OPINION

It was a bitterly cold morning when we loaded up on the U.S. Secret Service buses before sunrise. I had just finished a speech at Liberty University the night before, and my mom drove me through the night to get to Washington, D.C. just in time for the sunrise.

We were in the final hours of Donld J. Trump’s first term in office as our bus drove through the gates at Joint Base Andrews and dropped us off at the hangar where the nation’s 45th president was soon to arrive.

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