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Trump didn't encourage Pittsburgh shooter, but he's not helping

The debate over whether or not President Trump encouraged the man who set out to slaughter Jews at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh really isn't a debate at all. It's a shouting match.

"Yes, he did!"

"No, he didn't!"

And it will likely only make things worse, as each side grows increasingly deaf to its own heated rhetoric and ever more furious at the other's.

Here's a better question: Is Trump helping?

The answer is

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