The files were real and implicate Trump, but it's ok when he does it because reasons, and akshually abusing minors is totally cool.
i can completely see this going some way of “it’s part of being rich that people force you into these things… and trump got to where he is - helping the USA - by being rich. he didn’t want to, but if he didn’t comply he wouldn’t be able to be doing the amazing job he’s doing now. feel sorry for him. he sacrificed for you!”
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want to? i think most people want to, but if you come to a deal and then mango Mussolini has a tantrum then it’s out the window and there will be some sort of retribution, and then if you decide to scrap the deal there will likely be more so you’re in a worse case than if you’d made no deal at all
deals are built on trust, and the US has no trust left any more… that’s kinda the point: the US is entirely where it is on the world stage because of post-war trust and stability. the power of the US is given to it by its allies… throwing all that out didn’t just prove that trump is untrustworthy and unstable, but that the world was wrong to place trust in the stability of the entire system that the US is built on. watch how well that system fares when all the power collapses because without everyone paying deference, that power is non-existent