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Shaub to Trump: Your prayer-rug tweet, playing to bigotry, is a contender for your worst tweet yet
This was Trump's disgusting tweet:
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Border rancher: “We’ve found prayer rugs out here. It’s unreal.” Washington Examiner People coming across the Southern Border from many countries, some of which would be a big surprise.
Walter Shaub's response:
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This tweet playing to the deplorable bigotry of many of your followers is a contender to win the prize for your worst tweet yet. There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING wrong with prayer rugs or the people who carry them. Go read the First Amendment again. You may find it instructive.
The Trump tweet is about a Washington Examiner quoting one anonymous rancher who refuses to be identified and who has no photos of the alleged prayer rugs.
From the Daily Beast's Will Sommer:
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The whole prayer rugs on the border thing is an ancient right-wing talking point. In 2014, another "prayer rug" was discovered on the border. It turned out to be an Adidas shirt. https://gawker.com/breitbart-com-is-sure-this-adidas-shirts-an-islamo-mexi-1603045854 …
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I'm OK with Mexicans, Muslims and anybody from Central America, but we have way too many Russians here already.
It's a good one. 
