Robert Schlesinger Trump's purging everyone he thinks is disloyal. He was never going to learn from impeachment.
Though many Republicans said that the president might now behave more cautiously, the reality is that he just feels empowered to abuse his office again.
Feb. 8, 2020, 3:45 AM CST
By Robert Schlesinger
It didn’t take long to find out what an unleashed Donald Trump looks like — and I’m not referring to his petulant, un-Christian comments at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday morning or even his toxic, stream-of-subconsciousness victory lap in the East Room of the White House early that afternoon, during which the leader of the free world introduced “top scum†and “bullshit†to the public presidential lexicon.
Sure, both performances offered disturbing glimpses into Trump’s very scary emotional state, as if his Twitter feed weren’t enough. But even as he debuted the latest iteration of his angry-victim performance art, he and his allies also started settling scores in a startlingly open way.
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