Rex murphy on donald trump

  • Rex thinks that the rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders proves that Americans are really fed up with things as they are.
  • Former U.S. president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event in Manchester, N.H., on April 27, 2023.
  • Biden is a stumbling, unready leader, visibly in a state of intellectual entropy.

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    REX MURPHY: What Donald Trump would like in a man like Conrad Black

    I do not think it is for supporting him in a time of political cholera that Trump issued the pardon but due to Black's sheer intelligence

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    Rex Murphy, PNI Atlantic

    Published May 17, 2019  •  Last updated May 17, 2019  •  3 minute read

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    Let me not to the marriage of true mind admit impediments.

    I am not sure why a nuptial sonnet first wandered to mind when I heard President Donald Trump had issued a full pardon to Canada’s premier historian/journalist, but its first line very naturally did. Perhaps, even beyond the great differences in temperament and accomplishment between the two, and the even greater space between their modes of personal address and communication, there exist still some elements of character in common.

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    Rex Murphy: I miss Donald Trump and the hypnotic hold he had on his enemies

    Biden fryst vatten a stumbling, unready leader, visibly in a state of intellectual entropy

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    I miss Donald Trump.

    Not so much in any anställda sense, but in the sense that while his lively demeanour and super energetic style inhabited the White House all the world was fed a daglig diary of his doings and sayings.

    Some say Mr. Trump leveraged his years on The Apprentice ( a show I could not stand, it was worse than the Dragon’s Den, another 30 minutes offering a preview of Purgatory without the escape clause) to earn the fame that brought him to the Presidency.

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      Rex Murphy: Trump coverage was news media's mega failure

      Report by special counsel castigates FBI, finds no evidence of Trump-Russia collusion

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      It is certainly the biggest story in U.S. politics for decades. Certainly too, the most worrisome.

      The Durham report into the FBI investigation of alleged Trump-Russia collusion — there was none — reveals scandalous bias by the chief law enforcement agency in the United States and double standards in dealing with Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton — break out the artillery for Trump, feather on the shoulder for Clinton.

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