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Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. I'm Virginia Heffernan. So the impeachment defense attorneys before the state continue to make their case for expanding the powers of the executive branch to obstruct justice from sea to shining sea and beyond.

Right now they're contemplating expanding those powers into outer space as with breaking news.

In collaboration it seems with the Space Force, which plans to laser delete any principal or house manager or falling meteor or normal person with a brain that gets in their way.

They're building kind of a galactic shield.

We're not being around the stratosphere meant to protect the president from any incursion of justice or the law.

That's pretty good case they have their sci fi from 73 year old fired Baylor president Ken star and 81 year old accused child rapist Alan Dershwitz.

Oh, there's also the oddly discotheque glad gun lobbyist and token pretty person Pam Bondy and of course chief Jew for Jesus J. Sec. You low.

Thank you listener Windsor man for teaching me how to say his name.

I bring up all these kind of mean descriptions for two reasons first because they're true.

Dershwitz has been accused of child rape star was fired from Baylor for shutting down investigations into alleged rapists and Bondy is a gun lobbyist and let's take a minute on her.

Bondy among other things has sued the state of Florida for not allowing people to have.

You think I'm going to say guns no no no she's not suing them for not allowing people to have shotguns or rifles or hand guns or concealed handguns course that's fine also assault rifles also find giant assault rifles of course that's fine with Florida the ones that can bow down a small church absolutely fine.

The second amendment nuts are sure that the constitution protects that amount of lethal force in the hands of any big box store shopper.

But no no no Pam Bondy has sued to be sure that anyone who chooses to can pick up bump stocks these are the gun accessories that are controversial even with the most extreme members of the gun lobby and they're the ones that in 2017 let a 64 year old Nevada man and Vegas high roller.

Fire off so much ammunition so quickly he was able to murder 48 people and injure 869 more at a concert on the Las Vegas strip.

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