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MOTR, Ep. 46: An Ominous Twist Emerges From Within Trump's Once Loyal Base

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Donald Trump’s unique political career has been short — thus far, anyway. But it’s been entertaining. Compelling. Amazingly productive. Tumultuous. And at times, cringe-worthy.

Honest observers might admit watching him launch it from Trump Tower in 2015 and saying to themselves: He’ll never be president. Will he?

Well, yes, he was. And he accomplished, to my eyes, so very many worthy things.

One of them was to give lasting voice to millions of Americans in flyover country who were angry, frustrated, and, yes, even furious with the people they had sent to Washington, who then became more a representative of the Swamp rather than to the Swamp.

That’s the topic I explore in this week’s MOTR because there are real signs that some of that once-fervent Trump political base is drifting away.

That’s understandable to a degree. Trump is offstage now. He’s been off the largest social media for two years, which may change soon. He’s not been doing his trademark rallies recently. In fact, he’s been rather quiet for a presidential candidate, especially a DJT.

Trump and other Republican presidential wannabes will duke it out in the 18 months between now and the GOP convention in Milwaukee next year.

I suspect many listeners to this week’s audio will have some thoughts and comments. Please leave them in the Comments below and/or on your Twitter posts. I’ll ReTweet some. It’s not called social media by mistake.

This week’s column detailed many of the immense array of questions that arise from Joe Biden’s casual keeping of Classified documents not just for a few weeks or months. They keep showing up in more and more places, some of them dating to his years in the Senate. Each batch prompts additional questions.

Which the Biden brain trust is stonewalling with claims of transparency that are transparently false.

After a briefing on the documents, members of Congress expressed outrage.

The most recent MOTR pointed out the latest Joe Biden promise to get thrown overboard. After crippling American oil drilling, shrinking supplies, and raising gas prices (now, on the rise again), he began draining one million barrels of oil a day from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

That works out to about 44 million gallons of petroleum products removed from safekeeping for a real energy emergency — every day for months. It’s OK, Joe claimed, we’ll refill it right away.

Well, he’s dropped that idea for now because the oil companies won’t sell it at the artificially low price he’s set. The artificial price of $70 a barrel, which is about twice the price Trump was paying to fill it way back when the U.S. had energy independence. So the country’s oil reserves remain at their lowest level in four decades,

And remember this, whenever you hear Joe Biden or his many minions assure you they’re telling the truth, Biden family honor.

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