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Category Archives: Donald Trump
WP: To Trump’s hardcore supporters, his rallies weren’t politics. They were life.
For some people, Trump is a substitute religion. From the Washington Post: * They were mostly older White men and women who lived paycheck to paycheck with plenty of time on their hands – retired or close to it, estranged … Continue reading
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Scott Adams Analyzes Trump-Kanye Summit
Scott Adams talks about Kanye and Trump. https://t.co/z3049ixWyw — Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) October 11, 2018
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NYT: What Trump’s Speech Says About His Mental Fitness
John McWhorter writes: However, the distinction between public and private speech is key here, so I am unconvinced that his current speech patterns can be analyzed as evidence of dementia. Instead, they’re characteristics of casual speech as it has always … Continue reading
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Trump’s jargon is infectious
Virginia Heffernan writes: Donald Trump’s triglycerides are 129. His fasting blood glucose is 89. His alanine transaminase is 27. He’s fine. He seems to be hewing to norms, for once. But to hear the presidential physician tell it, Trump is … Continue reading
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Is Trump Having An Affair With Nikki Haley?
At this point it's mere speculation, but Michael Wolff has said that a paragraph toward the back of FIRE AND FURY reveals who Trump's current mistress is (an affair that opens the president up to blackmail) and many online are … Continue reading
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Did Trump Pay Porn Star $130K Just Before 2016 Election To Keep Her Quiet?
(THREAD) The BREAKING NEWS that Trump cheated on Melania with porn star "Stormy Daniels"—then used his lawyer as a "fixer" to pay six-figure hush-money a few weeks before the 2016 election—is relevant to the Russia inquiry. I hope you'll read … Continue reading
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Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
Highlights from the new book: * Lewandowski and Hope Hicks, the PR aide put on the campaign by Ivanka Trump, had an affair that ended in a public fight on the street… * Shortly after Lewandowski, with whom Hicks had … Continue reading
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The Happy-Go-Lucky Jewish Group That Connects Trump and Putin
From Politico: Chabad of Port Washington, a Jewish community center on Long Island’s Manhasset Bay, sits in a squat brick edifice across from a Shell gas station and a strip mall. The center is an unexceptional building on an unexceptional … Continue reading
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Trump’s Ability To Fight
Comment: Few things about Trump seem more remarkable to me than that he was perfectly able to sustain the most vile accusations and vitriol, at an intensity and pervasiveness without any precedent in modern times, and with virtually no support … Continue reading
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We Now Know The Identity Of Publius Decius Mus
Feb. 2, 2017 Update: It is Michael Anton. Weekly Standard: The Anonymous Pro-Trump ‘Decius’ Now Works Inside The White House The enigmatic writer’s real name is Michael Anton, and he’s a fast-talking 47-year-old intellectual who, unlike most of his colleagues, … Continue reading
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