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What Plantation Is Jim DeMint Living On?
Rad-Con
Jim DeMint’s ludicrous claim about who ended slavery in America is just his latest effort to destroy the federal government—past or present.
Michael Tomasky
Special Correspondent
Published
Apr. 11 2014
5:45AM EDT
The Daily Beast
Michael Tomasky
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