A trivial, but gratifying, revenge
BRUCE'S LIST: Successful businessmen don’t usually make good politicians
Entrepreneurs work by command but political leaders can’t, as Trump will discover
Start thinking of him as the 46th president of the US. President Mike Pence. Right wing? Sure. Bigoted? Of course. Misogynist? Without question. But at the same time as all those, just another well-regarded member of the Republican establishment, former governor of Indiana, chair of the House Republican Conference and currently vice-president of the US.Not a day goes by that I am not more convinced President Donald Trump cannot see out his first term. The Republicans themselves will impeach him and get rid of him. Pence will take over. He’ll be another George Bush. In Trump’s latest (of a growing list) cock-up, it turns out that US intelligence, as part of its day-to-day routine sweeps of America’s enemies, picked up regular contact between Trump’s election team and Russian officials. Russian intelligence officials that is. How does this get any worse? A day earlier Trump had to fire his national security adviser, Mike Flynn, for his contacts with the Russian ambassador in Washingto...
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