Louisiana Governor: Ten Commandments In Schools Could've Prevented Trump Shooting
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In an interview at the Republican National Convention, Jeff Landry defended a new state law requiring the religious guidance to be displayed in schools.
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) has an absurd theory about how displaying the Ten Commandments in classrooms could have prevented last weekend’s shooting of former President Donald Trump.
During a Thursday interview with Nexstar Media at the Republican National Convention, Landry justified using taxpayer dollars to defend his state from lawsuits after it passed new legislation requiring copies of the biblical commandments to appear in every public classroom in Louisiana.
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