Everybody who stands against Donald Trump are the people who’ve been running this country into the ground. They’re the people who’ve been controlling the levers of power. They’re the people who are responsible for our open border, for our shrinking middle class, for our terrible trade deals. Everything that is wrong with this country today, the people opposing Donald J. Trump are responsible for.
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Remarks at a rally in Dallas, TX; reported in Noah Bierman and Brian Bennett, "Elite Republicans tried to ignore them. Now they’re shaping Donald Trump’s immigration policy", Los Angeles Times (July 4, 2016)
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