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LIBERALS PLOT REVENGE

Brock is taking aim at Trump, Breitbart and fake news in his latest crusade

THE FIGHT OF DAVID BROCK’S LIFE ENDED ON A BILLIONAIRE’S rooftop overlooking Manhattan’s Upper East Side. It was election night around 9:30 p.m., and he was alone after hopping across the city for return-watching parties with wealthy donors, including investor George Soros. Standing high above Sutton Place, Brock got a text from a reporter that confirmed his creeping fears that Hillary Clinton would lose to Donald Trump. “I had my little cry, and that was that,” Brock tells TIME, before dipping into morbid humor. “It was good to be on that roof in case you had to throw yourself off.”

Brock has spent all of

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