My Decade with Donald Trump

Free Press ^ | January 18,2025 | By Salena Zito

[Hojczyk]

Great Article…by a great reporter

https://www.thefp.com/p/my-decade-with-donald-trump-salena-zito?utm_medium=organic-social

[linMcHlp]

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[piasa]

Specter ping

...And then, a couple weeks later, I got a call from one of Trump’s campaign advisers, an old friend I knew from when we worked together for Senator Specter.

He said: “Do you want an interview with Trump tomorrow?”

I couldn’t believe my luck....

[thesearethetimes...]

Mark

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[Tijeras_Slim]

Thank you for posting this.

[BobL]

“What I remember most is how Trump came alive on shop floors, speaking to steelworkers, truckers, and plumbers. He really listened to the kind of people who historically voted Democrat.”

I remember hearing that when he was 12 years old, he would go to his father’s job sites and talk with the Working Class. There has NEVER been anyone like him at the top, in either party.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Great Article…by a great reporter

Agree. I became a Salena Zito fan years ago. She’s a MODEL reporter. She INVESTIGATES and REPORTS. I remember her work on the PA senator campaign trail, following Oz. She did great work this election cycle. I’m happy she’s getting the recognition she deserves.

[Nervous Tick]

I like your tag line!

[Hebrews 11:6]

Many thanks for bringing us this captivating article.

[posterchild]

thanks for pointing out what i might otherwise had missed. it is a great modern tag line illustrating an ancient truth

[Real Cynic No More]

Good story! And explains how billionaires become billionaires.

[SomeCallMeTim]

Great read.... thanks for posting

Selena Zito has been a rare example of a good “journalist”. She appeared at a time when most of us believed no such thing existed anymore.

I think she inspired MANY more “real journalist”. I know Rush loved her. And then, I understood why.

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[SomeCallMeTim]

My wife looks a lot like that. :-)

Honestly, I’m in tears after finishing reading this entire story.

EVERYONE who gives a crap about DJT, who has been trying to explain him to crazy libs for the past 9 years, needs to read this story... and, SEND IT to everyone they know.

He is the hardest working, most DECENT man in our lives.... he’s been vilified for challenging a failing, corrupt Status Quo.

Our Lord God sent us this WARRIOR in a critical time. I don’t know any other way to look at this.

THANK YOU, DJT. Thank you Salena.

[El Cid]

Thanks for posting, and I agree with the others - an excellent article.
One caveat though - she seems to think that President Trump lost the 2020 election. I don't see it. Five swing states shut down their vote counting (in the Dem stronghold cities) in the middle of the night, and then 'voila' President Trump's 100k vote leads turn into deficits. A midnight miracle...
Obvious voter fraud - and to pretend otherwise is to be willfully blind. BUT that being said, this was probably a gift from God. President Trump is now more resolute, and America has had a painful view of what happens when the Democrat apparatchik takes charge. Wars everywhere, and misery and despair everywhere. God works in mysterious ways, but His will and purpose are always Good - and I believe President Trump is stronger President now, than he would have been had not the election been stolen in 2020.

But that nit aside, an excellent article.

[paudio]

I have been arguing this point with people who wonder how a billionaire can understand the life of working class people. Unlike other billionaires who get their fortune by inventing somethinh using computers or by playing in the financial sectors, Trump got his money from construction. As such, he needed to interact with many workers, including the construction workers, electricians, and so on.

[stylin19a]

thanx for that...

[Nateman]

...Then he turned to an Andrew Jackson painting behind him, and wondered aloud why more people didn’t ask the question: “Why was there the Civil War? Why could that one not have been worked out?”

I asked myself a similar question. They had Article V, the Convention Of States, why didn't they use that? Turns out they tried but it was too little too late . After a terrible bloody war the Constitution got amended by the winning side. Such a shame . A Convention of States could have saved all that bloodshed but both sides were too worried the other would come out on top.