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Trump's monumental heap of trash is enough to get organizers prison time

Trump’s State Fair Was Never About Celebrating AmericaThe Actual Power Behind the SpectacleThe Great American State Fair was sold as a national birthday party. In practice, it reads like another Trump operation: hype first, delivery optional, and failure reframed as an accident of logistics. The central fact is not that the event was messy. It is that power arranged the mess and then asked everyone else to treat the wreckage as an unfortunate surprise.Trump did not merely lend his name to the project. The event was tied to a Trump-created nonprofit, Freedom 250, and linked to contractors and…

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