Why Trump Attacks Hardest When He Is Losing
There is a pattern so consistent with Donald Trump that you can almost set a clock to it.
A lawsuit goes against him. A court rules against him. A poll drops. An ally flips. Within hours, sometimes minutes, someone gets attacked. A judge. A prosecutor. A former friend. A reporter. It does not matter who. What matters is that someone gets targeted, and Trump gets to be the one doing the targeting.
Most people assume this is political calculation. Distract the media. Fire up the base. Change the subject. Those things may be true. But they are downstream of something much more fundamental…
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