Trump goes off script, and white supremacists cheer

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16 Aug 2017, 9:19 am

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/1 ... lle-241672

For the white supremacists who have been roundly vilified since their rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend, Donald Trump's news conference on Tuesday came as validation: The president used many of their talking points, condemning the left-wing groups that animate their rage and defending monuments to Confederate leaders who tried to protect slavery.

Democratic and Republican politicians quickly decried Trump’s impromptu question-and-answer session. But for the so-called alt-right, whose nationalistic and anti-immigrant views helped fuel Trump's rise, Tuesday's remarks served as encouragement at a perilous moment for the movement, after a white nationalist rammed his car into counterprotesters amid the demonstration, killing one and wounding more than a dozen.

"What about the alt-left that came charging at the, as you say, the alt-right? Do they have any semblance of guilt?" Trump said. "You can say what you want, but that's the way it is."

The gratitude from the fringes of the American right came quickly.

"Thank you President Trump for your honesty & courage to tell the truth about Charlottesville & condemn the leftist terrorists," tweeted David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan leader and outspoken Trump supporter who attended the Charlottesville protest.


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16 Aug 2017, 11:16 am

It does lend some credibility to the notion that Trump is beholden to the white supremacists in some way.



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16 Aug 2017, 11:19 am

kraftiekortie wrote:
It does lend some credibility to the notion that Trump is beholden to the white supremacists in some way.


Was there ever a doubt?


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16 Aug 2017, 1:17 pm

It doesn't matter.

That's why they called him "Teflon Trump" and "the master manipulator".

It only matters to a few unemployed, online-junkies who likely never vote.



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16 Aug 2017, 1:24 pm

LoveNotHate wrote:
It doesn't matter.

That's why they called him "Teflon Trump" and "the master manipulator".

It only matters to a few unemployed, online-junkies who likely never vote.

Hey, Hey, Hey! Lets be accurate here. I am employed!! !


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16 Aug 2017, 1:33 pm

I don't think Trump is a Neo-Nazi or a KKKer....but I believe he has some sympathy with their views.



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16 Aug 2017, 1:35 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:
I don't think Trump is a Neo-Nazi or a KKKer....but I believe he has some sympathy with their views.


I think that being a racist is kind of like being pregnant. You can't be partially pregnant.


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16 Aug 2017, 1:46 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:
I don't think Trump is a Neo-Nazi or a KKKer....but I believe he has some sympathy with their views.


I'd say at the least he's an old school conservative.



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16 Aug 2017, 4:26 pm

The counter protesters should not feel guilty for making a stand against Nazis.

Anybody who thinks they should is a Nazi himself.

End of discussion.