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Ben Bradlee
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February 2 - March 7, 2019
looking for a scapegoat for why they were not doing well. Trump gave them the excuse to say this.
and all but one say if the 2020 election were to be held now, they would vote for the president again.
Donna likes that Trump has occasionally reached out to Democratic leaders in Congress to try and do business, though little or nothing has come of it.
she tolerated the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller to investigate the Russia affair, she thinks he should have had a broader mandate to look into Hillary Clinton’s lapses as well.
looking into Clinton’s activity, ranging from possible lies and cover-ups about Benghazi to the accepting of funds from foreign nations into the Clinton Foundation and seeing if a quid pro quo existed, as well as the mishandling of classified emails, and the Loretta Lynch–Bill Clinton meeting during an active investigation of Hillary.”
He does not exercise even a nominal amount of discipline.
“At this point, I have no idea who I am voting for in 2020. As far as I am concerned, Trump is auditioning for my vote right now.”
And Ivanka and Jared Kushner should be gone too. They have no business being in the White House, just because they’re related to Trump. They’re not qualified. They have no background on anything.”
largely because he believes the president has created a climate in which the white nationalist message can flourish.
So there is Fox News, Breitbart News, and the Drudge Report for the Right, and MSNBC, CNN, and the New York Times and Washington Post for the Left.
This is a completely inappropriate comparison. You could compare The Wall Street Journal to the New York Times, but it is completely unfair to compare them to Breitbart or Drudge.
wars. The president’s support is mostly personal, not ideological.