President Trump, Year IV: Horribilis Week

In New York, October 3.

En 2016, Donald Trump regularly plastered during his meetings by miming exhausted faithful who implored him to end a devastating cycle of victories of all kinds. ” Please ! Please ! Stop winning so much, we can’t take it anymore! Mr. Chairman, this is too much! And I will answer no, it is not enough, we need more, even more! Roared the candidate in Albany, New York.

Like any president, Donald Trump has had days of victories. On Saturday, September 26, he triumphed by presenting his choice to replace left-wing icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Supreme Court. Also a woman, Amy Coney Barrett. This curator paid a tribute to the deceased that would have been touching if she did not want to sift through much of her legacy. Then everything went wrong.

Sunday the New York Times has published an investigation into the tax returns that Donald Trump is desperately trying to shield from the eyes of Americans. And for good reason, it would show that its federal contribution is almost zero because the real estate empire of the businessman is taking water with the majesty of a rammed schooner. Slowly but surely.

Monday, we learned that the one who was still in July his campaign manager, Brad Parscale, had been arrested the day before by the police at his home, half-naked and drunk, after having obviously hit his wife.

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First presidential debate scuttled

On Tuesday, Donald Trump scuttled the first presidential debate by choosing the outrageous attack that turned the exchange into a fight delivered in a quagmire under a pallid moon. On Wednesday, he embarked for Minnesota with a squad of advisers including Hope Hicks, who was unaware at the time that she was infected with Covid-19. The discovery of this contamination did not change a line of the program the next day, including a meeting with worshipers at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. Then on the night of Thursday to Friday, the president announced that he had tested positive in his turn and that he was forced to quarantine in the White House, one month before the presidential election.

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Friday morning, he must have got angry on his own when he received ” thoughts “ and ” prayers “ of his opponent Joe Biden whom he had copiously insulted Tuesday (and vice versa) and mocked the excessive caution in the face of the epidemic. In the middle of the day, we finally learned that the virus was circulating cheerfully in the ranks of the Republicans, including among those who had pressed Saturday in the rose garden of the White House without respecting the distances recommended to applaud Amy Coney Barrett. And in the afternoon Donald Trump walked in ” for several days ” at Walter Reed Military Hospital.

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