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"He aggrandizes himself, slanders Navalny, and compares his lifelong criminality and the US justice system with dictator Putin's persecution of political opposition."

With Iowa fully in the rearview mirror, expect to hear a variation on the phrase “Iowa picks corn, New Hampshire picks presidents,” a favorite local slogan that aggrandizes the state’s role in the nominating process.

"I felt that it was taking advantage of people's pro-life, pro-choice perspectives and aggrandizing them," she said.

He said agencies have aggrandized too much power to themselves when they seek to be both prosecutor and judge, through what’s known as administrative law judges.

No one in 1787 could have foreseen Trump, but history had taught the founders about the type: men of “perverted ambition” who “hope to aggrandize themselves by the confusions of their country.”