Berlusconi’s political stand-up comedy routine was hugely influential but the joke isn’t funny any moreAileen Deeter, who is from Dublin but lives in Shawnee, Kansas, has been in the USA since 1991 and in 2016 told The Irish Times she voted for Trump on economic grounds.By 2018, she said she wished she had ignored both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and should probably have scribbled in the name of Clinton’s Democratic rival Bernie Sanders on her ballot.
“It is not just the great American empire under attack; it is happening everywhere, in your country too,” she said. That view holds firm following Trump’s indictment and says many people believe the US justice system “is on trial too”. Hickie is critical of Trump’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and level of support for Ukraine. But he returns to the issue of the US economy and says he may well vote for Trump again.Derry Connolly, who is from Leap, in west Cork, moved to the United States in 1977 and became a citizen in 1985. The 67-year-old lives in San Diego, California.This week, he said: “My reading of the tea leaves is that confidence in the Biden administration, the justice system, and big media continues to plummet.
But the controversy is not affecting support for Mr Trump in Florida where he appeared in court this week. “My gut feeling is that it is not going to be Trump. The party will get somebody else. It is the same with the Democrats. They don’t want Biden. They are just afraid of Kamala [Harris, the US vice president] who is incompetent and incapable.”