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Trump, say, near ground interrupted by people (10)

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I believe the answer is:

republican

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'trump' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't see how one could define the other.

'near ground interrupted by people' is the wordplay.
'ground' is an anagram indicator ('grind' the letters into a new form).
'interrupted by' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'people' becomes 'public' ().
'near' anagrammed gives 'rean'.
'rean' placed around 'public' is 'REPUBLICAN'.

'say' is the link.

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(Other definitions for republican that I've seen before include "American in party" , "in foreign party" , "American politician" , "Eg Lincoln" , "Member of US political party" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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