As Teen, Byron Donalds Was Mugged at Gunpoint. He’s Now in Congress.

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🗓️ 18 March 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Freshman Rep. Byron Donalds was a businessman before he served in the Florida House of Representatives and now in Congress, where he arrived in January.

Donalds grew up in a single-parent household and says his mom made sacrifices to make the American Dream possible for him.

"Growing up in the inner city, a lot of things happen, unfortunately," Donalds said of his upbringing in Brooklyn, N.Y.

"You get mugged. I was mugged when I was in middle school. I was held up at gunpoint at 16 years old. So now, being in politics and being a grown man, a lot of things just don't really faze me, because just from my experiences growing up in the inner city," he explained.

Donalds joins "The Daily Signal Podcast” to share his story, both personal and political.

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Thursday, March 18.
0:10.0	I'm Jared Steppen.
0:11.5	And I'm Rachel DelJudist.
0:13.2	Congressman Byron Donalds of Florida is a freshman member of Congress who came from a single
0:17.7	parent household.
0:19.2	He joins the Daily Signal Podcast to share his story as well as weigh in on how his home
0:24.2	state of Florida has led the way in opening up in the midst of COVID-19 compared to other
0:30.1	states across the country.
0:32.5	Don't forget, if you're enjoying this podcast, please be sure to leave a review or five-star
0:36.7	rating on Apple podcasts, and encourage others to subscribe.
0:40.6	Now on to our top news.
0:44.9	Eight people have died in three shootings at massage parlors in the Atlanta area.
0:56.3	Police arrested a man identified as 21-year-old Aaron Long of Woodstock, Georgia as a suspect.
1:02.9	Here's what Cherokee County Sheriff's Captain Jay Baker had to say about the suspect in
1:07.9	the three shootings per the recount.
1:10.9	The suspect did take responsibility for the shootings.
1:14.7	He stood that early on once we began the interviews with him.
1:19.1	He claims that these, and as the chief said, Woodstock is still early, but he does claim
1:23.5	that it was not racially motivated.
1:26.1	He apparently has an issue, what he considers a sick fiction and sees these locations as
1:32.7	something that allows him to go to these places and it's a temptation for him that he wanted
1:39.1	to eliminate.
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