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That Time Trump Violated the Boy Scout Oath

This was at the same jamboree where Trump told thousands of teenage boys about a hot New York party.
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Editor’s Note: This article is one of 50 in a series about Trump's first two years as president.

On July 24, 2017, President Donald Trump looked out at a crowd of tens of thousands of Boy Scouts, gathered for their quadrennial jamboree, and told them how glad he was to leave the partisan warfare of Washington

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