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What Donald Trump Sees When He Sees an Asian College Kid’s Face

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Maybe you saw what happened to Joseph Choe, a 20-year old whose parents emigrated from Korea.

Choe is an economics student at Harvard student who knows all about supply and demand.

And when he heard Donald Trump spewing forth untruths about South Korea on the campaign, Choe decided he’d demand the truth from the Donald. Or, at the very least, a correction.

Trump was saying South Korea didn’t pay anything to help in its defense.

Au contraire, said Choe, who knew South Korea pays the U.S. about $860 million.

Cho made it a point to confront Trump at a rally in New Hampshire last week, dubbed the “No Labels Problem Solver” convention.

But all Trump saw were labels.

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