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Carl Selfe's avatar

1) A $50,000 bag of money given bribe and filmed

is fair evidence of a crime. Therefore Kash Patel and Pam Bondi obstruct justice. That is a crime even here in Alabama.

2) The FY2026 BUDGET is the primary responsibility of the Republicans in Congress and the President.

3) When a sniper targets and shoots 3 immigrants, it is an immigrant shooting (not an attack on ICE). That is until sound evidence proves otherwise. Immigrants are just as much “Anti-ICE” as we are. I do not see actions that point to shooting at ICE agents.

4) Every Republican in the Senate voted against releasing the Epstein files. EVERY.REPUBLICAN. SENATOR.VOTED.NO. The question is “Why would they do that?” Answer that question for me, please.

5) The contrived distraction that’s the crime of bombing boats on the high seas makes those Republican senators complicit in murder. They could have stopped all of this.

https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/mace-melts-stansbury-stands?r=3m1bs

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Mary Roeser's avatar

Here's the answer to your question: They would do that because they are gutless eunuchs who are in thrall to a convicted felon, rapist and lunatic psychopath. They are scared to death to oppose the madman in any way. They don't give a tinker's dam about the country. Like the psychopath himself, they only care about themselves. That they are pretty sure that their own names also show up in the Epstein Files adds to their obsequiousness.

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Sky Blue's avatar

Why are the maga GOP such cowards???

Why are the maga GOP such sycophants??

FOLLOW THE MONEY!!

VOTE ALL maga OUT!!

They ARE SELLING OUT AMERICA and AMERICANS to the highest bidder!!!

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Mary Roeser's avatar

Consider this: Their Dear Leader is saying out loud what they, the MAGAT morons (but I repeat myself), believe but are too cowardly to say aloud. If they weren't themselves racist, misogynistic, homophobic, hateful, mean, and odious, they would never have joined the Church of the Godawful Trump.

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Edie Sadowski's avatar

If they had critical thinking skills tRump would have lost in 2016!

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Mary Roeser's avatar

I know that's true.

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Edie Sadowski's avatar

Probably because they are on the list!💩💩💩🤡😡

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Bradley Grower's avatar

President Kennedy’s father and President George W. Bush’s father and uncle, were all pivotal in financing the rise of the Nazi Party and Adolph Hitler. The Dulles brothers, Secretary of State John, and Deputy Director of the CIA Allen, worked under both Democratic and Republican administrations to secretly bring former Nazi SS officers into the United States after WWII. Seven former prominent German Nazis were on the committee to elect George W. Bush… until their names and backgrounds were disclosed in the press. Continuing to support a narrative of false equivalence may amuse some with limited knowledge of these facts, but it does nothing to educate readers of this column

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Susan Fernbach's avatar

Part of the reason Nazis were of interest post-WWII was because they weren’t communists. US attention moved with alarming speed from “de-nazification” to the Red Scare.

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Bradley Grower's avatar

"Part of the reason Nazis were of interest post-WWII was because" powerful sociopaths in the U.S. government protected the Nazi sociopaths they had helped to create... even after an attempted genocide, the massacre of unarmed American military members in the Battle of the Bulge, and the billions in stolen artwork, gold, and priceless artifacts looted from Europe. Glossing it over as if it was a passing fad, ignores the fact that BOTH major American political parties continue to protect the foreign sociopaths currently responsible for an attempted genocide in Gaza. It's baked into their DNA.

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Sam Ray's avatar

Party time for criminals when 🇺🇸 law enforcement is focused on prosecuting those who psychologically wounded the thin-skinned ones.

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Heather.B's avatar

The MAGA descent into authoritarianism is on full display. We’re watching the death of lawful dissent in real time. Their authoritarian playbook demands it. This administration is an authoritarian regime. Trump silences critics, rewrites culture, and demands loyalty, and payoffs. His vendetta is shaping a dark, dystopian future. I am tired of the constant lies. I am tired of the attacks on free press. I am tired of the attacks on our democracy and freedom. Are we going to allow this to continue?

We have a lunatic running the country in to the ground. We lost everything we know to be honest, caring, and good... 🤦‍♀️

Tee I wear regularly: "We the People will NOT comply with tyranny" This 👇

https://libtees.dashery.com/products/78688428-we-the-people-will-not-comply-with-tyranny-t-shirt

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John P Grundowski's avatar

Agree~ his hero's ARE vlad, bB netituto, Orkbon

basically the narcissistic

CREW,,,🌐🪶⚓️

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Peter's avatar

Halligan can try to get a grand jury to indict but given her total lack of experience, I don't see it. Even if she does, any of these cases will be tossed immediately. SHe'll be lucky if she doesn't lose her law license because of her fealty to Trump. Perhaps she should talk to Rudy, or John Eastman, or Jeffrey Clarke, or Jenna Ellis or Ken Chesbro before she goes much further.

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Ida Friedman's avatar

They never seem to learn from the past.

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Kathryn Zaremski's avatar

NONE of us ever seem to learn from the past!

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DW's avatar

You mean 74million other voters, not us ???🙀

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Kathryn Zaremski's avatar

Yes that’s what I meant!

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John P Grundowski's avatar

A law was not broken- to charge is misuse of OFFICE or BULLYING

or CURRUPTION thanks

respectfully 🛰💲🧩🔎🍊

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Cori MacNaughton's avatar

LOTS of laws have been broken.

The twice-impeached criminally seditious traitor and imbecilic petulant toddler should have been JAILED PENDING TRIAL on 7 January 2021, no later, and should be sentenced to LIFE in PRISON with ZERO POSSIBILITY of PAROLE, along with ALL of his SEDITIOUS

TRAITOR ENABLERS, especially his THREE ELDEST FRAUDSTER KIDS.

Full stop.

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Mary Roeser's avatar

She won't. She probably has convinced herself that she's so special the Everything Trump Touches Dies given does not apply to her.

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Denize Springer's avatar

She's the lamb being led to slaughter. Surely she knows that?

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Peter's avatar

Perhaps she has been promised a Fox News gig if she gets disbarred.

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Denize Springer's avatar

Ha! Very likely indeed.

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Ellen Franzen's avatar

No, she doesn't know.

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Monica Mac's avatar

You would think so, right? After all, once people in Trump's orbit are no longer any use to him, he throws them under the bus.

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John P Grundowski's avatar

Good fact ,,,no hangers- on🦺🤡🍊🧤

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Kathryn Zaremski's avatar

She’s got those Trumpy stars in her eyes blinding her to the truth!

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JOHN MILLER's avatar

We hope they will be tossed. When our lawyers are crooked so are our judges.

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John P Grundowski's avatar

The state gave the license to practice- can discipline◇recourse(disbarment)🌐🔎📑thanks,respectfully

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Peter's avatar

What difference does that make? Again, ask Rudy, Eastman, Clark, Ellis, Chesbro...

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Steve Katzman's avatar

Yesterday I read an online message that stated, “YOU CAN’T SPELL ‘HATRED’ without ‘RED HAT’. That appears to be Trump’s vindictive nature.

The Ukraine President knew that when a reporter asked President Zelenskyy if he felt a threat to his country by Trump’s phone call requesting an investigation of Biden’s son in which he answered, “I don’t get involved in any other country’s politics.”

Very astute answer.

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DW's avatar

Hat Red !!! Ha! Yes

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Edie Sadowski's avatar

Slava Ukraini!

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John P Grundowski's avatar

Zalinskyy has class and principals.Most leaders do,

ours is currently trying to disRAIL our budget💱☣️💲🃏😵‍💫

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Susan Thompson's avatar

You know what's at the bottom of a drained swamp...green disgusting slime. Yeah, that sums up this Regime, disgusting slime. We are "IN IT" Folks. RESIST !

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Sky Blue's avatar

BELIEVE THE VICTIMS!!!

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES NOW!!!

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Kathryn Zaremski's avatar

The slime is distinctly RED, not green! It is pure RED SLIME!

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Lisa P. Singer's avatar

“For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up. We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.

They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.

Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred.”

—FDR Address at Madison Square Garden, New York City

October 31, 1936

Those were the days when a President knew how to handle opposition and lead the country. How far we have fallen from grace with our elected leaders. Thank you Mary for making sense of this madness and our new red scare.

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LYNN COOK's avatar

As a nonogenarian who witnessed the global horrors of WWII with my immigrant family from Wales...but safely living in these United States of America....I can only remember how we all drew together to fight the oppressors..without.let-up...each to the best of his/ her abilities. We were faced with rough.days/nights...but never did we give up.the fight to bring our troops home. People...sons, daughters, fathers, friends ALL counted nationwide.

Give up the fight..????Not on your life ! FDR'S voice... strong and comforting as we all gathered around the radio with rapt attention. Your last paragraph was a lament to what we have.lost....thank you for bringing back difficult days...and the pride we felt in America for joining together with a shared goal...winning the war, bringing our troops home safely....and bringing peace to the world once again.

Old I may be now...but never will I give up the fight for democracy in this beloved land.

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Lisa P. Singer's avatar

Father Charles Coughlin, Huey Long, and Dr. Francis Townsend were the three men FDR was referring to in his speech when he said he welcomed their hatred. If only Donald would understand that part of politics is being attacked but never seeking revenge, and to 'welcome their hatred' as FDR did.

The 60 dictatorships in the world today would love nothing more than for America to fall so they never have to answer their people, 'why aren't we a democracy too?' Foreign influence is our greatest threat today, but DT has no ability to unite the country against any threat, foreign or domestic. Thank you for your kind and wise reply, and for never giving up the fight for freedom in the land we love.

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John P Grundowski's avatar

BINGO ,,,well said-darkest before the 🌄🌆🌇dawn🌻 🪻

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Robot Bender's avatar

I dint see any difference between government by organized crime and government by organized money. The results seem the same. 🤔

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Sky Blue's avatar

As with the MOB..

Mob boss John Gotti had many many followers, a ton of money, and the best attorneys money could buy.

He won so many of his own court cases that he was dubbed The Teflon Don.

BUT...it still didn't stop him from dying in PRISON in Missouri!!

There IS still HOPE!

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Edie Sadowski's avatar

💯💯💯👏👏👏👏

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LYNN COOK's avatar

Well said, Robert !

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John P Grundowski's avatar

Agree ,adapt, - folks with riches don't have to adapt.

A flaw I'm afraid🌐🎶🎮

They want MARS,and immortality 🔂♾️

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Joyce Hawkins's avatar

How long, if ever, will it take the USA to recover from the current administration? Wonder how employable these people will be. Maybe that's why they are trying to steal as much as they can.

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Ida Friedman's avatar

I’ve been wondering that myself. I thought maybe 20 years but a friend said yesterday she thinks 50 years and I was blown away.

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Robot Bender's avatar

If we can recover at all. I'm not certain this country will exist to recover by the time we're able to recover our democratic republic.

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LYNN COOK's avatar

We were once " the most admired nation" for our allegiance to democratic principals, Robert . When will the wounded heart and soul of this beloved country ever again savor that faith and feeling? I weep for what our forefathers fought and died for. We must not give up the fight to regain what they fought so valiantly for.

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Wendy E's avatar

If we are able to get back a majority next year, most historians say a good 10-15 years to get everything back to functioning at "normal" capacity.

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Ellen Franzen's avatar

China has surpassed us and we won't be first again.

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John P Grundowski's avatar

China has problems housing overbuilt(1.5 BILLION homes)- and 3 typhoon in 4 weeks.

No one wins a rat race🐢

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Ellen Franzen's avatar

Really? Well, when we get bad weather without FEMA, let me know how it goes. I didn't say China would have no problems. I said they were past us in a better place than we are, and that t, republicans, and the magas did this to us deliberately under the leadership of the nation that has been our enemy since the end of WWII. Okay, I didn't say it in so many words, but we have torn ourselves apart, and the planet is in such a bad state that our current leadership and oligarchs refuse to acknowledge where we are. China's leadership does see it and is acting on it. Only the west coast is acting on the present environmental situation.

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Cori MacNaughton's avatar

That seems to me a very optimistic estimate, but I dearly hope that they're correct.

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Kathryn Zaremski's avatar

I predict we will NEVER return to what was once “normal” in this country. Too much has been irrevocably destroyed. The best we can hope for is reconstruction, and that likely will take decades without a guidebook similar to Project 2025 for OUR side! The P/2025 was written over decades, so I get why D’s aren’t rushing to write their own book. Building back is always a much bigger task taking MUCH more time than destruction does! It will take many, many years!

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Ellen Franzen's avatar

We will never recover. If you saw t's speech at the UN on Monday, you would know that we are no longer the world's wealthiest and powerful nation. That nation would be China. In your lifetime, in eight months.

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Wendy E's avatar

Huh? Are you saying my lifetime is only 8 months? I'm not sure what you are saying here. I am well aware of the fact that we are no longer a country of power and riches. I also said if we can get back the majority in Congress next year it will take 10-15 years to recover.

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Ellen Franzen's avatar

Well, maybe I wasn't clear, or your reading comprehension isn't good. What we have seen in the past eight months has been the total collapse of the US's economic and military power. I don't think California and the Bay Area are interested in staying, and we are the fourth largest in the economy in the world. If our tax dollars don't get to Washington DC for more than a week, the federal government starts to run out of money.

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Wendy E's avatar

Wow!

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Cori MacNaughton's avatar

I believe we will be uncovering new previously undiscovered crimes committed by this openly criminal administration for DECADES into the future; perhaps longer.

I do still have faith in Americans and America, in that my maxim still reveals to me that most people are mostly good most of the time, but at the same time, I acknowledge that it may already be too late to salvage anything close to what we had before the twice-impeached sociopath slithered down his tacky escalator.

I am grateful that my parents, grandparents, older sister, and several close friends didn't live to see the monumental unpatriotic embarrassment of the failed reality star pretending to be president while looting our Treasury and using his office for personal gain.

Reagan did it first, and was also a traitor, but we've never had to deal with such an overtly criminal administration as this, nor one that betrayed us multiple times to multiple foreign powers.

It's hard to recognize my country these days - it's like a nightmare from which we cannot awaken.

I AM NOT GIVING UP.

I AM NOT GIVING IN.

I AM HERE FOR THE DURATION.

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John P Grundowski's avatar

They ALL are DEMOLITION

EXPERTS👺🏚⚠️🧺- aahh

no control or OFF switch...

that's a problem

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Gary Hanks's avatar

Thanks again Mary for laying it out there in your usual well written prose. Everyone's alarm bells should be going louder than a klaxon on an old submarine. Homan needs to go. Now!

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Edie Sadowski's avatar

They ALL need to go!

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EnidCohen's avatar

Bondi, Homan, Miller, Patel, et.al. will live to regret the roles they are playing. While DJT has immunity, they don’t. See Nuremberg trials. DJT will be long dead.

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Kristin's avatar

Hi there, Mary. Don't you think that Bondi has the upper hand? She's seen the Epstein files.

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Mary E. Martin's avatar

On the other hand, if she has seen them, Bondi may feel like she's in mortal danger if she doesn't tap dance to Donald's whims. That's where he really lives...

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j Graham's avatar

... "even the President’s Department of Justice..."

It may be part of the administration, but It is not D-trump's DOJ! It is the PEOPLE'S DOJ.

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Mary Roeser's avatar

Not according to DJT. It's his DOJ and no one else's.

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Cori MacNaughton's avatar

Does anyone in tge DOJ still acknowledge that?

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P Kawake's avatar

Not any more.

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Norm's avatar

I would guess the Criminal-in-Chief has a pardon form already filled out for Tom Homan, just in case. In fact, the worst part of the corrupt Supreme Court decision to give Presidents immunity is that a criminal president’s criminal underlings all have a “get out of jail free card”, too. The Convicted Felon President will simply pardon his sycophants for doing his bidding. I’m afraid no one in this administration of criminals will be held accountable for their crimes. We cannot just give up, though. The fight must continue.

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Connie Larsen's avatar

202 225 3121 or 202 224 3121

Will reach White House switchboard! Ask for ANY house or senate member! Start with trump ass kissers!

No damn Nobel! 34 count convicted felon n sexual predator!

https://www.nobelprize.org/contact

Easy form!

Fight Fight Fight

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linda sherer's avatar

Pathetic thug.....describes Homan perfectly! I cringe every time I see him being interviewed!

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Robot Bender's avatar

I can't watch these scum anymore. I read transcripts when I find them. I hate looking into the face of evil.

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SophieM's avatar

I never watch any of them, including lunatic Donald. Reading about their many crimes is enough. Also, there's a special place in hell waiting for pathological liar Leavitt.

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Robot Bender's avatar

"Bullshit Barbie."

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JP MEYER's avatar

Until the pathetic and treasonous Congress tells him "ENOUGH" this will continue until we are living in a wasteland. What we've already lost to his devastating & illegal actions, will affect our country (what's left of it) for decades. If not forever.

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Eva Lockhart's avatar

Fantastic column today Mary. And you're right--i think it is Donald's failures, as of late, that are driving these new acts of retribution with a vengeance...Donald is getting desperate and the tide, and poll numbers turn against him.

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LYNN COOK's avatar

Spot on, Eva !

trump always escalates retaliatory behaviors..

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Jacqueline Powell's avatar

So true. It is sickening to watch.

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