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Mike Dukakis, the 1988 Democratic candidate, was forever branded as a dork because he looked diminutive while riding in a military tank.īiden’s Philly speech was a challenge to all of us. Richard Nixon “lost” the 1960 presidential debates in part because his TV makeup made him look more haggard than JFK. But we need not reference ancient history. Historians have long noted that even Cicero, the legendary Roman orator, brought visual props to enhance his eloquent speeches. Psychologists have long concluded that humans are far more likely to remember something they see, as opposed to what they read or hear. Because now the average American who has no time to read abstruse court filings can measure the depth of Trump’s crimes with merely a glance. Why are they all so upset? Because they respect – and, in this case, they fear – the power of the visual image. They dropped them, not me – Very deceiving.”

8 search: “They (FBI agents) took them out of cartons and spread them around on the carpet, making it look like a big ‘find’ for them. Meanwhile, the thief-in-chief is veritably chewing his grandiose carpet about the way “his” top-secret documents were treated during the Aug. Trump’s sweat-soaked defenders are freaking out about a FBI photo of classified documents from Mar-a-Lago and fumbling for fresh rationalizations – they say it’s “staged” and “dishonest.” They say a picture is worth a thousand words.
