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‘Trump Is Losing Control of Himself’

Tom Nichols, The Atlantic (gift link; Apple News+):

Yesterday, Trump seemed to lose the last bit of his grip on his emotions as he fired off a fusillade of Truth Social posts. (“Trump must not have slept well Wednesday night,” Bill Kristol and Andrew Egger of The Bulwark observed today.) “This is really bad,” the president wrote, “and Dangerous to our Country. Their words cannot be allowed to stand. SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR FROM TRAITORS!!! LOCK THEM UP???”

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[Press Secretary Karoline] Leavitt then tried to turn the entire ghastly business on its head. “Many in this room want to talk about the president’s response, but not what brought the president to responding in this way,” she said—as though members of Congress publicly speaking their minds somehow justified the death threats.

I wouldn’t be yelling if you didn’t make me so angry.

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