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jcgoldie

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25. "...other than when there was a scandal..."

Thu Sep 5, 2019, 09:23 AM

Sep 2019

This is sort of key to the whole teflon-Don mess I think. I mean its counter-intuitive to say that he benefits from making an ass of himself perpetually on twitter, but the larger effect seems to be that when the more meaningful scandals do hit, they get washed away in the daily wave of "Well here's the stupid shit Trump said or did today..."

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