Trump, referring to marchers who are chanting "Jews will not replace us!"
- and he calls them "fine people."
What could be more clear than that?
It's a dog whistle to all the white nationalists.
Vinny
I assume you are referring to the Charlottesville speech. The people he was referring to were the people protesting the removal of the civil war statues, not the neo nazis. This is a trope the media (especially social media), have repeated again and again, but the full speech taken in context shows it simply isnt true.
Excuse me, they didn’t put themselves down as neo-Nazis, and you had some very bad people in that group. (referring to the people who got the permit to protest the removal of the statues) But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. You had people in that group – excuse me, excuse me, I saw the same pictures you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.”
After another question at that press conference, Trump became even more explicit:
“I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists because they should be condemned totally.”
He also said, “Racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.”
Funny thing though. When I tried to search for the full text of Trump's speech, I tried several different inputs into google and I never could get it. What I did get, were 100,000 hits on articles decrying his speech...and yet it took nearly a dozen to ACTUALLY FIND THE RELEVANT PART OF THE SPEECH. ALL of them left out the context and the clarifying remarks actually in the speech. I find that...odd. If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to see it did it happen should be changed to "If google searches turn up zero results, did it ever happen..."
Try again Vin
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