He didn't invent this practice and he's not alone this time either. If you don't listen to all of these candidates on both sides, you'd miss that. For some reason, what Trump does or says is the automatic "topic du jour" among the major news markets. If Americans are being "played" by the Donald, those cards are being "trumped" by the news media. Their desire is to control both candidate and voter.

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