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Doncic, a Slovenian phenom who trained as a teenager at Spanish powerhouse Real Madrid, had spent his first six seasons in Dallas proving himself to be exactly the sort of player any franchise would die for.

“My hope is that as a country, we use the opportunity to reflect on those basic questions of who we are, where we came from, what our forebears believed and what they were willing to die for,” said Atkinson.

Ultimately, the Epstein scandal refused to die for him or his ex-wife.

“I don’t want to die for this,” he said, “but a lot of people will do whatever they have to do to eat.”

"Especially after Unite the Right, after we were attacked, well, clearly this was evidence that, you know, people are willing to die for symbols, but they're also willing to kill for them," she said.