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    The Troublemaker

    The same qualities that made Donald Trump Jr. his father’s political heir may have put him at the center of the latest scandal.
    by Molly Ball Jul 13, 2017 4 minutes
    Source: Carlos Barria / Reuters

    Many years ago, when his eldest son was still a boy, Donald Trump was interviewed by Barbara Walters, along with his family. Which child, she asked the real-estate mogul, did he consider the troublemaker in the family?

    Trump didn’t hesitate for a moment. “Don,” he shot back, according to the story Don himself—Donald Trump Jr., now a 39-year-old businessman—loves to tell. Don Jr. told me the story with a grin when I interviewed him for a profile last year. “I was the wild one of the three,” he said of his siblings. “I always made good grades and did well, but I had a lot of fun.”

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