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The Complicated Politics of Alec Baldwin

With a new ABC talk show and his return to 'Saturday Night Live,' the unfiltered star is mobilizing against the GOP ("Anything you equate with leadership, they don't have it"), courting controversy ("Ever since I played Trump, black people love me") and revealing mixed emotions on the #MeToo movement: "People write, 'You're next aren't you?'" (In sharing the story for the first time, he asked that I omit the names.) "She goes, 'Alec, they called me and they said that a wardrobe person said you sexually molested me and that you constantly had me sitting on your lap and they asked me for a comment.' In fact, at 60, he can't remember ever being this busy. People will write, 'You seem like the kind of guy who would do that.' Outside, on the streets of Manhattan, it sure doesn't feel like everyone's out to get Alec Baldwin. In fact, he calls Tyrone over and the two begin cracking each other up. When he told me earlier this year that the gag had become "agony" — less the exercise itself than his weekly commitment to it — Trump famously fired back. "Did we ever hear back from the Delgado people?" "Alec's tough," he says.