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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWill Trump Threaten Veto The Debt Limit Until ACA Is Gone?
You wonder is Trump will attempt to extort the Congress and threaten the entire planet just to get his way. I am concerned that we are heading into very deep water.
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Will Trump Threaten Veto The Debt Limit Until ACA Is Gone? (Original Post)
TheMastersNemesis
Aug 2017
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Foamfollower
(1,097 posts)1. Let him.
If he does so, the global economic meltdown is his doing and gets owned by the entire Republican caucus.
TomSlick
(11,100 posts)2. My first thought was that Trump wasn't that stupid.
Then I realized that we have not begun to plumb just how dumb Trump can be. However, it would be profoundly dumb.
Girard442
(6,081 posts)3. I think he's irrational enough to do exactly that.
At some point we're going to get desperate enough that a coup will start to look good to us.
SCantiGOP
(13,871 posts)4. But one thing he is scared of
That would tank the stock market and his friends would lose billions.