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← Previous segment →cided he's leaving the World Health Organization. Now, maybe it's still in negotiation, because I'm sure if they gave him what he wanted he would get back in. But I think it's a strong move because Trump always does the thing that everybody says, "Well, you can't do that," and then he does it and then people say, "Okay, that worked."
By closing travel from China, people said you can't do that, and then it worked out. A lot of things he does that people say you can't do that. You can't negotiate a trade deal with China. They'll be mad. And then he just does it. Looks like it didn't work out. So I think the real problem with China is that they're not buying the American goods they said they would, because things are so tense. So if China is not going to buy the goods that they promised to buy, I think we have nothing left to do with them. It's time to organize the rest of the world against China, which it looks like we're doing.
So there's some thought about turning the G7 into a G10, bringing in a few more countries to bolster the collective power versus China. So that's all good. I would say that's all positive for the United States.
The president, of course, used some terms which he knows will get his critics buzzing. One of them was "when the looting starts, the shooting starts." Now CNN and the other completely disreputable people are saying, well, it's clearly a racial message, to which I say, do you think Trump knew that? Come on. Do you think Trump knew that that has some racial overtones? Because looting is not a racial term and shooting is not a racial term.
And I'm watching the riots, and to me it looks like there are ten white people to every one black person. Are you watching the same riots I am? All the riots I'm watching, there are way more white people in the protest slash riot. So when the president says, "When the looting starts, the shooting starts," you have to really kind of work at it to make that a racial thing.
And then he also calls them thugs, which again, there were about ten white people for every black person in attendance. And "thugs" is just a word. And so far CNN has turned this into wall-to-wall coverage about Trump's racism, so much so that they actually ran the fine people hoax again.
So Jake Tapper actually ran a clip, a piece on his show, in which he was showing all the assumed examples of the president's racism. And of course none of them are real. It's just a laundry list of things that didn't happen or were misinterpreted. But the fine people hoax was still on the list. Still on the list.
So I finally had to give up with Jake. So I blocked him. I'm just never gonna deal with him again. Because I was giving him the benefit of the doubt because I had talked to him personally and I'd explained to him what the fine people hoax was about. And indeed he's even cited it himself once on his show. He said that the president at the same time said that he completely disavowed the racists, which is the part that usually gets cut out.
But I don't think there's any excuse at this point. There was a time when you could say, well, maybe they really think that's what happened. But once you show them the transcript, it's pretty obvious it didn't happen. But still reporting it today is just too far. I mean, that's just race-baiting, and I don't have any patience for it. I don't think you can be a good person and do what they're doing. I just don't think you can.
So I'm sorry, Jake. I wanted to think you were a good person, but you've proved otherwise, sadly. So I'm cutting him out of my life forever. Not that we had much connection. We did the cartoon thing for charity a few times, but that was it. And I'm really disappointed. I'm disappointed that that even exists in this place.
But if you're watching the news — and probably maybe you didn't see it on CNN for a while until it was over — CNN's headquarters in Atlanta was surrounded by protesters, and they were destroying the big CNN logo statue or whatever you want to call it that was outside. They were just ripping it down and doing graffiti on it, breaking windows, I think at least one window.
And you might say to yourself, why would they attack CNN? Why would you attack CNN? Because isn't CNN supporting you in every way? Well, here's my speculation, and it goes like this: CNN has been whipping up racial animosity for years. What if they succeeded? And they got their racial animosity. If they succeeded in making it racial, I'm not sure people see political party anymore. Because once you make it racial, it's just racial. The politics is sort of the second most important part.
But what's the most important part is overwhelming everything else. Congratulations, CNN. You took something that didn't need to be racial, because we're mostly on the same side with the shooting, especially this latest shooting of George Floyd. The president is aggressively and unambiguously on the side of the protesters. He was saying there was a bad cop. He says respect the memory of George Floyd. He couldn't be more on their side.
That maybe they noticed, because it's hard to not notice the president, right? But don't you think that there's just a general hatred of white people who are elites in power? I think CNN created a situation where they've weaponized the public against themselves. Because in the CNN world there's this difference between Fox News and CNN. But I think we're learning that that's only in the heads of people who watch a lot of news.
Apparently if you don't watch a lot of news, it's just white people in power. And that's what it looked like. So again, I think there were ten to one white people to black people protesting, as CNN based on just looking at the crowd. But I think they all got whipped up into this thought that it's the powerful white people who have control of things who are the bad guys. So I think they created themselves as the bad guys.
Because how else can you explain that they would go after CNN? Now, somebody had a good counter theory, which is you go where the cameras are. But any place that's populated that you have a big crowd, the cameras are going to get there. So the CNN thing kind of came from left field. But you can kind of almost understand it because they've been actively agitating for a race war without realizing that they might be the victims of it, that the people might turn on them. And it looks like at least a little bit that happened.
And so the president said he's going to treat Hong Kong as part of China and no longer treat it like it's special, which I think is just practical. It's just unfortunately there's just nothing anybody can do. There's nothing the United States could do. There's nothing on the calendar. They're geographically doomed to be controlled by China, and that's what's happening.
On a normal day this would have been the biggest story, but it just gets lost in the shovel that the actual Flynn phone call transcripts, where he was talking to Kislyak the Russian, and the very thing that got him arrested and convicted turns out there's no evidence in it. There's no evidence of the thing that got him convicted. When you actually see it, there's no evidence of a lie, no evidence of anything. It was just the most normal phone call in the world in which not much happened. That's it.
Now that we see the actual words, you can see that the whole thing was a little bit sketchy. We get it. It gets sketchier every day. So there's at least some thought that there's another shoe to drop. I don't want to report that yet because I want to hear from other sources. But there is some other really interesting stuff on this story that might be coming out really soon. It might involve some other personalities that are not very popular among Trump people. But we'll wait for that.
The Minnesota governor said today that sunlight is a disinfectant, which is weird to see a governor suggest that you drink bleach to stop looting. Oh, that's not how you interpret that. I've been trained by CNN to interpret the news this way. If a politician says sunlight is a disinfectant, I should translate that into my mind as the governor is recommending that you drink bleach because it would stop looting. Did I do it wrong? I'm pretty sure that's right. I've been watching CNN do this for a long time. I think I got it right.
All right. Did you see the video of the guy with the umbrella? This is the best story on the internet. If you haven't seen this yet, you've got a good story to look forward to. All right. So there's a video of an unidentified tall white guy. You can tell he's white because he turns and looks at you even though he has a professional gas mask on. But you can see his eyes, so you can tell he's a white guy. He's a big white guy, tall guy. And he's got an umbrella and a hammer.
Now here's what's interesting about the guy with the umbrella and the hammer and the full gas mask and all black, so he's completely unidentified. He walks up with his hammer to the AutoZone store, the one you saw burning in Minnesota. And he's the guy who initially knocked down all the windows. So he walks up to it nonchalantly like he's not even one of the protesters, like he's not even angry about anything. It's not an act of passion. It's not an act where he got caught up with a crowd. He's all by himself, comes out of the shadows, breaks these windows like almost like a professional, like he was just doing a job. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.
As soon as he breaks a few windows, which history will record was the beginning of the looting, because until those windows were broken I don't believe there was any looting going on. But once they were broken, wow, you know the window is gone. And so the man with the umbrella and the hammer and the gas mask starts walking away. Some of the people who were there, including one I'm guessing maybe late teenager, early 20s, something, African-American man, tries to stop him and also accuses him of being a cop.
So in other words, the locals, the people who were actually protesting, the actual protesters, said, "Wait a minute, you're not one of us." Now people are saying he's a cop, and I don't think there's evidence of that. But there is certainly evidence that he wanted to start a riot or start some looting.
So why would he have an umbrella? Anybody? Why did he have an umbrella? If you get why he had an umbrella, you're going to be a lot closer to the answer to the question why the umbrella. I'm waiting for somebody in the comments. If you don't know this, you can have a surprise coming. Why the umbrella? I'm looking. If you're playing along at home, we're not seeing anybody answering the question why the umbrella. Well, I guess you don't know, so I'm going to tell you the answer.
It's because of drones and because of security cameras. The umbrella takes care of any drones that could take a picture of his face as well as any security cameras that might have had a down shot. Now he's the only one I saw who had a full mask that covered every part of him including his hair. So he was completely unidentifiable. I don't believe there was any exposed skin except a little bit of his eyeballs, you could say.
So the umbrella tells me that this was somebody who was prepared, and he was not prepared like a protester. He was prepared like a person with a specific mission. So now I don't think it was to disguise the hammer because the hammer was this big. You know, he could stick it under his coat pretty easily. So he didn't want to be caught by cameras, and he came prepared for that. Nobody else had an umbrella. There's no protester who had an umbrella.
He came to cause some trouble. He seemed a little bit too prepared, meaning he looked like a professional to me. Now what kind of professional? Intelligence agents from another country? How hard would it be for the Russians to send somebody there? Now I think that he spo
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ke to the African-American man who was chasing him down to figure out what was going on. I think he talked to him. So at least there's one person who would know if he had an accent. But I don't think he did because I think we can hear a little bit on the video. So he sounded American. And he did say he was going to take it, go with the guy, because he was much bigger than the guy who was chasing…
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