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On the recordFebruary 10, 2021
For anyone who says Donald Trump didn’t know the violence he was inciting, I ask you to consider his supporters tried to drive a bus off the highway in the middle of the day to intimidate his opponent’s campaign workers and his response was to tweet the video of the incident that had fight music, joke about it and call those individuals in that incident patriots.
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Stacey Plaskett
Democratic · Virgin Islands
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msnbc.com

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Plaskett argues that Trump was aware of the violence he was inciting.

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