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Steve Cohen: “If President Trump would have come out after Charlottesville and said--condemned neo-Nazism and Klansmen, do you think…”

On the recordApril 8, 2019
If President Trump would have come out after Charlottesville and said--condemned neo-Nazism and Klansmen, do you think that would have helped in the atmosphere of being--of White people standing up and saying White nationalism as being something bad?
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee

Editor's note · Context

Cohen questions the impact of Trump's condemnation of hate groups post-Charlottesville.

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