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I’m Very Confused About Trump
The media I’m reading is very different to what I read the first time round.
Between 2016 and 2020, I read many things about Trump. I saw videos of how he stuttered when he spoke — all the time, read that he couldn’t read, that he couldn’t spell, that he played golf all the time, did not governing, wore a nappy, and, of course, when Covid came, he didn’t say anything about it, because, apparently, he didn’t want to panic people.
I didn’t like Trump from years before. I also didn’t like Bill Clinton — from the same period of time. I didn’t like them for the same reason — there was something depraved in the faces of both. Also, when Bill Clinton lied to the general public that he didn’t sleep with ‘that woman,’ he lied. Perhaps, I’m very old fashioned in my value system, but I have no time for lies. It tells me someone has a very weak character.
My point is that my assessment of these two individuals was based on their characters — not their politics.
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