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'Never in history': Ex-Trump official says president just hit a dark new milestone

A former Donald Trump official argued that President Donald Trump has done something no president has done before by making corruption the top issue in an American election. “Never in the history of modern polling has ‘corruption’ been the leading issue in an American election,” wrote former Homeland Security staffer Miles Taylor in his Defiance…

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Raw Story· Oct 16, 3:34 PM'Never in history': Ex-Trump official says president just hit a dark new milestone

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