But when pressed again on the issue, Mr. Trump equivocated.
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Facebook has equivocated on this question in a telling way.
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Trump equivocated on whether he felt he could trust Putin.
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But when asked if that future would be bright, he equivocated.
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Wood himself equivocated about the depicted relationship of the two protagonists.
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But it is remarkable, because Trump has equivocated on the issue repeatedly.
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Janice Schakowsky (D-IL) followed up, Zuckerberg again equivocated about the GDPR.
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But O'Rourke equivocated when a woman asked if he would support reparations.
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In a late-November statement, Trump equivocated on the crown prince's culpability.
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But, after the bill passed, Newsom equivocated and asked for additional amendments.
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Mr. Stallone said he equivocated until his wife, Jennifer Flavin, called him out.
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Harris equivocated after her initial declaration, reinforcing nagging questions about her core beliefs.
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During the gathering, Mr. Blankfein also equivocated on his own time frame for retiring.
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He has always equivocated on the issue, calling DACA unconstitutional while opposing its total repeal.
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"My client has never doubted the paternity of this child, has never equivocated," Clint says.
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Mr. Trump has also equivocated on whether the Russians were solely responsible for the hacking.
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Longhaired, lanky and contemplative, Jeff, the musician, equivocated when asked whether he approved of the bombing.
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President Obama hesitated, vacillated, equivocated and pondered with deep thoughts – but failed to take effective action.
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Feinstein thought he equivocated on whether he would send Congress, and the public, the Mueller report.
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While several Republican and Democratic U.S. lawmakers have pressed for sanctions, Trump has equivocated in recent days.
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He equivocated before repudiating former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke during the White House race.
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Trump has at times equivocated on his decision, tweeting he may "revisit" it if Congress doesn't act.
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The events in Charlottesville sparked national outrage after President Donald Trump equivocated his condemnation of white supremacists.
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Unlike his statement from a week earlier when he said Trump had confidence in Comey, Spicer equivocated.
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After other attacks, Turkish officials have equivocated, citing as potential culprits either the Islamic State or Kurdish militants.
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He tried to paint himself as a straight-talker but repeatedly equivocated and deflected when asked hard questions.
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The tweets kept coming on Monday, when the president equivocated anti-Semitism with the Times' coverage of his presidency.
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But the President has equivocated, and seems more animated by punitive tariffs, which would never fly with GOP leadership.
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President Donald Trump equivocated his condemnation of neo-Nazis after the incident, prompting backlash from both Republicans and Democrats.
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When pressed, by voters and reporters, for more details, Mr. O'Rourke has equivocated or vacillated on several policy questions.
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Take the baby boomers who, like Mr. Trump, became the nation's leaders: Bill Clinton equivocated enough to avoid service.
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He struggled to unify people after the deadly neo-Nazi violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, as he equivocated about white nationalism.
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"At a press conference the following day, however, Trump equivocated his response, saying there were "very fine people" on "both sides.
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When he brought up the law's racist history and asked if such legislation was appropriate to keep on the books, Greene equivocated.
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Mr. Trump had equivocated publicly over the program, but ultimately he called on Congress to come up with a replacement within months.
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Mr. Trump had equivocated publicly over the program, but ultimately, he called on Congress to come up with a replacement within months.
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Last year, Trump equivocated about the endorsement of a former KKK leader, saying "I know nothing about David Duke" or white supremacists.
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And now, Britain's Labour Party, which first equivocated under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn during the Brexit vote, proposes a soft Brexit.
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While Bolsonaro himself has equivocated about his position on old government pension programs, his market-friendly economics adviser has promised comprehensive pension reform.
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel initially embraced that idea, but equivocated after the Trump administration made clear that it had no appetite for such agreements.
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Gannett equivocated on whether it still wanted to make a deal but ended up setting aside a blockbuster offer of $18.50 a share.
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On Thursday morning, Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores equivocated on whether the "secret society" text was a joke or something more nefarious.
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On the campaign trail, Mahathir's political alliance promised to repeal the fake news law but since the election the new premier has equivocated.
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RATCLIFFE: Well, I think that the Inspector General equivocated a little bit from the written word or his written report in his testimony today.
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In reality, African-Americans always vote in line with their interests, and a president who has equivocated on white supremacist violence naturally repels them.
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" In his letter Friday, Cummings said the White House has "stalled, equivocated, and failed to produce a single document or witness to the Committee.
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He has waffled or equivocated or backtracked on tax plans, releasing his tax returns, his proposed Muslim ban, abortion and any number of issues.
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Like every other decent American, I was outraged that the president of the United States equivocated in condemning neo-Nazi activity in this country.
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Trump's moral leadership also came into question when he initially equivocated after he was endorsed by white supremacist David Duke during the 2016 campaign.
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He equivocated on impeachment (how can you not have an answer?) and bogged himself down in a question about demolishing vacant houses in South Bend.
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But after Mr. Trump equivocated in his response to an outburst of white nationalist violence last August in Charlottesville, Va., the advisory groups swiftly unraveled.
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In the most recent episode, President Trump has equivocated as to whom he believes: his own intelligence agencies or Mr. Putin, a retired K.G.B. colonel.
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At least on TV. Ms. Harris equivocated a bit when asked her opinion of the real-world parallels, at least in terms of wardrobe, between Mrs.
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He equivocated when asked whether both his former colleagues resigned because of their concerns about the aid, making it clear that he drew the conclusion himself.
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He has described the autonomous Kurdish cantonments as "temporary structures," and he has never equivocated about his intention to bring the entire country back under his control.
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When presented with an obvious opportunity to condemn the evil that was and is Nazism, he first waited, then equivocated, then read from a teleprompter, then relativized.
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Trump acknowledged the humanitarian crisis by calling it a "rough situation over there" but equivocated conditions in North Korea with those in other parts of the world.
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Almost two weeks later, when asked under oath by lawmakers on both sides of Capitol Hill about how the special counsel's office felt about his letter, Barr equivocated.
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The bipartisan vote Thursday comes two months after the Saudi journalist's killing at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and after Trump has equivocated over who is to blame.
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She also equivocated on whether she would uphold the 2011 Title IX guidance of the Office of Civil Rights to help protect victims of sexual assault on campus.
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CNN reports the President equivocated after an initial plan was to fire Bannon and then-Chief of Staff Reince Priebus at same time, the official says, because Rep.
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Instead, President Trump has equivocated about whether Prince Mohammed might have authorized it, even as he has extolled the value of Saudi Arabian oil sales and defense contracts.
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After Trump's wavering condemnations of neo-Nazi violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August, Mnuchin publicly defended the president against charges that he'd equivocated between hate groups and counterprotesters.
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When Mr. Tillerson equivocated, saying he hoped to learn more once he could receive classified information, Mr. Rubio's retort was the stuff of a thousand cable news replays.
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The president has equivocated over whether he believes Russia interfered in the 2016 election, even as his senior officials warn that Moscow is looking to meddle once again in 2018.
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Many commentators have noticed the similarities between this episode and the time last year when the President equivocated on blaming neo-Nazis and white supremacists for violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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He has been silent or equivocated in the face of blatant anti-Semitism, such as that witnessed by the neo-Nazis chanting "Jews will not replace us" in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Andrew Scheer, the Conservative leader, said in Parliament on Monday that Mr. Trudeau had caved in to "radical activists" and had equivocated too long before acting, showing weakness and fear.
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Trump has equivocated on whether he supports the idea of a two-state solution, with one for the Israelis and one for the Palestinians, a plank of U.S. policy for decades.
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This is, after all, the same guy who equivocated over the murder of a protestor by a white nationalist and still can claim the support of about four in 10 voters.
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Meanwhile, Trump has equivocated and seemed personally uninterested in pressing Beijing on human rights, even as officials — like his hawkish national security adviser John Bolton — have made more aggressive public statements.
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As the president has equivocated on their views — some are "very fine people," he said last week — less powerful but more numerous voices are trying to make clear that they disagree.
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For 20 years he equivocated about gravitational waves, unsure whether these undulations in the fabric of space and time were predicted or ruled out by his revolutionary 1915 theory of general relativity.
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Fed officials equivocated on how far rates were from the neutral level; they vacillated on whether restrictive policy would eventually be warranted; and they obfuscated the substance of their data-dependent approach.
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Dery notes that Gorey's friends were predominantly gay men, and that nearly everyone who met him believed him to be gay, but that he often equivocated about his sexual identity in interviews.
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That President Trump has failed to condemn Putin's statement, just as he equivocated on Charlottesville, undermines America's moral responsibility to combat the kind of racism and anti-Semitism perniciously re-emerging today.
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And during a debate last week, Ms. James equivocated when asked a question about the death penalty being applied to the man accused of fatally shooting 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue.
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In August, Kelly was seen hanging his head as Trump equivocated about condemning neo-Nazis protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, and said there were "very fine people" on both sides of the protests.
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When Mr. Tillerson equivocated on Saudi Arabia as well and Mr. Rubio appeared prepared to chastise him again, Mr. Tillerson suggested that the two were not as far apart as it seemed.
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When Trump denied or equivocated about whether this war against democracy is even happening he hurt American patriots who are defending America from it, and helps Russian operatives who are aggressively waging it.
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Once in office, he suffered few defections even as he equivocated over white nationalists in Charlottesville and made disparaging remarks about undocumented immigrants and just-as-disparaging remarks about some of their home nations.
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At a joint news conference that followed the leaders' meeting, Trump equivocated on whether Russia meddled in the 2016 election — even though Coats and multiple U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that the Kremlin did interfere.
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Recently, the governor equivocated when reporters confronted him about his 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook page, which had a picture of someone in blackface and another person in a Ku Klux Klan robe.
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When Mr Trump banned travel from Muslim-majority countries, withdrew from the Paris agreement on climate change and equivocated on racist protesters in Charlottesville, to name but a few occasions, chief executives roared their protest.
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The agency's interim chief at the time, Daniel Elwell, refused to pledge to ground the 22015 MAX until all investigations had been completed, and he equivocated on whether simulator training would be required for pilots.
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The troubles accelerated following Saturday, when Trump equivocated on violence in Charlottesville, Va., without condemning white supremacist groups as the catalyst for clashes between protest groups that ultimately left three dead and multiple people injured.
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After confirming to the New York Times that four of Zola's six ads were rejected because they featured the lesbian couple, the network equivocated this simple kiss between two women with far more "controversial" fare.
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"Whatever the President actually told Putin, it would have had much more force if just the day before President Trump had not equivocated about who was behind the unprecedented attack targeting America last fall," he said.
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" He equivocated a bit, wondering aloud if he could "be that person" to play the role of national unifier, to "bring this country together around the big things that we know we should be able to do.
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Having equivocated at his first press conference on Saturday, Mr Trump said what was needed on Monday and then undid all his good work on Tuesday—briefly uniting Fox News and Mother Jones in their criticism, surely a first.
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The press has focused on the disruption; his false statements in office; the fear and dislocation in immigrant communities; the many campaign promises, from eliminating the export-import bank to declaring China a currency manipulator, on which Trump has equivocated.
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Does he line up behind the majority of tech company CEOs who have spoken publicly about the case and offered their praise and highly equivocated support to Apple, or does he stand on the side of the U.S. law enforcement?
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That conviction led Mr. Frazier to step down last year from President Trump's manufacturing advisory council, the first of many executives to do so after the president equivocated in his response to white nationalist violence in Charlottesville, Va., in August 219.
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His magnanimity seemed incongruous, given that he had previously reportedly lambasted African nations as "shitholes," complained that he could not order the Justice Department to pursue Hillary Clinton and equivocated over condemning neo-Nazi demonstrators after the Charlottesville riots last year.
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In a stark shift, Mr. Trump, who had equivocated as recently as the day before over whether Moscow was solely responsible for the 2016 hacking, broached the subject with Mr. Putin, telling him that Americans were concerned about Russia's interference.
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When asked at a press conference this week during the UN General Assembly about what sort of peace deal he wants, a one-state or two-state deal where both Palestinians and Israelis have their own separate states, he equivocated.
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Instead of drawing a clear line under its own issues, Samsung has equivocated on the best approach to take, it hasn't used a consistent global strategy, and it's failed to differentiate replacement Notes from the original ones in a clear and decisive way.
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In an interview with Fox News's Tucker Carlson, Trump equivocated on whether the US would come to a NATO ally's defense if attacked, called the people from Montenegro "very aggressive," and worried aloud that protecting Montenegro might unleash a third world war.
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Trump also once again equivocated on whether he might extend the deadline for DACA permits to begin expiring if Congress can't get ready in time — a possibility that if left open could complicate the sense of urgency in Congress to reach a deal.
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Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisDemocratic senators ask DOJ watchdog to expand Giuliani probe CNN signs Andrew Yang as contributor How the media fall in and out of love with candidates MORE (D-Calif.), who both equivocated at times and quickly saw their support crumble.
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As just about everyone else has equivocated on Kaepernick's protest during the national anthem, Harrison said he supported his right to protest—and even said he thought Kaepernick's heart was in the right place—but he felt that the 49ers quarterback went about it the wrong way.
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The President has famously called climate change a hoax, and members of his Cabinet have equivocated on the science, injecting doubt into a long-held scientific consensus that humans are causing the planet to warm by burning fossil fuels and pumping heat-trapping pollution into the atmosphere.
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A President who equivocated on the repugnant views that my grandparents fled; a President who lumped together the persecutors and the persecuted; a President who instantly condemns any unflattering comments about himself, but gave the benefit of the doubt to those spewing hate toward his fellow Americans.
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State governments have failed to fully take advantage of federal resources, including the $20173 million Congress gave to the states this year, and President Donald Trump has repeatedly equivocated on the significance of the threat, which has left the Republican Party apprehensive about being aggressive on election cybersecurity.
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State governments have failed to fully take advantage of federal resources, including the $380 million Congress gave to the states this year, and President Donald Trump has repeatedly equivocated on the significance of the threat, which has left the Republican Party apprehensive about being aggressive on election cybersecurity.
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And it was the second time Mr. Northam, a moderate by inclination, equivocated on a racially charged issue in an effort to satisfy liberals and more centrist voters: Earlier in the campaign he said he would lead the effort to take down Confederate statues, only to subsequently say he would defer to local authorities.
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This weekend's vague support from the president of the KKK and white nationalist groups that marched in Charlottesville, Va. and then his doubling down with more direct support delivered in an emotional rant in which he equivocated the racist groups with the counter protesters marching for peace, became too much for any brand to bear.
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Clinton has also equivocated and hedged when talking about the investigation into her email practices, calling it a "security inquiry" at one point and insisting that she "never received nor sent any material that was marked classified," an excessively lawyerly turn of phrase that distinguishes between material marked classified and classified material that may have not been marked correctly.
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" Speaking in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the democratic presidential candidate equivocated between the two positions, specifying that "there has got to be some way to avoid breaking data encryption and opening the door to a lot of bad actors," but that there also "has to be some way to follow up on criminal activity and prevent crimes and terrorism.
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Last summer, Ms. Morrison was among the business leaders to step down from President Trump's manufacturing jobs initiative after Mr. Trump equivocated in his public statements about race-related violence in Charlottesville, Va. Ms. Morrison, who declined to comment for this article, began her career at Procter & Gamble and then moved to Nestlé and PepsiCo before joining Campbell.
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"I am unable to dismiss the reputational harm that could occur to a living person if the grand jury transcripts reveal that their parent or grandparent was a suspect, a witness who equivocated or was uncooperative, a member of the grand jury which refused to indict, or a person whose name was identified as a Klan member," he said.
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"Make it stop," it reads by May's anguished face, with the words "Article 50 Repeal" in the background, in reference to her power to unilaterally revoke the notice Britain gave that it would leave the EU. But opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who has said he will deliver Brexit and equivocated over the terms of a new vote, also was criticized.
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But while Trump praised Strange as a "real fighter and a real good guy," he also equivocated on his own endorsement by musing that he "might have made a mistake" by backing Strange, admitting that he'll be "campaigning like hell" for Moore if he wins and obscuring the rally's original message by criticizing football players who kneel during the national anthem.
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" Yet, for every one of these élites, there were legions of working-class readers who admired what the St. Paul Appeal called Trotter's "unceasing warfare against injustice": "While the majority of the so-called leaders have equivocated and compromised the people for gold or power, William Monroe Trotter has always stood as a stone wall against every form of injustice.
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Recall that when Trump equivocated in criticizing neo-Nazis demonstrators at Charlottesville, Virginia, last August, she said she had a "personal conversation" with the President, and she wrote of the protesters "horrible acts" to her staff, "We must denounce [white supremacists] at every turn..." Haley also raised eyebrows when she told CBS that the women who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct deserve to be heard.
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Freedom Caucus Leader Mark Meadows equivocated on precisely this point, as quoted by Huffington Post reporter Matt Fuller: Meadows said Monday night that the pre-existing conditions protections would remain in the new form of the health care bill, but when pressed on whether gutting the community rating provisions would allow insurers to charge people with pre-existing conditions more, he acknowledged that some sick people may be picking up the slack so that premiums of the healthy would go down.
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