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It's Monday, January 4th, 2021, from Slater to the Gist I, Mike Pesca. The leaked audio

of Donald Trump railing at Georgia election officials is one of those documents of which

the provenance says so much. Originally, I assumed maybe you did too. It was the Georgians

who leaked it. The Georgians on the receiving end of the president's hour long, let's

say, bladder, put it out there to show just how unreasonable the guy was being. There's

some evidence, Politico, did report that it was taped on the Georgians' end, Raffin's

burgers' end, and maybe they were the ones who put it out there. But then I got to thinking

about the alternative. Maybe the Trump team leaked it because the audio sounds a little clearer

of him talking. So whoever was on the receiving end, maybe they were rolling too, but it didn't

sound like he was talking through speakers as much as they were. But I think it's very

important to know who leaked it because then we could begin to understand Trump and his

motives. Was Trump being delusional because he is delusional? Or was he being delusional

as strategy? Was he being tactically delusional? These are the sorts of arguments after all

that he would put forth before a crowd of cheering masses, including one of the arguments

would be that you, you cheering masses, you mean that I couldn't lose. They say it's

not possible to have lost your job. And I could tell you by our rallies, I could tell

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