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The whirlwind never seems to stop for former Moreno Valley resident Sabine Durden, and last week it carried her from Arkansas to Washington, D.C., where Wednesday she reunited with President Donald Trump for the first time since she campaigned together with him.

Tuesday, Durden had helped launch Advocates for Victims of Illegal Alien Crime, which aims to influence public policy on immigrants who illegally immigrate to the U.S.

And Thursday, Durden sat down with another person sympathetic to her cause, Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

My head is spinning, Durden said, before adding: Im so blessed that I get to do this for Dominic.

Durden, 59, has told her sons story countless times on TV and radio and in newspapers and podcasts: On July 12, 2012, Dominic was riding his motorcycle on Pigeon Pass Road in Moreno Valley to his job as a Riverside County sheriffs dispatcher when Juan Zacarias Tzun made a left-hand turn in front of Durden, 30.

Dominic Durden, a former Moreno Valley volunteer of the year and aspiring sheriffspilot, was thrown from his motorcycle in the collision and died on the spot.

Tzun, who never had a drivers license in the U.S. because he illegally immigrated from Guatemala, had two convictions for driving under the influence, yet remained in the country. He was convicted of misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter he blamed God and not himself at his sentencing and served about 35 days of a nine-month sentence. He was later deported.

Since that time, Sabine Durden, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Germany, became an outspoken critic of immigrants who illegally immigrate to the U.S. She spoke to local groups and radio shows but still felt ignored. She found a national stage and a high-profile ally when the Trump campaign contacted the Remembrance Project, which advocates for families of those killed by such immigrants and had worked with Durden.Durden is no longer associated with the Remembrance Project.

Durden, once fearful of public speaking, talked about illegal immigration at Trump campaign rallies some of which she appeared with the candidate himself and at the Republican National Convention before a worldwide audience of millions. She later attended the inauguration as Trumps guest.

Ive been clawing my way through this despite being called a racist and a bigot, Durden said. I owe Dominic that much.

The Trump administration invited Durden and other parents whose children were killed by immigrants who illegally move to the United States to sit in on a roundtable discussion Wednesday at the White House, where two pieces of legislation he supported were discussed: The No Sanctuary for Criminals Act, which will cut federal grant money to cities that shield immigrants with criminal convictions who had immigrated here illegally from being turned over to federal law enforcement; and Kates Law, which will enhance criminal penalties for those who repeatedly re-enter the country illegally.

That second piece of legislation was named for Kate Steinle, who was killed by an immigrant who had moved here illegally and who had been deported five times.

The House of Representatives approved both measures Thursday ahead of a Senate vote.

Durden sat next to Thomas Homan, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Homan put his hand on Durdens back to comfort her as she spoke to Trump from across the table about the death of her only child. Durden held up a miniature urn of Dominics ashes as she spoke, her voice cracking with emotion.

Mr. President, since I have no family left, I wanted to commit suicide. I wanted to be with my son, Durden said in a White House video she posted on her Facebook page, Doms Hugs. When you mentioned illegal immigration (in a television speech), I was walking through my living room and I dropped to my knees because it was my little sign from God: You arent doing anything, you stay around.

And then a month later I met you personally in Los Angeles where you were the only one that ever met with me, and you became our voice. You are not only my hero, my president, you are my lifesaver.

Trump, she said, spoke at the roundtable about what needs to be done to thwart illegal immigration.

Now I got to see him againas President Trump. The feeling was surreal, excited, blessed to be part of that and be invited and not ignored, Durden said.He came over, shook my hand and told me, Keep it up, Doms mom.

Thursday, the Angel moms and dads, as Durden calls parents such as herself, were escorted into a conference room at the Department of Justice, where they met Sessions, the attorney general. Durden had previously been introduced backstage at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

The parents again told Sessions their stories.

He remembered me Doms mom and asked if we had any questions, Durden said.

The parents asked about DACA which allows people who arrived in the United States before age 16, and who meet certain other criteria, to defer deportation for at least two years at a time; eVerify, a computer system that determines eligibility to work in the U.S.; and other topics.

It was again such an honor that he would take the time out of his busy day. It was genuine, it was kind. Again it gave me so much energy and strength, she said.

Durden, who is divorced, moved to Arkansas in February along with fiancee Anthony Coulter to build a house near his family.

While one chapter in her life ended, Durdens advocacy efforts are still ongoing. She and five other families formedAdvocates for Victims of Illegal Alien Crime, which seeks to educate the public on the effect of illegal immigration, ensure that laws are enforced and influence related legislation.

My goal is that I will never, ever hear about another victim of illegal alien crime, Durden said.

She sees the organization as a good complement to Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement VOICE which Trump ordered formed to provide information to families affected by crimes committed by removable criminal aliens, according to the website.

We will work with them, Durden said.

Critics argued that the new agency unfairly characterizes immigrants who moved to the U.S. illegally as criminals, when studies show that immigrants are less likely to commit offenses than native-born residents.

Nevertheless, Durden is a supporter.

I love it because I called the 800 number and there was somebody talking to me. I told them I needed counseling, and they called back. They are helping victims of illegal alien crimes, Durden said.

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The Republicans signature healthcare bill was in peril in Congress and President Trump was busy warring against media foes on Twitter.

Vice President Mike Pence, wearing a brown suit and his usual earnest expression, was far from the fray last week, here at a warehouse outside Cleveland amid metal rods and wooden crates for a listening session with small-business owners. Sitting at a drafting table, he ignored the camera lights as well as the trouble in Washington, dutifully hearing out complaints about healthcare, taking notes on a legal pad and promising the Ohioans that the Trump-Pence administration was close to replacing Obamacare.

This is how Mike Pence copes with the drama that defines life as Donald Trumps sidekick: acting like everything is normal, boringly normal.

It requires a measure of willful disbelief, some salesmanship and a heap of praise for the president. But that coping strategy does not mask the fundamental challenge of Pences role since he became Trumps running mate nearly a year ago: balancing his own reputation and political ambition against his loyalty to a man seemingly determined to scorch nearly every norm in Washington, and now enmeshed in a special counsel investigation in large part due to his own erratic behavior.

Pence publicly ignores all that. Moving from the roundtable to a podium facing hundreds of factory workers and supporters at the warehouse, he says to cheers, If you like what you've seen so far in the last five months, just buckle up!

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Vice President Mike Pence meets with local business leaders in Bedford, Ohio.

Vice President Mike Pence meets with local business leaders in Bedford, Ohio. (Dake Kang / Associated Press)

The vice president has made his choice, hitching his career to Trumps unpredictable presidency, but lately he also has made a few notable moves toward protecting himself, hiring a personal attorney and establishing an independent political committee.

Its kind of perilous skiing through moguls, said Brian Howey, an Indiana political blogger who has chronicled Pences career from U.S. House member to Indiana governor to vice president. How many times can you do that before youre ensnarled in the web of deception?

Friends say there is nothing to game out in Pences allegiance to Trump. Pence believes in the president, they say, and agrees with supporters who believe the White House is under unfairly harsh scrutiny.

What would happen if suddenly we found Trump is setting fire to the Humane Society? said Greg Garrison, a conservative former radio host in Indiana who has long known Pence, choosing an absurd example to make the point that Trumps recklessness has been exaggerated. Does that mean Mike is going to go along? No, hes not. But I think Mike is where he is because he understands this president and where we are right now.

Yet just five months in, some observers say Pences chosen course as the captain of Trumps cheering section has diminished his own gravitas and dashed the hopes of mainstream Republicans who thought Pence could serve as a check on the impulsive Trump.

Recent vice presidents have been supportive of the president without surrendering a sense of personal dignity, without saying stuff that just doesnt pass the straight-face test, said Joel K. Goldstein, a St. Louis University law professor who has written about the modern vice presidency and its enhanced power.

For a parallel, Goldstein reached not to a vice president but to a well-known aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson, Jack Valenti, who was mocked for his over-the-top praise of his boss. Valenti, Goldstein said, is the only public figure in the modern era that came close to Pences level of presidential puffery.

What is more, Goldstein added, any notion that Pences power would be enhanced by his governing experience relative to the inexperienced Trump has been undermined by the sense that Pence lacks the standing to go in with Trump and level with him on things.

While Pence is often in the room with Trump and speaks with him nearly every day, he does not always command the presidents attention. That dynamic was evident during the first Cabinet meeting last month. Trump swiveled his head around the room and asked, Where is our vice president?

Pence sat right in front of him.

When the president finally spied his top deputy, Pence knew just what to say.

The greatest privilege of my life is to serve as the as vice president to the president who's keeping his word to the American people and assembling a team that's bringing real change, real prosperity, real strength back to our nation, Pence said.

Taking their cue from Pence, the Cabinet secretaries then took turns extolling the president in ways that were widely derided as obsequious.

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President Trump greets his vice president before announcing his decision for the United States to pull out of the Paris climate agreement in the White House Rose Garden on June 1.

President Trump greets his vice president before announcing his decision for the United States to pull out of the Paris climate agreement in the White House Rose Garden on June 1. (Win McNamee / Getty Images)

But for Pence, such flattery has come to define his persona. Variations on the line that serving Trump is the greatest privilege of my life are part of his stump speech, used among audiences as varied as Cuban Americans in Miami, evangelicals in Washington, troops in Honolulu, Japan and South Korea, and, last week, the factory workers in Ohio.

The younger Pence, with his square features, silver hair and wholesome rhetorical style, suggests a measured 1950s television dad, and as such stands in contrast to a president who developed his celebrity in the 21st century world of social media and reality television. His political discipline also contrasts with Trumps extemporaneous politics.

As governor of Indiana, Pence was seen as a potential presidential candidate by many Republicans, at least until his popularity waned significantly. Certainly he was seen before the 2016 campaign as a more serious possibility than Trump. Pence is, in many ways, the type of establishment-blessed figure Trump ran against when he pledged to wrest power from career politicians.

But Pence came to see himself as Trump did, less as a contrast to the maverick mogul than as a complement.

You dont win six congressional elections and a gubernatorial election and a national ticket without having a sense of politics and self-preservation, said Rep. Tom Cole, an Oklahoma Republican who served with Pence in the House leadership.

For Pence the key to melding Trumps interests with his own, Cole said, is making clear that hes only as valuable to the president as his reputation. It doesnt help him if he loses his credibility, Cole said.

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Pence with then-national security advisor Michael Flynn.

Pence with then-national security advisor Michael Flynn. (Jim Lo Scalzo / European Pressphoto Agency)

Pence has skirted that danger since his first month in office.

Though he led Trumps presidential transition, Pence has said he did not know about meetings between Russian officials and Michael Flynn, Trumps national security advisor during the campaign and initially in the White House, that are now central to the investigation into possible collusion to influence the 2016 election. So in January, on Flynns assurance, he falsely said on television that Flynn had not discussed with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak the sanctions that President Obama imposed in December as penalty for Russias campaign meddling.

Flynns lying to the vice president was the reason given for his forced resignation, yet Trump and several advisors had been aware of Flynns deception for days.

Pence also said he did not know Flynn was secretly lobbying for Turkey until March, though Flynn, according to the New York Times, informed the transition team in early January that he was under investigation for failing to report the work he did as a foreign agent during the campaign.

And after Trump fired FBI Director James B. Comey, Pence insisted that the bureaus Russia investigation had nothing to do with it, only to have Trump contradict him a day later in a nationally televised interview.

The incidents underscore Pences problem: His allies maintain he is a core inside player, yet at significant moments, they have insisted he was out of the loop. The friends dismiss such embarrassments, however, as the natural consequence of Trump being Trump, and Pences place as first in line whether the White House is on offense or defense.

He understands he has a job and his job is to be a loyal soldier, and hes a very effective communicator, said Pete Seat, an official with the Indiana Republican Party. So sometimes the job of being first one out of the gate falls on him.

David McIntosh, the Indiana Republican whom Pence replaced in Congress, said there were two truths in the Comey firing. There was the one Pence told that Justice Department leaders recommended Comey be fired and the one that Trump later told, that he would have fired Comey regardless of that recommendation.

One thing I think Mike would not do is make the first statement if he thought it was not true, said McIntosh, disregarding Pences insistence that Comeys firing had nothing to do with the Russia investigation when Trump later said it did.

Pence, who turned 58 last month, came to prominence in Indiana as a talk radio host in the 1990s, building a brand as a conservative Christian who chose to make his points without turning up the volume.

Elected to Congress on his third try, Pence initially was a conservative renegade. But he proved to be in the vanguard of what became the tea party movement. Sen. Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican whose office was next to Pences when the Indianan was in Congress, remembers the two of them bursting through the House doors together on late nights like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid into a saloon to halt spending measures, and offering slow claps for President George W. Bushs spending plans during a State of the Union address.

Flake said Pences ability to stay relentlessly on message endeared him to other conservatives, propelling him into the House leadership ranks.

Next, as Indianas governor for four years, he built on his conservative credentials while showing a willingness to bend on a few issues, including allowing expansion of Medicaid as part of Obamacare. He suffered his biggest setback on a religious liberty bill that allowed store owners to refuse services for gay weddings; Pence retreated under pressure from groups concerned the law would hurt Indianas reputation and its ability to recruit workers and businesses from out of state.

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Trump is flanked by Pence and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin during the president's address to Congress.

Trump is flanked by Pence and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin during the president's address to Congress. (Jim Lo Scalzo / Associated Press)

Pences allies say he has maintained important credibility in Congress, both because he served there and because of his alliance with House Speaker Paul D. Ryan. He was influential as Trump made his Cabinet choices and enlisted Judge Neil M. Gorsuch for the Supreme Court, a selection that united Republicans more than any decision Trump has made in the White House. But his role as a conduit to Congress is being tested by Republicans divisions over the healthcare bill, which Pence has repeatedly promised would get out of Congress by the end of summer.

Pence, through his press office, declined an interview request, citing his desire to avoid discussing his role or influence. He has been careful to avoid taking credit, an important trait to a president who wants it for himself and is angered by those who flaunt their influence. If the vice president has had any disagreements with Trump, they have not been leaked, a rarity in the White House.

Pence associates say he is most comfortable in the policy realm, letting Trump pick his tasks and define his role. That has included trips to Asia and Europe and another planned for Latin America in August. By sticking to script and avoiding free-form interactions with the press, Pence has avoided getting dragged further into controversies over the Russia investigation and Trumps tweets.

As Comey testified in Congress last month that the president lied and tried to halt the investigations of Flynn and Russia, Pence once again found a spot for himself away from the tumult.

Before an ornate room full of governors and state officials near the White House, Pence focused on the administrations theme of the week: roads, bridges and airports. He spoke about the builder in the White House, even as Trump himself had overshadowed that message with tweets assailing the mayor of London, the media and his Justice Department.

Folks, Pence said, its already been a banner week for infrastructure.

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Vice President Mike Pence addressed supporters during a visit to discuss health care at a roundtable at Tendon Manufacturing in Bedford, Ohio, on Wednesday.

On the evidence of a lifetime, Americas vice president is not a complex man. Instead he is three extremely simple ones: an incompetent ideologue, an obsequious toady, and a self-serving schemer.

When Donald Trump selected Indianas governor to run with him, local observers were dumbfounded. They knew Pence as a comically ambitious, rigid, and inept right-wing evangelical a climate-change denying, Darwin-doubting zealot who, before leaving Congress, had left no mark beyond his sulfurous opposition to reproductive and gay rights. And his accession to the governorship, meant to position him as presidential timber, had foundered on the fundamentalist verities that define his mental cul-de-sac.

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A signal embarrassment was his embrace of a religious freedom bill designed to propitiate business owners who wished to discriminate against gays. This antagonized the states business community at large, a setback exponentially amplified when, interrogated by George Stephanopoulos, Pence issued a tongue-tied nonresponse so mortifying that it rewards a look on YouTube. Shouldering Pence aside, the legislature reached a compromise to salvage Indianas reputation.

Facing electoral doom, this ostentatious Christian who calls his wife Mother and refuses to be alone with another woman prostrated himself to become Trumps running mate, the bridge between evangelicals and a blatant libertine. Trump, not Jesus, became Pences personal savior: Cravenly, Pence proclaimed Trump a model paterfamilias and man of deep faith. To cognoscenti, the reflexive alacrity with which Pence swathed Trump in pieties confirmed a surreal obliviousness to his own moral smallness.

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Even so, he swiftly elevated serial hypocrisy to unforeseen heights.

A quarter-century later after his beginnings as a talk show host, Mike Pence remains as small as his beginnings.

Pences duplicitous sequence of volte-faces began when Trumps Access Hollywood recording revealed his boasts of grabbing womens genitals. Perhaps sensitive to the perils of being left alone with females, Pence proclaimed: Theyll say this time they got him but Donald Trump is still standing, stronger than ever.

Less so Pence. Belatedly perceiving that Trumps misogyny had provoked mass revulsion, he canceled a campaign appearance before vanishing altogether, after saying that he could not condone [ Trumps] remarks true moral leadership, that but that we ... look forward to the opportunities he has to show what is in his heart in the debate the following night.

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That Pence was angling to displace the gravely wounded Trump was painfully obvious not least to Trump, who attacked self-righteous hypocrites . . . more concerned with their political future. When Trump survived the debate, Pence wallowed in renewed self-abasement. Proud to stand with you, Pence tweeted, and grabbed Trumps coattails once again.

His next oscillation came in the vice presidential debate. Resigned to second place, Pence began positioning himself for 2020, turning in a robotic appearance, heavy on right-wing talking points but exceedingly light on praise of Trump. Indeed, Pence contradicted Trump on Syria, Vladimir Putin, and how to deal with Russia overtly courting the Republican right. Little wonder that Trump expressed private discontent with his underlings performance, which exposed the calculus of a climber who expected Trump to lose.

But again Trump disappointed.

Instantly, Pence reverted to fawning puppet even by the standards of vice presidents. Joe Biden supported Barack Obama without ever losing his dignity or integrity; Pence had neither.

Miming a servile staffer Trumps preferred mode of behavior for his underlings Pence parroted Trumps moronic talking points and outright lies, nodding and smiling as Trump spouted self-contradicting nonsense. By all reports, he never complained when Trump concealed his knowledge of Mike Flynns lies to the FBI about Russia, allowing Pence to repeat them on talk shows. Nor did he bridle when Trump dispatched him to advance the pretext that James Comey was fired on Rod Rosensteins recommendation, then revealed his actual purpose to kill the FBIs Russia investigation.

It was utterly in character, then, when Pence kicked off the most excruciating display of synchronized sycophancy in memory the chorus of praise from cabinet members upon their first meeting with Americas Dear Leader. The greatest privilege of my life, Pence intoned in his church organ voice, is to serve as vice president to the president whos keeping his word to the American people. Sadly, perhaps it is.

But the palace contriver ever searches for vacuums. Because Trump knew no one in Washington, Pence curried favor with the right by helping seed the cabinet with conservative ideologues. And as questions about Trumps survival burgeoned anew, Pence launched his own political action committee while cultivating restive legislators.

Who is Mike Pence? Take your pick of three. But one thing is clear none of his personae are fit to be president.

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As of the Fourth of July, 2017, President Trump will have been a Twitter user for nearly 12 percent of his life, joining in 2009 at the age of 62 and continuing on to this very day. For 1out of every 9days hes been alive, Trump has been on Twitter.

The net effect of this is that we have a reasonably good record of the past eight years of Trumps life, a period spanning most of President Barack Obamas two terms and intoTrumps own. Its a public record unlike that of any other president, its safe to say, and its one that can show us how Donald Trump the businessman evolved into Donald Trump, the aggressively confrontational politician.

Consider the Fourth of July. Our tool Trumphop retweets old Trump tweets on the same day and time as they were originally sent. We noticed, as the Fourth approached, that Trumps tweets related to the holiday have had a noticeably different tone in recent years than in years past.

Below, Trumps Fourth of July-related tweets from each year and a sample of the other issues he chose to highlight on the anniversary of our nations independence.

The first three years of Trumps Independence Day tweets were straightforward. The 2009 iteration included a clumsy signature, but this was while Twitter was still young and people did such things.

By 2011, Trump was already engaged in politics, having considered and then skipped a run for the presidency. This was after he challenged Obama to present a birth certificate to prove that he was born in the United States which Obama did shortly before roasting Trump at the White House Correspondents Association dinner. Yet that didnt come through inTrumps July 4 tweet.

It did the next year, when Trump decided to make a birth certificate joke.

This is the new era of Trump, recognizing and reveling in the feedback that his more outrageous Twitter behavior could provide.

As the holiday approached, Trump weighed in on the presidential election, having endorsed Republican Mitt Romney during the primary.

While not on the Fourth itself, this tweet is worth a mention: the politically motivated I predicted it tweet.

In 2013, Trump spent the Fourth celebrating a legal victory.

He also retweeted a vulgar response to the settlement.

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He fought back with someone who was critical of him. (That original tweet included the same vulgarity as the one above.)

He also, for some reason, decided to focus on his attitudes about sharks.

He didnt tweet anything about the holiday itself.

He did in 2014.

By 2015, he was officially a candidate for the presidency. In keeping with that, he tweeted a fairly anodyne celebration of the day, tacking on his campaign slogan.

He couldnt resist, though, digging into the political moment.

Praise for his candidacy earned a retweet.

Macys, which ended its business relationship with Trump afterhe made negative comments about immigrants from Mexico at his campaign launch, earned Trumps ire.

As did his critic Romney.

By this point last year, Trump had earned enough delegates to clinch the nomination at the Republican National Convention, a few weeks after the Fourth.

He celebrated the holiday with a professionally designed image and video.

He then quickly reverted to his campaign persona, disparaging rivalHillary Clinton and Obama as fools and the former as guilty.

He also spent part of the day rebutting the controversy of the moment. On July 2 precisely one year before he stirred up controversy by plucking an animation from theInternet that showed him wrestling with CNN Trump tweeted an image his team had found online picturingClinton over a pile of dollar bills, with Most Corrupt Candidate printed over a six-pointed star. The image, quickly altered to replace the star with a circle, was widely criticized for being tacitly anti-Semitic.

So at 9:42 a.m. on Independence Day, candidate Trump defended his previous tweet by disparaging the media.

Its a far cry from the simple message he offered in 2009. But, since then, Trumps public persona is similarly a far cry from what it was then.

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Give Donald Trump credit for coming clean. Hes always been a pro-wrestling promoter at heart, not a president, trading in faked-up victories and doing anything for better ratings.

There is no doubt that the video Trump tweeted out on Sunday, cartoonishly showing himself beating up on CNN at a pro wresting event, was an encouragement to violence against the media. Nothing new there. Whats more fascinating is just how right he looked in that environment. Trump never looks comfortable behind his desk in the Oval Office. At a professional wrestling match, he belongs.

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Everything about Trump exudes pro-wrestling fakery. He brags and exaggerates and claims victories that everybody except for a few sad souls who think pro wrestling is legit knows are not real victories. Did you see Hulk Hogan excuse us, Donald Trump brag on Monday about the great jobs numbers his administration has racked up? Truth is, job growth in the United States has slowed since Trump took office.

With every new outrageous tweet, Trump adds to the evidence that he is temperamentally unfit to be president and lazy to boot. What kind of president, if he is hard at work on the big issues of our day terrorism, health care reform, tax reform and the like has time to stew about what a couple of talking heads on CNN say about him?

And yet Trump spends his mornings clicking through the cable news shows and lashing out in his resentment, going particularly hard on women critics. Joe Scarborough on CNN becomes Psycho Joe in a Trump tweet, and Mika Brzezinski becomes low I.Q. Crazy Mika who was bleeding badly from a face-lift the last time Trump saw her at Mar-a-Lago.

This stuff plays fine with Trumps angry political base, who are always happen to see another villain in the ring get slammed to the mat. There actually is a wrestler, Dan Richards, who goes by the villainous stage name of Progressive Liberal.

The rest of America, including a majority of Republicans, sees Trump for the boor and misogynist he is.

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