The real Donald Trump eventhreatened to suethe filmmakers over what his campaign called pure fiction.
Is this going to work?'
Yet in that moment, Abbasi saw his movie come together before his eyes.

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“Suddenly, it started to work,” he recalled.
I went off to Marvel after [The Apprentice], Stan explained.
This is still living somewhere.

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He died from complications of AIDS in 1986 at age 59.
He also theorized that “If [Trump and Cohn] hadn’t met, everything might be different.
I really think it’s that portentous and that significant.”

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3(2023).
He just manages to throw things at you."
Shell soon be oppositeDakota Fanningand Kathryn Hunter in the horror filmViciousby director Bryan Bertino (The Strangers).

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He plays Donalds father, Fred Trump Sr., inThe Apprentice.
He died at age 93 in 1999.
Fred Jr. struggled with alcoholism throughout his life and died of a heart attack at age 42 in 1981.

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A longtime friend of Trumps, Stone eventually became his political adviser.
Then-president Trump commuted his sentence in 2020.

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