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OneLegupAlex News - Keith Ellison, Leave Parishioners Alone So That They May Pray in Peace For 2026 (1-20-26) · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: fillin host Joey Hudson played a cut and there is
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  Speaker 1: a longer version of it that got me thinking a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what Keith Ellison had to say me in case
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  Speaker 1: you missed it. Protesters stormed a church in the Minneapolis
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  Speaker 1: because the pastor was going on ice rays it might
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  Speaker 1: be a member of the ice team up in Minneapolis,
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  Speaker 1: and what he said kind of drew some experiences I've
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  Speaker 1: had and fears I've had and also just trying to
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  Speaker 1: figure it out. So let's figure it out together. Here's
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  Speaker 1: what Keith Elson said about the protesters by Don Lemon,
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  Speaker 1: who stormed the church this past Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Attorney General, I know you know what's going on. I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure you've heard of what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think of this and what happened at
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  Speaker 1: the church and all that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let me tell you, I think that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the protest is a fundamental to American society. This country
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  Speaker 2: started in a protest, and you know, it's freedom of expression.
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  Speaker 2: People have a right to lift up their voices and
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  Speaker 2: make their peace, and none of us are immune from
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  Speaker 2: the voice of the of the public. So I quite honestly,
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  Speaker 2: I think that you got the First Amendment freedom of
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  Speaker 2: religion and the freedom of a First Amendment freedom of expression,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that you know, it's just I think
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  Speaker 2: it's just some of the go to live within a
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  Speaker 2: society like this. So you know, uh, this this this
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  Speaker 2: administration is real tender about things when it comes to
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  Speaker 2: their own interests, but they don't care about the same
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  Speaker 2: things when those things don't lie in their favor. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, they're getting tender about a church service now,
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  Speaker 2: But you know these people are they're arrested people in clinics, schools, churches,
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  Speaker 2: anywhere they choose to do it, and so they're not
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  Speaker 2: They don't really care about sacred and sensitive places unless
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  Speaker 2: it works in their faith, and you know that they
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  Speaker 2: get real sensitive and real about police until those police
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  Speaker 2: are protecting democracy. Then they don't care about police suddenly.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, these people are highly selective, and I think that,
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  Speaker 2: I just I think that if people want to protest
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  Speaker 2: the behavior of you know, a particular religious leader, then
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  Speaker 2: people are allowed to do that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look, when they first talked about going into churches, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I was unnerved by that. I just I was unnerved
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  Speaker 1: by that. But this feels different. This is interrupting an
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  Speaker 1: entire church service to make your voice heard. What did
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  Speaker 1: happen to freedom of religion? Attorney General Keith elesson every year,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's Easter or Christmas or those big Christian holidays.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm in that church. I am extremely nervous that
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  Speaker 1: those cathedrals like Saint John the Divine and Saint Thomas Church,
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  Speaker 1: Saint Patrick's Cathedral could be overrun by looney leftists. That's
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  Speaker 1: a real fear because these people know no boundaries, These
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  Speaker 1: protesting rioters and agitators and anarchists no no boundaries, and
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  Speaker 1: to excuse the behavior now inspires others to do it
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  Speaker 1: in other cities. I am not entirely for the way
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  Speaker 1: ICE is doing this round up situation here. But I
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  Speaker 1: also can condemn what's going on with these protesters that
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  Speaker 1: are storming a church. And maybe it's wrong that the
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  Speaker 1: past is part of ICE. I don't agree with that either.
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  Speaker 1: But for the worshiper's sake, for the parishioner's sake, let
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  Speaker 1: them just pray in peace. But these protesters no bounds.
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  Speaker 1: And when you start to condone and not condemn, it
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  Speaker 1: could get worse than screaming and yelling. Okay, that's the
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  Speaker 1: problem here. It starts at screaming and yelling. But do
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  Speaker 1: we really violence in the church because they feel empowered
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  Speaker 1: to do more than just screaming yell at a pastor?
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  Speaker 1: Do we want to scare parishioners who are really just faithful?
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  Speaker 1: By the way, what are you metaphor for attack on God?
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  Speaker 1: When they're attacking the house of worship and the parishioners
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  Speaker 1: in there by interrupting their service, This was an attack
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  Speaker 1: on freedom of religion. This was an attack on those
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  Speaker 1: who believe in God, and they went in there as
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  Speaker 1: a guise of while he's dealing with Ice, he's involved
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  Speaker 1: with Ice. But deeper we know what the issue is
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  Speaker 1: here it was an attack on God. Well, really it
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  Speaker 1: was attack on believers. God will straighten them outs, but
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  Speaker 1: it was an attack on believers, and I fully believe that.
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  Speaker 1: So when Keith Ellison says all that and then says, oh,
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  Speaker 1: they have a right to protest and they can make
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  Speaker 1: their voice heard, especially even in a church, the Attorney General,
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  Speaker 1: you're supposed to uphold the rule of law, and I
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  Speaker 1: believe freedom of religion should be acknowledged and honored. Pastors
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  Speaker 1: shady side aside for the parishioners who did nothing wrong
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  Speaker 1: but just go to church on Sunday. Leave those people.
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  Speaker 1: You say, love thy neighbor. Parishioners are neighbors too, you
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  Speaker 1: say love thy neighbor. People go to synagogue, Our people
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  Speaker 1: our neighbors too. You say love thy neighbor. In this
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  Speaker 1: ruse of trying to beat down the immigration policies, Well,
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  Speaker 1: the neighbor can also be a good person who just
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  Speaker 1: wants to go to church or go to synagogue and pray,
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  Speaker 1: or even a mosque. So you want to say love
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  Speaker 1: thy neighbor, confront the pastor call him out at a
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  Speaker 1: different time. I'm not exactly thrilled that he's involved with
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  Speaker 1: ice that's terrible, but should the parishioners really face the
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  Speaker 1: front of it. You say love thy neighbor, then love
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  Speaker 1: thy neighbor, no matter what they believe or who they
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  Speaker 1: believe in. You a theistic, agnostic creeps. This wasn't just
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  Speaker 1: to deal with the pastors, to interrupt the whole church service.
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  Speaker 1: Those outside of the Yndagogue, that's not just about free Palestine.
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  Speaker 1: They want to interrupt a Jewish person's way of life.
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  Speaker 1: They want to say humus, they want to support Hamas,
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  Speaker 1: but Hamas kills Jewish people. They're not there for freedom
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  Speaker 1: of protests. They're there for hate speech. This was hate speech,
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  Speaker 1: and Keith Allison is condoning it, not condemning it. I
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  Speaker 1: remember watching when the vaccines were really becoming a strain
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  Speaker 1: on people's beliefs. Signs outside Trinity Church and they might
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  Speaker 1: have tried to go in there. The anti vaxxers boy
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  Speaker 1: Trinity Church never faces clap back like, but you talk
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  Speaker 1: about love thy neighbor, You atheistic creeps that have nothing
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  Speaker 1: better to do but storm a church. You are not
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  Speaker 1: loving thy neighbor. And those who say free Palestine, it's
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  Speaker 1: not about Palestine. It's about Jewish people. And Israelis that
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  Speaker 1: you want to see. Unfortunately, you want to see them dead,
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  Speaker 1: don't you. You just say a free palatine. But that's
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  Speaker 1: not really your real aim, is it. So please media
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  Speaker 1: don lemon never sympathize with these agitators, for they're doing
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  Speaker 1: more harm than good. They are spewing hate speech at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the day because they hate God and
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  Speaker 1: they hate value systems. You know how I know that
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  Speaker 1: because they're there midday any day, sparring with ice. People
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  Speaker 1: who have a job are doing things better then that
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  Speaker 1: have better things to do. And I'm normally for freedom
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  Speaker 1: of speech, but it's become too accepting to attack the
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  Speaker 1: religious institutions, and that's where I draw the line. And
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  Speaker 1: throwing bricks at small mom and pop stores, that's where
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  Speaker 1: I draw the line. So you want to condone this
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  Speaker 1: kind of act of storming a church, then if someone
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  Speaker 1: gets killed in the church or it's it's on your hands,
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  Speaker 1: Attorney General Keith Ellison, It's on your hands. But here
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  Speaker 1: are the one log up network. I stand for having
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  Speaker 1: one leg up on loving thy neighbor, including those who
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  Speaker 1: believe I'm we gotta change the frame here. The framing
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  Speaker 1: is terrible because they're not saying what the Attorney General
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  Speaker 1: of New York said, what the World President Queen said,
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  Speaker 1: what Governor Hogele said about these hate filled people. They
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  Speaker 1: don't want the best for Palestine. They just want to
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  Speaker 1: interrupt a Jewish person's life in New York City. They
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  Speaker 1: don't want the best for those being attacked being you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe attacked by Ice or rounding up wrongly by Ice.
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  Speaker 1: They want to tear down law enforcement. They want to
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  Speaker 1: make lives hell for the believers. They want to sow
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  Speaker 1: chaos and the media and Keith Ellison is feeding into it. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we're not going to and after all this yamoring by
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  Speaker 1: Keith Ellison and Don Lemon, I watched the briefing by
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  Speaker 1: President Trump about his first year in office, and here's
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  Speaker 1: the line that stood out to me regarding and finally
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  Speaker 1: some commentary on yeah, the roughness of Ice and the
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  Speaker 1: Renee Good shooting.
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  Speaker 3: And you know they're going to make mistakes. Sometimes Ice
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  Speaker 3: is going to be too rough with somebody, or you
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  Speaker 3: know they're dealing with rough people. Are they going to
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  Speaker 3: make a mistake? Sometimes it can happened.
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  Speaker 2: We feel terribly.
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  Speaker 3: I felt horribly when I was told that the young
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  Speaker 3: woman who was I had the tragedy. It's a tragedy.
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  Speaker 3: It's a horrible thing. Everybody would say Ice would say
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  Speaker 3: the same thing. But when I learned her her parents
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  Speaker 3: and her father in particular, is like, I hope he
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  Speaker 3: still is, but I don't know. Was a tremendous Trump fan.
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  Speaker 3: He was all for Trump. I loved Trump. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's terrible. I was told that by a lot of people.
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  Speaker 3: They said, oh, he loves you. He he was. I hope,
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  Speaker 3: I hope he still feels that way. And it's hard,
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  Speaker 3: hard situation. But her father was a tremendous and parents
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  Speaker 3: were tremendous Trump fans.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go. That's the comment I was waiting
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  Speaker 1: for for about a week and a half since the
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  Speaker 1: Renee Good shooting happened from President Trump, and we got it.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe we can leave our churches alone and our
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  Speaker 1: synagogues alone and let people pray in peace. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what we need right now, to have one log up
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  Speaker 1: on the world. You have pray in peace.