This is the man. This is who he is. He exhibits it on a daily basis. It's there for all to see. The 'context' that you talk about is a situation where he literally can do no wrong in some people's eyes. That is not natural. It's also actually impossible. It's literally not possible for any leader to make decisions that will keep all of his or her supporters happy all the time. It's the very nature of politics. And I've given very many examples from UK and Australian politics.
Do you really think that everyone, even within a political party, agrees with every decision that the leader of that party makes? Or agrees with every detail of every policy that the party espouses? Or is convinced that the head honcho can do no wrong? You can't, you really can't because you really do know that it's literally not possible. But that's the position you exhibit on every single thread about Trump.
It's like you come late into a discussion and you realise it's about Trump and you immediately say 'Well, I think he's absolutely right'. But you have no idea what the discussion is about. That he is right is your very first go-to position. What he's done, how he's done it, why he's done it, what the results will be, what impact it will have, the morality of the decision...all of it is irrelevant to you. He's right. And you'll then waste your time time bending and twisting cherry picked facts and opinions to post-justify your statement.
And his undeniable acts of retribution are just a small subsection of what he's done. And we're not talking of a few whereby you could mount some sort of weak defence. We're not even into double figures, or even dozens. It runs into the hundreds.
From here:
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-retribution-tracker/
'Reuters documented at least 470 targets of retribution under Trump’s leadership – from federal employees and prosecutors to universities and media outlets. The list illuminates the sweeping effort by the president and his administration to punish dissent and reshape the government.'
It's not possible to discount that many and deny that that's what he's doing. So...you'll then need to head onto Option 2: 'It's fake news'. Deny the facts. Say it's simply opinion. Put it down to TDS. Brilliant move! You don't even have to address them! It's all a conspiracy!
There is always someone in charge, somewhere, who is considered to be incapable of doing no wrong. And they have led and are leading countries that you wouldn't even want to visit, let alone live. Your world, the one that you live in (and I don't in any way consider it to be the real world) is somewhere exactly like that.
www.forbes.com
