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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Justin Rohrlich

Trump grumbles about Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize — and claims he deserved it more

Donald Trump can’t stop obsessing about his own snub - (AFP via Getty Images)

With 11 days to go until Election Day, Donald Trump can’t stop obsessing about former President Barack Obama having been awarded a Nobel Prize in 2009, a little more than eight months after taking office.

At a campaign stop in Las Vegas on Thursday, the former president bombarded the audience with false claims about, among other things, hordes of undocumented “animals” entering the United States, widespread voter fraud, and the size of the crowd there to see him at the UNLV Thomas & Mack Center, insisting there were 29,000 people inside the 19,522-capacity arena. (Earlier this week, Trump claimed 29,000 people had turned out to watch him briefly work a McDonald’s drive-thru window in a Pennsylvania town with a total population of 24,657.)

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