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While there is some confusion about the exact first use of the following phrase, it is often attributed to Lincoln long before being later used by P.T. Barnum: "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and you can fool some of the people all of the time: but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." Perhaps many Republicans constitute that portion who can be fooled all of the time.

However, my favorite quote applicable to instances like this is Mark Twain's, who said, "Never argue with stupid people. They will only drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience."

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Exactly. I still believe the Republican party is essentially a minority power, and they know it, so they are motivated solely, 100% by POWER--gaining it and holding on to it by any, and I do mean ANY, means possible. That means aligning themselves with perhaps one of the biggest "grifters" in the history of this country. All the revelations swirling around now about Trump's financial shenanigans--today has been dizzying!--might be a big first step for the scales to fall from their eyes and lead to them realising they've been had. They'd best do something, or their party could end up being irretrievably ruined.

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And this is just the first in a series of NY Times articles on Trump's finances and financial shenanigans. I see another Pulitzer Prize in this for the NY Times before this is over.

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