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You can take away Trump’s iPhone, but you couldn’t take away the nuclear codes

By Timothy P. Carney
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You can take away Trump’s iPhone, but you couldn’t take away the nuclear codes

At 3:20 a.m., Donald Trump began tweeting.

He was using all-caps and exclamation points. Before the sun came up he had already sunk to name-calling against former beauty queen Alicia Machado, adding an interesting flourish, “Did Crooked Hillary help disgusting (check out sex tape and past) Alicia M become a U.S. citizen so she could use her in the debate?”

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