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In his paperwork, Jackson included a transcript of what he said was a conversation between himself and Palmer’s mother, Sharon, where she berated him with homophobic insults.

Trump has long displayed adversarial and flippant views of the U.S. intelligence community, flouted safeguards over classified information and directly berated the law enforcement agencies like the FBI.

His mother berated him for leaving school with a poorly defined plan.

Luch berated herself for not having thought to test the boy a day earlier, when she might have saved him if she had treated him for influenza.

His seemingly bulletproof confidence, his child-like grin as he berated and joked with strikers.