Trump Bluffs: Fact-Checking the Claim

A year after a mob of Donald Trump's ... his 2020 election defeat, the Republican former president continues to repeat false claims blaming widespread voting fraud for his loss to Democrat Joe Biden....

Multiple news outlets have reported that video, satellite images and expert analysis indicate that the United States was likely responsible for the Feb. 28 bombing of an Iranian school for young girls, contradicting President Donald Trump’s unsupported claim that the deadly strike “was done by Iran.”

“These are long-ago debunked claims that will not disappear despite the availability of official data,” Stewart said. Trump has been making false and unfounded claims related to mail-in voting for years.

The problem is that when deal-making is in the public sphere, it’s particularly hard to pull off an extreme bluff. For one thing, Mr. Trump’s reputation for using the technique precedes him. For another, on public issues like the budget or trade agreements, the other parties to the negotiation have a pretty good idea of what the Trump administration has to lose if no deal is struck.

Iran is exposing the limits of a presidency built on bluff, improvisation and submission rituals.

And being the “maniac” has served him well. In 2016, he bluffed and blustered his way through a soft GOP field. He also knew when he had the cards, and his opponents were bluffing.

For the last 72 hours, since the FBI conducted a search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, the former President has spouted any number of claims about what happened and why. He’s said that Democrats led the search (they didn’t) and raised the possibility that FBI agents might have planted evidence, without providing any proof of the allegation.

VIDÉO - Après avoir lancé un ultimatum aux élus, le président a retiré sa réforme juste avant un vote à la Chambre des représentants qu'il était assuré de perdre vendredi. ... Donald Trump n'est pas allé jusqu'au bout de son bluff.

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Donald Trump a une nouvelle fois inondé les médias de déclarations en quelques heures, annonçant un accord à venir avec l'Iran. Que faut-il penser de ses prises de parole notamment sur le détroit d'Ormuz ?

Donald Trump’s negotiating style in the months before he took office were marked by a disregard for protocol.

There are examples in history of the catastrophic consequences of bluffing anchors intended to intimidate; The returns from this approach tend to diminish over time, particularly as the approach becomes known to negotiating partners who over time will tend to ignore the anchor; and · This approach to negotiations is not recommended for healthy long-term relationships. Overall, does this work for Donald Trump?