Trump’s gratuitously political Boy Scouts speech, annotated

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    President Trump has been in rare form in recent days — most notably attacking his own attorney general and repeatedly lashing out on Twitter. But on Monday evening, he did something that was more subtly controversial and strange: He delivered a highly political speech at the National Scout Jamboree in West Virginia. Appearing in front of a group of Boy Scouts, Trump turned it into something akin to a campaign rally, complete with attacks on Hillary Clinton and the media, a push for the GOP health-care bill, and even another apparent swipe at Jeff Sessions.

    It was unlike anything we've seen from a president in 80 years of them giving speeches to the Boy Scouts.

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