There were a couple of encouraging signs in Donald Trump’s second thank-you speech to supporters in Fayetteville, N.C. Dec. 6 following his kick-off address in Cincinnati four days earlier. They started with the fact that this one lasted just over a half-hour after he seemed to pay an unacknowledged homage to Fidel Castro by rambling on for 2½ hours worth of self-promotion, half-truths and outright lies in Ohio.
He actually gave a couple of minutes of the time to his nominee for Defense Secretary, retired Gen. James Mattis, one of his few Cabinet choices who gets approving nods across party lines. Mr. Trump dialed back his media-bashing, and shortened up his happy recap of the unexpected Election Night victories over Hillary Clinton in battleground states that in Cincinnati had reignited chants of “Lock Her Up.” He also opted not to repeat the nonsense that he would have whomped her in the popular vote as well as the Electoral College if millions of undocumented voters hadn’t snuck past the borders of polling places from New York to California.
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