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hey everybody tom woods here it's episode 2723 of the Tom Woods show. Here we are at the very, very beginning of 2026. I guess this is probably our second episode of 2026, isn't it, with Daniel McAdams, who is executive director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, which if somehow after the end of the year, you were thinking,

you know, for tax purposes, I wanted to give a lot of money away, but I still have some

leftover that I'd like to give away. Give it to the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity.

Ron Paul Institute.org. Daniel is also co-host with Dr. Paul of the Ron Paul Liberty Report, as you surely know.

And I like having Daniel on because we can just sit here and talk about a wide variety of things.

We can have a Po-Pourri episode on just what's going on in the news. So Daniel, welcome back.

And happy New Year. Happy New Year, year tom thanks for having me on a show

looking forward to our chat well here we are finally in twenty 26 and twenty six in politics

means the midterm elections that's what twenty six means like this is going to be bad for

twenty twenty six means this is going to be bad for your electoral prospects in 2026.

Now, on Christmas Day, I didn't initially see the Donald Trump message.

I guess it was on truth social.

But what I saw was Thomas Massey's response, which was, imagine you're spending a pleasant Christmas with your family and then all of a sudden

people's phones start blowing up all over the country with a message from the most powerful man in

the world condemning you for what for basically says Massey trying to pursue his own campaign promise

to help victims obviously Obviously, we're talking

about the Epstein situation. So Trump had this post the other day, and it's the usual thing that

makes no sense about Epstein's real. Epstein thing is fake. The Epstein thing is just Democrats,

or only the Democrats are going to get in trouble for it.

You can't even keep straight what he's saying, but there was a little snide comment about

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