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Trump's dirty tricks: Unethical, even illegal campaign tactics are an American tradition

  • Written by Steffen W. Schmidt, Lucken Endowed Professor of Political Science, Iowa State University

Donald Trump pulled some pretty unseemly stunts to win the 2016 United States presidential election.

He threatened to put his opponent, Hillary Clinton, in jail and publicly asked Russia to hack her emails. After Russian operatives did something similar – stealing emails from Democratic National Committee servers – the Trump campaign...

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