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WWE Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon speaks at a news conference announcing the WWE Network at the 2014 International CES at the Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas on January 8, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Vince McMahon's "Rosebud" moment

Vince McMahon attends a press conference to announce that WWE Wrestlemania 29 will be held at MetLife Stadium in 2013 at MetLife Stadium on February 16, 2012 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (Michael N. Todaro/Getty Images)

New claims in Vince McMahon abuse case

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Lauren Boebert still can't find her dad

Zachary Petrizzo

File photo of convicted murderer and rapist William Horton Jr., who was mentioned by Vice President George Bush in his 1988 campaign. (AP/Lawrence Eagle Tribune/Salon)

Trump goes beyond "Willie Horton"

Chauncey DeVega

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(AP/Jorge Silva/Twitter/Salon)

Trolls, fake news and Donald Trump

Chauncey DeVega

Ric Flair (Getty/Paul Kane)

It's Ric Flair's world now

Chauncey DeVega

(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump's media war goes meta

The Progressive Liberal (YouTube/Appalachian Mountain Wrestling/Salon)

Wrestling and politics

Keith A. Spencer

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Dwayne Johnson, star of the upcoming film "Hercules," is interviewed before the Opening Night Presentation from Paramount Pictures at CinemaCon 2014 on Monday, March 24, 2014, in Las Vegas. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) (Chris Pizzello/invision/ap)

R. Tyson Smith - The Conversation

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. () (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump's failing reality show

Heather Digby Parton

Donald Trump shaves the head of Vince McMahon at Wrestlemania 23; Peter Thiel (APCarlos Osorio/Reuters/Fred Prouser/Photo montage by Salon)

Donald Trump, wrestling "heel"

Chauncey DeVega

Hulk Hogan (Associated Press/Chris O'Meara)

Dan O'Sullivan - Jacobin

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