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Dominic Preston @ The Verge · today 11:50 EDT

Trump Mobile’s origins lie with a Mexican middleweight boxer

Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. Last week, we spoke to executives from the company for the first time, and this week we're back with more details on how it began. Trump Mobile may bear the US president's name, but he didn't come up with the idea, and […]

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