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Back in March, Alvaro Badoia was at an after-school event for his daughter when he received some life-changing news.

It was a Tuesday, and I just left work, and I had arrived at my daughter's gymnastics class.

And, you know, a lot of the parents at these classes sit there and they take care of email

or take a call.

But my daughter actually gets really annoyed when I do that.

And so I was very deliberately not looking at my phone.

And then I got a call from Commissioner Slaughter, Rebecca Slaughter.

Badoia and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter were colleagues, serving as members of the Federal Trade Commission,

which enforces U.S. antitrust and consumer protection laws.

They were the only two Democrats serving on the commission at the time.

She said, well, there is an email from the White House in my email saying that they are

firing me, effective immediately.

So I checked my email and sure enough, there it was.

The email was from someone in U.S. President Donald Trump's administration.

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