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struggle4progress

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Wed Aug 23, 2017, 06:22 PM Aug 2017

Truths Displayed In Phoenix Rally

August 23, 20173:14 PM ET
DOMENICO MONTANARO

President Trump led an incendiary rally at which he ripped at cultural divides, played to white grievance, defended himself by stretching the truth or leaving out key facts, attacked members of his own party and the media, played the victim and threatened apocalyptic political consequences — all the while doing so by ignoring political norms and sensitivities ...

The only thing that's surprising is if you're surprised by it ...

The country is at a demographic crossroads, and polling suggests there are .. people .. bothered by how the country is changing. Trump picked up on that and ran with it ...

Trump is all about Trump .. He nearly threw Attorney General Jeff Sessions under the bus, for example, threatening his job on Twitter — and Sessions was one of Trump's earliest supporters and was behind Trump when no one else in the Senate would back him ...

http://www.npr.org/2017/08/23/545508739/are-you-ready-yet-to-accept-donald-trump-for-who-he-is

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Truths Displayed In Phoenix Rally (Original Post) struggle4progress Aug 2017 OP
He didnt pardon Joe the fuck Arpaio NOT because of the lie he said, Eliot Rosewater Aug 2017 #1

Eliot Rosewater

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1. He didnt pardon Joe the fuck Arpaio NOT because of the lie he said,
Wed Aug 23, 2017, 06:41 PM
Aug 2017

he didnt do it because of paperwork that isnt complete on something, not sure what.

He desperately wants to do it so he can purposely stoke a civil war, he thinks that will give him an excuse to disband the Mueller team

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