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    Trump Seems to Be Afraid, Very Afraid

    That was the big revelation of his interview with Fox’s Bret Baier.
    by Tom Nichols Jun 21, 2023 5 minutes
    Source: Spencer Platt / Getty

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    Donald Trump is scared.

    Or so he seems, at least to judge from the interview he did with the Fox News anchor Bret Baier that aired over the past two evenings. Trump was jittery and combative, but that’s not so unusual; the former president tends to answer even softball questions as if they’re accusations. Typically, when confronted with more serious challenges, he deploys his peculiar political glossolalia, verbal fusillades formed out of names and places and phrases plucked from jumbled memories, old talking points, and barely remembered briefings.

    But something was different this time. Trump seemed

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