For Trump, speaking at a VFW convention is no different from a political rally
by Eli Stokols, Los Angeles Times
Jul 24, 2018
4 minutes
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - President Donald Trump praised the country's veterans and active military in a speech Tuesday to the annual Veterans of Foreign Wars convention, but spent much of his 54 minutes on stage as if it were one of his political rallies - promoting himself and other Republicans and attacking Democrats and the media.
Though the convention center was half-empty, Trump clearly relished the applause from a friendly crowd estimated at about 4,000 veterans and spouses. And though it was ostensibly a nonpolitical event, right from the start he began hitting many of the applause lines familiar from his
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