The following day, Trump made his first public appearance. He went to CIA headquarters, stood in front of a wall of stars—a memorial to fallen agents—and lied. He attacked the television networks for reporting on the comparatively low turnout. He claimed that he had drawn a million and a half people (the best available estimate was two hundred and fifty thousand). And he lied about the weather. He said, “God looked down and he said, we’re not going to let it rain on your speech.” A couple of drops fell when he began to speak, Trump said, but “the truth is that it stopped immediately. It was
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