Ex-Trump supporter David Weissman said backlash from Make America Great Again followers also made him reconsider backing Trump's slogan and message.
A well-known supporter of President Donald Trump who flipped more than a year ago has admitted that Trump thriving on insulting others is what"snapped" him out of the"trance" of the president's Make America Great Again slogan and leave his army of followers.The Independent
Weissman, an Army veteran with more than 95,000 Twitter followers, wrote that he spent a couple of years defending Trump and calling media critical of the president"fake news," before realizing he"had always been aggressive and mean." Weissman recounted that a liberal comedian, Sarah Silverman, reached out to him after he attacked her online and"used kindness, which was not expected, and she got my attention." Weissman said Silverman told him why she did not like Trump"without any arguments," and that he learned about Democratic values as other liberals communicated kindly with him.
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