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I've covered Trump for years -- and I've never seen him this scared
I’ve covered Trump for years — and I’ve never seen him this scared
As the shutdown shifts the focus, JD Vance waits in the wings
By Brian Karem
White House columnist
Published October 3, 2025 9:00AM (EDT)
(Salon) I have never seen Donald Trump this scared.
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This is different. The government has shut down for the third time during a Trump presidency. Though Republicans control the House, Senate and presidency — and GOP appointees hold a majority on the Supreme Court — Trump says the budget impasse is still the fault of the radical left and former President Joe Biden. In other words, Trump is a victim — at least according to Presidential Pep Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
The president wants to use American cities as training grounds for the U.S. military. ICE agents are spreading chaos, beating and detaining American citizens. Trump is talking about nuclear war, calling it the “N” word. He has Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the minister of plagues, spreading disinformation about health care. Christian Nationalists are engaged in an ongoing purge of anyone in government who doesn’t see things their way. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Trump’s dog of war, has instituted some of the most racist regulations seen in the military since it was integrated nearly 80 years ago.
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Trump’s actions are those of a despot trying to seize total power. But there’s a deeper reason why recently he’s sounding even more maniacal. He is the proverbial New York sewer rat, cornered and lashing out in a desperate attempt to survive. He also knows he is becoming more vulnerable. But it’s not just his own mortality, shrinking mental acuity and the Jeffrey Epstein case that is scaring him.
Perhaps just as much, or even more, than Epstein, what most recently set Trump off is a criminal case he already beat in court but is still causing him to howl like a wild animal with its leg caught in a trap. On June 8, 2023, he was indicted on 37 felony counts in federal court in Miami. It was an historic moment — the first time a former U.S. president faced federal charges. Those stemmed from the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago in August 2022, which uncovered dozens of boxes of highly classified documents stored in insecure settings. ..................(more)
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/03/ive-covered-trump-for-years-and-ive-never-seen-him-this-scared/
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There IS no radical left ... he can't name one person. He can't name one group.
It doesn't exist. This is an invented "enemy" so he doesn't have to admit that HE FAILED.
Everyone who organized and demonstrated against the Vietnam War, including 99% of the Baby-Boomers. I'm one of them and proud of it. Please don't try to tell me that today's Democrats are anything like that.
From the OP link:
At some point in the not-to-distant future, I was told by a source close to Trump, there is a growing fear that someone in his own inner-circle may whisper the words “25th Amendment,” end the Trump presidency and usher in “The Age of Ultron” — I mean Vance.
That, more than anything else, has Puff Donny scared.
That, more than anything else, has Puff Donny scared.
Well OK! Now you're talking my kind of language!
We all know that any discussion of 25A starts and ends with Vance.
scared to death? 
