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tgards79

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Thu Aug 17, 2017, 01:08 PM Aug 2017

Charlottesville's Web: We Finally See #RealDonaldTrump

Three different statements in four days, and three entirely different versions of Donald Trump. BTRTN on the carnage in Charlottesville, and on which Trump is the #RealDonaldTrump.
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2017/08/charlottesvilles-web-we-finally-see.html

"We can all say that the white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and anti-semites that made up the alt right rally in Charlottesville are heinous, despicable, and sick people, but Donald Trump looks at them and sees fanatic, crazed loyalty to the Trump brand.

These are the people will stick with him even if 'he shoots somebody on Fifth Avenue.'

And for every neo-Nazi vigilante who spewed racist filth in Charlottesville, in Donald Trump’s view of America, there are millions more voters just like them. Donald Trump believes, deep in his heart, that these are the people that constitute his most loyal base.

Donald Trump looks at every single decision as a calculus about what will help him personally. Trump saw the videotape from Charlottesville, and determined that an unalloyed, unilateral indictment of the alt right rioters would be a risk to his political base..."

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Charlottesville's Web: We Finally See #RealDonaldTrump (Original Post) tgards79 Aug 2017 OP
We finally see? We always saw it lunamagica Aug 2017 #1
yep. n/t BlancheSplanchnik Aug 2017 #2
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