Trump Surrogate Appears To Call For Lynching Of Loretta Lynch In Tweet

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Source: talkingpointsmemo




Katherine Krueger

July 7, 2016, 8:42 AM EDT

A top surrogate for Donald Trump's campaign said Wednesday that a tweet which appeared to call for Attorney General Loretta Lynch to be lynched was a "well-intentioned mistake."

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Paladino deleted the tweet and replaced it with "@LorettaLynch let a Grand Jury decide."
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Paladino, a former gubernatorial candidate, has made numerous racially-tinged remarks in the past. Appearing as a Trump surrogate in April, he called the presumptive GOP nominee an "exterminator" who would get "the raccoons out of the basement," which was read as a racist remark directed at President Obama.


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Well, this Paladino guy seems like a jerk to me.



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[MynameisBlarney]

1. I'm getting really fucking tired of these fucking nazi bastards

REALLY FUCKING TIRED

[Iggo]

5. I'm getting tired of coming up with socially acceptable names for the fucking nazi bastards.

They are what they are.

[MynameisBlarney]

7. Yup

They are trying to destroy this country.

[safeinOhio]

2. I'll go out on a limb and be

politically incorrect and call them Nazi Racist Bastards, because that is what they are.

[tonyt53]

3. When you put all the crazy people in one room, you get the Trump campaign.

[Iggo]

4. Okay, let him explain exactly, and I mean exactly, how that's well-intentioned.

Give him a few minutes...

[47of74]

6. I hope he marks his laundry when the Secret Service and/or FBI come to talk to him about this.