conflicted out when you say, as Trump does, hey, I'm doing this because I think it's in the best interest of the country. I'm not doing it for the salary that I'm paid. Ben, in Morristown, New Jersey, you got to take for us Morristown, site of a famous Revolutionary War battle, if I'm not mistaken. Is that correct?
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Caller
That's absolutely correct.
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Clay Travis
I'm reading this great book, the trilogy about the Revolutionary War, and I was reading, as nerds do, about the battle of Morristown last night as I got ready for bed. All right, but you got a big governor's race going on. What did you want to tell us?
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Caller
Yeah, there's the latest poll out by national research is showing that Cittarelli is actually up by 1 percentage point. And there's another pollster who's a startup who's using AI and it's called Zeus Political Index, and he's showing very similar results. So I think some of the polls that show that he's behind by seven or eight points are not very accurate.
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Clay Travis
Okay, thank you. And certainly anyone listening to us in New Jersey, it's going to be a close race. Get out and vote and support sanity. And that is voting for the Republican candidate, Schitterelli, who I believe I mispronounced earlier and hopefully I pronounce correctly.
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Buck Sexton
Chitterelli.
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Clay Travis
Chitterelli. It's close. I might have mispronounced it and did it with a curse word at the front. Chitterelli. Am I pronouncing chit?
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Buck Sexton
Chit. Chitterelli.
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Clay Travis
Chit. Sorry. I'm sorry fcc. I'm trying to pronounce the guy's name by the way. This is crazy. Speaking of crazy, according to Fox News, the would be Trump assassin Ryan Ruth who was just convicted Ralph, however you pronounce his name, was just convicted of of all counts of assassination attempt, tried to stab himself in the neck with a pen in the courtroom right after the guilty verdict was read. Yeah, so. So anyway, that is the update. The second Trump assassin, of course the first one is dead and they tell us we know nothing about him and they were unable to find out anything about him. Remember that. But the second Trump assassin now found guilty and will be spending the rest of his life in prison and there is a conviction there. Tomorrow we'll break down more of the craziness. We'll see if I can correctly pronounce tomorrow unless they arrest me by the FCC violation seal Life's messy.
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
Or the capability to go off road?
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Buck Sexton
Maybe it's up to 600 plus miles of range? What if it's all of that and more?
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Clay Travis
What is it.
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