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New Yorkers react to Trump win with rage, therapy … and shopping
When Javiel Rodriguez was asked if Donald Trump could visit his New York barbershop two weeks before election day, it did not occur to him to say no.
Politics did not come into it: the business was struggling and he thought the publicity would help. Plus, he added, “it was pretty cool to see we had snipers on the rooftop”.
He never anticipated the response that would follow the visit to his Knockout Barbershop in the south Bronx.
Donald Trump visiting Knockout Barbershop in the final weeks of the election campaign and, below, Javiel Rodriguez
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“We had sanitation people, the police department, Secret Service — I never felt more protected in my life,” said Rodriguez, a Hispanic father-of-three who comes from a Democratic family but had never voted himself until this year. “Being that we’re such a Democratic area, I knew how