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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Wolffe

Trump always returns to his folly. And his Republican acolytes always return to him

Presidential Trump at a press conference, flanked by numerous Republican members of Congress.
‘Thursday’s royal visit from the king of bling was a dizzying display of dubious electioneering.’ Photograph: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Anyone can rat, as Winston Churchill once supposedly said. But it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.

Say what you like about Donald Trump, but there’s no shortage of rodent-like ingenuity around his dealings with the sewer life that populates today’s Republican party.

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