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Oregon’s attorney general filed a lawsuit Monday alleging the president had applied a “baseless, wildly hyperbolic pretext” to send in the troops.

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“People ask, well, is ‘authoritarianism’ you being hyperbolic?”

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Others seemed to celebrate Kirk’s killing or suggest it was justified in some way given his own hyperbolic remarks from the past.

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When asked about White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller's comment that Washington is more violent than Baghdad, Bowser said "any comparison to a war-torn country is hyperbolic and false".

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"Any comparison to a war-torn country is hyperbolic and false," Bowser said.

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