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ginnyinWI

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4. This is how I heard it:

Reply to skip fox (Original post)

Sun Aug 13, 2017, 10:38 AM

Aug 2017

He began with a written statement about condemning violence. Then he seemed to pivot to an ad-libbed comment about "on all sides"--his voice sounded more emphatic as if this is what he really meant. He meant to say he wasn't blaming the alt-right. Listen again and you will hear the change in tone from flat to emphatic. And I read some tweeted reactions from them that said as much: "he's not blaming us".

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