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On the recordSeptember 21, 2016
I learned a long time ago here in the Senate that the rules of the Senate do not allow pictures, graphs, and things of that nature to go in the Congressional Record, and that is really too bad. I wish I had the time this morning--I read the paper this morning--to blow up this cartoon by the syndicated cartoonist of the Washington Post, Tom Toles. I have talked to him a couple of times over the past many decades because he is really good, and today's cartoon is about as good as it gets. This is a picture that Tom Toles sketched of Donald Trump. I would like everyone to take a look at it. I wish I could put it in the Record. It is a cartoon of Donald Trump, and he is saying: ``Maybe we need to start `profiling' huckster haircuts, beady eyes, blowhard lips, unhealthy orange glow, obvious self-dealing''--and he has money pouring out of his pockets--``overweight, underhanded, ever-shifting positions.'' And, as Toles always has in every cartoon, there is a little person down in the bottom generally making some snide remark about the cartoon, and what that little person says today is that there is a ``body of evidence''--the body of Donald Trump, and he is the one who should be profiled, not the people he wants to have profiled. A little more about Donald Trump--Mitt Romney and I agree on one thing, and that is one thing for sure.…
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada
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Sep 21, 2016

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