Welcome. Oh, my gosh. We have, um, have we got stuff for you today? So Joe, I want to talk about

the main theme. All I'm talking about is leverage. Leverage is something Donald Trump understands,

right? He saw tariffs and he said leverage. I can, I can hold these over people to get what he

want. He saw, oh, I have this tool.

I can say law firms don't have security clearances.

I can get what I want from him.

Hey, partner, can I interrupt you?

Only because I want to do this.

By the way, hello, everybody.

This is Edwin and Joe again every week.

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Hit those red hearts that like opens up something on mars or jupiter and it expands our reach give us some love and edwin the other before we get into

what we're going to talk about today because i had one of my followers or subscribers on substack last week say, I just love when you and

Edwin have your chit chat and I know everything about you, Joe, but I don't know Edwin's

background. And you have a fucking impressive background. Can you, before we get into the meat of

Trump and everything today, as people come in, especially folks who subscribe to me, can you give them the 30 seconds on who you are and where you've been?

Sure.

I am, I'm happy to do it.

I have a man who can't keep a job.

So I was a public school teacher in Chicago. I saw a desperate need for school reform and

violence in classrooms. So I campaigned and became a Chicago alderman, did that for two terms,

actually got stuff done because my colleagues were for sale cheap, and that was a period when

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