It's been two days since Politico published a horrifying story revealing thousands, thousands of private messages containing racist, sexist and violent comments from prominent members of the Young Republicans organization. And yet President Trump and the Republican leadership has remained silent. There's nothing but radio silence from Republican leaders who seem to claim they worry about combating political violent rhetoric the silence from Republican leaders in the face of Hitler jokes and gas chamber jokes is deafening. (13:33–13:39)
CLAIM
Asserts that Trump and Republican leaders have not responded to the Politico story.
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