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Here’s an exercise you may enjoy. Take another look at your indictment against Trump, but this time do it through a lens where Trump is not a 30 year veteran of the inner workings of DC, where he was not around to develop alliances and shared agendas within the DC bureaucracy. Look at it as Trump is an unwanted outsider and a threat, quite the opposite of Clinton, their expected winner. Look at it under the assumption that Trump, being a long time private sector CEO, had similar expectations of his DC cabinet, subordinates, White House staff, etc as he would in the private sector. Look at it through the lens of a naive individual who was highly dependent on insider “experts”, who as it turns out, were duplicitous and unscrupulous, and rather than share his agenda of cutting through red tape, getting things done, and fixing America like a private sector CEO, undercut him at every opportunity and set him up to be a patsie and rolled, all of which continues today.

If he can avoid a bullet and win in 2024, he’s had four years to study up and game plan, which he will use to his advantage. He’ll enter office with the understanding that DC is adversarial to him and his agenda, especially if it runs counter to theirs. And he understands depravity powerful bureaucrats will use to protect their interests and prevent their arrest and imprisonment.

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