1/ I remember interviews of Trump in the 1980s & he wasn’t that bad. He wasn’t someone I would’ve voted for for president but he had a reasonableness about him. He wasn’t horrifying.
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2/ He changed over the years. It was apparently Kushner who convinced him that playing the hate card would get him elected president. I tend to think if he had stayed who he was, he still might have won in 2016 & he’d probably be headed for a second term now.

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3/ For so long – and I know, we still have 40 some odd days to worry about – he was such a malignant presence that all some of us could think about was how to get him out of the WH. Now that his presidency is waning, I think of him less as a danger and more as a human tragedy.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
He has always been controversial and hateful. I never have remotely liked him... you are forgetting what he did in NYC independent.co.uk/news/world…
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Steve Bannon encouraged Trump to use the hate card
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“He’s changed over the years “?????? I didn’t know you knew a different side of him? Have you read Mary Trumps book?
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Donald Trump once secretly approved an ad campaign insinuating that an American Indian tribe threatening his casinos had ties to drugs and the Mafia. He paid a $250,000 fine after an investigation uncovered his role.(Cliff Owen / Associated Press)
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He was that bad. Ask any NYer who got cheated by him. My cousin. He tried to get my her to work free. Perhaps he filtered his racism to exploit rappers whose music was about $ & fighters he wanted at his casino but anyone who got close enough reported he was racist behind doors.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Did Jared convince ol' Donny to be a birther back in the early years of the Obama admin? That's kinda where I think Trump started to play the "hate card".
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He was always horrifying
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Steve Bannon also played a major role in crafting the Trump persona for the presidency.
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Could it be that the media’s framing of him changed? As soon as he said he was running as a republican, they all turned on him and started smearing him and lying. He did not change. How they present him to you changed.
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no way trump could have won without the hate. that was (by my guess) more than 50% of his appeal, at all times. he might have run anyway, but by the time he did so he we knee deep in hating obama personally.
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