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President Trump has already filed for re-election. That's not normal.

January 27, 2017

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President Donald Trump filed for re-election just five hours after he was sworn in as commander-in-chief on Inauguration Day, the Free Beacon's Lachlan Markay discovered Friday:

On the day he was sworn in, Donald Trump filed 2020 reelection paperwork with the FEC https://t.co/AbvyQO56er pic.twitter.com/RTqNyPI03l
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) January 27, 2017

By comparison:

@lachlan is this standard? Do we know when Obama filed for 2012?
— Indigo Traveler (@indigo_traveler) January 27, 2017

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