Mark Z. Barabak: Scandal after scandal, Trump has defied political physics. Will this time be different?
From the moment he blustered his way onto the political stage, Donald Trump defied expectations. He won the White House despite lacking any government or military experience, a first in the nation’s history. As a candidate and then as president, Trump drew supporters ever closer with his brash, impulsive and decidedly unpresidential behavior — not in spite of it. When he was denied a second ...
by Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times
Mar 30, 2023
3 minutes
From the moment he blustered his way onto the political stage, Donald Trump defied expectations.
He won the White House despite lacking any government or military experience, a first in the nation’s history. As a candidate and then as president, Trump drew supporters ever closer with his brash, impulsive and decidedly unpresidential behavior — not in spite of it.
When he was denied a second term, Trump failed to recede from politics, as his predecessors have. And now he’s again broken ground — breaking things being a singular capability — becoming the first ex-president ever criminally
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