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Nigeria is in the spotlight, actually Chad,

and you'll recall a few days ago I was talking about how Donald Trump noticed no doubt.

This is speculation on my part but but I think well-founded speculation.

Donald Trump noticed that his political party, the Republicans, had taken the death of four

Americans in Libya, specifically at the Benghazi CIA station that his party had taken the deaths of these four

Americans in Libya and exploited it for political gain in a huge way. I mean in a way that arguably had they not

done that and of course I think it was Trey Gowdy as one of those one of those

Republicans pointed out yeah we're doing this to win

elections you know it's like you know we're going to take down Hillary Clinton you

know not only did they do that but they did it successfully and so Trump is looking at this going okay so you know there

was a screw up while while President Obama was in office and Hillary Clinton was

Secretary of State and screw-ups and and Americans died, and Americans do die

when screw-ups happen sometimes.

And the Republicans use that to basically

destroy the Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton.

So Trump is thinking the Democrats could use

the death of four soldiers in Nigeria

to destroy me, particularly since it appears that the

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