Hello and welcome to the Bullwork Podcast I'm your host Tim Miller. It's Tuesday June 4th. I'm here with Representative

Richie Torres, Democratic Congressman from the Bronx. He's a former member of the

New York City Council. He was elected to Congress in 2020. I'm pumped to have him here but wanted to do this for a while. How you doing

Congressman? It's an honor to be here, happy pride. Let's do it, happy pride. I've got

some pride questions for you coming down the, coming down the pike here about halfway through but

first I just wanted to talk a little about Donald Trump I don't know if you've heard of

him you grew up in public housing in the Bronx across the street from the site of what was once a garbage dump that then

was developed into a golf course with the Trump's brand name on it and so my

question for you is sometimes do you feel like you're in like a Dickens novel

where there's a buffoonish

greedy villain that is that haunts your entire life? Yes I feel like the

ghost of Donald Trump has been haunting me at every point in my life so as you

said I grew up in a visual tale of two cities.

I grew up in Frogsnet houses, which is a public housing development

right across the street from what was formally Trump golf course.

And I kid you not as the golf course was undergoing construction,

it unleashed a skunk infestation.

So I tell people I've been smelling the stench of Donald Trump long before he became president.

And then the ghost haunted me when I became a member of Congress.

If someone had said to a 50 year old version of myself,

you know, Richard, you're going to become a member of Congress

during a global pandemic and witness an insurrection against the US capital and then vote to impeach the

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