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Donald Trump: “I will tell you something. I watched those very closely, much more closely than you people watched it, and you have…”

On the recordAugust 14, 2017
I will tell you something. I watched those very closely, much more closely than you people watched it, and you have -- you had a group on one side that was bad and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent.
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Donald Trump
Republican · Florida

Editor's note · Context

Trump discusses the violence from both sides during the Charlottesville incident.

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