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==Criticism and Praise of Donald Trump== | ==Criticism and Praise of Donald Trump== | ||
In 2015, | In 2015, alarmed by the ascendance of then-Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and his impact upon the Republican Party, Givens reached out to Charlie Millar, then-TCC for Oneida County, to gather more information about the Libertarian Party. | ||
He criticized Republican governors in a December 2015 column in the ''Utica Observer-Dispatch'' for attempting to unilaterally block the entry of refugees into the United States. During a November 30, 2016 interview on WUTQ, Givens lamented what he saw as troubling early indications about the incoming Trump administration’s approach to immigration. He also disclosed on the air that he was a registered Republican. In early 2017, he posed a hypothetical question on WUTQ insinuating that Trump might be working as an agent of the Russian government. | He criticized Republican governors in a December 2015 column in the ''Utica Observer-Dispatch'' for attempting to unilaterally block the entry of refugees into the United States. During a November 30, 2016 interview on WUTQ, Givens lamented what he saw as troubling early indications about the incoming Trump administration’s approach to immigration. He also disclosed on the air that he was a registered Republican. In early 2017, he posed a hypothetical question on WUTQ insinuating that Trump might be working as an agent of the Russian government. | ||