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Some may even keep a relatively straight face as they tell reporters, as one Republican, Clyde Carson, did, that Trump "was trying to fool with the media" and "he just done that because he knew the news would go crazy with it."

They shouldn’t fool with the Mother’s nature.

“Fool with them and you’ll get strung out. Then there are about four ways it can go: You can go crazy; you can go to prison; you can die; or you can kick. That’s it. Anything else anybody says is bull.”

"I don't fool with the law," he said in a recent interview.

"And I don't do nothing for them to fool with me."