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I never wrote off [Donald] Trump.
Chris Matthews
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Chris Matthews
Age: 78
Born: 1945
Born: December 17
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I thought, giving Jeb Bush the benefit of the doubt all these years, that he was sitting, saying, what a numbnut, what an idiot. My brother's a fool. He's listening to these neocons that talked him into this war. Dad would have never done this.
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