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Good Thursday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing.

And I'm Jake Sherman on Wednesday. We made the argument that the Democratic Convention was being conducted in abstraction.

The speakers attempting to will their political wishes to reality.

But in the last 24 hours, President Donald Trump

has given real-time illustration to many of the dynamics Democrats are trying to bring to light

for the American public. Bill Clinton said Tuesday night, if you want a president who defines the

job as spending hours a day watching TV and zapping people on social media, he's your man.

And on Wednesday night, Trump tweeted about a conversation on Fox News and then spent the 10

and 11 p.m. hour tweeting about Barack Obama and Kamala Harris's speeches in all caps.

Trump tweeted in all caps at 1033 p.m. He spied on my campaign and got caught at 1040.

Why did he refuse to endorse Slow Joe until it was all over and even

then was very late? Why did he try to get him not to run? And at 11.17 p.m., but didn't she call him a

racist? Didn't she say he was incompetent? And hours before Obama said, Donald Trump hasn't grown into the job because he can't,

the president embraced the loony and dangerous QAnon conspiracy,

a theory that there are a group of pedophiles who worship Satan that control the world.

This is the same group that believes comet ping pong on Connecticut Avenue is a

sex trafficking venue, not a beer and pizza shop in a well-off neighborhood. The FBI has said it's a

domestic terrorism threat. Well, I don't know much about the movement other than I understand they

like me very much, which I appreciate, Trump said from the White House podium. Today, the president

will travel to Pennsylvania ahead of the Biden speech. The AP has a look at how

Trump is trolling Biden. Kamala Harris last night made history as she became the first woman of color

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