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“I wanted my daughter to know that he couldn’t get away with that. I was so happy that people understood that I was a mother that was defending my child. Because I never want to do anything to embarrass Keke ever.”

"I don't want to embarrass this young lady," he told the audience.

Watergate originally sprang from Nixon’s vendetta against Daniel Ellsberg, whom he was determined to embarrass for exposing the Pentagon Papers.

He may also seek to embarrass Vance over his leaked messages from 2020 in which he said Trump had "thoroughly failed to deliver on his economic populism".

In the world of professional wrestling “shooters” are among the most feared opponents because they have the potential to embarrass and cause serious physical harm to their opponents if they choose to.