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Victor's wisdom on. I think the first thing we should hear from Victor about today is Donald Trump this past couple of days and he spoke.

He had his first major campaign rally Saturday the 25th and wake up Texas. That's on the heels of some really interesting social media output by him on his truth social and we'll get Victor's thoughts on that on some foreign policy matters related to China and Putin in the Middle East.

Anthony Fauci laughing off lab leaks maybe something else but we'll get to the to Trump and politics right after these important messages.

We're back with the Victor Davis Hanson show so Victor you've seen the news Donald Trump you may not have watched.

I didn't mean I may not have watched his speech in Waco. It got course some attention first major campaign rally. He has an announced candidate for president after all this comes on the heel of a couple days after he posted some stuff on truth social his social media platform.

In which there was an image of him holding up two images you know side by side him holding a baseball bat looking like he was going to hit something looking to his left and to the left was an image of Alan Alvin Bragg the DA in Manhattan last week when we recorded our podcast Victor was possible at that point that Donald Trump might.

In the ensuing days have been arrested obviously he has not he though has called for his if he's going to be arrested he wants the perp walk he wants to handcuffs and you know there's some numbers that may be bearing.

Out political reasons for this there's a new Newsmax pull out that shows John McLaughlin conducted it and in a Trump to Santas head to head.

In January the numbers were were pretty close was Trump had 52 to 41 over to Santas but since all this has come out about Bragg's intention to have Donald Trump arrested.

The numbers amongst the Republican base have risen dramatically for Trump 61 to 31 that's a head to head with the Santa so Victor we have Donald Trump out there.

In many ways physically at rallies very very controversial postings on social media Victor what are your thoughts on this whole enchilada well.

Every candidate when he's an abstraction or a romantic extraction polls higher than when he has to come out and take polls and then every candidate who's been done in injustice.

As Trump has gained sympathy so I don't I don't go by the polls right now the fact is the Santas and an interview with peers Morgan and then with the Tucker Carlson took some positions that he was criticized by the mainstream media specifically.

Be used the word territorial dispute I don't know quite why the psychodrama it is a territorial dispute it's also.

A continental world world war two style war maybe you could say he wasn't as comprehensive but you cannot say it's not a territorial dispute the whole thing started over the Don Bass and cry mayor we wouldn't even be talking.

And then Putin.

Because he was given that basically by the West and by the way as I said was Sammy Jack nobody since 2014 that I know of.

It said one of the most serious national security concerns of the United States is to make sure Russia gives back the Don Bass and cry mayor that it took in 2014 under the Obama administration.

That is our central because nobody said that it was only when the war came that that was recalibrated as a crystal critical issue I can see that but it's a little disingenuous to say that that has always been a concern of the West it was have no concern that territorial dispute until

Putin got even greeter because the degree of appeasement that was shown him by Biden and Obama and so that shows you that the polls are fluid.

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