Donald Trump Defends People Who Attended White Supremacist Rally In Charlottesville (Plus A Whole Lo
 

Poor Donald has to secure his base

Our country is FUCKED.

President Donald Trump spoke again Tuesday on the white supremacist conflict in Charlottesville, Virginia, defending his much-criticized initial statement on the protests and offering an even stronger critique of demonstrators and the causes they fought for during the violent weekend gathering.

During remarks at Trump Tower, the president blasted protesters “on both sides” of the conflict in Charlottesville, echoing his initial statement that there was hatred “on many sides.”

“You had a group on one side who was bad, and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent, and nobody wants to say that, but I’ll say it right now,” Trump said, referring to white supremacists, anti-fascists known as “antifa” and counterprotesters who converged in Charlottesville over the weekend. “You had a group on the other side that came charging in without a permit, and they were very, very violent.”

Trump explained why he wasn’t quick to condemn any specific people in his initial statement on the protests.

“You have people who are very fine people on both sides,” Trump said.

He argued he was waiting on “the facts” Saturday before condemning white supremacists.

“I wanted to make sure, unlike most politicians, that what I said was correct, not make a quick statement. The statement I made on Saturday, the first statement, was a fine statement, but you don’t make statements that direct unless you know the facts,” Trump argued. “It takes a little while to get the facts. You still don’t know the facts. It is a very, very important process to me. It is a very important statement. So I don’t want to go quickly and just make a statement for the sake of making a political statement. I want to know the facts.”

Trump stayed silent until Saturday afternoon on the situation in Charlottesville, which began heating up with white supremacist marches Friday night. His response ― which followed that of his wife, Melania, the first from the White House to comment on the protests ― was a rebuke of hatred “on many sides.”

“We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides ― on many sides,” Trump said at a ceremony for the signing of a bill to reform the Veterans Affairs health care system. “It’s been going on for a long time in our country, not Donald Trump, not Barack Obama. It’s been going on for a long, long time.”

Trump said Tuesday his initial remarks were described as “beautiful.” However, he was widely panned for failing to call out hate groups, prompting even some Republican lawmakers to criticize his remarks.

On Monday ― three days after the events in Charlottesville began and two days after a car driven by a white supremacist plowed into a group of counterprotesters and killed a woman ― Trump finally condemned hate groups in a press conference where he appeared rigid, carefully reading his statement from a teleprompter.

But on Tuesday, Trump issued his strongest statement yet, pointing blame at groups who showed up to demonstrate against the white supremacists who organized in Charlottesville to protest the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee, a Confederate general.

“What about the alt-left that came charging at the, as you say, ‘alt-right’? Do they have any semblance of guilt?” Trump asked reporters. “What about the fact that they came charging with clubs in their hands, swinging clubs? Do they have any problem? I think they do.”

During his remarks Tuesday, the president argued taking down Confederate statues, such as the Lee statue, could lead to the removal of statues of other historic figures, such as George Washington or Thomas Jefferson.

“You really do have to ask yourself, where does it stop?” Trump said.

He also defended those in his administration who have ties to white nationalism, including senior adviser Steve Bannon.

Ever the businessman, Trump also took the opportunity to plug his winery in Virginia before leaving the press conference, saying it’s the reason he knows a lot about Charlottesville.

Donald Trump Defends People Who Attended White Supremacist Rally In Charlottesville (Plus A Whole Lot More) | HuffPost

You're an idiot. The end.

ANTIFA was there for peace? Don't lie now...

North Carolina KKK leader: 'I'm sorta glad' people got hit, woman died in Charlottesville | Fox News

My last post for a few weeks, have a pre planned event to attend

To my American friends.. its time get out
Your on the brink of civil or nuclear war and failing that the economy is about to tank.

If your lucky you get one, if the shit goes down how I see it your going to get all 3.

That dude is one sick demented puppy. But you are right, with both sides locked in on the team sport, and their side is nothing but peaceful angels, its all the other sides fault for things, then its hard to see where this ends in anything other than another civil war.

On the topic of a possible civil war....let's get something straight. People who are against white supremacy FAR outweigh people who are white supremacists. They can come out of the shadows, but they're going to get slapped the fuck down. It won't be a war between blacks and whites. It'll be a war between a small percentage of whites vs Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Jews and most white people.

They're loud but insignificant as a group with any kind of power. And it'll be even harder for them to recruit once potential candidates see that many of the people at the Charlottesville rally have been called out on social media and will be branded as racists for life, and also ostracized by family and employers.

they should just go start their own country and get the fuck out of this one.

David Duke and Richard Spencer both tweeted, thanking President Trump.

This is batshit crazy.

Very well said. :thumbsup

Even FOX News is in shock over Trump today.

If it happens it won't be war between White Supremists and ANTIFA or BLM. It will be Left vs Right, instead of North vs South.

Hopefully the police gets their shit together and starts to handle the bullshit and troublemakers well before it gets to far down that line. But I am not very hopeful with the vitriol coming from the far extremes.

Both of them should die a very early death. They can tweet whatever they want. It doesn't make Trump wrong in what he said today. Both sides have groups that behave like fucking idiots and should be denounced and minimized by everyone, at every opportunity. If you think your side doesn't have problem groups that create bullshit and violence, then you are part of the problem as well. Nothing improves until the vast majority stop lying and start being real about what is happening all around us. In every corner.

You are absolutely wrong.

If it comes down to it (and I can't see civil war breaking out), the average white liberal marching with Antifa today would be influenced by a natural calling and become a turncoat.

Don't give opinions on what you think the average white liberal will do. A scumbag like yourself probably doesn't have a frame of reference for what a normal person is like because you only know other scumbags. You think the way you do and are so cynical about human behavior because your life sucks.

Show me a gaping asshole on two legs and I'll show you someone who has a shitty life and no one likes him. That's you, by the way.

Trump is right ....

Take ISIS ... I know there are some quite fine people there .... and both sides are to blame ... America with it's weapons ... They went there to fight .. they knew ....






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This was well said. Nazis and white supremacists are not on any side that normal people can support. Even trumpets have to let this one go.

I have relatives who fought the nazis. I can't ever see myself marching with them.

Yeah, call that country 'Reichland' and when they all get in one place ...

actually you are 100% ignorant of US history if you think race relations are bad in this country. newsflash dumb lib - there is no institutional racism anymore, like there was from the 60s & earlier. the civil war was 150 years ago, not last november, dumbfuck.

the only race crisis in this country is ginned up by LIBERALS. its liberals in the colleges & media that tell young people its still jim crow out there (its not) tell young black kids the cops are slave patrols (they're not) & tells america the cops & the GOP are all KKK. its liberals targeting statues, because they have nothing better to do. no real racism to fight. so they murder cops & shoot at GOP congressmen.

its a total delusion, hallucination, liberal bullshit. you dumb libs are the ones bringing racists out of the closet with your endless race whining. you just conveniently ignore the racists came together because you dumb busybodies are trashing southern history with your shit. & the liberal media is fanning the flames of it all, thinking its the path to ruin trump & the GOP. in fact it will just embolden the people that elected trump & the GOP into control of 26 states.

your entire liberal enterprise is in a slow death spiral, & you have no clue its happening. the liberal media & hollywood echo chamber cloak the truth. they put out lying poll after lying poll...hilary was up by 11 points. she lost.

maybe in 2032 after 16 straight years of GOP presidents will you dumbfucks get the message.

idiots.

:1orglaugh

it really is amazing...the power of a lying propaganda media, that has purged all not-radical left thinking out of its ranks, then packages socialism & race hallucinations as mainstream...& look at the millions of dumb dupes that believe it all.

its no accident i call you all dumb libs. you liberals are fucking morons, right to the core. too dumb to see the truth of a diverse country whose races actually do get along, if you take your eyes away from the lying media for just 5 minutes.

but you dumb libs are too duped up to see reality anymore.

:1orglaugh

i bet you idiot dumbfucks really thought hilary would win too.

so when does reality set in for you dumb shits. when do you wake up from your fairy tales & realize all your social justice causes are wall to wall liberal bullshit?

maybe when trump wins re-election? nope.

when the next GOP nominee wins in 2024? 2028? when will you idiots stop believing the polls that always have liberals winning, until they lose. over & over & over again.

dumb libs.

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Why do people refer to WW2 Germany as the Nazis? That's like calling WW2 USA the Democrats.

Look at the political affiliation life cycle of the average white American.

A constant stream of brainwashed kids keep left wing US politics in business and that is a fact. These rebellious youths usually back left wing socialist ideals. Then they get a little older, aren't as influenced by the fake media and move towards the right. That has been the cycle for many decades.

In a civil war scenario I believe that shift to the right would be accelerated since the glue on the left is based on financial and social justice outrage. And during a civil war that stuff doesn't mean anything anymore. But the one big problem for the left in a civil war is the fact that blacks and mexicans would attack *all* whites. Then it becomes "us versus them" for everyone involved.

This isn't a left/right thing

These are fucking white supremacists and Nazi's you fucking morons

The irony of people supporting those who hold high the confederate/Nazi flag saying thing like "you lost get over it" honestly its all too much

He said what was true. This is now international news because the anti-fascist made it.

:thumbsup

A lot are too stupid to even start comprehending that ....

" there are many fine people in ISIS .... " lol

What cracks me up about all of these "white people" is they don't seem to understand they aren't as "pure" as they think. Do a DNA test on them and they discover they are only 70% European and suddenly they discover they are the race they hated.

You just need to wait a couple of decades, at least.

Younger whites will be far less inclined to hate themselves and their heritage, especially if it goes against what their parents and teachers are indoctrinating them with.

You would probably think that since you branded yourself a Nazi in another thread. Fuck off scumbag.

He lied.

You're perpetuating the lie.

Why?