Democrat presidential candidates and the liberal news media constantly try to label President Trump as a “racist” and a supporter of white supremacists.
It’s not true.
According to columnist Steven Cortes of RealClearPolitics.com, here’s how Trump described the neo-Nazis who rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August of 2017: “Excuse me, they didn’t put themselves down as neo-Nazis, and you had some very bad people in that group,” Trump said. “But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. You had people in that group – excuse me, excuse me, I saw the same pictures you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.”
Trump elaborated. “I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally,” the president said.
That is what he said yet CNN claimed Trump called the neo-Nazis and white nationalists “very fine people.”
Trump clearly was talking about the people on both sides of the debate about whether to tear down Confederate monuments in the South. This is fake news motivated by hatred for Trump and what he stands for.
Nicolle Wallace of MSNBC said Trump had “given safe harbor to Nazis, to white supremacists.” Chuck Todd of NBC claimed Trump “gave me the wrong kind of chills. Honestly, I’m a bit shaken from what I just heard.” The New York Times wrote, “Trump Gives White Supremacists Unequivocal Boost.”
Just recently, Chris Wallace of Fox News, a registered Democrat, asked White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney why Trump has not given a speech “condemning … white supremacist bigotry.”
Trump has said that repeatedly.
“Racism is evil,” Trump said, “and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.” There are two explanations for this fake news – incompetence or hatred. The answer is that it is a combination of both.