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pat_k

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5. Whether nature or malignant nurture, he was certainly twisted young.

Reply to Dave Bowman (Reply #2)

Thu May 28, 2026, 05:19 PM

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With Fred Trump's emotionally abusive, win at all costs, aggression above all else, crush every empathic impulse "parenting" perhaps he didn't have much of a chance of not becoming a psychopath.

But origins aside, the rise of such a man to power, not once, but twice is as shameful a chapter in our history as the founding concessions to enslavers.

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