#6 - Trump Logic

War of Ideas by Cody Cimbal

Aug 8, 201732:44News & Politics

In this episode, I go over Dilbert creator Scott Adam's podcast discussion with Sam Harris. He tries to defend Trump's reasons for doing what he does. I offer quite different explanations as to why Trump wants to keep co...

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