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Dutchy Patrick
@dutchiepatrick.bsky.social
Jul 7, 07:13 PM
Trump is convinced he’s one of the most powerful man who’s ever existed on the planet by far. Trump also has a list of powerful leaders. Guess who’s at the top?
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"We're sitting across the resolute desk from Trump, just Maggie and I, Trump's opposite us, a couple of aides, and he's eager for us to read this document. So we start reading it and it begins with a sentence saying, Donald Trump is the most powerful man who's ever existed on the planet by far. You say in the book that Trump was seeing far fewer polls than during his first term. He was willing to take breathtaking risks that could throw his presidency and the Republican Party into chaos. Jonathan, what did he want to achieve with all that? Well, Maggie and I had a pretty extraordinary encounter with the president at the end of our reporting process for this book, which helped illuminate the way he sees himself, the way he views his own power. We went to the Oval Office, we'd asked for an interview and we asked him a question about his own power. He had told one of his allies a year earlier that no American president had been as powerful as he was. We asked him about that and he asked one of his advisors, a young woman, Natalie Harp, to bring us what he said was a piece of writing written by a historian. Anyway, she brings in this paper, hands it to us, and we're sitting across the resolute desk from Trump, just Maggie and I, Trump's opposite us, a couple of aides, and he's eager for us to read this document. So we start reading it and it begins with a sentence saying, Donald Trump is the most powerful man who's ever existed on the planet by far. And then it goes on to compare him to what Trump tells us are the top 10. And it's Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, the Caesars, Tamerlane, William the Conqueror. It had nothing to do with morality. It wasn't making any kind of moral comparisons. What it was saying was that Donald Trump is the most powerful man who's ever lived because he's in charge of the U.S. military. He's in charge of the most powerful economy in the world, but he's willing to use that power in ways that previous presidents haven't. And I think we've seen that in pretty spectacular fashion. He took America to war in the Middle East again in Iran without even talking to Congress. He authorized Delta Force to go into Caracas and snatch a foreign leader out of his bedroom in his pajamas in the middle of the night to do regime change in Venezuela. He didn't talk to Congress. He started a trade war with the whole world last Liberation Day in April. He didn't talk to Congress. So he's operating with raw unilateral power to reshape the world in the ways that he wants to, again, unencumbered by the usual checks and balances that you see in the American system."
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Dutchy Patrick
@dutchiepatrick.bsky.social
· Jul 6, 05:04 AM
Trump is convinced he’s one of the most powerful man who’s ever existed on the planet by far. Trump also has a list of powerful leaders. Guess who’s at the top?
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Jailhouse</span>
<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@jailhouse-dog.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 6, 12:16 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">A pretty clear portrait of a wannabe despot.😎</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Shannon 🇨🇦🏴</span>
<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@piper59.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 6, 05:12 AM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Quit calling that criminal con man “president” would be a good start.</p>
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<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@cdpositive.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 6, 07:44 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">&amp;quot;34-felon&amp;quot; for ever and ever!</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Kaniki1990</span>
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 6, 07:28 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Exactly he cheated. He paid his way in and Elon messed with the computers to make sure that he won. We know he cheated just like he lost 2020 and he knows that, he even admitted it, but yet he still pushes it and his puppets keep believing him.</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">cdpositive </span>
<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@cdpositive.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 6, 07:43 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Wasn't this list compiled by some beat farmer (or ?) calling themself an &quot;historian&quot;? I need to look that up...
He's just like any other mentally ill sociopath - disconnected from reality.
The worst is yet to come. Count on it!</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">🔥Sincere4Honor🔥☮️♻️</span>
<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@sincere4honor.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 6, 05:21 AM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">What a joke!</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Pat Riot</span>
<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@kimokirkpatrick.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 6, 06:54 AM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">It must be crushing for him to know that all the Dictators he admires will be in power for many more years, or decades and he'll be out in 2. If he lives that long.</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">sarahschatz.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@sarahschatz.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 6, 01:34 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Malignant narcissism + Dementia= the most powerful person belief</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Buddy Barker 🇺🇲 🍔🍕🥯 🇨🇦 Never 51</span>
<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@buddydbarker.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 6, 11:24 AM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">The mental ill pedophile is convinced he is a god to his cult of white supremacists and greedy fools</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Lord Malignance</span>
<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@lordmalignance.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 6, 07:07 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Ultimate Power, in the hands of an imbecile.
Maybe let's not elect any more Republicans for awhile.
Like three generations.
One means, this dolt Has the nuclear launch codes. We have a responsibility to the world to not be fucking dumbasses, same as they have (looking at You China).</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Kacey973</span>
<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@kacey973.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 6, 02:20 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Trump is the most corrupt president ever. Fixed it for you</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Tony</span>
<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@togeyboi.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 6, 09:48 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">He is doing what he has been tasked with, to keep the secrets of the most powerful, wealthy and influential people in the world.
From being made public.
That was the bargain, they held up their end
45 IS 47
The &quot;keeper&quot; will burn the world before he allows us to see names in the Epstein files</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">&quot;I AM GROOOOT!&quot;</span>
<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@iamgroooot.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 6, 08:56 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Hitler</p>
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<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@alohahana.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 6, 06:17 AM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Love reading Regime Change, Trump is a traitor/pedifie‼️</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Sister of Wendy #AbolishICE 🐸</span>
<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@sisterswendy.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 6, 05:36 AM</span>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Lord Malignance</span>
<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@lordmalignance.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 6, 07:08 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Whosoever holds a copy of #TheEpsteinFiles owns Trump down to his cloven hoofs.</p>
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&lt;span class=&quot;text-xs font-bold text-slate-300&quot;&gt;Sister of Wendy #AbolishICE 🐸&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;text-[10px] text-slate-500&quot;&gt;@sisterswendy.bsky.social&lt;/span&gt;
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">MADDKLOWN</span>
<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@maddklown1.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 6, 07:49 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">If anything. I would say Hitler is his icon and role model. #FDT</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">ZimJay</span>
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 6, 01:02 PM</span>
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