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CNN — Florida Republican Rep. Byron Donalds, a Donald Trump loyalist and one of the former president's most trusted surrogates, is widely viewed to be on Trump's short list of vice presidential contenders. But in 2011, Donalds posted to Facebook celebrating Trump's decision not to challenge then-President Barack Obama for the White House. "Trump won't run. Thank God!" Donalds wrote in one Facebook post in May 2011. CNN's KFile unearthed numerous examples of Donalds directly criticizing Trump in social media posts and interviews in 2011 and 2012, when he was an outspoken tea party activist running - unsuccessfully, then -…
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