I think that the country right now faces hugely challenging and fundamentally important issues.

And what we've done in our politics is create a situation where we're electing idiots.

And...

And so I don't look at it through the lens of like, you know, is this what I should do or what I shouldn't do?

I look at it through the lens of how do we elect serious people?

And I think electing serious people can't be partisan.

Former Congresswoman Liz Cheney with a frank assessment on the state of American politics.

I wonder who she's actually talking about there.

I think we know perhaps the Republicans leading wing out yet another excuse for that leaked audio tape that appeared to capture him showing off classified material to people without security clearances.

A lot of people saw that audio as him admitting to a crime.

But in an interview with Fox News Digital yesterday, the former president professed his innocence and accused the media even Fox of conspiring against him.

Here's a portion of that leaked tape from August of 2021, followed by Trump's defense yesterday.

Let's see...

Yeah?

Isn't that amazing?

This totally wins my case, you know?

Except it is like highly confident, you know, secretive.

It's done by the military, given to me.

I think we can probably fix that.

I know. Well, we'll have to see.

He's right now.

He's the president.

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