# Chesebro,Powell and Others in Trump's Orbit

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Tags:** trump\
**Created:** [October 22, 2023, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chesebro-powell-and-others-in-trumps-orbit/991920 "2023-10-22T13:52:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2023, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chesebro-powell-and-others-in-trumps-orbit/991920/6 "2023-10-22T14:41:18Z")

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There’s been intermittent discussion of the nature of trump’s quasi-charisma in this thread:

> [@How is trump still a viable candidate for president? Really, how?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-trump-still-a-viable-candidate-for-president-really-how/983949):
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> I’m sort of considering this the third of a trilogy of recent trump “How?” threads, along with: [How can Trump get away with defaming Carroll as a liar today (5/11/2023)?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-trump-get-away-with-defaming-carroll-as-a-liar-today-5-11-2023/983888) How is Trump not guilty of manslaughter? (Not linked as it is a Pit thread) In the ‘manslaughter’ thread, I said this and @LSLGuy replied: In one where “Anyone (R)” gets more followers than “Anyone (D)” because of relentless propaganda and the eletoral advantages of gerrymanderng and the EC. I think there’s not much …

**[Search results for ‘charism’ in that thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/search?expanded=true&q=charism%20topic%3A983949)**. There’s more back and forth nearby these posts that don’t user the terms “charism…” but are still on point about his (highly poisonous) secret sauce.

Some of these posts are recent enough that that might be the place to take that discussion rather than here. Or open yet another “why … about trump?” thread.

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