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Democrat says Trump is ‘stealing’ from taxpayers and could be impeached if Republicans lose control of Congress
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2026
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While the media are generally cowardly if not outright fawning towards Trump, in this case I think the quotes are not intended to be scare quotes. This is a standard journalistic way of indicating in the headline that this is a direct quote, not a paraphrase, of what he said.
makes sense