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Deciphering Trump

The first 100 days of the second Trump presidency doesn’t end until 30 April and is a meaningless metric because Donald Trump’s initiatives will last four years. Washington and the world are not handling the first 55 days very well and they need to figure it out or there will continue to be unnecessary suffering.  One notable fact is that this President is irrepressible. He overcame efforts to keep him out of office first by trying to put him in jail and then by twice trying to assassinate him. He will aways find a way. He uniquely used the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act for trade war compensation in his first term, and now he has used the obscure Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport foreign criminals. He ignores t...

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