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tgards79

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Sun Feb 3, 2019, 08:40 AM Feb 2019

BTRTN: Trump Has a New Reality Show: "Lost"

BTRTN "highlights" all the ways January was a loser for Trump in the BTRTN January 2019 Month in Review:
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2019/02/btrtn-trump-has-new-reality-show-lost.html

"January was the twenty-fourth full month of the Trump presidency, and the first to be dominated by a single issue: the government shutdown that lasted for 35 days. Trump lost the shutdown war to Nancy Pelosi, lost a second sidebar war with her on the State of the Union, lost some face with his core constituents, lost some points he can’t afford to lose in his approval rating, lost a month of his presidency, and was under-informed, ill-advised, clueless -- in a word, lost – when it came to a number of key decisions that he made in the month.

In short, Donald Trump simply lost January.

The shutdown, of course, began in December. Trump essentially welched..."

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