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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
S. E. Cupp

Donald Trump’s playbook: Paranoid appeals, attacks on everyone

A supporter of Donald Trump tumbles to the ground on top of a banner criticizing him outside the Manhattan courthouse where Trump arrived later in the day for his arraignment on April 4. (Drew Angerer/Getty)

In the wake of nearly every investigation, from his two impeachments, to the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago for classified documents, to his arrest and arraignment this week for hush money payments, Donald Trump continually promises that you will be the next target of the corrupt government, the deep state, the Democrats, the media, the intelligence community and whomever else he’s made a convenient bogeyman.

“If this political persecution goes unchallenged,” he wrote in a fundraising email last month, “one day it won’t be me they’re targeting…It’ll be you.”

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