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Rich Lowry: Heed Trump’s Warning

One of Donald Trump's political skills is giving widely condemned speeches.

His post-Orlando jeremiad fit the pattern. There is something so inherently inflammatory in Trump's delivery that he could read the Gettysburg Address and some listeners would wonder how he could possibly say such a thing.

The kernel of Trump's speech was rather obvious: "The bottom line is that the only reason the killer was in America in the first place was because we allowed his family to come here. That is a fact, and it's a fact we need to talk about."

The reaction of much of the opinion elite was nearly instantan...

 

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