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WATCH: The New York Times reveals the “unfiltered” voices inside Donald Trump’s rallies

For more than a year, The New York Times compiled the most vulgar taunts of Trump's biggest supporters

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(AP/Charles Rex Arbogast)
(AP/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Three New York Times reporters who have followed the Republican presidential nominee and reported on his campaign for over one year released a short video compilation of the most extreme, and in many cases common, epithets hurled by Donald Trump supporters at his rallies.

“[What struck us was the frequency with which some Trump supporters use coarse, vitriolic, even violent language — in the epithets they shout and chant, the signs they carry, the T-shirts they wear — a pattern not seen in connection with any other recent political candidate, in any party,” wrote Times reporters Nick Corasaniti, Ashley Parker and Erica Berenstein on Wednesday:

“Kill her.”

“Trump that bitch!”

“Build a wall — kill them all.”

“From Maine to North Carolina, from Ohio to Arizona, here is what we saw”:

By Sophia Tesfaye

Sophia Tesfaye is a senior writer (and former senior politics editor) for Salon. She resides in Washington, D.C.
You can find her on Twitter at @SophiaTesfaye.


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