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in a tumultuous White House he holds a
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record in the summer of 2017 Anthony
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scare Moochie served as communications
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director for just 11 days today the
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hedge fund founder is back in finance
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still a media fixture and says he's
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still friends with the president he's
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also the author of a new book about
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their relationship Trump the blue collar
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president Anthony Scarah Moochie good
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morning to you can I call you mooch
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that's what everybody's causing you know
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you can call me mooch yeah nobody calls
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me Tony for some reason but you can call
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me Tony let's talk about your book it's
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called the blue collar president and it
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partly tells your story which is a true
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blue-collar upbringing and you went to
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college you went to Harvard Law but you
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really brought yourself up how do you
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call the president of blue collar
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president in what wings he definitely
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did not have the same upbringing well
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yeah no he's like a golden toilet and
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stuff like that yeah it's great but I I
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sort of wanted to call it that because
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of the relationship that he has with
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blue-collar people and so when you think
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about my family you know my brother and
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I went to college but most of my cousins
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frankly of my generation did not go to
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college and they all loved the guy and
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so why do you think that why did they
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cuz he's not of them you know he got a
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million dollar loan from his dad but
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they really feel he carries their torch
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they they do they feel very very
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connected to him and what I've tried to
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explain to people is that when he won
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the Republican Party nomination he
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actually hijacked the base of the
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Democratic Party which was a traditional
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blue-collar or union based constituency
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he pulled them over Savannah and so I
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try to relate to as to why he did that
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from my personal life experience you
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know just growing up in the neighborhood
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I grew up in where nobody in our
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neighborhood went to college you know my
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dad started out as an hourly worker you
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know and and so my story I try to
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intersect with what's going on in
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America today and explain why the
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president got 63 million votes when a
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lot of pundits were not expecting it
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you're a big fan of the president you of
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course had a kind of notorious 11 day
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reign as communications director thank
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you for saying 11 days you know Chuck
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almost said 10 yesterday for my fear
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what the 11th day with us count every
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minute well if you get hired on the 21st
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and you're fired on the 31st but you
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work all those days it is 11 your book
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is very colorful I in fact I don't
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you a quote but I can't even do the
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whole thing but you said when my
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colleagues and Finance asked me what it
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was like working in Washington I tell
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them to imagine the worst most
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maniacally ruthless person they ever
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worked with in business the kind of guy
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who would screw you over burn your house
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down rob you blind if it meant he would
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get ahead that person I tell them would
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be an Eagle Scout in Washington DC I
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didn't like Washington I I think that is
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like a very dishonest group of people I
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know if you saw the president on 60
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minutes the other night but he thought
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like the real estate people here in New
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York were killers until he went down to
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Washington he said those people are like
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a bunch of babies Wow comparatively it's
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just it's just a very different
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environment down there you gave as good
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as you got though I mean you got in
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trouble for giving a pretty tough
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interview I thought was off the record
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where you you know had some no I didn't
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do swear I didn't I didn't give as good
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as I got because I didn't really see it
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coming in many ways the you know very
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candid I was naive to the process I
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didn't understand the subterfuge and the
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backstabbing and the way people leaked
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on each other and stuff like that it's
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totally fine but I mean it's happening
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you did get in trouble for talking to a
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reporter to bad-mouth your colleague
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okay but hold on a second I would have
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badmouth that guy right to his face I
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don't think that's a good distinction so
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okay the person I was talking about he
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knew exactly how I felt about him so I'm
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not one of those guys that like says
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loudly Dowd nice things of somebody's
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face and then picks up a phone and call
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somebody and says something differently
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that goes on on Washington all-time and
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Savannah that's the main reason why the
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American people have a real strong
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distaste for washing no question about
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it you are still friends with the
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president you're a fan of his yeah I'm a
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big supporter of the president's I like
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the president a lot what do you think
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she wrote that surprised me was that you
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think he has a thick skin and I thought
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of all the things you could say about
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the president that's a surprising one
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because he's always talking about how
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the media is not nice to him and
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everything seems to get under his skin
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it seems like the exact opposite so so
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I'm really trying to relate that to
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people I think he has a skin like an
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armadillo what he doesn't like is when
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people are attacking him he learned 40
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or 50 years ago to hit back very hard
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that's not a thick skin a thick skin is
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like it was off me and I got on with my
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business not take every insult no it's
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not it's actually a thick skin in the
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following respect he doesn't really care
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what you're saying about him he just
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feels if you're hitting him he's gonna
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punish you by hitting you back
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act like 10 times harder so if he cared
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what he people said about him there's no
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way he would be President I mean one of
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the things you learn about yeah when you
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go through this grueling situation
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behind you here when you go through this
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you either recognize that you can take
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it or you can't take it so president
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doesn't have a glass jaw I think he has
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a very thick skin otherwise he wouldn't
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be the president friend you're very
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straightforward in the book you say
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where there are times you've disagreed
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with him so I want to leave you with a
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question you've got to tell me the truth
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do you think the president has a problem
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telling the truth do you think he often
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lies or misleads knowingly well I mean
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look I have examples okay you can give
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the examples what I mean I think that
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the the best thing about him is that he
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he gets the themes right he is
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definitely saying things let me let me
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finish I'm not gonna spend you I know
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yeah okay I don't need to spend you okay
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you read the book very directly I tell
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you what I like and dislike he
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definitely has a reality distortion
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field around himself where he curves
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facts towards himself and sounds like
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for he's not telling the truth fancy
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talk he's just that that's the truth
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that's what he does he's living in that
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bubble and he has a tendency to you know
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listen there's a my grandfather had a
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great life why would you let the truth
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get in the way of a really good story
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okay and the president is a lot like
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that I can see the frustration because
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when you're talking about the thing that
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matters you know for well you know what
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we have to trust his word yeah and I
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think that when he's serious and he's in
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super serious mode and he's not in like
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reality mode when he's in super serious
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mode I mean you can see when he's
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speaking with great clarity and you can
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also see when he's toggled on to like
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entertainment mode and he's trying to
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rally a crowd or he's trying to bring
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people towards him he probably turns on
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the reality distortion field but but I
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think if you're making the point that he
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tells some fibs I think most people in
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Washington do you know when a politician
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is lying about that might win their
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mouth okay so that's what it's like you
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and your 11 days in Washington you learn
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some other things I gotta I got a PhD
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and had to get beaten up brutally in the
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press and survived I'm sort of like
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mayhem from the Allstate commercial okay
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I can take it well Anthony skerin would
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you thank you so much the book is
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colorfully written it's called Trump the
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blue collar president go to today.com
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slash shop if you want to check it out
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