Comedians Take on Biden-Trump Debates and Mitt Romney's Wild Pardon Proposal

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Callaroga Shark media from the Utah Desert, where the former governor of Massachusetts wants

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to pardon the New Yorker who lives
in Florida. This is ballot today.

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Well, someone is hopped up on
something. I guess and no it's not

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me. Let's hit this seth Myers
is excited for the debates, saying President

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Biden and former President Trump are set
to face off in two presidential debates.

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Biden is looking forward to laying out
his twenty twenty four agenda, while Trump

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is just happy to go somewhere where
nobody will draw him while he sleeps.

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Biden getting Trump to agree to no
audiences is like getting a vampire to fight

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you at noon on the beach.
During the Garlic Festival, Jimmy Fallon explained,

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Biden and Trump will meet June twenty
seventh on CNN, and one of

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Biden's debate conditions was not having an
audience, So that explains why it's on

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CNN. Trump agreed to the debate. He said, I'll be there as

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soon. I mean, it's okay
with my parole officer and Stephen Colbert with

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the winner. Imagine Trump with his
mic cut. He's going to look like

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the world's angriest mime. Today,
we're breaking down the latest astonishing comments from

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Senator Mitt Romney, who has once
again managed to confound and bewilder with his

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perspective on the Trump legal saga.
In an interview, the former Republican presidential

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nominee argued that President Biden should have
not only preemptively pardoned Donald Trump for his

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alleged crimes, but also pressured New
York prosecutors to drop the hush money case

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entirely. Yes, you heard that
correctly. Romney believes Biden fundamentally erred by

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allowing the judicial process to proceed independently
against Trump, claiming a pardon would have

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made Biden the big guy and Trump
the little guy. He says, the

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president missed a golden opportunity to consolidate
power royal court style. But Romney didn't

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stop there with the baffling rhetoric.
He even invoked the ghost of lb suggesting

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Biden take a page from the bullying
playbook and strong arm prosecutors into abandoning the

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case lest they be driven out of
office. So much for that much vaunted

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respect for separation of powers and democratic
norms. According to mister Romney, Biden

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should have abused his executive authority for
sheer optics and mind games. The cognitive

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dissonance didn't end there, though,
When asked about the clown car parade of

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Trump sycophants and potential VP picks rallying
outside the Manhattan Courtthouse, Romney called the

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whole circus demeaning and admitted he'd feel
awkward engaging in such undignified antics. But

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just seconds later he practically endorses the
tactic by speculating that such obsequious public displays

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may actually help candidates get selected as
Trump's running mate. Smooth move x lax

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pivoting to the newly agreed to Trump
Biden debates, Romney forecast a lopsided dynamic

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where Trump's competitiveness and forceful presence would
badly overshadow by Mayden's expected low energy sleepwalking

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performance. It takes so devoid of
self awareness that it almost circles back around

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to insightful. At this point,
you have to wonder if the good senator

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has simply become addicted to generating headlines
via constant verbal stream of consciousness spills.

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It's like Mitt Romney has transformed into
a human version of a Trump rambling,

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just a constant deluge of bewildering,
contradictory and reality untethered musings. But hey,

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at least it makes for great fodder
here on ballot. Anytime a prominent

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politician wants to indulge in unvarnished absurdism
and hypotheticals utterly divorced from governing principles,

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you can be sure we'll be here
to mock it mercilessly. Lord knows,

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Mitt gave us plenty of ammunition this
week. It seems the upcoming Hunter Biden

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trial is shaping up to be a
bit of a damp squib for the mag

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of Faithful, hoping to reignite the
laptop's saga flames. According to sources within

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the White House and Trump's own camp, neither side is really prepping any big

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counterpart hunches or war room setups for
this particular legal showdown. The Democrats are

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chalking it up to Biden's lawyers being
more than capable of handling it, while

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Republicans increasingly see the Biden crime family
narrative as a played out dead end.

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On the White House front, aides
apparently feel Trump and the GOP have largely

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moved on from obsessively targeting Hunter in
recent months. Years of slings and arrows

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have barely made a dent in voters'
perceptions, so why bother with a renewed

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full court press over something as pedestrian
as a gun charge. Even Biden's ally

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quoted seems relatively nonplussed, suggesting they'll
only clap back if Trump or the House

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GOP tried dragging Big Daddy Biden into
the fray two a smart hedge since the

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former president himself has been uncharacteristically mum
on his once favorite target lately, but

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the realty it comes from the anonymous
Trump World insiders, essentially admitting the Hunter

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stuff has run its course as an
af effective political bludgeon. One bluntly states

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that this particular trial focused on Hunter's
admitted struggle with drug addiction and gun possession,

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is too far removed from the juicier
corruption accusations to warrant going full Spinerama

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in their own candid words him having
a gun and snorting cocaine. That doesn't

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go to the Biden crime family narrative
and story. Ouch when even MAGA Inc.

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Is throwing up their hands at the
prospect of milking more mileage from the

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laptop Gates saga. You know it's
deader than Douglas Fairbanks. MAGA Congressman Greg

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Murphy decided to grace the Fox Business
airwaves by peddling a wild, unsubstantiated claim

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that President Biden was absolutely jacked up
on something during his State of the Union

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address. According to doctor Murphy's expert
medical opinion, there's just no way Sleepy

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Joe could have maintained that vigorous two
hour sailing of MAGA Republicans without some illicit

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pharmaceuticalsas assistance. The President's unexpected verve
and stamina simply doesn't comport with Murphy's image

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of a frail, befuddled codure.
To her credit, Maria Barturomo at least

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expressed some professional journalistic skepticism, pressing
the belligerent congressman on whether he meant proof

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of Biden being juiced up on actual
drugs or just generic medicine. Undeterred,

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Murphy simply doubled down, insisting he
has evidence of Biden being drugged and framing

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it as part of a nefarious DNC
ploy. He's been manufactured and puppeteered by

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the Democratic Party to be president.
I'm annoyed they're gonna make me work again

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this weekend. When I took this
job, nobody told me there would be

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news every Sunday. Morehouse College president
David A. Thomas finds himself squarely in

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the middle of a firestorm as the
historically black institution prepares to host President Biden

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for their graduation ceremony this Sunday.
So guess who's gonna get asked to come

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into work right me. In a
refreshingly principled stance, Thomas made it crystal

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clear that he won't allow any over
zealous policing or harsh crackdowns on potential student

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protests during Biden's speech, declaring he
would shut down commencement on the spot rather

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than permitting law enforcement to haul away
demonstrators and zip ties. Thomas displayed an

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admirable commitment to upholding civil liberties,
his reasoning, we should never put the

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ego of the institution above our values, and one of our values is to

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see the humanity in all. You've
got to respect the consistency in protecting the

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right to free expression, even if
it risks disrupting such a major milestone event.

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Of course, Thomas did establish some
reasonable boundaries, vowing to prohibit outright

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hate speech or any calls for violence, but otherwise Morehouse seems intent on being

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