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Television, from the second he came down the escalator, to say that he could be a big factor in the race. I was amongst the first people, if not the first to say he could win the nomination, was winning the nomination and that he would win the nomination. I was working as an 3/

Analyst for @MSNBC at the time of the invitation and I wanted to take his measure. Looking backwards from this moment of tragedy and with a full understanding of his depravity, ignorance and incompetence, it is hard to remember a time when there ever could have been any doubt. 4/

When I met Trump he was well on his way to the nomination and Kushner’s narrative was that Trump was playing a role to win the nomination and that everybody would see the “real man “ when he became the nominee. I was dubious but curious. For sure I have a personality that if 5/

A UFO landed in Central Park and I was invited to go on, it I would.That is the fundamental reason I took the meeting. Not in a million years would I ever work for Trump. At the time I joked to friends, not for a billion dollars, a lifetime supply of Trump steaks and a PHD from 6

Trump University. My statements and condemnations of this vile man have been consistent throughout the 2016 campaign until now. I condemned him for the first time in 2012 as “the head clown in the republican clown car” over his racist birther conspiracy theories. @wolfblitzer

Asked him about it on the @CNNSitRoom on @Cnn at that time. Trump called me a loser. My antagonism towards him is long standing. Last week @ebonybowden wrote a hit piece which said I didn’t vote in 2016 and 2018. I did. I supplied the appropriate proof and she refused to

Correct the record. I called her out on that. She is dishonest, lazy and a Trump propagandist. FDR once asked to be judged by his enemies. Mine seem to be good friends with Ms. Bowden. After she refused to correct the record she posted a self pitying tweet proclaiming herself

A victim of bullying. Let’s examine who rallied to her defense. Who locked arms with @ebonybowden? There was Mike Cernovich, author of the Pizza Gate conspiracy, a Rape advocate and a regular host of the Alex Jones show. Jones of course is the conspiracy theorist who denies