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Trump Says He Would Have Confronted Shooter

February 26, 2018 at 12:05 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump claimed he would have run into a Florida high school to prevent a gunman from carrying out this month’s mass shooting, The Hill reports.

Said Trump: “I really believe I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon.”

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