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Your support makes all the difference.Scuffles broke out after protesters waving an “Immigrants Built America” banner disrupted Donald Trump’s latest rally, where he continued his racist attacks on congressman Eljiah Cummings, the City of Baltimore, and "the squad".
The demonstrators held up the US president’s speech for nearly four minutes before they were kicked out of the event in Cincinnati, Ohio. But, the moment was only blip in the president's campaign rally where he offered up a flawed understanding of American immigration policy, trashed the idea of an independent judiciary, and slammed California for having homeless people and poverty.
Mr Trump, who appeared to make an obscene gesture as they left, also promised to cure childhood cancer, mocked FBI investigator Robert Mueller and boasted about the trade war with China – despite warnings from one of his former advisors, Gary Cohn, that it is damaging the US economy.
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Just before the president started speaking, he posted two tweets about Congressman John Ratcliffe pulling out of the run to become the next Director of National Intelligence:
After comments from Donald Trump and various agricultural representatives, the US has agreed to sell more beef to the EU.
As Donald Trump was leaving the room a reporter called out to him asking whether he had asked John Ratcliffe to drop out. The president did not answer.
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