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The Blue Dawg & Bob

It was great to be the guest of Ron Roberts, host of The Blue Dawg, on his program the other night, where we talked heavy duty politics and about our book, Hijacked Nation, Donald Trump's Attack on America's Greatness.

(Listen to the Podcast)

Ron's a former radio personality in Charleston, SC and then Atlanta, and now among his other ventures, he hosts a great show that's growing in popularity.

Ron asked me if the coronavirus pandemic had not occurred, did I think Donald Trump would be reelected. I told him I thought it would be a close race, that legions of people support him, some secretly, because they harbor the racial animosity that he continues to express nearly daily.

As the conversation turned to Hijacked Nation, I gave his audience some background as to how Not Fake News was started three years ago this month because of my disgust with Trump's constant bad mouthing of the legitimate news media. We now have published more than 1,100 blogs and have readers worldwide.

It is hundreds of blogs from Not Fake News that fill Hijacked Nation, organized in chapters chronologically by topic, so as to provide a virtual play-by-play of the tragedy of the Trump presidency.

At the top of the page is the video from that program. Take a listen.

If you haven't done so yet, I hope you'll check out Hijacked Nation. It's a great pre-election read. And thanks for your support.

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