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To: Maple MAGA who wrote (1249336)	7/24/2020 11:39:25 AM
From: Wharf Rat	2 Recommendations Recommended By pocotrader rdkflorida2 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573852

"Hunter was out having sex with strippers " You shouldn't go there. Donald Trump Played Central Role in Hush Payoffs to Stormy ... wsj.com Nov 9, 2018 - Trump in the weeks before the 2016 election about paying Stephanie Clifford, the former adult-film star known professionally as Stormy Daniels,

To: Maple MAGA who wrote (1249336)	7/24/2020 12:03:13 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By pocotrader Respond to of 1573852

So Hunter gets the Trumper seal of approval? Too bad, Hunter isn't running.

To: Maple MAGA who wrote (1249336)	7/24/2020 12:10:54 PM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Recommended By pocotrader rdkflorida2 Respond to of 1573852

..... In 2015, the American political world had never been confronted by a politician so deeply untethered to the truth. Trump lied the same way normal people breathe. Whether it was about his finances, or his health, or “watching Shark Week” with a porn star. (Best euphemism ever?) Trump literally paid actors to come to his announcement that he was running for president and pretend to be supporters! Can you imagine what would have happened to any other Republican presidential candidate in the history of Republican presidential candidates if they had gotten caught paying a crowd to show up for their launch? .... And Trump’s super power wasn’t just his shamelessness in lying about himself—he was willing to lie about what he wanted to do as president. Presidential candidates are always promising crazy stuff that has no way of passing into law. But there has always been a line. Like, if you were running for president you could promise that you would “end poverty” or “fit your entire tax return on a postcard.” And sure, everyone knew that you weren’t going to really do those things because the problems were complex and legislating is hard and blah, blah, blah. But at least, in a perfect world, these goals were theoretically possible. No one was ever willing to say, “Vote for me and we’ll change the universal gravitational constant.” Or, “I pledge that together, we can make alicorns real.” But Trump kind of was. He promised not only to build an unbroken physical wall stretching across America’s entire southern border—itself an exercise in magical thinking—but that Mexico would pay for this contraption. ......... Democrats didn’t know what to do with someone who lied like Trump. And the media found themselves totally at sea because there was no handbook in America for a free press covering an aspiring autocrat. But things change. And people and institutions change, too. Donald Trump is no longer an outsider promising to blow things up. He’s the guy in charge and he blew things up real good. Promises made, promises kept! Because of Trump’s administration, the United States has endured (so far) the equivalent death toll of 47 September 11’s. The unemployment rate is double digits, and many of us cannot safely leave our homes. Weirdly enough, people now seem to view “blowing it all up” as more bug than feature. Go figure. Trump has other problems, too. For instance, everything Trump accuses Biden of doing, he does himself, only worse. So when Trump World tried to shop the idea that Biden was creepy with women, all it really did was remind people that Trump has more than two dozen sexual assault allegations on his rap sheet. When Trump World pushed the idea that Hunter Biden was somehow corrupt, you couldn’t help but think about Jivanka and DJTJ and all the ways the Trump family has been siphoning cash out of the public coffers. Trump World tried painting Joe as doddering and old at the same time that the president was rambling through daily press conferences and struggling to walk down a ramp. This is the problem with projection: Once people get wise to the pathology, then every boomerang you throw at your opponent comes back and pops you in the nose. But ultimately, Trump’s biggest problem is himself. Donald Trump has been president for 3 years and 186 days. He is no longer an outsider and the country is not better off than it was in 2016. Unemployment is at 11 percent. Numerous countries have closed their borders to America (including, this past weekend, the Bahamas). And Trump still has no plan to slow the spread of coronavirus. thebulwark