Here’s my year in review! The year started off with Donald Trump knocking off his opponents one by one, in a big Republican field.
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Trump attacked his fiercest rival, Ted Cruz, for being born in Canada, arguing that he was not “native born” and constitutionally ineligible to be president.
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Trump had a famous, short-lived feud with Fox News host Megyn Kelly, which led him to boycott a presidential debate that was sponsored by Fox News. Trump’s absence seemed to amount to a victory for him.
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Bernie Sanders started out strong and threatened to steal the Democratic nomination from Hillary Clinton.
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The Democratic establishment couldn’t grasp why young women voters rejected Hillary and flocked to Bernie.
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Bernie hung on until the end – Hillary just couldn’t put him away.
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Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia died, and the Republicans would not allow a vote for Obama’s nominee for nine months, in the hope that a Republican would win the election.
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The terrible Zika virus spread north from South America.
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Ted Cruz and John Kasich tried teaming up for a last ditch effort to derail Trump. It didn’t work.
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Trump won the Republican party nomination for president – a concept that many Republicans found difficult to accept.
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Trump’s fashion model wife, Melania, gave a speech at the GOP convention that seemed to match a speech by Michelle Obama.
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Trump attacked a Muslim “Gold Star Family” that spoke against him at the Democratic Convention.
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The media was obsessed with Trump, giving him lots of costly air time – but after he won the GOP nomination, the media turned on Trump and Trump’s support surprised all of the pundits.
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Many Republicans couldn’t bring themselves to support their new nominee.
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The Party of Lincoln was horrified.
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“Pay to Play” allegations about the Clinton Foundation stung Hillary.
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In other news, Civil War freedom fighter Harriet Tubman was selected to grace the $20.00 bill, kicking slave plantation owner Andrew Jackson off.
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Great Britain voted for “Brexit” – an exit from the European Union.
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Highly publicized, and unjustifiable police shootings led to attacks on police and nationwide demonstrations.
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Greedy drug companies raised priced and screwed customers.
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The Summer Olympics were dominated by news of the success of the American swim team, and then by news of the American swimmers vandalizing a bathroom and lying about it.
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The Trump vs. Clinton campaign was possible the ugliest presidential contest ever.
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Trump made a surprise visit to meet the president of Mexico – to the horror of Mexicans.
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Trump seemed to be fond of Russia’s Vladimir Putin, as the Russians hacked the Democratic party boosting Trumps campaign by releasing embarrassing emails through their proxy, Wikileaks.
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The race was tight, focusing on swing-states.
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Hate groups endorsed Trump – and I heard from many of them by e-mail.
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Trump accused Hillary of being too sick to be president.
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The presidential debates drew the biggest audiences ever.
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“Access Hollywood” recordings of Trump bragging about sexual assaults dominated the headlines.
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Trump claimed that the election was “rigged” against him, suggesting that he wouldn’t “accept” the election results if Hillary were to win.
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Days before the election, FBI Director James Comey reopened the e-mail investigation of Hillary, an event that Hillary’s supporters believe cost her the election.
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Trump won!
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Half the nation was shocked.
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The election was a Democrat apocalypse.
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Trump’s transition was just as crazy as his campaign, with untraditional cabinet picks of generals and billionaires who seem to defy his promise to “drain the swamp.”
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