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‘Desperate’ Trump’s slogan to be turned against him as he runs into ‘buzzsaw’: ex-official

An oft-repeated phrase uttered by President Donald Trump after his 2020 election loss is poised to be turned against him in a matter of weeks, former Trump official Miles Taylor asserted Tuesday. “This year, a corrupt president is walking into a pro-democracy buzzsaw. And he’s desperate because he knows he’s losing,” Taylor wrote in an analysis published…

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