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Harris Exposed How Easy Trump Is to Manipulate. Dictators Have Known This for a Long Time.
She homed in on a dangerous weakness.
Trump told Orbán (according to Orbán) that the way he’d end the Russia-Ukraine war would be to cut off all military aid to Ukraine. He struck a deal with the Taliban, behind the Kabul government’s back, promising the complete unconditional U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. He canceled joint military exercises with South Korea in order to please Kim (and Chinese leader Xi Jinping).
Even now, Trump doesn’t think he did anything wrong here.
After showing how deeply she could rattle him with the slightest personal insult, Harris turned the tables and spelled out how deeply others can win him over with the slightest compliment. “It is absolutely well known that these dictators and autocrats are rooting for you to be president again,” she said, “because they’re so clear they can manipulate you with flattery and favors.”
She claimed that if Trump wins in November, Putin would soon after be sitting in Kyiv with his eyes on the rest of Europe, beginning with Poland—and then laid it on thick, with a local spice for viewers in the pivotal state of Pennsylvania, where the debate was taking place:
Harris said all this while looking straight at Trump. Many people who have dealt with Trump know this about his vulnerability to flattery, his envy of strongmen, his puzzlingly desperate need for approval and praise. Some of his aides have recounted this compulsion in books they’ve written after leaving office. But it’s quite possible that Harris is the first person ever to say these things straight to his face.
Whatever else people might think of Harris, one way or the other, they can no longer honestly believe that she’s too timid to go toe-to-toe with a bully.