TPM "Trump: Not All Protesters In Charlottesville Were White Supremacists"

[NRaleighLiberal]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-rejects-white-supremacy-criticism

By MATT SHUHAM Published AUGUST 15, 2017 4:20 PM

In a startling press conference at Trump Tower Tuesday, a defiant President Trump switched course and returned to castigating “both sides” for the weekend violence in Charlottesville that rocked the country. He said not everyone who had shown up at the white supremacist-organized rally against the removal of a Confederate statue was worthy of condemnation.

“I have condemned neo-Nazis,” he said. “I have condemned many different groups. But not all of those people were neo-Nazis, believe me. Not all of those people were white supremacists, by any stretch. Those people were also there because they wanted to protest the taking down of a statue, Robert E. Lee.”

“You had people — and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned, totally — but you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists, okay?” he added separately. “And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly.”

He said the statue of Lee was “to them, a very, very important statue,” referring to the protesters. He also blamed the counter-protesters, who objected to the white supremacist groups’ rally, for the turmoil.

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I didn't and can't watch it speak. read the whole article at the link above.

[Lee-Lee]

1. If I'm not a nazi and nazis show up at an event

I'm leaving.

And I'm not just saying that as an "attack" back before I decided that attending protests and rally's was a pointless use of time that were really just social events masquerading as activism I left events when people started coming out with banners and signs with communist logos and signs, because that isn't what I stand for either.

[uponit7771]

4. +1

[Warren DeMontague]

2. didn't he call them "very fine people"?

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. very, very (so I've heard - I can't watch or listen to it)

[Solly Mack]

5. And he said they were good people and innocent.

[Warren DeMontague]

7. Why, they're just a bunch of happy lookin' college kids, out laughing and having fun

We really ought to not rush to judgment.

[Solly Mack]

8. I know. Young people just trying to be heard and have a little fun.

I'm still gobsmacked. I know I shouldn't be, as I know who and what Trump is - but damn.

[nolabear]

6. I DARE him to find me "good people" protesting at that event.

There are people who aren't Nazis who do t want the statues down. I didn't see a damned one at this thing. Bring me some, buddy.