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the factual findings or conclusions influenced in any way by the identity of the client for whom you were doing that work?
A. All the questions you've asked I guess this one I've not given a lot of thought to. Offhand, not that I can think of.
Q. So you weren't trying to reach a particular conclusion based on the identity had they asked you to find — well, strike that.
I think what I'm trying to get some sense of comfort around is to the extent there might be concerns that the work being done was driven in a direction designed to reach a particular conclusion for a client or because of the client's identity was that the case?
A. I think it's safe to say that, you know, at some point probably early in 2016 I had reached a conclusion about Donald Trump as a businessman and his character and I was opposed to Donald Trump. I'm not going to pretend that that wouldn't have entered into my thinking. You know, again, I was a journalist my whole life. So we were, you know, trained not to take sides and practiced in not taking sides.
So most of what I do as a research person is
