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Wednesday, August 16, 2017
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Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Ex-US ambassador to Israel says Trump remarks ‘unacceptable’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleFormer US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro says that Trump’s claim that counter-protesters also were to blame for the deadly violence in Virginia has “shaken” him.
“It’s a moral issue,” he tells Channel 2 News in an interview. “Every time I hear or read about what he said yesterday, I am shaken once again.”
“The president of the US backed and supported the most radical and racist people in our society,” he adds.
Shapiro declines to say whether he believed the US president was a racist, but calls Trump’s latest remarks “unacceptable.”
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