Domenico Montanaro
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Yeah, for sure.
It's a huge motivating factor.
I mean, remember, he's been smarting from investigations that were going into him for years and he's been promising, quote unquote, retribution.
And that's come into fruition now.
You know, it's really become a sort of political platform in the second term, fuel for conservative grievance.
He's gone after any number of perceived political enemies, whether it's former officials who've spoken out against him, journalists, universities, law firms, you name it.
Well, I mean, Trump trying to centralize power and finding out what the guardrails are is something that I always thought might define the second term.
And those are really being determined now, mostly by the courts.
Politics can also provide some guardrails.
You know, if something's unpopular, politicians usually try and dial it back.
We saw that in Trump's first term with child separation policies, but it's not really Trump's style.
And obviously here in the second term with him term limited, it wouldn't be surprising to see him be even more unrestrained, especially if he thinks that Republicans are going to lose the House this year anyway.
And there's new polling this week out from a couple of outfits.
Quinnipiac poll found that 57 percent disapprove of the way that ICE is enforcing immigration laws.
53 percent said that they don't think that the shooting was justified, while only 35 percent say that it was.
And this has become the real problem for Trump on something that had been an advantage with immigration.
You know, people may be in favor of deporting criminals who are in the country illegally, but they've also been saying for months that they see this administration's approach as going too far or acting too harshly when it comes to deportations.
And that's been dragging down Trump's numbers overall on immigration.
The situation in Minneapolis is really highlighting some of these aggressive tactics of the Trump administration.
There's new polling this week out from a couple of outfits.