Trump Listens but Only Hears the NRA




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President Donald Trump arrives to address the National Rifle Association (NRA) Leadership Forum in Atlanta, Georgia on April 28, 2017. (photo: Jim Watson/Getty)
Asawin Suebsaeng and Sam Stein, The Daily Beast
Excerpt: "The call for arming teachers was a page out of the gun lobby’s playbook. And the rest of Trump’s policies ... were the type of glossed up proposals that the NRA has suggested itself in the wake of previous shootings."
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