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President Trump is in Chicago ripping into Chicago: "Afghanistan is a safe place by comparison. It's true."
"Bill Barr is doing a fantastic job," Trump tells police chiefs in Chicago; they start to applause, he pauses to encourage them: "Go ahead, let him hear it."
In Chicago, Trump mockingly thanks Obama for leaving him so many judicial openings. "How you allowed that is beyond me!"*

*It's not complicated; Mitch McConnell took over the Senate in 1/2015 and pretty much stopped allowing votes on judges, including for the Supreme Court.
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