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A ‘clown’ who wouldn’t go away: Inside Obama’s team’s blind spot on Trump

Advisers underestimated Trump’s appeal by dismissing his supporters and failing to grasp social media’s role in sustaining his campaign, according to a new oral history.

By LAURIE KELLMAN The Associated Press For eight years, President Barack Obama’s aides marveled that no amount of mockery, dismissal or scandal could make Donald Trump go away. Their bewilderment is threaded through hundreds of interviews with administration officials released Tuesday in a far-reaching oral history of the Obama presidency. Throughout, Obama’s advisers — some of the nation’s most accomplished political and policy experts — descri…

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