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In a 2018 summit with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Trump publicly took the word of Moscow’s strongman over US intelligence agencies on the question of Russian interference in his election. Trump downplayed the 2017 neo-Nazi, white supremacist violence in Charlottesville by arguing, “You had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides.” His get-tough immigration policy on the southern border left children, separated from their families, in cages. They’re rapists.” That December, he called for a ban on Muslims entering the US, a policy he later enacted by blacklisting seven nations.
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Announcing his candidacy in 2015, Trump said, “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best… They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. The party twice nominated a man who trafficked in the racist birther theory about Barack Obama. The litany of the GOP’s enabling of the ex-president is familiar - and dizzying. Now, with the GOP’s refusal this week to clearly disavow first term Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s history of incendiary and radical rhetoric - a clear surrender to Trumpian disruption - is it so far-fetched to suspect Republicans might concoct some pretzel logic excusing a gun-slinging Trump causing mayhem in his former hometown? I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press,” that too was widely discounted as “Trump being Trump.” Six months later, when Trump said, “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. The comment was largely dismissed as the braggadocio of an infamous real estate blowhard.