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TexasTowelie

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Thu Jan 31, 2019, 06:24 PM Jan 2019

Kwame Brown's New Talk Show Has Some Guessing He's Positioning Himself for a Comeback

D.C. loves a comeback. And with Kwame "Fully Loaded" Brown's track record of foibles, scandals, slip-ups, and oopsy daisies, there's hardly a better candidate than the former Council chair.

After pleading guilty to bank fraud and receiving one-day jail sentence (and a court-ordered 11 p.m. curfew ahead of his sentencing); after "Navigatorgate" put taxpayers on the hook for two "fully loaded" Lincoln Navigator SUV leases because Brown wanted black, not gray, seats; after the lawsuits for unpaid personal debt; and after the $240,000 in campaign funds that were funneled to his brother's firm, Kwame Brown has reemerged for some real talk.

In a video posted to Facebook earlier this week, Brown appears sitting behind a shiny news desk, alongside a mini Muhammad Ali statue, to tease his forthcoming news talk show, Always Real Talk.

Brown kicks off with news of the end to the federal government shutdown.

Read more: https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/loose-lips/article/21045465/kwame-browns-new-talk-show-has-some-guessing-hes-positioning-himself-for-a-comeback

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