Trump pardons turkey named Drumstick, doesn’t throw humans a bone

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President Trump pardoned a turkey named Drumstick on Tuesday, offering jokes in the White House Rose Garden while ignoring a question about whether he would also pardon people in celebration of Thanksgiving.

Trump told the well-attended annual meat-industry event that he’s welcomed “a few very strange birds” to the White House in the past 10 months but that “we have yet to receive any visitor like our magnificent guest of honor today, Drumstick.”

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