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Ninga

Ninga's Journal
Ninga's Journal
May 1, 2020

It's Tara Reade job to prove her case, says

next President Joe Biden.

April 18, 2020

This explains why November could be in jeopardy.

While I appreciate so much more can happen to change supporters minds, he is in campaign mode every day he holds his briefing. Media is playing into his hands.

-snips-

He is the new Houdini. His entire life he has been an escape artist.

“He’s a magician that way. Other people would stop and recognize that they were defeated. Or that they should be shamed. He refuses.”
Jennifer Mercieca, a professor at Texas A&M University and the author of the forthcoming Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump

Attention can be good or bad, but a central gambit of the life of Trump is that that’s actually not true. That it’s all good. That attention is power. That if you’re watching, he’s winning.

“Anybody who studies him and studies the nature of power and propaganda when melded together should understand that this is not going to be easy,” veteran Democratic strategist Hank Sheinkopf said of his party’s shot to make Trump a one-term president.


https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/04/17/donald-trump-escape-crisis-bankruptcy-coronavirus-casino-trumpology-183513

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