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Bakari Sellers

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Bakari Sellers is a prominent Democratic political figure and commentator from South Carolina. He gained national recognition as a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, where he served from 2006 to 2014. Sellers has been an advocate for social justice, education reform, and healthcare access, often speaking on issues affecting the African American community. After leaving office, he has continued to influence public discourse through his work as a political analyst and author.

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Mar 17, 2019

I think the country is being desensitized to the president of the United States' psychopathy.

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Feb 20, 2019

What happens if this was a President Obama or a President Clinton? I mean, you would be literally pulling your hair out on TV, calling them anything but a child of god to have all of these individuals around him which are felons.

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Feb 20, 2019

I think Michael Cohen is going to be an amazing witness in front of the United States congress, and I think he is going to tell the truth.

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Jan 31, 2019

I think Democrats have to say if we're going to hold Republicans accountable for the cancer in their party, the Steve Kings that are in the party, the Donald Trumps in their party, then this is not acceptable either.

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Jan 31, 2019

I mean, yes, you can be sorry, you can apologize, you can live your life and make sure that people understand your point of view from henceforth forward. However, you cannot be the leader of a state like Virginia with its past history with…

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Jan 31, 2019

No question. I mean, I think unequivocally, Democrats have to stand up and call for his resignation.

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Jan 31, 2019

Criminal justice reform, for example, economic inequality, those aren't black issues. Those are issues that are American issues and all the candidates running for office are going to have to address those.

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Jan 31, 2019

I don't understand why he thinks he could be President of the United States. I don't understand why he is running as an independent.

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Jan 31, 2019

I think that as he's going through this process and the scrutiny that he's receiving, I don't see him actually following through with that.

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Dec 25, 2018

This wall is not going to fix our immigration problem in the United States.

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Nov 20, 2018

I think that Donald Trump believes that judges should be beholden to him. I think that he believes judges do have a D or R beside their name.

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Nov 20, 2018

And I think that's why you had a blue wave a couple of Tuesdays ago because Republicans are being proverbial fence sitters and nobody stands up to the President of the United States.

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Nov 20, 2018

I think that now we recognized the importance thereof after the Kavanaugh hearings, we've seen what happens with Gorsuch.

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Nov 20, 2018

I think that he's a justice who believes in what he believes in, but he's not a partisan figure. I don't give any of them that.

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Aug 30, 2018

It shows that the rule of law... presides in this country, and people want to see Mueller and his investigation play out.

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Jul 29, 2018

The President of the United States when he was a candidate said, hack the 30,000 e-mails. He literally said that.

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Jul 29, 2018

I remember one famous quote. We should not have a president of the United States who is under federal investigation.

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Jul 29, 2018

Collusion is not a crime. That's a fact. As a Democrat, as a lawyer, I can tell you that collusion's not a crime.

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Jun 28, 2018

I cannot blame the president of the United States -- and his tenor and his rhetoric no matter how ignorant it may be, no matter how tactless it may be for the incident that occurred in Annapolis.

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Jun 28, 2018

The president judges this in wins and loses. That's the prism that he looks through most things including his -- I think that -- I don't know if that is Ivanka or Jared or whomever or Melania, need to tell him that his rhetoric, many times…

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