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Wounded Bear

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4. This is probably it...

Reply to DavidDvorkin (Reply #1)

Mon Dec 26, 2016, 12:26 PM

Dec 2016

kind of schizophrenic about Boeing, of course, following the AF1 fiasco.

Hard to attribute ulterior motives to Trump, as he so obviously is floundering like a goldfish on a coffee table.

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