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Donald Trump's Great Escape

On Saturday, the president slipped away from the doubters in Washington to address a Florida crowd filled with loyal supporters.
Source: Kevin Lamarque / Reuters

MELBOURNE, Fla.—After four miserable weeks of being locked up in presidential prison—starved of affection, suffocated by bureaucracy, tormented by the press—Donald Trump made a break for it Saturday.

Touching down just before sunset here in the , the president was greeted as he emerged from Air Force One by an adoring crowd of 9,000 super-fans, many of whom had stood in line for hours to see him speak. Trump

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