“Trump is doing all of this as a result of Trump can.” [UPBEAT CLASSICAL MUSIC] “He needs retribution. He needs revenge.” “There’s no higher crime in Trump’s eyes than opposing Trump.” “While you see him going after regulation corporations, as an example, main regulation corporations that he sees as too near the Democratic Social gathering or that went after him in investigations or instances throughout his first time period.” “The largest rejection Trump has ever confronted in his whole life was his re-election loss. And part of me at the very least thinks that maybe he’s pursuing retribution in opposition to the American individuals, in opposition to the general public at massive, in opposition to the nation that did reject him.” “He’s pushed, I believe, by the will to amass energy. The entire politics, all the perception programs, all the political stances, all of that’s only a comfort for him.” “He now has extra energy than he’s ever had earlier than, and he’s simply pursuing the agenda that he’s promised because the Nineteen Eighties.” “The assassination try, you would actually inform that he type of developed this view of himself as having a particular mission. ‘I’m probably the most good, greatest man within the historical past of the universe.’” “We’re a part of a giant and sophisticated world, and I believe Trump is motivated by a need to isolate the USA and let it stand in a form of splendid isolation.” “I believe the Trump administration is doing quite a few issues that it does, in actual fact, have a mandate to do: substantial restrictions on immigration to searching for some form of armistice within the Russia-Ukraine warfare, and asking Europe to bear extra of the burden in that battle. These are issues that Trump campaigned on. It’s solely politically affordable for them to pursue them. It’s simply that in every case, there’s some impulse contained in the Trump White Home to simply go just a little additional.” “He’s created this setting that, particularly on the fitting, the place this can be very tough to depart MAGA. You may be ostracized from friendships. You may be ejected from church buildings. And that is an setting that casts a pall of worry however on the similar time makes MAGA extraordinarily tough to confront.” “This isn’t Richard Nixon, a really psychologically advanced man. This can be a easy man pursuing, in lots of methods, fairly easy pursuits. The problem, the issue, is that he’s doing so with the may and energy of the USA federal authorities.”
