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Sure, permission to speak freely—
but I’ve gotta keep plausible deniability here. 
You heard Bannon. Nobody’s safe.
We’re coming after all of you.

Sure as shit, from Maine to Montana
he’s gonna primary us—
the dark money’s already banked.

Well, right. Let’s just say it’s not so much 

an untruth as a bent belief. You know, sincere—
sincerely held.  We just have to get through this patch 
without The Boss or Rocket Man blowing, and I say 
the generals have this one.  Yeah-- 

they’ll keep ‘im on a short chain. 
Great team. As he himself would say, 
Believe me.

                                                         —Sef 10/9/2017