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An EC spokesman responds to #Chairgate, explaining protocol department isn't travelling with leaders now because of Covid and didn't see arrangement beforehand.

"The Commission president was clearly surprised, that's something you can see from the video"
"The protocol level of our president is exactly the same as that of the president of the European Council," he says.

"The president should have been seated in exactly the same manner as the Council and Turkish presidents" as she is normally treated in foreign visits.
However "even though she was surprised she preferred to give priority on protocol matters in a way that EU citizens would have expected her to conduct herself."

"I’m sure this was the right way of approaching this."
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Let's talk about how a certain Senator's, who is grasping at relevance, fanboys react to a Black woman pointing out she has the receipts.

Because they put her in danger today.
Senator Sanders has long been known to have not simply rabid fans but violent ones.
From an attack on Representative Jim McDermott for the mere fact he supported Clinton over Sanders: q13fox-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/q13fox.com…
To the violence exhibited at the Nevada caucuses including the #chairgate but more the violent threats against NV Dem chairwoman: thehill-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/thehill.co…
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