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Happy Friday, what a wild week.

Let's see, Stormy Daniels is done. Her testimony has wrapped up the worst witness in the history of the American criminal justice system is all done, but not she won't hold that title for long because

Michael Cohen is coming Monday we will get to Michael Cohen but something else

happened this week I'm gonna declare the end of RFK Junior as a viable candidate. What a week for RFK?

He admitted he had a little problem with his brain.

Now if I told you a few days ago

that one of the presidential candidates

would announce that he had a worm that was eating his brain. What would you guess?

I guess...

Kamala Harris.

Maybe you'd get this right, maybe you just assume that it's nothing to eat and Joe Biden.

If Joe Biden ever announced he had a brain worm that was eating his brain causing his problems, cognitive problems, everyone would say, oh, so that's the explanation.

And I guess lots of people would write him off say he's got he's just

doesn't have a functional brain but it's not Joe Biden believe it or not it's

our FK junior and this is like Christy Nome. When I heard this, I said, why would you bring this up?

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