The Battle Royale Presently Being Played Out Globally...*PART ONE: Speech Preliminaries - Or, Rather, Preconceptions/Pre-judgments

Apparently large swathes of worldwide, or at least U K, observers, had already made up their minds prior (to the big speech from Oprah Winfrey's L A-based interview)...

Never a good thing, I'd have to say, though in the case of (one-time) close associates and loved ones an inescapable, unavoidable reality one would have to concede... 

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