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Trump stole "Make America Great Again" from Reagan
If we’re talking about aggravated theft of speech lines, the crime wave did not just begin.
The current outbreak of Trump-related larceny began Nov. 19, 2012, two weeks after President Barack Obama was re-elected by 5 million votes.
On paperwork filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, an attorney for Donald Trump reserved a name for a political action committee: “Make America Great Again.”
Nobody noticed. But the slogan of President Ronald Reagan’s come-from-behind 1980 victory campaign became the personal property of a New York developer in only his third year back in the Republican Party.
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/bud-kennedy/article90636182.html#storylink=cpy
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