{"id":107220,"date":"2016-09-19T19:35:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T03:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=107220"},"modified":"2016-09-19T19:35:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T03:35:10","slug":"whos-the-real-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=107220","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s The Real Donald Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/okay-2\/\">Steve Sailer writes<\/a>: Unlike Barack Obama in 2008, for whom we had a vast public record comprised of his hundreds of scholarly and popular articles on all topics imaginable, Donald Trump is a blank screen.<\/p>\n<p>Where did Trump come from? What has he been doing for the last 35 years? What have been his views on the issues of his time? Why hasn\u2019t he shared them with the public? Why haven\u2019t late night comedians ever made any jokes about Trump?<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve only been allowed to see a few carefully scripted and focus tested glimpses of Trump under the most contrived circumstances, in which every single word he allows to escape from his mouth has first been run by teams of marketers, psychologists, and lawyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Sailer writes: Unlike Barack Obama in 2008, for whom we had a vast public record comprised of his hundreds of scholarly and popular articles on all topics imaginable, Donald Trump is a blank screen. 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