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Zorro

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Fri Aug 30, 2024, 08:22 AM Aug 30

In a test of character, Trump shows his true grift

The New York Times ran a fine specimen of unintentional comedy this week: an essay by conservative writer Rich Lowry titled “Trump Can Win on Character.”

The only thing that could have made it better was if it had been under the byline of Stormy Daniels.

Lowry’s argument itself wasn’t quite as absurd as the headline. He was only suggesting that Trump repeatedly call Vice President Kamala Harris “weak,” which Trump probably won’t do, because he’s too busy calling her a communist, a copycat, stupid, a recent conversion to being Black or someone with a crazy laugh who is not as good looking as he is.

Trump could win on various things: inflation, immigration, isolationism. But the notion that a felon and adjudicated sexual abuser who shouts barnyard obscenities and vulgar epithets at his rallies would return to the White House on the strength of his upstanding character? Well, let’s just say there are very fine people on both sides who would have trouble making that argument.

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In a test of character, Trump shows his true grift (Original Post) Zorro Aug 30 OP
What Trump lacks in character (if any) he more than makes up in caricature. surfered Aug 30 #1
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