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UCmeNdc

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Fri Jul 22, 2016, 07:23 AM Jul 2016

That Was A Very Scary Speech Donald Trump Just Gave Fear and loathing in Cleveland.

CLEVELAND ― Be afraid. Be very afraid.

That was the essential message of the Republican National Convention this week and it was the same essential message that Donald Trump conveyed to the American people on Thursday evening, when he formally accepted his party’s nomination for president.

Maybe it isn’t surprising. From the day Trump announced his candidacy, warning about mythical rapists that Mexico was sending across the border, the real estate mogul has been telling people that they and their livelihoods were under siege ― from undocumented immigrants, global corporations, Muslim terrorists, elitist liberals, and criminals shooting cops.

He hit all of those themes in his speech Thursday and he hit them hard ― so hard, in fact, that he barely had time for anything else. The speech was long, even by convention speech standards. According to C-Span, it was the longest since 1972, eclipsing even Bill Clinton’s marathon in 1996.

Despite all that time, Trump gave almost no attention to other issues.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-acceptance-rnc-fear_us_5791a634e4b0fc06ec5c83e9

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That Was A Very Scary Speech Donald Trump Just Gave Fear and loathing in Cleveland. (Original Post) UCmeNdc Jul 2016 OP
Too bad Hunter S Thompson is deceased SheriffBob Jul 2016 #1
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