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Kash Patel's girlfriend mercilessly mocked for 'murdering' National Anthem at Trump's fair
Trump’s Fair, Patel’s Girlfriend, and the Smokescreen of TasteThe DistractionA sparse crowd, a shaky national anthem, and a flood of online ridicule made for easy spectacle at Trump’s Great American State Fair. Alexis Wilkins, Kash Patel’s girlfriend, got mocked as if the real scandal were bad singing. That is the cheap part of the story. The expensive part is who got to stage the event, who benefits from it, and how public money is being routed around in the name of patriotic branding.Who Actually Has PowerThe people with power here are not the commenters, and not the singer. Trump is the…
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