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Irish_Dem

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9. I think Trump thought they would be successful and emboldened.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Thu Feb 11, 2021, 12:27 PM

Feb 2021

And be of further use to him. I don't think he thought about their welfare at all.
He saw them only as of use to him.

But in the end he brought them into the limelight so they could be squashed.

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