By Buck Sexton
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resident Donald Trump has been embattled every day since his 2016
It’s not rational... But Trump has that effect on people. Romney is a Republican who really, really doesn’t like the president. That alone may be the reason for his strange habit of engaging with a mere handful of strangers online to generally bash Trump and pump up his own name. And he’s not alone in this Trump derangement... Last month also saw the return of the anonymous “Trump resistance” op-ed writer. Remember that fiasco? It all started with a column in the New York Times in the summer of 2018 about those senior officials who, like its author, actively thwart the president’s will. Well, that guy (or is it a gal?) is back in the headlines, and apparently is about to drop a tell-all book on just how dysfunctional the Trump White House really is... (What could be worse than what has already been written? I guess we’ll see.) There are further rumblings reported in multiple outlets – so far, all secondhand and anonymous – that some Republicans in Congress are just fed up with following behind the Trump parade bearing a shovel
election win. There was never a honeymoon period when the media pretended to give him a chance. The Democrats made no head fake at bipartisan unity. From the beginning, Trump has had to govern while under a withering assault from the political establishment, the mainstream media, and every apparatus and institution of the Left. Add to this, as we recently found out, a certain Twitter account operating under the name “Pierre Delecto”... In case you missed it last month, the Internet went wild with the revelation that Mitt Romney – former 2012 GOP presidential candidate and current senator from Utah – had been lurking under the pseudonym Pierre Delecto on Twitter in order to anonymously engage in online political discussion without anyone knowing who he was. It’s fair to question the wisdom of a man worth hundreds of millions of dollars with national name recognition spending his time taking anonymous shots at political opponents online from an account with mere hundreds of followers. The real Mitt Romney has 2 million followers on his verified Twitter account. So what’s with hiding behind a sock puppet social media account that sounds like it’s run by a Parisian mime?
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There was never a honeymoon period when the media pretended to give him a chance.
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