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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 3935942" data-attributes="member: 48469"><a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/mark-burns-apologizes-clinton-blackface-227534" target="_blank">Trump surrogate apologizes for Clinton blackface tweet</a>&quot;Pastor Mark Burns, a prominent surrogate of Donald Trump, apologized on Tuesday after <a href="https://twitter.com/Henry3Castro/status/770334365280722944" target="_blank">retweeting</a> a digitally manipulated image of Hillary Clinton in blackface, only the latest in a series of tweets shared from his account accusing the Democratic nominee of pandering to black voters.CNN&#039;s Alisyn Camerota prefaced her question with Burns by remarking, &quot;This is allegedly, it claimed to be of Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton in black face. This is not true. This has been disproven and debunked time and again. This has surfaced in previous presidential races. So why share it?&quot;&quot;Well, obviously you know I think in reference to that particular post — of course, I didn&#039;t have the correct information knowing that it wasn&#039;t Bill Clinton,&quot; Burns said in an interview with CNN&#039;s &quot;New Day.&quot; &quot;And I apologize for that as well, for posting incorrect information. Again, I think that&#039;s what the true message of grace is, that you know once you discover new information, you are quickly to change your opinion and get back on the right path. And that&#039;s what I&#039;m doing right now to the whole world, is to say, listen, in my sincere heart of hearts, my job as a pastor is to draw people together, not push them away.&quot;Burns also offered an apology on his Twitter account.&quot;I&#039;m so sorry for the offensive #Blackface image of @HillaryClinton but stand by the message that we Blacks ARE being Used by #Dems for VOTES,&quot; he wrote.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 3935942, member: 48469"] [URL="https://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/mark-burns-apologizes-clinton-blackface-227534"]Trump surrogate apologizes for Clinton blackface tweet[/URL] "Pastor Mark Burns, a prominent surrogate of Donald Trump, apologized on Tuesday after [URL='https://twitter.com/Henry3Castro/status/770334365280722944']retweeting[/URL] a digitally manipulated image of Hillary Clinton in blackface, only the latest in a series of tweets shared from his account accusing the Democratic nominee of pandering to black voters. CNN's Alisyn Camerota prefaced her question with Burns by remarking, "This is allegedly, it claimed to be of Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton in black face. This is not true. This has been disproven and debunked time and again. This has surfaced in previous presidential races. So why share it?" "Well, obviously you know I think in reference to that particular post — of course, I didn't have the correct information knowing that it wasn't Bill Clinton," Burns said in an interview with CNN's "New Day." "And I apologize for that as well, for posting incorrect information. Again, I think that's what the true message of grace is, that you know once you discover new information, you are quickly to change your opinion and get back on the right path. And that's what I'm doing right now to the whole world, is to say, listen, in my sincere heart of hearts, my job as a pastor is to draw people together, not push them away." Burns also offered an apology on his Twitter account. "I'm so sorry for the offensive #Blackface image of @HillaryClinton but stand by the message that we Blacks ARE being Used by #Dems for VOTES," he wrote." [/QUOTE]

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