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Richard Cohen: 'Trump's America Is Not Mine'

The Washington Post columnist writes that a country in which the president lacks outrage over Charlottesville is not his America.

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Richard Cohen: Trump's America Is Not Mine

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"Trump’s reaction Saturday to the Charlottesville hate-fest is an example of what I find so troubling. I never thought a president of the United States would hedge his bets when it came to denouncing racists and anti-Semites." (The Washington Post)

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