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So I got to tell you, I've been doing the audio read of my book each evening.

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Covington Catholic High School really didn't do anything wrong. There's not a lot of evidence they did anything wrong. They were standing there to recap the story. They were standing there after the March for Life. Some of them were wearing MAGA hats, which apparently is now a crime in the United States. And we're supposed to know that MAGA hats are innately offensive and triggering to people, the MAGA hats.

Ooh, triggering.

And they were standing there, the MAGA hats.

Ooh, triggering. And they were standing there after the March for Life, and they started being

harassed by the Black Hebrew Israelites, a bunch of cult members who are mostly known for being

ignored on the New York Subways. And then a Native American guy walked up into the middle of the

group banging a drum, stood face to face with a guy named Nick Sandman, who's apparently 17 years old, goes to Covington Catholic High, and Nick Sandman just stood there kind of awkwardly. And this was enough cause for people to lose their ever-loving minds. Well, Nick Sandman appeared on the Today Show this morning with Savannah Guthrie. It is amazing to watch the media attempt to twist their way out of this by trying to cast aspersions on the 17-year-olds whose great sin was standing there on his feet in a public place at one of the most visited places in America not moving with a mild smile on his face trying to diffuse the situation. He's the bad guy. Why? Because one, he wore a maga hat, and two, because he's a white religious kid.

So here's Savannah Guthrie trying to make that case.

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