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Angry Trump blasts oil giants in midnight rant: 'Gasoline prices better start going down'
Power Blames Its Favorite TargetThe Real ActorTrump is not a bystander here. He is the president, and he used the presidency as a threat display: a midnight social post ordering the Department of Justice to go after oil companies over gas prices. That is the center of the story. Not consumer relief, not market analysis, not even law enforcement. It is executive power performing outrage.What HappenedThe trigger was simple enough: Trump said oil companies were not passing lower crude costs through to pump prices, accused them of “gouging,” and claimed he had instructed the DOJ to “immediately”…
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