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It\\u2019s the first night of the Republican National Convention and Rick Wilson and Molly Jong-Fast are joined by Miles Taylor, the former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, who shares eye-watering tales of what Trump is really like when the cameras are switched off. You thought what happened on screen on night one of the convention was crazy? It\\u2019s nothing compared to Trump behind the scenes, where national security officials couldn\\u2019t get through a meeting \\u201cwithout him doing 20 tangents, becoming irascible, turning red in the face, demanding a diet Coke, spewing spit,\\u201d Taylor explained. \\u201cLiterally out of goddamn nowhere, he\'d be like, \\u2018You know, who\\u2019s just my favorite guy? The MyPillow guy. Do any of you have those pillows?\\u2019 When it came to the issue of the border wall, Trump would be dreaming up \\u201csickening\\u201d medieval plots \\u201cto pierce the flesh\\u201d of migrants, rip all the families apart, \\u201cmaim,\\u201d and gas them. \\u201cThis was a man with no humanity whatsoever,\\u201d Taylor says. \\u201cHe says, we got to do this, this, this, and this, all of which are probably impossible, illegal unethical,\\u201d Taylor recalls, but he was writing them down as the president spoke. \\u201cAnd he looks over me and he goes, you fucking taken notes?\\u201d

All that, and there was still time for the \\u201cFuck that guy\\u201d segment, and Jerry Falwell Jr. won a hotly contested race after it was claimed that the anti-LGBT preacher had encouraged the pool boy to have sex with his wife while he watched from the corner of the room. \\u201cI would like to salute you for providing the most meta and self-referential \\u2018Fuck that guy\\u2019 ever,\\u201d Rick says to Molly. \\u201cBecause Jerry Falwell said to his wife, \\u2018Fuck that guy.\\u2019\\u201d

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