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by e40 522 days ago
My opinion is that it's trolling us all. Also, it's a feint to get us to look elsewhere while other deeds are done. We all only have so much attention to give and every news website is certainly filled with this "news".

Trump's goal is to get his nominees through congress. Some are fine, but there are about 5-7 who are deemed pretty unacceptable by most people. Perhaps the lack of light on those people will help get them through the process.

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He's trolling while at the same time has the power to act on the trolling if it doesn't get push back.

That's the core issue with his "trolling", usually a troll doesn't have power so not feeding them the attention is all it's needed to defuse the situation, when the troll has the weight of the USA's government filled with sycophants behind to do their bidding then it isn't trolling anymore but much more a "testing the waters" situation.

flooding the zone with shit