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Keith Ellison: I think it just is the worst of guilt by association. It is -- it is a stark affront to American values about treating…

On the recordJuly 16, 2012
I think it just is the worst of guilt by association. It is -- it is a stark affront to American values about treating people for what they did and how they behave themselves.
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Keith Ellison
Minnesota

Editor's note · Context

Ellison criticizes the guilt by association tactics used against Huma Abedin.

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