Vanan Murugesan
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It's pretty clear that more of that report is true than not true.
And then they as a as a clever spokesperson would do not an honest and ethical one, but a clever one would do is you find a piece, a specific fact that you can deny and hang your hat on.
Exactly, exactly.
So let me try to answer your question.
So a couple of things.
So, you know, Sahan is six years old.
So some of the things that you bring up, we're still trying to crack the code, right?
You're trying to solve for it, right?
So a few things.
and hope that most people take it as a full denial of the whole story rather than what the denial actually it is.
I think that was a very deliberate decision that was made when it was started.
We published in English and that was deliberate because our mission is not to just serve one pocket of immigrants.
But the fact is, this is one of those stories where do the details even matter?
As you mentioned, we have a whole host of communities.
I mean, the entire Trump administration has been behaving this way.
We primarily serve East Africans, Hmong and Hispanic.
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But it was also equally important for us to show all Minnesotans, so the non-immigrants, to a more equitable state.
Any negative blowback, unless it looks like you're keeping Trump out of from getting a cut, like, you know, he'll over time get upset if it looks like you're trying to pull one over on him financially, then he'll get upset.
And that only works if we have non-immigrants reading our work as well.