Boyle and Coleman were rarely given any information on the outside world during their time in captivity. They didn’t even know Justin Trudeau was prime minister of Canada, for example, until after they were rescued. But when Boyle was forced to participate in a “proof-of-life” video, one of the captors told him Donald Trump had been elected president. At the time, Boyle essentially took this comment as a joke.
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“It didn’t enter my mind that he was being serious,” Boyle told The Toronto Star.
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