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Bill Wyman

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113 total appearances

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

They live in a very, they're rich, so they live in a very expensive house.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

And the guy broke into the house and went after this 85 or 88 or 83-year-old man with a wrench or something, just beat the bejesus out of him.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

And he was obviously a Trump supporter.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

And Donald Trump's son literally tweeted out very weird jokes about it.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

Like Donald Trump himself was in San Francisco once.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

He was doing a speech and he kind of smirked at the crowd and he goes, how's Nancy Pelosi doing?

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

you know, which was obviously a mocking reference to the tragedy in your family.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

And so you kind of see stuff like that that I think can fairly be laid at the feet of the right wing in America.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

You see a lot of it.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

I have to say, I hope not.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

And it's one of those things where you kind of don't want, you know, hopefully we'll look back at this conversation a year from now and say, OK, boy, that was the last one.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

Right.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

But we're just going to have to see what happens.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

I mean, there's a lot of stridency in American politics right now.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

There's going to be a very consequential midterm election coming up in November, which is what, about six months away now.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

And the interesting thing about that is that.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

Donald Trump is a very strange person.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

He seems to be a very tactical politician and he's not really a strategic politician.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

And so he gets himself into positions where he wants to do things and he basically does them and worries about the consequences later.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

Well, part of the consequences of his tariffs and this ridiculous war with Iran right now