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Behind closed doors: The $3 billion Trump scam voters missed
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Impunity Is the Policy
The Lie Protects the Decision-Maker
The immediate story is simple: the president publicly minimized an Iranian attack while service members documented extensive damage, deaths, hospitalizations, and destroyed aircraft. The Pentagon’s inspector general put reported losses at $3.7 billion. Troops absorbed the consequences; Donald Trump controlled the account presented to the country.
Calling this a “loss of trust” is too bloodless. Trust did not wander off. A powerful official supplied false reassurance while people beneath him carried the physical…
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