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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan
This tracks with my thinking, especially since I'm pretty sure (based off multiple reports from various vectors with interactions with him over decades) he's borderline illiterate. At the most generous, he's not exactly one who curls up with a good book. Or a dry report. He probably hasn't actually read the vast majority of what was in those boxes. And that makes it almost scarier, because he's either relying on other people or he's just keeping them for keeping them's sake. Probably both.
Rules don't apply to him, and they never have (see, reading speculation above, against academic credentials that suggest otherwise). At least to his way of thinking. His great gift is getting other people to his way of thinking. He absolutely knows what that particular rule is because he gleefully signed the law STRENGTHENING it as some sort of Gotcha over the Clinton emails. He just didn't think they apply to him.
I keep thinking back to my husband's missed car payment and Wanda Sykes' stereo. Trump's credit situation is not exactly known to be great. And the man is not known to be driven by his better angels when it comes to anything that either makes him a buck or gets him out of having to pay.
Even if no charges are brought forward and it is an "oops, sorry, in our rush to get out, we grabbed these too and forgot for six months to give it back even though you asked over and over again," getting that stuff back is absolutely critical.
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Regarding his illiteracy, I've been going back and forth with a few people are "absolutely incensed" at the raid. The common theme from the right is, "This is going to backfire in the midterms."
Well... Maybe it would, or maybe it wouldn't.
But we'll never know. Because you know who's ensuring that what might've been a red wave will not be one? Trump. By supporting idiots in the primaries, he ensured that the GOP will lose three, maybe four Senate seats it could have won. The GOP is pulling back on TV buys in Arizona and Pennsylvania right now because those senate races are so over already that CNN could start projecting them today.
And yet these people who support Trump still - still - insist that somehow he is still a positive for the GOP, rather than a Titanic sized anchor.
Trump is illiterate, and illogical. And this is why he connects so well to so many.
