Harris Exposed How Easy Trump Is to Manipulate. Dictators Have Known This for a Long Time.

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Harris Exposed How Easy Trump Is to Manipulate. Dictators Have Known This for a Long Time.
She homed in on a dangerous weakness.

By Fred Kaplan
Sept 11, 20241:24 PM


(Slate) Tuesday night’s debate devoted little time to foreign policy, but a few key moments revealed—more dramatically than half an hour of dedicated discussion might have—just how much a renewed Donald Trump presidency could weaken the United States and make the world a more dangerous place.

Many noted, after the debate, how readily Vice President Kamala Harris lured the ex-president into traps. All she had to do was push one of his buttons—to remark that the crowds at his rallies are bored, or that he inherited all of his wealth (then blew it in successive bankruptcies), or that world leaders laugh at him—and he exploded in paroxysms of fury, ranting over grievances, rambling down ratholes of conspiracy theories, thrown off course from the issues at hand.

What we were seeing was the flip side of how easily foreign heads of state, especially tyrants, manipulate Trump to their favor. All they have to do is call him “Sir” (as he often recites them doing in stories, some possibly true, most clearly fictitious), and he will eat poison right out of their hands.

“I like people who like me,” Trump has publicly said in several contexts, and the heads of every intelligence agency on Earth no doubt took careful note. “He respects me,” Trump once said of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He famously sighed that he and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un sent each other “love letters,” and, even now, years after the bloom faded, still beams, “He likes me.” At the recent Republican convention, he boasted—boasted—that the head of the Taliban called him “Your Excellency,” and added, “I wonder if he calls the other guy”—meaning Biden—“ ‘Your Excellency.’ I doubt it!” ..............(more)

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/09/presidential-debate-kamala-harris-donald-trump-dictators-orban-foreign-policy.html

[Charging Triceratops]

1. Hitler would've played this jackass like a violin

Scary to think about, really.

[EYESORE 9001]

2. Kamala pressed the right button when she attached a dollar amount to his initial startup money

And even if the dollar amount was incorrect, it drew him inextricably to bloviate about what a biz whiz he is.

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3. Remember how the Saudis manipulated Trump with the golden orb or whatever it was and lots of pomp.

That Trump chose to go to Saudi Arabia as his first trip as president says he was looking for future business opportunities rather than diplomatic relations. MBS lavished attention on him and made him feel like a king. That’s all it took for MBS to have Trump in his pocket.

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4. Nobody has ever put him in his place like V.P. Harris

In front of 70 million people no less. She deserves a medal of freedom just for that.

Motherfucker was in a car accident and he still doesn’t know what hit him.

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5. I think she...

Has the Pelosi Jedi thing. Cut your head off and you won't even know you're bleeding.