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She set a tone at the very start when she walked right into his space to shake his hand and made him almost pull back into himself in response. She was in charge and never stopped being in charge.
Harris also managed what neither Joe Biden nor Hillary Clinton nor any of the 2016 Republicans managed to do which is successfully bait Donald Trump and get under his skin. Within a few minutes Trump was visibly angry and not in a way that empowered him but in a way that made him lose focus, go down rabbit holes and generally go off onto damaging tangents. Spittle anger, not righteous anger, shall we say.
We don’t really know whether nobody has dominated Donald Trump like that, because we don’t know what Putin says when they talk.
If you ever read what Putin says about Trump, it is clear that, although he sees Treason Trump as a useful stooge, Putin doesn’t have any actual respect for Trump.
Oh man, what I’d give to be a fly on that wall.