How Kansas became col­lat­er­al dam­age in Trump’s Cana­di­an trade war — and threw the local GOP for a loop

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How Kansas became collateral damage in Trump’s Canadian trade war — and threw the local GOP for a loop

WICHITA, Kansas — When Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump slammed Bom­bardier and urged a boy­cott of the Cana­di­an company’s planes, it threw the 1,500 peo­ple work­ing at its Amer­i­can head­quar­ters into uproar.
“It was all any­one could think about for days,” said one employ­ee in the park­ing lot out­side its Wichi­ta hangars. “There isn’t a per­son in this city who isn’t con­nect­ed to avi­a­tion in some way. How could he diss some­thing so impor­tant?”

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