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Stephen Lynch: “The current President came in having nothing to do with the…”

Featuring: Stephen Lynch, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, 8th Congressional District

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'Dear God': Stephen Lynch Calls Trump's Kennedy Center Changes 'Stolen Valor'

Published | Video Starts at 02:28

… Arts and in his life, you know, and at the end of his life, President Kennedy sacrificed everything, everything for this country. And you know where I'm going with this? The current President came in having nothing to do with the establishment of [the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts] and put his name above John F. Kennedy's. on the Kennedy center for the Performing Arts. As an Irish Catholic from South Boston. That was stolen valor. That was stolen valor. He had nothing to do with that. (02:28–02:41)

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Asserts that the current President had no involvement in establishing the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts but placed his name above John F. Kennedy's.

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