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‘I don’t think we like them’: Trump says MAGA has no room for anti-Semites
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The Republican Party is mired in a debate about how expansive its coalition should be and whether it should include figures such as Mr Nick Fuentes, a Holocaust denier.
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Tyler Pager
WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump said that neither the Republican Party nor the Make America Great Again movement (MAGA) had room for people with anti-Semitic views, his most direct public statement yet in a debate pulsing through his movement over the inclusion of supporters who spread hate.
“I think we don’t need them,” he said on Jan 7 during an interview with The New York Times, when asked whether such people had a place in his coalition. “I think we don’t like them.”
