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Showing Original Post only (View all)I am having trouble believing that Trump really believed that [View all]
executive privilege would follow him into the After-Potus years. Today we learn that the Courts do not support this position. Wasn't that outcome a sure thing? Did Trump sleep through the Clinton trials, where Clinton had to face the courts and an independent counsel, who went so far as to cheat and leak to bring Clinton down? Who wouldn't see that as a deterrence?
And yet, Trump, on January 6 went balls to the wall into insurrection territory.
I just have trouble grappling with this. Was it hubris? Was it ignorance? Was it a belief that he was going to coup his way through every American procedure that was standing in his way?
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I am having trouble believing that Trump really believed that [View all]
Baitball Blogger
Dec 2022
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My opinion is that the Pig is so transactional and narcissistic that he actually thinks...
Thomas Hurt
Dec 2022
#3
Trump is a textbook narcissist. Their brains do not work in a normal way.
fightforfreedom
Dec 2022
#6
He thought he could and would overthrow our Republic and become a Putinesque dictator.
Demsrule86
Dec 2022
#16
Trump still considers that he IS President, and therefore has Executive Privledge.
Chainfire
Dec 2022
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