Hey everybody, it's Nick Halselman here and welcome to the Muckrake podcast.

This is the Weekender episode and I have Pete Dominic joining me in a little bit to talk a lot about what's going on with the presidential race.

My co-host, Jerry Day Sexton, is busy for today so he'll be back as soon as possible.

But I did want to talk a little bit about the Donald Trump unhinged

press conference he had right after we finished recording with Pete. And don't forget, as this

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So head over to patreon.com slash muckrake podcast. It's been exploding recently. A lot of people are now joining and they're realizing how great these episodes are. You want to get the whole thing, especially with Pete Dominic coming up in his conversation because he is great. But before that, I wanted to share some clips I noticed from Donald Trump's press conference because

they're pretty unhinged, they're pretty crazy, and as is normal when you have a Republican

party that is so desperate in realizing how a problematic place they're in, they'll recycle their

old hits. And so we got back to a situation where he started bringing up Hillary Clinton of all people

in 2024. With Hillary Clinton, I could have done things to her that would have made your head spin.

I thought it was a very bad thing. Take the wife of a president of the United States and put her in jail.

He thought that was a bad thing. He ran on that. He literally ran on that. In fact, do we all remember this, Jim?

But if I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation because there has never been so many lies, so much deception.

There has never been anything like it.

And we're going to have a special prosecutor.

So he did that in the debate back in 2016.

So this is ridiculous what they're trying to rewrite here.

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