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** His angry rants on [[Twitter]] have been used against him ''many'' times, [https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/10-times-trump-got-slapped-face-tweets-2018/?utm_source=push_notifications as this article shows.] Plus, attacks and accusations he makes against political opponents often just set him up for a barrage of counter-attacks, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=TPsLijm_A44&feature=emb_title|as this other article shows.]
** Trump ''and'' Senate Majority Leader (at the time) Mitch McConnel worked hard to pack the federal courts with conservative judges, often with little regard to the competence or records of such judges, which is something that hoisted both of them terribly in the events after the election of 2020. Had Trump's ludicrous claims of widespread voter fraud been tossed out only by Democrat judges, it would have been seen as purely partisan, and gained Trump support in the "court of public opinion". However, when mostly Republican judges - many of them Trump appointees, including his three Supreme Court nominees - refused to hear any of his lawsuits, it further made the "court of public opinion" view him as a fool.
** And of course, the best example was the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_storming_of_the_United_States_Capitol
*** The same can be said of the actual rioters, who took this
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