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Deminpenn

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22. IIRC, the invitation to meet was scheduled

Reply to rpannier (Reply #21)

Mon Aug 16, 2021, 05:52 AM

Aug 2021

on or near the anniversay of 9/11. It was cancelled because the "optics" would have been awful. Of course Trump didn't notice or care about the date since it was all designed around his insatiable ego, but lucky for him, his advisors did.

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IIRC, the invitation to meet was scheduled Deminpenn Aug 2021 #22

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