The OppScore challenge; and Biden Inc. collapsing (05-09-2025--Hour2)

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[00:00:28] I'd like to welcome to the program J.P. Moran. He is the founder of a thing called Opscore, O-P-P-score, Opscore. J.P., how are you, sir? J.P., good, good. How are you? Thank you for having me on. J.P. Moran Yes, sir. Absolutely. So you are the founder of this nonprofit called GoUSA, and y'all invented you or the, you can tell me, is it just you or is it like the organization that invented this Opscore? J.P. Moran Well, I primarily, I'm a fan of the organization that invented this Opscore.

[00:00:58] I primarily invented it along with the tech person that built it all out. The genius, I would say, is Jonathan Winos as well. And we have a great group of patriots that have been working on this for the past few years. J.P. All right. So, and you also have run for Congress. So was that the only national office you've run for up in, I think it was Massachusetts, right?

[00:01:21] J.P. That's correct. Yeah, I ran for, I ran for, I was the nominee for Congress and the GOP nominee in 2020 for the 6th District in Massachusetts. J.P. So given my limited knowledge of Massachusetts, I'm thinking that that was not successful being a Republican in Massachusetts.

[00:01:38] J.P. Yes, it is definitively the state in the union. And we, it was the middle of COVID. I really, I ran to make a point and to stand up against the, you know, forces I think that are working against the American people and the residents of Massachusetts. J.P. Right. J.P. So I did a principled stand to run against the corrupt machine up here in Massachusetts. J.P. Okay. And so was that before or after you created this Opscore?

[00:02:07] J.P. It was before. J.P. Okay. J.P. GoUSA was kind of a little bit of like a conservative pro-America think tank from 2018 until I ran for Congress. But it was really invented. It was born from me running for Congress because it's so messed up, the politics in our country. I came as a business owner and an entrepreneur for years and a scientist at MIT prior to running.

[00:02:30] And I thought, you know, I knew politics was corrupt, but man, I didn't know it was so bad and that there really wasn't a tool to elect people. There's not an easy-to-use, nonpartisan tool out there for voters to help decide who to vote for. That was the inspiration for inventing it, a year of grueling time on the campaign trail, realizing that people are just not voting. They're voting against themselves most of the time, and that drove me crazy.

[00:02:59] J.P. So it sounds like you discovered a disconnect in the way people vote versus what their views are on particular issues? J.P. Yes, yes, exactly. When I ran, I'm kind of a numbers tech guy, and I counted the thousands of people I met and how much support they were giving me on the issues when I traveled around the district. And while Seth Moulton, the Democrat incumbent, was hiding in probably someone's basement, if you know what I mean.

[00:03:29] He wouldn't go out and campaign. He wouldn't go out and he wouldn't debate me or anything. And people on issue after issue after issue, I was getting 80%, 90% support on everything. And I'm thinking, how is it possible that you lose a race? If I was a product in the business world, in the consumer world, I would easily win. I would easily, easily win because these people couldn't stand the principles of the far left that's been running our state.

[00:03:55] So we invented this system, and because out of necessity, people are voting against themselves. They keep on electing people that are working against them. So I figured, let's invent a system that will stop that, that will just get people to line themselves up with the people they want to elect on the issues and not all the crap that they're being fed by the media. So part of it is also, you mentioned if you were a business or a product or something, people would be flocking to it based on the attributes.

[00:04:24] But part of it is also branding, right? I mean, that's a large part of why some people purchase one item over another. There's branding, there's marketing. And in our system, people identify with the brands. Now, the brands, the two parties, they change, they shift. I mean, I've argued for several years now we're in a realignment of both political parties. Don't know how it's going to shake out yet.

[00:04:50] But the brands are what people identify with. And so that's why they vote for that particular brand, which is a great example of this is in the immigration issue where, you know, simply, what, 10, 15 years ago, Democrats held the position that Donald Trump is espousing. And yet you go forward, you know, through the Obama presidency.

[00:05:13] And now it's essentially an open borders platform in the Democrat or a plank in the Democrat platform. And there was no vote for that. There wasn't anybody. There was no discussion like, hey, from now on, you know, we're going to abandon all of these former positions. So how much of this stuff, though, is branding where people just identify themselves as the as a member of that party? Well, that's the problem is exactly that.

[00:05:39] There's a I would estimate there's about a 40 point advantage right out of the block, right out. You know, the disadvantage for Republicans because of the the Democrat brand, which is, you know, if you look at the media is 80, 90 percent, at least up until recently. Maybe it's changing a little bit. It was owned by the left. Corporate America is more or less owned by the left. But if you look at Columbia and Harvard and most universities are owned by the left.

[00:06:06] So there's a constant, constant diet of constant Republicans bad, Democrats good. That's it. And in actuality, we have the data. We looked at the top the top 25 issues that people care about in America, which are our system, which are based on many, many polls from Pew Research and Rasmussen and Gallup and others and other polls. We've done the 80. The number is actually 85. It's not 80 percent.

[00:06:32] It's 85 percent support common sense principles, which are kind of MAGA America principles. And only 15 percent support the far left. And that wasn't the you know, that wasn't the case maybe 10 or 20 years ago. But like you said, they've gone for open borders. 80 percent of people don't want open borders. 80 percent of people want what to give or take. 80, 85 percent don't want biological men in women's sports. So this is what we're dealing with there.

[00:06:58] They've got they've taken extreme positions and they think they think they they can just keep getting reelected because they have the Democrat brand name and they have the media and they have the you know, the globalists on their side. And they can just say, screw the voters. We're going to shove this down your throat because we're you know, and then we I don't care if the Republicans did that. We would just have to just much after the Republicans. So it's really not, you know, the system that we built is populist.

[00:07:23] Do what you if you stand for the American people on the issues, you get a good rating and then people flock to vote for you. And that's where I think that's where it needs to go and not this branding thing where people buy by the brand and forget about the quality of what they're delivering. So let's talk a little bit about this this op score. Why is it called op score? So the name is op score. It stands for Opportunity Score. So we're Grand Opportunity USA is the full name of our organization.

[00:07:50] And opportunities are is the is the focus of our mission because we're the we're the land of opportunity and opportunities what everybody wants. And it's nobody could argue that's partisan. Right. Right. Opportunity is sort of the center of our organization. And it's thematically. And the name of the score is actually the opportunity score. Now, we were going to think about, well, it's really kind of a common sense score, but you really can't trademark that. And anybody can come up with their own common sense score. So we wanted to come up with something that was unique.

[00:08:19] So op scores are trademark brands. It's the short version of opportunity score. And people can go to the website op score dot org, is it? Yes. OK. You can see the ratings at OPP. So it's two piece op score dot org. And you can actually take a test. And the magic that we that we found was that we rated people since 2022.

[00:08:41] And this is where we found out that, you know, the numbers, if you get down to the brass tacks on it, are about 67 percent or strongly support MAGA principles. 13 percent support Democrat principles. And the 20 percent in the middle, they go five to one, given the choice between the two, between Republicans and Democrats. They'll pick the Republican. So that's how the numbers work out. And those are from the people that have been taking the test.

[00:09:11] Yes. Those are people that are that. Well, those are people that have been taking the test that we where you take you take the quiz. Yeah. And the exact same principles. We rate all the politicians. I'll rerate it every every politician in America. Twenty twenty five issues. Thirty six questions times a thousand. All five or thirty five members of Congress, all their challengers.

[00:09:31] So you can imagine that the work involved with that, because we have a team of volunteers manually looking where they stand on abortion, on the First Amendment, on the Second Amendment, on borders, on taxes, on you name it. Right. All the things that people care about. So that's that's how we created it is. And when you when you take the Opscore challenge, you take the test yourself and then you get a number from negative five and the opportunity to positive five strong pro opportunity. And then there's all these numbers in between.

[00:09:57] And then you get to see where you line up with your politician, almost like a dating app where you say, OK, these are my interests. I want to date somebody that has my interest in mind. There's that there's dating apps that do that. We said, well, let's take some popular culture, Rotten Tomatoes ratings and Yelp ratings that people are used to seeing and mix it with some kind of, you know, lining yourself up based on your your political personality and see where you stand.

[00:10:18] And when people do that, we've we actually got the number that 60 percent of Democrats switch to choose Republicans and 83 percent of independents actually chose Republicans when they you know it. America first Republicans when they after they took the test. So now we know from that and from other research we did with the poll in Wisconsin last prior to that, that the numbers all jive, that the numbers are consistent, that the vast, vast majority of people over 80 percent agree on the on the on the on the principles.

[00:10:48] We talk about every day and the radical left stands on only 20 percent, less than 20 percent. And actually, the far, far left, AOC, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, when you add up where they stand on the issues, we have evidence proving they only have one percent, one percent support of the population and only 10 percent of support of actual Democrats. So how can they say they're saving democracy when they are definitively have no support, but yet they're shoving their their policies down our throats, hoping to get reelected?

[00:11:17] That that to me is tyranny on a grand scale. So the idea that that's a stop. Right. And so so the the idea here is that people go onto the Web site. They do the challenge, which I did. I went over there the other day and I took it. Oh, OK. Yeah. It came out as like a plus four and a half or something. And so then and then it lines you up with it then lines you up. OK, so based on your score, here's and I think it was the presidential race. It said Donald Trump is the candidate that's closest to your score. And so people can use that as a tool.

[00:11:46] And the idea then is that if you can get them to go through the 36 questions, right, then you get you can help. It directs them to the candidates that share their their beliefs and maybe breaks through the branding. Exactly. Exactly. In fact, our motto is it's not left or right or red versus blue. It is them versus you, because if you're voting for people that don't support your values,

[00:12:14] they're controlling you and you're they're doing they're working outside of your interests and working against you. So that's why we say it's not red versus blue. It's them versus you. And we do have the evidence that, you know, we can't follow someone into the voting booth. But when someone's presented with with their score and then they're able to choose who they're going to vote for. I mean, that's as close as you're going to get. Like you get a score, you line up. And from that, that's where we get these these these large numbers where our numbers in Wisconsin.

[00:12:40] And then and then when we did the actual test with actual voters, where we reached almost a million people the last election cycle with ads. And then some of them went and took the challenge. And of those that took the challenge, the numbers were 85 percent on average support, you know, really support American first Republican values. And they will vote that way and switch how they vote. It's kind of like the Pepsi challenge of politics, because people back.

[00:13:05] You remember the challenge where people drink poker and people thought they like Coke when they tried and they like Pepsi and a blind test. That's why we came up with the Opscore challenge, because we know that the vast majority of people agree and they're actually on the side of, you know, pro-America principles. But they're voting against themselves half the time. Yeah. So we're thinking, well, how about you take a quick test, line yourself up, cut out all the BS. And when we do that, we find that people are willing to change because you know what? They won't vote against themselves.

[00:13:33] They'll vote for party all day long. But the only thing that will break that is when they realize they're voting against themselves, because they just took the test and they can look at the data and they can look at the ratings from these people and see, well, I'm on the First Amendment. Why? Oh, wait a minute. I'm for the First Amendment. And where is this person against it? And they can in the Opscore ratings, we actually put the evidence. So you don't just we don't just rate them out of the blue. We do the work and then we show where we get the evidence from. What's the voting record or what's their statement? And we put we put a link right there. So it's all transparent.

[00:14:03] There's no BS going on. It's like this is where we came up with it. Oh, they're for teachers unions and therefore they're against school choice. It's right there. Right. It's not debatable. It's there against school choice. Eighty, eighty five percent of people are for school choice. Where do you stand? JP Moran. Yeah, no, I appreciate it. I enjoyed the test as well. I thought it was very accurate and people can try it out for themselves. Opscore.org. That's O-P-P-score.org. Opscore.org.

[00:14:30] And JP Moran, the founder of Opscore and Go USA. I appreciate you making some time for us today. Good luck with the project. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. And I'll say that just if I can say one of the quick things. That's based on the 2024 race. So you're going to see candidates and from the 2024 race because we don't have the 2026 races lined up yet. So it's still instructional. You'll still see where you stand. But don't be shocked when you see, oh, I lined up with the person that lost their race or won their race. Right, right, right.

[00:14:58] Until 2026, it's going to be the same people from 2024. One won, one lost. All right. That's a good point. JP, thanks so much, man. Have a great weekend. Thank you. You too. All right. Take care. Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina, just a quick drive up the mountain? And Cabins of Asheville is your connection. Whether you're celebrating an anniversary, a honeymoon, maybe you want to plan a memorable proposal or get family and friends together for a big old reunion, Cabins of Asheville

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[00:16:42] And it's got people wondering like, why are they doing this? Why is he now getting out there and he's still running around? Like the Democrat party is in, is in need of new leadership. What are you doing running around talking about, you know, your legacy and how bad Trump is and all of this? Like the party is trying to move beyond you, right? So I have some more sound bites.

[00:17:09] Um, I, I re-racked the last one that I played, but I'm going to start, start this one again. There have been a number of deeply sourced, this was the question from one of the members of The View, uh, one of the hosts. I think it was Sonny Hostin or Hostin. And she said, there's been a number of deeply sourced from Democrats, deeply sourced books and news articles that claim there was a dramatic decline in your cognitive abilities in your final year. Are these sources wrong?

[00:17:40] They are wrong. There's nothing to sustain that. Um, number one, number two, you know, think of what, uh, what we're left with. We left with a circumstance where we, uh, we had a insurrection when I started. We did not sense a civil war. We had a circumstance where we were in a position that we, uh, well, the pandemic because of the incompetence of the last outfit. Right. End up over a million people dying.

[00:18:10] A million people dying. And we're also in a situation where we found ourselves, uh, unable to, uh, deal with a lot of just basic issues. And, uh, which I won't go into in the interest of time. And so we went to work and we got it done. And, uh, you know, one of the things that, that, well, I'm talking for a while. You know, one of the things I think is that the people who wrote those books were not in the White House with us.

[00:18:40] That's Dr. Jill. And they didn't see how hard Joe worked every single day. I mean, he'd get up, he put in a full day and then at night he would, I'd be in bed, you know, reading my book and he was still on the phone reading his briefings, um, working with staff. I mean, it was nonstop. It's the White House being president is not like a job. It's a lifestyle. It's a life that you live.

[00:19:08] You live it 24 hours a day. That phone can ring at 11 o'clock at night or two in the morning. It's constant. You never leave it. And Joe worked really hard. I think he was a great president. Didn't answer the question. You know, Dr. Jill to the rescue. He had no real answer. She had no direct answer. Just that he was busy all day. He kept busy. Look how busy he is. Oh, my goodness.

[00:19:38] He's just, you know, doddering around the White House all day, just talking to people and reading stuff. And oh, my goodness. Yeah. The question was about his cognitive decline and the deeply sourced reports that now the truth can be told, as I've been documenting for almost a year now. Right now that Joe is out. Now everybody can talk about what we could all see with our own eyes. All right. If you're listening to this show, you know, I try to keep up with all sorts of current events. And I know you do, too.

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[00:20:58] Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports Ground News as they make the media landscape more transparent. Joe Biden dodges a question about his relationship with Obama after, you'll recall, Barack Obama said that, you know, the party should move on and Joe should step aside and all of that in the pressure campaign behind the scenes. So what's his relationship like with Obama now? Oh, hang on. Hang on. Hang on.

[00:21:27] I muted the computer so I wouldn't play. All right. Here we go. Now we hear Joe. I think that the only reason I got out of the race was because I didn't want to have a divided Democratic Party. It's a simple proposition. And so that's why I got out of the race. I thought it was better to put the country ahead of my interest, my personal interest. I'm not being facetious. I'm being deadly earnest about that. Yeah, we know. Oh, yeah, definitely.

[00:21:57] I love listening to the host on The View. Like, oh, yeah, yeah. Just all. It's just it's unseemly. It's just kind of the ick factor, you know? So he got out. The only reason he got out of the race was because he didn't want to divide the Democrat Party. Well, why was the Democrat Party divided? Because apparently a critical mass of the party believed you could not run again.

[00:22:26] And the reason they thought you couldn't run again was because you weren't going to win. And the reason you weren't going to win was because of all the stuff you had done in your first term that you claim was so successful that everybody loved you for, but apparently weren't going to vote for you again. And because of your cognitive impairment. That's what all of the new reports are. That's what all the books are about. Everybody's talking about the thing that we all identified four years ago.

[00:22:53] I think that, you know, we still put this way. I had six more months. Did a pretty good job in six months. Yeah. We love you, Joe. We love you. I was doing a G20. I was doing a G20 in Brazil in November. I was being a sheep. Yeah, we remember. I mean, there's nothing that changed in terms of my work ethic or the success we had with

[00:23:23] foreign policy or domestic policy. But look, I understand. And the last thing we needed was for me to, and by the way, it's not illegitimate to say, look, I know he only looks like he's 40, but at the end of that term, he'd be 86 years old. I get it. I understand the concern. I really do.

[00:23:49] But the point of the matter is that I would offer specific evidence, if we had time, exactly what I got done when I was supposedly lost my cognitive capability. And secondly, what we did after we got out of the race, I said when I got out of the race, I was still going to be president. Yeah. I think I did a pretty damn good job the last six months. Yeah, I did. Or somebody did. Right.

[00:24:15] Somebody who was signing executive orders and doing all sorts of wacky stuff that the Supreme Court had to say, like, yeah, you actually cannot ratify a constitutional amendment via tweet. Why did Democrats, he was then asked, why did his fellow Democrats buy into this whole idea that you couldn't win again? Why did they buy into it? Well, first of all, we still were winning primaries. We were still doing everything.

[00:24:40] The Democratic Party at large didn't buy into it, but the Democratic leadership and some of the very significant contributors did, even though we raised enormous. Like when I left the race, Kamala had hundreds of millions of dollars. She had the best organized campaign. Every state was organized, et cetera. But, you know, what happens is that it took on a life. And I had a very, I'm going to say something outrageous.

[00:25:09] I've lost many debates in my life. I've been pretty good at doing that. I was sick. I was. Wait, wait, what? I thought it was a stutter. Now it's he was sick. He's saying he was sick. I had a bad night. That's what he said. I had a bad night. I had a bad night. We didn't hear anything about him being sick. Now he's claiming he was sick during the debate.

[00:25:35] And that's why he didn't do so hot during the debate. Also, he had a bunch of problems from the donors and stuff, but they still left Kamala Harris with hundreds of millions of dollars. They had her well positioned to win. And we had everything set up right. We had these the infrastructure in place. He had won the primaries, mainly because they, you know, wouldn't allow anybody to run against him. Like this is not a good performance. No excuse. But I was not. It's an explanation.

[00:26:05] And I had a bad, bad night. Yeah. And and I had anyway, I'm not going to immediately know you had had a bad night. Yeah, I did. But even after that, the polls show be down by two points. Now, remember, we covered this story also where they were not showing him negative polling. His his his aides, right, the bubble that was protecting him, these people that were around him that shielded him from stuff.

[00:26:32] They would not give him any of the polling data if it reflected very badly. For his chances. So he may really believe this, that he could have won. Because the information he was allowed to see was always information that led him to believe he could win. Joe came on. I went on to the stage after the debate. I mean, we all saw it. It was terrible. And so Joe looked at me and he said, I will all use screwed up.

[00:27:02] He said, I didn't say that. And I said, yeah, I don't know. Joe Biden, we know what he said. He curses everybody. Oh, my gosh. But we have hundreds of people waiting for us. Put your shoulders back. Walk out there. You know, be who you are. And we were not going to let 90 minutes of a debate define his presidency and all those years of service. No, but no, it's not what happened. That it's not that that defined his presidency.

[00:27:29] It's that nobody could look away from the truth any longer. That the the the gig was up. Byron York over at the Washington Examiner. He had a really good write up on. There's a new book coming out. Twenty twenty four. How Trump retook the White House and the Democrats lost America. It's written by Tyler Pager from The New York Times.

[00:27:55] Josh Dossie from The Wall Street Journal and Isaac Arnsdorf from The Washington Post. Another. Now it can be told the thing that we all saw. The authors report that top White House aides debated having Biden undergo a cognitive test to prove his fitness for a second term, but ultimately decided against the move. And he goes on to say there is an inside story and an outside story. Right.

[00:28:24] The inside story of Biden's decline. The outside story of Biden's decline. So what is the inside story? That is the effort by the White House staff and Democrat allies, supporters in the media to conceal Biden's problem. That's the inside story. The outside story is the many public appearances, moments where Biden appeared confused, lost or frozen.

[00:28:51] And millions of viewers could see for themselves that the president had a serious problem. Another way to put it, he says, would be to say that the inside story was the effort to deny that the outside story existed. And there is a word for this people, and that word is gaslighting. That's what we were all subjected to. And once the debate happened, right, the fog lifted. Everybody could see it.

[00:29:20] There was no more denying it. Anybody who denied it would look like a fool. And we saw some try. He had a cold. It was his stutter, whatever. No, I'm not letting you guys rewrite history. So the question, though, is then what are they doing this for? Why are they bringing Biden out? Why are they trotting him out on the stage? He did a speech. He did a BBC interview. Now he did this live interview on The View. What's the point of this? All right.

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[00:31:14] And the Democrat is a guy named Dan Turrentine. And Halperin says that you could say that Biden is doing this mediatory, got the comms people in now to work for him, right? To fight back and protect his legacy and protect his reputation. Yes, you could say that. That's one thing.

[00:31:42] I talked to a very someone very familiar with the Bidens. And I think they've pointed out something that I'm going to say now that to me is the explanation or at least part of the explanation, which is Biden, Inc. has collapsed. All those Biden grandkids had a lavish lifestyle, which they very much liked. Hunter made hundreds of thousands of dollars, millions of dollars. Joe, as a former president, is not in a position to get the same kind of paid speeches, corporate boards, book deal.

[00:32:11] Biden, Inc. needs a source of revenue. And Hunter does, even though he was pardoned, he's not going to prison. Hunter does not have great earning capacity. And you look at the rest of the family. Wait, wait, wait. The paintings aren't worth a lot? No, the paintings are not worth a lot. So what I'm positing for you guys to weigh in on, Dan, first, is my source right, is what at least part of this is about, is the reality that Biden, Inc., the trough is empty. The spigot has shut down.

[00:32:40] They need a way to get back in the game to make big money, to have the grandchildren fed and clothed and flown first class, et cetera. It certainly could be. I think the challenge is, at his age, kind of trying to start a new career, so to speak, a new set of endeavors, is very hard. Who else is going to do it, though? Well, no, I mean, that's the thing, right? His brother has been under FBI. You know, watch now. You've got Hunter's issues. It very well could be.

[00:33:09] I just think the challenge for him is, in all of these appearances, and I'll add Jill to this, we know what everyone wants to ask him about, about why he dropped out, about his age, about, and at least maybe we'll see today something different. He still doesn't have good answers. Correct. He still doesn't have good answers.

[00:33:30] This was yesterday morning before Biden's appearance on The View, and he got asked those very questions that Dan Turrentine said people want to ask him, and he still doesn't have good answers because there isn't one. Like, this is, there's a reason why it looks like he's trying to cover up cognitive decline. It's because he's trying to cover up cognitive decline. Like, that's the answer.

[00:33:59] And because he doesn't have good answers, that could set back the cause of Biden, Inc., which they say was pulling in probably somewhere around $10 million a year, and now basically nothing, says Sean Spicer. The grift is over, right? The big guy's not getting his cut anymore, and that's a problem. I get it. They've lived a very lavish lifestyle. The beach house, I got to imagine the property taxes aren't cheap. They're used to a certain lifestyle, but not just them.

[00:34:27] To your point, the whole family was coming from one source, and they lost their USAID funding, basically. So this is a problem. I get it. But to your point, I don't see where the news source is. No one wants to, number one, no one wants to know what he thinks. Number two, he doesn't know what he thinks, and that's a bigger problem. When he goes on The View today, to your point, when I watched that BBC interview, he just sent himself back.

[00:34:51] You don't think the Washington Speakers Bureau and CA looked at that and said, man, that guy needs to be flown all over the country and the world giving $800,000 a pop speeches? No? No, I think they looked at him and said, hey, we're in the middle of a briefing right now. We're going to get back to you after the company retreat. The family's income has taken not just a hit. It's gone from millions to, I mean, I don't know what he's making now.

[00:35:20] You know, he got that one paid speech. But that's what? 400 grand a year as a former president. Right. Right. Yeah, but it's nothing like that. I mean, that's a couple months of Burisma. That's nothing. Listen to the way they're talking about Joe Biden. They sound like us. Like Mark Halperin and even the Democrat guy, they sound, they're saying things that we were saying four years ago. Like, the dam is broken.

[00:35:48] And I think that Halperin, quoting this source that is very familiar with the Bidens, whoever this may be, either way, I think this is what's going on. They got to get some money. Hunter Biden's paintings are not covering the nut. You know, they got bills to pay here. Also, the Trump administration is making plans to release the audio of Joe Biden's interview with Robert Herr.

[00:36:15] That was the special counsel who investigated Biden's handling of classified documents. And remember, he raised questions about Biden's mental acuity when he said we're not going to prosecute him because he's a, you know, he's an elderly man with a failing memory. So. You got the her audio and you have the book coming out by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson. That's going to plumb the depths, maybe of this scandal. Now, I did like this.

[00:36:46] Sean Spicer said that if Joe Biden keeps litigating the past in these interviews and appearances, he's not going to be able to get more speaking gigs because nobody cares about him saying how bad Trump is. And we did all these great things. Halper and then suggested one way Biden could become relevant here and and sought after is if he writes in his memoir, which he's allegedly writing now.

[00:37:08] He could write the mother of all tell all books and just burn every bridge that would make it. That would make it an attractive booking. All right. That'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast. So if you'd like, please support them, too. And tell them you heard it here.

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