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The Tale Of Two Presidents

Number 45 made another controversial phone call, this time to the Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.  The recording of the phone call was released today and listening to it explicitly shows the US president asking Mr. Raffensperger to alter the outcome of the general elections for the President's benefit. Number 45 also spoke of several conspiracy theories about election fraud that even facebook and twitter consider "fake" and baseless rumors. I think they would have to drag the 45th president from the White House come January 20th. Simply put, he is like a crime lord trying to avoid prosecution after being caught. 

Here in Manila where Covid-19 is still producing 900 new cases everyday, it is a horrible scandal for the Presidential Security Guard Unit to avail themselves of still unauthorized vaccines for the virus. Firstly, the vaccine was smuggled in, outside the FDA procedures, so it was dangerous and they used government money, the people's money,  to pay someone to get it illegally. Then the Philippine President defends this and forbids Congressional inquiries to proceed by instructing his guards not to answer any questions asked by lawmakers.  The President's act is disrespectful of another branch of government. 

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