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Trump Aides Want Him to Focus on the Economy

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Donald Trump’s aides are in a frantic push to get the 80-year-old president to focus on what matters most to voters because it seems to be the one thing he doesn’t want to talk about. Alyssa Farah Griffin, 37, who served as White House strategic communications director during Trump’s first term, sat down with CNN on Wednesday to discuss how “the president continues to seem extremely distracted.” “White House advisers—I talk to many of them—they simply want him to focus on the economy, yet he will not do that,” she told the network. Read more at The Daily Beast.

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