he touched the orb. then lo and behold when khashoggi ends up slaughtered, donald trump s on the front lawn saying no, no, don t believe gina haspel. don t believe what you see. don t believe what you hear. i believe rogue killers. in plain view the quid, the pro and the quo are right there. do they have to think very hard to profile donald trump? no, he s easily manipulated by courting him and stroking the ego. we see that with state visits. we see the red carpet rolled out. we see it with north korea. think about how often trump mentions those lovely letters, beautiful letters coming from kim jong-un. those are ego strokers. kim jong-un figured him out and as a result has been able to fire off missile after missile without any retribution. it s a very simple equation with him, stroke the ego, you get what you want. rick stengel, heaven forbid we should end up in a military