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I'm your host, Greg Sergeant. In a reference

reference to the apparent assassination attempt against Donald Trump over the weekend the former president unleashed a long rant on social media blaming it all on Democrats.

He insisted that because of Democratic rhetoric against Trump and Democratic legal attacks

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