Scott Walker's running mate backs off false claim that Mandela Barnes knelt during anthem
With kneeling being such an important issue, she was stupid to do this.---but she is a Kleefisch!!!
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Scott Walker's running mate backs off false claim that Mandela Barnes knelt during anthem
Patrick Marley and Molly Beck, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 11:14 a.m. CT Sept. 18, 2018 | Updated 3:04 p.m. CT Sept. 18, 2018
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MADISON - GOP Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch backed off Tuesday from her false claims her opponent knelt during the national anthem, saying she now believes him after making the allegation without evidence.
Kleefisch first alleged two weeks ago that Mandela Barnes knelt during the national anthem — suggesting Barnes was protesting the anthem over treatment of black Americans by police and other government institutions.
Kleefisch said she heard the claim from someone else but wouldn't say who it was. Barnes said he didn't consider her comments an apology.
“Don't tell me you're sorry cause you're not,” Barnes said in response, quoting lyrics from pop star Rihanna’s “Take a Bow.” “You’re only sorry you got caught.”
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Kleefisch dropped her claim Tuesday, a day after she claimed she was at an event with Barnes when he knelt during the anthem.
"I was looking at the flag and not my opponent," Kleefisch said on WTMJ-AM (620). "And I was told later that he kneeled briefly and I repeated what someone else told me. And he has said that he didn’t do it and I have to believe him and I have to apologize for repeating something I was told."...................................
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