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Trump’s New Racist Insult

The former president’s recent attack on Senator Chuck Schumer is like an Everlasting Gobstopper of offense, with new layers emerging one after another.
Source: Meridith Kohut / The New York Times / Redux

Weird things happen on the debate stage—just ask Joe Biden. So when Donald Trump used Palestinian as a slur against the president during last week’s debate, it was hard to know whether the insult was planned or just an ad-lib.

“As far as Israel and Hamas, Israel’s the one that wants to go—he said the only one who wants to

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