“The fact is I give people what they need and deserve to hear - exactly what they don't get from politicians - and that is The Truth. Our country is a mess right now and we don't have time to pretend otherwise. We don't have time to waste on being politically correct.”

Source: 2010s, 2015, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again (2015), p. 8

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