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"Obama calls on country to reject words 'of any of our leaders' that feed fear and hatred"
In wake of El Paso shooting, Obama calls on country to reject words ‘of any of our leaders’ that feed fear and hatred
By Felicia Sonmez
August 5 at 3:48 PM
Former president Barack Obama called on the country Monday to reject words “coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders” that feed fear and hatred and normalize racist sentiments, a tacit rebuke of President Trump in the wake of the El Paso shooting.
In a statement posted to his Twitter and Facebook accounts, Obama said such language has been at the root of most human tragedy, from slavery to the Holocaust to the Rwandan genocide.
“It has no place in our politics and our public life,” he said. “And it’s time for the overwhelming majority of Americans of goodwill, of every race and faith and political party, to say as much — clearly and unequivocally.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-wake-of-el-paso-shooting-obama-calls-on-country-to-reject-words-of-any-of-our-leaders-that-feed-fear-and-hatred/2019/08/05/71d0098c-b7b7-11e9-b3b4-2bb69e8c4e39_story.html
By Felicia Sonmez
August 5 at 3:48 PM
Former president Barack Obama called on the country Monday to reject words “coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders” that feed fear and hatred and normalize racist sentiments, a tacit rebuke of President Trump in the wake of the El Paso shooting.
In a statement posted to his Twitter and Facebook accounts, Obama said such language has been at the root of most human tragedy, from slavery to the Holocaust to the Rwandan genocide.
“It has no place in our politics and our public life,” he said. “And it’s time for the overwhelming majority of Americans of goodwill, of every race and faith and political party, to say as much — clearly and unequivocally.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-wake-of-el-paso-shooting-obama-calls-on-country-to-reject-words-of-any-of-our-leaders-that-feed-fear-and-hatred/2019/08/05/71d0098c-b7b7-11e9-b3b4-2bb69e8c4e39_story.html
Here is his tweet -
Statement
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that was the implication, which is why it generated a breaking news banner from the Washington Post! 
(or maybe that was done on purpose
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