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Doesn't this seem a little bit like. Like a miracle it's all going to go away? Stop the testing. Stop the testing. I've given this example before and it just bears repeating right now. I saw that movie was with Leonardo DiCaprio and others. It's called don't look up. And the asteroid is about to hit the Earth and people see it coming. They see it coming. And then there's a whole movement of just don't look up, don't look up. Which to me is like a miracle. It's all going to go away. Don't look at the ports. Don't see that shipping has come to a complete halt in Seattle, in Long beach, in Boston. Don't look up. Don't see that the ships are all in Shanghai and in Chinese ports and they're not coming here. Don't look up. Don't see that this is having a disastrous impact systemically on our economy. And we know what the next several quarters are going to look like if we go down this path. Don't look up. I want to tell you to look up. See it. Let's look at it. Let's try to solve it. 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So they put it on the full one and they like removed it. There was nothing substantive that drastically or that even materially changed any of the answers here. Just take a look at the lawsuit. This is the amended complaint filed February 7, 2025. And then this is how it's written in plain English. Freedom carries with it responsibility, even for the press. Freedom of the press is not freedom from responsibility for its exercise. Then it says Paramount and CBS disagree. They believe in unbounded freedom to harm media content. Competitors, including President Trump, by misrepresenting the nature, characteristics and qualities of their broadcast and digital services, deceive consumers, including plaintiffs Donald Trump and Ronny Jackson, through advertisement and commercial promotion of substantially distorted broadcast and digital media content masquerading as news. See freely disseminate such substantially distorted broadcast and digital media content to the detriment of competitors and consumers. D brand their distorted broadcast and digital media content as legitimately edited news, all for profit without any level of responsibility commensurate with their influence over the American public. That's what this lawsuit is about. Then it says in October 2024, one month before Trump's landslide victory. It wasn't a landslide. Defendants, consistent with their modus operandi of advertising and disseminating false election related content for commercial benefit, advertised and promoted their CBS News 60 Minutes election special show, which was to air in PrimeTime on Monday, October 7, 2024, and feature interviews with then candidate Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Walls. By the way, Trump was too chicken shit, excuse my language, to even do the interview. Trump refused to interview at 60 Minutes because he was too afraid. Remember the 202060 Minutes interview with Leslie Stahl where Donald Trump brought a fake binder with blank pages and claimed it was his plan and then she asked to take a look at it and it was all blank pages and Donald Trump just walked off and said, you're just being nasty to me. He was too scared to do it. Kamala Harris did the interview. And then you go through it and like, you're trying to take a look, like, what the hell is this lawsuit even about? Like, randomly has photos of Trump's art of the deal. And then it goes as an initial matter, the unedited transcript revealed that the advertised Harris reply and the manipulated Harris reply were both part of a single answer mangled beyond recognition by defendants tampering. I just want to show you what the whole lawsuit is based on. I'm reading Trump's lawsuit. So the bold portion aired on Face The Nation on October 6, 2024. The underlying portion aired during election special on October 7, 2024. The remainder is unused. Okay, so this is what the lawsuit is about. Everything is in this paragraph. And Trump says that if you were to see this entire par paragraph, that would have changed what you won the election. Whitaker from 60 Minutes. We supply Israel with billions of dollars in military aid, and yet Prime Minister Netanyahu seems to be charting his own course. The Biden Harris administration has pressed him to agree to a cease fire. He's resisted. You urged him not to go into Lebanon. He went in anyway. Does the US have no sway over Prime Minister Netanyahu? Harris the work that we do diplomatically with the leadership of Israel is an ongoing pursuit around making clear our principles. WHITAKER but it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening. Harris well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region. And we're not going to stop doing that. We are not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end. So what Donald Trump saying is that entire thing that I just read should have all been just like that, but because it was a little bit sliced and diced and not all of that was in there. That's his injury. That's his damage. I'm reading you from his lawsuit, page 63. That's the claim for $20 billion in injury. So if you take that and then you take a look at what I just said was edited by NBC. Maybe. Maybe it's 1 trillion. Maybe my lawsuit should be for 1 trillion gazillion dollars. I mean, at this point, folks, there's the Turkish proverb, and I've heard this in other cultures as well, which is when you bring the clown into the palace, the palace doesn't make the clown a king. The palace becomes a circus. No offense to clowns and circuses. Real professions and circuses can be enjoy enjoyable. Not in politics, though, and not with fascist clowns. Fascist circuses. That's what's happening here. What are we talking about? What are we. This isn't a. Shouldn't it be a Democrat, Republican, independent, political. What are we talking about, people? Well, there you have it. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe and let's get to what, 5 million subscribers together. Can we get there in May? Let's get to 5 million subscribers and check out MidasPlus.com can't get enough Midas? Check out the Midas plus substack for ad Free articles, reports, reports, podcasts, daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski and more. Sign up for free now@midasplus.com.
