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Mary Sanchez: The problem isn’t Trump and his tirade about immigrant bloodlines

We’ re told as children that words can’ t harm us. But such adages to the virtues of turning the other cheek never met former President Donald Trump. They are throwing their political support behind the former president, a man who is under four criminal indictments and who goaded a mob into a violent riot at the U.S. Capitol.

We’re told as children that words can’t harm us. That it’s important to know your worth and that those who sling verbal arrows are the lesser persons for doing so.

There’s even a rhyme to this notion, instilled in most American children in elementary school:

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words shall never hurt me.”

But such adages to the virtues of turning the other cheek never met former President Donald Trump. Moreover, such a sentiment doesn’t account for the

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