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8. 'I was the first person at the highest level of our United States government or administration to talk
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 03:59 AM
Sep 2025

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about the fact that the people in Gaza were starving,” she said, urging the demonstrators to read her speech from that day “to know that I understand your concern and how you feel. I think I do. I think I do. And the reality of it is that’s where we are right now.”

“I’ve been very candid that after I gave that speech … I took a lot of heat from the administration for doing that. There are a lot of people that did not like that. I spoke out so forcefully and candidly about my concern about what was happening in Gaza.”''

((DARN that 'There are a lot of people that did not like that. I spoke out so forcefully and candidly about my concern about what was happening in Gaza.'))

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