Hunter Biden Scandal Could Bring Down Biden Admin

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So, look, as much as I want to jump in with the Hunter Biden stuff, we're going to do that. But if you have seen the videos, if you have seen the photographs, you know how revolting the Hunter Biden situation is. You know how insane this story has gotten. But I'm here to tell you that the end is near for the Biden administration. Again, welcome to the Todd Stearns Radio Program.

We are honored to have you with us today. And, folks, moving forward, we need to pay very close attention to what is going on with the Biden administration. This is the end game. This is where, over the weekend, the foundational blocks were laid for the Democrat Party, for the mainstream media to Destroy the Biden administration to remove Joe Biden from office.

Now, keep in mind, this has nothing to do with doing the right thing. This has everything to do with saving their political carcasses or carcai, if you will, because the Democrats know that they are about to be decimated in the midterm election.

So they got to get rid of Joe Biden. And that's where all of the blame is now being heaped.

Now, they've had these cards in their back pocket all along. The Democrats have known that Hunter Biden was not just a sleazoid. He wasn't just a pervert. He was, in fact, a criminal. I mean, unbelievable, the stuff coming out about Hunter Biden over the weekend.

Now, we've got a couple of moving parts here, and we're going to get to those in just a moment.

So put a pen in that for just a second. And I want to talk about the New York Times, who came out with really an extraordinary piece over the weekend.

Now, look, this is. The mainstream media deserves no credit here because we've been telling you about Joe Biden. We've been telling you about his issues with dementia, possibly senility. We've been talking about those nonstop for quite some time. And now, all of a sudden, the New York Times is talking about what we've all known from day one: that Joe Biden is not mentally fit to be President of the United States.

So the Times over the weekend published a story talking and using unnamed sources within the Democratic Party, saying people are very uncomfortable about Joe Biden's age.

Now the article is titled, At 79, Biden is Testing the Boundaries of Age and the Presidency. Uh And they claimed that the reason why the President's four-day Middle East trip was originally scheduled to be combined with his trip to Europe, the reason why that was changed is because they felt like Biden was not up for the task, that he wasn't going to be able to make the trip. Which is why they cut it in half.

Meanwhile, you have Joe Biden out there saying he plans to run for a second term. He would be he's already the oldest president in American history in office. Should he be reelected, he would be eighty six years old at the end of his tenure. And many Democrat strategists are now saying they don't believe Biden should be running for president in 2024. There is a Harvard poll that came out just last month.

64% of U.S. voters say Biden is showing he is too old for the presidency. Do you believe that, ladies and gentlemen? Based on what you have just seen, and by the way, a few moments ago, President Biden out there talking about getting the guns, and he actually said the Parkland High School shooting happened in 1918. Marjorie Stone Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, 1918.

17 dead, 17 injured. No, no, Mr. Pratt. No, Mr. Mr.

President, it it happened in 2018. In 1918, there were no school shootings, mister President. In 1918, Marjorie Marjorie Douglas was just a young woman. She had no school named after her, Mr. President.

I mean, this is, folks, this is happening every single day. Every single day. The guy can't even ride a bicycle. And it's not even a matter of riding the bicycle. He can't stand up while he's on a bicycle.

And how many times have we been through the Biden gaffes? How many times, what over the weekend, he was reading, literally reading instructions on the teleprompter? But the question is, okay, well, who's actually running the White House if, in fact, Joe Biden is not up for the job, and clearly he's not up for the job. Do you know that well, this is from the New York Times piece here, and again, staggering, staggering revelations. Yeah.

They said that While the President's energy level, while impressive for a man of his age, is not what it was, and some aides quietly watch out for him. By the way, those are the people. Remember when Biden gets up and he says, I'm going to get in trouble if I do this, or they told me not to say this, and if I do that, I'm going to get in trouble. Those are the people. He often shuffles when he walks, and aides worry he will trip on a wire.

He stumbles over words during public events, and they hold their breath to see if he makes it to the end without a gaffe. mister Biden's public appearances have fueled that perception. His speeches can be flat and listless. He sometimes loses his train of thought, has trouble summoning names or appears momentarily confused, the New York Times wrote. More than once, quote again, this is from the New York Times.

More than once he has promoted Vice President Kamala Harris, calling her President Harris. mister Biden, who overcame a childhood stutter, stumbles over words like kleptocrazy. He said Iranian when he meant Ukrainian. And several times called Senator Mark Werner the Democrat of Virginia John, confusing him with the late Republican senator of that day from Virginia. He stays out of public view at nights and has taken part in fewer than a half than half as many news conferences or interviews as recent predecessors.

They describe Biden as generally a five or five and a half day a week president. The outlet also noted the White House appears to protect Biden from unscripted interactions with the news media. Biden has held only 16 news conferences, less than half as many as former Presidents Donald Trump, Barack Obama, and George W. Bush. Biden has only given 38 interviews.

Far fewer than 116 by Trump, 198 by Obama, and 71 by Bush. I mean, this is not good. This is not good. And this tells me that the radical progressives are running this man's agenda. But what I find interesting is that any time any conservative over the past year and a half has brought up what is very obvious, that he has lost his mind, We are dismissed.

We are smacked around by the fact checkers. Items are deleted off of social media. And yet now the New York Times comes out and apparently it's okay to start talking about Biden's age and mental capacity.

Now here's the problem. Trump is not that far behind.

So if Donald Trump runs for the White House in 2024, there will be the same kind of issues raised about Donald Trump. But at least Donald Trump has his mind. At least Donald Trump has his mental faculties about himself.

So the problem is What are the Democrats going to do with Joe Biden? Will Joe Biden go quietly into the good night? And that's not the question they should be asking. The question is: will Jill Biden go quietly into the good night? She's the one that's been pushing him, telling him what to say, where to stand, where to go, when to get off the stage, when to smile, when to frown.

Unbelievable, this woman. But it's fascinating. Because Joe Biden has lost it. And now the Democrats, knowing they're about to be crushed in the midterm elections, they're going to place the blame squarely on the Biden administration. And by the way, Kamala Harris is not out of all of this.

Going back to the presidential debates, remember. Julian Castro. What did Castro say? Yeah. He went after Biden's memory and mental capacities, and he did that he did that during the debates, and he was castigated for that, going after a fellow Democrat because of his memory and his mental capacities.

Rasmussen polling found 59 percent of voters do not believe Biden will complete his first term in office. The Atlantic reported last month that other focus groups have revealed similar data. Yeah. The word young voters most associate with Biden is old, followed by good and then creepy.

Well, he does. He sniffs the hair. It's been and you know, the the whole, you know, caressing his leg hair, that's off-putting to children. According to another focus group conducted with Next Gen America. This is the one focusing on the youth turnout.

So the Democrats are counting on the young people. And here are some of the words they associate with Joe Biden: leader, great, nice.

Okay, cool, senile, and dementia.

Now, I'm not a professional political person. Pundit. But I'm going to go out on a limb here and say it's never a good thing when your constituents. Consider your candidate to be suffering from dementia or senulity. I'm just going to go out on a limb here and suggest that.

Is a big, big problem. All right, we're going to take a break here. Do you think Biden is going to be able to finish out his term? Do you believe that the Democrats may force him out? 844-747-8868.

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And welcome back to the John Starnes Radio Show. Good to have you with us today, 844-74-788-68. All that to say that the Democrats are trying to figure out how they're going to get rid of Joe Biden. They know they've got to get rid of the guy. They know that the country is in a tailspin right now, and Biden is completely clueless.

So the question is: will he go because of his health or because of the Hunter Biden scandals? Which, by the way, if any of this stuff is true, The entire administration is going to come crashing down and, quite frankly, the Democrat Party. I mean, these allegations and the videos and the text messages, the photographs, it's unbelievable. Hunter Biden will literally bring down His father's administration. By the way, according to some of the reporting out there, with Hunter Biden's text messages, he would refer to his dad as Peter Petto.

as in pedophile. And you know, Biden's been out there. I mean, the whole point of the Ashley Biden diaries. Back, was it a couple of weeks ago when that reporting came out that Biden would take showers with his daughter? And we have to imagine that they were.

You know.

Well, you you've taken a shower before. And the reason why, where's Grace Baker? Grace, the reason why I'm hesitant about talking about the Hunter Biden stuff, we're going to talk about it, but it's just so graphic. Yeah, it makes me a little uncomfortable. I mean, it's.

The guy doesn't work pants. I don't know what to say. He thinks he's a cartoon character and he can just get away with not wearing pants, I guess. It's unbelievable. The sliding, did you see the one where he slid down the pool?

The slide? Honestly, I didn't want to watch that.

Well, he slid down the slide and then he's, I mean, he's doing the Coke cocaine with the prostitutes. They had a big argument. They had a big argument about how much their cocaine was there. I mean, this is a guy, and look, this is we're dealing with a guy with serious, serious problems here. I mean mental problems.

That's the understatement of the century. And the reality is, it's not a laughing matter. I mean, this is a guy who is in a tailspin right now, and I'm concerned for his own safety. Oh, yeah, for sure. His own safety, and clearly, he's involved with other people who are putting them in danger, too.

Well, the grandkids, I mean, something's not right there in the family. As a matter of fact, this is the guy that Joe Biden calls the smartest man he knows: Hunter Biden who's snorting crack, smoking crack. He's hanging out with, I mean, more prostitutes. I have never seen it. It's just shocking.

Shocking. Yeah. And disgusting. Hunter Biden is doing. And it's also like during the lunch hour.

I hate to describe these things to people. It'll make you lose your appetite real quick.

Well, one he was like eating a sandwich, doing Coke, eating a sandwich, and yummy. Having his way with the uh the sidewalk Sally. But it's all out there now. And 4chan is releasing. They were able to hack in a Hunter Biden cell phone.

So this is not old stuff. This is new stuff. But I just want you to think about this for a moment. Imagine if that had been Donald Trump Jr. Oh my gosh.

I mean, could you imagine the outcries? Time to, we have to impeach Donald Trump. He's hurting our democracy. He's destroying it. His family is an embarrassment.

It would have been over. I mean, they would have impeached the guy. They would have thrown everybody in jail. I mean, there would be FBI. Where are the FBI raids on the houses?

That's what I want to know. They're too busy with Project Barito. They literally went to Trump's attorney's house and hauled him out in his underpants in front of a female officer. They would not even let him put on pants. Yeah, he asked, and they were like, nope, come out.

If I were the attorney, I'd be all over the place. I would use my platform to name and shame every police officer involved in that. True. Every single one of them. Why not?

And I know. They're just doing their job. I don't care.

So is the Gestapo over in Nazi Germany, but they had to pay a price, too. Yeah, there comes a point. And by the way, that's what the FBI has become. They're state police. Yeah, they're political.

Going after Trump. But where are the late-night raids? Roger Stone, Paul Banafort, Steve Bannon. All of those guys And then you have the video evidence of what Hunter Biden is doing, not to mention his own father admitting on the cell phone video that we have, the audio that we have, that he knew about his son's dealings in China. Yeah, it's clear as day, and they're ignoring it.

CBS News now reporting that Hunter Biden is under a federal investigation. Again, why are they not raiding the homes? Why are they not going after, why are they not posting this on CNN? Where were the news crews? Why weren't they pre-positioned?

Because they certainly were with every Trump supporter. Everybody who was associated with Donald Trump, every time the FBI showed up, guess who was there? CNN. And MSD and C. Yeah.

You think Hunter's going to go? How do you think this is all going to go down, folks? Do you think Hunter's going to bring down the administration, or is it Joe Biden's old age? One way or the other, Joe's gone. I don't think he finishes out his term.

844-747-8868. And I say, good riddance. Don't let the door hitch them where the good Lord splits them, Mr. President. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show.

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Well, hello, Todd. Good morning. I am from Germantown, I think you are too. Listen. Two things on my mind.

Your question about Biden. I totally agree that he seems that certainly basically saying that, the way he acts, the way others view him. I think within his administration, they've seen that. More or less though. Let him finish out because Because uh the alternative of Vice President Harris is just not at all favorable.

And two, We're going to take these midterms back in the Senate and the House, and whatever Biden tries will not go forward. unless there's agreement on the the other side of the aisle. I also have another comment for you, and you can relate to that one. I am seventy-six. Ivy League graduate, relatively intelligent guy.

used to be more intelligent. I don't think Donald Trump at seventy eight is going to be capable. And that is as much as age as anything else. These guys that are old like this just have to sort of step aside. Maybe he could be a very good kingmaker, but let's find a conservative Constitutionalists reported.

Republican candidate, and there are a couple. And I'd like to see you help that along. Rather than stay in the Donald Trump camp where I think you're still enscouched, I'll hang up and listen to you.

Well, John, let me, before you hang up, though, I want to make sure I understand where you're coming from.

So you're a Trump guy. You're just saying he's not. I voted for him twice. I voted for him twice. Yeah.

So you're just saying he's going to be too old, and we need to be looking at someone else. That's right. Who do you like, John? Do you have anybody that comes to your mind? Yeah, the guy in Florida, um The Santa, I was going to say Pentiago.

He's got it going. He's a military graduate, or he's basically military experience. He's a businessman. He's run the state extraordinarily well. and he's held up well down there.

DeSantis would be my man. right now and maybe a good female vice president that could come on with him and be a winning ticket. We will not Be Anyone with Donald Trump again. I really don't believe he's got the popularity anymore that it will work.

So that's my opinion for whatever it's worth. Go ahead. Look, your opinions are worth a lot here, John, and I appreciate your insight. And I suspect you're not alone. And I think that's a big issue facing some.

Trump conservatives. Is it time to move ahead? Is it time for President Trump to become the elder statesman and the kingmaker for the future of the party? John, we're going to open it up, and I'm sure people are going to weigh in one way or the other. Thanks for the call.

Folks, John in Germantown says, you know what? Here's the problem. Trump is just going to be too old. And it's time for somebody else to step in. Do you agree or disagree?

844-747-8868. That's our telephone number. Let's go to North Carolina, Steve, W-H-K-P, our great affiliate there. Hey, Steve, what's on your mind? Oh, hello, mister Todd Starnes.

Thank you for all your work. You guys are fantastic. Thank you. I kind I agree with what you say. Joe Biden is too old.

My humble opinion is they're going to wait till after the midterms He's going to quote unquote do the right thing and resign. Kamala becomes president, our first female president of color, never having been elected to the job. And as the next two years go forward and things do get better just through attrition, because they will, because we're America. She will totally take credit for that. And then in 2024, we could be in trouble.

I love Donald Trump. Cannot wait to vote for Donald Trump. But we obviously underestimated the hate. two years ago, and we probably need somebody new. You know, now this is an interesting point.

And, Steve, I know a lot of people are concerned about Kamala Harris. I'm not. If the Republicans control the Senate and the House, they'll be able to stop Kamala Harris from doing anything.

So basically, she will be a lame duck president if that happens. But I'm with you. I think if Democrats are massacred at the polls, which I think they're going to be, they're going to want his head on a platter.

Somebody's going to have to pay the price for that. Yeah. But they're going to have to make it look like he does the right thing. And as his Alzheimer's is progressing, he's stepping down for the benefit of the country, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, no, no, no.

I hear you. It really depends on what the wife wants. Because Jill Biden, she is the kingmaker, I think, in the Biden household. And I'm telling you, based on some of the leaked text messages between Hunter and the other family members, the family hates her. I mean, she is ruthless.

She sounds like it.

Well, I mean, look at what she's done. She shoved her husband. I mean, he's not he he I don't think he ever wanted to run. I think she pushed him out there. That's what I think ultimately happened.

The whole thing is weekend at Bernie's with her holding up the corpse. Oh, God. Oh, yeah. All right. Steve, appreciate that visual.

Thank you. 844-747-8868, Gainesville, Georgia. Carol on the line, W-D-U-N, our great station there. Hey, Carol, what's up?

Well, good afternoon. Actually, everything that I was going to say. has just been said by the caller before me. Because my thought had been that Mrs. Joe Harris.

was simply wanting her husband to be able to Complete his four years.

so he could go down in history as a president who completed his four years. But if she is mean and mistreating him, then that's a whole different story.

So I'll drop that one. Yeah, I don't know. Carol, it's interesting. There are reports out there that Jill Biden has really been nasty to the children, is very aggressive towards her husband. And, of course, she and Michelle Obama don't get along all that well.

And by the way, she hates Kamala Harris. There is really bad blood there.

So I'm wondering if you just have a strong-willed woman who wanted to be first lady. And quite frankly, she may be the de facto president right now.

Well, that's what I was about to say. I I just and that has happened before, hasn't it? In United States history, that has happened before. Going back, I would remember Woodrow Wilson after he had that stroke. She pretty much ran the country as the de facto president.

She did, and I think that well, there are others. And Eleanor Roosevelt, by the way, Eleanor Roosevelt, a lot of people don't know this story, but she actually wrote most of his speeches. She was I mean, she was it was a co-presidency, especially towards the end. But I did respect her and I did think she was a wonderful. Uh woman.

The one other comment I want to make is Um I don't want him I don't want Kamala Harris.

So I guess my thought is I want him to be able to finish his Presidency, but I don't think he can. No, I don't either. And Carol, God bless you. Thank you for that call, and thank you for listening. Um, What's going on in Georgia, by the way?

There's some new polling data out. A couple of weeks ago, Raphael Warnock was up double digits over Herschel Walker.

Now, Walker is up slightly over Warnock. And both of the very different polls, but both of the polls show Brian Kemp with a sizable lead, about a 10-point lead over Stacey Abrams for governor, and then, of course, Warnock and Walker for the Senate. But Walker is facing all sorts of troubles with the secret children, a lot of allegations out there, and it's pretty scandalous stuff. But the concern is that this may be a very tight race for the U.S. Senate in Georgia.

Throw in what's happening in Pennsylvania with Dr. Oz, and there are some concerns that the Republicans may not be able to take back the U.S. Senate because of weak candidates.

Now, I'm going to rely on you people in Georgia because it seemed to me the only reason that Herschel Walker was selected is because he was a football star and everybody knew his name. That was pretty much it. Because you actually had some rock-solid Trump conservatives, true conservatives, conservatives who could debate, conservatives who could get out there and fight, conservatives who actually lived in Georgia, and those people were shoved aside. And the decision was made. Herschel is your guy.

Whether he debates or not, it doesn't matter.

So I'm hoping that actually pays off for the Georgia Republicans. Because if Dr. Oz loses and Dr. Oz is not doing well in the polls, nobody knows what Dr. Oz is up to.

At least Herschel Walker is still clinging to President Trump. But President Trump may have to come back to Georgia and do some rallies to really get those numbers up for Herschel Walker. It's very puzzling, very puzzling, what's going on right now in those Senate races. 844-747-8868. That's our toll-free telephone number.

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Okay, as long as it's not about Hunter Biden. No, it's not about Hunter Biden. No, no, no. This is a woman is fully clothed. Oh, bless.

So there's a mom. And she's getting ready to have a baby. She's like 35 weeks along. And so, I mean, you know, she's there. She's committed.

Gets pulled over on the interstate because she's driving in the HOV lane. And. She, the deputy sheriff says, I got to give you a ticket because, you know, this is the carpooling. And what's the HOV rule? You got to have one other person in the car.

Yes. She says, well, officer, I do have one other person in the car. It's my unborn baby. Got him. And.

The officer was like, wait, what? And so he goes and he goes and talks to his partner. And so, long story short, they give the woman a ticket. Let's take a listen.

So um there's an internet s uh a split on the interstate up there and um you can go east or west and I have to go east to go back down to seventy five. And they had, I guess, an HOV checkpoint, and I had no clue what was going on. I got up on top, slammed on my brakes, and I thought they were maybe looking for someone, or there was a car wreck. Never in my wildest dreams, it was an HOV checkpoint. I got pulled over, and the officer.

Said, okay, well, you're in an HOV lane. And I said, yes. And he said, great. Where is your, is there somebody else in the car? And looking around, I said, Well, yes, there is.

And he said, Well, well, where? As he's peeking in the in the cart and I pointed to my stomach, I said, We're right here and um he said, Uh well, it's two bodies outside of the body, so that doesn't count. And so I kind of was in shock, and I was like, well, in light of everything that's happened, and I'm not trying to make a huge political stance here, but. Do you understand that this is a baby? And he kind of just brushed me off and asked me to go to the other officer to get my citation and talk to that officer, and he said.

um similar thing and he said, ma'am, um This is what you're getting excited for. And honestly, if you go and fight this, I'm sure it'll get dropped. Which then, of course, kind of boiled my blood. That not only did I get dismissed and didn't have a conversation about it, but I also now just wasted my time. And I'm gonna have to waste my time.

July 20th, finding a ticket that I feel I shouldn't have gotten.

So here's the question. W is she right or is the police officer? You're asking me? Yes, I'm curious. You're a woman.

Obviously, the child first of all, the unspoken rule, men it's very tricky when you see a woman out in public and you're like, is she pregnant? Or no. Or does she just really like ho-hos and numberboxes? Yeah. So you have to be careful just asking that question.

So there's that aspect of it. He probably felt a little awkward. Secondly, obviously, yes, it is another human inside of her.

Now, I understand the argument of we need someone in the passenger seat, so when he pulls her over, he doesn't see the baby.

So I understand that argument, but I also get her argument.

So I don't really have a good answer for you, Todd. I'm sorry. No, this is a head scratcher because initially you think, okay, this is about whether or not you believe it's an abortion related, but it's really not. No, it's not an issue. No, we all agree that the baby is the baby is the baby.

The question is, what is the point? And I heard a caller on KWAM earlier today talking about this. And they said, look, the point of that HOV lane is to reduce traffic. Yep.

So does the unborn child drive a Nissan? No. No, no, it doesn't. And that's why, you know, again, it's like, can you see? I mean, I've seen in like, I think it's San Francisco, they'll like put a blow-up person, like a balloon in the passenger seat to make it look like.

I thought we weren't talking about Hunter Biden. Oh. Oh, God. Can I just say, let me. Thanks, Todd.

I think the deputy sheriff was absolutely in the right here, but he was completely wrong. Yeah. Just let it go, sir. Just let it go. I would have let it go.

I would have let her go with a warning and sent her off. She's with a child. Because how many people are actually going to try to do that? Exactly. Exactly.

I give her points.

Well, you For cleverness. It was pretty clever. What would you do, ladies and gentlemen? Who is in the right here? The driver, the pregnant driver, or the deputy sheriff?

Do you give the woman a ticket? 844-747-8868. That's our toll-free telephone number. 844-747-8868. I think she's more ticked off that she's got to go to court because the cop told her, well, you know, you're probably going to win.

Okay, well, why give her a ticket then? Why waste her time? Why waste her effort? Why waste her money? I just didn't get that.

But it is kind of interesting.

So. Yeah. That's pretty bold of the cop. I'm not sure I'd have done that. All right, got to take a break here, folks.

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We got a lot going on. By the way, we're expecting Congressman Scott Perry to join us. He is chairman of the House Freedom Caucus in just a little while. Also, our buddy Art Alley from the Timothy Plan. And if you have not checked out the Timothy Plan, you don't know what you're missing.

And we're going to have a good conversation with Art about where the economy is going and, more importantly, how we can invest wisely in American businesses, especially with all these companies going woke. Miranda Devine from the New York Post, she's been all over this Hunter Biden scandal. We're going to be speaking with her a little bit later on. And a good buddy that you're going to love this guy, Lance Walker from Walker Auctions, one of the top auctioneers in America, is going to be here a little bit later on. Look, I want to get to the phones.

We've had a couple of folks that want to weigh in on stories from the last hour. Thomas in Statesville, North Carolina, WSIC, wants to weigh in on the big Biden issues. Controversy. Thomas, what's going on? First of all, I'd like to say I'm a Vietnam veteran.

And talking about DeSantos, whether he'd make a good president or not. We already know Trump will make a good President. Nobody has to question that. And uh So Right.

Well, I mean, and again, I think Ron DeSantis served his country in the military as well and is a pretty honorable guy. I think he's done a pretty good job of leading the state of Florida. Yeah. But he's never been president before.

Well, Trump was never president. Yeah, but you know what? Before Donald Trump was president, he had never been president or elected to office, and he did a pretty good job. I know, and before I voted for him, I could not stand the man. But when he walked down that I mean, when he rode down that escalator and started talking, I told everybody right there I was going to be the next President of the United States.

And so far, he's been the best best president in my lifetime.

Well, no doubt about that. And I think history is going to judge him as such, Thomas. I really do. Thomas, I appreciate the call. CBS News, by the way, reporting that Hunter Biden is under investigation by the FBI.

Based on our investigative unit's reporting, the U.S. Attorney in Delaware has been probing a number of issues. They include tax fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, as well as whether Hunter James Biden and their business associates complied with foreign lobbying laws. What I can also tell you based on our reporting is that there's a lot of noise and static in the system. Based on my experience, that can be an indicator of conversations and discussions between the two parties on whether they can reach some kind of plea agreement.

All right, there you go. That's Catherine Harridge over at CBS. I do know that she's got impeccable credentials and sources up on Capitol Hill.

So she clearly knows that Hunter is facing big, big problems. Do not be surprised. All of this comes to a head right after the midterms. If the Democrats face a shellacking. In the meantime, Mayor Pete Bootyjedge, I didn't realize, Grace Baker, I've been mispronouncing his name.

I've been calling him Secretary Butt Edged, and I had no idea. Why didn't somebody tell me? I'm sorry. It was just more entertaining to hear you say that, so I didn't correct you. Otherwise, you know, I would have, but it was just too entertaining to pass up.

All right. Well, anyway, Transportation Secretary Booty Jedge was on the Sunday shows. Last week, we told you about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. He was having a delicious steak dinner. And I appreciate him even more knowing that he's a red meat eater.

You know, he's not one of these, you know, vegetarian plant protein people. Vegan snowflakes. Thank you. I wasn't going to say that, but yes, that is accurate.

So, anyway, he's trying to enjoy a good old steak dinner at the Mortons in Washington, D.C., and he's set upon by these animals, these protesters that were out there acting like fools. He had to be rushed by a security team out the back door of the restaurant. And now, all these Democrats are suggesting that there's nothing wrong with that. In other words, that there should be, that these individuals should be heckled and chased down as Maxine Watts. Said we should absolutely harass Trump supporters, Trump officials all over America.

So, anyway, Transportation Secretary Booty Jedge was asked to respond on one of the Sunday shows. And the reason why is because his spouse, his husband, is it Chastity? Is that his name? Chaston or Chastity? I can't remember.

The guy blocked me, by the way, Grace Baker. Mayor Booty Judge's husband got triggered by something I wrote. It was probably the tenant's meeting. Oh, I mispronounced. I was going to say that you mispronounced.

His husband's name.

Well, I it could. I mean, I well, I apologize. There's a lot of things. It could have been the fact that they, you know, were chest feeding on maternity leave. This is true.

That could be it. Anyway, I got blocked. But anyway, Booty Judge's husband is saying that. basically telling the Supreme Court justice to s to suck it up and deal with it. And so Booty Judge was asked about this on the Sunday Show's Cut Four.

Your husband tweeted after Justice Brett Kavanaugh left a Washington restaurant due to protesters. The tweet reads, sounds like he just wanted some privacy to make his own dining decisions. Is that appropriate, sir? Look, when public officials go into public life, we should expect two things. One, you should always be free from violence, harassment, and intimidation.

And two, you're never going to be free from criticism or peaceful protest, people exercising their First Amendment rights. And that's what happened in this case. Remember, the justice never even came into contact with these protesters. They reportedly didn't see or hear them. And these protesters are upset because a right, an important right, that the majority of Americans support was taken away.

So there you have Secretary Booty Judge, and he says, Yeah, what's the problem? I don't have a problem. Keep in mind that Brett Kavanaugh. Was the focus of an attempted assassination. There was a guy that wanted to assassinate Brett Kavanaugh.

That guy now in custody. Nobody's condemned that from the Democrat Party right now. Joe Biden has not condemned that. Not once.

So, my question is: at what point do you draw the line? Hmm. Seems to me. Seems to me that what we need to be doing is condemning this sort of nonsense, and that Joe Biden and Maxine Waters and Pete Booty Judge, they all should be telling their gangs, their mobs, to stand down. Otherwise, somebody is going to get hurt.

And their response is just to shrug their shoulders.

Now again, if Pete Booty Judge doesn't have a problem with the protesters showing up every time Brett Kavanaugh goes out to eat or goes to the gym or goes to the supermarket, maybe just maybe some enterprising journalist will publish Pete Booty Judge's personal address, home address. Maybe Peep Booty Judge would not appreciate it if there were people outside his home twenty four hours a day protesting or going outside the restaurants when Peep Booty Judge is eating at his kale ch with his kale chips at the vegan restaurant. With his husband Chastity. Maybe, just maybe, Pete Booty Judge would have a different Thought, process, a change of mind, if you will. if in fact he was subjected to the mob outrage.

Just want to throw that out there. Look, I don't think we ought to be bothering these people. You know what, if you got a problem with the Supreme Court justice, go protest at the Supreme Court. You don't have to go to their neighborhood. We all know what this is all about.

This is about intimidation, this is about bullying and harassment. We saw the same thing happen here in Memphis, Tennessee, where you have these radical terrorists.

Some of whom are elected to office down here, leading protesters, a mob to the home of the district attorney, the Republican district attorney. firing Projectiles at the home, hoping to set it on fire. We've got the video.

Okay. I mean, if they're doing it in Memphis, Tennessee, you better believe they're doing it in big cities. And we're seeing it play out right now in Washington, D.C. Look, we got to take a break. We're going to the phones 844-747-8868.

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Well, look, Todd, I'm doing as well as I can be in this world where every Leftist and Democrat Trump's out on stage and tells us that the economy is doing just fine and it's doing well and It's never better. We saw the polls, and I'm sure you wonder, like I do, who are these? twenty nine percent to thirty three percent that still support Biden. But even at that where the rest of them are throwing them over the cliff. You wonder, you know, do they really?

They're not talking about changing policy, they're not talking about changing direction, they're just talking about. Changing the horse that's pulling the wagon, right?

So. it doesn't matter if you change the horse, the wagon's still carrying the same baggage of destroying America, the terrible energy policy, the terrible fiscal policy, the terrible national security policy. which means that in essence, they really care more about their party than they do the country and the people that they have pledged to serve. They're serving themselves, you're paying for it, and they're going to demand and command you to do as they see fit because they know what's best. They're the coastal elites.

they're the favored few, and you, the rabble, need to just do what you're told. And if Biden doesn't do a good President, Biden doesn't do an effective job enough at it and can't be reelected, well, we need to find somebody that will because we're sure not going to change What we think of you and what we think America should be. That's the message that they're really sending at this moment. You know, Congressman, over the weekend, the New York Times put out a really scathing piece on Joe Biden and his mental capacity, wondering if he is going to be capable of running for reelection. I believe National Reviews got a piece out.

CNN, a couple of weeks ago, actually talked about that issue on the air. Are you beginning to hear scuttlebutt there on Capitol Hill as well? And the reason I ask that is I think this is one of the ways the Democrats are going to be able to get rid of this guy. Yes, they want to get rid of them. And of course, look, this is nothing new, Todd.

What's new is that there's actually mainstream, if you want to call it that, or left wing reporting on it. Everybody in America knew it going into the twenty twenty election. It's just that they wouldn't report on it because they hated President Trump and his policy so much they would have taken anybody at all as long as they look, you remember the criteria in the Democrat primary? Who can beat Trump? not who can save America, not who can do better for America, who can beat Trump.

That's all they cared about. And now they're stuck with this thing and they don't know exactly what to do with it. Like I said, what the New York Times should also be talking about is not only the fact that it's elder abuse and that the President is incompetent, and maybe incoherent, but the fact that the policies of the left Which he is championing at the behest of all the people around him that he appointed are destroying the country.

So it's not just about replacing Joe Biden or who's at the top of the Democrat ticket, but the policies that are destroying the very country that they have pledged an oath. to uphold and defend.

Meanwhile, you've got these reports coming out surrounding Hunter Biden. And one of the things that I just was thinking about this last night. During my years at Fox News, I would go and work at the White House, had to submit to an FBI background check or a Secret Service check. And if you wanted to be anywhere around the President, you had to do that. It didn't matter who it was.

I'm just wondering how in the world Hunter Biden is able to get inside the White House based on all of these allegations, the videos, the text messaging. Congressman, this is some very disturbing stuff that's happening here. Of course, it's disturbing, Todd, and it's been disturbing for some time. We all know, we can all see there have been two standards, not only two standards of justice, but two standards of national security review. If you're a hardcore leftist doing what Barack Obama and what President Biden wants you to do, then we're just going to waive that or we're going to change the standards or we're not going to comply at all and the press won't report on it.

If you're a conservative, if you're interested in America First policies, you know what? You probably can't even get a security clearance. I remember during the past administration, We talked to the President about hiring different people at national security levels and so on and so forth. and they never made it. They were never hired in four years.

And one of the reasons is they could never get their security clearances approved. They just wouldn't get lost in the mill tide. It's the permanent bureaucracy. It's the establishment, the uniparty and the hard left that refuses to make any changes in that regard. And unless you're with them, you're their enemy, and they're going to use the power of the state to make sure that the status quo, where Washington DC has all the power and the citizenry has none, they want to make sure that, that is maintained.

Will there be investigations? If the Republicans retake the House. Boy, Todd, the easy answer is absolutely. There has to be.

Now, I say that as The lowly chairman of the Freedom Caucus, I'm not in the position of leadership, but if our leadership at the time that we'll be elected, does not do that and does not do that in a forthright manner and a fair manner and a transparent manner, then they don't deserve to serve and the Republican Party I'm just going to say this, it's hurtful to me, but the Republican Party will lost its right, will have lost its right to be in the majority. We have got to restore truth and justice and equal justice for all, and we've got to get the bottom of not only Hunter Biden. The last election. the use of the Justice Department and the FBI to target political opponents by the left All that stuff needs to be ferreted out. This abuse of power by the so called J six committee and all their acolytes must be ferreted out, and there must be an accountability for this.

And real quick, our time is short here, and we will talk about this, folks, so hang tight and I'll explain the background here. But, Congressman, our understanding is that the former President Trump's attorney was not even asked to corroborate or refute the testimony of Hutchinson. What's the point of all of that then? The point is character assassination. Once they ring the bell, Todd, you know in you've worked in politics and around politics for a long time.

Once the bell has been rung, it can't be unrung. And so just because it's not true doesn't mean that once it's said that it's not going to be used in campaign commercials and ads and rhetoric across the board to defeat their political rivals. That's what this is.

So once it's said, there's no corroboration, no one's actually seeking the truth, no one's actually seeking facts. This is personal and political assassination. That's what this is.

Character assassination. It's disgusting.

Well, Congressman, our time is short here. We appreciate the information in the intel. Disturbing days, and let's just. Hope and pray the Republicans win in big numbers in the midterms.

Well, let's do more than hope and pray, Todd. But God bless you. Stay in the fight, and we're just so proud to be with you. Thanks for all you do. All right, Congressman Scott Perry, everybody, Chairman of the House Freedom Caucus.

Yeah, Pat Cipollone was called before that January 6th committee. And, of course, all these allegations that were made by the 23-year-old Trump. Trump aid. And She made allegations concerning Pat Cipollone, and they didn't even bother to ask him any questions about that. He's absolutely right in his character assassination.

So we'll get into that. Hang tight. Got a lot going on. This is the Todd Starnes Radio Show. We all know someone who's all work and no chill.

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All right, so uh before we go to Art Alley, I want to I want to circle back to this conversation we were having with Congressman Scott Perry, Chairman of the House Freedom Caucus.

So Friday, President Trump's former White House counsel, Pat Cipollone, was testifying before the January 6th committee. And the reason why he had been summoned, we all thought, was because of this testimony delivered by Cassidy Hutchinson, who basically her testimony was, well, I heard or somebody told me or there was a person who was in the room and they told this other person and they told me. And one of the big allegations was that Pat Cipollone. Was making the point that lots of people would be going to jail. That they would, quote, get charged with every crime imaginable.

Now, you would think that they would be. that the committee would want to hear from Pat Cipollone himself, not the hearsay.

Now sources are telling CNN that it never happened, that he never said what he said. Cut number eight. Former Mark Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified that Pat Cipollone said that.

Something along the lines of they would get charged with every crime imaginable if Trump went up to the Capitol. Two sources tell CNN that the committee did not ask Pat Cipollone whether he had said that. Is that true? And if so, why wouldn't you ask him that? We never call in witnesses to corroborate.

Other witnesses, or to give their reaction to other witnesses.

Well, why not? Isn't that the whole point of this? But it's not. The whole point is to destroy Donald Trump. This is a sham committee hearing.

Keep in mind, this is not a court of law. And if it was a court of law, this thing would have been thrown out a long time ago. Because there is no evidence. And for the committee to say, well, no one pushed back, it's because they're not asking the witnesses to push back. They're saying no one refuted her testimony.

That's because no one was asked to refute her testimony. That's how they're able to get away with this. Folks, this is really ugly stuff here. All right, I want to go to the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line. Our good friend Art Alley, he is the founder of the Timothy Plan, one of the most important ministries and financial organizations in the country.

Art, good to have you with us today. Hey, man, I see you're on a roll today, so good to be with you.

Well, Art, you know, it frustrates me because I believe in due process. I believe having a fair day in court. I mean, granted, this is not court, but they're making it out like it is to the American people. And I'm afraid a lot of folks aren't going to be paying attention to the nuance here. It's amazing.

It's amazing how easily Cond. too much of the American uh populace Uh really is, but On the other hand. There's a whole bunch of us waking up and saying, you know what, enough is enough. This kind of Deception and lying and cheating, and right out of the Marxist playbook. That's what they're doing.

Uh and unfortunately, there are victims of this. Look at the people who've been in jail. for just standing there in front of the Capitol. On january sixth. A lot of people.

A lot of people are. It's crazy. It's crazy. And it's almost like they're in a gulag. I mean, my gosh, man, you ought to be upset.

The American people ought to be upset. And we ought to go show our upsettedness. In November. I hope we're counting. It's a brand new word, and we're writing this down in the lexicon art alley.

I love it. Look, there's been some big news in the world of business. Elon Musk announcing that he's walking away from this $44 billion deal to buy Twitter. And he says that the reason why is they have not been forthcoming with a lot of evidence about how many people are actually using the platform. Mm-hmm.

Well Uh Elon Musk, I sure don't know that guy, but I'd like to. Uh, he's a genius. I mean, anybody who thinks she's not going to end up buying Twitter had better rethink. But I mean, what a strategy. I mean, look how much Twitter has fallen in price And all that does Just makes the deal much sweeter for him.

I believe he's still going to do it. I don't know. I don't have any information. But he's a negotiator, just like Donald Trump is a negotiator. they end up with the best deal.

And I think that's just a little bit of Strategy to see what happens. I think the yeah, they're down. Twitter stock down about a little over 8%, and that's probably going to go down a little bit further. Today. That's just today.

Yeah, just today. Art Alley is with Timothy Plan. TimothyPlan.com is their website. And, folks, it is. Seriously, the greatest resource for you if you're investing, you got to check out the great programs and the great resource and information they have.

Invest with integrity. That's the motto, and I love it. It's a great motto, and you need to do that. You need to invest your money with integrity, especially in these difficult days moving ahead. And, Art, I want to ask you about that.

Some people say we're already in a recession, others say we're heading to a recession. What advice would you give the average consumers out there in these coming days? Um batting down the hatches because we are either in one or one's coming, and it's all been orchestrated by corrupt leadership that's trying to destroy America. We don't have to go through this. I have high hopes for November.

And I don't put 1,000% confidence on the outcome of the election. But we can turn this country around and a long weekend. I heard uh art um say that one time and I says, you know what? He's right. You do the right things, and America is a powerful.

Uh Uh strong. Country that I don't think they're going to be able to take it down like they've tried to, and the they are the folks that are running the show. in Washington, DC and a number of the blue states When people will wake up to the fact that liberal policies liberal, Uh that's a wonderful word for socialistic policies. don't work, can't work, won't work. And they have driven us.

And what I mean, they're in a conundrum. What's the Fed going to do?

Well, I get in trouble for saying, you know, I've been doing this for forty five years. I have never seen it. the right thing ever.

So whatever they do, they're going to mess it up even more. You know, you've got inflation way out of control. And so how do you control that?

Well, you raise interest rates.

Well, you raise interest rates, you send the country into the the recession, if not depression. Um You know, uh i they're just Um trying to implement a system that never has, never will, never, can work, and that's socialism. Art, I know that you guys have been in this business for a very long time, and you encourage folks to talk with their financial advisors, and then you guys help provide the resources necessary to align investments with values. And that's a huge thing that I suspect a lot of people don't really think about. But if you don't have a financial advisor, you can actually invest directly with the Timothy Plan.

Is that right?

Well you can. We have a team of people here and we have another team that will counsel with investment advisors because a lot of them don't get it. It really does matter where you're investing money. You're seeing. you know, uh headlines of companies that are going so woke, it's almost unbelievable.

You're seeing a list of companies now that are paying all the expenses for travel for an abortion to a different state, if you're saying I mean, these people have lost their minds. When I started Todd, The import uh that's forty-five years ago. The important thing was a company would operate as efficiently as it can, Uh to make as much profit as they can for the benefit of their shareholders. And today, that's all taking a back seat to being politically correct and woke. with this ESG stuff going on.

It is crazy what's going on.

However, Like you say with Timothy, we've got great money managers. We've got twelve mutual funds and six exchange traded funds. The best thing I know how to do is diversify Hang in there. Uh things are really down now.

So you want to wait until they go up before you invest? Or would you rather do it while they're down?

Now it could go down more and probably will. But the only way to lose money in the investment world is when you panic and sell at the wrong time. Wise. Yes, you're absolutely right. All right.

We're going to have to leave it there. TimothyPlan.com, folks. I trust them with my money, and you can trust them with yours. TimothyPlan.com, they're going to steer you in the right direction. Art Alley, a wordsmith on top of a great financial guru.

Who knew? God bless. All right, Art. We'll be talking to you soon. That's our good buddy Art Allie.

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Kind to skin for texts like tena. Grace Baker, um We have a crazy story in the, you know, we do the crime report of the police blotter. Yes. And with the crazy crime stories from all over America. Yes.

And for whatever reason, they typically seem to happen in one specific state. And let me guess, Florida. All right. Time now for crime news. Wow.

Keeping you updated on crimes sweeping across the fruity plain. This is the Starnes A B. Dateline, Florida, the sunshine state. A trailer park. A man.

His neighbor. and a rooster. The Wave Love Triangle. No, no, this is not Hunter Biden. I can't.

By the way, when Congressman Scott Perry does summon Hunter Biden to the U.S. Capitol, they need to tell me to wear pants. No shoes, no service pants. Yeah, I just got to put on some pants. You're not Winnie the Pooh.

All right. Here is the actual report from a local television station about a guy who got arrested for killing his neighbor's rooster. One day, when Nick says the rooster followed him and attacked him. flares up. And he's doing his thing and he's trying to jump up at me.

He was trying to get the animal away. And I try to hit it, but the chicken's jumping up at me and I accidentally knocked it in the head. You know, call it a lucky shot, whatever. But when Day Felice came home, all he saw was his rooster dead in a ditch. I said, I'm calling JSO.

I called JSO, JSO didn't do nothing. Then a couple days later, I realized I could call animal control. And in late June, James Nix went to jail for animal cruelty.

Next thing you know, he calls the chicken police on me. While the neighbors continue the fight, Nix says he never should have been arrested. Chickens are dying every day, people, at churches, Popeyes, and Kentucky Fried Chicken. Really? It's true when you when you I mean, how many how many chickens have given their lives, have sacrificed their lives so that we can enjoy a finger licking good meal?

And Chick-fil-A sandwiches. Oh, don't you? Chick-fil-A. I mean, that's, you know. Eat more chicken.

That's a poultry genocide. Oh, okay.

So I'm curious here. Should the guy be? They say he spent 30 hours in jail. He's facing charges.

Now, the Sheriff's Department was not going to, they're like, what's wrong with you people? No. But it's the animal welfare people that have jumped in on this, and that's why he's facing these charges. It seems to me, if a rooster is attacking you, bring it on, big boy. That's true.

Now, if, like, say, the rooster was minding his own business in the neighbor's yard, and you shot the rooster and killed it. Then that's on you, buddy. Yeah, but I mean, but if the rooster is attacking you, that's different. That's right. Self-defense, right there.

So, anyway, he said that, yeah, he was very upset because the neighbor called the chicken police.

Well, you know what they say. I mean, you got PETA, people, like, what do you call them, Todd? People eating tasty animals, and they don't eat Chick-fil-A.

So they're kind of bitter and grumpy. Clearly, as are most vegans. Just going to throw that out. I'm just hammering the vegans today. I don't mean to.

I'm just saying. I. I'm not sure this guy should have been arrested. What say you, ladies and gentlemen? Should this man face charges for killing a rooster that was att I mean, that's like say you're in the at the zoo and a lion gets loose and the lion is trying to gnaw your leg, and you kill the lion.

Are you going to be charged at that point? 844-747-8868. Let's go to Mark in the Villages, which just happens to be in Florida. Mark, I'm just curious: why is all the crazy crime news coming from Florida? I don't know.

I couldn't even answer that question, but if it was me, I would have waited until night and fed it to an alligator. Let nature take its course. But the reason I'm called I don't know, they're just they're retired, they're drinking too much. I don't know. I can't answer the question.

Yeah, it's just the way they fly, I guess. Um But but um my my thing is uh people keep calling in. And saying, I don't want Trump in there. He's too old. He's this, he's that.

Let me tell you something. Trump is their best candidate right now for getting something done in this country. Because I think that he if he gets back into office, He can groom somebody like DeSantis, who's doing phenomenal with our state here in Florida. And I think that if he can get in there, he can groom the next president, which I strongly think could be DeSantis. But by sitting here saying he's too old and this and that, okay, well give me a candidate that you think that can get in there that can do what Trump did.

Or does. And secondly, look at the backing he's got from his sons. His family, his daughters, they're not running around smoking crack pipes with a bunch of hookers. You know what I'm saying? He's got a good organized family who can.

Put this country back to where it needs, and I just don't think anybody else can do it by him. All right, Mark, look, well said. We got to leave it there. We got to run for a break here, but I like the way you're thinking here. Look, Donald Trump, if Donald Trump wants to run, he's going to run and he's going to win.

That's all there is to it. He's not doing it now, and there's a strategic reason why. I'll explain that after the break. Got to take a break here: 844-747-8868. Mark says the guy shouldn't have been charged.

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Grace, I knew this was going to happen. This chicken story. Oh, yeah. Got you hungry for Chick-fil-A sandwich? No, not really.

Oh, you know, it's kind of weird, but I think I'm done with Chick-fil-A for a little while. I got there for you. Phases with that too.

So it's okay. It's a safe space here. It's okay. All right, good. Because I like Chick-fil-A.

I ate it a ton in college. I had to take a break from it for a while.

Now I've had it a couple of times.

Now I don't want to have it again for like another month. I don't want to ruffle feathers, but you. Yeah. That's okay. Thank you for that.

I may get some angry callers, but I'll fend them off. No, no, no. Look, no, I hear you.

So, anyway, there's a guy in Florida living in a trailer park. His neighbor's rooster attacked him. And long story short, the neighbor called the chicken Popo. And according to the guy, he got arrested, not by the police, but by the animal people. The poultry popo?

The poultry police? Poultry Popo? I don't know. Anyway, the guy is what spent 30 hours in jail, and now he's facing charges of animal cruelty because he killed the chicken.

Now, my take: if you are being attacked by an animal, you have a right to defend yourself. Just like if you're being attacked by a human, you have a right to defend yourself. Exactly. So I agree with that. All right.

So 844-747-8868. That's our phone number. It seems to be a no-brainer to me, but I want to go to Benjamin in Texas.

Now, Benjamin, I understand you have a similar story. I do. Uh, my mom one time was in our chicken pin and Uh turned into the chickens and she had a a stick 'cause I wish you would do the same thing. And um And she was in there and and he started jumping on her back. And she didn't know if it was an intruder or whatever.

So she turns around real quick and Uh Didn't mean to do this, but Yeah. She accidentally hit him right on the head and He died on the fight. But I think we had fried chicken that night. No, he should not go to jail. You see, that's I mean, look, I don't maybe there's more to the story that we don't know, but based on the facts as they were presented, I just don't see why this guy should be in any trouble.

I don't get that. All right, Benjamin, thank you for the call. Hope that chicken was good. Good for you. 844-747-8868.

And have you noticed that crazy crime stories always come from Florida? I don't know how that happened. It used to be, I don't know, Vegas or San Francisco, but now it's Florida. Let's go to. North Carolina, Don on the talk station.

Hey, Don, what's your take on this? It's sorta one of my pet peas as far as head owners and no pun intended but uh They think their pet can do no harm. They think their pet is just friendly to everybody. And I don't know how it is in other parts of the country, but animal control here is useless. Um I've called him a couple of times and that dogs are still running loose and still charging people.

So um I think if Pet attacks you, whether it's a rooster or a dog or a cat or Whatever. You ought to pick up a stick or a two by four and take care of it. You see, Don, the cats are the worst because you never know where they're going to come. I mean, at least the dog, they give you a warning. There's like a little growl and then they just kind of stop and stare at you.

The cat, the next thing you know, I mean, they're like purring and like all happy, and then they've got their claws planted in your face and you can't pull the cat off. Yeah, and the sad thing is, you're guilty until proven innocent. You're the person who is. you know, defended yourself. but the homeowner or the pet owner and the animal control people charge you for being Um, you know.

mean to the animals. Yeah. Well, what I've started doing is, I've started taking videos of the actual dog or the cat or whatever it is. It's coming at me on the bicycle or coming at me when I'm walking.

So I have a little bit of proof that this animal was actually attacking. My uncle Jerry had a dog named Rambo. That's B-E-A-U-X. And Rambo loved to chase a motorcycle.

So, you know, whenever a motor, they live way out in the country, and if a car or something would come by, you know, the dog would give chase.

Well, Don, one day, Rambo actually caught. caught the car and um sunk its teeth in to the um you know, the the the tire. And it was not a pretty my Rambo survived, but well, you know, suffered some significant injuries. But you know what? Uh, Rambo stopped chasing cars after that.

Well, I had a friend who was a physician that rode a bicycle competitively, and he ended up in the hospital for about three weeks with a fractured pelvis. A fractured femur. A broken neck because a dog charged out after him. Oh, that's nice. And according to the pet owners, the dog had never done that before.

B.S. That's BS. Oh, big time. Yeah, it's just um And it's not the pet's fault. The problem is it's the pet owner's fault for not being able to manage their pet.

You know, some of these people they treat their animals truly like children. No offense, Grace Baker. No, but seriously, but they're not, they're animals. They're in the grocery stores, they're in Lowe's, they're on the plane. They can't go five minutes without their pet with them.

It's like. They've got emotional problems. Grace, do you have an emotional problem? I mean, Don, you're getting me in trouble. I feel personally targeted right now.

You don't need your pet in the grocery cart when you're in the grocery store. You can shop for 30 minutes and buy your groceries without having your dog with. You can, but why would you? It's way more fun. Yeah.

Yeah, thanks. Not everybody likes your dog like you do. Oh, I disagree.

Well, she's way more popular than I am. Unfortunately, Grace, you may be one of those pet owners. Oh, my word. Don, let me - you know, it's interesting, though, because people, we live in this society now where people seem to not understand that animals are animals. They're not humans.

And, I mean, there were these reports when a couple of weeks ago, you had at least two or three people that were gored by the bison over at Yellowstone. They're wild animals. And I, you know, I'm sorry. I have no sympathy for people who get gored because I see what they're doing out there. They're trying to feed the grizzly bears, and then they, you know, are very upset and they want us to fund, you know, give money to their GoFundMe because they lost their arms.

No. You know, if you're going to be stupid enough to go up and try to pet a grizzly bear or a bison, sorry, you get what you got coming. Darwin's theory of evolution, you know, let's go ahead and call out some of these people that are doing that. You know, People are going to think that I'm a hard ass, but uh. Yeah.

If you're that stupid, You get what you deserve. All right, Don, appreciate the call. Folks, I'm curious here. Do you agree with Don that people are taking this whole animal pet thing too far? 844-747-8868.

That's 844-747-8868. I don't know how enraged Grace is, but our chief engineer just ran out of the building. I think everybody's running for cover here, Grace. I mean it was It's just the way he was speaking about it. Like, okay, first of all, I have a dog.

It's hot outside. I can only do so much with her. I have to keep her in a kennel when I'm gone.

So I take her where I can. Like, obviously, you can't take a pet in a grocery store where there's food. Duh. But, like, people take their kids everywhere because they've got to. I got to take my dog places sometimes.

And you know what? She's better behaved than the kids oftentimes.

Well, I don't, you see, again, my issue, and I do a lot of flying. I travel a lot. And I'm just concerned about the number of people who need the so-called support animal support, whatever they call themselves, the support animals.

Well, here's the little secret behind that. I mean, you can get that easy peasy. I mean, you can get that from a doctor. You can get that from all kinds of people. You can take an online test and you can get your dog service.

The only reason people do that is because it makes traveling with your pet easier. They don't actually. Oh, but it doesn't make travel for the rest of the. I was in this tiny little plane a couple of weeks ago. I'll give you a great example.

Tiny little plane. The lady next to me had a big old dog, and then there was the guy behind her had a dog, and then scared the freaking living daylights out of me because I didn't realize that there had been a dog shoved up underneath my seat from behind me. And I'm like, I felt like I was at a kennel, I was sneezing the whole flight.

Now, that I can understand, the allergies. But what's going on? I mean, okay, fine. Can we get like a dog-free or a cat-free flight? And going back to 2020, I wrote this story back when I was, oh, this was early in that because I was still at Fox.

Some moron comes onto an airplane with a miniature horse. A horse.

Okay, that's great. As a service animal on an airplane. I think that there has to be some amount of warning to people, just so you're aware, because some people are like extremely allergic to dog hair, pet dander, that sort of thing. And I understand that, but I'm also like, you know, if they are, if they've passed the test and everything and they can fit under your seat in a kennel, they can fit and you buy the. A seat next to you, and they can sit in the seat.

She had a horse.

Okay, well, that's a horse. I'm talking about dogs and cats here. I'm not talking about horse and, you know, but some of those dogs are just as big as the menowitzer horses. That's all I'm trying to say.

Well. I'm not even going to make a comment on that. Fred people. That was the name of the horse. Fred the horse.

Who in their look, if you've got to walk around with a miniature horse as your support, you've got some issues. But what if the person's moving or going to visit somebody long term and they just need to bring their animal with them? Then take Greyhounds. And you know what? They'll hook up a trailer behind the bus.

Okay. A horse trailer. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to go to the phones on this one: 844-747-8868. Who's right? Who's wrong?

Me or Grace? This is the Todd Stern Show. All right, let's go to the phones. Portland, Maine. Mary is listening to WLOB.

All right, Mary, what's going on?

Okay, Todd, I love you.

However, I agree with Grady. There is nothing better than a dog. Mike says a dog's the best thing since white bread. I mean, he knows what to do when I tell him, when to do it, how to do it, why to do it. When I come through the door, he's wagging his tail.

Now, how many men wag their tail when a woman comes through that door?

Well, I typically don't wag mine, but I guess that's a fair point. Yeah, I mean, they give unconditional love, whatever you do. They don't care as long as you give them treats and just love them and. There's nothing better. I mean, I don't agree with a lot of the pets they say you could put in a plane.

A dog and a cat, fine, but a horse, a pig, a goat, no. But dogs and cats are not, there's nothing better. Unless you get close to a pet like that, you would not even. You wouldn't appreciate it. You know, like snakes.

Somebody said that snakes are the emotional support animals.

Somebody comes on board my flight with a snake, I'm personally taking them off that flight. Yeah, you and my husband too. But if it's good for them, what do you care? Yeah, but well, the snake gets loose. You don't want it to attack the pilots.

If he's in a good cage, he's not going anywhere. I've seen that movie, Snakes on a Plane. Snakes on a Plane. Yeah. No, pets are the best.

I agree with Greg.

Well, I'm not saying pets are horrible, Mary. I'm just saying it's, you know, I think people are taking advantage of the whole emotional support system. And I think there are people who legitimately need them, members of the military. But if you've got to get on board with a 300-pound horse to get to Kalamazoo, you need to go see a therapist. I agree with you there.

I do. Absolutely. All right, you see, Mary, I knew you agreed with me and not Grace. Oh, no, no, no. I'm with Grace all the way.

All right, Mary, all right. We'll let you win that. Thanks, Mary.

Okay. All right, you're kind. You see what I did there, Grace Baker?

Okay. You tricked poor Mary. I lied. You agreed with me. Look, I you're taking it to the extreme.

Duh. I'm not talking about a three hundred pound miniature horse. I agree with you there. That would just disrupt the plane, I feel like. But a cat, a dog, that's fine.

How did we get off on this tangent? It's the chicken story. We were talking about the chicken, which I just don't think the guy should have been arrested. And I agree with you. We agree on something.

If it went down the way they said it went down. But then, you know, Don from North Carolina, bless him, he came on, and I don't think he's ever owned a pet that he's been close to because he sounded kind of upset. But I agree with you on the chicken story. If he attacked him, if an animal or a human attacks you, you got to do what you got to do. Get out the buttermilk, Brian.

And the Martha Whiteflower. Because we're going to have supper. KFC, buddy. Get that cast iron skillet going. Retired three-star general, Lieutenant General Gary Volsky, and Valesky, rather, Valesky.

And this is an important part of the story. He is retired, has been punished because he appeared to mock First Lady Jill Biden. This story from Newsmax, Sandy Fitzgerald is the author. You can see it up on our website, ToddStarnes.com. Yeah.

It turns out that the general, was um Was responding to something that the First Lady had written after the Supreme Court decided to overturn Roe v. Wade. And so the general said, Glad to see you finally know what a woman is. I don't see where this is mocking the First Lady. I see this as, wow, well, we're so glad you see things the way you ought to be seeing them now.

But the military didn't take it like that. It turns out the retired general was. Was working as a consultant. He was getting paid $92 an hour to work with the Army. And so they have now suspended.

The general, the three-star general, from his job. By the way, Valesky is also a Silver Star recipient. Experts say that Valeski's response breached decorum for a retired military officer and ventured into partisan politics. How is that? There is a raging debate in America right now over what a woman is.

USA Today notes that Valesky had posted other tweets with political overtones. He said that the January 6th House Select Committee is all about partisan politics, which, by the way, it is. What's wrong with that? He also said that the That um That member, well, hold on. No, that's what.

All right, I'm reading this Newsmax story here. The Army reports Valeski earned $50,000. From November 2020 to August 2021, $18,000 from September 20th to June 22nd. His job is to bring enlightened thinking to the military. I hope that's from a conservative viewpoint.

Valeski's tweets reflect a trend of recently retired senior officials who take political stands, including and they mentioned Michael Flynn, among others, Marine General John Allen, who endorsed Hillary Clinton. You got a problem with this, America? You got a problem with a highly decorated. Military general? Getting punished because he's got an opinion about Joe Biden.

And I'm still not quite sure what he said is all that political because it is true. I mean, a lot of these folks on the left have finally figured out, oh, now we know what a woman is. After Roe v. Wade came out, we all know that. All right, by the way, when you are free.

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KYKN Country is going to be a lot of fun out there. One of my favorite shows on KWAM in Memphis, Tennessee, is a Saturday auction program, and it's hosted by the Walker family, one of the nation's premier auction. I mean, you guys, Lance Walker, are kind of like the first family of auctioneers in America. And it's a fun, fun show. And I told Grace, we got to get Lance on.

Lance Walker, welcome to the program. It's great to be here, Todd. And Grace said to keep it light and lively, so I bought you some Gitson's donuts. You know, when two Baptists get in the same room, it's either. Donuts, fried chicken, or both?

Oh, yes. And I got to tell you, nothing finer than a Gibson's doughnut, one of the best donuts in America, and based right here in Memphis, Tennessee. They are, right down the block. You know, they did like, I mean, they're always mentioned whenever, you know, the big magazines, the foodie world, and they just do a great job. They do this one, they have a maple bacon donut.

Oh, I know. Yeah. Don't tell me. I got to go in for my health, my annual physical after the show, so don't tell my doctor. Oh, my goodness.

Lance, you guys have been in the auction business for a long, long time. And I remember, so when I first heard about what you guys did, the only reference I had when I was a kid, we would go down to Coldwater, Mississippi for the big auction. And typically, you were buying, it was basically a yard sale. And, you know, somebody was always trying to pawn off a velvet Elvis, which are probably now worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. I don't know.

But the auction industry is not anything like that now. No, it's completely changed, and that's how we got started. Todd, Terry, my wife, who, by the way, was named the number one female auctioneer in the country several years ago, her dad became an auctioneer, and we started out helping him hold up the pots and pans in the yard. And we caught auction fever. And all of our auctions were alive for years and years.

And then. maybe 15 years ago, 10, whatever, online auctions Came out and it changed our entire world. And we still do live auctions, love doing them. You've attended some of our live auctions. But now online seems to be the way to go.

And your wife, I believe, is in leadership, is that right? She's past president of the National Auctioneers Association. She's now chairman of the board. And by the way, Todd, I am going to run for vice president here in a couple of weeks at our convention.

So you have gone from first gentleman under her administration to soon to be Mr. Vice President. We hope so. This is an elections. I've got to win it.

What I love about what you guys are, it's so, I mean, it is first class. And the first time I sat in on one of the auctions, I was blown away. It was so much fun, so entertaining. And we're talking about high-dollar, you know, I mean, there's a lot of, you guys do the estate sales and stuff like that, but this is like really big dollar stuff as well. And walkerauctions.com, by the way, is the website.

Yes, we do. The fact is, I wrote a course for the National Auctioneers Association called Bennett. Auctioneer specialist, two other auctioneers and myself, and I taught it, probably taught hundreds of auctioneers.

So we do large benefit auctions like you attended, and those are fun. We just have fun with the crowd. We get out and we get people to donate to the charity by buying items and then having something that we call a fund of need where they actually just make a donation. And I've traveled the country doing those. And so we still do live auctions.

Love doing them, but online seems to be the trend right now for most things. Last year at CPAC, I was interviewing somebody from, I believe, Missouri, Louisiana, and they knew you. Yeah, we're originally from Missouri. We just hold a ranch up in Missouri in the middle. We're from the Booth Hill, about an hour and a half north of here from Memphis.

Fascinating. Lance Walker with WalkerAuctions.com. Lance, a couple of weeks ago, I was listening to, you guys do a radio show on Saturdays on KWAM, and you were telling the story about a woman. Who had some comic books? You've got to share this.

It's fascinating. This is what I love about the auction business. You know, today we're selling a Harley-Davidson and a tractor, and we're closing on a house we sold at auction. And then. We sold comic books.

Now, let me tell you what happened. This was in a house off of summer, not a very nice house. If you know the neighborhood Berkeley area, I think, if I'm not mistaken, just a modern home. And the lady said that when we were setting it up, sold Terry.

Now, by the way, there's a box full of comic books up in the attic. If you can get anything for those, please put them on. Make a long story short. We found the number one edition where Wonder Woman was featured on the cover and it. We sold it online, of course, thirteen thousand.

$200. No, no, no. No, excuse me. $32,200. One comic book.

Our buyer was up in Maryland, in the Washington, D.C. area, where you used to hang out. And that's what online auctions do. You know, we reached way out, and he was so, he's such an advocate. He's so picky-may, I guess.

He drove down here to get his comic book. He did not want us to shoot it. Is that right?

$32,000 for one comic book. It was just the one.

So that lady, what was her reaction when you told her that this was not just a $2 comic book? She's still in the hospital. She was in shock. And then we had several that brought $1,000 or more. It was just incredible.

That's what I love about what I do. We sell all over the country. We sell. Everything imaginable. I've sold a vast ectomy at a benefit auction.

I've sold a vast. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, what? What? Wait, what? I did this Ben Fed auction once, and I think it was in Chicago and The donation was this doctor who was on the board was going to donate a vasectomy.

And I thought, oh, wait a minute. I just don't know. This may be poor taste. And I don't know if I should do this. But then they, oh, yeah, go ahead.

We'll have fun with it.

Well, we did. The crowd went crazy. They were bidding on it. And so I get down to the last minute, and there's this lady who's probably in her 40s or 50s. And I like to get in the crowd as you saw me and have fun with them.

And I go up to her and I put my hand on her shoulder. I said, Ma'am, why are you buying a vasectomy? She said, I want to give it to my honored son-in-law. The crowd erupted. Everybody laughed.

I said, sold to the mother-in-law. And that stuff you have that you just have. I enjoy what I do. I have a lot of fun doing it. It really shows.

And of course, your son as well. Eric, yes, he's coming in. Yeah, he's our tech guy. He's a jewel. He knows all about how to set up our online auctions and answer questions at.

And so we are proud to have him on board.

So, we've got to take a quick break here. Can you stick around for a few more minutes? And when you, I want to, I want to, I want you to think about one of the other weird or unusual things that have happened out on the auction. And then I want to figure out we've got to try to auction off these donuts. Maybe we can, I want you to auction off a Gibson donut on the air.

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All right beautiful people, welcome back to the Top Stars Radio Show.

So glad to have you with us today and we're having a little bit of fun this afternoon. It's the summertime, it's hot outside, we got politics out the wazoo, gotta have a little bit of fun. And we're talking with a good friend of this program. And you folks that listen to us on the Mighty 990, KWAM, in Memphis, you know Lance Walker, his wife Terry. They are the owners of Walker Auctions.

And WalkerAuctions.com is their website. Great show. And if you want, they've got a podcast as well, Walker Auctions. And you've got to listen to this podcast. It's just so much fun.

And Lance, that comes across that you guys just have fun doing what you do. We're half-baked entertainers. I was supposed to take Ed McMahon's place on Johnny Carson, but he never would retire. No, he wouldn't retire. He would not retire.

So most of us are frustrated entertainers. And so when we get in front of a crowd, we're just as comfortable as we can be. How long did it take for you to learn that? Because that auction stuff is hard. It takes a couple of years to where you master it.

You go to school for a very short time. It's just a couple of weeks. They teach you the basics. And then you apprentice. And we apprentice under our father-in-law, Bob Turney.

She's now. Deceased. And so it takes you a couple of years to where you really develop a good chance. And then, if you want to do like Terry did and win the championship, you do a whole lot of practicing. And some people even hire coaches.

And I've never won the trophy. I tell people, they say, Lance, where's your trophy? Terry's got one. I don't have the trophy. I have the trophy wife.

Oh, I like that. That gets me brownie points. That is good brownie points. All right. So you brought in some delicious donuts from Gibson's Donuts, the best donuts in America, ladies and gentlemen, right here in Memphis, Tennessee.

And where's Grace Baker? Grace? She was lusting after them when I watched you. It was pretty bad. Grace, you've been accused of lusting after the donuts.

I'm sorry, they just smell so good. Don't tell Mr. Producer that. All right, so here's what we're going to do. Grace and Kyle, we're going to bid on the.

How are we going to do this? We're going to have an on-air auction with the donuts. There you go. We can do it. All right, Lance, yes.

This is what I call a short dozen. There were 12, but somehow from here to here. Two of them got, I don't know. They just disappeared. I didn't give to them, Grace.

They left.

So, what 10 donuts left?

So, it's an incomplete collection.

So, that's okay. If we're at an auction, there's several ways you can do it. You can sell them by each. You can say one in 10 times your bid. I want them all as a whole.

And I thought, Grace wants them all.

So, that's how she wants to sell them.

So, here we go. A dozen donuts, who'd be $5, it could have been $5. $5, $5, but affected. And now 10, 10, what have you been 10?

Now, $12, $15. And now $15, your turn would be $15.

Now, $17 and a half, but you're in second place. You want to be again? $17 and a half would have been $17. Did it one more time? $17.

Now $20. It'll be $20. Did it be $20? $25, $50. $25.

Now $30. It'll be $30, $30.

Now $35. $35, $35, $40, $40, $40. I have sold. $35 to Todd Starts. Whoa!

Wait, what? Expensive box of donuts. How fun. You said you would pay for them. I'm glad that.

$35. And so you get a cut of this, I guess, as the auctioneer. Small fee, yes, yes. You can just take your payment of donuts. I love it.

This may be a first in noon to three talk radio history. It could be. And it may be the last time we do it. It could be the last. That's right.

I love it. Lance Walker with Walker Auctions. And Lance, you know, again, there is a serious side to what you guys do because a lot of times when people they lose a loved one and they have the estate sales and you guys have to kind of walk through that. And I know you're a person of faith, and so that must really help. It does.

I also have a master's degree in guidance counseling. That's what I was before I was an auctioneer. That really helps me because we are dealing a lot of times with people who are going through a big change of life. Their mom's died, their dad's died, or maybe they're going into a retirement home, nursing home, whatever. We have to be conscious of that and and uh We make great friends with our sellers.

We just get to know them real well, and we actually advise them on what to sell and not to sell. It surprises me. Terry will say, Oh, no, you don't want to sell that. That's something you'll want to keep. Or something they want to keep.

She'll say, Hey, what are you going to do with that? You don't have room for it where you're going. And then she'll. Say, yeah, you know, I should sell that.

So we talked about the comic books. Is there another moment that was just really special for you guys that stood out? The highlight of my benefit auction, I used to do one in San Francisco, and it was a very, very wealthy crowd. And George Lucas. His children attended that school.

So you can imagine what kind of people were there at the auction. And he donated one of his movies was coming out, and it was one of his, I forget which one, a Star Wars movie. And so for 50 couples, you would go to the, I think you called it Skywalker Ranch. He would feed you. A nice steak dinner, and he, of course, he had this great theater there, and you'd watch the movie a week before it came out.

And so I sold that, it brought one hundred thousand dollars, and he let me sell it twice. Wow. So that one item for that charity brought two hundred thousand dollars, and that was that was really exciting that night. Yeah. We started about thirty thousand and it just boom, boom, boom, boom, went on up.

So I love doing things like that that help charities, private schools, hospitals foundation, St. Jude, you know, we're at Labano, we do them for that. We do charities all over the country. We were in Mobile a couple of weeks ago helping the Presbyterian Children Home. That's a great charity in Alabama.

And I had a lot of fun down there doing that.

Well, I just think what you guys are doing is spectacular, and it's so well done. WalkerAuctions.com is the website. And folks, there's a lot of great stuff that you can bid online. Online is pretty cool. Todd, it's so easy.

I'd like to show you. I'm not going to promote our side here, but what's happening today is everybody is getting out their phone, and I'm bidding on a forklift. I need a forklift, Todd. And I look on and I say, I've just been out bid. I punch a button.

And boom. Up. And now I'm the high bidder.

So, you know, it took me five seconds to make that bid. I didn't have to go anywhere. I did it while I was on your radio show instead of having to show up somewhere and stand and, you know, wait for that to happen. You need a forklift? I need a forklift.

I don't have a forklift, Todd. Do you?

Well, no, but we've got young, strong guys here that work on stamp and they can lift and tote. I may not do that anymore then. I love this. This is great. And again, all sorts of crazy stuff here.

And how do these people just reach out to you? Or how does that work?

Well, we. Marketing is huge for us and uh I tell you what, I know they say times are tough, but to me, this is the time when you step up your advertising. You don't cut back. And so we've increased our online presence, our radio advertising, or T V advertising.

So we have. We can reach about 500,000 people throughout the country. Wow. Yeah. So we're part of what's called Martinette Alliance.

It's 65 auction companies that went together. And so we have a great outreach on any item you want to sell. That's how we got the comic book sold. We were able to find buyers for comic books through them. Love it.

And it's just a lot of fun, too. It's a lot of fun. Do you enjoy? I mean, what do you enjoy more? The online stuff or live auction.

There is nothing more fun than doing a live auction. It's just a lot of fun. In fact, we're going to sell a house up in Missouri here in a couple of weeks, and it'll be live. We're going to be standing on the front porch and sell a house, and that's going to be fun.

So nothing like a live auction. And you were on an episode of Hoarders. We got about 60 seconds. Yes. We had one of our buyers that.

her daughter-in-law I guess what she called turned her in. Uh so they called me and they said, Where did you get all this stuff? And I mean, she it was she had so much stuff. And and uh she said, Well, I got it from Walker Auctions And so the guy producer calls me up and so I went down uh it was in Collierville and uh Was on the show, and it was a great experience. But I I thought, my word, bless her heart.

I had no idea she was hoarding. We did not know that. We thought she was a seller. We have a lot of people that buy from us and resell, and oh, it was stacked up.

Well, we didn't know you were a celebrity as well. That's awesome. Lance, it's been a lot of fun. We appreciate you coming by. And again, it's a fun thing that you guys do, and you're helping so many people all over America.

And we just want to say thank you, and we salute you. I appreciate it, and it's been a blessing to be a Part of your team here, Todd. All right. Lance Walker, everybody, WalkerAuctions.com. If you want to check it out, if you're a big political buff, they've got some great presidential signatures and other memorabilia.

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