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Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts) Wed Aug 10, 2016, 07:47 AM Aug 2016

It was a death threat, not a "second amendment remark".

The media is manipulating language to reframe Trump's suggestion that Clinton should be assassinated by pushing the wording "second amendment remark". That wording deflects away from the death threat and conflates it with gun rights.

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It was a death threat, not a "second amendment remark". (Original Post) Warren Stupidity Aug 2016 OP

Spin is what surrogates do. Trump's mouth is an existential threat to the GOP HereSince1628 Aug 2016 #1

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)

1. Spin is what surrogates do. Trump's mouth is an existential threat to the GOP