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Nick Ahlborn's avatar

I always marvel at people such as this author who always feel like they have to "splain" Trump's words to us, as if we're too stupid. Or more accurately, they are just smarter than we are because they insist Trump doesn't really mean what he actually says. Which is pure bullshit peddled by the "splainers". So lemme give this splainer Cates a lesson. When Trump voices his opinion about somebody publicly it's NOT KABUKI! Got that? Trump fully understands his rank and file supporters - the ones who wait in line for hours just to get into his rallies - know full well that he says what he means, and means what he says. I defy ANYONE to show me concrete evidence that Trump had publicly supported Pence since 11/3/20. I can find a shitload of Trump criticisms of Pence since then, but not a single word of support, endorsement or otherwise. To make the claim this is some ambiguous code of tacit support of Pence by Trump is sheer lunacy. It's the same shit these splainers tried to peddle at Trump's open hostility to Sessions.

For anyone who still deludes themselves into thinking Trump loves Sessions, I invite you to dig up an interview Byron York did with Trump lawyer John Dowd. In an Oval Officer meeting, Dowd was with Trump, Sessions, and Sessions COS. During this meeting, Don McGahn burst in to tell them all CNN just reported Rosenstein had just named Mueller as Special Counsel. Dowd reported the following: 1) Trump was LIVID; 2) Sessions was openly humiliated andf offered his resignation on the spot, which couldn't be accepted then because THAT would have been viewed as "obstruction"; 3) the COS ran to DOJ to confront Rosenstein, who was cowering in his corner asking if he was about to be fired. This was all because of the Sessions recusal, which Sessions said he offered as his "gesture" to his former D Senate colleagues so they would not bother them. Sessions went full Neville Chamberlain convinced his "gesture" would create "peace in our time". What a dunce. Instead, here were the REAL and serious consequences of that recusal: 1) Flyn had to go bankrupt to defend against Mueller prosecutors; 2) Mannafort home raided and went to prison; 3) Roger Stone raided and went to prison; 4) Papadopoulous sent to prison; 5) Trump had to hire his own battery of lawyers to deal with Mueller's attack dogs at a personal cost of millions in legal fees. Among other consequences. THAT'S why Trump WENT OUT OF HIS WAY to openly DESTROY the Senate candidacy of Sessions when he tried to return to the Senate in 2020. Trump not only openly trashed Sessions but also openly endorsed Tuberville in that R primary, because Trump knew full well his supporters would back his endorsement. They did. Tuberville won the primary & the general, and Sessions has tottered off into irrelevant antiquity. Anybody who thinks this is "Kabuki" and Trump really loves Sessions is just a fucking idiot. Straight up. Trump supporters know Trump says what he means and means what he says, and Trump himself knows they know that. It's the "splainers" like this author who think they know more. And it's the splainers who still try to make the idiotic case that Rosenstein is really a White Hat. The same Rosenstein who knew the FISA warrant on Carter Page was fraudulent and signed the extension of that fraud to a federal court. Good lord, it's not hard to understand, splainers. At least it's not if you get a clue.

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Bob Smith's avatar

You probably need to read this excellent piece from Ms. Emerald about your guy Pence.

https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/the-treachery-of-vp-mike-pence-explained

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