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Axelrod: Trump’s Kennedy Center threat is a ‘distraction’
Donald Trump is using the threat of demolishing the Kennedy Center as a strategic "distraction" to hijack the news cycle. David Axelrod tells Erin Burnett this controversy is a manufactured "party trick" designed to divert public attention away from damaging real news—such as rising prices, tariffs, and trade wars—ahead of the upcoming midterm elections.
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