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Extra, Extra: How Many Failed Businesses Has Donald Trump Started?
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Ben Yakas
Published Oct 10, 2016
Modified Oct 10, 2016
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- CBS sees a deeper meaning in a fly that landed on Hillary Clinton’s face during the debate.
- A very dumb top RNC official doesn't know whether grabbing someone's private parts constitutes sexual assault.
- Extra Crispy documents the history of the Twitter egg.
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg has little patience for Colin Kaepernick's protest.
- Donald Trump has started a lot of businesses—and a whole lot of them have failed.
- What do directors do when porn stars fart on set?
- Warren Buffet is not impressed by Trump's so-called tax expertise.
- Fraggle Rock is coming to HBO.
- There's a new Randy Newman song all about Putin.
- Anti-Columbus Day activists protested the gold Guggenheim toilet.
- This GOP leader from Kansas pushed CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin to the brink on insanity.
- And finally, this is the most patient French bulldog in the world:
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