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On the recordMay 27, 2025
Hate groups heard the president’s words not as a rebuke, but as a rallying cry.
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Gretchen Whitmer
Democratic · Michigan

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Whitmer blamed Trump’s rhetoric for inciting the kidnapping plot against her.

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