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Donald Trump is sounding the same theme he has sounded since May or June of 2015.

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Mark Shields
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 25
Columnist
Writer
Weymouth
Massachusetts
Mark Stephen Shields
Donald
Trump
Since
May
Sounding
Sounded
June
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