It was all right there, right from the beginning. The insults. The exaggerations. The braggadocio. The casual racism. The empty promises.
It was all right there if you care to revisit that moment, 10 years ago, when game show host Donald J. Trump announced his run for president of the United States by descending a dingy Trump Tower escalator under a sign that read “currency exchange.”
“Wow. That is some group of people,” he said surveying the small throng of journalists and paid attendees, his first words to the American people as a candidate for the highest office in the land. “Thousands.”
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