What Trump Didn't Know?

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i think one thing i raised in my piece, m and that i think i hopefully will come out through these hearings, is the question of what trump did know. And, you know, at this point, it seems like probably, he he he he may well have known. But if you know that that's what people are prime to do, and you egg them on, I think then finding that a even more oblique words might none the less, meet the standard could be appropriate.

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