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Donald Trump Jr.: “Imagine what would happen if we rolled back the clock to 2008 and a conservative director of the FBI and high-up people…”

On the recordDecember 18, 2017
Imagine what would happen if we rolled back the clock to 2008 and a conservative director of the FBI and high-up people in the FBI that were leading on this investigations wrote an e-mail about an insurance policies, the dossier, in the unlikely event that Barack Obama was elected president. What do you think would happen? Do you think the media would cover that? Yes. You would think it would be brush under the rug like, it's nothing, it doesn't mean anything. There would be revolution in the streets.
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Donald Trump Jr.
Republican · Florida

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Donald Trump Jr. discusses perceived media bias and double standards regarding investigations into his father and past political figures.

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