When I was living in NYC back in the ‘80s, Trump was always pulling some kind of prank on the media.
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I’m not saying they didn’t find anything at Mar-A-Lago, but one of the very first things I was thinking is that I would be surprised if Trump actually allowed anything seriously important to be taken.
People forget, Trump is NOT a dumb guy. Look at how far ahead of the curve he was against his ‘adversaries”, like even back in the campaign when he said he was being spied on and amost everyone scoffed at it.
I like your angle too. He isn’t just smart, manically restless, and always thinking, but he I think he likes the game. He lives for it. Some people call it 4-D chess, but it definitely seems like he has contingencies for contingencies and his plans always seem to have traps for the unwitting.
In business people spy on each other—obviously it is routine in the political game.