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ESPN star Paul Finebaum said he was finalizing a potential interview with President Donald Trump in 2019 before the network ultimately axed it before he got to sit down with him.

Finebaum spoke to OutKick founder Clay Travis and opened up on several topics, including his attempt to get to interview Trump for his ESPN show. Trump was set to appear at the LSU and Alabama game that fall and Finebaum said he wanted to go above and beyond.

"Our producer said we gotta do something big," Finebaum recalled. "‘College Gameday’ was going to be there. Obviously, our show isn’t ‘College Gameday.’ So, I reached out to a friend of mine in D.C. He said, ‘You wanana get Trump?’ I said, yeah!

"I was going ‘Get Up’ and ‘First Take’ in Ne

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