Scoping out political opponents

[9-10ths_Penguin]

What a laugh.

No, it has to do with electrolytic manganese used in the steel industry and a resource taken from recycling car batteries and special iron minerals, and cobalt used also in electric car technology and also mined by same industry that gets manganese and other strategic minerals. Trump has started the reindustrialization process, including US steel and next the new battery industry including electric cars, Canada has the new companies HQ'd in BC, new startup in battery recycling for portable electronic devices and electric and hybrid electric vehicles, vital minerals in steel production both relief from dependency from the corrupt and unstable Democratic Republic of Congo (DCR), most of these Canadian startup operations have cheap stocks on the OTC available to US investors who will be more than 50% of the investing capital and shareholders who are going to make a lot of Americans rich and not just Canadians, these opreations are now expanding into Arizona and other areas with their innovative patented processes of Canadian ingenuity and not Somali or Ghana or Mexican anything, Trump and Trudeau are working together right now with the eye on steel, electric cars, as well as Canadian oil, the US-Canadian relations will never be better and will be hugely profitable for both and thr PM knows that. These profits will outstrip those "global" (enabling slavery) companies which rely on cheap foreign labor by a thousand fold.

Trump and the PM will get along just fine, thank you.

You have a bulletin board in your house with lots of pins connected by a web of red string, don't you?

 

[Stevicus]

My question, is this something that every President (or his staff) has done or is this uniquely Trump?

I think Nixon did it.

 

[Tarheeler]

I came across this article on the NY Post
http://nypost.com/2017/02/12/trumps-white-house-eyes-potential-foes-in-2020-election/

which claims that Trump is looking at which Democrats could oppose him in the 2020 elections and is scouring their backgrounds.

My question, is this something that every President (or his staff) has done or is this uniquely Trump?

From what I've seen, it's pretty common on the state and local level, and I don't see why it wouldn't be so on the federal level.
Most elected officials are always looking to the next election cycle, and they want every advantage they can get before the race actually starts. If they can ruin the image of a potential opponent before they actually become an opponent, then it's one less person to worry about when the race begins.

 

[Akivah]

I'm sure that opponents are always on the mind of politicians but the current inhabitant of the White House and other members of his regime are unique in their paranoia and obsessiveness.

How are you sure? Do you have some sort of measurement regarding how other politicians throughout history have done this?

 

[metis]

I was in D.C. twice with a program called "Operation CloseUp", and at one of the forums someone asked the editor of an insider newsletter what these politicians there are really like? He hemmed and hawed a bit, then he said that most seemingly come in with good intentions but that they tend to get quickly addicted to the power and atmosphere to the point whereas re-election quickly becomes their number one priority.