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Hello and welcome to trumpcast I'm Virginia Heffernan.

On this show we have heard from hundreds of people who've been harassed by Trump and Trumpites.

They've been sent rape imagery, gas chamber imagery, lynching imagery, simply for being critical of the president.

I've had a glimpse of this myself periodically.

Trumpites don't listen to this show as far as I know, but at times

when they haven't liked a tweet of mine or a column, they raked me over

their Maga Coles and Brightbarn or Daily Coller or RT that's Russia today has in the past rolled in to finish the job.

I get on lists called brain damage and trumped arrangement syndrome and of course more on Lib.

You know how you used to have seared in your brain every cruel thing anyone ever said about you and that doesn't happen after

these trolling jamborees? I actually can't remember the words anymore they blur together. But I know that during

the Trumpite attacks there are really dark days and you become hyper-vigilant when all that language is coming at you like

sniper fire or napalm from people who keep telling you how much they want to

hurt your children and how many guns they have. But that kind of trolling is nothing compared to

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