Liberal documentary filmmaker Michael Moore offered to pay any bail and legal fees for Bree Newsome, the black activist who was arrested for scaling a flagpole on South Carolina statehouse grounds and removing the Confederate flag Saturday morning. The flag was reinstated before a pro-Confederate flag rally.
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