And now for a moment of clarity.

The plot thickens.

And, you know, we're reaching the dog days of summer and just, you just never know.

Every day there's another narrative coming out.

Every day you find yourself sitting there looking at your phone like, not again, what more?

And, you know, it's's just it's just how this

is you know you have this sense that you know the beat goes on but the plot thickens and and and

and that's the problem that Trump has uh and I think very much to the question that's on the table like, okay, if there's a there,

why not just get it out in front?

It's summer.

Get it out now when people are beaches and all this other stuff.

But it's the makeup of the man himself that makes that much more difficult.

So where I want to go next is what's the end game as you see it?

From your reporting, where do these pieces come together and how do they come together for this administration?

You have, for example, the Wall Street Journal reporting on what Cash Patel knows, noting the director Cash Patel was the press probably told

other government officials that Trump's name appeared in the files according to people close

to the administration. So you have someone who was in the mix pushing, talking about we're going

to expose all of this. When we get in power, we're going to take it all out, right?

Now admitting and telling folks that the president's name is there yet and still,

we have this slow role to put this information on the street.

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