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Leaked emails: Hillary campaign staffer worried that ‘amen’ might be too offensive
October 21, 2016 | BPR Wire | Print Article   

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By Jonah Bennett, DCNF DC-NEWS 300X71

Staffers for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign debated about whether the word “amen” was too offensive to use in a tweet about Pope Francis himself, according to leaked emails.

In an email chain leaked by the organization WikiLeaks, from June 2015, Lauren Peterson, a Clinton campaign staffer, listed two options for Hillary to tweet out, regarding Pope Francis’ comments on climate change. Those two options were selected as “people’s favorites.” The point of messaging them around was to pare down the two tweets to one.

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