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On the recordJanuary 2, 2026
It’s the second term strategy of let Trump be Trump without guardrails and that takes him into innumerable places where presidents heretofore did not go.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse critiques Trump's approach in a potential second term.

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