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Federal law enforcement officials were directed to make public comments sympathetic to Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager charged with fatally shooting two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, according to internal DHS talking points obtained by NBC News.

The threat to American governance in an election year is dire. There is an authoritarian president in the White House with no respect for the rule of law and toadying and unconfirmed loyalists at the top of the DHS.

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