In 1996, a freshman in Florida A&M University, Bisa Hall met an 18-year-old from Jamaica. He had a thick accent, charm, and a foreign upbringing that swooned Hall ... but it was all a lie as she would find out the second time they met: He didn't have an accent and wasn't from Jamaica. The young man was Byron Donalds (from New York). Though he wasn't from Jamaica, his charm was real, and the pair would get engaged soon after meeting ... then call off their engagement before suddenly getting engaged again. The decision was made, not by love, but by the higher cost of out-of-state tuition for Hall. Donalds' Florida residency would make her eligible for cheaper rates, so they tied the knot.

He was rough around the edges, as Hall described him — evident by the MAGA politician's two arrest

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