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https://shareblue.com/trump-i-answered-perfectly-when-i-called-nazis-very-fine-people/?fbclid=IwAR2ZjWxgJ9OzFqPy3bFvcHyhOY9rZgZ-8f6_ZNtBq4qQEQMyMVT1WAw09QITrump: 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.
spanone
(135,838 posts)you either love vladimir putin or you dont...
you love em.
riversedge
(70,231 posts)LuvLoogie
(7,003 posts)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)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.
spanone
(135,838 posts)in their hearts they are racists, homophobes and assholes.
Girard442
(6,075 posts)...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.
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)Somebody should tell Sick Boy he isn't funny.
PatrickforO
(14,574 posts)No surprise that Donald is unabashedly racist.
Botany
(70,508 posts)..... what he was doing.
The area around Lebanon, OH is well know as being the home of the Klan in OH.
JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)Heather Heyer
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)If there was ever any doubt that this man is a hateful, disgusting racist, here is your proof.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)...because if I did, the Secret Service would have words with me.
trev
(1,480 posts)Just being on here is dangerous.
Blue Owl
(50,383 posts)Got it, Donald.