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During Monday’s MTP Daily, MSNBC’s Katy Tur proved once again she wasn’t ready for prime time when she got into a heated argument with Ohio Representative Mike Tuner about whether or not President Trump had ever denounced hate groups during the 2016 campaign. “I don't think he did. I was there every day,” she chided her guest who was accurately saying Trump did.
The argument began when Tur asserted that the president wasn’t hitting that “softball” of denouncing hate groups. “Today was the third chance to say: ‘I don't want your support, don't march in my name.’ And we did not hear that from him,” she said, cutting Turner off.
“We certainly heard it from the campaign where people repeatedly came to him and said: ‘Denounce them now, denounce them now, denounce them now,’ and he did,” he reminded her.
“Respectfully Congressman, I was there every step of the way during the campaign and it took him awhile to condemn hate groups,” she shot back. “He never said to white nationalists explicitly. And if he did, I can't remember it off the top of my head, but I don’t think he did. He never said: “I don’t want your support.’”
But that was a lie.
. melanie.hunter
