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Rating 20 Big Events of the Trump Presidency

February 27, 2017 at 7:21 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

New York Times: “To help us get our bearings, we asked experts across the ideological spectrum — people who have served in government or studied the way governments work — to rate 20 news events for importance and abnormality. More often than not, the administration’s actions have been both highly unusual and highly consequential.”

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