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Team Trump: Whitmer ‘Encouraging Assassination Attempts’ With ‘8645’ Message

“86 can be shorthand for killing someone”

Joseph Curl
Team Trump: Whitmer ‘Encouraging Assassination Attempts’ With ‘8645’ Message
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Team Trump has accused Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of encouraging the assassination of the president through a controversial sign in the background of the shot when she gave a national television interview Sunday.

When the Democrat appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday from a remote site in Lansing, Mich., a sign behind her said “8645.” Trump is the 45th president, and “86,” at least according to Trump War Room, one of the Trump campaign’s verified Twitter accounts, means “killing someone.”

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