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babylonsister

(171,066 posts)
Sun Apr 28, 2019, 09:11 AM Apr 2019

Trump: I answered 'perfectly' when I called Nazis 'very fine people'

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Trump: I answered 'perfectly' when I called Nazis 'very fine people'
By Oliver Willis -
April 26, 2019


Trump still thinks there is nothing wrong with praising Nazis.

Trump lied about his defense of Nazis and claimed he responded "perfectly" on the issue.

As he left the White House on Friday morning to speak to his allies at the NRA, Trump was asked by a reporter about his comments on the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.

"If you look at what I said, you will see that that question was answered perfectly," Trump said.

Trump and his supporters have continually tried to lie about what he said after the neo-Nazis and white supremacists rioted in Charlottesville, and their riot turned deadly, killed anti-racist protester Heather Heyer. Asked about actions of the neo-Nazis, Trump said they were "very fine people" and blamed "both sides" for the violence.

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"People were there protesting the taking down of the monument of Robert E. Lee. Everybody knows that," Trump concluded.

The white supremacist protesters in Charlottesville were marching in support of Lee, a man who defended the racist ideals they believe in.

And when Trump called them "very fine people," he made it clear he stands with them.

Published with permission of The American Independent.
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spanone

(135,838 posts)
1. well don, you either love a nazi or you don't. you either love a dictator like kim jong un or don't
Sun Apr 28, 2019, 09:17 AM
Apr 2019

you either love vladimir putin or you dont...

you love em.

LuvLoogie

(7,003 posts)
3. trump is their end game. They don't think we will do anything about it.
Sun Apr 28, 2019, 09:36 AM
Apr 2019

I have a cousin who is absolutely gleeful at what trump is doing. Or maybe she just says so to egg me on. It doesn't matter though. Either has to be opposed. Sometimes I want to give up and let the trumpfucks have at it. But i try to tell myself to do something every day in whatever small way you can muster. Sharing a post. Speaking out against an attitude. Changing one's own attitude about something.

I grow weary of it. But that is their end game.

trev

(1,480 posts)
13. It is wearying.
Sun Apr 28, 2019, 12:51 PM
Apr 2019

Sometimes I just want to give up and let the country go to Republican hell. But I can't do that. I've been fighting too long to stop now.

As we said in the '60s, keep on keeping on.

Girard442

(6,075 posts)
5. So if you hear there's a march in support of the local cat shelter...
Sun Apr 28, 2019, 09:49 AM
Apr 2019

...and when you show up there's a bunch of people wearing swastikas chanting "Jews will not replace us!", you can't then march with them and claim later it was really just about the homeless kittycats.

Mind you, I'm a whole heckuva lot fonder of kittycats than Robert E. Lee.

Botany

(70,508 posts)
9. When Donald Trump went to Lebanon, OH last fall and praised Robert E Lee he knew just
Sun Apr 28, 2019, 12:17 PM
Apr 2019

..... what he was doing.


The area around Lebanon, OH is well know as being the home of the Klan in OH.

backscatter712

(26,355 posts)
12. This is why I have a hard time saying anything about Donald Trump...
Sun Apr 28, 2019, 12:39 PM
Apr 2019

...because if I did, the Secret Service would have words with me.

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