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I knew the establishment media was resistant to certain kinds of information, but had no idea how resistant, until I smashed into their wall.
Unwilling to accept defeat, Trump — and all those conditioned to the same denial — could ask one very simple question: How do we know?
Forget the Wall. Trump seems to think we should build him a cross!
“They want to demoralize us.”
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