Trump valitaan uudestaan pressaksi

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Parempaakaan ei ole tarjolla, uudelleen valitaan.

Ei vois vähempää kiinnosta kuka jenkilässä on pressana. Koko maa paisuu vain täyteen ihmisiä ja fossiilinen infra luhistuu. Amerikka elää viimeisiä vuosikymmeniä.

Kyllä siinä niin taitaa käydä. En ota kantaa puolesta tai vastaan, mutta Trump on seuraavallakin kaudella presidentti.

MAGA! Trump 2020.

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Lies about Obama return to haunt

That was about it. Between January 2017 and October 2019, Trump talked and tweeted far more about Hillary Clinton than about the men whose deaths he would order. When he did discuss the killings, he stepped on his own story.

With al-Baghdadi, he staged a meandering news conference full of tangents and dubious claims, such as his insistence that al-Baghdadi wept before he died. With Soleimani, he bungled any chance for national unity by making a harsh, inaccurate and unnecessary attack on Obama’s Iran policy.

A risky choice:Trump crisis mismanagement on full display with roll of dice on Iran, Iraq and Suleimani

In a USA TODAY/Ipsos poll, a plurality of respondents said Trump ordered the killing of Soleimani to distract attention from his impeachment. Why would they believe such a ghastly thing? For one thing, Trump had encouraged them to think that way.

In 2011, he tweeted: “In order to get elected, @BarackObama will start a war with Iran.” In a YouTube video, he said: "Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. … So I believe that he will attack Iran sometime prior to the election, because he thinks that's the only way he can get elected.”

Trump has told thousands of lies and openly disparaged the intelligence community. It is no surprise that so many people now doubt him when he says that the targeted killing thwarted an imminent threat. It’s as if he spent the past decade making sure that Americans would distrust him at this very moment.

Here is the worst part: Future presidents will need the public to believe them in times of peril, and Trump’s record will make their job much harder.

John J. Pitney Jr., a former Republican who worked on Capitol Hill and at the Republican National Committee, is a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College and author of a forthcoming book, "Un-American: The Fake Patriotism of Donald J. Trump." Follow him on Twitter: @jpitney