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Today’s Trump Apocalypse Watch: Zombie Saddam Hussein for Vice President?

The crowd at a Trump event in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Tuesday.

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The Trump Apocalypse Watch is a subjective daily estimate, using a scale of one to four horsemen, of how likely it is that Donald Trump will be elected president, thus triggering an apocalypse in which we all die.

Hey, good news! The Trump campaign says it raised $51 million in June, which, if true, would be a big improvement from the teeny amount it raised in May.

On the other hand, the campaign is “hemorrhaging staff,” keeps having potential Trump running mates announce that they definitely don’t want to be Trump’s running mate, and is still neck-deep in the process of explaining why Trump isn’t an anti-Semite even though he keeps doing things like tweeting out neo-Nazi propaganda images under his own name. Also, last night Trump expressed admiration for Saddam Hussein. Again. Like for the 900th time.

You win some, you lose some!

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