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On the recordOctober 19, 2020
It's incredibly disturbing that the president of the United States, ten days after a plot to kidnap, put me on trial and execute me, ten days after that was uncovered, the president is at it again and inspiring and incentivizing and inciting this kind of domestic terrorism. It is wrong. It's got to end. It is dangerous. Not just for me and my family, but for public servants everywhere who are doing their jobs and trying to protect their fellow Americans.
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Gretchen Whitmer
Democratic · Michigan
Source
msnbc.com

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Whitmer condemns Trump's rhetoric following a plot to kidnap her.

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