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New assassination threat has Republican asking if Trump lost 'all his marbles'
Trump’s Moods Are Not the StoryThe SetupA new report says Iran was plotting another assassination attempt against Donald Trump, and National Review’s Jim Geraghty used it to argue that Trump sounds “naive and foolish” when he praises Iran’s leadership one week and denounces them the next. That is the frame: Trump as erratic performer, caught between flattery and insult while alleged threats circulate around him.Who Actually Has PowerThe relevant fact is not whether Trump sounds coherent. It is that he is the commander-in-chief, the man with institutional authority over the U.S. state, and the…
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