[Pravious]

Imho, DJT wasn’t as ‘defeated and miserable’ as he was leading the enemy to believe.
Having been a TV guy for awhile, he knows a little something about the acting game.

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Perhaps, but why act? He’d already signed the bill. He could gloat all he wanted to, and there was nothing the RATS could do about it. All he did by “acting” like that is to demoralize his own base.

[tomkat]

He knew that his true base would keep the faith through more than this one hiccup.
I'm betting that were still a couple Ts that needed crossing, likely re timing, before the hole cards were played.

When you pour some concrete, avoid the tempation to walk on it til it's set.