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Glenn SimpsonPage 291 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 1-800-FOR-DEPO