Congress

Dem Congressman Apologizes for Using Racial Slur in Hearing: ‘I Misspoke’

YIKES

Rep. David Trone said he was “deeply disappointed” to have “accidentally” uttered the term.

Rep. David Trone (D-MD) later released a statement saying the racial slur has a “long dark terrible history.”
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A Democratic congressman running for Senate apologized Thursday after he uttered a racial slur during a House Budget Committee hearing, explaining that he’d intended to use a different word when he “misspoke.”

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