Benjamin Goggin, NBC News’s deputy tech editor, defended his report on Nazis receiving a “friendly reception” at the recent Conservative Political Action Conference after CPAC publicly called it “false, misleading, and grossly manipulative.”

Goggin noted in his report that CPAC has long had to deal with far-right extremists trying to infiltrate the conference, but in past years would quickly eject those with explicit ties to neo-Nazis, like Nick Fuentes.

“But this year, racist conspiracy theorists didn’t meet any perceptible resistance at the conference where Donald Trump has been the keynote speaker since 2017,” Goggin wrote…

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    "As we say in Germany, if there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis. " - Dr. Jens Foell

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      A possible caveat. If it’s an interrogation table would it be okay? This is obviously not an interrogation table though. This is a dinner table

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        I think there is a world of difference between talking with someone and interrogating them.

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        I hesitate to ask why so many people are sitting at an interrogation table, but I don’t know that much about interrogation…

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          Good cop, bad cop, bad cop, bad cop, bad cop, bad cop, bad cop, bad cop, bad cop, bad cop, bad cop, bad cop.

          And that first one isn’t that good either.