Saturday, August 12, 2017

Trump's support for American domestic terrorists unclear

A black Charlottesville, VA police officer protects the first amendment rights of hate groups to speech and assembly.
President Trump spoke a day after riots broke out on account of the alt-right, white supremacist, neo-Nazi, KKK, racist domestic terrorist groups' convergence in Charlottesville, VA this weekend as part of their 'Unite the Right' rally in which three people died and scores were left injured. This rally was one of the largest such gatherings of bigots in decades.

“We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence. On many sides,” Trump said about the event at a press conference today.

What Trump omitted from his speech as well as obscured did not go overlooked by a handful of his party's members. GOP lawmakers John McCain, Orrin Hatch, Marco Rubio, Cory Gardner, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Tim Scott and Ted Cruz publicly pressured Trump with individual statements to call out and denounce the white supremacist groups.

"We should call evil by its name. My brother didn't give his life fighting Hitler for Nazi ideas to go unchallenged here at home." posted Hatch on Twitter.

Former KKK leader David Duke today said Trump inspired these groups to converge. His actuality can be viewed here: https://www.vox.com/2017/8/12/16138358/charlottesville-protests-david-duke-kkk

Neo-Nazis today published the following about Trump's remarks in their publication The Daily Stormer:
"Trump comments were good. He didn’t attack us. He just said the nation should come together. Nothing specific against us.
He said that we need to study why people are so angry, and implied that there was hate… on both sides!
So he implied the antifa are haters.
There was virtually no counter-signaling of us at all.
He said he loves us all.
Also refused to answer a question about White Nationalists supporting him.
No condemnation at all.
When asked to condemn, he just walked out of the room.
Really, really good.
God bless him."



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