When the mainstream media ask President Trump or Trump administration officials to denounce white supremacy, it's not a question - it's an accusation.
Hence one of the major media narratives spun out of the presidential debate earlier this week is that Trump "Refused to condemn white supremacy." Never mind that any honest person watching on Tuesday night, or who went back and read the transcript, knows that he did just that - although maybe not in the exact terms Chris Wallace and Joe Biden and the mainstream media demanded.
John Roberts of Fox News harangued White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany about it Thursday morning, asking for a "Definitive and declarative statement" on whether Trump denounces white supremacy.
McEnany replied, correctly, that the question had been answered by the president himself the day before, and on the debate stage Tuesday night, and many times over the past three-and-a-half years, directly quoting Trump's denunciations of white supremacy from August 2019 and August 2017, and noting that just last week Trump said he'd like the Ku Klux Klan to be designated a terrorist organization.
The press demands Trump condemn white supremacy, Trump condemns it, and the press pretends he didn't, or that he equivocated, or that he dodged.
In August 2017, after a white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Va., ended in violent clashes and the death of counterprotester Heather Heyer, Trump said from the White House, "Racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans."
Asked about white supremacy the next day, Trump said, "I am very concerned about the rise of any group of hate. I don't like it, any group of hate, whether it's white supremacy, whether it's any other kind of supremacy, with it's Antifa - I am very concerned about it and I'll do something about it."
Friday, October 2, 2020
No matter how many times Trump condemns white supremacy it will never be enough for the media because their motive is to smear Trump as racist.
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