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In reply to the discussion: Good Question at Quora: Why hasn't Trump gone after Rachel Maddow like he did Mika Brzezinski? [View all]2naSalit
(86,336 posts)7. Their individual intellect
each of them, is exponentially greater than his and he's probably been told that he'd be pantsed in less than the first second by any one of them. He has tried to tangle with Nancy and it didn't go well for him, she reamed him on teevee when he was trying to set her up for embarrassment.
He's starting to figure out that the women he doesn't pay off are not going to fold in his favor.
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Good Question at Quora: Why hasn't Trump gone after Rachel Maddow like he did Mika Brzezinski? [View all]
Kind of Blue
Mar 2019
OP
As well as all sorts of other body parts he would rather not have exposed on TV. n/t
DFW
Mar 2019
#9
It's 1:25 AM here and I have to be on my way to work by 6:15 tomorrow, er, this morning
DFW
Mar 2019
#22
She's not part of the elite group Trump secretly clamors for approval from.
DemocratSinceBirth
Mar 2019
#30
He desperately wants approval from the NY-DC centrist intellectual set, i.e. people like Mika.
DemocratSinceBirth
Mar 2019
#36
My guess is that Roger Ailes told him not to take Rachel on. Ailes and Rachel were friends.
OnDoutside
Mar 2019
#44
Not from an ideological point of view, but she said she got great help from him, and he even told
OnDoutside
Mar 2019
#64
Perhaps, but my thought is that Ailes warned Trump off trying to take her on. It's distinctly off
OnDoutside
Mar 2019
#70