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Trump's Stormy Daniels Indictment and DeSantis's Boringness

from The Art Of Happiness | The Tim Dillon Show #340 · #340

11 min

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Tim argues Trump's indictment over Stormy Daniels hush money payments is a minor charge that will backfire and only help Trump, compares Trump's fighting energy favorably to a boring, cop-like Ron DeSantis, and notes the WHO's reversal on vaccine recommendations for healthy kids as an underused political angle against Trump.

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  • Paying off Stormy Daniels feels like nothing compared to torture, warrantless wiretaps, and drone strikes that previous presidents authorized.
  • Tim believes the indictment is a stunt that will backfire and only help Trump, since every attempt to take him out has served to strengthen him.
  • Trump is great at fighting but terrible at governing; he's held back by ego, pettiness, and disloyalty.
  • Ron DeSantis is boring—he looks like a cop trying to get you to rat on your friends, lacking the chaotic energy that makes Trump entertaining.
  • DeSantis has the energy of a school cop showing up to a drug incident, whereas Trump projects riverboat casino tycoon psychopath energy.
  • DeSantis holding rallies on Long Island is desperate; he's trying to win over locals who show up excited with a bacon egg sandwich.
  • The World Health Organization now says healthy teens and children may not need COVID vaccines, contradicting what Trump called his administration's greatest success.
  • If DeSantis hit Trump on the vaccine without being boring, he might actually have a real attack, but the indictment story dominates instead.
  • The campaign finance charge over porn star hush money is something nobody cares about, making the whole prosecution pointless and only helping Trump.
  • Tim thought Trump was finished months ago, but the indictment has actually given him a better shot at the nomination because he's now fighting again.
  • Trump got sharper during this campaign and became more dangerous when indicted, digging in to fight rather than fading away at Mar-a-Lago.
  • Tim gives Trump a better chance now than he did before, though he could still crumble.
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Ron DeSantisDonald TrumpStormy DanielsBarack ObamaWorld Health OrganizationBill ClintonNelson MandelaPaula Jones

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