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The Rank Hypocrisy of Trump’s Ebola Tweets

Five years ago, the doctor Kent Brantly was evacuated back to the U.S. after being infected with Ebola—against the wishes of the man who is now president.
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Yesterday, while attacking the “LameStream Media,” praising his “pupil” Steve Bannon and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, and seemingly gloating about the robbery of Representative Elijah Cummings’s house, Donald Trump—the president of the United States—also took a moment to retweet a kind note about Kent Brantly, a doctor who was evacuated back to the United States five years ago after contracting Ebola while fighting the record-breaking West African epidemic. On the surface, it was one of the more innocuous things the president did in the past 24 hours. But for those who remember the reaction to the West African.

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