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Channel: Philip DeFranco
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- 'Sup, you beautiful bastards.
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Welcome back to the
"Philip DeFranco Show."
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Buckle up, hit that Like button
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and let's just jump into it.
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Yo, first up today we
had OnlyFans in the news,
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not because I'm finally launching one,
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even though I not so secretly
wish I could launch one.
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As I've been losing weight,
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I've been getting addicted
to all the nice comments
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about my appearance.
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I mean, it's not anything special,
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but I'm really fucking pumped about this.
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And it would be an amazing achievement
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because I've always wanted people to just
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like me for the way that I look,
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not because of like the
quality of my character
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or personality.
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It just seems a whole lot less exhausting.
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But, I got so sidetracked.
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The reason we're talking about OnlyFans
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is because of OnlyFans and Meta,
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with a class action lawsuit
being filed in California
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on behalf of a group of
adult content creators
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who alleged that OnlyFans bribed Meta
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to put creators posting on rival websites
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on a terror watch list.
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So this terror database was allegedly run
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by the Global Internet
Forum to Counter Terrorism,
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or GIFCT.
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And by landing on that site,
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creators say their reach was
limited and earnings suffered.
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With notably the founding
companies behind the GIFCT
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being Facebook, Microsoft,
Twitter, and YouTube.
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With places like Jezebel noting that
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it just takes one of these sites
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to flag something as terrorism
to make that user hashed,
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which then can effectively
shadow ban them on other sites.
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Now, this suit was first
reported by the New York Post,
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which said that plaintiffs claimed
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that this started back in 2018
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when one or more Meta staffers
took bribes from OnlyFans.
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With those bribes allegedly coming
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via Phoenix International,
OnlyFans' parent company,
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which then allegedly
used a secret subsidiary
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to send money to offshore bank accounts
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set up by the Meta employees,
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and the Post going on to say that
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the suit claims that by October of 2018,
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people who used rival sites
to OnlyFans saw a, quote,
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"Massive spike in content
classification/ filtering activity
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that limited their reach,
but OnlyFans creators
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had a mysterious immunity to this."
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The class action suit is being led
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by competitor JustFor.Fans,
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with attorneys in the suit saying,
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"The blacklisting of plaintiff and others
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has caused OnlyFans to achieve
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a drastically enlarged market share
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while its competitors
stagnated or declined.
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The defendants engaged in a scheme
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to misuse a terrorist blacklist
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to obtain a competitive advantage."
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With a law firm saying that they have
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a list of over 21,000 Instagram accounts
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that were unfairly tagged for terrorism.
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And the creators levying these accusations
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say they have suffered real consequences
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with Alana Evans telling the Post,
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"When I heard that my content
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may be listed on the terror
watch list, I was outraged.
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I was angry because it affected my income
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when my social media traffic
dropped significantly,
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and I was angry because I
am the daughter of a veteran
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who fought for this country."
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And something that is really
important to note here
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is that this isn't the only
lawsuit of this kind, right?
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In fact, there's another
suit in California
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filed by the Adult
Performing Artists Guild
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with similar accusations.
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And back in February, a massive BBC report
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outlined another suit filed
by rival site FanCentro,
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that involves similar allegations
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involving an unnamed social media company.
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Though that report did note that Facebook,
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which is owned by Meta, has been hit with
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a subpoena in that case.
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And as far as what
OnlyFans is saying here,
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they gave a statement to the Post saying,
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"We are aware that these
cases have been filed.
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We are not aware of any evidence
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which supports these allegations.
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The alleged participants
have all publicly stated
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that these cases have no merit."
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While Meta has not responded
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to this latest round of reporting,
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it told BBC earlier this year,
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"These allegations are without merit
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and we will address them
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in the context of the
litigation as needed."
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But ultimately, that is where we are here.
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We're gonna have to keep our eyes on this,
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see what other information comes out.
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But no matter what, this is a wild story.
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And we're gonna reserve judgment for now.
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I mean, it's also not the craziest thing,
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because anytime you're
talking about something
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that involves just
absolutely insane money,
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absolutely insane things can go down.
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But I mean, we've talked
about the individual creators
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bringing in millions,
if not tens of millions
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of dollars a year, right?
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The Belle Delphine and
Lena Plugs of the world.
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So just think about how
much money is at play
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for entire platforms.
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And then throw into the mix
an allegation that a platform
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is abusing a terror watch list
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to get a competitive
advantage to a competitor
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but also potentially,
like, ruining people.
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This bell can't be unrung,
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And I think it's gonna be
very important to find out
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if these allegations
have any basis or not.
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And hopefully time will tell.
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And then let's talk about
committing the perfect crime.
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Also in case I find myself
for some reason in a court,
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this is all hypothetical and
for entertainment value only.
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- Are you sure about that?
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- So let's say your elderly
mother's living alone
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after her husband died,
he was an art collector.
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And now she's in the possession
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of millions of dollars worth of artwork.
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How do you get all those valuables
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from her hands into yours?
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You've got burglary, but the
art's gonna be reported stolen.
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You might leave evidence behind.
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You're gonna have to fence it
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and not get as much value out of it.
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Murder is just downright messy,
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and that'll attract a
lot of police attention.
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Well, this woman in Brazil
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actually found herself
in such a situation.
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And she comes up with a plan
far more creative, right?
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So this starts back in 2020.
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And she knows that here 82-year-old mother
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is prone to mystical belief.
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So she finds an accomplice
who pretends to be a psychic,
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who then allegedly approaches the mother
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with the news that her daughter is sick
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and doomed a certain death.
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Unless of course the mother
pays exorbitant amounts of money
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for her daughter's spiritual treatment.
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Which the daughter also backs up
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feeding personal information
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to several more supposed psychics
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who corroborate all this bullshit.
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And so with this, not only
do they get some cash,
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but also a foot in the door.
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So they proceed to
phase two of their plan,
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telling the mother, "Oh my God,
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your art collection is cursed.
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I hate to say it, but it's cursed
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with negative energy that
needs to be prayed over."
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While this is happening,
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the daughter fires that
domestic employees at the house
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so her accomplices can start moving in
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and hauling out the artwork.
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Though the mother starts
eventually getting suspicious,
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leading to the masterminds,
to proceed to phase three,
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with the daughter going pure evil
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and allegedly confining
her who her home for months
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while the group physically threatened her.
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And all in all, in the
end, they allegedly stole
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over $140 million worth
of art, cash, and jewelry.
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But some of the paintings from
renowned Brazilian artists,
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including three from an
especially famous modernist,
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valued at almost $138 million.
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With one of those actually found stashed
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under the daughter's bed,
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which you can see here with
the police holding it up.
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And of course the good news here
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is that we wouldn't know or
be talking about any of this
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if the authorities hadn't
arrested the daughter
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and several accomplices yesterday.
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And of course we're
gonna have to wait to see
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what kind of punishment they get.
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But in the meantime, these are
our douche bags of the day.
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Initially creative, yes, but
just downright horrible people.
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You know, there's no good
way to fire employees.
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There are best ways,
but there's no good way.
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It sucks for you.
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It sucks for them.
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But most importantly, it
definitely sucks for them more.
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And the reason I'm
talking about this today
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is because yesterday,
the CEO of HyperSocial,
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Braden Wallake, he decided to do
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a very, very interesting thing.
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After a round of layoffs, he decides,
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I'm gonna go to LinkedIn and post this.
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It's a photo of him crying with the text,
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(soft music)
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"This will be the most
vulnerable thing I'll ever share.
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I've gone back and forth
whether to post this or not.
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We just had to lay off
a few of our employees.
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I've seen a lot of layoffs
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over the last few weeks on LinkedIn.
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Most of them are due to the economy
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or whatever other reason.
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Ours?
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My fault."
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And in this, he wasn't completely clear
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about what led to the layoffs.
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Only mentioning that he
made a business decision
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back in February that
didn't seem to pan out.
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And writing, "Days like today,
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I wish I was a business owner
that was only money-driven
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and didn't care about who
he hurt along the way."
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Making it very clear
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that he loves them from
the bottom of his heart.
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So Braden's intentions seem clear here.
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He's trying to make it clear
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that he is not a heartless business owner.
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Because we've covered stories
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like a Better.com CEO in the past,
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firing a ton of people
through a Zoom call,
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also just, blah, making it all about him.
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But still, Braden's post was
taken more as disingenuous
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and self-fulfilling.
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With people writing things like,
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"How about use your network
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to help those employees find new jobs
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by tagging them and putting
them in the spotlight,
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as opposing to whining about
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making difficult decisions as a leader
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and posting a crying selfie?
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This is one of the most out of touch posts
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I've seen in a long time."
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As well as, "Yikes, I was just laid off
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along with many others.
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If my CEO sent this, I'd
probably lose my mind.
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You're crying?
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I'm crying.
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We're crying.
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You still have your job.
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Put those tears in a jar and make a potion
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to help the people's
lives you laid off better.
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This isn't how you show empathy.
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Do more for your
employees that were let go
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and those still existing."
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And over on Twitter,
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you had people mocking
the entire platform,
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saying it was peak lunacy or
LinkedIn is not a real place.
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Now, in an attempt to be fair to Braden,
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I do wanna note, he did make another post
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singing praises about the
individuals that were let go
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and trying to help them get new work.
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And while I understand
that he was trying to like
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share this unique thing to him
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and maybe some of the
people that follow him,
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because they're other CEOs,
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that's a private, select
group of people conversation.
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No one needs to see this publicly.
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Like once again, I get it.
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It sucks to fire people,
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especially when you're laying someone off.
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It's not because like
they did something wrong.
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But their job, the thing
that enables them to live
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and support themselves,
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because most Americans don't actually have
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any money in their fucking
savings account, it's gone.
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Like, there's a way to be
vulnerable and honest about this,
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but don't turn into a
fucking pity party about you.
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Like, if you wanna think
of yourself as a victim
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in this situation, you are
the lowest priority victim.
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But anyway, I thought the
fun way to end this story
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isn't gonna be like, what's
your opinion about this CEO?
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I think most of us are on the same page,
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but feel free to correct me.
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My question instead is,
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what is the worst way you've
ever been fired or let go?
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And then we should talk about
why Democrat Beto O'Rourke,
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who's running to unseat
Republican governor
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Greg Abbott in Texas said this.
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- It may be funny to you, motherfucker,
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but it's not funny to me, okay?
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(audience cheering)
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- And as it turns out, that
was not O'Rourke's reaction
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to someone yelling that they
find "Big Bang Theory" funny,
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but rather he was talking about Uvalde
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when someone laughed.
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- I'm gonna make sure that now 11 weeks
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since we lost 19 kids and their
two teachers shot to death
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with a weapon originally
designed for use in combat,
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legally purchased by an 18-year-old,
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who did not try to obtain
one when he was 16 or 17,
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but followed the law that's on the books,
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ladies and gentlemen, that
says that you can buy not one,
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you could buy two or more
if you want to, AR-15s,
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hundreds of rounds of ammunition,
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and take that weapon that
was originally designed
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for use on the battlefields in Vietnam
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to penetrate an enemy
soldier's helmet at 500 feet
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and knock him down dead,
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(man laughing)
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up against kids at five feet.
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It may be funny to you, motherfucker,
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but it's not funny to me, okay?
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(audience cheering)
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You know, all of this ended up sparking
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a number of debates online,
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one being about the language that he used.
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So I'm happy to see him saying, fuck yeah.
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We need more politicians being
real with their constituents.
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But others saying, no, even
if the heckler was wrong,
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we should do our best
preserve civil discourse.
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Though there had people
pushing back saying,
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this is just Democrats doing
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what essentially Donald Trump kicked off.
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- Sir, I'd hit him on the
left, I'd hit him in the right,
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I'd hit him in the fucking
center, sir, right smack-
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(audience cheering)
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We'll beat the shit out of them.
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Let them beat the shit out of ISIS also.
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They're ripping the shit out of the sea.
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We're gonna knock the shit out of ISIS.
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(audience cheering)
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Gonna knock the shit out of it.
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You're not gonna raise that fucking price,
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(audience cheering)
you understand me?
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- Like if Donald Trump kept a swear jar,
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there'd probably be enough money in there
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to pay back all the banks
and insurers he defrauded.
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But I mean, really, as it turns out,
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ever since Trump did arrive
on the political scene,
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vulgar language has skyrocketed.
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With a study by GovPredict
finding that politicians
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swore on Twitter just 193 times in 2016.
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But just a year later, that
number jumped almost 1,600,
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and then nearly 2,600 the year after that.
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And it's not surprising.
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In general, people love cursing.
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Like still to this day, and
it's usually new viewers,
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I still sometimes get shit for how I talk,
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but this is how I talk in day-to-day life.
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And personally, if we go back
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to the specific Beto O'Rourke situation,
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I'm far more bothered by the fact that
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someone would laugh or like heckle
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while he's talking about
kids being murdered
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by essentially weapons of war.
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The story's obviously different,
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but it's like we talked about yesterday.
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People are like attaching and
getting like big reactions
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on the wrong parts of these stories.
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And then finally, today
we should talk about
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the potentially huge, but
so far underwhelming update
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to the execution of the search warrant
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on Donald Trump's residence at Mar-A-Lago,
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where there have been a lot of questions
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regarding the specifics here.
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What was the probable cause?
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What did they find during the execution
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of that search warrant?
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Because really for the most part,
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we've only heard from Donald Trump,
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who issued a statement after it happened.
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Which is also why you had people saying,
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hey, Donald Trump and his people,
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they are in possession of the warrant.
[685]
They can share the specifics.
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But so far, despite all the
conversation around this,
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they have kept that to themselves,
[690]
which may be the reason we saw
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attorney general Merrick Garland today
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issue a live statement saying.
[694]
- Just now the Justice
Department has filed a motion
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in the southern district of Florida
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to unseal a search warrant
and property receipt
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relating to a court-approved search
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that the FBI conducted earlier this week.
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- With Garland further adding.
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- Copies of both the warrant
and the FBI property receipt
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were provided on the day of the search
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to the former president's counsel,
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who was on site during the search.
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The search warrant was
authorized by a federal court
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upon the required finding
of probable cause.
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- Also going on to say
that he personally approved
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the decision to seek a search warrant.
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And adding that the department
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doesn't take that decision lightly.
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And going on to defend
members of the FBI and DOJ
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who have been getting
attacked since this happened.
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Right, and so with all that,
this is without a doubt,
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big news, but also at the same time,
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felt like this could have been an email.
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Or this is the Justice Department saying,
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okay, you're trying to form a narrative
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because there's not more
information out there.
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Let's get the information out there.
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And there may be legal
back and forth here, right?
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Trump's likely gonna wanna
delay this warrant's release
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for as long as he can, which
would also kind of confirm
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that the DOJ is just
calling Trump's bluff here.
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But for now I think until we actually see
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the warrant get unsealed,
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I feel like people are gonna
be kind of underwhelmed.
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Merrick Garland kind of click baited us.
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Or he put out a thumbnail, "Big News!"
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But then the content of the
video is like, is coming soon.
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So for now, we're gonna
have to wait and see.
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But ultimately that is where that story
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and today's show ends.
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As always, thank you for watching
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and being a part of that
conversation down below,
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being subscribed to these
daily dives into the news.
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But as always, my name's Philip DeFranco.
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You've just been Philled in.
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I love yo faces, and
I'll see you next time.
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