Tom Engelhardt | Creating an Empire of Graveyards? At the Circus With Donald Trump




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Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch 
Engelhardt writes: "Who could deny that much of the attention he's received has been based on the absurdity, exaggeration, unsettling clownishness of it all, right down to the zany crew of subsidiary clowns who have helped keep him pumped up and cable newsed in the Oval Office?" 
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