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New York Daily News
New York Daily News
NEW YORK — Alec Baldwin did himself no favors by going on TV with George Stephanopoulos. Baldwin looked appropriately haggard and wiped away tears, but he claimed the pistol he wielded on the set of “Rust” fired and killed director of photography Halyna Hutchins without him ever touching the trigger. “I didn’t pull the trigger,” Baldwin said. “I would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger at them. Never.” “It’s a mechanical device. You have to pull the trigger,” ex-NYPD cop Pete Gleason told me. “Guns don’t fire themselves.” “If he had listened to his lawyer, he would never have don…