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His attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris often descend to insults about her identity — that she’s not Black or too Black or in some way not sufficiently American — but mostly they lump her in with the myths so often told about African Americans, essentially that they’re deficient in some way and thus not equal to white citizens.

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Trump would never agree with people he says are destroying America, want to destroy the First Amendment, are communists, murder babies and are mentally deficient.

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Priorities: I would speak to the tenured professors and administrators to see what is deficient and what can be better.

Candice Youngblood, an attorney with the nonprofit environmental law group Earthjustice, which represented the plaintiffs, called the county’s environmental report “deficient.”

“Right now we’re deficient in both our near-term and long-term needs,” he said, but added that his group had a very encouraging meeting with DWP officials this week.

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