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Obama says Trump is capitalizing on resentment

During a speech at the University of Illinois, former President Barack Obama spoke about the current political climate and President Trump. He said powerful forces are fearful of change and called his successor a "symptom, not the cause," of this phenomenon. He went on to say Mr. Trump is "just capitalizing on resentments that politicians have been fanning for years."
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