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Jiang uses Trump's abstention from alcohol and drugs as a clue that he was trained to avoid compromising situations.
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teetotaler
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...that i will say about donald trump is that he's a teetotaler he does not drink this is really weird because we've known him..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...that i will say about donald trump is that he's a teetotaler he does not drink this is really weird because we've known him..."
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Glossary
Jiang treats Trump's abstinence from alcohol and drugs as evidence of discipline and long-horizon self-fashioning rather than hedonistic chaos.
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Jiang interprets Trump's teetotaler habits amid a playboy image as evidence of defensive anti-blackmail discipline learned from Roy Cohn.
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He says Trump does not drink or use drugs and presents that abstinence as evidence of a long-running, disciplined effort to shape himself for presidential power.
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"...that i will say about donald trump is that he's a teetotaler he does not drink this is really weird because we've known him..."
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"...Trump does not drink. He does not do drugs. He's a teetotaler. So it's a really strange idea because Trump is a consummate playboy...."
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"And he's been talking about himself as a possible President candidate ever since the 80s. Just go back to the 1980s when CNN was..."
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The conversation starts with Iran, but it quickly becomes a wider map of how Jiang thinks history moves.
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