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On the recordMay 6, 2022
each of the lurid revelations that have caught the public imagination today revealed Trump`s fascination with violence, mobilizing hundreds of thousands of troops to the border, lobbing patriot missiles at our ally in Mexico, and then of most interest to me, was the idea he floated of shooting peaceful, law-abiding Black Lives Matter protesters in Lafayette Square in the legs.
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland
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msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Raskin discusses Trump's violent tendencies as revealed in Secretary Esper's book.

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