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How didn’t you fact-check him right then and there,

? “Trump may have killed more people than Hitler and Mao.” 20-45 million people were killed under the Mao regime, Hitler was responsible for the deaths of more than 20 million people. This segment is shameful.

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Julio Rosas

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Aug 25, 2019

.@AllenFrancesMD, a psychiatrist, tells @Brianstelter: Trump "may be responsible for many more million deaths" than Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong. washingtonexaminer.com/news/duke-psyc

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Brian Stelter

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I agree that I should have interrupted after that line. I wish I had heard him say it, but I was distracted by tech difficulties (that's why the show open didn't look the way it normally does, I had two computers at the table, etc). Not hearing the comment is my fault.

4:48 PM · Aug 25, 2019

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Admitting a mistake. Way to go Brian. Thank you.

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You let someone of his caliber on your show to begin with. That is on you.

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The problem is giving someone so clearly willing to violate the standards of their profession a platform. No psychiatrist is supposed to comment on the mental health status of someone they have not examined. Astonishing.