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President says ‘America’s students to be best, brightest and most highly educated in world’ following rulingUS supreme court allows Trump to resume gutting education departmentDonald Trump also reflected on the attempted assassination of him, which the BBC journalist Gary O’Donoghue witnessed at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last July.Speaking to BBC News, he said:We had 55,000 people, and it was dead silence. And so, you know, I assumed that they expected the worst.And so I had to let them know I was OK, which is what I did. That’s why I tried to get up as quick as possible. They had a stretcher ready to go. I said: ‘No, thank you.’I like to think about it as little as possible.I don’t like dwelling on it, because if I did, it might be life changing. I don’t want it to be that.I think they would be, I don’t think a lot of the other countries would be.It’s a special relationship. Look, that’s why I made a deal with them … for the most part in terms of your competitors and in terms of the European Union, I haven’t made a deal.No, I think, I think it’s been on the sloppy side, but I think it’s getting straightened out. I really like the prime minister a lot even though he’s a liberal, I think he’s, you know, he did a good trade deal with us. Continue reading...

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