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56  Then the next page, this is him continuing about the FBI. He says, "I made some bad decisions on leadership there, but I was laboring under an illegal investigation. The special prosecutor should never have been commenced."

Then he says—he was complaining about the appointment of the special prosecutor, and he says, "You," meaning DAG Rosen and I, "figure out what to do with Hunter Biden." That's up to you guys. But "people will criticize the DOJ if Hunter's not investigated for real."

That was sort of an aside. That's all he said about it. It was a very brief comment. But it was off-topic, and I wrote it down.

All right.

All the way at the top there—

Also—

—you have in parentheses "TN"—"that whole thing, angry." Tell me what that is about.

Right. So "TN" is Tennessee. Again, this was another aside. The President has a very unusual way of speaking. He's got a lot of tangents that go into his train of thought.

And so he mentioned Tennessee. He said, "That whole thing, crazy. Talked to the Governor there." He's or she is "also upset."

That was a reference to an explosion that took place on Christmas morning in Nashville, where an individual had packed his mobile home with explosives and detonated it early that morning. And so that was in the news. And the U.S. attorney was deeply involved, and we were dealing with that throughout Christmas. So the President just made reference to that.

Okay. So, in the middle of this call where he's ranting about election