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Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, I'm Virginia Heffernan. If we end up doing burncast with episodes on

bros instead of red hats, spitting fury, misogyny, racism, the ill health of an octogenarian,

the demise of the Democratic Party and the American President's Russian allegiances,

I will be over the moon. As much as I think Sanders will be a bad president and is a sloppy,

chippy ideologue who lacks the capacity to govern, I'm with Joe Walsh on anyone but Trump.

In the waning hours, and not that I have any influence, I do want to call attention. Once again,

to Sanders' written gang rape fantasies, yes, it's true, his friendship with the gun lobby,

his bizarre recent statement that black men need to be more respectful of the police,

less they get shot, the legacy of harassment and mistreatment and underpayment of women on his

2016 campaign. His hiring of Tad Devine that same year, that Manafort running buddy,

as chief strategist, his longtime admiration for dangerous regimes in the Soviet Union,

China and Cuba. His vote against Magnitsky, his recent interview in RT, his acceptance of an

endorsement by Joe Rogan, his endorsement by Republicans, who believe he'll help elect Trump,

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