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5:26Now PlayingHey guys. Happy Easter and glad to have you back. You know, Easter is one of those times where we get together with our families, we all come together really around the world, for this sort of special moment and whether you're a believer or not, you know, the, the christians believe in the resurrection of Christ, but many others of us you can feel it's like Christmas this, especially in the United States, this positive sort of spirit in the air. We, we, it just it brings people together and we need that more than ever. We've got, you know, coups in, in Sudan and, and trouble in, you know, Azerbaijan attacking Armenia and of course most of all in the news we've got what the evil Vladimir Putin's attacks on, on Ukrainians and on civilians. You know, we've gone through a couple years of covid and a coup where the far right of this country, you know, tried to attack or did attack the very seat of our democracy and torched the Capitol or attacked it, broke windows for the first time in 200 years since the war of 1812. So, you know, the Easter is just that much more important and, and most of our past presidents, all of them actually, have been christian.
So as you'd expect our past presidents and our current one put out some what you consider some very kind statements and I figured I would read them to everybody so you can kind of, you know, get a sense of this unity that we have. What, you know, well I guess let's start, you know, going furthest back. We got the Jimmy Carter presidential library which tweeted out just a happy Easter with a photo of the White House Easter bunny from 1977. That was nice. You know former secretary of state and first lady presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tweeted out a happy Easter with a photo of herself and former president Clinton and they were together I think they were with the Easter bunny maybe. Barack Obama wished everyone a happy passover too on Friday and a blessed and joyful Easter on Sunday, quote, after a difficult couple of years let me give thanks for all the gifts we enjoy and the people who make our lives special. That obviously very kind and then you get to Joe Biden and you get to the last president, that guy Donald Trump.
Let me read you Joe Biden's first because I think it fits with the others pretty well. As we reflect today on Christ's resurrection we are reminded that with faith hope and love even death can be defeated. From our family to yours we wish you hope health joy and the peace of God, which passes all understanding. Happy Easter and may God bless and keep you. That's a good man, no matter what sort of certain far-right stereotypes, stereotypes isn't the right word, conspiracies have been to try to make it seem like he's not. And then we get the statement from crazy guy, you know, senator, not senator, president poopypants before, Sunkist colored guy, let's see if this statement doesn't sound quite like the others, statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th president of the United States of America. It's very important that you know that he was president, he still wears the shirts around and everything, gives him that little extra testosterone boost, apparently Tucker Carlson's half naked dude video can't give him. Happy Easter to all including the radical left maniacs who are doing everything possible to destroy our country. May they not succeed, but let them nevertheless, be happy healthy wealthy and well.
So, may you fail radical leftists in the spirit of Easter. May, you know, I don't know, may everything possible you do to destroy our country not happen but, you know, be healthy wealthy and well I mean, you know, a lot of sort of consistent tone in that message. He also of course attacked attorney general Letitia James, who I am most happy with, she's in New York, because she's been the one more aggressively at least from the outside view of prosecuting a case against Donald Trump than even Merrick Garland, certainly at the the Department of Justice and Alvin Bragg who momentarily stepped back from saying he would do anything in New York as the district attorney. He went after her, let's see what he said about her, can we find it, can we find it, I am not finding it, but. Oh there we go, he said, may she remain healthy despite the fact that she will continue to drive business out of New York while at the same time keeping crime death and destruction in New York. The only thing she's driven out of New York so far, she and a few others, is Donald Trump, who hides out at that roach infested Mar-a-Lago and can't go back to New York most of the time anymore.
As a Democratic strategist and activist, best-selling author, podcaster, pundit and media advisor to candidates and causes, Cliff has impacted dozens of campaigns across the nation in a life that’s taken him from New York to DC to Cincinnati, were he rallies the resistance in purple America.
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