Trump didn't condemn white
supremacist groups and their role in violence in some American cities this
summer, branding it solely a left-wing problem.
US
Election 2020: President
Donald Trump on Tuesday didn't condemn white supremacist groups and their role
in violence in some American cities this summer, branding it solely a left-wing
problem and telling one far-right extremist group to stand back and stand by.
Almost everything I see is
from the left wing, not from the right wing," said Trump, whose exchange
with Democrat Joe Biden left the extremist group Proud Boys celebrating what
some of its members saw as tacit approval.
He was responding to a
question from debate moderator Chris Wallace, who asked the president if he
would condemn white supremacist and militia groups that have shown up at some
protests. Wallace specifically mentioned Kenosha, Wisconsin, where a white
teenager was charged with killing two protesters during demonstrations over the
police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man. Trump has repeatedly blamed
antifa, which stands for the anti-fascist movement.
I'm willing to do anything.
I want to see peace," Donald
Trump said. What do you want to call them? Give me a name." Proud
Boys, Democrat Joe Biden chimed in, referencing a far-right extremist group
that has shown up at protests in the Pacific Northwest. The male-only group of
neo-fascists describes themselves as western chauvinists, and they have been
known to incite street violence.
Proud Boys, stand back and
stand by, Trump said. But I'll tell you what, I'll tell you what, somebody's
got to do something about antifa and the left because this is not a right-wing
problem.
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