Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 191
Blue Wave Update
The New York Times quotes from a conversation between then-President Donald Trump with his acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, after a far-right gunman killed 23 people at a Walmart store in El Paso in 2019.
TRUMP: What are we going to do about assault rifles?
MULVANEY: Not a damn thing.
TRUMP: Why?
MULVANEY: Because, you would lose.
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