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YouTuber Carl Benjamin has apologised to MP Jess Philips for his rape comments made in the past, saying: “I want to set a better example”. In 2016, Benjamin said he “wouldn’t even rape” Phillips in a vicious tweet and then in 2019 posted an online video suggesting that “with enough pressure I might cave”. Benjamin, who gained a large YouTube following under the name Sargon of Akkad, failed in his bid to get elected to the European Parliament as a UKIP candidate in 2019 after his comments about Phillips were exposed. Speaking to Steven Edginton on GBN America he said: “There’s been a real chang…

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