Timothy L. O'Brien, Columnist

Will a President Trump Still Be the King of Debt?

While he has flip-flopped on lots of policy positions, his thinking on one issue has remained constant.

May 11, 2016 at 5:00 AM EDT

Timothy L. O'Brien is senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion. A former editor and reporter for the New York Times, he is author of “TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald.”

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The presumptive Republican nominee for president has spent the last several days scrambling to clarify his self-contradictory statements on everything from tax reform and the minimum wage to interest rates and the national debt.

“I am allowed to change,” Donald Trump told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos when queried about some of this flip-flopping.

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