Shadowing Practice: Melania Finally Ends It - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Donald Trump is about to burst into tears and it is because of his wife Melania.
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Now it's certainly not because she stole his last Big Mac or because she's not around anymore.
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Donald Trump has Natalie Harp for that.
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No, it is because Melania, and everyone in the White House is terrified of this, is supposedly about to go even more rogue than she already has.
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Now, this is a person with a reputation as terrible as Donald Trump's, Yet, she still believes she can preserve it or change it or make it better.
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Don't try to understand it, just try to understand this.
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The White House is currently panicking over what Melania Trump is doing.
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And it all starts, of course, as all things do, with the files.
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And what Thomas Massey had to say right here.
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Handle this, which is extraordinary in and of itself, that they're not using it to discuss a war but to discuss the Epstein files.
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So aren't they just doing the bidding of Donald Trump?
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isn't he the one that doesn't want this to come out?
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Well, I think he has been trying to protect his friends like Howard Lutnick, who it's obvious now he was a bald-faced liar just weeks before we got the files released.
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He was saying he had never had anything to do with Epstein after his first interaction.
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And now we see he took his kids, his whole family to the island for lunch.
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So I think he's still trying to protect some of his friends.
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And we just need to get it all out there.
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But more importantly, there are enough names in there.
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You know, Leslie Wexner, Leon Black, Jess Staley.
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These are people who are mentioned in there.
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You're innocent until proven guilty in this country.
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But there's enough information there that there need to be investigations like there have been across the world.
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I mean, there's the prince of England is no longer a prince.
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The ambassador from Britain to the United States is now gone.
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The former prime minister of Norway is being investigated.
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It's happening everywhere except for the United States.
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And I do think the president's been an impediment.
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But I agree with the first lady when she says that Epstein did not act alone.
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And so we need to investigate these things.
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There need to be prosecutions, not just getting this out there.
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We've got enough stuff out there now to have the prosecutions.
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And that's what this 2.0 is about doing.
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It's letting the state attorneys general do the job that the U.S attorney general will not do.
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All right, Melania, Thomas Massey agrees with you.
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He wants more transparency on the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
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He wants a part two.
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You said more files need to be released.
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You need to get involved.
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Put your $10 million of Bezos money where your mouth is, Melania.
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It is time to step up and give us a little bit of transparency because isn't that what you called for?
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Isn't that what you so desperately desire?
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Again, I know it sounds wild to say, but Melania believes she is a person with a legacy, I'm cracking up at this point,
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that can be saved or improved.
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Your legacy is being married to a racist pedo.
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That's what it is.
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And for claiming that you need an Einstein visa because the Epstein modeling agency brought you to the United States.
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Nobody's buying it, Melania.
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This is bullshit.
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And you are just as gross as your husband because you put up with him.
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But still, Melania thinks she has a legacy.
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It's part of why, as we're going to get into in a second, the White House is terrified.
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She's gone rogue.
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And Stephanie Grisham, her former chief of staff, explained why.
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And to your point about her thinking something was something might be coming or something like that,
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when you worked for her, how focused was she?
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Is she on herself, her own legacy and brand separate from her husband, and making sure that she has a legacy, that she has a hand in creating?
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Oh, I mean, absolutely 100% that is her focus.
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I would say aside from being a mom, that would be what she worried about was again, her brand, her reputation separate from her husband,
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separate from anything that the west wing would do
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when i was in the east wing we never gave the
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west wing a heads up on anything we were going to
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do um it was i've got to say it was kind
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of an empowering thing it was the first time in history
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i think that's ever been done we did not check with
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the west wing we never told the west wing anything
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and i see he's doing the same thing um when she feels really strongly about something, she decides to speak out.
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And that has nothing to do with how it will reflect on her husband politically or otherwise, or the West Wing.
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So she's always been that way, very strong, very independent.
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And if somebody is saying something about her that she feels is untrue, knows to be untrue, you better believe she'll speak out and everybody else just watch out.
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This is what everyone who works for Melania
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and worked for Melania was saying a few months ago after she came out with her big shock files announcement.
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We remember this, right?
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That Donald Trump wasn't informed.
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He didn't know it was going to happen.
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Everybody was stunned.
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Melania was acting on her own.
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Now, we thought maybe that had died down because Trump certainly doesn't want us talking about the files anymore.
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The man started a fucking war to distract from it.
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And so Israel wouldn't release, of course, all the blackmail that they have on Donald Trump via the files.
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But no, Melania has made this worse for her husband.
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She is going rogue.
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Trump is crying.
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I think they're getting divorced.
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And this would be a good sign that that's around the corner.
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White House panics over fears Melania could go rogue.
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Author Michael Wolff details how everyone in the White House is afraid of Melania and her power.
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First Lady Melania Trump is the one force neither the president nor his staff can control in this administration, author Michael Wolfe writes.
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In a new column for his substack, H-O-W-L, Wolfe wrote that the White House staffers are terrified of Melania's unpredictability,
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especially after her bombshell address about the files in which she denied having any sort of relationship with Epstein.
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Everybody in the White House is afraid of Melania and her power, that is, if she chooses to use it.
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They largely think she won't, or at least won't use it so obviously enough to directly threaten the place, but they can't be sure.
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At the same time, they think that the relationship between the president
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and his wife is probably at the lowest point since the Stormy Daniels trial.
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And that was very low, he elaborated.
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Wolf alleges that Trump and his wife barely speak and notes
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that there is hardly even the pretense that she lives in the White House.
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And it has been reported that Melania appears to live in New York rather than living full-time in Washington with her husband.
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Wolf also claimed that within the White House there is alarm about her next business moves, more so than Trump's children's business deals.
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Of all the self-dealing among Trump family members, Melania's moves, not just about money, but about calling attention to herself, are seen as the most disturbing to the White House
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and most in danger of putting her on a collision course with the president.
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It's okay to make money in the Trump White House and in the Trump family, not so okay to make yourself the main event,
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he noted a 927-page financial disclosure report revealed how much the First Lady made from her movie funded by Jeff Bezos.
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Of course, the MGM Amazon Studios paid $75 million for the film.
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I wonder why.
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It only grossed $16.7 million worldwide.
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However, Melania made almost $11 million.
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It is just insane.
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And the White House is not happy that Michael Wolff is talking about it.
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So both on the files and on the business dealings, the White House is very afraid of Melania.
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Her and Trump are separated.
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They might be getting divorced.
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I don't know.
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The rumors are flying.
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but there is one thing that is very crystal clear.
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Nothing is crystal clear when it comes to the files.
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We are still kept in the dark.
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And it's crazy, or I guess I should still say it is unsurprising but disturbing and sad,
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that while this administration covers up everything from the files to Trump's health to Mitch McConnell's health,
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they're also dead set focused on spending as much of our money through the AI oligarchs, the oligarchs in tech broadly,
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to build a surveillance state of us.
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And that's what we see every day.
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While ICE is terrorizing our communities using government surveillance and terror tactics, did you know that you don't even,
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or I should say they don't even need a warrant to find out where you live, who you're related to, what car you drive, or anything else about you?
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That's because they can just buy it from the same data brokers who are selling your information to everybody else.
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And it's actually easier to just buy it than legally asking a judge.
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There's nothing in the law that stops them.
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But the ICE invasion isn't the only reason.
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It's a good idea to keep your private information private, which is why I've been using today's sponsor, which is Cloaked.
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When I put my own phone number into their site to see what's out there, it came back with my address, my family members, even my social security number,
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which is apparently just a thing you can buy now.
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This isn't a leak or being hacked this is the entire data broker business, making billions of dollars a year selling your information to literally anyone with a credit card.
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And it's legal because at some point, somewhere, you clicked agree on a terms of service.
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It should be illegal, but it isn't.
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And in the meantime, you can actually do something to protect yourself.
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A lot of services will scrub your data off the web after the fact, and that works, but it's hard to keep up
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and doesn't cover a lot of these brokers who can just add you right back in there
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while you're handing more information to dozens of other companies.
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Cloak handles both halves of the problem.
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They find where your information is being sold and get it removed.
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And then their app lets you generate unlimited burner emails
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and usernames and phone numbers to hand out whenever you sign up for anything.
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You can even call and text and email those burners right through the app.
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So now those data brokers will be scrapping and selling anonymous garbage and ruining their business models at the same time.
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Cloak also monitors the dark web and tells you when information turns up somewhere it shouldn't.
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if you want by scanning your own phone number to find out right now whether your social security number is for sale.
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I think that this is incredibly important right now
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that we look out for and protect and safeguard our data because in every single way imaginable,
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The Trump administration is taking it and selling it to the highest and worst and scariest bidder.
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This is what is happening every single day.
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These people claim to be the most transparent administration in history, but apparently what they mean by that is all of our data is transparent
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and to be used by the worst of the worst, whether it is the AI oligarchs, whether it is Larry Ellison,
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Peter Thiel, any of these people who want to monitor us, Alex Karp, all of these fucking freak shows who want to spy on us with flock cameras,
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steal your data, sell it, and use it to lord over you.
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We cannot allow this.
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What we need actual transparency on is the files, Trump's health and the corruption.
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And speaking of
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which, another presidential family member has been making a lot of news recently for talking about the fact
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that we need to go after this corruption.
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And I believe Melania is just as culpable in the cover-up of these files.
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It doesn't matter if she made a press conference, but as anyone else.
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So I think we should be going after her as well.
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And I don't think that Hunter Biden would be disagreeing, given that he just said this with my friend Jen Welch recently.
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The single greatest mistake of my father's administration was the leadership of Merrick Garland.
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I completely agree.
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I write about this in my book.
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not today fascist the reason that we are in the situation
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that we're in right now can almost well by the way
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the buck has to stop my dad he was the president
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he chose him now once he chose him he played by
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the you know a higher standard than the marcus queensberry rules he played by the constitution
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and the tradition
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that the president will never you know particularly since nixon involve
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themselves in any decision making as it relates to anything at the department of justice
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So I guarantee you there was a division between church and state there.
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But if Merrick Garland had started a completely 100% legitimate investigation rather than thinking like,
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let's not fan the flames.
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Like, what the did you not watch what I watched?
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Did you not see these people storming the Capitol of the United States of America,
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beating cops and running congressmen and senators literally out of the building?
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Yeah.
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You didn't see that?
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You didn't see a president and know that it was a concerted and planned effort on their part,
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beginning all the way back from the day before the election when they knew they were going.
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I mean, go back and listen.
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They wanted to kill Mike Pence.
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Go back and listen to Steve Bannon talking to Miles Gao on the day before the election, saying exactly what they were going to do.
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There's tapes.
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Mother Jones has these tapes that were leaked.
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You got to listen to the tape where he says, this is what we're going to do.
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First, we started with the laptop.
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And we, you know, we took, I think, his license with the pictures, you know, because they did this whole thing where I was a pedophile in China
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and all this stuff that they put out there.
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And the next thing we're going to do is we're just going to say that the election was not legitimate.
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And we're just going to say it over and over and over again.
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So we knew that it was a
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planned conspiracy that had a disparate number of actors all working inside
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and outside of the White House at all levers of government.
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It's a layup.
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And he doesn't do anything.
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he doesn't do anything the only way
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that we got to any prosecution of him as it related
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to january 6 is we had to wait for congress to go through an entire series of hearings
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and it lays it all out then right we still don't
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go after him we don't end up going after him
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and get jack smith until the documents case
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and then they bring the documents case in in in florida rather than in dc I mean, I don't get it.
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I mean, I absolutely don't get it.
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We cannot allow these people to continue to scam us, to hurt us, to steal from us,
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and then beg for civility and respect and for government to go back to the way it used to be.
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No more politics.
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Let's just do what we need to do.
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No more partisanship when it means going after Republicans, they say.
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No, no, no, no. I think we're all tired of that world.
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I think we're all tired of that bullshit.
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and we're going to stop it.
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And I'm glad that Hunter Biden is on his little media tour because I've really enjoyed it.
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I've really enjoyed a lot of what he's had to say.
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He cuts through.
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He's no bullshit.
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We're hoping to have Hunter on the show soon.
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So let's make it happen, man.
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But we're going to keep calling it all out.
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And if you want to support that, as always, you can hit that subscribe button.
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Leave a like on this video.
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If you stuck around to the end, drop a blue heart in the comments.
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Keep on fighting y'all.
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Don't let them silence you.
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And until next time, I'll see you soon.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Melania Finally Ends It”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Melania, Trump, files. This video has 231 sentences and 2912 words to shadow. The speech runs for 16:05. The speaker talks fast, about 181 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 85% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| cloak noun | /kləʊk/ | A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood. |
| rogue noun | /ˈɹoʊɡ/ | A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person. |
| broker noun | /ˈbɹoʊkɚ/ | A mediator between a buyer and seller. |
| transparency noun | /tɹænsˈpæɹənsi/ | The quality of being transparent. |
| oligarch noun | /ˈɑləɡɑɹk/ | A member of an oligarchy; someone who is part of a small group that runs a country. |
| terrify verb | /ˈtɛɹɪfaɪ/ | To frighten greatly; to fill with terror. |
| prosecution noun | /ˌpɹɑ.sɪˈkju.ʃən/ | The act of prosecuting a scheme or endeavor. |
| untrue adjective | /ʌnˈtɹuː/ | False; not true. |
| burner noun | /ˈbɝnɚ/ | An element on a kitchen stove, hob, or cooktop that generates localized heat for cooking. |
| disturb verb | /dɪˈstɜːb/ | to confuse a quiet, constant state or a calm, continuous flow, in particular: thoughts, actions or liquids. |
| transparent adjective | /tɹænsˈpæɹənt/ | See-through, clear; having the property that light passes through it almost undisturbed, such that one can see through it clearly. |
| leak noun | /liːk/ | A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape. |
| surveillance noun | /sɚˈveɪ.ləns/ | Close observation of an individual or group; person or persons under suspicion. |
| allege verb | /əˈlɛd͡ʒ/ | To adduce (something) as a reason, excuse, support etc. |
| bidder noun | /ˈbɪ.dɚ/ | Someone who bids (all senses), but most commonly, one offers to pay a specified price at an auction. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. | |
| go back verb | To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. | |
| speak out verb | To assert or promote one's opinion; to make one's thoughts known. | |
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| come out with verb | To say (something) unexpectedly. | |
| cover up verb | To conceal or disguise. | |
| cut through verb | To take a shortcut through. | |
| die down verb | To become less virulent or strong; to subside. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- You're innocent until proven guilty in this country.
- Isn't that what you so desperately desire?
- I think they're getting divorced.
- You didn't see that?
- I mean, I absolutely don't get it.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | has been trying · I've been using · has been making |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is terrified · are mentioned · being investigated |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have been · has made · has been reported |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | this, which is · people who are · everyone who works |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 58 contractions and reduced forms, such as we're, don't, doesn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/, theft /θɛft/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: prosecution /ˌpɹɑ.sɪˈkju.ʃən/, bombshell /ˈbɑmʃɛl/, partisanship /ˌpɑːtɪˈzænʃɪp/, fascist /ˈfæʃɪst/, collision /kəˈlɪʒn̩/
- Long words — get the stress right: transparency /tɹænsˈpæɹənsi/, prosecution /ˌpɹɑ.sɪˈkju.ʃən/, civility /sɪˈvɪl.ɪ.ti/, imaginable /ɪˈmæd͡ʒɪnəbəl/, impediment /ɪmˈpɛdɪmənt/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like cloak, rogue, broker.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.