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Joy derision: Democrats turn Trump’s deadliest weapon against him
As once-prolific nicknamer Trump fails to land a hit, Democrats set good manners aside in favour of ridicule
In Trump in Exile, her recent book on the former president’s life after losing power, the reporter Meridith McGraw describes how aides to Donald Trump set about destroying Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor who threatened to lure Republican voters away.
“One Trump adviser referred to Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals,” McGraw writes. “Rule number five: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
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Hannity says Trump told him he 'really wanted to finish the hole'
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