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\"\"<\/a>Shaun Thompson<\/a><\/strong> and I had a rollicking chat tonight on Chicago\u2019s The Answer AM 560, <\/strong>making it hot for corrupt politicians from both parties. Shaun is the host of the Liberty Hour <\/strong>and he recognizes that both Democrats and Republicans are vexing this nation.\u00a0 Shaun asked me why FBI chief Chris Wray went to the World Economic Forum in Davos.\u00a0 I replied – heck, you have a private FBI jet, why not go to Switzerland? There were so many private jets at that event to fight climate change that local airports were overwhelmed. Shaun isn’t persuaded by Biden’s explanations on all those classified documents that have turned up.<\/p>\n

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Shaun Thompson and I had a rollicking chat tonight on Chicago\u2019s The Answer AM 560, making it hot for corrupt politicians from both parties. Shaun is the host of the Liberty Hour and he recognizes that both Democrats and Republicans are vexing this nation.\u00a0 Shaun asked me why FBI chief Chris Wray went to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2124,3527,3528,214,3165],"class_list":["post-17964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-biden","tag-chicago-am-560","tag-davos","tag-mp3-2","tag-shaun-thompson"],"yoast_head":"\nTrouncing Big Government with Shaun Thompson on Chicago Radio - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Shaun Thompson and I made it hot for political rascals on Chicago AM 560 tonight\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/26\/trouncing-big-government-with-shaun-thompson-on-chicago-radio\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trouncing Big Government with Shaun Thompson on Chicago Radio - 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