AP reports Trump made a seemingly conditional Kentucky pledge: a Republican win would bring Defense Department investment to revitalize a drug-manufacturing facility.
Our imaginary industrial planner admires the new requirement. The plant needs power, equipment and an election result agreeable to the man making the promise. It is an unusual production line: the campaign supplies the condition before the government supplies the investment.
The investment is promised. The if is fully operational.
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