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Let's begin with an email from Gary and it begins with a screenshot of a tweet from at conservatism DNA.

A seditious mentally ill real estate huckster twice impeached President United States who incited an armed insurrection to steal an election he lost, compromise national security.

First President United States four time criminally indicted a rapist guilty of sexual abuse and Republican still saying yes that's our guy.

And then Gary writes after this tweet still people like Molly Hemingway and Matt Walsh support the con man thanks for listening thanks for the feedback Gary.

I don't know exactly how to respond to that because first of all anyone can say anything on social media.

And if it goes uncorrected it can get reposted all over the place which would be more criticized for our criticism of President Trump or of not criticizing President Trump well I think remember 2016 we're pretty.

We weren't on the Trump train I guess you would say in 2016 you mentioned this several times we had no reason to believe that he was would be pro life that he would stick to his promise of getting justices who were strict original as far as US Constitution is concerned.

During the 2015-16 we got a lot of people like Mike Horton on talking about him being kind of a political Norman Vincent Peele viewing the world as winners and losers got a lot of heat Robert George was critical of President Trump.

And then it dissipated the criticism that we receive regarding any criticism of a former President Trump but then we had Bill Barr his fired attorney general that speak our conference and it kind of resurfaced criticism came back again I guess that's a decent summary.

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