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WATCH: Donald Trump and “The Snake”
BY PATRICE TADDONIO • OCTOBER 17, 2019
When he took the stage at campaign rallies across the country, presidential hopeful Donald Trump often had a piece of paper in his pocket, ready to go if the moment seemed right.
On it was printed something unlikely: the lyrics to a song written in the 1960s by civil rights activist Oscar Brown Jr. Based on a fable, “The Snake” tells the story of a kind woman who takes an injured snake into her home to nurse him back to health — only to be shocked when she is fatally bitten.
In Trump’s hands, however, Brown’s words were imbued with a new and specific meaning.
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