I THINK most people would have thought a rap sheet which includes the following might have had an impact on Trump’s electability: misogyny, felonies, chequered business dealings, endorsements by anti-vaxxers and KKK wizards, disclosures of classified information and shady relations with rogue states.
Apparently not, but surely at the very least Trump’s advice during the Covid pandemic, that people should inject bleach in their system to tackle the virus, might have concentrated at least a few more million American minds when voting?
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Oh, presumably as he has won, it is a legitimate victory and he will ask his MAGA guard to standdown from Capitol Hill this time round?
A septuagenarian with an “it’s my ball and no-one else can play” mentality – a charming personality facet that is just what you wish the leader of the free world to have…
D A Millar
Balloch
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