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Trump backflips, backs Export-Import Bank

By Timothy P. Carney
Published April 12, 2017 8:02pm ET
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Trump backflips, backs Export-Import Bank
We knew that Trump is thoroughly impressionable, meaning that when the lobbyists, the bankers, and the special interests got his ear —" and this being the swamp, that was inevitable —" they could probably win him over. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) | Gerald Herbert

We knew Donald Trump wasn’t a conservative. We knew he believed in government picking winners and losers. We knew he had an inordinate infatuation with with exports.

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