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Old Feb 28, 2017 | 3:32 pm
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Originally Posted by Loren Pechtel
That would only make sense if the people were for some reason flagged, not something I think Trump would be stupid enough to do.
I doubt that for this purpose she was flagged down prior to flying to the US. That said, I wouldn't take that as a sign of competency one way or the other when it comes to the chief cheerleader of "extreme vetting" and the EO ban that got stopped by the courts. Nor would I take it as a sign that passengers aren't being hassled due to perceived affiliations of some sort, even when the affiliations are nothing illegal.
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