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Empty seats do not diminish presidential power
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The Empty Seats Are Not the Scandal
A Presidency Disguised as a Blooper Reel
In his September 10 speech, Donald Trump addressed a sparsely attended Republican midterms convention by falsely describing it as packed, distorting inflation history, scapegoating transgender people, boasting about international respect amid costly conflicts, and demanding personal electoral loyalty from the crowd. The source collects these moments as a catalogue of embarrassing performance. Its framing, however, reduces presidential conduct to a humiliating compilation of verbal blunders…
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