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Trump expert exposes how his team shields him after latest 'bombed' speech

The Lie That Keeps Power ComfortableA Bomb, Then a BlanketThe reporting says Trump’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner speech landed badly, and that his staff will almost certainly tell him it was brilliant anyway. That is the real story: not a joke set gone flat, but a political operation built around insulating a powerful man from consequence.Who Controls RealityTrump does not need honesty from the people around him. He needs protection. According to the source, his team’s job is to tell him he was “fantastic” no matter what happened. That is not harmless flattery. It is a governing…

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