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Did you read the quote? He actually didn't say that. Congrats on spreading fake news.

“When two-thirds or three-quarters of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia, I think . . . ” he didn’t finish his sentence. “A country is more than an economy. We’re a civic society.”

|> Implying that Asian CEOs can't be part of civic society.

Implying nothing. He didn't finish his statement. Period. End of Story. I'm not going to attack him on a sentence that he never finished and instead on what I inferred from him, which is wrong. I'll wait for him to actually act, and trust me, I'm watching very carefully.

I hate Steve Bannon and Trump, but lazy and dishonest retweeting of your own personal biases are what causes this complete fake news epidemic. I said the same thing in the New York Times post. This is what is killing America, because we can't have an honest discussion.

The same thing happened with the "media should keep their mouths shut" quote. Another dishonest quote taken out of context, which only weakens any respect in stories that are anti-Trump. You don't beat Trump by spreading your own lies, you beat him by spreading the truth and opening the eyes of his supporters.

That's a lot of outrage you've generated over an implication that's obvious to anyone who doesn't have their head buried in the sand.

I'm fucking tired of fake news and the lazy people that spread it. I don't want Trump to win again.

Maybe you should preserve that outrage for real fake news then.

I have. This is another piece of fake news. There's plenty from both sides.

What's fake is your equivalency of the two sides. Your accusing others of being obtuse is the richest fakeness of them all.

Continue living in your own echo chamber, I don't care. I prefer to engage people who are more interested in the truth, not propagating their agendas through half-truths, like you. Unfortunately, if you and the people like you win, Trump will be in power for the full term.

Bannon and the rest of the conservative media trade on implication, so we should get better at recognizing implication.

Do you see all the ad network ads that show Michelle Obama with a taken-out-of context angry face? The reason the right buys those ads is to create hate through implication. The headline and click-through content don't matter.

PR and marketing are subtle.

So, you think the best way to attack the Republicans is to keep twisting their words and lying about what they said?

Trump is going to win another term because of obtuse people like yourself.

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