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Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. I'm Virginia Heffernan. So walking along today, sunny day, happy

about Pelosi, low level afraid as usual that I lost an air pod, anticipating Sundays,

episode of succession, eating up my abdomen from the inside with acid hatred of billbar, the usual,

and I get in my head this kittel caning song, she's this Welsh singer and it goes,

eight no solace further up the road. I'm not going to try her Welsh accent but it's amazing. Anyway,

eight no solace, the usual thing that I sing kind of all the time and suddenly I realize there is

solace and it's not even further up the road. There is today a possibility, a glimmer of hope

that even if justice doesn't prevail right now, truth will out. When you have an administration

whose primary policy objective is the obstruction of justice, what you have is an iron curtain,

not between people and justice or people and what's right, but between concerned citizens and the truth.

Looks like we might have a sexual abuser and liar about to be confirmed to the Supreme Court.

Now let's not look into that okay fine moving on justice, Kavanaugh.

Looks like Mike Flynn might have collaborated in a kidnapping scheme with Erdogan, the brutal

out of crowd of Turkey, or Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law might have cheated on his

security clearance and collaborated with MBS, the brutal out of crowd of Saudi Arabia who tore apart

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