Glenn Greenwald
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And it's like an unprecedented humiliation for the United States.
Like we are on the road to losing this war.
And neither of those choices is good for him.
So yeah, I mean, it's amazing.
He had, unlike the first term, a lot of goodwill at the start of his second term.
He was actually a reasonably popular president.
People were willing to give him a chance.
And there's been almost no focus on domestic policy other than closing the border on ice.
And the ice stuff, you know, was was pretty unpopular just because of the brute way that it was carried out.
People don't like seeing American citizens, you know, shot in the head on the street by by federal agents.
Other than that, it's all been Israel and, you know, bombing Yemen and the Epstein files and Ukraine and none of and now this war.
None of what was promised to people when they voted for Trump.
None of it.
Well, I think one of the important things to realize, not to make excuses for Trump, but just to kind of get an insight into how he sees things, he was running for president in 2024, not only to become president, but to stay out of prison for the rest of his life.
Had he lost in 2024...
the Democrats were absolutely going to put him in prison for a long time.
And you're talking about somebody who's, you know, almost 80 years old.
There were four different felony cases pending against him.
They already obtained felony convictions in that preposterous New York case with Stormy Daniels and those hush money payments.
But they were, you know, they had two felony cases relating to January 6th, another one related to classified documents that he took to Mar-a-Lago.