Just on the level of basic competence, we haven't seen any evidence at any point that there's anyone in Trump's White House who has the ability to write the speech he just gave.
My gut tells me that the speech was handed to him from outside the WH pretty much as we saw it, and he was given an ultimatum: read it or else.
Folks are asking who I think wrote it and what the "or else" was. The obvious answers are "McConnell's writing staff" and "he gets barred from running in 2024," but I have no specific insight.
It definitely has the feel of a speech written by a competent professional speechwriter, and—at least on a first listen—I didn't hear any patches that would suggest his own people reworked specific sections. It felt (with maybe one exception at the end) like a coherent whole.
And as for whether it was written by lawyers, the obvious rejoinder to that is that Trump's lawyers all suck and are bad at their jobs. None of them wrote that.
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