And part of it is the political dynamic which, you know, poisons everything. And Trump is obviously sensitive to, like, partisan traps after the Russian nonsense, which was a lie. Russiagate was a lie, by the way. Russiagate was constructed, in my view, in part to cover up the origin of the DNC emails in 2016 and the John Podesta Gmail in 2016, neither of which was done by Russia. (38:33–38:35)
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