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July 25: On Monday night, President Donald Trump jetted to West Virginia to address the annual Boy Scout Jamboree. ... The Charleston Gazette estimated 40,000 people in the crowd
Trump ranged from the current health care bill to stories of a bygone time in New York history to his Electoral College victory in 2016.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/25/politics/donald-trump-boy-scouts-speech/index.html

July 27: Over the course of the speech, Trump threatened to fire his Health and Human Services secretary, repeatedly bragged about his win in the election last year and the size of the crowd, and went on a tangent about a wealthy man who “got bored with his life of yachts and sailing,” “lost all of his money,” and later ran into Trump at a cocktail party with “the hottest people in New York.”

“It was very sad,” Trump told the kids.

Trump also suggested that the children in the crowd had voted for him in the election when most of them would not have been eligible.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/27/boy-scouts-apologizes-for-trump-speech-241036
 

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July 27: A leader of the Boy Scouts of America apologized Thursday for a speech that President Trump gave to thousands of teenage Scouts earlier this week — in which Trump broke with the Scouts’ earnest traditions by criticizing his political opponents, recounting his election victory and talking about parties on yachts.

“I want to extend my sincere apologies to those in our Scouting family who were offended by the political rhetoric that was inserted into the jamboree. That was never our intent,” Michael Surbaugh, whose title is chief Scout executive, wrote in a message posted online.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/boy-scouts-leader-apologizes-for-trump-speechs-political-rhetoric/2017/07/27/374fefd4-72f4-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html?utm_term=.693b7d1d9d3d

July 27: White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders [said about the president's speech]: “I was at that event and I saw nothing but roughly 40 to 45,000 Boy Scouts cheering the president on throughout his remarks ...”
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/344178-white-house-declines-to-apologize-to-boy-scouts

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