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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 5378492" data-attributes="member: 48469">You read yesterday&#039;s Washington Post column by David Ignatius, eh?<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/23/trump-classified-documents-legal-threat/" target="_blank">Opinion | The serious legal threat to President Trump in the Mar-a-Lago probe - The Washington Post</a>&quot;This case reflects the central nightmare of the Trump post-presidency. He seems to believe, in the words of the French King Louis XIV, “L’etat, c’est moi,” meaning: “I am the state.” Trump’s stationery still bears the presidential seal. He still appears to covet the permanent power of a leader like China’s Xi Jinping, of whom he <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/03/04/in-a-jokey-speech-trump-praised-chinas-xi-for-ditching-term-limits-saying-maybe-well-give-that-a-shot-some-day/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5" target="_blank">said in 2018</a>: “He’s now president for life. … Maybe we’ll have to give that a shot someday.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 5378492, member: 48469"] You read yesterday's Washington Post column by David Ignatius, eh? [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/23/trump-classified-documents-legal-threat/']Opinion | The serious legal threat to President Trump in the Mar-a-Lago probe - The Washington Post[/URL] "This case reflects the central nightmare of the Trump post-presidency. He seems to believe, in the words of the French King Louis XIV, [I]“L’etat, c’est moi,”[/I] meaning: “I am the state.” Trump’s stationery still bears the presidential seal. He still appears to covet the permanent power of a leader like China’s Xi Jinping, of whom he [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/03/04/in-a-jokey-speech-trump-praised-chinas-xi-for-ditching-term-limits-saying-maybe-well-give-that-a-shot-some-day/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5']said in 2018[/URL]: “He’s now president for life. … Maybe we’ll have to give that a shot someday.” [/QUOTE]

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