Monday, Donald Trump gave a train wreck of a press conference from Trump Tower where he essentially stepped back on his Sunday statement only to double and triple down on what he originally said Saturday. You know the statement where the President of the United States actually had the audacity to draw a moral equivalence between Neo-Nazi‘s and those who are actively trying to protest against it.
Likewise on Monday, Trump elaborated on his Saturday comments in the wake of Charlottesville to actually say there were some “very fine people” on both sides of the protests – which would include those of the white supremacists.
Via NBC News:
You have some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that [sic] were very fine people on both sides. You had people in that group — excuse me, excuse me — I saw the same pictures as 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.
So who were those “fine people” in part of those protesting the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue? Well Elle Reeve of Vice News took part in a mini documentary profiling the Alt Right attending the protest.
I guess I’m missing something…
So the people chanting “Jews will not replace us”, “blood and soil” and “whose streets, out streets” were the fine people just there to help preserve a Confederate statue?
I’ve always spoke of the sick legitimacy Donald Trump gave white supremacists and other forms of human filth who continue to eat the President’s rhetoric up. Just go and look at what dirt bags like Richard Spencer, David Duke and Andrew Anglin are saying about Trump’s comments. They love it and believe they’ve been vindicated in their actions.
You heard that correctly.
Fascists in the United States feel they’ve scored a victory because the PRESIDENT has given them the same moral equivalency of those fighting to end racism and bigotry.
Let that sink in.
