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Trump’s Child Crusaders

Children are being ‘weaponized’ in support of Donald Trump, says media expert.
A boy wears a Trump mask as supporters rally with Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump in Fletcher, North Carolina, U.S. October 21, 2016.
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Updated | Watch Millie March or Cole McCafferty, both of them age 12, expound to alt-right interviewers about their love of President Donald Trump and the platforms and candidates he endorses (most recently, Millie deployed to Alabama for a cute-if-it-weren’t-so-contextually-creepy interview with Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore), and you’ll notice that they share a cadence in their speech. Both children speak like Trump. And like him, they seem very comfortable in front of the cameras.

Here’s Millie on Trump in a 2017 video interview with Jennifer Lawrence, vice president of the America First Project, a populist-nationalist super PAC: “One of the other reasons I like him is because, and this is my favorite reason: ‘We

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