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Don’t trust pitchman Trump

Donald Trump has had amazing success in the current political polls.

It took me a few minutes of web search to come up with this definition: “Pitchman; an aggressive salesman who uses a fast line of talk to sell something.” That’s him! But he’s more than that. He’s a superb pitchman, the best of the best.

Would you trust your financial future, your retirement funds, to a pitchman? Lots of people have, too often with disastrous results.

We cannot trust our nation’s future to a pitchman like Mr. Trump, who handles every question with another sales pitch.

Henry D. Friedman, Sanger

This story was originally published September 11, 2015 at 3:14 PM with the headline "Don’t trust pitchman Trump."

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