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Breitbart News Senior Editor at Large Joel Pollak appeared on BBC 4 Radio’s Today program on Tuesday to defend President Donald Trump’s response to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend.
Host Justin Webb began by pressing Pollak on the question of whether it was wrong for Trump to blame “all sides” [sic]. Pollak answered:
It’s absolutely correct to blame all sides. Because we have the First Amendment in this country, which protects freedom of speech, including hateful speech. And, in fact, the First Amendment exists precisely to protect speech you don’t like.
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