After the first presidential debate on Tuesday, Democrats savaged President Donald Trump as a "White supremacist" and even Republicans said they wished the president had vocally condemned white supremacists.
Trump clarified his remarks on Wednesday, explaining that he did not know who the Proud Boys are, insisting that he has "Always denounced any form" of white supremacy, and demanding that Democratic nominee Joe Biden vocally denounce antifa.
People are missing that when Wallace asked if Trump would condemn white supremacists HE SPECIFICALLY ASKED Trump to tell them to "Stand down."
Democrats like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Elizabeth Warren quickly seized on this clip as evidence that "Trump is a white supremacist." Yet Trump has repeatedly denounced and condemned white supremacy and white supremacists like the Ku Klux Klan.
Trump firmly denounced the KKK and white supremacists in a presidential debate in 2016 - after Wallace asked him.
2016: Trump denounced white supremacy to Chris Wallace.
A reporter pressed the president on his order that the Proud Boys "Stand by." Trump said, "Stand by" dismissively, using his hands to shove people out of the way.
Thursday, October 1, 2020
Trump Clarifies Debate Answer on Proud Boys, White Supremacy
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