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Jo Waller's avatar

Close friend of big oil and big animal ag (sister to big pharma); climate change denying Trump is the President of choice for these environment and health destroying industries. The idea that he's the enemy of the deep state is absurd.

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Timster's avatar

Trump is, of course, a hideous politician and is clearly criminal as you describe with his foreign policy record. However, he does articulate, often incoherently, policy prescriptions unpopular with the deep state - against (some) forever wars, against the offshoring of industry, hostility to NATO (at least the existing configuration), against mass migration. Also he is less likely to be compliant to the deep state compared to the usual machine politicians. Although clearly he was betrayed by many of the deep state appointees he made in his first term who plotted against him. He is also incompetent and unpredictable and unable to implement many of his actual policies consistently. However, it is, to my mind undeniable that there is enormous hostility and hatred towards him from the Democratic establishment who are closely linked with the deep state. It seems highly likely to me that they would attempt to kill him and have been fostering an atmosphere in which an assassination attempt was highly probable. That doesn't mean Trump is a hero or is likely to be a better president. But Ben you seem upset that people point out the criminality of the assassination plot.

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