Trump Backpedals On Paying Legal Fees

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Donald Trump has been very clear: if you punch protesters he’ll pay your legal fees. Now that it might happen, he’s changing his tune. Cenk Uygur, host of the The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

“Donald Trump has backed off from his pledge to pay the legal fees of supporters who attack protesters at his rallies—a reversal that has come after a Trumpsupporter sucker-punched a protester in the face at a rally in North Carolina last week.

“I don’t condone violence,” Trump told Good Morning America’s George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday. “I didn’t say I would pay for his fees.”

“So you’re not going to?” Stephanopoulos asked, pressing the Republican front-runner on how he could reconcile paying for such legal fees with his own claim of being a peaceful person.

“Nobody has asked for fees and I haven’t even seen it so I never said I was going to pay for fees,” Trump said.”*

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