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Trump’s Alcatraz Announcement Comes The Morning After Clint Eastwood Prison Classic Was On Local TV
The Clint Eastwood classic was on a local Palm Beach station the night before Trump made the announcement he is reopening the infamous prison.
Turns out there might be a more prosaic answer: Clint Eastwood’s 1979 classic Escape From Alcatraz was on TV in Palm Beach the night before. Local outlet WEIU (ironically a PBS station) had the Don Siegel directed prison picture at 7 p.m. “Today, I am directing the Bureau of Prisons, together with the Department of Justice, FBI, and Homeland Security, to reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ, to house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders,” wrote Trump.
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