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Ilikepurple

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4. You're right, but I don't think 1, 2, or 3 get headline attention before damaging the Trump brand
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 08:03 PM
Jul 17

I feel all three deserve more attention and certainly am not discounting their importance.
But, I don’t think anybody but those already in the Trump camp will care to speculate about Trump’s actual medical condition. I don’t know if the immigration debacle will get increased attention unless something is particularly egregious and by recent standards. Or maybe an especially compelling examples of the unconstitutional reach of ICE’s tactics. The press and we the people seem to have an easier time emphasizing with a wronged individual as we do a single missing person. Obviously the economic, racial, and gender demographics of that individual will matter. Maybe I’m wrong, but the number of people that would pay attention to Emil Bove’s nomination, let alone voice their opinion to their republican reps, is not that consequential.
Also, probably not because nothing ever seems to stick to Trump, but “Epstein Fever” might catch on enough to swing some to the idea that Trump and his administration are corrupted in other matters like the three you mentioned. It might also have the added effect of splintering his administration or the Republican Party itself. Everyday Trump faces this is a day he might say something that those still on board will not like. Somehow we’ve got to get people to stop believing this administration’s lies.

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