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Trump on McConnell: We’re ‘Closer Than Ever Before’

By Thomas McKinless
Posted October 16, 2017 at 7:16pm

By Thomas McKinless

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Shortly after a lunch together at the White House on Monday, President Donald Trump said he and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are “closer now than ever.” McConnell has “been a friend of mine for a long time,” Trump told reporters during a news briefing in the Rose Garden.

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