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…It’s the same if we were talking about Archer Daniels Midland company throwing hundreds of millions of dollars around. They get policies based on their hundreds of millions of dollars. The squeaky wheel gets the grease, right? All that. So Lex, I think you’re right. I mean, I think Elon Musk spent what, $400 million helping Trump get elected. And obviously, there are a number of philanthropists. I think, clearly his son, Don Jr’s had a lot of influence in who gets selected in these positions in the Pentagon, NSC, and Tucker Carlson has had a lot of influence. So I think as you say, he surrounds himself with people who have certain ideas, ideologies, policies. The President makes his own decisions. I just want to touch on just one thing because I don’t want to leave this alone. Just out of respect for the victims of Iran-backed terrorism and hostage-taking and assassinations since 1979. This is the regime that took hostages in ’79, took our diplomats hostage. Scott says ’83 was really the only thing that happened and throws out a lot of information, certainly some pretty breathtaking accusations that somehow the Israelis knew about this and didn’t tell the Americans. It’s a Mossad officer’s accusation.…

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